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Rachel's Racks

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Water Cycle Poster Project

By Rachel's Racks

This is a rubric for students to use for creating a water cycle poster. It contains key learning objects for teaching the water cycle for student to make connections and think deeply about how and where water travels.

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Visual Arts, General Science

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Research, Projects, Rubrics

$2.00

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Independent Science Exploration

By Rachel's Racks

This project is designed to allow maximum student choice and direction in the learning process. It offers students the chance to choose the topic and product to display the learning. Product options include brochure, poster, prezi, powerpoint,

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Visual Arts, General Science

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Research, Projects, Rubrics

$2.00

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Reading Bell Ringer

By Rachel's Racks

This includes 5 days worth of various bellringer works to include practice in the 5 R's of reading including read, review, reflect, rethink, and recreate. These get at the essential idea of making connections and inferences in reading. Along with

Subjects:

Reading, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Notebooks, Lesson

$1.00

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Rock Cycle Card Game

By Rachel's Racks

This learning project requires students create a flash card game for rock cycle and includes concepts such as weathering, erosion, and land forms. In have include topics under each section to research. Examples includes valleys "V" shaped and "U"

Subjects:

Earth Sciences, General Science, Informational Text

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Research, Projects, Games

$2.00

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Space Project

By Rachel's Racks

This is a student learning project that allows students choice of what to create as the final project display. The choices include a board game, brochure, movement activity, short play, or a written story. The learning objectives include concepts

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Visual Arts, General Science

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Projects, Rubrics

$2.00

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Environmental Understanding

By Rachel's Racks

This project encourages self reflection and curiosity through discovery research. It requires student design a project exploring an environmental issue. Then explain the problems through the creation of a product of their choosing, authorized by the

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Environment, Visual Arts

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Research, Projects, Rubrics

$2.00

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Energy Debate

By Rachel's Racks

This project leads to a full class energy debate. Typically I have done this by dividing the class into five groups and assigning the types of energy to explore. It requires the students explain how their energy is created, provide a model, give

Subjects:

Other (ELA), Critical Thinking, General Science

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Research, Projects, Rubrics

$2.00

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Biome Book Report

By Rachel's Racks

A project that combines the topics of exploration to include climate, animals, vegetation, and seasons. It allows the student to choose a book with a setting and then while reading to look for these topics described in the book. It is set up as a

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, General Science, Writing

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Research, Projects

$2.00

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Writing Prompts

By Rachel's Racks

This is a set of writing prompts includes 5 types. There should be enough prompts to provide a different type daily in class. This includes 5 types of writing descriptive paragraphs, poetry (poems, songs, rhymes, raps), brainstorming lists,

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Poetry, Informational Text

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Activities, Interactive Notebooks, Lesson

$3.00

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Sound and Light Powerpoint

By Rachel's Racks

This is a rubric for a student learning project on the topics of sound and light. It is general in its requirements but allows for assigning 10 groups half light and half sound. Each group would have one of the five concepts to explore which include

Subjects:

Computer Science - Technology, General Science, Informational Text

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Research, PowerPoint Presentations, Projects

$1.00

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Life Cycle Prezi

By Rachel's Racks

This is a project to create a Prezi presentation to describe the life cycle of either a mammal or animal. Included for exploration are the idea of the life cycle, adaptation vs. traits, and the life cycle stages. I found many students were eager to

Subjects:

Biology, General Science, Informational Text

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Research, Projects, Prezis

$2.00

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Moon Chart

By Rachel's Racks

This is a rubric guiding moon chart to help student observe the moon during a entire lunar cycle. Included in the cycle observation on ideas such as when did you see the moon day or night and what direction.

Subjects:

Astronomy, General Science, Informational Text

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Research, Projects, Activities

$2.00

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Build a Body Part Brochure

By Rachel's Racks

A fun activity for all students it is a great end of the year activity. It requires students draw, write, and record references. The teacher can assign a body part and student will then spend time researching it. Typically this project works best to

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Visual Arts, Health

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Research, Projects, Rubrics

$2.00

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Picture Book Report

By Rachel's Racks

This gets students to stop look and read for meaning but in a literary for that is familiar. The goal of this project is for students to experience assessing literature and making connections to it.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, ...

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Projects, Assessment, Rubrics

$2.00

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Weather Demonstration

By Rachel's Racks

This is an easy to use rubric for a student learning project to create a weather demonstration.

Subjects:

Reading, Other (Science), General Science

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Research, Projects, Rubrics

$2.00

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Cast a Spell Poetry

By Rachel's Racks

This is a project based learning outline. It get students to engage with poetry by generating their own poem in the form of a casting a magical spell.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Poetry

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, ...

Types:

Projects, Assessment, Rubrics

$2.00

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Plant Book Learning Project

By Rachel's Racks

The posted plant book learning project is an activity to actively engage learners in self guided project design. It focuses the students learning with several descriptive and direct requirements to satisfy the grade earned. In teaching I especially

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Visual Arts, General Science

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Research, Projects, Rubrics

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have taught two and a half years in Texas. The subjects I have taught were science, health, reading, and self contained classrooms.

MY TEACHING STYLE

My style of teaching is through facilitating student discovery using learning projects for groups and individuals. It focuses the responsibility of learning on the student and allows the educator to support positive social learning in the classroom.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

none.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

My degree in is education and I have earned a BA in elementary education with a major in social studies with the focus on geography.

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

In addition to a degree program I am also a talented artist. I have a love for the arts and create many of my products with a focus on creativity and learning through the arts. The goal is if it would be fun and creative for me then I generate it for the students.