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Lunar New Year 2024 | Year of the DRAGON Reading Comprehension | Spring Festival
Chinese New Year in 2024 starts on Saturday, February 10th!It’s the Year of the DRAGON!Did you know that the Chinese believe that people born in the Year of the DRAGON are strong, tenacious, and ambitious? Do you know what the lucky colors and numbers are for people born during the Year of the DRAGON?Find out more by close-reading interesting text all about the Year of the DRAGON.Create a Cool DRAGON Collage, perfect for a 2024 Year of the DRAGON Bulletin Board!*** This resource has been updated
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4th - 7th
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3/D Tipi, Circle and Welcome Pole Craft, EASY Native American Art Fall Activity
This bundle includes 3 Native American themed craft projects made for students using circles (Mandela) cones (3/D tipi), and cylinders (welcome poles) These crafts are a great way to integrate the arts with your Native American curriculum. This is three of my students favorites put together in a money saving bundle! See descriptions for each project, and check out the teacher reviews of individual items! Crafts include a 3/D tipi, mandella, and 3/D welcome pole. Great for Bulletin boards, door
Grades:
1st - 7th
Picasso Pumpkins: Hispanic Heritage Month, EASY Fall or Halloween Craft Cut&Glue
A fun Fall art activity for Hispanic Heritage Month. Learn about Spains most famous artist while creating a cubist style pumpkin in the likeness of Picasso’s famous paintings. Several pumpkin images and sizes are included for student choice, including one created after Picasso's "Girl in the Mirror" painting. There are 2 pages of facial features drawn from Picasso’s most popular paintings including “Skull with Leeks. Students of all ages and abilities will have fun mixing up the face features
Grades:
K - 6th
Synthesis and Argument Writing: Is it ever okay to fail?
Every English teacher needs new ways to teach argument, rhetoric, and analytical writing. The Inquiry-Based Synthesis Essay is here to save the day!This argument essay is designed to help you out in a quick fix OR to teach in-depth rhetorical analysis. The essay can be scaffolded up or down, from highly difficult and challenging to ELL and SpEd friendly. In a nutshell: The essay question asks students to develop an argument about the question: is it ever okay to fail? Their job is to read t
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8th - 12th
Fall Crafts Picasso Style: Pumpkin, Turkey, Portraits. Thanksgiving Art Bundle
This Fall or Autumn, Thanksgiving and Halloween craft collage bundle is a student and parent favorite! Each lesson contains a variety of student choices, resulting in amazing unique student Art. I tested them with students in Kindergarten through 5th grade with amazing results. My grade 5 students were especially engaged when I challenged them to invent new ways of using patterns and colors like Picasso did in his “Blue and Rose” period’s. Lessons take students 2 to 3 art classes to finish, depe
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K - 6th
Martin Luther King Activities Argumentative Essay Writing Prompt, Black History
This 100% editable lesson for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day or for teaching argumentative essay writing with exemplars is no prep. Your high school students will be engaged and challenged as they work through the carefully paired texts and expertly written prompt. If your state has adopted Common Core testing, then this comparing and contrasting literary analysis is directly aligned with that format. If not, a task such as this one will definitely add a challenging component to your reading and
Grades:
8th - 11th
Depth and Complexity Frames for Every Month of the Year | Print-and-Go
This set of Depth and Complexity frames offers one frame for each month of the year. If you are looking for a quality print and go activity for your students, this is the perfect resource for you. There are twelve Depth & Complexity frames tied to holidays and month themes (such as Black History Month). They've got great graphics and strong, high-level thinking questions. There's even a rubric you can use to evaluate your students' completed frames.No need to be a Depth and Complexity expert
Grades:
4th - 10th
**UPDATED for 2024!** Solar Eclipse Memory Pages
Print signs, decorate, observe, and write about the Total Eclipse of 2024!
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PreK - 8th
Culturally Responsive Teaching Activity Cards
Do you need some ideas for your cultural responsive teaching? Here are 25 culturally responsive teaching activity cards that will help you engage and involve all students in your classroom. Each card contains the name of the activity, a description, and an example of how to use it in your classroom. Culturally Responsive Teaching Activities Included:Call and ResponseThink-Pair-ShareJigsawChoral ReadShout OutPass the CardCircle the SageElbow PartnersEcho ReadKnowledge ParadeCloze the GapJump in R
Grades:
3rd - 6th
What Problem Will You Solve: A Critical Thinking and Writing Activity
So often, we ask students what they want to be when they grow up but let's shift the mindset. Instead, pose the question of, "What problem will you solve?" This project encourages students to think both critically and globally to help solve issues in our world today. Included in this product are multiple ways for students to brainstorm problems, vocabulary, and processes. There is also draft and final publishing paper that can be used to write a culminating essay.This is a great beginning OR
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Bundle: Monthly Writing Projects for Upper Elementary
Morning Message SEL Writing Prompts for April
This month long set includes 25 questions that will help to build a strong community in your classroom. Questions are a combination of thought-provoking, motivational, seasonally relevant, and sometimes a little silly. They are perfect for morning meetings! I use these questions daily and my students look forward to finding out the question each day and answering them! Each day of the week is themed- see the preview and thumbnails for the different options. There is a color and a black & whi
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Morning Message SEL Writing Prompts Morning Work & Bellringer BUNDLE
Morning Message SEL Writing Prompts for March
This month long set includes 26 questions that will help to build a strong community in your classroom. Questions are a combination of thought-provoking, motivational, seasonally relevant, and sometimes a little silly. They are perfect for morning meetings! I use these questions daily and my students look forward to finding out the question each day and answering them! Each day of the week is themed- see the preview and thumbnails for the different options. There is a color and a black & whi
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Morning Message SEL Writing Prompts Morning Work & Bellringer BUNDLE
AROUND THE WORLD RESEARCH UNIT MEGA BUNDLE Writing Skills Report Present Theme
***BUNDLE & SAVE 40%!*** Teach informative research writing in a way that is engaging and memorable with this no-prep 568-page Around the World Research Unit MEGA BUNDLE-Writing Skills Lessons, Research Report, Presentation Project, Party, and Theme Day. Use this thematic unit to celebrate diversity, and culture, while students practice research skills, report writing, technology skills, manners, presentation, speaking, and listening skills! First, students will learn and practice a variety
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3rd - 8th
My Favorite Chaperone - Alternative Assignments: Creative Writing, Vocab, & more
Thank you for stopping by and looking at my product! If you purchase it and find it useful, please consider leaving me a review, or just a quick 4 star rating at the top of the page! Remember to click on the FOLLOW button, so you'll be notified of my sales.These are alternative assignments that you can do with your students during or after reading the short story, "My Favorite Chaperone," by Jean Davies Okimoto from the 8th Grade English Language Arts Collections book by Houghton Mifflin Harcou
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7th - 9th
The Rose that Grew From the Concrete - Tupac Shakur Poem Analysis
Short analysis of Tupac Shakur's famous poem, "The Rose that Grew from the Concrete." Three discussion questions follow the poem by Tupac. Used during Black History Month in a 6th grade classroom in Oakland, CA.
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4th - 12th
Code Crackers #2 - Pigpen Cipher
Help your students develop critical thinking skills, learn a bit about secret societies, and have some fun at the same time with this Code Cracker activity! Students will be introduced to the Pigpen cipher and learn how it works, then they will have an opportunity to crack some codes themselves. There is also a space for them to create their own codes for each other to decipher.This is the second activity in my Code Crackers series. You can now get this resource as part of a bundle! Have a look
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Code Crackers - Ultimate Bundle
Morning Message SEL Writing Prompts for February
This month long set includes 28 questions that will help to build a strong community in your classroom. Questions are a combination of thought-provoking, motivational, seasonally relevant, and sometimes a little silly. They are perfect for morning meetings! I use these questions daily and my students look forward to finding out the question each day and answering them! Each day of the week is themed- see the preview and thumbnails for the different options. There is a color and a black & whi
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Morning Message SEL Writing Prompts Morning Work & Bellringer BUNDLE
The Big Orange Splot Diversity ELA Art and Word Search CCSS Grades 3-6
Grow your students' understanding of diversity with these academic, FUN activities inspired by "The Big Orange Splot." Immerse your students in the tale of Mr. Plumbean, whose house becomes a symbol of breaking free from conformity after an unexpected seagull accident.This Lesson Features:Poster for Display: A poster designed to spark discussion and debate.Comprehension Questions: To deepen students' comprehension and encourage meaningful conversations.Creative Coloring and Transformation Activi
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Classroom Community Bundle for Grades 3-6 Print and Digital
Disney Pixar's Coco Movie Guide Packet + Activities + Sub Plan + Best Value
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This packet includes, among two other teaching aids, a peer-reviewed handout of 15 essay questions designed to promote self-reflection, family history, character development, and a greater appreciation for others' cultures. This movie guide, while rigorous and pertinent to the film, goes beyond the scope of questions like "what's the setting and time period" and helps students put into practice character building ideas and concepts based on themes from the movie. A mod
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7th - 12th
What's in a Song Bundle! Combining History and the Arts
This product and other - What’s in a Song? – lessons are a great way to combine history and the arts. I use these in my U.S. History class as well in my advisory period as a way to create discussion and provoke thoughts about the environment, social justice, and activism. My students are able to connect the themes of the song with current events of today. I begin each of these by playing the song for my students and ask what they think the message is in the lyrics. We then read through the histo
Grades:
7th - 12th
Australian Multiculturalism - "My Two Blankets" 4H reading strategy + more.
“My Two Blankets” by Irena Kobald and illustrated by Freya Blackwood was the winner of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) 2015 Picture Book of the Year Award. It is a picture book that touches on issues such as refugees, multiculturalism and fleeing conflict.This resource includes 4H reading strategy resources, graphic organisers and reading comprehension task cards to support higher order thinking and deep comprehension of the text. Please view the Preview file to see an overvie
Grades:
3rd - 6th
AROUND THE WORLD RESEARCH & THEME DAY BUNDLE Report Presentation End of the Year
***BUNDLE & SAVE 30%!*** Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING AND FUN into your classroom routine with this no-prep, print-and-go, 193-page/slide Around the World Research Project & Theme Day BUNDLE for Middle Grades (Grades 4-8) Unit. Use this thematic project and celebratory days to celebrate diversity, and culture, while students practice research, writing, technology, presentation, speaking, listening, STEM, art, and teamwork skills! Students will complete an in-depth Re
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3rd - 8th
Ohio's 4th Grade Natural Resource PBL Activity: Make a Blueberry Pie & See Ohio
Engage 4th grade Ohio students in this hands-on, project based learning activity that will strengthen their knowledge of Ohio’s natural resources and map skills. Based on the popular book, How to Make a Cherry Pie and see the USA, students will be presented with the challenge of making blueberry pancakes using only ingredients found in the Buckeye state! They will utilize higher level thinking skills as they identify the natural resources needed, the location in the state where they are found in
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: 4th Grade Social Studies Projects Bundle
Words of Wisdom - Celebrate Black History Month with 34 Inspirational Quotes
Celebrate Black History Month with 34 inspirational quote posters from influential African American people.This resource is a powerful tool to use in your classrooms, and can stimulate many interesting and inspiring topics and discussions with students about the challenges of people of color through history, including modern day heroes. They can make a striking bulletin board or hallway display and can also be used as writing prompts and will help promote critical thinking, diversity awareness,
Grades:
5th - 12th
Also included in: Black History Bundle
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