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Middle school problem solving ELA test prep projects
End of the Year Activities Math Project - Plan a Summer Vacation
End of the year activities should be fun. This math project will have your students excited about doing math. The students will plan a summer vacation using a budget sheet. They will have $2,500 to spend while on vacation with a friend. This is a great way to practice financial literacy with your kids. There is a Powerpoint attached with the flight information that is editable so you can change the flight prices and information to reflect where you live. Also includes a digital copy on Google™
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Math Project - Plan a Vacation Bundle
Test Prep Activities: Two Reading Passages and Test Taking Strategies Craftivity
It’s that time of year…. time to think about those major assessments coming up! Are you looking for a creative way to engage your students while preparing them for the genre of test-taking? This bundle includes a fiction practice passage, a nonfiction practice passage, and a craftivity that focuses on test-taking strategies! After discussing good test-taking strategies, students get to put them to use as they complete the two practice reading passages! These 3 days of activities all feature owls
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3rd - 6th
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St. Patrick's Day Craft Activity for Kids | Celtic Knots Paper Art Project [v1]
St. Patrick's Day Activity—Celtic Knot paper art activity. This project is original and fun. You won't find anything like it because I made it up! It's been tested with my students and they just LOVED it! I hope your students will as well. At first glance, this Celtic knot activity might look complicated—which is why it's so striking when the students complete it! However, in this unit, I give you everything you need (templates and instructions) to easily teach this lesson. Your kids will have f
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3rd - 7th
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Finding the Theme in a Story: Four Practice Worksheets, Poster, & Craft Activity
Do your students struggle with finding the theme in a story? Keep your student engaged as they learn to identify the theme, or central message, of a story with this set of four worksheets and optional craftivity! Each worksheet features one fiction passage.Here's what you'll find in this resource:POSTER: The instructional poster explains how the theme-filled cupcake analogy. Just as creme can be hidden inside a cupcake, a theme is hidden inside a book. A book's theme is revealed as you read it.F
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4th - 6th
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End of Year Math Project Based Learning Budget Worksheets Financial Literacy
This DIGITAL end-of-year math project-based learning will be perfect for partner work, individual projects, or homeschool students. Use the digital Google slides to teach financial literacy and personal finance activity to 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th-grade students. This resource includes budget worksheets for money and is a fun PBL lesson. Students' creativity can run wild with this project to help kids understand the value of a dollar. Students will see how far they can stretch their budget while p
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4th - 8th
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Shipwreck Challenge Social Skills Team Building Activities
Are you looking for fun team building activities for your students? This Shipwreck Challenge includes 6 no-prep activities that focus on teamwork, embedded social skills, and creative problem solving. Great for back-to-school, this resource can help build community in your classroom! Digital and printable versions are included.Please note: This resource comes in a zipped folder. You must have a Google account to access the Google Slides. The premise: students have been shipwrecked on an island,
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: End of the Year Bundle for Middle School
Character Traits Worksheets and Activity: Christmas Craftivity
Keep your students engaged during the month of December with this Christmas craftivity that focuses on identifying character traits! This resource features three worksheets and all of the graphics needed to reproduce the craftivity display. These three worksheets contain four fiction stories about elves working their way toward Christmas. Students read a passage and then determine a character trait for the main character(s) in the story. The finished products make a unique holiday bulletin board
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: December Craftivity BUNDLE: Create Student-Centered Bulletin Boards
Design Your Own Video Game (Writing Project)
It’s a given, students love video games. What students may not know is that a successful video game has many elements of literature: a good plot line, interesting characters, a clear, define problem and an eventual solution. In this resource students will be asked to design their own video game. Even if they are not a gamer, they will still have success. Students will create a name and cover design for their video game and product description. Included in this resource: ** Brainstorming Page **
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3rd - 7th
Character Traits Worksheets: 15 Practice Passages with a Craftivity
Keep your student engaged as they learn to analyze characters and identify character traits with this set of four worksheets and craftivity! Students will read fifteen short passages and determine a character trait for the main character in each short story. The finished products make a unique bulletin board or fun school hallway display! Worksheets- Students begin by completing a set of FOUR worksheets! A word bank filled with character trait terms is provided at the top of the first page. Stud
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3rd - 6th
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Dream House Area project for google classroom, w video tutorials on every page
This is a super fun and meticulously designed math project for google classroom. Everything the kids need is in the project, including video tutorials for every single page. Super easy to assign, and you can also delete slides if you want to make the project easier. Here's what students will do in this project:Build a floorplan of a house with 6 roomsCalculate area of each roomDecide on flooring for each roomCalculate cost of flooring for each roomCalculate the area of the yard Calculate cost of
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3rd - 10th
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Also included in: Digital fourth grade math bundle for google slides and google sheets
"City Designer" Geometry Project: Parallel lines, Transversals & Special Angles
Students will become civil engineers in your geometry class by designing their own cities using parallel lines, transversals and special angles!
This project will help master the concepts of
* parallel lines
* transversal lines
* alternate interior angles
* alternate exterior angles
* corresponding angles
* same side interior angles
and
* vertical angles
in a fun and hands-on way.
What an exciting way to integrate art into math and master the math concepts while doing so!
Step-by-step direct
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Genius Hour - Passion Projects, Rubrics, Templates - Genius Hour Planning Sheets
Genius Hour or Passion Projects are both names for a wonderful way to engage upper elementary and middle school students in research projects that they're passionate about! Print out this guide that prepares you for the steps they need to take, from start to finish. Then watch their enthusiasm and engagement take off! Genius Hour & Passion Projects for Kids includes:PDF and digital versionsTeacher guide for getting students started with brainstormingHow-to guide for creating your research
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5th - 8th
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The Eggstremely Eggciting Egg Drop STEM Challenge
In this STEM and team building challenge, students will work to foster collaboration and team-work as they design and construct a structure that will protect their eggs from a 10 foot drop. Teams will be given supplies (supply lists and shopping lists included) identical supplies and amounts of time to build their designs. The twist for this challenge will be that each team MUST use all of their supplies. Even more challenging, each team CANNOT communicate verbally during the construction pha
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5th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
Research Project: Outline Organization and Essay Writing: Teen Issues
Self-guided research packet and Google Doc. Perfect for Google Classroom or distance learning!Research and the Research Essay Process is a vital skill for any student in order to be successful through school and beyond. It covers multiple standards and is time consuming to design organization materials and to teach explicitly. NOT ANY MORE!This packet takes students step by step through the research and writing process in 10-15 days (depending on student skill level and in class work time availa
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5th - 10th
Improve-the-Community or Improve-the-School (Project-Based Learning)
Project-based learning is a way for students to investigate a real-world problem. This packet includes everything you need to implement an "Improve-the-community" or "Improve-the-school" project. This incorporates 21st century skills and English language arts. This connects well to Benchmark Advance Unit 1 or any unit on making a difference in the world.Included in this file:1. What is Project-Based Learning? (teacher page)2. Step-by-step lessons that guide students through the 4 parts (investig
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: All PBL, Research, and Writing Units! (Benchmark Advance)
STEM Engineering Challenges Pack ~ Dinosaurs and Fossils ~ Set of Five!
Get ready to engineer some Dinosaurs!Most elementary teachers are more comfortable and knowledgeable with theme topics, so I have decided to create STEM challenge packs based on specific ones, like dinosaurs and fossils!This engineering challenge activity pack is one of many that I have created to use in my classroom! I sometimes place these challenges, one per table, and the students rotate around the room in order to complete them. There are no right or wrong answers, many different solutions
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3rd - 6th
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STEM Designing a Cereal Box | Explore Surface Area and Volume
If you are ready for a highly engaging STEM activity, this Designing Boxes Challenge is for you! Students will investigate volume and learn to calculate surface area in preparation to design a cereal box.➡️ Click here to save 20% on this STEM Challenge and 2 additional multi-day activities!What is the challenge?Students will use cereal boxes and have great discussions about the appearance of the boxes, as well as how much a box contains.They will learn about volume and surface area through weig
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4th - 6th
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3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM CHALLENGES ENTIRE YEAR 60 Projects, Planning Guide, and Posters
STEM Engineering Challenges Pack ~ Investigating Insects~ Set of Six!
Get ready to engineer some creepy crawly insects!
Most elementary teachers are more comfortable and knowledgeable with theme topics, so I have decided to create STEM challenge packs based on specific ones, like insects!
This engineering challenge activity pack is one of many that I have created to use in my classroom! I sometimes place these challenges, one per table, and the students rotate around the room in order to complete them. There are no right or wrong answers, many different solution
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3rd - 6th
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ANCIENT EGYPT - A UNIT TO TURN YOUR CLASSROOM INTO A MUSEUM
MEETS VIRGINIA SOLS FOR ANCIENT EGYPT
PROJECT BASED LEARNING!
This packet will give you everything you need to make teaching Egypt a fantastic experience! I have made museums with my students and it is just amazing to see the end result! All you need are about a dozen books about Egypt from the library for reference. Spend a couple days introducing concepts and then divide the class up by "Museum Rooms" and projects and let the invest
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2nd - 6th
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Project Based Learning: Human Body Systems
Engage and involve your students into real life situations while learning 21st century skills! Allow your students to become part of an important team of scientists and achieve a mission!
In this project, students will choose to research a human body system:
- Skeletal System
- Muscular System
- Digestive System
- Respiratory System
- Circulatory System
They will join to a scientist team to become themselves experts in their body systems. They will also play an important role for their
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: The Human Body: Big Bundle
Greek and Latin Roots: Five Worksheets and a Vocabulary Craftivity
Keep your students engaged as they practice identifying and defining words with Greek and Latin roots. Best of all, it provides a visual connection to the meaning of word "roots"! Your students complete five worksheets where they identify words with Greek and Latin roots in the 60 sentences. The finished products make a unique bulletin board or fun school hallway display!This engaging activity puts a fun spin on learning the meanings of Latin and Greek roots! Better yet, it provides a visual con
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Greek and Latin Roots: A Bundle of Word Study Activities
Amusement Parks and STEM Activities Bundle
Amusement Parks, Carnivals, and STEM!Problem Solving, Engineering Challenges and Physical Science IntegrationTeachers are saying:"I had groups work on the various pieces of the amusement park. It was wonderful to see all the ideas and engineering going into it. It was one of those projects where they loved it and had no idea they were learning something!""Thank you for such a great resource! This is very engaging and usable for all of my students.""Great resource for my multi-level classroom."
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4th - 7th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
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Grammar Video Project: Students Teach Their Peers!
We learn by DOING and by TEACHING others. Transform your grammar instruction by putting STUDENTS in the role of teacher!In this project, student groups collaborate to design and record their own SHORT videos (1-5 minutes) teaching one focused grammar concept to their peers. The project can take place in as little as one week, depending on how much class time you give and your available technology.Once made, these videos can:• be played in class (followed by your instruction/lesson)• be played in
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Grammar Projects Bundle: Creative Activities for Secondary ELA
Genius Hour
Genius Hour is a great way for students to research topics of their own interests! Are you looking for a way to keep your Genius Hour organized? In this resource, students will have to practice reading, writing, listening and speaking skills while creating their project.This resource includes the steps you can take to complete Genius Hour - however, it is your classroom and you can use how you see fit! Check out the preview for an overview of what you will get with this product!Genius Hour Packe
Grades:
4th - 6th
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