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Middle school Back to School ELA test prep projects
Emergency Science Sub Plan or Activity | Root Monster Project
This is a fun and engaging activity that will teach students how to use root words to decipher the meaning of science terms. Students will complete multiple root skill sections including a section where they will make a fun root monster drawing. Their root monster must match the characteristics of 5 science root words. There is also a creative writing section where students will write a story about their monster that must include at least 7 science root words.Included:★ Activity Directions★ Root
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5th - 8th
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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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Math All About Me for Middle School - Activity and Bulletin Board
Are you looking for an engaging math about me worksheet? This is the perfect first day activity for math class. You can use the task cards as a tool to help you teach your students transitions and rotations. The unique final picture that the students create makes a great bulletin board for back to school night!Download includes a PDF file with the following: - Teacher's directions and example- Bulletin Board Title- Student Bunting Banner to complete- 8 task cards with directions for the banner-
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4th - 8th
EDITABLE Math About Me Project - Back to School Printable Digital
Starting out a new school year can always be daunting but providing your students with a fun and engaging way to get to know one another can always help lighten the anxiety, especially in a math classroom. This project is great for a Back to School, Open House, or just about any time during the school year. This activity easily allows students to demonstrate prior math knowledge while letting you (and their classmates) know a little bit about themselves.Included in this download are:Teacher Dire
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5th - 8th
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All About Me Google Slides Activity + Class Slideshow/Ebook - Back to School
Build class community and get to know your new students with this engaging back-to-school activity that's distance-learning approved! During this Google Slides activity, students will create an “About Me” slide with the provided editable templates. When finished, students will turn in their slides and you will compile them in a collaborative class slideshow/ebook that can be posted on your LMS or class website (or even emailed to parents/guardians). Building relationships is SO important, especi
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Partner Pairing Cards and Grouping Cards Pick a Partner
Pick a partner or do small group pairing with these fun cards!With a variety of fun ways to pair or group students, students each choose (or receive) one card and then seek out their pair or group. Forming groups for projects or STEM challenges can elicit groans from students, but by making it fun and engaging for students, this will become your go-to way for no-argue partnerships.Pick a Partner Cards may be printed at full size or at 2 pages per sheet to save paper.✅ What You'll Get ✅✅ Partneri
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K - 12th
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Also included in: STEM Teacher ❤️ Favorites ❤️ Bundle Best Sellers in One Place
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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Intro to Leadership or Student Council Middle High School Unit
Start your Leadership class or Student Council off on a successful year with this introductory unit filled with enough student-centered, get-them-thinking activities to use for 2-3 years before any repeats- great if students are in student government year after year! Then, culminate student learning and growth with a campus-wide Kindness Project to kick off a positive year.This unit kit comes in both print PDF and digital for Google Slides!Greatness is maximizing all group members' strengths to
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Leadership Student Council Full Course for Middle High School Advisors
Student Council Advisor Notebook - Application Election Meeting Forms
Build a solid Student Council Government program with this sample constitution, candidate application, election and meeting minute templates, plus a calendar of events and idea sheets.The Student Council Advisor How-To Guide handbook is 45 pages, chock full of the best tried-and-true systems, step-by-step checklists, and insider advice for starting a program from scratch or revitalizing one. All 30+ forms and templates are fully editable Google Docs and Slides files.Whether you are a wide-eyed
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Leadership Student Council Full Course for Middle High School Advisors
Back To School Activity - Soundtrack of My Life / Playlist of My Summer
Looking for something to engage your students at the start of school? Why not get your students writing about the music that best represents them and their unique lives by creating a list of their favorite and most meaningful songs? This engaging activity can either be used as "Soundtrack of My Life" or "Soundtrack of My Summer" - the full download includes options for both. Easily adaptable to different ages and abilities! This is a fun activity for the beginning of the year and will allow yo
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Back to School / First Week of School - "Get to Know You" Activities
All About Me Back to School Activity: First Day Getting to Know You Flipbook
This back to school flipbook provides a fun way for students to share facts about themselves and their lives. Use it as an icebreaker activity during that first week of school. It is ideal for teachers who want to get to know their new batch of students. Most students are quite eager to introduce themselves to their teachers, too, so they are super engaged as they complete this back to school activity! Students write and draw facts they want their teacher to know about themselves, and teachers c
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Back to School Flipbook Bundle: Printable and Digital
Walk in My Shoes Empathy Activity Self Reflection, Compassion & Kindness Project
Walk In My shoes is creative writing and project focused on self-reflection and encourages compassion and empathy. This get to know you activity makes an insightful back to school activity and fun bulletin board or hallway display. This activity encourages children to look life from other's perspectives, have empathy and promotes kindness. Great for:Bulletin Boards or Hallway DisplayGet to know you activity (beginning of the year)Small Group Activity Empathy Activity to enhance an existing lesso
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2nd - 6th
Bobblehead Autobiography Project
Set the stage for a fun-loving classroom community with “Bobblehead Autobiographies.” Students will love creating a bobblehead version of themselves while also honing their skills for descriptive, informational and narrative writing!
Sharing out + presenting their Bobblehead Autobiographies afterwards is also guaranteed to bring about tons of smiles + laughter among your kiddos.
A PERFECT way for students to introduce themselves at the beginning of the school year... or to showcase their gro
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K - 6th
Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Back to School Icebreaker STEM Bundle! Need back to school icebreakers or games that get students moving, communicating, working in teams, and building relationships? Here are 50+ of our favorite basic activities that are low-cost and low-prep for any classroom or subject!Working as a team, they will learn lessons in communication, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity that are central to the engineering process. Use as a warm-up, icebreaker, team building activity, or basic STEM and en
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
End of Year Math Coordinates City Project
Are you looking for an engaging end of year activity to teach coordinates to your upper elementary and middle school math students? Your upper elementary and middle school students will become engaged as they are asked to design a city based on using a coordinate plane. This is a teacher-friendly resource and minimal prep is involved.This resource contains 9 total documents (12 pages total) that are intended to be a creative math lesson plan that has students create their own city using coordina
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4th - 6th
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All About Me Poster One Pager All About Me Worksheet Middle School High School
This "All About Me" one pager poster project is the perfect getting to know you activity for the first day of school or first week of school with your middle school and high school students. This EDITABLE, NO PREP, GOOGLE SLIDES 1 pager is a fun, creative, and engaging back to school activity that builds classroom community and encourages students to reflect on the people, experiences, and accomplishments that make them the unique person they are. This activity is editable so you can meet the un
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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
Back to School Writing and Art Project - Name Mandalas
Name Mandala Writing and Art Project is a fun way to not only build community, but also assess your students as writers and integrate art into your back-to-school activities!
The project starts with a game called “Name Rhythms”. Students will get to share their names, personalities, and develop a sense of trust with you and their classmates.
Then, continuing with the name theme, students interview family members and write a story about their name. This story can be used as a beginning of
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3rd - 6th
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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
Back to School : Student Name Plates In the Style of Romero Britto - Visual Art
NEW! 2 editable WORD documents to add your students' names digitally, to start the project.Start your year of artistically with this fun and enriching activity. Here is an art project to identify your student's desks. Using colored felts, each student is shown how to create their own nameplate in the manner of Roméro Britto. A great lesson to teach patterns.This document is not an editable model. Your students will learn how to create themselves their nameplate .You will also find a free docume
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: Art Lesson Plans Bundle : Grade 3 Visual Art
Camping Theme Activities STEM Challenges | 4 STEAM Task Cards | No Prep
Once you introduce these Camping Theme STEM activities you will be able to increase team building and student collaboration. These FUN Stem and steam themed task cards require no prep, and are great for both in class and home school students, using only everyday materials. Elementary and primary school students will enjoy these steam and stem activities that have been bundled by theme: CAMPING THEME. Now suitable for home and distance learning with both printable and Google slides. ~~ Are you lo
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3rd - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, K-ESS3-1
, K-ESS3-2
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Create Your Own Caricature - A Self Portrait Drawing Template
Students can now create their own caricatures with these templates! This is a fun self-portrait drawing activity for the beginning of the year or end of the year. I have been using these caricatures for years with my fourth and fifth-grade students, and it is one of our favorite activities from the school year! Students draw themselves as a cartoon and then I use them as an all about me self-portrait for our back-to-school bulletin board display or place them in end-of-the-year memory books. The
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Back to School Science | Intro to Science Bundle of Activities | Middle School
Engaging Back to School Science Activities for Teens and TweensThis is a massive bundle of my most popular intro to science resources. This package contains a mix of science icebreakers, foldables, doodle notes, color-by-numbers, worksheets, review games, and projects at a BIG SAVINGS!Currently Included:All About Me Activities All About Me Atom All About Me FlaskAll About Me RocketAll About Me Worksheet - Color By Number MandalaScience ProjectsInstasummer of ScienceI am a Scientist ActivityScien
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6th - 8th
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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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