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4th grade Earth Day math test prep resources for GATE
Open Ended Word Problems: Complex, Multi-Step Challenges for Enrichment
Prepare your students for state testing in a highly engaging way with the click of the print button. These challenging story problems are perfect for fast finishers, enrichment for the whole class or targeting your gifted students. This resource is by far my best seller, because it instantly engages the students in meaningful problem solving.The problems are deep, multi-step and require perseverance. You will notice that the Standards for Mathematical Practice are embedded within these problem
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3rd - 5th
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Math Project-based Learning for 4th Grade Bundle: 6 Awesome Projects!
Check out this bundle of engaging Math project-based learning (PBL) activities for 4th grade math! These projects will help your students practice area, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and more. Each project will get them out of their seats, happily practicing Math in a real-life situation! Students will put their Math skills to work completing each project!All of my project-based learning activities come with free e-mail support! Read my feedback below to see what it's all about!Common Q
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4th
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4th Grade Math Leveled Assessment for Differentiation Marzano Proficiency Scale
Learning Goals and Scales are the ultimate Standards Based Grading tool! They don't just motivate a Growth Mindset, they define how students can demonstrate mastery. Every learning standard is broken down into 4 levels of Differentiation. Also known as a scaffolding for learning. These Assessments lead students up a progressive learning path that mirrors the way they develop concepts. Aligned to Bloom’s or Marzano’s Taxonomy of cognitive skills. From easiest-hardest: (Recall/Retrieval, Comprehen
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4th
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Reasoning Puzzles: Area of Irregular Shapes and Rectangles - Tasks for Math Talk
Practice finding the area of regular and irregular rectangles and composites figures with these no prep true/false puzzles. These are great tasks that will supplement your area and perimeter unit lessons. The puzzles get progressively more difficult allowing you to differentiate for your class.The puzzles begin with regular rectangles with grid lines. Then, they move to irregular composite figures where the grid lines disappear. It's a great way to teach area and have them practice with area mo
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3rd - 4th
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April STEM STEAM Challenge: Earth Day Edition
Earth Day is the perfect day for reducing, reusing, recycling, and STEAM! The challenge? Build a "litter bug" out of litter. The bug must balance on 6 legs, and all legs must come from the thorax. All your students will need is a little litter and a lot of creativity!
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-chart for student record keeping
-- Self-assessment/Reflection page (differenti
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K - 5th
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Open Ended Word Problems - Set 2: Complex, Multi-Step Challenges for Enrichment
Teachers are always looking for what to do with students in need of enrichment, which is why my first set of open ended problems became an overnight best seller. Here is set 2! All you need to do is print these amazingly fun problems, and your students will love to solve them. Not only are they great for fast finishers, but these problems also will help prepare ALL of your students for your state testing. The preview contains a free sample of one of the problems, Sleepover Shenanigans. It took m
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3rd - 5th
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Reasoning Puzzles: Multiplication Enrichment Activities for Math Talk
In these no prep true/false multiplication puzzles, students practice multiplication concepts using repeated addition, equal groups, arrays and multiplication expressions. These are awesome tasks for when students need enrichment, or to use in a small group for your students who might be struggling with the concepts. These also work great as math warm ups, centers, or early finisher activities! There are 10 no prep puzzles are easy to print and just hand out for instant engagement. In this acti
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2nd - 4th
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Earth Day STEM Challenge Activity - New Earth City
This is the perfect Earth Day STEM activity!The basic idea: It is Earth Day, and the year 2035. Earth has become overcrowded. The students are part of a pioneering crew tasked with setting up the first city (New Earth City) on Planetopia, a fictional name for a recently discovered Earth-like planet in a distant solar system. Part of the mission is to set up the city to prevent or address the problems we are having on Earth so we don’t repeat our errors on our new home planet. This challenge is b
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2nd - 8th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Also included in: EASY MATERIALS STEM ACTIVITIES with End of Year Summer STEM -
Equivalent Fraction Practice: Using Visual Models, Number Lines & Equations
Finally! Get all of your students up to speed with equivalent fractions without tears, blank stares or needing to use tricks. These 10 thoughtful no prep puzzles to bring all of your lessons on equivalent fractions together, connecting all different representations! All you need to do is print, and the students cut and solve. Every time I do this with a class, the students BEG for more puzzles. This is a highly engaging task for your early finishers, for enrichment, gifted students or to use for
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3rd - 5th
Reasoning Puzzles: 2 by 2 Digit Multiplication, Area Model, Partial Product Task
Deepen your student's understanding of two by one digit and two by two digit multiplication with these true false puzzles that feature area model, arrays, partial product and that standard algorithm. These puzzles can just be printed and handed out to students to get started. Check out the preview to try a free one. This is the second in the multiplication series. After learning about the meaning of multiplication in the first set, students will be ready to move on to both single and double digi
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3rd - 5th
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Ecosystems & Environmental Concerns PBL | Science Project Based Learning
Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach about different ecosystems and their environmental concerns? Interested in student driven learning?This Project Based Learning unit allows students to learn about ecosystems by examining an environmental issue within an ecosystem. Students act as environmentalists as they research the causes and effects as well as problems and solutions of an environmental issue by examining the different factors that make up an ecosystem. This is a student-centered wa
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4th - 8th
Also included in: Science PBL | Project and Problem Based Learning Bundle
April STEM Activities with Earth Day STEM Challenges and Close Reading Passages
STEM challenge activities are so much fun. But, finding the time to incorporate design challenges into your curriculum can be difficult. The APRIL STEM Design Challenge COLLECTION is part of the STEM with CLOSE READING series. It gives you FOUR OF MY BEST SELLING STEM CHALLENGES that will seamlessly allow you to tie together the curriculum by giving you rigorous text dependent questions that go with a high interest reading passages IN ADDITION to the fun STEM activities! Watch your kids fac
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3rd - 6th
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Earth Day Shoebox Solar Oven STEM Activity & April Challenge | Renewable Energy
Earth Day is here and your teacher life just got a little busier with Earth Day activities you need to plan. Use Earth Day STEM activities to cover standards and give your students super fun Earth Day activities they will love. This ready to go Earth Day Shoebox Solar Oven STEM Activity and April STEM Challenge or Renewable Energy Project is just what you need to keep your 2nd through 5th grade students engaged and excited for learning during the month of April. Challenge your students to design
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: April and Earth Day STEM Activities & Challenges BUNDLE for Elementary
Earth Day STEM Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Earth Day Activity - This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards and encourages critical thinking, budgeting, and engineering skills. Oh no! People are throwing away too much trash! Your students need to reuse some things from the trash to make something new and useful. What will they come up with? This Earth Day STEM will get your students using their critical thinking skills to solve this challenge! Students must stick to a budget and use the available supplies.
Suggested Plan of
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Bird Beak STEM Activities and Pollination STEM Challenge
Learn about bird beaks and pollination while reading a story! Get ready for a STEM adventure with Beth the budding ornithologist. Students will choose which challenges Beth should try as she watches birds. Students will learn about pollination, bird beaks and feeding behaviors, and other fun facts about various birds. Based on their choices, they will encounter different STEM challenges. Materials Needed: In addition to containers of water, you can use any materials you have, but I recommend ind
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2nd - 5th
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3-5-ETS1-3
, 2-LS4-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Activities and Challenges for the Whole Year - Upper Elementary 3-5
April Early Finishers Choice Board
An excellent resource for early finishers or for independent work time that requires higher level thinking with SCAMPER terms (Substitute, Combine, Add Something, Magnify/Minify, Put to Other Uses, Eliminate, Rearrange) and words from Bloom's Taxonomy: Create and Evaluate.
You will find a color version which you can laminate for durability. A black line version is also included to make individual student copies.
Try a FREE Sample: August
This is part of a bundled package:
Monthly Choice
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3rd - 5th
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Seeds of Change Earth Day READ ALOUD SCIENCE™ Activity
Includes Easel Activity for Google Classroom Distance Learning.Integrate Real World STEM on Earth Day and engage kids by learning about plants and seeds!Teach about the importance of plants with this Earth Day Science Activity! Students learn about the importance of plants. Then, they create their own seed bomb to plant and observe over time.Connect to a Read Aloud: Seeds of ChangeThis STEM Project is a companion activity to Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace by Jen Cullerton Johnson. The
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2nd - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 4-PS3-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Reasoning Puzzles - Geometry Vocabulary: Math Talk, Early Finishers, Enrichment
Instead of flashcards, memorize and learn geometry vocabulary words by reasoning and applying those words to a super fun no prep puzzle. These also make wonderful math warm ups, centers, or early finisher activities. Geometry vocabulary included:right angleacute angleobtuse anglerayline segmentlineintersectparallel linesperpendicular linesrectangleparallelogrampolygonhexagontrapezoidquadrilaterallines of symmetryequilateral triangleisosceles triangleright triangleThere are 10 no prep puzzles a
Multiplication Depth and Complexity Bundle
This bundle includes 3 different word problems and task cards which all deal with multiplication. They include: Finding Factors of Prime and Composite Numbers, Multiply 3-4 Digits by 1 Digit, and Multiply 2 Digits by 2 Digits. All problems are multi-step problems in which students have to complete three different questions in order to complete the problem. This will help prepare students for similar formatting during state testing.Each lesson can also be purchased separately by clicking on th
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4th - 5th
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Reasoning Puzzles - Meaning of Division: Tasks for Math Talk and Enrichment
Do you need math warm ups, centers, or early finisher activities? There are 10 no prep puzzles are easy to print and just hand out for instant engagement. In this activity, students decide for themselves whether six statements are true/false about a given puzzle. You can then have them engage in math talk to defend their thinking, and critique the reasoning of others.Why work on reasoning activities?The Standards for Mathematical Practice put a focus on the thinking processes of students. There
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2nd - 4th
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Use the Clues: Differentiated Collaborative Problem Solving (Grades 3-5)
What do you do when you hit a road block or a problem? You call a friend, talk to someone near you to get help or look it up. This makes us better learners, and it allows us to gain new knowledge and strategies. Students can become better problem solvers when they are given opportunities to work together. When the problem are differentiated, they are working at their highest level.
Why work on problem solving together?
21st century skills are definitely going to be needed in the workforce i
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3rd - 5th
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Error Analysis: Multiplication
Higher Order Thinking Task Cards
Newly update with new graphics: This is a set of critical thinking task cards. Students are required to analyze a traditional algorithm multiplication problem to find the single error. Students are then required to use their math knowledge and vocabulary to describe the problem. Then students write an extended response to help fix the error.
The task cards in this packet can be used in a variety of ways in the classroom: individual work stations, partner/ gro
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4th - 7th
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Summer STEM Activities for Building Bricks: STEM Mats
Easy STEM activities for summer! These STEM projects use mats that are SO easy to set up in your classroom. If you were thinking of trying STEM Fridays or Maker Mondays, or you need something more engaging for your early finishers than worksheets or reading, this is the resource for you. Not only will your students be working creatively to solve problems, they will be reading, writing, and using math skills. CONTENTSInstructions and sample imagesLetter you can send home to parents, caregivers,
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K - 4th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
Also included in: STEM Activities and Makerspace Tasks for the Whole Year
Recycled Robots STEAM Project| Earth Day Project | Editable
This STEAM project includes directions for students to create a recycled robot to help celebrate Earth Day! Or you can decide when to give this project to your students and change up the directions as it is editable!It also includes a robot commercial planning sheet for students to be able to share about their robot. Students could then decide how to produce their commercial whether just getting up in front of the class and reading it or recording it using apps such as imovie, shadow puppet edu,
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3rd - 5th
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