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African history centers for International Baccalaureate
A Human Body Interactive Science IB PYP Unit of Inquiry
Flippables, foldables, 3d models, science experiments, research, transdisciplinary learning…….all in the name of inquiry based science. With over 170 pages, this 6 week, IB PYP unit of inquiry is looking at the human body and how our organs and systems are interdependent, together with how we compare to the systems that give life to other organisms. It is wholly differentiated with tasks marked A being more challenging than those marked B. It is suitable for grades 4-6. I have planned around t
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4th - 7th
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An Inquiry Based Math Project The American Revolution
Get ready to take a journey of math adventures back in time to the American Revolution with this inquiry based math project. It offers collaborative learning and hands on inquiry requiring the children to solve problems, think critically and apply their knowledge of measure and scale, fractions, ratio tables and word problems with the four operations as they plan military strategies and solve problems for the Colonial and British armies. Text is included with data that the children will have
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4th - 6th
The Water Princess by Verde 19 Book Extension Activities NO PREP
Beautiful book based on the true story of African model, Georgie Badiel. Gie Gie must walk with her mother everyday to get water from the well. Gie Gie wants to find a way to bring the water closer to her village. Wonderful opportunity for discussion. From Amazon:With its wide sky and warm earth, Princess Gie Gie’s kingdom is a beautiful land. But clean drinking water is scarce in her small African village. And try as she might, Gie Gie cannot bring the water closer; she cannot make it run clear
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K - 3rd
An IB PYP Learner Profile Write & Draw Activity for Early Years
This IB PYP Learner Profile NO PREP writing packet will have your students writing in a fun and engaging way as they become familiar with the qualities of each Learner Profile attribute. They will be able to show their understanding of what it LOOKS-SOUNDS-FEELS like to put that attribute into action. Ideal for Kindergarten & Grade 1.Great to use with: •Focus attribute within your units of inquiry•Reflection activity•In connection with picture books demonstrating Learner Profile•Evidence of
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PreK - 1st
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A Growing Collection of Visible Thinking Reading Graphic Organizers for IB PYP
Finally, I got around to creating reading comprehension graphic organisers that are suitable for the IB PYP, the CCSS ELA and promote inquiry within reading for ANY non fiction and fictional text. More thinking strategies will be added as I progress. Reinforce the reading comprehension skills and strategies with the children as they learn how to identify their learning within the big ideas of the key concepts and the Learner Profile. *JUST ADDED* You will also have 72 Printable Post Its aligned
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3rd - 6th
Harriet Tubman Foldable Emergent Reader ~Color & B&W~ PLUS Printable
Black History Month
Harriet Tubman
African American Women
Are you planning on teaching your students about Harriet Tubman, but having a hard time finding books they can read about this famous African American woman?
I have searched high and wide to find emergent readers that my students can read independently to teach them about Harriet Tubman, but always came up dry, so I created them!
Now my students can read an 'informational text' independently during Black History month- and so can yours
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K - 2nd
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IB Learner Profile Activities For Any Fiction Book Includes ALL Learner Profiles
You will find these IB learner profile activities helpful all year round to teach all the learner profile attributes.Use any fiction book related to the learner profile trait you are focused on. Each pack also included 20 picture book recommendations.The learner profile activities bundle includesTen packs, one for each of the attributes:InquirersKnowledgeableThinkersCommunicatorsPrincipledOpen-mindedCaringRisk-takersBalancedReflective Check out the preview for examples of the activities.MORE DET
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1st - 4th
An End of the Year Drama Circle Activity
Drama circles! They bring out the risk taking, creativity in all kids and everyone has so much fun! These printable cards are just one of my drama circle activities that I use to practice the trans- disciplinary skills of cooperation, social and communication to name a few. One card begins the round and each child has to act out the instructions on their card, following on from the previous card. It is great for literacy centres activities as well as cooperative group work.
This drama was desig
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: A Year Long Bundle of Drama Activities
Life as an American Slave Interactive Stations | PRINT & DIGITAL
This series of Life as a Slave Stations are designed to humanize the people who were slaves as much as possible. Students often learn about the Civil War and the existence of slavery, but not about the daily life of the people who were slaves. The six stations are designed to help bridge the gap. The six stations focus on:1. A picture book station2. Listening to Songs of Slavery3. Examining the Food and Clothes of Slaves4. Studying Photographs of Slavery5. Learning about life on a planta
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5th - 8th
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All Because You Matter by Charles 30 Book Reading Extension Activities NO PREP
This resource is perfect for the elementary classroom or school library. You will have 30 unique activities to use with your elementary students. You can pick and choose which activities work best for your class and there are plenty of choices for differentiating and making this work for many different grade levels.This resource was made to accompany the book All Because You Matter written by Tami Charles and illustrated by Bryan Collier. This resource will allow students to be creative while ch
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2nd - 5th
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Planning A Popcorn Party An Inquiry Based Math Project
Get ready to plan a popcorn and movie party, keeping the kids engaged with this week long inquiry based math project. It offers collaborative learning and hands on inquiry requiring the children to solve problems, think critically and apply their knowledge of measure, time, fractions, place value, ratio tables and word problems with the four operations as they prepare their own class party! Text is included with data that the children will have to identify in order to solve the problems. This
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3rd - 6th
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Slavery in Antebellum America: A Document Set Stations Lesson
Immerse your students in a primary source-based study of the lives of the enslaved during the Antebellum Era. Using seven different document sets of five primary sources each, students learn about the following aspect of slavery:Labor in the "Big House"Labor in the FieldsFamily LifeInternal Slave TradeReligionPunishmentResistancePrimary sources range from visual images to WPA interviews to slave narrative excerpts. [NOTE: some sources deal with difficult and violent content, thus the product is
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9th - 12th
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IB PYP Learner Profile for Literacy Task Cards with Distance Learning Pack
*UPDATED TO INCLUDE DISTANCE LEARNING COMPATIBLE RESOURCES - Google digital file, Power Point and the original PDF printable cards. **These are the perfect tool to use with distance learning as you embed the Learner Profile into everyday learning. Combining literacy within the IB PYP Learner Profile helps to reinforce the profile of a learner and helps your students to gain a deeper understanding of what the Learner Profile means with being a whole learner. Use with any text. There is a Power Po
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: Back to School IB PYP Learner Profile Bundle of Activities
Complete IB PYP Inquiry Science Activities Extreme Weather & Global Warming
Within this 55 page packet, is a complete 4-6 week bundle of engaging lessons and fun inquiry-based science activities to support the International Baccalaureate’s PYP theme of How the World Works with the central idea of how changes to the Earths atmosphere are affecting our weather conditions today. The different perspectives surrounding Global warming are investigated too. I have included the key concepts that each activity is built around: causation, form, connection and responsibility.Our l
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4th - 6th
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An IB PYP Early Years Bundle of Activities
Finally, skills based activities aligning with the IB PYP elements for our youngest learners! This IB PYP bundle is designed for early years (pre-k up to grade 1 ) with 5 activities that can be used at any time of the year as you integrate hands-on and play-based learning with the language of the IB PYP. With these activities, you will find that they align nicely with our Approaches to Teaching throughCollaborative activitiesCommunity buildingReinforcing the language of the PYPDeveloping a cultu
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PreK - 1st
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Christmas Holiday IB PYP Drama Circles Literacy Activity
Drama and the Holiday season! It brings out the risk-taking, creativity in all kids and everyone has so much fun! These printable cards are just one of my drama circle activities that I use to practice the trans-disciplinary skills of cooperation, social, communication and thinking to name a few. One card begins the round and each child has to act out the instructions on their card, following on from the previous card. It is great for literacy centers activties as well as cooperative group work
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: A Bundle of Drama Activities for Christmas!
A Complete IB PYP Unit of Inquiry Rocks and Minerals
Experiments ! Math fun! Science stuff! And flipables, foldables, web quests, and the science goes on and on. This makes you the coolest teacher ever! Kids love inquiry based learning and there are over 80 pages full of hands on inquiry that engages and promotes learning in this complete, interactive science unit of inquiry. I created this for our IB PYP theme of How the World Works with our central idea of: Scientific principles create and shape the rocks on earth. Lines of inquiry: How are the
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3rd - 5th
The Scientific Method An Inquiry Based Science Workshop Distance Learning
Over 14 experiments and inquiry based STEM challenges helping to reinforce the Scientific Method, making you hands down, the BEST, funnest teacher ever! With both the PDF and digital version, you have everything you need to work flexibly. Hands on science becomes easy to incorporate into your day with this easy prep, inquiry based learning packet of activities that encourages critical thinking, inquiry, communication and questioning within children, from 2nd-5th grade. The skills developed fr
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3rd - 6th
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Historical Fiction Passage The Underground Railroad Black History Month or More
Engage your students with this fascinating historical fiction story about the Underground Railroad of the 1860s for Black History Month or year round. Quick and easy setup with clear student directions make these worksheets perfect to keep students engaged with the story and intrigued with higher level, critical thinking questions whether through print or digital activities.Click HERE to save 30% with the Black History bundle.This Underground Railroad historical fiction story is great for whole
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Black History Month Activities Bundle
Developing IB PYP Inquiry Skills with Science Activities
Hands on science becomes easy to incorporate into your day with this easy prep, inquiry based learning packet of activities that encourages thinking, communication and questioning within children, from 2nd-5th grade. The skills developed from these engineering science activities leave the planning to the children. Developing thinkers and inquirers is a focal point of the International Baccalaureate but also the more recent CCSS. The speaking and listening opportunities are rich within this prin
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3rd - 6th
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Activity Guess the Character Traits Bingo with IB Attitudes
Bingo! Three fun, engaging activities that incorporates the language of the IB Attitudes with learning of literacy comprehension strategies and skills. This is an ideal literacy centers activity or for small guided groups in 3rd -6th grades.
You will find the bingo boards can be used as a traditional game of bingo, where the children take turns reading the text cards and they have to infer the IB Attitude being used by the character. It involves a lot of group discussion, where the academic lang
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3rd - 6th
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Classifying Animals Sorting Worksheets & Center
FULLY UPDATED AND REMODELED 7-30-2016!!!
This product will help your students learn the basics of classifying different types of animals based upon their similarities. Worksheets and a sorting center will help students be independent investigators into the types of animals who live on our earth while having fun and explaining their thinking along the way!
This 10 page product includes:
*6 animal sorting worksheets with 8 cut out animals to sort on each including "mammals/not mammals", "verte
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PreK - 3rd
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Back to School and Making Friends with Drama Circles and Activity
This drama activity was designed for my 5th graders as a fun back to school activity and ice breaker as we get to know one another; seeing old friends again and establishing new friendships. It is also a great review of the speaking and listening strands and the Learner Profile and IB Attitudes. Thus also compatible with the CCSS ELA. There are numbered cards to help keep the younger kids on track and there are cards without numbers which I have used with my 5th graders to add rigour to the ac
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: A Back to School Bundle of IB PYP Activities
Wild animals Playdough mats. Fine motor. Africa. Safari. Jungle.
There is nothing as fun as modeling with plasticine and if we add the theme of ANIMALS to it, our students and children will enjoy it even more, while working and improving their motor skills, attention, literacy, color identification, fine motor,...This material is ideal for Early Childhood Education, Special Education, First Cycle of Primary, Primary Education, Preschool, Prek, Kindergarten and First Grade.Content: Includes 10 cards with 10 different animal reproductions: elephant, tiger, hipp
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PreK - 3rd, Staff
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