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8th grade resources for Microsoft Word and for Montessori
Civilization GRAPES Independent Study Project
This project can be used to examine any civilization using the organizer GRAPES (geography, religion, achievements, politics, economics, social structure.)
Students research each area and then have a choice of creative follow-up tasks for each one (lots of art, creative writing, etc. To culminate their work, students will create a slideshow presentation about each area of GRAPES.
File includes overviews of GRAPES, project description/planner, follow-up choices, rubric, and note taking sheets.
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5th - 9th
Student-Led Conference Form - Montessori Classroom Form
Student-Led Conference Form where students plan three products from all subject areas that they wish to share with their parents. Students then must also present two lessons to their parents.
This document includes the planning sheet and reflections by the student and parent.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Family Tree Rubric (Generic)
Here is a great rubric for a Family Tree Project. It is easy for both the teacher and student to understand. Once you have passed this out to each student have them staple it to their project when they turn it in. Makes grading easy-peasy!
A second page is included for working on their draft sentences. A great way to work together as a class and prepare. Some students may need the extra structure as a requirement while other students may be encouraged to venture "Above and Beyond" these sentenc
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Self-Evaluation for Student-Led Conference
This is a student evaluation for students to evaluate their progress in class. It is a great way to prompt a conversation with the student and parent. Students also set goals and discuss with their parents why these goals are important. Students also talk about their strengths and weaknesses with their parents. It is a great way for the parent and child to connect and understand what is happening in the classroom.
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4th - 8th
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Marshmallow Bridge Project - STEM / Pre-Algebra / Algebra 1 PBL!
An excellent STEM project to explore equations and inequalities, while also using creativity and engineering! Student develop and plan a marshmallow bridge, purchase materials from you using an imaginary budget, and then construct it over the next couple of days. At the end, the students create a poster of their design and thinking.It's an extremely fun project and the students really enjoy the hands on approach to working with money and mathematics.Materials to provide are small marshmallows an
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7th - 10th
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Biography Notes of Authors in English Literature
This resource provides notes on authors from English literature over the last 300+ years, including the Enlightenment, Romantic, Realist, Transcendental, Victorian, Existentialist, Naturalist, and Modernist eras, as well as the Bloomsbury Group and the Beat Generation. Notes are helpful for students to preview many historical figures and make a choice on who they will write a biography about. Students who select different people can teach their peers when writing is shared.
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6th - 12th
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Art Research Project with Rubric
This is a simple and easy to implement art research project. It is a third grade and above friendly project, and requires students to use technology. The rubric is part of project description and is easy to read.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
STEAM Project on the History of Time
Immerse your students in the study of time! Timepieces, ancient clocks, gears, astronomy, calendars and even racing bicycles and spirographic art. This fully-integrated bundle is a 4-week plan of study that integrates math, science, language arts, history, art, foreign language and even wellbeing exercises. It is everything a collaborative teaching team needs to create an engaging and immersive unit. BONUSES: In addition to the bundle below, this download includes the following bonuses: · Edita
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6th - 9th
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BIPOC Figures in Historical English Literature
This resource explores Black, Indigenious, People of Color (BIPOC) people who have made on impact on English Literature in the last 300+ years. This resource provides notes on BIPOC historical figures from the Enlightenment, Romantic, Realist, Transcendental, Victorian, Existentialist, Naturalist, and Modernist eras, as well as the Bloomsbury Group and the Beat Generation.The limited access to BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) authors in historical English literature can be attribut
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6th - 12th
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Virtual Play therapy- Sandtray, lego, fairies, yoga and more
10 interactive Pages including therapy rooms about, sand play, emotions, teen meditation, child yoga, hygiene, lego, adult space, fairies, therapy children's books. Lots of interactives on each page. Designed and created by play therapists.
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PreK - 10th
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Utopian/Dystopian Lit-Book Guide
With this resource, students are set up to take notes, choose activities, and move at their own pace as they read a utopian or dystopian novel. I give students a choice on which book group they want to be in, but don't always guarantee first choice. Reading and completing the lit-book guide could take anywhere from a month to two months, depending on the frequency of your meetings. Choice activities include character mapping, finding vocabulary, writing a poem or song, making a graphic design, c
Grades:
6th - 10th
Disney Trip Planning Project - End of Year
Students will plan and budget a trip to Disney World! Students need to write down flight information as well as all the money they spend. Students will have a strict budget they need to stay within. This is a great assignment for the end of the year. Can be done independently or with a parter.
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5th - 12th
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Gummy Bear Genetics
Students use gummy bears as manipulatives to see ratios in punnet squares using different types of inheritance. Inheritance types include: Simple dominance, Incomplete Dominance, Co-dominance, and Simple utilizing a dihybrid cross.
Includes teacher instructions on how to set up and conclusion questions at the end.
Great activity for middle school and high school students.
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6th - 10th
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Song Analysis Graphic Organizer
Songs are an extremely engaging way for students to analyze figurative language and literary devices. Here is a graphic organizer to guide students and teachers as to the meaning of songs through analyzing the lyrics.
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4th - 12th
Tic Tac Toe Project (guidelines and rubric) - Levels of Organization
Looking for a fun student-guided and differentiated project? Adapt this Tic-Tac-Toe project for your classroom's needs! (File is a .docx so the wording and vocabulary can be changed by the buyer.)
This particular set of directions and rubric were written for a lesson on "Levels of Organization in Living Things." In order to get students involved in their own learning, they are given the opportunity to choose the category that best suites their style; whether it be drawing a picture, writing a
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6th - 9th
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Sample Offer Letter and Job Description for a Director/Principal
Here you will find a sample offer letter to a Director/Principal that is editable . This would be a great resource for a childcare center or private school. Also included is a job description for a Director/Principal/Administrator.
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PreK - 12th
True Story of the Incredible Soccer Team Cave Rescue - City of Ember Enrichment
Students who have read The City of Ember know at the end that the city was all underground. As an enrichment activity, have students read an article, with pictures, about an incredible underground rescue: the rescue of the Thai boys' soccer team from a flooded cave in 2018. Twelve boys and their coach were exploring the cave when an unexpected flood drove them deeper and deeper into the cave. They finally took refuge on a precarious rock edge more than three miles deep within the cave. All t
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5th - 8th
Also included in: City of Ember Bundle - Test, Quizzes, Enrichment
Montessori Cosmic Tower Pictures
Help your children to understand where we live in the universe. Print the pictures and glue on a set of boxes from a craft store. This is a big hit in the classroom!!
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PreK - 9th
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Step by Step Geocaching Template for Students
I recently wrote and received a grant to purchase Garmin eTex 10 GPS units for my Geography Club at my elementary school. This product is a template that I created with step by step instructions that shows students how to key in and use a GPS device to locate geocaches. Once you have the GPS coordinates of a hidden cache, you can type them into this template. Then your students can begin this global scavenger hunt. I have attached four different sheet with groups A, B, C, and D. You can cre
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Five Themes of Geography - Country Matching Cards
If you are studying the 5 themes of geography (Location, Place, Region, Movement, Human-Environment-Interaction), this card sorting activity is a definite must buy!Students match the geographical information to their corresponding theme as well as the country. The packet contains 15 different countries, but I have used color-coding to create three sets of five nations. The interesting tidbits are a great way to review the major aspects of the five themes, and they also help students get intrig
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7th - 8th
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Where I Live Book, 1st Montessori Great Lesson Activity
Students can use page prompts to guide their personalized artwork and better conceptualize their place in the Universe in this "Where I Live" book. Beginning with the broad concept of the Universe and breaking down their location in the cosmos to their own home, students will see exactly where s/he or they fit in! The book is editable as a Word document so that you can specialize the pages to fit your students. This activity can be given as single pages over several days or as a complete book. B
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PreK - 9th
Being in a Concert social story
Social story for how to act during a school holiday concert. Great resource to preview expected behaviors for standing onstage, singing with a group and having fun!
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K - 9th
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LAB Chemistry - Nuclear Decay - Wet Lab
Engage your chemistry students by having them performing an iodine clock reaction -- reimaged to be assigned to nuclear decay! Students will time the clock, graph the results and imagine how the nucleus decays over time.Included:1 sheet Lab 2 pages1 Sheet teacher solution creation directionsObjective: Observe and determine the equilibrium shift of the reactionMaterials Students:• Solution A• Solution B• 2 Erlenmeyer flasks• 3 graduated cylinders • A magnetic stirrer (if available) Timer• Beaker•
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Homeostasis Lab
In this laboratory activity, students investigate homeostasis by measuring their internal temperatures before and after submerging their hand in a bucket of ice.
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6th - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-LS1-3
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