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Shark Tank Elementary Economics Project for Inventors and Entrepreneurs
Loosely based on the show, Shark Tank.... this is a great unit to use for late elementary and middle school students to learn economic terms while working through the planning process of designing a good or service as an entrepreneur. Includes planners for all steps of the process and links to Shark Tank snippets on YouTube as examples too! Thank you and enjoy! ⭐ CHECK OUT THE FULL PREVIEW ABOVE! ⭐ * Each section of the project below includes teacher directions * Links to Shark T
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2nd - 7th
Solve a Mystery | Crime Scene Investigation Activity Bundle | CSI Forensics
Students love CSI Activities and Hands-on Investigations. These popular C.S.I. activities are a great way to teach inference, logic, analysis, and critical thinking.Looking to go DIGITAL in the CLASSROOM or Distance Learning Mode?Check out the C.S.I BUNDLE below which includes this Printable Resource as well as a Digital Format Link for each activity... C.S.I. for Kids Bundle - digital and printableGo 100% paperless with these C.S.I. ActivitiesC.S.I. Activities for Google ClassroomBy purchasing
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4th - 6th
Indigenous Peoples and Europeans & Early Societies | ONTARIO GRADE 4/5 UNIT
Teach your split grade 4 and grade 5's with this inquiry based split grade unit on Indigenous people and Europeans and Early societies. Teach two separate curriculums during one period with this complete unit in an easy and manageable way. Grade 41) Identify and locate the major early societies on a map and time line. 2)Compare the daily life of two or more early societies. 3) Identify the environmental features in early societies 4) Identify how the environment impacts the daily life of earl
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3rd - 6th
Project Based Learning+End of Year FUN:Design A Dream House 4th Common Core Math
I designed this project to give my students (and myself!) some relief after standardized testing at the end of the year! It is a FUN and EDUCATIONAL math project based on Common Core Standards.
During this project students will get to tap into their creative side and design the house of their dreams! They will use design skills, budget and money skills, area and perimeter skills, and geometry skills--all while being engaged and having fun!
Included in this item are:
-Slide presentation to
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
ANCIENT CIVILIZATION UNITS BUNDLE: Rome, Greece, Egypt, Mali, China
All 5 of my Ancient Civilization units all together. 300 pages plus a slide show!. Each unit has more than enough to fill your unit plans, but they keep growing. Each time I add to any of the 5 units, you'll get an update to download the bundle again at no charge. Bought separately, they would cost $40.00. Buy the bundle and save $10.55!All 5 units cover the Virginia SOL standards for Ancient Mali, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, and Ancient China
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2nd - 6th
Road to the American Revolution DBQ Document-Based Questions
American RevolutionDocument-Based Questions (DBQs) are a great way to expose students to primary sources as well as to make them think about an event in history and respond to it. This unit can be used in a few ways. You can project the full-page images on my board so that we can discuss them, and then the students answer the DBQ in their notebooks. I have also included the DBQs in printable format so that your students can answer on paper and digital Google Forms that you can send electronicall
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4th - 6th
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A Dog Day 7-Hour Complete Sub Plans Thematic Unit for Grades 5-6 Common Core
A Dog Day 7-Hour Complete Sub Plans Thematic Unit for Grades 5-6 Common Core
This packet includes everything you need for a complete interdisciplinary interactive unit on dog breeds. I created this unit to leave with a sub for 5th-6th graders to complete in a day. All of the teachers (7 of us) had to be out for the day so we wanted to leave something fun instead of a whole day of seat work. The students work through the packet, completing activities for reading, writing, science, social studies
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4th - 6th
Also included in: The 7 Hour Sub Plans Bundle for Grades 5-6 ~ Easy Sub Plans!
Ocean Animal Lap Book and Research Project
I know your students will love this project as much as mine have!
This project will allow your students to learn about research and report writing in a fun and engaging way that is not overwhelming.
Included you will find all pieces to be included in the lapbook:
Daily step by step plans
Example pictures for all components
Everything you need to create a lap book with:
-Guess My Animal Riddle
-Food Chain Flip Book
-Life Cycle Expandable Book
-Interesting Facts Cards and Pocket
-Research Re
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2nd - 6th
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Visual Literacy & The Graphic Novel
Teach visual literacy and introduce the graphic novel. This resource is full of engaging lessons and activities for building visual literacy skills. It will also introduce students to the genre of the graphic novel (you don't need to be reading one).Whether you teach the graphic novel or not, this bundle will give you the opportunity to work on your students’ analytical skills. We spend our days analyzing visual clues and interpreting people’s actions based on those clues. However, when it comes
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8th - 12th
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Gifted and Talented - Living on Your Own: Lessons in Financial Responsibility
Challenge your gifted and talented to play the “game of life” and survive financially during their first year in college. This concept-based unit allows students to “earn” an inheritance from a distant relative by repurposing items from a barn. With this “money,” students find affordable housing, transportation, furnishings, and other essentials. Then the “game of life begins with monthly reoccurring expenses, opportunities to buy additional necessities and/or wants, as well as challenges or o
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5th - 8th
The City of Ember Novel Study, Comprehension and Graphic Organizers
This novel study is the perfect companion to The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. Students will use the reading response activities to boost understanding, show their comprehension, and engage with the book in different ways. It incorporates different aspects of reading, including comprehending, inferring, making connections, questioning, summarizing, evaluating, and synthesizing. Comprehension questions are included for each couple of chapters of this novel. These can be used as written activiti
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4th - 8th
Bill of Rights Activity | Criminal Justice | Rules and LAWS
Your students will love investigating the Criminal Justice System especially when they approach it in a fun and engaging manner.Play the marshmallow game to understand why we have laws... play BINGO with the Bill of Rights, what's not to enjoy?This resource includes a printable AND digital version to use with Google Classroom™ (By purchasing this set you are saving 20% off the individual resources)If you're looking for just the Print and Go or Digital versions, click the links below:Criminal Jus
Grades:
4th - 6th
Character Traits Unit for Upper Elementary and Middle School
This resource includes a reading unit to teach character traits to upper elementary students. This character traits reading unit includes, reading response examples, mini lessons, interactive notebooks pages, genre reading posters, rubrics, and assessments. This unit part of a Genre, Theme, and Character Traits unit BUNDLE for upper gradesThis unit includes everything you need to teach {and dig deeper!} character traits in middle grades (4th-8th). As an upper grade teacher, I often find that I a
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Theme Unit Character Traits Unit and Genre Unit Bundle for Middle Grades
Summer Reading Comprehension | Summer Bucket List | Logic Puzzles | CSI Mystery
Here's an easy-prep bundle of fun for End of the Year Activities, Summer School or substitute plans. Great for those, "What do we do now that grades are turned in at the end of the year" teaching opportunities...By purchasing this BUNDLE you are saving 20% off each individual resource!Check out the PREVIEWS for more details to see what is included in each resource.These activities are Just Print and Go! Or Click and Go!**Digital versions are included for use with Google Classroom.**With the digi
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4th - 6th
The Odyssey Unit for pre-AP skills AND authentic literacy!
This unit was written to promote authentic literacy and advance pre-AP skills in the classroom. Included in this new and updated unit are almost 70 pages of totally original handouts and engaging activities that you will not find anywhere else: a “4 Corners” interactive anticipation guide, the “Odyssey Toga Party” to introduce star characters, the Mount Olympus Police Report to file against Odysseus, Life is Like an Epic Simile to help students write their own poems, Annotation in 8 Steps, plus
Grades:
8th - 11th
Wonder Adapted Novel Study for SPED
This is a full adapted unit for the novel Wonder by R.J. Palacio. This unit is perfect for a special education or life skills class and has everything you need for reading and writing for 6-7 weeks. The novel study includes a character reference sheet, character description activity, character foldable, plot activity with three levels of support, and journal writing prompts with three levels of support. Additionally each part in the book has a fill in the blank activity with three levels of supp
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6th - 12th
The Secret Path - Full Unit
This unit has been built with PEARDECK but it is not necessary to use the extension to be able to use the unit (just an added bonus). The resource will stand alone without the application. There are 124 slides with questions, activites, videos, and learning goals and connected links to be used with each song/video from Gord Downie's The Secret Path. **FYI the lesson for Shin-Chi's Canoe is not included in the full unit as it is prior learning to The Secret Path - you can buy the lesson here**
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5th - 9th
Fantastic Food Trucks: Flexible No-Prep Project-Based Learning (PBL)
Welcome to the Fantastic Food Trucks PBL project! This project will lead your students through an amazing and in-depth journey as they design all aspects of their very own food truck business. With the provided grade-appropriate support, your students will design their menu, plan the layout of their truck, consider startup costs as well as how to market their business. There is a wealth of information in this packet to guide you and your students through this incredible learning experience. Whet
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4th - 9th
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Gifted and Talented Projects and Activities | STEM Activities and Challenges
Need a creative and fun way to share information about being GIFTED with your gifted learners? This is a creative and differentiated resource for gifted students in grades 4-6. This "Outta the Box" Classroom Competition has been used as part of a Monthly GATE Pullout Program, but could also be part of your gifted curriculum that supports teaching students about their unique social and emotional characteristics. This 2+ hour workshop can be done on a Fun Friday or within the week during a GATE ro
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4th - 6th
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The Secret Garden Novel Unit Plan and Extension Activities
A complete student journal full of comprehension, student responses, writing activities, research activities, and extension activities for The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Chapter-specific student responses for every chapter!
Create a packet or print individual pages as you need them!
Many extension activities to choose from at the end!
See the preview to see what all is included and get sample pages!
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Personal Narrative Unit (Calkins 3-5)
Packet of student pages to be used with Lucy Calkins' personal narratvies lessons 1-8. Easy brainstorming forms that directly match the mini lessons. Great for grades 3-6. Email me if any edits are needed!
*** Now updated with an outline of mini lessons!
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3rd - 6th
Aesop for High School! 2-Week Fables Unit
Aesop's fables are for kids, right? Wrong! Always intended for an adult audience (and performed at the royal courts of ancient Greek city states), Aesop's original fables are a GREAT way to teach literary interpretation in your high school and upper middle school classrooms. Plus, the fables are perfectly bite-sized for discussion and activities.Included in this 28-page packet are the following: -- a 2-page introduction to interpreting fables and a 1-page Aesop biography-- 40 hand-selected fa
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7th - 12th
Social Pragmatic Language Group Bundle 4 large products
I'm excited to offer you this huge money-saving pragmatic/social group bundle (95 pages) of four of my top selling products:
Taking Perspective
Safebook
Social-Pragmatic Language Rubrics
Ice Cream Emotions
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This bundle is a great savings from purchasing the products separately.
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Thanks, Jen
Grades:
4th - 10th
Grade 5 & 6 Ignited Literacy Reading/Writing - ONTARIO Curriculum OCTOBER
DescriptionEver wondered how to get your students to love reading and writing? Love Genius Hour or need a differentiated approach that gives students more voice and choice in what they read and write. Keep students engaged in writing all year long while meeting curriculum standards. ⭐ Ignited Literacy is your answer ⭐Use research-based strategies for teaching writing including → gradual release of responsibility→ student led inquiry→ teaching spelling and grammar in context→ using mentor texts→
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Grades:
5th - 6th
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