Where you will find all resources and materials aimed at Early Childhood and Primary/Elementary Education, covering ELA, Science, Math, ESL, Gifted and Talented, STEM Education, and much more!!!
Where you will find all resources and materials aimed at Early Childhood and Primary/Elementary Education, covering ELA, Science, Math, ESL, Gifted and Talented, STEM Education, and much more!!!
This is a follow up to my Billy Goats Gruff packet. After such great response to that one, I decided to make a similar one for Goldilocks. This packet includes:
Display Characters (Can be printed in a smaller scale if needed)
Display Bowls and Chairs
Color Themed Vocabulary Words (blue=Baby Bear, yellow=Mama Bear, red=Papa Bear, pink=Goldilocks)
2 Flow Maps, for Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
A Goldilocks WANTED poster and writing activity
My Favorite Character graph and answer sheet
Venn Digram for Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
If you liked my Billy Goat Gruff pack, be sure to check this one out too!
This is Human Life Cycle sorting game. This game allows students to practice identifying different parts of the human life cycle. This pack includes:
5 stages of the human life cycle display cards
15 cards depicting descriptions of different stages of the human life cycle. (Each card gives a description, then asks "Who Am I?" so students must match the description to the correct display card.)
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This is a great hands on unit for 3-5 students that is aligned with ELA & Math CCSS, and Next Generation Science Standards for Engineering & Design. Students will read or be learning about the history of the Titanic, and then will design better lifeboats, and test different materials for an insulated lifejackets.
Standards
3.MD.B.3, 4.MD.B.4, 5.MD.B.2, 3.G.A.1, 4.G.A.3, 5.G.B.3, RI.3.10, RI.4.10, RI.5.10, W.3.1, W.4.1, W.5.1
***Please note additional materials are needed for this activity***
Straws, duct tape, tin foils, 100-200 pennies or other coins, ziploc bags (large and/or sandwich size), ice cubes, cotton balls, Crisco, plastic spoons, bubble wrap, sponges, water, plastic bowls or plastic boxes, Mercury thermometers.
This packet includes:
Cover Page
Introduction and Objective Page
3 pages of ELA, Math and Next Generation Science Standards for 3-5
Lesson Procedures
2 Informational Texts
Symmetry Activity for Lifeboat Design
1st and Final Design for Lifeboats
Lifeboat Self Assessment
Insulation Graph
Insulation Experiment Explanation
Insulation Temperature Line Plot
Insulation Temperature Line Plot Questions
Insulation Materials Description Cards
Overall Reflection
This is a pack of 12 cards featuring different Living and Non-Living things. Simply print, laminate, cut, and hide around the room. Students must walk around with their papers, and write the name of each thing they find, then determine if they are Living or Non-Living. This pack includes:
12 Living and Non-Living cards
1 recording sheet for lower-level students (they must just right either the name of the thing, OR if it is Living/Non-Living
1 recording sheet for on-level and above-level students (they must write the name of the thing, and circle if it is Living or Non-Living)
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This is a great hands on unit for K-2 students that is aligned with ELA CCSS, and Next Generation Science Standards for Engineering & Design. Students will read "Jack and the Beanstalk", and discuss what happened to the Jack and the beans. Then they will work in small groups to use growing materials to conduct an experiment on different growing conditions. After the experiment (which should take 20 days), students will use what they know about growing conditions of plants to write a letter to Jack, advising him on the best way to grow his "magic beans".
***Please note additional materials are needed for this activity***
Soil, cups, dry cannelini beans
Standards Covered: K.MD.A.1, 1.MD.A.2, 2.MD.A.1, W.K.2, W.1.3, W.2.7, SL.K.1, SL.1.1, SL.2.1
This packet includes:
Cover Page
Introduction and Set up Page
3 pages of ELA, Math and Next Generation Science Standards for K-2
Lesson Procedure
Growing Beanstalks Differentiated Growth Log Book
Growing Beanstalks Differentiated Writing Extension
Growing Beanstalks Explanation page
Growing Beanstalks Technology Extension
Growing Beanstalks Home Science Extension
Growing Beanstalks Banner for classroom display
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First I want to make it known that I do not own Elmer. This pack contains my artistic rendering of the wonderful elephant for personal classroom use to aid in teaching the story.
This pack includes:
1 Elmer cut out puppet
My Favorite Elmer Color Graph
Number 1-12 cards with recording sheet
I am Unique Like Elmer writing page
This is a collection of display items and activity sheets to go along with the story, the Three Billy Goats Gruff. It includes easy to make big, middle sized, and small billy goat as well as the troll. These can be made for whole class or small group use. There are also 6 pages of color coded vocabulary words. Orange=nouns, pink=verbs, red=positional, green=troll words, blue=goat words.
The activity pack
Billy Goat Gruff Tree Map
Troll Tree Map
Billy Goat Gruff and Troll Venn Diagram
Numbers 0-10 Make a Bridge Activity
Sequencing Activity
Billy Goat Gruff and Troll Favorite Character Graph with More and Less Questions
Please note this is a PDF file.
This is a nice, colorful, and interactive Place Value display pack. Features a lovely chevron design with bold colors. This pack goes from Trillions all the way to Thousandths. What makes this pack interactive is that it includes number cards that can be placed on the chart with velcro or tape, and can be moved around to make larger or smaller numbers. Challenge your students to identify the value of a particular number in the sequence.
This is a display banner, or you can utilize the letters and explanations. This is a great visual reminder for asking different types of questions to your students. Each letter offers a unique idea on how to question your students. Also a great way to show to your admin during observations that you are trying different questioning techniques!
Q: Quality
U: Understanding
E: Encourage multiple responses
S: Spark new questions
T: Thought provoking
I: Individualized:
O: Ownership shifted to students
N: Narrow and broad
S: Success building
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This is a 4 page booklet designed around a lesson about keeping teeth clean. Students will make a statement about what will happen to teeth when we don't clean them, and will write a question about the experiment. Then students will each take an egg and coat it with a mixture of crushed cereal and milk or water. The mixture needs to be quite sticky so that it creates a coating on the egg shell. The crushed cereal mixture is to simulate "chewed food" while the egg represents a tooth. Once the egg is coated, students place the egg in a cup or bowl and leave it to dry. This may take about 3-5 days depending on the room temperature, so it is best to start this experiment at the beginning of the week.
On the final day, students examine their eggs, and feel what happened to the food (it should have solidified). They then take a toothbrush and try to brush as much of the food off as possible. This should be quite challenging and may require excess force. If some students are too rough, the egg will break, which can simulate tooth decay in real life.
Students then complete the rest of the experiment booklet.
This is my "Testing Ramps" experiment, which allows students to test different surface materials for a ramp: Legos, paper, and sandpaper. We did this experiment to determine what was the best material to use for a surface for cars in our model of our community we made.
Students will complete the first side of the activity together before the experiment, then do the experiment, and finally will write about their conclusions. The recording sheet follows the scientific method/process skills when conducting an experiment.
Step One: Make Guesses
Step Two: Determine if the test is fair
Step Three: Experiment
Step Four: Draw the experiment
Step Five: Discuss findings
Step Six: Suggest an alternative material for a surface
This is a packet based around the GATE unit of "Thinking Like a Disciplinarian" designed for K-2 students and aligned with CCSS. Students step into the role of being a Marine Biologist and complete a research study on an ocean animal similar to the story "Over in the Ocean", with the main focus being animal conservation. Following the story students will select an ocean animal (great chance to get some stuffed ocean animals in the classroom) to learn about and work towards conserving.
Students can work independently, in small groups or partners depending on preference and ability. Once the research packet is complete, students will create a conservation poster to draw awareness to how we can help these animals.
This packet includes:
Cover Page
Lesson Outline
Teacher Notes
CCSS Page
Animal Cards
What is a Marine Biologist? Display Card
Marine Biologist Definition Display Card
Marine Biologist Badges for lanyard (Color and BW)
Animal Informational Text Pages
Differentiated Research Packets
Differentiated Self Assessment
Conservation Poster Explanation
Thinking Like a Marine Biologist Display Banner
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This is an integrated math, writing, science, and drawing activity that we used for 1st grade as a summative assignment for the end of the year during our ocean unit. This packet includes:
Cover page
Letter home to parents
Animal and plant description page
Math page
Aquarium advertisement template
Sample photos
This is a set of 5 vocabulary and description cards depicting the 5 different stages of human growth and development. Each card features the name of the stage, a clipart character in that stage, and 3 descriptions that fit the stage of development.
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This math activity is designed to assist students with practicing ordinal numbers beyond 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. This includes:
Worksheet
3 activity sheets to be printed on colored paper and laminated for use with dry erase markers.
This math activity is designed to help students work on telling time to the hour and half hour. This includes:
2 worksheets that can be printed back to back
4 pages of mini clocks, to be printed on colored paper and laminated
4 pages of digital times to the hour and half hour, to be printed on colored paper and laminated
This is an easy to use fraction sheet to determine if your students understand the correct order to write a fraction.
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This is a simple in class or take home measuring activity, where students can find something to measure, draw a picture of it, and then give the correct measurement.
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This is a simple task sheet that affords students the opportunity to try their hand at converting different currencies and solve word problems.
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This is an excellent hands on measurement activity that gets students up and moving around the classroom, using a variety of non-standard tools for measuring. Students can complete this activity in 3 different ways, so perfect for differentiating in your classroom. Perfect for hitting the common core as well as meeting the needs of your diverse learners.
1. Students will select one tool and measure all the items with only that tool.
2. Students will have the freedom to look at the tools and decide per item which one they think would be best to measure with.
3. Students make a measurement book, and measure all the items with all of the tools.
***Please note, additional materials are needed to complete this activity***
Items to be measured: Apple, book, box, lunchbox, backpack, shoe, window, desk, door, chair, ball, and computer.
Measurement Tools: Teddy bear counters, paperclips, pencils, crayons, links, and unifix cubes.
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