This is my twelfth post, for age 12, of the October Memoir and Backstory Challenge hosted by Jane Anne McLachlan. My previous posts: Baby Speed Eater, Two Tales, Curls, Most Magical Christmas, K…
Op Art: Also known as optical art, is a style of visual art that makes use of optical illusions. The 7th graders at SPMS worked incredibly hard on these Op Art Cubes! I love it when the 8th …
What a chemistry activity for kids? Learn the Periodic Table of Elements with kids in a fun way by playing the Periodic Table Battleship game!
This is the first TEST for 7th grade HONORS Math. The topic covered is INTEGERS (with some fractions and decimals). I taught this unit without the use of a calculator for the honors level. This test is also EDITABLE and an ANSWER KEY is included. There is also a Topics On Test (TOT) workshee...
Every quarter in 7th grade art, we attempt an architecture drawing project. Last quarter, it was castle design. This quarter we went back t...
Grab this free Writing a Thesis Statement Lesson with organizers accompanied by a PowerPoint that goes over rules and examples.
5 times for grading essays faster while providing better feedback! These tips will help ELA teachers work smarter, not harder!
Are you looking for a fun natural selection simulation activity for your evolution unit? You are in the right place. “Survival of the Fittest Finch” will not disappoint you nor your students! I did…
As many of you may know the Islamic calander is based on the cycles of the moon, hence the Lunar calendar. This was the inspiration behind our name, Lunar Learners. So to honor the launch of Lunar Learners first 3 books in The Prophet Series, we are sharing a few moon related crafts. (If you want y
Misha writes: “My middle school is starting an 8th-grade honors section of language arts. I would love to hear suggestions[…]Continue Reading
Many teachers aren't sure how to convert rubric feedback into grades or points. Here's one way to do it.
We are sure that most of you have used a ballpoint pen at some time or the other. It is something that we do without giving a thought to it but we all
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Plot diagram can be defined as structure of a story in short term. It is a way to explain various aspects surrounding around the central character of story. If you also want to organize a story in particular segments then you must try to use below provided plot diagram template. You can download multiple plot […]
This lab is one of my top sellers in my Teachers Pay Teachers store. It is easy to set up and doesn’t require a lot of materials. However, I frequently get questions about the lab so I’m hoping this blog post will be useful to those teachers out there who about to set up this ... Read more
As teachers, we often feel like in order to get kids learning, we need to be driving the work of learning. Passion projects will prove you wrong. When students complete passion projects, they pick the standards they will target. Students design the project. Students decide how they will be graded and design the rubrics, and students—most importantly—do the real work of learning. This spring, I dove into the world of passion projects with my students as part of our independent reading p
How was your week? We had a crazy week of assessments in Room 206 - being the end of the marking period and all! But we made it! I managed to throw a little fun in somehow. Here's a sneak peek - #growthmindset is a hot topic in the education world currently and Class Dojo has jumped on board by creating cute, engaging videos that tell kids "the brain is a muscle that needs to be worked out." If you haven't shown these videos yet - put them in your plans for next week!! They've released two videos so far (just a couple minutes long for each) and they have three more planned! We typically do a GoNoodle brain break each day before writing time, but we substituted with the videos twice this week instead! Just go to your class dojo page and click on the 'big ideas' tab. The videos will pop right up. Since it's the end of the 2nd marking period for us this week - new semester means new partners! If you use partners in your classroom a lot (two heads are better than one) than you need to download these phone partner templates from Young Teacher Love. For years, I used a strategy similar to this one but with clocks - when I saw Kristine's phone templates a few years ago I HAD to replace our clocks with her phones - I mean it's the 21st century, right? Better get with the times! The concept is easy - each student gets a phone template and walks around the classroom searching for ten partners. I laminate the phones when they're completed and we tape them to our desks. Whenever the students need to check over their work with a partner, discuss ideas or work together, etc., I spin a spinner and they find that number partner quickly. Takes all of about 10 seconds to determine partners this way. And we use partners several times daily so this is a HUGE timesaver in room 206! End of the marking period also means LOTS of assessing! To review for our math summative assessment this week we played one of my favorite review games - Math Baseball. This idea was passed on to me from a former colleague and it's never gotten old! Here's a quick run-down of how to play - separate the class into two teams. Number each student 1-15 in team one, and 1-15 in team two. (numbers will vary depending on your number of students) Draw two baseball diamonds on the board - or create reusable posters like I have. Bring batter number ones up to the board, all of the remaining students are outfielders. Give the students a review question to solve. The batters solve it on the board but keep their work covered up. The outfielders solve it at their desks. Call a random outfielder number, check each outfielder's work. If correct, the team moves a base. Check the batter's work. If correct, the team moves a base. Play until all review questions are complete. The team with the most runs is the winner!! What I love most about this game is that ALL students are engaged the entire game! We took a BIG writing test this week too over opinion essays. What I've noticed over the past few years of teaching opinion writing is that my students are good at forming an opinion and good at backing it up with evidence and good with arguing their point (what kid isn't???), but they struggle with putting all that great thinking into the correct opinion essay structure. So we created this anchor chart to help with remembering the format for an opinion essay! I think it really helped! Lastly, while we tested our little behinds off this week, we also celebrated the end of the marking period with a PBiS school wide movie. Our gym was transformed into the Falcon Cinema for a showing of the movie 'Inside Out.' The kids brought in blankets and pillows and we served cookies and hot chocolate. A good time was had by all. Our PBiS team rocks!!!! Happy weekend teacher friends! I'm off to grade all of those assessments we took this week! Yikes!!!!
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This year marks the 21st anniversary of 9-11. On September 11, 2001, almost 3,000 individuals lost their lives in a series of deliberate attacks on
This game is a hit every time I use it in class. There are few ways to teach grammar and have it really stick. This is one of them. The ...
I was introduced to this lesson by Claire Kirk & Katie Flowers. Both amazing artists and art educators I have had the honor of knowing and working with over the years. From observational drawin…
This helpful chart will aid students in identifying Author's Choices (both rhetorical and literary devices).
If you want to see me plan a GREAT lesson, don’t come find me on a Sunday afternoon when I’ve deliberately set aside a chunk of time for some hardcore planning. I’ll be priming my…
Slope is an important topic for pre-algebra, 8th grade math, and algebra. I was trying to come up with a new idea for practicing slope and I came up with the following: I made 32 cards with ordere…
Every teacher has that one unit they don’t like to teach. For me, it was cells. Having taught every grade from 6th to 12th, it seemed like no matter how hard I tried, the same thing happened every year. I taught organelles, students memorized them for a test, and then completely forgot about them. Later ... Read more
Cells have more in common across species than students think. Grab these cell worksheets to help visualize the similariites and differences beteween cells.
Would you like to have your students engaged and ready for class as soon as they walk in the door? My Main Idea Reading Comprehension Passages can help you do just that! These printable and digital bellringers are specifically designed to improve middle school students’ reading skills. This resource includes short and engaging daily reading passages that provide meaningful practice with determining the central idea and making inferences. These passages are great for: Homework Morning work Bell ringers Test prep Your students will love these reading passages! Each informational text reading passage includes daily reading comprehension practice for determining the main idea and making inferences. Students will read a passage about a different nonfiction topic each day and then answer two multiple choice questions that focus on the central idea and inferences. This resource includes: Eight weeks of daily reading comprehension practice A printable PDF option A digital Google Forms option Answer key These no-prep printables make starting class a breeze! You can either hand out copies at the start of every week or use the Google Forms option to make it completely paperless. Save money by buying the bundle! This product is also part of a larger, money-saving bundle! Make sure to follow me to be notified when I post new products!
Students first read descriptions of cell organelles placed at stations around the room and answer questions about them. Organelles Included: Cell Membrane, Cell wall, mitochondria, vacuole, nucleus, cytoplasm, chromosomes and chloroplasts. Reading simplified to a 4-7 grade level with the most important information. (http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Cell-Parts-Organelles-Descriptions-and-Analyzing-Questions-815804) Then For this project, you are to create a city where each part of the city has a matching part of the cell with a similar function. Requirements: • Design and create the city including all 9 cell parts listed below either as a one-dimensional drawing (using your own drawings or pictures from the computer), or a 3-D model. (You may use any materials you bring in—like boxes or clay, etc.) • Label each city part with its name and the name of the cell part that has a similar function • On a separate piece of paper, write a sentence for each cell part explaining why you matched it up with the city part you chose. Graphic Organizer and helpful hints are included... (http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Cell-City-Help-Students-Understand-Functions-Of-Cell-Parts-Organelles-816246) More super cell resources: Cell Organelle Sort Cut & Paste w/ Cell City Application Sort- Differentiated!
