Teaching paragraph writing through Constructed Responses: graphic organizers, posters, self-scoring, proficiency-based scoring rubric.
Color mixing is a great activity for a preschooler to explore after learning all their colors. Below I have used a much loved book "Mouse Paint" and expanded on it with a printable and a
Find hands-on butterfly life cycle activities, butterfly science labs, and free printables to incorporate reading skills and get kids writing about science!
Virtual dissections can be a huge help in teaching science, biology, physiology and anatomy. Here are some of the best resources for your lessons and labs.
The classic book inspires art projects, science lessons, and even a healthy snack kids will love.
If you’re like me, you have a diverse caseload of kids that learn the social-emotional skills we want to teach them in different ways. We counselors can’t seem to get enough of finding new and creative ways to engage our kids in therapy. After countless hours planning and prepping, I’ve found a couple simple truths
Instant empathy worksheets PDF activity book to teach kids or students all about empathy and being kind to others.
Simple STEM Stories will help you merge literacy and STEM with fun and engaging, hands-on STEM challenges based on a children's book.
Explore Fibonacci day with these STEAM activities - Learning about Fibonacci - Storybooks & art projects plus a fun video for kids to learn and enjoy.
Introduce the research process with this easy to assemble flip book! No need to cut and no wasted paper. Just print double sided, fold, staple, and teach! The flip book introduces students to the research process by covering how to find appropriate sources, taking notes, paraphrasing, citing sour...
We mostly like to incorporate learning into our every day play. But there are occasions that I create intentional learning activities for the boys to do.
Teach internet safety to primary students with these picture book suggestions, lesson plans, printables, activities, and online activities.
At the end of this atoms lesson plan, students will be able to describe the structure of atoms, including the masses, electrical charges, and locations of
STEM Bins for Elementary Students “I’m finished! What do I do now?” How many times during our teaching day do we hear these words from our students? Oftentimes, it is much too often, and students are provided a handful of the same options to keep them busy until our next transition. Sometimes students are instructed...
The Code Breakers Activity Pack includes: -32 Sight Word "Code Breaker" activities -32 Answer Keys -A cover page for teachers to make their own binder -Teacher Tracker so that you can keep track of lists you have assigned! *There are 5 different "Code Keys" used throughout to make the pack more fun for students! My students LOVE these activities because they're fun, rewarding, and each one is different! Students use the code at the top of each page to solve letters and build each sight word in their list! ****************************************************************** Use this pack of 32 Code Breaker activities to teach and practice ALL Dolch sight words with your students throughout the year! These activities are great for: -Distance Learning Packets -Center Work -Morning Work -Substitute Activities -Homework -Supplemental Practice -and much, much more!
20 school-wide kindness initiatives for elementary school counseling. Get students engaged in kindness activities with these fun ideas!
Use the book, "Rosie's Walk" by Pat Hutchins to practice comprehension and learn mapping skills using these printable activities as well as digital format in google slides. In these book extension activities students will use position words to help them follow a map and draw a map. Using position words with mapping skills increases students ability to read and use a map. This book with simple language helps students create their own map and visualize locations. The pictures on each page also helps students see where the location is in relation to other objects on the farm. Students will also practice comprehension skills creating and describing the two characters, answering questions, and using a map to retell the story. Whether this story is being used for reading instruction or social studies instruction young children will enjoy all six of these activities. 1. Fox and Hen Character Map 2. Position Words 3. Draw your own map 4. Writing Extension 5. Story Map Retell 6. Comprehension Clip Cards Digital Format: The digital format on google slides allows teachers and students to type and use manipulates to interact with the activities. The digital format has 4 activities which include: 1. Character Map for Rosie and the Fox 2. Position Words with Manipulative 3. Retelling Map with Fox and Hen Manipulatives 4. Comprehension Cards with Manipulative THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES 28 PAGES OF PRINTABLE PDF AND 12 PAGES OF DIGITAL GOOGLE SLIDES. Check out all of my Literacy Book Units: Rosie's Walk. There was an old lady who swallowed a bat. David Goes to School. Duck for President. Jack and the Beanstalk. The First Thanksgiving. Where the Wild Things Are. The 3 Little Pigs. The Day it Rained Hearts. Tackilocks and the 3 Bears. The Biggest Pumpkin Ever. The Little Old Lady Who was not Afraid of Anything. The Kissing Hand. How do Dinosaurs go to School. There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Shell. and MANY MORE.... If you have any questions please email me at [email protected]. You can also follow me on Facebook to get ideas, notified of sales, and giveaways. Enjoy!!! ***************************************************************************** Customer Tips: How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: • Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. ☺ Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches: • Look for the green star next to my store logo and click it to become a follower. Voila! You will now receive email updates about this store. Enjoy!☺ *****************************************************************************
Interactive Notebooks allows the students to document their own learning and reading experiences. Check out this reading interactive notebooks templates
How can you support the development of self-regulation in kids? This huge resource is full of self-regulation games, information, books, and more!
Body parts are some of the first words children learn. I do activities to specifically teach body parts in Spanish, and also include the vocabulary in the context of stories, games and other content. These are 20 of my favorite Spanish body parts activities to introduce or review these
It is the first week of kindergarten! What do I teach? I get this question all the time! I am so excited to put together this page together for you. I’m sharing our favorite first week of kindergarten read aloud stories and the free coordinating printables I made to go with them. Plus I will s
I began my search for a secular homeschool high school anatomy curriculum and didn't find anything that looked like a good fit for my daughter.
Teaching Kinders via Zoom is no easy task, so we've compiled a list of fun activities that you can do with your students virtually to keep them engaged and learning! These simple yet community building activities are perfect for early elementary students and teachers!
10 genius Science and STEM Activities that use craft sticks to inspire learning in elementary with budget friendly Popsicle Sticks.
This landforms lapbook is a great way for children who love a hands-on approach to learning, learn about different landforms.
Dive into the physical properties of matter with these hands-on activity stations. There are 13 pick-and-choose labs, each targeting a specific physical property of matter. These easy to set up labs: include step-by-step instructions use easy to find materials are highly engaging target individual properties of matter With the pick-and-choose format, you can have students complete only the labs relevant to your classroom's needs. Or do them all for an in-depth review of all physical properties of matter. Included in this resource: teacher setup instructions materials lists student instruction cards student response sheets with comprehension questions These stations are designed to provide a quick introduction or review of the different physical properties of matter. Each station should take 5-10 minutes. Follow up the stations with high-quality comprehension questions. Lab topics included: Magnetism electrical conductivity Thermal conductivity Solubility Relative density Temperature Length Volume Mass Solid Liquid Gas Sorting matter (identifying physical properties) See what other science teachers are saying: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Danielle F. said, "Great resource! I'll be using this every year with my students." Jeannette M. said, "This resource was just what I was looking for to provide hands-on experiments for this standard. Thank you!" Good to know: This is NOT an editable resource. Earn credits for FREE resources! I would love to hear how you use these activities in your classroom! Did you know you earn TpT credits for feedback left on paid items? Click here to see products you've purchased and haven't yet left feedback on! TERMS OF USE • All rights reserved by Two Teaching Taylors. • This product is to be used by the original purchaser only. • Intended for classroom and personal use only. • Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. • This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. • Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
All about scientists, free download, attributes of scientists, scientific method, interactive activities to learn about science.
I love teaching letter writing in the classroom. Students love writing friendly letters to each other. I've got 6 ideas for making teaching letter writing easier for you including sample anchor charts, picture book ideas and extension activities.
Our FREE Plant Life Cycle flip book is a great printable to go along with our other fun plant life cycle activities, projects, and ideas for your students.
This , that , these and those are demonstrative pronouns. We use them to point to specific people or things. Demonstrative prono...
Allow your students to learn about the Earth's Layers through this fun and engaging webquest and hands-on activity! The Layers of the Earth WebQuest requires students to visit various websites via Google Slides™ to answer questions. Then, they can complete a hands-on Earth's Layers Flipbook Activity. This Layers of the Earth Activity Includes: WebQuest: Printable and Digital versions that you can assign through Google Classroom™ Earth's Layers Foldable Craftivity Also Available: Earth's Layers, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes PowerPoint SAVE MONEY! ALL of these resources are INCLUDED in my: Earth Science Bundle MORE WebQuests: September 11 WebQuest and Craft Activity The Civil Rights Movement WebQuest Slavery in American WebQuest Electricity WebQuest Ecosystems WebQuest Do you want your students to Love ❤️ Learning Science and Social Studies? Check out some other great science lessons: Electric Circuits Conductors and Insulators Properties of Matter Interactive Notebook Life Science Interactive Notebook Classification of Animals and Plants Inherited Traits, Genes, and Learned Behaviors Plant and Animal Cells Microorganisms Physical and Chemical Changes Matter and its Properties Earth Science Bundle Year Long Science Bundle Also Available! Check out these other history lessons: American Revolution Unit Civil War and Reconstruction Unit Westward Expansion Unit The Suffrage Movement The Early 1900’s Unit American Expansionism World War 1 Unit The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression Unit Civil Rights Movement Unit Cold War Unit September 11 Attacks Economics Unit US Government Unit ⭐ Let's get to know each other! ⭐ Grab this FREE Civil Rights Movement Lapbook and receive other free resources and classroom ideas straight to your inbox! Follow Me on Instagram or Facebook If you have any questions, please email me: [email protected]
Learn about fingerprinting for kids & play detective! Fun ideas for a CSI or spy party or science activity for preschool & elementary ages!
Here we discuss self-regulation in preschoolers, development, and activities for self-regulation strategies in the 3-5 age.
Plan these simple and fun Paper bag STEM challenges for kids! Easy STEM activities that use what's around to encourage invention and design.
Need creative ways to teach division? This post has tons of ideas to use to help make teaching division easier and more interesting!
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Book clubs in first grade?! It may seem like a stretch, but the Spring is such a great time to get your students ready and used to reading, thinking about, and discussing books with their peers instead of me, the teacher! When done right, it can be such a fun learning experience for both […]
We have begun our unit on living systems in science (thank GOSH because Earth and Physical science have quite literally killed me this year...seriously, I feel like the most incompetent teacher when I teach science...but I digress...). Our main focus for the past week before Spring Break was the circulatory and respiratory systems. I thought I would share some of the things we have been doing, in case some of you are in the same unit yourselves. To get us started, we watched a few BrainPOP videos about circulation and blood. I found these in the HEALTH section, not the science section. The kids were very enthralled with these videos (they ALWAYS are really) There was quite a lot of information in them, which got us started on the right foot. The videos mentioned how the circulatory system was the delivery system of the body and that all systems were connected to this one. After some discussion, the students created this Circulation Data Disk from the Easy Make & Learn Projects: Human Body (Grades 2-4) (affiliate link) book. The idea of this circular disk was to show how all of the organs in the body played a very special part in relation to the circulatory system. I purposefully whited out the info on the disk so that the kids could do the research themselves. Using our health and science books, the students discovered the role of each organ in circulatory system. We then used the Easy Make & Learn Projects: Human Body (Grades 2-4) (affiliate link) book and created a model of the heart. The kids diagrammed the model to up the rigor a bit. They then placed these in their science journals. Another great find (that the kids had a blast playing) was the Circulation Game from Ellen McHenry's homeschooling website. This is a free download and I am so glad I found it! It took a while to set up and explain, but once they were going, the kids really were into the game. They learned quite a bit about how blood travels through the body and how it disposes of waste. (just a little note, I printed out 5 of these and had each table play. That way, there weren't as many people playing on one game board) Finally, the kids watched the School House Rock video, "Do the Circulation". (I have the actual DVD Schoolhouse Rock! (Special 30th Anniversary Edition), (affiliate link) but you can get it on YouTube if the school doesn't block it....like mine does) I gave them the words and, combining language arts with science, we looked for all of the facts and opinions (as well as figurative language) in the song. We discussed why the writers would put opinions and figurative language in a song intended to teach us about the Circulatory system. The students decided that it was because without the opinions and figurative language, the song would be B.O.R.I.N.G! We also began working on our Body Systems project on Google Drive. I made a template for each body system and the kids all began filling in the information about the circulatory system. This worked out perfect here because the kids had so much background knowledge at this point. They didn't really need to do as much research since we were learning so much as it was! (click here to get the project for your own class!) This is a screenshot of the slide before the kids actually did any work. I forgot to take pictures of them working! To explore the respiratory system (a bit further, as we really were talking about it all along with the circulatory system), we first diagrammed the organs involved. Then, the students did a little experiment to measure their vital lung capacity (how much air can be forcibly taken in and blown out) and the tidal lung capacity (how much is taken in and out during normal breathing). The kids has SO much fun with this one! They really were surprised at how much air they *couldn't* blow. I think they all thought they would pop the balloons in one breath when, in actuality, they hardly inflated them at all! You can find the exact experiment and printables here. So there you have it. Our basic introduction to the systems of the human body. Up next is the digestive system. Wish me luck ;) What experiments have you conducted in your class to teach your students about the circulatory and respiratory systems? Follow me on Snapchat for even more teaching ideas!
