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Build fraction knowledge with your students or children by using Fraction of the Day. I have provided free Google slides to use to practice fraction of the day exercises and also a free blank printable. I walk you step-by-step through different fraction exercises you can have them do.

For an EYE-opening exploration, check out our Scienstructable 3-D Paper Dissection model. This authentic paper dissection can be used as a dissection-free exploration, a pre-dissection tool, or as a summative assessment for comparative anatomy. WHAT'S INCLUDED in this 1-3 DAY LESSON: • 18 EDITABLE PowerPoint slides with bellwork, instructions, notes and embedded answer key to handouts • 16 NON-EDITABLE PDF handouts → Guided reading PDF → Differentiated graphic organizers → Dissection Template in BLACK LINE AND COLOR → Extension questions → Answer keys • DIGITAL GOOGLE CLASSROOM links to all items listed above which can be easily converted to Microsoft School with directions provided or altered to fit your school’s personal learning management system STUDENTS WILL: • Learn about the 22 structures of the eye using the guided reading • Color, cut out and assemble an EYE 3D Scienstructable dissection model CHECK OUT OUR OTHER DISSECTION MODELS: • Cat Dissection - 3-D Paper Model • Crayfish Dissection - 3-D Paper Model • Dissection - Invertebrate Animals • Dissection - Vertebrate Animals • Dissection - Aquatic Animals *GROWING* Bundle SEE HOW THIS LESSON ALIGNS WITH NGSS, TEKS or GSE Because we have created many of our own graphics or have purchased licenses to other graphics with permission, we cannot offer our resources in editable format unless otherwise stated. TERMS OF USE (TOU):All rights reserved by GETTING NERDY®️. • 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). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. EYE SCIENSTRUCTABLE 3D DISSECTION MODEL © 2012 to present GETTING NERDY®️ All Rights Reserved www.gettingnerdyscience.com

Prepare your crayons for another lovely agamograph craft. We got a Groundhog Day Agamograph Template for your kids to get creative with. We love simple crafts and this two-sided ground-hog's-day craft surely is one of

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Free Heart templates are the perfect Valentine's day craft for your students! Students will learn how to use their creative skills to decorate a variety of hearts.

This week we started our unit on space and we’ve been having SO.MUCH.FUN learning all about the Sun, the Earth, and the moon! Can I just tell you how impressed I am by how much information my kiddos have learned in just a few short day… It just goes to prove that when kids are engaged, learning takes place To begin our unit, I decided to tackle one of the biggest MISCONCEPTIONS I noticed my class was having…. Many of the kids believed that the Sun travels around, the Earth. Can you blame them? I mean every morning on my drive to school I see the Sun rising in the sky. I can totally understand why they think this. They “see” the Sun moving in the sky every day. So logic tells you, it’s the one traveling… Right, not quite! To help my kiddos explore this idea a little further, I decided to have them create their very own models. (Feel free to download your own copy here.) They started off by coloring pictures of the Sun, Earth, and moon. While doing this, we talked about the obvious size differences between each. The kids were shocked to […]

These coffee filter hydrangeas are SO PRETTY! Transform simple coffee filters into realistic looking flowers. Such a fun and easy kids craft!

Konos Unit: Attentiveness Theme: General Attentiveness/Ears and Other Senses We built a crawl through ear to help the kids really experience the ear and see all the working parts up close. Stuart worked on cutting and taping to build the outer ear. Why is he laughing so much about a box? Surprise! Oh, there were two little munchkins hiding in the box! They seem very excited about our crawl through ear. With some kid wrangling, Stuart was finally able to finish his project. Here is our ear and ear canal. It's amazingly quite sturdy for being just two boxes taped together. I tell you, Stuart can build an ear! I drew the ear on the front of the box and Nicholas labeled it with the correct term, "Pinna", which is the visible part of the ear that we all see. Next Nicholas gathered various parts from around the playroom to use in assembling the middle and inner ear and labeled them. We have a water frisbee for the Ear Drum, a baby toy hammer for the Hammer, a part of a Star Wars ship for the Anvil, a Nerf gun support stand for the Stirrup, and a styrofoam pool noodle for the Cochlea. I opened up two more boxes to use for the walls of the inner ear. However, they are significantly more flimsy than Stuart's part of the ear. I added a big sheet to cover the entire ear and it was time to explore! Is that an eyeball in our Pinna? Yes, that was Nicholas' eyeball! Oh, the kids are having so much fun with our ear. And amazingly, this has really helped Nicholas to learn the parts of the ear without even trying to memorize anything. What a fun way to learn!

Did you know the human heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood every day? But how does a heart work? With this simple model of a pumping heart, you're about to find out! This human heart model activity is from The Human Body Family Unit Study. In the unit study, we learn about the human

ALL ABOUT EARTH Get ready for a month filled with so many fun activities to teach your kiddos all about our planet Earth . I teach this unit in April so it coincides with Earth Day. I’ve loaded up this blog post post with read aloud book ideas, free videos you can share with your students,

Productivity is a superpower. To be productive is to focus on what is most important and tune out the noise. It is to purposefully invest our time. And, it is a power that all of us can learn with practice. If you would like to learn how to have a productive day, this is my

If you follow us on Instagram or Facebook you'll see that we spent Sunday afternoon making a model of a roman amphitheatre for one of Theo's homework challenges. And he took over my Instagram stories for the day with a follow along tutorial of how he made it. It was SO fun! And I'm pretty sure we've got a future Blue Peter presenter in the making ;) So we wanted to put together a blog post tutorial too, just like our solar system one, in case it's any help when you need to make a roman amphitheatre. Because who doesn't need a roman amphitheatre in their lives?! We used: - some thick cardboard sheets - glue gun & glue - acrylic paints - a plate to draw around - a scalpel (for grown ups only) Theo did A LOT of research beforehand into exactly what type of model he wanted to make, and what he wanted his amphitheatre to look like. He LOVES this kind of thing! He started by drawing several circles around our plate on the cardboard. Luckily we have lots of these big sheets of cardboard at the studio leftover from when our wrapping paper gets delivered. But any thickish cardboard would work. We needed eight circles for our amphitheatre but you could use more or less depending on how tall you want it to be. I cut each one out using a scalpel. Theo did have a little try with the scalpel, while I held his hand, but he's a leftie and found it really difficult. So I did the tricky cutting. Once each circle was cut we made them into donut shapes with larger centre holes as we went. The bottom circle has the smallest hole and we each one about 1cm - 1.5cm bigger than the one underneath. So you want the outside of the circle to be the same size, but the inside to get smaller - hope that makes sense! These make the seats. Whilst I was cutting the circles Theo painted the base using acrylic paints. He wanted a sandy base so used yellow, orange, and cream paints, with some green splashes for grassy areas! - a top tip we found for painting sandy texture is to dab your brush onto the base rather than paint with strokes. So your dab dab dabbing to create a mottled texture. Once all of the circles were cut we got our trusty glue gun out and glued them together. Theo and Matilda are both really confident using a glue gun (all that wand making has paid off!). He started with the smallest ring at the bottom and then glued each one on top. Then he glued this whole structure to the base. To make the outer wall of the amphitheatre we cut a long strip of the same cardboard and Theo drew the shape of the wall he wanted - with one taller side. A really good tip for helping the wall to bend around your circular seats is to scalpel some vertical lines at regular intervals. Cut through about half of the depth of the cardboard, so it doesn't slice fully through. Keep the cut sides as the outside, and then you'll find it bends round really well. Theo drew some arches into the taller side of the wall and I cut them out. We thought this gave it an authentic tumbledown feel! Once they were cut we glued the wall around the outside of our circular seats. This was a little tricky and we took our time. We found gluing it in small sections worked best. We thought that the combination of the arches and the vertical slices gave a really good look to the outside wall. The slices worked really well! Theo drew some lower arch shapes around the wall to give a bit more detail and a more authentic look :) Once the amphitheatre was all put together we added a few details. A lion, of course! We just printed this and glued it onto some thin card before gluing it to the base. And Theo insisted on putting the gladiator on the steps outside of the amphitheatre - because why would he want to be inside with the lion?! Well exactly Theo! So there you have it. A pretty effective but really very simple to make roman amphitheatre. Theo absolutely loved making it and he learnt so much. Filming the process for his Instagram stories takeover worked brilliantly too, as he really thought extra hard about every step of the process so that he could explain it on camera. One of his 'grown up' career options is to be a set designer for films. I think he's off to a great start don't you?! If you have any questions do send them through - Theo is loving your messages and comments :) x ✂️ For more brilliant school project and craft ideas for children head to our Reuse & Recycle page. ✂️ Or have a browse of our Pinterest boards for even more school project, craft, and play ideas.

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We had Cultural Diversity Day at school a few weeks ago! It was so much fun! We each got to deck out our classrooms in the country/culture of our choice. We had everything from South Korea to Australia to Zambia! I loved that we all got to teach about our particular cultures. The kids enjoyed […]

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Do summer days make you long for the beach? Do you wish you lived closer so you could bring the kids there for a fun day in the surf and sand? I know my kids

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So many of my students have crazy gaps in their learning. Some are already reading, but don't know their letters. Some of my students are reading, but can't write anything. I developed a couple quick assessments for writing uppercase/lowercase letters, matching uppercase to lowercase letters, and a test to write the letters from memory. Here is a worksheet I use to assess writing uppercase and lowercase letters from a given model. For some of my students who need practice writing, I laminate a copy of this sheet and put it in their daily work binder. They use a dry erase marker to practice writing in the empty box. Then, my assistants wipe it clean at the end of the day and it is ready for use again the next day. I use this worksheet to assess whether my students can match uppercase letters to lowercase letters. If they can't use a pencil to draw a line to the match, I just have them point to it. I use this as a quick test on letters. Obviously, I need to update this so there 26 boxes on the page. There are only 24 boxes because when I created this it was for a student who was only working on mastering some targeted letters. To administer this test, I say a letter and have my kids write that letter in the boxes. UPDATE as of 7/14/2016: Here is a free link to these resources!

Use your Cricut Explore or Cricut Maker to craft this Valentine's Day box! This 3D paper project is fun to craft for February 14th!

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