I have been using interactive math notebooks in my classroom for as long as I can remember. Math notebooks are a great place for students to take notes, record definitions and sample problems, and practice new skills. They are perfect to use for direct instruction and guided practice, in small groups or as a whole class.…
Students benefit from hands-on activities to help boost their conceptual understanding of math. This focuses on measuring liquid volume.
Kids will love learning about the life cycle of a plant with this free Plant Life Cycles reader. Color, read, and learn about plant life cycle for kids!
Teaching rounding can be hard and monotonous, so I try to make it as fun for myself as possible because teacher fun=student fun! I'm a story teller. I love to hook my students with a good story, even if it means I have to embellish a little along the way. To kick off the first
Tons of free printable 4th grade worksheets, games and educational activites to make learning fun for grade 4 students.
Discover hands-on beginning of the year science activities that will excite your students and build the foundation for future science lessons!
Integrate math and art with these symmetrical pattern coloring cards. This is a great math art project that kids love doing!
Hands-on, Free printable Measurement Hunt activity is a clever math activities that makes makes measuring FUN for elementary students.
What’s your favorite color? What’s your favorite food? Favorite movie? Favorite sport? Is this how your typical graphing unit goes? Mine too! Until this year, my students were always graphing the same boring answers to the same types of boring questions. This year I decided to make our graphing activities more meaningful. I wanted to […]
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Capturing your students’ interest and curiosity during the first few minutes of class is the key to keeping them engaged for your entire lesson. But not all math warm up activities are created equally. Math teachers miss out on activating their students’ critical thinking and reasoning skills when
Discover metric system facts like a millimeter is about the length of a grain of sand, or a staple from side to side is about a centimeter.
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A fun activity using Cheez-Its to find area and perimeter!
Discover hands-on beginning of the year science activities that will excite your students and build the foundation for future science lessons!
Learn different ways to use Spiral Math Resources in your classroom; Including Spiral Math Homework and Spiral Language Homework.
Learn how to integrate the Blow Cup Challenge in the classroom with this engaging STEM project and lesson plan that incorporates math and science standards.
I stopped using timed tests to assess math fluency. Check out what I'm doing to foster meaningful fluency and help my students develop number sense!
Discover hands-on beginning of the year science activities that will excite your students and build the foundation for future science lessons!
Check out these beginning of the year science activities to get you started! This post has lots of science ideas and a freebie to engage your students.
Are you looking for a way teaching math vocabulary in a more visual and conceptual way? To differentiate for your struggling learners? Every year, it seems we get more and more visual learners coming into our classrooms, learners who benefit from math word walls that show concepts and vocabulary in action. This approach has worked wonders in my classroom and I know it will in yours! Adding a visual math word wall to my classroom completely changed how my students access our math vocabulary and the concepts we learn in class. Our math word walls are covered in examples and visuals that show the math concepts in context along with the vocabulary words we cover in class.
This post breaks down how I teach math in 5th grade and how my weekly instruction is structured, including the math resources needed.
When teaching the scientific method, it's important that you also teach the scientific process skills. Check out these science activities to help you get started and grab a freebie!
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These 10 science Youtube Channels offer high quality and engaging science videos. Use them to keep students excited and engaged in their learning.
Looking for the perfect way to start science each day? This FULL YEAR resource is for you! Well over 120 daily warm-ups give plenty of fun, engaging options to start science each day! This resource follows along with 5th-grade NGSS science units however, it can be used for any class that teaches astronomy, matter, earth science, environmental science, or plants. Never panic again about not having the perfect segway to ease into your science lesson - just click and go! Why not assign three or four to create a super easy plan for a substitute? You will love the variety - embedded videos, class surveys, sketching, and more! Save time and stress with Daily Science Warm-ups! Coming soon - Fun holiday warm-ups are on deck to give even more fun! Purchase now before more is added, and the price goes up. Related Products • Earth's Place in the Universe Complete NGSS Unit! • Earth's Systems and Interactions Complete Unit {NGSS Aligned 5-ESS2} • Earth and Human Activity Complete NGSS Unit covering 5-ESS3! • Ecosystems Complete Unit • Matter and its Interactions - Complete Unit! • What Plants Need to Grow Complete Unit {Covers 5-LS1} • Gravity: Forces and Motion {Covers 5-PS2} • 5th Grade Science - 7 NGSS Aligned Units
This Archimedes’ screw is such a neat science lesson about simple machines! We use screws all the time to hold things together, but screws are also used to raise and lower things. In fact, a screw is actually an inclined plane (ramp) wrapped around a cylinder or a cone. Archimedes was a Greek philosopher who […]
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This post discusses how to use math vocabulary charts to engage your students in more fluent vocabulary use by Rachel from Fifth is my Jam
Why use math sorts? Discussions Differentiation Aligned to the standards No-prep FUN! 1. Discussions We constantly tell students to show their work or explain their thinking. Using math sorts weekly will give students practice in putting their thinking into words. Your students will use math vocabulary as they explain how they sorted their cards. They […]
Jenga game cards are easily my favorite way to teach and reinforce basic math fact, phonics, or grammar practice.
