Saturday, September 5, 2015

Math and Car Bingo

 
Math & Car Bingo is a game you can play in the classroom to reinforce addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square root and exponent skills. Instead of drawing ping pong balls, the teacher randomly draws clue cards which provide equations for the students to solve. The answers are the numbers to cross off the bingo cards. And when school is out and the family is on vacation you can use the same materials to play license plate bingo and avoid the “Are We There Yet” syndrome.
 
Great fun! My students really enjoyed! Thank you!

Great practice!

 

Questionaut
(Online Activity)

 
Join Questionaut on his journey through strange worlds, and use your English, Maths and Science knowledge to recover his friend's hat.
 
 
 

Graphing: Survey Says

 
Are you looking for a lesson that combines survey taking and creating graphs on the computer? Are you concerned some students don’t have access to the required software? This lesson is for you! Learn how to create professionally looking graphs using a free online resource. A four page handout complete with pictures will show you how. Lesson plans with handouts detail the survey process. Included is a classroom game based upon the survey results.
 
Very thorough. Thank you. I look forward to using it with my students.
 

English Language Arts - Death of a Salesman Complete Unit (NO PREP)

This is a great way to begin a school year!  There's literary nothing to do other than to print out your work books and guides.  Even the play is provided.


https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Death-of-a-Salesman-Unit-Bundled-1610583

This unit has been conceived with the teacher in mind. It contains a Student Guide, a Teacher Guide, and a comprehensive Answer Key. All you have to do is print the packages and teach them. It’s as easy as that! I’ve also included two different options for end unit evaluations, which both contain evaluation grids and answer key.

The unit is, in my opinion, visually appealing and the contents teach analysis of literature.


The bundle contains: (The documents, except for the evaluations, are in PDF format.)

The Student Guide has 16 pages:
-Notes on the American Dream
-An anticipation guide
-An in-depth look at success as it pertains to the lives of the students (which will later on be used to relate to the play's themes.)
-Thematic comprehension questions for each act
-Activity on motifs and symbols used in the play
-Activity on characterization
-Poem association (Langston Hughes)
-Notes on tragedy (Aristotle’s definition and modern definition)
-Review notes for students

Answer Key contains 29 pages:
-Answers to ALL of the students’ work
-Introduction to Arthur Miller
-Scene guide -Teacher’s comprehensive notes on the play (to help review and to fill students in on signifant symbols....)
-List of themes and how they are developed

Final evaluation contains two different options:
1) A unit test with answer key. Contains 3 essay type questions.
2) An essay. Contains essay topics, work process (steps 1…..), an outline guide, and an evaluation grid.

BOTH EVALUATIONS ARE FORMATTED IN WORD DOCUMENTS FOR EASY CHANGES AND MODIFICATIONS.

The Teacher Guide contains 5 pages:
-Includes 8 complete lessons that leave the teacher nothing to do, but to teach.
Lesson 1: Historical context and pre-reading
Lesson 2: Setting and reading (there are specific pages assigned to each lesson)
Lesson 3: Symbols, Motifs and reading
Lesson 4: Character chart and reading
Lesson 5: Reading
Lesson 6: Reading and a look at the difference between modern and classic tragedy
Lesson 7: Theme development and review
Lesson 8: Evaluation (Option 1 – test (answer key included), Option 2 – Essay (evaluation grid, work process, outline included)

It’ teaching made easy.

Friday, September 4, 2015

FREE - English Language Arts - Creating a Board Game Evaluation

Are you looking for a fun new way to evaluate literature?  This might help.

 
 
 
This rubric was created to help students understand exactly what is expected of them for this evaluation. It is also an excellent tool to assess students' progress and final product.

This self assessment rubric is part of bundle as well.

Self-evaluation grids are a great way to guide students in their evaluations. Students will know exactly what is expected of them and will be made responsible for their own success. This package can also easily be changed to be used as peer-evaluations.

 

Poetry Workshop with Interactive Notebooks for Grades 5-8

By Deann Marin atThe Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs II




I’ve been noticing that many teachers like using interactive notebooks with their classes. So I’ve done some research and decided to make one of my own. This type of activity utilizes all learning styles, visual, auditory and kinesthetic. It allows children to cut, paste, write, see and listen. Better yet, it keeps them engaged because they are doing things with their hands as well as listening and seeing.

I’ve come up with an interactive-poetry notebook bundle. There are 100 pages of various types of fold-able templates that can be added to their notebooks.  If you would like to make a regular booklet or have the class write poems to put on the bulletin board, color and black and white templates are also included. As a highlight of this poetry workshop, the class may pick their favorite poem and get it published in the anthology called  Celebration of Young Poets- Creative Communication, Inc.

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A Preview of What’s Inside

Teacher’s Complete Lesson Plans…………………4-13

Poetry Writing Workshop, Student Handouts……14-20

Parts of Speech, & Sensory Cards, ……………….........21-33

Free Verse Poems Interactive Notebook &
Worksheets   …………………………………………..34-40

Sensory Interactive Notebook Poems &
Worksheets………………………………………….........41-50

Acrostic Interactive Notebook Poems &
Worksheets…………………………………………….51-56

Limericks & Riddles Interactive Notebook……….57-68

Cinquain Interactive Notebook……………………..69-74

Diamante Interactive Notebook…………………….75-84

Haiku Interactive Notebook…………………………85-91

Shape Poem Interactive Notebook………………….92-98

Grading Rubric……………………………………….  99

Contact Information…………………………………. 100

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Making this bundle took many hours, it was a work of love for me. I hope it will help to bring out the poet in all of your students. 

Thank you very much.

Deann


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Thursday, September 3, 2015

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English Laguage Arts - Senior Poetry Unit (NO PREP)

This is a great way to start a semester!   There's literally no other prep than to make your copies.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Poetry-Unit-for-senior-students-1107375

This unit has been created to make any teacher's life easier. Print and go (NO PREP). It's teaching made easy.

Poetry Unit (Bundled) is appropriate for use with students in grades 11 and 12. I use the first section (lessons 1-6 with my grade 11's and do lessons 7-12 with my grade 12's).

This poetry unit has been devised to teach students the importance of :
• Figurative language (its uses and effects)
• Rhythm
• Tone and attitude
• Types of poetry

This unit’s focus is the analysis of poetry and teaches students how to make inferences with poetry, which is a skill they must learn for their other subjects as well. This unit is also suitable to teach in Advanced Placement classes (as an introduction).

The unit includes a Teacher Guide with complete lessons, a Student Guide, ready to be photocopied and given to students, and a final evaluation (which does not include an answer sheet because of the open nature of the evaluation). The final evaluation is a test that evaluates students’ ability to analyse poetry.

Poems include authors such as: Emily Dickenson, Dorothy Parker, Maya Angelou, Thomas Gray, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Alfred Noyes, T.S. Eliot, Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Frost, Pearl Jam, Langston Hughes, and Walt Whitman. The Unit includes 21 different poems.

The unit has been conceived to last 11 days – with 65 minute periods (although they are easy to modify).

The unit contains:
1 – The teacher guide (Contains 12 different comprehensive lesson plans to teach the poem included in the unit)
2 – The student package (Contains students’ notes , poems, and questions) (25 pages)
3 – The answer and annotation Teacher Pack, which annotates all of the poems within the unit (saving you time).
4 – Included is a test with multiple choice questions as well as a development question. All answers are included. (Word format for easy changes)

A total of 63 pages are included in this package.

This unit is complete, and does all of the thinking for you. All you need to do is to print out and photocopy the student package and you’re set.

It's teaching made easy!

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

EdTech Websites by Category - FREE

By Gavin Middleton


Click on the image below to view this FREE resource…



  • This resource contains a collection of educational technology websites divided into categories
  • I have successfully utilized all of these amazing websites with my classes to enhance learning
  • Links to lessons for how to use each of the websites are located at the bottom of each of the slides


TOPICS
1. Presentations (Prezi, Haiku Deck)
2. Multi-Media Posters (Glogster)
3. Blogs (Kidblog)
4. Mind Maps (Popplet, Slatebox)
5. Online Response System (GetKahoot)
6. Comics (Bitstrips, Comic Life)
7. Writing (Storybird)
8. Photo Editing (PicMonkey)
9. Surveys (Survey Monkey)
10. Electronic Badges (Classbadges)
11. Classroom Management (ClassDojo)
12. Multi-Media Wall (Padlet)
13. Online Whiteboard (Mural.ly)
14. Collaboration/Social Network (Edmodo)
15. Animated Video (GoAnimate, Powtoon, Dvolver)
16. Video (Animoto, MovieMaker, TubeChop, WeVideo)
17. Google Drive
18. Microsoft Office 2010
19. Microsoft Office 2013
20. Infographics (Piktochart)
21. Websites (Weebly, Wix)


Gavin (TeachwithTech)




For more ideas on using technology in the classroom, visit my Blog and Pinterest boards…