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Engage your students with this comprehensive, no-prep resource that explores the exciting world of video games! Perfect for elementary classrooms (Grades 2-5), this lesson combines reading comprehension, interactive quizzes, and a hands-on creative project to teach students about video game design, careers in gaming, and safe gaming habits.

What’s Included:

✅ Informational Text: A kid-friendly, 6-page PDF explaining video games, their types, and the roles of game designers, programmers, artists, and testers. ✅ Multiple-Choice & Short Answer Questions: Reinforce learning with auto-graded quizzes (answer key included). ✅ True/False & Fill-in-the-Blanks: Fun assessments to check understanding. ✅ Vocabulary Matching & Labeling Activities: Build key terms like "programmer," "simulation," and "game designer." ✅ Creative Design Project: Students imagine and draw their own video game, describing its story, characters, and gameplay (perfect for bulletin boards or presentations!). ✅ Safety Tips: Teach responsible gaming with rules like taking breaks and protecting personal information online.

Why Teachers Love It:

✨ Aligned with STEM/STEAM – Integrates technology, art, and critical thinking. ✨ Print & Digital Ready – Use as a worksheet packet, group activity, or homework assignment. ✨ Engages Reluctant Learners – Taps into students’ love of gaming while teaching ELA, career skills, and digital citizenship. ✨ Flexible for Subs or Centers – Clear instructions make it great for independent work.

Perfect for:

• Technology or Computer Science Units
• Career Day (Game Design & Coding Connections)
• ELA Nonfiction Reading & Writing
• After-School Clubs or Summer Camps

Grades: 3–5 | Subjects: ELA, STEM, Career Readiness, Digital Literacy

Format: PDF (Printable or Projectable) | Pages: 15 (Incl. Answer Key)

Can You Guess My Occupation? The Interactive Classroom Game That Makes Learning Fun!

Boost student engagement and ignite career exploration with this captivating guessing game!

Can You Guess My Occupation? is more than just a game - it's an interactive learning experience that sparks curiosity, critical thinking, and essential life skills. ️‍♀️

Here's how it benefits your students:

• Develops detective skills: Students become armchair detectives, analyzing intriguing pictures and using clues to predict each person's profession.
• Sharpens critical thinking: They'll decode visual cues, answer thought-provoking questions, and build strong reasoning abilities.
• Encourages lively discussions: Foster a dynamic classroom environment where students share their observations and perspectives, sparking healthy debate.
• Enhances observation and deduction: Train those eagle eyes! Students will learn to analyze details and draw logical conclusions.
• Nurtures creativity: Let imaginations soar as students explore the vast world of professions.
• Ignites career exploration: This activity is a springboard for students to discover their potential career paths.
• Makes learning enjoyable and memorable: Who says learning can't be fun? This engaging game keeps students captivated and wanting more.

Perfect for Educators Seeking Dynamic Teaching Tools:

• Easy to implement: Get started in minutes with this interactive and ready-to-use activity.
• Adaptable for all ages and learning styles: Tailor the difficulty to suit your students' needs.
• Complements your curriculum: Aligns perfectly with career exploration units or critical thinking exercises.

Dive into the world of career discovery today!

Can You Guess My Occupation? is the perfect addition to any classroom, transforming learning into an educational adventure.

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❤️Looking for notable Latino historical figures posters to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and decorate your bulletin board, hallway, door, or classroom? Introduce 10 different important Hispanic Americans, learn about their occupations and meaningful contributions they made with these printable posters!

✅ Hispanic Leaders included:

Oscar de la Renta, Bruno Mars, Octaviano Larrazolo, Joseph Acaba, George M. Wright, Dara Torres, Helen Rodríguez Trías, Frida Kahlo, Ellen Ochoa, Alexandria Ocasio-Co

*This is set 2 of this series. To view set 1, click here.

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✏️ Great for any elementary grade!

✏️ These colorful Hispanic Heritage poster packs are the perfect addition to your Hispanic Heritage Month unit! Or celebrate throughout the year!

✏️Create eye-catching bulletin boards, hallway displays, Hispanic historical figure education books, coloring pages, and more!

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⭐️This resource is low prep and will save you time! Simply print the ready to go posters and laminate for durability.

⭐️Black and white set included! Students can choose a historical figure and color their own poster! Combine pages to create a Hispanic historical figures coloring book!

⭐️Check out the preview and video preview for a sneak peek!

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✅ Includes 4 poster sets - 8.5 x 11 in (40 pages):

☑ Poster set 1 - leader's image, name and job title

☑ Poster set 2 - leader's image, name and sentence about who they are

☑ Poster set 3 - leader's image, name and memorable quote

☑ Poster set 4 - leader's image, name and fun facts

✅ Historical Leaders: (10)

☑ Oscar de la Renta - fashion designer

☑ Bruno Mars - musician

☑ Octaviano Larrazolo - politician

☑ Joseph Acaba - astronaut

☑ George M. Wright - biologist

☑ Dara Torres - swimmer

☑ Helen Rodríguez Trías - doctor

☑ Frida Kahlo - painter

☑ Ellen Ochoa - astronaut

☑ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - politician

✅ Bonus:

☑ Black and white set (40 pages)

☑ Table of contents (1 page)

☑ What you need to know (1 page)

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❤️Looking for notable Latino historical figures posters to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and decorate your bulletin board, hallway, door, or classroom? Introduce 10 different important Hispanic Americans, learn about their occupations and meaningful contributions they made with these printable posters!

✅ Hispanic Leaders included:

Oscar De La Hoya, José Feliciano, Roberto Clemente, Sonia Sotomayor, Rita Moreno, Cesar Chavez, Anthony Romero, Selena Gomez, Bob Menendez, Marco Rubio

*This is set 1 of this series. To view set 2, click here.

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✏️ Great for any elementary grade!

✏️ These colorful Hispanic Heritage poster packs are the perfect addition to your Hispanic Heritage Month unit! Or celebrate throughout the year!

✏️Create eye-catching bulletin boards, hallway displays, Hispanic historical figure education books, coloring pages, and more!

.................................................................................................................................................

⭐️This resource is low prep and will save you time! Simply print the ready to go posters and laminate for durability.

⭐️Black and white set included! Students can choose a historical figure and color their own poster! Combine pages to create a Hispanic historical figures coloring book!

⭐️Check out the preview and preview video for a sneak peek!

.................................................................................................................................................

✅ Includes 4 poster sets - 8.5 x 11 in (40 pages):

☑ Poster set 1 - Historical figure picture, name and job title

☑ Poster set 2 - Historical figure picture, name and sentence about who they are

☑ Poster set 3 - Historical figure picture, name and memorable quote

☑ Poster set 4 - Historical figure picture, name and fun facts

✅ Hispanic historical figures included (10):

☑ Oscar De La Hoya - boxer

☑ José Feliciano - musician

☑ Roberto Clemente - baseball player

☑ Sonia Sotomayor - judge

☑ Rita Moreno - actress

☑ Cesar Chavez - activist

☑ Anthony Romero - activist

☑ Selena Gomez - singer / actress

☑ Bob Menendez - politician

☑ Marco Rubio - politician

✅ Bonus:

☑ Black and white set (40 pages)

☑ Table of contents (1 page)

☑ What you need to know (1 page)

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⭐️Looking for more Hispanic Heritage activities?

Hispanic Heritage Month Growing Bundle

⭐️Looking for more classroom décor?

Classroom Decor Growing Bundle

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Ready to get young students thinking about college, careers, and roles/responsibilities? Try these 41 pages of printable, coloring occupation sheets with Lesson Plan suggestions that include discussion guidelines, activity ideas, and media connection. Fun and educational way for students to discuss and learn about careers. Excellent for building coordination and communication skills.

You work for a poster company and your boss wants you to design a classroom poster about Newton's Laws of Motion.

Included:

PowerPoint Presentation w/ Project Scenario and examples.

Student Handout (Word document) w/ Project Scenario, Research Suggestions, Reflection Questions, and a Rubric.

Simple machines have been the building blocks of more complex machines throughout the years. The gear is one of the most fundamental of the simple machines. Gears can help transfer power, increase or decrease speed and/or power, and change the direction of movement by simply working together.

Your students can experience gears through this activity as they build FOUR different gear sets .

1. Understanding how connected gears affect direction.

2. Compound Gear Train - gear input and output on the same side of a wall

3. Reverted Gear Train - input and output gears on same plane, but not directly connected

4. Large Gear Train - demonstrates Mechanical Advantage and directions of gears

Student Friendly! Easy to follow build directions!

ZIP File includes Student Handout and Teacher Answer Key

Students will use a chair, a board and car with interchangeable wheels (like a LEGO or K-Nex car) to examine the affects of the inclined plane. Students will run experiments, collect data, and do mathematical calculations including mechanical advantage to complete the activity.

The Packet includes:

Materials List

Procedures Instructions

Data Collection Table

Debrief Sheet

Here's a LEGO robot that I designed using the LEGO NXT robotics kit. It's a quick build for a single class period activity! SIX EASY STEPS!! The beauty of a quick build like this is a quick break down and put away at the end of class!

You've taught your students the EDP (Engineering Design Process), now what? This poster creating activity allows a group of students to create their own version of an Engineering Design Process classroom poster.

Using the Four Corner Poster Project method, studnets research and work together to create their own poster for a classroom supply company.

Set Sail for Creativity: Sailor and Captain Crown Templates for Classroom Fun. Enhance your little sailors learning experience with these exciting paper craft templates. Ideal for kindergarten, pre-k & preschool. Fuel their imagination with this hands-on activity. The printables include two black and white crown designs, with additional color versions, providing a perfect opportunity for coloring and cutting. Whether for morning work, centers, or early finishers, these templates are a fantastic way to introduce or reinforce the themes of sailors, captains, oceans, and under the sea adventures. Navigate your classroom into a world of creativity with these captivating Sailor and Captain Crown templates. Anchors aweigh!

This product includes:

• 2 black and white templates,
• 2 color templates,
• Side templates.

CLICK THIS LINK TO VIEW MORE EXCITING PAPER CROWN TEMPLATES.

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Give your students the opportunity to explore many different careers in a fun and interactive way! This "What Career" card game is played similar to the card game "Apples to Apples" and my students LOVED it! It lead to a lot of conversation, sharing of likes and dislikes, and questioning of what specific careers were - it was so refreshing to listen to them talk non-stop about careers during these class periods! Included in the download is everything you need to play the game, including instructions and step by step guide!

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AVID | Back to school | After Summer Break Memories Bingo Activity Freebie: Perfect for the first week back, this fun and interactive after-summer-break icebreaker helps students share their vacation memories while building classroom community. Great for the first week of school, team building, Fun Friday, Framework Friday and more!

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Would You Rather College & Career

Directions

• Share a forced of the Google Slides with students.

• Students edit each box and type in an activity or experience they had over the summer. For example, "Went to the beach," "Read a book," or "Had a barbecue."

• Students continue until all text boxes are filled with different activities or experiences they had over the summer.

• Last, students find classmates who share the same activities or experiences listed on their Bingo card and write their names on the line.

How to Share a Forced Copy

• Open your Google Slides presentation.
• In the address bar, locate the URL. It should look something like this: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/your-presentation-id/edit.
• Replace the word "edit" at the end of the URL with "copy" (e.g., https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/your-presentation-id/copy).
• Share this new link with students. When they click on it, they will be prompted to make a copy of the presentation.

Use this Blank Editable WICOR AVID digital Choice Board to add writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization and reading into your class! Put in your own activities and have students complete pieces for sub plans, final exams or study hall time! Simply share a forced copy of the spreadsheet with your students.

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Back to School

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What's Included:

• 1 editable BLANK template in Google Sheets

Space for:

• 5 Writing Activities
• 5 Inquiry Activities
• 5 Collaboration Activities
• 5 Organization Activities
• 5 Reading Activities

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Do you teach a college and career course? Are you an AVID teacher or maybe a counselor? Do your students love to debate? Then your students will love this extracurricular and involvement activities would you rather! Get your students excited about clubs and sports they could join to enhance their academic career. I promise it will leave your students both laughing and thinking!

What do you get?

15 College and career would you rather question slides

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Do you teach a college and career course? Are you an AVID teacher or maybe a counselor? Are your students needing to enhance their academic career with extracurricular activities? Then this product is for you! Your students will move around the room and form different groups while discussing 10 important questions related to extracurricular and involvement activities. Get your students excited about clubs and sports they could join to enhance their academic career.

Directions:

• Students walk around the room to music.
• When the music stops students get into a group with however many people are listed in the corner of the slide.
• Each member says their name and answers the question shown.
• Each time students must meet with new people until everyone has been met with.

What do you get?

1 directions slide

10 questions related to extracurricular and involvement activities

10 walk/transition slides

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Teach your students about conflict management through this engaging Passive, Assertive, or Aggressive AVID improv game. This would be perfect to pair with your passive, assertive, or aggressive lesson OR used as a fun team building game. This is also a great way for students to practice their public speaking skills.

Directions:

• Each slide will have a number and that number represents how many actors will participate in the improv.
• Actors will be given a challenge to act out a different scenario and will decide who plays what role as a team.
• Actors should draw a card to decide if they are playing a passive, assertive, or aggressive role.
• They must portray a passive, assertive, or aggressive tone as they act out the scenario.
• The student audience will try to guess what tone each actor is portraying.

*consider having audience teams and points

What's Included:

• 1 direction slide
• 1 teach slide with definitions and examples of passive, assertive, and aggressive behaviors
• 15 scenario slides

Some Scenario Examples:

• At a police station being interrogated
• Girl Scouts selling cookies to someone
• News anchor just before the apocalypse

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This exciting summer-themed 30-second speech activity is great for AVID, counseling, college and career, speech, or just used as a fun brain break in any class! Use it at the end of the year to test your students public speaking, dialogue, eye contact, planning, and teamwork skills!

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What's Included:

• 1 directions pages
• 1 optional points slide
• 15 summer topics with silent 30 second prep timers
• 15 thirty-second speech timer slides
• 1 editable template to make your own OR let students make their own!

Directions:

• Put students into groups or breakout rooms of 4-6 students
• Go over the directions with students:
• Wait for the impromptu topic to show up on the screen (ex: convince your friends that applesauce is the best sunburn remedy)
• Decide who in the group will start and that student will have 30 seconds to prepare for their speech after the topic is revealed
• After 30 seconds the student will present their topic for 30 seconds

Optional Points:

• Secretly give points/take away points from group members on a small whiteboard or notebook paper
• Groups can earn by: Focusing on good voice, being creative with their responses, eye contact, posture, using an opening/closing statement, and making good points for your topic
• Groups can lose points by: being a poor audience member, having poor posture, not using good voice, not using eye contact, using filler words: like, um, so, okay, yeah, kinda…

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Vocabulary plays a huge role in preparing for student's college and career success. Use this SAT / ACT word list and log to help your students gain a deeper understanding of the vocabulary from any content area OR if you're an AVID teacher use the 53 vocabulary words that focus on academic language essential to the SAT/ACT tests and for college and career readiness. Then let students practice what they learned with an engaging card game inspired by Taboo! Simply print multiple sets of the cards, cut, laminate, and place into bags for small groups!

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What's Included:

• 2 Direction pages
• 53 Vocabulary cards
• 1 Excel log including the 53 words used

Directions for the Card Game:

• This game was inspired by the game TABOO

1. Students are put into small groups with an even number of players.
2. Each group is split into 2 teams.
3. The clue giver will start a 1 minute timer and turn over a card so nobody can see. (colors don' matter)
4. The clue giver now says words (not sounds or gestures) to get their team to guess the word at the top of the card.
5. The clue giver cannot say any of the words (or forms of the words) listed on the card. Formations include: abbreviations, tenses (past, present, future), initials, spelling, letters, sounds like, rhyming, smaller version words, compound words.

6. Teammates can guess as many words as possible before the timer runs out.
7. The clue giver may pass on a word and place it in a discard pile.
8. If the clue giver uses an illegal word, the opposing team who is monitoring, can sound a buzzer or shout the word "AVID." Then the clue giver must place the card in the discard pile and try a new word.
9. When the timer is done the team will count up how many points earned based off of how many words were guessed correctly. The opposing team gets one point for each card placed in the discard pile.
10 Switch teams and repeat. The team with the highest points, wins!

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Are you an AVID teacher? Are you using a binder form that has several check areas? This quick and easy no-prep binder check is perfect for you to perform a binder check virtually or in person! The Google slides include points on each binder element to help with recording grades. :)

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Directions:

• This is a quick way to assess specific areas of student's binders to perform a whole class quick check!

• Simply go through the slides and allow students 10 seconds to find the item and hold it up.

• on the neatness slide, students should shake their binders to be sure no loose papers fall.

• Use the points listed in the corner as a guide for grading.

• Have your class list handy to easily record and maintain documentation.

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