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Engaging Activities for 5th Grade Social Studies:

These activities keep students engaged throughout the year as they study United States History. Although these activities are aligned with Studies Weekly, each activity can be completed without Studies Weekly. "Missing" weeks are due to Studies Weekly assigning inquiries once per unit.

What's included:

Beginning of the Year Escape Room:

• history
• civics and government
• geography
• economics

Inquiry: How to Research (Weeks 1-4)

• Social Studies Lenses Activity
• Primary and Secondary Sources Activity
• Fact and Opinion Activity
• How to Research Yearlong Checklist
• Response to Inquiry: Kids Making a Difference Infographic

North America Before European Contact (Weeks 6-8)

• Indigenous People's Regional Dwellings Activity
• Indigenous Tribe Infographic
• Introduction to Archaeology Activity
• Indigenous Trade Routes Activity

European Exploration and Colonization (Weeks 10-18)

• Columbian Exchange Import Poster
• Cooperation and Conflict in Jamestown Activity
• Explorer Trading Cards
• Supply and Demand Activity with Land Use Extension
• Thirteen Colonies by Region Image Reveal
• Trading Along the Silk Road Game
• Ranking Colonial Groups Activity
• Charter of the Colonies Picture Reveal
• Indigenous Trade with Europeans Game
• French and Indian War Escape Room
• Benjamin Franklin Facts Prism
• Alliances with North Americans Worksheets

The American Revolution (Weeks 19-26)

• Protesting Acts of Parliament Protest Signs
• Tea Party Pennants
• Founding Fathers Game
• Declaration of Independence Escape Room
• Iroquois Confederation and Articles of Confederation Venn Diagram
• Design a Monument to Revolutionary Minorities
• American Revolution Battles Infographic
• Battles After Yorktown Timeline

Creating a New Nation (Weeks 27-31)

• Federalists/Anti-Federalists Poster and Debate
• Framers of the Constitution Information Sheets
• Ratifying the Constitution Stations
• Bill of Rights Activity: Display the Amendments
• Bill of Rights Four Corners Review
• Bill of Rights/Declaration of Independence Grievances Picture Reveal
• Formation of Political Parties Infographic
• Lewis and Clark Primary Source Animal Activity
• Northwest Ordinance Spoons Game
• Westward Expansion Game
• Preamble to the Constitution Picture Reveal

End of the Year Escape Room

• history
• constitution
• civics/government
• geography
• economics

Aligns with Indiana Standards: 5.H.1, 5.H.2, 5.H.3, 5.H.5, 5.H.6, 5.H.7, 5.H.8, 5.H.9, 5.H.10, 5.H.11, 5.H.12, 5.H.13, 5.H.14, 5.H.15, 5.H.16, 5.H.17, 5.C.1, 5.C.2, 5.C.3, 5.C.5, 5.C.7, 5.G.1, 5.G.2, 5.G.7, 5.E.1, 5.E.2, 5.E.3, 5.E.5.

What's Included:

• Teacher instructions.
• Student instructions.
• All necessary handouts.
• All necessary templates.
• Answer Keys.
• Links to research sites.
• Links to digital activities.

How is this bundle useful:

• Easy to prep for teachers.
• Engaging for students.
• Great supplements for curriculum.
• Helpful for sub plans.
• Follow up questions increase rigor.

Transform your middle school ELA classroom with this comprehensive bundle of 12 highly engaging short story units. Each unit is meticulously designed to provide a full week of dynamic lessons, complete with detailed plans, interactive slides, a choice activity board, Socratic seminar questions, three STAAR-aligned essay prompts, a film vs. text Venn diagram, and the text PDF. These short stories will captivate your students and enhance their literary analysis skills, making learning both fun and meaningful.

Included Short Stories:

1. The Most Dangerous Game
2. Sorry, Wrong Number
3. The Hitchhiker
4. The Way Up to Heaven
5. Lamb to the Slaughter
6. The Landlady
7. The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
8. Harrison Bergeron
9. Examination Day
10. The Pedestrian
11. All Summer in a Day
12. There Will Come Soft Rains

Bundle Features:

1. Comprehensive 5-Day Lesson Plans: Each story unit includes a detailed five-day lesson plan, ensuring a structured approach to teaching. Lessons are aligned with educational standards and include clear objectives and outcomes.

2. Interactive Slides: Engage your students with interactive slides that guide them through the story, provide context, and facilitate discussions. These slides are designed to keep students focused and involved.

3. Choice Activity Board: Each unit comes with a creative choice board, allowing students to demonstrate their understanding through various projects such as writing an alternate ending, creating a comic strip, designing a literary brochure, and more.

4. Socratic Seminar Questions: Encourage critical thinking and in-depth discussion with six thought-provoking Socratic seminar questions for each story. These questions help students delve deeper into the text and analyze its themes, characters, and literary elements.

5. Three STAAR-Aligned Essay Prompts: Each unit includes three essay prompts (argumentative, correspondence, and informational) that are aligned with STAAR standards, helping students practice their writing skills and prepare for standardized assessments.

6. Film vs. Text Venn Diagram: Enhance your students' analytical skills with a film vs. text Venn diagram activity. Students compare and contrast the short story with its film adaptation, focusing on key similarities and differences.

7. Text PDF: Each unit comes with a PDF of the short story, making it easy to provide students with the text for reading and annotation.

Why Choose This Bundle?

• Engaging Content: These short stories are highly engaging and perfect for capturing the interest of middle school students. The diverse selection of stories includes suspense, science fiction, dystopian themes, and more.
• Comprehensive and Ready-to-Use: Save time with ready-to-use lesson plans, activities, and resources. Each unit is designed for easy implementation, ensuring you can focus on teaching and engaging your students.
• Develop Critical Thinking: The activities and discussions included in each unit promote critical thinking, literary analysis, and deeper understanding of the text.
• Flexible and Adaptable: The bundle provides flexibility in teaching, with a variety of activities and assessment options to suit different learning styles and classroom needs.

Perfect for middle school humanities teachers, this bundle offers everything you need to deliver engaging and effective ELA lessons throughout the year. Enrich your curriculum and inspire your students with these timeless short stories and comprehensive teaching resources.

Covers the entire play! Contains the following

Julius Caesar Interactive flipbook

Julius Caesar Vocabulary

Julius Caesar Interactive Characterization Flipbook

Antony/ Brutus Speeches Compare and Contrast

Julius Caesar Escape Room

Julius Caesar Act 1 Quiz

Julius Caesar Act 2 Quiz

Julius Caesar Act 3 Quiz

Julius Caesar Act 4 Quiz

Julius Caesar Act 5 Quiz

Shakespeare Tragedies

Are you looking for something fun and different for your students? Maybe you need some extra activities for early finishers...well look no further!

Entertain your class while integrating music and language with Music Wordle! This resources includes 46 Music Wordles that you can assign to your students or play together as a class. You could even hold a competition to see who can solve each Worldle first! There is lots of flexibility on how you can use this resource. I created this in Google Sheets. Your Music Wordle Google Sheet will include links to each of the 46 Music Wordle Puzzles. I've included a solutions tab as well as a table that includes puzzle hints, if you choose to share with your students. Each hyperlink is set up for you to make a copy of the Music World Puzzle before you play.

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Need to teach tone? Do it in a way your students will immediately understand through greeting cards! This is such a great way to also introduce non-fiction elements such as audience, message, and purpose.

The cards are simple to understand but require a little inferencing too. Using greeting cards means it's a lesson where students can learn and practice quickly.

The lesson has increased complexity, gradual release through group and independent work, and is adapted with a word bank.

What's Included:

• Detailed lesson on what tone is and isn't
• How to identify tone.
• Notes template for students to fill in during the lesson.
• Group practice with explanation.
• Individual practice.
• A two question formative assessment.

Ten individual and group interactive quizzes and scenarios for upper elementary, middle school, and high school students on plagiarism. Includes: Defining, working with, and understanding plagiarism Youtube presentation link Short answer traditional quiz Student Images with questions & short answers in speech bubbles Guilty of Plagiarism: You be the Judge Plagiarism Court: Defender; Prosecutor with Jury Guilty/Not Guilty Plagiarism Scenarios Age differentiated images and activities Great for introduction to plagiarism or as assessment tools.

This bundle has passages and comprehension questions and answers included, this resource is a great way to learn about this incredible woman's legacy during Women's History Month.

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• ( PDF + PNG )

• Large 8.5'' x 11'' designs that can easily be printed on regular sized paper

• High-resolution images

• Unlimited prints

• Great for kids, boys and girls

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• No physical product or printed material will be shipped.

• No refunds as this is a digital product.

Organize your next play or musical production with our Character Description Breakdown Template! This dynamic resource is a must-have for directors, educators, and students alike, serving as a versatile tool to elevate your theatre productions and class resources.

For Directors: Streamline your audition process with ease and precision. Our template allows you to craft detailed character profiles with fields for character description, gender identity, age range, vocal range, and even special casting notes and considerations. Whether you're preparing for auditions, crafting announcements, or finalizing casting decisions, this tool will become your go-to guide for bringing characters to life with clarity and creativity.

For Educators and Students: Dive deeper into character analysis and understanding with this engaging assignment tool. Perfect for directing classes or theatre studies, students can use the template to present their insights on characters from plays or musicals they have read or watched. This resource encourages critical thinking and allows students to showcase their comprehension of character motivations, relationships, and development from a director’s perspective.

Features:

• Comprehensive Sections: Cover everything from character traits and background to vocal range, age range, and more.
• User-Friendly Layout: Designed for ease of use, allowing you to focus on creativity and analysis without getting bogged down by complex formatting.
• Adaptable & Versatile: Suitable for any play or musical, this template is fully customizable to match the production or producing company’s fonts and styles, making it a timeless addition to your theatrical toolkit.
• Printable & Digital Formats: Access the template in a way that suits your needs, whether you prefer a hands-on approach or a digital workflow.

Elevate your theatre experience with our Play & Musical Character Description Breakdown Template—where every character’s story becomes a masterpiece waiting to unfold!

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Learning involves both oral and written presentations, which are crucial to mastering presentation skills. To aid in the evaluation process, this rubric covers both types of presentations and is presented on a single, user-friendly page. It can be used by students, teachers, or paraprofessionals. Additionally, a digital version is provided for students to assess their peers.

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Use this graphic organizer to help students prepare for any Socratic Seminar. Students will write or come up with an essential question, Costas level of thinking questions for each level (1 ,2 ,3), thoughts, and personal experiences.

Students will be able to use this form to help guide the Socratic Seminar.

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These verb posters for your Word Walls can also make great flash cards for ELL/ENL/ESL students as well as young readers. They are also great for a quick reference for students learning frequently used verbs...plus a few extras! These vibrant and informative verb posters are the perfect resource for any classroom, at school or at home! Plus, they can be used as a digital presentation or paper posters/flash cards!

Each poster (8.5x11) is designed to help students easily access and understand common verbs, enhancing their language learning experience.

There are two sets of the same cards.

1. English verbs with pictures in color
2. English verbs with pictures in black and white
3. Conjugations of each verb with the personal pronouns I, you, he, she, we, they
4. Posters in color for just the pronouns with a picture
5. Posters in black and white for just the pronouns with a picture

Also, I have included instructions for how to print the posters so that they are flash card size.

Features:

Quick Reference: Keep essential verb information at your students' fingertips. Perfect for in-class activities, homework help, or quick review sessions.

Paper-Saving Option: Save paper and resources by printing multiple posters on one page (see settings when you print). This eco-friendly option makes it easy to create multiple sets for your classroom or for individual student use. You can also print up to 9 slides on a sheet!

Detailed Content: Each poster includes: all of the personal pronouns and their forms of the verb to reinforce language structure for comprehensive understanding. A colorful picture is included, representing the phrase to aid visual learners and make learning fun. There are also black and white pictures on the second set if you would like to save colored ink.

Verbs Included:

1. to have
2. to be
3. to want
4. to go
5. to see
6. to say
7. to search
8. to take
9. to put
10. to leave
11. to hear
12. to find
13. to be able
14. to give
15. to give
16. to make
17. to know
18. to like
19. to walk
20. to speak
21. to run
22. to eat
23. to drink
24. to fly
25. to jump
26. to write
27. to write
28. to scream
29. to watch
30. to cry
31. to throw
32. Personal Pronouns - I, you, he, she, we, they

Why Choose These Posters?

Engaging and Interactive: The colorful pictures and clear layouts make these posters visually appealing and engaging for students of all ages.

Versatile Usage: Ideal for classroom walls, bulletin boards, student binders, or as part of interactive notebooks. These posters can be used in various teaching scenarios to enhance learning.

Easy to Use: Simply print, laminate (if desired), and display! Students will appreciate the easy access to important verb conjugations and meanings.

Who Can Benefit?

Teachers: Enhance your teaching materials and provide students with a reliable resource for verb conjugations and meanings.

Students: Gain a quick and easy reference for studying, homework, and in-class activities.

Parents: Support your child's learning at home with these handy reference posters. Make learning verbs easy, engaging, and accessible with these beautifully designed quick reference posters. Great for homeschooling! Wonderful for young children learning to read, whether or not their native language is English.

Perfect for any classroom, these posters will become an invaluable part of your teaching toolkit!

Engage your students with a complete and ready-to-use teaching resource for S.E. Hinton’s classic novel, The Outsiders.  This comprehensive package includes everything you need to deliver an effective and engaging literary unit:

• Detailed Lesson Plan: A well-structured, day-by-day guide that covers key themes, character development, and essential vocabulary.

• Scope & Sequence: A clear outline that maps out the learning objectives, pacing, and essential skills for the entire unit.

• PowerPoint Presentation: Visually appealing and informative slides designed to enhance understanding and foster class discussions, covering important quotes, plot points, and character analysis.

This resource is perfect for middle school and high school English teachers looking to create a rich, interactive, and meaningful learning experience for their students.  Whether you are a new teacher or a seasoned educator, this package saves you time and provides quality materials that engage students and deepen their understanding of The Outsiders.

This is a Google Slides™ product!

It is a lesson that contains that following topics: 

• Bellringer
• Brainstorm Emotional Situations (not a moment to gossip about everyone and everything that is frustrating - general situations)
• Safeguards (vent but don't send, let time pass then answer, have a trusted advisor help you word your response)
• Purpose & Kindness (encouraging comments mixed with direct ones with two different email examples)
• Important Things to Remember (remember your place either in authority or under it and the impact of your words, words have power and can never be taken back, cautions in choosing your words, be careful not to make endless excuses)
• Practice (1 example, 2 practice opportunities, word choice and tone)
• Closure (mind map to recall details)

This is the fourth lesson of a five part bundle on writing professional emails. The entire package is listed below: 

1. Lesson 1: Introduction to Emails
2. Lesson 2: Parts of an Email
3. Lesson 3: Clear & Polite Emails
4. Lesson 4: Emotions vs Emails (Writing responses to frustrating emails)
5. Lesson 5: Producing and Reflecting upon Final Emails

This is a bundle of three dice roll writing assignments. This bundle includes assignments about author's purpose, rhetorical appeals, and character reading response which works for any book.

With these assignments, students roll a die to determine the format, topic, and character/rhetorical appeal/purpose they will use for their writing piece. These assignments offer a lot of flexibility and options for students. They are fun and engaging! This resource includes writing rubrics for the character reading response and author's purpose assignments.

This ELA reading comprehension activity is the perfect tool to use in your classroom all year long. These 15 cover-up boards work for any book or story and have questions that encourage metacognition and increase reading comprehension skills! Perfect for early finishers, reading centers, test-prep, tutorials, small group work and more!

✨ELA Bundle!✨

What's Included

• 15 different Cover-Up boards with 4 questions on each

Directions

• With Cover Ups, the comprehension questions can be answered using any book or story.

• When students are done with their reading, they can grab a Cover Up board (consider having them laminated and printed on colored paper) and use the book that they are reading to answer the questions.

• Then students will use sticky notes to write out their answers and place them directly on top of the question on the Cover Up board.

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Reading Responses are a great way to assess student comprehension, writing skills, grammar skills, and so much more - all in one assignment! They can work with novel studies, short stories, or any written literature or nonfiction text.

But do your students really know what they need to do to complete your reading responses? With this checklist, there is no question about it! Students know EXACTLY what you're looking for and EXACTLY what is expected of them.

Each checklist includes:

• RACE Components
• Grammar Components (conventions and usage; spelling, capitalization, and punctuation)
• Grammar skill assessment

This resource is 100% EDITABLE - so you can add, remove, and alter the components to best fit the needs of your classroom!

Four checklists fit on each page for easy printing - color or black and white options available!

Resource Includes:

• Cover page
• Table of Contents
• Note to the Teacher
• Color Checklists (4 to a page)
• Black & White Checklists (4 to a page)
• Terms of Use
• More Resources
• Thank You

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These Academic Language Scripts are perfect in an AVID classroom setting. It is used to build classroom discussion and improve how students respond to each other during discussion. These are used as questions stems to add to discussion during socratic seminar or philosophical chairs.

*Available in two colors brights and primary colors

This Resource is Great For:

✨Socratic Seminar

✨Philosophical Chairs

✨Classroom Discussion

✨Literature Circles

✨Promoting Critical Thinking

✨Building Classroom Community

✨Student Centered Results

How to Use:

*Print cut in half

*Laminate

*Cut out and Hole punch

*Can be used as bookmarks!

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Utilize any of these three summary pages as a way for students to record summaries of a chapter in any novel they read.

Instruct students to complete the pages as needed.

These are the directions I typically give for filling out summaries:

Print off as many pages as your student will need to complete chapter summaries for each chapter in their book or each assigned section of their reading in order to summarize their book accurately.

I have also provided a cover page, allowing students to collect all their pages together and submit a completed project. A basic rubric is included as well.

Are you reading Wonder in your classroom? This little bundle is perfect! Whether you are doing a novel study or just a class read aloud, this bundle is for you. It includes two popular Wonder products: Pre-Reading Reflection Questions and Writing Prompts. it includes 41 pages total. Printable (pdf) and Google Drive (Google Slides) versions included!

More details about this product:

Pre-Reading Reflection Questions: This resource is the perfect pre-reading assignment for the book Wonder by R.J. Palacio. It includes six statements where students need to decide if they strongly agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, and strongly disagree. They then have to give their reasoning. These six pre-reading reflection questions get students' brains activated and thinking about various themes, lessons, and ideas they will come across in the novel. It is great to see what students are thinking on these big topics before they begin the novel!! Not only is it fun and engaging for your students, the responses students give are also very interesting to read as a teacher! This product comes with a printable version (pdf) and a Google Drive (Google Slides) version for a total of 4 pages.

Writing Prompts: This product for Wonder, by R.J. Palacio_,_ contains over 19 pages of unique writing prompts and writing pages for both a printable (pdf) version and a Google Drive version (Google Slides). The printable version includes 12 unique prompts for students to complete both during and at the completion of this novel, 6 extra themed writing pages, and 1 blank page where you can use to to create your own prompts if desired. The Google Drive version of this product comes with 18 pages of prompts and writing pages. In total, this product has 37 pages. A must have if you are doing a novel study on Wonder or reading the book in class!

★ This product is great for Distance Learning. Simply assign the Google Slides to students on Google Classroom or your classroom digital platform. It can be accessed at school or home and requires no prep at all!

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