Less than $5 9th Grade Test Preparation Activities (by date, latest first)

Ready to get your students moving and learning with an engaging, exciting, and all-around fun vocabulary review game that is sure to become a class favorite? Then, The Fly Swatter Game is right for you! Students compete to swat the fly with the word that matches the definition they are given. Multiple formats (project-to-board/screen or print options) and multiple game modes keep this game fresh and exciting. It's engaging, it's intense, but most of all, it's loads of fun that will have your students wanting to play again and again!

Use this game to review key terms relating to any subject area!

What’s Included:

• PowerPoint version of game board and instructions to be projected to a board, wall, or screen
• Larger flies that can be printed and cut out to use around your entire classroom
• Teacher instructions
• Student Study List for terms and definitions
• Teacher Vocabulary Call List to be used during gameplay

Fly swatters not included (I found cheap ones at the local dollar store!), but you can always have students use their hands or create their own fly swatters from paper!

Struggling Students? Power Up Their Learning with Interactive Study Secrets!

Tired of students saying "I studied but I still failed?" Unlock the secrets to effective studying with our interactive Google Slides presentation, Study Secrets Unlocked!

Students will learn:

• Powerful techniques to master information, not memorize!
• Interactive activities make learning engaging and fun!
• Formative assessments reveal strengths and weaknesses for personalized learning.

Teachers will gain valuable insights:

• Identify students' study skills to target areas for improvement.
• Easy-to-use format saves you time for lesson planning. ⏰
• Interactive elements boost student participation.

Empower students to succeed! Get Study Secrets Unlocked today!

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Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to introduce yourself to your new students? Our editable Meet the Teacher Trivia Game is the perfect solution! This interactive activity is designed to help students learn about their teacher while fostering a positive and welcoming classroom atmosphere.

Key Features:

• Customizable Questions: Tailor the trivia questions to your personal interests and experiences, making the game more relevant and engaging for your students.
• Flexible Formats: Choose between a whole class 4 Corners format or individual Google Classroom assignments to accommodate different learning styles and classroom settings.
• Easy to Use: Our user-friendly template allows you to quickly customize the questions and answers, making it simple to prepare for your class.
• Educational Value: This activity helps students learn about their teacher while practicing critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

How to Play:

1. Choose a Format: Select either the whole class 4 Corners format or the individual Google Classroom assignment.
2. Customize Questions: Replace the placeholder questions with your own, ensuring they are age-appropriate and interesting.
3. Play the Game: Follow the instructions for your chosen format to conduct the trivia game.
4. Review Answers: After the game, review the correct answers and discuss any interesting facts or stories that came up.

Benefits:

• Builds Classroom Community: This activity helps students get to know their teacher and each other, creating a more positive and inclusive classroom environment.
• Enhances Engagement: The interactive nature of the game keeps students engaged and motivated to learn.
• Promotes Critical Thinking: Students must analyze and evaluate information to answer the trivia questions, developing important critical thinking skills.
• Personalizes Learning: By customizing the questions, you can make the learning experience more relevant and meaningful for your students.

Download our Editable Meet the Teacher Trivia Game today and start creating a fun and engaging learning environment!

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Boost Your Typing Speed and Accuracy with This All-Inclusive Keyboard Template Kit for Students & Teachers!

Ready-made Layouts for Hassle-Free Practice: This downloadable kit eliminates prep work! Launch right into typing practice with two pre-made layouts - a full keyboard template and a blank template - to perfectly suit your learning goals.

Targeted Improvement with Testing Layouts: Take your typing skills to the next level with two unique testing layouts.Identify areas needing improvement and focus your practice for maximum results.

Perfect for Students & Teachers: This versatile kit caters to both educators and learners. Teachers can use it to create engaging typing activities and assessments, while students can use it for self-paced practice and skill development.

Unlock a World of Benefits:

• Enhanced Typing Skills: Improve typing speed and accuracy, leading to increased productivity and confidence.
• Streamlined Learning: Ready-made layouts make practice sessions a breeze, saving valuable time.
• Targeted Improvement: Identify weaknesses and focus on specific areas with the testing layouts.
• Engaging & Fun: Brighten up typing practice with a visually appealing and interactive template.
• Adaptable for All Levels: Use the full or blank templates depending on skill level or learning objectives.

Download this Keyboard Template Kit today and empower yourself or your students to become typing ninjas!

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Are you reviewing for the Algebra 1 Midterm and need a midyear review?! I've got you covered! This activity pack is engaging for students and include 14 different Algebra 1 topics and 14 different activities for your students to review the first half of the year! They will have a blast coloring, unscrambling words, completing matching activities and escape room codes! Instead of giving out that traditional review pack, give them this activity pack and see how their engagement level changes!

You will also get the actual powerpoint to project in your classroom to be able to go over any questions you want!

Answer Key included for all activities! You can even print these color coded answer keys and hang them around the room so as students work they can easily check their answers when they are done if you don't want to!

What is included:

1)Evaluating Expressions Matching Activity

2)Solving Inequalities True or False

3)Solving Linear Equations Maze

4)Identifying Functions Word Scramble

5)Evaluating Functions Escape Room

6)Consecutive Integer Word Scramble

7)Simplifying Expressions Coloring Activity

8)Irrational Numbers Coloring Activity

9)Converting to Slope-Intercept Form Individual Task Cards

10)Finding Slope & Y-Intercept Coloring Activity

11)Point on the Line Maze

12)Irrational Numbers Coloring Activity

13)Graphing Inequalities What Doesn’t Belong Activity

14)Domain and Range Matching Activity

15)Solving Linear Inequalities Coloring Activity

16)Answer Keys for all activities

17)The powerpoint for you to project and write on

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Visual learners delight with these character analysis graphic organizers! Help students uncover and focus on important character traits for writing and visualizing fiction and non-fiction characters. Includes critical thinking, problem solving, research skills, and test prep concepts. Includes: 3 Character Analysis sheets with traits boxes graphic organizers Background Profile graphic organizer Personal Profile graphic organizer Historical Info graphic organizer Character Road Map with directions 3 Road Map Symbols handouts Easy and fun to use with individuals and small/whole groups for analysis, close reading, building characters, and test prep in English, literature, and history classes for at-risk, GT, Pre-AP, AP, homeschool, etc...

Move your mastery meter from "empty" to "full" as you use the chart to find expert peer tutors in your class. By the end of the semester, students' skills will improve through the use of peer tutoring. Easy to follow directions with lined chart.

What are readability levels, how do you turn on the function in MS Word, and how can knowing the information help student writers? These questions are answered in this interactive presentation that uses screenshots and step-by-step directions to turn on readability and check sentences and passages. Benefits of knowing and using readability levels include: Understanding Audience Understanding Computerized Testing Scoring Understanding and Using Types of Sentences Understanding and Using Syllable Counts Building and Using Higher Level Vocabulary Objectives are: Build vocabulary through synonyms Identify and use sentence clarity Identify and use sentence variety in writing Understand audience and their reading levels Understand computerized essay tests grading Understand syllable counts within words Easy to follow and assessment included! Excellent for anyone about to take a computerized standardized graded essay or who will be focused on addressing and writing to specific target audience grade levels. Great for AP students, flipped classes, GT, homeschool, Pre-Ap, and college level students.

Need experts to deliver content for your lesson plans? Look no further than your own students! Let students be "Experts of the Day" through the "Share Your Knowledge" presentation. Complete with: instructions guidelines scoring rubric hand-out/sign-up sheets Everything needed to let students become the experts in for your lesson plans!

Is your classroom ready for a cosmic adventure? Eclipse! Chasing the Shadow of the Sun is an informational passage that you can differentiate to meet your needs AND pull in the excitement of the upcoming solar eclipse on April 8, 2024!

Product Description:

This downloadable resource provides a comprehensive and engaging reading passage about total solar eclipses, specifically designed to target high-frequency informational English/Language Arts skills.

What's Included:

• Total Eclipse Informational Article | An engaging informational passage that explores the history and science behind total solar eclipses.

• Multiple Choice Mayhem! | Assess your students' comprehension with a variety of question formats (Questions are the same, regardless of format):

  • Traditional multiple choice questions
  • Interactive task cards (perfect for individual practice or centers!)
  • A self-grading Google Form for easy assessment and instant feedback

• Skills Assessed:

  • Mastering context clues
  • Identifying the author's purpose
  • Drawing conclusions and making inferences
  • Finding evidence within the text
  • Grasping key details and summarizing information
  • Evaluating and interpreting graphics

Bonus! A handy answer key is included for effortless grading.

Benefits:

• Cross-Curricular: Bring in real-world experiences while you reinforce and practice English/Language Arts skills.
• Differentiation Fun: Cater to various learning styles with the multiple question formats.
• Engaging Assessment: Move beyond traditional worksheets - make learning interactive and exciting!
• Time-Saving Efficiency: The self-grading Google Form provides instant feedback, freeing you up for more individualized instruction.

This resource is perfect for:

• ELAR classrooms (Ideal for grades 7-9)
• Independent reading activities
• Collaborative station activities
• Independent practice
• Test prep/skills review
• Homeschool enrichment

Spark a love of learning and ignite curiosity about the cosmos! Download today!

Vocabulary Printable Game | Roll a Word Activity | Freebie: Student can use this roll a vocabulary word game in centers, for test prep, homework, small groups, tutoring, homeschool and so much more! AVID teachers can use the SAT/ACT vocabulary words found in our AVID Vocabulary bundle to practice their vocabulary skills!

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What's Included

• 1 Roll a Word Vocabulary PDF Game Board

Directions

• Students roll the dice and then choose a word from their vocabulary list.
• Then follow the directions to practice the word.

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Do you teach a college and career course? Are you an AVID teacher or maybe a counselor? Are your students preparing for the ACT? Then this product is for you! Your students will move around the room and form different groups while discussing 10 important questions related to their performance on a practice PreACT. Get your students engaged in reflection as they prepare for the real thing!

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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AVID - Vocabulary Word Log & Game for SAT / ACT Test Prep: Use this vocabulary list and log with the engaging 100-second challenge digital activity to help your AVID students build their vocabulary skills in order to prepare for their future ACT or SAT tests! These words work great for both middle and high school students.

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What's Included:

• Google Sheet vocabulary log with 52 words
• Google Slides 100-second challenge game with 52 questions and 52 answers

Directions:

• Click on the circle to access a forced copy of the vocab log/list.
• Have students complete the vocabulary log using the words provided.
• They should also have time to study the words before this game.
• Divide the class into 4-6 teams.
• Each team should have a "speaker" to share answers.
• Have each team take turns answering a vocabulary question.
• Teams will only get 100 seconds to answer the question.
• If they can answer correctly, the team gets 1 point.
• Then, give that team a ball (a crumpled up piece of paper will do).
• If the team can make a basket into the trashcan, reward the team an extra point.

Uses:

• SAT/ACT test prep
• Teambuilding
• Framework Friday

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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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AVID Vocabulary Game for SAT and ACT | Fishbowl Rounds: Help your students prepare for the SAT or ACT while building their vocabulary skills. During Fishbowl Rounds students have 60 seconds to spend in each of the 3 rounds where they have to use the vocabulary words in different ways!

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What's Included

• Directions poster
• Vocabulary list with 90 SAT vocabulary words
• Vocabulary log for students to record definitions and sentence examples for the vocabulary words
• 90 word cards to cut and place in a "fishbowl" for students to draw out of
• Editable template to add your own words

Directions

• Students have 60 seconds per round!

1 Clues

• Whoever is drawing cards may only use word clues to help their team guess the word. You may not use physical or actions and you cannot use the word in your clues.

2 dictionary

• Whoever is drawing cards must draw a picture to get the team to guess the word. You may not write words or use sounds or noises; it must be silent.

3 three words

• Whoever is drawing cards must use only THREE words to get the team to guess. These words can be repeated, can be said in different volumes or rates but must be only three words.

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