This three-session lesson focuses on characterization. Students determine how a character's traits reveal particular character traits, using a list of adjectives as a guide. Then, they write descriptions of those characters. Characters from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone are used for modeling.

This video shares how a writer can keep an active voice within a piece of writing. There are places for the viewers to stop and practice together prior to moving on. A student practice sheet is available as a download for additional practice.

Selected resources provide three web-based activities to complement science lessons in an issue of Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle. The free, online magazine for Grades K-5 teachers explores the essential principles of climate literacy.

Activity Tailor has a great selection of resources that are free and avilable via registration for all areas of speech and language.

Business Law course FREE teacher resources and trial access to online course solution as well as a correlation to WI state standards.

Your students regularly experience change, but how well do they deal with it? This lesson module explains how being adaptable can help students deal with new situations in positive ways that help them learn, grow, and achieve. They’ll also learn the negative consequences of resisting change. The lesson contains a student narrative, discussion guide, learning guide, group activity, and posttest with descriptive key.

This activity focuses on retelling and performing a story that has been formatted from a traditional version to the setting of the Old West. When retelling a story to someone else, it is important to have the sequence and all parts to the story in correct order. The beginning of a story generally tells who the characters in the story are and what the problems may be. The middle generally explains what attempts were made to solve the problems, and the end generally has the solution, results, and how the story ends. For this activity, students should be familiar with the original tale so they will see the parallel between the original and the adapted version. As you are preparing to retell/role-play the story, you will need to discuss the main characters the students will be portraying and decide what simple props, if any, may be helpful in telling the story.

All organisms live in ecosystems where they depend on each other and the natural resources of the environment.  Learn how living and non-living things interact, survive, and change over time.

This lesson focuses on the current business trend of adapting to change and how this trend impacts the workplace. First, use the report to teach your students about this concept and to find classroom implications of this trend. Then, lead the class in a discussion and an activity. A downloadable document of the action brief can be found in the Resource Library. For more action briefs such as this one, visit mbastatesconnection.mbaresearch.org and select "Action Briefs" under "Curriculum/Instruction."

This resource can be used to present to students how to add fractions with  unlike denominators by using area models to represent the fractions.

Go to: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/screencastify-screen-vide/mmeijimgabbpbgpdklnllpncmdofkcpn/related?hl=en-US&authuser=1add ScreenCastify extension to your Google Chromebook.  Once it is added students are able to easily create a video with the screen and themselves using the camera to detail what they have learned on any particular subject or software usage. 

This Desmos activity walks students through the addition of integers by starting with balancing values.  The activity is interactive and allows students to work at their own pace.  About half way through there's a reflection question which encourages math discourse.  This was a great introductory lesson that encouraged my students to think without reaching levels of frustration.  Towards the end it also challenges students to analyze statements made by the Desmos characters, reaching a new level on the depths of knowledge wheel.

I use this tool with students who are struggling with adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators.  In the beginning this can be an overwhelming task for many students.  I have found that this tool can help those struggling students build their confidence.At this point there are students who need help generating their equivalent fractions, this tool can help.  Students often struggle in keeping their thinking or work organized, again this tool can help.  The work on the tool is also set up to help students see that they need to multiply the numerator and denominator by the same number.  Students will see that the multiplier is 2/2, 5/5, or 7/7.  So the tool also helps reinforce the idea that these fractions are equivalent because they are multiplying them by 1, 2/2 = 1.Laminate the worksheet so students can use it as often as they need it.

Students will solve contextual word problems and explain why the sum of any number and zero is the nonzero number. Some students have the misconception that since you are adding then the sum must be larger than the start. Using context problems and concrete manipulatives can help students visualize the reationship.***Note: Purposefully choose values for the context problems that are accessible for the student. The focus of the lesson should be on the Additive Identity Property.

This lesson is intended to help students begin to transition away from a one-to-one correspondence. Students at this point should be able to use concrete ojects to identify values.Goal: Students will be able to use a number line to "Count On from Greater" 

Once students have the concept of doubles down as a fact strategy they can then use this fact to identify relationships about other number facts. Students recognize the patterns and relationships between the numbers while modelling using concrete manipulatives and diagrams. This is a strategy that uses  Counting On and Doubles as a combined strategy. 

Students will use unit cubes (or other counters), spinner, dice,  to build understanding of doubles Working with the doubles strategy is imperative for students to understand how to apply other strategies. Included are several tasks and activities that you can use and/or rotate throughg with students as they progress to proficiency using the doubles strategy. As students work with and learn the doubles strategy (especially at the beginning) they should record their results. This can be done using a sums within 20 addition table which can help students to visualize the pattern.

Provided in the content is only one doubles sheet. To play with more than one student at a time, multiple copies will have to be made with different patterns. Some students will still need to have concrete manipulatives available to them so that the can create the double, or you might ask the students to make a picture to should how they doubled (did they make pairs, did they count out the given value and then make a copy).For each player distribute:1 card.20 counters to mark spaces on the cardCaller should have:1 10-faced die1 spinner split into sixths each sixth should have a letter from the word D-O-U-B-L-E in it.Directions:Have the caller read out a letter-number combination. The caller should roll the die and spinner the spinner to identify the letter-number combination.Place a chip on your scorecard if you have that letter and number. Students will find the letter given by the and will have to double the value from the die since every number on a Doubles card should only have numbers that can be created by doubling. Continue playing until someone gets 5 chips in a row on their scorecard. Othe variations include Blackout (fill the whole card), X Marks the Spot (two diagonal lines that intersect in the middle and include the four corners), Perimeter-or Square (fill all of the spaces on the outside edge), etcShout "DOUBLE” if you get 5 squares in a row (or you have completed the variation).Repeat

Students use this puzzle to practice 2-digit addition. There are two puzzles: one without regrouping and one with regrouping. These puzzles make a great math station/center as students are able to independently check their work. Students can also use this resource as a math choice for when they finished their work.