This is a game where students practice adding and decomposing sums up to 12.  The game is for 2 players and requires two six-sided dice, and a 10-Pin Limbo! game sheet.

This is a team-created, standards-based rubric for informative/explanatory analytical writing with "I can" statements as well as space for comments.

This is a team-created, standards-based rubric for narrative writing with "I can" statements as well as space for comments.

"10 Things Every White Teacher Should Know About Race" is a podcast by Angela Watson owner/author of Truth for Teachers. 
This podcast is available in the iTunes store and is free to download. 
This podcast lists 10 points of cultural bias from the white persepctive. 

This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Materials The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle The students work individually or in pairs. Each student or pair needs: Three ten-frames for each s...

Twenty great elementary level field day activities/ideas that emphasize fun and team building over skill.

30 Second PSA is designed to be a way to assess students on what was learned during their time in Health Class.  Students must put together a 30 second public service announcement about a topic covered in class and may work with another student to do so.  Topics are chosen by having a class discussion about what was covered over the course of the quarter/semester/etc.  Students can use any means they choose to demonstrate their knowledge (video, presentation, rap/poetry, skit, etc.) but it needs to be sussinct and to the point.  

Lesson activity will provide learning activity for a lead-up hockey skill (Striking, long implement). Offensive and defensive strategy, teamwork and sportsmanship are also an important aspect of the lesson.

The goal of summarisation is to capture the essence of the text clearly and concisely. The ability to summarise has significant benefits for comprehending and ultimately retaining and recalling information. Teaching students to effectively summarise helps them learn to synthesise information, a higher-order thinking skill which includes analysing information and identifying key concepts. 5-4-3-2-1 can be used when first introducing the skill of summarising. The idea is to give students a chance to pick out some key ideas, tap into their prior knowledge, focus on information they find interesting and then pose a question that can reveal where their understanding is still uncertain.

Students will learn about the 5 Languages of Love and the definitions of all of them.  They will then "guess" which one is their primary language.  After "guessing" they will take a self-assessment and find out what their primary love language is.  We will then discuss what they can do with this information.  

Small group activity for studnets to work together to create and design a dance.  All students will create,

This resource is a multi-day lesson plan that guides students through the close reading process of an informational text. Using the 1941 FDR State of the Union address, components of informational text including: organization, context, and rhetoric are analyzed. This resource combines lessons plans, primary text, read aloud of the text, informational video, and text complexity / vocabulary Analysis.

Alphabet Workout 
We used first and last names.  Every letter is an activity.  You could spell answers to review questions, random questions, or vocab words.  Possibilities are endless!  Work individually or as a group.  Make it fit for your curriculum and environment. 

This site is great for elementary students to use to reinforce their keyboarding skills with easy-to-play keyboarding games.
Site can be used for free as an individual or on a fee basis for a family/class plan providing the ability to monitor participation.

Students learn to sing the song, "A-Hunting We Will Go" with the original verses and learn to sing several new verses that support rhyming concepts. They then brainstorm pairs of rhyming words to create their own verses for the song. As a follow up activity, students can create original verses using other simple rhyming songs as a framework.

This is a worksheet on chemical equations and questions pertaining to the chemical equations.

Using ARIS open-source platform, students create a scavenger hunt/game for district students to explore local community career opportunities.