This article provides perceptions of academically resilient students with low-income backgrounds of school counselors. It gives counselors a sense of how students may see them and what they can do to strengthen their school counseling techniques to help increase academic performance.

Students will be reinforcing and demonstrating their understanding of the steps in the accounting cycle for a service business by developing a unique project.  This group project encourages creativity and the use of technology.  Stucents will create a plan and timeline for completion.

Students need to determine if fractions are the same as whole numbers by answering several questions and providing evidence and explaining their reasoning.

This is a simulation activity that investigates acids and base chemistry. The simulation investigates ion concentration differences between strong & weak, acids & bases. This activity can be done in class, or as homework.

Many Kindergarten students come up with "action words" or verbs easily after demonstrating actions. Many of these emergent readers know more words thatn they use in daily writing/reading/sharing.
This lesson is easy to use in small groups and encourages them to broaden their vocabulary in a fun format, a personal Action ABC book. They can access and practice these new (and old) verbs easily and have unique collections they have designed!

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.

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

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

This educational song/video helps young children to understand that adding means to 'put together' and subracting means to 'take away' and also includes a story problem as an example for each.

This resource is a teaching video for students to watch to learn how to add integers using a number line.  The video relates adding integers to real world problems during the lessons.  

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. 

This resource is a word and picture sort for students to practice using Spanish adjectives that represent properties of matter. 

The activities in this lesson provide a foundation for using nonfiction resources for developing and answering questions about gathered information. Using a wide variety of nonfiction literature, students learn to sort and categorize books to begin the information-gathering process. Then, working with partners and groups, using pictures and text, students are guided through the process of gathering information, asking clarifying questions, and then enhancing the information with additional details. Students complete the lesson by collaboratively making “Question and Answer” books for the classroom library. This is a high-interest foundation builder for using nonfiction literature in research as well as for pleasure reading

This is an informational text (two pages) on various animals that inhabit the savanna of Africa. Animals discussed are single paragraphs containing 3-4 sentences. A student multi-standard question packet is attached along with the teacher answer key.

Learn to distinguish between exponential and logistic growth of populations, identify carrying capacity, differentiate density-dependent and density-independent limiting factors, apply population models to data sets and determine carrying capacity from population data. Make predictions on graphs and interpret graphical data to analyze factors that influence population growth.
Description from The Concord Consortium.

This resource can be used as an introduction to Andrew Jackson's Presidency, also as an end of unit review.  John reviews Jackson's presidency including his expansion of executive powers, refusal to follow legislative and judicial orders and how he used his supporters to craft his staff in the White House.  John gives students a general overview of what Andrew Jackson could look like.

In this lesson, students are taught to use the Haiku format as a way to solidify the theme of their paper.  First students learn about the traditional Haiku structure, and then use the structure to reflect on the cohesiveness of the main ideas in a paper they have written.

This website provides a visual resource for solving linear equations using a balance.

K-5 Lesson about plants.  Objectives include  1) Identify and describe the parts of a flowering plant
2) Differentiate between types of plants
3) Describe the needs of plants
4)  Define the term photosynthesis
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