The students will gain an understanding of the sources of information used by geographers and apply what they have learned to analyzing primary sources and secondary sources and synthesizing what they have learned into a secondary source of information.  

This lesson will provide information about the impact technology has on human activities and lifestyle.  It should provide students with an understanding of how the traditional impact of the environment on humans is altered in today’s society by technological advances which allow humans to live beyond the limitations of the environment.  Students will brainstorm and provide prior knowledge to lead discussion while the teacher will respond to student input by correcting and adding information as needed.  Students will also draw plans for a city and indicate how technology will improve life for the residents.    

The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand the U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union at the onset of the Cold War.  Students will analyze primary and secondary sources in this lesson, and they will work independently as well as in a group.  

Multiple Meaning WordsDirections: Students will work in teacher-assigned pairs to determine the meaning and part of speech of words with multiple meanings. Students will then write grammatically-correct and correctly constructed sentences for each word. Each sentence must include context clues that allow the reader to determine the meaning of the word as it is being used in the sentence.     

Students will identify the meaning of the given prefixes and will work together to list as many words as possible that can be created from each. For each word, students will write a definition and identify the part of speech of the word. 

 I created this game to give my students practice determining the value of a digit in a number.  It supports sol 3.1a, read, write, and identify the value of each digit in a six-digit whole number, with and without models.  Before playing the game, my students had opportunities to practice with base ten blocks and pictorial models to determine value.  This game is played in a small group of 3-5 students.  Students take turns flipping over a card and tell the value of the underlined digit.  If correct, he/she rolls a die and moves the game marker on the game board.  My students played this game during stations.  I love using games in my classroom because they are a great way to keep my lessons interesting and motivate my students to learn!

After reading "The Treasure of Lemon Brown," students will complete the vocabulary activity using terms from the story. Student are asked to definte the word and part of speech, identify synonyms and antonyms, write a sentence with the word using context clues, identify other forms of the word, and identify any prefixes/suffixes. Students may work independently or in pairs to complete the assignment. While the attached document is specific to "The Treasure of Lemon Brown," the assignmet format may be used for vocabulary words from any text selection.

The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand how new technologies, innovations, and government policies led to a new wave of internal and international migration and growth which was positive for some although it resulted in more displacement for American Indians.

 OVERVIEWThe Purpose of this lesson is to help students understand the concept that white light is a mixture of all of the wavelengths of the visible spectrum in roughly equal amounts. You can see beautiful colors everywhere you look! There is a lot of science behind the colors that you see. Color is the property that our eyes visually perceive and is derived from the spectrum of light. White light is a blend of all the spectrum colors which include red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Individual colors of white light can be seen by using a prism which separates the colors and, in turn, white light can be seen when the spectrum colors are combined in such a fashion as a spectrum spinner.  Each student will construct a spectrum spinner colored with the colors of the visible spectrum in order.

This activity is designed to help students gain practice with word derivations. The teacher will divide students into groups of two or three and give each group a dictionary.  Students will identify the meaning of the listed base word and will work collaboratively to identify as many derivations as they can in the allotted time. Students should identify the part of speech for each derivation and write a definition for each derivation. 

Primary SOL:          6.13  The student will solve one-step linear equations in one variable, including practical problems that require the solution of a one-step linear equation in one variable.I created a Jamboard with equations modeled on each slide.  Students are to write an equation based on the model.  The opening slide has the key for all subsequent equations.   A red counter represents a negative integer, a yellow counter represents a positive integer, and a green rectangle represents the variable x.    Equation model addition and multiplication.   After students correctly write the equations, they may be asked to solve them.  Students can use the pen function or the shapes tool to solve.   https://jamboard.google.com/d/1DpkhDUuOZFt5sU62iD0z8yztbf2IKxSZAuR0myDPmco/copy?usp=sharing

I created this activity to introduce my students to write a well-rounded summary for a piece of fiction writing.  Every year I see students struggling with how to correctly write a summary. I begin this lesson as a whole group activity then transition the lesson into small groups. I begin the summary practice by teaching my students to use an SWBST graphic organizer. They find that it’s much easier than they originally thought to write a well-organized summary. This activity provides practice for SOLs 4.5d and 4.6e.

https://jamboard.google.com/d/1LwWg8yVCV697GfTYOnC4RBahWgK7gbw2KfkGHh84fZI/copy?usp=sharingI created a Jamboard with expressions written as phrases.  Students are to write an expression or equation using numbers and a variable based on the phrases.  Slides 1-5 provide 10 practice problems.  Slide 6 gives students 6 expressions and equations and allow the students to create the word phrase.   By using Jamboard, I can see students work in real time.  Students can work collaboratively or independently.  These can be worked whole group and the teacher can share the document with students. 

 This activity is a great way to blend history with English! This activity allows students to research accounts of Yellow Journalism used during the Spanish-American War and bring those to modern life by writing a current newspaper article using yellow journalism styling! As both a US History and English/Reading teacher I use this activity when discussing the causes of the Spanish-American War. I have my students review multiple examples of authentic yellow journalism seen before the war broke out. I then have my students mimic the writing in their own yellow journalism article about a current world event.