This is a simple activy/lesson that will teach students to use the attributes of circles, triangles, and squares to identify a circle, square or triangle.
Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This is a class discussion. Students will need to read the paper beforehand. Once students have read the paper and picked partners, the class will need to create two circles, one inner circle that is made of four chairs or desks, then an outer circle that is made with all the other chairs or desks. Three students will need to sit in the inner circle and the rest of the class sitting in the outer circle. The three students will begin to discuss whatever they want about the paper. Students that are sitting on the outer circle may join the inner circle at any time to contribute to the conversation, however there has to be an open seat so one student will have to leave. This process will continue till everyone has contributed to the conversation. Students that are on the outside circle will be responsible to keep track of what their partner says. This way students can not check out during the activity.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Encourage your students to creatively explore character building through practicing the 8 Efforts of Laban!
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
This board game is a great activity to incorporate in the classroom along with other small group stations. Teachers can modify the questions to fit any subject/material.
Material Type: Game
This is a class discussion. Students will need to read the chapter beforehand. Once students have read the chapter and picked partners, the class will need to create two circles, one inner circle that is made of four chairs or desks, then an outer circle that is made with all the other chairs or desks. Three students will need to sit in the inner circle and the rest of the class sitting in the outer circle. The three students will begin to discuss whatever they want about the chapter. Students that are sitting on the outer circle may join the inner circle at any time to contribute to the conversation, however there has to be an open seat so one student will have to leave. This process will continue till everyone has contributed to the conversation. Students that are on the outside circle will be responsible to keep track of what their partner says. This way students can not check out during the activity.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This worksheet is used to help middle school Health and Physical Education students have a better understanding of goal setting.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
This is a simple activity/lesson to have students use a comunication board to communicate and to ask and answer questions in class.
Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This review game was created to give students an interactive and competitive way to review unit material for test day. Teachers can modify the slides to incorporate any subject or unit to help their students review for a test.
Material Type: Game
This is a Unit 4 test for United States and Virginia history class. The test is made up of multiple choice and short answer questions.
Material Type: Assessment
Have your students create their profile either online or by hand. These profiles can be used to help decorate a bulletin board or just done for fun.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Using the fractured fairy tale The Three Little Javelinas by Susan Lowell students will become engineers as they plan, design, and construct new homes for the javelinas. Can their homes withstand the coyote’s huffing and puffing?
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Syllabus for Teacher Use. 8th Grade MathParents and Students will receive a copy for Back to School Week!
Material Type: Syllabus
To fulfill the requirements for local alternative assesments, students will create a performance-based assesment that shows their understanding of physical adaptations. VESOL Standard 3S-LPS 5b
Material Type: Assessment
This is a Unit 7 test for United States and Virginia history class. The test is made up of multiple choice questions.
Material Type: Assessment
This lesson plan provides Physical Education teachers with an introduction to the game of basketball that incorporates various stations to help their students grow in their coordination and skill.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This is designed to fulfill the requirements for a local alternative assessment for grade 3 history. It is ASOL HS-E 1 The student will match simple descriptions of work that people do with the names of those jobs.
Material Type: Assessment
This is a fun review game. Print out the PowerPoint so that it is one page per slide. Hand out the PowerPoint so that each student gets one slide. Students will read Who has part of the slide, then the class must figure out who has the next part of the chain. This continues until it circles back to the beginning. Restart the review game and time the student to see how fast they can get all of the slides.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan and activities for a class on Origins of Hip-Hop. Links to resources, Google Docs, PDF activity download.Journal entry warm-upGoogleSlides on the history of hip-hop and prominent figures in the movementGroup/individual activity on Grandmaster Flash's "The Message"Extension activity with online links for students to create their own beats
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lecture Notes, Lesson
This assignment is used to compare and contrast Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez.2.4 The student will describe how the contributions of selected individuals changed the lives of Americans, with emphasis oni) Cesar Chavez; and j) Martin Luther King, Jr.
Material Type: Assessment, Homework/Assignment
This assessment should be used to determine the students’ ability to estimate and measure to the nearest inch and weigh to the nearest pound. It should be utilized at the end of the measurement unit.
Material Type: Assessment
