Monthly Archives: January 2016

Language Arts – Poetry Unit for Senior Students (NO PREP)

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Many teachers hate teaching poetry because they don’t know where to begin. This unit will make you and your students love poetry. This complete, no prep unit is a great way to start! This 2 and a half week unit includes a student guide, 12 detailed lesson plans, 2 multimedia presentations (no internet connection required), a detailed answer key with annotated poems, and an end of the unit evaluation with answer key.

Just print it and teach it.

This HUGE bundle includes:

This poetry unit has been devised to teach students the importance of :
• Figurative language (its uses and effects)
• How to read poetry
• How to understand and apply symbolism and imagery
• The importance of rhythm
• The importance of tone and attitude in a poem
• Types of poetry
• How to analyse poetry
• How to appreciate poetry (even when you don’t understand it)

This unit’s focus is the analysis of poetry and teaches students how to make inferences, which is a skill they must learn for their other subjects as well.

Poems include authors such as: Emily Dickenson, Dorothy Parker, Maya Angelou, Thomas Gray, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Alfred Noyes, T.S. Eliot, Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Frost, Pearl Jam, Langston Hughes, and Walt Whitman. The Unit includes 21 different poems.

The unit has been conceived to last 12 days – with 65 minute periods (although they are easy to modify).

The unit contains:

1 – The teacher guide (Contains 12 comprehensive lesson plans to teach the poems included in the unit. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO TEACH THIS UNIT HAS BEEN DONE FOR YOU. )

2 – The student package (Contains students’ notes , poems, and questions) (26 pages)

3 – The answer key includes annotated poems and answers to all student activities (saving you time).

4 – Included is a test with multiple choice questions as well as a development question. All answers are included. (Word format for easy changes)

5 – 2 PowerPoint presentations – one multimedia presentation to introduce the unit (17 slides) and the second to reinforce the use of imagery and symbolism (19 slides) – NO INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED

A total of 63 pages + 36 slides are included in this package.

This unit is complete, and does all of the thinking for you. All you need to do is to print out and photocopy the student package and you’re set.

FREE SCIENCE LESSON – Layers of the Earth!

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By:  The Owl Teacher

Grades 2-5

An earth science unit would never be complete without first discussing the three layers of the earth!  Most students know a thing or two about these layers.  They know the center is the core and it’s hot!  They know the crust is where the land is.  But why not see just how much they know?

EarthFreebie

If you head over to this page on my blog (found here) you will find this cute cut and paste freebie for your students!  They read each strip, then cut it out, and glue it under the correct column!  How fun is that?  Isn’t it nice to have a different activity related to the layers of the earth that is FREE!?!

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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “Free Word Work Graphic Organizer for Spelling Words – Valentine’s Theme”

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by Spelling and Technology

Kindergarten – 3rd Grade

 

valentine word organizer

 

10 words for Valentines Day – NO PREP graphic organizer

This free item matches up with our Valentine’s Day spelling packet created using the SpellingPackets.com Factory using 10 words with different activities. Great activities for independent work, group instructions, or literacy learning centers!

View the spelling packet here

The spelling words are:
arrow
date
hug
gift
red
kiss
candy
heart
poem
admirer

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FREE SOCIAL STUDIES LESSON – “Culture Gallery Walk for Sociology and History”

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by Leah Cleary

9th – 12th Grade

 

culture gallery walk

 

I use this in sociology, but it’s great for world history, as well. Assign students a culture to research. They will create a poster or trifold and bring in artifacts and food samples from that culture. On presentation day, instead of standing up and sharing with the class,, students will set up displays around the classroom. Students will use the note handout to record information as they walk around the classroom, sampling the food and discovering information about different cultures.

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SCIENCE LESSON – Physical and Chemical Changes

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By:  The Owl Teacher

Grades 3-6

When I taught fifth grade, I just loved the physical and chemical changes unit!  It was so much fun and really engaged my students.  So I have put it together for you!

This unit was so engaging because it is just packed full of hands-on experiments where students really dig into the properties of matter and determine what makes a physical change and what makes a chemical change.

For instance, we melt styrofoam cups:

melting cups

We also created slime:

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We explored the various properties of matter!  We looked closely at the three states – solid, liquid, and gas!

 We talked about a variety of scenerios where students had to determine if something was a physical or chemical change!

Included in this engaging resource are practice sheets and review sheets, answer keys, lesson plans, experimental labs, and much more!  You’ll even find some interactive notebook pieces such as this:

Chemical and physical changes

This valuable resource can be found at my Teachers Pay Teachers store.  Click here to go to this product and read more about it!

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FREE MATH LESSON – “Valentine Candy Hearts: Fractions and Data Analysis”

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by Tried and True Teaching Tools

4th – 6th Grade

 

candy heart fractions

 

Conversation Hearts are the perfect manipulative to reinforce concepts of fractions, decimals, and percentages. Created by Tried and True Teaching Tools, this math lesson also puts data analysis and graphing into action!

 

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FREE MISC. LESSON – “ “Love Birds” Valentine’s Day Craft”

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by Vilena Hamilton

2nd – 4th Grade

 

love birds craft

 

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner! Here is a cute and simple craft for your students to make on this special day.

This product includes:
* Instructions Page
* Bird Cage Template
* Birds and Heart Template

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FREE MISC LESSON – Behavior Management Forms

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By:  The Owl Teacher

Any Grade

It’s January 1st, 2016!  It’s the start of a New Year and with a new year, comes a fresh start!

So why not start the second half of your school year off fresh with a new set of behavioral management forms to get things rolling?  How do you do that?

By heading over to my blog (click here) you can download these forms here:

An Educational Contract between you, the student, and the parents:

Educational Contract

A student information form:

Student Information Form

A weekly behavior communication form:

Behavior Report

And much more – including a Friday Folder reporting form.

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FREE SCIENCE LESSON – “Be My Valen-Slime”

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by Mrs Schlachter

3rd – 7th Grade

 

valenslime

 

Looking for a fun way to celebrate Valentine’s Day in Science class….make Slime! This is a great easy -to use recipe. ENJOY!

 

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