Balance the scales - Exploration Learning

Learn through Exploration using a full water bottle, ruler and items from around the room!

Demonstrate understanding of weight and equivalency

Remember the weight of the colored bags: 5 pounds, 2 pounds and 1 pound.  How many ways can you balance the bags?

Have fun create scales!

Making Inferences Teaching Posters and Examples

Making Inferences Teaching Posters and  Examples

 Second Example

First Teaching Poster

Second Teaching Poster

Practice Paper Used with Students in the Above Examples

A Template to Fill In and Use

Additional Poster

Modeled Lessons

Vowels are Tricky- Vowel Friend Sound Spelling Cards

Vowel Friends: Amy, Ethan, Irene, Odus and Unus introduce the long vowel sounds

We didn't forget Odus and Unus!

Next, our Vowel Friends: Abby, Eddie, Izzy, Oliver and Udele are here to introduce the short vowel sounds.

Let's give a special hello to Oliver who loves olives and Udele who loves to bring her umbrella

Commonly misspelled nouns, verbs and adjectives

Free visuals to support children with correctly spelling commonly misspelled words.

Commonly misspelled verbs

Commonly misspelled adjectives

Practice worksheet

Answers

STEM Object Toss- A Game of Chance or Strategy?

Challenge: Make a Toss Game - Materials provided: two round plastic plates, several plastic and paper cups of different sizes, stickers, ping pong balls, Styrofoam balls, puff balls, and plastic chips.  Glue, poster board, and markers were also provided.

Questions to Consider When Creating the Toss Structure and When Tossing the Object

Points were determined according to level of difficulty (possibility of making toss).  Five = easiest and 20 = most difficult

When playing the toss game reflect on the following questions to make the best strategic toss

How strategic will you be?

Help with Word Problems and Percentage Graphs

Step by Step Resource Posters to Teach Children how to Use a Percentage Chart to Figure Out Word Problems

Voting on Favorite Sport

Toy Store Earnings

Student Practice Paper with an Example to Follow - Post Resource Posters for children to reference

Increasingly difficult student practice paper

A blank practice paper for parents/teachers to fill in and extend activity

Fractions, Decimals and Percentages - How to Determine Equivalent Values

Fractions, Decimals and Percentages - Different Ways to Show the Same Value

How to Use a Number Line to Determine Values:  10/10 = 1.0 = 100%

Conversion Chart

Guided Practice

Additional Practice Worksheets

How to Use a Number Line to Solve Word Problems

Additional Practice

Additional Chart