The students will review the previously learned disco steps. Working in groups, they will choreograph a movement sequence that has a beginning, middle, and end with a pose. They will perform their dance for the class.
Students will perform hip hop moves such as bounce to the beat, step clap, clean it, butterfly, fall back, attitude, raise the roof, DJ, and deodorant. They will perform the moves to a variety of songs with varying tempos. They will strike a pose when the music stops.
In this lesson, students investigate a series of primary documents to address the question: What caused the Dust Bowl? The teacher will use a PowerPoint to establish background information and to introduce the Central Historical Question. Then, students will read and analyze five other primary documents about the Dust Bowl to answer the essential question.
The website includes lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, primary source documents, and student graphic organizers. Teachers will need to create a free account to access the materials.
In this lesson, students investigate a series of primary documents to address the question: Why did the Montgomery Bus Boycott succeed? The teacher will introduce the Montgomery Inquiry by watching the video. Then, students will read four other primary documents about the internment to answer the essential question.
The website includes lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, primary source documents, and student graphic organizers. Teachers will need to create a free account to access the materials.
In this lesson, students explore a variety of documents highlighting various issues and perspectives that led to the Cold War and address the question: Who was primarily responsible for the Cold War, the United States or the Soviet Union? Students will read and analyze four primary documents about the Cold War including excerpts from Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech and the Truman Doctrine, to answer the essential question.
The website includes lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, primary source documents, and student graphic organizers. Teachers will need to create a free account to access the materials.
In this lesson, students will conduct two chemical reactions. In the first, the temperature will go down (endothermic), and in the second, the temperature will go up (exothermic). Students will see an animation to show that it takes energy to break bonds and that energy is released when new bonds are formed. Students will use this idea to explain why a reaction is either endothermic or exothermic.
Students will be able to define an endothermic and exothermic reaction. Students will be able to use the concept of energy in bond breaking and bond making to explain why one reaction can be endothermic and another reaction can be exothermic.
The information material provides instructions on how to identify notes on the staff. It covers staff position, lines and spaces, and ledger lines. It also includes audio examples.
This information material provides instructions on how to read or write music using different clefs on the staff. It covers treble, bass, grand, alto, tenor, octaves, and clef changes. It also includes audio examples and links to exercises.
The information provided in this classroom resource is about how to identify or alter natural notes using accidentals. It covers accidental notes, enharmonic notes, how to notate accidentals, key signatures, and courtesy accidentals. It includes audio examples and links to exercises.
The information provided in this classroom resource is about how to identify note intervals on the staff. It covers basic, inverted, compounded, augmented, and diminished intervals. It includes audio examples and links to exercises.
The information provided in this classroom is about how to play, write, and identify chords in music. It covers triads, seventh, sixth, suspended, extended, altered, and inverted chords. It includes audio examples and links to exercises.
The information provided in this classroom resource is about how to play, identify, and write using musical scales. It covers major, minor, pentatonic, blues, chromatic, whole tone, and modal scales. It includes audio examples and links to exercises.
This classroom resource provides information on how to recognize and use key signatures in music. It covers major and minor tonalities, key signatures, chord construction, modes, modulation, and transposition. It includes audio examples and links to exercises.
This is a game for learning simple English phrases. You look at the image and then click on the words to make a matching sentence. To score points, you have to watch the ball and click the words at the exact moment the ball stops.
The aim of the game is to give students practice and exposure to simple sentences. The meaning conveyed through the images and the use of words to form sentences creates an association between the words and the meaning. To supplement this, audio is also played when the correct words are clicked. It is hoped that listening to the audio can also form an association between the sound of the words with the meaning and text.
This is a game for practicing simple vocabulary words in English. You listen to the audio and then click on the correct word or image.
The aim of the game is to practice interacting with English words for simple everyday use. The images used in the game convey meaning and context. Through the interactions, this meaning is paired with text and audio to facilitate learning and reinforcement.
As kids become better readers, it is important for them to determine an author's meaning, even when the author does not come right out and say it. In this water balloon game, kids can practice drawing conclusions in a silly way.
Rhyme & Climb is a game that focuses on rhyming words. Students listen for a word that rhymes with the word from their list. If it rhymes, they select the thumbs up. If not, the thumbs down.
In this activity, students develop a skit using poetry and collaborative learning. Questions are provided for students to discuss and answer about their poems as they do their presentations for peers.
Grammar Police is a beloved compound word and prefix game. Pick from three different vehicles and use your driving skills to uphold the law like any good cop! Stay alert and you'll find several bonuses while on your patrol. Use caution to avoid hazards on the road. Students will tag racers that have words with prefixes attached. If they tag a racer without a prefix, they will crash.
Beach Jeep is an ELA game that offers a choice of skills to work on. Students can drive their jeep along the beach while trying to find signs with the correct plural noun ending, adjective, adverb, or irregular verb. The jeep even comes with a few crazy devices such as the beach ball cannon and punching boxer's glove. Look out for crabs and pirates. They're everywhere!
Say What?! is a crazy way to help children learn how the English language is structured. These kinds of Mad Libs games have been popular for decades, and now with this online style, children can create their own stories. They'll have to blindly choose from nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and much more. Learning about parts of speech in context is what makes online Mad Libs games so effective.
Kid Heroes Verbs is an online game that makes word usage fun and exciting. To succeed at this game, children must read each sentence carefully in order to determine the correct verb. For every correct answer, kids get to place a hero on the battlefield.
Word War is a spelling game that makes learning fun by allowing children to compete in real-time. Students will create a word and then hit the fire button to launch cannonballs at their opponent's tank. This interactive game is one of the most popular spelling games.
Finding the main idea of a paragraph is an important skill for elementary students. Being able to do so, shows that children are progressing beyond simple fluency and beginning to read for understanding. This video will help students find the main idea of a paragraph. The learning resource also has a quiz, worksheet, and game available to check for understanding.
What kid doesn't love ice cream? Use this activity for a simple and quick way to work on the reading skill of cause and effect. Simply look at the four scoops of ice cream on the left, which contain the cause, and try to match them with their effect, listed on the cones to the right. Once you have found a match, drag the scoop of ice cream and place it on top of the cone. Just be sure to wipe your mouth when you are finished. The learning resource also has a quiz, worksheet, and video available to help with understanding.
This classroom resource provides a teaching video on context clues and offers other skills that kids can work on such as drawing conclusions, facts and opinions, and syllables. This classroom resource also includes a quiz, worksheet, and interactive game to check for understanding.
This figurative language game helps to give children exposure to creative writing styles in a fun and engaging manner. Cell Shock also offers a sensory details option. This classroom resource also includes a quiz, worksheet, and teaching video to help with understanding.
Save the king! In this interactive game, students have to determine the theme (or lesson) in the short story. If the students are correct, they get to place one of the Kid Heroes on the battlefield. Using teamwork will lead to success. This classroom resource also includes a quiz, worksheet, and teaching video to help with understanding.
Sir Readalot is an interactive game that helps students with context clues. Other skills that kids can work on in this classroom resource include drawing conclusions, facts and opinions, and syllables. This classroom resource also includes a quiz, worksheet, and teaching video to help with understanding.
This classroom resource provides a teaching video on making interferences. The video teaches the students to use their own life experiences with the information the author gives them to make an inference. This classroom resource includes a game to help with understanding.
The classroom resource provides a teaching video on comparing and contrasting. The video teaches the students to compare similarities and contrast differences. This classroom resource includes worksheets to help with understanding.
Trying to determine whether a statement is a fact or opinion just comes down to one thing: Can it be proven? The classroom resource provides an instructional video on facts and opinions. The video teaches the students to identify statements as being either a fact or an opinion. This classroom resource includes worksheets to help with understanding and encourage application.
Most stories are written from a point of view of either a narrator outside of the story or a character in the story. A story’s point of view is all about who is telling the story or whose thoughts we are reading about. In this classroom resource, the students will learn how to identify two different types of points of view, first-person point of view and third-person point of view by watching an instructional video.
An author’s tone is the attitude the author has about a subject or toward the reader. The tone is typically conveyed through the words and phrases that the author uses. In this classroom resource, the students will look at three general types of tone: positive, negative, and neutral. This classroom resource is an instructional video, and there is a worksheet and a quiz to support understanding.
The classroom resource provides a teaching video on action verbs. The video teaches the students to identify action verbs. Action verbs are words that describe something you can do. This classroom resource includes a worksheet, game, and quiz to help with understanding.
