Roll up your sleeves - it's time for the nitty gritty fun to begin! Click "Read More" to listen to the fourth science fair project challenge.

Rosie Revere Engineer was our inspiration for this paper plate hovercraft. My kids are big into engineering and STEM, so when we found the book Rosie Revere Engineer, of course we had to buy it. This book is so much fun, because not only does it show kids that they can be inventors too, but

You may have heard of a one-pager but aren’t really sure of what it is. A one-pager is a project that is typically given out in an English language arts class. Students have one page to respond to different criteria to show their knowledge of the book. A one-pager should include both visual and written ... Read more

There seems to be a divide in some circles of ELA teachers between content-based and skills-based instruction. However, there really doesn’t have to be. By providing our students with a rich …

Why do we have to learn this? I just love when my students ask this. No seriously! It shows that they are making valid connection...

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Learn some of the common Morse code prosigns with this fun activity!

Whether you are looking for resources on integrating science, technology, engineering, and math or on infusing the arts to transform STEM into STEAM, these curated compilations will help you plan different approaches to integrated studies.

*Today's freebie, to honor Pam's memory (The Vintage Teacher blog), was created with help from my husband John! Wanna see how well your students understand the values that you've adopted for your character building? Here's a six-sided character cube that perfectly complements our Six Pillars of Character: Trustworthiness, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, Caring, Citizenship. Click here for the template that you can print on card stock. Ask your students to illustrate each character trait and color before cutting out, folding and fastening the tabs with glue or tape to make a cube. Use it during those five minutes at the end of class or at a work station to integrate character; students can roll the cube and talk about either what's happening in the picture or discuss an experience they've had with that particular pillar. What other ways could you use this character cube? Three more bulletin board ideas: Our future looks bright with cool character kids leading the way! Shine on! How do you create a caring community?

Viral Cupcakes: Whether you are a Mad Scientist or a Sweet Nurse, it's time to take that syringe and infuse your cupcakes with flavors of your choosing. I came up with this idea for my Halloween Dinner Party this year and I wanted to do an eerie take on the …

Blue Bottle Cafe in San Francisco has this really cool $20,000 siphon bar that makes incredible coffee. I've always been fascinated with the thing, since it looks like a science fair entry and everyone usually tries to score seats at the bar to watch it in action - even if they can't afford the $12 per cup. Hasselblad 500C/M Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8 Kodak Portra 400 Canon Canoscan 9000F

Leah Garofalo always approached high school projects with an ambitious sense of creativity. For a ninth grade biology assignment at Monticello High School, she wrote, performed and produced an original song about taxonomy. Years later, The FableVision Learning Team asked her some questions to discov

Science & Tea: A Chemist's Delight! Uncover the surprising link between tea leaves & a Jesuit botanist.

Hey there! I am here to link up with my buddy Jessica at Ideas by Jivey for Workshop Wednesday! We have been integrating science and social studies into writing like crazy over the past month!! I discovered something really fun! I can run notebook paper through the copier!!! I probably shouldn't be that excited about it, but I really was!! So, for the pieces that I am collecting to put in my students' writing portfolios, I have been typing the writing prompts and running them at the top of notebook paper! It makes me happy!! (Crazy, I know!!) I wish I'd thought of it sooner! You probably already knew about this!! Why didn't you tell me? ;O) Here is a prompt we did last week integrating weather (the unit we were ending in science). I like to give them choices and I try really hard to give a narrative, informational, and persuasive choice for each one, if I can think of one! A while ago I blogged about the series of books "You Wouldn't Want to" and I talked about this activity below. Although there isn't tons of writing in this activity, the point I was trying to get across to my students as we study informational writing craft is that pictures and captions can actually give a great deal of information about a topic, AND they are fun!! I loved reading these because the students' voices came out loud and clear! We are working on voice right now with our Native American informational writing and they are having a hard time, but they did it easily here. This is a great reference that I can refer back to to show them how easily they used voice! We are working on infusing this into our writing now, so we don't sound like an encyclopedia! These books are a great mentor text for informational writing because they are so fun to read and they give the nasty details of sailing with Christopher Columbus!! This is the book we read: Finally, I followed up this "poster" of caption writing with our big Christopher Columbus writing prompt. I am actually amazed at how they are coming along with their writing. However, I think it really helps that we studied about Columbus in social studies and in language arts so they have tons of background knowledge (and opinions!) about this! I'll tell you one last trick that has really helped me with getting all of this writing done this year. One of the other reasons I started printing the prompts on notebook paper was because I wanted my ENTIRE class to be working on writing in science and social studies. However, we don't have enough time for me to teach the entire curriculum, plus do all of this deep, intensive writing during our social studies block. So, I started giving it to my students once a week as morning work. Since some of my students go to Advanced Language Arts (gifted students) they have their writing notebooks in there. I was afraid they'd get confused if I had them write in their science and social studies interactive notebooks. So, this was my solution. I print the prompts out on notebook paper (mostly, except this last one because they were very detailed prompts) and have them on their desk in the mornings. For some reason 4th graders don't do so well writing on unlined paper (imagine that- neither do I!) so this solved multiple problems. And you know what? It's worked out beautifully! I'm very pleased with how they have been doing! Now I can use my writing workshop time to conference on these pieces, that are already mostly written!! Granted, it usually takes about two days for them to produce a quality product, but it is well worth it!! How do YOU integrate writing into other subject areas? I hope you have a great Halloween tomorrow! Amanda

Rocks and Minerals for Google Slides is a complete project-based learning unit that covers all your standards and NGSS correlated!!! Rocks and Minerals for Google slides is vibrant, ELA infused, STEAM focused with project-based learning, and will completely satisfy your in person or remote learning lessons for an ENTIRE unit!!! Students will read and use tech tools for understanding, create digital collages, and digital final products. Explore the Rock Cycle, different types of rocks, and all physical attributes of rocks in Rocks and Minerals for Google Slides. Included: KWL See Think Wonder 4 Slide Informational Passage Guided Research 12 Visual Vocabulary Slides Read and Remember 2 Slides of Check for Understanding Rock Sort STEAM Choice Board Acrostic Poem Creation Engineering Design Process Slide Create a Pet Rock and Birth Certificate Slides Check out other units for Google Slide: Composting, Stars and Solar Systems, and Ecosystems.

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Rocks and Minerals for Google Slides is a complete project-based learning unit that covers all your standards and NGSS correlated!!! In this digital bundle, the PDF version is also included with even more resources! Rocks and Minerals for Google slides is vibrant, ELA infused, STEAM focused with project-based learning, and will completely satisfy your in person or remote learning lessons for an ENTIRE unit!!! Students will read and use tech tools for understanding, create digital collages, and digital final products. Explore the Rock Cycle, different types of rocks, and all physical attributes of rocks in Rocks and Minerals for Google Slides Digi Bundle. Google Slides Include: KWL See Think Wonder 4 Slide Informational Passage Guided Research 12 Visual Vocabulary Slides Read and Remember 2 Slides of Check for Understanding Rock Sort STEAM Choice Board Acrostic Poem Creation Engineering Design Process Slide Create a Pet Rock and Birth Certificate Slides PDF Version Includes: KWL Informational Passage 12 Visual Vocabulary Words Slides of Check for Understanding Vocabulary Match Rock Sort STEAM Choice Board Word Search Fold-able Book 2 Acrostic Poem Creations Create a Rock Cycle Poster Engineering Design Process Create a Pet Rock and Birth Certificate 4 Finish this Scenes Thanks for visiting!!! I have a new STEAM Freebie for you!! STEAM Posters .................................................................................................................................................................... Other products for distance learning: All About Rocks All About Ecosystems Solar System and Stars Weather and Climate Creating inquiry is one the best ways to teach STEM/STEAM... Check out See, Think, Wonder STEAM! Want more exciting ways to use all of these products? Check out the I Heart STEAM Blog and I Heart STEAM Teacher Podcast!!!!

On Sunday afternoon I had one of the "rabbit holes of the Internet" adventures that has me jumping from one link to another. It started by reading about these Google Classroom Hacks that Peter Vogel s

Decode the history of Morse code with this reading comprehension activity.

Have you ever wondered how to teach growth mindset vs. fixed mindset in high school? These easy to implement tips will help you to gain confidence!

Using digital comics infused into your reading or writing curriculum is a great way to motivate your reluctant learners. Great for upper elementary students.

Unleash the thrill of hands-on learning with STEM activities for Hatchet by Gary Paulsen=. Bring the book alive with practical classroom activities!

Today I'm excited about sandwiches! Not real sandwiches, although I do love a good chicken salad. Nope, I'm excited about the strategy sandwiches I found so I decided to try a Calm-Down sandwich for lunch. Since I de-cluttered my office by putting a lot of stuff in my new suite, I now have room for a small bistro table. One student, who comes at lunch to practice her calm-down strategies, and I made this sandwich while she ate. The ingredients - some meat and cheese, two tomato slices and a piece of lettuce - represent the things that we've talked about trying when the worries start to overwhelm. We put it in a zipper sandwich bag and she tucked it in her lunch kit. This activity leaves SO much room for variation. How about a respect sandwich? I see math integration, too, by having the students cut and identify their shapes. (The lettuce could easily be an oval or a triangle!) Here are some titles that lend themselves to a sandwich enrichment activity: In this tasty tale, Carla's Sandwich by Debbie Herman, what will Carla do when she gets teased for her odd sandwich creations? In The Sandwich Swap by Queen Rania with Kelly DiPucchio, will their difference separate these fast friends? In The Peanut-Free Café by Gloria Koster, kids in the Nutley school cafeteria learn a little bit about the challenges of coping with a peanut allergy. What strategies could you sandwich together?

ELA teacher Kevin Hodgson explains why the work his sixth graders are doing during their video game design projects addresses a variety of writing standards.

Morse Code Decoder Ring Today's free puzzle works with Morse Code! There's a secret message to decode and a new Morse Code Decoder Ring to help you out. Click on the picture above to download your decoder ring and puzzle! To construct the decoder ring, first print it out on stiff paper, like cardstock. Then cut out the two circles and carefully cut out the little notch. Poke a hole through the center of both circles, place the smaller one (the one with the notch) on top of the larger one, and stick a brad through the center hole. The top circle should easily spin around so that you can find the letters and symbols you need!

Rocks and Minerals STEAM is a complete project-based learning unit that covers all your standards and NGSS correlated!!! Rocks and Minerals is vibrant, ELA infused, STEAM focused with project-based learning, and will completely satisfy your standards for rocks and minerals. Students explore the Rock Cycle, different types of rocks, and all physical attributes of rocks in Rocks and Minerals STEAM. Incorporated are many strategies for reading comprehension like visual vocabulary, KWL, comprehension checks, and more! Included: KWL Informational Passage 12 Visual Vocabulary Words Slides of Check for Understanding Vocabulary Match Rock Sort STEAM Choice Board Word Search Fold-able Book 2 Acrostic Poem Creations Create a Rock Cycle Poster Engineering Design Process Create a Pet Rock and Birth Certificate 4 Finish this Scenes Thanks for visiting!!! I have a new STEAM Freebie for you!! STEAM Posters .................................................................................................................................................................... Other products for distance learning: All About Rocks All About Ecosystems Solar System and Stars Weather and Climate Creating inquiry is one the best ways to teach STEM/STEAM... Check out See, Think, Wonder STEAM! Want more exciting ways to use all of these products? Check out the I Heart STEAM Blog and I Heart STEAM Teacher Podcast!!!!

Accessible and engaging, this text provides a comprehensive framework and practical strategies for infusing content-area instruction in math, social studies, and science into literacy instruction for grades K-6.Throughout ten clear thematic chapters, the authors introduce an innovative Content-Driven Integration (CDI) model and a roadmap to apply it in the classroom. Each chapter provides invaluable tools and techniques for pre-service classroom teachers to create a quality integrated thematic unit from start to finish. Features include Chapter Previews, Anticipation Guides, Questions to Ponder, Teacher Spotlights, \"Now You Try it\" sections, and more. Using authentic examples to highlight actual challenges and teacher experiences, this text illustrates what integrating high-quality, rich content-infused literacy looks like in the real world. Celebrating student diversity, this book discusses how to meet a wide variety of students' needs, with a focus on English Language Learners, culturally and linguistically diverse students, and students with reading and writing difficulties.A thorough guide to disciplinary integration, this book is an essential text for courses on disciplinary literacy, elementary/primary literacy, and English Language Arts (ELA) methods, and is ideal for pre-service and in-service ELA and literacy teachers, as well as consultants, literacy scholars, and curriculum specialists.

A relentless elementary STEM teacher discovers she absorbs kinetic energy and harnesses it as potential energy. This muggle won’t let this opportunity dissipate. Snooker will take her enemy’s best shot.  Sci-Fi Squad™ content is where science concepts and sci-fiction collide! Students will immerse themselves as a superhero that must master science content to maximize the use of their powers. It is 50 years in the future, and artificial intelligence has overtaken humanity. As a result of an experiment by rogue scientists, superpowers became unlocked in certain individuals. These individuals must defeat the AI and their army of robots. And you must help. These heroes have powers based on scientific concepts and they are learning how to use them. They must acquire vocabulary and key concepts before they take on their mission. Master science. Unlock imagination. This is the Sci-Fi Squad™. In a Sci-Fi Squad resource set you will receive (use parts or use them all): ◈Google Slide Interactive Book with Queued Videos ◈Character's Origin Story ◈Career Information ◈Vocabulary Practice ◈Key Concept Activity ◈Superhero Comic that illustrates scientific concepts ◈Optional Coloring Pages for younger students ◈Trading Cards ◈Posters ◈Make Your Own Activities And join our community where I post ideas, anecdotes, elaborations & every once in a while I pass out TPT gift cards! And jokes! I do jokes too! Clark Creative Education Facebook Page

ELA teacher Kevin Hodgson explains why the work his sixth graders are doing during their video game design projects addresses a variety of writing standards.

Today’s Free Friday is a new STEAM lesson seed, following our week’s theme of balance. This lesson seed, A Balanced Composition, uses digital photography to work through Common Core Writing Standards. Come check it out!

This globe-spanning history of sugar is \"an epic story on a broad canvas that never loses sight of individual moments of human drama; a historical methodology infused with political, intellectual, cultural, and social strands; a complex sequence of cause and effect; an illuminating synthesis of primary and secondary sources; and a thoughtful marriage of words, picture, and design.\" (Horn Book starred review)Here is the story of how one product allows us to see the grand currents of world history in new ways. Using songs, oral histories, maps, and over 80 archival illustrations, Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos put a human face on this vast pageant. Time line, source notes, bibliography, and index included.The history of sugar runs like a bright band from religious ceremonies in India to Europe's Middle Ages, then on to Columbus, who brought the first cane cuttings to the Americas. Sugar caused the loss of countless lives, but it also planted the seeds of revolution that led to freedom in the American colonies, Haiti, and France.Cane, not cotton or tobacco, drove the bloody Atlantic slave trade and took the lives of countless Africans who toiled on vast sugar plantations under cruel overseers. And yet the very popularity of sugar gave abolitionists in England the one tool that could finally end the slave trade. Sugar moved, murdered, and freed millions; sugar changed the world.

This year, invite your students to start collecting words! Build anticipation for your phonics block and the science of reading by taking an adventure with a boy who LOVES words. Infuse your ELA lesson plans with fun word activities at the beginning of the year or whenever you need it most! Everything you need to explore and remind students of the importance of words when making the world (and our classroom) a better place is included. These reading activities are a companion pack to the book The Word Collector by Peter Reynolds. It is a beautiful story about a boy who collects interesting words and keeps them in carefully curated collections. That is, until he learns how powerful words can be when they are shared! These activities will get students thinking about how to share words in a way that can make our classroom a better place. PLEASE NOTE:  The book The Word Collector by Peter Reynolds is not included, but necessary for this pack. Skills that will be practiced: Analyzing Illustrations, Finding Evidence to Support an answer, Analyzing Character Change to identify the Central Message, Lesson or Theme Here's what is included: •Lesson Plans for Reading and Vocabulary Development •Activity Guides for before and after reading •Comprehension Lesson Tips •Picture Examples •Text-Based Questions •Writing Activity •Digital Posters for identifying the central message •Vocabulary Cards •Vocabulary Independent Practice •Independent Reading Activity •4 engaging activities for before and after reading

For more than two years that I have infused gamification elements into my English Language Arts classroom to improve engagement, community, and learning. This upcoming Wednesday, April 19th I will …

Use this template to help students review the sequence of the story. ...

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In this webinar, learn how Deb Cody integrates a flexible, online language-learning solution into a blended-learning environment that complements face-to-face instruction.