Category Archives: Creative Teaching Lessons

Historical Figure Game for any Person in History!

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Historical Figure Game for any Person in History!

 
This game is an excellent way to review any biography or autobiography your students read!

Students move around the board answering questions about the person. There are 28 total questions on the board.

Questions cover:
Person’s achievements
Media featuring this person
Person’s influence on present day
Person’s family history
Person’s schooling
Birth/Death dates
Inferencing/Opinions about person

Great way to review, study or research about a person!

Fine Motor Skills Vocabulary Sheets-Pre-K and Kindergarten

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Fine Motor Skills Vocabulary Sheets-Pre-K and Kindergarten

Looking for a fun and easy activity sheets for your students? These are perfect for morning work, small groups, centers, and holidays!

These TWENTY sheets provide practice for:

Fine Motor Skills

Letter recognition

Word recognition

Coloring

Cutting

Gluing

Children color and cut out the squares. After that, they glue them on the letters of the large word at the top.

Words include:

Learn (school theme)

Apple

Farm

Fall

Acorn

Boo! (Halloween theme)

Feast (Thanksgiving theme)

Snow

Warm (cold weather theme)

Love

Luck (St. Patrick’s Day theme)

Ocean

Sun!

Earth (Earth Day/nature theme)

Mom (Mother’s Day theme)

U.S.A.

Bunny (spring theme)

Chick (spring theme)

Argh! (pirate themed)

Peace

Each sheet takes about 20 minutes.

100 Blank Journal Pages for any Subject! Grades 1-5

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100 Blank Journal Pages for any Subject! Grades 1-5

** Please note: These blank journal pages are NOT editable. They are designed to use with student driven work.**

This zip file contains 2 PDF files for:
1.Composition book size pages (9″x 6.5″)
2.Notebook size pages (9.5″ x 7″)

Each page has wide ruled lines to ensure all students can easily write on them.

These 100 page designs can help:
Organization
Structure
Sequence
Diagramming
Connections
Mapping
Pre-writing
Creative Writing
Visual Image of Ideas

Versatile enough to use with any subject!

Page designs include:
Circles
Arrows
Rectangles
Triangles/Trapezoid
Nature and Science Shapes
Hearts
Fraction Shapes
Speech Bubbles
Full Page Creative Designs
Alphabet A-Z (one large letter on each page)
Notebook Journal Sheet (no design)
Composition Book Journal Sheet (no design)

Simply print on letter size paper, cut out page, and glue into journals.

They can also be stapled together for a specific unit activity or used as a stand-alone sheet. Lots of creative options!

Tip: For best results, print at “Actual Size”. This will ensure the work area of the sheet stays within the parameters of the journal. If it is an unusual sized journal, you may need to resize the sheet when printing.

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Inventions-Creative Thinking Activities for Physical Science

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Inventions-Creative Thinking Activities for Physical Science

Unleash your students’ creative and inventive minds!

This product consists of 20 actual mechanical drawings and illustrations of inventions created in the 1800’s and early 1900’s. They are perfect for inspiring new inventions by your students!

Activities that can be used with these drawings include:

1) Creating new inventions by adding on to the drawing and reinventing the purpose of the invention on the page.
2 )Guessing what the original invention was by observing the various functions in the drawing.
3) Identifying the various simple machines that were used to create the invention.
4) Adding a specific simple machine to the invention for reinforcement of that concept.

These are just a few of the activities you can do with these pages!

Each page contains a black and white mechanical drawing of an invention. There is space around each drawing for labels and for creating additional parts.

In addition, there is a list that tells what each invention is on each of the pages.

These activities are also a great way to supplement a unit on simple machines, physical science, inventors, or mechanical drawing.

Used as either a weekly or one time activity, these can be used easily for a whole class, small groups, individuals, or centers.

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Empathy Game: Finding Empathy in Fiction Stories and Books

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A cover for the empathy game containing a stack of books.

Empathy Game: Finding Empathy in Fiction Stories and Books

Easy-to-play game that helps open a discussion on empathy!

This game board has 24 empathy questions that can be used with any fiction story or book that your students are reading.

Students roll a die and move through the spaces to the finish line. Every player is a winner in this game. Students walk away from the game feeling good and learning the value of empathy and kindness.

Perfect way to enhance reading comprehension while examining the character trait of empathy.

The game board comes in B&W and color versions.

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Gingerbread House Paper Craft Activity for the Holidays

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Gingerbread House Paper Craft Activity for the Holidays

This item contains the graphics and visual instructions you need to make your very own gingerbread house!

** Please note** Some of the graphics are in grayscale. Please make sure you are able to print in grayscale before purchasing.

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MATERIALS NEEDED FOR THIS PROJECT:Cardboard box ,scissors, glue (stick and liquid), clear tape, crayons, colored pencils ,thin markers, piece of cardboard or file folder (for roof), construction paper/butcher paper (optional), and poster board for base(optional).

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These sets of graphics are black/white and grayscale and are ready to be colored with crayons,colored pencils, and markers.

This product does not come with colored graphics.

Graphic designs include:

Frosting/Icing lines (grayscale)

Frosting/icing rosettes (grayscale)

Candy canes

Peppermints (round)

Candy cane sticks

Gumdrops

This item also comes with short visual instructions of one way to construct your gingerbread house. There is also a sheet of useful tips.

These graphics are intended to be used on the exterior of the box. No specific interior graphics or interior instructions included.

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This activity is perfect for individuals, small groups, or as a class activity.

Duration of project: 3-4 hours depending on age of child.

Perfect for holiday activities, class projects, or just for fun!

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If you have any questions about this item, please ask in the “Question Section” of my store! I’ll be glad to answer them!

Like this item? Watch for the following model activities coming out in 2014:

Log cabin

Castle

Powerful Words Editing Game for Writing

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Powerful Words Editing Game for Writing

Need help motivating students to use higher level vocabulary in their writing?

This editing game can be played during or after a writing assignment. As it’s being played, it challenges them to add better vocabulary by looking for more opportunities to improve their wording and gain points.

The game sheets include a verb sheet and an adjective/adverb sheet. The words found at the top of each section on the sheets are common words students use in their writing. The “powerful words”, which are next to the stars, are given as substitutions and are as close in meaning to the original word as possible.
The challenge is for the student to use the words with the most point values in their writing. The game can be played for overall winners or trying to top their last score (personal best).

Game includes:
Instructions
Adjective/Adverb Game Sheet
Verbs (present tense) Game Sheet
Verbs (past tense) Game Sheet

As you can see, I have created a sheet for past verb tenses and a sheet for present verb tenses. I found this to be easier for the students when editing their work. Before the student begins editing, determine which tense they have used in their writing. After determining the tense, simply give the student the correct tense sheet.

There will be, of course, some instances where one of the substitutions may not be able to be used correctly based on the context of the sentence. In that case, the student can choose another “powerful word” choice for their substitute word.

Because the game sheets have a basic look, they can be used easily with older and younger students in grades 3-12.

Perfect for individuals, small groups, whole classrooms, or tutoring.

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