The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs: September 2014

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Doing Math the Routty Way: Engaging Activities from A to Z (Day 14)

Open-ended Math Talk Questions- Read about how to ask effective questions to generate math talk and promote rich classroom discussions. I've shared an article with some great tips and strategies to get you started, as well as, an Open-ended Questions Poster Freebie (pictured below).

Follow The Routty Math Teacher link to read "Open-ended Math Talk Questions" on my blog or click my button. Happy Reading!

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Monday, September 29, 2014

FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - “Letter Sound Sort Freebie”

by I Heart Curriculum

Kindergarten - 2nd Grade

Freebie from my letter sound sorts product. I hope you enjoy it.

SOCIAL STUDIES LESSON - "Renaissance Webquest and Answer Sheet"

Renaissance Webquest and Answer Sheet (Great Lesson Plan)

Grades 4-10

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Answer Key

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Sunday, September 28, 2014

Math Lesson - "5th Grade Math Multi-Digit Multiplication - Standard Algorithm 5.NBT.5"

by Hilda Ratliff

Grade 5 Click here to preview.

This resource gives a step by step procedure for multiplying multi-digit numbers using the standard algorithm. The carries are recorded in each partial product so that the student can actually see the complete product of each multiplication being performed.

This resource may be used to introduce the standard algorithm of multiplication. Students will find products of two 3-digit numbers, a 4-digit number and a 2-digit number, and a 4-digit number and a 3-digit number. A template is used in the first activity for the student to become accustomed to recording and adding partial products.

The resource may be used for remediation after multiplication of multi-digit numbers has been taught.

Included in this Resource:

1. Handout with guided practice, specific procedural instructions, and independent practice – 4 pages

2. Handout with guided practice and independent practice – 2 pages

3. Group activity with 6 task cards

4. Detailed answer keys

5. Teacher Notes

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Why Classroom Laboratory Activities Foster Learning

So you are debating when or how or how many labs you should implement into your classroom. There's a very easy answer to that, as many as humanly possible and which will still allow you to provide your students with content they require in order to meet the subjects expectations. Why you ask should you devote your precious classroom time (time which is in short supply for everyone already) to activities that deliver mediocre data at best. You say to yourself that you could deliver 10x the information provided during a lab in a 75 minute lecture. The main questions isn't how much content you can deliver, it is how much content the students absorb from the delivery. Furthermore, one must think about the other consequences of hands-on laboratory work.

- Students learn to work with others
- They practice safe working skills
- They are permitted to "experience" learning, not just see what their learning is supposed to look like.
- They learn to make mistakes and analyze them
- They develop planning, writing and critiquing skills needed for pretty much any career.

However, the main reason that you should be devoting a significant amount of your class time to labs is that it gets the students interested and engaged in the material you so badly want to convey to them! Students wont take away that amazing lecture you gave on the types of chemical reactions, but they may remember the time they mixed lead (II) iodide and potassium nitrate and saw that beautiful yellow followed by a stubborn precipitate that they couldn't extricate from the test tube.

Students love labs, they love experiencing with their own senses what they are learning in school and it really hooks them. You ask most science students what they'd rather be doing in class and they will say labs. I know this because I'm constantly being bombarded with "When will we be doing another lab?" or "Why don't we do more labs?", etc., etc.

Here's a reason to avoid those labs and I know we are all guilty of thinking it, they are difficult to mark and you already don't have enough time to mark what you have. Well that's an easy one too, who says you need to assign a formal lab report each time your kids do an experiment? Change it up.

- Setup a handout that they need to fill-in during the lab (pretty much an observation sheet).
- Have your students submit the lab but only mark one component.
- Instead of having them submit a lab, have a quiz the next day regarding specific things that happened.

There are lots of ways to reduce your marking while still providing your students with the opportunity they need. Be creative and give yourself a break.

Lab Requirements:
- Make sure the lab is hands-on and allows them to find something tangible.
- Allows each group member to get involved. The worst is when there's one person who simply takes over. Assign jobs, create smaller groups, etc.
- Let your students see why/how the lab connects with the curriculum. This will increase their engagement in your lessons as they see that what they are learning has some actual real-life implications.

One lab that I love is my Eco-Bottle lab. It touches on the things I've mentioned above as it allows your students to create and carry out a hands-on, engaging experiment on how humans affect the environment. It utilizes the steps in the scientific method to scaffold learning and allows your students to come to a conclusion based on findings that are tangible. It also reduces marking by having you complete a rubric which clearly and easily breaks down the lab for both you and your students, fostering success. If you are interested CLICK HERE or the picture below.

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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - “Roll, Read, and Keep - Sight Words and Sentences”

by KinderMyWay

Kindergarten - 2nd Grade

Fun game for students to play in groups of 2-3. Game includes sight words and sentences for easy differentiation.

Just print and place game board in sheet protector. Cut pieces out and place evenly in squares. Students roll the die and pick a card from the correct pile. If they can read the card they keep it.

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Saturday, September 27, 2014

FREE MISC. LESSON - “Spanish Letter, Sound, and Syllable Assessment Bundle”

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Pre-Kindergarten - 1st Grade

This letter, sound, and syllable assessment bundle is an easy to use assessment, complete with a sheet of suggested uses. This pack also comes with a graph so that students can easily see their own progress. This bundle can be used in conjunction with the Evaluacion de letras y silabas: Teacher tracking forms, which can be found on my TPT store.

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~Back to School Bundle

Art Action - Laurie Carpenter

Visual Arts - Language Arts working together

Grades K - 4

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Bundling is the way to go! In this case, you get 4 projects for the price of 3! And here they are:

BACK TO SCHOOL WITHOUT CLIFFORD
Kids love a puppy!
Especially, when that puppy is Clifford!
The children will love this lesson plan, as they create a simple "back to school" craftivity of Clifford, as a puppy, after the class reads the story Clifford's First School Day, by Norman Bridwell.

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BACK TO SCHOOL "THINGS ON A STRING",
an easy-art craftivity
Coming back to school is such an exciting time for kids! Seeing old friends,meeting new ones, a new teacher, and so many new "things" to experience.
This project provides the children with a fun art experience focusing on" back to school things". This "easy-art lesson plan with patterns can be used easily in the classroom, as well as done with more complicated creativity in the art room - TWO options are presented.
* Lesson also gives children an opportunity for group discussion, and a chance to write about their thoughts about this happy time of the year.

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BACK TO SCHOOL PUFF PORTRAITS
PROJECT OVERVIEW-PURPOSE: This is so much fun!!!
Just the name "Puff Portraits" gets the kids thinking! Lesson plan will provide
a fun and creative "back to school" activity as the students create their own self-portrait, and the follow-up activities help the children get to know their new classmates.

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BACK TO SCHOOL COLORING SHEET
PROJECT OVERVIEW-PURPOSE: REVIEWING AND LEARNING NEW
SKILLS ARE BOTH such an important part of a new school year. LET'S SEE
HOW WE CAN FULFILL BOTH NEEDS WITH ONE PROJECT.

The printables and lesson plan will provide an independent crayon coloring
session for the primary student, teaching the student depth of color as well as techniques of coloring neatly, filling the space, and following teacher directions.

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Friday, September 26, 2014

Alice in Wonderland: Close Reading Guide

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:

Close Reading Guide

Lisa Robles

Alice was first published in 1865 and most found the novel to be utter
nonsense. However, the illustrations provided by John Tenniel garnered
praise.

Over time, people have come to appreciate it for it's logic play and is
considered a prime example of the literary nonsense genre. Today it a classic.

Personally I've always loved the book and when a colleague suggested I
decorate my classroom with Alice, I was intrigued. Here are some images
from my classroom.

Of course I wanted to read the novel aloud to my students but I wanted to
go even deeper. I decided to create a close reading guide so that we could go
deeper with the literature. Alice was chosen as a text exemplar by the CCSS for fourth and fifth grades.

This 45-page close reading guide has an outline of the components of
authentic literacy and what it looks like in the classroom. I formatted the guide as follows. There are possible focus questions for each and every chapter as the
story progresses. It also includes explicit gradual release of responsibility
formatted lessons sprinkled throughout. I included a close reading sheet for
each of the explicit lessons. I also included the common core standards. At
the end, there is a blank sheet for planning and to use with close reading of
different chapters as well as a rubric for scoring the close reading. This isn't a
bunch of worksheets as I don't teach that way. This is for going deep with the
literature!

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Thursday, September 25, 2014

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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

FREE MATH LESSON - “Numbers Forms FREEBIE”

by First Grade Stampede

Kindergarten - 2nd Grade

This is a great resource for extra practice with word form, place value, and tens and ones.

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Doing Math the Routty Way: Engaging Activities from A to Z (Day 13)

Number of the Day- Read about a great activity that encourages your students to think critically about numbers. I've shared two examples of Number of the Day in action.

Follow The Routty Math Teacher link to read "Number of the Day" on my blog or click my button. Happy Reading!

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Math Lesson - "4th Grade Math Activities Division Strategies Multi-Digit Dividends CCSS 4.NBT.6"

by Hilda Ratliff

Grade 4

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Five strategies are taught to perform division involving multi-digit dividends.

Students are required to understand what division means and not just memorize an algorithm. They should be able to explain how they arrive at a quotient. In order to understand the process of division students should be presented with various strategies that help them grasp the concept.

The following strategies are presented in this resource.

1. Build a number using Base 10 blocks. Then separate (divide) the number into the number of groups given (the divisor).

2. Divide the number into groups using the number of thousands, hundreds, tens and ones that can be placed into each group.

3. When the dividend is thought of as the area of a rectangle, the divisor is one side of the rectangle and the quotient is the missing side.

4. A second method of using area involves finding multiples of the divisor to add to give the dividend.

5. Subtract multiples of the divisor and record the factor multiplied by the divisor that produced that multiple. When the result of the subtraction is smaller than the divisor, the division stops and the remaining number is the remainder.

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About Me

I received the Crystal Apple Award from N.B.C. News. The "Excellence in Teaching" Award was given to me by the Los Angeles Unified School District's Los Angeles Educational Partnership. My Math Team won the first place trophy four times in the Los Angeles Unified School District's Math Tournament. I am most proud of my after school Accelerated Reader Program in which Huntington Drive students have read thousands of books each year. In 2000, I became a National Board Certified Teacher and renewed my certification in 2009. I have been a teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District since 1982. I sell Teachers Pay Teachers lessons at http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Victoria-Leon/. I created the blogs, The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs, The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs II, and The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs III. Members of The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative work together to create and market their TpT products - http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Best-of-Teacher-Entrepreneurs-Marketing-Cooperative-1054613. Feel free to email me at vleon999@yahoo.com.