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LOVE this poster for how to respond to an open ended response...I like boxes and bullets - but this does a nice job pointing out the "evidence" from text, which seems to be an area students struggle in.

Good worksheet asking to students to think about open ended questions related to simple machines

"Okay, so also not to long ago I saw on Blog Hoppin' a teacher did a project for younger kids called turkey in disguise (sorry I don't remember the teacher, but she is so smart). So we decided since I saw it too late, to do Gingerbread men in disguise for our Christmas writing prompt. The students are currently working on stories about how they woke up and they found a gingerbread man running for his life and asking for help. In their story they must tell about how they disguised him, what they disguised him as, and how they helped him escape certain peril. They are having such a good time, they begged for extra writing time today. Anyway here are some of the gingerbread men in disguise, these are not all from my class. Our whole fourth grade is doing this project. aren't they adorable, these are just a few. There were way too many to choose from. Hopefully when they are done with the writing piece I can post some of those. I hope you all have an amazing last week before break, and as always thanks for reading! Mrs. B"

This is a neat idea - have students bring in lyrics to their favorite song - then use the lyrics to figure out the probability of certain words in the song.

Mysteries to solve, scary stories and magic tricks (mentioned in grad class, didn't have time to check out yet

This site looks cool - found it in a quick google search for a worksheet to help my kiddos who are still struggling with converting fractions from mixed to improper. Seems like there is a whole bunch of skills here and no sign in required!

Wonder what it would take to set this up - since our last lesson included e-mail. Could they e-mail each other through their google accounts and write to the person about what they learned....

There is a book that I am using with my reading group regarding this orphan train...I never heard of it. Breaks my heart - I used a youtube to introduce it to the kids. We are in the process of reading it. Two of my three kids in group are very much enjoying learning about it.

Here's a neat lesson idea - Economics and Personal Finance Resource. Students apply the skill of fact and opinion to looking at advertisements. Students use their skills to determine whether the advertisements are fact or opinion.

Good video to introduce histograms and how to create them.

Good video to explain how to create box and whisker plots.

Good video to explain step graphs and how to read them.

Lesson and extra practice for conventions Learning to Swim

Field trips allow students to learn while engaging all of their senses. Although some districts may lack the funding to afford students these valuable educational opportunities, you can bring the field trip to the classroom with modern technology. Here are five virtual field trips that are a must-see for any grade level: 1.

some basic facts about rain forests to guide instruction

This looks like the site Karen found, there's also a nice "manual" to histogram facts

Great variation to the Reading Log!

variety of sixth grade vocabulary used in a game where you have to determine the correct answer out of three and "dump" the answer into a robot's head.

A list of links to games for adding/subtracting and multiplying/dividing positive and negative integers