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Students who finish early could try drawing the structures of blood.  If the teacher can obtain the materials, looking through a microscope at real slides of blood and draw that for a further extension.

1.3.1. "Classify living organisms according to variations in specific physical features (e.g., body coverings, appendages) and describe how those features may provide an advantage for survival in different environments." This activity can be modified for ELL students by having them draw pictures of the bugs they find, rather than writing words or numbers. This can also be adjusted for older groups by having them classify animals they see, which could include mammals, insects, fish, etc. They could also describe many other characteristics, such as the types of food these animals or insects eat.

1.3.3 "Observe and explain that plants and animals have basic needs for growth and survival: plants need to take in water and need light, and animals need to take in water and food and have a way to dispose of waste." This activity can be modified for ELL students by having them strictly draw pictures of their observations, rather than writing words to describe their observations. This can also be adjusted for older grades, by having them grow several different types of flowers, or by using different fertilizers to help the flowers grow. The students can then compare their effects of the different fertilizers on the same flowers.

Simple activity that seems every student should be able to participate without a problem. Possibly minimize the number of questions a struggling student might have to get answered.

Your ENL students should be ok with this activity. An idea to differentiate would be to just have certain students only find sums of 10 if they are struggling to understand. 

Can be easily differentiated for each student by minimizing what they must accomplish in their shopping excursion or watching sports. Send each student home with a list of what to look for as they choose their activity and adjust based on child's ability.

Extension: Math and LA connections are in this activity. Adaptations: Gifted students could make their own multiplication book.  ELL and Special Ed students can read the book with a partner and check each others answers on their dry erase board for accuracy.

Extensions: This connects addition with symmetry, but you could also connect this to social studies using Albrecht Durer, the artist, who used a 4x4 magic square in one of his drawings. Adaptations: This activity can be adjusted to multiple grade levels using printable worksheets or creating your own version.  Pictures can be included or dots to show a visual aid for ELL or Special Ed students.

Extension: This activity connects math to art. Adaptations: The gifted students can identify and draw an array of angles, perpendicular and parallel lines, rectangles, and triangles, in an artistic design on a large sheet of paper using the proper tools.  The ELL and Special Ed students can work in pairs or small groups to measure and identify angles, lines, shapes, and write down all of the examples on paper.  

You need to correlate this activity to a Common Core standard. Thoughtful ideas for adaptations!

This can be a fun project for the students to make their own "house" and "families." Teachers can make a social studies connection by trying to arrange the houses in two rows facing each other. Number the houses on the right with even numbers and the ones on the left with odd … just like the houses on a real-life street.

The picture for this activity looks really cute. I wonder how hard it would be for little ones to draw faces on craft sticks. You'd probably want to put newspaper down on the desks and be prepared to have marker on their hands, but still, it looks like an engaging activity that would be worth a little mess.

I would read a book about shapes first as part of the discussion on shapes. I like in the end when the students come back and tally their results. You could also do a bar graph with the tally marks.

Scavenger hunts are usually motivating for kids.

2.NBT.2 "Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s." This activity can be modified for gifted students by making the pattern more challenging for them. For example, instead of making the pattern of counting by 2s, the teacher could make the pattern counting by 2s, plus 1. This activity could be used for older grades by having the students come up with their own patterns.

I love the active involvement!