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4th Grade TAG Classroom Action Plan

5th Grade TAG Classroom Action Plan

4th-grade-student-action-plan.doc

5th-grade-tag-student-action-plan.doc

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http://www.kidsastronomy.com/solar_system.htm

http://www.burlesonisd.net/it/blog/?page_id=356

Seating Chart Template - A Publisher template for a class seating chart.

Seating Chart Template 2 - Another Publisher template for a class seating chart.

Templates created by/for BISD Teachers

These files were created for teachers and students to use if they
are uncomfortable with creating PowerPoint Presentations from scratch.
Each one has instructions below each slide in the notes box explaining to the student exactly what to do on each slide. Click on the link and save them to their desktop.

Thomas Edison Biography Template - This template was created for a class to write a biography PowerPoint on Thomas Edison. It can be adjusted to write any biograohy.

Poem Template - This template was created to allow students to type in poems they had written.

Habitats Template - This template walks students through creating a PowerPoint presentation on 4 habitats. The students should have already done the research before beginning.

Portfolio Template - This template allows students to create a portfolio of their work.

Texas Facts - This template guides students into creating a presentation on facts of the State of Texas.

Sentence Writing - This Microsoft Word template was created for 1st grade. It was created as a form and is protected. The students can’t change the content of the document, only the input. For a teacher to change the content, you need to unprotect the form - password is “sentence”.

Games

These PowerPoint activities can be downloaded and customized for any classroom or topic.

100,000 Dollar Pyramid - Put your vocabulary words or phrases in the squares. Students pair up and one student must get the other to say the vocabulary word and phrase by giving them clues.

Be A Champion - This football themed game lets teams of students answer questions to earn touchdowns!

Concentration - Use your own vocabulary, photos, or classroom content to customize this classic matching game.

Hollywood Squares 1 - Customize the questions asked by stars in this PowerPoint version of the famous game show.

Hollywood Squares 2 - Another variation of the popular game show ready for your customization.

Hollywood Squares 3 - A blank Hollywood Squares template for you to customize.

Jeopardy 1 - Who is? Remember to give your answer in the form of a question when reviewing with this popular game.

Jeopardy 2 - Another variation of the popular game show. Download the instructions HERE (word document).

Jeopardy 3 - Yes…ANOTHER variation of the TV show with Alex Trebec. Download the necessary music files here:

• Daily Double Sound
• Final Jeopardy Sound
• Opening Sound
• Question Timer Sound

Jeopardy Examples - Here are several versions of the Jeopardy Game for Download!!!

• Blank Jeopardy
• Math Millionaire Jeopardy
• Speech Pathology Jeopardy
• Literacy Jeopardy
• Measurement Jeopardy
• Jeopardy Directions

Off to the Races - Up to four teams can compete by answering questions asked by the teacher to move their horse closer to the finish line.

Race and Review - Four teams move their race cars around the track by correctly answering questions from the teacher.

Survivor - Based on the television phenomenon, teams answer questions and complete assignments to earn the Immunity Idol and vote someone off the island. Download Immunity Idol HERE (word document).

Weakest Link - Make sure YOU aren’t the weakest link with this review game based on the popular television game show.

Weakest Link 2 - Another variation of the popular TV game show.

Weakest Link 3 - This version boasts sounds from the actual TV program. Download the sounds and instructions here:

• Background Music 1
• Background Music 2
• Lets Play
• Link Graphic
• Weakest Link Instructions

Wheel of Fortune - Buy vowels and earn good grades using this popular format. A bit difficult for PowerPoint novices.

Who Wants to be a Millionaire 1 - This game allows lifelines, 50/50 questions and audience polls! Fun! Download additional materials for the game HERE (word document).

Who Wants to be a Millionaire 2 - With actual sound effects from the show, you’ll love this variation of the popular TV show. Download the necessary sound files here:

• Let’s Play Theme
• New Question Sound
• Regis Walks In
• Value of Next Question Sound
• Who Wants to be a Millionaire Theme

http://www.earlyisd.net/~kflippin/

You can also use Photo Story 3 to make videos from still pictures and the students love it!  There was a school that used the incentive of making a Photo Story 3 movie out of the students work (they had to score a 4 to do this) that raised their TAKS writing scores.  They actually had students that had never wanted to learn about revising doing a ton of revising just to get to make a movie out of their story. 

Here is another site that has more than just broadcast information on it http://tweb.lisd.net/melissa_hall/index.htm.

http://www.mathbits.com/MathBits/StudentResources/Algebra1/Algebra1Student.htm

http://regentsprep.org/Regents/math/ALGEBRA/games/Aquiapage.htm

http://www.quia.com/ba/28820.html

PARALLEL SITE

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/SlopeSlider/

Check out the Teacher resource and print the Slope Slider Explorations Sheet and Slope Slider Record Sheet.  I had my students record the results of 4 different graphs on the record sheet.  They were asked to create 1 line initially and record their results (no decimals please), then they only changed the y-intercept and created 3 new lines and recorded those results.  They DISCOVERED that parallel lines have the same slope!

PERPENDICULAR SITE

http://regentsprep.org/REgents/math/math-topic.cfm?TopicCode=parallel

There are 3 different pages that go with this lesson. A teacher lesson, practice and a hands on activity. 

http://netsquirrel.com

An interactive website with music theory tutorials for students and teachers by Ricci Adams. Lesson topics include: staff, clef, and ledger lines; note duration; measure and time signatures; rest duration; dots and ties; simple and compound meter; odd meter; steps and accidentals and more. A chord calculator, staff paper generator, and matrix generator are available for online use. You can download the stand-alone version of the trainers and utilities. There is also a forum for sharing information and asking questions. Nicely done, Flash intensive.

The British Museum produces this interactive website on Mughal India. Totally Flash-driven, the site is set up to simulate a room filled with various items including a globe, file cabinet, books, and a calendar. When you roll over interactive items in the room, you can click and learn about paintings, coins, weapons, jewelery and models from The British Museum’s collections. Don’t miss “the Staff Room”  (http://www.mughalindia.co.uk/staff/main.html) — pages developed to help teachers. Several lessons are included as well as practical guidance on classroom set-up, using the website, printing, and navigation.

This site, a collaboration of Sony Music and W. W. Norton and Company Publishers, is like having a music textbook online. Check out the glossary, where you can read the definition for saxophone, then click to hear an example of tenor sax in Ravel’s “Bolero.” Eras and Composers round out the offerings on this great site. Not all sections have audio files linked, but the variety of information and audio clips offer students of all ages a wonderful resource.

Create a certificate for that special someone, whether it’s your child, a student, or a co-worker. Look in the Free Area. Easy to use and fairly quick to print and currently 21 styles of certificate from which to choose. This site works best with the browser Internet Explorer.

The site is divided into five ‘chapters’ which address themes or topics relevant to ancient China. Within each ‘chapter’ there are three sections: Story (narratives), Explore (pupil controls the order in which they access the information) and Challenge (historical, analytical, mathematical, or observational activities). Main topics include Crafts and Artisans; Geography; Time (how time was kept in ancient China; Tombs and Ancestors; and Writing (nature and uses of writing in ancient China).

How do you use balance, contrast, movement, and proportion to compose a powerful work of art? This marvelous website is both a tutorial with animated examples and an interactive tool. You can select a background, select subjects, position and resize them within your composition, create a final draft; then submit it for Critique. See the Teacher Guide for an explanantion of the multidisciplinary approach to the creative process which draws on language arts, math concepts, social science, and natural science. Requires Flash and Java.

This site guides teachers through the process of creating online research modules for their students. The research model presented here is intended to “challenge your students to make up their own minds while supplying them with rich information to support such thinking,” and the guidance includes advice on asking good questions, scaffolding the assignment to direct student efforts, and setting up the online module in stages. Authored by Jamie McKenzie, publisher of the From Now On Educational Technology Journal, Module Maker includes examples and templates to help teachers get started with their own online research modules.

Refresh your knowledge of multiple intelligences, then get to the good stuff. Units of study in the sciences are available online so that recognize and highlight all the intelligences into your classroom. Teachers in grades 1-8 will be especially interested in this site.

The Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and the Media Production Group, Simon Fraser University created a web site on the first peopling of the New World with funding from the Virtual Museum of Canada. This multi level educational resource was designed as a series of reusable learning objects, thus maximizing its educational potential. Based on a spiral curriculum approach, the site targets multiple learning styles as well as cognitive, affective and other domains to present complex current research in a public forum. The stunning visuals, engaging games, interactive timelines and video interviews with leading scientists can be accessed by a large variety of viewers. From the Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

Instructor is America’s oldest magazine for elementary school educators. In their Web site, you’ll find curriculum integration strategies, professional development opportunities, help with assessment, and more.

The educator section contains resources designed around six thematic strands: Shakespeare’s Language, Shakespeare on Film, Performance, Primary Sources, Teaching Shakespeare to Elementary Students, and Teaching Shakespeare with Technology. You’ll find professional development strategies, lesson plans, a multimedia library of curriculum resources, and much more. Each component integrates the study of Shakespeare’s greatest works with his life and the times that defined him. The “investigation” sections contains entensive information based on countless hours of research that went into PBS show. The investigation includes sub-sections entitled: Dossier (timeline), Players, Locations, Evidence (primary source materials), Glossary, and Works. There is also a game.

Grey Matters is an educational series that seeks to enhance awareness of recent developments in brain research. Topics include stem cells, brain development, perception, addiction and sleep, the brain and how it develops, diseases of the brain and nervous system. Each lecture can be viewed in its entirety in streaming video (about an hour each). Each topic includes short video presentations to demonstrate key concepts, background, and supplemental reading materials and lesson ideas created by teachers. Also available in Spanish (http://www.ucsd.tv/greymatters-spanish/) and standards aligned.

By dissecting pop culture and advertisements, media literacy education can help students build critical thinking and analytic skills, become more discriminating in the use of mass media, distinguish between reality and fantasy and consider whether media values are their values. Activities are intended for children ages 9-11 and are designed to touch on the six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. In addition, each lesson is aligned with the Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) Standards. Sections for parents and for teachers.

Creative Chemistry offers worksheets, teaching notes, and fun activities. There are over two hundred pages of question sheets and practical guides, chemistry puzzles, interactive revision quizzes, molecular models, and the “Tune-up Garage” to help improve science investigations. Nigel Saunders, Harrogate Granby High School, North Yorkshire. Requires Java.

You can download 10 printables for each contribution that you send.

http://www.eslprintables.com/

Sudoku is the puzzle fun for everyone!

• Daily Challenge
  Solve a brand new puzzle every day
• QuickGame
  A little game in the meantime?
• Sudoku Solver
  Problems in solving a Sudoku puzzle?

http://www.sudokular.com/

• Geography
• Vocabulary
• Chemistry
• Animals
• Math
• Science
• Health
• History

And so much more! There is something here for EVERYONE - K through 12! Doubt it? Try an expert level game and see if you get stumped!

Visit this site now….and thank Shane!!!

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/

Download PDFs of educators guides, browse images, or search lessons by subject, theme, medium, or artist. Text and images can be printed, projected, or saved into a presentation. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to download PDFs.

http://www.moma.org/modernteachers/

• Fastball Physics - using baseball to teach aerodynamics and more
•  Macbeth 2000 - bringing classic characters into contemporary times
• Not Big, Not Bad - Just a Wolf - This National Geographic Geoguide lesson explores the reality of the gray wolf—not its mythical or fairy tale cousin—and its relationships with animals, humans, and the environment.

There are thousands more to see…go now…don’t wait…

http://www.thegateway.org/

http://www.270towin.com/

http://www.dnai.org/timeline/index.html

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/timeline/

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/timeline/game.htm

http://www.sbrowning.com/whowhatwhen/index.php

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/

Articles, games, activities and quizzes that help make sense of the past and the sources that made history.
Pick a trail and start your journey.

You can chose from eight different topics (most with a British twist - it is the BBC after all):

1. Church and State: Track the history of Britain’s historic institutions and their turbulent relationship.
2. Victorian Britain: Who were the winners and losers in the race for industrial supremacy in Victorian Britain?
3. Family History: Take the first steps to uncovering your family history; what can documentation and memorabilia reveal?
4. Local History: Discover how history happens all around you; enthusiasts and experts offer their top tips for reading the past.
5. Wars and Conflict: Discover more about the personal experience of battle. Chart the emergence of a British standing army.
6. Conquest: What was the impact of the Vikings and the Normans? Michael Wood charts the legacy of invasion.
7. How to do History: Follow in the footsteps of professional historians and find out how they bring the past alive.
8. Archeology: Find out more about the world of archaeology. Join Julian Richards as he goes digging for clues.

Are you ready to get historical? Visit the site at http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/

You can explore:

• British History - Explore all of British history, from the Neolithic to the present day, with this easy-to-use interactive timeline.
• Ages of English  - From a West Saxon dialect to a global phenomenon, from runes to rap, the development of English follows a fascinating trail.
• Ages of Treasure - Explore artefacts from the Palaeolithic to the Norman Conquest
• Kings and Queens Through Time - A timeline of dynasties and key events in England
• Prime Ministers and Politics - Three hundred years of high ideals and low cunning

And the particularly harrowing

• Genocide Under the Nazis - This timeline takes you through all 12 years of Nazi rule. But it deliberately deprives you of the benefit of hindsight or a view of the future, ensuring you experience events in the sequence they happened to those who lived through them.

You don’t want to miss this site. Visit it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/

This section of the extensive site - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/ brings you scores of interactive history activites.

You’ll find games, galleries, timelines, virtual tours, audio and vidoe clips…and much more.

This is a MUST SEE site for all teachers!

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/timeline/timelineO.cfm 

and watch history appear before your eyes. Focused on U.S. History, the timeline bar starts in 1590. As you slide the bar, you can watch icons pop up all over the U.S. (with sidebar activity for Europe, Africa, Asia, and Central America). Click on an icon and read about the event.

Not all inclusive, but definitely a fun way to learn!