This second Space Force activity has students practice their skills and display their mastery of converting feet to yards TEK 4.8c. Students convert feet to yards and show their answers by targeting asteroids and blasting them with the Space Force Laser Deployment System.
No, it’s true. This will be your last Princeton ISD email from me. I will be launching out of here into a new career.
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I am so deeply appreciative of your passion, dedicated effort, and enthusiastic participation as you learn and implement new appropriate and effective ways to bring technology into your classrooms. Your commitment truly enhances our students’ learning journey.
Seriously, click the image below to join the help group I created for you as my position will not be rehired for and the limited help you have access to will dry completely up.
We are going to work together to create our first PowToon animation. The video walkthrough below will teach your students how to take a template in PowToon and customize it with their own information for a project/presentation. We will be making our presentation about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I am providing all of the information and images that we will need at the link below.
Pause this video as needed to make sure your students are caught up with me.
BingoBaker.com is my new favorite Bingo card website. You can easily make your cards for free but I willingly dropped $24.95 for an unlimited life time membership to Bingo Baker. I had begun to build bingo cards in Canva but even with a template I realized I was about to have to manually cut and paste all of the terms over and over for a minimum of 30 cards. That task loomed over me like an executioners axe.
I went to the world wide webnets hoping to find a more reasonable solution. I stumbled across Bingo Baker and it was like all of my prayers had been answered.
All you have to do is copy paste in your list of terms and this wonderful program mixes them up in a bowl for you and repeatedly pours out tasty individual bingo cards to meet your needs.
You can also build your cards with images or questions and answers. Check it out. I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Here is another teacher request for you. A different no-tech flashcard board game with a classic chutes and ladders theme. Here are all the other board games available. Use any small object for game pieces.
Your class must decide if you would rather assist a paleontologist with the excavation of dinosaur bones or help a photographer capture photos of dinosaurs. Click the image below to select your desired activity.
Here is the 6th Flash Card Game Board I have made for you. I am super excited to say that this one is from a teacher request (may favorite things). If you have never seen these before. They are simple generic board games that students can play against each other with review flash cards of any type. You can find the first five and more information here.
Study Stack is an amazing tool for reviewing digital Flash Cards. Today we are going to look at how to use your study stack flash cards to review off line.
4.3c Identify leaders important to the founding of Texas as a republic and state, including José Antonio Navarro, Sam Houston, Mirabeau Lamar, and Anson Jones; 4.3dDescribe the successes, problems, and organizations of the Republic of Texas such as the establishment of a constitution, economic struggles, relations with American Indians, and the Texas Rangers; 4.3e Explain the events that led to the annexation of Texas to the United States and the impact of the U.S.‐Mexican War;
Click the image above to reach the Virtual Field Trip tour of artifacts at the Bob Bullock State of Texas Museum. We will examine artifacts related to the Republic of Texas, Annexation, and the Mexican War. The tour is fully voice narrated.
Below is a printable student activity handout to accompany the tour.
Need to review academic vocabulary with your U.S. History students? Look no further. Here are 100 unique printable bingo cards that contain the 97 terms identified by Lead4Ward as new academic vocabulary introduced to your students in their 8th grade course. I have also generated a call sheet of the terms and definitions in a spread sheet format I also used Flashcard Lab to generate Flash card versions of the terms and definitions so that you can print and cut those out for randomly drawing and calling your Bingo definitions. Here are all the files in .PDF Format.
Here are a few options for quickly assessing your students comprehension of a concept. This is a question I often get so here are my best answers all gathered up for you.
Lumio from Smart tech has a huge portion of it that is designed to be used by students on individual devices and not on SMART boards.
Nearpod offers similar options. To collect responses from students and discuss responses with the class.
Socrative is another option. Which can do Multiple Choice, T/F, and Short Answer in it’s free teacher account.
Mentimeter is another one I have used to collaborate and create a parent night presentation with interactive polling. Mentimeter adds in a word cloud option!
Here is a brand new food web activity for you called “Predator or Prey”. This is an interactive digital activity made in Genially. It really pushes students to think critically about their understanding of TEKS 5.9b and 5.9c as they relate to food webs.
Once you have finished your lesson on phases of the moon you can challenge your students comprehension with this fun interactive assessment. Record your students scores off of their screen when they are done because getting data from Genially requires a paid premium account.
Here is a learning packed cross-curricular activity that begins with having students read along with narration of an article from Smithsonian Magazine. Then they complete an activity focused on measurement conversions (Math TEK 4.8c) with a sprinkling of science and geography facts related to Lake Tawakoni State Park. This local favorite TSP is mentioned in the article as having a spider species similar to Brazil’s flying spiders. This makes a relevant local connection to a fascinating story from Brazil. The button below takes you to the Genially digital activity that you can assign to your students. For the read along portion a link to download a printable version or the on line link for the article are provided.
Here is a Genially activity which challenges your students to prove their proficiency using a ruler to measure. Students must measure the tallest building to find the correct answer for each question. No, the biggest number on the list isn’t the correct answer. I tried to ensure the distractors are plausible to avoid estimated guesses.
Here is an activity to help your students practice their skills at measuring with a ruler. This is a Genially activity that is designed to be assigned to your students through Google Classroom or it can be completed on a smart touch panel as a group activity. Both together at the same time might even be the best.