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Middle school problem solving creative writing projects
End of the Year Activities Math Project - Plan a Summer Vacation
End of the year activities should be fun. This math project will have your students excited about doing math. The students will plan a summer vacation using a budget sheet. They will have $2,500 to spend while on vacation with a friend. This is a great way to practice financial literacy with your kids. There is a Powerpoint attached with the flight information that is editable so you can change the flight prices and information to reflect where you live. Also includes a digital copy on Google™
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Math Project - Plan a Vacation Bundle
End of the Year Activities, Worksheets, Memories & Reflections for Middle School
23 End of Year activities to allow students to reflect on the year, plan for the summer or their break, to set goals for next year, to write journal entries about their goals and plans for the future, to get to know their peers better, to draw and be creative (selfies! Instagram memories! Tablet photo fun (draw)!), to write letters to their future teachers and write a letter to give advice to future students. This is a great way to summarize the year for intermediate and middle school students,
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: End of the Year, Art Lessons, Worksheets & Activities Bundle
The Best Part of Me {A Positive Self-Image Project}
The Best Part of Me {A Positive Self-Image Project}: The Best Part of Me writing project is such an amazing way to build confidence in your students. It encourages a positive self-image by having your students write about the best part of themselves. This unit was created as a writing activity to go along with the book The Best Part of Me, written by Wendy Ewald, but it can still be completed without the book. This file has been recently updated to include digital files for Google Slides! T
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2nd - 6th
Novel Study FINAL Projects | 20 Hands On Projects for ANY Novel + Rubrics
This resource comes with 20 different hands-on, engaging projects that can be completed with ANY novel or short story. These projects will encourage students to be creative and think outside the box, all while applying important ELA skills and standard practices! 45+ pages of creativity! ALL 20 projects come with an individualized rubric for easy grading and a brainstorming section for students to complete.Projects Include:Cartoon StripMovie PosterMobileNewspaperBoard GameCostume DesignShadowbo
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7th - 12th
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Cereal Box Book Report Template: Project Directions, Rubric & Example Idea Photo
Students LOVE this Cereal Box Book Report template! Students pick a fiction book and design a cereal based on it. This creative & fun cereal box project resources comes with awesome real-life example photos. My favorite part is the character 'ingredient' list & special prize inside. Students love this creative cereal box book report project and it is a great way to recycle/reuse cereal boxes too. Happy teaching!**Just Added!** I have added printable templates for students to write on,
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2nd - 6th
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St. Patrick's Day Craft Activity for Kids | Celtic Knots Paper Art Project [v1]
St. Patrick's Day Activity—Celtic Knot paper art activity. This project is original and fun. You won't find anything like it because I made it up! It's been tested with my students and they just LOVED it! I hope your students will as well. At first glance, this Celtic knot activity might look complicated—which is why it's so striking when the students complete it! However, in this unit, I give you everything you need (templates and instructions) to easily teach this lesson. Your kids will have f
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3rd - 7th
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Editable "What Should My Teacher Be for Halloween?" Costume Writing Activity
Looking for a fun opinion writing activity around Halloween time? This is a fun writing activity for students to design a costume for their teacher or teachers! This activity can be edited to change your name. There are sheets for female and male teachers! Before making copies, I cut and glued a picture of my head to the writing paper. My kids LOVED this activity! Who doesn't love turning their teacher into a princess?!***UPDATE*** This product is now in a digital format using GOOGLE SLIDES!*Not
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PreK - 6th
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Also included in: Halloween Activity Bundle
Create Your Own Island! End-of-Year Writing Project
Do your kids have spring fever? Are you wondering how to keep them writing right up through the end of the year? This is the project for you! Get ready to turn your students from reluctant writers into inspired travel guides.This project engages students in creating their very own personalized island. Kids can make their island realistic or go all-out and make a crazy fantasy island with attractions like a hot chocolate river or a dinosaur petting zoo!After designing their map, students will cre
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3rd - 6th
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Completely Editable "What Should my Teacher be for Halloween?" Writing Activity
This is a completely editable "What Should my Teacher be for Halloween?" persuasive writing activity. This activity can be edited to include your name and your face! The activity asks the students to choose a Halloween costume for you. The students then have to write down three reasons why they think you should choose their costume. Once the students are done writing down their reasons, they are able to draw you in your costume. Your students will absolutely love this writing activity!
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1st - 6th
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Hip Hop into Spring Bunny Craft and Writing
HIP HOPPING INTO SPRING HAS NEVER BEEN SO CUTE! Check out our latest craft and writing to get excited for Spring with your students!!This craft includes 3 differentiated writing paper options, adorable accessories, and a sweet rabbit and stereo craft!
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PreK - 6th
Create an Advertisement - End of Year Writing Activities Persuasive Prompts
Have you been struggling to find engaging persuasive writing prompts that your students haven't encountered a dozen times before? Our Unsellable Product Challenge is guaranteed to be one of the most fun and memorable persuasive writing activities your students will undertake this school year.This no-prep, full week project comes with step-by-step instructions via engaging digital slides. Students choose from 12 humorous 'unsellable products' like a used toothbrush, man-eating plant, or wheelless
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Junior Innovators Project Bundle - End of Year Projects
Shoe Box Diorama Book Report Template: Perfect for Fiction or Non-Fiction Books
Students LOVE this Shoebox Diorama Book Report template! Students pick a fiction or non-fiction book and decorate a shoe box based on it! Students just love this creative book report! Students are responsible for decorating all sides of the box according to directions and putting a creative scene inside that represents the book.This book report is designed to work with any fiction OR non-fiction book. Pages 4 – 6: Fiction and Pages 7 – 9: Non-FictionShoebox book diorama projects (or shoebox boo
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2nd - 6th
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End of Year Math Project Based Learning Budget Worksheets Financial Literacy
This DIGITAL end-of-year math project-based learning will be perfect for partner work, individual projects, or homeschool students. Use the digital Google slides to teach financial literacy and personal finance activity to 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th-grade students. This resource includes budget worksheets for money and is a fun PBL lesson. Students' creativity can run wild with this project to help kids understand the value of a dollar. Students will see how far they can stretch their budget while p
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4th - 8th
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Shipwreck Challenge Social Skills Team Building Activities
Are you looking for fun team building activities for your students? This Shipwreck Challenge includes 6 no-prep activities that focus on teamwork, embedded social skills, and creative problem solving. Great for back-to-school, this resource can help build community in your classroom! Digital and printable versions are included.Please note: This resource comes in a zipped folder. You must have a Google account to access the Google Slides. The premise: students have been shipwrecked on an island,
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: End of the Year Bundle for Middle School
Math Project - Volume Zoo: Build 3D Animal Replicas
Volume Zoo - Fun Math Project for anyone teaching Volume!Engage your students in a fun and hands-on learning experience on finding the volume of rectangular prisms with our Volume Zoo Project! This interactive project allows students to show their creativity by building 3D replicas of animals using simple materials like cardboard boxes. As they construct their masterpieces, students will delve into important math concepts such as the additive volume (composite volume) of rectangular prisms and c
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Volume Zoo - Mini & Large Version Bundle
Write Your Own Short Story Project - A Middle School Short Story Unit
Write Your Own Short Story Project is perfect for the end of a short story unit or as an introduction to creative writing! Your students will love this interactive, hands-on writing unit. Students will create their own character profiles, point of view, type of conflict, and much more as they apply various elements of literature into their very own stories!TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rosa W. says, "Loved this resource! Breaks down the steps of writing a short story while teaching the compo
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5th - 9th
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Walk in My Shoes Empathy Activity Self Reflection, Compassion & Kindness Project
Walk In My shoes is creative writing and project focused on self-reflection and encourages compassion and empathy. This get to know you activity makes an insightful back to school activity and fun bulletin board or hallway display. This activity encourages children to look life from other's perspectives, have empathy and promotes kindness. Great for:Bulletin Boards or Hallway DisplayGet to know you activity (beginning of the year)Small Group Activity Empathy Activity to enhance an existing lesso
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2nd - 6th
40 Printable Templates for Storyboards or Comic Strips
This product includes 40 different designs of templates you can use for comic strips or storyboards. Assign a comic strip in place of a book summary, or use the storyboards for creative writing, screenwriting, or playwriting. There are 20 templates in landscape (horizontal) format and 20 templates in portrait (vertical) format. Each template contains a space for a title, plus anywhere from 4 to 12 boxes per page. Some pages contain boxes for captions, some contain lines, and some leave off the c
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3rd - 12th
Also included in: English Language Arts Graphic Organizers Bundle: Writing and Vocabulary
Book Report Choice Board Menu | Book Report Template for Any Book | 9 Ideas
Book Report Menu: Students LOVE having choices in their Book Report! Students may choose the option on this book report template that best suits their learning style and personality. All book report choices must include a one-page summary page as well. This resource includes Book Report Choice Board Menu directions page and grading rubric.Book Report Choice Board options include:- Movie Trailer- Photo and Text Collage- Comic Strip- Write a Test- Shoebox Diorama- Create a Food- Book Jacket- Book
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2nd - 6th
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Halloween Writing: Scary Story Narrative Unit with Google
Engage your students with a fun narrative writing unit! Students will follow each step of the writing process as they develop scary stories. A unit plan is included to help you guide your students through each step. This writing unit will work at any time of the year, but scary stories are always extra fun for Halloween. Now includes differentiated plot diagram maps and a Google version! Also added plans in Google Slides for easy editing.✅Included:Digital Links & DirectionsUnit Plan Brainsto
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Halloween Writing Bundle: Narrative and Poetry Units
Christmas Writing - Persuasive Letter Writing and Elf Application Project
Christmas Writing, Christmas Creative Writing, Elf ApplicationHO HO HO! 'Tis the season Santa needs extra ELVES on staff!Help Wanted at the North Pole! is a festive writing project, encouraging students to exercise their creativity and practice the "art" of writing a letter of interest. Students will begin by listening to How Santa Got His Job by Stephen Krensky (not included) and completing a corresponding graphic organizer. Next, students will receive a Help Wanted at the North Pole! advertise
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3rd - 6th
Memoir Unit: 2+ Weeks of Reading, Writing, & Discussion
Read and tell true stories through a memoir unit that keeps students engaged from the first web quest to each mentor text to the last interview!
All of the frontloading and reading activities build up to the grand finale: writing our own memoirs (and/or doing the interview project to write someone else’s memoir for them).
This unit uses a lot of choice to make room for student engagement (and differentiation); the unit can be easily adapted for middle OR high school, based on the texts you ch
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Reading Nonfiction Lessons & Projects Bundle for Secondary ELA
Christmas Poetry Poet-Tree
The weeks leading up to winter break is the perfect time to work on literary devices/figurative language and a poetry unit. This Christmas Poet-Tree is just the thing you need get your students excited about these fabulous poetry devices.
The students will learn about personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, simile, and metaphor. Each of these are used in poetry and add life to dull language. Students will be given examples of these in a Christmas theme.
They will then writ
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2nd - 6th
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Halloween Project: Two-Sentence Horror Stories Writing Activity for Secondary
Why should elementary school students have all the Halloween fun? If you love Halloween as much as your students do, than this product will help bring the spirit of the season to your middle school or high school classroom!Based on the internet phenomenon asking people to write the most terrifying story they can in just two sentences, this resource gives you everything you need to bring the excitement and challenge to your classroom.This fun, fresh product comes with an in-depth teacher's guide
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7th - 10th
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