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Oral communication measurement simulations
Fairy Tale Court - a mock trial mini unit
Fairy Tale Court is an activity that facilitates many ELA learning outcomes in a way that's highly engaging for students. Students will develop research skills, engage in critical thinking, defend a position, play the role of a character in court, and practice presentation skills. They will learn all about the judicial system as they participate in a mock trial of their own.This resource includes:Teacher NotesFairy Tale Court InstructionsCourt Procedures and EtiquetteSix Classic Fairy TalesExhib
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5th - 8th
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Line of Best Fit and Scatterplots
Who doesn't love a good mystery?!!!! In this engaging students use a real life scenario to apply scatterplot data of shoe size and height and the line of best fit to capture the correct suspect. This product has lots of great reviews! Many middle school math teachers state this was a great way to review the concept of line of best fit and scatterplots. Aligned to CCSSM8.SP.A.2 and CCSSM8.SP.A.3This activity is also available in a bundle at a discounted rate:Scatterplots and Line of Best
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Line of Best Fit and Scatterplots: The Bundle
Mock Trial Scenarios 1 - court simulation for middle school
Mock Trial Scenarios 1 is an activity that facilitates many ELA learning outcomes in a way that is highly engaging for students. Students will develop research skills, engage in critical thinking, defend a position, play the role of a character in court, and practice presentation skills. Students will learn about the judicial system as they participate in a mock trial of their own.This resource includes:Teacher NotesCourt InstructionsCourt Procedures and EtiquetteCasesTemplate for the Prosecutio
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6th - 9th
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The Tell-tale Heart Mock Trial - Edgar Allan Poe - Real life and Speaking Skills
Ignite your students' passion for "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe with this immersive Mock Trial! Turn your classroom into a thrilling courtroom drama where the lines between fiction and reality blur. Prepare for an educational experience that will leave your students spellbound and craving more!Watch as your students step into the shoes of the characters, ready to take on the roles of the narrator, police officers, mental health psychiatrist, and more in a riveting courtroom showdown.
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7th - 10th
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Measure-Thon - Measurement Project Based Learning
This math simulation is the perfect culminating activity and alternative assessment to measure your students’ understanding of second grade length measurement concepts. During the Measure-Thon math simulation, your students (AKA Mathletes) will compete in four measuring events. They will test their physical strength as they blow, kick, flick and toss a small puff ball through the air, and their mental power as they measure the distance their puff ball travels using centimeters, inches and feet.
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2nd
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Also included in: Measurement Math Enrichment Bundle for Second Grade
Minecraft Area and Perimeter Project Based Learning 4.MD.3 3.MD.8
4.MD.3 - Apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real world and mathematical problems. For example, find the width of a rectangular room given the area of the flooring and the length, by viewing the area formula as a multiplication equation with an unknown factor.
Students will plan and design the blueprint for a Minecraft village. They are also given the area or perimeter for some buildings, and will be required to figure out length and width. Use the project with basic grid
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3rd - 6th
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Taxation without Representation! Simulation & Reader's Theater
Students will actively engage in this hands on activity that was developed to give students a solid understanding of the unfair taxing practices on the colonists by the British in 1773. Students will participate in various roles to simulate how the feelings and actions resulting from this time in history ultimately led to the beginning of their fight for independence!√ Purchase this within my American Revolutionary War Bundle of Activities to save money!Please visit my store (JB Creations) for
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: 4th Grade Social Studies Projects Bundle
Reader's Theater: Branches of Government (intermediate grades)
Students will bring the 3 branches of our government to life in this whole class script of We the People! The fast moving script reviews the roles and responsibilities of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches in a fun, relaxed way! This original play contains 24 parts featuring various reading levels to ensure whole class participation, differentiation, and engagement. Students will integrate important Social Studies concepts with key LA common core standards such as fluency and ex
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: America Becomes a Nation: Reader's Theater Bundle for 4th Grade
Line of Best Fit and Scatterplots: The Bundle
This bundle includes 2 engaging activities where students can apply the skills of plotting points in a scatterplot, making a line of best fit, and finding the slope of the line to find missing data. Fun scenarios of Sasquatch and a crime scene hook kids into learning. Please leave feedback, you can earn TpT credits for future purchases. If you enjoy these activities consider following my store as I work to increase my middle school math inventory. Check out my other middle school math produc
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7th - 9th
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Force and Motion Science Lab Activities: NASCAR Class Transformation
Are you looking for a fun way to teach about force and motion? Do your students struggle expressing the relationship between force, mass, and motion? This set of science activities will have your students understating the relationship through fun racing science activities. These fun simulation brings real life experience into the classroom making students immediately vested and ready to learn about force and motion. I have designed the lab activities in this classroom transformation to engage st
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Math and Science Lab Classroom Transformations
Holes Mock Trials - a court simulation activity
This resource is included in Holes available at our store. Holes Mock Trials is an activity that facilitates many ELA learning outcomes in a way that is highly engaging for students. They will develop research skills, engage in critical thinking, defend a position, play the role of a character in court, and practice presentation skills. Students will learn about the judicial system as they participate in a mock trial of their own.This resource includes:Teacher NotesCourt InstructionsCourt Proced
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5th - 8th
Dog Sled Race Project Based Learning
This engaging project allows students to use a variety of math and language skills in a relevant simulation. They will plan, prepare, and race in a Dog Sled Race. Here's a list of the different activities included in this project:Activity 1: Your Team: Students create their dog team. They draw pictures of each of their 6 dogs and name them. They also develop a team logo.Activity 2: Sled Dog Care: Students read a passage describing the needs of their sled dogs. They follow up by answering
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning Bundle
Social Skills Unit based on My Mouth is a Volcano by Julia Cook
This mini-unit is designed to teach and review with students the importance of being polite, respectful friends by not interrupting. Taking turns is an important life skill that students need to practice and learn. The unit can be used to teach and/or review with students in pre-K through 5 grade at any level, including a great resource for special education. The book "My Mouth is a Volcano" by Julia Cook is a great addition to this unit, but is not required for this unit to be successful.
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PreK - 5th
Project Based Learning Bundle
Engage your students throughout the school year with relevant projects where they can apply a variety of skills from math and language arts. Project Based Learning Projects are actually my favorite products to make. This product includes 15 different projects; 4 of which are also in a digital format. Click on each of the individual products to see previews, and read below for more details of what's included.Design an Aquarium (A Digital version is also included for use with Google Classroom™
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3rd - 6th
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Mock Trial Scenarios 2 - a court simulation
Mock Trial Scenarios 2 is an activity that facilitates many ELA learning outcomes in a way that is highly engaging for students. Students will develop research skills, engage in critical thinking, defend a position, play the role of a character in court, and practice presentation skills. Students will learn about the judicial system as they participate in a mock trial of their own.This resource includes:Teacher NotesCasesCourt InstructionsCourt Procedures and EtiquetteExhibitsJudge InstructionsJ
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6th - 9th
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Impromptu Interviews - perfecting the art of conversation
Impromptu Interviews is a mini unit about the art of interviewing where students analyze what happens in a good interview. In the culminating activity, students will participate in impromptu interviews. They will prepare for these as interviewers without knowing beforehand who they will interview. This will help to preserve the true nature of interviews, which are not rehearsed in advance. Interviewees, chosen at random, will play the role of the person being interviewed. A wide range of scenari
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5th - 8th
Project Based Learning: Design an Aquarium
Engage your students in a relevant project where they can apply a variety of skills. Skills in this activity:*Area*Volume of prisms*Problem Solving*Addition*Subtraction*Multiplication*Persuasive Writing *Writing a letterGiving a PresentationStudents write a proposal, plan a budget for purchasing fish and tanks, and set up their aquarium model. They purchase gravel and other decorative accessories for the tanks. The project culminates with a poster presentation where students share their plans
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning Bundle
Project Based Learning: Volume and Area of Prisms and Cylinders
This cooperative project involves applying many math and language skills to a real life situation. Teams are tasked with planning an aquatic center. Specifications include rectangular and circular pools which allow students to practice older skills such as perimeter, area, and volume of rectangles and prisms, as well as newer skills such as circumference, area, and volume of circles and cylinders. Measurement conversions are integrated, as well as writing and presentation skills. A final po
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6th - 8th
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Project Based Learning: Measurement Conversions, Math and Language Skills
Engage your students with this fun project! Students work in teams or individually to design a dog house. A variety of math skills are practiced including area,volume, measurement conversions, addition, subtraction, and multiplication. ELA skills are also integrated as students write persuasive letters and give oral presentations on their creations. Giving students relevant contexts to apply skills is a meaningful way for students to construct conceptual understanding and see a useful appli
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning Bundle for Dog Lovers
Build a Business Math Project with Volume
This math project combines creativity, human, capital, and natural resources, volume, and balancing a checkbook! Your students will create a business and then build it using rectangular prism nets. After the businesses are done, students will shop in their classmates' stores and balance their checkbook! It has been a huge hit with my fifth graders!Rubric included.Check out the preview!
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Integrated Math Projects GROWING Bundle Grades 3-5
Area of Composite Figures | Irregular Shapes | Surgery Room Transformation
Surgery room transformations have been seen all over social media, and now you can bring this engaging activity to your own classroom! Everything is included in this product to create your own “surgery experience” for your students as they find the area of composite shapes. You can make it as simple or theatrical as you like! If you need a print and go version, your students will only need the patient files, scissors and glue. If you really want a memorable experience, provide surgical gloves a
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3rd - 5th
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Persuasive speaking activity/game - The Mafia Game
This persuasive speaking game will engage your students and get them debating to try and capture the mafia members.
Students are given a random card and then take on the role of a mafia member, police, nurse, vigilante, or citizen. The class must then work together to try and capture the mafia, through class debates and votes before the mafia have killed everyone.
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7th - 10th
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The Tell-Tale Heart Mock Trial
Assembled here are eight individual resources used with 8th graders to conduct a mock trial based on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”. For my classes, this was a major-fun!- culminating project in the 2nd trimester. However, I think it could easily be adapted to other purposes, including part of an existing unit on mock trials or a short project within a short story unit.
The key skills addressed with this unit are using evidence from text to build and make an argument, as well as speak
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8th - 12th
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Project Based Learning Bundle for Dog Lovers
Who doesn't love dogs?! Each of these two projects engage students in relevant uses for math and language skills. In the first project, students work cooperatively or individually to design a dog park. They use a variety of math and language skills to design, create a budget, and culminate the project with a presentation. The second project involves designing a dog houses for shelter dogs. Students design, calculate materials needed, create a budget, and write letters to business owners to
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4th - 6th
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