Bald Eagles - Fun Facts About Eagles PowerPoint. Learn about bald eagles! This American Bald Eagle PowerPoint has interesting and fun facts about the life of an eagle. Students will learn about two subspecies of bald eagles, and engaging facts about eagle characteristics, abilities, and behavior. They will discover eagle habitat, eagle adaptations, and how they raise their young. Informational text can be used to introduce or supplement a forest theme unit or a unit about the zoo, eagles, or American symbols and animals. Engage students and grab their attention, or build background knowledge for reading books with eagles. Includes links to websites about eagle sounds, short videos all about eagles, and the DC Eagle Cam. Students will enjoy studying about bald eagles around patriotic holidays and events, since the bald eagle is the national bird of the U.S.A. Great summer activity as well, or use in a summer camp around the 4th of July. - HappyEdugator

Learn all about the 7 New Wonders of the World with this 21 slide PowerPoint presentation. Gives background information about the amazing structures built around the world that were voted to be the New Seven Wonders of the World in 2007. Includes slides on the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, Christ the Redeemer, the Colosseum, Chichen Itza, Machu Picchu, and Petra. Also includes slides of some of the finalists in the competition, such as the Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, Easter Island, Stonehenge, Red Square and the Kremlin, the Acropolis, Angkor Wat, and the Sydney Opera House. Great for cultural literacy. ©2017 HappyEdugator.

Learn all about the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World with this 19 slide PowerPoint presentation. Gives background information about the amazing structures built by early civilizations around the Mediterranean Sea. Includes slides on The Great Pyramid of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Also includes links to short video clips on the Great Pyramid and the Lighthouse of Alexandria. (Not YouTube). ©2017 HappyEdugator.

Writing hooks that engage the reader is a great writing skill.This PowerPoint lesson focuses on writing strategies to hook the reader when writing a personal memoir. Provides students with a variety of leads and professional examples. Eight different writing strategies to engage the reader and create great beginnings for a memoir which will help students get started writing. Helpful in preparing for state writing tests. Includes a writing practice assignment to put the strategies learned to good use. For use in a standards-based writing program which supports common core. ©2017 HappyEdugator.

Perfect to set up on Chromebooks. This is a great reading comprehension passage for your struggling boys who are just not motivated to read. Finish Line is the fiction story of a boy who is trying to find his own special talent in a family of many talents, who finds a dirt bike, fixes it up, and goes on to win at a dirt bike race, making new friends along the way. Each slide is a piece of the motocross story, and is followed by a slide of reading comprehension questions requiring thinking, evidence, and inference, as required by the rigor of today's standards. 22 questions in all, with an answer key at the end, so it can be self checking. Good for independent practice and test prep, and perfect for homeschool, too. If you have a boy who likes motocross bike racing, this is a great independent reading assignment to do at a computer station or on a Chromebook or iPad. It can also be shown in Google Slides. ©2017 HappyEdugator.

Learn all about volcanoes with this 26 slide animated PowerPoint. Informative text on volcano types and shapes, how and what is an eruption, how eruptions are measured, the difference between lava and magma, fun facts, famous volcanoes and more. Includes video link to Mt. St. Helens eruption, and a video clip of an underwater volcano erupting. ©2016 HappyEdugator. This product is the intellectual property of Deborah Hayes aka HappyEdugator.

John Glenn was an American astronaut hero that your students should know. This PowerPoint about his life will help your students understand his accomplishments as a WWII and Korean war veteran, a test pilot, an astronaut, a businessman, and a senator. 21 engaging slides with sound and animations. ©2017 HappyEdugator. This product is the intellectual property of Deborah Hayes aka HappyEdugator.

Alphabet writing! Students can practice their handwriting and letter writing skills with these sheets which go through the entire alphabet from a to z. Trace the letter, then practice writing on the lines given. Color the picture that goes with the letter, too. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1.A Print many uppercase and lowercase letters. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.1.A Print all uppercase and lowercase letters. ©2016, 2017 HappyEdugator. This product is the intellectual property of Deborah Hayes aka HappyEdugator.

This Continents and Oceans geography resource includes an interactive and animated PowerPoint and a printable student book to go along with the slideshow. Useful when studying the seven continents and five oceans. Also gives examples of some major features of each continent and some animals that are unique to each. The PowerPoint is editable for your personal classroom or homeschool use, so if you teach only four oceans, you may edit it to reflect that. Includes slides about continents and oceans in general, fast and fun facts, each of the seven continents, each of the five oceans, a printable booklet to accompany the slides which is fill in the blank, and interactive quizzes in the presentation for review. Students will have fun learning about the different continents and oceans and making their own study guide which they can color and decorate since it is in black and white, and printer friendly, too. Key Words: Social Studies 2.5a Continents, Oceans, Equator, hemispheres, Earth, World, Geography ©2016 HappyEdugator. This product is the intellectual property of Deborah Hayes aka HappyEdugator.

Forms of Government PowerPoint. Fundamental forms of government to introduce students to basic concepts for understanding governments...Terms: anarchy, tyranny, autocracy, monarchy, dictatorship, patriarchy, theocracy, oligarchy, aristocracy, plutocracy, democracy, direct democracy and representative democracy with Presidential and Parliamentary systems, federalism, centralism, and fascism. Includes link to a hangman game on forms of government and a great website that compares all types of government that students may enjoy exploring. ©2017 HappyEdugator.

Five reading comprehension passages with questions about main idea, inference, context clues, and making comparisons. Students will have to use skills like referring back to the text and making inferences to answer questions about the reading passage. Includes narrative and informational text. Supports common core. Print and go. No Prep. Answer keys included. ©2017 HappyEdugator. This product is the intellectual property of Deborah Hayes aka HappyEdugator.

This project on Ancient Egypt allows students to choose from a list of 21 different choices! Includes teacher directions, Egypt Project Requirements (one hundred point checklist), project idea list, project choice sheet (students choose their top four choices), topic assignment sheet (teacher assigns project to student from their choices), bibliography example sheet, and a peer review sheet for an oral presentation. Students can research topics such as pyramids, mummies, King Tut, hieroglyphics, gods and goddesses, Sphinx, and more. Print and go. No prep. ©2017 HappyEdugator. This product is the intellectual property of Deborah Hayes aka HappyEdugator.

Poetry vs. Prose Chart and Word Lists. A good word sort activity to use when introducing poetry to your students. Students will have to categorize the terms as either used in poems, prose, or both and put them in a chart. This is an activating thinking strategy and pretest which can also tell you what your students know and don't know about poetry and prose. Two word lists for differentiation. ©2012, 2017 HappyEdugator. All of the activities included in this product are the intellectual properties of Deborah Hayes aka HappyEdugator.

This test prep packet has 25 terms essential for success on standardized tests. List of terms and definitions to use as a reference sheet, student study guide page, 25 colorful posters which can also be projected on your whiteboard, a writing activity sheet, and an I Have Who Has game! Learning the words that are used in test questions is a great test taking strategy. Fun way to expand student vocabulary of testing words and testing vocabulary. ©2017 HappyEdugator.

Practice making contractions with this fun and interactive PowerPoint for reinforcing this critical Language Arts skill of combining words correctly and using apostrophes. Great for review and test prep, too. This interactive Contractions PowerPoint slides explain contractions, apostrophes, when to use them and how to make them. 20 different contractions to make. Students write the contraction on their white boards, and then teacher can click ahead to check. There is also a set of flash cards included. Teachers can print out the sheets of cards, pass out to students for them to cut out and match up, and send them home in a zipper plastic bag for more at home practice. 34 slides. ©2017 HappyEdugator. All of the activities included in this product are the intellectual properties of Deborah Hayes aka HappyEdugator.

Help your students build vocabulary by matching antonyms in a classic I Have...Who Has game. Includes antonym word lists to pass out as study guides for students to use for discussion and review, Also includes blank cards for you to add your own words or make your own game. Have students call out the word with I Have...and ask Who has...for the antonym of the word. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.5c Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonyms, antonyms, homographs) to better understand each of the words. ©2017 HappyEdugator.

Your students will love this fun and interactive community helpers game. This is a PowerPoint game of Who Am I. Students get three clues to guess the job of the community helper. There are 14 different workers represented. Students have to figure out who it is from clues about where they work, what they wear, what vehicles they drive, and what tools they use. Fun for review or assessment. Project on your whiteboard or Smartboard, or use it at a computer center. No prep. Easy to use. This is a fun way to increase your students' vocabulary. To play: Put in slide show mode, and click on the slide to reveal the clues. Students make guesses after each clue. After the three clues have been revealed, click again for the answer to check. ©2017 HappyEdugator.

One of my favorite Easter activities is reading The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. It is a children's classic that is especially fun to read at Easter time. This PowerPoint will help your students understand the vocabulary in the story. Great story for Easter or Spring. Share this classic with your students, and use the PowerPoint slides to discuss difficult vocabulary as you read. The slides are in alphabetical order, but you can reorder the slides if you wish to present them in the order of the story. Each slide has the word, a definition, a graphic, and a sentence from the story. Use them before, during, or after reading to increase comprehension and expand vocabulary. Includes a link to the story if you don't have a copy.

This Easter Activities Pack is full of Math Fun. Print and go. Includes a roll and color Easter Egg for number recognition, Color the correct number of eggs for one to one correspondence and number writing,2 cut and paste sheets for sequencing in counting order by ones and tens, an Easter number bonds sheet, and a sheet with ways to make ten. Lots of fun for April! ©2017 HappyEdugator.

The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter is a children's classic that is especially fun at Easter time. This PowerPoint will help your students understand the vocabulary in the story. Great story for Easter or Spring. Share this classic with your students, and use the PowerPoint slides to discuss difficult vocabulary as you read. The slides are in alphabetical order, but you can reorder the slides if you wish to present them in the order of the story. Each slide has the word, a definition, a graphic, and a sentence from the story. Use them before, during, or after reading to increase comprehension and expand vocabulary. ©2017 HappyEdugator.