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I have worked as an educator for over 18 years. Technology and creativity are my air and water. Hope you can become inspired by some of my projects, as I have certainly become inspired by yours!

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I have worked as an educator for over 18 years. Technology and creativity are my air and water. Hope you can become inspired by some of my projects, as I have certainly become inspired by yours!
Benchmark Advance Unit 3 Week 2- Cultivating Natural Resources
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Benchmark Advance Unit 3 Week 2- Cultivating Natural Resources

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This is a condensed version of that unit for that week, with its vocabulary, sentence stem, a video for the Paul Bunyan story, a Prezi to practice “first, then, and finally” and series of fill in the blank exercises. Perfect for ELLs and students who are struggling with ELA vocabulary.
Bad Case of Stripes: A Science Lesson
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Bad Case of Stripes: A Science Lesson

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In this lesson based on David Shannon's book "A Bad Case of Stripes" students will research the differences and similarities of fungi, bacteria and viruses. Then they will have the space to create a picture of each. Key is included so do not worry about doing research. An online source is also included for you to discuss with your class.
Water Cycle
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Water Cycle

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This was done on Wixie and the kids can easily do their very own by just using the presentation as their model. This will increase their DOK from 1 to 4 easily. It also has an activity on back.
Gingerbread "person" create and describe
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Gingerbread "person" create and describe

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Create and describe a gingerbread "person." Mainly geared to ELL or ELA beginning. Also good for making sentences and re-writing paragraphs. Includes word completion and a wordsearch with winter vocab. Great to replicate on Pixie3
Book Report Sheets, K-5 differentiated
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Book Report Sheets, K-5 differentiated

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These are different book report sheets prompting students to both recall, analyze and thinking critically. 1. K-1: Basics of the book/ Character trait/ beginning, middle, end/ illustrate the most important part of the story (climax) (2 sheets) 2. 2-3: Story map, character traits and /book basics (2sheets) 3.4-5: Story map in depth, character comparison, book basics (3 sheets plus key)
Frayer Models for ELA , ESL and Math
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Frayer Models for ELA , ESL and Math

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Frayer models are the best graphic organizers to isolate skills. I use them for Math, EFL, L2, and ELA. I am including a key how to create number projects so that kids can build number sense and get to understand digits vs. numbers. I love them. I hope u can use them!
Caine's Arcade Mega Resource
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Caine's Arcade Mega Resource

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This is a step by step inquiry questionnaire regarding every step of the creativity process of a game in Caine's Arcade mode. It covers design, science, engineering, and simple machines Kids are asked to create and analyze use of materials and purpose of the game. DOKs are 3 and 4 mostly
STEM: Caine's Arcade complete guide to your machine!
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STEM: Caine's Arcade complete guide to your machine!

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This is a Pixie project that high tech kids can replicate. Other than that, it can be used as multiple worksheets that ask several things about the arcade game built by your kids for STEM, and the Caine's Arcade initiative. It asks: name, designers, rules, purpose, materials, dimensions Skills: Thinking webs, t-charts, estimation, sequential writing, constructed responses, accuracy in identifying simple machines
Complete Food Groups; Vegan Friendly too!
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Complete Food Groups; Vegan Friendly too!

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These are posters of each food group but by the following categories to make it vegan-friendly too 1. Proteins and alternative proteins 2. Dairy and alternative sources of calcium 3. Grains and Fibers 4. Fats and oils 5. Vegetables 6. Fruits Make a balanced plate activity Word Work activity to alphabetize each of the foods in each group. Worksheets included
Tech Integration  Spanish: Making Pizza
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Tech Integration Spanish: Making Pizza

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This is a step by step tutorial on how to learn the vocabulary to order and prepare pizza in Spanish while also applying tech skills and creativity. I used Pixie but PPT can also be used. I strongly recommend you ask your school to get the Wixie platform license. Some of my students wanted to do the whole thing by hand, the old school way, and they did very well.