Science: Heredity

This book "An Interview with Harry the Tarantula" is used to demonstrate a format for students to use after researching the traits of an animal.  Use the author's craft to help students set up their writing.  Use the graphic organizers below as templates for the activity.

Tiffany's Book Template

Erica's Book Template

Tiffany's Graphic Organizer for Gathering Animal Info

The following template goes with a Explorer Article called "Weird and Wonderful" and a National Geographic Book called "Animal Adaptations".  You can create the same scaffold with many texts on animals.  Click here for the document.

Amazing Technology Resources

Technology Resource Presentation - This is a pdf from a powerpoint I made. It highlights things such as iTunesU, Wordle.net, Donorschoose.org, as well as many other amazing resources.

More Great Links:
Pinterest.com

Paperbackswap.com

Teacher Blogs and Teacher Created Materials

Whattheteacherwants.blogspot.com
Theteacherswife.blogspot.com
Teacherspayteachers.com

CLASSROOM TIMERS:

www.online-stopwatch.com
http://www.classtools.net/education-games-php/timer

Language Arts: Vocabulary

Vocabulary

More to come, but here is a template... with the cute bees :-).

Vocabulary Journal Template