Westing Game & mysteries
Standards: (5th - 7th grade Common Core Standards) Cite textual evidence and support analysis and inference of the text. Determine the...
The Red Pencil and Socratic Seminars
The Red Pencil is a novel in free verse, by Andrea Davis Pinkney, that describes what happened to a 12-year-old girl and her family...
The Phantom Toolbooth
A unit about words and word play Standards: Reading Literature Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says and...
The One and Only Ivan - novel study
About the Book: Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans...
Decimals
A true understanding of our place value system requires students to see the patterns within the value of digits in a number. Decimals...
Grammar Study
Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.1.A Use collective nouns (e.g., group). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.1.B Form and use frequently occurring...
Think It!
Think It! is a Junior Great Books unit that teaches critical thinking skills to students through engaging, non-fiction texts and...
Hands on Equations
Hands-On Equations is a program that teaches algebra by utilizing manipulatives and a balance. Students are exposed to and learn with...
3d Printing for a Purpose
Standards: Math Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct...
Cave of Blue Falls Math Unit
Standards: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.B.5 Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of...
