Ancient Mesopotamia - FREE sample of Introduction

    by All-American Teacher Tools

Because I know your time and money are precious to you, I have made a sample of the Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamia student guidelines available so you can see what to expect when you open the full resource. The full Ancient Mesopotamia unit will keep your students meaningfully occupied while you circulate and keep students on task. A minimum of preparation is necessary by you. The students do all the research (with Internet links to help them) and presentations. Sit back and simply grade their work! I also have a FREE group work grading sheet.  This resource is designed for grades 6-10.

Back-to-School mini activities

   

These mini-activities will keep your students gainfully occupied while you tend to other students, have a partially-filled classroom for any reason, the get-to-know you time, or extra time at the end of the day. The activities for language arts and math for grades 3-6 include:

• SLAM posters (Student Likes are Marvelous) (students sign their name and favorite under the topic)
• Cooperative story time (using topic words, students create a sequential story)
• What I didn’t do last summer (an amusing twist to the traditional creative writing assignment)
• GOAL! Setting goals for the school year (help your students set yearly goals)
• Back-to-School Math Review Bingo (good for any level)
• Create Your Own Math Problem (students create word problems for their classmates to solve)
• School Supplies Sudoku (this sudoku uses images rather than numbers)
• School Supplies Sudoku - Answer

Get these activities here

Slay that Dragon - FREE Character Education Bulletin Board Discussion Starters

  by All-American Teacher Tools

Do you have a dragon in your room? One that causes children to be disrespectful, angry students? This collection of 36 discussion starters helps children learn, week by week, about many social and moral dilemmas they face every day. Some examples include:

- Bullying

- Cheating

- Lying

- Sportsmanship

- Trust

- Group relationships

- Welcoming a new student

- Violence

- Overuse of technology

- Etc., etc. etc.

Full instructions are provided to help you implement this valuable weekly plan to generate discussion about character education.  For all grades!

It uses a dragon theme: "Keep the Dragons Out of Our Classroom" to help children understand that wrong behavior can be very dangerous.

Click HERE for more information.