This is a great video to help introduce the idea of bartering, trade, and money in economics.

This music video might be a great way to start a Professional Development meeting.  In this video, a third-grade teacher sings about her wish for having a snow day.  It is sung to the tune of "Hello."  If you are a teacher, especially in the elementary schools then she nails our thoughts on the head with this song.  It is very well done and funny.

Use this assignment to help students understand the difference between a mineral and other objects that they might think are minerals. The activity doesn't take long but when you are discussing what a mineral actually is, this assignment gives your students practice. Students have a list of words that they need to sort into columns. One column is for minerals, the other column is for non-minerals. If they place an object into the non-mineral section they need to justify which rule was broken.

This video is a fun rap about the organization and powers declared in the Constitution.

This file includes all of the assignments, instructions, lab notes, labs, worksheets, and presentations to teach the first chapter of Earth science. Students will get the opportunity to explore the scientific method through both hands-on and digital labs.

Included are:

1 presentation in both PowerPoint and Google Doc

5 Earth Science both digital and hands-on labs

Vocabulary words included on the test

3 ways of integrating technology

All of the worksheets and instructions for the labs and assignments.

2 videos

1 group project

This video is definitely worth showing your staff at the beginning of the year to get them pumped up and enjoy your first faculty meeting.  You just have to watch it to see how awesome and funny this is.

This worksheet reviews the concept of area and perimeter.  Types of questions include the area of irregular shape, adding the total area of two rectangles, area, and perimeter word problems, creating rectangles with the same area but different perimeters, finding the unknown sides, and length times width.

This website gives teachers the ability to quickly create random numbers that can be used for adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, order of operations, finding rules, and learning to substitute values.  The spinners can be used with 2 to 12 sections in each spinner.  You can have up to 4 spinners.  It also contains a timer in which you can quickly turn the spinners into fun and visual activities.  Watch the YouTube Video on using the spinners to see how it can be used.

This website gives a great example of using the commutative and associative properties of addition using Skittles.  There is a video available that will help demonstrate successful implementation.

This is a random three-digit subtraction generator that is

Smartboard friendly, with big buttons. Click the reset values button and the program will generate two 3-digit numbers that students can use to reinforce their ability to subtract.  I use this program to generate subtraction questions and students can use whiteboards to solve the answer.  This can also be used to play games like king of the row or relay races.