Discover how air pressure generates wind in this Study Jam video. Students will learn key vocabulary terms such as air pressure, wind, barometer, convection, downdraft, updraft, high pressure, low pressure, Coriolis Effect, temperature, water vapor, and density. To access more worksheets, activities, videos, and  educational resources, please visit http://EducationalResource.org.

Learn about air pressure in this engaging animation that explains how heavy air affects us and why it doesn't crush us. The video does a great job of simplifying a complex concept and making it accessible to learners of all ages. Don't miss out on this informative video! To find more worksheets, activities, videos, and other educational content, keep searching at http://EducationalResource.org.

This alphabetical order worksheet using words from Saxon Phonics lesson 12, can also be used as a competition where students are challenged to place all words in the correct alphabetical order.

This resource would be a great introduction to your unit on cells.  It is an animation of many different types of cells and some of their functions.  There are also a few great trivia questions worth discussing with your class.

Here is a great video that introduces volcanoes.  It is very visual and the music fits.  This is the video I show to get students excited to learn about volcanoes.

Analyze the character traits of different types of animated dogs in Pixar's "Dug's Special Mission."  Students will love this discussion.

This worksheet has 9 questions relating to the area.  Students will draw the area.  They will find the total area of two rectangular shapes. They will find the area of a complex shape. They will use an array to help find the area.

This author's purpose game was designed with 3rd through 5th graders in mind. There are 18 questions that students will read and then try to identify the purpose the author had in mind, to inform, persuade, or entertain. The cards can be printed front to back and then laminated. I use six of these games to split my class into 6 different groups. Included is a Snakes and Ladders board game with a March and St. Patrick's Day. If this author's purpose is taught in a different month than this, please use any old game board.

The rules I use:

In this Author's Purpose Game, students can compete against another student or computer.  Students will read a small passage and decide whether it was meant to inform, persuade, or entertain.  

Students will find and circle up to 3 spelling words in each of the 10 sentences.  They will then write the sentence correctly on the provided lines.  This is designed to reinforce phonics "bl" blends and spelling.