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Teaching Ecosystems with a Mentor Text

I love a mentor text to help explain content.  Today I would like to share a great one for teaching ecosystems.  The goal of the lesson was to introduce students to the Ohio’s Fourth Grade Science Standard that states, “Changes in an organism’s environment are sometimes beneficial to its survival

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Teaching Economics with a Mentor Text

We are currently in the middle of our economics unit in social studies.  Today, I would like to share a great mentor text we used to address some vocabulary, including producer, consumer, needs, wants, goods, and services. Dragon Pizzeria is about two dragons, BeBop and Spike, who own a pizzeria.

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Economics with Potato Chips

We are in the midst of our economics unit in social studies.  Today, I would like to share a fun lesson that uses potato chips to help address vocabulary (producers and consumers) and concepts (consumer decisions) found in our fourth grade Ohio state standards for economics. As an added bonus, the

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