Growth Gear Slides

A 1st-grade GLAD style expert group worksheet for Venus. It includes four core categories (Location & Distance, Description, Patterns & Cycles, and Fun Facts) with simple, high-frequency text and blank boxes for student sketching and note-taking.

A 1st-grade GLAD style expert group worksheet for Jupiter. It includes four core categories (Location & Distance, Description, Patterns & Cycles, and Fun Facts) with simple, high-frequency text and blank boxes for student sketching and note-taking.

A 1st-grade GLAD style expert group worksheet for the Moon. It includes four core categories (Location & Distance, Description, Patterns & Cycles, and Fun Facts) with simple, high-frequency text and blank boxes for student sketching and note-taking.

A 1st-grade GLAD style expert group worksheet for Earth. It includes four core categories (Location & Distance, Description, Patterns & Cycles, and Fun Facts) with simple, high-frequency text and blank boxes for student sketching and note-taking.

A beautifully color-coded GLAD Here/There pictorial input chart anchor chart focusing on the Sun. Features a custom SVG orbit diagram and a grammar color key for scientific vocabulary scaffolding.

A 2-page teacher guide and answer key. Page 1 contains full answer keys and grading rubrics for the student dossier and comprehension worksheet. Page 2 consists of hosting instructions and a beautifully formatted 20-term Bingo calling sheet with ready-to-read educational clues.

A single-page student write-in Bingo board. Students select 16 terms from a provided 20-word data bank of polar and grizzly bear characteristics, write them onto a blank 4x4 grid in scrambled order, and check them off as clues are read.

A 2-page student comprehension dossier and comparison worksheet. Page 1 features a highly styled, informative reading passage comparing polar bears and grizzly bears with rich text features (sidebars, bold vocabulary, and captions). Page 2 consists of fact-retrieval questions, a comparative table, and a paragraph-writing prompt.

A 5-slide visual presentation for projection in the classroom to guide the read-aloud, introduce the STEM raft challenge, show materials, and lead the final reflection.

A 2-page teacher facilitation guide containing preparation tips, key vocabulary, interactive prompts for during/after reading 'Elephant Island', and a step-by-step STEM challenge plan.

A 2-page student worksheet for K-3 students to plan, sketch, test, and reflect on their mini-island raft design. Includes custom icons, clear checkboxes, and spacious drawing boxes.

An engaging first-grade narrative input story following Pip the Squirrel and Professor Hoot. Features a clear science-themed problem and solution, incorporating the complete cosmic cycles vocabulary in a kid-friendly storybook format.

A beautifully illustrated and paginated Teacher-Made Big Book for first-grade instruction about observable cosmic patterns. Developed based on Project GLAD standards, it features repetitive sentence frames, high-quality visual graphics, a Table of Contents, and a 26-word classroom glossary.

A 2-page teacher-facing facilitation guide and answer key for the Painted Lady Patrol lesson. Contains detailed lesson pacing, alignment standards, discussion prompts, common misconceptions, an anatomical answer key, a chronological metamorphosis key, and a 2nd-grade standard-aligned grading rubric.

A 5-slide presentation deck used by teachers to present the Painted Lady butterfly's anatomy, metamorphosis, and ecological fun facts. Designed with a consistent nature field guide theme, bold colors, readable 24px+ typography, and a checklist slide to prepare students for completing their lab books.

A 3-page student-facing science lab book and guided report template. Features a highly creative CSS butterfly diagram for anatomy labeling, a circular metamorphosis map for charting the 4 life cycle stages, and a guided writing template with structured lines and sentence starters for writing a formal scientific report.

A classroom-ready, color-coded GLAD Here/There chant anchor chart focusing on moon phases, crescent shapes, and monthly lunar transitions. Features scientific vocabulary scaffolding with parts-of-speech color-coding and an educational grammar key.

A classroom-ready, color-coded GLAD Here/There chant anchor chart focusing on Earth's rotating patterns, the 24-hour day, and repeating seasons. Features scientific vocabulary scaffolding with parts-of-speech color-coding and an educational grammar key.

A 7-page printable classroom set of GLAD Literacy Award cards, providing exactly 28 cards (4 per page) ready for immediate printing. Card layouts feature scaled-up font sizes and optimized padding to comfortably fill empty card space. Each card contains a stunning Colville Forest science fact and an interactive home literacy activity.

A 2-page compilation of rhythmic GLAD chants and science poetry designed for 1st-grade choral reading. Page 1 contains the 'Colville Food Chain Chant' and 'Caribou Everywhere' cadence. Page 2 features the 'Seasons of Colville' poem alongside a rhythmic vocabulary tracker.

A 2-page print-ready GLAD Pictorial Input Chart resource. Page 1 is a beautifully color-coded ecosystem anchor chart showing local keystone species, producers, consumers, and decomposers. Page 2 is a student-facing labeling and coloring companion sheet to support guided interactive writing.