Wild Homes Activity

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 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 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.

The teacher answer key for the Swarm Showdown Practice Worksheet, featuring correct matching answers, filled-in entries, and an exemplar student response for the creative writing prompt.

A student matching and fill-in practice sheet focusing on applying collective nouns (army, colony, hive, swarm, cloud, flight, nest) with a creative writing prompt. Designed in a vintage sketchbook style.

The teacher answer key for the Bug Buzz Crossword Worksheet, with correct letters pre-filled in high-contrast golden boxes for quick grading.

A student-facing insect crossword puzzle featuring common six-legged bugs and collective group names, with clues listed below the grid. Designed in a vintage naturalist's sketchbook style.

The teacher answer key for the Creepy Crawler Search Worksheet, with target search words highlighted in golden circles/boxes for instant grading.

A student-facing word search puzzle featuring common six-legged insects and their collective nouns (colony, hive, swarm, flight, army, cloud, nest). Designed in an entomologist's vintage sketchbook style.

A 2-page print-ready independent study and audit project designed as an alternate academic assignment for students unable to attend the community service trash pick-up. It includes a waste audit, decomposition analysis, plastic path mapping, and a public safety announcement design activity.

A teacher facilitation guide containing lesson objectives, high-level pacing guidelines, essential questions for class discussion, and complete answer keys for the student-facing materials.

A first-grade level writing scaffold with fill-in-the-blank sentence frames and a shared word bank. Designed with wide spacing for handwriting and supportive icons to compare frogs and toads.

A picture-supported comparison chart for first graders, containing visual cues (water droplets, bumpy outlines, legs) to compare frog and toad skins, legs, and eggs with kid-friendly circling choices and writing boxes.