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By LaFountaine of Knowledge
This easy to read, one page passage about food chains:describes how energy makes its way from the sun up the food chain to plants and animalsexplains the difference between producers, consumers, and decomposers. It includes 10 multiple choice
Subjects:
Biology, Earth Sciences, Informational Text
Grades:
3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
Types:
Worksheets, Google Apps
CCSS:
RI.3.4, RI.3.10, RI.4.4, RI.4.10, RI.5.4, RI.5.10, RI.6.10
$3.00
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By LaFountaine of Knowledge
This easy to read, one page passage explains the force of gravity in language your students will understand. It explains: Sir Isaac Newton developed the theory of gravityall objects with mass have gravitational pullthe larger an object is, the
Subjects:
Basic Principles, Physics, Informational Text
Grades:
3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
Types:
Worksheets, Google Apps
CCSS:
RI.3.4, RI.3.10, RI.4.4, RI.4.10, RI.5.4, RI.5.10, RI.6.10
$3.00
74
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By LaFountaine of Knowledge
In this activity, students complete a short reading passage about the Bering Land Bridge (also called Beringia) to learn how Native Americans crossed from Russia to Alaska to settle in the Americas during the last Ice Age. This lesson also includes
Subjects:
Archaeology, Native Americans, Informational Text
Grades:
4th, 5th, 6th, 7th
Types:
Worksheets, Google Apps, Lesson
CCSS:
RI.4.1, RI.4.3, RI.4.10, RI.5.10, RI.6.10, RI.7.10, RH.6-8.10
$3.00
39
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By LaFountaine of Knowledge
This easy to read, one page passage about the rock cycle:outlines 3 different types of rocks: sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphicexplains how they are formed through erosion and cementation, volcanic activity, and heat and pressuregives examples
Subjects:
Earth Sciences, Physical Science, Informational Text
Grades:
4th, 5th, 6th, 7th
Types:
Worksheets, Activities, Google Apps
CCSS:
RI.4.4, RI.4.10, RI.5.4, RI.5.10, RI.6.10, RI.7.10
$3.00
43
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By LaFountaine of Knowledge
This craft involves 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication using the partial products, or box method, of multiplying. Students create a cityscape by gluing down three different skyscrapers. Then, they must solve the multiplication problems on each
Subjects:
Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Math Test Prep
Grades:
4th, 5th
Types:
Worksheets, Google Apps, Centers
CCSS:
4.NBT.B.5
$3.00
40
Digital Download PDF (2.65 MB)
By LaFountaine of Knowledge
Everyone loves BINGO! This geometry math game helps students practice identifying lines, angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, and other polygons. It's perfect for 4th grade geometry. Use the 30 pre-made BINGO cards or have students cut and glue the
Subjects:
Geometry
Grades:
4th
Types:
Activities, Games
CCSS:
4.MD.C.5, 4.G.A.1, 4.G.A.2
$3.00
8
Digital Download PDF (3.15 MB)
By LaFountaine of Knowledge
This easy to read, one page passage about fossil fuels explains how most of the energy we use comes from burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas discusses the consequences of using fossil fuels. For example, they are not sustainable and
Subjects:
Environment, General Science, Informational Text
Grades:
3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
Types:
Worksheets, Google Apps
CCSS:
RI.3.4, RI.3.10, RI.4.4, RI.4.10, RI.5.4, RI.5.10, RI.6.10
$3.00
45
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By LaFountaine of Knowledge
This Google Slides geometry lesson explores different types of four sided shapes (quadrilaterals) including kites, trapezoids, parallelograms, rhombus, rectangles, and squares. The lesson:defines quadrilaterals as 4 sided polygonsexplains that
Subjects:
Math, Geometry, Math Test Prep
Grades:
3rd, 4th, 5th
Types:
Google Apps, Lesson
CCSS:
3.G.A.1, 4.G.A.2, 5.G.B.3, 5.G.B.4
$3.50
25
Online Resource
Google Slides™
By LaFountaine of Knowledge
This easy to read, one page passage about heredity and genetics: explains how traits are passed from parents to their children, or inherited, through genesexplains that genes are found in chromosomes - structures in our cells made of DNA and
Subjects:
Science, Biology, Informational Text
Grades:
5th, 6th, 7th, 8th
Types:
Worksheets, Google Apps
CCSS:
RI.5.4, RI.5.10, RI.6.10, RI.7.10, RI.8.10
$3.00
28
Digital Download PDF (1.92 MB)
By LaFountaine of Knowledge
This Google Slides math lesson is a great way introduce your students to the concept of fractions. The lesson:explains that fractions are used to name part of a whole or part of a setshows how fractions are written with a numerator (the number of
Subjects:
Math, Fractions, Math Test Prep
Grades:
3rd, 4th, 5th
Types:
Google Apps, Lesson
CCSS:
3.NF.A.1, 4.NF.A.1
$3.50
22
Online Resource
Google Slides™
By LaFountaine of Knowledge
This Google Slides math lesson for 4th grade explores different types of triangles including acute triangles, right triangles, obtuse triangles, equilateral triangles, isosceles triangles, and scalene triangles. The lesson:defines triangles as 3
Subjects:
Math, Geometry, Math Test Prep
Grades:
3rd, 4th, 5th
Types:
Google Apps, Lesson
CCSS:
4.G.A.1, 4.G.A.2, 5.G.B.3, 5.G.B.4
$3.50
18
Online Resource
Google Slides™
By LaFountaine of Knowledge
In this hands on science lab experiment, students will use graham crackers, rice cakes, and cake frosting to model different types of tectonic plate boundaries including: 2 types of convergent boundaries (with and without subduction), divergent
Subjects:
Earth Sciences, Environment, Physical Science
Grades:
3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
Types:
Activities, Laboratory, Centers
$4.50
28
Digital Download PDF (3.51 MB)
By LaFountaine of Knowledge
These easy to understand Science Shorts passages are just what you need to teach your science curriculum! These passages explain complex science concepts in language that students understand. Each passage comes with 10 multiple choice reading
Subjects:
Science, General Science, Informational Text
Grades:
4th, 5th, 6th, 7th
Types:
Worksheets, Activities, Google Apps
CCSS:
RI.3.4, RI.3.10, RI.4.4, RI.4.10, RI.5.4, RI.5.10, RI.6.10
$354.00
$141.60
38
Bundle
By LaFountaine of Knowledge
This complete geometry math unit includes 16 easy to teach lessons that cover all 4th grade common core geometry standards (including geometric measurement standards). Skills taught include:identifying points, lines, line segments, rays, types of
Subjects:
Geometry, Measurement, Math Test Prep
Grades:
3rd, 4th, 5th
Types:
PowerPoint Presentations, Google Apps, Lesson
CCSS:
4.MD.C.5, 4.MD.C.5a, 4.MD.C.5b, 4.MD.C.6, 4.MD.C.7, 3.G.A.1, 4.G.A.1, 4.G.A.2, 4.G.A.3, 5.G.B.3, 5.G.B.4
$54.75
$32.85
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Bundle
By LaFountaine of Knowledge
This bundle of 15 Science Shorts reading comprehension passages is all about energy! Topics include: Heat TransferLight EnergySound EnergyKinetic EnergyPotential EnergyElectricity MagnetismRenewable EnergySimple MachinesSolar PowerWind
Subjects:
Environment, Physical Science, Informational Text
Grades:
4th, 5th, 6th, 7th
Types:
Worksheets, Google Apps
CCSS:
RI.4.4, RI.4.10, RI.5.4, RI.5.10, RI.6.10, RI.7.10
$45.00
$27.00
32
Bundle
By LaFountaine of Knowledge
This easy to read, one page passage about volcanoes:explains what a volcano is and what causes it to eruptexplains the parts of a volcanogives examples of different types of volcanoes including the gentle shield volcanoes in Hawaii and explosive
Subjects:
Earth Sciences, Physical Science, Informational Text
Grades:
3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
Types:
Worksheets, Google Apps
CCSS:
RI.3.4, RI.3.10, RI.4.4, RI.4.10, RI.5.4, RI.5.10, RI.6.10
$3.00
38
Digital Download PDF (1.85 MB)
By LaFountaine of Knowledge
This easy to read passage details the story of Wilbur and Orville Wright's first successful flight of a motor-driven airplane on December 17, 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. It explains the Wright brothers':background repairing bicycles in
Subjects:
U.S. History, Informational Text, Engineering
Grades:
4th, 5th, 6th, 7th
Types:
Worksheets, Printables, Google Apps
CCSS:
RI.4.1, RI.4.3, RI.4.10, RI.5.10, RI.6.10, RI.7.10, RH.6-8.10
$3.00
38
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By LaFountaine of Knowledge
This easy to read, one page passage about atoms:explains that atoms are the building blocks of all matterdescribes the parts of an atom - proton, neutron, and electrondiscusses elements, atomic number, and the periodic tableThe passage includes 10
Subjects:
Basic Principles, Physics, Informational Text
Grades:
3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
Types:
Worksheets, Google Apps
CCSS:
RI.3.4, RI.3.10, RI.4.4, RI.4.10, RI.5.4, RI.5.10, RI.6.10
$3.00
36
Digital Download PDF (1.19 MB)
By LaFountaine of Knowledge
This easy to read, one page passage explains solar and lunar eclipses, including:solar eclipses happen when the moon passes between the sun and the Earth, casting a shadow on Earth's surfacelunar eclipses happen when the Earth passes between the sun
Subjects:
Astronomy, Earth Sciences, Informational Text
Grades:
4th, 5th, 6th, 7th
Types:
Worksheets, Activities, Google Apps
CCSS:
RI.4.1, RI.4.4, RI.4.10, RI.5.4, RI.5.10, RI.6.4, RI.6.10, RI.7.10, RST.6-8.10
$3.00
14
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By LaFountaine of Knowledge
In this activity, students read the story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears. Using the information in the passage, they cut and sort the events of the story and glue them into chronological order. This download includes: Teacher directions with
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Native Americans, Informational Text
Grades:
4th, 5th, 6th, 7th
Types:
Worksheets, Activities, Google Apps
CCSS:
RI.4.1, RI.4.3, RI.4.10, RI.5.10, RI.6.10, RI.7.10, RH.6-8.10
$3.00
39
Digital Download PDF (0.70 MB)
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I've been teaching 4th grade since 2014. Rather than searching through books and online resources for activities and lesson plans for my students, I prefer to create them myself. Throughout the past several years, I have created a plethora of tried and true lessons and games that I am excited to share with other teachers. All of the materials in my store have been tested out on more than one group of students and have proven worthy of sharing with others! Enjoy!

MY TEACHING STYLE

I believe learning should be authentic. That means creating real life, hands on experiences that promote critical thinking and spark curiosity. In 8 years of teaching 4th grade, I've found that students learn better and remember more when they discover the information first hand. My resources promote problem solving, creativity, and team work. They prompt students to think deeply and explore more to discover the learning objectives for themselves. My goal is to make this type of inquiry based learning more accessible and affordable to teachers and students everywhere.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

National Board Certified Teacher

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I graduated from UNC Chapel Hill in 2010 with a Bachelors degree in Elementary Education and a minor in Spanish. I am certified to teach Kindergarten through 6th grade as well as Spanish. I recently became National Board Certified and am very proud of that accomplishment!

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

I am happy to be living, once again, in my old home town and teaching at the Elementary School that I once attended alongside some of my own teachers turned coworkers. Find me on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest @lafountaineofknowledge or check out my website/blog lafountaineofknowledge.com for more!