Base Ten Blocks Game for Differentiating in the Classroom. CCSS Aligned for second grade. 5 sets with 24 cards in each set. One set for struggling students/review, one set for challenge and three grade level sets.
Mr. Potato Head Building Variation. Take pictures of Potato Heads with an iPad. Students can scroll through pictures to choose Potato Head. Have the students make matching potato heads. Goals - requesting, WH questions, describing, sentence building
Bloom's Taxonomy / new teacher evaluations require evidence of lesson planning for higher level thinking ~ I like thinking of it as a ladder and not a pyramid. All students can get to the top, with a pyramid it feels like only a few can.