2nd grade critical thinking world languages centers

Critical Thinking, Engineering, Thanksgiving

Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 5th

Types:

Activities, Lesson, Centers

CCSS:

W.2.8

, W.3.10

, W.4.10

, W.5.10

NGSS:

K-2-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-3

, K-2-ETS1-1

, 3-5-ETS1-3

, 3-5-ETS1-1

...

Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE

Fact and Opinion Activities Sort 2nd 3rd Grade Fun Reading Centers Comprehension

Created by

Fishyrobb

Are you looking for a fun, highly engaging, and EFFECTIVE way to teach fact and opinion? This set of activities will teach your students how to distinguish between fact and opinion by becoming observant text detectives. You can even use it as the basis for a room transformation!This resource includes:Fact Detectives Reading CentersFact vs Opinion SortAssessmentDigital ActivitiesSOLVE THE CRIME FACT DETECTIVESThis activity is super engaging for students! They will read each storyline along with t

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

2nd - 3rd

Types:

Centers

CCSS:

W.2.1

Also included in: Fact and Opinion Activities BUNDLE Text Detective Reading Comprehension

Halloween STEM Activities | Fall STEM Activities for October | Halloween Science

Created by

Critical Thinking, Engineering, Halloween

Halloween STEM Activities will keep your kids engaged in brain-busting work disguised as fun!This bundle includes the following 6 Halloween STEM activities:⭐ Bone Bridge® STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Creature Catcher STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Ghosts in the Graveyard STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Treat Toss STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Wings Wanted STEM Challenge Activity⭐ Halloween STEM Improv Activity (336 possible combinations!)The basic idea: In the 5 Halloween STEM Challenge Activities, students

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 8th

Types:

Critical Thinking, Math, Problem Solving

NGSS:

K-2-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-3

, MS-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-1

, 3-5-ETS1-3

...

Math Logic Puzzles: 2nd grade Enrichment - [Digital & Printable PDF]

Created by

Christy Howe

Math Logic Puzzles for 2nd grade includes 16 higher-order thinking puzzles designed to challenge and engage your high flyers and fast finishers. Your students will utilize critical thinking and problem-solving skills while building a solid understanding of essential math concepts and skills. These puzzles are available as a printable PDF and a paperless version made with Google Slides™ for virtual learning.Every activity is directly aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Math.--------

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 3rd

Types:

CCSS:

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Math Logic Puzzles Shapes - Early Finisher Activities - levels A,B,C BUNDLE

Created by

Lead in Literacy - Christina Mrs Winters Bliss

These pattern block math logic puzzles for kindergarten, first, and second grade make a great, NO PREP math center activity, morning work activity, or challenge math activity. These logic puzzles keep students highly-engaged while improving and developing their logic and visual discrimination skills. These brain teasers are a great way to teach your students to persevere through challenging tasks and help to develop their growth mindset. This bundle includes three different levels of math logic

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Math, Problem Solving

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Activities, Task Cards, Centers

Place Value Posters Plus Student Manipulative

Created by

Joanne Miller

These place value posters will be referenced all year by students!This place value worm is decorative and a wonderful resource! A great colorful visual to help students understand the place value of large numbers. Included are both colored and blackline masters, as well as a mini version for students to use as a manipulative. Numbers range from millionths to hundred billions. Length of the worm can be built to your grade level standards. (Powers of ten worm also available). Your students will

Subjects:

Math, Place Value, Spanish

Grades:

2nd - 6th

Types:

Bulletin Board Ideas, Posters, Centers

2D Shape Pattern Block STEM Challenge Cards

Created by

classroomHQ

The perfect addition to your morning STEM tubs, these challenge cards ask students to make a variety of different 2D shapes from pattern blocks. Ideal for building visual discrimination skills as children have to rotate and flip smaller shapes to create the new shape.Focus shapes included - triangle, square, rectangle, rhombus/diamond, hexagon, trapezoid. Perfect to use as an invitation to play in the Early Years, as math centers or even as a cross-curriculum literacy center for early readers to

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Geometry, Math

Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Printables, Task Cards, Centers

CCSS:

K.G.A.2

, K.G.A.3

, K.G.B.6

, 1.G.A.2

Creativity Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle Finish the Picture, STEM

Created by

Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, Holidays/Seasonal

Need a quick, no prep, creative STEM challenges to get your students to think outside the box?! Creativity challenges can be used as a quick warm up before a STEM challenge to help jumpstart students’ creativity. They can also be used for morning work, brain breaks, and at various other times throughout the school day.This bundle includes 100+ Creativity Challenges and Activities. Featuring Balloons Over Broadway, Snowflake Bentley, Valentine's Day, Groundhog Day, Earth Day, Halloween, Christmas

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 5th

Types:

Activities, Lesson, Centers

3-D Shapes Activity with Monsters (Geometry Math Craft for Elementary)

Created by

Science Demo Guy STEM

This fun elementary craftivity will get kids excited about 3-D geometric shapes while incorporating art into the classroom. This product includes 7 different shape (monster) templates (both in color and as line art for the student to color) and 3 accompanying worksheets. Please open my preview file to view everything that is included. This activity can also foster teamwork when students work together in groups of two to assemble their 3-D shape monsters.Save Money, buy the bundle! Monster Themed

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Geometry, Math

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Centers

CCSS:

K.G.A.2

, K.G.B.4

, K.G.B.5

, 1.G.A.1

, 1.G.A.2

...

Also included in: 2-D & 3-D Shapes Monster Bundle

Halloween STEM Activity - Bone Bridge® - Halloween STEM Challenge

Created by

Critical Thinking, Engineering, Halloween

The Bone Bridge® Halloween STEM activity is collaborative, brain-busting work disguised as fun! This STEM challenge goes beyond Halloween. Connect it to your science lessons on skeletal system, bridges/transportation, and/or forces (specific ideas provided in the resource). The basic idea: Students work in partners or groups against a list of criteria and constraints to build a bridge for length, strength, or capacity using simple materials. This is the first resource from Bone Bridge® STEM Ch

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 8th

Types:

NGSS:

K-2-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-3

, MS-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-1

, 3-5-ETS1-3

...

Also included in: Halloween STEM Activities - 6 STEM Challenges - Print & Paperless

The Dot by Peter Reynolds Tower Builder READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity Dot Day STEM

Created by

Character Education, Critical Thinking, Engineering

Create Bravely! Integrate STEM while students learn and develop a Growth Mindset through this Dot Day STEM Challenge! The Dot STEM activity works as a great companion to The Dot by Peter Reynolds. This is an excellent International Dot Day Activity.Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't. Amazing resource for STEM club, STEM teachers, elementary librarians, parents who love hands-on

Subjects:

Grades:

1st - 4th

Types:

Activities, Centers

NGSS:

K-2-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-3

, K-2-ETS1-1

, 3-5-ETS1-3

, 3-5-ETS1-1

...

Also included in: Growth Mindset READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges Dot Day

Goldilocks STEM Activity - Goldilocks and the Three Bears STEM Design a Bed

Created by

Meredith Anderson - Momgineer STEM Activities

Goldilocks and the Three Bears STEM: Design a New Bed for Goldilocks! What do you get when you combine fairy tales and STEM? A fun, hands-on STEM tale! This fairy tale with a twist guides students through the engineering design process to create a new bed for Goldilocks. The storybook can be read aloud together. Students will complete it as they work through the STEM activity.⚙️ The STEM Activity ⚙️Your students will help Baby Bear build Goldilocks a new bed of her own! In this story, there is a

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Engineering, Gifted and Talented

Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Critical Thinking, Engineering, Problem Solving

CCSS:

, RL.K.1

...

NGSS:

K-2-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-1

, 3-PS2-1

, 3-5-ETS1-3

, 3-5-ETS1-1

Also included in: Fairy Tale STEM MEGA Bundle 100+ Tasks for Fairy Tales, Fables, & Nursery Rhymes

LEGO Challenge Task Cards {Great for STEM or fun building!}

Created by

A Special Toolbox

I am really excited to show you some cute, older-kid friendly LEGO Challenge Task Cards! These are bright, colorful, and can appeal to older students without looking too primary. Don’t’ have LEGOs? That’s okay! These can be used for any building materials you may have—unifix cubes, plastic Flake Discs (Amazon), Bunchems (Amazon or Target), Wiki Stix, pipe cleaners, play-dough, etc. Get those kids engineering and manipulating. They work great as an independent station for special education, a STE

Subjects:

Grades:

PreK - 8th

Types:

Activities, Task Cards, Centers

READ ALOUD STEM Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle #1 STEM Club, STEM Centers

Created by

Critical Thinking, Engineering, Science

Integrate STEM and Literacy in your classroom all year with READ ALOUD STEM Volume One! Everything you need to be the master STEM Teacher at your school! Awaken imagination and creativity all year. Students learn coding, engineering, explore real-world problems, learn about STEM role models, pioneers, inventors, and more!Amazing resource for STEM clubs, STEM Teachers, STEM Stations, STEM Centers, parents who love hands-on learning, and elementary teachers who want to create a hands-on educationa

Subjects:

Grades:

1st - 5th

Types:

Activities, Lesson, Centers

CCSS:

W.1.1

, W.1.2

, W.1.3

, W.1.5

, W.1.6

...

Shades of Meaning: A Cooperative Vocabulary & Language Center {Common Core}

Created by

Hello Literacy

Attn: Click here to get Shades of Meaning Volume 2 - NOW AVAILABLE. I created this 21st century vocabulary center to give my students a meaningful opportunity to work independently with others in a cooperative, collaborative and critical thinking setting, without me to work on and increase vocabulary and language. Students practice the 21st century skill of empathy while they follow "agreed upon rules of discussion" to evaluate and justify 8 synonyms and sometimes antonyms and all the shades o

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, Vocabulary

Grades:

2nd - 8th

Types:

Activities, Centers

Make Ten Math Puzzle

Created by

Karyn- Teach Beside Me

The Make Ten math game is a triangle puzzle. Each side of the triangle has a number that can be used to add up to the number ten. The file includes 4 black and white pages of numbered triangles and one blank page of triangles in case you want to write in some of your own combinations. This is great for practicing addition facts, or for critical thinking skills.

Subjects:

Arithmetic, Critical Thinking, Math

Grades:

1st - 3rd

Types:

Activities, Games, Centers

Spanish Reading Fluency Ladders / Escaleras de fluidez

Created by

Learning At The Primary Pond - Alison

Spanish reading fluency practice for syllables and words!------This syllable and word reading mini-program (in Spanish) can be used to improve students' decoding and fluency. Students practice reading and rereading syllable or word "ladders." The ladders are sequential and cover:- Open syllables with two letters (sílabas abiertas con dos letras)- 2-syllable words with open syllables (palabras de dos sílabas abiertas)- 3-syllable words with open syllables (palabras de tres sílabas abiertas)- Sy

Subjects:

Phonics, Reading, Spanish

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

Christmas STEM Activities and Winter STEM Activities Bundle

Created by

Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Critical Thinking, Engineering

Looking for fun Christmas or winter activities that incorporate science, technology, engineering, and/or math? Christmas-Winter STEM / STEAM Challenges sure to engage with brain-busting work disguised as fun!Christmas and Winter STEM Challenge Activities Overview: Students work in partners or groups against criteria & constraints lists to design and build Winter or Christmas-themed devices. Modification suggestions are included to make these challenges engaging and productive for students i

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 8th

Types:

Activities, Centers

NGSS:

K-2-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-3

, MS-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-1

, 3-5-ETS1-3

...

Analogy Task Cards | 3 sets of analogies! | 72 Print & Digital Multiple Choice |

Created by

Rachel Lynette

These 72 Analogy Task Cards are divided into 3 color-coded sets of 24 cards each. Students can solve the analogies orally in groups or use the included answer sheet to record their answers. There are also answer keys for each card set so that your students can check their work. Analogy Task Cards are also available in a short answer format. Please see below for link.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Short Answer Analogies Task Cards are available here.Other great products:•

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, Gifted and Talented

Grades:

2nd - 4th

Types:

Task Cards, Centers

Also included in: Analogies Bundle! | 144 Analogy Task Cards | SIX SETS! | Print & Digital!

2nd Grade Money & Coins Activities Games, Centers, Counting Money Word Problems

Created by

Keep 'em Thinking with Susan Morrow

Your kids will love these money activities that involve students in real-world applications involving counting money, solving money word problems, showing monetary amounts in different ways, and more! More than just worksheets, this money unit for 2nd grade and 3rd grade includes 15 challenging yet fun money centers, games, and activities to keep your kiddos excited about learning to count money in different ways. If you're looking for a resource in which students must use mathematical reasoning

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Math

Grades:

2nd - 3rd

Types:

GATE, Games, Centers

Also included in: 2nd Grade Money Math Games, Projects, Task Cards, Warm-Ups Activities Bundle

French Coloring Pages for the Entire Year | MEGA BUNDLE

Created by

First Grade Frenchies

Enjoy this FULL-YEAR BUNDLE of my French colouring sheets! These unique doodle designs are fun to colour yet they also contain French vocabulary phrases, allowing students to work on thematic language. They are the perfect addition to use on thematic school days, for early finishers, for take-home fun, during those chaotic indoor recesses, to throw into a sub-plan and so much more! You'll definitely love having this bundle in your back pocket, and your students will ask for new sheets to colour

Subjects:

en Français, French, Holidays/Seasonal

Grades:

K - 6th

Types:

Worksheets, Printables, Centers

LES SONS FRANÇAIS- BUNDLE SET 1 | French Phonics | Cahier de sons (SOR)

Created by

The French Apple

Set of decodable activities that align with the Science of Reading in French.This is your one stop shop to teach everything for French sounds. You will receive over 500+ NO PREP printables to practice les sons composés in French.Includes: French phonics worksheets, cut and paste activities, fun activities, writing activities, reading booklets, word wall words and so much more- everything you need to just print and go for teaching les sons composés in French. Focus on one sound at a time in these

Subjects:

French, Phonics, Reading

Grades:

1st - 3rd

Types:

Activities, Games, Centers

Halloween STEM Activity - Bat Wings Wanted Halloween STEM Challenge

Created by

Critical Thinking, Engineering, Halloween

This Halloween STEM activity will keep your kids engaged & learning! Not doing Halloween activities this year? No problem! Just add this to a science unit on bats, life science, the physics of flight, or as a supplement to Stellaluna.Basic Premise:In this Halloween STEM challenge activity, students design and engineer a new set of bat wings, with the goal being to achieve maximum flight distance and/or accuracy. You can even throw in style points, if you like! It's a paper airplane challenge

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 8th

Types: