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3rd grade critical thinking social studies centers $5-10
Area and Perimeter Project Based Learning Math Activity
Step into the world of engaging and hands-on math exploration with this resource. This project-based learning activity takes students on a thrilling journey as they design their own dream house, while simultaneously mastering the concepts of area and perimeter.Through the use of a house layout grid, students will estimate area by strategically placing furniture and counting squares and partial squares. This real-world, open-ended task prompts critical thinking as they tackle questions related to
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Also included in: Project Based Math Activities BUNDLE
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Math Logic Puzzles: 3rd grade Enrichment - [Digital and Printable PDF]
Math Logic Puzzles for 3rd grade includes 15 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.--------
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: Math Logic Puzzles: 3-5 BUNDLE - [Digital & Printable PDF]
Halloween STEM Activities | Fall STEM Activities for October | Halloween Science
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
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2nd - 8th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Math Logic Puzzles: 2nd grade Enrichment - [Digital & Printable PDF]
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.--------
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2nd - 3rd
Holidays Around the World Agamographs | Unforgettable Christmas Craft Activity!
Christmas Around the World Agamographs. What's an Agamograph?! It's a picture that morphs into another image when you look at it from a different angle. Agamographs are super fun and contemporary activities to easily integrate art into your classroom. There is a huge "wow factor" in this art activity—the students love the surprise. And best of all, they did it themselves!!It's hard to say but easy to do! I strongly recommend this for grades 3 and above.Use this activity for your anticipatory set
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3rd - 9th
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Native American Homes STEM ~ STEM Engineering Challenge Pack ~ Set of 9!
Why not bring STEM to your Native American Unit in social studies?
Most elementary teachers are more comfortable and knowledgeable about themes, so I have decided to create STEM challenge packs based on specific themes, like Native Americans, specifically relating to their homes!
This engineering challenge activity pack is one of many that I have created to use in my classroom! I sometimes place these challenges, one per table, and the students rotate around the room in order to complete them
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2nd - 5th
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Christmas Around the World Passages - Winter Holidays Around the World Research
Want to teach about Christmas and Holidays Around the World, but you're short on time? These reading comprehension passages are a quick way to teach your students about different ways winter holidays are celebrated while practicing their reading skills.These Holiday Around the World reading passages introduce students to how holidays are celebrated in different countries. Ten different countries that celebrate Christmas plus Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Diwali are included. There is one passage page,
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1st - 3rd
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2nd Grade Money & Coins Activities Games, Centers, Counting Money Word Problems
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
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2nd - 3rd
Christmas STEM Activities and Winter STEM Activities Bundle
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
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2nd - 8th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Classifying Quadrilaterals | Quadrilateral Sort Geometry Activity
Looking for an engaging, hands-on activity to learn about classifying quadrilaterals? This geometry resource includes student-centered quadrilateral activities to explore quadrilateral attributes in a fun way! These activities are perfect for centers, small group work, or whole class instruction.Click here to save 20% on the Classifying 2D Shapes BUNDLE.Your students will explore the attributes of quadrilaterals through sorting activities, and keep track of their learning with reference pages an
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3rd - 5th
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The One and Only Ivan: A Reading-Response Journal for Third-Fifth Grade
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate is one of the greatest novels I have ever read to my students. It not only brought us closer together as a class, it generated many wonderful, rich conversations. Somehow, this text is both simple and complex and I think that’s why it appeals to students of varying reading levels. There are so many ways to take this novel to a higher level, but at the same time, those students with comprehension skills that are still developing can appreciate it as
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3rd - 5th
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Abraham Lincoln Biography Graphic Organizers, Presidents Day Activities & Craft
This Abraham Lincoln biography set includes graphic organizers and a reading and writing flip book craft. This biography set has activities to use for Presidents' Day and covers important facts about Abraham Lincoln's life for students to learn. Within the pack, they will read about Abraham Lincoln, research him, write about him, create a flip book about him, and sort important parts of this famous president's life into graphic organizers. Included in this Abraham Lincoln biography pack: Reading
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1st - 3rd
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HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) Reading Response Sheets
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This download includes the first edition of my no-prep H.O.T.S reading response sheets. The activities are designed to encourage your students to understand, create, evaluate, and analyze text on a deeper level. They are aligned to the Common Core Standards and can be used over & over with different books in a variety of ways {differentiated guided reading lessons, homework, early finisher work, literacy stations, etc}.
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1st - 3rd
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California Regions Reading Passages
This year it's time to go deeper into our Social Studies units, so I created in depth nonfiction Reading Passages about the California Regions we will be studying, specifically the Coastal, Mountain, Desert, and Valley. This product has 3 sections:First, each region has their own passage, multiple choice assessment, and a strategy grid to assist students into looking closely at the text. Answer keys are also provided. Then, the 4 regions are compared through 4 pages of multiple choice questio
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3rd - 5th
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Leap Year Activities, Leap Year Reading Comprehension Scavenger Hunt & Boom Deck
Looking for Leap Year activities this year? Your students will have fun hunting for Leap Year facts with this fun Scavenger Hunt reading comprehension activity featuring 20 printable cards and 42 digital Boom Cards. This resource will help students practice reading comprehension skills, assimilate new vocabulary, and gain key content knowledge.Some interesting facts are: If you are born on Leap Day, will you have to wait four years to celebrate your next birthday? Although, both years are centur
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3rd - 6th
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Math Early Finishers Activity - The Equation Station
A differentiated early finishers or centers activity! Perfect for 3rd grade an above!Students are provided with a set of numbers, and they create as many equations as they can. ** A digital version is now included in Google Slides!**Here is how it works!*Students find as many equations as possible.*Equations can be addition, subtraction, multiplication or division.*They can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal.*Equations must include at least 3 numbers and no more than 6 numbers.*When an equati
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3rd - 8th
Myth Reading Passages - 20 One Page Myths from Around the World
These myth reading passages introduce students to different cultures around the world. Just one page each, these easy stories allow each student in your class to have their own myths to read! If you've checked out every single mythology book in your school and public library and STILL come up short, you need these one-page myths!What Other Teachers Are Saying:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "My students have loved the myths! They are in kid friendly language which is amazing! These were the perfect addition to my fa
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3rd - 5th
Math Challenge - Critical Thinking - Addition, Subtraction, Place Value Puzzles
Keep your students excited about learning with this fun set of pirate themed critical thinking math challenge riddles, designed to practice second grade and third grade addition, subtraction, and place value skills. Here's how these math riddle cards work!Choosing from the nine possible answers on each of the cards, your students will determine the Pirate's Secret Number by using a variety of math clues plus critical reasoning to eliminate eight of the options.What does this math review set incl
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2nd - 3rd
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MORE MINI MYSTERIES: 20 Fun Mystery Stories & Reading Comprehension Activities
Grab your reluctant readers' attention with these short, high-interest mysteries! No prep worksheets sure to improve reading comprehension.Follow along with Detective Cody as she solves these 20 intriguing "whodunits" mysteries. Reading comprehension and critical-thinking skills get a workout as students read each mystery, then follow the clues to their logical conclusions. Clever questions and activities encourage students to find facts, read for details, analyze situations, make inferences, p
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2nd - 6th
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Close Reading 3rd, 4th, 5th Grade Non Fiction Passages: Unsolved Mysteries
Engaging, motivating, and interesting! Use these original, non- fiction texts to enhance you student's skills with close reading and analytical writing. Each passage features differentiated comprehension questions and a chance for students to write about their reading. Passages are differentiated so you can use them with multiple levels. Great for centers, guided reading, homework, MTSS/RTI, or research projects. Get even the most reluctant readers interested!Unsolved Mysteries Included: U
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3rd - 6th
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American Symbols Worksheets and Reading Passages Activities
This American Symbols worksheet and reading passage set is a perfect supplement to use for your first, second, and third graders. It covers a variety of topics about symbols and a study of 12 different individual American Symbols or Landmarks. There are reading comprehension passages, graphic organizers, writing pages, and cut and glue activities.There is also a digital conversion of this resource available in Google Slides. They have been digitally converted so that you can use the paper versio
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2nd - 3rd
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I Heart Tangrams Math Centers
Tangrams present your students with an engaging, hands-on way to develop the following skills:•spatial reasoning•critical thinking•problem solving•understanding of geometry concepts (congruence, similarity, symmetry, rotation, transformation, reflection, attributes of polygons, etc.)These puzzles are perfect for math centers, fast-finishers, and cooperative learning. Your students will LOVE them!Included in this resource:•75 unique full-size Tangram puzzles that will perfectly fit your 4-inch*
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3rd - 6th
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Abolitionists & the Underground Railroad: Passages - Distance Learning
With this resource, students will learn all about abolitionists and the Underground Railroad through reading engaging passages on differentiated reading levels. Students can respond to short-answer questions after reading. The questions are aligned to informational text reading standards. Teaching notes and lesson plans are included. This resource can be printed or shared digitally. What is included?+ Printable and interactive digital versions7 reading passages – (See topics below.)5 differentia
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Civil War Differentiated Passages Bundle
Fraction Pattern Block Puzzles - Task Cards & Printables for Critical Thinking
Pattern blocks are a great way to engage your students and motivate them towards a strong conceptual understanding of fractions!
This download includes:
• 32 differentiated task cards (available in color & black and white to save your ink)
• 10 printable activities
• Student recording sheet
• Answer Key
• Teacher tips for classroom use
Concepts & Skills:
• Understanding fractions as parts of a whole
• Comparing fractions by reasoning about their size
• Expressing whole numbers as
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3rd - 5th
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Social studies offers valuable insights into history, geography, and much more. Social studies captivates students by providing them with perspectives from the past, present, and future, allowing them to understand history and navigate current events. It enables them to appreciate how previous generations have shaped their present reality. In essence, social studies opens their eyes to the vastness of life beyond their immediate surroundings.
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Learning social studies offers many benefits to students in terms of helping them develop a holistic understanding of the world. Namely, it helps them:
- Learn about the achievements, challenges, perspectives, traditions, and customs of different societies
- Evaluate information, analyze evidence, and make informed judgments about complex social, economic, and political issues
- Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
- Comprehend global issues such as human rights, environmental sustainability, and economic disparities
By teaching social studies, teachers can help students develop critical thinking skills, foster civic engagement, and promote social awareness and responsibility.
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Social studies resources on TPT offer informative lessons, engaging texts, intriguing facts, interactive puzzles, and enjoyable trivia games. These grade-specific resources ensure that all students can access age-appropriate materials that stimulate their minds and enhance their creative thinking abilities.
For instance, first graders can explore worksheets on senses and emotions, followed by a coloring page featuring Harriet Tubman. Older students can test their knowledge with quizzes on statistics and capital cities, then delve into the history of the Underground Railroad through an informational sheet or enjoy a word search focused on civil rights leaders. With such a wide variety of subjects and topics covered, our social studies pages provide endless opportunities for students to explore the world in captivating ways.
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