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6th grade critical thinking balanced literacy centers
Independent Reading Conferences {Templates to Differentiate Your Instruction}
Independent reading is such an important time for students to practice the skills that have been modeled or taught to them. But what should you do during this time? Make the most of this time by conducting INDEPENDENT READING CONFERENCES! This one on one time with each student will provide valuable information as you get to know them better as readers. I have created a series of questions to guide you through your conferences. These questions will take all the guess work out of conferencing, all
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3rd - 6th
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5th Grade Fractions Review - Math Mystery Fractions Game
Fractions Review 5th Grade Math Mystery Edition - Multiplying Fractions, Adding & Subtracting Fractions, and Equivalent Fractions.Easy prep! Just Print & Solve! Or go paperless with the new Google Slides option provided within your download.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------⭐Optional video hook included for introducing the case! (Check it out in the preview section)⭐BONUS: Ending video added to wrap up the case!<The videos have
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: 5th Grade Math Mystery Game COMPLETE Bundle - Math Review Activities
Place Value Task Cards Number Sense Logic Puzzles Enrichment Critical Thinking
Use these 24 Name that Number cards (print or digital) for added math enrichment! These rigorous task cards require students to use a variety of math skills including place value, rounding, addition, subtraction, multiplication, greater than/less than, and more, in order to solve the puzzles. They would make a great warm-up activity or would also be good for centers or partner work.Each card is numbered so students can easily track which cards they have completed. Students can record their answe
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4th - 6th
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Reading Strategies Task Cards Reading Skills & Comprehension - Theme, Main Idea+
Huge discounted bundle of 22 sets of Reading Strategy Task Cards! Each card features a short, curriculum-based and/or high-interest passage, along with a text-dependent question or prompt. 17 sets include Audio Support and all the sets have Google Apps and Easel resources!This bundle includes 22 task card resources:Find the Theme: Theme is a tricky skill to master, but this resource can make teaching theme easier for you and learning it easier for your students!Informational Text Structures: The
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3rd - 6th
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Math Logic Puzzles: 5th grade Enrichment - [Digital & Printable PDF]
Math Logic Puzzles for 5th 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 to build a solid understanding of essential 5th-grade math concepts. 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.Math Concepts a
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4th - 6th
Also included in: Math Logic Puzzles: 3-5 BUNDLE - [Digital & Printable PDF]
ESL Vocabulary Workbooks | Newcomer Activities | Year Long Bundle
ESL Newcomer Activities - Vocabulary Workbooks - Independent Learning Activities - printable PDF AND digital Google Slide formats This ESL vocabulary workbook BUNDLE builds everyday tier 1 vocabulary for beginning English language learners. Activities are designed so that newcomers are able to complete them independently! During independent work time in reading or writing workshop, beginning ELs need meaningful activities that they are able to work on with minimal teacher support. This resource
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3rd - 6th
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STEM Space Lander Math & Engineering Activity
Space Lander STEM ChallengeThis STEM activity is one of our favorite engineering design challenges! The combination of marshmallows (or ping pong balls) and aliens makes this a winning STEM challenge! In the Space Lander Challenge, student teams build a lander using the engineering design process to keep two marshmallow "aliens" or "astronauts" inside a cup as it is dropped from various heights. Using straws, index cards, and mini marshmallows or cotton balls, students apply concepts of shock ab
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5th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Middle School
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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6th Grade Fractions Review: Fractions Math Mystery Activity Game
Fractions Review Math Mystery Activity - 6th Grade Edition: Reciprocals, Divide, Multiply, Adding & Subtracting Fractions. Engage and motivate your students with this fun fractions math mystery activity! Great for review of a few different fraction skills in one. Easy prep! Just Print & Solve! Or go paperless with the new Google Slides option provided within your download.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------⭐Optional video hook inc
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: 6th Grade Mixed Math Mystery Bundle Pack
Words Their Way Word Search Activities Bundle 2nd and 3rd Edition
Get ready to add a fun, impactful word study activity to your routine! Words Their Way Discovery word searches are an engaging way for 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade students to recognize correct spellings and word patterns as they identify words on their WTW word list. You can differentiate with more ease and save 20% with this bundle of word study word search activities as it includes four levels: 1) Letter Name Alphabetic Stage 2) Within Word Pattern 3) Syllables and Affixes Spellers, and 4) Derivati
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3rd - 6th
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Adding & Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators Digital Escape Room
Practicing addition and subtraction of fractions with unlike denominators takes on a new level of excitement in this online breakout game. Escape the arcade is a great alternative to adding & subtracting fractions worksheets and activities. Instead of winning prizes at the arcade, your students need to earn tickets to get a key to escape the arcade! This activity can be completed either in class or online for distance learning. There are no clues to hide, and the entire process is automated
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4th - 6th
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Halloween STEM Activity - Bone Bridge® - Halloween STEM Challenge
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
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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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Also included in: Halloween STEM Activities - 6 STEM Challenges - Print & Paperless
Vocabulary Activities, Graphic Organizers, Games - Word Work for Big Kids BUNDLE
Vocabulary activities that work for any vocabulary word list! Struggling to find challenging vocabulary practice for your upper elementary students? These vocabulary activities are the perfect upper elementary word work to use with any word list. Students will love choosing a new vocabulary graphic organizer, activity, or game each day to practice their vocabulary words.It can be so hard to find appropriate, challenging word work for big kids in the intermediate grades... These activities are pe
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3rd - 6th
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LEGO Challenge Task Cards {Great for STEM or fun building!}
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
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PreK - 8th
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Shades of Meaning: A Cooperative Vocabulary & Language Center {Common Core}
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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
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2nd - 8th
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Bloom's Taxonomy Ladders Higher Order Thinking Questions for Fiction Text
Want to up the rigor in your classroom and get your students answering those higher order thinking questions? Treat questioning like a video game with these Bloom's Ladders for fiction text! Each ladder has a set of tasks or questions and each student must complete each task to "defeat" the level and move onto the next one!Check out my Youtube Video to see this product in action.This product also includes a slightly different version called "How High Can You Go" where there is one task for each
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2nd - 6th
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Figurative Language In Songs Task Cards l Digital l Print
This is a fun product to help students review and practice the different types of figurative language through popular songs! There are 24 task cards with OR without QR codes to check the answer. Each task cards has students find a different type of figurative language within the song that is written on the card! If you have access to technology, students can check their answers by scanning a QR code. This is perfect for a center, scoot or whole group activity! NOW you can use it as a digital/vir
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3rd - 6th
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Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards for Literature
Add depth and complexity to your instruction with these Critical Thinking Task Cards for Literature! These tasks cards allow students to deeply analyze any fiction reading material through 11 topics of critical thinking: Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives. You will appreciate the versatility of these task cards; they can be used with almost any text (novels,
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4th - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards Bundle
THINK! Math Enrichment Activities (4-5)
These math enrichment activities are a highly engaging way to challenge your little geniuses and fast finishers. Your students will utilize critical thinking and problem solving skills while building a deep and solid understanding of various math concepts. Each of the 15 printable activities offers an interesting, non-routine way to explore essential math concepts and skills.
* This enrichment packet is designed for gifted 4th and 5th grade students. *
Check out THINK! Math Enrichment Acti
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4th - 6th
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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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Reading Strategies Task Card & Digital Bundle 8 Best Selling Sets - with Audio
These eight sets of reading strategies task cards have been classroom-tested by tens of thousands of teachers.Each card features a short, curriculum-based, and/or high-interest passage, along with a text-dependent question or prompt. Challenge cards are also included to extend the learning. There are also answer keys. In addition, blackline versions of the cards are included for printing on colored paper.This bundle includes 8 resources:Theme Task Cards: Theme is a tricky skill to master, but th
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3rd - 6th
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Team Building Escape Room - Teamwork Challenge - Back to School Activity
The Team Building Escape Room will take students on a “treasure hunt” around the classroom! This SUPER FUN Back to School activity has students decode fun puzzles using teamwork and critical thinking while trying to beat the clock.This is the perfect resource for back to school activities, team building, end of year, ice breakers or any time! This team activity can be used in any subject area!The Team Building Escape Room has students walking around the classroom solving puzzles. Students come u
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4th - 6th
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Four Quadrants of the Coordinate Plane Digital Escape Room 6th Grade Math
Can your students solve problems in all four quadrants of the coordinate plane in order to recover stolen diamonds? Students will race through a train station following clues, plotting points, solving word problems, as they go undercover to recover the goods stolen in a diamond heist. This online breakout is based on 6th grade math standards. They'll need to be quick reflecting points across the x-axis, finding the distance a point lies from the y-axis, finding the distance between points, and p
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5th - 7th
Halloween STEM Activity - Bat Wings Wanted Halloween STEM Challenge
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
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Grades:
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
...
Also included in: Halloween STEM Activities - 6 STEM Challenges - Print & Paperless
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