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Free 6th grade critical thinking centers
Christmas Would You Rather Questions to Print FREEBIE! Fun Holiday Activity!
Here are 20 Fun Would You Rather Questions to use with your students. These are great discussion starters for when you have a few extra minutes. They can also be used for classroom polls or journal prompts.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:1 Page with 20 Would You Rather QuestionsGreat for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade! NOTE: This resource uses American English and is not editable. Here’s what teachers are saying: ✏️ "My students loved this resource. I’m sure they weren’t even thinking
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1st - 8th
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Language Centers: Awesome Analogies
Who doesn't love a fun analogy activity?
Students will have a fun time as they look for word relationships and solve the analogies.
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3rd - 6th
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DESIGN AND BUILD A NEW TOY - Collaborative Problem-Solving, Writing, STEM
Your students have been hired to design and build a new toy that will be marketed across the country this coming holiday season! Build a prototype, design a magazine ad, and fill out a self-reflection journal. Print and digital versions are both included, making this resource perfect for any combination of in-class instruction, distance, at-home, or hybrid learning, asynchronous learning, or independent student-directed learning.Integrating Literacy and STEM, this collaborative, hands-on activi
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6th - 8th
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10 Free Lego Building Challenge Cards for STEM and STEAM
This set includes a PDF file of 10 challenge cards for Lego style bricks that can be used for STEM or STEAM classrooms. Each challenge can be completed solo or as a team. Each card has a colorful block border but can also be printed in black and white. Some cards include advanced or team challenge options to differentiate for more advanced builders. Recommended age range: 6 - 13 years old (or for anyone who is a kid at heart!)
Grades:
2nd - 10th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
Reading comprehension strategies dice game - read and roll
If you download this freebie, I would appreciate it if you would also follow my store.This resource is designed for literacy rotations to reinforce the explicit teaching of the high yield comprehension strategies. All that is required is to print out the resource and provide a standard die. It is an activity that involves students sharing their thinking through discussion based on the written prompts and the book they are currently reading.The activities include the following options: Predicti
Grades:
2nd - 7th
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STEM Sampler Pack with Sound STEM Challenge and Engineering Graphic Organizer
This Engineering Design Process graphic organizer is one of my most loved resources! If you have looked online for an EDP graphic organizer, you've probably seen this one pop up. It's been used and shared by thousands of teachers all over the world! In this STEM sampler pack you can try out a free STEM challenge or STEM sticks.What You'll GetA sound-based voice muffler STEM challenge with corresponding vocabulary cards so you and your students can "talk like an engineer"Engineering design proces
Grades:
1st - 6th
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: NEW STEM Teacher Bundle
Homograph Riddles
These riddles are an engaging, thought-provoking way in which to teach or reinforce homographs! The riddles incorporate the elements of context clues, critical thinking, inferencing, grammar and much more!
Each card contains a riddle. The answer to each riddle is a homograph! There are a number of ways to utilize the riddles in the classroom from a mini-lesson to a literacy center!
Enjoy!
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3rd - 6th
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Engineering Design Process Chart and Worksheet
A free package illustrating and explaining the Engineering Design Process for kids. Ideal for STEM class (science tech engineering math) or maker space projects.
Included in the Package:
Flowchart of the Engineering Design Process (1 page)
Explanation of each step of the design process (6 pages)
Student worksheet for one of the key step (1 page)
Cover and copyright page (2 pages)
This is a process that works for all STEM projects.
Ideas for STEM projects:
Back to School STEM Challenge Ideas
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Grades:
1st - 12th
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Western Expansion Logic Puzzle FREEBIE!! Chuckwagon Chili Challenge
Looking to engage your students with some fun deductive logic and critical thinking challenges?Explore the Wild West and Chuckwagon Cooking with this Westward Expansion-themed logic puzzle from GATER Educator.This logic puzzle is designed to challenge upper elementary students and is perfect for Literacy Center seat work, homework, early finishers or sub plans.Looking for specific GIFTED and TALENTED ACTIVITIES? Click the link belowGifted and Talented Activities for the ClassroomDo your students
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Free Summer Olympics Logic Puzzle
This is a free sample logic puzzle that comes from my Summer Olympics Logic Puzzle Resource. Give your students a chance to practice solving a logic puzzle that involves sequence and order and is a level two puzzle among my logic puzzle leveling system.This free resource contains one logic puzzle and one answer key in both a printable and digital format.This resource is not editable.**Please note, unlike most of my logic puzzles, this logic puzzles uses factual data from a past Olympic Games. Go
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4th - 8th
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Metacognition and Comprehension Question Cards
METACOGNITION QUESTION CARDS and printable Reading Think Sheet freebie! ....A great way to improve reading comprehension with your kiddos!!***THIS FREEBIE IS PART OF A MUCH LARGER, FULL-PRODUCT DOWNLOAD*** Metacognition Reading Partners: Brain Buddies!FULL PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: The Brain Buddy Folder Kit is an interactive reading comprehension unit with a very strong emphasis on MAKING CONNECTIONS and *METACOGNITION*. The kit has everything you will need to provide your students will mini-les
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Grades:
1st - 6th
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Digital Math Enrichment Sampler - Logic Puzzles & Challenge Activities
These free logic puzzles are a fun way to challenge your students while they gain a deeper understanding of the grade level standards.Ideas for Use:-Digital Math Center-Option for Early Finishers-Cooperative Learning ActivityFree Samples from the Following Resources:Add & Subtract Fractions EnrichmentOrder of Operations Task Card PuzzlersDecimal Place Value Logic PuzzlesAddition & Subtraction ChallengeRatios & Unit Rates EnrichmentYou Might Also Like:Free Grid Logic PuzzlesWhole Numb
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Grades:
5th - 7th
STEM Bell Ringers Freebie Activities - One Week
STEM Problems -- Your transition into STEM class feels chaotic & you need 5 minutes to get prepared WITHOUT wasting valuable instructional minutes. You need STEM sub plans & centers that require no materials & are low prep / no prep. Your students struggle with creativity, critical thinking & curiosity -- maybe even with STEM activities in general STEM Solutions -- The activities inside this bundle can be done in ~5 minutes each day as bell ringers, or you can combine an entire
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Number Star Math Puzzles Sampler- Free!
Number Star Math Puzzles challenge students to use their calculation skills, logic, visualizing patterns, problem solving and planning.
This FREEBIE includes a sample of 3 Number Star Puzzles, and answer key. It includes one puzzle from each of my first three sets.
These puzzles require students to place the numbers from the Number Bank into the circles so that they add up to the totals in the corresponding star point, and also have the five outer circles adding up to the total in the cente
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4th - 6th
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FREE Hands-On Math Activities that Uses Dominoes for Differentiated Instruction
This FREE Dots Fun for Everyone 10 page math resource encompasses activities for sorting dominoes, four digit place value, and using division facts. Overall, it contains three different activities and one game that involve finding sums that equal 12. The activities and games vary in difficulty; so differentiated instruction is easy. This resource is also excellent for math center activities. For these activities, commercial sets of dominoes may be used or you can copy the blackline which is pro
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4th - 6th
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Independent Reading Self Evaluation Checklist **FREE**
Students use this self-assessment checklist to reflect on their independent reading time. Students evaluate their stamina, reading comprehension and use of reading strategies by checking either:
All the time
Most of the time
Some of the time
Not this time
Grades:
1st - 6th
Context Clues in Vocabulary - Silly Words! Digital and Print
An impoverished vocabulary is a huge problem for many struggling students in middle school. Sometimes even a dictionary offers little help; these students often don't understand the dictionary definition. In high school, figuring out high-end vocabulary words on tests often makes the difference between a passing score and a mastery score. Figuring out meaning from context clues may be the best skill and strategy possible for these students. However, practices and worksheets can also be fr
Grades:
5th - 10th
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STEM Code & Go Robot Mouse Coding Challenge - Freebie!
Coding Practice... Great for CODING WEEK or any time you are looking to give your students a challenge! The Learning Resources® Code & Go™ Programmable Robot Mouse is a fantastic resource for teaching coding basics. The pages included here are meant to provide an extension and challenge to the basic mazes provided with the Robot Mouse Activity Set.The pages can be used without the robot mouse, but the activity set does provide a good way for students to test and prove their code.Click HERE t
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K - 6th
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Free Logic Puzzles
Challenge your students to improve their higher-order thinking skills with this Fall theme grid logic puzzle! This is a free sample from my Fall Theme Grid Logic Puzzles. This puzzle includes a story and 4 clues. It comes in color and black and white and includes an answer key. Logic puzzles are a great way to challenge students to work on skills such as deductive reasoning, critical thinking, making inferences, process of elimination and more. Also included are instructions with a detailed desc
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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Fractions REVIEW, Multiplying, Dividing, Adding and Subtracting, equivalent etc
This is an optional video hook that can be used to introduce the Fractions Review Math Mystery Activity: Case of The Forgetful Pharaoh to your students. A written story is also provided within the PDF product download for you to use too. Choose between the video or written story to begin the activity with your students.
This Fractions Review math mystery activity covers a variety of skills and is available in different grade versions. Students must use their fractions knowledge to complete clu
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3rd - 6th
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Instagram Reading Comprehension with Inferential Questions
This reading comprehension is about a topic that middle/high schoolers will find relevant to their own lives: Instagram. The questions require students to make inferences about the text. Hope you find this helpful!
CRITICAL THINKING with Word Relationships TRIADS FREEBIETask Cards GATE
FREEBIE!! TRIADS combine critical thinking with vocabulary development, while building word relationships. Teach your students to use Bloom’s upper level thinking skills – analysis, synthesis, and evaluation – while having fun! These FREE TRIADS allow you to try them before you buy them. FREE TRIADS are available in both print and digitally on TPT Easel.HOW TRIADS WORKFind a word that can be added to each of the words on the Triads. The common word comes before or after each of the 3 words to ma
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Mystery Word - A Word Work Activity - FREEBIE
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*** single teacher use product ***
Use this FREEBIE during Word Work time or as an enrichment activity for your students. This is great for upper grades! And great when there is a substitute ;)
This set includes one word:
- cooperation
You will download a ZIP file. For easy searching, the file name is the name to the Mystery Word.
If your students enjoy this activity, please check out the pac
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2nd - 6th
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FREE! MAKING INFERENCES SAMPLER • USING HIGH-INTEREST PHOTOS
MAKING INFERENCES SAMPLER
• USING HIGH-INTEREST PHOTOS
Teaching inferences can sometimes be difficult. It is a concept that many students find hard to grasp. This freebie sampler provides students with the chance to make inferences based on photos. Students are given a photograph and select the best inference from one of four choices.
Laminate the Task Cards for extra durability and print in color for best results.
Also included in Making Inferences Sampler:
• What Is an Inference?
Grades:
4th - 6th
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