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Making Inferences: Pixar Short Film For the Birds
After watching Pixar's short film: For the Birds, students will infer by answering three questions and providing clues that lead to their inference.
Grades:
K - 10th
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POINT OF VIEW: ANALYZING MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS OF THE SAME EVENT Editable
Want to help your students understand an author's view point? This product provides students with both literary and informational texts that are aligned with reading and social studies standards. Written from many perspectives, each text focuses on a different author's view point. Help your students explore your social studies curriculum while learning and practicing language arts standards. As students respond to the task card questions, they are comparing and contrasting the different auth
Grades:
4th - 6th
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DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PACK: PowerPoint, Student notes, Fold-Ups and Thinking Routines
Engage your students and involve them into learn about the Digestive System.
Here you win find:
-45 slide PowerPoint: Functions of the Digestive System, facts, parts of digestive system and their functions. Every part finishes with H.O.T.S. questions (High Order Thinking Skills).
- A PDF file with student pages:
- Graphic Organizers
- Students notes
- Fold-up activities for your interactive notebook
- Visible Thinking Strategies (3-2-1 Bridge and Parts and Whole Relationships) with full explan
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Also included in: The Human Body: Big Bundle
Making Inferences: Pixar Short Film Partly Cloudy
After watching Pixar's short film: Partly Cloudy, students will infer by answering four questions and providing clues that lead to their inference.
Grades:
K - 6th
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Making Inferences: Pixar Short Film Lifted
After watching Pixar's short film: Lifted, students will infer by answering two questions and providing clues that lead to their inference.
Grades:
K - 6th
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Making Inferences: Pixar Short Film One Man Band
After watching Pixar's short film: One Man Band, students will infer by answering three questions and providing clues that lead to their inference.
Grades:
K - 8th
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Inference Mystery Activity - The Stolen Will
My students tend to have a hard time inferencing, or they just don't want to.
I started using mysteries that they have to solve to try and peak their interest, and they LOVE them. They're always asking if I have a new one for them to solve.
This is my first one, and I will be adding more.
In this mystery, students have to figure out who stole the will and testament of a famous singer. They have to read a background passage, answer clues, and then use clues to solve logic puzzles. They h
Grades:
5th - 12th
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MEGA MRS. J's MATH MYSTERY BUNDLE (GRADES 1 - 6)
Mrs. J's Math Mystery collection from 1st to 6th grade.Grab all of the math mysteries to engage and motivate your students and differentiate across grade levels! Some titles are the same across grades, which is great for differentiation.Some titles are available for some grades and not others. Please check the individual complete grade bundles below to better understand what you will receive in this pack. Feel free to contact me with any questions about this.Bonus: Mystery Detective Badges &
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Grades:
1st - 6th
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8 CER Image Science Writing Prompts Bell Ringers Graphic Organizers Do Nows
Here are eight, no prep CER photo writing prompts with critical thinking questions that can be used as bell ringers, an introduction, review or assessment. Students use the Claim, Evidence and Reasoning model to construct scientific explanations. Each slide has a real world image, the main question and a graphic organizer for the students to fill in the claim, evidence and then reasoning. The second slide for each image supplies a place for the students to write the completed CER paragraph.Incl
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Math Activities for the Year!
This is a collection of math activities for the year. These could also be used as homework, math centers, task cards, review for test, etc. These are divided into the following domains:Rational Numbers - 37 activitiesExpressions and Equations - 34 activitiesRatios and Proportional Relationships - 24 activitiesInferences and Data - 20 activitiesGeometry - 36 activitiesProbability - 20 activitiesThe entire pack (with title pages and answer sheets is 348 pages) which can be shown as a power point
Grades:
5th - 9th, Adult Education
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Asking Questions and Critical Thinking - Forming Inquiry / Research Questions
Help your students learn how to identify and ask higher-order thinking inquiry questions in class (science as well as other subject areas) and in life in general because this type of deep thinking promotes a richer classroom environment, critical thinking skills, and lifelong learning!
Getting students to think deeply about what they want to know and generating higher-order inquiry questions is a skill that often, in my experience, needs to be explicitly taught in order the help students from
Grades:
PreK - 9th, Staff
Create your own genetically modified organism
Learning about Genetics? Try this fun extension about GMOs. Students will use this worksheet to create their own genetically modified organism. This project requires them to design the packaging for their innovative new item!
Grades:
5th - 6th
MOVIE QUOTES: GAB & GO STATIONS AND WRITING PROMPTS (Interactive or Distance)
Movie Quotes: Gab & Go Stations and Writing Prompts*Updated January 2nd 2017Use some of the best movie lines of all time to jumpstart students' writings and discussions.Memorable movie lines require two essential ingredients: 1) They must sound like something a real person would actually say, and 2) the character must deliver the lines with just the right amount of emotion. What a great challenge for students to practice writing authentic dialogue with the help of some of the most quoted l
Grades:
5th - 11th
Also included in: Gab & Go Bundle: 140 Quotation Stations and Quick Write Prompts
Editable Color Code your Thinking Bookmark
These color-coded post-it bookmarks are a great reference tool for students to use during guided reading, literature circles, independent reading, or close reading. These are editable, with directions for editing the post-it notes and text.
You may use any font you choose, but it works best with AGMondayBunday and AGIWokeUpLikeThis (Amy Groesbeck Fonts-can be found in font volumes 1 and 2, and the bundle)
Grades:
2nd - 9th
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Math Journal Template- Editable
This is an editable document so you can add your own journal questions. It is meant to be copied back to back and folded in half to create a booklet. Each journal entry page has lines to explain their thinking and a checklist to guide their answers. The back page of the booklet has a space to add Key Vocabulary Terms the students should include in their entries.
This is a great center option.
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Grades:
1st - 8th
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INTERNATIONAL DOT DAY | Creation Stations MakerSpace | Art DIY Codes | The Dot
Easily integrate creation of all types into your classroom routine with this Dot Day Art Integration & Creation Station Unit. It includes everything you need to celebrate Dot Day and integrate art/creation into your ELA classroom. 8 Creation Station direction cards, all supplements needed, and PowerPoint directions are included! What is Dot Day? International Dot Day is celebrated every year on the 15th of September. This holiday was created by a teacher named Terry Shay back in 2009 as a wa
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Math Accountable Talk Cards Feat. Minions
These are used to aid students in conversations during Math. They have several different talking stems that will help them participate and discuss math strategies. These will aid in their understanding. I like to keep it fun. My class loves minions so I added some cute minions with each card to keep them excited and engaged.
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
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10 CER DESERT Ecosystem Image Writing Prompt Bell Ringers Graphic Organizers
Here are 10 CER (Claim, Evidence, Reasoning)DESERT ECOSYSTEM photo writing prompts for critical, scientific thinking that can be used as bell ringers, early finishers, introductions, review or even as an assessment. . Each slide has an image, the main question and a graphic organizer for the students to fill in the claim, evidence and then reasoning. The second slide for each image supplies a place for the students to write the completed CER paragraph.****Please see my blog post on how I teach C
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: ECOLOGY OF DESERT Food Chains and Web BUNDLE, Biodiversity, CER, STEM
Author's Purpose Game/Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
This game is great to practice author's purpose. I put my students in 5 groups and have them compete against each other.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
ESL Debating Themes । Agree or Disagree । PowerPoint Presentation । Worksheet
If you're a teacher looking for ways to spark engaging conversations and debates in your classroom, I have just the thing for you! This collection of 60 thought-provoking statements is an incredible resource for you and your students. This PPT and Cards cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from animals and school to sports, money, and technology, so there's bound to be something that captures everyone's interest. To make the most of these cards, you can divide your students into small groups
Grades:
1st - 6th
Context Clues in Vocabulary -- Silly Words Three!
12 short paragraphs with funny-sounding words and context clues.....(Note: This this lesson is a continuation of the lesson called "Vocabulary and Context - Silly Words!" which is listed as a free resource under my name. There is also a second lesson called "More Silly Words -- Context Clues in Vocabulary." This is the third lesson, and it has completely different words from the first two lessons.)An impoverished vocabulary is a huge problem for many struggling students in middle school.
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Use Visual Literacy techniques to teach Study Skills and Information Literacy
From The Barbarian's Creative Library Store here is a PowerPoint presentation that can be used in an interactive lesson with lots of games. They say that a picture paints a thousand words and there are plenty of examples already showing how to interpret images to gain more information. This presentation is different.....
It uses Visual Literacy to explain how the same brain power can be applied to Study Skills and Information Literacy in general. For example by using images that can be looked
Grades:
6th - 10th
Vocabulary Cartoons
This product was updated June 2015 to include a new directions page, graphic organizers, and sample product.
Want to help your students master that vocabulary list?
This method, inspired by countless research articles on the benefits of mnemonic devices, is the missing link!
We know students can acquire new knowledge by viewing cartoons and reading their memorable captions, so imagine how much more they retain when they make the cartoons themselves!
This is a fantastic higher-order thinking
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Newton's Laws of Motion Games (Lab Activity/Inertia Focus)
Fun mini-games to demonstrate Newton's 1st law of motion. All needed items are typically found in a science or math classroom. Trial record and percentage conversion tables included. Can also be used to review percentages and the scientific method.
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Grades:
4th - 9th
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