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Code Crackers #1 - Caesar Cipher
Help your students develop critical thinking skills, learn a bit about Ancient Rome, and have some fun at the same time with this Code Cracker activity! Students will be introduced to the Caesar cipher and learn how it works, then they will have an opportunity to crack some codes themselves. There is also a space for them to create their own codes for each other to decipher.This activity comes with a cipher wheel that students can make to help them with their code cracking (they will need a bras
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Code Crackers - Ultimate Bundle
Thanksgiving Dinner on a Budget
Students will have the opportunity to create a Thanksgiving dinner for 12 people based off of a 100 dollar budget. A full list of traditional Thanksgiving dinner foods, with pictures (for visual learners), and prices is included. Feel free to use the parameters set up in this file OR create your own!!
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Stereotypes in a Bag: Identifying, Classifying, and Analyzing Stereotypes
For more activities like this one, check out my growing series of Meaningful Morning Meeting Mini-lessons. Students are growing up in a world that, unfortunately, continues to rely heavily on stereotypes. Even our youngest students have already internalized stereotypical and limiting ideas about others and about themselves. This lesson is designed to help students explicitly consider the problematic and oversimplified nature of stereotypes. While this lesson focuses on gender stereotypes, it is
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Social Justice Unit: I Love My Culture
This unit has a specific focus on celebrating identity and is designed to give students opportunities on how they can love and embrace their culture, and understand that how they do things is the same and different from how other people do things. I used the Social Justice standards to create this unit. They are a set of anchor standards (which can be found on TeachingTolerance.org) divided into four domains: identity, diversity, justice and action. These standards are designed to make schools m
Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Social Justice MEGA Bundle for the Year
Halloween Math: Activity with Fractions and Decimals
Halloween Math a Fraction and Decimal Party
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Grades:
4th - 7th
SMART goal template
* Now with some small upgrades such as lines for students to fill in. Using the Learning Progressions students will be encourage to use this template to create their own learning goals.
Grades:
PreK - 8th
Diversity and Inclusion | Smoky Night Book Talk for Distance Learning
Create tolerant, accepting and empathetic children through book discussions that directly correlate to today's current events. Use the text to dig deeper with the following included items:11 discussion questions to dig deeper into the meaning of the text and find connections1 writing prompt to allow children to share their thoughts through words4 extension activities to do as a family or small group to show application of compassion and love!******************************************************
Grades:
K - 7th
FREE Halloween Skeleton Memory Match Game! Visual Discrimination
FREEBIE ALERT! Have some Halloween fun with your preschool and elementary students while working on strengthening their visual discrimination skills and memory! Say hello to some friendly little Halloween animal buddies! Have fun matching these holiday-themed cards. Start with a few and add more to increase the difficulty!These cards are self-correcting! Matching cards mean that this activity can be done INDEPENDENTLY! INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING:Twenty (20) Black and White Memory Match Cards formatt
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PreK - 2nd
Holiday Food Survey & Bar Graph (Thanksgiving, Christmas & More)
This product is designed to be an interactive assignment for the whole class, although variations may be made. The product includes a table listed the most favored foods at holiday times. The students are to each vote on their favorite food out of the choice, and the choices are tallied for each food. The tallies are combined for each choice and the percentage of students preferring each food are determined. The percentage of students preferring each food of the five are also determined as a
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Thanksgiving Sudoku Game Worksheets (easy & hard)
These are Sudoku puzzles made for Thanksgiving fun. Instead of numbers, we have used iconic Thanksgiving symbols. We have included a 6x6 easy-to-teach as well as a harder 6x6. Then there are two 9x9 Sudoku that are easy and harder. We have also included a set of symbols for students who prefer markers over drawing the symbol in the box. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us.Also, check our store later in the month for more holiday Sudoku puzzles, like Christmas and Hanukkah!T
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Grades:
2nd - 10th
Take a Look into Pioneer Life Through Quilts
Quilts were an important part of life for pioneers. By looking at the patchwork patterns they designed and named, much can be learned about their lives. The Ingalls family from the Little House on the Prairie books were pioneers, and references to their everyday lives, within the context of patchwork designs, makes history come alive in a unique and meaningful way.Patchwork designs are a great teaching tool for fractions too, as well as providing opportunities to explore your own sense of cre
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Pumpkin Pie Problems (Fraction Story Problems)
Students draw slices of pumpkin pie into fractions from story problems. The worksheet is outline art that can be colored by students and provides a structured math activity perfect for the days leading up to Thanksgiving. This worksheet satisfies Common Core Standard Number and Operations - Fractions MACC.5.NF.2.3. Thanks for looking! Happy Thanksgiving!
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3rd - 5th, Adult Education
Cinderella Around the World
How different can stories about Cinderella or Little Red Riding Hood actually be? Students would be surprised. How about a crocodile in the Cinderella story? That is not what they expect.
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Exploring African Art
This worksheet guides students through the process of responding to art works, and using the abstract information that they discover to make inferences about the culture that produced them. It is works of art specifically from the African Savannah, and some specific to the Maasai tribe of Kenya and Tanzania.
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Money Class Crowns (headbands) Game {FREEBIE}
Similar to the game headbands- in this game students have to identify both the face and back side of quarters, nickels, dimes, pennies, golden dollars, fifty cent pieces, and dollar bills(1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100). There are different ways to play this game, it is perfect for both math and social studies! This game can be adjusted for any number of players and any grade level. It is great for learning about currency in social studies, and for adding money in math!
I have used it with my third
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PreK - 6th
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Mindful Mandala Coloring Book
This mini coloring book is the perfect PDF print-off for coloring pages for students. Whether it is a free choice option in your classroom or a lesson on contemporary art & design, your students will become engaged with the intricate designs and introduced to the concept of symmetry.
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Grades:
K - 12th
Aboriginal lessons Stage 2
This unit of work was developed to teach Aboriginal Education in a context outside the topic of British Colonisation. It is developed for a stage 2 class complying with the NSW syllabus, however, it can be easily adapted for any age and/or outcomes.
It uses the text "My Place" by Nadia Wheatley.
Included is;
3 lessons (relating to belonging, identity, Aboriginal perspectives)
A rational for implementing these teaching strategies and learning outcomes, relating to Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Dev
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
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Canada's Roadside Attractions: the Cultural, the Historical and the Unique
The world's biggest hockey stick (which resides up-island from Victoria) was in the news recently - the town is trying to sell it before it falls apart. Commissioned for Expo '86, which now seems lost in the mists of time, it's been affixed to Duncan's Cowichan Community Centre since 1988, and, as the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. This piece of Canadiana got me thinking about all the other 'world's biggest' attractions scattered throughout our country. This product would be a
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Grades:
4th - 5th
Put it Over Dey! Trinidadian Christmas Sorting/Lift-the-Flap Activity
Black ink-only + your kid's best color combos will make this sorting and lift-the-flap activity festive and fun! Use what you have on hand and give this craft to your kids to foster the Christmas spirit within them ❤️
Grades:
1st - 5th
Journal Prompts - Monday Wow!
Connect with your students using weekly videos found online and this FREE "Monday Wow!" document template! Simply watch, write, and discuss! Perfect for any classroom at any age...
* Students view motivational videos every Monday and then journal to reflect upon their learning experiences!
* Connects directly with character building!
* Can be used as a mini-lesson, bell-ringer, or homeroom activity!
* A great student discussion tool!
* Easy to use! Students create positive writing habit
Grades:
2nd - 12th, Higher Education
Coloring pages to teach equality.
Are you teaching a lesson that includes prejudices, stereotyping and racism? Are you looking for ways to teach your students about treating others equally? Check out these coloring pages and quotes to teach that everybody should be treated equally and with dignity no matter their race, gender, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation and age. In this product, you will receive: 6 coloring pages each with a powerful quote to support this topic.Thank you for your interest in this topic! P
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Fowl Fall Fractions (Turkey Fractions)
Students read directions and make drawings of feathers and a top-hat on turkeys. They color and pattern the feathers in common fractions from 1/6th to 1/2. The first 2 turkeys are fully instructed with the last being a choice-based exercise. The worksheet title and turkey graphics are outline art that can be colored to student taste. This is the perfect activity for the day or two before Thanksgiving where a medium structure allows for both fun and learning. The activity meets Common Core S
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3rd - 5th, Adult Education
Fun Peace Day activities
What can be better than to start a Peace Day lesson with a smile? International Day of Peace is celebrated all over the world on the 21st of September. Teaching children about peace means raise awareness about life with happiness, negotiation, harmony, inner-peace, respect for each other, protecting peaceful life and environment, living in a friendly relationship with neighbors, and much more. I was thinking about activities that can be useful to build a culture of peace before starting to creat
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Preview of my Culturally Responsive Morning Meeting
This Video is a preview of my Culturally Responsive Morning Meeting. A picture is worth 1,000 words therefore use powerful pictures to have powerful morning meeting discussions. This powerpoint contains over 80 pictures with prompts to discuss with your students. -Morning Message is an important way to create a warm, welcoming classroom community. Morning meeting is the perfect time to teach acceptance and talk about diversity. -Cultural responsive teaching is having those difficult conversation
Grades:
PreK - 1st
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