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Perspective Taking Comic Strip Distance Learning Growing Bundle!!
This Growing Bundle has my best selling comic strip conversations interactive activities. They are designed for distance learning and engaging children. Interactive comic strips are great for perspective taking, inferencing, and story analysis. Guided questions included!It works similarly to a wordless picture book, but a wordless video! Watch together, then have the child retell. Type their words onto the comic strip and watch the magic happen.Share your screen with your student and view the cu
Grades:
1st - 12th
Community Service Passion Project
Are you in charge of organizing a community service project for your students or school community? ****************************************************************************************************************Would you like your students to connect their passions with community groups and service? ****************************************************************************************************************This Step by step guide will allow your students to combine their passions with local c
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Community Service PLAN Worksheet
Students brainstorm a community service project idea using this worksheet including specific questions under WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, and HOW categories to help them plan their project to implement. I also sell a PowerPoint template that students can use to present their community service idea to the class: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Community-Service-Project-PowerPoint-Template-903607
Grades:
5th - 12th
The Blind Side: Movie Analysis
We all must admit that kids love movies. A movie analysis is an effective educational strategy that influences the building of a culturally diverse community that does not limit itself to the classroom and traditional classroom resources. When the classroom becomes the community, learners are empowered and higher levels of critical thinking are reached. Nothing is more effective than the study of the many issues in The Blind Side. Various activities are included in this package, including a proj
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5th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Design Your Own Home - Architecture Unit
Students learn the basic stages of designing a house, from planning to final design, in this two week unit. Critical thinking plays a large role in this activity. The unit has a strong emphasis on the preliminary planning stages of designing a home: spaces that are necessary vs. those that are amenities; defining public vs. private spaces; room locations and relationships; and working within a square footage budget. Just as an architect does, students will develop a preliminary floor plan, refin
Grades:
6th - 12th
Project Based Learning: Editable Cookbook Template in Google Slides
Wow your students (and their parents) with this interactive and completely editable cookbook template. The benefit of using this template is it's collaborative nature. Google slides is an amazing program that allows collaboration on a single document - meaning the whole class gets to take part. This product includes many different page templates as well as instructional slides on how to make any custom edits! We hope you enjoy :) What kind of skills will this build in my classroom? Writing and s
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3rd - 8th
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Executive Functioning Skills PowerPoint
What are executive functioning skills? Defines and explains how these critical thinking and problem-solving skills are essential to managing daily tasks, how they help us plan and manage time, control our emotions, organize, self-monitor, remember details, switch focus, and initiate new projects. These executive functions may be impaired in children with ADD and ADHD, but they can and should be taught. Includes strategies to use when teaching children to improve their executive functioning skill
Grades:
5th - 8th, Staff
Logic Puzzles Human Geography
Extend your geography lesson plans with these 5 table logic puzzles geared for 5th to 7th grade students. Use these deductive reasoning logic puzzles as a jumping off point for extension ideas that explore:Factory Wage EarningsLiteracy RatesLife Expectancy and Population Densities. We've taken critical thinking activities to a whole new level by integrating content-area facts with fun brain teasers. Whether you need a time filler, a homework assignment, an activity for an early finisher, or an e
Grades:
3rd - 8th
NO PREP! Get to Know Your World!--A Geography Mystery Centers Activity
Map reading can be a tricky skill to master but these geo mystery centers can help! The learning centers in this packet target important geography skills and concepts in an engaging format. Each center includes instructions to create a self-directed learning experience for your students. This set can be used as centers or stations for groups or individual students, or printed as a packet for small groups or individual assignment. Use it all at once or break it into pieces to introduce each regio
Grades:
4th - 9th
Doing Good: A Compassion Education Curriculum
Description Doing Good is a unique, ten-unit curriculum intended to teach young people about problems facing the world, about caring for others, and about getting involved and making the world a better place. The curriculum starts by teaching youth about gratitude and being more appreciative of what they have, then moves into activities which focus in on the themes of empathy and compassion for others while at the same time introducing kids to some of the biggest problems facing the world, incl
Grades:
8th - 12th
Trouble at Bill Hunter Lake Park
Trouble at Bill Hunter Lake Park can be for grades 8 through 12. Evaluating whether a deer population exists. How many deer is too many and how many should we have? Consider and advocate for varying opinions on how an over abundant deer population should be managed during a simulated local Ministry Board of Directors meeting with locals and then vote. Town citizens are getting very frustrated and going to use their own methods of control if something is done about it. The local Ministry Board of
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Ethical and Moral Scenarios for Discussion
This activity includes five detailed, moral scenarios relevant to high school students across multiple disciplines. I usually employ it cooperatively: Each group is assigned one of the scenarios, and after each group's presentation of its choices, other groups have the opportunity to weigh in, but this product is also useful when employed individually. I have used this in conjunction with teaching the novel, Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, but it is also appropriate as an introduction to an
Grades:
6th - 12th
Christmas Binary Code
Elevate your child's creativity and innovation with our enchanting Christmas-themed binary code book. It fosters problem-solving, computer understanding, vocabulary building, and artistic expression, making it the perfect gift for budding tech-savvy innovators. Watch their confidence grow as they decode, color, and expand their vocabulary from A to Z.What Benefits Do Kids Gain at the End of This Book?Christmas Vocabulary from A to Z:Discover a treasure trove of Christmas-themed words from A to Z
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
An introduction to Germany Escape Room/ WebQuest
New Digital Version now availableTry it out here:https://view.genial.ly/5f04c16980f7af0d99101585A web-based activity to introduce students to German geography and culture and first German words. Unlike other webquests, students here use internet research to solve puzzles and codes while learning about Germany. It also does not require any printing as all answers are entered and checked in the webpage.Ideal activity at the beginning of a course in German language or European geography or as a fun
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: German Escape Rooms
3 fun & Educational Mardi Gras Binary Coding Challenges for Kids
This wonderful book "Mardi Gras Binary Challenges"contains three exciting coding challenges, each designed at its own unique and different level of fun and learning. After conquering each level, children will gain a special skill to help them breeze through the next challenge. This approach ensures a deeper understanding and enhances their coding skills. Additionally, there is a guide to help children through every level, offering helpful tools to make their adventure a breezeEach challenge is c
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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
Service Learning- A Complete Guide!
This set is your complete guide to start and complete service learning projects in your class!
This set includes:
Directions for how to implement, teach, and guide service learning.
Graphic organizer pages for every step of the process for your students.
Assessments and grading rubrics.
Inspirational ideas and an example list of projects I've completed with my students!
Grades:
2nd - 9th
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Luau Games, Activities for SEL, Brain Breaks, Puzzles & Games, Classroom Party
Get ready to add some Hawaiian flair to your classroom with Luau Games - the perfect way to engage your students and teach them important skills in a fun and interactive way! This set includes 2 I-Spy games, a word search, a word scramble, ciphers, This or That, Guess What Zoomed Image, Finish the Phrase, and A-Z - all with a Hawaiian Luau theme. Two sizes 8.5x11 and paper saving 5x7.The I-Spy games are perfect for helping students develop their observation skills, as they search for and identif
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Grades:
4th - 12th
Service Learning Unit and Project
A 5 day teaching unit on Service Learning with a project extension and articles. Your students will:• Gain a better understanding of diverse cultures and communities.• Connect with members in their own community.• Learn more about social issues and the root causes of the issues at hand.• Develop strong leadership, collaboration and communication skills.• Obtain an opportunity to act on a value or belief.• See how content learned in the classroom is applied in the real world.• Realize that they c
Grades:
3rd - 9th
Radial Symmetry Lesson, Islamic Tile Design (Slides)
These slides introduce the art traditionally found in Islamic tiles (including an introduction to Islam), relief printmaking, mathematical concepts (translations and rotations), types of shapes (geometric vs organic), and color schemes. Use these slides along with my free resource (Islamic Tile Design- notes and templates). This presentation has 30 slides.
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Geography Center Activity: Countries, Capitals and Cities Match - Bundle
Geography Center: Countries, Capitals and Cities Match - Bundle is a fun, matching activity designed to improve or reinforce knowledge of capitals and major cities of countries.*HIGHLY RECOMMMENDED TO USE ALONGSIDE AN ATLAS!*In many cases, the capital city of a country is not the most populated city within a country. This resource assists in helping students to not only learn and become familiar with major cities of countries but also to acknowledge that the city they may know best when they thi
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Grades:
5th - 12th
Workplace Diversity - Supervising Across Language Barriers - PPt and Worksheets
Your students will find this interactive lesson full of information that will help them understand diversity, cultural differences, languague barriers and their responsibilities around this in the workplace.The packet contains a powerpoint presentation, worksheets to fill out and Teacher Notes. The formats are ppt, word and pdf. Fully editable in case changes are needed to suit differing audiences.Our workplaces are made up of many different races, cultures and languages. This often creates comm
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Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Business Communication Skills Workplace Bundle 1 - fully editable
When is it appropriate to laugh? Discussion Cards
Do you have students with pragmatic or social skills challenges? These cards present scenarios that students can talk about and decide whether it is appropriate to laugh or not. They can also talk about what they should do.
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Grades:
1st - 12th
Drawing Picasso Portraits - Digital Task Cards
About This Lesson:
Use as a supplement to teaching students about the characteristics of Picasso’s Cubist portraits. This activity offers a hands-on approach to the elements of what Cubist painters sought to accomplish.
Not only does it teach in the area of art but students get a step-by-step drawing lesson, line for line, in a timed fashion. It’s a lesson in focusing, using time efficiently, and following directions while acquiring basic drawing skills by copying work by a master artist. Eve
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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