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Free high school critical thinking writing-essays games
Maze Run Escape Room Logic Puzzle Game Challenge Activities Freebie Pack No Prep
Maze Run Escape Room Puzzles provide a fun brain boosting challenge for students. Great for School Party Activities, Puzzle Competitions, Extra Credit, Individual or Team Building Activities! These escape room games are designed to help exercise problem-solving, critical thinking, and focusing skills. It is a great way to keep the students busy and help build/improve essential skills. There are 4 Fun Unique Levels of the Maze Run to choose from. Each level is different and as the levels increase
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Word Search Mini Escape Room Puzzle Game Pack - No Prep Easel Activity Freebie
This fun mini-word search escape room activity is great for individual skill building or team building. This quality word search escape room puzzle is designed to be as one escape room activity or can be combined with other escape room activities that may work with this type of puzzle.A great way to expand your escape room adventure! It is a 3 in 1 Puzzle Escape Room. A fun way to help exercise students’ problem-solving, critical thinking, and focusing skills. Great to help keep students busy wh
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Law & Order: Sentence Structure Unit - Fun Test-Prep Review Game
A fun way to get students to practice and develop their knowledge of sentence structure, sentence types, and common sentence errors. It's a great activity for test prep and review, holidays, the last day or week of school, or other filler days.
I usually hate "test prep." But let's be honest: we all want to review a bit before sending our students into spring state tests to make sure they can do their best. "Law & Order: SSU" is a fun, interactive way for students to review what they know a
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6th - 12th
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The Road to Regulation - Zones of Regulation Board Game
An interactive board game to help reinforce The Zones of Regulation.Players take turns rolling a dice and moving their piece (not included) down the track. When they land on their square, they must pick up a card of the same colour and answer it for the group. Each set of cards focuses on a different Zone of Regulation and offers prompts, questions or role-play situations that the players must navigate on their Road to Regulation.
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K - 9th
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FREE Think Outside the Box Winter Doodle | Social Emotional Learning
Are you looking for an engaging morning meeting activity? Think outside the box Thursday is the creative WINTER solution you're looking for! ...or grab the growing bundle and get all the prompts!These 20 creative drawing prompts use half of a "common" winter image to prompt your students to create an outside the box picture! This Doodle activity works great for a warm-up, morning work, morning meeting activity, crew or advisory time, early finisher activities, or a sub plan day. As you go Back t
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2nd - 12th
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Also included in: Spanish Winter Resource Bundle
Escape the Classroom: A Pirate Adventure! (Digital Breakout, Escape Room)
Engage your students with this editable, digital breakout using Google Forms! Scenario:“Pirates have sailed into your school and have taken your teacher hostage! You and your classmates try to run after the pirates, but they locked the door behind them! You are trapped inside! You notice a small leather bag on the floor that must have fallen off the waist of one of the pirates during all the commotion. Search through the bag, solve the puzzles, and escape the classroom before your teacher walks
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4th - 9th
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Easy Sudoku Puzzle Freebie Starter Bundle No Prep Worksheet
This starter bundle introduces students to the world of Sudoku with fun and easy to learn 4 by 4 grid puzzles arranged in single or double per worksheet. Grayscale and Colored puzzles are included. This ready to print no prep free beginner's puzzle packet provides how-to-play instructions, fun easy-level puzzles to help spark up and exercise brain strengthening math, critical thinking, and problem solving skills. Instructions are included along with an answer key.This 4x4 Easy Sudoku Starter Bun
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Essay Writing ESCAPE ROOM Activity (Parts of an Essay) FREE!
This FREE essay activity is a sample activity from my Essay Writing Escape Room! This activity reviews the parts of an essay in a fun, engaging way!
This activity would be appropriate for:
• Elementary students who need essay writing experience
• Middle school students who need essay writing guidance
• High school students who need essay writing practice
Note: Aside from the materials that you would already have in your classroom, no additional supplies are needed! This escape room-style gam
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5th - 10th
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Murder Mystery Escape Room
This is one of my non-content escape rooms. Students will need to mainly use logical thinking to solve the puzzles. Students should be divided into teams of 3-4 to complete it in a group. There is no prep required aside from perhaps a set of scissors for each group of students. You will want to separate and print the files into two packets. All of the Part I files and all of the Part II files should be combined together. Be sure not to include the answer key for each part.Students start
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9th - 12th
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Murder Mystery: The Case of the Unfortunate Acrobat
The year is 1885. A raucous crowd has gathered to enjoy a thrilling night at the circus, but suddenly, tragedy strikes! A talented trapeze artist freezes in midair and falls to her death. Foul play is immediately suspected, but who among the performers and the audience members would have reason to kill? Download a series of letters, witness statements and mysterious coded messages, then challenge your students to work together to find the means, method and motive of the killer. Includes six
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7th - 12th
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ELA Games & Activities Fun FREEBIE
These fun ELA games and activities are vital in your teacher toolkit and sub plans for Friday afternoon and other dire emergencies. Build classroom community and class spirit! There are team games, games for individuals, writing activities, silly speeches and riddles to solve. If you and your students enjoy these freebie frolics, it would be wonderful if you could write a quick review ! The pages are drawn from a combo of two resources:ELA Games Grades 5-8ELA Games grades 9-12If your students l
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: CHRISTMAS BRAIN TEASER ACTIVITIES FUN Grades 5-8
Critical Thinking Mystery Activity: The Break-In
In this fun mystery activity, students have to follow the clues to figure out why criminals broke into a store, but took nothing! Why did this happen? What's the real crime? This is a great way to teach and practice critical thinking skills as your students practice their reading skills and use their logic skills.Also available as a PowerPoint presentation or Google Slides.What is a Clue by Clue Mystery?It's a great warm-up, filler, or time killer for early finishers. Students are given a myster
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
A Game for Small Group Discussions: Who Would You Hire? (a scenario)
A fun small group collaborative discussion activity - especially for Back-to-School! How it works: Group members imagine they are hotel managers who have the task of hiring someone for a front desk position. Eight candidates were interviewed. Each small group has to go through the list and agree on who they would hire. Bonus: After sharing their final choice, students will learn about the opinion of a real-life hotel owner/manager. All handouts are included: Detailed Instructions, Hotel Hiring S
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6th - 10th
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Art Critique with Ping Pong Balls • Easy Art Activity to Talk About Art
To make art critiques more enjoyable and engaging, I have compiled a list of 32 art critique questions that can be written on ping-pong balls. Simply write the questions on the balls, place them in a bucket or plastic container, and have your students pick one at random to answer. With these simple steps, you're all set to make your art critiques more entertaining and interactive.Hint: If you need to make the label for the container smaller, adjust the % in your printer settings; for example, ma
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3rd - 10th
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Also included in: Elements of Art & Principles of Design BUNDLE
Free Christmas Escape Room, Cracking the Christmas Code, Middle, High School
⭐ Test out an escape room for free with this 2-lock trial escape! ⭐ In this Free Christmas Escape Room you have just finished your Christmas shopping, and you head back home, excited to unwind. As you drive along the snowy roads, you think of a large mug of hot cocoa and a crackling fire. Suddenly, you receive a cryptic text message urging you to hurry home. You wonder what all the secrecy is about and continue to drive. ⭐ You better get going! The sooner you crack the code, the sooner you'll ge
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7th - 12th, Staff
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FREE! Virtual Escape Room: Marine Biome Edition (Escape the Zoo Ep.1)
About Escape Rooms in general:These escape rooms are an engaging and interactive way for students to learn problem-solving skills, critical thinking, and teamwork. It will require them to work together to solve puzzles and clues, fostering a sense of camaraderie and cooperation. It will also encourage students to think creatively and to approach problems from different angles, which is a valuable skill in any academic or professional setting. Give your students the opportunity to experience the
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3rd - 12th
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NGSS:
3-LS4-1
, MS-LS4-3
, MS-LS4-1
, 5-LS2-1
, 3-LS4-3
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Also included in: Virtual Escape Room Growing Bundle: Escape the Zoo (20% off!)
Frankenstein's Monster - Customizable PowerPoint Review Game
A fun way to get students to practice or review any concept in any subject at any grade level. It's a great activity for test prep and review, holidays, the last day or week of school, or other filler days.
NOTE: This product is also available as part of my Review Anything COMBO PACK ONE! In this combo pack, you'll get TWELVE different customizable review games!
During my first year of teaching, a mentor teacher passed on a great Jeopardy PowerPoint review game template. The menu animations an
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4th - 12th
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Hink Pinks Book Freebie, a Rhyming Words Game
A Hink Pink is a rhyming word riddle. A clue is given and the student must guess the pair of rhyming words. It's a fun and hilarious way to practice rhymes with students. Example: a rotund feline would be a...fat cat! This free digital download contains the a sample of 25 hink pinks from The Original Hink Pink, a book of 275 rhyming word riddles of varying difficulty. The Original Hink Pink is an invaluable tool for homeschool or traditional classroom setting. It's rhyme time! Download now!
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1st - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Holiday Picture Logic Puzzle: Color By Number
Sometimes called Pic-a-Pix or Paint By Numbers, this picture logic puzzle paints a snowy scene by using the numbers to intuit where groups of blocks should be filled in on the grid.
This snowflake themed activity is a perfect extra credit or fun-day activity for puzzle-loving students (and YOU too). I created the puzzle to have a difficulty rating of 'easy to moderate,' but it is fairly large and takes a while to get the hang of (if you are new to these), so make sure you allow ample time. Many
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5th - 12th
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SER vs ESTAR Game: Grammar Practice
Help your students practice the verbs SER and ESTAR with this engaging, individualized, and fun game! Great for beginners, mixed-level classrooms, or advanced students who need a review!
Using this game, the students will...
1. Reinforce subjects/ subject pronouns in Spanish
2. Review the present tense of SER
3. Review the present tense of ESTAR
4. Review the present progressive (using ESTAR)
5. Determine when to use each verb
6. Reinforce higher-level thinking skills
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7th - 12th
Finish the Picture
Finish the Picture is a fun way to get your students to engage with their creative side.
This activity will teach your students to free up their own thinking and value the diversity in the room.
There are 8 pages of 'Finish the Picture' included.
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PreK - 12th, Adult Education
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INTERNATIONAL DOT DAY | FREEBIE 9 Dot Puzzle | The Dot by Peter Reynolds
This FREE simple 9 Dot Puzzle Activity Sheet can be used for Dot Day on September 15th, or any other day you need a quick problem-solving activity to engage students at any age!Here's a link to a video of a solution: https://youtu.be/XrwnrpFVugw?si=YdbcOfGvpSWCOpChWhat 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 way of celebrating creativity, courage, and collaboration. The whole eve
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3rd - 12th
Word Puzzles, Ages 9+
This is a packet of five pairs of challenging word puzzles. They focus as much on logic and spatial reasoning as they do on vocabulary. This is an ideal activity for keeping students engaged in academic content that does not require an accompanying lesson plan. I developed this suite of packets specifically for use after the year's tests are completed; we have several generic math and science themed worksheets but very few English activities. This is ideal for keeping students engaged either aft
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4th - 12th
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FREEBIE: Snow Day Mad Lib
I don't know about your school, but we are on our 7th snow day! All of this time off has really messed with our instructional time. In order to hook my class back in, I've created a mad libs game to play before our lesson. Enjoy!
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4th - 12th, Staff
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