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Free middle school critical thinking literature projects
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Marshmallow Challenge Handout
This FREEBIE includes a color and black and white handout to provide to teams of students engaging in the Marshmallow Challenge activity. This activity is great to use as an icebreaker or to engage students in critical thinking, cooperative learning, and innovative thinking. It can also be used to reinforce basic principles of physics or as a fun math activity involving measurement.
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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FREE! Analyzing Theme: a common core essay for ANY novel
This essay is aligned with the common core standards and works as a final essay for any novel or fictional text. This essay asks students to analyze how the theme of the story emerges, how it is refined, and how it is fully developed by the end of the novel.
This download includes a student handout sheet with room for brainstorming, an essay outline, and a graphic organizer.
This essay is CCSS aligned and covers the below standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy W2a.b.c.d.e (grades 7-12)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy
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7th - 12th
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Google Slide Presentation Rubric
-Includes both Powerpoint Presentation and PDF Version
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6th - 12th
Exploring Point of View Through Poetry: "One Inch Tall" by Shel Silverstein
Student read and discuss the poem "One Inch Tall" by Shel Silverstein, noting the rhyme scheme, paraphrasing each stanza, and analyzing the speaker, their perspective, and ideas conveyed.
Then, students will write an original poem from the perspective of someone who is 15 Ft tall. they will use the planning sheets, the structure of Silverstein's poem, and a teacher model to create an original poem.
Documents Included:
-"One Inch Tall" by Shel Silverstein
-Poem Planning Sheet
-Poem Shell
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4th - 7th
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Greek Mythology Research Assignment
In this research assignment students research different gods, goddesses, creatures and humans from Greek Mythology. I had my students work individually at home and I had them pick names from a hat. You can have them work in groups and do it in class using laptops if you wish. Some of my students prepared PowerPoint presentations, some made posters and others just made a speech.
I started teaching the epic poem The Odyssey to my high school students and I found out that most of them had very lit
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6th - 12th
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Paper Airplane STEM challenge
Challenge students to build a paper airplane that can go at least go as far as possible. Building a Paper Airplane provides opportunities for investigation, team work, developing design skills and understanding the four forces of flight. ..................................................................................................................................................................Similar Resources:Parachute STEM challengePaper circuit activityAnemometer STEM challengeBalloon car
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: STEM BUNDLE (AIR based projects)
Literary Elements Review Activity for Any Text: Literary Theme Park (FREE)
This literary themed amusement park project is intended to be completed at the end of a text and has flexible usage. It can be completed independently, in partners, or small groups, and used with a whole class novel study, literature circles, book clubs, or even independent reading.Use this activity to review plot, setting. theme, conflict, characters, and symbolism in connection with any story, novel, or play. This fun activity makes for a great end of a unit or year project or summer reading a
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Novel Study Unit For Any Text - Print & Digital (Growing Bundle)
Novel Study Tic-Tac-Toe Student Choice Board Freebie
This Tic-Tac-Toe Student Choice Board can be used for any novel. It can be assigned for a whole-class novel study, book clubs, or independent novel reading. Students complete any three tasks from the choice board to create a straight line. Tasks are strategically placed to ensure a mix of visual and written tasks are completed. Resource includes a Teacher's Guide, Tic-Tac-Toe student handout, and Grading Rubric. Make a copy of this Google Slides file to your own Google Drive. It can be uploaded
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6th - 12th
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Free- 8 Great Final Projects for Any Novel Study
8 great ideas that can be used with any novel study at any grade level. Better than book reports, these ideas will have your students think more complexly about the characters, themes, nuances, and connections of the books. These project ideas are also found in the novel study for Touching Spirit Bear. If you like these ideas, you'll love the novel study! See it at Touching Spirit Bear- Journal Style Novel Study.We also have a similar novel study for Bud, Not Buddy, A Day No Pigs Would Die,
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6th - 9th
FREEBIE! - Book Project Choice Board with Rubrics
3/17/20: Hello! I noticed that purchases for this have increased over the last several days, likely due to school closures! :-( So, I have changed it to a FREEBIE: Please download and freely share this item!Stay healthy!JulianeGive students a choice on how they retell their understanding of a novel or story by using this 4 x 4 (16 choices) choice board. A few examples of the choices:- Create an illustrated timeline; include 4-7 main events from the story.- Create an interview with one of the cha
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3rd - 8th
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Fraction Family Flip book template pages
Fraction Flip Books that highlight fact families and equivalencies instead of order.
Fourth and Fifth grade teachers…. Stop making fraction books that put unit fractions in descending or ascending order. Instead, group those fractions in to families. Deeper learning and understanding occurs.
Folding paper strips provides for deeper understanding than when the teacher provides a strip already labeled. They see the connection between the fraction family unit fractions when they fold and label
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2nd - 7th
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*FREEBIE* Monthly Book Report Projects
*FREEBIE* These are Book Report Projects I have made to cover different genres: Historical Fiction, Informational Text, Mystery, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Biography, Folktales, Poetry and Realistic Fiction.
Students create the following: puppet show, newspaper, puzzle, gift bag project, comic strip, living museum, cereal box project, a scrapbook, and a message in a bottle.
Each project is completely different and fun for the kids, as well as educational. The projects all align with the Commo
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4th - 7th
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Creative Book Report or End-Of-Novel Project
Tired of grading endless book report essays? Need a break from those end-of-novel multiple choice exams and essay response?
This project allows student to choose their own projects that reflect not only their comprehension of the novel/play, but require them to think deeper on characters and writing choices of the author without them realizing it.
I love doing this activity with my students toward the end of the year, when we are burned out from testing and practice.
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8th - 12th
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Career Exploration 2-5-8 Projects
15 differentiated assessment projects for middle and high school career exploration class. Students complete two projects to equal 100 points. Each project is either worth 20, 50 or 80 points depending on the complexity of the projects. Students can choose an easy (20 point) project and a more complex project (80 points) to total 100 or can choose to do two 50 point projects. Project products include students creating posters, children's picture books, creating a quiz, conduct an interview,
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7th - 10th
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Symbolism Scrapbook! Novel Project for THE GIVER or ANY Class Novel
Symbolism Scrapbook! Novel Project for THE GIVER or ANY Class Novel
Symbolism Scrapbook includes the Think Sheet which guides students through planning their scrapbook and a rubric for grading. For information on how I used this in my classroom, view my blog post about it, which includes lots of student samples!
Feel free to take this and adapt it to any novel. I think The Giver is perfect because it's so rich in symbolism and a great mentor text for teaching this author's craft!
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5th - 12th
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Book Project Report Packet - Ideas, Prep Sheet, Rubric
Book Projects are a fun alternative to book reports! Included in this free download is a Book Project Ideas Booklet, a Student Prep Sheet, and a Teacher's Rubric. You can adjust all the files as you please because they come in Microsoft Word 2016 format.The booklet has 19 ideas and a brief description of each idea. The Prep Sheet lays out the expectations and guidelines for an excellent presentation. The Rubric is modeled after the expectations written on the student prep sheet.This packet was s
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2nd - 7th
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End of the Year Interactive Book Report: FREE
This FREE End of the Year Book Report is just what you need to keep your students focused, on-task, and having fun in these last weeks of school! Students can read ANY novel, and then color, write, cut, paste, and design their own Interactive Book Report!Each student will need one file folder or a large (11x17 or larger) piece of construction paper, folded into thirds. Then, away they go - reading, writing, designing and publishing!I hope this freebie finds your students happily busy, and you wi
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2nd - 6th
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Fun Book Reports - Paper Bag Book Report
This is a fun freebie! Students do the written portion of the book report on the outside of a large grocery bag, and then place five items inside the bag to symbolize main characters, setting or events from the book. Students love these!!
Enjoy,
Shari Bithell
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3rd - 9th
NOVEL STUDY FINAL PROJECT FOR ANY NOVEL
Use this week-long final project packet at the end of any novel study or unit. The easy to follow guide is perfect for a student-led project in middle or high school.ENJOY NO PREP NOVEL STUDIES: LESSON PLANS & HANDOUTSChildren of Blood and BoneShilohTo Kill a MockingbirdThe GiverHEART OF DARKNESSGreat GatsbyCatcher in the RyeA Wrinkle in TimeTheir Eyes Were Watching GodTupac & DfosterAmong the HiddenBluishRumble FishTears of a TigerRaisin in the SunDiscovering Wes MooreOf Mice and MenAut
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3rd - 10th
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STEM Activity Challenge Levitating ping pong ball 6th - 8th grade
STEM Middle School Classroom ProjectStudents will work in groups to discover the phenomenon that occurs when a ping pong ball is placed above a straw and air is blown through the straw. Most people would expect the ping-pong ball to fly up and off to the side—but it doesn't. Due to Bernoulli's Principle, the ball will hover in the air above the straw. This project can end with a demonstration using a shop-vac or hairdryer with a ping-pong ball that will produce the same interesting results.***If
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: STEM Activity Challenges 16 Pack #1 (Middle School)
Minecraft STEM Activities and Challenges Freebie
Here’s a creative and fun STEM Activity FREEBIE to share and show just how exciting STEM Challenges can be in a Competitive Classroom Setting! These Outta the Box Classroom Competition Challenges can be done on a Fun Friday or within the week during your science block. This hands on building challenge is part of GATER Educator's "Outta the Box Classroom Competitions". The theme of the full OTB Classroom Competion is “MINECRAFT: Survival Mode”. For this activity students will read tidbits of info
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: MINECRAFT Activities Bundle
"The Tell Tale Heart" Figurative Language Scavenger Hunt
There is a ton of figurative language in "The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe! This allows you to have students match the figurative language terms, identify examples, and then choose one example and make it come to life!Note: You need to make a copy of the file that is located in the eye. I cannot share it with your students.
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6th - 12th
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STEM Activity Challenge - Lava Lamps (Middle School)
STEM Middle School Classroom ProjectIn this S.T.E.M lab, students will work in groups to make a lava lamp from a water bottle. After filling the water bottle with oil, water, and food coloring, students will drop some effervescent tablets in and watch their creation come to life! This is a quite simple project for middle schoolers, but it's lots of fun.***If you are interested in a differentiated version of this resource for grades K-8, please click here.This STEM Activity Challenge includes te
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: STEM Activity Challenges 16 Pack #2 (Middle School)
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