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11th grade Back to School drama simulations
Marshmallow Team Building: A Back to School Activity for First Day of School
Whether you’re headed back to school or starting a new unit, this team building exercise will get kids engaged and excited about being in your classroom. The Marshmallow Team Building exercise helps teachers establish a classroom atmosphere of teamwork and sets the tone for a fun, high energy class!Here's what you need: a whole lotta marshmallows, a box of toothpicks, and some Clorox wipes! :-) Set your classroom up for the first day so that students are working in teams to build eight differ
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5th - 12th, Staff
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A Raisin in the Sun: End of Play Escape Room {9-12 ELA}
A Raisin in the Sun ends with a lot of questions, but one question I like to post to the students is, where did that scoundrel Willy Harris run off to? Using this interactive, high-energy Escape Room, your class will transform into the Chicago Police Headquarters and work in teams to track down Willy Harris and the money he stole from Walter Younger.Want to see the Escape Room in action? Head on over to my Instagram page and watch my Escape Room highlights!The Setup:Your classroom becomes CPD
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: A Raisin in the Sun: Complete Unit Bundle {Digital & Print Included}
Ordering in a Restaurant ROLE PLAYS for Adult ESL
Ordering in a Restaurant is the perfect role-play resource tool to help your adult ESL students navigate American restaurant English with confidence.Do your students find themselves reduced to pointing at items on a menu and struggling to respond to the server's questions? With this, you can empower your students to politely request their favorite dishes in restaurant English. (It's the difference between "May I have the pasta" and "I'll have the pasta.")The included role-play scripts are carefu
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Role Plays for Adult ESL bundle 1
Back to School REVERSE Escape Room: Candy Land-Inspired Break IN to ANY Class!
The only thing sweeter than summer break? Knowing that you’ve got a game-changing activity in store for the first days back. Kick your new school year off with a REVERSE escape room -- which is *SO. MUCH. BETTER.* than the traditional approach of “hi! Now let’s waste 40 minutes reading the syllabus" and “Let’s Do Some Super Awkward Icebreakers!” approach to a traditional course introduction. Introduce course routines, cool tech tools, and classroom procedures to start your class year off with a
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5th - 12th
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Stranded: Island survival icebreaker/team-building
Thieving monkeys. Angry ghosts. And there's SOMETHING in the jungle. Can YOU survive the island until help arrives?Many students have played the classic critical thinking game in which they prioritize a list of items to survive on a remote tropical island. But there's two major drawbacks of this original version. First, most of these games reward a clear preference for certain items ("What do you mean you didn't take the compass?"). Second, the game basically ends as soon as the students m
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
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Pre and AP Spanish Speed Dating | Citas Rápidas | ¡SOY YO! | Interpersonal Speak
CLICK HERE TO SEE A VIDEO PREVIEW!THE PERSPECTIVE: Are you looking for a strategy to engage your intermediate and mid intermediate students, break the ice AND practice Interpersonal Speaking by expressing and elaborating ideas in 20 seconds? ¡Para Aquí! THE PRACTICE: Citas Rápidas: ¡SOY YO! is a proven strategy for incorporating interpersonal speaking into your curriculum. Allow students to feel comfortable by starting slowly, allowing previous practice in pairs and small groups. As an entir
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Crucible Introductory Activity: Salem Cold Case Mystery Activity
Perfect for introducing The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, this three-day activity is the Salem Witch Hunt edition to the popular Cold Case File game. It encourages collaboration, critical thinking, and inference skills. This introduction activity puts your students in the shoes of Arthur Miller when creating the drama The Crucible based on this mark on America's History. This innovative lesson puts students in the driver's seat of their learning. They will analyze 14 pieces of historically accurat
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
High Engagement Murder Mystery Classroom Activity! (Murder at the Dance)
This "whodunit" style classroom murder mystery game will have your students collecting and evaluating information, making inferences, identifying red herrings, practicing speaking and listening skills and so much more! This activity will have your students' full attention as they try to find the "killer" at the homecoming dance. This interactive activity includes all necessary pieces to run your own murder mystery game in the classroom!Setting the Scene: During the homecoming dance, the dead bod
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7th - 12th
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Animated Traditional Cursive SmartBoard Upper and Lowercase
Your students will love this interactive SmartBoard Cursive lesson. It contains 52 pages of animated upper and lowercase letters. While your students are practicing their cursive at their seats, keep the animation going on the SmartBoard so they can check their own progress.
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2nd - 12th, Adult Education
Classroom CLUE Back to School REVERSE Escape Room: Break IN to ANY Class!
Ready to solve the mystery of back to school engagement? Put the power of old-school detective work to use for this game-changing activity for your first days back. Kick your new school year off with a REVERSE escape room -- which is *SO. MUCH. BETTER.* than the traditional approach of “hi! Now let’s waste 40 minutes reading the syllabus" and “Let’s Do Some Super Awkward Icebreakers!” approach to a traditional course introduction. Introduce course routines, cool tech tools, and classroom procedu
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5th - 12th
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Jamestown Colony and the New World Primary Source Play With Worksheet
Jamestown Colony and the New World Primary Source Play With Worksheet
This fantastic, amusing worksheet includes a short scene from a play called "Eastward Hoe" that was performed in England in 1604. In the scene, a captain tells them all sorts of outlandish lies to entice two men to move to Virginia.
This is a great activity to have your students act out in class! My students loved this and even used some hilarious British accents to add to the scene. It is a fantastic way to introduce stude
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7th - 11th
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"Find the Witch!" A Salem Witch Trials Role-Playing Activity
Synopsis of activity:This role-playing activity is meant to simulate the uncertainty and fear that gripped the town of Salem, Massachusetts during the infamous Witch Trials. The activity involves holding a “town meeting” for the purpose of identifying who is “the witch.” This activity is fun and brings high energy to the classroom.This activity is a great companion to a history lesson on the Salem Witch Trials or with an ELA unit on Arthur Miller’s The Crucible.Materials included:*Instructions f
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8th - 12th
A Raisin in the Sun REVERSE Escape Room! Break IN to the Play with Monopoly!
The explosive drama of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" meets the most contentious family board game of all time, AND students learn about the historical injustice of redlining and racial segregation while teams compete to break IN to a new unit of study in a REVERSE escape room, teaching themselves and one another by solving asynchronous BYOD puzzles in a race against their peers and the clock.
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I've had a ton of fun designing and implementing themed escape rooms in my H
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9th - 12th
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Wizard's Quidditch Back to School REVERSE Escape Room! Break IN to ANY Class!
Ready to say “expelliarmus!” to the traditional “Death by Syllabus” and the “Let’s Do Some Super Awkward Icebreakers!” approach to a course introduction? Rather than snoozing through the same routine you’ve endured in countless other classes, start your class year off with a wizarding twist. Ready to take flight? Jump start your new school year with a game-changing small group activities approach to back to school basics for ANY COURSE OR GRADE LEVEL. Introduce course routines, cool tech tools,
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5th - 12th
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M&M Color Theory- Lighting Activities
Give your students a fun and tasty activity while learning the physics of color theory! Stage Lighting Design affects pigments of color in costume and scenery, and occasionally makeup and props. Let them learn about the affects of lighting color and pigment color using M&Ms (or skittles for some). In addition, I added a second activity to analyze, discuss, and reflect as a lighting designer for Broadway shows choosing colors to use onstage. This assignment has 2 worksheets for the student ac
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6th - 12th
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CLASS IS LAVA! Gamify ANY Syllabus for ANY Class or Content Area
Look out below! Today we’re kicking off a full year of adventure to prepare for an action-packed class that you’ll never forget. Which team will reign supreme!?Your goal is to work with your teammates to successfully navigate your way through a series of challenges scattered throughout the classroom, collecting all ten items of furniture as you go! You can explore these locations in any order that you’d like.Picture this: it's the first day back in your classroom! Do you go the traditional "two
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5th - 12th
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Zombie-Themed Back to School REVERSE Escape Room! Break IN to ANY Class!
Ready to transform any sleepy syllabus and get your students BRAaAAaAaaains engaged from the very first day of class? Say goodbye to the “Death by Syllabus” and the “Super Awkward Icebreakers!” approach to welcome back activities with bleary eyed rooms full of student zombies! Rather than snoozing through the same routine you’ve endured in countless other classes, start your year off right with a slapstick cartoonish undead-themed adrenaline rush. No gore or guns -- just growth mindset in action
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5th - 12th
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The Salem Witch Trials Bundle: Station Activity AND Role-Playing Simulation
These two products can extend or enhance any social studies lesson on the Salem Witch Trials or can be great companions to an ELA or Drama unit on Arthur Miller's The Crucible. These are fun and engaging activities which will stimulate your students.
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8th - 12th
High Engagement Murder Mystery & Whodunit Classroom Activities GROWING BUNDLE!
These "whodunit" style classroom murder mystery games will have your students collecting and evaluating information, making inferences, identifying red herrings, practicing speaking and listening skills and so much more! This activity will have your students' full attention as they try to find the "killer" or "culprit" at the homecoming dance or winter formal. These interactive activities include all necessary pieces to run your own murder mystery or whodunit game in the classroom!Murder at the
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7th - 12th
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High Engagement Christmas WHODUNIT Classroom Activity! (Winter Themed Mystery)
This winter "whodunit" style classroom mystery game will have your students collecting and evaluating information, making inferences, identifying red herrings, practicing speaking and listening skills and so much more this Christmas season! This activity will have your students' full attention as they try to find the "culprit" after the winter dance. This interactive activity includes all necessary pieces to run your own murder mystery-type game in the classroom! Setting the Scene: Every year, t
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7th - 12th
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Government Civics Role Play Mock Trial Pizza Murder
Revised 03/26/2020. Guidelines and instructions for a mock criminal trial, to aid in learning the workings of our American judicial system—a fun civics lesson. From this simple scenario, the teacher may assign roles to at least ten students, but up to 26, based upon the enclosed participant guides. Students may add to the story and provide their own evidence.*The Participant Guides have been revised to include a forensics expert as an essential participant. A list of props is also provided and a
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8th - 11th
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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
Dinosaur Park-Inspired Back to School REVERSE Escape Room! Break IN to ANY Class
Ready to transform any sleepy syllabus and make a (pre)historic first impression for the new school year? Eat the traditional “Death by Syllabus” and the “Let’s Do Some Super Awkward Icebreakers!” approach to a course introduction for lunch! Rather than snoozing through the same routine you’ve endured in countless other classes, start your year off with dino-sized adrenaline rush. The Park is now open!Jump start your new school year with a high-energy small group activities approach to back to s
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5th - 12th
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Classroom Economy Bundle
Elevate financial education in your classroom with our comprehensive Classroom Economy Bundle! With over 40 interactive pages, students will learn practical financial skills, experience real-life simulations, and engage in rewarding decision-making. Fostering a positive classroom culture and preparing students for their financial future has never been easier. Order your bundle today and empower financial growth in your students!Resource Format: Google Docs, Google Slides, and PDF's What's Includ
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5th - 12th
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