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Problem solving simulations for Microsoft PowerPoint
Characteristics of Living Things Interactive PowerPoint AND Case Studies
Fun, animated review of the material as well as TWO case studies exploring the characteristics of life. Students journey to Europa, where they must analyze samples for the presence of life. In the second case study, students discover the tobacco mosaic virus.
This extremely fun PowerPoint was created to get kids thinking! No more simple lectures centered around listing the shared characteristics of life - your students will be putting themselves in the shoes of xenobiologists and research bota
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7th - 12th
Economics Business Game Simulation # 2
In this game, students are presented a series of 10 questions and choices. Each choice has a positive or negative impact on their business. The students are given the role of per shop owners and deal with a mix of various challenges. This is a great way to teach economics to your class, filled with hard decisions and hilarious scenarios, it will be an amazing session!I have used this game in middle school classes, high school and even college!
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
Scientific Method Interactive PowerPoint Case Study #2: Bark of the Willow Tree
Case study activity in the convenient form of a PowerPoint - interactive, cross-disciplinary, and engaging!
The second in a collection of case studies which promote a deeper understanding of the scientific method (Check out the first case study for FREE - What's Wrong With Nya?) Note: Each case study is a stand alone. You can do just one, or all of them.
Bark of the Willow Tree
In this case study, you are a doctor in colonial America. Colonists begin falling ill, and you decide to try some med
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6th - 12th
Model United Nations (Model UN) simulation on climate change
Are you interested in an interactive Model UN simulation where the students would be able to understand the topic easily, would be able to discern many different views on the topic, and would be able to fairly easily discern the policies of the country they represent in the simulation? This product on climate change will "do the trick."Updated April 2021 to include some of President Biden's climate policies147 teachers have bought this product and the reviews are excellent.Important: this simul
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9th - 12th
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Earth Day: The Global Water Crisis Activity
Celebrate #earthday in the classroom with this simulation. Students will be active participants in solving a mystery. Why are the villagers getting sick? Your download contains the presentation to facilitate the simulation and guide discussion. Handouts and role playing briefs are included. Introduce students to advanced topics such as the United Nations and the Sustainable Development Goals on an age-appropriate level while having fun! Go deeper on your own and get interdisciplinary by includi
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6th - 8th
A role play lesson about poverty and budgeting
Kids will play the Walmart Game where they will take on different roles of different members in society, and have a budget of $50 to plan their wants and needs. This allows them to make tough decisions, think reflectively, and understand different perspectives.
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Not Grade Specific
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HASHTAGCHOICES-RESOLVING CONFLICT
A world without conflict would be a beautiful thing! But the reality is, we encounter- and must learn to work through-tense situations on a regular basis. In HASHTAGCHOICES-RESOLVING CONFLICT, we walk students through how to transform difficult differences of opinion into compromises that work for all involved.HASHTAGCHOICES-RESOLVING CONFICT is a stand-alone scenario. It is highly recommended this be accompanied by the initial INTRO TO HASHTAGCHOICES-HOME VERSION
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3rd - 6th
Starship Bomber
This is a classic "Who Done It" packed with five compelling suspects and 12 rich pieces of evidence including videos, pictures, maps, etc.The Event (Summary): On Monday, February 14th, 2022, two spaceships that were set to carry the first manned crew to Mars exploded simultaneously at 5:46 AM, just hours before the crew was scheduled to arrive for pre-flight checks at Cape Canaveral, FL.This project helps to build collaboration, debate, reading skills, and synthesis of multiple sources.
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4th - 12th, Staff
Hands-On | Money | Toy Shop Lesson
Use this slideshow as a lesson on money. Students can either have play money and try to make the prices shown, or partner students up and have one student be the customer and one student is the cashier. Have the customer pay the cashier NOT using exact change, and have the cashier use subtraction to figure out how much change the customer needs. Then, have the cashier give the change, and switch roles with each slide. Students LOVE this activity, and this creates very little prep for you!
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2nd
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Trip to Japan Simulation Game
This is a fun little "choose your our adventure" simulation. Students will pick one of the three choices offered during each situation they face. They will make choices for travel, food, sightseeing, and what to do if they get lost. Works well with the simulation point sheet that I have posted as a free resource.
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4th - 7th
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STEM: RAIN Science
These exciting experiments are just what you wanted when you were in school! Now, check-out the 3 activities that will get your class so involved in the concepts of: "evaporation", "precipitation" & "absorbtion". Water is a very inexpensive item to buy? Movement activities include Puddle Jumping which causes giggling in my classroom.
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PreK - K, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â STEM: Earth Science Bundle
Renewable & Non-renewable Resources Presentation & Bean Simulation Activity
This product is a full renewable and non-renewable resources lesson. It includes a PearDeck presentation and materials for a bean simulation activity. The presentation includes attention getters, key vocabulary, activity directions, standard/objectives, guiding questions, and more.
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4th
NGSS:
4-ESS3-1
Shane's Strategies for Success (Social Story)
Social Story written for a boy. This story gives strategies for getting along with others and ways to control anger. When the child is to upset to listen to this on the computer or read it themselves, sit and read it to the child in a calm voice unit they start to calm down. Pages can be printed on cardstock, laminated and bound into a book for the child to keep at their seat.
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PreK - 5th
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STEM: Fossil Flowers
Make your own trace fossils of plant materials! Use glue or Mod Podge on flagstone rocks or river rocks. Your students will love their very own "Fake Fossils"
Includes 3 posters of trace fossils:an amazing trilobite, a real shell in rock amonite and minerals that made a dendrite that looks like flowers.
A new and exciting craft for the 2018 "Libraries Rock"
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PreK - 2nd, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â STEM: Earth Science Bundle
Time fillers - thinking skills
Thinking skills are a range of strategies that allow children to discover for themselves. Children will be encouraged to recall, problem solve, organise information and ask questions. This pack contains activities that will enhance children’s ability to make sense of the world around them.
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K - 6th
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