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7th grade Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa reading strategies simulations
Reading Strategies Classroom Murder Mystery (Word Doc Version)
WHO KILLED MISS JACKSON?
TEACHER'S NOTES
Skills: Analyze text, determine importance, infer, synthesize, question, use background information, monitor for understanding, speaking, and listening
Grades: 6-10
Age groups: 10-17
Materials: Character cards, Character Analysis Worksheet
Time: About an hour
Preparation and Rules
Step one:
Explain to the class that you are going to play a murder mystery game. Everyone will be a character in the game and one of them is the murderer! Give them the ba
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Grades:
6th - 11th
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"And Then There Were None" Scotland Yard Investigation Packet
I created this packet as a way for my students to stay engaged with the Agatha Christie murder mystery "And Then There Were None". The packet should be printed and distributed to students and then updated as they read the novel, or perhaps updating the packet during class time. Students use process of elimination to rule out potential murderers, with space to list each character's profession, past known criminal activity, and their status (suspect, victim, deceased). It even lists the character
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Christmas DIGITAL Escape Room BUNDLE No Prep!
Get BOTH of my Christmas Digital Escape Rooms that are NO PREP for a discount when you buy the bundle. These escape rooms will give your students the fun experience of helping Santa be ready for Christmas Eve in the North Pole AND a scavenger hunt at a school's Holiday Jubilee! The North Pole Escape Room has 12 ELA skill-based challenges and 12 tasks to complete. The Holiday Jubilee Escape Room has 14 ELA skill-based challenges and 22 tasks! These are both all digital and are done in Google F
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Social Skills Task Cards | Winter Break | Winter Holiday | Conversation
Do your kids struggle with conversations? Want to prepare them for coversations and social situations they may experience over their winter break? These Winter Break/Christmas Social Skills Task Cards have 64 task cards that will help your students practice how to enter and maintain conversations dealing with Christmas, New Years, holidays and winter break, problem solve difficult situations that might arise, practice body language and wording of answers for situations, and talk about what the
Grades:
4th - 10th
Also included in: Social Skills Task Card Bundle
Christmas Traditions History Holiday Activity CSI Mystery of History Analysis
Explore the history of Christmas and Christmas holiday traditions from around the world! Your students will explore leading theories about the history of Christmas traditions with this festive crime scene investigation activity that encourages engagement and original thinking!A visually engaging case file is provided with comprehensive background readings on the history of Christmas and its traditions. Leading theories about the making of modern Christmas traditions are provided, spanning from R
Grades:
5th - 10th
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Reading Strategies Classroom Murder Mystery (PowerPoint Version)
WHO KILLED MISS JACKSON?TEACHER'S NOTESSkills: Analyze text, determine importance, infer, synthesize, question, use background information, monitor for understanding, speaking, and listeningGrades: 6-10Age groups: 11-17Materials: Character cards, Character Analysis Worksheet Time: About 2 hoursPreparation and RulesStep one: Explain to the class that you are going to play a murder mystery game. Everyone will be a character in the game and one of them is the murderer! Give them the background info
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Grades:
6th - 10th
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Reading Activity - My Life- Why reading is so important simulation
TEACHER DIRECTIONS
Purpose: A simulation activity that allows students to see the realize the consequences of not trying to become better at reading and writing. This activity puts students into random socioeconomic groups based on a random number on a die. This number will determine how much money they get to spend on six different areas of their life (house, location where they live, food, entertainment, transportation, and college). Students will have to make some difficult choices based
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Grades:
5th - 10th
Winter Holidays Christmas Around the World Music Traditions Activity Lesson
Explore winter holiday and Christmas music culture and traditions from around the world! This activity will take your students on an engaging tour of diverse winter holiday and Christmas music customs, and learn about the global instruments used in traditional holiday music!Your students will learn about diverse music holiday traditions that are celebrated around the world, and journey to ten notable countries. This activity is a perfect way to promote cultural diversity around the holidays! St
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Christmas DIGITAL Escape Room NO PREP! Escape to Winter Break
This digital escape room is a fun way for kids to practice some key ELA skills while being a completely NO PREP activity for you!This fun digital escape room is completed on Google Forms. Students will be participating in a scavenger hunt at their school's Holiday Jubilee in hopes of not only winning, but also escaping to winter break. Students will have to solve 22 clues and complete 14 ELA skill-based challenges to move on to the next section and finish the scavenger hunt. This will keep stu
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Also included in: Christmas DIGITAL Escape Room BUNDLE No Prep!
Forensic Science Crime Scene Investigation Middle School Holiday Lesson Plans
Forensic Science Activities are a fun, yet educational, way to celebrate holidays without sacrificing instruction time in Middle School. This collection of forensic science crime scene investigation (CSI) activities includes 4 engaging laboratory activities that infuse the excitement of holidays with the intrigue of forensic science. Each activity is specifically designed for 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade and provides a unique opportunity for students to apply forensic science techniques in a fun
Grades:
5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-LS1-7
, 5-PS1-3
, HS-LS3-1
, MS-LS1-1
Forensic Science Christmas Activity Crime Scene Investigation & Fat Analysis
Looking for a FUN Forensic Science Christmas Activity? This public-school, low-prep activity is EASY to set up and FUN for students! Students will use brown paper bags to investigate the fat content of cookies. This information will be used to solve a holiday mystery. Then, students will examine motives for each suspect in the mystery and write a short article. Your students will love this Holiday-themed, engaging FUN FORENSICS activity... NO ONE DIES! This activity aligns with Next Generation S
Grades:
5th - 10th
NGSS:
MS-LS1-7
, 5-PS1-3
Figurative Language Quest (Interactive Game Only)
Does getting your students to understand figurative language seem like an impossible quest? Could you ever imagine your students engaged while taking a formative assessment? Is finding the time to differentiate a challenge in the classroom?
This interactive quest is a transformational tool that will:
•Students self-assess using clearly defined targets in the “My Progress” ribbon based on the Common Core and homeschooling curriculum.
•Help you formally track and assess student progress
•Gi
Grades:
4th - 7th
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE QUEST (W/ all Fig. Lang. PowerPoints In Our Store) Save $10
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE QUEST PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Does getting your students to understand figurative language seem like an impossible quest? Could you ever imagine your students engaged while taking a formative assessment? Is finding the time to differentiate a challenge in the classroom?
This interactive quest is a transformational tool that will:
Students self-assess using clearly defined targets in the “My Progress” ribbon based on the Common Core and homeschooling curriculum.
Help you f
Grades:
3rd - 7th
worksheet christmas for teacher
Immerse your classroom in the enchantment of the holiday season with this comprehensive and editable Christmas Classroom Decor Bundle. The bundle encapsulates the spirit of the season while offering customization to suit your unique teaching style.Seasonal Posters and Signs: Adorn your walls with seasonal posters featuring motivational messages, educational content, and captivating holiday illustrations. Each poster is editable, allowing you to tailor them to your curriculum or display important
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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The Outsiders Mock Trial
This is a fantastic end-of-the-unit activity for The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. With this product, you will be able to hold a classroom Mock Trial that is run by the students, with a student judge, student lawyers, student witness, and student jury. Students will be assigned roles with assignments that correspond to each role, and it's a great activity for differentiation because the roles have different difficulty levels. Teachers will guide students in their preparation for a couple of days bef
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: The Outsiders Mock Trial Bundle
French Dialogue: Customizable Conversation & Pronunciation: On Santa's Lap
DO YOUR STUDENTS STRUGGLE WITH PRONUNCIATION AND THE MEANINGS OF CONVERSATIONS? Your students will love this simple, authentic & customizable French Christmas dialogue script! With a partner they will discuss their Christmas wishes for gifts and sweet treats. They will use included word banks to fill in the blanks to ensure that their dialogue is realistic and relevant. The dialogue script comes in multiple versions: with English & without. Also, the PDF has click-and-fill textboxes for
Grades:
4th - 10th
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Jury Simulation #3
Similar to the FREE product of Jury Simulation #1, this activity is a collection of 4 pages of original content featuring: evidence, court testimony, prosecution and defense suggestions, and potential outcomes for the accused. This activity would be great for a substitute, especially if the students have done this activity prior. 3# Topic Category: Students accused of vandalism during HomecomingThis is a reading packet intended to give students a real life experience of our court system. They
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Infographic Rubric for Research for MUN-Based Topics
This is a rubric used for the infographic assignments surrounding the topics of those one may observe in an MUN. This is provided in .DOC format which means you can edit it as needed. This has been built to reflect the ON Curriculum's Growing Success principles.Please read, rate and review! I also have full assignments with improved infographic rubrics if you would like to see them in action or have student self-reflection included in the rubric! Check out my store!
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Who Gets To Go - a simulation suggested by the birth stories of Jesus
Who Get to Go is a simulation focusing on the birth stories of Jesus as recorded in Luke and Matthew. Through this experience participants will be helped to consider the types of people who came to see Jesus and what decisions they might have made before they came.
This simulation utilizes pictures to stimulate decision making by elementary children, youth, adults or intergenerational groupings including children as young as 5 in study or fellowship settings. The experience takes approximately
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2nd - 12th, Adult Education
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The Giver, Chapter 7 - Reader's Theater Activity
This reading engagement activity accompanies chapters 7 and 8 of Lois Lowry's novel, The Giver. As the children in Jonas’s community receive their jobs in the novel, the students in your class will receive (and react to receiving) their own jobs. This allows your students to put themselves into the text and to engage more readily with its themes and plot. Students will have a lot more to say about Jonas’s dystopian world when they have to imagine themselves living within it!This is the first res
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Paul Revere You Decide American Revolution
You are Paul Revere. You must warn the colonist of the British army. If you choose correctly the Revolution is saved. If you choose incorrectly the Revolution will fail. Make a copy and share with your students. This activity will help them to remember and understand the midnight ride of Paul Revere.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Christmas Dice Simulation Activity-North Pole, Holidays Around the World, Fun
Your students will love taking an internship at Santa's Workshop in the North Pole in this fun Christmas dice simulation with extension activities. Included is a photo essay of some holiday traditions around the world like Krampus, Befana, and more! Will your interns finish on the naughty list or nice list? Let them roll to find out! Reuse it year after year for a great holiday activity.
Grades:
4th - 8th
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The Cay Survival Simulation
Survival simulation which pulls scenarios from The Cay by Theodore Taylor. I use this as a pre-reading activity, then have students make predictions based on the simulation.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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The Outsiders Mock Trial Bundle
This includes The Outsiders Mock Trial packet and the grading rubric for the trial.
Grades:
6th - 9th
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