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7th grade The New Year professional development 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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Arctic Survival Activity (For Team-Building, Group Dynamics, and Personality)
This cooperative learning activity pits learners and their groups against survival experts to see if they can survive a plane crash in the arctic. Will they make more sound decisions individually, or as a group? How do groups reach consensus? What sort of identities, personalities, or traits tend to dominate group discussion or group activities? These questions and more lie underneath the surface of a classic and beloved classroom activity!These topics and more are broached in this product, whi
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Full Year of U.S. Government and Civics Essentials Bundle
Disability Awareness Activities
The SMART notebook provides the user with activities for participants to engage in that simulate various learning challenges. It is appropriate for students or for adults in a professional development seminar.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Stand Up If Game
Use this 20 slide Stand Up If Game to help get to know your class this year. Great time filler if necessary, and no personal questions are asked. This is a great game to get students moving, without going too far (which is great for the first month of school as we're setting routines). This is in PDF form to help keep the fonts uniform. If interested in the powerpoint file, leave a message and I am happy to email it to you :)
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1st - 7th
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STRATEGIES FOR GLOBAL STUDIES - WORLD HISTORY CLASS DISCUSSIONS
I'm a recently retired, award winning, HS Global Studies teacher, and currently I teach, part - time, in the Education Department of Salve Regina University, and in the Political Science Dept. at the University of Rhode Island. (See my profile.) If you polled my ex-students, and my current students, as to what they liked best about my classes, the most common response you would hear would be "the class discussions." It took me a while to get good at it, and now it seems like child's play, but i
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Lightning Decision Jam for School Leaders
The Lightning Decision Jam (LDJ) is a shortened version of the Decision Sprint (from Google's Jake Knapp) with the purpose of moving leadership teams (or even individual teachers) from problem to testable solution in 90 minutes. The LDJ was developed by Berlin-based design firm AJ and Smart to help teams get unstuck and start to get things done. This version of LDJ has been tested with multiple leadership teams and includes examples of how school leaders can apply this approach. I rewrote the
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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