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Not grade specific critical thinking simulations
Budget and Finance: Financial Literacy Project
This resource explores finance terminology, education and job selection, and several real-world budgeting situations and scenarios. Students will pick a career, research their salary, calculate their income taxes, and budget their net income to account for all necessary bills such as shelter, transportation, food, and other expenses such as cell phone, TV etc. They will also be able to decide how to use their remaining funds to invest for their financial future via savings and retirement. The re
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Processing Speed Warm-Ups
Having a slow processing speed is not a disability; however, it can be the root cause of lagging skills in the areas of reading, writing, and math. While processing speed deficits can be a risk factor for academic problems, intervention and practice can help. This intervention works well as a warm-up to more intense evidence-based interventions. Think of this as a warm-up for the neurons in the brain before the heavy lifting begins. In addition, a progress monitoring tool is included to monitor
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FREE Harry Potter inspired escape room
This is a FREE Harry Potter themed escape room! You can access it here: https://forms.gle/Hn9fWv6dWM8hxkGN6It is best suited for those that have read the books.Ideas for use:Play it yourselfEarly finisher/tech time activityspecial resource for the Potterheads in your classteam building
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STEAM Thinking Outside The Box Drills /Emergency Sub Plans-Vol. 1-4 (PowerPoint)
Thinking Outside The Box ChallengesLooking for a way to boost your students' critical thinking, design, and creativity skills? Look no further than "Thinking Outside the Box Drills"!This innovative product provides students with a unique challenge: they must use a list of 3 separate products to design something useful to society. By encouraging students to think beyond the obvious and use their imaginations, these drills are an excellent way to foster creativity and problem-solving skills.But "T
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The Arctic Mission - Set of Class Activities on Group Decision Making
Overall Goal: Students will gain group decision making skills that will enable them to facilitate discussion with, and fairly delegate work to, their peers and adults within an organization. There are also close reading activities embedded in this activity with templates!This set of class activities (used in Leadership/AVID class) is fun, engaging and addresses knowledge and skills pertaining to the FOUR types of group decision making:- Autocratic or Decision By Authority- Committee or Minority
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Hot Dog Stand - Printable - Dramatic Play - Money - Manipulatives - Math
Looking for a fun interdisciplinary center or activity? Try a hot dog stand!! Completely printable and highly interactive, this station promotes:Problem solving skillsSocial - emotional skillsMath and money handling Literacy Fine motors skillsSelf expression and confidence building through role playSO much more!Includes:BannersSignage (menus, open and closed signs, etc)Order forms (promots math and money skills!)ALL clipart props (hot dogs, drinks, fries, chips… etc!)Put in as much or as little
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Self-Advocacy for students with a hearing loss
Scenarios directly related to students with a hearing loss that promote great conversation in relation to self-advocacy. These can be used for student awareness or IEP progress monitoring. These are great activities to foster positive thought process about living with a hearing loss as well as having honest discussions about how to advocate for yourself. these questions are geared at a variety of levels and can be modified as needed. This set includes 21 different scenarios about having a he
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Teambuilder Lost at Sea
Fun and interactive class and teambuilder for students from middle elementary to high school. Students imagine themselves stuck on a deserted island with a list of supplies and must rank items from most to least important. Great non-academic activity to foster analytical and problem solving skills. Great for use in first few days of school or after a break. Answer key with justifications from Coast Guard included.
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Problem Based Learning (Beginner's Guide, Example and Resources to use)
Problem Based Learning Projects are engaging, relevant and centered around the students! If you never tried one or feel like you need some direction or help, your answers are a click away! Different from Project Based Learning, students actually work through real world problems and develop skills such as Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, Communication and Teamwork. These resources can be used for any subject and give you the information needed on how to implement one effectively so learning in
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Archaeology- Who Were Those Guys Anyway?
Archaeology is like a picture puzzle in which scientists try to piece together the story of a past people group using artifacts from the dig site. Often puzzle pieces are missing or there is no expected picture to cue understanding. That story then becomes simply a good hypothesis. In this Something Different to Try simulation, students become archeologists who analyze and interpret their own dig sites and learn what it is like to depend on artifacts to tell the story of a culture. Relying heavi
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The Perfect PEEL Paragraph Interactive Planner
The Perfect PEEL Paragraph Planner resource is developed to aid all students in effectively, promoting critical thinking and coherent expression of ideas, by creating a coherent PEEL paragraph from the student's input. This allows students to see the direct results of their efforts and make any necessary adjustments to improve their writing. It enables students to better understand and practice the PEEL (Point, Evidence, Explanation, Link) paragraph structure, which is a fundamental aspect of ac
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Natural Resources Simulation Game
Do you need a way to combine, well, EVERYTHING? This will! Students are transported to another established world where they must plan for all economic, environmental, social, and civil activities. It can be as easy or as in-depth as you want. It can take as long as you want. there isn't a right answer, just ones that require a great deal of planning and research. Let your student's imagination loose and you won't regret it!
Everything you need is right here!
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STEAM Thinking Outside The Box Drills & Emergency Sub Plans- Vol. 1 (PowerPoint)
Thinking Outside The Box ChallengesLooking for a way to boost your students' critical thinking, design, and creativity skills? Look no further than "Thinking Outside the Box Drills"!This innovative product provides students with a unique challenge: they must use a list of 3 separate products to design something useful to society. By encouraging students to think beyond the obvious and use their imaginations, these drills are an excellent way to foster creativity and problem-solving skills.But "T
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3 Little Pigs Earthquake Houses
This STEAM/STEM earth-shaking activity is versatile - individual students or partners; introduction or assessment; face2face or virtual; spans many grade levels. Using the children's story of the 3 Little Pigs, students are asked to engineer and design three houses to be tested in an earthquake simulation. As in the story, one house is designed to fail, one is designed to stay strong, and the last can be either a fail or a success! Students will hone their critical thinking and evaluation ski
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
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Thinking Outside the Box: Zombie Attack (independent and creative thinking)
Students can sometimes rely too much on the teacher. To help them to trust themselves, to work as a team, and to think outside the box, I start every year with this activity where students have to survive a zombie attack. Students will be given a scenario where zombies have attacked the town but help is on the way and they just have to keep the classroom safe until help arrives. There is no one right answer, but students will have to work together to come up with a plan and then be able to defen
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Family Vacation! Time Management / Organization
This time management exercise assists students with study / organization skills as well as time related math and critical thinking. Prepare your kiddos to manage their time well and set them up for a successful school (and career!) future. For my students who qualify for special education under study / org, this exercise is great for demonstrating the importance of sequencing their use of time.
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3rd - 10th, Adult Education, Not Grade Specific
GrowingVoters.org: Free Virtual and Classroom Activities
GrowingVoters.org is a FREE non-partisan civics active learning initiative created by Lesley University Professor Jo-Anne Hart. Since starting in 2004, we've had tens of thousands of users and from all 50 states. These free virtual and in-class creative activities on voting and elections invite student voice and power to actively take part in the U.S. electoral system. Our hands-on projects are designed for all grades, elementary to college, and across multiple subject areas beyond civics and s
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5 Classroom Teaching Strategies - Teacher Reference
I have found the best way to engage learners is to make it real for them. The five teaching strategies listed offer varying levels of independence and exploration for kids to get the most out of their learning. And really, it makes teaching so much more fun to see kids fired up as they make those connections. Please enjoy this free teacher reference download.Thanks for stopping by! Pam Kranz***************************************************************************© Pamela Kranz Desktop Learn
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Simulation or Game Score Sheet
This is a score sheet that will be useable with the simulation game PowerPoints I will be uploading. You could also use it for other types of activities that require the keeping of points.
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