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Back to School 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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Middle School Escape Room | Middle School Transition Lesson
Are your kids nervous about starting middle school? Do they have questions about what's going to be different, how hard it is or how they can make new friends? This Escape To Middle School is a fun transition activity for students starting middle school that will help them feel more at ease with the transition headed their way. Students will explore the differences between elementary school and middle school and look at ways to find success as a student in their new building.●●● To begin the
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Middle School Transition Bundle | Transition to Middle School
GRAPES Design a Civilization Activity | Ancient History Social Studies Project
Teach the GRAPES of Civilization in your classroom with this creative activity that tasks students with designing their very own unique civilization! This resource contains printable project worksheets in color and black and white versions. Organizer worksheets feature each of the G.R.A.P.E.S. of Civilization: Geography, Religion, Achievements, Politics, Economics, and Social Structure. Civilizations can be rooted in the real world, or fantasy! Will your students declare themselves emperor of th
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: GRAPES Ancient Civilizations Resource Activities Value Unit Bundle
Scientific Processes: Case of the Missing Cookie Forensic Science Unit
The Case of the Missing Cookie walks students through the steps of the scientific process in order to solve a mystery! This resource is a 1-2 week mystery simulation, which can be used to teach science process skills, review the nature of science and practice team building skills. Students will help you find the thief through fingerprint analysis, handwriting analysis, and more!This resource is low prep, just print and copy; and minimal set-up (just a few materials). You can use this resource tw
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3rd - 5th
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Desert Island Team Building, Cooperative Learning Challenge
Your students will love this game! They are required to work together in teams and make important decisions to help them survive on and escape from a Desert Island.Perfect for developing Critical Thinking, Cooperative Learning and Team Building.Students earn points based on the decisions they make and one team will leave the island as the victors. This resources comes with a comprehensive teacher guide, a full lesson on PowerPoint and an island map. You don't need to do a thing!!This would be g
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4th - 9th
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Ancient History Reader's Theater Skit Bundle
Engage your students in opportunities to actively engage with the content you're teaching through skits related to Ancient History! Topics include Early Humans, Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Israel, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient China and the Mayans of Mesoamerica.This bundle includes all of the Ancient History skits available in my shop. Each skit includes parts for multiple students and five discussion questions that you can use to foster class discussions or use as writing promp
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5th - 8th
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Map Skills Activities | Project Based Learning
Take your kiddos on this engaging 10 lesson project based learning simulation that teaches map skills. The simulation scenario involves an expedition group that has gotten lost somewhere in North America. Students will learning various map skills focusing on using US maps. Your students will work in collaborative groups completing activities and earning points to build a helicopter on the last day of the simulation to save the expedition team.The simulation also contains a study guide, assessmen
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3rd - 4th
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Social Narrative Growing Bundle
Ease anxiety for students in school and at home with this social story bundle! Establish expectations, procedures, and positive behavior models. Includes:Riding the Bus to School Social StoryCalm Down Book Social StoryTake a Deep Breath Social Story and Deep Breath VisualFire Drill Social StoryHallway Rules Social StoryNew Classmate Social StoryNew School/Class/Grade Social StorySubstitute Teacher Social StoryNew Baby SiblingWashing HandsTaking TurnsSocial GreetingsSocial Distance GreetingsGent
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PreK - 2nd
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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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Standards For Mathematical Practices Activities
Do you struggle helping your students to understand the 8 standards for mathematical practices and how to apply them? This activity bundle simulates a road trip to becoming a math master.Students work in teams to collaboratively create posters for each math practice and complete activities that guide students in how to apply them in math situations.All eight mathematical standards are covered with posters and activities for practice. When students are finished, they will also have a booklet of e
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3rd - 4th
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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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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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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
Modern Farmhouse Style Bitmoji Classroom
It seems that the most time consuming part of setting up a Bitmoji classroom is finding and placing all the furniture and decor to make it look like your own! This is a PowerPoint slide with a room set up that has a "modern farmhouse" look. You can change the items in the room or rearrange them. You can also add items or change what is inside each of the picture frames! Customize it to make it your own, but save time with having the set-up done for you! Make sure you have pinned your Bitmoj
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Not Grade Specific
Riding the Bus to School Social Narrative
Riding the Bus to School Social Story helps students review bus expectations, rules, and step-by-step procedures. Customize with three pick up location options. Includes standard and symbolated text.Other Great Resources from The Alternative Way to Pre-KNew Classmate Social StoryNew School/Class/Grade Social StoryCalm Down Book Social StoryHallway Rules Social StorySocial Story BundleWheels On The Bus Adapted and Interactive BookBack to School BundleBack to School MatchingBack to School Count an
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Back to School Bundle
Reader's Theater: Honoring the Heroes of September 11th
Students will actively engage in dialogue that will increase their awareness of the events surrounding September 11th through a kid sensitive script based on a true story focusing on the human spirit. Stitches of Love tells the sweet story of the power of healing provided through a rescued flag from Ground Zero and the journey it made around our country to its final resting place in the 9/11 Memorial. By providing 16 individual parts, more students will have a chance to practice fluency, use th
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3rd - 6th
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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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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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Pirate Virtual Field Trip - Interactive Learning - Back to School Fun - Grammar
A Pirate Virtual Field Trip is the perfect way to celebrate the arrival of back to school time! On this No Wheels Field Trip, you are going a MEGA FIELD TRIP DAY.... PIRATE ADVENTURE!What's your pirate name? Can you be a pirate? Will you find the treasure?This field trip includes sooo much Pirate Fun!Create a Pirate Name!Design a Pirate Treasure Map!Tour a National Park Underwater!Draw a Pirate!And More...Your students can enjoy exploring however they wish or do it with them! Which is my favorit
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2nd - 4th
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7th Grade Math Review Project - PBL - Earn Your Way to the Summer Olympics
VIDEO HOW TO USE THIS PRODUCTLooking for a fun review of 7th Grade Math? - This Digital Thematic Unit on the Summer Olympics covers eight different 7th grade math standards and incorporates Language Arts, Geography, and Internet Research. Great for a review, end-of-the-year project, or as an 7th grade beginning of the year assessment.Students choose their Olympic Sport, solve math problems, travel to cities all over the globe, keep a journal, fill in a travel log, import pictures, and find desti
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7th
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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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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Fire Drill Social Narrative
Fire Drill Social Story teaches what to expect during a fire drill, step-by-step directions, and coping strategies. Includes both standard and symbolated text options. Other Great Resources from The Alternative Way to Pre-KHallway Rules Social StoryRiding the Bus to School Social StorySubstitute Teacher Social StoryNew Classmate Social StoryNew School/Class Social StorySocial Story BundlePre-K Assessment Adapted and Interactive Book BundleI Am Working For Token System----------------------------
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Social Narrative Growing Bundle
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