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Free adult education critical thinking creative writing resources
A List of Character Traits
This is a list of 174 different Character Traits. So often when I was teaching I wanted a list of traits so that my students could look at the list while describing characters. This also helps students get to know and understand different character traits.
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Maze Run Escape Room Logic Puzzle Game Challenge Activities Freebie Pack No Prep
Maze Run Escape Room Puzzles provide a fun brain boosting challenge for students. Great for School Party Activities, Puzzle Competitions, Extra Credit, Individual or Team Building Activities! These escape room games are designed to help exercise problem-solving, critical thinking, and focusing skills. It is a great way to keep the students busy and help build/improve essential skills. There are 4 Fun Unique Levels of the Maze Run to choose from. Each level is different and as the levels increase
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Practice Reading Graphs: USA Today FREEBIE, DISTANCE LEARNING, EASEL ACTIVITY
*** UPDATED FOR DISTANCE LEARNING***Assign to your students via Google Classroom, Answer boxes are already provided for your students to input their answers. The Answer Key has been removed in the digital activity, but you can still access it in the pdf version.This digital activity presents 4 graphs from the popular "USA Today Snapshots" to provide practice with all aspects of reading graphs (3 bar graphs, 1 pie chart) - interpreting data, drawing conclusions, recognizing sources, etc. Th
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6th - 9th, Adult Education
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Word Search Mini Escape Room Puzzle Game Pack - No Prep Easel Activity Freebie
This fun mini-word search escape room activity is great for individual skill building or team building. This quality word search escape room puzzle is designed to be as one escape room activity or can be combined with other escape room activities that may work with this type of puzzle.A great way to expand your escape room adventure! It is a 3 in 1 Puzzle Escape Room. A fun way to help exercise students’ problem-solving, critical thinking, and focusing skills. Great to help keep students busy wh
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Marshmallow Challenge Handout
This FREEBIE includes a color and black and white handout to provide to teams of students engaging in the Marshmallow Challenge activity. This activity is great to use as an icebreaker or to engage students in critical thinking, cooperative learning, and innovative thinking. It can also be used to reinforce basic principles of physics or as a fun math activity involving measurement.
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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SMART Goals Worksheet, Smart Goal Template, Setting Goals, SMART Goals
*Note: You will be taken to our site, ClassCrown.com, for full download of this product.*Follow us on TpT for more great FREE resources: Click HereDownload FREE without TpT account here: https://www.classcrown.com/products/free-worksheets-setting-smart-goals/This SMART goal worksheet will help your students set goals that are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-bound. To learn more about helping your students set SMART goals, read our blog post here: https://www.classcrown.co
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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25 Positive Affirmations for the Classroom / Mirror
25 positive affirmation cards / posters for your classroom (mirror). Social emotional learning and classroom atmosphere.Material in use / Instagram - My Classroom Wall / Instagram
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: ESL BUNDLE - English as a Second Language - Conversations
Easy Sudoku Puzzle Freebie Starter Bundle No Prep Worksheet
This starter bundle introduces students to the world of Sudoku with fun and easy to learn 4 by 4 grid puzzles arranged in single or double per worksheet. Grayscale and Colored puzzles are included. This ready to print no prep free beginner's puzzle packet provides how-to-play instructions, fun easy-level puzzles to help spark up and exercise brain strengthening math, critical thinking, and problem solving skills. Instructions are included along with an answer key.This 4x4 Easy Sudoku Starter Bun
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Critical Thinking Mystery Activity: The Break-In
In this fun mystery activity, students have to follow the clues to figure out why criminals broke into a store, but took nothing! Why did this happen? What's the real crime? This is a great way to teach and practice critical thinking skills as your students practice their reading skills and use their logic skills.Also available as a PowerPoint presentation or Google Slides.What is a Clue by Clue Mystery?It's a great warm-up, filler, or time killer for early finishers. Students are given a myster
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
Speak Think Understand - KWL Chart
This KWL chart can be used for any age of student that can read and write. I have used it as young as first grade, but also with college students. It is designed to get students thinking about how the things we know, want to know, and have learned are connected. Coming out of the mouth, you will find a space for students to write what they already know, or can tell you about. In a thought bubble above the head, is a space for what a student might want to know, or be thinking about, but not sure
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Brain Benders - Riddles and Brain Teasers 2
Brain Benders - Riddles and Brain Teasers 2
If you LOVED Brain Benders 1, Brain Benders 2, Brain Benders 3,and Brain Benders 4 - you must download Brain Benders 5!!!
{10 NEW RIDDLES AND BRAIN TEASERS FOR YOUR CLASSROOM!}
It's fun to solve brain teasers and I've heard your brain is like a muscle. If you exercise it (by teasing it) you'll have a fit brain. Even if that's not true, it's still fun to solve them!
Have your students improve their problem solving abilities with these 10 brain tea
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Said is Dead Writing Spelling Vocabulary Poster FREEBIE
Said is Dead Writing Spelling Vocabulary Poster FREEBIEWhat is this resource?This resource is for helping your students find other words to use besides said. Students may tend to overuse the word, and therefor need alternatives to use. What is included in this resource?1 Said is Dead Poster ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Who created this resource?Ally, also known as Ms.K, holds a BS in both Elementary and Early Child
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1st - 12th, Adult Education
FREE Story Path, step-by-step storytelling, creative writing, narrative writing
Use this Story Path worksheet as a tool to help students understand the steps of a successful narrative structure. You can use this worksheet as a standalone lesson in between units or expand the lesson by asking students to use this assignment as the starting spot to create their own original work of fiction. Lots of options for both creative writing and regular English classes. Looking for more storytelling tools?Click here for a free storytelling arc worksheet:https://www.teacherspayteachers.
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7th - 10th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Following Directions Activity / First Week of School Activity / Ice Breaker
The Following Directions Activity is designed to remind your students that it is important to read all directions and follow them before beginning an assignment. This is a great activity for the first week of school. I use this activity with my classes every year and ask them to promise not to discuss it with their friends until the end of the school day.Enjoy!SharhanStop by enagelearnability.com for more resources.Follow Engage Learnability on social media.Facebook: facebook.com/EngageLearnab
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Roll and Build Silly Sentences
A fun task to practice various tenses.All you need is this editable template (which you can complete yourself, typing the necessary verbs, coming up with famous characters, places and time) and 2 dice. Divide the students into pairs or mini groups of 3-4 people. Each pair/group will need 2 dice and a table filled with the necessary information (see the photo).Children take turns rolling both dice at the same time, choose the appropriate parts of the sentence and make up funny sentences orally or
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2nd - 7th, Adult Education
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Mood Meter: A Socio-Emotional Resource
Find the English version here! Find the French version here!Find the Spanish version here! Find the English digital version here!Have you joined Yale's Center for Emotional Intelligence's RULER movement?! If not, you should! They believe that "emotions drive learning, decision-making, creativity, relationships, and health." When students recognize the power of emotions, via the "Mood Meter," they help create a "more effective and compassionate society." How does it work? It's pretty simple! Intr
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Simple Sentences and Sentence Fluency
The is the first in a series of explanation worksheets on sentence fluency and sentence construction. It introduces six techniques showing students how to write more advanced simple sentence openings. It begins by stating which words should be avoided when opening simple sentences; then, it models six techniques for creating more engaging and advancved simple sentence openings (e.g. use of adverbs, participle phrases and infinitives). The recommended use is as a drafting sheet after students ha
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING: 5 Self-Reflection Activities & Assignments
Get your students using Self-Reflection to improve their lives inside and outside your class! Self-reflection is an essential skill that involves examining one's actions, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors with a critical and introspective mindset. It plays a crucial role in personal growth, emotional intelligence, and overall well-being, and it really should be taught in schools as both a personal and an academic tool.This package includes five different self-assessment activities/tools/projects
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: THE EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING BUNDLE
Think Outside the Box Thursday
THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX THURSDAY is a creative drawing activity that is so fun and engaging, your kids will be begging to do it all the time. In fact, it’s not just for Thursdays. You can easily implement the activity into your classroom any day! While thinking outside the box, kids gain so much from this activity. They strengthen their flexible thinking skills, imagine possibilities, learn to see and understand different perspectives, appreciate the work of others, and celebrate their
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Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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FREE! Listening Skills Podcast Activity, Listen & Learn #10, PDF & Google Drive
Students need to be able to sit and listen to a passage or short audio program, take notes, recall information, and then answer critical thinking questions about the material. To help prepare our students for this challenge, I’ve scoured the internet to find high-interest, school-appropriate podcasts that fit within one class period.In this Listen & Learn activity, students will listen to a high-quality 30-minute podcast focused on the heroic actions of Robert Smalls, a man enslaved in South
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Hink Pinks Book Freebie, a Rhyming Words Game
A Hink Pink is a rhyming word riddle. A clue is given and the student must guess the pair of rhyming words. It's a fun and hilarious way to practice rhymes with students. Example: a rotund feline would be a...fat cat! This free digital download contains the a sample of 25 hink pinks from The Original Hink Pink, a book of 275 rhyming word riddles of varying difficulty. The Original Hink Pink is an invaluable tool for homeschool or traditional classroom setting. It's rhyme time! Download now!
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1st - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Growth vs Fixed Mindset Graphic Organizer Notes & PowerPoint - FREE
THE PRODUCT Teach your middle school or high school students the difference between a growth and a fixed mindset, and why it’s important to develop a growth mindset using these engaging graphic organizers guided by a PowerPoint presentation. The presentation concludes with ideas for students to apply their skills with self-reflection writing prompts and Internet-based activities. PDF files for printing a poster and infographic also included. INTENDED AUDIENCE Growth vs Fixed Mindset is part
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
De Bono's 6 Thinking Hats Worksheet - Critical Thinking
*Note: You will be taken to our site, ClassCrown.com, for full download of this product.*Click Here to read our blog post that goes along with this worksheet.The Thinking Hats strategy is a simple way for students to approach problems and ideas from different points of view and encourages them to think below the surface. Each hat requires the thinker or group of thinkers to contemplate an issue from a different perspective.The worksheet has been designed in full, vibrant color for maximum quali
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Parts of Speech Google Slides and PDFs *easy share for distance learning*
Enjoy these interactive Google slides to review parts of speech. These are fun tools to get kids ready for grammar. Connect with your children with StarKids fun and easy to share mad libs to meet your distance learning needs.Be sure to purchase a mad lib or two from the store to review these parts of speech. Distance Learning Interactive Sharing Formats for StarKids Mad Libs:a personal Google slide linkinteractive pdfs; Interactive PDFs are perfect for print or to "fill in blanks" and interact o
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3rd - 6th, Adult Education
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