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2nd grade critical thinking pdfs under $5
Would You Rather Sampler - Fun Questions for Discussion, Writing Prompts, & More
Dive into writing prompts, classroom discussion, and more with our exclusive sampler from Would You Rather Questions!!These 18 digital or print Would You Rather questions are great for discussion, class polls, writing prompts, language building, facilitating higher-level thinking, brain breaks, building community, and more! This sampler gives you a taste of our comprehensive Would You Rather resource that promises to make learning engaging and effective.Try before you buy!Purchase this sampler f
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2nd - 9th
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Early Finishers Logic Puzzles Enrichment Activities Fast Finishers
Are you looking for ways to incorporate critical thinking and reasoning skills into your classroom? These 10 logic puzzles would be perfect as enrichment activities and for fast / early finishers and gifted and talented students! They would also work well as morning work and homework.I have always enjoyed doing logic puzzles myself and decided to make some of my own for my students. In my class, * I introduce logic puzzles by doing one as a whole group. * Then, I let them work on one with a part
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2nd - 4th
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Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
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K - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Fact and Opinion Activities Sort 2nd 3rd Grade Fun Reading Centers Comprehension
Are you looking for a fun, highly engaging, and EFFECTIVE way to teach fact and opinion? This set of activities will teach your students how to distinguish between fact and opinion by becoming observant text detectives. You can even use it as the basis for a room transformation!This resource includes:Fact Detectives Reading CentersFact vs Opinion SortAssessmentDigital ActivitiesSOLVE THE CRIME FACT DETECTIVESThis activity is super engaging for students! They will read each storyline along with t
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Fact and Opinion Activities BUNDLE Text Detective Reading Comprehension
3-D Shapes Activity with Monsters (Geometry Math Craft for Elementary)
This fun elementary craftivity will get kids excited about 3-D geometric shapes while incorporating art into the classroom. This product includes 7 different shape (monster) templates (both in color and as line art for the student to color) and 3 accompanying worksheets. Please open my preview file to view everything that is included. This activity can also foster teamwork when students work together in groups of two to assemble their 3-D shape monsters.Save Money, buy the bundle! Monster Themed
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: 2-D & 3-D Shapes Monster Bundle
The Dot by Peter Reynolds Tower Builder READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity Dot Day STEM
Create Bravely! Integrate STEM while students learn and develop a Growth Mindset through this Dot Day STEM Challenge! The Dot STEM activity works as a great companion to The Dot by Peter Reynolds. This is an excellent International Dot Day Activity.Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't. Amazing resource for STEM club, STEM teachers, elementary librarians, parents who love hands-on
Grades:
1st - 4th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Growth Mindset READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges Dot Day
Goldilocks STEM Activity - Goldilocks and the Three Bears STEM Design a Bed
Goldilocks and the Three Bears STEM: Design a New Bed for Goldilocks! What do you get when you combine fairy tales and STEM? A fun, hands-on STEM tale! This fairy tale with a twist guides students through the engineering design process to create a new bed for Goldilocks. The storybook can be read aloud together. Students will complete it as they work through the STEM activity.⚙️ The STEM Activity ⚙️Your students will help Baby Bear build Goldilocks a new bed of her own! In this story, there is a
Grades:
K - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
LEGO Challenge Task Cards {Great for STEM or fun building!}
I am really excited to show you some cute, older-kid friendly LEGO Challenge Task Cards! These are bright, colorful, and can appeal to older students without looking too primary. Don’t’ have LEGOs? That’s okay! These can be used for any building materials you may have—unifix cubes, plastic Flake Discs (Amazon), Bunchems (Amazon or Target), Wiki Stix, pipe cleaners, play-dough, etc. Get those kids engineering and manipulating. They work great as an independent station for special education, a STE
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PreK - 8th
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End of School Year Breakout - Last Day Escape Room - Activities Digital - Summer
A fantastic, fun end of the school year or last day of school activity to work on team building, perseverance, critical thinking, and using a Growth Mindset! Ideal for students grades 2 - 8.Recommended Use:Allow children to attempt the digital breakout challenge individually, in pairs, small teams, or as a whole class. Share the clues with your students, either by sharing the Google Slides of the clues with your students (two versions to choose from: with or without lock hints) or printing out h
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1st - 8th
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Make Ten Math Puzzle
The Make Ten math game is a triangle puzzle. Each side of the triangle has a number that can be used to add up to the number ten. The file includes 4 black and white pages of numbered triangles and one blank page of triangles in case you want to write in some of your own combinations. This is great for practicing addition facts, or for critical thinking skills.
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1st - 3rd
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Think Outside the Box Thursday Doodle Prompt Finish the Drawing SEL Activity
Are you looking for an engaging morning meeting activity? Think outside the box Thursday is the creative solution you're looking for! These 21 creative drawing prompts use half of a "common" image to prompt your students to create an outside the box picture! This Doodle activity works great for a warm-up, morning work, morning meeting activity, crew or advisory time, early finisher activities, or a sub plan day. As you go Back to School, challenge your students to think outside the box with this
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2nd - 12th
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Thinking Thursday
Are you looking for a fun way to get your children thinking outside the box? Try a Thinking Thursday. You can do these whole group, independent practice, or even as morning work. This is a great way to get your kids using their imagination!*Capital and lower-case letters*Numbers 1-20 in 2 different fonts*20 shapes*a blank set with no Thinking Thursday at the top so you can use any day of the week *a set with just lines so students can write their own sentences *1 page to use to create your ownPl
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PreK - 3rd
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Finish the Drawing/Early Finisher/Time Filler/Creativity
This "Finish the drawing" activity is the perfect way for your students to express their creativity! I love using this as a time filler, fun Friday, etc.! It is so interesting to see all of the different ways they can finish the picture.This set includes 43 pages.
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PreK - 6th
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Back to School Activity Pack - 3 Great Getting to Know You Activities
This Back to School Activity Pack includes three engaging getting to know you activities complete with teacher instructions, ideas to put different twists each activity, and super attractive student pages to print and copy! The three activities included are:
1) All About Me Poster - This poster asks students to illustrate a picture of themselves, write their favorite food/color/etc., tell about their favorite book, and more!
2) Classmate Scavenger Hunt - This is an interactive activity where
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2nd - 6th
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Analogy Task Cards | 3 sets of analogies! | 72 Print & Digital Multiple Choice |
These 72 Analogy Task Cards are divided into 3 color-coded sets of 24 cards each. Students can solve the analogies orally in groups or use the included answer sheet to record their answers. There are also answer keys for each card set so that your students can check their work. Analogy Task Cards are also available in a short answer format. Please see below for link.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Short Answer Analogies Task Cards are available here.Other great products:•
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2nd - 4th
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Think Outside the Box Drawings - growing resource
This activity is perfect for back to school! These prompts are fun, require no prep, and encourage creativity.This growing product currently includes 27 drawing prompts for think outside the box pictures.
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1st - 12th
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My Place in the World Project: "Me on the Map" Geography for Kids
This hands-on geography project "My Place in the World" has kids create a visual representation of how we fit into the world. Teachers often use it with the kids' geography book "Me on the Map," by Joan Sweeney. Ideal for integrated Social Studies, ELA, Geography, Literacy, and Map Skills.Using a series of nesting circles to show the relative sizes of different geographic places, this simple but effective geography lesson helps kids sort out their relation to one another. This activity includes
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K - 5th
Also included in: Geography for Kids Bundle: Three Essential Hands-on Activities
STEM Challenges for use with LEGO® or Building Blocks:120 Task Cards/Journal
Hands-on activities with building blocks challenges for the win! Engage and motivate kids on the daily basis! Use for morning tubs, recess bins, STEAM/STEM time, and at-home or distance learning! Your students will be begging for more!Enjoy 120 engaging and motivating building blocks STEAM/STEM challenge task cards that promote critical thinking skills! There are 120 exciting challenges, each on their own card, in black and white for easy printing. Pick and choose the challenges you and your stu
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2nd - 5th
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International Dot Day Printables: The Dot by Peter Reynolds Activities
These growth mindset literature unit activity and printables for The Dot by Peter Reynolds is perfect for International Dot Day on September 15, 2023.The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds is a perfect picture book for teachers who want to provide fun instruction on the role of taking risks in growth mindset and fixed mindset perspectives. This literature unit is the perfect companion for use with your students any time of year, but it is beneficial for International Dot Day!Conceptually, these ideas are
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2nd - 5th
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Spring Break Breakout - Spring Break Escape Room - Activities - Digital - Fun
A fantastic, fun pre- or post-spring break activity to work on team building, perseverance, critical thinking, and using a Growth Mindset! Ideal for students grades 2 - 8.Recommended Use:Allow children to attempt the digital breakout challenge individually, in pairs, small teams, or as a whole class. Share the clues with your students, either by sharing the Google Slides of the clues with your students (two versions to choose from: with or without lock hints) or printing out hardcopies. You may
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1st - 8th
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Intro to Unplugged Coding: Directional Coding
Unplugged Coding made easy!Everything you need to get started with unplugged coding. No robots needed! Students learn the basics of directional coding and write their own code!Unplugged Coding Process:Students learn the logic and thinking that goes into writing codes using Directional Coding. They learn 5 vocabulary words: Programmer, Code, Command, Bug, and Debug.Students practice debugging codes before writing their own codes with a partner. After they have completed their activities, there is
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K - 5th
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Prefix and Suffix Game #1 Common Prefixes & Suffixes I Have, Who Has?
Working on prefix and suffix? Need a fun activity that your students will beg to play?This "I Have... Who Has..." game works to practice the meanings of common prefixes and suffixes: un, re, pre, -able, -ful, and -less. This prefix and suffix game is great to have on hand as an extension activity for early finishers, a remediation activity led by a volunteer or paraprofessional, or as a review prior to standardized testing. **This game is included in the Prefix and Suffix Game Collection - CCSS
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Prefix and Suffix Bundle 4 Games and 24 Task Cards for grades 2-4
Back to School Secret Emoji Crack the Code First Day Activities
Engage and motivate your students with secret emoji code activities they will love. With Back to School Secret Emoji Crack the Code First Day Activities, students learn about problem-solving, reasoning and logical skills the fun way. You will love how easy this print-and-go resource makes your teacher life! Your students will love cracking the code to reveal the secret message you have for them on the first day of school.Whether you use this resource as filler, bell ringer, or early finisher act
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2nd - 5th
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Thought Bubble Social Inferences and Problem Solving Scenarios Speech Therapy
Are you looking for engaging problem solving scenarios speech therapy resources? Give these social emotional learning activities for speech therapy a try! Work on making social inferences, problem-solving, identifying emotions, feelings, empathy, what you should think versus say, and conversational skills.These problem solving scenarios speech therapy activity can be open-ended or structured if used with the supports.This activity is perfect for kids whose joint attention or reading comprehensio
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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