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Free higher education critical thinking resources
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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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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What's Your Learning Style- Student Quiz/Worksheet with Results
UPDATED! This is a short 16 question quiz for students to find out which learning style they most closely align with. I like to use this at the beginning of the year as an independent activity.At the end of the quiz the students tally up their answers to find out which learning style best suits them. Each learning style result has a short description.AuditoryKinestheticVisualI make sure to let my students know that an individual might identify with 1, 2, or all 3. It's a great way for them to se
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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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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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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Kagan's Cooperative Structures: Shoulder and Face Partners
Shoulder Partners, Face Partners, A and B partners, and 1-4 numbered members. Cooperative group learning square based on Kagan strategies.(Please use Adobe Reader or Acrobat to print)#Kagan #CooperativeLearningKagan's Cooperative Structures
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PreK - 12th, Higher 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
3 Key Ideas for Parents about the Common Core: A Handout
I created this simple, parent-friendly handout to share with parents when explaining the Common Core at Back to School Night. I only had 25 minutes so I didn't want to spend time explaining the standards themselves, but the shifts in thinking behind the Common Core. I mean really, when you only a short time to get across a lot of important information, you must choose what you share wisely...and really, are they going to remember RFS.1.2.a (or whatever) or are they going to remember what you sh
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K - 8th, Higher Education
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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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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BLOOMS TAXONOMY Posters to be printed on any paper!
Reference these posters throughout the day to illustrate specific skills and levels of learning being utilized. Verbs are in alphabetical order (for ease when lesson planning). Great for identifying the objectives of the day in a kid friendly language. {Copyright © 2013 Literacy for Littles}
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Assessing Understanding: General and Analytic Rubrics for Math Performance Tasks
Current trends in mathematics assessment require standards based grading systems that assess mastery and understanding beyond knowledge and skills. The standards based rubric is the method of choice for performance task assessments. I offer my rationale and two versions for use in all your standards based grading.
The General Rubric contains four grading categories that are concise, consistent, and easily translatable to traditional grading strategies. This general rubric can be used for day t
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
Math Maze Fun Worksheet - Free
Challenge young math students with this cute math themed maze.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Logical Fallacies Exercises
Worksheet with 26 examples of logical fallacies (some funny), a line to write which type students think it is, and an answer key for instructors.
This has worked well with my college English classes for years.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Christmas Activities for Teens and Adults
The following material includes:Would you rather...? speaking activity.Christmas themed critical thinking activity that will allow your students to work on their speaking, writing and reading comprehension skills.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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On The Fly: Christmas Math
Swat away that down time at the end of class with these helpful and easy to teach “On the Fly Lessons” from TyBear Designs. Each lesson has a printable worksheet, as well as several fun ideas to adapt the lesson to best suit your needs! Please note that this will be an ongoing series of lessons that all teachers can have on hand for those "just in case" moments.
In this particular lesson, you receive the Christmas-themed math questions, as well as additional activities that can be adapted for y
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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One Pager Template
One pager template for memorization and note taking.
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Higher Education, Adult Education
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S.M.A.R.T. Goals
Freebie for my fantastic followers! I really appreciate you! Enjoy!Have students set goals the SMART way this year!Inside you will find:- A SMART poster. - SMART questions they can ask themselves when they are setting their goals. - A worksheet to fill out for their goals using the SMART acronyms as a guideline.Digital layer option- I also included a digital layer that will allow students to use these as digital worksheets, adding the answers inside boxes. This is a TpT digital feature! After pu
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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