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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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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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Water and Carbon Cycle Diagram Activity - Bring out their creativity!
This package is broken into a water cycle and a carbon cycle assignment. Usually, what I do is use the water cycle as a practice run (more formative assessment), then the carbon cycle as graded work but the tasks can be used however you like. Your students will use their varied learning styles to complete this assignment. Those who love art will enjoy the chance to really get creative and design something fantastic. Others will enjoy the way the task is set out step-wise with easy to follow i
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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MS-ESS3-1
, MS-LS2-3
, MS-LS2-4
, MS-ESS2-1
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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Plant and Animal Cells Cell Clip Art Pictures Science JPG and PNG FREE
Plant and Animal Cells Clip ArtThis set is FREE-but please come back and leave feedback, it means the world to me to hear from the people using materials I have created! This is a fun set of 6 (PNG and JPEG) individual files to use in your classroom and teacher resource files that you sell and distribute. The 3 images are provided in color.For personal and commercial use. You can create a teaching resource document with them where the images are embedded, and cannot be easily extracted. You are
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Island Biogeography Theory 5E
Use this complete 5E to teach students about the difficult concept of Island Biogeography theory and how it relates to habitat fragmentation, biodiversity, wildlife corridors and their own community.Uses inexpensive materials: poster paper, funnel and beans in the "Explore" section.This 5E includes a teacher's guide, sample answers, and a template for drawing islands on poster paper. It also includes an article for the "Explain" section of the 5E.Student tested 5E. Revised and edited.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: AP Environmental Science Unit 2 Bundle
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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The Human Digestive System - 7 Engaging Lab Station Activities
This fully editable Lab Station Activity on the Human Digestive System is meant to get your kids out of their seats and engaged in the content. Each station not only offers a unique opportunity to test your student's knowledge (offer an opinion, answer questions based on a video or reading, draw, etc.), but also provides a fantastic learning opportunity where your kids are learning through assessment. Each station comes with a description card while some also contain more detailed instructions,
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Biology Lab Station Activity Bundle - Engaging, Hands-on Activities
Muscle Cell Anatomy & Physiology: A Review Quiz (Worksheet) Virtual Friendly
Make teaching easier with the Human Anatomy & Physiology Unit 6 Review Worksheet: Skeletal Muscle Phsiology! This is a simple, 20 question worksheet that can be used a review or assessment quiz. Teacher answer key is included. Topics covered include: Types and characteristics of muscle tisssue, anatomy of muscle fibers, and sturce of myofibrils.For other great resources to make teaching easier follow me for updates! If you like my product, don't forget to write a review! Thank you!Use th
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4th - 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
Free Butterfly Clip Art
This Free Butterfly Clip Art bundle contains 6 different colorful butterflies (monarchs and swallowtails), and 2 black and white line arts! Each image is conveniently saved in png and jpg at 600 dpi. Clip art is the perfect addition to any classroom, lesson plan, presentation, or printable!
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Enjoy!
~Emily
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PreK - 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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Cells and the Cell Theory - 7 Engaging Lab Station Activities
This fully editable Lab Station Activity on Cells and the Cell Theory is meant to get your students out of their seats and engaged in the content. Each station not only offers a unique opportunity to test your students' knowledge (offer an opinion, answer questions based on a video or reading, draw, etc.), but also provides a fantastic learning opportunity where your kids are learning through assessment. Each station comes with a description card while some also contain more detailed instruction
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Biology Lab Station Activity Bundle - Engaging, Hands-on Activities
What is DNA and how does it work? - Animation
DNA is something that is generally seen as mysterious or difficult to understand. This 5 minute animation turns that mystery into knowledge.
The videos explains:
- DNA is a molecule
- How DNA acts like a recipe for a living thing
- How Amino acids combine to form proteins
- The importance of proteins in our bodies
- Translation and transcription
- How ribosomes read codons
- The difference between DNA and RNA
- The central dogma of genetics: DNA - RNA - Protein
This video was written for hi
Living and Non-Living Things Powerpoint Presentation Lesson
This presentation Lesson Plan has 12 slides covering the following topics:
Living and Non-Living Things, Energy Use, Sexual Reproduction, Asexual Reproduction, Cells, Response to Stimuli, DNA, Growth and Development.
My PowerPoint presentations have been made to be both informative and visually stimulating for all students. My students enjoy receiving information and discussing new topics using this presentation. (compared to reading textbooks, lectures, or copying information off of the board
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
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