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AICE Thinking Skills - Curriculum and Exam Breakdowns
(This product had originally been mistakenly uploaded incorrectly and then fixed but the negative review has never been taken down)This product includes a day-by-day breakdown of an entire First Semester, which covers all skills involved for AS level except the writing application needed in questions #2 and #5 on Paper 2. It includes all AS level Problem Solving Skills for Paper 1, as well as the AS level skills needed for questions #1, #3 and #4 (RAVEN, Main Conclusion, Intermediate Conclusion,
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Group Discussion Rubric
Use this rubric whenever you have a class discussion. It provides a tangible way of grading these discussion, it teachers discussion behavior/skills, and it helps manage the discussion time. Students rate themselves and are rated by each other and the teacher completes a rating. Points are awarded for synchronicity of ratings. Repeated use of this rubric reinforces dicussion skills and solidifies the application of these skills. Students who do not choose to verbally contribute in the discussion
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Graphs, Charts, and Tables: U.S. Census Data Study
This lesson uses data from the 2010 U.S. Census to allow students to access numbers and data in a social science classroom. The lesson is a 2 day mini-unit centered on working with charts, graphs, and tables (serves extremely well for SAT and ACT prep). This cross-curricular lesson draws meaningful parallels between math and social science, and the necessity of bringing these subjects together. The lesson uses a comparative look at Census data for California and the United States as a whole, but
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Internet Scavenger Hunt Collection, Volume 1 (Biography, Reference & More!)
This is collection of 5 online scavenger hunts (WITH KEYS). These exercises use powerful, compelling contexts that develop research, literacy, and analytic skills.
The collection includes ...
Biography 1 & 2 (Online biographies of leaders, educators, musicians, and more!)
Reference 1 (Online reference sites like the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, CIA World FactBook, RhymeZone Rhyming Dictionary, etc.)
Schoolhouse Rock 1 (Introduce your students to classics like "Interjection!", "I'm Just A
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Federal Government Budget Simulation
Make changes to the tax code and government spending to reduce the deficit while keeping your approval rating above 50%. No paper needed. Student's only need access to google sheets!-The newly elected President of the United States has come to you, their trusted economic advisor, to fulfill the promise of fiscal responsibility. The President has promised the voters to not reduce Social Security or Medicare. The President's budget is projected to balance the nation's budget and promises to not al
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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AICE Thinking Skills Exam Breakdown 2020-2022
This resource is two excel files that have categorized all of the questions on Papers 1 and 2 for the last three years (since the exam update). The Problem Solving Matrix has 9 different types of problems that have been used over the past 3 years as well as how many points they were on the exam. The Critical Thinking Matrix has the topics for the 11 past exams as well.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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BINGO so fun it's a crime
This BINGO game places students into the role of a criminal. They are given description cards of their crimes. All of the students are to figure out whether they are Federal or State, Criminal or Civil.
Please pay attention to the formating of the document once you are ready to print it for use. You might need to adjust your print margins to NARROW so that the bingo sheets fit correctly.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Character Adjectives Word List (Excel Spreadsheet)
This is a list of 254 carefully selected character adjectives (formatted as a 10-page Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet) that I have used in the following ways:
1. During the first week of class, I have assigned students the project of researching and typing brief definitions of each word, and completing the column that says "This word describes me because ...". The projects are submitted electronically.
2. On the first day of class, I have used Microsoft Excel's filter function to select a shorter
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Excel - Risk Management Plan: Student Behaviour
This resource is an editable resource created in Excel which provides both teachers, SEND workers, support staff and parents a pro forma to identify potential behaviours which may put students at risk of injury to themselves or others, identify the context and highlight the elimination or control measures that need to be put in place to resolve the issue. This resource has been used extensively through my years of teaching (Over 12+ years) and never fails to be a clear record of the behaviours a
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in: Behaviour Management Tools/Trigger Identification Trackers
Tax Systems
Interactive explanation of the tax systems!Pass out student amount randomly as they walk in. Go through the slide show and discuss. Then model how the proportional tax system works! Students then do it with their amounts on their graphic organizer!Its all set up and ready for you!FOLLOW & Rate us on TPT!Leave feedback and earn TpT money!We love hearing from you! It helps us grow and improve our resources. Once you've made a purchase, be sure you're logged in, leave us feedback, and you'll ea
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Binary Dot Cards - Randomly Generated!
THE GOALTo familiarize students with the most basic computer language (binary), done in the most basic way! Simple, easy-to-understand, visuals make it fun for all students to learn!WHAT IT ISThis is a program (and Excel program) that randomly generates binary cards AND answers!! All you need to do is hit “Enter” and then the cards randomly shuffle! This is so fun to play as a review game, or speed challenge!FITS ANY LESSON!Great as an introductory lesson, review, assessment, or a whole class ga
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Census - A Statistical Look at the Diversity of American Culture.
A Statistical Look at the Diversity of American Culture. Whether, it is used with a class or any group, the purpose is to open the eyes of the participants to how diverse our population really is. Preview presentation has notes to explain what the Census is and how to use the Spreadsheet. The spreadsheet sums up the results of data collected and automatically displays on both the Bar Graphs and the Pie Charts. Spreadsheet is compact and uncomplicated. It allows for easy to understand results
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Constitution Quiz
To assess application of the terms found below, this fill in the blank assessment requires students to complete a quote from a news article. Students can not rely on simply knowing the definition, they must understand how to use it in context. This could also be used as an application exercise instead of a quiz. It was designed to be used for Advanced Placement and Honors classes.
This quiz targets the following vocabulary words:
Popular Sovereignty Judicial Review Expressed Powers Concur
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Analyzing Congress 2.0
Spreadsheets are perhaps the simplest form of a database and are excellent tools for introducing students to using technology for analysis. This lesson plan centers around analysis of the current House of Representatives.How representative of the average American is it?What traits are common?What does this tell us about what it takes to be a Member of the House of Representatives?This teaching guide and lesson plan provides you with the resources to do a deep dive about the House of Representat
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Zee File Management System with Calc, Excel, or Gnumeric Frontends
This can lead you to the overwhelming question of whether My Documents, My Pictures, Libraries, etc. are really relevant when you can design your own file access system with ordinary Calc, Excel, Gnumeric spreadsheets? This is a "study example and do it yourself" template to manage files on your computer. The example is for PDF files but with a little study and practice, nothing can stop you to use it for files, folders, or even system files of any type. A pre-requisite to use is learning and us
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8th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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