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9th grade critical thinking independent work pdfs
One Pager Templates - 40 Print and Digital One Pager Templates
One-Pagers are the perfect way to combine higher-level thinking and creativity into your classroom, and with these 40 different templates, you will never hear "I don't know where to start!" again. Your students can show their mastery and understanding of ANY subject in new and innovative ways.You can use these Print and Digital One Pager templates with ANY subject you are teaching. Perfect for literature, math, science, social studies, vocabulary, grammar, and more!This resource includes:20 no-
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3rd - 12th
Also included in: One Pager Mega Bundle - Book Reports - Exit Tickets
Paper Football Math Activity: Ratio & Proportions with STEM Careers
Your students are going to love the following interactive activity that connects classroom math concepts to the real world of sports! Instead of boring worksheets, students will solve problems based on their own collected data and connect the concepts to cool careers! Click here for an editable STEM journal to use with distance learning, including digital and printable versions.Students learn how their favorite sports calculate common statistics like batting average or throwing accuracy. Student
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Math, Sports & Engineering Activity Bundle: Ratios and Proportions
Inferencing Task Cards
Inferencing can be a difficult concept to teach, learn, and master. Our students often need additional support to fully understand this skill. This product contains various components to support your students' learning. Included in this product are 32 task cards containing short stories, 32 task cards containing pictures for inferencing, 1 visual support to help teach what inferencing is, and 2 graphic organizers that can be used with each task card. Each card contains questions that target infe
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3rd - 12th
Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards for Literature
Add depth and complexity to your instruction with these Critical Thinking Task Cards for Literature! These tasks cards allow students to deeply analyze any fiction reading material through 11 topics of critical thinking: Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives. You will appreciate the versatility of these task cards; they can be used with almost any text (novels,
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4th - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards Bundle
Brain Teasers and Logic Puzzles for Early Finishers
About this resource:Want to promote critical thinking in your classroom? Want students who think "outside the box"? Modified from my popular Brain Teaser sets, these rebus picture puzzles challenge students purely visually! Students will identify words, phrases, idioms, etc. being depicted in each rebus puzzle.This file includes 3 worksheets featuring 10 rebus puzzles each. Great for fast finishers, warm-ups, or just for fun!!Key included for all sets!Follow Me:Click here to Follow Me!Items Rela
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Emergency Sub Plans | NOT Math Specific!
Depth of Knowledge (DOK) 105 Question Stem Cards MATH EDITION
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With the new assessments coming into play, students will be expected to answer more complex questions. Are your students answering higher-order questions properly and regularly? If not, use these questioning stems to get kids thinking more deeply about their learning.
This set of DOK Level 1-4 cards, makes it easy to scroll through and select various levels of questions before, during, and after instruction. They are
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PreK - 12th
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Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mats {For all subjects!}
These “Thinking Mats” present open-ended and engaging opportunities related to 11 “Thinking Tools” ( Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives) of critical thinking. They can be utilized with practically any subject and/or topic in a variety of learning settings (small group, pairs, whole group, independent, etc.). There are 11 double-sided “Thinking Mats”; one for
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle
Working Memory Hemisphere Integration & Attention Building Activities Intermedia
Unlock your students' cognitive potential with Dr. Warren's 54-page digital workbook, "Working Memory, Hemisphere Integration, and Attention Building Activities for Optimal Learning - Intermediate." This resource engages students with fun, game-like activities that develop executive functioning skills and stimulate both brain hemispheres.Key Features of Dr. Warren's Workbook:Mindful Engagement: Activities are designed to anchor learners in the present, establishing a solid foundation for focused
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Working Memory Bundle
It's Not a Box! 25 Creative Drawing Prompts Your Kids Will Love
These 25 open-ended drawing prompts range from basic shapes to abstract lines to engage your students' creativity and critical thinking skills! Use them as a drawing warmup, mindfulness activity, or for early finishers. These are perfect for any art class, and can be paired with Antoinette Portis' book Not a Box for a literacy connection. My K-1 students loved these challenges, and they could easily be implemented up to high-school grades depending on the level of depth you encourage. As an art
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K - 10th
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Brain Teasers and Logic Puzzles for Early Finishers
About this resource:Love riddles, brain breaks, logic and brain teasers? Need something fun for your fast finishers that still enhances their learning? Want students who think "outside the box"? Encourage your student to think critically with this bundle of brain teasers! This bundle includes Brain Teaser Sets #1-10-that means 70 brain teasers in total! Key included for all sets!Available in the following bundle(s):Logic & Proof Unit BundleGeometry Super Bundle #3Geometry Activities Growing
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: Geometry Activities Bundle - Lines - Angles - Triangles - Circles
Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards for History/Social Studies
Add depth and complexity to your instruction with these Critical Thinking Task Cards for History! These tasks cards allow students to deeply analyze any historical reading material through 11 topics of critical thinking: Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives). You will appreciate the versatility of these task cards; they can be used with almost any text and with
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4th - 10th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards Bundle
Dead Poets Society Movie Guide | Questions | Worksheet | Google Form (PG - 1989)
This Dead Poets Society Movie Guide | Questions | Worksheet | Google Classroom (PG - 1989) encourages students to think critically. Analyze Neil's relationship with his father and discuss the possible factors that influenced his suicide and who the school makes the 'scapegoat'. Explore Mr. Keating's teaching philosophy, how he inspires his students, and how he brought Todd out of his shell.Check the preview file for high resolution sample questions to see if this movie guide is suitable for yo
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7th - 12th
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Math "NO PREP" 80 Emergency Sub Resources & Independent Activities
You'll be ready for anything with this super-sized Math learning resource bundle, offering all the support you will need for creating sub plans and a sub binder and with a vast collection of independent assignments for your Math students that will provide you relief from planning stress for the whole school year! Are you going to be absent from your Grade 5-9 Math classroom for several days or an even longer and indefinite period? Maybe you are you just tired of the standard skills' lessons in y
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5th - 9th
Discussion Starters for Math Problem Solving
BEST SELLER!! This product has 14 printable cards with question stems and prompts TEACHERS can ask during problem solving activities to promote critical thinking skills. By integrating these open-ended questions into your daily math instruction and routines, you can help students:• Make sense of mathematics• Learn and apply mathematical language and vocabulary• Develop a wide variety of flexible strategies for problem solving• Strengthen reasoning skills• Solve problems effectively and efficient
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K - 12th, Staff
Creative Thinking Task Cards Word Links 128 Lateral Critical Thinking Puzzles
Use these 126 critical thinking cards to help your students gain fluency with lateral thinking. Similar to the board game, TriBonds, each card requires students to come up with one word that links the three words on each card together. For example, the words, “camp,” “place,” and “wild,” are linked by the word “fire.” These cards can be used by students from grade four all the way to adults (try them yourself!).WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:128 Task Cards (prints 6 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording
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2nd - 12th
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Environmental Science Work Packet - Tragedy of the Commons
This 8 page workbook explores the theme of "The Tragedy of the Commons" within 6 different environmental topics. Each worksheet contains a brief reading, reflection questions and a critical thinking component. These worksheets can be used as stand alone resources to teach about The Tragedy of the Commons or as supplemental materials.PRODUCT PREVIEW ABOVE! Click Here For More Environmental Science ResourcesTopics Include:Page 1: The Tragedy of the Commons (General Introduction) Page 2: Overg
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7th - 12th
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Twilight Zone “Number 12 Looks Just Like You," Analysis of Twilight Zone CCSS
There’s a reason Rod Serling’s series, The Twilight Zone, has stood the test of time. The stories are compelling, the episodes are well-crafted, and the themes are timeless. With this lesson download (PDF & Google Drive formats), you can also use The Twilight Zone to help students develop analysis skills and connect classic storytelling to modern issues.In this episode, “Number 12 Looks Just Like You,” a teen girl resists efforts to look, act, and think like everyone else around her. Issues
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Social Dilemma Active Viewing Guide - Netflix - Social Media Literacy
Are your students naive about social media algorithms? This 22-page active viewing guide is designed to help them process the Netflix film "The Social Dilemma." Students are required to listen and watch actively, consider their own behavior, analyze the film maker's choices, and write about rhetorical impact. A teacher guide is provided, and all materials are provided in both PDF and Google Slides.This viewing guide is now embedded in a 15-lesson media literacy unit, Detect & Dismiss: How to
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9th - 12th
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Brain Teasers | Rebus Puzzles Holiday Edition | Christmas
About this resource:Modified from my popular Brain Teaser sets, these HOLIDAY-themed rebus puzzles challenge students purely visually! This file includes 3 worksheets featuring 10 rebus puzzles each. Great for fast finishers!!Key included for all sets!Follow Me:Click here to Follow Me!Items Related to this Product:Brain Teasers Bundle, Sets #1-10Brain Teasers Bundle, Sets #11-20Brain Teasers Bundle, Sets #1-20Licensing Terms:By purchasing this product, you own a license for ONE TEACHER ONLY for
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5th - 12th
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Geometry Puzzles for High School Students
Grab this set of Geometry puzzles for your high school students and watch them master those pesky vocabulary terms! These puzzles are a great way to review geometry terms and concepts. They would make great homework assignments or extra review for tests.Included in this PDF:Circle Crossword - reviews basic circle termsGrid Fill Ins - triangles, circles, polygonsLong Letters - all about shapesGeometry Riddle Link - focus on key numbers in geometryGeometry Scramble - word scrambleMissing Thirds
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9th - 10th
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Newton's 2nd Law of Motion F=ma Logic Puzzle + Graphing Worksheet
Support Your Students' Understanding of Newton's 2nd Law with This Engaging Logic Puzzle!Dive into Physics with Critical Thinking: Bring Newton's 2nd Law of Motion to life in your classroom with this captivating logic puzzle. Designed to reinforce the fundamental relationship between force, mass, and acceleration (F=ma), it's an excellent tool for both in-person and online learning environments.Key Features of the Puzzle:In-Depth Exploration: Students will deepen their understanding of the inter
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8th - 9th
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MS-PS2-2
12 Angry Men Movie Guide | Questions | Worksheet | Google Formats (NR - 1957)
12 Angry Men Movie Guide | Questions | Worksheet | Google Formats (NR - 1957) guides students through this classic, gripping and engaging film that is still relevant today. Challenge your students to really connect with the characters in this film by thinking critically about each thought-provoking questions on the movie guide. Students can learn life lessons from the film about prejudice, logic, and being open-minded.Check the preview file for high resolution sample questions to see if this mov
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8th - 12th
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Weather and Climate Interactive Notebook
The Earth Science Interactive Notebook: Weather and Climate chapter showcase student's ability to:Identify major types of air massesName and identify symbols of frontsDescribe themain types of storms and conditions in which they formExplain how weather forecasters predict weatherDescribe what can be learned from information on a weather mapIdentify factors that influence temperature and precipitationExplain what causes seasonsIdentify factors that can cause climate changeExplain how human activi
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5th - 10th
Also included in: Earth Science Interactive Notebook - Complete Bundle
LOGIC PUZZLES for middle and high
Included in this resource are 5 logic puzzles on separate pages, set up with grids and ready to be solved!
Let your students know that your class is all about thinking and sticking with a problem until it is “puzzled out.”
Students too often see mathematics as a set of rules to know and follow. However, real mathematics, in life outside of school is not so algorithmic. In addition, questions presented on state tests ask students to think beyond the rules. The simplest word problems ask them t
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6th - 12th
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