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Free middle school problem solving school psychology resources
Positive Thinking Affirmations - 150 Self-Talk Phrases SEL Skills Activity
Use these 100+ free positive thinking affirmations and self-talk statements to help kids and young adults build confidence, learn healthy coping strategies, and start the day off strong. Positive thinking and self-talk is an important social-emotional learning skill necessary for success. This resource includes a 3-page printable list of positive affirmations and a student worksheet to record individual positive affirmations. Digital and Print VersionsI've included a link to Google Drive! To acc
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1st - 12th
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Perspective-Taking Social Skills Lessons - Printable and Digital Activities
Use these lessons to teach critical social skills of perspective-taking to kids, including understanding perspectives, developing their own perspectives, and recognizing there can be more than one point of view in a situation. This resource includes two complete activities with an educator guide and lesson plan. These are a small sample of a paid resource and bundle that are listed below.Digital VersionA digital version has now been included for Google Classroom!Why Teach Social SkillsSocial ski
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5th - 8th
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Logic Puzzle: Who Adopted Who? - Bellringer, Free Time, Critical Thinking
In this fun logic puzzle, which will only take about 15 minutes, students use pictures and clues to make deductions that lead to the one and only solution to the question, "Which dog did each child adopt at the animal shelter?" PDF or interactive Google Slides for distance learning.The FREE puzzle can be used as a warm-up, bellringer, or free-time activity. It does involve critical thinking and logic skills, so it is not a waste of time.Answer Key included!NEW - NOW AVAILABLE IN INTERACTIVE GOOG
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4th - 8th
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Social Emotional Learning Journal Free Week of Prompts (Self-Awareness Skills)
Use this free Social Emotional Learning Journal to teach SEL skills! This free resource includes 5 journal prompts focused on self-awareness and helping kids understand their individual strengths and challenges. Note that this is a small sample of my Social Emotional Learning Journal for the Full Year.Digital VersionI've updated this to include a digital version for Google Drive. Students can type their responses for each journal prompt online!Why Teach Social Emotional Learning SkillsSocial emo
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4th - 6th
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Mindfulness Coloring Pages
The purpose of mindful coloring is to have students pay attention to applying color and design to help bring awareness to the present moment without allowing other thoughts, worries, or fears penetrate the mind. Mindful coloring focuses the mind on a simple, relaxing activity which helps inspire creativity while reducing stress.Taking the time to incorporate mindfulness activities such as this, in your counseling program, can help create a calm and inviting environment for your students. These
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3rd - 12th, Staff
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FREE! Common Core Mathematical Practices Classroom Posters
8 Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practices Classroom PostersRemind students of these valuable Math Practices with these colorful and simple legal-size posters. Each practice has a specially designed icon to help students not only remember the 8 Math Practices, but use them as well.You can print all 8 posters in color at your local office/print center on 8.5 x 14 white card stock for around $5-$6.You might also like:Tangram Fraction Task CardsIt Takes Two to TangramPattern Block Fraction
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K - 12th
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Social Skills Lessons for Conversations Free Lessons
Use these lessons to teach critical social skills of conversations to kids, including how to start a conversation, using conversation-starters, finding things in common with others, and keeping a conversation going. This resource includes four complete activities with an educator guide and lesson plan. These are a small sample of a paid resource and bundle that are listed below.Why Teach Social SkillsSocial skills are the abilities and competencies we use to navigate the social world. These skil
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5th - 10th
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FREE Math Logic Puzzles Enrichment 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Grade
6 Picture problems that engage students to develop fact fluency and problem solve using critical thinking skills. - Level 1 includes problems with Addition Facts to 10. It would suit approximately grade one, but could be below or above depending on student ability.- Level 2 includes Addition and Subtraction problems to 30. It would suit approximately grade two, but could be below or above depending on student ability.- Level 3 includes Addition and Subtraction problems to 30 and Multiplication u
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1st - 6th
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Also included in: Math Logic Puzzles 1st Grade - 6th Grade Enrichment BUNDLE Volume One
5 Minutes Left and What Can I Do? : 100 Fun and Challenging Puzzles
Thank you for visiting this page! After 30+ years of teaching, these are my absolute favorite classroom-tested time fillers. Every teacher needs to have something ready when a planned lesson ends earlier than anticipated or the kids just need a break at the end of the period.
Some puzzles I have used over the years just do not work well; these all do. What they have in common is that they are challenging, engaging to all students, and effective problem-solving/critical thinking activities.
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5th - 12th
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Hands On Science STEM Investigations: Help Harry!
Interested in finding a fun way to work some cooperative learning AND science and engineering into your day? This 30 minute lesson is a great way to do just that--and it's free! Everything you need to get started is included in this one page freebie--with the added bonus of a link to a blog post with full color photos and details about how to do it.When students work through the process of planning, building, testing, and revising--they really are acting like engineers. It's a fun way to get
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4th - 6th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Bucket Filler or Bucket Dipper Activity
This activity goes with the book, How Full Is Your Bucket, by Tom Rath.
Bucket Filler or Bucket Dipper Game:
Cut Label and glue on bucket (or bag). Cut out 30 cards double sided and place in bucket (or bag). Divide the class into two teams. Each student comes up and pulls out a card. If the card is positive (bucket filler) their team gets a point. If the card is negative (bucket dipper) their team doesn’t get a point. The team with the most points wins the game.
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1st - 6th
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50 Things You Can Control Free Poster and Checklist
Why Teach About Choices Each Person Has Control Over?Recognizing what is in our control helps young (and older!) people cultivate a strong internal locus of control and sense of self-efficacy, which are important building blocks for self-esteem, compassion towards self and others, having a growth mindset, and creating plans to work towards goals, hopes, and dreams. Plus, when we can identify what really is in our control, we can focus our energy that to create change, as compared to wasting on t
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3rd - 12th
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Free Feelings Posters | Social Emotional Learning Activity Freebie
This FREE Feelings Posters and Handbook Sample pack features 4 free posters and worksheets that cover the emotions happy, sad, worried, and angry. Each poster contains the feeling definition. And the worksheet provides feeling sensation, body language cues, and examples. Comes in digital and printable formats. If you like this sample pack, and would like access to a total of 50 different feelings, check out my Multicultural Feelings Posters, Emotion Chart & SEL Activity: Body Language Cu
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PreK - 7th
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Finding Slope and Y-Intercept from a Table
Are you looking for an activity to help students in finding slope and y-intercept from a table? Miss Kuiper's Classroom has you covered with this scaffolded finding slope and y-intercept form a table activity! ⭐This resource includes⭐Page 4: Common Core StandardsPage 5: DirectionsPage 6 & 7: Worksheet #1 → Uses the terms “Growth” & “Starting Value”Page 8 & 9: Worksheet #2 → Uses the terms “Slope” & “Y-Intercept”Page 10: Answer Key✨How This Activity Works✨Students will practice fi
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7th - 9th
Breathing Mindfulness Cards FREEBIE
These breathing cards are a great way to promote mindfulness with your students! There are 4 different breathing exercises contained in these cards. They can be laminated for repeated use and easy cleaning! These cards would be a great addition to a calm down corner or a mindfulness tool kit!
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PreK - 12th
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I SPY COPING SKILLS! Free Poster / Printable
FREE Printable! An I-Spy printout with various coping strategies. Educators and parents can use this activity as a fun and easy way to engage with their kiddos around the topic of coping strategies.A fun worksheet for students. Plus, ca help students to focus, so the act of searching for different coping skills can act as a self-regulation tool, too.
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K - 8th
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FREE Halloween Brain Break Activities and NO PREP Worksheets for October
FREE NO PREP Halloween Brain Break Activities for October are here to save the day for your early finishers, morning work, center activities & MORE! The WORD SCRAMBLE and HALLOWEEN MAZE pages are sure to engage your 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade students during the SPOOKY season!************************************************************************************************************LOVE these NO PREP worksheets? SAVE your time, money, and SANITY & grab the BIG BUNDLE of 35 Hallowee
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
FREE Math Centers Math Tiles
Math tiles are a hands-on activity that takes students’ thinking beyond procedures and rote memorization. This engaging resource activates critical thinking and problem solving skills, all while developing algebraic thinking. Students must arrange 10 number tiles (0-9) on the various Time to Tile cards in order to correctly complete the mathematical tasks.This resource includes:• 10 different Time to Tile cards in color and black & white. - Equivalent Fractions - Improper Fractions and Mix
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4th - 7th
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Behavior Basics: Social Scenarios
"Social Scenarios" is a packet of skill building activity cards designed to help students develop strategies for responding to others in an appropriate manner. Students with social skill deficits tend to have more negative interactions with others. They often have difficulty interpreting social cues and can be inflexible in their desire to have things a certain way. This can make navigating the social landscape very difficult at school. "Social Scenarios" present challenging vignettes set within
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5th - 12th
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Free Social Emotional Learning Support Poster and Video: Reminders for Hard Days
This free SEL poster and video provides reminders of ways to reframe thoughts during difficult times.
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6th - 12th
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Positive Self-Talk Poster for Social Emotional Learning & Classroom Decor
Use this free positive self-talk poster to remind kids and teens in your classroom the phrases that matter most! Positive affirmations and self-talk can be used to help kids start the morning in a positive way, build confidence, and as a calm-down activity.Phrases include:Every day is a fresh start.I am a work in progress.Challenges help me grow.It's okay to feel how I feel.I am in charge of my choices.I am grateful for what I have.I am enough.My voice matters.I am resilienceI can do tough thin
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1st - 8th
Free Social Emotional Learning Activities, Digital and Paper Scenarios
Social-Emotional Learning is a crucial part of instruction today. This product is designed to engage students in understanding the importance of respect and kindness, ask students to develop a coping strategy for a scenario, and respond to a difficult situation. This is a sample of my Social Emotional Learning Bundle. In this free product sample your students will:*analyze scenarios**develop examples of how to respond to scenarios appropriately**identify emotions**make self-connections*This prod
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4th - 7th
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Solving and Graphing Inequalities - Foldable and Scavenger Hunt
This FREE resource includes an INEQUALITY FOLDABLE and SCAVENGER HUNT. Students can use the foldable as a reference as they self-check on the sixteen question scavenger hunt.
The foldable provides various examples of inequalities graphed on a number line. There are examples of less than, greater than, less than or equal to and greater than or equal to inequalities. On the inside of the foldable, students can practice one of each type of inequality problem. The bottom portion of the foldab
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6th - 9th, Adult Education
WEIRD! DARE! TOUGH! Bundle Book Companion
This download includes fun, interactive activities that go along with the books, WEIRD! DARE! and TOUGH! by Erin Frankel. All activities include color and black & white versions.Included in Download:HandoutsPostersFoldablesWorksheetsMemory GamePolka Dot Game
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4th - 6th
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