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Middle school critical thinking service learning resources under $5
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Community Service Passion Project
Are you in charge of organizing a community service project for your students or school community? ****************************************************************************************************************Would you like your students to connect their passions with community groups and service? ****************************************************************************************************************This Step by step guide will allow your students to combine their passions with local c
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Executive Functioning Skills PowerPoint
What are executive functioning skills? Defines and explains how these critical thinking and problem-solving skills are essential to managing daily tasks, how they help us plan and manage time, control our emotions, organize, self-monitor, remember details, switch focus, and initiate new projects. These executive functions may be impaired in children with ADD and ADHD, but they can and should be taught. Includes strategies to use when teaching children to improve their executive functioning skill
Grades:
5th - 8th, Staff
The Blind Side: Movie Analysis
We all must admit that kids love movies. A movie analysis is an effective educational strategy that influences the building of a culturally diverse community that does not limit itself to the classroom and traditional classroom resources. When the classroom becomes the community, learners are empowered and higher levels of critical thinking are reached. Nothing is more effective than the study of the many issues in The Blind Side. Various activities are included in this package, including a proj
Grades:
5th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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TED Talk: Special Olympics Matthew Williams · Google Link · Remote Learning
This 3 page analysis allows students to dig deeper into the inspiring and engaging TED Talk, "Special Olympics Let Me Be Myself - A Champion," by Matthew Williams, through discussion questions, quote analysis, and vocabulary.TED Talk Description: How much do you know about intellectual disabilities? Special Olympics champion and ambassador Matthew Williams is proof that athletic competition and the camaraderie it fosters can transform lives, both on and off the field. Together with his fellow a
Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Service Learning- A Complete Guide!
This set is your complete guide to start and complete service learning projects in your class!
This set includes:
Directions for how to implement, teach, and guide service learning.
Graphic organizer pages for every step of the process for your students.
Assessments and grading rubrics.
Inspirational ideas and an example list of projects I've completed with my students!
Grades:
2nd - 9th
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Fortune Origami Acts of Kindness
These origami fortune tellers we loved as kids take on a positive spin! In this creative, fun way to inspire acts of kindness, kids will learn small acts of kindness that they can incorporate in their daily lives and share ideas of kindness with their friends and family. These small acts can brighten someone's day and add up to increasing their positivity.OR choose a blank template to have fun working on vocabulary, or a specific topic of your choosing. Contains 4 color templates with a blank te
Grades:
K - 12th
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Market Fair Activity Plan - Inquiry Process
Planning a fair or market at your school?
Do you want your students to be involved and run stalls?
Here is a business plan for more senior students to use that includes the process and reflection pages.
It also includes a journal page that must be kept and a plan for the students to follow each week.
There is also examples of advertisements they can use to bring people to their stall or activity.
There is also a plan for the teacher to use. This includes the learning goals and other key pieces o
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Grades:
5th - 10th
TED Talk: Guerrilla Gardner Ron Finley · Google Link · Remote Learning
This 3 page analysis allows students to dig deeper into the inspiring and engaging TED Talk, "A Guerilla Gardener in South Central LA," by Ron Finley through discussion questions, quote analysis, and vocabulary.TED Talk Description: Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where "the drive-thrus are killing more people than the dr
Grades:
5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Project Based Learning Log
Use this template to accompany any Project Based Learning unit. Students keep track of their learning tasks and the outcome. There is a space for the teacher to add a score for each date. The second page contains a student reflection which you can also use as an assessment tool.
Easily adaptable for all grade levels!
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Whitman's "I Sit and Look Out: Acknowledging the Human Condition"
As a realist writer, Whitman addressed pertinent issues of his time. What our students will recognize in the study of Whitman is that those same issues are observable in our society today. Nothing has changed but time. This product provides students an opportunity to walk in the shoes of those who experience oppression from the hands of those who they consider friends, acquaintances, loves ones, etc. Whitman merely observed the behavior of the oppressed. This product allows students to not only
Grades:
6th - 12th
My Service Learning Interactive Book
This set can be used for a small or large scale service learning project or throughout the school year to track, plan, and reflect on service learning. In this set I provided a wide range of activities so that each teacher can print and customize the book based on their students needs. I have also duplicated many of the worksheets to offer diversity and a variety of reflection sheets after each project. When I use the set for my class, I cut a file folder in half to create a book. Then I punch
Grades:
1st - 8th
Statistics Project-COMMON CORE
This project challenges students to identify a change they would like to see in their school, conduct a survey, and mathematically manipulate their results. The presentation portion allows students to act on their findings. My students actually got items taken off the student lunch menu using this project!! COMMON CORE ALIGNED. A reflection portion is also included.
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Grades:
6th - 11th
Weekend Islamic School Scavenger Hunt
This is a great activity for students to become acquainted with weekend Islamic school by having them research the answers via partners or independently.
You will need student Islamic books and to know the proper procedures in your local mosque.
Grades:
7th - 10th
Oral History Presentation - D.C. Everest
This is a presentation about the D.C Everest Oral History Program (a pdf of a 97 slide presentation done in 2015)
The D.C. Everest Oral History Program as published 26 books and conducted of 1,100 interviews. The program has received recognition from the American Historical Association - the Albert Beveridge K-12 Teaching, National VFW Teaching Award, Melvin Laird, Tom Hanks, Henry Kissinger and many others.
They have interviewed veterans, Native American, the Hmong, women, and many other grou
Grades:
8th - 12th
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Girl Power Series: Creating a Future
What are Girl Power Series Question Cards? Theme: Creating a Future - Thought-provoking question cards to help foster girl power. Our Girl Power Series are downloadable question cards aimed at young women (aged 12 - 20) to allow for critical thought and reflection on themes which affect our daily lives. These cards are meant to be printed, cut and laminated to use with groups or individually. Often, we bury or shy away from discussion that might make us feel uncomfortable. Opening a line of comm
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
School Wide Expectations (Editable)
Tinsel the character of the children in your class by having school-wide expectations displayed in your classroom or abroad. This resource Includes displayable posters and plan overview. Help your students be better behaved today!
Grades:
3rd - 9th
Take What You Need
Created to support character education,leadership, school spirit, compassion and empathy towards others.
Cut on dotted lines before placing around school or classroom and use as needed.
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Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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