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Free holidays/seasonal simulations for GATE
Halloween Activity / STEM Challenge - Witch's Brew
Design a witch's brew potion that bubbles! Students will need to mix various ingredients until they find two that create a chemical reaction to make the potion bubble. This is a very fun activity even your youngest scientists will love! ContentsGetting StartedSuggested Material List (you will need baking soda, vinegar, and various other baking supplies)Teacher NotesPrintable Challenge Poster: Hang at your STEM center or near where the STEM creations are, especially if they will be on display for
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Grades:
K - 4th
Also included in: STEM Activities and Challenges for K-2 - Whole Year Bundle
Spring Early Finishers Enrichment Activities - I'm Done Teacher!
Designed for those "early finishers" ~ a collection of THINKING TASKS, not busy work. A different, creative approach, that your students will appreciate. Keep this collection in a file folder crate, and teach your students a routine for accessing the "The Thinking Spot."
Included in this Spring Sample Pack:
"The Thinking Spot" Crate Label
Invent a Plant
Flower Power (Category Brainstorm)
Doodle Spring
Character Trading Cards
Puddle of Fun
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2nd - 4th
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The Dot By Peter Reynolds Activities - Dot Day STEM and STEAM
Explore this growth mindset read-aloud with STEAM activities for International Dot Day! Warm-up the brain with dot and pixel art, and then dive into one (or all four) STEM challenges. These activities pair with the read aloud The Dot. Try these challenges and see where they take you!✅ What You'll Get ✅2 warm-up activities to get the creativity flowing4 STEM ActivitiesArt desk STEM activityEasel STEM activityPicture frame STEM activityPainting tool STEM activityRecording OptionsGraphic organizer
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: STEM Bundle of Activities and Challenges Read Aloud Books and Novels
Reader's Theater: 13 Colonies-Life in a New England Colony!
Bring key characteristics of the 13 colonies to life with this FREEBIE Reader’s Theater script featuring the New England Colonies! This is part of a leveled set of 3 reader’s theater featuring the New England, Middle, and Southern colonial way of life plus additional comparison activities! This freebie script contains 6 parts, making it a perfect activity for centers or leveled guided reading groups! This activity helps integrate Social Studies history content with Language Arts common core s
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3rd - 6th
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Free STEM Challenge: Basketball Tower
This is a STEM Challenge perfect for the basketball madness of March, but it can also be used all year! Students must use only newspaper and masking tape to create a tower than will support a basketball. Excellent science inquiry lesson. Get your students building things! My goal with this resource is to make STEM as easy to implement as possible!Included:Graphic Organizer (with and without guiding questions)Rubric Picture ExamplesExtension MenuDetailed Notes to TeacherMaterials Required:newspap
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3rd - 5th
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FREE Logic Puzzle, Doodle Logic, Critical Thinking
Everyone loves a good puzzle. THIS is what you have been looking for! YOUR students are the stars of this fun, personalized logic puzzle! Easy, NO PREP fun, and every single puzzle is personalized by the students themselves! Students are less intimidated by critical thinking, when they are the stars of the puzzle!Introducing “Doodle Logic”! This is one of the first in my new line of logic puzzles in which students choose their friends they want to be in the puzzle. Dream Pet is a sill
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5th - 8th
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FREE Christmas and Holidays Around the World STEM Challenge Passport
Looking for a FREE Christmas and Holidays Around the World STEM Challenge Passport? Are you planning to do some Christmas and/or Holidays Around the World STEM challenges? If yes, then here's a great FREEBIE just for you! Use this FREE Christmas and Holidays Around the World STEM Challenge Passport to track your students' progress! It works well with my Christmas Around the World STEM Challenges BUNDLE and Holidays Around the World STEM Challenges BUNDLE.Included are five pages that you can use
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2nd - 5th
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Early Finishers Thinking Puzzles FREEBIE
What do your early finishers do? These critical thinking puzzles will keep your students engaged and allow them to work on meaningful activities. Included in this unit are math, ELA, spelling, logic puzzles, and more.Included in this unit are:It Begins WithSpin a StorySpot the DifferencesMystery WordAnalogiesRead and Do*Answer Keys are included!Check out more early finisher activities here.Thank you so much for stopping by TpT and my store. If I can help you in any way, please let me know. You
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2nd - 3rd
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FREE Bird Feeder Spring and Earth Day STEM Activity & Challenge | Animals Unit
Earth Day is here and your teacher life just got a little busier with Earth Day activities you need to plan. Use Earth Day STEM activities to cover standards and give your students super fun Earth Day activities they will love. This ready to go FREE Bird Feeder Spring and Earth Day STEM Activity and Challenge Animals Unit is just what you need to keep your 2nd through 5th grade students engaged and excited for learning. Challenge your students to design and build a bird feeder that can be refill
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Holiday STEM Challenges BUNDLE
CRITICAL THINKING SQUARE PUZZLES Christmas Activity Brain Teasers Logic GATE
CHRISTMAS SQUARE PUZZLERS are fun, yet challenging brain teasers. They exercise critical thinking & problem solving, build perseverance & stamina, and stimulate the brain while disguising it all as fun. Similar to Scrambled Squares, these differentiated, logic puzzles must be reconstructed so that the images match on every interior side. Use them for centers, stations, rotations, fast finishers, enrichment, GATE (gifted & talented education), and/or a class reward. Adored by all ages
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: CRITICAL THINKING SQUARE PUZZLES BUNDLE Holidays Brain Teasers
Halloween Logic Puzzle FREEBIE!! Costume Contest
Check out this FREE LOGIC PUZZLE and WRITING PROMPT for OCTOBER!Looking to engage your students with some deductive logic fun this Halloween Season? This logic puzzle is designed to challenge upper elementary students and is perfect for Halloween seatwork, homework, math centers, literacy centers, early finishers, or sub plans. Find this LOGIC PUZZLE, along with many other engaging Halloween Activities, in this BUNDLED RESOURCEHalloween BUNDLE 30% Off Each Individual Resource!Find Fabulous Octob
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Halloween Reading Activities | Persuasive Writing
Logic Puzzles FREE logic puzzle sampler
Logic Puzzles FREE logic puzzle sampler is a ready to use logic problem for your class. Great for math centers, time fillers or bell ringers.MUST have logic puzzles sets include:☆ Summer Logic Puzzles☆ Seasonal Logic Puzzle Bundle☆ Fall Logic Puzzles☆ Winter Logic Puzzles ☆ Logic Puzzles for All Year Long BIG Bundle☆ Winter Logic Puzzles ☆ Spring Logic Puzzles☆ April Logic PuzzlesThis purchase is for one teacher only. If you want to share, please share the link so that your colleagues can downl
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6th - 8th
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Back to School Choice Board - Morning Work or Early Finisher Activities
This Back to School choice board is perfect for setting up an Early Finisher station in your classroom at the beginning of the year. It can be used for morning work, early and fast finishers, or enrichment. The activities provide the perfect mix of challenges and fun, while still being super simple for the beginning of the year.This Back to School menu can be used as a tic-tac-toe board, and is full of 9 highly engaging and cross-curricular enrichment activities. A variety of activities are incl
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Early Finisher Activities and Choice Boards BUNDLE
All About Me Unit - Common Core Aligned NO PREP Third Fourth Fifth Grade
This unit contains both a printable packet version AND individual JPEG files for each document so that you can easily upload to Google Classroom. Since they are in JPEG format, students should be able to write on the documents in Google Classroom.Additionally, this unit now includes a PARENT INSTRUCTIONS edition that you can easily pass on to parents when students are out of school. The instructions are easy to follow and allow parents to work with students just as you would in the classroom! Th
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2nd - 6th
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NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, 3-LS3-1
, 5-PS1-1
, 3-LS1-1
Also included in: Gifted and Talented Curriculum BUNDLE - Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade
Questions to help parents talk about their child's school day
As a teacher, I know the importance of talking to my child about their day, but I find that sometimes I even resort to the dreaded…"how was your day?" and am often met with a one or two word answer. Or I'm asking the same questions over and over again. Help your parents engage in a thoughtful conversation with their child by providing them with this list of open-ended questions to start the conversation flowing.
This would be perfect to send home at the beginning of the year or at Back to Sch
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K - 5th
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Bullying Scenarios and Depth and Complexity Activity Freebie
Teach your students that bullying is wrong! October is National Bullying Prevention Month, and this freebie will get your students ready to combat bullying!
This freebie includes eight bullying scenario cards in both color and black and white. Students will have the chance to explain what they would do if they were involved in particular situations. Take it a step further, and have students role play each scenario, so they're prepared should they encounter a similar situation. Also included
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2nd - 8th
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5th Grade Division Review Game J.K. Rowling Harry Potter Activities
Practice division with remainders while learning facts about J.K. Rowling in this fun math game, similar to 20 questions! After completing worksheets, students practice their writing skills with an informational paragraph on their subject. Reinforce content from multiple disciplines in one activity. This activity is perfect for review, early finishers, whole class, differentiation, enrichment, and sub packets! Browse the Kitten Approved Curriculum Freebie Library for more freebies!!Buy all 28 ga
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5th - 6th
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Also included in: Math Worksheets Mixed Review 5th Grade Bundle
Holiday Theme Logic Puzzles (3 included)
This free set of three logic puzzles will challenge and engage your students while letting them have fun. Students will use their critical thinking skills. The holiday-related stories are fun to read and solve using deductive reasoning skills. A grid is used to find the solution.
Answer keys included
If you are looking for additional seasonal activities for your students, take a look at my Winter Math Bundle for Upper Elementary OR the bundled items are sold individually in my store (the bu
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4th - 6th
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Thirty Days Hath September. . .
Phrases, titles, product names, and exaggerations constructed with numbers--we quote them, hear them, see them, but seldom stop to think how useful they are. In this brain teaser, they are the stars.
Treat your students to a view of our language from a different angle with this two-part download, 40 items each. Also included are full answer keys and a list of 50 additional number phrases that creative teachers and students may use as resources for another activity.
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5th - 8th
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End of the Year Balloon Pop (Digital Slides)
Let's end the year with a bang! Here's a slideshow that's editable where you can virtually pop a balloon each day with fun activities inside each balloon. The slideshow is animated with a moving needle to pop the balloon and confetti afterward. Good for up to 12 balloons. I use it as a countdown to the end of school. Includes a list of activities and links to easy virtual activities you can do with your kiddos through Zoom! Good for all ages!
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Grades:
2nd - 9th
STEAM Bins Activities / STEM Bin Activities (Fall)
STEAM BIN / STEM BIN FALL EDITION ! STEAM Bins/STEM Bins Activities is a great resource to get students collaborating with one another, exploring ways to build structures, manipulating resources, and team building. It also allows them to express their creativity in different ways through Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics. STEM bin Activities allow students to think critically and solve problems. Practicing these skills are essential for children throughout their life. STEAM
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PreK - 4th
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Christmas STEM Challenge Freebie - Winter STEM Freebie
This STEM pack has everything you need to implement a fun Christmas themed STEM challenge. Your students will be engaged and learning while having fun seeing who can stack the most mini cups in the shape of a Christmas tree.
This is just a small sample of one of my many STEM challenges. For the complete Christmas STEM challenge set please visit:
Christmas STEM Challenges for the Month of December
STEM challenges work best with groups and encourages design and construction, while working thr
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
August Early Finishers Choice Board
An excellent resource for early finishers or for independent work time that requires higher level thinking with SCAMPER terms (Substitute, Combine, Add Something, Magnify/Minify, Put to Other Uses, Eliminate, Rearrange) and words from Bloom's Taxonomy: Create and Evaluate.
You will find a color version which you can laminate for durability. A black line version is also included to make individual student copies.
Includes two different headers for you to choose from!
This is part of a bundl
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3rd - 5th
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February Idioms from the Heart
February Idioms from the Heart is a combination history and figurative language lesson.
Each of the forty original sentences, organized as two separate activities of twenty items each, are constructed around an idiom with the word heart in it. Students are challenged to interpret the hidden meaning in each one. The preliminary Student Page briefly explains the history behind our language's large collection of idiomatic expressions that erroneously attribute human emotions and person
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5th - 8th
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