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Free critical thinking creative writing resources for GATE
FREE Printable Mazes for Early Finishers Activities | 18 Mazes
These 18 fun, FREE maze puzzles are perfect to keep on hand for early finishers, substitute plans, morning work, and more! 18 differentiated puzzles are included to give you multiple ways to differentiate!The mazes come with 6 levels of difficulty, and each level includes 3 mazes each. Simply print and let students choose the level that they want!Love These And Want More?I have multiple maze packs available! If you want more fun mazes, just like these, here are other maze packs I have available:
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1st - 5th
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Shelter Building STEM Challenge
This FREE STEM challenge is designed similarly to the other STEM Challenges in my store. I am offering this one as a free sample so that you can experience the joy of STEM with your students. The “problem” presented in this shelter building challenge was a real life situation that happened to my family and me this summer on a back country hike. We got caught out in a rain storm on a hiking trail and were forced to quickly solve the problem of building a shelter to keep ourselves and our gear
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1st - 5th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Western Expansion Logic Puzzle FREEBIE!! Chuckwagon Chili Challenge
Looking to engage your students with some fun deductive logic and critical thinking challenges?Explore the Wild West and Chuckwagon Cooking with this Westward Expansion-themed logic puzzle from GATER Educator.This logic puzzle is designed to challenge upper elementary students and is perfect for Literacy Center seat work, homework, early finishers or sub plans.Looking for specific GIFTED and TALENTED ACTIVITIES? Click the link belowGifted and Talented Activities for the ClassroomDo your students
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4th - 6th
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FREE Gifted & Talented Challenge Extension Math ELA Early Finishers Activities
12 daily challenge tasks that are perfect extension activities for gifted and talented students. Gifted and talented students thrive on daily challenge, and are often deep thinkers. With Google Slides, powerpoint and task cards in both colour and ink saving black and white they are sure to save teacher lots of time preparing enrichment activities for their gifted and talented students. Great for early finishers activities!If you and your students enjoyed this resource…you might like to purchase
Grades:
2nd - 6th
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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Fairy Tale STEM--Jack and the Parachute
This is a building and engineering projects based on Jack and the Beanstalk. Students will construct a parachute to help Jack escape the giant using everyday household and classroom items to complete this project. This activity is designed to encourage critical thinking and scientific reasoning skills, as well as, problem solving and teamwork.
Materials Needed: various paper products (coffee filters, newspaper, tissue paper, etc…); various types of string (yarn, thread, dental floss, etc…); a
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: STEM Challenge Bundle (Fairy Tale, Nursery Rhymes, Seasonal STEM)
100th Day of School STEM Activities - STEM Challenges - Printable Task Cards
Celebrate the 100th day of school with 100th Day FREEBIE!Make this 100th Day of School memorable and educational with 100th Day of School STEM Activities! STEM activities teach important skills that students need to think critically and solve problems in the real world. Students will start by learning to explore and examine, and then applying their knowledge to make improvements! What's included in this product:⭐ How-to-Use Direction Page⭐ 8 STEM Challenge Task Cards⭐ Engineering Design Process
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: STEM Activities - Classroom BUNDLE to Use Throughout the Year
Inference, Lateral Thinking, Critical Thinking, GT, 3rd 4th 5th Grade
Find our Gifted and Talented Bundle HERE!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.Help Detective Doodle solve the case of the missing dog named Fish using Detective Doodle's case notes. I put these in file folders and pass out to groups for students to look over. They are many graphic organi
Grades:
3rd - 5th
FREEBIE: 180 Middle School Math Warm-Ups: No-Prep Daily Bellringers & Starters
First five minutes? Planned! With this set of daily bellringers, you'll engage your students and get them thinking!Made for 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade math, these interesting and challenging starters will have your students ready for your lesson.With a pre-made student response sheet, this resource is truly print-and-go, no-prep for the whole school year.Help your students make connections by using this resource at the beginning of class each day!Want all 180 No-Prep 5-Minute Math Warm-Ups? Cli
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5th - 8th
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
Earth Day STEM Activities and Challenges | Water Tower
Here’s a CREATIVE and FUN way to make STEM a classroom TREAT! Have your students COMPETE!This FREEBIE is part of GATER Educator’s "Outta the Box" Classroom Competitions and can be done during a Fun Friday or throughout the week during your science block. Outer Space and Earth OTB Classroom CompetitionsCheck out the whole collection of Outta the Box Classroom Competitions hereOne of the challenges in "OUTTA the BOX" Competitions includes a Creative Builder task. In this FREEBIE you will find the
Grades:
4th - 6th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
Also included in: STEM Activities and Challenges Bundle | Earth Day and Outer Space
Free Logic Puzzles Sampler DIGITAL AND PRINT
This product contains 5 logic puzzles for gr. 1-2. These puzzles come from my Winter and Spring Logic Puzzle Packs. They provide opportunities for students to develop skills in logical thinking, problem-solving, making inferences, drawing conclusions, recognizing similarities and differences, and comparing and contrasting while reinforcing both reading (using picture and context clues) and math skills (ordinal positions, greater than and less than, time, size comparisons). THIS FREEBIE INCLUDE
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1st - 2nd
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STEM Sampler Pack with Sound STEM Challenge and Engineering Graphic Organizer
This Engineering Design Process graphic organizer is one of my most loved resources! If you have looked online for an EDP graphic organizer, you've probably seen this one pop up. It's been used and shared by thousands of teachers all over the world! In this STEM sampler pack you can try out a free STEM challenge or STEM sticks.What You'll GetA sound-based voice muffler STEM challenge with corresponding vocabulary cards so you and your students can "talk like an engineer"Engineering design proces
Grades:
1st - 6th
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: NEW STEM Teacher Bundle
1st, 2nd, 3rd Grade Enrichment Puzzles | Free Sample Advanced Math Puzzles
Do you need a challenge for advanced 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade students? Perfect for GATE or GT, these math and logic puzzles reinforce mathematical thinking by teaching advanced students deductive reasoning skills. This set of Crack the Code© and Deductive Detective Number Mysteries puzzles contain a sample of 10 different products.*** What is included in this packet? ✅ 10 free sample puzzles from Deductive Detective © puzzles for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd students.*** Perfect for➦ Early finishers➦Differ
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1st - 3rd
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FREE! Early Finisher Puzzles for Upper Elementary
Are you looking for a way to keep your upper elementary students engaged during morning arrival or when they finish early? This free set of puzzles [with answer keys] includes:1. Drop quote puzzle2. Rebus math puzzler3. Pigpen cipher puzzle4. Hexagon number puzzler5. Logic puzzlePuzzles are a great tool because they give students an opportunity to practice problem solving and critical thinking skills, while building perseverance in a fun way.If you are looking for a full month or year of early f
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3rd - 5th
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Free Math Enrichment | Logic Puzzles | Early Finisher Brain Teasers
Are you looking for math enrichment or critical thinking activities for your fast finishers? Look no further! These are easy to use and perfect as an extra challenge! My gifted and talented students really enjoy these enrichment math activities in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade. Whether you need enrichment for addition and subtraction or multiplication and division, these balance beam activities challenge students to use their logic skills and math abilities to figure out what each item e
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2nd - 5th
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What Does Not Belong-Task Cards
Task cards to identify what does not belongs in the group. Includes: foods, animals, holidays, colors, and miscellaneous themes. Perfect for learners with autism and developmental disabilities in verbal behaviors, special education, autistic support, and GATE classrooms
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PreK - 1st
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Challenging Math & ELA Puzzles Extension Tasks for Gifted and Talented Students
These Math and ELA Puzzles are perfect extension tasks for gifted and talented students, who thrive on daily challenges and are often deep thinkers. With Google Slides, PowerPoint and task cards, in both colour and ink saving black and white, they are sure to save teachers lots of time preparing enrichment activities for their gifted and talented students. This resource is also great for early finishers!Kimberly Jayne Creates is THREE! To celebrate I created this birthday themed Daily Challenge
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Quick Build STEM Activities Freebie
Quick Build STEM Activities are the perfect addition to any classroom. Teachers who are limited on time will love using these simple STEM activities in centers, makerspaces, choice boards and more!A quick build in STEM is like a quick write in ELA: Students will not go all the way through the engineering design process; instead, they will choose a challenge and quickly “draft” a design to build. The focus of these activities is primarily on the build. Reflection questions are also provided for t
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: QUICK BUILD STEM ACTIVITIES for Sub Plans - Centers - Early Finishers
ONE DOLLAR WORDS FREEBIE Critical Thinking Because of Mr. Terupt Extension
ONE DOLLAR WORDS are any words that have a value of exactly $1 when the letters are added together using these values: a = 1¢, b = 2¢, ... z = 26¢. The true value is in all the skills your kiddos will practice while engaged with this unit. ONE DOLLAR WORDS combine computation with vocabulary development, grammar with research, and editing with Higher Order Thinking Skills. Use this unit as an extension activity for Rob Buyea's book, Because of Mr. Terupt. This resource is also available digit
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Minecraft STEM Activities and Challenges Freebie
Here’s a creative and fun STEM Activity FREEBIE to share and show just how exciting STEM Challenges can be in a Competitive Classroom Setting! These Outta the Box Classroom Competition Challenges can be done on a Fun Friday or within the week during your science block. This hands on building challenge is part of GATER Educator's "Outta the Box Classroom Competitions". The theme of the full OTB Classroom Competion is “MINECRAFT: Survival Mode”. For this activity students will read tidbits of info
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: MINECRAFT Activities Bundle
Digital Math Enrichment Sampler - Logic Puzzles & Challenge Activities
These free logic puzzles are a fun way to challenge your students while they gain a deeper understanding of the grade level standards.Ideas for Use:-Digital Math Center-Option for Early Finishers-Cooperative Learning ActivityFree Samples from the Following Resources:Add & Subtract Fractions EnrichmentOrder of Operations Task Card PuzzlersDecimal Place Value Logic PuzzlesAddition & Subtraction ChallengeRatios & Unit Rates EnrichmentYou Might Also Like:Free Grid Logic PuzzlesWhole Numb
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Grades:
5th - 7th
Gifted & Talented - Logic Puzzle - Stylish Squirrels - Free Resource
This grid logic puzzle is a fun way for your students to work on critical thinking skills! This download includes both a color and black and white version of the puzzle, along with an answer key and detailed directions on how to solve the puzzle.
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Gifted & Talented - Critical Thinking Logic Puzzles Bundle #1
Fruit Frenzy Logic Puzzle for K-2 (Critical Thinking, Gifted, Early Finishers)
This is a logic puzzle for early grades (K-2) to promote higher level thinking. Great for young gifted children also. The work is done for you! 7 pages include clipart to cut into manipulative pieces (can mount on cardstock and laminate), 2 solving strategies (a logic chart and possibilities chart) and answer key.
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: MEGA Logic Puzzle Bundle for Young Learners!
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