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Forensics tools for common cores for GATE under $5
Crime Scene Investigation | Reading Mystery | Forensics | Inference
Are you looking for an engaging activity that will help your students better understand deductive logic and reasoning? Crime Scene Investigation is a great theme that teaches all the skills of critical thinking in a fun and interesting way!Investigate the Basics of CSI with this exciting differentiated resource!Ready-to-Go Printables! Easy Prep Go completely DIGITAL with this version! Click the link below to PREVIEWCrime Scene Basics for GOOGLE DriveThis workshop takes about 2 to 2 1/2 hours to
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4th - 6th
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Depth of Knowledge and Learning Icons - Digging Deep - Critical Thinking Skills
These focus wall resources are designed to be engaging and meaningful. Help your kiddos reach for deep knowledge and content mastery using a variety of critical, complex thinking skills.Digging Deep Learning Practices assist students in engaging in critical thinking and developing meaningful understanding of concepts.This resource contains both large and small posters as well as “quick cards” that can be displayed on focus walls, resource walls, or simply during specific lessons.Encourage your s
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K - 6th
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Mystery Reading Comprehension | Making Inferences | CSI
This Crime Scene Investigation Activity has everything you need for an engaging hands-on experience that reinforces critical thinking, inference, and good old-fashioned common sense! Did someone say, CANDY? This workshop requires a little bit for investigation purposes. It's up to you if you want your students to sample the evidence afterward.**Note that a variety of candy is required for the hands-on investigation. Suggested candies are listed in the Teacher's Directions.This critical thinking
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4th - 6th
Gifted Crime Scene Investigation Activity The Case of the Missing Cash
This highly engaging crime scene investigation activity will have your students using their critical thinking skills as they critically read and analyze witness testimonies, view and evaluate evidence, and draw inferences to determine the motive and identity of the person guilty of robbing a bank. Higher-level thinking skills will be practiced while investigating the crime scene, as students form a hypothesis about who committed the crime, establish a motive, and then justify their hypothesis b
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5th - 8th
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Essay Template aligned with Lucy Calkins Boxes and Bullets
Students can use this template to plan and organize their essays for Informative, Persuasive, and Expository essays.
It includes Sentence Starters and Language Frames and lined paper to start their essays on.
The C_ O_ P_ S_ S_ is a checklist for students to check their writing for Capitalization, Organization, Punctuation, Spelling, and Sentence structure.
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4th - 8th
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A Literature Unit for Patricia Polacco's Junkyard Wonders
This unit was made to go Patricia Polacco's book The Junkyard Wonders. Included are 18 pages of activities to challenges your students to think more deeply about the story. The unit was created with the 4th and 5th grade Common Core Standards in mind. Topics explored are theme, setting, character traits, visualizing, and many more. Writing assignments and a project idea are also included. The themes in this book would also be perfect to explore with a gifted class. Email me at ideabackpack@
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3rd - 6th
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A Literature Unit for Drew Daywalt's The Day The Crayons Quit
This unit was made to go with Drew Daywalt's The Day The Crayons Quit. Included are 17 pages of activities to challenge your students to think more deeply about the story. The unit was created with the 4th and 5th grade Common Core Standards in mind. Topics explored are point of view, theme, character traits, visualizing, text structure, plot, letter writing, comparing/contrasting, responding to quotes, and more. Writing assignments are also included. Email me at ideabackpack@gmail.com with
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3rd - 5th
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Error Analysis: Multiplication
Higher Order Thinking Task Cards
Newly update with new graphics: This is a set of critical thinking task cards. Students are required to analyze a traditional algorithm multiplication problem to find the single error. Students are then required to use their math knowledge and vocabulary to describe the problem. Then students write an extended response to help fix the error.
The task cards in this packet can be used in a variety of ways in the classroom: individual work stations, partner/ gro
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4th - 7th
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Multiple Intelligence (MI) PowerPoint (Secondary Version) by Jennifer A. Gates
Teaching gifted, talent development or preparing students for Common Core by teaching them to identify their strengths?
This is the perfect way to introduce Multiple Intelligence: 8 characteristics that students can use to best identify ways in which they can make positive growth. They are: nature smart, logic smart, self smart, people smart, word smart, picture smart, body smart, and music smart.
Introduce and explore Multiple Intelligence in depth with students the elementary or primary and
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Assessment Compare and Contrast Informational Text
This is the Common Core Assessment addressing the standard 2.RI.9 Compare and Contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic. A science piece on ladybugs (two articles) and two articles on Jackie Robinson (a timeline and narrative). Two different compare and contrast graphic organizers are used as well as multiple choice and short and essay answers.
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
100th Day of School Activities - Escape Room & Reading Passages
Engage your students on the 100th day of school with an exciting escape room activity that combines close reading and life skills. Solve "The Case of the Vanished Vintage Clock" through deductive logic, inference, forensics, and common sense. Perfect for enhancing reading comprehension while having fun!Close Reading CHALLENGES include:Informational Text- “Processing the Evidence, Understanding the Motive” and the case of “Why Did the Vintage Cuckoo Clock Vanish?”Mystery Code Tasks 1a & 1b -
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5th - 7th
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Common Core Text-Dependent Writing Prompt Argumentative Grade 8
The new common core standards will require students to relate their story and essay writing to two-three passages of text. The text may be nonfiction, charts, quotations, environmental print, fiction, or poetry. In line with PARCC demands.
This writing prompt contains three texts for the student to read (very short) and specific writing prompt directions. The type of writing the students will be composing will fall under the category "argumentative" because the student will be forced to establi
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7th - 9th
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Common Core Text-Dependent Writing Prompt Explanatory Grade 6
The new common core standards will require students to relate their story and essay writing to two-three passages of text. The text may be nonfiction, fiction, quotes, environmental print, or poetry.
This writing prompt contains three texts for the student to read (very short) and specific writing prompt directions. The type of writing the students will be composing will fall under the category "explanatory" because the student will be forced to respond to a question by making a definitive answ
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5th - 7th
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Dodecahedron - A 3-D - Novel Study - Book Project - to Fit Any Novel!
This is a student all time favorite of mine over the past 10 years. It is fun, engaging, and makes an absolutely beautiful final project to display.Typically, I do this while reading a class novel to enhance our study of the book (click here to find book specific projects) But this particular project is meant to fit any novel and can be done independently while students read their novel or as a book project after they finish reading.The project is easily differentiated and adapts to all learners
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Dodecahedron - Book Study Bundle - Upper Grades
Depth and Complexity Icons Posters
These classroom posters with Depth and Complexity Icons will enhance the thinking, learning, and discourse in your classroom! Depth and Complexity Icons come from the work of Dr. Sandra Kaplan. These icons were developed to help gifted learners to think more deeply about various content topics and can be used in multiple subjects areas. Using depth and complexity in the classroom can benefit all learners and add rigor to your existing content. This product includes:3 sets of color posters (all 1
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Depth and Complexity Icons Getting Started BUNDLE
Function, Feature, Class Task Cards
Use these 24 FFC task cards to help children identify items given either their function, their features, or their class. Perfect for children with autism and other developmental disabilities.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.5.a
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PreK - 2nd
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Ape or Pig Blood for Human Transfusion? Reading and Questions
This awesome article from Genetic Literacy Project poses the idea of getting blood transfusions from apes or pigs. A great follow up activity after a mini unit on blood typing or ABO Blood Genetics/Punnett Squares. Also great for enrichment when entering the genetic/genetic engineering units. My students enjoy reading this article and the questions I wrote as comprehension questions serve as a great way to hold them accountable to complete the reading.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Grade 4 math DOK: FRACTIONS-4 DIfferentiated tasks, MINI PROJECT+Math Monster!
Math Mania!
(Rubric Included for EACH TASK) Total of 17 pages!!
** NEW COMPONENTS
1) COMMON CORE ALIGNED PERFORMANCE TASK (MINI- PROJECT)
2) THE Math Monster!! He munches his way through your math work and just loves hanging around! See if you can find him on each page!!
3) 5 total tasks, each task is aligned to CCS and includes: word problems, and short response!
CCS: 4.NF (Numbers and operations in fractions)
a) making fractions based on shaded/unshaded parts
b) comparing fractions
c) order
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Grades:
4th, Staff
Argumentative Essay Brainstorm Outline - College Prep
Many students have difficulty writing an argumentative essay... and this document is the perfect solution!
It doubles as a brainstorming/outline worksheet, and requires students to provide both evidence to support their claim as well as analysis of the evidence they choose.
Furthermore, it requires one of the most important components of an argumentative essay that students often forget or ignore... counter-argument.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Multiple Intelligence (MI) PowerPoint (Elementary/Primary) by Jennifer A. Gates
Teaching gifted, talent development or preparing students for Common Core by teaching them to identify their strengths?
This is the perfect way to introduce Multiple Intelligence: 8 characteristics that students can use to best identify ways in which they can make positive growth. They are: nature smart, logic smart, self smart, people smart, word smart, picture smart, body smart, and music smart.
Introduce and explore Multiple Intelligence in depth with students the elementary or primary and
Grades:
1st - 5th, Adult Education, Staff
Sherlock Holmes for Google Classroom | Reading Passage | Depth and Complexity
Your students will enjoy learning all about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's timeless hero, SHERLOCK HOLMES, with this high-interest, Close Reading, Depth & Complexity Unit!Sherlock Quote analysis and LOGIC Puzzle are included as well!Please see the PREVIEW above for an idea of everything included!With the purchase of this PDF, you will receive a clickable link for access.With the digital version, you have the option to go 100% paperless.These activities are perfect for a background reading unit bef
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: CSI Reading Comprehension | Mystery Science | Google Classroom BUNDLE
3rd Grade Common Core Opinion Writing (*NO PREP)
Your students will write awesome Common Core Opinion letters with this lesson! The opinion genre is broken down into "kid friendly" language, with a lesson plan, step-by-step guideline for students, graphic organizer, student checklist, and even a sample you can teach from! The first minilesson teaches 3rd graders what opinions are and gives examples of opinion words and statements. The writing sample has a great two-paragraph letter complete with supportive reasons and a good conclusion sentenc
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3rd
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Common Core: Phrases & Figures of Speech Derived from Greek Myths PART I
The attached worksheets can augment your instruction of sophisticated figures of speech. Herculean effort, Trojan horse, and Achilles' heel are the phrases incorporated in these sheets, which tie directly into the Common Core's requirement for students to become knowledgeable on phrases and figurative language that was derived from Greek mythology.
The sheets provide context reading for the students to make their own inferences regarding of the Greek phrase meaning, antonym identification, rea
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Mystery Science | Bible Lessons | Crime Scene Investigation BASICS
Are you looking for fun and engaging activities to support your student’s understanding of the Bible? Use a C.S.I theme!This Crime Scene Investigation utilizes a great theme that encourages critical thinking while teaching about the bible as well. This bible study is designed for ages 9-12, or grades 4th - 6th, to work individually or in groups. Students use higher-order thinking skills to understand the role of witnesses and forensics in C.S.I. as well as in the Bible.These skills include:Recal
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Bible Lessons Bundle | Mystery Science | Casting Net Caper
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