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Critical thinking Common Core W.8.7 resources for Gifted and Talented
STEM Problem Solving Service Learning Project
Help your students to think critically, develop good character traits, improve our world, and create heartfelt persuasive writing using the 8 components of this project:
Inspirational Quotes
Random Acts of Kindness
Kids Improving Our World Research Project
STEAM Project - Identifying a Real World Problem and working on a Solution
Online Giving Challenge
Oral Presentation
Carousel Presentations & Scavenger Hunt
Comparing Themes with "A Dolphin's Tale
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Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Internet Activities - Rockets, Space Shuttles, Satellites and Rovers
28 printable or digital internet investigations on space exploration. Students use a laptop, tablet or smart phone to search online for information about... NASA, space suits, accidents in space, animals in space (dog, monkey, rabbits, mice, spiders, flies…), people in space, rockets, the Apollo space program, space shuttles, SpaceX, going to the Moon, going to Mars, Luna 1, Sputnik 1, Explorer 1, Voyager 1, Messenger, the lunar rover, Sojourner, Chang’e 4, Hubble telescope, Chandra, satellites
Grades:
3rd - 10th
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Also included in:Â Space BUNDLE
Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit for 8th-10th Grade Social Studies
The amazing resources included with the Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit for 8th-10th Grade Social Studies have been successfully used by thousands of students and come completely ready to use for BOTH in-person and digital learning (via Google Apps)! The Thinking Like a Historian Unit lays the foundation for your students to succeed in your social studies class! They'll explore and discuss learning strategies that promote and encourage students to think critically, how to effectively
Grades:
8th - 10th
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Also included in:Â 8th Grade U.S. History YEAR-LONG Curriculum Bundle!! | Google Apps
Inquiry Based Learning Project: Step-by-Step Student Booklet
Inquiry Based Learning: Everything teachers need to know to get started includes over 25 pages. A step-by-step student booklet allows for teachers to guide students through the process of developing and researching an inquiry based question to engage all learners in higher order critical thinking skills.
A How-To for Teachers
Inquiry based learning is a pedagogical approach to learning that is gaining momentum in mainstream education in many countries. It is not a new approach but rather a mor
Grades:
4th - 8th
Ancient Egypt Project Based Learning with Easel Activity Digital and Printable
This Ancient Egypt project allows students to choose from a list of 21 different choices to research! Includes teacher directions, student directions, Egypt Project Requirements (one hundred point checklist), project idea list, project choice sheet (students choose their top four choices), topic assignment sheet (teacher assigns project to student from their choices), bibliography example sheet, and a peer review sheet for the research paper and for an oral presentation. Students can research to
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Debating Topics for Middle/High School: Mental Health
Get your middle/high school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints. Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refi
Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in:Â Debating Topics- Middle/High School: Growing Bundle- Grades 8-12
Middle School BUNDLE
This bundle contains 557 printable activities for 6th grade, 7th grade and 8th grade students: frequently misspelled words, internet research activities, quotations, villains and heroes, ASL fingerspelling, taking selfies, discrimination and stereotypes, blindness, stealing, how to make people laugh, the purpose of school, Helen Keller, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Martin Luther King Jr., Native Americans, Spanish missions, rock-climbing, geometry, adjectives and nouns, divergent thinking,
Grades:
6th - 8th
April Digital and Print Writing Journal Bell Ringers Warm Ups Activities
Print and Digital options! Keep your students writing every day! Quirky holidays, historical events, inspirational quotes, and mini research -- a different prompt for each day gives students lots of choices!Did you know that April is National Grilled Cheese Month? That's one of the over thirty prompts you'll find in this resource. Topics include trivia, historical events, silly/serious holidays, famous birthdays, and thoughtful quotes. This resource includes:Both digital and print versions3
Grades:
5th - 8th
Types:
Also included in:Â Bundle Monthly Warm up Bell Ringer Writing Journal Prompts
Debating Topics for Middle/High School: Fears and Phobias
Get your middle/high school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints.Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refin
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in:Â Debating Topics- Middle/High School: Growing Bundle- Grades 8-12
Solar Energy BUNDLE (Global Warming and Climate Change)
92 printable or digital pages exploring renewable solar energy and global warming + climate change: internet activities - 15 WebQuest and Google activities,analyze global warming charts and graphs - 17 pagescompare and contrast - 10 pageswriting prompts - 25 pages brainteasers and word puzzles - 25 pagesPRINT: I created PDF versions that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and download your copy. DIGITAL ACTIVITY: I cre
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4th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS3-2
, MS-ESS3-5
Debating Topics for Middle/High School: The Business World
Get your middle/high school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints.Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refin
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â Debating Topics- Middle/High School: Growing Bundle- Grades 8-12
January Daily Writing Journal Warm Up Bell Ringers Print and Digital
No matter what your year looks like, this is an easy way to keep your students writing! Engage them with daily journal writing with 31 January prompts that focus on quirky holidays, important days in history, funny/inspirational quotes, and research.Print or digital -- You'll get both!Did you know that January 7 is National Bobblehead Day and January 20 is Penguin Awareness Day? (Neither did I!!) Those are two of the over thirty prompts you'll find in this resource. Topics include trivia, histor
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Bundle Monthly Warm up Bell Ringer Writing Journal Prompts
Debating Topics for Middle School: Family Life
Get your middle school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints. Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refining
Grades:
5th - 7th
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May Digital Writing Journal Prompts Warm Ups Bell Ringers
Print & Digital Versions! Keep your students writing every day! No matter what your classroom set up is. Fun and wacky daily prompts with open-ended creative prompts that encourage creative and critical thinking.Did you know that May 7 is World Laughter Day or that May 13 is Frog Jumping Day? Those are a few of the thirty-one prompts you'll find in this resource. Topics include trivia, historical events, silly/serious holidays, famous birthdays, and thoughtful quotes. This is what you
Grades:
5th - 8th
Types:
Also included in:Â Bundle Monthly Warm up Bell Ringer Writing Journal Prompts
Debating Topics for Middle/High School: The Second Amendment
Get your middle/high school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints.Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refin
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Debating Topics- Middle/High School: Growing Bundle- Grades 8-12
Conversation Starters Package on Entrepreneurship
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on entrepreneurship. What's included:A list of 13 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of entrepreneurshipActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expres
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Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
October Daily Writing Warm Up Bell Ringer Journal Prompt Print or Digital
Print and Digital Versions! No matter what your year looks like, this is an easy way to keep your students writing! Engage them with daily journal writing with 31 October prompts that focus on quirky holidays, important days in history, funny/inspirational quotes, and research.Did you know that October 4 is National Cinnamon Bun Day and that October 14 is National Chocolate Covered Insect Day? (Neither did I!!) Those are two of the over thirty prompts you'll find in this resource. Topics in
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Bundle Monthly Warm up Bell Ringer Writing Journal Prompts
Shark Tank Invention & Innovation Classroom Project (Digital & Print)
This is a great DIGITAL INNOVATION PROJECT to spark your students' inner entrepreneur! They can work independently or with a group to build a company from the ground up and design, market, and pitch their inventions to the SHARKS (AKA you and their peers). Students conduct market research and write their own mission statements, slogans, and user manuals for their invention. This project touches on writing as well as speaking & listening standards. Also a spectacular homeschool project!I crea
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Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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End of Year Internet Research Projects (Grades 5-8)
This packet has 101 different internet research projects for middle school students. Students search for interesting facts about Canada, Ireland, Egypt, Madagascar, North Korea, Greece, Panama, Kenya, China, Germany, Israel, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Russia. Students locate postage stamps from foreign countries and illustrate them. Students explore the wild animals and people of Hawaii, Alaska, Pennsylvania, Texas, California and New York. Students find and describe coins from foreign countrie
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Grades:
4th - 9th
Also included in:Â End of Year BUNDLE
Conversation Starters Package on Productivity
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on productivity. What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of productivityActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressions an
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Types:
Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Conversation Starters Package on Music
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on music.What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of musicActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressions and transitional
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Internet Research on Scientists
21 printable or digital pages for students to search the INTERNET for information on Scientists: Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Charles Darwin, Niehls Bohr, Nicolaus Copernicus, Stephen Hawking, Louis Pasteur, Johannes Kepler, Alexander Graham Bell, Erwin Schrodinger, Gregor Mendel, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Hooke, Leonardo da Vinci, George Washington Carver, Richard Feynman, Mary Leakey, Antonie von Leeuwenhoek, Richard Dawkins. Students research websites to find
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Grades:
4th - 12th
Election 2024, Nonfiction reading comprehension high school, middle school, APâ„¢
Election 2024, Nonfiction reading comprehension high school, middle school, APâ„¢If you're looking for a way to engage your high school students, then these NINE FAMOUS CASES are a great place to start! Each case study provides an overview of the facts, legal arguments, and outcomes, along with STUDENT QUESTIONS and BACKGROUND INFORMATION to help you get the most out of your class discussion. And for teachers looking for extra guidance, there are also TEACHER NOTES and SUGGESTED ANSWERS included.
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Conversation Starters Package on Happiness
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on happiness.What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of happinessActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressions and trans
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Types:
Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
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