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Free 3rd grade printables for Gifted and Talented
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:
Grades:
1st - 5th
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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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Grades:
2nd - 4th
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Halloween Logic Puzzles | Printable & Digital | Free
Students love logic grid puzzles! If you're looking for a free Halloween activity that students will enjoy, these are for you! This resource includes three free Halloween themed logic grid puzzles of three different levels. A printable format and digital format for Google Classroom also included. Logic grid puzzles encourage critical thinking, the use of deductive reasoning, and require students to determine the relationship between two things based on clues. Students will use the clues provided
Grades:
3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Logic Grid Puzzles Mega Bundle
Thanksgiving Challenge Scavenger Hunt Type Activity Print or Easel FREEBIE
Here is a fun little Thanksgiving activity for you to use in class or to send home with your students for the long weekend. This activity combines creative and critical thinking, research, and even a little math! It's a challenge, so you'll students will feel accomplished after completing it!WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:1 No-Prep Printable WorksheetAnswer KeyDIGITAL:Easel ActivityGreat for 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade! NOTE: This resource uses American English and is not editable. Here’s what teacher
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Listening and Following Directions Activity With Lesson Plan
Listening and Following Directions
An Activity That Challenges Students To Pay Attention To Details
This activity is designed to challenge students to listen closely to directions and complete tasks in the correct locations on a grid.
Interested in more following directions and reading comprehension activities? Check out:
Listening and Following Directions Growing Bundle + Reading Comprehension
Listening & Following Directions Back To School Edition +Reading Comprehension
Listening & Fol
Grades:
3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
FREE No Prep Math and Literacy - Critical Thinking Skills
Need a quick NO PREP math and literacy activities? This free unit includes three critical thinking activities that your students will LOVE! The activities in this resource are designed to give your students fun practice using critical thinking skills. I Spy Word Search: Students will use magnifying glasses to find the hidden words in the picture and make a list of the words. Students will then locate the words in the word search. Differentiation is included for three levels.Finish the Fishing D
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
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STEM Engineering Starter Kit for Teachers {elementary level}
Is your elementary school starting the Engineering Design Process? Does thinking about STEM make you want to pull your hair out? Do you feel confused about what STEM looks like in an elementary classroom setting? If so, this free STEM starter kit is for you! The packet includes everything I wish I had known about STEM when my school started implementing STEM in 2011. I hope it is helpful to you! I am in the process of going through all of the STEM activities I created over the past couple of yea
Grades:
K - 4th
FREEBIE! Fall Fun for Fast Finishers: 20 Open-Ended Task Cards - Print & Digital
Here are 20 autumn-themed task cards that will work perfectly at a center or for any student who finishes his or her work early. Each card features a different fall-related, open-ended challenge; perfect for working on those creative and critical thinking skills!WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:20 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording SheetsDIGITAL:Google SlidesEasel ActivityDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintChallenge Card to extend the lessonMultiple versions of the recording sh
Grades:
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
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Fun with Tangrams - Freebie
This week's freebie - Fun with Tangrams pack.
Contains templates to make your tangram puzzle pieces, directions for use, extra brain teasers and a booklet with 12 tangram puzzles and solutions.
Great activity for early finishers or as a maths center, building problem solving skills in a fun way!
Hope you like it! Do let me know if there's any way I can improve it for you. And if you love it then let me know! :)
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Nouns and Verbs FREEBIE | Parts of Speech Fun Worksheet | NO PREP | + Easel
Chore Confusion - Fun verb and noun activity: FREEYour students will love this fun printable so much, that they won't even realize they are practicing working with nouns and verbs! Great for bell work, extra enrichment, or homework.Answer Key included.Other products you'll enjoy!Nouns Task CardsVerb Tense Task CardsParts of Speech BUNDLEHappy Teaching!This product is brought to you happily by Rachel Lynette & Cassi Noack of Minds in Bloom. :)SKU: 194850
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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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
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Also included in: STEM Challenge Bundle (Fairy Tale, Nursery Rhymes, Seasonal STEM)
You're a Smart Cookie: Multiple Intelligence Posters for Kids FREE
You're a Smart Kid: Multiple Intelligence Posters for Kids FREE! Cute set of 9 posters based on Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences. Posters are in kid smart language: nature smart, art/picture smart, logic smart, word smart, self smart, people smart, music smart, and body smart. There is also a poster that explains the 8 Intelligences.Every child is smart in a number of ways, but they often only think of kids who excel in academics as smart. Refer to the posters often in the classroom
Grades:
K - 4th
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The Principal's New Clothes - Reader's Theater for the Entire Class!
This reader's theater is for the entire class! You will need at least 11 students but more is always better. This ties into my other twisted fairy tales except that it was written to do as a class. I split my class into two groups and both groups practice. When we perform we discuss what things we liked about each group. I use this to introduce the small group reader's theaters I have them do the rest of the year. I have also come back to the script at the end of the year to perform in front of
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Grades:
3rd - 8th, Adult Education
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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
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
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Hieroglyphics Printable Worksheet
Engage your students into Ancient Egypt with this Pun-tastic Worksheet!
Included on the page is a full Hieroglyphic Alphabet to reference, the lead of a joke written in English ("Why did the Mummy go to the doctor??"), and the punchline of the joke written out in easy to read, well spaced Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Above each Hieroglyphic symbol involved in the punchline is a line to write the equivalent English character.
Note- the Egyptians did not differentiate between many sounds that Eng
Grades:
3rd - 9th
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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Grades:
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
Grades:
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
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
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Desk Pet - Free Goodies
Are you ready to implement desk pets in your classroom, and want some goodies to help you get started....look no further! In this set, you'll find DESK PET PNGS, DESK PET CERTIFICATES (lots of themes!!), and an ALL ABOUT MY DESK PET worksheet to make it PERSONAL!! Have fun with your students! There will be MORE added to this set! Don't forget to check back!
Grades:
PreK - 5th
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3rd Grade Math Centers - Math Sorts - Math Games for Review
Math Sorts are engaging math activities that encourage math talk. Students explain how they sort their cards and build strong math concepts as they create cards of their own. Ways to use: whole group lesson, small group lesson, independent math center, assessment, exit tickets, or homeworkDownload this resource and try 5 free math sorts!The Bundle Includes the Following- Set 1: Number & Operations in Base Ten - 14 sorts- Set 2: Geometry - 13 sorts- Set 3: Fractions - 12 sorts- Set 4: Measure
Grades:
3rd
Activities for Creative and Critical Thinking: Brain Food - FREEBIE!
Did you know that creativity is a skill that can be taught and learned, just like reading and math? Yes, for real!! :-) Through exposure, experience, and practice, creative thinking is a skill anyone can cultivate.Not only is creative thinking FUN, but it is also important! Divergent thinking increases a student’s desire to learn and supports his/her intellectual development. When we encourage creative thinking, we promote student engagement, motivation, and love for learning.This Brain Food sa
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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No Prep STEM Challenges Makerspace Activities for Index Cards
What do you get when you combine makerspace tasks with choice boards? Make-Tac-Toe! These highly engaging challenges are perfect for your makers, regardless of how much space you have! These tasks have been designed around a central material, so that students all start with a basic material and then pull in other materials as needed. This takes some of the guess work out of the materials portion of the makerspace challenge (and translates well to mobile STEM carts).This set of Make-Tac-Toe cards
Grades:
1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-1
Depth and Complexity Graphic Organizers
If you are familiar with depth and complexity icons- this is a perfect resource to compliment them! Included are 11 graphic organizers for all the depth and complexity icons for your students to use during reader's workshop, guided reading, literature circles or literacy centers. Graphic Organizers Include:Big IdeaPatternsOver TimeEthicsTrendsAcross DisciplinesMultiple PerspectivesUnanswered QuestionsLanguage of the DisciplineRulesMy Own IconsEnjoy! Note- you will need the depth and complexity i
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Grades:
K - 5th
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