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Middle school critical thinking service learning resources for Montessori
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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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Marine Food Webs and Food Chains Card Sort Activity - Temperate Ocean Ecosystem
Engage students with this huge card sort activity to construct marine food chains and food webs. Use the suggestions to a lead discussion about how human activity affects temperate ocean food webs through climate change and the accidental introduction of invasive species. Use the provided labels to practice key vocabulary by assigning terms such as producer, detritivore, autotroph, etc to ocean organisms. ✨ Here’s What You’ll Get✨- 32 organism cards- Energy arrows- Labels (including but not limi
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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NGSS:
HS-LS2-3
, MS-LS2-2
, MS-LS2-3
Also included in:Â Everything in My Store MEGA BUNDLE
Project Based Learning: Create Your Own School Carnival
Project Based Learning: Create Your Own School Carnival provides activities for students to create a school wide event for parents and families to enjoy. If the school does not have the actual carnival (end product), using the guide will help students create and present the project.
This packet focuses on critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration and student engagement.
Here is a complete list of items. However, please check out the preview to see if it fits the needs of your classro
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Community Service Passion Project
Are you in charge of organizing a community service project for your students or school community? ****************************************************************************************************************Would you like your students to connect their passions with community groups and service? ****************************************************************************************************************This Step by step guide will allow your students to combine their passions with local c
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Gobierno Estudiantil - Emprendiendo Juntos (Planeación Didáctica + Recursos)
¡"Gobierno Estudiantil - Emprendiendo Juntos", un proyecto educativo interactivo diseñado para transformar el salón de clases en un laboratorio de aprendizaje práctico! Este proyecto innovador aborda múltiples campos formativos, fomentando habilidades cruciales como liderazgo, emprendimiento, pensamiento crÃtico y trabajo en equipo.CaracterÃsticas Destacadas:Simulación de Gobierno del Aula: Los estudiantes asumen roles de secretarios de gobierno, cada uno liderando una secretarÃa (Cultura, Econo
Grades:
4th - 12th
Also included in: BUNDLE: Todos los Recursos (Español)
Social Justice Activities on Identity, Privilege, and Intersectionality
These printable resources are to be used as handouts, exercises, and worksheet for facilitating discussions on identity, privilege, and intersectionality. These materials were used by grades 5 - 8 in a social justice education class. Identities and privilege are excellent starting blocks for discussing social justice topics.
Included:
- 4 definitions of what makes up identity
- 7 puzzle pieces of identity (Age, Gender, Ethnicity, Nationality, Religion, Language, Ability)
- Scenarios highlight
Grades:
5th - 10th
Executive Functioning Skills PowerPoint
What are executive functioning skills? Defines and explains how these critical thinking and problem-solving skills are essential to managing daily tasks, how they help us plan and manage time, control our emotions, organize, self-monitor, remember details, switch focus, and initiate new projects. These executive functions may be impaired in children with ADD and ADHD, but they can and should be taught. Includes strategies to use when teaching children to improve their executive functioning skill
Grades:
5th - 8th, Staff
The Blind Side: Movie Analysis
We all must admit that kids love movies. A movie analysis is an effective educational strategy that influences the building of a culturally diverse community that does not limit itself to the classroom and traditional classroom resources. When the classroom becomes the community, learners are empowered and higher levels of critical thinking are reached. Nothing is more effective than the study of the many issues in The Blind Side. Various activities are included in this package, including a proj
Grades:
5th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Community Engagement Action Plan: Empowering Students Through Service Learning!
Empower your high school students to make a positive impact in their community with this community engagement action plan lesson! As an experienced educator, I understand the importance of providing students with opportunities to engage in meaningful service learning experiences.This lesson is designed to achieve clear learning objectives and address essential questions while guiding students through the process of getting involved in their community. Through interactive discussions and collabor
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Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
CCSS:
The Feelings Wheel Guide for Teens | Understanding and Labeling Feelings
Feelings and Emotion Wheel. Many children & teens struggle with labeling their emotions. These worksheets help them identify how they are feeling and come up with additional descriptive words.Use this as a tool to communicate with the child/teen and further understand how they are processing their environment.Included (5 pages) ....1. Feelings wheel2. What is the feelings wheel?3. Benefits of using the feelings wheel4. How to read the rings of the wheel5. Application of the feelings wheelThi
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Geometry Construction Card Set
Set includes 18 self directed cards for students to create geometry constructions. Cards start very basic (such as duplicating a line segment or angle) and progress to more challenging constructions (making a parallelogram or inscribing a triangle in a circle). The cards include loads of vocabulary and are color coded by each step so that students can complete on their own or in a group. My Montessori kids love them!
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Morning Meeting Questions for a Student-Led Meeting + Prompts!
Morning Meeting Questions & Prompts
In this document you will find 20 questions and prompts for a student-led morning classroom meeting.
Each question has a prompt on the back that can help the students start their answer or encourage them to build a complete sentence.
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Grades:
K - 6th
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TED Talk: Special Olympics Matthew Williams · Google Link · Remote Learning
This 3 page analysis allows students to dig deeper into the inspiring and engaging TED Talk, "Special Olympics Let Me Be Myself - A Champion," by Matthew Williams, through discussion questions, quote analysis, and vocabulary.TED Talk Description: How much do you know about intellectual disabilities? Special Olympics champion and ambassador Matthew Williams is proof that athletic competition and the camaraderie it fosters can transform lives, both on and off the field. Together with his fellow a
Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Clay Slab Bird Patterns For Beginning Ceramic Artists
This download includes 3 ceramic slab built 3/D clay bird patterns to help the beginning ceramic artist create their own 3D clay birds. Bird sizes vary from 3 1/2 inches to 8". Includes easy patterns, and written instructions. Endless possibilities can be achieved with these basic bird forms, by adding a few bits of clay, the Artist can create an array of abstract or realistic birds. Also includes a crown pattern to add a bit of whimsy and fun to your bird. I originally designed these birds to b
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Grades:
5th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Prisoner's Dilemma and Power
The Prisoner's Dilemma is a classic scenario in game theory that explores how rational individuals may not always make the best decisions when they are in a situation where they must choose between cooperation and betrayal. The dilemma involves two individuals who are arrested and charged with a crime. The police offer each individual a deal: if they cooperate and confess, they will receive a reduced sentence. However, if one confesses and the other remains silent, the one who confesses will go
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Bundle: 40 End-of-the-day & Morning Questions for Student-led Meetings.
Bundle Questions for Morning and End-of-the-day Meetings!
In this file you will find two documents:
-End-of-the-day Questions for Wrap Up:20 questions and prompts for an end-of-the-day wrap up. Each question has a prompt that can help the students start their answer or encourage them to build a complete sentence.
-Morning Meeting Questions: 20 questions and prompts for a student-led morning classroom meeting. Each question has a prompt on the back that can help the students start their answer
Grades:
1st - 6th
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Service Learning- A Complete Guide!
This set is your complete guide to start and complete service learning projects in your class!
This set includes:
Directions for how to implement, teach, and guide service learning.
Graphic organizer pages for every step of the process for your students.
Assessments and grading rubrics.
Inspirational ideas and an example list of projects I've completed with my students!
Grades:
2nd - 9th
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The Issue of Child Labor: The Labor Behind the Label
Looking for a current event? A global issue captured in today's headlines? A way to make a difference through community service? An issue that will inspire and bring out the best in your students? THE ISSUE OF CHILD LABOR: THE LABOR BEHIND THE LABEL is the answer.This unit puts students on the front line of this compelling and real world problem. They investigate this issue with a focus on "The Big Picture" and on the clothing, toy, carpet, and chocolate industries. They become activists by w
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Valentine paper circuit card STEM activity
valentine paper circuit cardThe product includes details on how to connect dc electric paper circuit using : Adhesive Copper tape, button cell, LED etc and making a beautiful lighting card on Valentine's day or birthday
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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FREE **Next Dollar Up Strategy Work Task **Task Boxes** FREE
Students will look at each item and it's price and then match to the next dollar amount correctly with this digital file! Simple print and laminate for durability (optional) and then hole punch in the circle to hand on my wooden pine jig for sorting.
This is a free download, with full use cards as a preview to our full file Next Dollar Up Work Task.
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This file can be modified to
Grades:
1st - 8th
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Identity Tree
This exercise helps students identify elements of their personalities and their origins which in turn will help them identify the origins of any implicit biases they hold. They will use the information from their introspective look at their identities to put into practice identifying biases they hold when watching some carefully chosen videos. Includes a short teacher guide with my suggestions for leading the activity.This activity is meant to be a year-long work in progress that students revis
Grades:
5th - 12th
What Is Genius Hour?
This Genius Hour Project unit will bring you from the question "What is Genius Hour?" to Genius Hour questions to research and wrap it up with Genius Hour presentations. Having a Genius Hour allows time for meaningful student-driven learning and application. Remote learning is a prime opportunity to let students learn more about their interests in an academic-driven way while at home for extra hours. There are easy grading rubrics for your pitch & wrap-up presentations.Ideal for 4th grade, 5
Grades:
4th - 7th
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**FREE **5 Food Groups Work Task **Autism Work Jig**Task Boxes** FREE
Students will sort food items into the different food groups with this digital file! Simple print and laminate for durability (optional) and then hole punch in the circle to hand on my wooden pine jig for sorting. This is a free download full use file as a preview/teaser to our full file here.
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This file can be modified to work with file folders and baskets as well, but my student
Grades:
1st - 8th
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Time Management A Wellbeing and Character Project on Managing Time Wisely
Middle school students learn to organize, plan and prioritize daily activities. Help your students use time wisely. As this generation shifts into a more sophisticated and advanced lifestyle, having the ability to plan, measure, organize and prioritize daily activities is critical. Yet mastering this skill is challenging. This project aims to improve middle schooler’s time management skills through a series of both independent and collaborative activities that focus on critical thinking, decisi
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in:Â STEAM Project on the History of Time
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