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Free critical thinking school psychology resources for Microsoft PowerPoint
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Self Regulation Break Cards
These cards give your students options for what type of break they want to take.
When you download this product, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO EDIT EVERYTHING on the card to suit your needs and your students' needs.
I recommend printing on color paper, laminating, and putting on a ring for students to keep in their desk (I also keep a set to bring with us to Music, Library, etc.). My student either holds up the card for me to see or sets the card on top of their desk when they are ready to take a brea
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Not Grade Specific
Law & Order: Sentence Structure Unit - Fun Test-Prep Review Game
A fun way to get students to practice and develop their knowledge of sentence structure, sentence types, and common sentence errors. It's a great activity for test prep and review, holidays, the last day or week of school, or other filler days.
I usually hate "test prep." But let's be honest: we all want to review a bit before sending our students into spring state tests to make sure they can do their best. "Law & Order: SSU" is a fun, interactive way for students to review what they know a
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6th - 12th
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Social Skills & Emotions Activity with Inside Out
Looking for a fun way to discuss emotions? This is the perfect activity to break the ice and encourage critical thinking. This social skills activity pairs with the following youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOkyKyVFnSs. Pause the video before revealing the emotion and have the student explain what clues they found to guess the emotions. This is a three part activity. I provided an example of each section below. Part 1 example: How is she feeling?Facial expressions?Body language?
Grades:
1st - 5th
STEM Challenge Task Cards - Learning Tubs - Pattern Blocks - Bridge Building
STEM challenge task cards - features 14 full color pictures for students to try to replicate with pattern blocks! Simply print and place in page protectors. Or print 2-4 slides to a page, laminate, and put on a ring to go with your pattern block math manipulatives. Scaffolds children's learning with a variety of difficulty levels - flat designs, towers, and bridges. Print & go! All you need is pattern blocks and a flat surface.
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PreK - 2nd
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Whodunit Mystery: Football/School Investigation (Drawing Conclusions)
These drawing conclusion mysteries are the perfect answer for a fun and engaging reading comprehension activity! Set up as a "whodunnit" investigation, students use critical thinking skills as they read a scenario, clues, and four suspect descriptions. They can work as a team, whole class, or independently to use the facts and find the culprit!Everything is provided in a PowerPoint presentation to display as students work to solve the mystery.***Update: Now available with a google slide link for
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Whodunit Mysteries: Mega ELA Investigation Bundle (Drawing Conclusions)
Revealing Evidence Freebie - an ELA game for critical thinking
Revealing Evidence is a classroom game that incorporates critical thinking and riddlelike clues. Students are given seven clues about a mystery person, place, or thing. The clues, which appear automatically on a PowerPoint screen, get progressively easier. By the end, most of the students will experience the success of getting the correct answer, but the challenge is to see who can link the clues together the fastest. *SIGN UP AS A FOLLOWER OF “OFF THE PAGE” AND GET NOTIFICATIONS OF ANY SALES F
Grades:
5th - 8th
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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
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
Speak Think Understand - KWL Chart
This KWL chart can be used for any age of student that can read and write. I have used it as young as first grade, but also with college students. It is designed to get students thinking about how the things we know, want to know, and have learned are connected. Coming out of the mouth, you will find a space for students to write what they already know, or can tell you about. In a thought bubble above the head, is a space for what a student might want to know, or be thinking about, but not sure
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Editable Parent Permission Slip for School Counseling
Collect parent permission for school counseling groups and individual sessions with this editable freebie! Customize it to fit your program needs.Love Freebies? I do a Flash Freebie every month for all of my TpT followers. Click here to follow my store and get a notification when I post the monthly freebie.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Visit Bright Futures School Counseling Blog and subscribe to my email list to gai
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Not Grade Specific
Adjective Game ~ Interactive PPT game with 24 questions, grades 2-4
Do your students struggle with identifying adjectives? Use this game for mini-lessons, whole group lessons, an interactive literacy center, or as a springboard for whole class discussions. With this interactive PowerPoint game, your students cheer as it provides immediate feedback when you click on your answer choice. It's chock full of engaging tier-two style words, as it contains the multiple choice questions from my free Adjectives Task Cards! #TPTtechThis interactive game is only available h
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2nd - 4th
Bathroom Behavior Social Story
This social story is designed to help students (specifically with Autism) who are having a difficult time with potty-training. It describes the steps the student needs to take when they feel like they have to use the restroom at school.
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PreK - 1st
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Morning Challenges/Brain Teasers
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Enjoy these Morning Challenges/Brain Teasers designed to get young minds thinking hard.
Included is 22 pages of challenges including:
- Optical Illusions
- Spot the difference
- What/Who am I?
- Real or fake
- Riddles
Enjoy
Grades:
K - 4th
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
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2nd - 6th
Fall Size of the Problem Social Skills
This fall social skills freebie introduces the size of the problem through a 14-slide PowerPoint with a self-checking set of scenarios to analyze! If you like this freebie, make sure to check out my whole fall social skills product with a review of various social skills: emotional regulation, kindness, coping strategies, problem solving, size of the problem, following directions and crafts!https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fall-Social-Skills-6152526?st=9c71215a93c3e7450d184b81fffcd113N
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Not Grade Specific
Death Social Story Editable
This simple social narrative uses a story format to explain death to young children, particularly children who may have Autism or other special needs.I wrote this social story for a kindergartner whose mother passed away unexpectedly in the middle of the school year. My heart is sad for anyone who must explain the death of a special person to a young child, but I hope this social story will give you some of the words you need.To use:1.Even though my story was about a mother passing away, I have
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Pragmatics Activities | Social Skills for Autism | Social Communication
Bucket Filler vs. Bucket Dipper: Physical Ball Toss Activity Prompts
Do you love using How Full is Your Bucket in your classroom to teach kindness? Add some physical fun to your lesson using these prompts! For the activity, you will need plastic buckets and plastic balls - or whatever you have that would work. I recommend any type of dollar store for buckets, and Amazon for the plastic balls. I have used this activity successfully with a special education unit at the middle school level, but this could be great for elementary kiddos as well. I put the prompt slid
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Not Grade Specific
Elements of Literature PowerPoint: CCSS Aligned
The ten slides in this FREE Elements of Literature PowerPoint enable teachers to show students how to analyze literature in depth. Each slide offers a visual lesson for Setting, Characters, Plot, Conflict, The World the Author Creates, Theme, Symbols, Tone and Literary Terms.Teachers can use this presentation as an overview before delving into a literature study, or as a reinforcement prior to analyzing a short story, a novel, or narrative non-fiction. Another idea is to show each slide as each
Grades:
5th - 12th
Frankenstein's Monster - Customizable PowerPoint Review Game
A fun way to get students to practice or review any concept in any subject at any grade level. It's a great activity for test prep and review, holidays, the last day or week of school, or other filler days.
NOTE: This product is also available as part of my Review Anything COMBO PACK ONE! In this combo pack, you'll get TWELVE different customizable review games!
During my first year of teaching, a mentor teacher passed on a great Jeopardy PowerPoint review game template. The menu animations an
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4th - 12th
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FREE! 4 CER SCIENCE Image Writing Prompts Bell Ringers Graphic Organizers
Here are 4 Free CER SCIENCE photo writing prompts for critical, scientific thinking that can be used as bell ringers, introductions or full discussions either with distance learning or in class. Each slide has an image, the main question and a graphic organizer for the students to fill in the claim, evidence and then reasoning. The second slide for each image supplies a place for the students to write the completed CER paragraph.****Please see my blog post on how I teach CER in my classroom. Us
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7th - 9th
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Editable Lunch Bunch Invitation & Permission Slip
Editable lunch bunch invitations and permission slips! Great for school psychologists, school counselors, school social workers, or anyone else wanting to start a group. Everything is editable except for the clip art and borders. I used the font KG What the Teacher Wants and would suggest downloading and using that if you don't have it already! :)
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Not Grade Specific
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Free Logic Puzzle Tutorial
Introduce your students to logic puzzles! While these critical thinking activities can be fun, they are intimidating to students who don't know how to do them. This presentation shows step-by-step how to solve a grid logic puzzle. Each clue is examined, and the presentation shows exactly what to fill out and explains the thought process behind marking X's on O's on the grid. As a teacher, this is easy to use, and if you get distracted in the middle of it- no big deal- the thought process is
Grades:
5th - 8th
Zone of Regulation
Zone of Regulation (self-control) is a conceptual framework used to teach students self-regulation and self-control and to use strategies or tools to help them move between zones. The Bitmojis Clipart banner can be used in two ways:1. Google Classroom Theme2. Zone of Regulation Resources3. Zone of Regulation Activities
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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