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Problem solving life skills Common Core W.8.4 resources
Email Etiquette Lesson and Activity: How to Write an Email (With Examples)
Do you need to teach your students how to write an email? This no-prep and editable Email Etiquette Lesson and Activity for Google Drive and PDF will make it easy! This resource includes a slideshow, a practice activity, sample email prompts, and more!This resource includes the following files:Teacher Guide PDFEditable Google Slideshow titled Email Etiquette 101Editable Google Doc Note Sheet to accompany slideshowPrintable Practice Activity PDF (2 pages)Editable Google Doc Practice ActivityThe s
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6th - 9th
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Also included in:Â Academic and Life Skills Bundle for Middle and High School Students
Middle School Health Bundle: A TPT Best-Selling Middle Health Curriculum
★ This is the #1 "Best-Selling Middle School Health Program" on TPT! This curriculum will help your teens navigate the mental, social, and emotional changes during this time in life and thrive. There are three 90+ semester lesson programs included.>> Integrated Skills Based, Content Based / Knowledge Based. The best of both worlds.>> Meets all MS National Health Education Standards. >> Meets all MS Technical Subjects Health Common Core Standards.>> Meets all Washington S
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6th - 8th
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Email Etiquette Lesson + Activities - Google slides - Digital - Writing Practice
Bid farewell to those cringe-worthy, poorly-worded emails forever! Elevate your students' communication game to soaring heights by empowering them with the skills they need to convey their thoughts clearly and confidently.With this comprehensive resource in your arsenal, you'll transform your students into email-writing wizards! Picture this: a dynamic teacher slideshow that you can project to captivate your class, paired with an engaging interactive student slideshow. It's a one-two punch of in
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6th - 10th
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First Week of School | Life Skills, Social Emotional Learning Curriculum ChatGPT
Growth Mindset Mega Bundle to kick start the first week of school.7 months (90+ lessons) Life Skills / SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING (SEL) Curriculum.Perfect for Middle School Advisory / Homeroom programs High School Life Skills / Special Education activitiesRegular English Language Arts programs exploring 21st Century Transferrable Learning Skills (6Cs, Deep Learning)Empower students to deal with life obstacles, systemic racism, and academic challenges!BACK TO SCHOOL 2024: August / September is the
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6th - 10th
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Any Time NEW DAY Resolutions | Social Emotional Learning | Reading Comprehension
You don't have to wait until the New Year to make resolutions. Use these Any Time "NEW DAY" Resolutions to re-engage students! Your Middle School and High School students will laugh at the funny reading comprehension passage.There are three parts to this Social Emotional Learning Skills / Life Skills resource:1) The Goal Setting worksheets are for everybody (4 pages)Help students develop SELF AWARENESS and adjust to a changing world. Reflect on the challenges and successes from the past.Brainsto
Grades:
7th - 10th
Economics Activity: Weighing out Costs, Benefits, and Opportunity Cost Scenarios
This is an economics reinforcement activity on costs, benefits and opportunity cost. Students will evaluate the costs and benefits in given scenarios in order to make the best decision. Students will also be able to recognize the opportunity cost (the opportunity that was given up) in the decision being made. Opportunity cost is a great way to help students understand decision making. Each of us are making decisions and choices all the time. Every time we say yes to something, we are saying
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7th - 10th
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Creativity Challenge | Innovation | Problem Solving | First Week Of School | SEL
First Week of School Activities to explore Creativity and Problem Solving. Set up classroom expectations during Back To School season with a growth mindset! Creativity is more than just being artsy. It's also about creative problem solving. Check out these 14 social emotional learning SEL lessons to help students solve problems and be more creative when dealing with academic obstacles, life problems, and relationship conflicts. This life-long tool is great for the First Week of School activities
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6th - 10th
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How to Write Effective Emails: Email Etiquette for Students, Business, and Life!
I have taught at two schools with one-to-one programs and wrote this lesson plan to address the maddening epidemic of confusing, unclear and unprofessional emails! From attachments that aren't attached, to students sending emails with no identifying information whatsoever(!), this lesson plan is full of common-sense information that helps students craft more consciously professional emails. I have found that taking the time to go over these concepts drastically improves the quality of the emails
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
The Omnivore's Dilemma - Research Project Bundle
The Omnivore's Dilemma: Young Readers Edition is an amazing resource for teaching students the research process. It's interesting, relevant to their lives, and is an awesome platform for inquiry based learning.
These resources have all been used in my classroom to genuinely astounding results. When given the autonomy to research an aspect of the food industry that they want to change, students dive deeply into the research--more so than they ever did on tasks I had explicitly assigned.
This bu
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7th - 12th
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Back to School Effective Effort Lesson Plan
This product features an engaging "Effective Effort Talk" activity that will have your students thinking, writing, moving, and speaking about effective effort and growth mindset. In this activity, they must choose between 6 different quotes about effort from famous figures like John F. Kennedy and Theodore Roosevelt and articulate why the quote aligns with their own perspective using their own experiences to explain their opinion. I use this lesson every year to set the tone for the effort I exp
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7th - 10th
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Goals in the New Year-A Dynamic and Engaging Goal-Setting Activity!
Kickstart the post-winter break season with our engaging "Goals in the New Year" activity designed for students. This comprehensive package encourages students to brainstorm, focus, plan, and reflect on their goals for the remainder of the school year. The activity fosters a positive and goal-oriented mindset while providing practical tools for self-discovery and achievement. Both Print and Digital versions include the following components:Key ComponentsCircle Map Brainstorming:Students jot down
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K - 12th
Primary School (Grades K-8) ELA Digital Citizenship Bundle (PowerPoint Slides)
With the ever-changing climate of teaching due to the pandemic, this resource is perfect for any educator who wants to teach digital citizenship through distance learning and for those who will teach in a hybrid and/or traditional setting who want to teach these life-long skills. This includes 62 technology lessons for grades K-8 students which consists of digital citizenship lessons based off of the standards and guidelines set forth by Common Sense Media. You can do this whole-class with your
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K - 8th
Apology Assignment
Empathy and sincerely asking for forgiveness are important lessons that middle or high school teachers don't always have time to explicitly teach. This assignment is great for reinforcing these principles in addition to having the student practice their writing skills.
To successfully assign this task the teacher needs to write the student's name and the date at the top of the letter then a brief description of what the student did wrong. (Examples: disrespected a substitute teacher, stole sup
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6th - 9th
Back To School Student Goal Setting Templates: Create Personal & Academic Goals
Get your students involved in setting their own student-centered performance goals. From leadership gurus to accomplished CEO’s, the most successful people in life have proven that setting goals with a growth-mindset is a must! If you don’t know where you want to go, how can you even get there? If you don’t know where the target is, how do you know where to aim? This concept is true for for the classroom and student achievement as well. After thousands of studies, Dr. John Hattie of Melbourne,
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Not Grade Specific
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STEM Design for Learning: Designing Weather Instruments
A Webquest for Real World Project-Based Learning
The Weather Station WebQuest is a great way to introduce students to the world of weather measurement and invention. The webquest and design process supports critical thinking and collaboration as students form teams and make decisions about weather instrument design. The final product is a weather station with models representing best efforts in inquiry, research, design, collaboration, and decision making.
WebQuest project-based learning teac
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5th - 8th
Thanksgiving Planner-Life Skills, Social-Emotional, Interest-Based, Adults
Students will learn life skills and social-emotional skills by creating this interest-based Thanksgiving Day Feast! Introduce the unit by discussing the Timeline Idea sheets and then assist with the Brainstorm Sheet. Students will then need to do research to plan and organize for: groceries, decorations, games, shopping lists, cooking schedules, and more. This project is student-led with teacher assistance.This Thanksgiving Planner is designed to help adults organize Thanksgiving Day events, but
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in:Â Thanksgiving Planner Bundle for adults, teens, and homeschool
Vacation to a National Park
Use research, writing, and math skills to explore a U.S. National Park!
Students choose and research a United States National park, then plan a family vacation to the park.
Students use documents to record information:
• Research sights and activities at the park
• List basic information about the park
• Summarize the history of the park and why they want to visit the park
• Use information about climate and weather to decide on travel dates
• Create a spreadsheet and figure costs for travel,
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7th - 9th
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Middle School (Grades 6-8) ELA Digital Citizenship Bundle (PowerPoint Slides)
With the ever-changing climate of teaching due to the pandemic, this resource is perfect for any educator who wants to teach digital citizenship through distance learning and for those who will teach in a hybrid and/or traditional setting who want to teach these life-long skills. This includes 24 technology lessons for 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade students which consists of digital citizenship lessons based off of the standards and guidelines set forth by Common Sense Media. You can do this whole-cl
Grades:
6th - 8th
Middle School (Grades 6-8) ELA Digital Citizenship Bundle (Google Slides)
With the ever-changing climate of teaching due to the pandemic, this resource is perfect for any educator who wants to teach digital citizenship through distance learning and for those who will teach in a hybrid and/or traditional setting who want to teach these life-long skills. This includes 24 technology lessons for 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade students which consists of digital citizenship lessons based off of the standards and guidelines set forth by Common Sense Media. You can do this whole-cla
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6th - 8th
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W8.7 - Career Research: worksheet for organizing occupation research
These handouts ask students to gather critical information in order to make an effective career decision. Find a personality career assessment (many are available free online) to have students take before making career choices. From that personality career assessment, students will choose one occupation that they are considering. Using the internet, students will find as much information on that career as they can. In their research, students must find information such as, Setting (indoor/outdoo
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6th - 10th
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Also included in:Â English 8 - Entire Year: Activities, Projects, Rubrics, Exams, Homework
Writing Process: Face Your Fears Essay
The topic of this essay is facing your fears. Students have to think deeply and reflect on their fears and how to overcome them. During this essay, students move through the entire writing process: prewriting, rough draft, proofread/editing, and final publication.
I use this product to encourage students to write with a purpose. In the past, students have really enjoyed thinking about their fears and ways to overcome them. They have even found common ground with other students who have similar
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6th - 8th
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First Day SEL Lesson for Elementary Middle School Students - My Happy Place
Help students return to post-COVID school with a Social Emotional Learning Activity that provides students with highly effective calming techniques to overcome stressful situations. Great first day of school activity for elementary or middle school students. This fully prepared SEL Lesson (55 minutes) includes the following:Interactive Google SlideTeacher NotesPrintable Student Activities4 Calming TechniquesCollaborative DiscussionWriting PromptsStudent ChoicePersonalization
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Not Grade Specific
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Science Fiction: Critical Thinking Research
This PowerPoint Presentation is great for introducing the Science Fiction genre or as a culminating activity, as it explores the question "What if?" These activities are aimed at middle school gifted and talented students, but can be tweaked for any level student in a classroom that utilizes cooperative learning. Students have discussion questions, scenarios to analyze and generate their own questions, and then opportunities to research and develop solutions to their problems. The activity concl
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6th - 8th
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8th Grade ELA Digital Citizenship - Social Media Footprints
Show your 8th Graders how to act responsibly on social media websites and apps to control their digital footprints using the computer via Google Slides. This lesson is based on the standards and guidelines set by Common Sense Media. You can either do this through the teacher's copy or through Google Classroom as an assignment if your learners have school Google Accounts.
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8th
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