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Critical thinking professional development resources for Easel $10 and up
WORD PUZZLES Brain Teaser BUNDLE! REBUS Puzzles, Hink Pinks, Word Plexers
This brain teaser pack includes ALL of my rebus word puzzles and hink pink puzzles.It includes: 13 pages of Rebus puzzles (111 puzzles to solve in all!) 9 Hink Pink pages (75 puzzles to solve in all)**ANSWER keys included. PRINT AND GO! That is OVER 185 puzzles total! Plus a "make your own" version of each puzzle type! My students BEG for these puzzles! They would be great to utilize for early finishers, work for after testing, EOY test prep for vocabulary building in a FUN and engaging way, Gif
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2nd - 9th
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Reading Comprehension Weekly Warm-ups - Grades 4-5 - Print and Digital Resources
Increase your students' reading comprehension and language proficiency with these weekly close reading passages, questions, and activities. Combining the science of reading research with practical exercises boosts student performance. Easy print and use format. Printable PDF, digital Google Slides™, and some Easel versions included. KEY BENEFITSEnhance Reading Skills: Utilize science-based reading research to improve comprehension and language proficiency through close reading, cloze reading, an
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4th - 5th
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A Wrinkle in Time: Novel Study Unit Plan
This 4 ½ - 6 week novel study will guide students through an imaginative exploration and critical analysis of Madeleine L’Engle’s Newberry Award Winning book, A Wrinkle in Time. Students will be challenged to think deeply about the book’s themes and respond thoughtfully through written work and oral discussions. Their imaginations will be stretched and their critical thinking skills will be developed on a daily basis. The study is divided into three segments: Chapters 1-4, Chapters 5-8, and Cha
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5th - 9th
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BRAIN TEASERS BUNDLE - FULL YEAR Pack, Riddles, Rebus Puzzles, AND Hink Pinks
BRAIN TEASERS - FULL YEAR Pack, Riddles, Rebus Puzzles, AND Hink PinksYour students will LOVE solving these daily riddles! OVER 260 total puzzles to solve! Think bell-ringers, morning work, brain breaks, time-filler, partner activities, scoots, the options are endless with this task card pack! So, what is included?132 Riddle cards (with answer keys)108 Rebus Puzzle cards (with answer keys)26 Hink Pink cards (with answer keys)What other teachers are saying about these products:"My students love s
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2nd - 8th
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Evidence and Investigation Forensics Unit
It's time to think like CSI! Turn your students into a bunch of top-notch crime scene investigators with this ENTIRE UNIT on forensics! Featuring eight different investigative topics and chalk full of labs and activities, this packet is all you need to start teaching. Keep on reading below to see what’s included! (Note: This is a comprehensive unit for Evidence and Investigation, and lines up with the Alberta Program of Studies.) ===============================WHAT YOU GET======================
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Evidence and Investigation Forensics Bundle
Spy: Codes and Ciphers and Critical Thinking
Students will get plenty of fun opportunities to practice and apply their critical thinking and problem-solving skills while learning how to send and receive a variety of secret encoded messages! STUDENTS LOVE TO SPY and students love communicating using secret codes and ciphers. Encoding and decoding secret messages require the use of critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Studying espionage, a high interest, real-world experience, is an exciting way to teach these important skills. T
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Codes, Ciphers and Critical Thinking: Spy Bundle #1
Poetry Center Activities–Monthly Poems & Rhyming Practice–4 Seasons Worksheets
Poetry Centers is packed with Original Poetry for every month of the school year. We've included Fluency and Comprehension Strategies as well as Rhyming, Imagery, Writing, and Sequencing Activities for 1st-3rd grade students. Makes a great addition to your Interactive Poetry Notebooks, featuring hands-on Poetry activities to practice these Literacy and ELA Skills:
• 11 Original Poems-ready to be cut out and glued into an Interactive Poetry Notebook!
• Fluency Strategies-read each poem as a who
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1st - 3rd
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Peer Tutoring, Cross-Age Tutoring & Instructional Aide Training Workbook
Do you work with peer tutors, cross-age tutors, TAs, or instructional aides at your school? Research shows that providing quality training is essential. Building Student Success: A Training Workbook for Tutors and Instructional Aides is a 49-page workbook designed to provide that training. The topics contained in this peer tutoring and instructional aide handbook have been carefully selected to address the key elements identified by research as being critical to quality tutor and paraprofessiona
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Their Eyes Were Watching God Unit Plan: CCSS Teaching Plans, Lessons, Activities
This 56-page Their Eyes Were Watching God unit plan is aligned with Common Core Anchor Standards. Also, all of the material is based on Bloom's Taxonomy. This posting includes Teacher Notes, 52 activities, essay topics, journal topics, graphic organizers, writing response sheets, and two separate tests with answer keys. The variety of literary analysis and writing lessons and activities in this packet offers to distance learning, brick and mortar classroom, and home school teachers will be sure
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9th - 12th
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Brave New World Unit Plan: CCSS Teaching Plans, Lessons & Activities
This 101-page plan is a Common Core Standards based unit containing: time frame, day by day lessons, vocabulary, chapter by chapter study guide for discussion ideas, 50+ worksheets, assessments, group and individual projects and much, much more. In this day and age when even a hamburger can be cloned, students are fascinated by the What-ifs of human reproduction. What would happen if people could choose their baby's gender as well as each and every physical, mental and emotional aspect?In this c
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9th - 12th
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The Stranger Unit Plan: CCSS Teaching Notes, Lessons, and Activities
Aligned with the Common Core principles, 'The Stranger Unit Plan,' a 90-page compilation of lessons and activities, has been detailed and developed for clarity, depth, comprehension, and analysis- from basic to higher level cognition. This version is a third larger than the previous one with a flexibility terrific for Distance, Classroom, and Home School Learning. It includes a table of contents, a copious variety of activities for teachers to meet their goals and the needs and skills of their h
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Easy Chemistry: Food Pairs Stoichiometry
Stoichiometry is a term that strikes fear in the heart of many, but has always been my favorite subject to teach. This unit simplifies a complex concept in an easy-to-understand way.Product includes:Balancing equationsMole-to-moleGram-to-gramMole-to-gramGram-to-mole Percent yield Vocabulary5 Practice ActivitiesShow What You Know ReviewCCSS and TEKS aligned.This product is a part of my growing Stoichiometry unit. Visit my store to pre-purchase the bundle at a discounted price. Product will be com
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Abstract Thinking, Multiple Meanings and Critical Reasoning Workbook
This 58 page workbook is packed with exercises that can be used in the classroom or for homework. The publication helps to teach and develop higher order language and mental flexibility through the use of mindful, multisensory activities that walk students through critical thinking and visualization techniques. Students will learn about multiple meanings, learn to distinguishing between abstract and concrete nouns, learn to analyze metaphors and similes and work with sayings and idioms. It wa
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3rd - 10th
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Night Unit Plan - CCSS: Teaching Plans/Lessons/Activities/Assessments
If adolescents are to understand the physical, emotional and spiritual effects of man's inhumanity to man, Night (Elie Wiesel), is a good starting platform for English and Social Studies teachers. This 68-page unit engages the students on an emotional level and pushes them to think and analyze through thought-provoking discussions and writings about some of the principle players of the Third Reich, its victims, philosophies, and the power of propaganda. Aligned with CCS, it has over 30 activitie
Grades:
8th - 12th
King Arthur: Finding Evidence in Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passages
Learning to read informational text and find supporting evidence can be difficult. These nonfiction passages help students learn how to read nonfiction and find evidence that supports specific statements. Students are guided through a process to use vocabulary, main idea, and comprehension questions to find the evidence needed to support or justify answers. Questions vary from multiple choice to short answer. The varying nonfiction structures (descriptive, compare/contrast, chronological) of th
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5th - 7th
Planet Earth: Watch & Write COMPLETE Bundle (ALL 11 Episodes)
Planet Earth: Watch & Write correlates to BBC’s Planet Earth series (a DVD collection that can be found in many school or local libraries or purchased for your personal classroom collection - see below for details).
This product includes the COMPLETE BUNDLED question sets for ALL 4 DISCS (all 11 episodes). There are 220 fill-in-the-blank and 33 critical thinking questions total in this complete bundle! In each of the packets of questions, students are challenged to note fascinating details
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5th - 10th
Young Earth versus Old Earth Fossil Unit Study - PreK-8th
Teach elementary-aged kids about paleontology, fossils, and dinosaurs while at the same time teaching them to evaluate the fossil record from two perspectives:Young Earth Creationism and Young Earth TheoryANDOld Earth Evolutionist and Uniformitarian theory Included in this unique activity pack curriculum are tables comparing the two perspectives as well as a clear description of what each side believes about the age of the earth, dinosaurs and the Fossil Record. Do all scientists believe that di
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PreK - 8th
Also included in: Critical Thinking Activities - Dinosaurs, Birds, and Paleontology
Bible Creation - Creation Days - Dinosaurs and Types of Fossils - K-8
Teach elementary-aged kids about paleontology, fossils, and dinosaurs while at the same time teaching them to evaluate the fossil record from two perspectives:Young Earth Creationism and Young Earth TheoryANDOld Earth Evolutionist and Uniformitarian theoryIncluded in this unique activity pack curriculum are tables comparing the two perspectives as well as a clear description of what each side believes about the age of the earth, dinosaurs and the Fossil Record.Do all scientists believe that dino
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PreK - 8th
Poetry Analysis: Using Taylor Swift & Katy Perry Songs
This exciting lesson plan offers a captivating way to introduce students to poetry analysis by showing how poetry is just like music. This makes the idea of poetry analysis less daunting and more fun for students. It includes - An interactive Easel presentation that covers the essential foundations of poetry analysis, alongside a fun class activity using Taylor Swift's song "All Too Well" as a relatable example. - It breaks down imagery, symbolism & similies. -A lesson plan for teachers whic
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7th - 8th
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Beach Themed Fiction Unit with Escape Room Activity
Three fiction stories with printables and assessments to improve reading comprehension. Included: • lesson plans• three fiction stories • printables• assessments• vocabulary word cards• photos• extra skillls practice printables• answer keys • escape room activity to analyze and synthesize skills Stories Included: . • Summer at the Beach. - Kathy and her friend Brent can't wait to spend their summer at the beach! What have their moms planned this year? • Swimming Lessons. - Mike and his
Grades:
4th - 6th
Critical Thinking Openers Toolkit
Now updated with fillable text boxes. A terrific independent activity while students are logging in to ZOOM, Meets, etc. Follow with an engaging discussion or move on...Critical Thinking Openers helps 7th-12th grade students learn metacognitive (thinking about thinking) strategies and problem-solving skills. This book provides 64 "openers" formatted for your class projector. Simply display the page and have students respond on binder paper or in their writers notebooks-plenty of opportunities fo
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7th - 12th
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The Basics of Algebra 1: A Survival Guide for Teachers
Do you have to teach some basic Algebra 1 Theory and feel a little overwhelmed? Designed specifically for teachers to help reduce their anxiety when teaching basic Algebraic concepts. So you say that you may be anxious when it comes to teaching Algebra 1 concepts to your students because you haven’t had many math classes and are not a math major. Well here is a resource designed for teachers that is presented in a simplistic manner and will help you get over any possible anxiety. I spent 37
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Unit Plan: CCSS Notes, Lessons & Activities
This 62-page unit plan for Ken Kesey's incredibly engaging novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest includes~ 30+ lessons and activities ~group and individual projects~ten essay topics ~3 section quizzes~ a final test~numerous blank digital student response sheets for completing various assignments online, and~many more opportunities for high school students in grades 10-12 to increase their understanding of Ken Kesey's classic novel. During this comprehensive study, they will increase their compr
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10th - 12th
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The Disney Family Vacation Project Workbook
Introduction This assignment is designed on Google Slides as a workbook and ideally should be done on a chromebook or desktop computer. This digital project-based learning assignment encompasses reading strategies, math, basic life skills, and social-emotional learning. Students can work this project in several instruction modes; with ten separate tasks that require calculation or a constructed response. It’s extremely versatile. Students will need calculators!The ContentStudents are given a
Grades:
6th - 9th
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