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Critical thinking projects for staff $10 and up
Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Back to School Icebreaker STEM Bundle! Need back to school icebreakers or games that get students moving, communicating, working in teams, and building relationships? Here are 50+ of our favorite basic activities that are low-cost and low-prep for any classroom or subject!Working as a team, they will learn lessons in communication, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity that are central to the engineering process. Use as a warm-up, icebreaker, team building activity, or basic STEM and en
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Student Lawyers: Criminal Court Mock Trials & Cases with PowerPoint
Students will get the opportunity to be lawyers and prosecute or defend an accused person in a criminal trial (11 total). Each group will consist of 2 lawyers (prosecuting and defending), and an accused person. The teacher will act as the judge and guide the jury as they vote on the verdict. The majority vote determines the verdict. This unit includes court brief handouts, directions, and PowerPoint explaining how the cases will proceed. Visit our store for much more helpful and free stuff!Crim
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Intro to STEM Bundle: Icebreaker & Teamwork Activities
Want to introduce STEM to your classroom? Here are 45 of our favorite basic (Stage 1) STEM challenges that are low-cost and low-prep for any classroom! Activities are perfect as back to school icebreakers or games that introduce STEM while getting students moving, communicating, and working in teams! BACKGROUNDBefore tasking students to complete rigorous engineering design challenges, educators should start with Stage 1 STEM activities. Click here to learn more about the Stages of STEM. Through
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Atomic Habits Book Study
Take your high school English classroom on a transformative journey through the book Atomic Habits with this comprehensive unit! As an experienced high school English teacher, I understand the importance of providing educators with resources that foster collaboration, meaningful engagement, and clear learning objectives.This unit comes complete with a detailed pacing guide, allowing you to plan exactly how long each lesson will take to teach. With clear learning objectives and essential question
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery Unit (Bundle)
This is a unit about teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) that can be expanded at the teacher's discretion to include a presentation and a paper that practices utilizing evidence, reasoning, and argument, or alternatively can also be collapsed into a mini-unit of just teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER). This unit can also be used to teach the concept of Line of Reasoning for the AP Lang and AP Seminar Classes. It is structured as an investigation for students to explore the murder of a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery Unit
This is the accompanying teaching sequence for the unit “Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery.” It includes a mystery to solve, all the evidence (which can be turned into manipulatives), rubrics for presentations and writing, teaching instructions, graphic organizers, and solutions. It does not include the "Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery" PowerPoint presentation which can be purchased separately or as part of a bundle.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Exhibition Support Bundle - IB PYP - Digital Workbooks - Teacher Guides
The Exhibition Student Workbook is a scaffolded, practical guide for students doing their IB PYP Exhibition. The Exhibition Mentor's Guide is a scaffolded, practical guide for teachers supporting them. Both can be used digitally or printed off to use in booklet form.They include:details of the exhibition process and teacher support rolesoutlines to help support students' and teachers' mentoring with planning, research, learning experiences, transdisciplinary links, action, presentation, and ref
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5th - 6th, Staff
Design Thinking Lesson Pack
Design Thinking is an iterative, solution-based process which seeks to understand a user and what they need to solve a problem. These 6 lessons will take your class through the entire Design Thinking Process and students will work collaboratively to come up with solutions to complex problems.Module Duration - 8 to 10 class periodsThis module download includes the following:6 Lesson plans6 Slide decksTeacher GuidePerformance TaskMaster VocabularyComputer Science Standards AlignmentDigital Noteboo
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Architecture and Children Teachers Guide (English)
Integrated Learning and ThinkingThere is growing interest in environmental awareness and integrated learning through design education and visual, applied learning that relates to the built, natural and cultural environment. The Architecture and Children Guidebook has 14 lesson plans that use the ideas, laws and principles that govern our environment to teach the physics of structure, design and math in nature and similarities between body systems, building systems and more. There are step by ste
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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NOW YOU KNOW History Quiz Bowl Video Guide (with PowerPoint Game MEGA Bundle)
NOTE: This video guide is bundled with the following products ...
NOW YOU KNOW History Quiz Bowl (Volume 1)
NOW YOU KNOW History Quiz Bowl (Volume 2)
NOW YOU KNOW Character Education Edition (Volume 1)
NOW YOU KNOW Character Education Edition (Volume 2)
NOW YOU KNOW Character Education Edition (Volume 3)
NOW YOU KNOW WIWIHK Edition (Mentoring, Mediation, Problem Solving)
NOW YOU KNOW Math Edition (Money)
NOW YOU KNOW Three-Player / Team Editable PowerPoint Scoreboard
NOW YOU KNOW "Jeopardy"-Sty
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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11:03
Nine Men's Morris Game Video Tournament Guide - Great Mentoring Event!
NOTE: This video guide is bundled with the following product ...
Nine Men's Morris - Game Board and Rules
Nine Men's Morris is an ancient board game combining the speed of checkers, the strategy of chess and the simplicity of tic-tac-toe.
It is easy to play, but difficult to master.
The game's speed, strategy, and simplicity combine to make it a subtle powerhouse.
Let me count the ways ...
1. Folks from similar and different generations can compete.
2. Games end in 5-10 minutes - so severa
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
4:36
Bag Of Life Video Guide - Lead Sustained, Substantive Conversations!
NOTE: This video guide is bundled with the following product ...
Bag Of Life (Introductory Version) - Lead Sustained, Substantive Conversations!
"Bag of Life" is my project-based approach to facilitating sustained, substantive conversations with friends, fans, and foes that are affirming, accepting, accountable - and sometimes authoritative.
You take a small bag (any bag), and fill it with these cards containing ...
1. FILL IN THE BLANK. Short, fill-in-the-blank statements like "I am afraid
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Teaching Line of Reasoning: A Whodunit Activity Unit
This is the accompanying teaching sequence for the unit “Teaching Line of Reasoning: A Whodunit Activity.” It includes all the evidence (which can be turned into manipulatives), rubrics, handouts, teaching instructions, graphic organizers, and solutions. It does not include the "Teaching Line of Reasoning: A Whodunit Activity" PowerPoint presentation which can be purchased separately or as part of a bundle.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Teaching Line of Reasoning: A Whodunit Activity Unit (Bundle)
Escape Room Template -Customize Your Own Experience Like a Pro
Get experienced instruction to help you create your own escape room. Teachers can use to customize escape rooms for students OR as material to assist students in a group project of designing their own escape room. This is an excellent critical thinking and project management activity!Guidance includes ways to create, plan, organized, and execute your game. We point you to a variety of puzzle and clue creation options to ensure a fun and challenging event. We also throw in a flow chart example fo
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7th - 11th, Staff
Design Project Handbook - for Students and Teachers
Design projects helps students to explore their problem solving, critical thinking, creativity and innovation. Guiding the students plays a key role in staying on the right track. This document helps students to complete the design project and documentation through guided steps in different stages of development. Teachers can make use of this document to parallelly guide, control and coordinate activities for design project of students. Differentiation can be effectively done as the independent
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6th - 10th, Staff
Teaching Evidence: An Investigation Into a Death Unit (Bundle)
This is a unit about teaching evidence that can be expanded at the teacher's discretion to include a presentation and a paper that practices both utilizing evidence and line of argument, or alternatively can also be collapsed into a mini-unit of just teaching evidence. It is structured as an investigation for students to explore how a woman dies from a particular disease. It includes a presentation, all the evidence (which can be turned into manipulatives), rubrics, handouts, worksheets, graph
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Teaching Evidence: An Investigation Into a Death
This is the accompanying teaching sequence for the unit “Teaching Evidence: An Investigation Into a Death.” It includes all the evidence (which can be turned into manipulatives), rubrics, handouts, graphic organizers, worksheets, and articles. It does not include the "Teaching Evidence: The Diseases" handouts nor the "Teaching Evidence: An Investigation Into a Death" presentation.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in: Teaching Evidence: An Investigation Into a Death Unit (Bundle)
What Makes a Good Project?
Are you stuck when it comes to starting off inquiry-based learning in the classroom? Some people call it Project-based-learning. It does not matter what you call it, some things have to be in place before you launch into design thinking in your classroom. Based on the absolutely brilliant book which I suggest you read (Invent To Learn by Libow and Stager) I have summarized and made it easy for those who have no time to read the book or cannot for some reason access it! For IB teachers, I have al
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PreK - 10th, Staff
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Don't Tell Me What to Do! - Complete Level 1 Packet
One Great Package!! Get all 10 pieces of Level 1 in the Don’t Tell Me What to Do!; Cognitive Restructuring Behavior Intervention Program for a lower price than buying them individually. You won’t regret this purchase. Years of research, months of collaboration, and all for your programs! Keep your eyes open for expansion packs and supplementary material to strengthen any behavior program you may be using. Be sure to rate the material and follow me to be one of the first to receive these offers!
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6th - 12th, Staff
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