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Critical thinking resources for staff under $5
BRAIN TEASERS VOL. 2 – Logic, Word Sense, Puzzles, Lateral Thinking – Fun Stuff
Entertain and challenge your teens with this compelling collection of brain-twisting presentation slides in PDF & Google Slides format. There are many different ways you might want to use these 76 slides (38 questions + 38 answer key slides) in your classroom, including:1. Use as a routine bell-ringer activity to begin class one day each week. I use these as Brain Teaser Tuesdays (I enjoy alliteration), but they’ll work great any day of the week.2. Use them as a sponge activity to soak up th
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8th - 11th, Adult Education, Staff
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BRAIN TEASERS VOL. 3 – Logic, Word Sense, Puzzles, Lateral Thinking – Fun Stuff
Entertain and challenge your teens with this compelling collection of brain-twisting presentation slides in PDF & Google Slides format. There are many different ways you might want to use these 76 slides (38 questions + 38 answer key slides) in your classroom, including:1. Use as a routine bell-ringer activity to begin class one day each week. I use these as Brain Teaser Tuesdays (I enjoy alliteration), but they’ll work great any day of the week.2. Use them as a sponge activity to soak up th
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8th - 11th, Adult Education, Staff
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Discussion Starters for Math Problem Solving
BEST SELLER!! This product has 14 printable cards with question stems and prompts TEACHERS can ask during problem solving activities to promote critical thinking skills. By integrating these open-ended questions into your daily math instruction and routines, you can help students:• Make sense of mathematics• Learn and apply mathematical language and vocabulary• Develop a wide variety of flexible strategies for problem solving• Strengthen reasoning skills• Solve problems effectively and efficient
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K - 12th, Staff
39 Digital Moveable Tangram Puzzle Activities STEM Team Building Math
Have fun with your students while they solve these Tangram Puzzle Activities! This set of puzzles can be used in Google Slides or it can be downloaded and printed on paper. You choose! Great for developing critical thinking skills and team building activities!Great for distance learning!Included is a Google Slide version of the Following:39 Digital interactive Moveable Tangram Puzzles and their answers as well as a printable version. Your students will be able to move the tangrams into posit
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
101 Wacky Wordies Puzzles | Brain Teasers | Word Problems | Critical Thinking
Wacky Wordies is an excellent CRITICAL THINKING and VOCABULARY BOOSTING GAME for 2024 students LOVE the world over. WACKY WORD PUZZLES can be used in ENGLISH as an ICEBREAKER, a CRITICAL THINKING test or a FUN ACTIVITY for students and teachers of all ages.We have bundled together with the web's most complete collection of Wacky Word challenges, and HERE'S WHAT YOU GET.⭐ 202 Beautifully presented Wacky Wordies PowerPoint Slides with questions and answers.⭐ A paper-based test of 101 Wacky Wordie
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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The Circle Challenge — Art Drawing Fun Worksheet Game Early Finisher Sub Plan
The Circle Challenge - make each different! Great for early finishers, bell ringers, sub plans, staff meetings, ice breakers....and more! Art class or even just regular boredom buster. 8.5x11 reproducible. Color and Black & White Version included.See our Triangle, Square and Geometric Challenge as well as our other Art Games, Worksheets, Lessons and more! Click Here!***********************************************************************Hope Creek Studios specializes in Art Studio and History
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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End of the Year Escape Room "Escape Summer School" Summer Breakout
Please Follow so you know when new products come out!Escape the evil principal who wants to give everyone summer school. The only thing between you and ice cream rolling down your chin sitting by the pool are these puzzles. Use your knowledge and skills you learned this year to escape the school and start your summer...good luck! The set includes everything you need. If you have never done an escape room before full set up instructions and directions are included. The set utilizes a Google Form
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3rd - 6th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Escape Room Bundle Growing Year Long Holiday and More Sets
15 Mystery Puzzles - Brain Teasers - STEM Project - Team Building - GT
Have fun with your students while they solve these Mystery Puzzles! This set of puzzles is interactive in Google Slide or it can be downloaded and printed on paper. You choose! Great for developing critical thinking skills!Great for distance learning!Included is a PDF version and a Google Slide version of the Following:15 Digital interactive Mystery Puzzles and their answers. Your students will learn and have fun at the same time. This project can also be used as a center activity with an i
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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BRAIN TEASERS VOL. 4 – Logic, Word Sense, Puzzles, Lateral Thinking – Fun Stuff
Entertain and challenge your teens with this compelling collection of brain-twisting presentation slides in PDF & Google Slides format. There are many different ways you might want to use these 76 slides (38 questions + 38 answer key slides) in your classroom, including:1. Use as a routine bell-ringer activity to begin class one day each week. I use these as Brain Teaser Tuesdays (I enjoy alliteration), but they’ll work great any day of the week.2. Use them as a sponge activity to soak up th
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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AAAATeambuilding & Classbuilding Question Cards (40 Cards)
Have your students interact with each other in a fun and positive way! MY STUDENTS LOVE THESE CARDS!!! These cards are great for...Back to School activitiesIce breaker activitiesInterest InventoriesMeet-and-Greet activitiesBrain breaksTeambuildingClassbuildingEnd of school year activities The product includes:40 Teambuilding & Classbuilding Question CardsRecording Sheet (4 versions)You can get your students engaged with these cards in a variety of ways. Here are some examples: Footloose, SC
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Air and Water Pollution Worksheets Webquest
**UPDATED HYPERLINK TO WEBSITE ON WORKSHEET A ON PRODUCT**These activities and worksheets are designed to introduce students to the causes and effects of air and water pollution on our environment. The activities are student-directed and include using websites to research and answer questions on the worksheets provided. There are 2 worksheets available at different levels:* Worksheet A - low literacy learners (included very literal questions and lower order thinking and listing)* Worksheet B - h
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3rd - 12th, Staff
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How to Differentiate a Lesson Reference Guide
Need a fast and easy way to create a differentiated lesson for your students? This handy one page "cheat sheet" or reference guide is all you need to create a lesson to meet the needs of your GATE students. This idea was developed by Sandra Kaplan who has worked in the field of Gifted Education for years. YOU MUST HAVE SOME BASIC KNOWLEDGE ON DEPTH AND COMPLEXITY AND HOW TO PLAN DIFFERENTIATED LESSONS IN ORDER TO USE THIS PRODUCT. It is a guide only. Here's how it works: You decide on the th
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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Save Fred! A STEM and Team building Challenge
This STEM has a challenge for students to save the gummy worm Fred from falling in the water because he can't swim! It's great for a back to school or team building activity! This is a great way to teach your students how to work together, as well as to teach how to think outside the box! You will need to have gummy worms, gummy life savers, paper clips, and a cup in order to do this activity. This packet includes:- Fred's story and student instructions- An experiment log handout for your stude
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Castle Attack! Review Game (Any content, any lesson!)
Split students into tables, give each student a personal whiteboard and assign each player at each table a letter either A,B,C, or D. Give teams 5 minutes to create the castle they will be defending on a sheet of anchor chart paper.Show the problems you plug into this ppt on the projector to review and every player in the game has a question to answer on their board (table 1 has a player "A", table 2 has a player "A", and so on for letters A-D), draw random names to check a person after 45 secon
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Class Rules Review Games: Fun paper-based & PowerPoint activities!
Nagging your students and constantly reminding them of classroom rules is no fun for them or you. Why not make it into a game? Or better yet--two games, one paper-based, one in PPT form! Both games can be played all throughout the school year: switch up the two versions depending on the time and resources you have available at the moment. Because the games only provide the questions and not the answers, they can be played in any classroom by any teacher. You can also change and adapt your proced
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1st - 5th, Staff
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Earthquake STEM Activity (Earthquake Resistant Building Structure Challenge)
Use these 46 Pages of Earthquake (Earth Day) STEM Challenge to let your students learn how to work as engineers to make models of buildings to see how well their structure stand up under the stress of an earthquake. Explain to them that this is similar to what some civil engineers do as their jobs.Design Process Worksheets and Rubrics are included to introduce the Engineering Design Process while doing this Earthquake STEM/ STEAM activity or project. There is a color and are black & white ve
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3rd - 12th, Staff
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Critical Thinking Activity: Lost at Sea! PPT and Google Resources
Oh No! Pirates have attacked our small ship and now we are sinking!Your students will have to use critical thinking in order to be successful under pressure. Not only do they have to quickly choose 20 items to help them survive until help arrives, but they must learn how to persuade their partner to agree with them. What's Included?1. Original PowerPoint Presentation of "Lost at Sea! A Critical Thinking Activity!"2. Student Activity Sheet (pdf)3. NEW!! Link to Google Slides Presentation of "L
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
OTES (Ohio's Teacher Evaluation System) Organizational Evidence Binder
Are you an Ohio teacher? Does the new OTES system have you stressed? Don't know where to begin? Let this evidence binder tool help you get started!
This product was created to help you organize your thoughts and put things down on paper. It will get you thinking in the direction of the new OTES system. This file is editable (through PowerPoint) so that you can add a text box and type in your responses. Simply add resources of evidence in each section.
There are 3 sections that address
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Staff
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle File Folder Game - Earth Day and Conservation Activity
Teach kids all about the 3 R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle with this cute little file folder game. Perfect for Earth Day and teaching conservation, this game includes 15 item cards for students to 'sort' into the 3 R categories. All you have to do is print, cut & glue to an empty file folder!Teaches sorting skills, critical thinking & environmental awareness. Great for classroom centers, school smiles or educational fun at home.Print in color... or in black & white to share a coloring
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PreK - 3rd, Staff
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'Adventure Time Theme Park' - A Group Problem Solving Math Project
The 'Adventure Time Theme Park' booklet is a fantastic resource for upper primary/middle school students, as it encourages collaboration, problem solving and creativity, as well as fundamental math skills such as addition and multiplication.
In order to design their theme park, students must work with a monitory budget and aim to attract as many customers as possible, meaning they must work together to make decisions about:
1. The number of rides they will have, as these attract customers but
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4th - 7th, Staff
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Marshmallow Challenge - STEM and Team Building Activity - SMART Board
★ Top Selling Resource ★ The Marshmallow Challenge is a great team building activity that can be adapted for any grade level (even adults) or subject area. This activity is sure to get the participants collaborating and critically thinking! A perfect activity for days before or after winter break.
Students are challenged to work together to build the tallest, free-standing tower made out of simple household items within a certain amount of time. A handout is included that asks students to an
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Google Slides Mind Map Templates (10)
Product DescriptionGoogle Slides Mind/Thinking Map Templates (10 Slides) Light colorsGoogle Slides With Thinking Map Templates are a great way to keep your students engaged online. Share and collaborate with Google Drive LinkPre-placed and formatted text boxes are on the slides. Just open click and start typing. Saves you time formatting and extra steps for young learners.Includes ALL Eight types of Thinking Maps + two extra Bridge Maps 10 Slides TotalFolder includes Google Slides/PowerPoint Fil
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff, Not Grade Specific
THINK ALOUD Sentence and Question Stems ELA/ Reading
A think aloud poster contains sentence stems for students to grasp in order to build reading and comprehension skillsThere are multiple background colors and black and white for you in this PDF file. Also added a few mini versions that can be used in interactive notebooks or bookmarks.This packet includes:Posters and bookmarksSentence stemsQuestions stems All levelsThank you !! and Happy Thinking !!With love,Powerful TeachingALL IN ONE READING QUESTIONING STEMS FOR TEACHERS
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1st - 12th, Staff
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Game Time Kids Clip Art
Create fun, colorful, and engaging games with this game time kids clip art set! This set contains 20 high quality 300dpi transparent png images, which includes 10 color images and 10 black & white images.This set is also part of a Games Clip Art BundleThis set includes the following images:Boy thinking at tabletop with game boardGirl thinking at tabletop with game boardKids playing with blocksKids playing cards at tableKids playing cards at tabletopKids playing game at tableKids playing game
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PreK - 5th, Staff
Also included in: Kids Playing Games and Game Boards Clip Art Bundle
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