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Critical thinking world history unit plans for staff
Hypothetical Questions | Visual Writing Prompts | What would you do? Icebreakers
Following the wild popularity of the Visual Writing Prompts Bundle comes HYPOTHETICAL VISUAL ICE BREAKERS AND OPINION PROMPTS for 2024. This FUN writing resource is evergreen with proven success with struggling or reluctant writers and an excellent ICEBREAKER for students and staff.The resource is broken into five unique areas⭐ What If?⭐ Icebreakers⭐ Would you rather? ⭐ Hmmm??? That's a tough one⭐ Tough questions for young adults.Everything is entirely EDITABLE with absolutely "NO PREP REQUIRE
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4th - 9th, Staff
An introduction to 3D Printing
Includes: PowerPoint, 3D printing videos, 3D printing examples, 10 week program, rubric, worksheets, 3D printer anatomy, safety tips and more
Grades:
3rd - 12th, Staff
Teacher Guide to Minecraft for Education!! Bundle
This product will teach you all you need to know about using Minecraft Education in the classroom. Each module focuses on a specific aspect of Minecraft, and includes lesson plans, mcWorld files, and examples of how to use them. This bundle is to teach teachers how to use Minecraft in an education setting. Once you have completed the modules you will then have the knowledge to use Minecraft Education in the classroom with confidence!Module A - Placing Your First Block:This module is designed to
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K - 12th, Staff
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Ancient Egyptians Unit Pack
A fully-resourced unit of 10 no-prep history lessons, covering the Ancient Egypt topic. This planning pack includes 10 detailed lessons plans, each with accompanying pupil resource sheets and Powerpoint slides.The ten sessions in this unit aim to give an overview of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation, focussing on the period between the time of the first pharaoh around 3100 BC to the Roman invasion in 31 BC, when Egypt became part of the Roman Empire. Across the unit, pupils will look at the impa
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2nd - 6th, Staff
The Vietnam War - Text and Worksheets
The Vietnam War was a long-lasting conflict in Southeast Asia. It started after World War II and ended in 1975. More than one million Vietnamese soldiers and over 50,000 Americans were killed in the war. It also cost the lives of over two million civilians.
Contents : 8 pages
-Historical background
-The French in Indochina
-American influence in southeast Asia grows
-American soldiers in Vietnam
-Protest against the war at home
-American withdrawal
-End of the war - Paris peace agreement
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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World History Since the 15th Century (U) - COMPLETE COURSE
This course was designed to be an independent learning course (ILC) for CHY4U. A university level World History course. The textbook questions referred to are from the textbook: "The West and the World". The course questions and assignments can be used and adapted to any general world history curriculum. Questions include: short answer, paragraph writing, research, art and music analysis, map analysis, web links and to videos and recommended academic websites. Preview: - 12 Units - Writing Assig
Grades:
11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult 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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Critical and Creative Thinking - Invention Unit Based on SCAMPER
I created and implemented this unit in a small group gifted and talented pull-out classroom. It could be done with advanced fourth or fifth graders. Parts of the unit may also be appropriate for independent enrichment.
The purpose of unit is to create new items from basic, common things by using divergent thinking. The students are taught the SCAMPER method to build off of their creative and critical thinking skills. I've included teacher notes, suggestions on discussion questions, useful links
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4th - 5th, 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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Islamic Empires: Complete Curriculum Unit
No textbook? No problem. This bundle has every Powerpoint, handout, article and supplemental activity that you need to teach your entire unit on the rise of Islam and Islamic Empires. This unit includes articles and guided reading, primary source activities, critical thinking, technology activities, mapping and more. In total there are 11 different, student-centered, inquiry based and skill building lessons in this bundle. The download includes a Compressed Zip folder full of fun activ
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) - Mini Mysteries
This is a mini unit on CER (Claim Evidence Reasoning) that can also be used for exercises of Line of Reasoning/Line of Evidence for AP Classes. It contains graphic organizers, five "mini" murder/mystery scenarios with original characters to solve, a rubric for a written portion, sentence stems to use for writing, and solutions. Students will be able to utilize close reading and critical thinking skills in order to solve the scenarios. Attached to the unit is the Presentation for CER (Claim Evi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Create Your Own Whodunit Mystery Unit! (Teaching CER and Line of Reasoning)
This is a set of instructions for educators to create their own Murder Mystery / Whodunit scenario for their students to solve. It comes with a set of instructions, planning sheets, optional blank clue cards, a glossary sheet to give to students, Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) organizers, and a CER Rubric for writing for students to use once the project is completed and given.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Mini-Unit: Americas Response to the Holocaust
64 SLIDE UNIT!This unit introduces an innovative approach to historical inquiry with groundbreaking new sources from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s special exhibition Americans and the Holocaust, this unit shifts students’ study of World War II and Nazism to the other side of the Atlantic.The unit deeply explores the motives, pressures, and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism and the humanitarian refugee crisis it provoked during the 1930s and 1940s.By examining prima
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Arab-Israeli Conflict - Text and Worksheets
The Arab-Israeli conflict is a struggle between the Jewish state of Israel and the Arabs of the Middle East. It has continued for many decades and there has been no peaceful solution so far.
Contents : 11 pages
Introduction
-From the beginnings to 1948
-From 1948 to the present day
-Middle East peace talks of the 1990s
-The new millenium
-The PLO
-The occupied territories
-Jerusalem
-Timeline of the Middle East conflict
-Exercises
The preview file contains a sample of the full conten
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Comprehensive Holocaust Unit
This unit is a comprehensive look at the Holocaust for young and mature adults in a google slide presentation. Lessons were originally taught to a 7th grade class, and so the slides represent that, but you can easily edit that out. The unit is broken up into sequential topics: 1. The roots of Anti Semitism 2. The Nazi rise to Power 3. The Holocaust begins (including but not limited to Kristallnacht) 4. Ghettos 5. Concentration Camps 6. Murder becomes Nazi Policy 7. How Could they? 8. Resistan
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Claim Evidence Reasoning: CER Mini Whodunit Bundle - Gnome Swimmer
This is a bundle of three mini lessons on CER (Claim Evidence Reasoning) that can also be used for exercises of Line of Reasoning/Line of Evidence for AP Classes and general education classes. It contains graphic organizers, whodunit mysteries to solve with my original character, and the solutions. (Whodunit mysteries are also available to purchase separately.)
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Claim Evidence Reasoning: CER Mini Whodunit Bundle - Herpetologist Actor
This is a bundle of three mini lessons on CER (Claim Evidence Reasoning) that can also be used for exercises of Line of Reasoning/Line of Evidence for AP Classes and general education classes. It contains graphic organizers, whodunit mysteries to solve with my original character, and the solutions. (Whodunit mysteries are also available to purchase separately.)
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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World War 2 Adapted Notes and Review
This product was made for students to learn the following:In this product, students will learn about World War 2, how this war was started, the timeline showing events that happened throughout World War 2, when it started, the countries that were involved in the war - Axis Powers and Allied Powers and who was in each of those, who Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party were and what they did, Jewish people were sent to concentration camps, the countries Germany took control of and why, events that led
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3rd - 11th, Staff
Ancient Chinese Philosophers Personality Test -- "Which Thinker Are You?"
Welcome :) Have you ever wondered which Ancient Chinese Philosophers you are most like? Well now you can find out!My students have so much fun taking this personality test and it's a great way to either open or wrap up the unit. Another adaptation for this lesson is to have the students take their test and then research the person that they are most similar to. The options are truly endless!The test includes various scenarios that relate to the life of a middle/ high school student.This packet i
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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DoNow Brain Scratchers
In class Do Nows, there are 30 slides (one marking period). There is a brain teaser, a visual puzzle, a logic puzzle, or an interesting thinking question on each slide.You can either use Google Classroom or download it as a PowerPoints and present/or assign it. You can edit the slides as well.
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
STEAM: Coding Wristbands
Teach your students to code with physical items before they start coding digitally. Students will practice the engineering design process as they become coders. They'll learn how mistakes are beneficial, why language is so important, and how to use teamwork to maximize potential. This lesson is recommended for grades 2-12.
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
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STEAM, Engineering Design Process: Build A...
This multi-day unit focuses on creating a design or prototype to meet the needs of a specific group for a specific purpose. Learners will then practice the "Improve" step of the engineering design process as they learn they must alter one need of their design in the second part of the unit. This STEAM unit would work well for preK-adult learners, and could be used for professional development. The step by step instructions for teachers and students are included, as well as the prototype workshee
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
...
STEAM, Engineering Design Process: Building Challenge with Options
This STEAM lesson/ unit works for any grade level, including for professional development or higher education. Learners will work as engineers as they create a prototype to solve a problem. There are three different building challenges. You could use this lesson once where students choose which of the three they prefer, or assign to differentiate. You could also have students complete all three challenges over multiple days. Includes the step-by-step instructions for teachers and students, mater
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
...
STEAM, Engineering Design Process: Building Challenge
This 4-slide STEAM lesson/ unit focuses on the engineering design process, perseverance, and problem solving. Students will use a teamwork worksheet (included, which can be used for any future teamwork activities/ learning) and discussion to build a prototype to solve a problem. The entire lesson can be re-used with a different building challenge, or purchase my "building challenge with options" lesson.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
...
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