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Middle school specialty lessons under $5
Growth Mindset Lesson - Famous Failures
This growth mindset lesson, Famous Failures, will have your students working collaboratively to learn about 6 famous failures and how they overcame obstacles on their path to success. Your students will learn to overcome obstacles, accept challenges and they will understand that mistakes are okay, and often necessary to be successful. In this lesson, students will work collaboratively with other students in a highly engaging activity while learning an important lesson that will lead to a growth
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: Growth Mindset Bundle
Positive Affirmation Counseling Lesson, Self Esteem Group Activity & SEL Game
Need a fun social emotional learning classroom lesson, self-esteem small group activity, or engaging CBT individual counseling intervention. Your students will LOVE learning all about positive affirmations and positive self-talk while they make customized fortune tellers! Using positive affirmations will help your students develop self-efficacy, nurture a positive self-concept, and be a protective factor and coping tool for when life gets tough. What's Included4 Do-it-yourself, customizable &
Grades:
1st - 10th
Thankful Bracelets - Thanksgiving Activity
A fun reflective Thanksgiving activity your young students will love! Have you been searching for a unique Thanksgiving activity that is going to be fun for your kids to make? These November thankful bracelets crafts are just the thing you have been searching for! This Thanksgiving lesson has everything you need to have a successful Thanksgiving lesson, with a fun bracelet craft included! ⭐BUNDLE & SAVE ⭐️This thankful bracelet is a part of the Bracelets Crafts Mega Bundle. Save over 30% A
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PreK - 6th
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Hexagonal Thinking | Getting to Know You Activity | GRADES 5-8 | Back to School
⭐ BUILD A POSITIVE CLASSROOM CULTURE! Provide your students in 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades with an engaging and insightful way to connect with one another and learn about hexagonal thinking.**DESIGNED FOR GRADES 5-8**Students will:fill in the sections of a hexagon with information and illustrations about themselvesuse the hexagons as a tool to communicate as they move through the classroom and match up their common interests►As an alternative activity, students can connect their hexagons in sm
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: BUNDLE 25 Interactive Google Apps LANGUAGE ARTS Lessons and Activities
Elementary to Middle School Transition Lesson: Moving Up To Middle School Game
The Elementary to Middle School Transition Game Show helps students process how they feel about this big change about to happen in their lives and learn skills and assets that will help them be successful in middle school. Now includes both Google Slides™ and Power Point Presentation files, which allows you to use for SEL distance learning, teletherapy, virtual counseling groups, school counseling guidance and in person lessons.Ways to Use The Game Show-Distance Learning ready-Great for small gr
Grades:
4th - 6th
Inferencing Activities - Doodle Notes with Inference Reading Passages
Students often struggle with making inferences while reading. That’s because inferencing is a challenging skill! Help students develop their inferring skills with this incredibly fun and engaging reading mini-unit. It combines doodle notes where students sketch notes about how to make inferences AND actual learning activities to help students improve their reading comprehension skills. It’s fun and educational! First, students DOODLE and then they DO activities to help them showcase their l
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4th - 7th
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Email Etiquette Mini-Lesson
Empower your students with the skills to write effective and appropriate emails. Email etiquette isn’t intuitive. Students need to learn email etiquette to communicate effectively in the classroom and the real world. With this lesson, you’ll ensure those “text message” style emails are long gone. In their place, you’ll find well-written formal emails with the correct formatting. In addition, students will learn real-world email skills, such a why and how to use carbon copy, blind carbon copy, re
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
First Day of School Activity: Learning Stations - Print or Distance Learning
Don't bore your students by reviewing the syllabus on the first day of school. Instead, set the tone for the school year and get students up and moving on Day 1 with these back-to-school learning stations.When you purchase this resource, you will receive 2 formats: a PowerPoint file designed to create print resources to be used in a traditional classroom + a Google Slides file designed to be used in a 1:1, blended, or fully virtual environment (such as distance learning). The following stations
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7th - 12th
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Special Education Editable Lesson Plan Template - PowerPoint and Google Slides
SPECIAL EDUCATION LESSON PLANS!!! Now available in GOOGLE SLIDES!Please note: This is a PPT file. *You will need PowerPoint to open the file and from there you can edit in PPT or click on the link provided to edit in Google Slides. We know when working with special needs students and so many different levels, our lesson plans can become very long, cumbersome, and take up a lot of our time! Not to mention, be 20+ pages long!! I’ve designed a template that is easy, clear and to the point, and will
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Gossip and Rumors Activity and Lesson
When your upper elementary or lower middle school students turn your school into a rumor mill… use this activity to help them squash the gossip! It's also a great companion activity to Julia Cook's "Rumor Has It", Madonna's "Mr. Peabody's Apples", or Liz Rosenberg's "What James Said" (specific discussion questions included for each of these stories). It's an SEL lesson or guidance lesson filled with relevant scenarios!This resource includes a set of 20 "What would you do?" gossip/rumor scenarios
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3rd - 6th
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CREDIT, CREDIT SCORES AND RATINGS , Economics, Life Skills, Personal Finance
CreditThe Importance of Your Credit ScoreAn easy to implement and an effective lesson. This complete learning package will teach students how lenders determine credit risk, how a person’s credit score/rating is determined, explain the role of credit bureaus, the importance and benefits of good credit, and how to read a credit report. Essential and practical topics for our students.Included:1. Detailed Lesson Plan2. PowerPoint Presentation3. Credit; The Importance of Your Credit Score: Reading w
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
Social Skills, SELF-ADVOCACY, SELF-ADVOCATING, Life Skills
Self-AdvocacyLearning to Self-Advocate As students enter higher grades, it becomes increasingly important that they are able to effectively self-advocate. Their learning, social development, and independence are highly influenced by their ability to express their needs in a positive way and are able to speak up for themselves. These lessons focus on teaching students the importance of self-advocacy, how to successfully self-advocate, and how to ask meaningful, precise questions.The worksheets fo
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Choices and Consequences Lesson Plan and Activities
Part of developing responsibility is understanding how choices have consequences, both good and bad. This lesson plan includes several activities to use with middle-upper elementary students to help them recognize the impact of their choices and become more responsible decision makers. Pick and choose which activities to use in your lesson or small group to meet the needs and levels of your students!*This lesson is also available as part of my Responsibility Lesson Plan Bundle.*This resource inc
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Responsibility Lesson Plan Bundle
End of the Year Craft | Memory Bracelets
A fun and engaging way to celebrate your class and have something to hold onto to remember the best parts from your school year.Included:-FULL detailed PRINT AND GO lesson plan-Bracelet organizers (2 handwriting line options)Titles Included:-My End of the Year Memory Bracelet-My Prek Memory Bracelet-My Preschool Memory Bracelet-My Home Learning Memory Bracelet-My Kindergarten Memory Bracelet-My First Grade Memory Bracelet-My Second Grade Memory Bracelet-My Third Grade Memory Bracelet-My Fourth G
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PreK - 6th
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Also included in: Summer Activities and Centers - Coloring, Brain Boomers, Crafts
Test Taking Strategies Guided Notes 5th - 7th Grade Test Prep Doodle Wheel
Level up your test prep with this test-taking strategies doodle wheel. This note-taking format makes test prep more memorable than regular test-taking strategies activities. Upper elementary and middle school students love it! This wheel was created with math testing in mind, but it could be used for ELA test prep, science test prep and more. It can be kept in students’ notebooks as a reference for the year.You could even enlarge it and turn it into a test taking strategies poster!The sections o
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4th - 6th
Mental Health Lesson for Elementary Students
What does mental health mean? What is mental wellness? What helps and hurts our mental health? If these are important questions you want your students to understand the answers to, this mental health lesson for elementary students is what you need! This lesson was created to help students understand the basics of mental health and mental wellness, including things that help vs. hurt our mental health and signs they need to ask for help. It does not explicitly teach about depression, anxiety, or
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3rd - 6th
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Back-to-School "Speed Dating" Icebreaker Activity: Build Class Community!
Engage your students, get to know them better, and build classroom community with this fun "speed dating" activity, a twist on the typical "get-to-know-you" icebreakers.In the past, I've played the game where you toss a ball with different questions on it, and each student answers the question their right thumbs lands on. It was fun, but one student was speaking while 24 others listened. It didn't feel like the best use of my time, so I created this engaging alternative that engages every single
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Oregon Trail: Simulation Game
Super engaging slideshow game to get students thinking about what life on the Oregon Trail was like. You lead the class with 13 scenarios, and students make decisions and keep track of survival points. A great way to introduce the Oregon Trail to students. It includes 42 slides, directions, and a student handout to record survival points. I use this activity with my 8 graders a few details might need to be edited if used with younger grade levels.Takes about 1 hour.
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in: Western Expansion Games Bundle: Oregon Trail, Gold Rush, Lewis and clark
Leadership Activities | TED Talks Lesson | Classroom Management
Teach your students a new definition of "leader" that includes them; and demonstrate how smallest of actions can make a huge difference in someone's life. And you will promote positive classroom relationships at the same time!➜This lesson is also available as part of my Ready-to-Go Lessons: Emergency, Sub Plans, & More. Check it out now!☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ Voted by a TED-Ed group of teens in the top ten TED Talks for teens, your students will find t
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Sub Plans | Emergency Lessons Bundle
STEM Basketball Goal Challenge Engaging Problem-Solving Sports Activity
Basketball Goals! This basketball goal and shooter is the most fun activity ever in the STEM lab! This challenge is perfect for fall sports but don't forget the great basketball tournament in March! Your students will love competing in this Basketball STEM Challenge! Teamwork at its best.➡️ Click here to save 20% on this STEM resource in a bundle of 3 projects.What is the Challenge?In this challenge, students will:Design and build a basketball goal that must be the correct size to allow a ping p
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3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM MONTHLY BUNDLE 30 Challenges FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR
STEM Activity Elevators Challenge - A Simple Machine Project
Here's a fabulous STEM project with a focus on creating a cranking device. This STEM Activity features designing and building a working elevator! Great for October or any time of year! ➡️ Click here to save 20% on this STEM Challenge and 2 additional activities!Ideas for use:For Halloween, we have lifted small pumpkins, black kettles full of candy corn, and even apples. We have also tried Easter eggs! This challenge can be used at any time of the year! Try pumpkins for fall, apples in August, b
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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NGSS:
4-PS3-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 4-PS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM MONTHLY BUNDLE 30 Challenges FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR
Keys to Resolving Conflict - Conflict Resolution Activity
Social Skills activity that teaches 6 keys to conflict resolution (ways to resolve conflicts peacefully). Students will listen to different conflicts and decide which strategy to use. Great for students who are struggling to make and keep friends. Now includes a digital version for use with Google Slides for digital learning.Includes:►Activity description including instructions/walk-through of activity, objectives, materials, guiding questions, SEL competencies, and ASCA standards.►3 Pages of
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2nd - 6th
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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: Academic and Life Skills Bundle for Middle and High School Students
Getting to Know You! Editable Back to School Chit Chat Cards for Grades 4-8
I am always looking for new ways to begin that very first day of the school year. It is an amazing time where we set the tone for what is to come in the days and months of our exciting time together.This year, rather than have students complete a signature scavenger hunt where they are all over the room, I created a resource that allows them to sit, listen, and chit chat. You can have students rotate around the room, or keep them together with a partner or small group to truly enhance their fo
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4th - 8th, Staff
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Also included in: Back to School ELA Activities for Middle School
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