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Area and Perimeter Robot Craft
The year is 2050, and kids everywhere rejoice because they no longer have to do chores! Instead, they can build robots that do chores for them. There’s just one hitch: unless your students understand Area and Perimeter, the robots won’t work!In this fun activity, each student will create a different robot according to the Area and Perimeter specs on the card given to them. The result? A classroom full of paper robots ready to take on all of those chores! Well, probably only one chore: being part
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Area and Perimeter Bundle: Task cards, Game and Craft
Create a Board Game! Project Based Learning Unit - Templates + Rubrics + Slides
Unleash creativity with our Board Game Project Based Learning Unit! Ideal for 1st grade and up! Make learning fun by creating a board game. Includes templates, rubrics, and more! PDF & Powerpoint Slides to introduce the project to students.KEY FEATURES:64 PAGES OF VALUE: Includes 64 pages of resources to support the entire project lifecycle from planning and crafting to reflecting.TEMPLATES FOR EVERYTHING: Comes with a variety of templates including warm up activities, planning, game design,
Grades:
2nd - 8th
4th Grade Fractions Review - Math Mystery Fractions Equivalent, reducing + more
4th grade Fractions review wrapped up in a fun Math Mystery! Students must use their fraction math skills to discover where the Forgetful Pharaoh left his Scepter in Ancient Egypt! They will be required to reduce fractions to the lowest terms, compare fractions, create equivalent fractions, add and subtract fractions with LIKE denominators, and convert improper fractions to mixed number fractions. Easy prep! Just Print & Solve! Or go paperless with the new Google Slides option provided with
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Math Mystery Games COMPLETE Bundle 4th Grade Fun Math Review Activities
5th Grade Fractions Review - Math Mystery Fractions Game
Fractions Review 5th Grade Math Mystery Edition - Multiplying Fractions, Adding & Subtracting Fractions, and Equivalent Fractions.Easy prep! Just Print & Solve! Or go paperless with the new Google Slides option provided within your download.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------⭐Optional video hook included for introducing the case! (Check it out in the preview section)⭐BONUS: Ending video added to wrap up the case!<The videos have
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: 5th Grade Math Mystery Game COMPLETE Bundle - Math Review Activities
Would You Rather Sampler - Fun Questions for Discussion, Writing Prompts, & More
Dive into writing prompts, classroom discussion, and more with our exclusive sampler from Would You Rather Questions!!These 18 digital or print Would You Rather questions are great for discussion, class polls, writing prompts, language building, facilitating higher-level thinking, brain breaks, building community, and more! This sampler gives you a taste of our comprehensive Would You Rather resource that promises to make learning engaging and effective.Try before you buy!Purchase this sampler f
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2nd - 9th
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Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
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K - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Word and Logic Puzzles Escape Room Activity With Digital Lock Option
In this engaging escape room activity, teams work together to solve the word puzzles and logic puzzles using critical thinking skills to discover codes to open the lock. Students love the fun of an escape room game, and you will love that this low-prep activity gets them thinking as they solve the puzzles and clues! ⭐️ How does the escape room work? (Click the PREVIEW link above and watch the VIDEO for a closer look at this activity!)In this escape room activity, students will solve 4 different
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6th - 9th, Adult Education
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Growth Mindset - printable worksheets & digital growth mindset activities
Help your students develop a growth mindset with this NO PREP, printable and digital growth mindset resource. In it, you'll find a variety of growth mindset activities, growth mindset classroom posters, goal-setting activities and MUCH MORE! These activities will teach your students the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset and will help you foster a Growth Mindset culture in your classroom. ⭐ADDED DIGITAL ACTIVITIES (Google slides) download again for free update ⭐Using these
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Growth Mindset Mega Bundle
Fact and Opinion Activities Sort 2nd 3rd Grade Fun Reading Centers Comprehension
Are you looking for a fun, highly engaging, and EFFECTIVE way to teach fact and opinion? This set of activities will teach your students how to distinguish between fact and opinion by becoming observant text detectives. You can even use it as the basis for a room transformation!This resource includes:Fact Detectives Reading CentersFact vs Opinion SortAssessmentDigital ActivitiesSOLVE THE CRIME FACT DETECTIVESThis activity is super engaging for students! They will read each storyline along with t
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Fact and Opinion Activities BUNDLE Text Detective Reading Comprehension
Editable Name Practice - Name Tracing Editable Name Activities - Playdough Mats
Use this printable to easily make customized name activities for your whole class. These editable name activity mats provide a variety of multi-sensory name practice for your kids in preschool, pre-k and kindergarten. Your kids will learn name recognition, learn the letters in their names, learn how to spell their names, and will have opportunities for name tracing practice and name writing practice.The fun name practice activity is perfect for your writing centers, writing journals, literacy c
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PreK - K
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Math Game Digital Escape Room Who Is The Imposter Among Us Students
The Grand Council is counting on YOU to help find the imposter among us that is trying to prevent math mastery among students! This Digital Math Escape Room is an interactive activity which promotes peer collaboration and problem solving. Cryptic messages, challenges, and puzzlers combine to create the perfect blend of learning and fun!Math skills covered: place value and addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division (4th grade standards) What is a Digital Classroom Escape?A digital classr
Grades:
4th - 6th
Writing Prompts Narrative Opinion Informational Paragraph and Essay Writing
Are you looking for ways to strengthen your students' writing skills? These 15 writing prompts will give your students the practice they need to write narrative, opinion, and informative stories and essays while focusing on organization, evidence, sentence structure, and grammar. Just print and go or assign digitally through Google. These prompts are perfect for writing practice any time during the year! Through a variety of writing prompts, students will learn how to focus on the prompt given w
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3rd - 6th
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Multiplication Practice Sheets: Arrays, Repeated Addition, Equal Groups
Are you introducing students to multiplication? Use this resource to help build conceptual understanding of multiplication! Packet includes 22 no-prep printable practice sheets! Multiple opportunities to practice and reinforce the concrete concept of multiplication. Great for homework, morning work, group activities, seatwork, etc. NOTE! These are the same practice sheets from my (much) larger "Multiplication for Beginners: an Array of Activities" product. Do not purchase if you have that p
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2nd - 3rd
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STEM Index Card Tower Challenge - Easy Prep Project- 2 Versions
This easy prep STEM Activity is surprisingly challenging! Students will have a fantastic engineering opportunity through problem-solving. Index Card Towers show your students how to persevere and redesign based on their initial thinking and planning (plus the towers are fun to build!) The best part is that your prep includes one basic material and the students take over from there. Just stand back and watch them brainstorm and build incredibly tall towers. They will groan when the tower falls, d
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Long Division Practice Worksheets Division Review Activities
Division is an important skill to have, and long division is a tough skill for students, so why not make it fun? If you are looking for a fun and easy way to review division and give your students more practice with long division, these division practice worksheets are the answer! Students will get lots of division review as they solve 3 digit by 1 digit division problems. These long division worksheets are a great division review! Students love them because if they solve the division problems c
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4th - 5th
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3 STEP STORY PICTURE SEQUENCING ACTIVITY KINDERGARTEN SEQUENCE OF EVENT CARDS
3-STEP SEQUENCING CARDS (78 TOTAL) INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE! (26 SEQUENCING SETS EACH CONTAINING 3 CARDS)Children will love these 3-step sequencing cards! The cards are color coded to help sort cards belonging to the same set. A sorting mat is also included so that kids can place their cards on it as they sequence the cards. These sequencing cards will help develop children's thinking skills.All you have to do is print the resources on cardstock paper and cut out. Shuffle the required cards
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PreK - K
Also included in: STORY SEQUENCING PICTURE CARDS AND WORKSHEETS SEQUENCE OF EVENTS BUNDLE
STEM Challenge Bucket Tower Problem-Solving Learning Activity Upper Elementary
This unique and original STEM Activity features a bucket with the challenge to build a tower that will hold weight. It's an engaging student favorite and you will love the ready-made lab sheets and low prep. Students must also explain why their towers need a bucket. Imaginative answers are one of the high points of this challenge- along with seeing those creative bucket towers!➡️ Click here to save 20% on this STEM resource in a bundle of 3 projects.➡️ Click here for the Easy Supplies 6-Pack bun
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM CHALLENGES ENTIRE YEAR 60 Projects, Planning Guide, and Posters
Two Step Word Problem Worksheets - Multi Step Word Problems, All Operations
This no prep resource is a fun way to get your students the two step word problem practice they need. Students will review two step word problems through hands on practice and "Mix and Match" activities - a unique twist that will keep your students engaged. For the "Mix and Match" practice, students use provided, cut and paste statements to create their own word problems. This two step word problem activities resource includes:10 two-step word problems for modeling and hands on practice, with
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3rd - 5th
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Motivational Testing Notes for Student Encouragement State Testing Motivation
Are you looking for a way to motivate and encourage your students during state testing week? Ease the stress of testing with these 35 encouraging and motivational desk notes and treat tags for students! Easily print and leave on each student’s desk, along with a small treat, on those dreaded testing days. A table of contents is included which lists each motivational testing note, a treat idea for each tag, and a helpful guide for printing.Included in this download:35 Different Treat TagsList of
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: State Test Prep Games Testing Strategies Motivation Encouragement BUNDLE
Context Clues Task Cards | Multiple Choice
A set of 32 digital and printable, MULTIPLE CHOICE context clues task cards that require students to read a sentence with an underlined word then choose the correct meaning, in context, from three different meanings. These can be used in a variety of ways--centers, partner work, as a whole class, homework, etc. These are great for differentiated instruction as they range in difficulty! THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES DIGITAL ACCESS IN GOOGLE FORMS!You can also purchase these task cards as part of my
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Context Clues Task Card Bundle | Differentiated
Literacy ELA Fast Early Finishers Activities Choice Boards Menu 3rd 4th Grade GT
Grow your students with this set of ELA Early Finishers & Extension Choice Boards! These activities are perfect in challenging your students in higher order thinking skills! These are great Early Finisher Extensions for students who complete work early or need the extra boost in Extension activities! Challenge your students with these activities! They work perfectly all year long! TAKE A PEEK AT ALL OUR CHOICE BOARDS HERE!INCLUDED:All in print and digital option (digital google link on page
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3rd - 5th
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RACE Strategy Practice - Print and Digital *INTRODUCTORY* RACE Practice
Need way to explicitly introduce and teach a strategy for answering short answers (without worrying about complex texts and questions, yet)? You know your students need practice and a strategy to use, but you’re spending so much time trying to find the right materials. This RACE strategy INTRODUCTORY practice is just what you need! This resource is a printable and digital practice booklet that will allow your students to practice constructed response questions using the strategy you teach them (
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3rd - 4th
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Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Literature Circles Book Clubs
Add some depth and complexity to traditional Literature Circles with this complete and ready-to-use resource!You will be amazed by the level of discussion and critical thinking that will take place among your students. Each Literature Circle role (listed below) is directly connected to 11 elements of critical thinking: Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives). Ju
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4th - 9th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle
Author's Purpose- Cutie P.I.E. Foldable Book
Author's Purpose is easy as P.I.E.! Persuade, Inform, Entertain! This adorable cutie pie is perfect for enhancing your author's purpose lessons. Included in this packet are *P.I.E. Foldable Book *Blank P.I.E. for your own use or modifications*Directions and Suggestions page *Colorful examples *Anchor Chart Idea Use to glue in your Reading Notebook, hang up in the room, create a colorful bulletin board, insert in homework binders, use it anywhere!
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1st - 5th
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