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Summer School Activities Camping Theme Camp Days Fun Summer School Activities
Our week-long Camping Theme unit is a fun way to review this summer while having a blast! Get ready for a classroom transformation! With engaging activities like an all-about-me worksheet, camp games, and more where students enjoy camping days. Keep kids engaged and learning while creating memorable adventures during this unforgettable summer school or summer camp experience!⭐️ Be sure to open up the preview to see what is inside.Key Features In This Week Long Camp Themed Unit:✓ Daily activities
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Depth and Complexity Teaching Critical Thinking Using Fairytales
Teach your students how to explore content with depth and complexity.Here it is, a complete and ready-to-use resource for teaching all 11 elements (Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives) of critical thinking.! Your students will explore of these elements by applying them to familiar stories, such as “Cinderella”, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, “Goldilocks and the
Grades:
4th - 10th
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Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle
Classroom Debate Unit for Grades 4-7
This Let's Debate Mini-Unit is intended to support 4th - 7th grade teachers and students as they prepare to participate in class debates, both as actual debaters and as stakeholder audience members. This engaging activity can be used in many subject areas, and is a great culminating task for any unit. Perfect for that upcoming teacher evaluation you may have coming up!This four day unit includes:► Detailed lesson plans spanning four days► List of suggested topics► Schedules and templates► Deba
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Media Literacy Unit Plan Digital and Printable
Help your students in third, fourth or fifth grades think critically about digital and print media. Advertising is everywhere: in movies, in books, on youtube, and on every website students visit. This unit helps students to see how media is designed for a variety of purposes in order to become critical thinkers. This unit includes digital student pages that are ready for GOOGLE classroom and distance learning.Included in this 2-week media literacy unit is:Introduction - Introduce students to
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library - a complete novel study
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library is a complete novel study that’s ready to go with minimal preparation required by the teacher. It contains several interactive activities that engage students in critical thinking. This book is a great fit for middle school language arts, and it aligns with many of the common core state standards.The activities included engage the students in many learning outcomes: reading comprehension, decoding new words, predicting, critical thinking, analyzing, understan
Grades:
5th - 8th
Inquiry and Research - A Student-Choice Guided Unit | Project-Based Learning
Inquiry-Based Learning: A thorough, guided system to help teach your students how to inquire, tune in, find out, reflect and present their findings. FOR ANY TOPIC.
What Is Inquiry-Based Learning?
Inquiry-Based teaching is a response to our current ‘knowledge based’ society and allows for effective and engaging teaching. Inquiry-Based Learning not about finding facts. Rather, it is about researching and answering questions or solving issues. It is a method of learning where students explore the
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Grades:
4th - 7th
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Among the Hidden - a complete novel study
Among the Hidden is a complete novel study that’s ready to go with minimal preparation from the teacher. This book is great for middle school language arts. It aligns with many of the common core state standards.The activities included engage the students in many learning outcomes: reading comprehension, critical thinking, supporting a position, understanding point of view, recognizing imagery, creative writing, skimming and scanning for quotes, doing book reports, and solving puzzles.This resou
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Prosthetic Leg Engineering Design STEM Challenge
Prosthetic Design STEM ChallengeAfter learning the history and uses of prosthetic legs, students use the engineering design process to build a prosthetic leg that is interchangeable for multiple people. This design challenge is followed by a research extension to design a prosthetic leg for an animal. Lesson Sequence: Introduce real-world careers of biomedical engineers and show a video on fabricating a prosthetic legRead about the history of prostheticsLearn important concepts related to prosth
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Grades:
5th - 9th, Higher Education
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 4-LS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
...
Also included in: Year-Round STEM Engineering Challenges Bundle (Middle School STEM)
Hatchet - a complete novel study
Hatchet is a complete novel study that’s ready to go with very little preparation by the teacher. This book is a great fit for middle school language arts. It aligns with many of the common core state standards.The activities included engage the students in many learning outcomes: reading comprehension, critical thinking, using context clues, understanding the five types of literary conflict, sequencing, prioritizing, defending a position, writing a paragraph, creating opening and closing senten
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit | 5th-7th Grades | Social Studies
The Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit is PERFECT for 5th-7th grade students! This incredible unit focuses on the importance of primary and secondary sources of information and will help grow your students critical thinking skills and abilities, as well as how to examine sources of information for bias and cause and effect relationships, and MUCH more!! The amazing resources included with this unit have been used with GREAT SUCCESS by THOUSANDS of students, and can easily be used with an
Grades:
5th - 7th
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Also included in: Bundle for Virginia
Summer School Activities Beach Day Activities & Bubble Day Fun Summer Activities
This week-long Beach Themed Week for 1st and 2nd graders offers fun summer school activities, memory book creation, math review, science, and social studies exploration. Keep kids engaged and allow teachers to work at school with this exciting summer adventure!The beach unit has activities for reading, writing, math, science, and social studies.⭐️ Key Features In This Unit ✓ Daily activities in each subject area (reading, writing, math, social studies, and science)✓ All activities are academic a
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Also included in: End-of-the-Year Activities Beach Theme Beach Days Activities Bundle
Last Week of School Activities | End of the Year | Reading | Escape Room | STEM
This stress free end of the year Secret Agent unit will have your students engaged and excited about learning all the way to the last day! These print and go cross-curricular activities include reading comprehension, persuasive writing, graphing, STEM, an escape room activity and much more! Students will love this fun end of the year review as they work to become "secret agents".This is the PRINTABLE VERSION, the DIGITAL VERSION is available here.This resource includes:•Secret Agent Name Tags a
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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Structures and Forces - a science unit for middle school
Structures and Forces is a comprehensive science unit for middle years students with very little prep required by the teacher. It's completely laid out with teacher notes and a sequence of activities. Students will learn about various types of structures and the forces that act upon them. They will also experience many hands-on activities to reinforce the concepts in the unit. The culminating activity is a project in which students design, build, test, and evaluate a structure that has a functio
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Grades:
5th - 8th
MAKEY MAKEY AND SCRATCH INTERACTIVE POSTER - Unit of Work
Your students can use Makey Makey and Scratch to code their own interactive poster. In the process, they learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for everyone in today’s society. The poster can be made for ANY SUBJECT AREA.6 x one hour - fully descriptive lessons includedLESSON ONE - Exploring with Makey Makey (includes Makey Makey Task Cards)LESSON TWO - Exploring with Scratch (includes Scratch Task Cards)LESSON THREE - Research Topic for Po
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Ocean Debris Engineering Design STEM Challenge
Ocean Debris Engineering Design STEM ChallengeAfter learning about ocean pollution, students use the engineering design process to build an ocean debris cleaner that has buoyancy and can pick up microplastics. Lesson Sequence: Relay Recycle Bin Sort: Students will be given a garbage bag of mixed recycling items - paper, glass, plastic, and metal. Students will have to relay back and forth separating/grouping the like items one item at a time without talking to their relay partners!Learn about t
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 4-LS1-1
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Also included in: Year-Round STEM Activity Bundle (Elementary STEM)
Teaching Morality Using Kohlberg's 6 Stages of Moral Development
This unit helps to teach what morality is using Kohlberg's six stages of moral development. It helps students think about what makes things right or wrong with activities that encourage critical thinking. It includes scenarios such as the famous Heinz dilemma, teacher notes, extension activities, assessment, and a unit plan. This activity can be easily adapted to students from 5th grade to high school.100% editable and includes an Easel Activity which includes a self-checking assessment.
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Grades:
5th - 12th
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NGSS Pumpkin and Five senses Unit Kindergarten First Grade
Learn about pumpkins and explore using your five senses with this kindergarten or first grade science unit.
Aligned with NGSS standards for kindergarten and first grade.
Students will engage in inquiry-based learning, discussions, activities, and more while learning about plants.
Unit focus areas:
5 senses
Observing pumpkin changes
Parts of a pumpkin
How pumpkins survive
Life cycle of a pumpkin
Uses of a pumpkin
Students have an opportunity to guide the learning through questions and researc
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
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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
Grades:
4th - 9th, Staff
Archaeology for Kids: "Dig Deep" Interdisciplinary Unit
This resource pack was developed for use with my elementary students when studying ancient civilizations, cultures, paleontology, and archaeology. Students will also learn more about the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas with meaningful, cross-curricular activities! Join in as we explore together!
This unit's approach is interdisciplinary in nature. Students will enjoy learning about history, cultures, art, archaeology, and architecture in combination with traditional math and literacy activities.
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Grades:
1st - 6th
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Integrated Digital Technology Unit - Australian Curriculum Aligned
This unit of work is based around the story Rosie’s Walk. Students will work in small groups to explore and create a set of sequences / instructions (algorithms) to guide the Bee-Bot around Rosie’s Farmyard. Students will also design their own map, trail and algorithm to guide the Bee-Bot to a set destination.
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
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The One and Only Ivan - a complete novel study
The One and Only Ivan is a complete novel study that’s ready to go with minimal preparation from the teacher. This book is a great fit for middle school language arts. It aligns with many of the common core state standards.The activities included engage the students in many learning outcomes: reading comprehension, critical thinking, researching, presenting, comparing/contrasting, identifying different types of sentences, understanding point of view, looking up references, recognizing idioms, ac
Grades:
5th - 8th
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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
NGSS Butterfly Unit Kindergarten First grade Butterflies
Learn about and explore butterflies with this kindergarten or first grade butterfly science unit.
Aligned with NGSS standards for kindergarten and first grade.
Students will engage in inquiry-based learning, discussions, activities, and more while learning about butterflies.
Unit focus areas:
Butterfly Life cycle
Parts of a butterfly
Parts of a caterpillar
How a butterfly survives
Migration
Wing Symmetry
Butterfly Facts
What butterflies eat
Students have an opportunity to guide the learning
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
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Day and Night Science Unit Lesson Plans Kindergarten First Second Grade week 1
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This unit can stand on its own or go with my other unit, Day and NIght Science Week 2. It includes engaging, hands on activities that my student's loved! It has full lesson plans with standards and printables.
_ full lesson plans for one week which include resources online for children
_ Integrates ELA activities with vocabulary word work, writing, and sequencing activities
_concepts are relevant and include real life connections
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Grades:
K - 2nd
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