Critical thinking centers $5-10

The Classroom on Mango Street

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

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Also included in: Math Logic Puzzles: 3-5 BUNDLE - [Digital & Printable PDF]

36 Main Idea & Details ELA Reading Skills Practice Worksheets

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Give your students the skills they need to find/tackle any main idea or supporting detail question with these 36 ELA reading drills! Each worksheet includes tips that reinforce effective reading strategies, and can be used to drive home the fundamentals or prep for test day! Bundle this item & save: Core ELA Value Bundle | READING! Grade 3 | READING! Grade 4 & 5THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES: 36 ELA comprehension drills (24 informational texts / 12 fiction passages) 135+ simulat

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, ELA Test Prep, Informational Text

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Worksheets, Homework, Centers

CCSS:

RL.3.1

, RL.3.2

, RL.4.1

, RL.4.2

, RL.5.1

...

Also included in: Main Idea & Details Reading Passages and Questions + Task Cards | Savings Bundle

Area and Perimeter Project Based Learning Math Activity

Created by

The Owl Teacher

Step into the world of engaging and hands-on math exploration with this resource. This project-based learning activity takes students on a thrilling journey as they design their own dream house, while simultaneously mastering the concepts of area and perimeter.Through the use of a house layout grid, students will estimate area by strategically placing furniture and counting squares and partial squares. This real-world, open-ended task prompts critical thinking as they tackle questions related to

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Math, Measurement

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

CCSS:

Also included in: Project Based Math Activities BUNDLE

Math Logic Puzzles: 4th grade ENRICHMENT - [Digital & Printable PDF]

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Math Logic Puzzles for 4th grade includes 14 higher order thinking puzzles designed to challenge and engage your high flyers and fast finishers. Your students will utilize critical thinking and problem solving skills while building a solid understanding of essential math concepts and skills. These puzzles are available as a printable PDF and a paperless version made with Google Slides™ for virtual learning.Every activity is directly aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Math.Math Con

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 5th

Types:

CCSS:

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Also included in: Math Logic Puzzles: 3-5 BUNDLE - [Digital & Printable PDF]

Math Logic Puzzles: 3rd grade Enrichment - [Digital and Printable PDF]

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Math Logic Puzzles for 3rd grade includes 15 higher-order thinking puzzles designed to challenge and engage your high flyers and fast finishers. Your students will utilize critical thinking and problem-solving skills while building a solid understanding of essential math concepts and skills. These puzzles are available as a printable PDF and a paperless version made with Google Slides™ for virtual learning.Every activity is directly aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Math.--------

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Math, Science

Grades:

3rd - 4th

Types:

CCSS:

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Also included in: Math Logic Puzzles: 3-5 BUNDLE - [Digital & Printable PDF]

STEM Space Lander Math & Engineering Activity (Printed & Digital)

Created by

Vivify STEM

Space Lander STEM ChallengeThis STEM activity is one of our favorite engineering design challenges! The combination of marshmallows (or ping pong balls) and aliens makes this a winning STEM challenge! In the Space Lander Challenge, student teams build a lander using the engineering design process to keep two marshmallow "aliens" or "astronauts" inside a cup as it is dropped from various heights. Using straws, index cards, and mini marshmallows or cotton balls, students apply concepts of shock ab

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 10th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Centers

CCSS:

6.G.A.1

, 6.G.A.2

, 6.G.A.3

, 6.G.A.4

, 7.G.B.4

...

NGSS:

MS-ETS1-2

, 3-5-ETS1-3

, MS-ETS1-4

, 3-5-ETS1-1

, MS-ETS1-1

...

Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Middle School

Math Logic Puzzles Shapes - Early Finisher Activities - levels A,B,C BUNDLE

Created by

Lead in Literacy - Christina Mrs Winters Bliss

These pattern block math logic puzzles for kindergarten, first, and second grade make a great, NO PREP math center activity, morning work activity, or challenge math activity. These logic puzzles keep students highly-engaged while improving and developing their logic and visual discrimination skills. These brain teasers are a great way to teach your students to persevere through challenging tasks and help to develop their growth mindset. This bundle includes three different levels of math logic

Subjects:

Activities, Task Cards, Centers

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Math Logic Puzzles: 2nd grade Enrichment - [Digital & Printable PDF]

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Math Logic Puzzles for 2nd grade includes 16 higher-order thinking puzzles designed to challenge and engage your high flyers and fast finishers. Your students will utilize critical thinking and problem-solving skills while building a solid understanding of essential math concepts and skills. These puzzles are available as a printable PDF and a paperless version made with Google Slides™ for virtual learning.Every activity is directly aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Math.--------

Subjects:

Kerry Tracy Feel-Good Teaching

Grades:

2nd - 3rd

Types:

CCSS:

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Halloween STEM Activities | Fall STEM Activities for October | Halloween Science

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Halloween STEM Activities will keep your kids engaged in brain-busting work disguised as fun!This bundle includes the following 6 Halloween STEM activities:⭐ Bone Bridge® STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Creature Catcher STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Ghosts in the Graveyard STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Treat Toss STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Wings Wanted STEM Challenge Activity⭐ Halloween STEM Improv Activity (336 possible combinations!)The basic idea: In the 5 Halloween STEM Challenge Activities, students

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Engineering, Halloween

Grades:

2nd - 8th

Types:

Activities, GATE, Centers

NGSS:

K-2-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-3

, MS-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-1

, 3-5-ETS1-3

...

Classifying Quadrilaterals | Quadrilateral Sort Geometry Activity

Created by

The Craft of Teaching

Looking for an engaging, hands-on activity to learn about classifying quadrilaterals? This geometry resource includes student-centered quadrilateral activities to explore quadrilateral attributes in a fun way! These activities are perfect for centers, small group work, or whole class instruction.Click here to save 20% on the Classifying 2D Shapes BUNDLE.Your students will explore the attributes of quadrilaterals through sorting activities, and keep track of their learning with reference pages an

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Geometry, Math

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

CCSS:

3.G.A.1

, 4.G.A.2

, 4.G.A.3

, 5.G.B.3

, 5.G.B.4

Also included in: Classifying Quadrilaterals | Classifying Triangles | Attributes of Shapes

THINK! Math Enrichment Activities (4-5)

Created by

Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Math

These math enrichment activities are a highly engaging way to challenge your little geniuses and fast finishers. Your students will utilize critical thinking and problem solving skills while building a deep and solid understanding of various math concepts. Each of the 15 printable activities offers an interesting, non-routine way to explore essential math concepts and skills. * This enrichment packet is designed for gifted 4th and 5th grade students. * Check out THINK! Math Enrichment Acti

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

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Kindergarten Math Games - Low Prep Reusable Games for Partners or Math Centers

Created by

Andrea Knight

KINDERGARTEN MATH GAMES / MATH CENTERSI love these simple MATH GAMES for PARTNERS. They’re quick and easy to assemble and the children enjoy playing them over and over. You can use them in multiple ways, but I most often use them:during math workshop for fun skill practiceas independent math centersfor a home-school connectionThere are 20 partner games included in this set. They cover multiple math concepts and skills such as:identifying and comparing shapessequencing numberscomparing numbersrec

Subjects:

Grades:

K

Types:

Kerry Tracy Feel-Good Teaching

CCSS:

...

Christmas STEM Activities and Winter STEM Activities Bundle

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Looking for fun Christmas or winter activities that incorporate science, technology, engineering, and/or math? Christmas-Winter STEM / STEAM Challenges sure to engage with brain-busting work disguised as fun!Christmas and Winter STEM Challenge Activities Overview: Students work in partners or groups against criteria & constraints lists to design and build Winter or Christmas-themed devices. Modification suggestions are included to make these challenges engaging and productive for students i

Subjects:

Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Critical Thinking, Engineering

Grades:

2nd - 8th

Types:

Activities, Centers

NGSS:

K-2-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-3

, MS-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-1

, 3-5-ETS1-3

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Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards for Literature

Created by

Teacher Thrive

Add depth and complexity to your instruction with these Critical Thinking Task Cards for Literature! These tasks cards allow students to deeply analyze any fiction reading material through 11 topics of critical thinking: Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives. You will appreciate the versatility of these task cards; they can be used with almost any text (novels,

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, Gifted and Talented

Grades:

4th - 10th, Adult Education

Types:

Literature Circles, Task Cards, Centers

Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards Bundle

The One and Only Ivan: A Reading-Response Journal for Third-Fifth Grade

Created by

Patti Mihalides

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate is one of the greatest novels I have ever read to my students. It not only brought us closer together as a class, it generated many wonderful, rich conversations. Somehow, this text is both simple and complex and I think that’s why it appeals to students of varying reading levels. There are so many ways to take this novel to a higher level, but at the same time, those students with comprehension skills that are still developing can appreciate it as

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, Reading

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Printables, Centers

2nd Grade Money & Coins Activities Games, Centers, Counting Money Word Problems

Created by

Keep 'em Thinking with Susan Morrow

Your kids will love these money activities that involve students in real-world applications involving counting money, solving money word problems, showing monetary amounts in different ways, and more! More than just worksheets, this money unit for 2nd grade and 3rd grade includes 15 challenging yet fun money centers, games, and activities to keep your kiddos excited about learning to count money in different ways. If you're looking for a resource in which students must use mathematical reasoning

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Math

Grades:

2nd - 3rd

Types:

GATE, Games, Centers

Also included in: 2nd Grade Money Math Games, Projects, Task Cards, Warm-Ups Activities Bundle

Team Building Escape Room - Teamwork Challenge - Back to School Activity

Created by

Think Tank

The Team Building Escape Room will take students on a “treasure hunt” around the classroom! This SUPER FUN Back to School activity has students decode fun puzzles using teamwork and critical thinking while trying to beat the clock.This is the perfect resource for back to school activities, team building, end of year, ice breakers or any time! This team activity can be used in any subject area!The Team Building Escape Room has students walking around the classroom solving puzzles. Students come u

Subjects:

Back to School, Critical Thinking, For All Subject Areas

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

Activities, Games, Centers

Also included in: Back to School Activity BUNDLE - Escape Rooms, About Me, Brain Teasers, Doodles

Math Brain Teasers - Bell Ringers - Logic Puzzles

Created by

Robert Duncan

★This is a collection of animated math brain teasers and puzzles for PowerPoint. They are great for warm-up problems or just as a quick change of pace activity with either a projector or smart-board. Many of the classic math puzzles (as well as some newer ones!) are included, all with animated solutions. A lot of them even have animated explanations showing how to solve the problem. The difficulty level ranges from Elementary all the way to Algebra. Even other teachers are likely to get foo

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Math, Mental Math

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Games, Centers

Fix it Math Cards! Higher Order Thinking Math Questions

Created by

Susan Jones

These "Fix it" cards are perfect for math talks and higher-order thinking! Students will use what they know about different math skills to figure out what is wrong on each card and share how they can fix it!★WHAT ARE FIX IT CARDS?★Fix it cards are great questions to pose to your students to promote HIGHER ORDER thinking!These fix it cards pose typical questions in a different way to help your students identify mistakes in another person’s work AND show how they can fix it. Many of the cards have

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Math

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Activities, Centers

Critical Thinking Activities Logic Puzzles, Algebraic Thinking, Math Enrichment

Created by

Keep 'em Thinking with Susan Morrow

Engage your students with these critical thinking activities and math logic puzzles. Included in this bundle are 3 critical thinking products for grades K-2. These ready to use logic puzzles are the perfect addition to your classroom to promote mathematical reasoning, problem solving, and creativity!These student friendly critical thinking activities will build a foundation for algebraic reasoning. With 96 puzzles in total, your students will be buzzing with excitement every time they complete o

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Math

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

GATE, Task Cards, Centers

HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) Reading Response Sheets

Created by

Anna Brantley

#1 seller!! Check out what teachers are saying about this product! This download includes the first edition of my no-prep H.O.T.S reading response sheets. The activities are designed to encourage your students to understand, create, evaluate, and analyze text on a deeper level. They are aligned to the Common Core Standards and can be used over & over with different books in a variety of ways {differentiated guided reading lessons, homework, early finisher work, literacy stations, etc}. 1.

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Critical Thinking, Reading

Grades:

1st - 3rd

Types: