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Critical thinking centers for Microsoft Word
Making Inferences: Pixar Short Film For the Birds
After watching Pixar's short film: For the Birds, students will infer by answering three questions and providing clues that lead to their inference.
Grades:
K - 10th
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Making Inferences: Pixar Short Film One Man Band
After watching Pixar's short film: One Man Band, students will infer by answering three questions and providing clues that lead to their inference.
Grades:
K - 8th
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Making Inferences: Pixar Short Film Partly Cloudy
After watching Pixar's short film: Partly Cloudy, students will infer by answering four questions and providing clues that lead to their inference.
Grades:
K - 6th
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Making Inferences: Pixar Short Film Lifted
After watching Pixar's short film: Lifted, students will infer by answering two questions and providing clues that lead to their inference.
Grades:
K - 6th
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Code Breaking - A Veterans Day Activity
Involve your students in a celebration of Veteran’s Day by discussing the integral role of encoding and decoding messages in WWI (e.g. the Zimmermann telegram) and WWII (e.g. the Enigma code), and then challenging your students to decipher three diverse messages.
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Inference Mystery Activity - The Stolen Will
My students tend to have a hard time inferencing, or they just don't want to.
I started using mysteries that they have to solve to try and peak their interest, and they LOVE them. They're always asking if I have a new one for them to solve.
This is my first one, and I will be adding more.
In this mystery, students have to figure out who stole the will and testament of a famous singer. They have to read a background passage, answer clues, and then use clues to solve logic puzzles. They h
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Things That Go Together Cards
10 matching card pairs (20 cards) of pictures that 'Go Together.' This set includes a control chart for self checking. This is great for a Montessori 3-6 year old primary or preschool age classroom. You could print this on card stock paper, laminate it and it would be ready to go on your classroom shelf.
Grades:
PreK - K
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Asking Questions and Critical Thinking - Forming Inquiry / Research Questions
Help your students learn how to identify and ask higher-order thinking inquiry questions in class (science as well as other subject areas) and in life in general because this type of deep thinking promotes a richer classroom environment, critical thinking skills, and lifelong learning!
Getting students to think deeply about what they want to know and generating higher-order inquiry questions is a skill that often, in my experience, needs to be explicitly taught in order the help students from
Grades:
PreK - 9th, Staff
Create your own genetically modified organism
Learning about Genetics? Try this fun extension about GMOs. Students will use this worksheet to create their own genetically modified organism. This project requires them to design the packaging for their innovative new item!
Grades:
5th - 6th
Math Accountable Talk Cards Feat. Minions
These are used to aid students in conversations during Math. They have several different talking stems that will help them participate and discuss math strategies. These will aid in their understanding. I like to keep it fun. My class loves minions so I added some cute minions with each card to keep them excited and engaged.
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2nd - 6th
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Context Clues in Vocabulary -- Silly Words Three!
12 short paragraphs with funny-sounding words and context clues.....(Note: This this lesson is a continuation of the lesson called "Vocabulary and Context - Silly Words!" which is listed as a free resource under my name. There is also a second lesson called "More Silly Words -- Context Clues in Vocabulary." This is the third lesson, and it has completely different words from the first two lessons.)An impoverished vocabulary is a huge problem for many struggling students in middle school.
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Problem Solver - Critical-Thinking and Problem-Solving Skill Building
Youth will practice their teamwork and critical thinking skills while solving real world problems and developing their entrepreneurial mindset in a competitive environment. Youth will create ideas for inventions using given items to build these soft skills.
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
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No Prob, Bob! - Workforce Readiness Exciting Lesson
Youth will go around the room to look at a variety of pictures that have something wrong happening in them. They will gain critical thinking, problem solving, and teamwork skills while finding problems, and then creating steps to solve the problem with their teams.
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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Marble Run Challenge - Teamwork, critical thinking, and STEAM development
Youth will use a few materials to get a marble from point A to point B without touching the marble with their hands throughout its journey between these points. They will gain necessary teamwork and positivity skills as well as use STEAM components to complete the task.
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
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Newton's Laws of Motion Games (Lab Activity/Inertia Focus)
Fun mini-games to demonstrate Newton's 1st law of motion. All needed items are typically found in a science or math classroom. Trial record and percentage conversion tables included. Can also be used to review percentages and the scientific method.
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Grades:
4th - 9th
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BAM Cup - Career and Life Edition
Youth will play a fast-paced, highly interactive game where they stand in a circle, trying to bounce a pingpong ball into a cup before the person behind them catches up and slams his/her cup into theirs. They will answer life-related questions and help others along the way. They will focus on managing behaviors when they are elevated.
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Not Grade Specific
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Calendar Worksheet
Simple Calendar Worksheet that ask questions about dates, days of the week and help with comprehension and use of a calendar.
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Grades:
1st - 5th
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Conic Sections Extension
As a mathematics teacher, I have discovered that my students respond most enthusiastically when they can understand the rationale for studying new topics, when they recognize interesting applications of this subject material, and when they experience some personal connection with the information. The challenge of course is to find a balance of teaching traditional mathematical material while allowing students to experience something extraordinary. This Conic Sections Extension activity is to b
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Grades:
10th - 12th
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Reading Response for Author's Purpose (centers/DOL/Exit Slips/Quick checks)
After teaching PIE (P-persuade, I-inform, E-entertain) this sheet can be used during Literacy centers. I use Daily 5 in my classroom and use this for after the students have done "Listen to Reading" but it can also be used for "Read to Self or Read to Someone".
This not only has students determining the author's purpose, but also asks them to analyze why they believe that is the author's purpose.
Can also be used as a Demonstration Of Learning, Exit slip, or quick check after learning about a
Grades:
K - 4th
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Go Math Problem of the Week Grade 5
This Word document contains over 20 word problems. They are aligned with Go Math. The file is divided into two parts. The first part consists of word problems on 8 x 11 pages. They are suitable for posting on a bulletin board. The second part of the file has the same work problems, but there are mutliple copies of it on each page. These pages can be copied and cut apart. The small size is perfect for use in a math problem solving journal or as a formative assessment of the lesson or skill
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Grades:
5th
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Lego Challenge Cards
This collection of 20 lego challenge cards is a great way to get your students thinking, moving and engaging in STEM! Legos give ALL students the opportunity to be creative and problem solve. Legos strengthen our students math and science skills. Strengthen their fine motor skills and hand eye coordination. If your students don't know what to build these lego challenge cards will spark their imagination and provide them with tasks to help them feel like a real engineer and builder. These challen
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Not Grade Specific
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Vocabulary Choice Board, Vocabulary Activity, Vocabulary Tic Tac Toe
This is a tic tac toe choice board to be used with a group of vocabulary given either in Language Arts or in another content area. The purpose is to give students choice in their activities and to better familiarize students with the words.I have given the rule of students having to go through the middle square before, in order to have all students complete the sentence activity. They still get to choose the other activities that they complete.
Grades:
5th - 8th
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4th Grade Divison Choice Board
Differentiated activities that correspond to student math levels. Each activity is designed to meet 4th grade division standards. This choice board is used in my daily math instruction. Red activities are used for the top third of my students (above grade level, challenging activities), yellow is designed for the middle third (grade level) and the green activities are used for the bottom third, and might require some teacher scaffolding.
This choice board is perfect to incorporate in your dail
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Cajas de Cartón thematic questions for interpersonal speaking or writing
Cajas de cartón is a story about a teenage migrant worker who longs to be a student. The story is found in AP books and on-line. These are high level, thought-provoking questions designed for AP, IB, or Native speaker courses.
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
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