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4th grade critical thinking cultural activities
My Place in the World Project: "Me on the Map" Geography for Kids
This hands-on geography project "My Place in the World" has kids create a visual representation of how we fit into the world. Teachers often use it with the kids' geography book "Me on the Map," by Joan Sweeney. Ideal for integrated Social Studies, ELA, Geography, Literacy, and Map Skills.Using a series of nesting circles to show the relative sizes of different geographic places, this simple but effective geography lesson helps kids sort out their relation to one another. This activity includes
Grades:
K - 5th
Also included in: Geography for Kids Bundle: Three Essential Hands-on Activities
Lunar New Year 2024 | Year of the DRAGON Reading Comprehension | Spring Festival
Chinese New Year in 2024 starts on Saturday, February 10th!It’s the Year of the DRAGON!Did you know that the Chinese believe that people born in the Year of the DRAGON are strong, tenacious, and ambitious? Do you know what the lucky colors and numbers are for people born during the Year of the DRAGON?Find out more by close-reading interesting text all about the Year of the DRAGON.Create a Cool DRAGON Collage, perfect for a 2024 Year of the DRAGON Bulletin Board!*** This resource has been updated
Grades:
4th - 7th
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First Nations People in Early Canada, Six People Groups: Gr. 3 NEW BC Curriculum
Learn about the 6 different groups of early First Nations People in Canada according to their geographic location. Learn how the environment influenced food, home, community, travel, trade, government, traditions and celebrations. Graphic organizers help students to sort information visually and compare similarities and differences. A wide range of thinking activities are include throughout.Created for Grade 3 BC's NEW Curriculum.Contents Curricular and Content Competencies AddressedIntroduction
Grades:
2nd - 4th
3/D Tipi, Circle and Welcome Pole Craft, EASY Native American Art Fall Activity
This bundle includes 3 Native American themed craft projects made for students using circles (Mandela) cones (3/D tipi), and cylinders (welcome poles) These crafts are a great way to integrate the arts with your Native American curriculum. This is three of my students favorites put together in a money saving bundle! See descriptions for each project, and check out the teacher reviews of individual items! Crafts include a 3/D tipi, mandella, and 3/D welcome pole. Great for Bulletin boards, door
Grades:
1st - 7th
Games Around the World
Connect children to their peers around the world through versions of traditional games like tag, hopscotch, tic-tac-toe, and dominoes. This fun and engaging product includes 35 games from 23 different countries* for students to explore and compare all year long. Each game card includes clear instructions to prepare and play the game, its country of origin, and printables when necessary.Also included...a world map for locating the country of the game they will be playinga summary list for the ma
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1st - 4th
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Picasso Pumpkins: Hispanic Heritage Month, EASY Fall or Halloween Craft Cut&Glue
A fun Fall art activity for Hispanic Heritage Month. Learn about Spains most famous artist while creating a cubist style pumpkin in the likeness of Picasso’s famous paintings. Several pumpkin images and sizes are included for student choice, including one created after Picasso's "Girl in the Mirror" painting. There are 2 pages of facial features drawn from Picasso’s most popular paintings including “Skull with Leeks. Students of all ages and abilities will have fun mixing up the face features
Grades:
K - 6th
Morning Meeting Sharing Questions- 200 Fun Discussion Questions
Do you participate in morning meetings? Do you ever get to the sharing time and find yourself asking the same types of questions or simply having trouble thinking of new questions to promote a safe and fun classroom community? This download contains 180 unique morning meeting sharing questions--one for each day of the school year. It is a great addition to any morning meeting space. You can choose to print out the master copy of the questions if you have a way of organizing the questions on your
Grades:
K - 5th
Also included in: Morning Meeting BUNDLE: Greetings, Sharing Questions, and Activities
Fall Crafts Picasso Style: Pumpkin, Turkey, Portraits. Thanksgiving Art Bundle
This Fall or Autumn, Thanksgiving and Halloween craft collage bundle is a student and parent favorite! Each lesson contains a variety of student choices, resulting in amazing unique student Art. I tested them with students in Kindergarten through 5th grade with amazing results. My grade 5 students were especially engaged when I challenged them to invent new ways of using patterns and colors like Picasso did in his “Blue and Rose” period’s. Lessons take students 2 to 3 art classes to finish, depe
Grades:
K - 6th
Depth and Complexity Frames for Every Month of the Year | Print-and-Go
This set of Depth and Complexity frames offers one frame for each month of the year. If you are looking for a quality print and go activity for your students, this is the perfect resource for you. There are twelve Depth & Complexity frames tied to holidays and month themes (such as Black History Month). They've got great graphics and strong, high-level thinking questions. There's even a rubric you can use to evaluate your students' completed frames.No need to be a Depth and Complexity expert
Grades:
4th - 10th
3-5 Social & Racial Justice Morning Meeting Slides-Anti Bias Education-ABAR
UPDATE: GOOGLE SLIDES FORMAT NOW AVAILABLE 10/15/20Teaching Tolerance’s Social Justice Standards is a road map for anti-bias education at every grade level. These particular slides were developed for 3-5 classrooms. The purpose of these slides is to engage our students in deep and meaningful conversations that go beyond the basic "my favorite color is...". They are meant to elicit dialogue about inequalities and equity. What does that look like? How can students be citizens that promote a safe s
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Culturally Responsive Teaching Activity Cards
Do you need some ideas for your cultural responsive teaching? Here are 25 culturally responsive teaching activity cards that will help you engage and involve all students in your classroom. Each card contains the name of the activity, a description, and an example of how to use it in your classroom. Culturally Responsive Teaching Activities Included:Call and ResponseThink-Pair-ShareJigsawChoral ReadShout OutPass the CardCircle the SageElbow PartnersEcho ReadKnowledge ParadeCloze the GapJump in R
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Morning Message SEL Writing Prompts for April
This month long set includes 25 questions that will help to build a strong community in your classroom. Questions are a combination of thought-provoking, motivational, seasonally relevant, and sometimes a little silly. They are perfect for morning meetings! I use these questions daily and my students look forward to finding out the question each day and answering them! Each day of the week is themed- see the preview and thumbnails for the different options. There is a color and a black & whi
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Morning Message SEL Writing Prompts Morning Work & Bellringer BUNDLE
Morning Message SEL Writing Prompts for March
This month long set includes 26 questions that will help to build a strong community in your classroom. Questions are a combination of thought-provoking, motivational, seasonally relevant, and sometimes a little silly. They are perfect for morning meetings! I use these questions daily and my students look forward to finding out the question each day and answering them! Each day of the week is themed- see the preview and thumbnails for the different options. There is a color and a black & whi
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Morning Message SEL Writing Prompts Morning Work & Bellringer BUNDLE
The Rose that Grew From the Concrete - Tupac Shakur Poem Analysis
Short analysis of Tupac Shakur's famous poem, "The Rose that Grew from the Concrete." Three discussion questions follow the poem by Tupac. Used during Black History Month in a 6th grade classroom in Oakland, CA.
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4th - 12th
Code Crackers #2 - Pigpen Cipher
Help your students develop critical thinking skills, learn a bit about secret societies, and have some fun at the same time with this Code Cracker activity! Students will be introduced to the Pigpen cipher and learn how it works, then they will have an opportunity to crack some codes themselves. There is also a space for them to create their own codes for each other to decipher.This is the second activity in my Code Crackers series. You can now get this resource as part of a bundle! Have a look
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Code Crackers - Ultimate Bundle
Morning Message SEL Writing Prompts for February
This month long set includes 28 questions that will help to build a strong community in your classroom. Questions are a combination of thought-provoking, motivational, seasonally relevant, and sometimes a little silly. They are perfect for morning meetings! I use these questions daily and my students look forward to finding out the question each day and answering them! Each day of the week is themed- see the preview and thumbnails for the different options. There is a color and a black & whi
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Morning Message SEL Writing Prompts Morning Work & Bellringer BUNDLE
Australian Multiculturalism - "My Two Blankets" 4H reading strategy + more.
“My Two Blankets” by Irena Kobald and illustrated by Freya Blackwood was the winner of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) 2015 Picture Book of the Year Award. It is a picture book that touches on issues such as refugees, multiculturalism and fleeing conflict.This resource includes 4H reading strategy resources, graphic organisers and reading comprehension task cards to support higher order thinking and deep comprehension of the text. Please view the Preview file to see an overvie
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Ohio's 4th Grade Natural Resource PBL Activity: Make a Blueberry Pie & See Ohio
Engage 4th grade Ohio students in this hands-on, project based learning activity that will strengthen their knowledge of Ohio’s natural resources and map skills. Based on the popular book, How to Make a Cherry Pie and see the USA, students will be presented with the challenge of making blueberry pancakes using only ingredients found in the Buckeye state! They will utilize higher level thinking skills as they identify the natural resources needed, the location in the state where they are found in
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: 4th Grade Social Studies Projects Bundle
8 Holidays Around the World Christmas Crafts Bundle, Rich in Traditions!
This is an exciting craft bundle filled with all of my favorite holidays around the world craft projects. My students loved learning about traditions around the world, and creating the projects, almost as much as I enjoyed designing them! For further details and instructions click on the title of the activity, and read the descriptions. I hope that you have a wonderful holiday season with your students, and family. The Art LadyHere is a link to my YouTube video that describes the traditions.http
Grades:
K - 6th
deBono's Six Thinking Hats and Fairytales
This unit is a differentiated instruction unit that is NYS CCSS aligned (standards are listed both in the unit outline and in each lesson) which provides students with the opportunity to think both critically and creatively. Students explore deBono's Six Thinking Hats while reading different fairytales and apply what they have learned through mini projects and one final project. This unit is both culturally diverse (students learn about different points of view and their world while reading the
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Social Studies 2-5: A Thanksgiving Project Based Learning Resource
Do you need ideas for elementary Thanksgiving activities? Have you heard of Problem Based Learning? This product uses activities for elementary grades that are ready for a higher-level Thanksgiving activity.This is a thanksgiving project incorporating social studies standards while using Problem Based Learning. Many of our social studies standards are similar when it comes to Thanksgiving. Even if you are not from AZ, it will be easy to find the standards that this meets. It includes everythin
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Easy Picasso Turkey Cut and Glue Fall Craft. Adorable Thanksgiving Art Activity
This lesson is inspired by Pablo Picasso's "Le Coq" painting and drawings. Students will have fun cutting and pasting their own poultry pictures using the variety of rooster and turkey parts. They can create turkeys, roosters, chickens, or even disguise their poultry to look like one of Picasso's paintings! Mix and match face features to create an expressive turkey or rooster in the likeness of Picasso’s "Rooster". Includes rooster and chicken parts to disguise the turkey along with hats from P
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Grades:
K - 6th
Morning Message SEL Writing Prompts for October
This month long set includes 27 questions that will help to build a strong community in your classroom. Questions are a combination of thought-provoking, motivational, seasonally relevant, and sometimes a little silly. They are perfect for morning meetings! Quick and easy way to cover SEL daily. I use these questions daily and my students look forward to finding out the question each day and answering them! Each day of the week is themed- see the preview and thumbnails for the different options.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Morning Message SEL Writing Prompts Morning Work & Bellringer BUNDLE
Puzzles/Riddles/Brain Teasers Daily
Grow your students’ problem solving and critical thinking skills with these Daily puzzlements for your students. It is a fantastic way to engage your students in collaboration and critical thinking.These animated Google Slides are great for online, in-person class learning and/or communication. This is an awesome way to keep your audience engaged and allows students of all levels to access. Also a great resource to share with parents to encourage/engage students in reading at home. This packet
Grades:
K - 6th
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