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Kindergarten critical thinking games
15 Working Memory Brain Games: Improve executive function in 5 minutes a day!
WORKING MEMORY BEST SELLER--UPDATED FOR 2024! These 15 research-based brain games are designed to improve kids' working memory in five minutes of partner game play daily for just 9 weeks! If you've ever complained that students lack the following skills, an executive function of the brain called working memory might be the issue!-staying focused and on-task-following complex and multi-step directions-copying information and taking notes-keeping their place in a text-retelling stories-explaining
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K - 6th
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Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Back to School Icebreaker STEM Bundle! Need back to school icebreakers or games that get students moving, communicating, working in teams, and building relationships? Here are 50+ of our favorite basic activities that are low-cost and low-prep for any classroom or subject!Working as a team, they will learn lessons in communication, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity that are central to the engineering process. Use as a warm-up, icebreaker, team building activity, or basic STEM and en
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Paul Klee Abstract Art Lesson: Portrait Dice Games Art Project - Nsw Visual Arts
Are you teaching an abstract art lesson on Paul Klee? Are they going to create an abstract portrait? Here's a fun lesson to brighten up your lesson plans! This is the perfect addition to your elementary art curriculum! Engaging abstract portrait art lesson with language (writing) activities. These no-prep abstract portrait art projects are perfect for your art sub tub. Super easy to implement for substitute teachers. Plus, the engagement will help with behavior! Perfect to start your art integra
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K - 12th
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Also included in: Art History Lesson - Famous Artists - Art Activities and Sub Plans
100th Day of School No Prep STEM Center Activities for Kindergarten and First
Are you looking for engaging, No Prep 100th Day of School activities for your students? These centers will keep your students busy all day long. Trust me, my kids were so busy they didn't want to clean up.Forget the countless hours of prep, the kids can actually help you prep the day before. All you need are 100 of each item, some bins and a few copies of the papers to go with the activities.Here is What is IncludedSigns for each bin and worksheets when needed100 Cups. 100 Snap cubes100 Patte
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: 100th Day of School Activities and STEM EASY PREP Bundle
Fruit and Vegetables Sorting Using Photos
Fruit and vegetables photos sorting or categorizing can be used as an individual center, or small group activity. Includes 18 large labeled photo fruit cards, 18 vegetable cards, and 2 sorting mats.Click on the PREVIEW link to see all pages and to make sure this is the educational level you are looking for.KidSparkz Teaching ResourcesMore activities with a FRUIT or VEGETABLES theme ...
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PreK - 2nd
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Indoor Recess Kit BUNDLE | Hands-On Activities | Morning Work | Fast Finishers
Kids need time to play, explore, and create! This Indoor Recess Kit Bundle is an easy, fun, and hands-on solution for your students to use during indoor recess days! It also works great for centers, morning work, or early finishers!This bundle comes with 24 themed challenge card activities for each month. Students can use these cards to make, build, and draw their way through those dreary indoor recess days.Each student will get their own kit that includes play dough, building bricks, and a mini
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PreK - 2nd
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Stack It! Cup Stacking Task Cards and Game + Bonus BOOM Cards™
STACK IT! is a STEM challenge activity where the only materials you need are cups and task cards! It can be completed individually or in cooperative groups! Critical thinking skills will be put to use while student's "stack" cups to see if they can recreate the towers on each challenge card.BOOM LEARNING DECK NOW INCLUDED IN THE RESOURCE!*CHECK OUT THE BOOM CARD PREVIEW HERE*Stack It! can be played digitally through Boom Learning. You can create an account to play for free at www.boomlearning.c
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PreK - 5th
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Indoor Recess Games and Morning Bin Games
This pack of indoor recess games includes thirteen independent games and partner games that have been specially designed for easy, prep-free fun and critical thinking!When can these games be played?I designed these games with indoor recess in mind, but the games can actually be used in so many different situations and times throughout the day. They are perfect for fast-finisher activities, morning tubs that are contact-free and require social distancing, at home for rainy days or downtime, and a
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K - 3rd
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(Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd Grade) SUDOKU PUZZLES - Critical Thinking Worksheet
108 Sudoku puzzles arranged on 63 different worksheets. The puzzles progress gradually from easy to more difficult ones, so students can effortlessly acquire the reasoning skills needed to solve these puzzles.Puzzles make fun no prep activities for early finishers, bell ringers, morning work, handouts, homework, unit or lesson plan supplements, sponge activities, introductions to new topics, classroom themes, and sub files.The Sudoku come in three different sizes: 36 four by four grids arranged
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K - 3rd
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Tangrams
Help your students develop problem solving, logical thinking, perceptual reasoning and spatial awareness with these Tangram Task Cards. There are 20 different puzzles. Each Pattern comes in a coloured and silhouette version. Use the coloured cards for beginners and the silhouette cards as a challenge.Have a question? Use the Product Q & A or email me at talesfrommissd@gmail.comRelated ProductsPattern Math CentersNumber and Shape PatternsNumber PuzzlesFind Related Products HereAlways know abo
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PreK - 6th
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Team Building Activities: Engage, Motivate, Inspire, and Build a Community
It is so important to build a community within your classroom. This has so many incredible benefits to it. When your students are comfortable not only with you, but their peers, you will see a difference in their behavior and even their drive to succeed. There are many ways to build a community in your classroom and I am so excited to share these methods with you. I hope that it allows you and your students to grow together and build that strong classroom community.I have learned that a safe pla
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K - 12th, Higher Education
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Phonics Games - Brainamin Phonics Short Vowel Bundle
Looking for engaging phonics games to REALLY amp up your current reading curriculum? Brainamin is a challenging educational game for little learners! While playing the phonics games included in the Short Vowel Bundle, students will work on important skills, including phonics, fluency, word recognition, and critical thinking. Students must quickly put their “reading brains” to work by being the first player to uncover and call out the matching word and picture for each set of cards. While many ph
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K - 2nd
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Bee Bot Printables Phonics & Math Coding Mats CVC, Counting, Place Value, etc.
Are you ready to introduce your students to a world of coding? This Growing bundle of Bee Bots Robotics printable mats has EVERYTHING you need and will help students practice different grade-level concepts (K-2) while also using the BEEBOT to begin coding. If I don't have it, ask me for it and I'll try to include it in this growing endless bundle.This resource is to be used with the Bee-Bot programmable robot that you already have in your classroom (The Bee-Bot Robot is not included, nor is the
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K - 2nd
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Christmas Escape Room Challenge | December
Unlock Christmas with this Christmas Escape Room designed for primary grades (K-2).There are 6 different critical thinking activities students will complete to collect all 6 of Santa's lost toys. You can choose the level of difficulty for each activity to suit your classroom needs! The 6 activities include:1. Place Value Match (3 levels of difficulty)2. Equation Match (3 levels of difficulty)3. Secret Code (2 levels of difficulty)4. Put it in Order (4 levels of difficulty)5. Follow the Direction
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K - 3rd
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Dyslexia and Dysgraphia Collection: Games, Puzzles and Mazes
Dyslexia and Dysgraphia Workbooks – Special Education Collection -- This program includes 33 worksheets to boost the mind for students with dyslexia or dysgraphia. -- No matter how smart your child may be, he/she may have problems learning to read and write. Some are classified as dyslexics. Dyslexia is a disorder that affects 11% of the people. Still we do not know what causes dyslexia but there is a strong body of research pointing in the directions that it can be treated. It was centuries a
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PreK - 5th
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle File Folder Game - Earth Day and Conservation Activity
Teach kids all about the 3 R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle with this cute little file folder game. Perfect for Earth Day and teaching conservation, this game includes 15 item cards for students to 'sort' into the 3 R categories. All you have to do is print, cut & glue to an empty file folder!Teaches sorting skills, critical thinking & environmental awareness. Great for classroom centers, school smiles or educational fun at home.Print in color... or in black & white to share a coloring
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PreK - 3rd, Staff
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Teaching Chess the Easy & Fun Way with Mini-Games
Here's an easy way for non-chess players to teach kids how to play with a time effective, easy to use method. This guide is for elementary teachers to use with their entire class. It was developed by teaching K-6 students of ALL abilities and connecting chess to curriculum objectives. Try the free sample and preview and email with any questions!
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K - 6th
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2-3 year old LEARNING WORKBOOK. PDF learning worksheets Printable busy book
2-3 year old LEARNING WORKBOOK. PDF learning worksheets Printable Bundle.Preschool Learning. Numbers Shape. Colors, pattern, Sizes.Content :• Cover page• 2-3 Matching Numbers (1-10) • 4-5 Matching shapes• 6=7 Matching color• 8-9 Pattern and color matching• 10-11 Sorting colors• 12-13 Size sorting• 14-15 Size and shape sorting with fishes• 16-17 Pattern matching with eggs• 18-19 ONE – MANY sorting activity.
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PreK - K
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Transportation Sort - Road, Air, Water, Tracks - 32 real photos
Quick and easy set-up center - print, cut and done. This is a set of 32 real world photos of a wide variety of vehicles, plus 4 sorting mats. The photos and sorting mats are labeled. Also use as flashcards (flash cards), and discussion prompts. This activity could suit preschool through first grade ages. Bonus: 5 transportation worksheets. Lots more activities featuring Transportation...
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PreK - 1st
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Intro to STEM Bundle: Icebreaker & Teamwork Activities
Want to introduce STEM to your classroom? Here are 45 of our favorite basic (Stage 1) STEM challenges that are low-cost and low-prep for any classroom! Activities are perfect as back to school icebreakers or games that introduce STEM while getting students moving, communicating, and working in teams! BACKGROUNDBefore tasking students to complete rigorous engineering design challenges, educators should start with Stage 1 STEM activities. Click here to learn more about the Stages of STEM. Through
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Ordinal Numbers 1st to 10th **Cookie Jar Version** Fun Engaging Game!
Ordinal Numbers
Ready for a fun game to practice and reinforce ordinal numbers first through tenth?!
Want a game that can be used to address Common Core standards, yet is fun, engaging and developmentally appropriate?!
My students are choosing to play this game during choice time! They really understand and can use ordinal number 'language' thanks to this game!
This Pack Includes:
*Directions for Set-Up, Play and Flip-Up Activity with Photos
*Cookie Jars labeled with ordinal names first th
End-of-Year Summer Mystery Reading Activity | Fun Brain Break for Kids
Keep your end of year Morning Meeting activities engaging and fun with these interactive games! Your students will engage in inferencing and critical thinking as they try to identify 10 Summer-themed Mystery photos using visual and auditory clues. Preferred topics including Summer activities and food are sure to spark personal conversations!★ INCLUDED :Please view the PREVIEW to see the entire product10 Summer-related game rounds2 editable clues per round5 slides in each round★ HOW TO PLAY :Open
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: No-Prep Mystery Photo Guessing Games for Language Skills
Personal Space Camp Activities
I created this resource to supplement the book "Personal Space Camp", written by Julia Cook. However, it can be used with or without the book. If you don't have the book you might want to have some discussions about personal space before using the activities.This resource includes:- Personal Space vs. Bubble Buster Large Sorting Activity with 30 different scenarios- Personal Space vs. Bubble Buster Cut and Paste Activity- Instructions for Personal Space Demonstration (game with movement)- Inst
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K - 5th
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3 STEP SEQUENCING STORY PICTURE CARD DIGITAL RESOURCE GAME SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
3-STEP SEQUENCING PICTURE CARDS DRAG AND DROP GAMEChildren will love this 3-step sequencing game as they enhance their thinking skills! Kids have to put the pictures in the correct order by dragging them to the 'sorting mat'. This game can be played on interactive whiteboards, computers and tablets. An internet connection is required. 28 slides are included in this game. The game can be played over and over again as the slides will shuffle and the draggable pictures will be in a different
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K - 1st
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