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Bobblehead Biography Project
Use “Bobblehead Biographies” to tackle informational writing in your classroom AND (more importantly) make history come alive for your students!
The “Bobblehead Biography Project” will immediately capture the attention of your kiddos (plus anyone else walking by) while promoting important skills like:
•Reading comprehension
•Summarizing + drawing inferences
•Informational writing
•Research
Create adorable art while setting the stage for purpose-driven writing + high-interest reading!
The
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K - 12th
Journalism: Fact-Finding Scavenger Hunt Activity
One vital aspect of being a successful reporter is learning how and where to find factual information. With this activity, middle school and high school students will use any source that they can, i.e. the internet, the telephone, in-person interviews, etc., to figure out the needed information. An answer key is included. This product offers students the chance to exhibit a number of reporting skills. Although I use this activity for a Journalism 1 class, teachers could also use this in any l
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Journalism Activities & Lessons Bundle: Beginning & Advanced Students
The Amazing Race: Classroom Edition (Includes Customizable Clue Templates)
This student-driven game includes 50 pages of racing material that will take your students on a fun-filled, virtual tour of 6 continents!
The Amazing Race: Classroom Edition is a game in which multiple teams of two or three students compete in a race with one another. Teams strive to arrive first at "pit stops," located at the end of each leg, to avoid coming in last. The clues provided during each leg lead the teams to the next destination or direct them to perform a task. These tasks are perf
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6th - 12th
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Leadership Research Project Middle High School ASB Student Council AVID Google
This is a great research project for leadership, AVID, or gifted students and is based on Kouzes and Posner's 5 Principles of Leadership. It is geared towards middle or high school students. The Google slides are completely editable so you can add, delete, or edit any slides to suit your needs. The project guides students to research a famous leader and compare them to a person "in real life" who also demonstrates similar leadership qualities. They create questions and interview their "in real
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6th - 12th
College and Career Project *EDITABLE* Math in their career
Students Research a career of their choosing and create examples of how math would be used in their career. They also dig deeper into how they would reach their goal. They pick a college of their choice and then research their area of study, Major, minor, courses, etc. Once they find all their information they create a story about what it would be like for a day in their career. I've done this project multiple times with 8th graders and they absolutely love it. I've had students come back to me
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6th - 12th
Inquiry-Based Endangered Animal Research Project
Inquiry-based learning is a student-centered and teacher-guided instruction approach. It empowers students to become critical thinkers. It increases students’ ability to develop a deep understanding of content while increasing students’ intellectual engagement.
Students start by brainstorming endangered animals and why they would like to research those animals. Then, students pose questions about their endangered animals. Students go through the research process by finding sources and info
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4th - 8th
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THE TED TALK BUNDLE
All of our best TED TALK lessons and assignments, all in one place, and all at 50% off the regular price! Every products has digital and printable hard copy formats.This bundle is a growing package, so purchasing it now at the lower price will lock you in for all of the future additions (It will be at least 10 items in total over the next few months) for free!This Bundle Includes:The TED TALK Persuasive Writing Unit & AssignmentA Viewing Guide: Grit & The Power of PerseveranceA Viewing G
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6th - 12th
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Spring Break Project: Plan a Trip
Product Description: Plan A Trip Project Based Learning, Staycation or VacationResearch, organize, and plan a staycation or vacation. An eight step guide walks students through their project. Brainstorming, traveler interests, itinerary, expenses, web research, scoring guide, and awards are all part of this no prep unit. Unit culminates with a presentation on their planned trip, complete with award certificates for audience or teacher chosen favorites. Students can choose a driving vacation wi
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5th - 9th
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The Critical Thinking Toolkit: DESIGN SPRINT (Design Thinking Activity)
Give your classes the critical thinking tools and frameworks they need to think through big, complicated issues, as well as training them to reflect on their own thinking patterns and behaviours!Design Sprints are creative problem-solving tools for moving your student’s thinking forward a lot in a small amount of time (1-2 hours) by taking them through a series of timed brainstorming, feedback, and iteration sessions. The logic behind them is that it’s better to test and figure out all the thing
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: THE CRITICAL THINKING BUNDLE
TED Talk Viewing Guide: We Need to Change The Way Young Men Think About Consent
One of the best discussions on CONSENT out there!Nathaniel Cole delivers an amazing TED Talk on more than just why consent is important, but why our current ways of teaching consent don't work like we think they do. He then offers genuine solutions and real examples for how young people (and anyone else!) can ask for and deny consent. This resource includes digital or printable handouts including:Background sheet on Nathaniel Cole (including the link to the talk)Pre-Viewing Question sheet to gau
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: THE HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASS BUNDLE
Helpful Helping Dogs: Research Project (Service, Working, Therapy)
Combine your students’ love of animals with inclusive character education in this research project :)Students will research the different types of service dogs and then present their findings. Students will be introduced to the topic through completion of a web quest in which students visit various websites and close read the text to answer questions.Each student (or group of students) will be assigned one “type” of working dog to research. Students will then complete a summative activity (poste
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5th - 8th
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Inquiry Based Learning Project: CLIMATE CHANGE
An Inquiry Based Learning Project your students are going to love!Climate change has been a topic of discussion and debate, under various titles, for many decades. With an increase in droughts and flooding, ecologically forced human migration, and the melting of ice sheets globally, climate change is obviously a major issue. But if we know it's a problem, why is so hard to solve?! With the ability to look at climate change scientifically, politically, socially, economically, or any combination o
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6th - 12th
Also included in: THE INQUIRY BASED LEARNING RESEARCH BUNDLE
Economics Personal Finance Minimum Wage Assignment - Poor Man's Budget
This assignment is called the Poor Man's Budget. This assignment forces students to work 40 hours a week at minimum wage. They must calculate their gross pay, taxes, net pay, and all of their expenses. They must choose an actual place to live online, pay transportation, food costs, utilities, etc. They must determine whether they are in debt or not, make changes if needed, and summarize what they learn from the assignment. This Word Document sets up the assignment with students and makes it easy
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7th - 12th
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THE INQUIRY BASED LEARNING RESEARCH BUNDLE
All of our Inquiry Based Learning Research projects, all in one place, and all %50 off the regular price! All products have digital and printable hard copy formats.This bundle is a growing package, so purchasing it now at the lower price will lock you in for all of the future additions (over the next few months) for free!Each project includes 16 pages of the Inquiry Learning Process Explanation, Brainstorming, 5 Vetted Background Information Sources pertaining to their individual topic, a Later
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6th - 12th
TED Talk Viewing Guide: Grit & The Power of Perseverance
Angela Lee Duckworth is a psychology professor and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. She studies psychological issues related to student and professional performance (things like perseverance, self-control, co-operation, etc.), and is so good at what she does that she was awarded a MacAurthur (Genius) grant. This talk is from 2013 and discusses how 'grit' (a combination of perseverance and passion for what you do) is a better indicator of success than IQ or social factors like famil
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: THE EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING BUNDLE
Project-Based Learning: Real-World Student-Produced Ideas That Make a Difference
Project-based learning activity is entitled "Make a Difference" because it challenges students to select an issue in their school, community, nation, or world that concerns them. They research this issue and write a report explaining statistics and logical information to support the need for their project to be implemented, how their project will be carried out in detail, the desired outcomes, and how they will measure the project’s success. Then, they fill out a grant proposal, create two art
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8th - 12th
Change-maker Research Project
This activity is a research project for students to research change-makers in both the past and present. It can be used in conjunction with a unit on change and changing for the better to help people. It could also be used as a stand alone, as a project in conjunction with social issues book clubs, and much more. This bundle includes:Teacher instructions/overview (includes notes, modification ideas, alternative assessment ideas, font list, etc.) (PDF)Change-maker assignment sheet (PDF and editab
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6th - 9th
TED Talk Viewing Guide: The Danger of a Single Story
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian author of multiple fictional and non-fiction works, and a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient. Her texts explore themes of feminism, race, and intersectionality, poetry, and many other topics. She’s even won a GRAMMY as a featured artist on Beyonce (Beyonce’s 5th album)!This talk is from 2009 and discusses the dangers of how our single stories (stereotypes) of people and places are problematic for everyone. This talk also took her from a rising star in the lit
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
Computer Based & Online Genius Hour Bundle
This bundle includes all you will need to implement a successful Genius Hour / 20% Time / Passion Projects / Personalized Learning experience. This somewhat paperless bundle allows for students to post research, ask questions, and complete the entire Genius Hour project online.
Bundle Includes:
- Google Site editable template for Genius Hour (allows all notes, resources, feedback etc. to be in one place)
- Student & Teacher-Friendly video and picture tutorials for site usage
- Genius Hou
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3rd - 8th
Inquiry Based Learning Project: CYBER BULLYING
An Inquiry Based Learning Project your students are going to love!The internet has given us new power to connect, but has also given rise to one of the largest social health crises that people have ever faced: Cyberbullying. While often dismissed as ‘not big deal’, cyberbullying has been identified as a leading or accompanying factor in the rise of mental health degradation over the last 20 years. It can happen 24 hours a day, it can follow us home from the outside world, and it can be relentles
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: THE HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASS BUNDLE
Character Traits of Leaders -Research & Presentation Project | Distance Learning
In this lesson, students identify leadership traits by researching leaders throughout history. They are provided with links to resources to help them research three individuals of their choice from three different time periods in history. Lists of leaders from each time period are provided to help them choose. Then, they use that information along with graphics, pictures and backgrounds from the Internet to create a finished presentation that explains the qualities of each leader, the similar
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6th - 8th
TED Talk Viewing Guide: The Puzzle of Motivation
A Viewing Guide to get your class motivated!Inspire and empower your students to become self directed learners, and to put a bit of perspective on just trying to get the grade (or the pay check)!Dan Pink is an American author and former political speechwriter. He has written about several topics related to social science, looking at everything from regret, to sales, to motivation, to career choices, and many more. In this TED Talk he focusses on the large gap between what science knows about how
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: THE EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING BUNDLE
Inquiry Based Learning Project: RENEWABLE ENERGY
An Inquiry Based Learning Project your students are going to love!Renewable energy has become a more popular topic over the past two decades, largely because of rising global temperatures and an increase of climate catastrophes. While many renewable energies have been around for quite a while (solar, geothermal, tidal, etc.), the amount of resources being dedicated to advancing renewable technologies have skyrocketed as we culturally (and politically) understand what our reliance on fossil fuels
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7th - 12th
Also included in: THE INQUIRY BASED LEARNING RESEARCH BUNDLE
Article Reading & Analysis: The Science of Social Media
Social Media, in your class?!?!These days, it's hard to argue that social media has not revolutionized the way we connect, communicate, and share information. Its benefits are abundant, but so are its downsides! While it fosters activism, giving voice to the voiceless, it also fosters new types of bullying, amplifying hurtful voices beyond the boundaries of the school day. So what are we to do?The Science Of Social Media highlights the impact of social media on mental health, particularly among
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6th - 12th
Also included in: THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
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