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Back to School close reading simulations
Marshmallow Team Building: A Back to School Activity for First Day of School
Whether you’re headed back to school or starting a new unit, this team building exercise will get kids engaged and excited about being in your classroom. The Marshmallow Team Building exercise helps teachers establish a classroom atmosphere of teamwork and sets the tone for a fun, high energy class!Here's what you need: a whole lotta marshmallows, a box of toothpicks, and some Clorox wipes! :-) Set your classroom up for the first day so that students are working in teams to build eight differ
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5th - 12th, Staff
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Middle School Escape Room | Middle School Transition Lesson
Are your kids nervous about starting middle school? Do they have questions about what's going to be different, how hard it is or how they can make new friends? This Escape To Middle School is a fun transition activity for students starting middle school that will help them feel more at ease with the transition headed their way. Students will explore the differences between elementary school and middle school and look at ways to find success as a student in their new building.●●● To begin the
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Middle School Transition Bundle | Transition to Middle School
Desert Island Team Building, Cooperative Learning Challenge
Your students will love this game! They are required to work together in teams and make important decisions to help them survive on and escape from a Desert Island.Perfect for developing Critical Thinking, Cooperative Learning and Team Building.Students earn points based on the decisions they make and one team will leave the island as the victors. This resources comes with a comprehensive teacher guide, a full lesson on PowerPoint and an island map. You don't need to do a thing!!This would be g
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4th - 9th
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Pioneer Unit / Oregon Trail Game
Do you love the game Oregon Trail? This unit includes a whole class version of the game!
This is a Problem Based Learning Unit all about the pioneers of our great nation. I created this unit for my second graders, but you could use it for older children too. This unit is very detailed. It integrates ELA skills, social studies, history, and provides the opportunity for creativity as well as FUN!
The children get to "go along" in the journey. This unit has three parts. Check out the Preview Fil
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2nd - 5th
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Scientific Processes: Case of the Missing Cookie Forensic Science Unit
The Case of the Missing Cookie walks students through the steps of the scientific process in order to solve a mystery! This resource is a 1-2 week mystery simulation, which can be used to teach science process skills, review the nature of science and practice team building skills. Students will help you find the thief through fingerprint analysis, handwriting analysis, and more!This resource is low prep, just print and copy; and minimal set-up (just a few materials). You can use this resource tw
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3rd - 5th
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GRAPES Design a Civilization Activity | Ancient History Social Studies Project
Teach the GRAPES of Civilization in your classroom with this creative activity that tasks students with designing their very own unique civilization! This resource contains printable project worksheets in color and black and white versions. Organizer worksheets feature each of the G.R.A.P.E.S. of Civilization: Geography, Religion, Achievements, Politics, Economics, and Social Structure. Civilizations can be rooted in the real world, or fantasy! Will your students declare themselves emperor of th
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: GRAPES Ancient Civilizations Resource Activities Value Unit Bundle
The Great Gatsby: Chapter 8 & 9 - Gatsby's Funeral & Close Reading {EDITABLE}
If you're teaching The Great Gatsby, you might need a few extra ideas to get you through chapters 8 and 9. How about some small group close reading and throwing a funeral for Gatsby? This product includes a wide variety of lessons to help students through close reading and literary analysis, including a writing project where students compose either an elegy or eulogy for Gatsby. These lessons and activities are COMPLETELY EDITABLE on Google Drive and can be used to supplement your current plan
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: The Great Gatsby: Activity, Lesson & Assessment Bundle
Ancient History Reader's Theater Skit Bundle
Engage your students in opportunities to actively engage with the content you're teaching through skits related to Ancient History! Topics include Early Humans, Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Israel, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient China and the Mayans of Mesoamerica.This bundle includes all of the Ancient History skits available in my shop. Each skit includes parts for multiple students and five discussion questions that you can use to foster class discussions or use as writing promp
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5th - 8th
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Dust Bowl Mystery: Inquiry-Based Intro. to Great Depression!
The Great Depression and The Dust Bowl have fascinated kids and adults for years. Use this mystery to harness that fascination and engage students in an inquiry-based investigation that they will remember all year long!This lesson is SO FUN when used as an introduction to a unit about The Great Depression. I let them try to solve the mystery first and THEN tell them that our next unit will be about The Great Depression. It's the perfect way to get them asking questions and build genuine curiosit
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4th - 8th
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The Most Dangerous Game Mock Trial
After being hunted for three days by General Zaroff, Sanger Rainsford is now on trial and being charged for Zaroff's murder. Was Rainsford truly acting in self-defense, or did he willfully and intentionally kill General Zaroff and feed him to his hounds? Your students will RAVE about this mock trial based on Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game"! What better way to get students to practice literary analysis, argument development, and speaking and listening skills than with a mock trial
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Map Skills Activities | Project Based Learning
Take your kiddos on this engaging 10 lesson project based learning simulation that teaches map skills. The simulation scenario involves an expedition group that has gotten lost somewhere in North America. Students will learning various map skills focusing on using US maps. Your students will work in collaborative groups completing activities and earning points to build a helicopter on the last day of the simulation to save the expedition team.The simulation also contains a study guide, assessmen
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3rd - 4th
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Social Narrative Growing Bundle
Ease anxiety for students in school and at home with this social story bundle! Establish expectations, procedures, and positive behavior models. Includes:Riding the Bus to School Social StoryCalm Down Book Social StoryTake a Deep Breath Social Story and Deep Breath VisualFire Drill Social StoryHallway Rules Social StoryNew Classmate Social StoryNew School/Class/Grade Social StorySubstitute Teacher Social StoryNew Baby SiblingWashing HandsTaking TurnsSocial GreetingsSocial Distance GreetingsGent
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PreK - 2nd
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Back to School REVERSE Escape Room: Candy Land-Inspired Break IN to ANY Class!
The only thing sweeter than summer break? Knowing that you’ve got a game-changing activity in store for the first days back. Kick your new school year off with a REVERSE escape room -- which is *SO. MUCH. BETTER.* than the traditional approach of “hi! Now let’s waste 40 minutes reading the syllabus" and “Let’s Do Some Super Awkward Icebreakers!” approach to a traditional course introduction. Introduce course routines, cool tech tools, and classroom procedures to start your class year off with a
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5th - 12th
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Stranded: Island survival icebreaker/team-building
Thieving monkeys. Angry ghosts. And there's SOMETHING in the jungle. Can YOU survive the island until help arrives?Many students have played the classic critical thinking game in which they prioritize a list of items to survive on a remote tropical island. But there's two major drawbacks of this original version. First, most of these games reward a clear preference for certain items ("What do you mean you didn't take the compass?"). Second, the game basically ends as soon as the students m
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
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Standards For Mathematical Practices Activities
Do you struggle helping your students to understand the 8 standards for mathematical practices and how to apply them? This activity bundle simulates a road trip to becoming a math master.Students work in teams to collaboratively create posters for each math practice and complete activities that guide students in how to apply them in math situations.All eight mathematical standards are covered with posters and activities for practice. When students are finished, they will also have a booklet of e
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3rd - 4th
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To Kill a Mockingbird Escape Room: Escape from Bob Ewell (Breakout EDU)
Can you break the locks and make it safely back to Atticus Finch before Bob Ewell tracks you down to extract his revenge? Drive student engagement through the roof with this comprehensive Escape Room simulation in a race against the clock as students use knowledge of the plot, characters, setting, and events of To Kill a Mockingbird -- arguably one of the most beloved novels in all of American literature!
This Escape Room is designed to test your students’ knowledge of To Kill a Mockingbird in
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9th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby REVERSE Escape Room! Break IN to a New Unit with QR Codes!
Imagine a class Escape Room in REVERSE. Where student teams compete to break IN to a new unit of study, teaching themselves by solving asynchronous BYOD puzzles in a race against their peers and the clock.
Interested?
I've had a ton of fun designing and implementing themed escape rooms in my HS classes, but for as AMAZING as class escape rooms and tools like Breakout EDU can be (for real, they're fantastic!) -- I've found the traditional escape room to be somewhat limited when it comes to its
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9th - 12th
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Pre and AP Spanish Speed Dating | Citas Rápidas | ¡SOY YO! | Interpersonal Speak
CLICK HERE TO SEE A VIDEO PREVIEW!THE PERSPECTIVE: Are you looking for a strategy to engage your intermediate and mid intermediate students, break the ice AND practice Interpersonal Speaking by expressing and elaborating ideas in 20 seconds? ¡Para Aquí! THE PRACTICE: Citas Rápidas: ¡SOY YO! is a proven strategy for incorporating interpersonal speaking into your curriculum. Allow students to feel comfortable by starting slowly, allowing previous practice in pairs and small groups. As an entir
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
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Mock Election and Voting Simulation Unit
Let’s Get Out and Vote! This election simulation takes students from registering with paper applications or online, to researching the candidates, making campaign signs, voting in a mock election paper-based or online; you decide! Students collect the votes in a graph to decided who the winnign candidate is. Its a fun way to teach civil responsibility and learn about the election process. This unit is organized to be completed in 4-5 days. It has a plan at the beginning of each day along with
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3rd - 8th
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Dealing with Murder Series: 2 Cases - Fatal Error and Dead & Breakfast
NOTE: While generally similar in process to the Unsolved Crimes cases, the Dealing with Murder cases have one significant difference. Rather than being given all of the case information at once, the information in the Dealing with Murder cases is provided in four sections in an effort to be more realistic and better represent the process of an actual investigation.
The Dealing with Murder cases merge science and literacy as students are required to be critical and active readers as they conduc
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7th - 12th
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The Crucible Introductory Activity: Salem Cold Case Mystery Activity
Perfect for introducing The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, this three-day activity is the Salem Witch Hunt edition to the popular Cold Case File game. It encourages collaboration, critical thinking, and inference skills. This introduction activity puts your students in the shoes of Arthur Miller when creating the drama The Crucible based on this mark on America's History. This innovative lesson puts students in the driver's seat of their learning. They will analyze 14 pieces of historically accurat
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Animated Traditional Cursive SmartBoard Upper and Lowercase
Your students will love this interactive SmartBoard Cursive lesson. It contains 52 pages of animated upper and lowercase letters. While your students are practicing their cursive at their seats, keep the animation going on the SmartBoard so they can check their own progress.
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2nd - 12th, Adult Education
End of the Year - 7th Grade Math Review Project - PBL - Summer Olympics-Themed
VIDEO HOW TO USE THIS PRODUCT Summer Olympics Fun! Looking for a great end of the year review of 7th Grade Math? - This Digital Thematic Unit on the Summer Olympics covers eight different 7th grade math standards and incorporates Language Arts, Geography, and Internet Research. Great for a review, end-of-the-year project, or as an 7th grade beginning of the year assessment.Students choose their Olympic Sport, solve math problems, travel to cities all over the globe, keep a journal, fill in a
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7th
Modern Farmhouse Style Bitmoji Classroom
It seems that the most time consuming part of setting up a Bitmoji classroom is finding and placing all the furniture and decor to make it look like your own! This is a PowerPoint slide with a room set up that has a "modern farmhouse" look. You can change the items in the room or rearrange them. You can also add items or change what is inside each of the picture frames! Customize it to make it your own, but save time with having the set-up done for you! Make sure you have pinned your Bitmoj
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