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Critical Thinking, Reading Strategies, Tools for Common Core

After watching Pixar's short film: For the Birds, students will infer by answering three questions and providing clues that lead to their inference.

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K - 10th

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Character Education, Classroom Management, Critical Thinking

Behavior Reflection Sheet

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"Free Time"

We use this in our first grade class to help students understand the consequences of their actions. They "Stop and Reflect" in order to make a better choice the next time. *I have recently updated the document to include a middle grade version for 3-5 with more grade appropriate wording and formatting! After it is completed, fold in half to keep private. The student signs it, the teacher signs it, then it goes home for the parent to sign. It has helped our parent communication immensely to

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Grades:

PreK - 5th

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Worksheets, Classroom Forms, For Parents

Primary GATE with Caldecott -- "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!" Mo Willems

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Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, Gifted and Talented

Let’s have some fun along with the Pigeon and expand DOK along the way! This lesson will lead your primary GATE students through four challenging activities, culminating in an artistic response showing why they “never get to do anything!” either. Gifted and talented learners carry similar characteristics throughout their lives—even as kindergarten and first graders. One common characteristic of gifted learners is a strong sense of justice. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus gives us a good o

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Grades:

K - 3rd

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Projects, GATE, Lesson

Making Inferences: Pixar Short Film Partly Cloudy

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Critical Thinking, Reading Strategies, Tools for Common Core

After watching Pixar's short film: Partly Cloudy, students will infer by answering four questions and providing clues that lead to their inference.

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K - 6th

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Making Inferences: Pixar Short Film Lifted

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Critical Thinking, Reading, Tools for Common Core

After watching Pixar's short film: Lifted, students will infer by answering two questions and providing clues that lead to their inference.

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K - 6th

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Making Inferences: Pixar Short Film One Man Band

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Critical Thinking, Reading Strategies, Tools for Common Core

After watching Pixar's short film: One Man Band, students will infer by answering three questions and providing clues that lead to their inference.

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K - 8th

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Primary GATE with Caldecott COLLECTION - 180 pages - 7 Books!

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Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Literature

Your primary kids will love these lessons! You save a bundle: 33% off individual purchases! I teach 30-45 minute groups once a week of 1st and 2nd graders all year, and this collection is more than enough to get me through an entire school year of groups. I can’t absolutely guarantee it will do the same for you, but it’s going to be very close if it doesn’t . . . You’ll see best practices in gifted education throughout. You’ll see many graphic organizers, age-appropriate and challenging cr

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Grades:

K - 3rd

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Unit Plans, Activities, GATE

Good Touch-Bad Touch -"Underwear, Swimsuit Rule" CDC Health Standard Four

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Health is Elementary

This lesson emphasizes what a good touch, a bad touch, and a confusing touch is. Never keep a secret is covered, along with the "Underwear and Bathing suit rule" information is included with a visual. It also gives advice on what to do if a bad touch happens to a student. 3 activities and 3 coloring pages with "good touch-bad touch" information that students can take home. Assessment, which is also part of Clip art, printables, no prep needed. answer key. Easel activity and assessment

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Critical Thinking, Health, Life Skills

Grades:

1st - 6th

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Activities, Printables, Lesson

Quick STEM: Domino Challenges

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Kristi E

Quick STEM for Kids: Domino Challenges is a collection of 19 activities that the kids complete with dominoes. It was developed to get kids thinking creatively, problem solving, creating, and having fun! It can be used as a whole group activity, stations, individually, during class or during indoor recess. The challenges start out easy and get harder as you make your way through them. This can be printed out and stapled into a booklet or laminated as center cards. The only thing you need to

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Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Other (Specialty)

Grades:

1st - 8th

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Activities

12 Days of Christmas Health-Staying Healthy and Safe During the Holidays

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Health is Elementary

This fun lesson gives students information on health and safety during the holidays, presented in the "12 Days of Christmas" theme. There are fun activities and coloring pages. Clip art, printables, no prep needed. CDC HEALTH STANDARD SEVEN: Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health enhancing behaviors and to avoid or reduce health risksTopics covered are; Wash your hands oftenCough or sneeze into your elbow Take along a buddy for safety while outside playing in the cold weather

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Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Critical Thinking, Health

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K - 5th

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Activities, Printables, Lesson

Test Taking Strategies / Follow Directions Prank/Fake Quiz

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jts23

This quiz is a fun and funny way to get students to realize they need to pay attention to directions. There is a list of numerous steps to complete, which can actually be fun for students. HOWEVER, the first step says to "read all directions before continuing" and the last step says "only do..." so most students mess this up and do all the steps as they go along. Then you can give them the lesson at the end :) *Please rate 4 stars if this is useful! Thanks*

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Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Study Skills

Grades:

PreK - 12th

Types:

Activities, Assessment

KEVA Planks STEM Activities

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Mini STEM

This is a set of 4 different activities that your class can do in groups with KEVA planks, KEVA balls (or ping pong balls), and connectors. Each page is set to print just a couple times so you have one for each group. 4 activities are Motion, Inclined Plane, Dominoes, and Wall Bounce.

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Critical Thinking, Engineering, Visual Arts

Grades:

K - 5th

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Projects

Primary GATE with Caldecott -- "Two Bad Ants" by Chris Van Allsburg

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Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Literature

If you're like me, you can't easily find activities designed for primary grade gifted learners. This one hour activity, however, is specifically designed for Chris Van Allsburg’s "Two Bad Ants" and primary gifted and talented students—nurturing talent for both verbal and nonverbal high ability students. In this activity, students use critical thinking and creative perspective-taking to create a “mystery drawing” similar to the close-ups in "Two Bad Ants." In an interactive follow-up, classma

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Grades:

K - 2nd

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Activities, GATE

IQ Test (teaching students to follow directions)

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Greg's Goods - Lesson Pieces - Making Learning Fun

This is a fake test that simply asks students to read ALL questions before answering anything. The final question asks them to turn in the paper for 10 extra credit points if there is no writing or erase marks on the paper. There are questions such as: "write your middle name", or "solve for X when 4 - X = 2". Can be easily modified for any grade level. It is a fantastic way to remind students of the importance of following directions. Works for high schoolers and adults, too!I remember my

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Classroom Management, Critical Thinking, For All Subjects

Grades:

K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff

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Activities, Handouts, Assessment

Also included in: 3rd Grade Ice Breaker "FOUR CORNERS" EXTENDED! 12 of your NEW Favorite Resources

Monkey Hear, Monkey Do! A Hear! Think! Do! Auditory Charades Lesson

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Rebekah Brock

Here's the latest in the Hear! Think! Do! Series. In Monkey Hear, Monkey Do!, Students get the chance to practice their listening skills in a fun and challenging way. Kids must listen carefully as a pose is described for them in detail. Children must then demonstrate their auditory abilities as they pose their own body exactly as described. Large, full-page cards of each pose give students a chance to self-check and self-correct, if necessary. Delightful and simple stick figures make that s

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Physical Education, Physical Therapy

Grades:

PreK - 1st

Types:

Activities, Games

Pirate Island: A Hear! Think! Do! FREE Listening and Moving Activity!

Created by

Rebekah Brock

Are your students ready to get moving? Do they need to enhance their listening and recall skills? Pirate Island is the first in the Hear! Think! Do! Series, all of which build auditory skills and teach kids to listen, make connections, and get moving in fun ways! Pirate Island is an engaging activity that helps children of all ages practice hearing a verbal cue and recalling an action associated with that cue. You will love watching your children listen and recalling--and they'll love reme

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Critical Thinking, Other (Specialty), Physical Education

Grades:

PreK - 5th

Types:

Activities, Games

Student Achievement Award Certificates Editable and Printable

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Dayley Supplements

Student recognition is a snap with editable, printable certificates. These certificates give teachers flexibility to customize each certificate with student names suing their own fonts! Give those kiddos a high-5 and a certificate to show mom and dad when they earn 100% on a test. Just click in the text box where it says TYPE NAME HERE, then print. Piece of cake!Included are 9 certificates:HealthHistorySpellingScienceMathLanguage Arts3 blank to customize (enter subject the same way name is

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Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

PreK - 6th

Types:

Printables, Classroom Forms

Also included in: Student Award Certificates BUNDLE - Editable and Printable

Asking Questions and Critical Thinking - Forming Inquiry / Research Questions

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Interconnected Learning

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

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Critical Thinking, International Baccalaureate, Problem Solving

Grades:

PreK - 9th, Staff

Types:

Lesson, Centers

Primary GATE with Caldecott -- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

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