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Kindergarten critical thinking resources for Microsoft PowerPoint
Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides Activities Digital Resources Morning Work
Are you ready to turn your morning meeting into the best part of your daily routine? Unlock the power of morning meetings with this Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides & Activity Pages Yearlong Set, designed for K-6 grade. These NO PREP INTERACTIVE EDITABLE morning meeting slides will revive your morning routine in a fun and engaging way. These Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides are an easy-to-use, time-saving way for you to build a consistent morning routine and a strong classroom co
Grades:
K - 6th
PAPERLESS September Daily Dendrite Challenge
The September Daily Dendrite Challenge is a paperless, digital resource that includes a variety of brain-teasers, logical thinking questions, problem-solving challenges, riddles, and critical thinking activities for primary learners. There is a challenge for every day of the month! The September Daily Dendrite Challenge has a back to school theme! It includes challenges that feature school supplies, back to school events, apples, school rules and routines, shapes, the classroom, math, word work,
Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: PAPERLESS Daily Dendrite Challenge BUNDLE - Digital
Which One Doesn't Belong | Critical Thinking Skills Activity Cards Set 1
These “which one doesn’t belong” activity cards are designed to promote oral language and critical thinking skills, develop problem solving skills and encourage analyzing, sorting and categorizing skills. Students will learn to justify their choice as there is always more than one right answer! ...............................................................................................................................Two different ways to use this resource:- Printed Copies (Best for individual
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
PAPERLESS October Daily Dendrite Challenge
This October Daily Dendrite Challenge is a paperless, digital resource that includes a variety of brain-teasers, logical thinking questions, problem-solving challenges, riddles, and critical thinking activities for primary learners. The October Daily Dendrite Challenge has a Halloween theme! It includes a challenge for every day of the month. The challenges feature themes that revovle around pumpkins, trick-or-treating, Halloween, fall, autumn, and more! The resource is NO-PREP and PAPERLESS! Si
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: PAPERLESS Daily Dendrite Challenge BUNDLE - Digital
The Power of Yet Bulletin Board Display
The Power of YET is an encouraging idea in young minds and gives students the opportunity to use a growth mindest. This idea gives them the power to understand what they are capable of when they take charge of their learning. The Power of Yet is motivational and student centered to encourage and build self confidence. This bulletin board display is a great way to helps student realize what they can achieve given the right about of effort and time. Download, print on your favorite colored cards
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Which One Doesn't Belong | Critical Thinking Skills Activity Bundle
This year-round bundle of holidays and seasons themed “which one doesn’t belong” activity cards are designed with a focus on promoting oral language and critical thinking skills. An engaging and interactive way for students to develop problem solving skills and that encourages analyzing, sorting and categorizing skills. These activity cards provide excellent opportunities for your students to engage in discussions. By comparing and contrasting the pictures on each card, students are encouraged t
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Castle Attack! Review Game (Any content, any lesson!)
Split students into tables, give each student a personal whiteboard and assign each player at each table a letter either A,B,C, or D. Give teams 5 minutes to create the castle they will be defending on a sheet of anchor chart paper.Show the problems you plug into this ppt on the projector to review and every player in the game has a question to answer on their board (table 1 has a player "A", table 2 has a player "A", and so on for letters A-D), draw random names to check a person after 45 secon
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Open Ended Math Problems for Kindergarten Problem Solving
164 open-ended math problems perfect for whole class and small group kindergarten math warm-ups or guided math lessons. Teach problem solving with these word problems aligned to the Australian Curriculum – Foundation stage. Each naturally differentiated math question has multiple answers to cater for a range of learning abilities.Keep your students engaged and excited about maths with these age-appropriate math tasks designed around popular kindergarten topics and interests.We usually do one or
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PreK - 1st
Google Slides Mind Map Templates (10)
Product DescriptionGoogle Slides Mind/Thinking Map Templates (10 Slides) Light colorsGoogle Slides With Thinking Map Templates are a great way to keep your students engaged online. Share and collaborate with Google Drive LinkPre-placed and formatted text boxes are on the slides. Just open click and start typing. Saves you time formatting and extra steps for young learners.Includes ALL Eight types of Thinking Maps + two extra Bridge Maps 10 Slides TotalFolder includes Google Slides/PowerPoint Fil
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff, Not Grade Specific
BONUS Daily Dendrite Challenge - Critical Thinking
This BONUS Daily Dendrite Challenge is a paperless, digital resource that includes a variety of 25 brain-teasers, logical thinking questions, problem-solving challenges, riddles, and critical thinking activities for primary learners. This bonus pack is NOT included in the Daily Dendrite Bundle. This Bonus Challenge provides an additional 25 days of Daily Dendrite Challenges to teachers who wish to have extra challenges on hand or need additional days due to an early start, late finish, or just t
Grades:
K - 2nd
Joke of the Day!
Start your day the right way! Routines are important and both you and your students will be happy that you added these jokes to your morning meeting.Each joke is accompanied by a hilarious picture that makes it even more funny! Here are a few sample jokes:Q. What do you call an alligator in a vest?A. an Investigator!Q. What did 0 say to 8?A. Dude, nice belt!Q. What's something that everyone has seen but will never see again?A. Yesterday.Suggestions:Have your students try to guess the answe
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Morning Meeting Open-Ended Questions
**Excellent for distance learning AND for regular instruction**75 colorful slides containing a different open-ended question for your class to discuss! This product is ready to use and paperless--download and start using with your students in seconds!I created this resource for my class for our distance learning zoom meetings. This got my students talking and interacting in FUN ways! I LOVED asking my kiddos a question at the start of each zoom session. I felt that it really helped me get to kno
Grades:
K - 5th
Also included in: Morning Meeting Question Bundle
December Holiday Traditions Social Studies Kindergarten
Winter Holidays - Christmas, Las Posadas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa traditions are learned through an inquiry approach. Students look at images and videos and use higher level thinking skills to compare different holidays often celebrated in the United States in December!
This unit is aligned to NYS Kindergarten common core Social Studies standards.
Included:
10 days of detailed lessons and activities
4 PowerPoint OR Smart Board slideshows with full color photos and clipart to engage students in d
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Sound Bingo Game
This is a bingo game with a twist. The teacher will print out the bingo cards and distribute them to the students. On the sound page the teacher will click on one of the shapes and it will play a sound. The students then have to identify the sound and see if they have it on their bingo card. The teacher can decide what line or lines need to be covered for a student to win.
Grades:
PreK - 3rd
One of These Things Is Not Like The Other- Math Warm Up Routines
One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong.....can you find which thing is not like the other? Except, maybe your answer for each "Puzzle" isn't the same as your neighbor's. (Sometimes the kids come up with something you hadn't even thought of.). Project this powerpoint and see what differences kids can find in each puzzle. There are 35 distinct slides in this presentation, enough to add this to your math routines once a week. Each slide is useful in
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Christmas Themed - Which One Doesn't Belong - Critical Thinking Skills Activity
These Christmas themed “which one doesn’t belong” activity cards are designed to promote oral language and critical thinking skills, develop problem solving skills and encourage analyzing, sorting and categorizing skills. Students will learn to justify their choice as there is always more than one right answer!................................................................................................................................Two different ways to use this resource:- Printed Copies (Be
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Which One Doesn't Belong Games | Morning Meeting | Brain Break Activities
Which one doesn’t belong is a fun activity to get your students engaged and thinking critically. As students observe the four photos, some things to consider may be: size, shape, color, surroundings, real/not real, angles, beginning letter sounds, etc. This is a great warm up math exercise where every answer, is the right answer! With 100 exercises, there are plenty of opportunities for class discussion and critical thinking.How to play:o Display a single slideo Observe the four photoso Discuss
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Winter Themed - Which One Doesn't Belong - Critical Thinking Skills Activity
These Winter themed “which one doesn’t belong” activity cards are designed to promote oral language and critical thinking skills, develop problem solving skills and encourage analyzing, sorting and categorizing skills. Students will learn to justify their choice as there is always more than one right answer!................................................................................................................................................Two different ways to use this resource:- Print
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Also included in: Winter Brain Breaks & Morning Meetings Activities BUNDLE
Generating Questions (Real World Images)
Are you trying to find a way to teach your students how to ask questions?! When we explicitly teach students questioning techniques, we are preparing them to become active participants in their learning. We are strengthening their comprehension skills and helping them become critical thinkers.
This bundle has a fun approach to asking questions!
Each slide comes with a real world image (either nature themed or animal themed).
On the slide, there are a strip of question words. Each question
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
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Spring Themed Which One Doesn't Belong - Critical Thinking Skills Activity
These Spring themed “which one doesn’t belong” activity cards are designed to promote oral language and critical thinking skills, develop problem solving skills and encourage analyzing, sorting and categorizing skills. Students will learn to justify their choice as there is always more than one right answer!................................................................................................................................................Two different ways to use this resource:- Print
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
Also included in: Which One Doesn't Belong | Critical Thinking Skills Activity Bundle
Quiz, quiz, trade: Sentence or Not a sentence with pictures
Fun cooperative game that can be used to practice identifying what is a sentence and what is not a sentence with pictures. 24 cards that can be used for quiz, quiz, trade or as inside outside circle activity. Direction on how to play the game are includes. Also a cut and paste hands on activity that can be used as an assessment. (Kagan)
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K - 2nd
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Social Skills: Perspective Taking Through Optical Illusions
I created this short lesson on perspective taking for a group of boys who have ASD. Teaching social skills can be challenging, especially for populations that require very concrete examples. Optical illusions provide a concrete example of taking another perspective. At times taking another perspective can be difficult but with time and through politely asking questions, we can see another person's point of view. My boys had a great time with this activity and were required to listen to each othe
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Self-Evaluation Turn-In Bin Labels
Just print, laminate, and attach to the turn-in bins of your choice! My students use these bins for specific assignments in my room that I want them to reflect on before submitting. This download contains both a finished PDF that will allow you to edit if you have Adobe, however, the fonts may not transfer. I have also attached a PowerPoint version that includes images of the blank labels. This will allow you to add your own Bitmoji as an additional image without losing the fonts.
Grades:
K - 12th
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Quiz, quiz, trade with 3d shapes
Fun collaborative game to practice or review 3d shapes. Included is 24 cards that can also be used for inside/outside circle. Kagan strategies
Valley Girl
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
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