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Kindergarten critical thinking resources under $5
Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
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K - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
3 STEP STORY PICTURE SEQUENCING ACTIVITY KINDERGARTEN SEQUENCE OF EVENT CARDS
3-STEP SEQUENCING CARDS (78 TOTAL) INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE! (26 SEQUENCING SETS EACH CONTAINING 3 CARDS)Children will love these 3-step sequencing cards! The cards are color coded to help sort cards belonging to the same set. A sorting mat is also included so that kids can place their cards on it as they sequence the cards. These sequencing cards will help develop children's thinking skills.All you have to do is print the resources on cardstock paper and cut out. Shuffle the required cards
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PreK - K
Also included in: STORY SEQUENCING PICTURE CARDS AND WORKSHEETS SEQUENCE OF EVENTS BUNDLE
3-D Shapes Activity with Monsters (Geometry Math Craft for Elementary)
This fun elementary craftivity will get kids excited about 3-D geometric shapes while incorporating art into the classroom. This product includes 7 different shape (monster) templates (both in color and as line art for the student to color) and 3 accompanying worksheets. Please open my preview file to view everything that is included. This activity can also foster teamwork when students work together in groups of two to assemble their 3-D shape monsters.Save Money, buy the bundle! Monster Themed
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: 2-D & 3-D Shapes Monster Bundle
2D Shape Pattern Block STEM Challenge Cards
The perfect addition to your morning STEM tubs, these challenge cards ask students to make a variety of different 2D shapes from pattern blocks. Ideal for building visual discrimination skills as children have to rotate and flip smaller shapes to create the new shape.Focus shapes included - triangle, square, rectangle, rhombus/diamond, hexagon, trapezoid. Perfect to use as an invitation to play in the Early Years, as math centers or even as a cross-curriculum literacy center for early readers to
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K - 3rd
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Goldilocks STEM Activity - Goldilocks and the Three Bears STEM Challenges
What do you get when you combine fairy tales and STEM? A fun, hands-on STEM Tale! This fairy tale with a twist guides students through the engineering design process to create a new bed for Goldilocks. The storybook can be read aloud together. Students will complete it as they work through the STEM activity.The STEM ActivityYour students will help Baby Bear build Goldilocks a new bed of her own! In this story, there is a bit of a twist that will tap into SEL topics like empathy.What You'll Get:T
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K - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
LEGO Challenge Task Cards {Great for STEM or fun building!}
I am really excited to show you some cute, older-kid friendly LEGO Challenge Task Cards! These are bright, colorful, and can appeal to older students without looking too primary. Don’t’ have LEGOs? That’s okay! These can be used for any building materials you may have—unifix cubes, plastic Flake Discs (Amazon), Bunchems (Amazon or Target), Wiki Stix, pipe cleaners, play-dough, etc. Get those kids engineering and manipulating. They work great as an independent station for special education, a STE
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PreK - 8th
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Thinking Thursday
Are you looking for a fun way to get your children thinking outside the box? Try a Thinking Thursday. You can do these whole group, independent practice, or even as morning work. This is a great way to get your kids using their imagination!*Capital and lower-case letters*Numbers 1-20 in 2 different fonts*20 shapes*a blank set with no Thinking Thursday at the top so you can use any day of the week *a set with just lines so students can write their own sentences *1 page to use to create your ownPl
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PreK - 3rd
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The Napping House Retelling Pack
The Napping House Retelling Pack is intended to be used after reading the book The Napping House by Audrey Wood. This is a favorite student book. Use this pack to make the story come to life! Here is what is included in the pack.Vocabulary Cards: Print on cardstock, laminate, and cut apart words or leave as a poster. Preview vocabulary from the story prior to reading and/or review vocabulary after reading the story. Place in writing center, pocket chart, or back with magnetic tape and use
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PreK - K
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Finish the Drawing/Early Finisher/Time Filler/Creativity
This "Finish the drawing" activity is the perfect way for your students to express their creativity! I love using this as a time filler, fun Friday, etc.! It is so interesting to see all of the different ways they can finish the picture.This set includes 43 pages.
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PreK - 6th
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My Place in the World Project: "Me on the Map" Geography for Kids
This hands-on geography project "My Place in the World" has kids create a visual representation of how we fit into the world. Teachers often use it with the kids' geography book "Me on the Map," by Joan Sweeney. Ideal for integrated Social Studies, ELA, Geography, Literacy, and Map Skills.Using a series of nesting circles to show the relative sizes of different geographic places, this simple but effective geography lesson helps kids sort out their relation to one another. This activity includes
Grades:
K - 5th
Also included in: Geography for Kids Bundle: Three Essential Hands-on Activities
35 Different Tangram Puzzles - Black & Color
Here are 35 different Tangram puzzles for you to cut out and use in your classroom! Each tangram is on a 3.7" x 4.9" card and there are 4 cards per page. The color tangrams show the individual shapes while the black tangrams only show the whole figure as a sold color. The tangram cards will go with any sized tangrams. They aren't made to line up directly with the tangrams / aren't sized to any particular tangram set size, but were created give the students challenge cards to work with.I have
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PreK - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Day The Crayons Quit...Book Companion...Color Activities!
Visit this site to learn more!!Updated to to include Color pages and Colour pages.This is one of my favorite stories. So many Common Core Standards can be addressed using this piece of literature. Best is that it will bring a smile to your children's faces as they listen to this delightful tale and maybe even take a peek at their own crayons.Activities are differentiated to meet the variety of levels found in the classroom.The packet contains:Story Recall...Problem identification/how it was so
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K - 2nd
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Transportation Pattern Blocks Activity Mats & Task Cards
These transportation pattern blocks activity mats and task cards are perfect for enhancing your transportation unit or lesson. Students can create a picture with the pattern blocks, count and write how many of each block was used, then trace the name of the transportation. This set includes land, water and air transportation. Two versions are included to allow for differentiation. Just provide your kids with pattern blocks and let them complete the challenges/activities. The images on the mats
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: TRANSPORTATION BUNDLE
Christmas STEM Pattern Block Challenge Cards
Celebrate the holiday season in your classroom with the help of this pattern block Christmas math activity! A hands-on fun way to explore shapes making them the perfect addition to your math centers, morning work or STEM bins this Christmas! Few can resist working with pattern blocks and these Christmas STEM Challenge Cards provide ideal support for young children learning about shapes while also focusing on building visual discrimination, fine motor skills and transforming shapes by rotating, s
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K - 4th
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It's Not a Box! 25 Creative Drawing Prompts Your Kids Will Love
These 25 open-ended drawing prompts range from basic shapes to abstract lines to engage your students' creativity and critical thinking skills! Use them as a drawing warmup, mindfulness activity, or for early finishers. These are perfect for any art class, and can be paired with Antoinette Portis' book Not a Box for a literacy connection. My K-1 students loved these challenges, and they could easily be implemented up to high-school grades depending on the level of depth you encourage. As an art
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K - 10th
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Growth Mindset Activities Back to School Goals Growth Mindset Bulletin Board
Do you want to foster a growth mindset with your students this year? These growth mindset activities are designed as a way to foster a growth mindset culture in your classroom. Students will read the included book on growth mindset, learn about a fixed vs. growth mindset, write and/or draw their goals for the year and make a growth mindset bulletin board. You can also string them up and hang them around the classroom with the banner posters provided. They serve as a great reminder for students,
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Back to School Activities 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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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
Intro to Unplugged Coding: Directional Coding
Unplugged Coding made easy!Everything you need to get started with unplugged coding. No robots needed! Students learn the basics of directional coding and write their own code!Unplugged Coding Process:Students learn the logic and thinking that goes into writing codes using Directional Coding. They learn 5 vocabulary words: Programmer, Code, Command, Bug, and Debug.Students practice debugging codes before writing their own codes with a partner. After they have completed their activities, there is
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K - 5th
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St. Patrick's Day STEM Task Cards (March) - Distance Learning + SeeSaw
This resource includes six St. Patrick's Day STEM Activity Task Cards, an editable worksheet, and a STEM process poster! I've added SeeSaw versions for each activity! The links are located on page two of the pdf document and will take you directly to that specific assignment in SeeSaw. Just save it to your SeeSaw library and assign it to your class! Super simple :-)*****Save Money, buy the bundle!! Click Here! Save 30%*****These STEM St. Patrick's Day activities are extremely EASY to set up!! Th
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Elementary STEM Activities Task Cards for the Whole Year + SeeSaw
EMOTIONAL REGULATION: The Catastrophe Scale
I use this great visual to help teach my students to be less dramatic when resolving issues or becoming upset over problems. This resources comes with a number of colour and black & white versions that can be used as posters, cue cards or activity sheets.I have also included a cut and sort sheet as a follow up activity.
Grades:
PreK - 6th
Trick or Treat Guess Who is Under the Sheet | Halloween Craft
This fun craftivity will get the whole class excited for Halloween! Students write down clues about themselves, and their classmates can flip over the ghost to see who it is! This file can also be used as an interactive bulletin board for visitors to admire when they come to your classroom! Bulletin Board Lettering Included!There is more than one way to can create this product:Students can color one of the provided illustrations or insert a photo of the students' head. You can decide to cut out
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Learning About My 5 Senses!
Use your Mr. Potato Head toy to help teach your little learners about their five senses. This pack adds so much to learning!
Here's what is included:
Potato People Patterns: Choose from two black and white patterns and/or a color pattern. Students make a potato person (boy or girl options available) and label the senses used.
• My Five Senses Emergent Reader: A simple reader that teaches about the five senses using potato people pieces. Both a boy and girl version are provided to choose fr
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PreK - K
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Also included in: Five Senses Pack {Bundled}
Discussion Question Cards - Building Classroom Community
These question cards will allow your students to work on higher order thinking skills as they use critical thinking and problem solving skills to discuss their answers. This packet includes 100 different questions that are perfect for classroom discussions. I use these every day during our Morning Meeting, but they are also perfect to place on a metal ring and use when we find ourselves with a couple of extra minutes. These higher order thinking questions will help your students to develop th
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Discussion Question Cards - The Bundle
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