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Higher education critical thinking character education resources
BRAIN TEASERS 4-Pack Bundle, Logic, Word Sense, Puzzles, Lateral Thinking – Fun!
Whether you need bell-ringer presentation slides or just want to occasionally mess with your students’ minds when you have a few unused minutes at the end of a class period, this four volume set of Brain Teasers has everything you need to keep your students working hard and thinking deeply. There are LOTS of ways you could use this collection of 152 questions in both PDF & Google Slides format (304 slides – the question is on the first slide and the answer with an eye-catching image is on th
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Famous Failures Vol. 1, Interactive Growth Mindset Bulletin Board, Grades 6-12
Life is hard and you will fail. It’s what you do next that determines the quality of your life. That’s the message I hope students in grades 6-12 learn from this interactive bulletin board that celebrates the growth mindset of famous figures who weren’t defeated by early failures and set-backs. This message, of course, is echoed all over social media, but I wanted to try to find reliable sources to back up what life experience has taught me to be true. To that end, I did some research and built
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Growth Mindset: Change Your Words Bulletin Board Set - Editable
Complete bulletin board set to make the Change Your Words Change Your Mindset Bulletin Board. The colored pages include cute borders, backgrounds, and frames to make your bulletin board stand out. The ppt is completely editable, giving you the option to adjust the phrases as you see fit!
Included in the set:
*Color Brain (*ideal poster size is 18x24 - as shown - from Staples or similar store)
*Black and White Brain (for those wanting to color it yourself)
*Fixed title
*Growth title
*Change Yo
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Kindness Coloring Compliment Notes | Whole School Kindness Project
World Kindness Day kindness coloring compliment notes are ideal for lifting the spirits in your classroom and spreading random acts of kindness! They would also work especially well February Valentine's Day, although every day is ideal to teach about kindness and spreading random acts of kindness!Here are some suggestions of ways you can use these notes: 1) Kindness notes can be used like reward coupons to offer students for good behavior. They can then enjoy coloring the notes in and keeping th
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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How to use GOOGLE SEARCH like a BOSS!! | Research Skills | Digital Citizenship
Teach your students an ESSENTIAL LIFE SKILL of the INFORMATION ERA. Learn how to refine and filter GOOGLE SEARCH QUERIES using PROVEN TECHNIQUES that improve RESEARCH and CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS in 2024. This ❤️NO PREP unit teaches you and your students how to USE GOOGLE SEARCH LIKE A BOSS!This EDITABLE resource comes with all the instructional slides, graphic organizers, and video tutorials you need to make an immediate impact.Learn exactly how to find what you want online, filter out unwant
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Listening Skills Podcasts 5-Pack Listen & Learn Bundle #1 PDF Google Drive CCSS
Students need to be able to sit and listen to a passage or short audio program, take notes, recall information, and then answer critical thinking questions about the material. To help prepare students for online learning, I’ve scoured the internet to find high-interest, school-appropriate podcasts that fit within one class period.In this bundle of five Listen & Learn activities, students will listen to a podcast (runtime for each episode is between 15 and 28 minutes) focused on a variety of
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Important Piece of the Puzzle All About Me First Day of School Get to Know You
This is a big puzzle piece for students to fill in as a get to know you activity for the first day of school. All students are an important piece of the puzzle!Decorate as you wish. Cut out puzzle pieces and glue/tape them together to form a wonderful classroom mural.If new students enter your classroom you can always add to the puzzle. It's never "complete."Idea: Have paraprofessionals, Admin, custodians, etc. fill out a puzzle piece. Everyone is important!!
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle
Teach your students with depth and complexity!This "Mega Bundle" contains 8 of my best selling resources that are designed to elicit critical thinking. $65.00 if purchased separately; Save over 30%! Click on the links below for detailed information on each of the 9 resources that are included in this bundle. Two versions--with and without icons--are now included!!IMPORTANT: This bundle has changed. Please read through the product description carefully and check out the links below to see exac
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4th - 10th, Higher Education
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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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Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Back to School Icebreaker STEM Bundle! Need back to school icebreakers or games that get students moving, communicating, working in teams, and building relationships? Here are 50+ of our favorite basic activities that are low-cost and low-prep for any classroom or subject!Working as a team, they will learn lessons in communication, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity that are central to the engineering process. Use as a warm-up, icebreaker, team building activity, or basic STEM and en
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Resilience Character Education Social Emotional Learning Activities
This Resilience unit is a crucial element for strengthening the core curriculum and ensuring our teenage students have a growth mindset and can bounce back from adversity so that they can succeed and reach their goals!Product includes:• 16 slides of resilience PowerPoint - fully structured so no prior experience is required to deliver it. The text is also editable for you to modify as needed!• 9 pages of resilience Printables - graphic organizers go perfectly with the PowerPoint if you want your
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Famous Failures Vol. 2, Interactive Growth Mindset Bulletin Board, Grades 6-12
My students begged for more of these, so I built another set of Famous Failures, two dozen well-known people who show us that it’s what we do after we fail that determines the quality of our lives. This interactive bulletin board, designed for grades 6-12, celebrates the growth mindset of famous figures who weren’t defeated by early failures and set-backs. This message, of course, is echoed all over social media, but I wanted to try to find reliable sources to back up what life experience has ta
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Working Memory Hemisphere Integration & Attention Building Activities Intermedia
Unlock your students' cognitive potential with Dr. Warren's 54-page digital workbook, "Working Memory, Hemisphere Integration, and Attention Building Activities for Optimal Learning - Intermediate." This resource engages students with fun, game-like activities that develop executive functioning skills and stimulate both brain hemispheres.Key Features of Dr. Warren's Workbook:Mindful Engagement: Activities are designed to anchor learners in the present, establishing a solid foundation for focused
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Working Memory Bundle
Student Lawyers: Criminal Court Mock Trials & Cases with PowerPoint
Students will get the opportunity to be lawyers and prosecute or defend an accused person in a criminal trial (11 total). Each group will consist of 2 lawyers (prosecuting and defending), and an accused person. The teacher will act as the judge and guide the jury as they vote on the verdict. The majority vote determines the verdict. This unit includes court brief handouts, directions, and PowerPoint explaining how the cases will proceed. Visit our store for much more helpful and free stuff!Crim
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Leadership Character Education Social Emotional Learning Activities
This Leadership unit is a crucial element for strengthening the core curriculum and ensuring our students are taught how to be good leaders so that they can learn to be assertive, forward thinking, and be positive role models to others.Product includes:• 17 slides of Leadership PowerPoint - fully structured so no prior experience is required to deliver it. The text is also editable for you to modify as needed!• 10 pages of Leadership Printables - graphic organizers go perfectly with the PowerPoi
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy Posters for Higher Level Thinking
Whether you're a Common Core school, a 21st Century school, or just a school that's making it a focus to prepare all learners for their future, you know how essential it is for the teaching and learning to be in the highest levels of Bloom's everyday. Display these student-friendly (and not too overwhelming) posters in your classroom (or if you're an administrator, purchase these for all the teachers in your building, so there's a set in every classroom) to help you and the students do "the wor
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
The Circle Challenge — Art Drawing Fun Worksheet Game Early Finisher Sub Plan
The Circle Challenge - make each different! Great for early finishers, bell ringers, sub plans, staff meetings, ice breakers....and more! Art class or even just regular boredom buster. 8.5x11 reproducible. Color and Black & White Version included.See our Triangle, Square and Geometric Challenge as well as our other Art Games, Worksheets, Lessons and more! Click Here!***********************************************************************Hope Creek Studios specializes in Art Studio and History
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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39 Digital Moveable Tangram Puzzle Activities STEM Team Building Math
Have fun with your students while they solve these Tangram Puzzle Activities! This set of puzzles can be used in Google Slides or it can be downloaded and printed on paper. You choose! Great for developing critical thinking skills and team building activities!Great for distance learning!Included is a Google Slide version of the Following:39 Digital interactive Moveable Tangram Puzzles and their answers as well as a printable version. Your students will be able to move the tangrams into posit
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Teams and Themes Bundle
Classroom Teams will revolutionize the way you teach! Teams and Themes are two programs I use to create classes I love teaching by creative power incentives to work as teams and develop positive leadership and community character traits. Both are inspired and adapted from systems I experienced and taught while serving with the United States Marine Corps. There, they help forge Marines who win missions in challenging, complex, and dynamic environments. While we as teachers don’t send our kids int
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
Growth Mindset Bulletin Board Set: Change your words, change your mindset!
UPDATED!! New version includes "I'm not good at math, reading, writing" and "I'm going to train my brain in math, reading, writing".
Materials to create a Growth Mindset Bulletin board!
Two different versions available!
PLEASE NOTE: The brain is not included in the bundle! You can download it for free and then bring to staples and have them make it as big as possible. Below is the free link we used.
www.clipartbest.com/clipart-KinGKyriq
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
198 Riddles / Brain Teasers / Bell Ringer Activities BUNDLE
198 Riddles Bell Ringers / Lesson Starters / Morning Meeting - Riddles BundleAre you looking for some gripping ways to settle your students really quickly at the start of your lesson?Here are 198 of the best riddles out there that you can use as bell ringers / lesson starter activities for teens!I have done all the hard work for you and gathered more of the best riddles into one neat PowerPoint that you can pull up whenever you need. These 198 riddles have passed my strict screening process to e
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Twilight Zone “Number 12 Looks Just Like You," Analysis of Twilight Zone CCSS
There’s a reason Rod Serling’s series, The Twilight Zone, has stood the test of time. The stories are compelling, the episodes are well-crafted, and the themes are timeless. With this lesson download (PDF & Google Drive formats), you can also use The Twilight Zone to help students develop analysis skills and connect classic storytelling to modern issues.In this episode, “Number 12 Looks Just Like You,” a teen girl resists efforts to look, act, and think like everyone else around her. Issues
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Satire Video Analysis, Birds Aren’t Real Conspiracy Theory, PDF & Google Drive
Introduce students to the power of modern satire with this video-based lesson featuring a behind-the-scenes look at Birds Aren’t Real, a satirical conspiracy theory group that insists the U.S. government has replaced all birds with surveillance drones to spy on people.Begin with a quick discussion and definition of satire and then view The Truth Behind Birds Aren’t Real – My Life Online, a high-quality 23-minute documentary available for free (with ads) via two online platforms. Next, ask studen
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Historical Thinking Bundle: A Complete Unit - Digital & Print!
This bundle contains 7 Historical Thinking lessons and a 4-5 day culminating group project where students are required to apply the skills from these lessons in a fun, critically engaging way. This means roughly 2 weeks of fully planned materials that will help your students develop their historical thinking skills!Included in this Unit Bundle:Introduction to Historical Thinking lessonHistorical Significance LessonContinuity and Change LessonCause and Consequence LessonHistorical Perspective Les
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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