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Critical thinking independent work packets for Easel Activities
Math Review Activities - Worksheets for Practicing Skills & Enrichment
These 28 ready-to-use math review activities reinforce basic skills such as addition, multiplication, measurement, mental math, elapsed time etc. in fun and interesting ways.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:28 Math Enrichment PrintablesAnswer KeysDIGITAL:Easel ActivityDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintDifferent Skills IncludedGreat for 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade! CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE A LOT MORE! This resource is part of a money-saving bundle! (just link)This bundle includes these resources:NOT
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Logic Puzzle Worksheets for the Year No Prep Print or Digital Bundle
Find logic puzzles for the year or brain teasers in an interesting and helpful print and digital worksheets! When holidays come around, I love giving my students challenges with a theme; however, it's often difficult and time-consuming to search for a logic puzzle each month. Plus, your kids will love it! #JoyceLogicClick HERE to save 25% off with the bundle.Engage your students with these critical thinking activities or logic puzzles. Included in this bundle are 12 multi-grid critical thinking
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Also included in: Logic Puzzles Brain Teaser Activities Print Digital Resources Worksheets
Rebus Puzzles 1 Brain Teasers Printable and Digital Easel Activity
Rebus Puzzles are a fun critical thinking activity. Students have to problem solve to figure out the word puzzles. Great logical reasoning puzzles to do with partners or use as a warm-up or bell ringer. Print or use the Easel Activity online. Works well for gifted and talented students who enjoy challenges, but these work with other student populations as well. Includes five 2-page worksheets with 20 puzzles each, so you get 100 brain teasers in total! Also includes a blank page for students to
Grades:
5th - 8th
ELA Enrichment Worksheets to Review Skills for Centers Homework Fast Finishers
Use these 16 Words at Play printables as supplemental materials with your Language Arts program. The playful approach will motivate your students while requiring them to use their critical thinking skills.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:16 WorksheetsAnswer KeysGreat for 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade! CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE A LOT MORE! This resource is part of a money-saving bundle!This bundle includes these resources:Figurative Language WorksheetsPrefixes, Suffixes, & Roots WorksheetsELA Review
Grades:
4th - 6th
Spring STEM Challenges and Activities
This Spring STEM challenge is perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and second-grade engineers working together or alone in centers this April and May. This resource uses the engineering design process to solve problems all spring. Your kids will have fun building a nest, a bird’s house, and a birdbath. Each challenge has a bonus challenge to help differentiate. Make this spring season fun with hands-on STEM activities. STEM is the perfect way to build critical thinking skills and cooperative l
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Math Muder Mystery Number A Math Challenge Case#54
This fun math muder mystery will engage students by taking them on a journey to solve addition math puzzles and activities to solve a murder. Students will need to gather evidence by completing charts, Interview witnesses by sorting through addition equations, and compare data to narrow the suspects. Finally, they will narrow it down to two suspects (a 2 digit number), with a final hundred chart puzzle to uncover the truth. Math Puzzles and ActivitiesEven and odd numbers to 100Code breaking with
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: STEM Math Murder Mystery 2 Digit Bundle: 3x Math Challenges Bundle
New Years SMART Goal Setting Mini-Unit for 3rd - 8th grade - Digital & Print
This New Years SMART Goal mini-unit will encourage student goal setting and promote a growth mindset in your classroom! Kick off the New Year by guiding your students through the SMART goal setting sheets and activities in this resource. This 5-lesson mini-unit is available in a print or a Easel version. Teach your students how to:Reflect on the previous yearUnderstand what SMART goals includeWork through goal setting activities that will allow them to develop, measure, and ACHIEVE their own ind
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Halloween Logic Puzzles and Math Brainteasers Print or Digital Worksheets
Your kids will love these fun and challenging Halloween brain teaser activities and logic puzzles. This set includes logic puzzles, vocabulary building, research, creative activities, and a math activity for building creativity with Halloween worksheets. These Halloween activities are sure to keep your kids engaged whether they are gifted and talented students or just plain bright! Click HERE to save 25% off the price of individual resources with the bundle.Save 30% off the price of individual r
Grades:
4th - 6th
Rebus Puzzles 2 Brain Teasers Printable and Digital Easel Activity
Rebus Puzzles - Set 2. Brain Teasers are a fun critical thinking activity. Students problem solve to figure out the word puzzles. Great logical reasoning puzzles for partners or use as a warm-up or bell ringer. These are also known as Plexers, Netbats, Wordies, Brainbats, Frame Games, and Punzzels. Print and go. Works well for gifted and talented and regular ed classes. Includes five 2-page worksheets with 20 puzzles each, so you get 100 brain teasers in total! Has a blank page for students to
Grades:
6th - 9th
Middle School Executive Functioning Activities Plan a Beach Vacation Worksheets
Do your students struggle with planning and executing activities? Executive functioning activities that include real-life scenarios can be helpful for learning the skills needed for academic and life success. Students will work on using a calendar, a map, math skills, reading comprehension, and more.INCLUDED ACTIVITIES:Use a calendar to answer questions regarding planning datesCreate a packing list by adding to a suggested starting list; determine the number of items needed to cover 4 days of va
Grades:
5th - 8th
Book vs Movie | Comparison Project for Movie Versions and Partner Movies
These no prep booklets of resources will help your students think more critically when comparing and contrasting a book with its movie counterpart, or a book with a partner movie. This product is also included in my High School Combo BUNDLE.Use this resource with ANY book that has a movie version, or with ANY movie you are connecting to a book study. That's two products in one!The activities cover plot, setting, culture, context, characterization, theme, and symbolism comparisons with critical a
Grades:
9th - 11th
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Fly Away Home by Bunting Lesson on Homelessness
Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting Lesson Plan teaches students about the realities of homelessness. It addresses the common myths and brings into light the urgency of homelessness in America. Themes of family, homelessness, and belonging. This resource includes: Learning Objectives Reading Comprehension QuestionsFacts about Homelessness in AmericaExtension Resource on HomelessnessText to text connection Text to world connection Nearpod Teacher Access included on the last page of the fileIf you have a
Grades:
4th - 6th
Read Draw Write Word Problems Math Worksheets
RDW math worksheets help students pay attention to the context of word problems using a three-step problem-solving approach. First, students read the problem to visualize what is being described. Second, students draw a model that represents the situation. Third, students write an equation and solve the problem. These word problems are a mix of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. They would be great for 2nd-3rd for use in RTI, in a math station, or for projecting one at a time f
Grades:
2nd
Oral Communication Language Activities Setting Personal Boundaries - Worksheets
This is A Must Have Communication Skill Set for Young Adults! Help students understand and integrate their personal space needs protecting.Develop a life-long skill that will serve in relationships and interactions.Setting Personal Boundaries: Student Activity Guide with 6 ExercisesSetting Personal Boundaries is Packed with Ideas and Fun Lessons.Six (6) Super Student Discussions and Activities.Use as Teacher Notes or a Self-Guided Lesson.Use for Independent Work Study in Groups.In Black and Whit
Grades:
9th - 12th
Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool Novel Unit
Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool Novel Guide This amazing coming of age story is set at the end of the World War II. Two boys, Early and Jack burdened with loss and grief, find their way from being “washed away”. “Navigating Early” is a captivating novel. It can be read out loud in lower grades or a formal novel study in higher grades.This Novel Unit is includes: Lesson Objectives Chapter by chapter short answer/ reading comprehension questionsNew VocabularyWord Search Activities Foreshadowi
Grades:
6th - 9th
License Plates - Problem Solving - Word Puzzles
180 words or phrases hidden on license plates, like URA QTPI (you are a cutie-pie), BRBDL (Barbie doll), IMB4U (I am before you), DNTJJME (don’t judge me), WTSUP (what’s up), NTVMRKN (Native American), ME1ST (me first), RN4URLF (run for your life), NVRENUF (never enough), and many more. Nine challenges per page. Students decode the nine on the page, identify which one was the easiest and hardest and funniest, and make up three of their own personalized license plates. This activity can be us
Grades:
4th - 10th
Also included in: Thanksgiving BUNDLE - 20 packets of Math and Language Arts
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Selznik Novel Unit History of Film and Animation
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznik Novel Guide is perfect for teaching the history of film and animation, inferencing, character analysis, story development, new vocabulary and the role of art in literature. Pdf & Nearpod Novel Guide BESTSELLERThis is a highly engaging novel with abundant vocabulary and creative story telling. A true gem.This resource includes: • Reading comprehension questions
• Character analysis
• Essay questions,
• Vocabulary activities
• Nearpod Teache
Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in: Elementary Novel Guides
Back to School Brain Teasers for Teens or Logic Puzzle Worksheets High School
Challenge and entertain your teens with this rigorous Back to School multi-grid logic puzzle in printable, Google slides, or Easel format. Use this fun activity in your middle or high school class to further develop critical thinking skills and writing in teenagers. Kids love this great back to school activity for teens! ⭐ Click here to save 20% off the price of individual resources with the High School Logic Puzzles Bundle.Your students will love class time with engaging activities to discover
Grades:
8th - 11th
If I Built a School by Dusen Growth Mindset Design and STEM Lesson Plan
If I Built a School by Chris Van Duesen Language Arts, Spatial Reasoning Lesson Plan and STEM; This lesson includes language arts, architectural design, & mapping skills. In addition to studying "If I Built a School" story, students learn about the architectural design of Bjarke Ingles Group and emerging building concepts and elements. ⭐️ Bundle & Save ⭐️Purchase If I Built Series Bundle to get this lesson PLUS If I Built A Car and If I Built A House Lesson Plan. This pack includes: Pre,
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Also included in: If I Built Series by Chris Van Dusen STEM Bundle
Summer Fun - Geometric Brainteasers and Word Puzzles
100 printable pages of geometric brainteasers and word puzzle license plates for your students to work on during the summer (or any time of year). Students identify how many circles, squares, triangles or cubes are in a design. Take a look at the Preview to see sample pages. And if you want ENRICHMENT activities, take a look at these packets: Enrichment: Think Outside the BoxEnrichment: Creative ThinkingEnrichment: Word GamesEnrichment: Fun with WordsEnrichment: Creative WritingEnrichmen
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Historical Fiction Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions Irish Castle
Make teaching fun with this fascinating close read historical fiction reading passage for St. Patty's Day or year round in print or digital worksheets. Students will be challenged and engaged as they close read, A Bloody Bad Life, about Ross Castle of Killarney, Ireland in the 1400s. This second person passage, packed with common core standards, walks students through an Irish castle as if they were the peasants living an unsanitary life. This is a great topic for St. Patrick's Day.Click HERE
Grades:
4th - 6th
Oral Communication Skills Secrets 4 Relationship Success and Conflict Resolution
We did NOT come equipped with Communication Skills at birth. What we learn(ed) was-is acquired through our family, friends, peers, media and limited to our social class. We interact with others based on our perceptions and biases. We adopt conversation patterns that work, but may not work as we intended. Confusion and frustration are often the result.Ever increasing human diversity often challenges our interpersonal relationships. Communication conflicts are now plentiful and sometimes downright
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
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Touch Blue by Cynthia Lord Novel Guide
Touch Blue by Cynthia Lord for grades 3-5. Tess is coming of age and starting to understand and appreciate her life a lot more once her family home becomes a foster home for Aaron, a 13-year-old boy. As the story develops, both Tess and Aaron learn to make their own luck in a way by letting go of trying to control life and holding on to the idea of what life should be like, and embracing their life while making the best out of it. This novel unit includes:Learning ObjectivesPre-reading activityC
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Also included in: Elementary Novel Guides
BrainTeasers to challenge your mind - Patterns
20 printable or digital pages for students to identify and generate patterns: Sequence: which number or shape comes next?Geometry: how many squares, how many triangles, how many circlesNumbers: which one doesn’t belong (odd/even, multiples, single-digit or double-digit). Analogies: complete the analogy3rd Grade: identify and explain patterns, 4th Grade: generate and analyze patterns, 5th Grade: analyze patterns and relationships, Take a look at my Preview to see the lesson plans, poste
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Thinking Outside the Box BUNDLE
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