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Critical thinking Common Core RI.11-12.7 resources
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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Salem Witch Trials Escape Room
Looking for an exciting way to introduce the Salem Witch Trials to your students? This challenging lock box activity is designed to accompany history lessons on the Salem Witch Trials or The Crucible play. I love introducing The Crucible with this escape because it stirs students' interest in the accusations and evidence for the Salem trials. Premise: students have recently discovered an ancestor of theirs was the first person in Salem hanged for witchcraft. They want to know about her, and as
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Salem Witch Trials Escape - Digital & Print
The Crucible Engaging Activities - 12 Pre-Reading & Post-Reading Tasks
Looking for some fun, unique, and engaging activities to supplement The Crucible? These activities are perfect for learning background information before reading the play and assessing students' understanding after studying the play.Pre-reading activities include:❶ A history video viewing guide that corresponds with Salem Witch Trials documentary from the History Channel with answer key.❷ a handout where students determine which information is true, false, or simply opinionated about the history
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9th - 12th
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Unsolved Crimes:Complete Series of 4 Cases
The Unsolved Crimes Series consists of the following cases: Deathboat, Slime 9, Curse of the Mummy, and Alien Invasion.
Case Overviews:
Slime 9: Professor Tarling developed Slime 9 as a means to protect his country from its neighboring enemies – a weapon of peace. Yet it could just as easily be used as a weapon of war – if it fell into the wrong hands. When Tarling ends up dead questions arise as to how he died and who was involved.
Deathboat: When multimillion dollar lottery winner, Waverl
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8th - 12th
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Critical Thinking Activities, Cognitive Bias: Nonfiction Close Reading, TED Talk
Tired of students who are afraid to think for themselves?If your goal is to open your students’ minds, to get them to think critically, to help them become more receptive to new ideas, or to show them the importance of examining the evidence before jumping to conclusions, you’ll need this resource. These informative and engaging lessons on cognitive bias will challenge your students to consider fascinating questions about the way that the human brain works. Why is it that when people are faced w
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9th - 12th
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Personalized Learning Project (Cap Stone) (Senior Project) (Independent Study)
An EDITABLE GOOGLE-DOC VERSION of this resource is included (on the last page). You can customize this resource. Then print or have students complete online as a Google Doc. FROM STUDENT MANUAL INTRODUCTION PAGE:What is the Personalized Learning Project, and what is its purpose?The Personalized Learning Project (PLP) is an independent learning project based on your interests. The PLP allows you to explore an area of interest and provides you with the opportunity to apply and demonstrate k
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8th - 12th
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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
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9th - 11th
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Documentary Viewing Unit
This unit is designed to teach students about the various elements of documentaries and help them develop critical viewing skills. This unit focuses on three main areas: identifying the main idea, analyzing filmmaking techniques, and critical analysis. The assignments in this unit are generalized and can be used for any documentary films. The unit includes the following components: · What is a documentary? Introductory questions/activity· Introduction to documentaries – notes, PowerPoint, flip b
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10th - 12th
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Also included in: Documentary Viewing Unit Digital and Print Bundle
Dealing with Murder Series: 2 Cases - Fatal Error and Dead & Breakfast
NOTE: While generally similar in process to the Unsolved Crimes cases, the Dealing with Murder cases have one significant difference. Rather than being given all of the case information at once, the information in the Dealing with Murder cases is provided in four sections in an effort to be more realistic and better represent the process of an actual investigation.
The Dealing with Murder cases merge science and literacy as students are required to be critical and active readers as they conduc
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7th - 12th
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Ralph Waldo Emerson UNIT - "Nature," "Self-Reliance," "The American Scholar"
Looking for an engaging way to introduce your students to transcendental thinker and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson’s works? This lesson on excerpts from "Self-Reliance,” "The American Scholar,“ and “Nature” will do just that!What's Included . . . ► Step-by-step instructions for each day.► Common Core English Standards aligned to daily tasks.► Understanding Transcendentalism group synthesis task.► Viewing guide for short biography clip suggestion (about 10 minutes) ► Bell Ringers► "Emerson or Lil Wa
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau Transcendental Bundle
Teaching Line of Reasoning: A Whodunit Activity Unit (Bundle)
This is a unit about teaching Line of Reasoning (Line of Argument) that can be expanded at the teacher's discretion to include a presentation and a paper that practices both utilizing evidence and line of argument, or alternatively can also be collapsed into a mini-unit of just teaching Line of Reasoning (Line of Argument). It is structured as an investigation for students to explore how a Professor at an elite school is murdered and by whom. It includes a presentation, all the evidence (which
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9th - 12th
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Digital Citizenship BUNDLE
This bundle includes 4 units and other resources related to digital citizenship. Students will learn about digital media literacy, digital health and wellness, digital safety and security, and digital etiquette. The activities in these units will encourage students to think critically about a variety of topics, respond to texts, conduct research, develop written texts, and more! Units can be taught individually, or you can select assignments from each to build your own custom digital citizens
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9th - 12th
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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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Charles Dickens: Social Activist
This lesson uses four videos and a Google doc to analyze how Charles Dickens was a social activist during his life. This pairs well with any movie version of his stories and can be useful around Christmas time if you are reading or showing "A Christmas Carol".
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8th - 11th
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Unsolved Crimes Series: Deathboat Case
Deathboat Case Overview: When multimillion dollar lottery winner, Waverly Berg is pulled from the ocean the question is, “How did she die?” Was it an unfortunate accident caused by seasickness or could it be that someone on board the luxury ship wanted her to take her last swim?All of the cases in the Unsolved Crimes Series merge science and literacy as students are required to become critical and active readers as they conduct their investigation. Beginning with an evaluation of the crime scene
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9th - 12th
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CRACK THE CODE: Decipher & Unlock an Unknown Language
CRACK THE CODE is a fun way to experience what archaeologists or linguists go through as they attempt to decipher and decode unknown languages of the past. Like a cryptogram, have students use the letter frequency chart and the common tendencies of the English language, to crack the code and decipher this very important message! I like to use this for my history class to help students understand the difficulties that historians face in discovering an unknown language. You could also use it as
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4th - 12th
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Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery Unit (Bundle)
This is a unit about teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) that can be expanded at the teacher's discretion to include a presentation and a paper that practices utilizing evidence, reasoning, and argument, or alternatively can also be collapsed into a mini-unit of just teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER). This unit can also be used to teach the concept of Line of Reasoning for the AP Lang and AP Seminar Classes. It is structured as an investigation for students to explore the murder of a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Documentary Viewing Unit Digital and Print Bundle
This unit is designed to teach students about the various elements of documentaries and help them develop critical viewing skills. This unit focuses on three main areas: identifying the main idea, analyzing filmmaking techniques, and critical analysis. The assignments in this unit are generalized and can be used for any documentary films. The unit includes the following components: · What is a documentary? Introductory questions/activity· Introduction to documentaries – notes, PowerPoint
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10th - 12th
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Salem Witch Trials Escape - Digital & Print
Looking for an exciting way to introduce the Salem Witch Trials to your students? This challenging escape activity is designed to accompany history lessons on the Salem Witch Trials or The Crucible play. Starting The Crucible unit or the Puritan time period with this escape will stir students' interest in the accusations and evidence for the Salem Witch Trials. This escape has well-designed clues to engage your students and get them thinking critically.Premise: students have recently discovered
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Business Law Ethics Civics Responsible Decision Making Social Scenarios Activity
This Business Law Bundle is Packed with Real Life Choices that have Consequences.Here are the Highlights of these 4 Resources...(1) Business Law is About Citizen Ethics, Integrity and Civic Responsible Conduct.This Product is a FUN Introduction to Business Law! This Lesson is full of ethical decision making and moral debates. This 'mini-course' is loaded with activities to keep your class awake and aware!The “Spider in Your House” theme engages students to: Use critical thinking skills as appli
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9th - 12th
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Nonfiction Texts, Poetry Activities, Critical Thinking, Socratic Seminars Bundle
Want to challenge your students to analyze more deeply, write about and discuss big ideas, and think outside the box? Covering themes from love metaphors in Shakespeare’s sonnets to gang violence on the Chicago streets, from the Salem Witch Trials to the current refugee crisis, and from revenge in the 17th century to resistance movements during the Holocaust, these units will take your students far and wide.Some of my favorite units to teach, these lesson plans inspire students to explore atypi
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9th - 12th
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Age of Reason - Early American Literary Movement Series, part II
This literature unit on the Age of Reason is the second in a series of the American Literary movements which includes: The Puritan Era, The Age of Reason, The Romantic Era, Transcendentalism, Realism, Harlem Renaissance, Modernism and Post Modernism. This particular unit begins by contrasting itself to prior ways of thinking and being human, as expressed through the literature of the previous era. It covers the major accomplishments, ideas and innovations of the Enlightenment, as well as the phi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Digital Etiquette and Social Media Savvy Unit Print & Digital
This low-prep unit teaches students about the importance of appropriate online conduct, and how to be a good digital citizen. Students will think about the role that social media plays in their lives, evaluate their online presence, and think critically about the consequences of inappropriate social media use. The unit includes the following: 1) Digital Etiquette Anticipation Guide – Students share their initial opinions about social media and its role in our society. The anticipation gui
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10th - 12th
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Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery Unit
This is the accompanying teaching sequence for the unit “Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery.” It includes a mystery to solve, all the evidence (which can be turned into manipulatives), rubrics for presentations and writing, teaching instructions, graphic organizers, and solutions. It does not include the "Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery" PowerPoint presentation which can be purchased separately or as part of a bundle.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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