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Critical thinking Common Core SL.K.3 resources
Question of the Day - Yes No Questions - DIGITAL and PRINTABLE
185 DIGITAL and Printable Question of the Day pages with picture clues. These Yes or No questions focus on getting to know the students, while incorporating language and math skills. *** The recent update now includes digital slides to use for remote learning! Great activity for morning meeting, when students enter the classroom each day, as cool-down activity after recess, or at the end of the day while waiting for dismissal. This packet has a Table of Contents and numbered pages for quick re
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PreK - 1st, Staff
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Also included in: Kindergarten Back to School Bundle
STEM Challenges & Activities for the Year STEAM Team Building Summer No Prep
Looking to use STEM Challenges and activities in your elementary classroom? These hands on simple STEAM activities are low prep and use common classroom materials. These STEM activities are both digital and printable! There are STEM challenges and activities for the entire year for you to use - 48 challenges! You will find just what you need for Back to School, Team Building, Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer STEM fun! This STEM Bundle includes STEM challenges and STEM activities for the entire ye
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K - 5th
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End-of-Year Summer Mystery Reading Activity | Fun Brain Break for Kids
Keep your end of year Morning Meeting activities engaging and fun with these interactive games! Your students will engage in inferencing and critical thinking as they try to identify 10 Summer-themed Mystery photos using visual and auditory clues. Preferred topics including Summer activities and food are sure to spark personal conversations!★ INCLUDED :Please view the PREVIEW to see the entire product10 Summer-related game rounds2 editable clues per round5 slides in each round★ HOW TO PLAY :Open
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: No-Prep Mystery Photo Guessing Games for Language Skills
Morning Meeting Sharing Questions- 200 Fun Discussion Questions
Do you participate in morning meetings? Do you ever get to the sharing time and find yourself asking the same types of questions or simply having trouble thinking of new questions to promote a safe and fun classroom community? This download contains 180 unique morning meeting sharing questions--one for each day of the school year. It is a great addition to any morning meeting space. You can choose to print out the master copy of the questions if you have a way of organizing the questions on your
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K - 5th
Also included in: Morning Meeting BUNDLE: Greetings, Sharing Questions, and Activities
Digital Primary Learning Pit for Character Education & Social Skills
Product Update: December 2020Supporting growth mindset through the use of The Learning Pit concept of learning. This bulletin board set will help you teach students, of any age, to understand that everyone goes through the same process in order to learn anything new. They are not alone in the journey! Visual images help students see the "pit" process easily so they can relate to it. This is especially good for non readers, ELL learners and students with special needs. Read this blog post about h
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K - 3rd
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Valentine's Day Party Game for Language Arts | An Engaging No-Prep Activity
Looking for a fun Valentine's Day-themed activity for Morning Meetings or a classroom party? With this game, your students will try to identify the mystery holiday-related photo using visual and auditory clues. Engage students with real photos while learning new vocabulary words and concepts. Your students will participate in conversations about this exciting, preferred topic.Made for Google Slides™, you can easily play in the classroom or online.★ INCLUDED :Please view the PREVIEW to see the en
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: No-Prep Mystery Photo Guessing Games for Language Skills
75 NO-PREP I Spy Games Bundle to Engage Students and Develop Language Skills
No-Prep Digital I Spy Guessing Games for Elementary Students to build classroom community, expand vocabulary, and make inferences with this fun and engaging games bundle!These digital I Spy guessing games are perfect for morning meetings, whole-class activities, or independent learning. They are designed to engage students, build classroom community, and develop receptive and descriptive language skills.The games feature real photos, not clipart, so students can see the objects they are trying t
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Not Grade Specific
Morning Meeting Activities Conversation Starters Daily Writing Prompts Advice
Are you ready to turn your morning meeting into the best part of your daily routine? ADVICE OF THE DAY MORNING MEETING ACTIVITY provides you with a consistent morning routine that will build a strong classroom community in a fun and engaging way! You will get 180 days worth of thought-provoking conversation starters, offering your students advice they can use in every part of their world,in both a printable and projectable version, with a matching student writing journal. This resource is not on
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1st - 4th
Biome Bundle: Grasslands, Oceans, Deserts, & Jungles (Pre-K and K, NGSS & CC)
This product from Explore Science and the Santa Barbara Zoo offers insight into the plants, animals, and climates of biomes, including 40 short stories, 20 crafts, 8 experiments, and 39 recommended children's books. This bundle focuses on deserts, grasslands, jungles, & oceans, with an introduction to biomes (worksheet included) and explorer workbook. All content is organized and written for Pre-K and K and aligned to NGSS* and CC at Kindergarten level.*
*Includes Phase III Rollout: Environm
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PreK - K
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Flexible Thinking Games Bundle for Reasoning, Justifying & Categorizing Skills
What Doesn't Belong? is an open-ended game that can be played by students of all ages and abilities. It is also a great way to promote teamwork and discussion.In What Doesn't Belong?, students are presented with four related photos. They must then describe why one of the photos does not belong. There is no one correct answer, as every answer is based on the student's own reasoning and interpretation. Practice reasoning, justifying, and categorizing skills with this fun and engaging language arts
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Not Grade Specific
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Play Dough Mats | Open Ended Activity Pages | Loose Parts Play | A-Z Lessons
Minimal prep STEM/STEAM open ended activity for toddlersOpen ended play, imaginary play, loose parts play, whatever you want to call it....you need these pages in your life! These full sized alphabet themed pages are perfect for incorporating STEM/STEAM activities with your toddlers. Print and laminate for re-use, and use loose parts to build and decorate the page. This activity can be done in a group setting, or independently for a quiet time activity. Add pages to a binder and use reusable sti
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PreK - 1st
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Tuesday by David Wiesner Socratic Seminar Plan + Extras
Need a way to creatively reach your student's Speaking and Listening standards? Want to assess ALL students based on their thoughts and not what they are able to write down? Socratic Seminar is an amazing way to assess student understanding and find holes in it, too. In addition, students who have difficulty with writing, but are able to verbalize their thinking will find an even playing field.
This seminar on David Wiesner's book, Tuesday, is meant for younger students. I have used it as earl
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K - 4th
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Winter Mystery Photo Guessing Game: Fun Inferencing Activity for Brain Breaks
This winter-themed inferencing activity is as magical as the first snow! Children love guessing the mystery Winter-themed photo with this NO PREP game! Designed to develop students' descriptive and receptive language skills, vocabulary, and comprehension, this is a fantastic Morning Meeting activity or Brain Break activity for anytime throughout the day! Promote students' thinking, speaking, and listening skills with this fun and engaging game.Made for PowerPoint™, just project and play- student
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1st - 3rd
St Patricks Day Activity a Fun and Educational Mystery Photo Game
St. Patrick's Day luck is with you through this interactive and informative digital game. Your students will engage in inferencing and critical thinking as they try to identify the mystery holiday-related photo using visual and auditory clues. Your students will participate in conversations about preferred topics including traditions and celebrations.Made for Google Slides™, you can easily play in the classroom or online. Ten rounds with editable clues are included. The clues focus on descriptiv
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: No-Prep Mystery Photo Guessing Games for Language Skills
Social Justice Identity Bundle
This unit has a specific focus on celebrating identity and is designed to give students opportunities on how they can love and embrace their who they are, understand their group's identity, and understand that how they look and do things is the same and different from how other people look and do things. I used the Social Justice standards to create this unit. They are a set of anchor standards (which can be found on TeachingTolerance.org) divided into four domains: identity, diversity, justice
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K - 2nd
Social Justice Unit: What Is Fair?
This unit has a specific focus on recognizing unfairness on the individual level and injustice at the institutional or systemic level . This unit is designed to give students opportunities to reflect on the harmful impact of bias and injustice on the world, historically and today. I used the Social Justice standards to create this unit. They are a set of anchor standards (which can be found on TeachingTolerance.org) divided into four domains: identity, diversity, justice and action. These stand
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Social Justice Bundle
Fun Friday Game for Class Rewards: I Spy Digital Game Supports Academic Skills
These digital games are the perfect NO PREP Morning Meeting activity or class reward! Build classroom community and get everyone involved with these highly engaging games. Can your students use the clues and inferencing to identify what I spy? Get your students thinking, speaking, and listening with this class favorite!Made for PowerPoint™, you can easily play in the classroom or online.★ INCLUDED :Please view the PREVIEW to see the entire product6 game rounds about topics and objects which are
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Not Grade Specific
I Spy Game with Food Photos: A Fun Friday Problem-Solving Activity
This food-themed whole-class game is designed to develop students' descriptive and receptive language skills, vocabulary, and comprehension. Can your students use the clues and inferencing to identify what I spy? Get your students thinking, speaking and listening with this class favorite!Made for PowerPoint™, you can easily play in the classroom or online.★ INCLUDED :Please view the PREVIEW to see the entire product6 game rounds about food5 slides in each round★ HOW ARE THESE GAMES DIFFERENT?Rea
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Not Grade Specific
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There's Nobody Like Me | Body Image Unit | 4 Lesson Plans
Body image is both mental and emotional. It is not just about what you see in the mirror, it is also about how you feel about your body when you look in the mirror. Having a healthy body image means that you truly accept yourself as you are right now. You don’t need to change in order to accept yourself.Grades level: K-2Lesson Plan Durations: 30 mins each + 15 minute extension activitiesLessons:Lesson Plan 1: I am SpecialLesson Plan 2: I am EnoughLesson Plan 3: There's No Win in ComparisonLesson
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K - 2nd
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Cupid and the Bees: Asking and Evaluating Questions
This Valentine's Day, use Cupid to help your students to learn to think like a lawyer!Cupid flies around and shoots people with arrows to make them fall in love.After reading that sentence, I have some questions! And so will your students. Have your class brainstorm questions and then determine which questions are the most important. The class will then consider a story where Cupid gets into trouble with some bees. Cupid famously goes to his mother to complain about the stingers. What quest
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K - 2nd
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Be A Community Superhero - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:How can we be heroes in our community?Description:In this project, students practice opinion and persuasive writing as they explore the concept of heroes. Through reading and interviewing, students investigate local and historical heroes and conduct an in-depth study on one specific person. Finally, students vote for and take on a service learning project in order to become community heroes themselves. A community exhibition at the end of the project allows students to practice
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K - 2nd
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Lesson Plan - Positive Body Image
This lesson aims to raise students' awareness of their bodies' essential functions beyond their looks, increasing their appreciation and understanding of their bodies. Guided by the principles of CASEL and ELA competencies, students engage in discussions, activities, and creative expressions to deepen their understanding of their emotions, social dynamics, and responsible decision-making regarding body image. By fostering empathy, gratitude, and self-awareness, this lesson empowers students to c
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K - 7th
Become Easter Bunny's Assistant (Easter Breakout)
A physical team-building Easter Breakout Box designed for grades K-2. The 13 slides include the breakout story, 4 puzzles, the success page, and an answer key. This Google Slides has been designed using assets from Canva and Freepik.Applicable AASL Standards:AASL III.C.1: Learners work productively with others to solve problems by: Soliciting and responding to feedback from others.AASL III.D.1: Learners actively participate with others in learning situations by: Actively contributing to group di
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K - 2nd
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Social Justice Unit: I Love My Family!
This unit has a specific focus on celebrating identity and is designed to give students opportunities on how they can love and embrace their family, understand their group's identity, and understand that how they do things is the same and different from how other people do things. I used the Social Justice standards to create this unit. They are a set of anchor standards (which can be found on TeachingTolerance.org) divided into four domains: identity, diversity, justice and action. These standa
Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Social Justice Identity Bundle
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