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Problem solving Common Core CCRA.SL.2 resources
Project Based Learning Activities | Lemonade Stand
Looking for a FUN PBL to engage your students in using academic skills to solve real-world problems? Try this engaging two week unit on how to make a successful lemonade stand. They will learn math skills, teamwork, build a model, design a lemonade stand and end with a group presentation to entice investors to give them funding for their project.Project Based Learning is great way to incorporate standards►What is in this download?Focus: Design, Economics, Math, Writing, and SpeakingDirectionsS
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K - 2nd
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Norse Mythology Escape Room - Thor's Quest
This engaging escape room introduces your students to the Norse myth “Aegir’s Feast: How Thor Triumphed.” Can Thor use his force and cunning to successfully steal a mead kettle from the Giant Hrymer?Students don’t need prior knowledge of Norse Mythology to understand the myth. If you have taught my Norse Mythology Unit, the escape room will serve as a great review and extension.The text is broken down into six sections – beginning, four challenges, end. Students will read the sections and answer
Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in: Norse Mythology Escape Room & Elon Musk Escape Room BUNDLE
Critical Thinking Skills BUNDLE - Creative Challenging Activities Worksheets
Watch critical thinking skills soar with these challenging and creative activities! Improve critical thinking skills and you're sure to improve reading comprehension, problem solving and math skills! Aligned with Bloom's Taxonomy, these step-by-step activities are carefully structured, research-based and give students the thinking and logic skills they need to master every area of learning. SEQUENTIAL ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE CRITICAL THINKING:These delightful exercises are based on Bloom's Taxo
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2nd - 6th
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PBL Plant Unit for Kindergarten, First, and Second Grades with Lesson Plans
This PBL unit includes the planning/description phase, full lesson plans,reflection outline for students, presentation planning outline for students, rubrics,activities for both hands on and technology. It covers plants from facts to awareness of their importance to our lives. The unit has 4 weeks of detailed lesson plans with guidance for both teacher and students. Planning, description outlines, lesson plans, and printables consist of 75 pages. Students can use an ongoing journal, or lap book
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K - 2nd
Popsicle Stick Activities | March Madness | Basketball STEM Catapult Challenge
Looking for an engaging STEM activity to engage your students with academic skills to solve real-world problems? This will enhance learning about basketball during March Madness. Be the teacher they remember by using student interests in your lessons by having them build a catapult to dunk a ball in a basket!►What is in this download?Focus: Design, Reading, Comprehension, Writing, Science & MathPg. 1 CoverPg. 2 Table of ContentsPg. 3 STEM Basketball Catapult (Teacher Info.)Pg. 4 Suggested L
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K - 2nd
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Middle School/Upper Elementary Scientific Method and STEM Fair Unit
This unit was designed as a way to incorporate STEM into a more traditional Science Fair model with connections to STEM careers. Students are encouraged to choose a topic that they are deeply interested in and they learn how to connect scientific thinking to concepts outside of science class. They are also introduced to future STEM careers and community resources. The unit is directly aligned to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the Common Core.
In order to help students achieve t
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4th - 11th
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Ecology Honeybee Crisis Cross Curricular Socratic Seminar Project Based Learning
Project-based learning is “a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging and complex question, problem, or challenge” from BIE . The Vanishing of the Bees project allows students to assume the role of various stakeholders in the bee industry and research ways to solve the problem. After reading an extensive article and viewing The Vanishing of the Bees documentary, students will join to
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9th - 12th
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HS-LS2-7
, HS-ESS3-4
Genius Moments: Brain Building Question Cards (All Levels of Bloom's Taxonomy)
“Genius Moments” Tool: Brain Building Question Cards {For every level of Bloom’s Taxonomy}Grab these cards when you have a few extra minutes in your classroom to “fill!” Don’t waste one single minute of classroom time. Turn those extra, unplanned moments into GENIUS MOMENTS! Simply grab your “ring” of Brain Building Question Cards and read a card aloud to the class. You may choose to have students answer you individually, turn to a partner and pair-share o
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PreK - 4th
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Social Skills Problem Solving Scenarios Boom Card Activities for Speech Therapy
These social skills boom cards provide a no prep social emotional problem solving game with scenarios to work on the size of the problem and solutions to use in your speech therapy and social emotional learning lessons. These problem solving scenarios use a problem scale that is based on the amount of help needed and one that respects individual student needs.Are you looking for a diversity affirming problem scale that allows students to decide the size of the problem for them, a scale that is
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Speech Therapy Social Inferences Perspective Taking Scenarios Emotions Pictures
This 58 slide, no prep, digital social skills and speech therapy activity works on social inferences with pictures and perspective taking scenarios. Adding these emotion and inference pictures to your speech therapy and social skills groups is easy to do as they align with your social skills curriculum. Students will work on reading the social situation using body language cues, facial expression, and social inferencing cues to make the inferences necessary to understand the social situation.
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3rd - 6th
Back to School After Winter Break STEM Activities Winter Challenge | Ice Skating
Looking for a FUN winter STEM activity to engage your students in using academic skills to solve real-world problems? This will enhance learning about winter sports during the winter Olympics. Try this ice skating-themed activity where students will learn about ice skating, skates, magnets, number patterns, force, and motion while designing a magnetic ice skater that follows number patterns around a rink.►What is in this download?Focus: Design, Reading, Comprehension, Writing, Science & Mat
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K - 2nd
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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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Thanksgiving SEL Group Work
Connect the Dots Social Skills: Cornucopia CaperThis product targets the goals needed for successful social skills, specifically working in a group. Your upper grade students will work together to complete seven puzzles to “connect the dots” and find the key to “breakout” of the speech room! What’s included?Group Rules template Group work skills rubric and keyTeam Mission cardsSLP mission cards with explanation and keys to answersHELP cardsMission Accomplished cards with a letter clue for eac
Grades:
4th - 9th
Also included in: SEL Group Work Fall Bundle
Once Upon a Crime - ELA Debate Argument Unit
My students had so much fun doing this, they didn't want it to end! Four Disney villains are being brought to court with charges and your students will either prosecute or defend them in "court":Ursula - The Little Mermaid: Fraud & Exploitation Scar - The Lion King: Manslaughter & Environmental CrimesGaston - Beauty & The Beast: Attempted Murder & Inciting a RiotLady Tremaine - Cinderella: Emotional Abuse/Neglect & ExploitationAssign your students to be prosecutors and defend
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Argument Unit Bundle
100th Day of School Activities STEM | KINDERGARTEN 1ST 2ND GRADE
Looking for 100th DAY STEM activities to engage your students in using academic skills to solve real-world problems? This will enhance learning about number concepts to 100. Use on the 100th Day or any day you want to reinforce counting and number concepts!Focus: Design, Counting, Writing, Science ► What is in this download?8 CHALLENGESPg. 1 CoverPg. 2 Table of ContentsPg. 3 DirectionsPg. 4 100 STEM OBJECTIVESPg. 5 & 6 Letter to Parents for DonationsPg. 7 CoverPg. 8-10 The Crayon Tower Chal
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K - 2nd
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STEM Lesson: Problem-Solving Urban Food Insecurity with Design Thinking
Engage your students in STEM learning with this Design Thinking lesson plan that addresses the problem of food insecurity in urban areas. Through a trial-by-fire activity, students will be introduced to the Design Thinking process and gain a foundational understanding of the steps involved. The first activity works best as an introduction to be followed by content delivery explaining the terms and the steps of the intentional design process. This lesson plan also includes 18 pages of a full proj
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Host Your Own Classroom Murder Mystery Masquerade Ball!
Do you teach a mystery novel/unit/genre study? Need something AMAZING for Halloween? Want to be remembered as the most AWESOME TEACHER EVER? My students' absolute FAVORITE events of the whole year was the murder mystery masquerade ball I put on after students read Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. Three weeks before the event, I would send out mysterious invitations alluding to a masquerade ball. Two weeks before the event, I would give students their character cards. These cards inclu
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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After Winter Break Activity | Hot Chocolate Stand PBL | Project Based Learning
Looking for a FUN PBL to engage your students in using academic skills to solve real-world problems? Try this engaging two-week unit on how to make a successful Hot Cocoa stand. They will learn math skills, teamwork, build a model, design a hot chocolate stand, and end with a group presentation to entice investors to give them funding for their project.Project-Based Learning is a great way to incorporate standards►What is in this download?Focus: Design, Economics, Math, Writing, and SpeakingDi
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K - 2nd
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Stuck in School Fun Simulation Game (Critical Thinking, Problem Solving)
This resource is an editable, fun simulation game in which students work in groups to survive scenarios. The scene is set as the students being stuck in school overnight, with all windows and doors barricaded. If any school personnel catches them, they will die/lose. Groups must strategize tactful ways out of the situations to make it through all 12 scenarios and survive the game.
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5th - 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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Fall Problem Solving Scenarios Speech Therapy Social Skills Problem & Solution
These fall social skills boom cards provide problem solving scenarios social skills activities that target social inferening for identifying the problem, solution, and cause with fall theme pictures to use in your speech therapy groups.Are you time poor and need no prep lessons and resources? These no prep boom cards are the perfect way to work on social problems and solutions with your upper elementary and middle school social skills groups.Use this no print social emotional learning and speec
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5th - 8th
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Wind Energy Activity | No Prep I Spy Science Review Game
Looking for a no prep science game your students will love? This Wind Energy I Spy activity is the perfect activity for reviewing or deepening students' understanding. It will help students see the power of wind energy all around them! These activities help develop inferencing, receptive and descriptive language skills all while having fun together! ★ INCLUDEDI Spy Activity(Please view the preview to see the complete product)Students listen to three clues to identify what I spy before creating t
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K - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
Gifted and Talented Critical Thinking Enrichment
In this PowerPoint adventure, students will be sent all over the globe investigating strange occurrences. They will work cooperatively to create a mock newscast detailing the problem and plausible explanation.
Along the way, students will incorporate research, critical thinking, cooperative problem solving, and narrative technique, as they write, revise, and perform their newscast. It is designed so that both performers and audience will be enriched.
This resource has extra video links, guide
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6th - 8th
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FREEBIE! Social Problem Solving: Feelings, Problems, and Solutions
This is a FREE version of an activity geared toward solving social problems. This is a great resource for distance learning, as it can be used as a static flashcard set over video conferencing (teletherapy).This activity shows a picture (thanks SmartySymbols) along with a short paragraph containing a social scenario. Each slide asks the following questions:* How do they feel?* How can you tell?* What is the problem?* What should [character] say or do next?This activity targets areas of language
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4th - 8th
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