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8th grade critical thinking interactive whiteboards
Working Memory Executive Functioning NO PRINT Speech | Distance Learning
Memory for Messages is the perfect functional resource to target working memory skills in your middle and high school students. This lesson is designed to be NO PRINT and NO PREP. You can download it today, and use within minutes. *****************************************************************************************************************Each student is presented with a printed message, then asked to determine which words are relevant in that message, to be written down on a "sticky note"
Grades:
6th - 9th
3-2-1 Exit Ticket Template & Entrance Ticket Templates (Printable & Digital)
Entrance and Exit Tickets are an amazing strategy to pre-assess and formatively assess your students. With this resource, you can use the 3-2-1 strategy to assess your students in all classroom settings.This resource includes 2 options for your 3-2-1 strategy:3-2-1 FTQ (Facts, Things, Question)3-21 Bridge (Words, Phrases, Metaphor)Each resource includes:Printable PDF (2 per page & 4 per pageGoogle SlidesGoogle Jamboard3 different colors: Pink, Green, OrangeBlack & White Version***Please
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Marshmallow Challenge - STEM and Team Building Activity - SMART Board
★ Top Selling Resource ★ The Marshmallow Challenge is a great team building activity that can be adapted for any grade level (even adults) or subject area. This activity is sure to get the participants collaborating and critically thinking! A perfect activity for days before or after winter break.
Students are challenged to work together to build the tallest, free-standing tower made out of simple household items within a certain amount of time. A handout is included that asks students to an
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Propaganda Techniques - Analyze Text and Media (Power Point and Smart Notebook)
You get both the Power Point version and Smart Notebook version with this product! For this to work properly, you must be in SLIDESHOW MODE in PowerPoint.
PURPOSE: This is a fun and interactive "game show" activity that can be used to introduce propaganda techniques, or as a formative assessment to let you know what students understand about propaganda techniques. In this lesson students will analyze a text that includes seven different propaganda techniques and then make a personal connec
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5th - 8th
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Hypothetical Questions | Visual Writing Prompts | What would you do? Icebreakers
Following the wild popularity of the Visual Writing Prompts Bundle comes HYPOTHETICAL VISUAL ICE BREAKERS AND OPINION PROMPTS for 2024. This FUN writing resource is evergreen with proven success with struggling or reluctant writers and an excellent ICEBREAKER for students and staff.The resource is broken into five unique areas⭐ What If?⭐ Icebreakers⭐ Would you rather? ⭐ Hmmm??? That's a tough one⭐ Tough questions for young adults.Everything is entirely EDITABLE with absolutely "NO PREP REQUIRE
Grades:
4th - 9th, Staff
SEL Check-in: How are you feeling? ANIMALS SET 1: morning meetings | exit ticket
How are you on a scale of...(fill in the option!) is a great activity to check in with students and connect to how they are, while having fun! It's a social emotional Mood-meter that lowers the affective filter. Morning meetings, PLCs, exit tickets... any time! Students can demonstrate rigor by choosing an image and making thoughtful connections to their state of being that day (or week, or moment!). Students can justify their choices with the Visible Thinking Routine: What makes you say that?
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PreK - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
Phenomena – NGSS Middle School Life Science
This LIFE SCIENCE PHENOMENON download is a collection of short videos and images designed to give teachers quick and easy access to an observable event or phenomena, that is aligned to the Middle School Life Science Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). What is a phenomenon and why is it useful in the science class?Natural phenomena are observable events that occur in the universe and allow students to use their science knowledge to explain or predict. In the science classroom a carefully ch
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Phenomena – NGSS Middle School Science Bundle
Compare and Contrast Activities and Graphic Organizers | Digital and Print
Similarities and differences in speech therapy!Work on comparing and contrasting with more complex similarities and differences with these mazes for higher elementary and middle school. A NO PRINT digital version is included - great for speech teletherapy or distance learning.5 MAZES Suggestion: Laminate and use whiteboard marker for multiple useNO PRINT: Use an annotation app to complete mazes. Directions are included with suggested free apps. 3 WORKSHEETS TO FILL IN ANSWERS
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Phenomena – NGSS Middle School Earth Science
This EARTH SCIENCE PHENOMENON download is a collection of short videos and images designed to give teachers quick and easy access to an observable event or phenomena, that is aligned to the Middle School Life Science Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). What is a phenomenon and why is it useful in the science class?Natural phenomena are observable events that occur in the universe and allow students to use their science knowledge to explain or predict. In the science classroom, a carefully
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Phenomena – NGSS Middle School Science Bundle
Phenomena – NGSS Middle School Physical Science
This PHYSICAL SCIENCE PHENOMENON download is a collection of short videos and images designed to give teachers quick and easy access to an observable event or phenomena, that is aligned to the Middle School Life Science Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). What is a phenomenon and why is it useful in the science class?Natural phenomena are observable events that occur in the universe and allow students to use their science knowledge to explain or predict. In the science classroom, a careful
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Phenomena – NGSS Middle School Science Bundle
Social Media Manners:Middle School/High School (Teletherapy/Distance Learning)
This lesson is a static PDF and is a NO PRINT resource. Do you have difficulty finding meaningful lessons that target critical thinking skills in older students? This lesson is perfect for you! This lesson was written to empower students to think critically and practice responsibility when using online platforms. This is a lesson on social mediaetiquette & safety paired with discussion questions with students to activate higher level thinking skills.There are 15 online behaviors addressed in
Grades:
6th - 12th
SHAPE LEARNING ROOM with geometric and organic shape lesson!
USE THIS LEARNING ROOM TO KICK OFF ANY SHAPE LESSON K-5...BUT THERE'S MUCH MORE...Included:11 page slide show with resources for a lesson that can be customized or use as is! My "shape stream" lesson is for teaching geometric and organic shapes to grades 3 and up.You must have Google Slides to view. This lesson is in Google Slides and includes:Main shape teaching room with 11 linked books and 2 videos on shapeArt lesson to share with students on geometric and organic shapeStep by step instructio
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
Intermediate/Middle School Morning Work & Homeroom Warm-Up: Grades 5-8
This resource is a helpful tool for your morning work or homeroom routine with intermediate/middle school students! This powerpoint presentation includes homeroom warm-up activities for each day of the week with enough for one whole term (60 days!). The slides are editable, so you can make more for future terms. You could also ask students to help make more slides as an activity for early finishers.If you are looking for a second term (60 more days) of these activities, they can be found here!Ho
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5th - 8th
America Says Game
Get ready for a fun game that students from third grade to high school will enjoy! It’s inspired by the game show, America Says. All of the questions are school or student based. Each of the 20 game slides will begin with a prompt on which students will fill in 7 blanks. The blanks will show the first letter of each word and/or phrase as well as articles like “a” and “the”. Students will write down their answers on paper or my preferred way, dry erase boards. When the timer goes off, click
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3rd - 12th
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MEASUREMENT - Let's Compare! THREE MINI-LESSONS WITH FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES!!!
This fun interactive activity includes three separate measurment mini-lessons with follow-up activities that include moveable clipart. Teach about how to measure length (includes terms longer, shorter), height (taller, shorter) and size (bigger, smaller). Following each mini-lesson there are multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate knowledge of the measurement concepts. Each lesson also includes an opportunity to place into order a group of items based on length, height or size. Includ
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PreK - 8th, Staff
Empathy Real Pictures What would you DO No Prep Speech Therapy Boom Cards™
This Boom Cards™ deck contains 22 cards (including the menu and instructions) to target empathy and perspective taking by answering "What would you do?".It contains real pictures and scenarios in which the child needs to analyze by answering:1. How does the character feel?2. What should you DO given the situations.The deck is in flow magic, the questions are all set to be open-ended (manual grading from the therapist is required).The break down is as follows:❤️ Card 1 - Cover Card❤️ Card 2 - Ins
Grades:
5th - 8th
Fake news and false facts – ESL, EFL, ELL adult and kids conversation
This presentation contains a 60 slide PowerPoint lesson in editable PPT format with a work papers and teachers’ notes.There’s no need to explain the necessity of discussing this topic in this particular period. While preparing this lesson, I have tried as best I could to steer clear of politics and even personal specific examples and stuck to facts and study results.The activity at the end is there to show that “false facts” are not a new phenomenon and that science also gets it wrong (a lot…).T
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Thinking on Your Feet Game
I previously hosted 'Thinking on Your Feet Game' on another site and had over 60000 downloads! This is a very enjoyable talking and listening activity. It's perfect for the last 5 minutes of the day.
Pupils get very enthusiastic about this fun-filled thinking game! It runs with a timer and has 220 slides. The aim is to name 5 items in a category within 10 seconds. Press F5 and once you, or the student, reads the category, press the right hand cursor arrow to start the timer. Their time is up wh
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6th - 9th
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Chain Reaction Game (Connect 8) End of Year Game
Super fun game to keep the kiddos challenge and entertained at the end of the year! This is inspired by the Game Channel show "Chain Reaction." Students race each other to connect the words and earn points! Answers are in the notes section of the powerpoint.
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Bell Ringers for Creative Kids - 1 MONTH of Fun Bell Work - Critical Thinking
Do you use bell ringers or warm-ups in your classroom? Do you feel rushed to start every class? Bell ringers or warm-up activities are a great way to get students to focus and engage every class. These creative Bell Ringers will bring calm and laughs to your classroom so you can focus on getting ready for the day. 20 bell ringers are included in this download. Both printable Powerpoint slides and Google Slides are included in your purchase. Choose the format that fits your needs!What's Included:
Grades:
6th - 8th
6-8 Social Justice Morning Meeting Slides-Anti Bias Education-Sociocultural
UPDATE: GOOGLE SLIDES FORMAT NOW AVAILABLE 10/15/20Teaching Tolerance’s Social Justice Standards is a road map for anti-bias education at every grade level. These particular slides were developed for 6-8 classrooms. The purpose of these slides is to engage our students in deep and meaningful conversations that go beyond the basic "my favorite color is...". They are meant to elicit dialogue about inequalities and equity. What does that look like? How can students be citizens that promote a safe s
Grades:
6th - 8th
Warnings 1 – why do we ignore them? – ESL adult and kids conversation
This presentation contains a 33 slide PowerPoint lesson in editable PPT format with a handout, a vocabulary sheet, a practice activity and teacher’s notes. Warnings are an interesting discussion topic. We’ve all received warnings in our lives, and we’ve all ignored some of them for various reasons.This lesson discusses the reasons warnings are and have been ignored in the past (sometimes with severe consequences, like the case of the titanic).This was fun to create and fun to teach. This lesson
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Warnings – a two-unit bundle
Critical-Thinking Game: 3 Clues
Students will be tricked into using their higher-order thinking skills to connect THREE CLUES together to see how they're related. For example,
Lifeguard, Diving Board and Towel
might be the three clues, to which students would have to come up with the category "Things at a pool".
A little tricky to explain, but SO FUN to play! Download now f to enjoy a game that will prepare your students to think critically and connect information in a new and exciting way!
(Also works great in conjuncti
Grades:
1st - 8th
TERM 2 Intermediate/Middle School Morning Work & Homeroom Warm-Up: Grades 5-8
This resource is a helpful tool for your morning work or homeroom routine with intermediate/middle school students in grades 5-8! This powerpoint presentation includes homeroom warm-up activities for each day of the week with enough for one whole term (60 days!). THIS IS THE TERM 2 SET OF SLIDES. 60 TERM 1 slides can be found here.The slides are editable, so you can make more for future terms. You could also ask students to help make more slides as an activity for early finishers.How to Use:Pres
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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