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Middle school critical thinking resources for Microsoft PowerPoint
Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides Activities Digital Resources Morning Work
Are you ready to turn your morning meeting into the best part of your daily routine? Unlock the power of morning meetings with this Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides & Activity Pages Yearlong Set, designed for K-6 grade. These NO PREP INTERACTIVE EDITABLE morning meeting slides will revive your morning routine in a fun and engaging way. These Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides are an easy-to-use, time-saving way for you to build a consistent morning routine and a strong classroom co
Grades:
K - 6th
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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Fake News Unit | Critical Thinking | Media Literacy | Fact Analysis & Research
Teaching students to navigate news and information on mainstream, traditional and social media as critical thinkers is essential in 2024. It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate FACTS and OPINIONS, SATIRE from LIES, and PERSUASION from PROPAGANDA in the "MISINFORMATION:" eraA well-grounded understanding of MEDIA-LITERACY is crucial in stopping FAKE NEWS and RADICALIZATION. And This PROVEN resource will teach your students the skills to identify, analyze and critique information throug
Grades:
5th - 10th
200 Daily Bell Work Writing Prompts (Grades 7/8)
Be prepared to teach your Grade 7/8 Language class with a year's worth of bell work writing prompts for Google Slides™! This resource is perfect for a soft start to the Language block and for creating a daily routine for your students to follow.This resource includes 200 writing prompts themed for each day of the week to spark student interest and promote engagement. The writing prompts also contain three sub-questions for those students who find it difficult to brainstorm ideas. With prompts an
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Grades:
7th - 8th
Also included in: Grade 7 Ontario 2023 Language Bundle (FULL YEAR)
200 Daily Bell Work Writing Prompts (Grades 4-6)
Be prepared to teach your Grade 4-6 Language class with a year's worth of bell work writing prompts for Google Slides™! This resource is perfect for a soft start to the Language block and for creating a daily routine for your students to follow.This resource includes 200 writing prompts themed for each day of the week to spark student interest and promote engagement. Every prompt comes with an example of how students should organize their journals, including partial sentences to get students sta
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in: Grade 4 Ontario 2023 Language Bundle (FULL YEAR)
Forensics Fun - Murder Mystery for Middle School: Getty Palace Hotel
There has been a murder the old historic hotel in downtown. The concierge has been found dead in the basement elevator. Your detective team has been assigned to the case. Can you solve the murder?Click here to save 20% on our TRIO Murder Mystery BundleUsing their skills critical thinking skills, deductive reasoning, and team work, the Junior Crime Detectives work in partnerships or teams to solve the murder mystery.Everything you need for your Junior Detectives is included in this kit including
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Persuasive Techniques Unit - Media Literacy Analysis PowerPoint & Project Bundle
Teach persuasive techniques, ad analysis, and propaganda with this bundle of media literacy activities. This comprehensive bundle includes bellringers, projects, PowerPoints, and quizzes for teaching persuasion through engaging advertising analysis, interactive practice, and creative projects. In this bundle, you’ll get 3 weeks of engaging activities to introduce or strengthen student understanding of persuasive techniques. This is a perfect foundation for media literacy with a variety of activ
Grades:
6th - 9th
Gifted & Talented Daily Challenge Bundle - Vol 1 - Math & ELA Extension Tasks
12 daily challenge resources that are perfect extension activities for gifted and talented students. Gifted and talented students thrive on daily challenge, and are often deep thinkers. With Google Slides, powerpoint and task cards in both colour and ink saving black and white they are sure to save teacher lots of time preparing enrichment activities for their gifted and talented students. Great for early finishers activities! This growing bundle Daily Challenge Activities for Gifted and Talente
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Team Building STEM Cup Challenge Activity!
Looking for a fun ice breaker activity for your students? Try this STEM cup challenge! Students will work through a series of challenges in order to build different cup towers. They will work on their problem solving and communications skills while learning! Follow me on instagram! @lifewiththemiddles
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3rd - 12th
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Game Show Mania - Five Fun ELA PowerPoint Review Game Shows
Save $7.00 with this bundled deal that includes five fantastic PowerPoint review games for English Language Arts!This package includes these five game shows:"Comma Invasion" - Reviews comma rules with a goofy alien-invasion/classic-monster-movie theme"Shootout at the Homophone Corral" - Reviews common spelling errors like "there / their / they're" in with an old western theme"Language Knockout" - Reviews nouns, verbs, pronouns, phrases, and verbals (gerunds, infinitives, and participles) with a
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6th - 12th
Also included in: MY FULL STORE! - A bundle of every single product I have
Minute Mysteries Brain Teasers Riddles Breaks Logic Deductive Reasoning Puzzles
With visual hints and fly-in solutions! These are a fun to use if you have a couple extra minutes at the end of class. Encourage students to work more efficiently and reward them with a minute mystery at the end of class for finishing early. They can also be a great introduction to one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories OR to a Slip or Trip lesson. The rules are simple: (1) Students ask yes or no questions (2) Teachers respond accordingly to guide students to the correct answer
Grades:
6th - 12th
Epic Grammar FAIL - Fun Test Prep Review Game
A fun way to get students to practice finding and fixing common grammar errors and typos. It's a great activity for back-to-school, test prep and review, holidays, the last day or week of school, or other filler days.
"Epic Grammar FAIL" is a fun, interactive way for students to review common grammar concepts. In the game, students will play in teams to find the editing / proofreading errors in real signs, song lyrics, published novels, and other random places (some of which are totally hilario
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5th - 10th
Geography Jeopardy - an interactive social studies game
Geography Jeopardy is an interactive game in which students answer geography trivia questions. This resource reflects the popular TV game show, but adaptations have been made so it can be played in the classroom. The categories are:Where Am I?LandformsImaginary LinesKnown by Its ShapeGeography SuperlativesIslandsParts of a MapCountries Starting with "I"Colorful PlacesWater! Water! Water!ContinentsFamous LandmarksWhere in the World?*SIGN UP AS A FOLLOWER OF “OFF THE PAGE” AND GET NOTIFICATIONS OF
Grades:
5th - 8th
Public Speaking Introduction, Speech and Debate Unit - Bundle! - 5 Lessons!!!
Public Speaking Activities for Writing a SpeechSpeech ActivitiesDebate ActivitiesWriting for Public Speaking, Speech, and DebateDifferentiated Activities for Public Speaking, Speech, and DebateEnrichment Activities for Public Speaking, Speech, and DebateGoogle Slides*****************************************************************************************Introducing how to research, write, practice, and present a speech has never been easier! These lessons guide students through a step-by-step p
Grades:
6th - 8th
198 Riddles / Brain Teasers / Bell Ringer Activities BUNDLE
198 Riddles Bell Ringers / Lesson Starters / Morning Meeting - Riddles BundleAre you looking for some gripping ways to settle your students really quickly at the start of your lesson?Here are 198 of the best riddles out there that you can use as bell ringers / lesson starter activities for teens!I have done all the hard work for you and gathered more of the best riddles into one neat PowerPoint that you can pull up whenever you need. These 198 riddles have passed my strict screening process to e
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Technology Morning Meeting / Technology Daily Warm Up Questions (EDITABLE)
Complete year's worth of technology focused daily warm up or bell ringer questions and activities! 180 engaging warm ups included digitally on both Google Slides and PowerPoint. Topics include digital citizenship, coding, devices, typing and more. Also includes blank templates or edit the text of any of the included warm ups to fit your classroom needs. How it works:Project one activity each day as students enter the room, during morning meeting, or at the end of the day / class period. Eac
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Analyze & Interpret Experiment Data Lessons - Variables, Graphs, Analyze Results
Do your students adeptly analyze and interpret data from science experiments? It’s quite common for students to know how to conduct experiments, observe, and gather results, but also lack the data analysis skills to make meaning from their experiments. That problem is the inspiration behind this resource.STEM / NGSS Aligned Students are usually given the most experience with the first steps of the Scientific Method, but lack practice in the end stages. We often run out of steam or time performi
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Brain Breaks and Class Closers 1 - activities for middle school
Have you ever had a time when your students needed a brain break to help them refocus? Have you ever finished class early and wondered what to do for the last few minutes? These brain breaks can help. They are designed to be photocopied and kept handy to be used at a moment’s notice with no further prep required. Several of these can also be used as complete lessons. Most of the activities can be used for as long as you need and then left and picked up at another time. Some games include variati
Grades:
5th - 8th
Observe and Infer - Picture of the Week
All young scientists need to practice making careful observations and evidence-based inferences. With this product, you will get a complete year of Picture of the Week activities for students to strengthen these skills. Students are shown an image and spend time making careful observations. After this, they make inferences based on these observations. This would be a great warm-up exercise or a great addition to your weekly classroom routine.
You will begin to see your students become mor
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for Jade C.
Introduction to Growth Mindset (Digital & Print)
This versatile DIGITAL or PRINT package is everything you need to empower your students with the skills of Growth Mindset!It includes two rigorous and resuable lessons:Lesson 1: Introduce the concept of Growth Mindset in a ‘ready to teach’ Google Slide or PowerPoint with accompanying student work-pack and videos. Lesson 2: A Growth Mindset poster creation task with a student scaffold and editable exemplar.Also available as part of the Back To School: Middle School BUNDLE.
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Back to Middle School Digital and Print BUNDLE
Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library - a complete novel study
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library is a complete novel study that’s ready to go with minimal preparation required by the teacher. It contains several interactive activities that engage students in critical thinking. This book is a great fit for middle school language arts, and it aligns with many of the common core state standards.The activities included engage the students in many learning outcomes: reading comprehension, decoding new words, predicting, critical thinking, analyzing, understan
Grades:
5th - 8th
Socratic Seminar/Fishbowl Discussion Planning, Tracker, & Reflection
Socratic Seminar/Fishbowl Discussion Planning, Tracker, & ReflectionTo hold a successful Socratic Seminar, Fishbowl Discussion or any kind of structured classroom dialogue, planning ahead is key, especially for your students who are reluctant speakers. This resource provides planning materials so that your students are prepared for the discussion, tracking materials so that your students are active listeners during the discussion, and reflection materials so that students can identify areas
Grades:
6th - 12th
Science Logic Puzzle Bundle Measurements, Motion, Force, Atomic Structure
Unlock the Power of Critical Thinking in Science with This Logic Puzzle Bundle!Engage and Challenge Your Students: This collection of critical thinking puzzles is designed to cover key components of a physical science class, including Speed and Acceleration, Volume & Density, Work, Power, Momentum, Atomic Structure, Properties of Waves, and a special puzzle on the planets of our solar system. Perfect for a variety of classroom activities, these puzzles are ideal for bell ringers, extensions,
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Grades:
8th - 9th
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Brain Teasers for your Math Class
15 different brain teasers that are great for classes of all ages. These math riddles involve games, challenges, spacial reasoning, critical thinking, and basic math skills, which will generate great conversation and interaction. These challenges are perfect for Bellringers, extra credit activities, group tasks, or any time you have some extra time and want to have some fun while still being academic.The download is a PPT presentation, each challenge is on its own slide with the answers immediat
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Grades:
2nd - 12th
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