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Free 8th grade resources for Gifted and Talented
FREE Halloween Would You Rather Questions Print, Easel, and Google Slides
Here is a set of 20 FREE Would you Rather Questions about Halloween. Great for discussion starters, class polls and journal prompts. What's Included:Print copy Easel Assessment (great for a class poll!)Easel Activity - digital activity that requires students write about why it's there favoriteGoogle Slides digital activity - more challenging for advanced technology users! The students move move around a flashlight to try and read the questions.Great for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th,6th, 7th, or 8th g
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1st - 8th
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5 Minutes Left and What Can I Do? : 100 Fun and Challenging Puzzles
Thank you for visiting this page! After 30+ years of teaching, these are my absolute favorite classroom-tested time fillers. Every teacher needs to have something ready when a planned lesson ends earlier than anticipated or the kids just need a break at the end of the period.
Some puzzles I have used over the years just do not work well; these all do. What they have in common is that they are challenging, engaging to all students, and effective problem-solving/critical thinking activities.
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5th - 12th
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Balloon Car STEM Challenge: Engineering Design Process
Balloon Car STEM Challenge! Challenge students to build a balloon-powered car that can travel 5 feet! This STEM challenge will take your students through the engineering design process as they brainstorm, design, build, and test with a fun and engaging project. STEM challenges incorporate math and science concepts with creativity, innovation, and critical thinking. Students are provided with a Mission Sheet and a Student Handout that guides them through the engineering design process. Included i
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3rd - 9th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Year-Round STEM Activity Bundle (Elementary STEM)
Listening and Following Directions Activity With Lesson Plan
Listening and Following Directions
An Activity That Challenges Students To Pay Attention To Details
This activity is designed to challenge students to listen closely to directions and complete tasks in the correct locations on a grid.
Interested in more following directions and reading comprehension activities? Check out:
Listening and Following Directions Growing Bundle + Reading Comprehension
Listening & Following Directions Back To School Edition +Reading Comprehension
Listening & Fol
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
Leap Day Challenge FREEBIE - Fun, Engaging, No-Prep Activities for February 29th
Here is a fun scavenger-hunt-type activity for your upper elementary/middle school students on Leap Day. Students will need to use their math, research, writing, and creative thinking skills to complete this Leap Year activity. Use it with the whole class, as enrichment, or even for homework.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:Leap Day Challenge WorksheetAnswer KeyGreat for 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade! NOTE: This resource uses American English and is not editable. Here’s what teachers are saying:✏️ "I
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4th - 8th
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30 Circles Challenge | Creative Thinking
30 Circles Challenge | Creative ThinkingThis 30 Circles Challenge comes from Bob McKim. It’s a great warm-up that encourages creative thinking! Simply give students 3 minutes to transform as many circles as they can into recognisable objects!
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1st - 12th
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FREE Logic Puzzle, Doodle Logic, Critical Thinking
Everyone loves a good puzzle. THIS is what you have been looking for! YOUR students are the stars of this fun, personalized logic puzzle! Easy, NO PREP fun, and every single puzzle is personalized by the students themselves! Students are less intimidated by critical thinking, when they are the stars of the puzzle!Introducing “Doodle Logic”! This is one of the first in my new line of logic puzzles in which students choose their friends they want to be in the puzzle. Dream Pet is a sill
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5th - 8th
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The Principal's New Clothes - Reader's Theater for the Entire Class!
This reader's theater is for the entire class! You will need at least 11 students but more is always better. This ties into my other twisted fairy tales except that it was written to do as a class. I split my class into two groups and both groups practice. When we perform we discuss what things we liked about each group. I use this to introduce the small group reader's theaters I have them do the rest of the year. I have also come back to the script at the end of the year to perform in front of
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3rd - 8th, Adult Education
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Winter Logic Puzzles Freebie
This freebie includes 2 logic puzzles ~ one simple and one more advanced. Also includes an answer sheet for students and an answer key. Great for morning work or early finishers!
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2nd - 8th
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End of the Year: DIGITAL PUZZLES - Self-correcting | Distance Learning
Fun self-correcting digital puzzles designed for middle school students! The resource includes 6 rebus puzzles, 4 picture equation puzzles, 4 word change puzzles, and a photo detective puzzle. Correct answers turn green to provide instant feedback. All you do is post it on Google Classroom. No correcting! This is my #1 multi-purpose resource! End of the yearDistance LearningTeam-buildingAdvisoryRTI/EnrichmentGifted and TalentedEarly finishersBefore vacationsAfter testsFirst days of school6 Rebus
Grades:
6th - 10th
Murder Mystery: The Case of the Unfortunate Acrobat
The year is 1885. A raucous crowd has gathered to enjoy a thrilling night at the circus, but suddenly, tragedy strikes! A talented trapeze artist freezes in midair and falls to her death. Foul play is immediately suspected, but who among the performers and the audience members would have reason to kill? Download a series of letters, witness statements and mysterious coded messages, then challenge your students to work together to find the means, method and motive of the killer. Includes six
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7th - 12th
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Claim Evidence Reasoning Graphic Organizer and Lesson Plan Free
Do your students struggle with providing strong, credible evidence for their claims? These two free Evidence Graphic Organizers can be used for any argument, opinion, persuasive, or research essay to help students gather and analyze arguments and evidence that they need to support a claim.Students gain critical thinking skills as they justify the use of their evidence and the evidence checker graphic organizers allow them to see exactly what kind of evidence they are using.This freebie includes
Grades:
5th - 9th
FREEBIE: 180 Middle School Math Warm-Ups: No-Prep Daily Bellringers & Starters
First five minutes? Planned! With this set of daily bellringers, you'll engage your students and get them thinking!Made for 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade math, these interesting and challenging starters will have your students ready for your lesson.With a pre-made student response sheet, this resource is truly print-and-go, no-prep for the whole school year.Help your students make connections by using this resource at the beginning of class each day!Want all 180 No-Prep 5-Minute Math Warm-Ups? Cli
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5th - 8th
Think Outside the Box Thursday
THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX THURSDAY is a flexible thinking activity that is so fun and engaging, your kids will be begging to do it all the time. In fact, it’s not just for Thursdays. You can easily implement the activity into your classroom any day, just use the optional sheet included. While thinking outside the box, kids gain so much from this activity. They strengthen their flexible thinking skills, imagine possibilities, learn to see and understand different perspectives, appreciate the work of
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Hieroglyphics Printable Worksheet
Engage your students into Ancient Egypt with this Pun-tastic Worksheet!
Included on the page is a full Hieroglyphic Alphabet to reference, the lead of a joke written in English ("Why did the Mummy go to the doctor??"), and the punchline of the joke written out in easy to read, well spaced Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Above each Hieroglyphic symbol involved in the punchline is a line to write the equivalent English character.
Note- the Egyptians did not differentiate between many sounds that Eng
Grades:
3rd - 9th
Free SAT ACT Practice Worksheets Vocabulary Parts of Speech 8 pages with keys
10 pages of Reviews, Quizzes, or Bellringers: No Ads, No Filler! Answer keys are included. 8 multiple choice questions per worksheet. These are some of the most challenging SAT/ACT terms. No prep required - you just copy or project and go. There is enough material for you to see how useful it is and then take further advantage of us!
I created this and offer it so inexpensively to support my customers using my best-selling item: UPDATED***Full Year of Weekly SAT Vocabulary Activities, Review an
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8th - 11th
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Introduction to Social Studies Task Cards FREE
This resource includes 12 task cards related to the introduction of important social studies concepts like chronology, the themes of geography, primary and secondary sources, the branches of history and types of maps!Task cards are an effective resource in the classroom. These task cards can be used as part of group trivia games, entrance or exit slips, or as work for centers. The possibilities are truly endless! Included in this resource:1. A Note for the Teacher2. 12 different task cards3. Tea
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4th - 8th
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Bullying Scenarios and Depth and Complexity Activity Freebie
Teach your students that bullying is wrong! October is National Bullying Prevention Month, and this freebie will get your students ready to combat bullying!
This freebie includes eight bullying scenario cards in both color and black and white. Students will have the chance to explain what they would do if they were involved in particular situations. Take it a step further, and have students role play each scenario, so they're prepared should they encounter a similar situation. Also included
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2nd - 8th
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FREE ELA brain teasers mysteries & logic puzzles: critical thinking
These FREE brain teaser tasks are perfect to have at the ready for instant fun and critical thinking. If your grades 5-8 students are getting restless and need a change of pace or brain break, or finish early, bring out these cards! They will create smiles, while also stretching growing brains. There are 3 pages of questions, and 3 pages of answers, taken from 3 brain teaser resources. Get 3 for the price of 2 brain teaser collections! 180 MINI MYSTERIES and BRAIN TEASER PUZZLES How to set up th
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: MAD LIBS Fun Speeches - Fall, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Winter
Elementary/Middle School/Junior High Early Finisher Board - 16 Free Activities!
This resource was originally developed as an early finisher board for grades 5-8. These activities can be completed as a component of online learning at home. For more information, please read the detailed description below. __________________________________________________________________The NO-FUSS EARLY FINISHER BOARD is the EASIEST and FASTEST early finisher enrichment choice board available, designed so that you can prepare an entire year’s worth of activities in less than an hour. This ea
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5th - 8th
Black History Month Project
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This is my classroom Black History Month Project that I have my students complete each year. It has been a great project as it makes students write about an important black american from the past 100 years. Each paragraph requires specific information, so it is easy to see if they are writing it
Grades:
4th - 12th
Mini Escape Room
This is freebie mini version of my escape room games. This game includes a short storyline, one puzzle, and locked success note. This is a fun quick and easy way to add team building and collaboration into your classroom. No Locks needed! This mini game can either be paper based or done digitally. My full length escape rooms use a combination of paper and digital activities.Click HERE to see a video preview of my escape room activities--------------------------------------------------------
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4th - 8th
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ABC Nature Walk - Print or Digital
FREE Nature Walk Activity - Fun Activity for Any Group of Kids or Adults! FREEThis activity will help kids to enjoy nature as they look for a different natural object for each letter of the alphabet. This would be great to use during the school year, for summer school, camp, with scout groups, and for homeschoolers. You could even use it with your family on a camping trip! With the digital option, you'll have a keepsake of the awesome memories that are made!There are two options for completing
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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Enrichment, Finish Early, 10 activities ANY Subject, No Prep Required!
Keeping up with new standards, new requirements, grading, planning, conferencing, etc., is time consuming! Who has time to plan even MORE, unique enrichment activities? Lucky for you, there are plenty of general, catch-all ideas that you can offer students.
With this freebie, you will receive a fully editable, 10-choice enrichment menu complete with student guidelines. Primarily a math and science teacher, I have posted this document in Word format, so you can add or revise it to fit your l
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
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