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Critical thinking cultural activities for homeschool
My Place in the World Project: "Me on the Map" Geography for Kids
This hands-on geography project "My Place in the World" has kids create a visual representation of how we fit into the world. Teachers often use it with the kids' geography book "Me on the Map," by Joan Sweeney. Ideal for integrated Social Studies, ELA, Geography, Literacy, and Map Skills.Using a series of nesting circles to show the relative sizes of different geographic places, this simple but effective geography lesson helps kids sort out their relation to one another. This activity includes
Grades:
K - 5th
Also included in: Geography for Kids Bundle: Three Essential Hands-on Activities
Canadian CANADA BLACK HISTORY Reading Passages, Activities PRINT and EASEL
Included in this set of 3 informational texts and 4 activities are:-- 3 one-page texts: “A Short History of Black Canadians”, “Mary Ann Shadd, Activist” and “Richard Pierpoint, Hero of the War of 1812”. -- 4 activities that complement the texts, the first a "True/False" activity to go with the first passage, and two for Mary Ann Shadd and Richard Pierpoint which require use of the internet (two YouTube videos); the fourth about the U.S. Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (this can be done without intern
Grades:
5th - 7th
Also included in: Canadian Black History BUNDLE #1 of 3 Resources PRINT and EASEL
Lunar New Year 2024 | Year of the DRAGON Reading Comprehension | Spring Festival
Chinese New Year in 2024 starts on Saturday, February 10th!It’s the Year of the DRAGON!Did you know that the Chinese believe that people born in the Year of the DRAGON are strong, tenacious, and ambitious? Do you know what the lucky colors and numbers are for people born during the Year of the DRAGON?Find out more by close-reading interesting text all about the Year of the DRAGON.Create a Cool DRAGON Collage, perfect for a 2024 Year of the DRAGON Bulletin Board!*** This resource has been updated
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4th - 7th
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Games Around the World
Connect children to their peers around the world through versions of traditional games like tag, hopscotch, tic-tac-toe, and dominoes. This fun and engaging product includes 35 games from 23 different countries* for students to explore and compare all year long. Each game card includes clear instructions to prepare and play the game, its country of origin, and printables when necessary.Also included...a world map for locating the country of the game they will be playinga summary list for the ma
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1st - 4th
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Depth and Complexity Frames for Every Month of the Year | Print-and-Go
This set of Depth and Complexity frames offers one frame for each month of the year. If you are looking for a quality print and go activity for your students, this is the perfect resource for you. There are twelve Depth & Complexity frames tied to holidays and month themes (such as Black History Month). They've got great graphics and strong, high-level thinking questions. There's even a rubric you can use to evaluate your students' completed frames.No need to be a Depth and Complexity expert
Grades:
4th - 10th
Transportation Around the World (Real Photos)
** 60 REAL Photographs
** Water, air, land, and human-powered types of transportation from around the world
** Pictures from North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Six of these pictures show the unique ways that children get to school in India, Burma, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
** These pictures are perfect for a transportation unit and can be incorporated into many other areas of learning as well, including multicultural studies and geography. Use them for writing prompts, d
Grades:
K - 3rd
Code Crackers #2 - Pigpen Cipher
Help your students develop critical thinking skills, learn a bit about secret societies, and have some fun at the same time with this Code Cracker activity! Students will be introduced to the Pigpen cipher and learn how it works, then they will have an opportunity to crack some codes themselves. There is also a space for them to create their own codes for each other to decipher.This is the second activity in my Code Crackers series. You can now get this resource as part of a bundle! Have a look
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Code Crackers - Ultimate Bundle
What's in a Song Bundle! Combining History and the Arts
This product and other - What’s in a Song? – lessons are a great way to combine history and the arts. I use these in my U.S. History class as well in my advisory period as a way to create discussion and provoke thoughts about the environment, social justice, and activism. My students are able to connect the themes of the song with current events of today. I begin each of these by playing the song for my students and ask what they think the message is in the lyrics. We then read through the histo
Grades:
7th - 12th
Censorship, what's the big deal? debate - ESL adult and kid conversation
This presentation contains a 39 slide PowerPoint lesson in editable PPT format with a worksheet on censorship in our society.It includes a debate lesson on:- Examples from real contemporary censorship cases - Self-censorship – do we need to apply it? When?- News censorship – is it different to other forms of censorship?- Movies, should they be censored?- discussion about the censorship of books.I hope you enjoy this lessonFor problems and questions, suggestions or idea sharing, I would LOVE
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Design Your Own Home - Architecture Unit
Students learn the basic stages of designing a house, from planning to final design, in this two week unit. Critical thinking plays a large role in this activity. The unit has a strong emphasis on the preliminary planning stages of designing a home: spaces that are necessary vs. those that are amenities; defining public vs. private spaces; room locations and relationships; and working within a square footage budget. Just as an architect does, students will develop a preliminary floor plan, refin
Grades:
6th - 12th
ENCANTO Movie Guide | Worksheet | Questions | Google Slides | Movie Day
Check out the latest favorite movie, ENCANTO!Teachers, are you looking to support your student's social-emotional needs?What better way to engage them than with MOVIE DAY? ... ENCANTO has some great life lessons!This resource includes a printable AND digital version to use with Google Classroom™Looking for more MOVIE GUIDES? Click HERE-Movie Guide for INSIDE, OUT (digital and printable)-Movie Guide for How to Train a Dragon (digital and printable)-Movie Guide for Wreck-it Ralph (digital and prin
Grades:
5th - 9th
Code Crackers #3 - Morse Code
Help your students develop critical thinking skills, learn a bit about morse code and have some fun at the same time with this Code Cracker activity! Students will be introduced to Morse Code and learn how it works, then they will have an opportunity to crack some codes themselves. There is also a space for them to create their own codes for each other to decipher.This is the third activity in my Code Crackers series. You can now get this resource as part of a bundle! Have a look at the Code Cra
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Code Crackers - Ultimate Bundle
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
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Emoji – A new language? ESL, EFL, ELL adult and kid conversation
This is a two-hour ESL adult conversation lesson about emojis, their significance and the way we use them. The first hour includes a discussion about the role of emojis as a language. In the second hour, students reflect on the cultural aspect of Emojis and possible misunderstandings and gaffs they might cause.“Emojis” have gone way beyond a fun illustration for our text messages. Not only are they becoming a language onto themselves, but this is, as far as we know, the first truly global langua
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The end of the world – are you prepared? – adult conversation power-point lesson
This is a 23 slide PowerPoint ESL adult conversation lesson in editable PPT format with an activity, work sheet and teacher’s notesThis is a particularly fun lesson to teach mostly because of the activity at the end. It is one of my student’s favorite lessons and I hope yours will love it as well. Please note that if there’s a “Doomsday prepper” in your class, the argument might get very heated, so tread carefully.This lesson contains:- What is Apocalypticism and why are we obsessed with it?- In
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Social Justice MEGA Bundle for the Year
This mega-bundle was created to spark conversation and learn about loving one's identity, celebrating diversity, recognizing injustice, and giving tools with how to take action against injustice and support others. I used the Social Justice standards to create each lesson. They are a set of anchor standards (which can be found on TeachingTolerance.org) divided into four domains: identity, diversity, justice and action. These standards are designed to make schools more equitable, safe and just.W
Grades:
K - 2nd
Media Literacy... Is it Real News or Fake News?!? (Online)
An interactive Google Slide Show asking students (using the comments feature or adding a text box) to consider slide by slide whether each newspaper headline is actually real news or fake. Using high levels of critical thinking, each headline per slide will certainly develop into very active discussions in and of themselves! More than ever, as learning moves to online platforms, and where students are now being asked to conduct high levels of research, Media Literacy is an essential component in
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4th - 9th, Adult Education
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ANIMAL EXPLORER ACTIVITY PACK (0 to 5 years) Teacher pack & Activities 83 pages!
ANIMAL EXPLORER ACTIVITY PACK (0 to 5 years) Teacher pack & Activities 83 pages!Includes:Many lesson plans- Animal explorer lesson plan- Animal matches lesson plan- Opposites lesson plan- Animal prints lesson planWeekly planner - Endangered animalsPhoto pack to accompany early years resources Endangered animals x12 pagesWear it wild ANIMAL MATCHES x28 pagesWear it wild ANIMAL PRINTS x 12 pagesWear it wild OPPOSITES x 17 pages83 pagesPlease write a REVIEW, thanks so much :) I am also selling:
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PreK - 5th, Staff
MONARCH BUTTERFLIES - Educators Resource Guide, Lessons & Activities. 76 pages!
MONARCH BUTTERFLIES - Educators Resource Guide, Lessons & Activities. 76 pages!Includes:Monarch Butterfly fun factsMonarch Butterfly Q&A Why do Monarch Butterflies migrate? etcWhy Monarch Butterfly matterThe threats Monarch Butterfly faceHow is WWF improving our food practices and helping monarchsWhat kids can doMore Monarch Butterfly teaching toolsWord puzzle and answers x2Learning activity - Monarch Butterfly Rest Stop x6 pagesLearning activity - Origami Butterfly Planters x8 pagesL
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
Throw Your Tooth on the Roof Task Cards
Students will love learning tooth traditions around the world with Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions Around the World by Selby B. Beeler. A boy in Mexico leaves his tooth in a box on his bedside table. He hopes that the magic mouse, El Ratón, will take his tooth and leave some money.A girl in South Africa leaves her tooth in a slipper in her room. A mouse comes at night, takes the tooth, and leaves a gift.Engage students in responding to the text with 24 task cards using Bloom's Tax
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Japanese Internment: Primary Source Analysis
This photo analysis resource pairs well with a study of Japanese internment camps. If you are studying World War II or Pacific Northwest History, this is a piece of history that often gets overlooked, but is so important to include. This resource includes 12 primary source images with a step by step analysis guide, historical context information, and writing prompts perfect for deeper discussion. You can use this resource as a daily warm-up, exit tickets, or station rotations. What's Included:-
Grades:
6th - 8th
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ESL International business course – Business bundle - ESL adults
ESL International business bundleThis is your go-to international business bundle!This bundle includes 90-minute business lessons in PowerPoint format for ESL international business English students of intermediate and advanced levels. These lessons are aimed at students who work with international markets, who are on probationary periods for multinational companies, or who require English vocabulary for traveling abroad. Students will learn key vocabulary in the process while further developing
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12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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
Grades:
K - 2nd
Green Book Movie Guide (2018) - Movie Questions with Extra Activities
This biographical comedy/drama film is about the journey that Dr. Shirley, a recognized pianist, and his chauffer Tony Vallelonga embark on while going on tour through the Midwest and the Deep South in 1962. Tony and Dr. Shirley come from different backgrounds and don’t really get along well at first, but after much time on the road and facing several challenging situations, they begin to open up more to each other’s differences and ultimately seem to form a good friendship. This film is great t
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Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Music 5-Pack Bundle - 5 Movie Guides with Extra Activities
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