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For all subjects Common Core RI.11-12.2 resources
Public Speaking, How to Give a Powerful Speech, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
Help your advanced middle school and high school students identify and analyze the elements of powerful public speaking with these multimedia lesson materials.This download includes:• Step-by-step directions/suggestions to lead your students through a 50-minute lesson• A well-written, high-interest informational text article about powerful public speaking techniques written by Chris Anderson, curator of the internationally renowned T.E.D. Talks (link included)• A short answer question set to hel
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8th - 11th
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How to Take Cornell Notes Digital Note-Taking Templates - Teaching Study Skills
Notetaking skills are essential to academic achievement! Learning how to take notes with the Cornell Notetaking System is an academic game-changer! Students' study skills are automatically boosted once they learn how to take notes strategically and effectively. This How to Take Notes bundle also includes tips and templates specifically for digital note-taking.The How to Take Notes bundle includes an informative slides presentation outlining how to take Cornell notes step-by-step. Increase studen
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8th - 11th
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Storyboard Template Graphic Organizer: Comic Strip Activity For Any Subject
Your students will love summarizing any content with this simple and easy to use storyboard template. It can be assigned digitally through Google Classroom or it can be printed for students to write, draw, and color.☞ Save 25% on this resource & more by getting the Emergency Activities Bundle! ☜What's Included:Simple, easy to use template for creating storyboards or comic stripsAvailable in a digital Google Format for students to create onlineInstructions to download and print as a PDF for s
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Not Grade Specific
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Critical Thinking Activities, Cognitive Bias: Nonfiction Close Reading, TED Talk
Tired of students who are afraid to think for themselves?If your goal is to open your students’ minds, to get them to think critically, to help them become more receptive to new ideas, or to show them the importance of examining the evidence before jumping to conclusions, you’ll need this resource. These informative and engaging lessons on cognitive bias will challenge your students to consider fascinating questions about the way that the human brain works. Why is it that when people are faced w
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9th - 12th
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GROWTH MINDSET | Presentation & Readings | Print & Digital | SEL | Grades 8-12
This is an engaging lesson to teach your secondary students how to develop a growth mindset. Both printable and digital versions are included!This creative presentation and reading will teach your student what it means to have a “growth mindset” and how the views and beliefs they have about themselves impact the decisions they make and the lives they lead. Students will learn the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset, understand that intelligence is not fixed and suggestions on
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9th - 12th
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The Origin of Halloween Informational Text and Reading Check Questions
This is an informational text intended for secondary students about the origin of Halloween. It details the original Celtic celebration of Samhain, identifies the traditions that have been adopted by certain cultures and borrowed by different religions. This article discusses the interesting dynamic between pagan, religious, and secular beliefs that have all helped shape this yearly American experience.
This is only the Quick Read and the reading check questions. It does not include vocabulary
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8th - 12th
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Chop it Up: A Look at Food Justice Unit
Unit Essential Questions:1. How can food be used as a tool for both oppression and liberation?2. How does our neighborhood influence the choices we make about our health?3. What is the relationship between privilege, poverty, and consumption?4. How can we, as students, become involved in the food justice movement?5. How does the history of systemic racism in America create food insecurity?6. How do issues of land access impact food access both historically and presently?What's included?A hyperd
Grades:
9th - 12th
20 Minute Reading Test Taking Strategy Activity (teacher slides included)
This interactive google doc follows a gradual release model to teach students how to eliminate answer choices and select the BEST choice even when they all seem correct. The activity includes CC informational reading passages and questions with a fun acronym to help students remember the strategy. My students love it, and it has definitely helped to increase their reading scores. Because it is a google doc, you can add more passages as needed. I added Gslides to help better instruct students.
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5th - 12th
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Metacognition & Mindfulness Mini Unit + Project Based Learning | Gr 7+ | Digital
Help students develop greater insight into their own thinking and learning habits with this mini unit on metacognition and mindfulness, plus 5 student project guides with rubrics for project-based learning. This resource can be used in any subject area and is designed for independent student work (grades 7+) with no direct instruction needed.Research increasingly supports the role of both metacognition and mindfulness in improved learning outcomes, as well as many other lifelong benefits.This me
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8th - 11th
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How to Have Meaningful Socratic Seminars
I compiled this free document after working with teachers who struggled with making Socratic Seminar meaningful for their students. This 13-page document contains:
1. A direct and brief description of SS appropriate for 7-12 (pg. 1-2)
2. A step-by-step plan for setting up a seminar
3. A how to guide for writing effective seminar questions
4. Review task ideas for right before a seminar starts
5. Leader sentence & question stems to use during seminars
6. How to set up norms for seminars
7. A
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7th - 12th
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Create Your Own Whodunit Mystery Unit! (Teaching CER and Line of Reasoning)
This is a set of instructions for educators to create their own Murder Mystery / Whodunit scenario for their students to solve. It comes with a set of instructions, planning sheets, optional blank clue cards, a glossary sheet to give to students, Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) organizers, and a CER Rubric for writing for students to use once the project is completed and given.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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High school New Year's goal setting, Digital goal setting activity Middle school
High school New Year's goal setting, Digital goal setting activity, Middle schoolUnleash your students' potential for introspection and critical thinking with the Know Thyself Project. This versatile, no-prep resource allows students to explore profound quotations, relate them to their experiences or historical events, and articulate their thoughts, providing a unique platform for personal growth and intellectual development. See the preview for the quotations that are included.THIS IS A SELF-AW
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Metacognition & Mindfulness Mini Unit | For Any Subject | Grades 7+ | Digital
Help students develop greater insight into their own thinking and learning habits with this mini unit on metacognition and mindfulness. This resource can be used in any subject area and is designed for independent student work (grades 7+) with no direct instruction needed.Research increasingly supports the role of both metacognition and mindfulness in improved learning outcomes, as well as many other lifelong benefits.This metacognition and mindfulness unit includes the following:Informational r
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8th - 11th
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Metacognition and Mindfulness Mini Unit + Project Based Learning | Gr 7+
Help students develop greater insight into their own thinking and learning habits with this mini unit on metacognition and mindfulness, plus 5 student project guides with rubrics for project-based learning. This resource can be used in any subject area and is designed for independent student work (grades 7+) with no direct instruction needed. Research increasingly supports the role of both metacognition and mindfulness in improved learning outcomes, as well as many other lifelong benefits. Th
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8th - 11th
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Distance Learning Writing Task - Online vs. Traditional Education PARCC RST
This assignment is extremely popular with my juniors and seniors who are college-bound. This is a source based, synthesis writing prompt with a strong student model essay to aptly demonstrate the skills of embedding sources, incorporating multiple perspectives and writing an informed argument. This prompt has sources that have been excerpted so that students may perform this task in a 60 minute timed environment. It can be broken down in units, taught though individual lessons; or, it can be u
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10th - 12th
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Reading Comprehension Time Capsule Activity | Main Idea Summary Template
Are you in need of a creative way for your students to find the main idea or summary of any assigned text or reading? This Time Capsule guide will help students summarize any historical, fictional, non-fictional, article or text book reading using illustration and writing. The following items are included in the student directions: ☞This resource is also included in my Emergency Activities Bundle. Right now, save more than 20% on this resource and more!☜What's Included:A complete set of teacher
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Not Grade Specific
FINAL PROJECT: End of the Year Activity for Any History or Social Studies Class
Are you in need of a final project for your class or the end of the school year? This final project guide will work for any historical subject matter or class. All the directions for the student project are included as well as a grading rubric for teachers. The following items are included in the student directions:Choose a topic to research. (person, place, era, event, etc.)Choose the format of the project. (video, podcast, poem, google slides, etc.)The full details of what should be included
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Not Grade Specific
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Synthesis Activity - Synthesis Circles & Perspective Articles Synthesis
This 10-slide, editable, & ready-to-use Google Slide contains an activity where students practice synthesizing ideas using a synthesis circles activity (printables included), synthesizing various perspectives (articles included on slides), & a synthesis-informed claim on a topic (question included on slides). Good supplemental 1-day activity for AP Lang & Comp Unit 3 in the CED.Uses group practice as well as opportunities for individual writer's notebook work:Includes:Teacher Instruc
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9th - 12th
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VISUAL ESSAY | VISUAL ESSAY PHILOSOPHY | PHILOSOPHY
VISUAL ESSAY | VISUAL ESSAY PHILOSOPHY | PHILOSOPHYAre you looking for a way to save time grading essays? Are you tired of reading the same thing over and over again? Try using visual essays as an alternative. Students can show what they know in a visually appealing way. And since this type of essay is still new to many teachers, it's a great opportunity to set yourself apart from the pack. Give visual essays a try – your students will thank you!❤️❤️❤️❤️THIS BUNDLE IS DISCOUNTED BY 20%I NOW CALL
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Reading Comprehension Article Analysis - Google Forms & Printable
In today’s world, information is hurled at us from every direction, and despite Gen Z students never having their hands get dirty from the ink of a newspaper, they are being bombarded with news from a wide range of media. The ability to process what is being thrown at them and critically analyze news articles is a valuable skill students need now more than ever before in history. In our “Blackline Masters: Newsworthy or Not?” resource, we provide four different options of article analysis to h
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Not Grade Specific
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What is a Graphic Novel?- Persepolis Set Up Lesson (Slides & Handouts)
Product Description:If you are planning on reading Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood with your students, then this is the product for YOU! This is the second lesson in a series of a growing FULL UNIT bundle, and can be easily integrated into your Google Classroom! LESSON OVERVIEWIn this lesson, students will be introduced to the basic features of a graphic novel, approaches to reading a graphic novel, and how its structure contributes to meaning. With graphic novels, this means not just the w
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7th - 12th
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Close & Critical Common Core Reading Strategy~All Subjects Informational Text
This is an incredibly effective, polished and research-driven method of assessing your students' understanding and higher level application + analysis of their reading -- particularly with informational texts. This reading rubric can be utilized in any secondary classroom regardless of subject matter/course, with higher expectations set on student thinking and responses for each of the four core questions on this reading assessment. You may use this with a specific, teacher-selected informationa
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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ESSAY ALTERNATIVES, SAVE TIME MARKING, CRITICAL THINKING, PHILOSOPHY
ESSAY ALTERNATIVES, SAVE TIME MARKING, CRITICAL THINKING Are you tired of grading the same essays over and over again? Using my essay alternatives, you can avoid the common issues teachers experience with formal essays: they are time-consuming to mark, sound the same, and cheating is an ongoing struggle! • Reduce cheating and plagiarism• Spend less time marking essays and more time giving helpful feedback • Capture students’ ideas more effectively and engage them in learning • Help your visual l
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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CCSS:
Metacognition and Mindfulness Mini Unit | Any Subject Area | Grades 7+
Help students develop greater insight into their own thinking and learning habits with this mini unit on metacognition and mindfulness. This mini unit can be used in any subject area and is designed for independent student work (grades 7+) with no direct instruction needed. Research increasingly supports the role of both metacognition and mindfulness in improved learning outcomes, as well as many other lifelong benefits. This metacognition and mindfulness mini unit includes the following:Info
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8th - 11th
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