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Critical thinking service learning resources under $5
Community Service Passion Project
Are you in charge of organizing a community service project for your students or school community? ****************************************************************************************************************Would you like your students to connect their passions with community groups and service? ****************************************************************************************************************This Step by step guide will allow your students to combine their passions with local c
Grades:
2nd - 8th
The Blind Side: Movie Analysis
We all must admit that kids love movies. A movie analysis is an effective educational strategy that influences the building of a culturally diverse community that does not limit itself to the classroom and traditional classroom resources. When the classroom becomes the community, learners are empowered and higher levels of critical thinking are reached. Nothing is more effective than the study of the many issues in The Blind Side. Various activities are included in this package, including a proj
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5th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Executive Functioning Skills PowerPoint
What are executive functioning skills? Defines and explains how these critical thinking and problem-solving skills are essential to managing daily tasks, how they help us plan and manage time, control our emotions, organize, self-monitor, remember details, switch focus, and initiate new projects. These executive functions may be impaired in children with ADD and ADHD, but they can and should be taught. Includes strategies to use when teaching children to improve their executive functioning skill
Grades:
5th - 8th, Staff
TED Talk: Special Olympics Matthew Williams · Google Link · Remote Learning
This 3 page analysis allows students to dig deeper into the inspiring and engaging TED Talk, "Special Olympics Let Me Be Myself - A Champion," by Matthew Williams, through discussion questions, quote analysis, and vocabulary.TED Talk Description: How much do you know about intellectual disabilities? Special Olympics champion and ambassador Matthew Williams is proof that athletic competition and the camaraderie it fosters can transform lives, both on and off the field. Together with his fellow a
Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Service Learning- A Complete Guide!
This set is your complete guide to start and complete service learning projects in your class!
This set includes:
Directions for how to implement, teach, and guide service learning.
Graphic organizer pages for every step of the process for your students.
Assessments and grading rubrics.
Inspirational ideas and an example list of projects I've completed with my students!
Grades:
2nd - 9th
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Blooms Taxonomy Critical Thinking Skills Posters
These posters break down Bloom's Taxonomy critical thinking skills. They display key words and concepts as well as key questions to help teach and apply those critical thinking skills in your classroom. Your students will be thinking outside the box.
Grades:
1st - 5th, Staff
Fortune Origami Acts of Kindness
These origami fortune tellers we loved as kids take on a positive spin! In this creative, fun way to inspire acts of kindness, kids will learn small acts of kindness that they can incorporate in their daily lives and share ideas of kindness with their friends and family. These small acts can brighten someone's day and add up to increasing their positivity.OR choose a blank template to have fun working on vocabulary, or a specific topic of your choosing. Contains 4 color templates with a blank te
Grades:
K - 12th
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Helping the Homeless
This document includes a presentation as well as resources for a week's unit on how to help the homeless. Students will research ways to help the homeless, write letters to the homeless, and have a class fundraiser to collect money to make goodie bags for the homeless.Included:Helping the Homeless presentationStudent friendly note-taking sheet and websitesLetter templatesGoodie bag item ideasTally chart/pictograph template
Grades:
1st - 5th
In Case of Emergency Worksheet
Perfect for Fire Safety Week or other activities regarding knowing your address or phone number. Students can fill out this activity with important contact information in case of an emergency.
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Market Fair Activity Plan - Inquiry Process
Planning a fair or market at your school?
Do you want your students to be involved and run stalls?
Here is a business plan for more senior students to use that includes the process and reflection pages.
It also includes a journal page that must be kept and a plan for the students to follow each week.
There is also examples of advertisements they can use to bring people to their stall or activity.
There is also a plan for the teacher to use. This includes the learning goals and other key pieces o
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Grades:
5th - 10th
TED Talk: Guerrilla Gardner Ron Finley · Google Link · Remote Learning
This 3 page analysis allows students to dig deeper into the inspiring and engaging TED Talk, "A Guerilla Gardener in South Central LA," by Ron Finley through discussion questions, quote analysis, and vocabulary.TED Talk Description: Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where "the drive-thrus are killing more people than the dr
Grades:
5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Project Based Learning Log
Use this template to accompany any Project Based Learning unit. Students keep track of their learning tasks and the outcome. There is a space for the teacher to add a score for each date. The second page contains a student reflection which you can also use as an assessment tool.
Easily adaptable for all grade levels!
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Whitman's "I Sit and Look Out: Acknowledging the Human Condition"
As a realist writer, Whitman addressed pertinent issues of his time. What our students will recognize in the study of Whitman is that those same issues are observable in our society today. Nothing has changed but time. This product provides students an opportunity to walk in the shoes of those who experience oppression from the hands of those who they consider friends, acquaintances, loves ones, etc. Whitman merely observed the behavior of the oppressed. This product allows students to not only
Grades:
6th - 12th
People in Our Lives Gratitude Worksheets | Printable Activity for All Ages
~About this product~-Who are the people who have made you (your students, older loved ones, or yourself) into the person you are today? Which people have touched your lives in unforgettable and remarkable ways? -This gratitude sheets set is made for those people in our lives. It includes 10 worksheets for a: family member, friend, teacher, boss, coworker, teammate, coach, neighbor, customer, and stranger. -Each page contain 6 questions / prompts that are meant to encourage self reflection on tre
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Not Grade Specific
Classroom Rule Sorting
This is a great activity for young children or children struggling with understanding the rules of the classroom.
Laminate the board and the card after printing on cardstock. The children use the cards to sort out the 'good' behaviors and the 'not good' behaviors.
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
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IB Learner Characteristics Differentiated Reflection - Heart Puzzle
Integrating characteristic development (education) into the daily curriculum throughout the entire school year helps create a safe, caring community of learners, both within the classroom and when done effectively within the entire school. Establishing this type of learning community will significantly influence the learning that will then happen within any/all academic subjects and the development of personal, social, and emotional relations among the students.
This document includes three (3)
Grades:
PreK - 5th, Staff
Girls Can, Girls Do. An Affirmation Coloring Book for Girls.
Girls Can, Girls Do is a coloring book filled with empowering messages for girls between the ages of 6 and 10. This inspirational coloring book provides young girls with affirmations to help keep them focused during their everyday lives. Each page features images of girls from different cultures facing different challenges. As they face these challenges, they remind themselves of the magic they have inside of themselves. Girls will find instructions on how to incorporate a meditation practice in
Grades:
1st - 5th
Baby Talk. Why you should not use Baby Talk.
Social Story about Baby Talk
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Not Grade Specific
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My Service Learning Interactive Book
This set can be used for a small or large scale service learning project or throughout the school year to track, plan, and reflect on service learning. In this set I provided a wide range of activities so that each teacher can print and customize the book based on their students needs. I have also duplicated many of the worksheets to offer diversity and a variety of reflection sheets after each project. When I use the set for my class, I cut a file folder in half to create a book. Then I punch
Grades:
1st - 8th
Weekend Islamic School Scavenger Hunt
This is a great activity for students to become acquainted with weekend Islamic school by having them research the answers via partners or independently.
You will need student Islamic books and to know the proper procedures in your local mosque.
Grades:
7th - 10th
Statistics Project-COMMON CORE
This project challenges students to identify a change they would like to see in their school, conduct a survey, and mathematically manipulate their results. The presentation portion allows students to act on their findings. My students actually got items taken off the student lunch menu using this project!! COMMON CORE ALIGNED. A reflection portion is also included.
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Grades:
6th - 11th
Problem Solving Scenario Task Cards
Use these problem solving scenario task cards to discuss real situations students may come across. These can be used with all students. They can be used as a partner activity, individually, or used for whole class discussions. These are also great for special education teachers, speech and language pathologists, other support professionals, and even regular education teachers could utilize these cards to help students work on social skills. Contact Me:If you have any questions before or after pu
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Not Grade Specific
Six thinking hats
6 thinking hats - an innovation exercise during which people think together.
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Not Grade Specific
Mythbusters: Busting Myths about Women and Girls
There are a lot of myths about women and girls out there. These lies harm our students--male and female alike. This assignment is created to introduce the term "myth" apply it to the sexist beliefs held about women and girls. Students are encouraged to become "mythbusters" as they tackle and discuss common myths about girls and women and rewrite them with statement which seeks to bust these nasty myths! Used in a 3rd - 4th grade classroom during Women's History Month. Note: it's important that t
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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