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Critical thinking projects for staff
Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Back to School Icebreaker STEM Bundle! Need back to school icebreakers or games that get students moving, communicating, working in teams, and building relationships? Here are 50+ of our favorite basic activities that are low-cost and low-prep for any classroom or subject!Working as a team, they will learn lessons in communication, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity that are central to the engineering process. Use as a warm-up, icebreaker, team building activity, or basic STEM and en
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Student Lawyers: Criminal Court Mock Trials & Cases with PowerPoint
Students will get the opportunity to be lawyers and prosecute or defend an accused person in a criminal trial (11 total). Each group will consist of 2 lawyers (prosecuting and defending), and an accused person. The teacher will act as the judge and guide the jury as they vote on the verdict. The majority vote determines the verdict. This unit includes court brief handouts, directions, and PowerPoint explaining how the cases will proceed. Visit our store for much more helpful and free stuff!Crim
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Save Fred! A STEM and Team building Challenge
This STEM has a challenge for students to save the gummy worm Fred from falling in the water because he can't swim! It's great for a back to school or team building activity! This is a great way to teach your students how to work together, as well as to teach how to think outside the box! You will need to have gummy worms, gummy life savers, paper clips, and a cup in order to do this activity. This packet includes:- Fred's story and student instructions- An experiment log handout for your stude
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Sphero Mini Golf: Design, Build, and Code Your Own Course!
**Updated 05/03/23 with larger card size variation as well as full-sized slides for projection.This card set guides students through the process of creating a mini golf hole, with specific criteria and constraints to follow. Students will then use the Sphero Edu app to program their robot ball to navigate the course they've created. Along the way, they'll learn valuable coding and problem-solving skills.To complete this challenge, students will need butcher paper, construction paper or markers,
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3rd - 12th, Staff
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Also included in: Sphero Bundle 2
'Adventure Time Theme Park' - A Group Problem Solving Math Project
The 'Adventure Time Theme Park' booklet is a fantastic resource for upper primary/middle school students, as it encourages collaboration, problem solving and creativity, as well as fundamental math skills such as addition and multiplication.
In order to design their theme park, students must work with a monitory budget and aim to attract as many customers as possible, meaning they must work together to make decisions about:
1. The number of rides they will have, as these attract customers but
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4th - 7th, Staff
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Intro to STEM Bundle: Icebreaker & Teamwork Activities
Want to introduce STEM to your classroom? Here are 45 of our favorite basic (Stage 1) STEM challenges that are low-cost and low-prep for any classroom! Activities are perfect as back to school icebreakers or games that introduce STEM while getting students moving, communicating, and working in teams! BACKGROUNDBefore tasking students to complete rigorous engineering design challenges, educators should start with Stage 1 STEM activities. Click here to learn more about the Stages of STEM. Through
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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At-Home STEM Activity Calendar: 6 Weeks of Daily Activities (Plus Spanish!)
Use this editable STEM activity calendar for 6 weeks of daily activities for at-home distance learning! Now includes a Spanish version of the activity chart! A PreK-12 daily enrichment STEM activity calendar with science, engineering, and math challenges! Activities are straightforward and accessible to students of all levels with little or no supplies needed. Get them up, outside, and exploring the world! Students will build a bird feeder, code an app, make a bee hotel, cook with fractions, and
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PreK - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, HS-ETS1-2
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Also included in: Year-Round STEM Activity Calendar Bundle
Rebus Puzzles/Brain Teasers/Word Puzzles
This resource contains 181 word puzzles that will get students thinking outside of the box! Each puzzle is on a separate slide to display on the Smartboard/Loft Board. There are lots of ways that you can use these puzzles in your classroom! Use the puzzles as a bell-ringer, an extension activity or throughout the days as a transitional tool! Print the puzzles out for students to work on independently by selecting the option to print multiple slides per page (up to 16).Take the resource apart and
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Design Thinking - Full Content Presentation
Design Thinking is a constructivist way of approaching a problem that seeks empathy to leverage a bias toward action in order to find a radical solution to the end user’s need. The Design Thinking mindset has been pioneered by companies and institutions like IDEO and Stanford and has crept into Education over the last decade. This presentation is a 56-slide PDF of a Google Slides deck intended to deliver high-quality content to your class. The content defines each step of the Design Thinking pr
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5th - 12th, Staff
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Marshmallow Challenge Handout
This FREEBIE includes a color and black and white handout to provide to teams of students engaging in the Marshmallow Challenge activity. This activity is great to use as an icebreaker or to engage students in critical thinking, cooperative learning, and innovative thinking. It can also be used to reinforce basic principles of physics or as a fun math activity involving measurement.
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Atomic Habits Book Study
Take your high school English classroom on a transformative journey through the book Atomic Habits with this comprehensive unit! As an experienced high school English teacher, I understand the importance of providing educators with resources that foster collaboration, meaningful engagement, and clear learning objectives.This unit comes complete with a detailed pacing guide, allowing you to plan exactly how long each lesson will take to teach. With clear learning objectives and essential question
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Design Thinking - Vacant Lot Challenge
Design Thinking is the revolutionary way to teach your students to be human-centered confident problem solvers! Dive deeper into the five phases of Design Thinking with this full Vacant Lot Challenge. Students will learn to develop empathy and creativity to solve a real-world problem.Design Thinking is a constructivist way of approaching a problem that seeks to leverage a bias toward action in order to find a radical solution to an end user’s need. The Design Thinking mindset has been pioneered
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5th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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STEM Lesson: Problem-Solving Urban Food Insecurity with Design Thinking
Engage your students in STEM learning with this Design Thinking lesson plan that addresses the problem of food insecurity in urban areas. Through a trial-by-fire activity, students will be introduced to the Design Thinking process and gain a foundational understanding of the steps involved. The first activity works best as an introduction to be followed by content delivery explaining the terms and the steps of the intentional design process. This lesson plan also includes 18 pages of a full proj
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Career or Job Research Project! (Grades 7-12)
Career Research! Career Day! Career Fair! This is a great research project for almost any grade! Differentiated! Great Social Studies Activities! *Includes Interview questions/practice!!! Use year after year! *Find the Elementary Version Here: Elementary Career Research Project!Includes: Teacher TipsProject/Booklet (Each is at least 8 pages long!)Project/Booklet Covers (Multiple to choose from!)Make-Your-Own Cover PageCareer Fields Display SignSelf InventoryJobs List (Jobs I’m interested in r
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7th - 12th, Staff
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Also included in: Career and Business Research Projects! (Grades 7-12)
Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery Unit (Bundle)
This is a unit about teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) that can be expanded at the teacher's discretion to include a presentation and a paper that practices utilizing evidence, reasoning, and argument, or alternatively can also be collapsed into a mini-unit of just teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER). This unit can also be used to teach the concept of Line of Reasoning for the AP Lang and AP Seminar Classes. It is structured as an investigation for students to explore the murder of a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery Unit
This is the accompanying teaching sequence for the unit “Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery.” It includes a mystery to solve, all the evidence (which can be turned into manipulatives), rubrics for presentations and writing, teaching instructions, graphic organizers, and solutions. It does not include the "Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery" PowerPoint presentation which can be purchased separately or as part of a bundle.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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School Wide Silk Road Activity
This product covers the following standards:1. Examine the different ways that people pay for goods and services2. Political, environmental, social and economic factors cause people, products and ideas to move from place to place in the Eastern Hemisphere in the past and today.3.The fundamental questions of economics include what to produce, how to produce and for whom to produce.4.When regions and/or countries specialize, global trade occurs.5. The interaction of supply and demand, influenced b
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6th - 8th, Higher Education, Staff
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Also included in: Ancient China Unit Bundle
Exhibition Support Bundle - IB PYP - Digital Workbooks - Teacher Guides
The Exhibition Student Workbook is a scaffolded, practical guide for students doing their IB PYP Exhibition. The Exhibition Mentor's Guide is a scaffolded, practical guide for teachers supporting them. Both can be used digitally or printed off to use in booklet form.They include:details of the exhibition process and teacher support rolesoutlines to help support students' and teachers' mentoring with planning, research, learning experiences, transdisciplinary links, action, presentation, and ref
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5th - 6th, Staff
Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) - Mini Mysteries
This is a mini unit on CER (Claim Evidence Reasoning) that can also be used for exercises of Line of Reasoning/Line of Evidence for AP Classes. It contains graphic organizers, five "mini" murder/mystery scenarios with original characters to solve, a rubric for a written portion, sentence stems to use for writing, and solutions. Students will be able to utilize close reading and critical thinking skills in order to solve the scenarios. Attached to the unit is the Presentation for CER (Claim Evi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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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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Design Thinking Lesson Pack
Design Thinking is an iterative, solution-based process which seeks to understand a user and what they need to solve a problem. These 6 lessons will take your class through the entire Design Thinking Process and students will work collaboratively to come up with solutions to complex problems.Module Duration - 8 to 10 class periodsThis module download includes the following:6 Lesson plans6 Slide decksTeacher GuidePerformance TaskMaster VocabularyComputer Science Standards AlignmentDigital Noteboo
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Surviving The Amazon!
Looking for the perfect Icebreaker or group activity? Look no further! Surviving The Amazon will have your students using communication skills, collaborating with their peers and engaging their critical thinking skills.In the scenario, the students are enjoying a private plane ride across the Amazon when their plane is struck by lightening and crashes. Your students are able to salvage 15 items from the wreckage and now must decide which items to carry with them as they try to trek out of the Am
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Claim Evidence Reasoning: CER Mini Whodunit Bundle - Gnome Swimmer
This is a bundle of three mini lessons on CER (Claim Evidence Reasoning) that can also be used for exercises of Line of Reasoning/Line of Evidence for AP Classes and general education classes. It contains graphic organizers, whodunit mysteries to solve with my original character, and the solutions. (Whodunit mysteries are also available to purchase separately.)
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Claim Evidence Reasoning: CER Mini Whodunit Bundle - Herpetologist Actor
This is a bundle of three mini lessons on CER (Claim Evidence Reasoning) that can also be used for exercises of Line of Reasoning/Line of Evidence for AP Classes and general education classes. It contains graphic organizers, whodunit mysteries to solve with my original character, and the solutions. (Whodunit mysteries are also available to purchase separately.)
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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