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2nd grade critical thinking lessons
Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
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Grades:
K - 5th
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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: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Creativity Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle Finish the Picture, STEM
Need a quick, no prep, creative STEM challenges to get your students to think outside the box?! Creativity challenges can be used as a quick warm up before a STEM challenge to help jumpstart students’ creativity. They can also be used for morning work, brain breaks, and at various other times throughout the school day.This bundle includes 100+ Creativity Challenges and Activities. Featuring Balloons Over Broadway, Snowflake Bentley, Valentine's Day, Groundhog Day, Earth Day, Halloween, Christmas
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K - 5th
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READ ALOUD STEM Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle #1 STEM Club, STEM Centers
Integrate STEM and Literacy in your classroom all year with READ ALOUD STEM Volume One! Everything you need to be the master STEM Teacher at your school! Awaken imagination and creativity all year. Students learn coding, engineering, explore real-world problems, learn about STEM role models, pioneers, inventors, and more!Amazing resource for STEM clubs, STEM Teachers, STEM Stations, STEM Centers, parents who love hands-on learning, and elementary teachers who want to create a hands-on educationa
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1st - 5th
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STEM Bubble Wand Design Challenge Science Problem-Solving Activity
Bubbles, Bubbles, Everywhere! STEM students love bubbles! This STEM activity has elements of fun, but also a great design and building challenge. After exploring with bubbles students will design and test their own bubble wands! Watch them engineer the ultimate bubble with their bubble wands!➡️ Click here to save 20% on this STEM resource in a bundle of 3 projects.➡️ Click here to save 20% on this STEM resource in a bundle of 6 projects.What is the challenge?This STEM Challenge will have your st
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Fun Challenge Bundle
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
End of the Year Creativity Challenges Brain Break Activities, STEM Warm-ups
Unlock creativity in your classroom at the End of the School Year!!Need quick, no prep, end of the year activities to get your students thinking outside the box?!May Creativity Challenges are great for engaging students during morning work, early finishers, or add some creative thinking tasks to your last week of school classroom activities!The goal of creativity challenges is to help students think in different ways. The ability to generate unique thoughts and ideas is known as divergent thinki
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1st - 5th
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Goal Setting Lessons and Templates for SMART Goals - Growth Mindset Activities
Teach students to set SMART goals with these classroom goal setting lessons and worksheets. By the end of the unit, students will understand what it means to set SMART goals. These five goal-setting lessons have a whole group lesson plan as well as small group and individual activities to help students see and understand the individual components of setting SMART goals. It's also great for SEL or Social-Emotional Learning!Through these lessons, students will have a deeper understanding of wha
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Goal Setting & Data Portfolio BUNDLE - SMART Goals for All Grade Levels
Elementary STEM Activities and Challenges MEGA BUNDLE
Integrate STEM in your classroom all year! Includes 60+ STEM Challenges!The Entire year of STEM Challenges is an excellent tool for a STEM Club or a weekly STEM activity in your classroom! These engaging Elementary STEM challenges align with the NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards). STEM Projects are perfect for helping students learn to work cooperatively in small groups and grow on their own. Each STEM challenge begins with a letter written to students explaining a problem they must solve
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Grades:
1st - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, 1-LS1-1
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-PS2-1
...
The Day The Crayons Quit...Book Companion...Color Activities!
Visit this site to learn more!!Updated to to include Color pages and Colour pages.This is one of my favorite stories. So many Common Core Standards can be addressed using this piece of literature. Best is that it will bring a smile to your children's faces as they listen to this delightful tale and maybe even take a peek at their own crayons.Activities are differentiated to meet the variety of levels found in the classroom.The packet contains:Story Recall...Problem identification/how it was so
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K - 2nd
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READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges #2 Real World Science Engineering
Bundle and get 50% off! Integrate STEM and Literacy in your classroom all year with READ ALOUD STEM Volume 2! Awaken imagination and creativity all year. Students learn coding, engineering, explore real world problems, learn about STEM role models, pioneers, inventors, and more! Perfect for librarians, STEM Club, K-5 Teachers, and any teach who loves to integrate hands-on learning activities with their students!This collection of STEM Projects focuses on connecting ELA and STEM. Each challenge c
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Grades:
1st - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-PS3-1
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 4-PS3-4
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Paul Klee Abstract Art Lesson: Portrait Dice Games Art Project - Nsw Visual Arts
Are you teaching an abstract art lesson on Paul Klee? Are they going to create an abstract portrait? Here's a fun lesson to brighten up your lesson plans! This is the perfect addition to your elementary art curriculum! Engaging abstract portrait art lesson with language (writing) activities. These no-prep abstract portrait art projects are perfect for your art sub tub. Super easy to implement for substitute teachers. Plus, the engagement will help with behavior! Perfect to start your art integra
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K - 12th
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Also included in: Art History Lesson - Famous Artists - Art Activities and Sub Plans
Fruit and Vegetables Sorting Using Photos
Fruit and vegetables photos sorting or categorizing can be used as an individual center, or small group activity. Includes 18 large labeled photo fruit cards, 18 vegetable cards, and 2 sorting mats.Click on the PREVIEW link to see all pages and to make sure this is the educational level you are looking for.KidSparkz Teaching ResourcesMore activities with a FRUIT or VEGETABLES theme ...
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PreK - 2nd
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Field Goal Paper Football STEM Activity
Are you ready for some football?Engage students during football season with STEM! Students design and create a Field Goal and Paper Football. Students compete and keep score with a fun game of Paper Football!Paper Football STEM Challenge is more than just a simple football craftivity. Students develop critical thinking and engineering skills. Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity and game, there is time for reflection on what worked and what
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Grades:
1st - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Also included in: February STEM Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
NO Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM Activity Latex Free
Skip the balloons with this latex free Balloons Over Broadway classroom Thanksgiving Day parade lesson! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day parade float! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Students plan, design, and build their own float design. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't.Use the f
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Grades:
K - 5th
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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
...
Wants and Needs Sort - 1st grade Social Studies Needs vs Wants Activities
These interactive needs vs wants activities are perfect to teach your students about wants and needs, and to help them understand the consequences of choosing wants vs needs in real-life situations.PACKED with everything you need! Includes a lesson plan, simulation activity with teacher script, vocabulary aid, sorting activities, critical thinking worksheet, and writing activity.Description:This fun interactive activity sends students on an adventure simulation as they pack their backpacks with
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K - 2nd
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Giraffe's Can't Dance Drawing Growth Mindset STEAM Activity
Teach Growth Mindset with a STEAM Directed Drawing Activity! Students learn and develop a Growth Mindset through this STEAM Activity! Giraffes Can't Dance STEAM activity works as a companion to the book Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae. The STEAM Process:Students draw a giraffe multiple times and ask how they can get better with each drawing. A directed drawing worksheet helps students develop a better technique for their drawing. A Growth Mindset Worksheet is included to help students look
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Grades:
1st - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Intro to Growth Mindset Activities BUNDLE
GO Math! 3rd Grade Pretests, vocab cards, and journals for the WHOLE YEAR!
***UPDATED 5-14-16***
This pack is EVERYTHING you need to supplement your Go Math! Curriculum for third grade.
Included:
**Pretests per chapter including keys; these can be used to assess before the chapter as well as review at the end of each chapter
**The entire year of vocabulary cards; including definitions and pictures or examples per word
**Journal entry pages per section for the WHOLE YEAR! These journals include alignment to common core standards, Blooms Higher order thinking questions
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2nd - 4th
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Emergency Sub Plans Grades 2nd 3rd and 4th Grades
Have you ever woke for school feeling like death is tapping you on the shoulder? You push Mr. Death aside to haul yourself into school. Substitute plans HAVE to be done! With the help of this emergency sub plan kit, and just a little preparation on your part, you will know all is well at school. You can concentrate on getting better!Using only the traditional substitute pages makes this kit perfect for your regular sub folder too.==================================================================
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2nd - 4th
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Main Idea & Supporting Details | Main Idea Elementary Level Photos
Engage your students with real photos and teach them how to determine the main idea and supporting details with this resource. This resource uses semantic, syntactic, and visual clues to help young children develop how to use these clues to make sense of the text and determine the main idea. This will help them later as they read a passage without pictures. You will receive:28 pages with full-color picturesanswer keymain idea posterAnother buyer recommended that this unit is great for the Vir
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Critical Thinking Skills for Beginners Bundle
Interactive Read Aloud Lesson Plan Activities for The Great Kapok Tree
Interactive Common Core Read Aloud Lesson Plan with Printable Activities / Graphic Organizers / Worksheets / Writing for The Great Kapok Tree: This is a perfect read aloud for discussing how characters' feelings change, cause and effect, author's purpose and making evaluations and judgements. Your learners will get lots of experience with using their critical thinking skills with the prompts, discussions, graphic organizers and printable activities in this resource. This file contains 7 pages o
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Also included in: DO NOT PURCHASE / SOME ITEMS ARE BEING DEACTIVATED
Spring Creativity Challenges and Earth Day Activities Finish the Picture
Unlock creativity in your classroom during Spring, Easter, and Earth Day! Finish the Picture activities included!Need a quick, no prep, spring activity to get your students thinking outside the box?!Earth Day Creativity Challenges are great for engaging students during morning work, early finishers, or add some creative thinking tasks to your spring classroom activities!The goal of creativity challenges is to help students think in different ways. The ability to generate unique thoughts and idea
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1st - 5th
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K-2 Summer Games 2024 STEM Activities and Challenges Kindergarten, First, Second
Integrate STEM in your kindergarten, first-grade, and second-grade classrooms with this amazing Summer Games STEM bundle! Perfect for the Paris Summer Olympics 2024!Get your students pumped up for Summer Games 2024 and STEM! Create a Laurel Wreath and Olympic Torch! Have your own opening ceremonies.Engineer your very own kayak and use magnets to direct it through the course.Create your own surfer and use magnets to help them surf their way to gold!Learn the history of the Summer Olympics and the
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K - 3rd
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Whodunit Mystery: Winter Snowman Investigation (Drawing Conclusions)
These drawing conclusion mysteries are the perfect answer for a fun and engaging reading comprehension activity! Set up as a "whodunnit" investigation, students use critical thinking skills as they read a scenario, clues, and four suspect descriptions. They can work as a team, whole class, or independently to use the facts and find the culprit!Everything is provided in a PowerPoint presentation to display as students work to solve the mystery.***Update: Now available with a google slide link for
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Whodunit Mysteries: Mega ELA Investigation Bundle (Drawing Conclusions)
Saving Sam STEM Challenge
This Save Sam STEM challenge is perfect for the first week of school or team building activities!Students work together to save Sam, a worm who's row boat has capsized and can't swim without his life preserver. What's included?⭐ Save Sam STEM challenge Includes:teacher directions material listteacher scriptinquiry questions needed to complete the challenge❤️ Connect with me!⭐ Click the star at the top of this page to be notified when I post new teaching resources!Like my FACEBOOKFollow me on INS
Grades:
1st - 6th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-2
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