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Kindergarten 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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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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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
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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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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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
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
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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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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Problem Solving: Visual Questions
This packet of 45 visual problem solving questions will help your Pre-K and Kindergarten kids build critical thinking and problem solving skills.Use these as slides on the projector or print out on paper.Most of these illustrated questions contain vivid real photos and a few have high quality clipart. These questions are not themed, but many could fit into your themes.Types of questions children will solve:* how many more?* how many are left?* how many in the next one?* what is missing?* what wo
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PreK - K
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Back to School Tattling Sort and Activity - Don't Squeal Unless It's a Big Deal!
This "I Do", "We Do", "You Do" lesson is based on the book Don't Squeal Unless It's A Big Deal. After the teacher read aloud (although you can do the activities independently as well) - the class will complete a pocket chart sort and discuss tattling rules. Then, students will complete an individual t-chart to demonstrate understanding. May also be used at a literacy center to review/reteach tattling rules.This lesson includes:* links to read aloud* suggested lesson plan* pocket chart sort* stu
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PreK - 3rd
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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
Hibernation Migration Adaptation Winter Animals Kindergarten Science
Hibernation, Migration, and Adaptation of winter animals is the focus of this 10 day inquiry-based kindergarten science unit!
Also includes a shelter design challenge full of critical thinking and hands-on problem solving!
Next Generation Science Standards* aligned!
Literacy skills are embedded into the lessons: Non-fiction text, speaking/listening, writing response, and technology
A compelling question guides the unit and supporting questions help students to focus their knowledge and build
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
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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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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K - 3rd
Also included in: DO NOT PURCHASE / SOME ITEMS ARE BEING DEACTIVATED
Science Fair Project - Skittles
This is a package for conducting and making a science fair board on What is the Most Common Color/Flavor of Skittles? Package includes:~Instructions~Title: What is the most common flavor/color of Skittles?~Headings: Purpose, Problem, Hypothesis, Procedures, Materials, Results, Conclusion, Recommendations and Data, Relationship to Mathematics, Real Life Connections and Questions.~Picture Borders/Frames: one portrait and one landscape 4 x 6 photo border~Chart: two page vertical chart for graphing
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K - 3rd
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Fall Leaf Nature Walk, Scavenger Hunt, Kindergarten Science, Outdoor Activities
Take children outdoors to learn about autumn leaves with this fall leaf collecting walk. The before, during, and after the walk lesson plan is filled with fun ideas and activities for preschool, kindergarten, or homeschool children to learn about the leaves and trees found at their school or home. Each nature walk in this series helps your little "nature detectives" learn important science content through exploration and discovery while learning outdoors in all four seasons. Included in this r
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PreK - 1st
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Main Idea and Supporting Details | Main Idea Elementary Level Set 2
One of the most difficult but useful skills to teach young students is how to determine the main idea. This unit uses real pictures for beginning readers to use visual cues to help young children make sense of text. This unit contains:26 full color photos with original stories and multiple choice answersAnswer keyMain idea poster*As seen in the TPT newsletter!* Once your students become adept at understanding visual cues and how they relate to the correct sentence the next step is to add a sho
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Main Idea | Context Clues Bundle
How to Differentiate a Lesson Reference Guide
Need a fast and easy way to create a differentiated lesson for your students? This handy one page "cheat sheet" or reference guide is all you need to create a lesson to meet the needs of your GATE students. This idea was developed by Sandra Kaplan who has worked in the field of Gifted Education for years. YOU MUST HAVE SOME BASIC KNOWLEDGE ON DEPTH AND COMPLEXITY AND HOW TO PLAN DIFFERENTIATED LESSONS IN ORDER TO USE THIS PRODUCT. It is a guide only. Here's how it works: You decide on the th
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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Alphabet STEM A-Z for Pre-K Kindergarten 1st Grade Bundle
These "Little Hands...Big Ideas" STEM Challenges were designed especially for Pre-K, kindergarten, and Grade 1.Using everyday, easy to obtain materials, each challenge in this series will allow young learners to practice hands-on problem solving, critical thinking, and collaboration...all while coinciding with the alphabet letter of the week!Each unit includes:NGSS standardsDetailed teacher directionsMaterials listHelpful hintsAny needed props/cutoutsDifferentiated drawing/writing student pagesS
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PreK - 1st
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
Coding, Robotics, Algorithms Task Cards | STEM | Computer Science | Sequencing
This bundle provides an excellent opportunity for students to have ⭐FUN whilst learning the ⭐FUNDAMENTALS of ☀️CODING and ☀️ALGORITHMS in 2024.When students use these action cards in an 'UNPLUGGED' environment, they execute instructions SOCIALLY and COLLABORATIVELY using commands and concepts applicable to the real world and computer programming.Your students will love coding and creating algorithms by programming each other to undertake real-world tasks in the classroom. They will continually
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K - 10th
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2024 STEM & DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES & ICT SPECIALIST BUNDLE
Whether you are starting 2024 as a ⭐STEM / Digital Technologies⭐ Co-ordinator or specialist or continuing in the role as an experienced teacher, this Bundle will be your SMARTEST INVESTMENT OF THE YEAR and is available FOR LESS THAN HALF PRICE for a strictly limited time.All 26 of our Premium STEM / Digital Technologies resources are included in this Bundle to provide exemplary teaching and learning opportunities, planning tools, and staff Professional Development Opportunities.Over 500 Pages o
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K - 10th, Adult Education, Staff
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A UPSC-Based Problem Solving Strategy {The 4 (.5) Step Plan}
If you teach elementary-level mathematics, you have likely heard of and at one point utilized Polya's Four Step Plan for problem-solving. Using the Understand, Plan, Solve, and Check (UPSC) model, students are able to solve single and multi-step word problems.
This resource pack is based on Polya's model with a significant (I feel) improvement -- a half-step, prior to understand: visualize.
This pack includes the following elements:
• how to’s and background information on the “4.5 Step Plan”
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Grades:
K - 5th
Red Ribbon Week School-Wide Print-N-Go Activity Book for Teachers and Counselors
Red Ribbon Week Print-N-Go activities for Grades K-6. Are you an elementary school teacher or counselor who's been searching for time-saving ways to promote Red Ribbon Week? Want all your ideas and activities in one place? If so, look no further, this resource delivers! Celebrating Red Ribbon Week is an imaginative and efficiently designed book that provides every resource you need for a successful Red Ribbon Week program. With up-to-date information and practical, fun ideas, this book is a must
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K - 6th
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Also included in: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COUNSELOR CURRICULUM
PRIDE MONTH | Activities and Learning!
June is pride month! Throughout the year I love sharing books about acceptance, inclusion and equality. Reading stories to your class and showing them how everyone is different sparks so many great conversations. This product works great with my PRIDE MONTH choice board that shares some of my favourite stories that are inclusive to LGBTQ+ identities and so many more. Through these stories, we ensure that students have the chance to learn and create learning communities that are respectful, inclu
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PreK - 8th
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