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Free problem solving lessons
Hands On Science STEM Investigations: Help Harry!
Interested in finding a fun way to work some cooperative learning AND science and engineering into your day? This 30 minute lesson is a great way to do just that--and it's free! Everything you need to get started is included in this one page freebie--with the added bonus of a link to a blog post with full color photos and details about how to do it.When students work through the process of planning, building, testing, and revising--they really are acting like engineers. It's a fun way to get
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4th - 6th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
STEM Challenge Sticks and Cups Tower FREEBIE
This is a tower-building event using two very simple materials! Kids will love this and so will you! If you are looking for an easy STEM challenge to get started with STEM this is perfect! (And, of course, it's free!)Ideas for use:This tower challenge is one we completed purely for fun. It’s a fantastic challenge to use as a reward for your class, a sub day, a fun Friday afternoon, STEM night at your school, Grandparent’s Day, a holiday celebration using cups decorated for the holiday, and so mu
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2nd - 5th
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STEM Challenge Mystery Build FREEBIE
Do your students like mysteries? This STEM Challenge will be an exciting adventure for them! Students have a mystery to solve with what they are building and what materials they will need to be successful!What is the challenge?In this challenge, students will be assigned a structure to build and a list of possible materials. Teams will have to work together to choose the right materials to build their structure and stay within a purchasing budget for those materials. To make it really fun, every
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3rd - 5th
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WEIRD! DARE! TOUGH! Bundle Book Companion
This download includes fun, interactive activities that go along with the books, WEIRD! DARE! and TOUGH! by Erin Frankel. All activities include color and black & white versions.Included in Download:HandoutsPostersFoldablesWorksheetsMemory GamePolka Dot Game
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4th - 6th
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Open Number Line Strategy Freebie
Introduce and practice this math strategy of using an open number line to add and subtract with this set of practice sheets! Set includes eight free sheets to use in your first (or second!) grade math class as you implement the Common Core standards.
The Common Core standards call for deeper understanding of addition and subtraction than the standard algorithm can provide. Using an open number line is one important strategy students can use to solve addition and subtraction with two digits.
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1st - 2nd
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STEM Challenge Foosball FREEBIE
This easy-prep one-day STEM Challenge was a hit in our STEM classes! This is a fabulous challenge so start saving shoe boxes now! Students will have a blast designing their foosball sets and then competing. Get ready for the cheering!➡️ Click here for the Sports Escape Room that includes this challenge!What is the challenge?In this challenge, students will have some easy materials to use in designing a foosball model. What do you need?You will need materials in addition to this package. This in
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4th - 6th
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"Conflict Resolution" Lesson for Middle & High School-plus Google Slides version
► What can I use this product for?Perfect classroom lesson for School Counselors, Life Skills Teachers, Freshmen Academy Teachers, Health Teachers, or any educator wanting to promote conflict resolution skills. Includes a link to a Google Slides version for distance learning that is ready to go with text boxes for students to enter their answers. ► What is included in this product?A one-hour lesson plan and the following supplements:⭐ "Ways to Resolve a Conflict" worksheet⭐ 10 role-play scenario
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6th - 12th
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Halloween Escape Room FREEBIE
This free sample is going to be perfect if you are ready to try an Escape Room for your elementary students. Try this one and your students (and you) will be sold on this engaging format for practicing skills and solving problems.This sample is provided to give you and your students a chance to try one task from a locked box/escape room. These events have become our very favorite activities and we follow most of them with a STEM Challenge.What is included?2 pages of detailed teacher directions2
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4th - 5th
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FREE Following Instructions Trick Task | Directions | Listening | Life Skills
This is an excellent resource I would highly recommend to anybody teaching students aged 9 - 90 to reinforce the value of listening, reading instructions and not making assumptions. It is a classic activity you can only teach once to the same students but a life skill that will pay dividends for years to come.Essentially, the lesson is a trick in which you hand out the activity sheet and ask them to follow the directions carefully. We are focusing on the following procedures today.Here's how it
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3rd - 9th
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Also included in: Back to School Bundle / First Day / Team Building / All About Me
Inference, Lateral Thinking, Critical Thinking, GT, 3rd 4th 5th Grade
Find our Gifted and Talented Bundle HERE!This unit contains both a printable packet version AND individual JPEG files for each document so that you can easily upload to Google Classroom. Since they are in JPEG format, students should be able to write on the documents in Google Classroom.Help Detective Doodle solve the case of the missing dog named Fish using Detective Doodle's case notes. I put these in file folders and pass out to groups for students to look over. They are many graphic organi
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3rd - 5th
Tattling vs. Telling
Great practice and review to help students understand the difference between tattling and telling when there is a real problem!
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PreK - 3rd
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FREE SAMPLE: A-Z Social Skills Stories with Wh-Questions
Here is a FREE SAMPLE of the A-Z Social Skills Stories with Wh-Questions product. Included are 3 stories and corresponding Wh-questions. THE COMPLETE product includes 26 short stories about social skills such as whole body listening, keeping your hands to yourself, using an appropriate voice volume, and taking turns. Each story also has 10 corresponding Wh-questions to test listening comprehension and reinforce the social skill that was targeted in the story. These stories provide a fun, inte
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PreK - 6th
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Conflict Resolution - teacher-sized vs. kid-sized problems sort
I used these problem cards and chart headers to make a T-chart with my grade two class about what is a "big" problem and what is a "small" problem. Now whenever a student comes to me to tattle on someone, I simply ask, "Is this a teacher-sized or kid-sized problem?"
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1st - 5th
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Paper Folding Direction Following and Sequencing for Older Students {FREE}
It's a snowflake, it's a flower, it's a star, it's a sun, it's a pinwheel! It can be any of the above, depending on what time of year you decide to use it! This year-round paper folding activity is a fun and functional way to address direction following and sequencing. This direction following activity is geared toward older students who need to strengthen direction following skills---- an age-appropriate project that contains language extension activities. Ways to address speech and language
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5th - 10th
Discovering the Marketing Mix: Lemonade Stand Warm-Up Activity
This fun and engaging activity introduces students to the fundamentals of marketing, the 4 Ps: product, place, price and promotion. This can be used as a very accessible stand-alone marketing lesson for students of all ages, or as a warm-up activity for introductory-level marketing students. This warm-up is designed to support the Discovery Marketing Mix Unit Plan (coming soon...)
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K - 12th
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Free PE Lesson Plan - Cross the River |Teambuilding, Cooperative|
One of my students favorite team building games. It's great for all ages and there are tons of variations to make it age appropriate.
Who will make it across the Toxic River first???
I hope your students enjoy the game!
Have Fun and Teach On!
Ben
Blogger, resource creator and community builder at ThePEspecialist.com
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1st - 6th
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Fun Decimal Operations Real World Application
Take your class on a field trip to the Natalica Zoo! Practice adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals in this fun field trip planning activity. Includes a brochure to use with the activity and a complete lesson plan.
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6th - 8th
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Conversation Skills for Middle School High School | Distance Learning | Speech
These worksheets can be used for Distance Learning for Speech Therapy. These worksheets could also be used for social skills online groups, teachers, special education teachers, home schooling parents. ********************************************************************************************************* These sheets will work well for at-home learning for either therapy or to be sent home for home practice. They can be used the following ways: - Read worksheets aloud over zoom or Skype ther
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9th - 12th
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SEL January - Goals and Dreams (Distance Learning)
Greetings!!I hope this resource helps you!Every morning we start off with Social Emotional Learning (SEL). It truly has created a welcoming class community regardless if we are on Zoom. Students learn from each other while expressing themselves and it is a great transition in the morning to start off our day.*Please note: This is something for you as the teacher to present in a live meeting using a virtual platform, this is not to be assigned individually****This includes:13 daily lessons for th
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K - 8th
Eric Carle's From Head to Toe Math Calendar Pattern
**FREE**FREE**FREE**Enhance your monthly calendar patterns by integrating them with Eric Carle’s literature! Cut up and use these ready-made calendar cards, based on Eric Carle’s beloved book, From Head to Toe. The innovative cards fit in typical classroom calendar (3” x 3”). Challenge your students with a different type of pattern while you integrate math and literature! Included:
•31 calendar cards based on this book
•detailed lesson plan, including ways to differentiate through questionin
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K - 1st
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Library Brainteasers - Easy Low Prep Library Lessons Freebie
Five library-themed brainteasers are included in this fun free set ! Jam-packed with engaging content that reinforces research, reading, and logic skills, this packet also contains easy low-prep library lesson extension ideas for each activity so that you can s-t-r-e-t-c-h the value of every page.These library brainteasers are grab-and-go library lessons that are particularly useful for reinforcing instruction, creating centers in the library, fast finishers, after book check out, substitute pla
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3rd - 6th
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5 Ways To Use Lunch Bags in Counseling and Therapy
Creative strategies to encourage feelings expression and healing with the use of lunch bags and imagination. Fun crafting projects.
Resource includes tips for crafting and therapeutically using:
1. The Mindless Monster (Mindfulness)
2. The Separated Homes (Divorce)
3. The Angry Volcano (Anger and Coping Skills)
4. The Giving Tree (Gratitude and Kindness)
5. The Grief Journal (Healing from Loss)
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Not Grade Specific
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File Folder Game - Cloud Patterning - Preschool, Kindergarten, Autism
This is a fun patterning folder game. It is an easy to make printable game focused on pattern recognition. Excellent addition for any home school, preschool, daycare or life skills based classroom.
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PreK - 1st
Also included in: DST Combo Bundle #1
Goal Setting and Time Management for Students
Goal Setting and Time Management for Students is a two-part package designed and developed by Chanda Green (DocCGreen). These lessons can be taught together or as two separate lessons. The package includes detailed, step by step "teacher notes" and worksheets that will walk students through the S.M.A.R.T. (SMART) goal setting and then shows students how to connect their goals with their time management so that they are better able to manage school, sports, work, personal time, etc. Student focus
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8th - 12th
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