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3rd grade critical thinking thematic unit plans
Camping Themed End of the Year Activities for 3rd & 4th grade - All Subjects
Do you want an engaging end of the year unit? Relate camping to science, social studies, math, and reading in 3rd or 4th grade!! All activities are rigorous, engaging, and upper elementary focused!You can transform your classroom into a campground or just work through a theme, either way these high level activities will keep your students engaged!How will this help the teacher and student?Engagement- Students will be engaged the ENTIRE time you are learning about camping and working with the the
Grades:
3rd - 4th
Also included in: End of the Year BUNDLE Activities, Awards, Writing, Camping, and more
Shark Tank Elementary Economics Project for Inventors and Entrepreneurs
Loosely based on the show, Shark Tank.... this is a great unit to use for late elementary and middle school students to learn economic terms while working through the planning process of designing a good or service as an entrepreneur. Includes planners for all steps of the process and links to Shark Tank snippets on YouTube as examples too! Thank you and enjoy! ⭐ CHECK OUT THE FULL PREVIEW ABOVE! ⭐ * Each section of the project below includes teacher directions * Links to Shark T
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2nd - 7th
Indigenous Peoples and Europeans & Early Societies | ONTARIO GRADE 4/5 UNIT
Teach your split grade 4 and grade 5's with this inquiry based split grade unit on Indigenous people and Europeans and Early societies. Teach two separate curriculums during one period with this complete unit in an easy and manageable way. Grade 41) Identify and locate the major early societies on a map and time line. 2)Compare the daily life of two or more early societies. 3) Identify the environmental features in early societies 4) Identify how the environment impacts the daily life of earl
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3rd - 6th
Beach Themed End of the Year Activities for 3rd & 4th Grade - All Subjects
Make the end of the year fun and rigorous with these engaging, hands-on beach week activities! This set includes a full week low-prep beach activities perfect for the end of the year. Quick and easy setup plus clear student directions make these activities perfect for keeping content rigorous and engaging at the end of the year. Your students will participate in activities in every subject that revolve around a beach theme. The activities are fun, so students don't even realize they are still le
Grades:
3rd - 4th
Also included in: End of the Year BUNDLE Activities, Awards, Writing, Camping, and more
Making Inferences Unit, Grades 3-5, Common Core Reading
This 60+ page Making Inferences unit focuses on identifying learning goals with students, teaching them how to develop strategies for becoming more effective readers, and then providing activities for them to practice these strategies in various ways. I've included fiction and nonfiction reading passages, anchor charts, graphic organizers, task cards, and other activities in this unit for inferring character traits, feelings, setting, author's viewpoint, and theme.*** Be sure to download the 20-
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3rd - 5th
Project Based Learning+End of Year FUN:Design A Dream House 4th Common Core Math
I designed this project to give my students (and myself!) some relief after standardized testing at the end of the year! It is a FUN and EDUCATIONAL math project based on Common Core Standards.
During this project students will get to tap into their creative side and design the house of their dreams! They will use design skills, budget and money skills, area and perimeter skills, and geometry skills--all while being engaged and having fun!
Included in this item are:
-Slide presentation to
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3rd - 6th
Project Based Learning with STEM and Research: Animal Habitats and Enclosures
The zoo needs help! Students work cooperatively to design an animal habitat and enclosure for the zoo! In this STEM project, students use their imagination and creativity to build an animal habitat and enclosure designed to meet their animal's needs. A fabulous way to integrate science standards for animals into your classroom!Students work in collaborative units to design a proper animal habitat for their chosen animal. Their animal enclosures must meet the project requirements to be safe for t
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Zoo Animal Habitat Bundle: PBL, STEM, Writing, Literacy
STATES OF MATTER UNIT: MAKING THE 3 STATES REALLY MATTER!
THIS UNIT HAS EVERYTHING, BUT THE KITCHEN SINK ITSELF!
It's Packed FULL of Simple Experiment Station Cards and Student Recording Sheets. There are loads of things to add to your interactive notebooks, a file folder game, study cards, and some posters for your bulletin board.
Page 4 - 3 States Of Matter examples …. Glue in student notebook
Page 5 - Can You Find 10 Solids and Liquids In Your Classroom … partner or group activity
Page 6 - Can You Find 10 Solids and Liquids In Your House … Home
Grades:
2nd - 4th
ANCIENT CIVILIZATION UNITS BUNDLE: Rome, Greece, Egypt, Mali, China
All 5 of my Ancient Civilization units all together. 300 pages plus a slide show!. Each unit has more than enough to fill your unit plans, but they keep growing. Each time I add to any of the 5 units, you'll get an update to download the bundle again at no charge. Bought separately, they would cost $40.00. Buy the bundle and save $10.55!All 5 units cover the Virginia SOL standards for Ancient Mali, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, and Ancient China
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2nd - 6th
Growth Mindset lessons using The Dot, Ish, and Sky Color by Peter H. Reynolds
When you are teaching students about growth mindset, I believe it is vital to use stories they can relate to. If they are seeing other characters showing both a growth mindset and a fixed mindset, they will be more likely to understand what each look like.
This is a packet of Growth Mindset lessons which use the three books from Peter H. Reynolds collectively called the Creatrilogy. You will need to purchase these books or be able to borrow them to teach these lessons. Each book has wonderful
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K - 5th
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Project Based Learning with STEM: Pirate's Bundle- STEM, Maps, and Literacy!
PBL and STEM at its best! Project-Based Learning takes your students on a swashbuckling adventure! Students design a treasure map using their mapping skills, build a shovel in the STEM project, write a persuasive ad, design a persuasive poster, and react to pirate literature. A cross-curricular pirate adventure! This bundle includes these 3 products:Treasure Map Project Based Learning and Assessment RubricPirate Literacy and Writing Pack: Higher Order Thinking SkillsPirate Project Based Learning
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2nd - 5th
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Escape the Speech Room Bundle - Activities for the Year!
This bundle includes 6 different thematic versions of an adapted Escape the Speech Room game - enough to span over the whole year! These products target critical thinking, problem solving, language, and social skills.Students follow a game board to try and get out of the speech room by answering a series of questions. If they get the questions right, they get to advance through the room. If they get the questions wrong, they risk running out of time. Students must finish/escape the room before
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1st - 3rd
An IB PYP Concept Provocation Bundle Complete Programme of Inquiry
Inquiry stems from questions and the focus of this bundle of provocation packs aligned with the concepts for the IB PYP develop conceptual thinking and questioning skills in your students. The art of the provocation is where we bring the magic and wonder to the inquiry. This complete bundle is packed full of images that all relate to the concepts within the IB PYP transdisciplinary themes:Who We AreHow We Express OurselvesWhere We Are in Place and TimeSharing the PlanetHow the World WorksHow We
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3rd - 6th
Summer / Outdoors Language Passages for Vocabulary, Idioms, and Inferencing
This collection of EIGHT higher-level language and critical thinking flip books is perfect for students from upper elementary through middle school. Each of the 8 books in this set contains an original short story around which the following language activities are centered:Emotions & Problem Solving Answer questions about characters in the story to practice labeling and describing emotions as well as perspective taking. Use problem solving skills to answer questions about alternative soluti
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2nd - 7th
Editable Thematic Unit Planning Template
This is an editable template pdf that allows teachers to plan for thematic units. It includes options for teaching a chosen topic for either 10 days or 10 weeks. This planner features various prompts to support teacher planning including key concepts to be taught, vocabulary, student outcomes and activity planners. There is space to record lists of books/websites needed during the unit as well as an assessment rubric and student evaluation.
This 18 page pdf includes everything you will nee
Grades:
K - 8th
Native Americans DBQ Document-Based Questions
Native AmericansDocument-Based Questions (DBQs) are a great way to expose students to primary sources as well as to make them think about an event in history and respond to it. This unit can be used in a few ways. You can project the full-page images on my board so that we can discuss them, and then the students answer the DBQ in their notebooks. I have also included the DBQs in printable format so that your students can answer on paper and digital Google Forms that you can send electronically.
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3rd - 6th
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Zoo Animal Habitat Bundle: PBL, STEM, Writing, Literacy
Project-Based Learning with zoo animals and their enclosures! You get the persuasive writing project, the PBL and STEM resource, and the zoo animal literacy response sheets! A 3 in 1 fabulous deal! What kid doesn’t love the zoo? Now you can bring the zoo to your classroom! Students can create zoo animal habitats and enclosures, persuade the public to come see their enclosure, and respond to zoo books and animal literature all in your classroom! Teachers can provide rich literacy experiences by u
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2nd - 4th
Primary Sources for the Primary Grades - Football (Then vs. Now)
Provide students with a rich and relevant analysis of American football from the late 1800s to today. Students will investigate a wide array of primary sources, including photos, cartoons, and visual interpretations of this sport. Supporting activities reinforce informational text analysis and building historical context. What's included?7 Primary Source Explanation Pages13 Primary Source Pages (Photos of players, uniforms, stadiums, etc)7 "Questions to Consider” Critical Thinking Pages (To acco
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1st - 4th
PBL with STEM: Little Red Riding Hood Build a Basket with Persuasive Writing
Project-based, problem-based, STEM, and persuasive speaking and writing all rolled into one great project! This isn’t just a regular STEM project; it’s a week’s worth of cross-curricular activities designed to stimulate your students’ thinking! PBL has never been more fun!Fairy tales come to life in this project-based resource! Student connect to the fairy tale story while engaging in project activities. Classic fairy tales serve as a great motivator to students! Teachers can provide rich fairy
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2nd - 4th
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Social Activism and Justice: Upper Elementary, Middle School ELA Unit
Teach your students about social activism. This unit includes definitions, examples of causes and activists, books to read and discussion questions, written response prompts, and quotes.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Transportation Around the World (Real Photos)
** 60 REAL Photographs
** Water, air, land, and human-powered types of transportation from around the world
** Pictures from North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Six of these pictures show the unique ways that children get to school in India, Burma, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
** These pictures are perfect for a transportation unit and can be incorporated into many other areas of learning as well, including multicultural studies and geography. Use them for writing prompts, d
Grades:
K - 3rd
FREE Great White Shark Unit Study | Lesson Plan, Activities | Ocean Animals
A 1-day LOW PREP ocean animal unit study of the great white shark. This resource includes a lesson plan, videos, worksheets and activities, interactive notebook pieces, and more.It makes a great addition to your great white shark or ocean animals unit study; writing lessons or centers; or science class. Perfect for first grade, second grade, and third grade classrooms, homeschool families, and cooperatives.Try before you buy! This is a free, abridged version of day 1 of my Great White Shark Unit
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1st - 3rd
Fairy Tale Fun--Jack and the Beanstalk Enrichment/Extension Opportunities
Looking for an innovative, new way to integrate literature with other content areas? Or maybe teaching a unit on folk and fairy tales? Do you want a way to engage your students in rigorous, differentiated, interdisciplinary tasks?
Then this Jack and the Beanstalk resource pack will be perfect for you and your little learners. This favorite fairy tale, which has been around for hundreds of years, tells the story of a boy, a giant, an escape, and a wild adventure...all the result of a few sill
Grades:
1st - 5th
Mardi Gras in New Orleans Social Studies Unit
Mardi Gras in New Orleans Social Studies Unit
Price: 77 pages X .10 = $7.70
This social studies unit delves into the unique holiday of Mardi Gras as experienced by a New Orleans native. It is a largely secular celebration with a religious history, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The unit contains a plethora of activities, so you can decide how much time you would like to spend on it or tailor it to the time you have available. Below is the Table of Contents for the unit:
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Grades:
2nd - 6th, Adult Education
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