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3rd grade critical thinking unit plans
End of the Year Activities Camping Theme for Last Week of School Camp Days
Our week-long End-of-Year Camping Theme unit is a fun way to end the year! Get ready for a classroom transformation! With engaging activities like an all about me worksheet, camp games, and more where students enjoy camping days while teachers can use the time for work at school. Keep kids engaged while creating memorable adventures during this unforgettable end-of-year camp experience!⭐️ Be sure to open up the preview to see what is inside.Key Features In This Week Long Camp Themed Unit:✓ Daily
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1st - 3rd
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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
Mystery Genre Study Unit - Read, Write & Think Like a Detective Activities
Read, write, and think like a detective! Bulk up your mystery genre study with inference activities, short stories, writing projects, secret codes, observation, logic puzzles, fingerprinting, and invisible ink! This unit is guaranteed to engage your third, fourth, or fifth grade students.Open the previews to take a closer look at all resources.Read Like a DetectiveEight inference activities and five short detective stories help kids build critical thinking and deduction skills. These literature
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3rd - 5th
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James and the Giant Peach Book Companion: A Mega Resource Pack
**Enhance Your Roald Dahl Unit with the Ultimate James and the Giant Peach Resource Pack! Perfect for Independent Readers, Small Groups, and Whole Class Learning.**If you're seeking an all-inclusive companion to Roald Dahl's captivating tale, look no further than our mega resource pack for "James and the Giant Peach." Designed to engage students reading the book independently, in small groups, or as a cohesive class, this pack guarantees an unforgettable literary journey.**What's Included:**- **
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2nd - 4th
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Media Literacy Unit Plan Digital and Printable
Help your students in third, fourth or fifth grades think critically about digital and print media. Advertising is everywhere: in movies, in books, on youtube, and on every website students visit. This unit helps students to see how media is designed for a variety of purposes in order to become critical thinkers. This unit includes digital student pages that are ready for GOOGLE classroom and distance learning.Included in this 2-week media literacy unit is:Introduction - Introduce students to
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3rd - 5th
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Beach Day Activities With Bubble Day & End of the Year Activities Beach Themed
This week-long Beach Themed Week for 1st and 2nd graders offers fun end-of-year activities, memory book creation, math review, science, and social studies exploration. Keep kids engaged and allow teachers to work at school with this exciting end-of-year adventure!Instead of feeling like pulling your hair out the last week of school, enjoy your students AND get things done with this end-of-the-year beach/surf-themed unit. The beach unit has activities for reading, writing, math, science, and soc
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: End-of-the-Year Activities Beach Theme Beach Days Activities Bundle
Last Week of School Activities | End of the Year | Reading | Escape Room | STEM
This stress free end of the year Secret Agent unit will have your students engaged and excited about learning all the way to the last day! These print and go cross-curricular activities include reading comprehension, persuasive writing, graphing, STEM, an escape room activity and much more! Students will love this fun end of the year review as they work to become "secret agents".This is the PRINTABLE VERSION, the DIGITAL VERSION is available here.This resource includes:•Secret Agent Name Tags a
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2nd - 4th
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Project Based Learning with STEM and Literacy: 3 Little Pigs Bundle
Project-Based Learning, STEM, and Reading Response Sheets based on the beloved story of the 3 Little Pigs. Fairy tales come to life in this cross-curricular resource! Student connect to the fairy tale story while engaging in project activities that include math, reading skills, writing, and STEM.Classic fairy tales serve as a great motivator to students! Teachers can provide rich fairy tale experiences by utilizing the book list or video links that are provided. The projects and the fairy tale i
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2nd - 5th
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Alberta Grade 2 Social Studies {Communities in Canada: Iqaluit, Nunavut}
Communities in Canada: Iqaluit, NunavutBased on Alberta CurriculumBy Megan's Creative ClassroomBuy this product as part of my Communities in Canada BUNDLE and save!**UPDATED NOVEMBER 2021**Download includes BRAND NEW digital activities for every lesson!BUNDLE: This download includes my Landforms Unit too!And my NEW Arctic Animals Yoga Poses!This Set Features: - 136 Pages of Fun and Engaging Activities - 11 Lessons with Detailed Teacher Lesson Plans 1 Getting to Know Nunavut 2 Landforms
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Alberta Grade 2 Social Studies {Communities in Canada: VALUE BUNDLE}
First 20 Days of Math: Back to School Review Activities & Diagnostic Assessments
Are you looking for some amazing Ontario math review activities and diagnostic assessments? Start with the First 20 Days of Math Unit as a back to school math review - teach students about social emotional learning, critical mathematical processes, learning skills and growth mindset for a successful year while reviewing key math concepts. Students will love these hands-on math activities and you will establish ideal classroom routines. Everything you need is included - lessons, printables and
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3rd - 5th
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Maps and Globes - Map Skills - Map Activities to Teach Geography
No more boring mapping worksheets to teach map skills! This maps and globes resource is intended to teach geography and mapping skills in a fun, meaningful, and creative way! You may use it to supplement other mapping units or resources or as a framework to plan your own units. It is the foundation for the month or so of mapping instruction I do in my own classroom. It is meant to be "hands on", not fill in the blank! This resource is NOT a mapping textbook and is not scripted in a day-by-da
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
MAKEY MAKEY AND SCRATCH INTERACTIVE POSTER - Unit of Work
Your students can use Makey Makey and Scratch to code their own interactive poster. In the process, they learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for everyone in today’s society. The poster can be made for ANY SUBJECT AREA.6 x one hour - fully descriptive lessons includedLESSON ONE - Exploring with Makey Makey (includes Makey Makey Task Cards)LESSON TWO - Exploring with Scratch (includes Scratch Task Cards)LESSON THREE - Research Topic for Po
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3rd - 6th
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Ocean Debris Engineering Design STEM Challenge
Ocean Debris Engineering Design STEM ChallengeAfter learning about ocean pollution, students use the engineering design process to build an ocean debris cleaner that has buoyancy and can pick up microplastics. Lesson Sequence: Relay Recycle Bin Sort: Students will be given a garbage bag of mixed recycling items - paper, glass, plastic, and metal. Students will have to relay back and forth separating/grouping the like items one item at a time without talking to their relay partners!Learn about t
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3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 4-LS1-1
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Also included in: Year-Round STEM Activity Bundle (Elementary STEM)
Archaeology for Kids: "Dig Deep" Interdisciplinary Unit
This resource pack was developed for use with my elementary students when studying ancient civilizations, cultures, paleontology, and archaeology. Students will also learn more about the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas with meaningful, cross-curricular activities! Join in as we explore together!
This unit's approach is interdisciplinary in nature. Students will enjoy learning about history, cultures, art, archaeology, and architecture in combination with traditional math and literacy activities.
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1st - 6th
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Math Problem Solving Essentials Bundle
Perfect for distance learning! Our Math Problem Solving Essentials Bundle provides an entire year's worth of Common Core aligned, differentiated problem-solving activities to give distance learning students the strategies they need to solve word problems. Perfect for distance learning, general education, special education, RTI and math intervention! Can be used with students in grades Kindergarten, first, second and third. This 200 page file has all of the lessons, activities, worksheets, print
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K - 3rd
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Thinking Outside the Box- Using Creative and Critical Thinking Skills
“I cannot teach anyone anything. I can only make them think.” ~SocratesUtilizing this unit, your students will learn higher-order thinking skills including both creative thinking and critical thinking skills. Students will go beyond basic observation of facts and memorization. Through explicit instruction students to become more evaluative, creative and innovative in their thinking. This unit includes multiple teaching methodologies with variations on each for extended application. Through this
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1st - 5th
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Digital Interactive Writing Units | Google Slides & Classroom | 5 Text Types
Teach and learn like a boss in 2024 on your Chromebook, iPad, laptop, or device of choice with this vast collection of purpose-built digital writing resources with thousands of glowing reviews. These interactive units are full of resources, interactive graphic organizers, multimedia, cutting-edge teaching resources, and ideas that will blow your students' minds for years. Maximize the use of all that tech in your classroom with these proven resources in classrooms worldwide.You are buying hundre
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3rd - 10th
PBL with STEM: 3 Little Pigs Build a Sturdy House with Persuasive Writing
Project-based, problem-based, STEM, and persuasive 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! 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 tale experiences by utilizing the book li
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning with STEM and Literacy: 3 Little Pigs Bundle
Depth and Complexity Primary Extension Literature Units BUNDLE (Gate)
Depth & Complexity Primary Literature Units (4 Included)4 Units Included: Details, Big Idea, Unanswered Questions and RulesEACH UNIT CONTAINS: 1 Week Long Unit - 5 LessonsThis weeklong unit was designed to introduce primary aged students to the one depth and complexity icon through mentor texts. It is great for whole group lessons, small group extensions, and independent practice.Each unit has:One full week of lesson plansActivities and extensionsSuggested mentor texts (fiction and non-ficti
Grades:
K - 5th
Gifted and Talented - Created Creature Talents Unlimited Unit
Create your own hybrid animal species? Why, yes, we can do that!
In this unit, which utilizes the Talents Unlimited Model based on the work of Calvin Taylor and adapted by Carol Schlichter, students will do just that. While it's all good fun, they will be using creative and critical thinking skills that will help them be successful in all areas of life. Those include: productive thinking, decision-making, planning, communication, and forecasting.
Come...take a walk on the wild side....
This
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3rd - 6th
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An introduction to 3D Printing
Includes: PowerPoint, 3D printing videos, 3D printing examples, 10 week program, rubric, worksheets, 3D printer anatomy, safety tips and more
Grades:
3rd - 12th, Staff
Primary GATE with Caldecott COLLECTION - 180 pages - 7 Books!
Your primary kids will love these lessons! You save a bundle: 33% off individual purchases!
I teach 30-45 minute groups once a week of 1st and 2nd graders all year, and this collection is more than enough to get me through an entire school year of groups. I can’t absolutely guarantee it will do the same for you, but it’s going to be very close if it doesn’t . . .
You’ll see best practices in gifted education throughout. You’ll see many graphic organizers, age-appropriate and challenging cr
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K - 3rd
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Teacher Guide to Minecraft for Education!! Bundle
This product will teach you all you need to know about using Minecraft Education in the classroom. Each module focuses on a specific aspect of Minecraft, and includes lesson plans, mcWorld files, and examples of how to use them. This bundle is to teach teachers how to use Minecraft in an education setting. Once you have completed the modules you will then have the knowledge to use Minecraft Education in the classroom with confidence!Module A - Placing Your First Block:This module is designed to
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K - 12th, Staff
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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
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