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Critical thinking unit plan pdfs
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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Depth and Complexity Teaching Critical Thinking Using Fairytales
Teach your students how to explore content with depth and complexity.Here it is, a complete and ready-to-use resource for teaching all 11 elements (Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives) of critical thinking.! Your students will explore of these elements by applying them to familiar stories, such as “Cinderella”, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, “Goldilocks and the
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle
Classroom Debate Unit for Grades 4-7
This Let's Debate Mini-Unit is intended to support 4th - 7th grade teachers and students as they prepare to participate in class debates, both as actual debaters and as stakeholder audience members. This engaging activity can be used in many subject areas, and is a great culminating task for any unit. Perfect for that upcoming teacher evaluation you may have coming up!This four day unit includes:► Detailed lesson plans spanning four days► List of suggested topics► Schedules and templates► Deba
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4th - 7th
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Grade 5 Social Studies Ontario - Indigenous Peoples & The Impact of Europeans
Grade 5 Ontario Social Studies Teachers do you need to teach all about the history of Indigenous Peoples and the impact of Early European Explorers in what would eventually be known as Canada. Then check out this comprehensive Social Studies Unit for Strand A of the Ontario Social Studies 2020 curriculum.This inquiry-based unit will allow your students to have more flexibility and choice in their learning to cover learning expectations and spark an interest in this topic.This unit is designed t
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5th
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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Historical Thinking Bundle: A Complete Unit - Digital & Print!
This bundle contains 7 Historical Thinking lessons and a 4-5 day culminating group project where students are required to apply the skills from these lessons in a fun, critically engaging way. This means roughly 2 weeks of fully planned materials that will help your students develop their historical thinking skills!Included in this Unit Bundle:Introduction to Historical Thinking lessonHistorical Significance LessonContinuity and Change LessonCause and Consequence LessonHistorical Perspective Les
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Ontario Grade 4 Social Studies - Early Societies Full Year Complete Inquiry Unit
This complete unit is designed to meet the Ontario Grade 4 Curriculum for Early Societies. Everything you need from start to finish to teach your students history in fun and engaging ways. Help your students learn more about early societies and ancient civilizations from around the world between 500BCE to 1500 CE. This is a complete unit that uses engaging activities, hands-on learning, differentiated instruction and inquiry based learning projects all throughout the unit. Help your student
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4th
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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Inquiry and Research - A Student-Choice Guided Unit | Project-Based Learning
Inquiry-Based Learning: A thorough, guided system to help teach your students how to inquire, tune in, find out, reflect and present their findings. FOR ANY TOPIC.
What Is Inquiry-Based Learning?
Inquiry-Based teaching is a response to our current ‘knowledge based’ society and allows for effective and engaging teaching. Inquiry-Based Learning not about finding facts. Rather, it is about researching and answering questions or solving issues. It is a method of learning where students explore the
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4th - 7th
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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
Prosthetic Leg Engineering Design STEM Challenge
Prosthetic Design STEM ChallengeAfter learning the history and uses of prosthetic legs, students use the engineering design process to build a prosthetic leg that is interchangeable for multiple people. This design challenge is followed by a research extension to design a prosthetic leg for an animal. Lesson Sequence: Introduce real-world careers of biomedical engineers and show a video on fabricating a prosthetic legRead about the history of prostheticsLearn important concepts related to prosth
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5th - 9th, Higher Education
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 4-LS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Year-Round STEM Engineering Challenges Bundle (Middle School STEM)
Electricity Science Unit | Activities and Lessons | Complete Bundle
This unit includes all our electricity and magnetism resources and is designed to be ready to use as soon as you print it. These are the perfect activities to meld background electrical knowledge with hands-on activities, and it only takes minutes for you to plan out your next three months of science lessons.This unit includes:complete electricity lesson plans with modifications for differentiation.digital versions with loose text that can be read by assistive technology.hands-on activitiesa bon
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4th - 6th
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Canada and World War One: Complete Unit - Digital & Print!
This unit contains 11 full lessons, 3 summative assessments, and everything you need to teach an engaging WWI CANADIAN HISTORY UNIT. LESSON TOPICS:Causes of WWIFighting on Land, Sea and AirCanadian Battles (Ypres, Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele)RecruitmentOpposition to the warWWI Propaganda AnalysisCanadian HomefrontEnd of WWI and Treaty of VersaillesFREE BONUS LESSONS included in this Bundle:Introduction to History (1 lesson)Introduction to Historical Thinking Concepts (1 lesson)This unit pla
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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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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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GROWTH MINDSET FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH UNIT PLAN AND RESOURCES
Are you ready to get your middle school students MOTIVATED and ready to learn in math class?? To be successful, students need to BELIEVE in themselves and their ability to grow mathematically. They need to change the belief that mathematical ability is something people are just born with and, therefore, unchangeable.This resource has everything you need to change those negative attitudes about math!! Through a variety of lessons, videos, & engaging activities, students will gain confidence i
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: GROWTH MINDSET FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH BUNDLE
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}
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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3rd - 5th
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)
Roaring Twenties in Canada: Complete Unit - Digital and Print!
This unit contains 8 full lessons, 3 summative assessments, and everything you need to teach an engaging ROARING TWENTIES UNIT FOR CANADIAN HISTORY.LESSON TOPICS:The Winnipeg General StrikeIntroduction to the Roaring TwentiesProhibitionPolitical Cartoon AnalysisCanadian AutonomyDiscrimination in the 1920sFilm AnalysisLiving Timeline ProjectThis unit places a significant focus on the experiences, stories and perspectives of FIRST NATIONS, BLACK CANADIANS, ASIAN CANADIANS, WORKING CLASS CANADIANS
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Not your typical Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month Presentation (English version)
This is not your typical presentation for the Latinx/Hispanisc Heritage Month or biography bundle. Although you can complement those fact sheets and bio bundles with this presentation. This presentation was created with an ABAR/decolonial lens, students and teachers are invited to engage in a critical thinking process and discussions about identity markers, misconceptions and white-washed tokenizing narratives of the celebration. This presentation was created with comprehension in mind so it's v
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Not Grade Specific
Treasure Island Comprehensive Teaching Unit
A Literature Unit on making inferences and forming opinions. The unit contains Common Core Curriculum Standards for Reading, Literature, and Writing. There are also occasional highlights suggesting possible connections for History, Social Studies, and Math, as well as several fun hands-on enrichment activities. I don’t suggest using every resources provided for every lesson, but a judicious selection will bring the story to life for you and your students as they make connections and identify
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Grades:
5th - 7th
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