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Problem solving unit plans for Microsoft Word
Future City Project - MYP Rubrics IB Stem Tech Design Cycle
The Future City Project is a perfect project for students to show off their design skills.This project is geared towards students between 5th and 8th grade, and focuses on using the design cycle - RESEARCH, PLANNING, CREATING, EVALUATING - to create a future city that solves contemporary problems.8-11 Work PeriodsThis project includes:-A full project plan from start to finish-Lesson plans for each task-x5 Printable assignments-x4 Printable MYP IB rubrics-Extension ideas to further challenge and
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4th - 9th
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Also included in:Â Design Unit and Project Bundle Grades 4-6, MYP IB Compatible Rubrics
Game Design Project Unit - MYP Rubrics IB Stem Tech Design Cycle Curriculum .doc
The Game Design Project is a perfect project for students to show off their design skills. It is also great to work as a cross-subject unit, because the goal of the game can meet learning targets from multiple different standards.This project is geared towards students between 5th and 8th grade, and focuses on using the design cycle - RESEARCH, PLANNING, CREATING, EVALUATING - to create a game (either a board and card game, or with code).8-12 Class PeriodsThis project includes:-A full project pl
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Design Unit and Project Bundle Grades 4-6, MYP IB Compatible Rubrics
CC 6th grade math Unit BUNDLE: Problem Solving, Exponents & Order of Operation
Unit 1 Bundle: This is a 50-page full unit on long division, problem solving, exponents and order of operations! The best part about this, everything is provided in a word document, making it easy to edit and customize. Wait there’s more → ANSWERS ARE INCLUDED (to all notes and practice pages)!!!!
It includes:
-Teacher Unit Binder Cover
-Homework log
-Long Division Notes & Practice
-Problem Solving Self-Evaluation
-Problem Solving Notes & Practice
-Exponent’s Notes & Practice
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5th - 7th
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School of Rock Unit Plan Based on 7th Grade Common Core Standards
Students will be acting as promoters for a concert. Their groups will be responsible for choosing a band to perform based on the most popular genre of music, designing a stage and seating arrangements for the venue (the Schottenstein Center: Columbus, Ohio**), comparing ticket prices to determine the net profit, and creating and scaling a logo for a promotional poster. Groups will be compiling a portfolio for their final presentation. **Select a venue that pertains to the area you are located
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7th
Shark Tank Project/Inventions
Students use the design thinking process to invent a product that solves a problem! They then present their invention to a panel of judges in a simulated Shark Tank! This lesson plan has links to all the resources I use to carry out this big project leading up to the Shark Tank event. Want to WOW your parents and community? This is the project you need! For your students, it integrates almost every subject and gives them a real world experience with public speaking. My students come back yea
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4th - 6th
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GLITTER CLEAN-UP TOOL PROJECT BASED LEARNING Gold Medal PBL 3rd 4th 5th GATE
One of our 1st grade teachers came to talk to my class of 3rd graders. She was at wit’s end. She loves using glitter, but her kids are atrocious at clean-up. Glitter is everywhere! If she just had a tool that was fun to use for a 1st grader and effective. Of course, the tool would have to be made with common materials and easy to replicate. No teacher can afford to go around buying glitter tools … LAUNCH, and let the engaged learning begin!Your kids are going to love this gold medal proj
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in:Â PBL Project Based Learning Bundle for GATE 6 Units for 42% Off GATE
Boat Buoyancy Design Project - MYP Rubrics for IB Stem Science Design Classroom
The Boat Buoyancy is a perfect project for students to show off their design skills.This project is geared towards students between 5th and 8th grade, and focuses on using the design cycle - RESEARCH, PLANNING, CREATING, EVALUATING - to create a future city that solves contemporary problems.8-11 Work PeriodsThis project includes:-A full project plan from start to finish-Lesson plans for each task-x3 Printable assignments-x4 Printable MYP IB rubrics-Extension ideas to further challenge and suppor
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Design Unit and Project Bundle Grades 4-6, MYP IB Compatible Rubrics
Group Process & Facilitation for Peer Mediation
This 10 page unit gives activities and resources for an instructor to use with students who are looking to boost their small group skills. There are six days in the unit and cover several useful tools for working with small groups. Discussion topics included to open up conversation about leadership, personality, and group dynamics.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Community Based Instruction - Grocery Store
The product contains a unit plan for Essential Skills/Cross-Categorical teachers to teach the vocabulary and task of going to and functioning appropriately in the grocery store (i.e. using a list to make a recipe or plan a party). The product contains different ability level tasks to meet students needs. The product is also provided in word processor in order for teachers to modify the unit for their classroom. This product is not to be copied and/or shared.
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Not Grade Specific
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Paper Rollercoaster STEM Activity
This project is an excellent work packet for students or classes going through the process of building a paper rollercoaster. This packet comes with research questions, sketches, reflections, and more. In order to utilize this project, it should be used in conjunction with paper rollercoaster build sheets that can be found on Teachers Pay Teachers. My students have an absolute blast with this project, and I know that yours would too!
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6th - 12th
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Buliding Social Emotional Literacy through Books and Activities
This 6 week Social Emotional Literacy Curriculum is designed to get your kindergarteners school and life ready. With skills focused on controlling anger and impulse, distinguishing home versus school and identifying and coping with feelings in self and others, this curriculum can be used at the beginning of the school year to present new concepts or as a refresher for 2nd grade and up.
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PreK - 5th
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PBL World History Entry Event Unit 2
This unit covers the fall of Rome through the end of the Crusades/Black Death. Students will use document analysis, synthesis of multiple sources, cause-effect relationships, and current events in order to gain depth of knowledge concerning the relationship between the Middle East and Western Nations. Their goal: propose a solution to a real and modern problem in the region.
Grades:
6th - 12th
Resilient Problem Solvers (Transdiscplinary and Differentiated)
Empower children to handle challenges by asking and seeking answers to questions like: What is a challenge? How can I be a solutions-based thinker and solve my challenges?
This lesson plan is organized as a choice board to empower both the educator and the learner by providing multiple ways to differentiate, learn, re-learn, review, and extend learning. Many of these ideas are great to share with parents as activities they can do at home (e.g. share in a monthly newsletter or at a parent-teache
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PreK - 5th
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Earthquake Structure STEM Project
STEM Project where students research real building around the world that are built to withstand an Earthquake, then they build a structure that has to be taller than 36 cm, two stories, and they can only use cardboard, straws, pins, string, and paper clips. They have to purchase those materials and keep a budget sheet. What I love about it is that every structure looks different in the end, there is no glue or tape used, and they fail/re-build.
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6th - 8th
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Staying Alive Project
Project Guidelines, editable rubrics and sample images. This project is great to deepen learners knowledge about habitats and animal groups. Learners will be able to explore the needs of plants and animals, and reasons they live in a certain habitat. What does the habitat provide? The project also includes animal life cycles and food chains for every habitat.
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2nd - 4th
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NGSS:
K-ESS3-1
Reading is Fun with Cassie and Carson
Included in the Unit:
Lesson Plan
Picture book - "Why Not Me?"
Discussion Points
Puppet Script
Color Sheets
Friendship Handout
Testimonial from a Second Grade Teacher:
"I used the story 'Why Not Me?' with my second grade class in small and whole group reading settings. The students were mesmerized by the story and loved the author's sense of humor. The story lends itself to making and checking predictions, and the lesson taught is one that children of all ages need to learn. I highly recommen
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K - 3rd
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See Ya Later Procrastinator Warm Up Unit
This a 10 day Warm Unit that follows the book See ya Later Procrastinator written by Pamela Espeland & Elizabeth Verdick. This unit spans the book over 10 days with an activity for each day. The activities consist of writing questions, multiple choice questions, surveys, and more! This unit can be completed as a class, individually, or group. I use the book as a read aloud then have the students independently complete the activity for that day. However, this unit can be tailored to your cla
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Bottle Flip Unit- Forces and Motion, Physics Introduction
This unit is an introduction to physics and more specifically forces and motion. Using the ever popular viral video challenge of the bottle flip students will investigate 5 forces in mini 1 lesson labs and will then apply those forces to a model they create of the bottle flip phenomenon. For the final project students will pick one thing to adapt or change about the bottle flip to make it more successful, using one of the forces as evidence to support their choice in modification. This hands on
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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2D Shapes Unit Plan
The following follows the "Task Design Template" including: Goals, Hooks, Subtasks, Connections to Front Matter/Essential Outcomes, Personalization of Tasks, Assessment. Editable as needed based on your class objectives.
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K - 2nd
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Make Difference
A Project-Based unit which supports collaborative learning; problem-solving, creative and critical thinking skills and technology.
An assessment rubric is incorporated as well as some sample project ideas which have proved very successful.
The unit encourages deep research and an understanding of being an entrepreneur as well as connectedness. Students are encouraged to think deeply about ways in which they can really make a difference to the lives of others. Opportunities for individual and
Grades:
5th - 7th
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Science of the Gold Rush
Help lead the students on an adventure to discover all the different science concepts that a led from the Gold Rush of California. This PBL will intertwine several concepts guide students to explore in a personalized learning model. Student discovery and inquiry projects help lead students to success in their learning needs.
Grades:
4th - 5th
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STEAM Fair Egg Drop
This is an amazing unit plan that includes all documents, rubrics, checklists, handouts and more! This takes students through the process of comparing STEAM to STEM and learning what an engineer's job truly is. It asks them to do research, analyze their thinking, ask thought provoked questions, build, plan, construct, re-visit, test and more! They will be able to plan and build in collaborative groups and create an airdop package that will protect an uncooked egg. This resource will have stu
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4th - 6th
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Unit Plan MYP1 Design 50h - Save our planet, build a machine for the Earth
Unit Plan for Y6 - MYP1 Design for 1 semester (50h)This year I started building machines with my students in Y6.You can the machines with MakeBlock, Lego Mindstorm, TinkerCAD and 3D printing or even DIY.The idea first is to make them go further than talking about "climate change" or "plastic in the oceans".So, in class they first have a debate about what means to "save the planet", what are the main environmental issues we encounter nowadays:for example deforestation, intensive agriculture, indu
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6th - 9th
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Problem Solving - Design Process for STEM/Pre-Engineering
The Problem Solving and Design Process is an important skill for anybody to know. This unit takes between one to two weeks to complete. Student learn critical thinking skills, brainstorming, and practice communication skills while learning to design and build in this fun and flexible unit. This is great for the elementary to middle school level, but could also be adapted for high school. I have taught this in my 7th grade technology class and 8th grade pre-engineering class. Both are STEM course
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4th - 8th
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