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Critical thinking engineering unit plans
Second Grade Science Units NGSS Bundle
Teaching second grade science aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards is quite challenging without quality resources to guide you. These in-depth units address all 2nd grade NGSS topics and enable you to plan and teach high-engagement, three-dimensional science lessons. The six units in this bundle blend three important aspects of science and engineering education: the content, the skills, and the big-picture ideas. These units incorporate phenomena, integrate Crosscutting Concepts, a
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Grades:
2nd
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 2-PS1-4
, 2-LS4-1
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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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State Report Editable Template - Informational Report Writing Research Project
Looking for an organized way to help you guide your students to create meaningful, well-researched reports? The research project includes a student-written example, editable student directions, research pages, writing pages, and an editable rubric. Everything you need to teach and organize this social studies unit is included in this time-saving unit!It includes: A Student Written State Report ExampleList of States (I pull sticks and let the kids choose. This is my checklist.)Student Directions
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4th - 6th
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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
Force and Motion Kindergarten, push and pull, how things move, force, gravity
Force and Motion Kindergarten- motion, push and pull, how things move, force, gravity ⭐Force and Motion Learning Activities to Engage Your Learners: These Five Days' worth of learning activities for Force and Motion are must-have for Kinders and young learners! If you are talking about movement and motion- we have you covered! Each specific lesson plan in this 40-page+ guide comes with specific topics and hands-on activities, visual support to guide learning, and so much more!This unit is a comp
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Science Mini Bundle Two Motion, Lights, Space, Landforms, Arctic Animals
Simple Machines Unit (Bundle)
Explore the basics of engineering and discover more about Simple Machines through hands-on activities and challenges for the inclined plane, lever, pulley, screw, wedge, and wheel & axle. Designed with multiple grade levels in mind, this resource provides a variety of activities, vocabulary, and lessons to fit your class' needs.Along with the main Simple Machines unit, this bundle includes 2 mini-units: Rube Goldberg Machines as an introduction to machines and "The Elves and the Baker" a pro
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Grades:
1st - 4th
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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3rd Grade Science Units NGSS Yearlong Curriculum BUNDLE
Teaching third grade science, aligned the Next Generation Science Standards, is quite challenging without quality resources to guide you. These in-depth science units address all the 3rd grade NGSS topics and enable you to plan and teach highly-engaging lessons that don’t take hours to plan because I’ve done it all for you!The six complete units in this bundle blend three important aspects of science and engineering education: the content, the skills, and the big picture ideas. These units incor
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Grades:
3rd
NGSS:
3-PS2-1
, 3-ESS3-1
, 3-LS4-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-ESS2-1
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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
Grades:
5th
Ada Twist, Scientist Activities | Back to School STEM Activities
This unit is packed full of literacy activities, STEM activities, back to school stem activities, and a take home STEM project for your students. This is great for back to school STEM as a cumulative project your students will enjoy! All of this is tied in with the darling story Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty. Get your students engaged in a STEM activities and reading comprehension.This unit contains the following:5+ Day Lesson plan layoutTeaching Posters for Cause + Effect, Problem + Solu
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Grades:
K - 3rd
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
Grades:
3rd - 6th
STEM Activities & Engineering Design Process & Criteria & Constraints MS-ETS1-1
Do you need to teach Identifying Criteria and Constraints? This is an excellent unit for STEM Engineering. Students will learn about criteria and constraints and will identify them in three engineering challenges and in several engineering scenarios. Students will compare two engineering solutions to see how well they meet the criteria and constraints. This resource is aligned with MS-ETS1-1 and MS-ETS1-2. This unit includes:A slide show on criteria and constraintsA strategic notetaking guide3 S
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-1
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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Engineering Design Process 2nd Grade 3rd Grade Science & STEM Unit NGSS
Introduce your students to engineering and the engineering design process in a creative and hands-on way! This second and third grade engineering design unit addresses NGSS engineering standards as well as science and engineering practices through a series of high-interest lessons and labs. This unit is also available bundled with a digital version and narrated lesson slides. CLICK HERE.This 20-day unit centers around 6 engaging lessons in a content-rich teaching Power Point. The lessons are fol
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Grades:
2nd - 3rd
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
Also included in: Second Grade Science Units NGSS Bundle
ONTARIO SCIENCE: GR. 4/5 Forces Acting on Structures & Pulleys and Gears Units
In this hands on, minds on unit both grades will be engineers exploring and building things. The 4s will look at how pulleys and gears are used in our daily lives to make work easier. They will learn the science behind both of these simple machines and have opportunities to experiment with these through hands on experiences. The 5s will look at the forces that engineers need to consider before building a structure. Force, load, tension and compression are all explored through hands on - mind
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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
Grades:
4th
Table-top Mini Golf: STEAM Engineering and Design for Elementary GATE
In From Putt-putt to Pebble Beach--Table-top Mini Golf, students will design and construct a playable table-top sized miniature golf course using the engineering design process. With these lessons, the teacher defines the problem, helps students gather background research, and specifies the requirements. The students do the rest: creating alternative solutions, choosing the best solution, doing development work, building a prototype, and testing and redesigning. The result is a classroom filled
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
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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A Wrinkle in Time: Novel Study Unit Plan
This 4 ½ - 6 week novel study will guide students through an imaginative exploration and critical analysis of Madeleine L’Engle’s Newberry Award Winning book, A Wrinkle in Time. Students will be challenged to think deeply about the book’s themes and respond thoughtfully through written work and oral discussions. Their imaginations will be stretched and their critical thinking skills will be developed on a daily basis. The study is divided into three segments: Chapters 1-4, Chapters 5-8, and Cha
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5th - 9th
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Grade 7 Science Understanding Structures and Mechanisms Unit
This 202-page Grade 7 Science Understanding Structures and Mechanisms Unit will help you teach science without a textbook using exciting and cross-curricular lessons. Students will love this engaging and differentiated unit that uses interactive and hands-on learning to explain what structures are and how they function.Curriculum Alignment: Ontario Science Curriculum 2022 - Grade 7 Understanding Structures and MechanismsKey Features of This Resource:✅ Detailed lesson plans✅ Differentiated lesson
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Grades:
7th
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Also included in: Grade 7 Science Bundle Ontario Curriculum
Decision-Making Lessons: A TPT Best-Selling Unit on Dangerous Teen Decisions!
TPT's #1 Best-Selling High School Decision Unit!!If you work with 6th through 12th grade teens, these decision-making lessons are so powerful! I consider this one of my BEST Health units since it deals with the consequences of teen decisions! Your students will LOVE this-it's so relevant to their lives and the world we live in today!Articles are shocking, revealing, often heart-breaking, and very relatable for teens!>> Integrated Skills Based, Content Based / Knowledge Based. The best of b
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6th - 12th
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