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7th grade critical thinking cultural activities
Lunar New Year 2024 | Year of the DRAGON Reading Comprehension | Spring Festival
Chinese New Year in 2024 starts on Saturday, February 10th!It’s the Year of the DRAGON!Did you know that the Chinese believe that people born in the Year of the DRAGON are strong, tenacious, and ambitious? Do you know what the lucky colors and numbers are for people born during the Year of the DRAGON?Find out more by close-reading interesting text all about the Year of the DRAGON.Create a Cool DRAGON Collage, perfect for a 2024 Year of the DRAGON Bulletin Board!*** This resource has been updated
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Canadian CANADA BLACK HISTORY Reading Passages, Activities PRINT and EASEL
Included in this set of 3 informational texts and 4 activities are:-- 3 one-page texts: “A Short History of Black Canadians”, “Mary Ann Shadd, Activist” and “Richard Pierpoint, Hero of the War of 1812”. -- 4 activities that complement the texts, the first a "True/False" activity to go with the first passage, and two for Mary Ann Shadd and Richard Pierpoint which require use of the internet (two YouTube videos); the fourth about the U.S. Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (this can be done without intern
Grades:
5th - 7th
Also included in: Canadian Black History BUNDLE #1 of 3 Resources PRINT and EASEL
3/D Tipi, Circle and Welcome Pole Craft, EASY Native American Art Fall Activity
This bundle includes 3 Native American themed craft projects made for students using circles (Mandela) cones (3/D tipi), and cylinders (welcome poles) These crafts are a great way to integrate the arts with your Native American curriculum. This is three of my students favorites put together in a money saving bundle! See descriptions for each project, and check out the teacher reviews of individual items! Crafts include a 3/D tipi, mandella, and 3/D welcome pole. Great for Bulletin boards, door
Grades:
1st - 7th
Depth and Complexity Frames for Every Month of the Year | Print-and-Go
This set of Depth and Complexity frames offers one frame for each month of the year. If you are looking for a quality print and go activity for your students, this is the perfect resource for you. There are twelve Depth & Complexity frames tied to holidays and month themes (such as Black History Month). They've got great graphics and strong, high-level thinking questions. There's even a rubric you can use to evaluate your students' completed frames.No need to be a Depth and Complexity expert
Grades:
4th - 10th
Code Crackers #2 - Pigpen Cipher
Help your students develop critical thinking skills, learn a bit about secret societies, and have some fun at the same time with this Code Cracker activity! Students will be introduced to the Pigpen cipher and learn how it works, then they will have an opportunity to crack some codes themselves. There is also a space for them to create their own codes for each other to decipher.This is the second activity in my Code Crackers series. You can now get this resource as part of a bundle! Have a look
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Code Crackers - Ultimate Bundle
The Rose that Grew From the Concrete - Tupac Shakur Poem Analysis
Short analysis of Tupac Shakur's famous poem, "The Rose that Grew from the Concrete." Three discussion questions follow the poem by Tupac. Used during Black History Month in a 6th grade classroom in Oakland, CA.
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4th - 12th
What's in a Song Bundle! Combining History and the Arts
This product and other - What’s in a Song? – lessons are a great way to combine history and the arts. I use these in my U.S. History class as well in my advisory period as a way to create discussion and provoke thoughts about the environment, social justice, and activism. My students are able to connect the themes of the song with current events of today. I begin each of these by playing the song for my students and ask what they think the message is in the lyrics. We then read through the histo
Grades:
7th - 12th
Disney Pixar's Coco Movie Guide Packet + Activities + Sub Plan + Best Value
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This packet includes, among two other teaching aids, a peer-reviewed handout of 15 essay questions designed to promote self-reflection, family history, character development, and a greater appreciation for others' cultures. This movie guide, while rigorous and pertinent to the film, goes beyond the scope of questions like "what's the setting and time period" and helps students put into practice character building ideas and concepts based on themes from the movie. A mod
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7th - 12th
Gobierno Estudiantil - Emprendiendo Juntos (Planeación Didáctica + Recursos)
¡"Gobierno Estudiantil - Emprendiendo Juntos", un proyecto educativo interactivo diseñado para transformar el salón de clases en un laboratorio de aprendizaje práctico! Este proyecto innovador aborda múltiples campos formativos, fomentando habilidades cruciales como liderazgo, emprendimiento, pensamiento crítico y trabajo en equipo.Características Destacadas:Simulación de Gobierno del Aula: Los estudiantes asumen roles de secretarios de gobierno, cada uno liderando una secretaría (Cultura, Econo
Grades:
4th - 12th
Also included in: BUNDLE: Todos los Recursos (Español)
Words of Wisdom - Celebrate Black History Month with 34 Inspirational Quotes
Celebrate Black History Month with 34 inspirational quote posters from influential African American people.This resource is a powerful tool to use in your classrooms, and can stimulate many interesting and inspiring topics and discussions with students about the challenges of people of color through history, including modern day heroes. They can make a striking bulletin board or hallway display and can also be used as writing prompts and will help promote critical thinking, diversity awareness,
Grades:
5th - 12th
Also included in: Black History Bundle
Design Your Own Home - Architecture Unit
Students learn the basic stages of designing a house, from planning to final design, in this two week unit. Critical thinking plays a large role in this activity. The unit has a strong emphasis on the preliminary planning stages of designing a home: spaces that are necessary vs. those that are amenities; defining public vs. private spaces; room locations and relationships; and working within a square footage budget. Just as an architect does, students will develop a preliminary floor plan, refin
Grades:
6th - 12th
ENCANTO Movie Guide | Worksheet | Questions | Google Slides | Movie Day
Check out the latest favorite movie, ENCANTO!Teachers, are you looking to support your student's social-emotional needs?What better way to engage them than with MOVIE DAY? ... ENCANTO has some great life lessons!This resource includes a printable AND digital version to use with Google Classroom™Looking for more MOVIE GUIDES? Click HERE-Movie Guide for INSIDE, OUT (digital and printable)-Movie Guide for How to Train a Dragon (digital and printable)-Movie Guide for Wreck-it Ralph (digital and prin
Grades:
5th - 9th
Code Crackers #3 - Morse Code
Help your students develop critical thinking skills, learn a bit about morse code and have some fun at the same time with this Code Cracker activity! Students will be introduced to Morse Code and learn how it works, then they will have an opportunity to crack some codes themselves. There is also a space for them to create their own codes for each other to decipher.This is the third activity in my Code Crackers series. You can now get this resource as part of a bundle! Have a look at the Code Cra
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Code Crackers - Ultimate Bundle
Fake news and false facts – ESL, EFL, ELL adult and kids conversation
This presentation contains a 60 slide PowerPoint lesson in editable PPT format with a work papers and teachers’ notes.There’s no need to explain the necessity of discussing this topic in this particular period. While preparing this lesson, I have tried as best I could to steer clear of politics and even personal specific examples and stuck to facts and study results.The activity at the end is there to show that “false facts” are not a new phenomenon and that science also gets it wrong (a lot…).T
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Zodiac Activities (Astrology and Chinese) Bundle
Astrology Zodiac CardsPurpose of Activity: The purpose of this activity is to engage your students and to help them learn more about the zodiac symbols, astrology, constellations, and some mythological history. Included in this resource: Teacher Tips (1-page) Astrology Zodiac Cards* (7-pages; 14 cards) *Included is an Astrology Zodiac Cover Card & Activities Card Teacher Tips: You can use these cards any way that you wish. Below are some suggestions.Station Work: Use these cards as a statio
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Grades:
5th - 7th
Disney's Moana (2016) Movie Guide + Activities + Sub Plan + Best Value
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This packet includes, among five other teaching aids, a peer-reviewed handout of 15 essay questions designed to promote empathy, goal setting, kindness, and debate among students. This resource, while rigorous and pertinent to the film, goes beyond the scope of questions like "what's the setting and time period" and helps students put into practice character building ideas and concepts based on themes from the movie. A modified black-and-white printer ink-saving vers
Grades:
7th - 12th
A Little History Of The World
This is a reading guide for those who choose to use the EH Gombrich book "A Little History of the World" for a Social Studies or Language Arts middle school learning environment.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Media Literacy... Is it Real News or Fake News?!? (Online)
An interactive Google Slide Show asking students (using the comments feature or adding a text box) to consider slide by slide whether each newspaper headline is actually real news or fake. Using high levels of critical thinking, each headline per slide will certainly develop into very active discussions in and of themselves! More than ever, as learning moves to online platforms, and where students are now being asked to conduct high levels of research, Media Literacy is an essential component in
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4th - 9th, Adult Education
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Interpreting Maps (Physical, Topographic, Thematic, and Political)
My 6th-grade Geography students always enjoyed this fun, critical thinking, and discussion-sparking Map interpretation activity! Activity Includes:16 slides, each featuring a different mapThought-provoking question prompts to accompany each map An additional slide with links to geography games for your early-finishersHow to ImplementI recommend having students work with a partner to discuss each map before coming to an answer, although this could also be a whole-group or small-group activity if
Grades:
6th - 10th
MONARCH BUTTERFLIES - Educators Resource Guide, Lessons & Activities. 76 pages!
MONARCH BUTTERFLIES - Educators Resource Guide, Lessons & Activities. 76 pages!Includes:Monarch Butterfly fun factsMonarch Butterfly Q&A Why do Monarch Butterflies migrate? etcWhy Monarch Butterfly matterThe threats Monarch Butterfly faceHow is WWF improving our food practices and helping monarchsWhat kids can doMore Monarch Butterfly teaching toolsWord puzzle and answers x2Learning activity - Monarch Butterfly Rest Stop x6 pagesLearning activity - Origami Butterfly Planters x8 pagesL
Grades:
3rd - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
6-8 Social Justice Morning Meeting Slides-Anti Bias Education-Sociocultural
UPDATE: GOOGLE SLIDES FORMAT NOW AVAILABLE 10/15/20Teaching Tolerance’s Social Justice Standards is a road map for anti-bias education at every grade level. These particular slides were developed for 6-8 classrooms. The purpose of these slides is to engage our students in deep and meaningful conversations that go beyond the basic "my favorite color is...". They are meant to elicit dialogue about inequalities and equity. What does that look like? How can students be citizens that promote a safe s
Grades:
6th - 8th
Japanese Internment: Primary Source Analysis
This photo analysis resource pairs well with a study of Japanese internment camps. If you are studying World War II or Pacific Northwest History, this is a piece of history that often gets overlooked, but is so important to include. This resource includes 12 primary source images with a step by step analysis guide, historical context information, and writing prompts perfect for deeper discussion. You can use this resource as a daily warm-up, exit tickets, or station rotations. What's Included:-
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Warnings 1 – why do we ignore them? – ESL adult and kids conversation
This presentation contains a 33 slide PowerPoint lesson in editable PPT format with a handout, a vocabulary sheet, a practice activity and teacher’s notes. Warnings are an interesting discussion topic. We’ve all received warnings in our lives, and we’ve all ignored some of them for various reasons.This lesson discusses the reasons warnings are and have been ignored in the past (sometimes with severe consequences, like the case of the titanic).This was fun to create and fun to teach. This lesson
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Warnings – a two-unit bundle
Ethical and Moral Scenarios for Discussion
This activity includes five detailed, moral scenarios relevant to high school students across multiple disciplines. I usually employ it cooperatively: Each group is assigned one of the scenarios, and after each group's presentation of its choices, other groups have the opportunity to weigh in, but this product is also useful when employed individually. I have used this in conjunction with teaching the novel, Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, but it is also appropriate as an introduction to an
Grades:
6th - 12th
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