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Common Core CCRA.SL.5 simulations
Legislative Branch Activity: Classroom Simulation on How a Bill Becomes a Law
Make civics practical and exciting for students using this Social Studies simulation that allows students to experience the Legislative Branch! Students will participate in writing bills for their school, community, or state while learning the various stages within the lawmaking process. All voices are heard as students become members of Congress, participate in committees, debate on the floor, and watch their President sign the bills that survive the entire process. Not only do students love
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6th - 12th
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Political Parties | Campaign Simulation Running for President
This presidential election simulation is an excellent way for students to comprehend all aspects of political parties and the campaigns needed to elect a presidential candidate - "Let's Get The Party Started!" The teacher will divide class into groups of 4 to 5 students per group. Each group will develop their own political party and choose a presidential candidate to represent their party. Using the included criteria, allow students a few class periods, or portions of class periods, to create
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5th - 12th
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GRAPES Design a Civilization Activity | Ancient History Social Studies Project
Teach the GRAPES of Civilization in your classroom with this creative activity that tasks students with designing their very own unique civilization! This resource contains printable project worksheets in color and black and white versions. Organizer worksheets feature each of the G.R.A.P.E.S. of Civilization: Geography, Religion, Achievements, Politics, Economics, and Social Structure. Civilizations can be rooted in the real world, or fantasy! Will your students declare themselves emperor of th
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: GRAPES Ancient Civilizations Resource Activities Value Unit Bundle
Economics Resources: A Bundle of Engaging Resources On Money, Economy, & More
This bundle includes a variety of 9 economic resources from my store that you can add to your various economic units. With a total of 9 fantastic resources on economics, you will be saving 25% by getting this bundled version instead of purchasing the resources individually! That's like getting a few products for FREE! Products included are seen above! Enjoy!Thank You!Thanks so much for stopping by! It's great to meet you! I hope this resource adds value to your classroom. If you have time, I'd
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Not Grade Specific
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Tech Lesson - Google Maps - GPS Buddy {Technology Lesson Plan}
Map reading seems like a lost art. An ancient skill that people used long before the smartphone. Students rely so much on their smart phones and tablets to help get them where they need or what they want. Break up the routine by having your students be the smart phone!
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Middle and High School STEM and Technology Curriculum
Student Run Newscast PBL (5 lesson plans, 5 news segments, 23 student jobs)
Student Run Newscast Project Based Learning This resource is a bundle of my 5 New Segment Project Based Learning Enrichment Packets, complete with job descriptions, graphic organizers and the writing process. Each one is centered around completing a news segment that when put altogether, creates a complete classroom news broadcast. Each segment includes engaging tasks, graphic organizers, informative writing lessons and research strategies that give students a voice and choice in their i
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2nd - 8th
Stuck in School Fun Simulation Game (Critical Thinking, Problem Solving)
This resource is an editable, fun simulation game in which students work in groups to survive scenarios. The scene is set as the students being stuck in school overnight, with all windows and doors barricaded. If any school personnel catches them, they will die/lose. Groups must strategize tactful ways out of the situations to make it through all 12 scenarios and survive the game.
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5th - 12th
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Debate Bundle - Debates, Graphic Organizers, Rubrics, Templates, Scaffolds
This "Ultimate Debate Bundle" is everything you need to facilitate clear, well-organized debates for students of elementary school - 12th grade. The materials are designed for a students of varying language and learning needs, fitting the language development needs of ESL students as well as students in AP courses. This resource offers adaptable material that you can fit with any debate you develop for your students.Not just for ELA Teachers!Teachers across disciplines have found this resource h
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Heart Transplant Debate - Argument, Persuasion, Line of Reasoning, Team Building
The Heart Transplant debate is a great entry to a unit on persuasion/argumentation. It's also a fantastic tool to teach Line of Reasoning through experiential learning. This activity provides an opportunity for students to apply knowledge of general debate skills as well as locating and citing appropriate evidence. Two articles are linked as sources and pre-reading to this debate. My students loved arguing for their "client" and this debate got them out of their seats. I used this as an opportun
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Debate Starter Bundle - Handouts, Rubrics, Graphic Organizers, templates
This debate bundle is everything you need to facilitate a clear, well-organized debate for students of elementary school - 12th grade. This is a great unit to fit the language development needs of ESL students as well because it is visually based and adaptable. For students new to debate (middle - high school) and ESL students, this bundle is handy because of the clarity of directions and visual cues. When I do debates with more experienced debaters, and in AP Language, I use formats that are in
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Renaissance Escape Room Activity
Students act as detectives within their groups or individually to determine who stole the Mona Lisa. Several videos and voice overs are included with an array of visual sound effects within the PowerPoint. The evidence files are included with both an answer sheet for students and a key for teachers provided. It can be modified to a completely online or used as an in person activity. It took my class about 30-40 minutes.This activity creates an immersive experience for students and includes e
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6th - 9th
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Hip-hop Shakespeare Debate: Templates, Rubric, Research, Slides
I developed the Hip-hop Shakespeare Debate after thinking carefully about relevance for my students. This debate answers a question I struggled with for years: How can I get my students to authentically engage with Shakespeare's language and how language exposes cultural/societal norms? The Hip-hop Shakespeare debate not only addresses student relevance, it also engages students with the cognitively demanding, novel task of defending a hip-hop artist as "the Shakespeare of our time" with a defen
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Urban Game: Time Warp! An Interactive Simulation Activity
1. Urban GameThis Urban Game is SO MUCH FUN! This is one of my favorite activities to do with my students! They learn so much about the Industrial Revolution from it, and they always remember it! All you need a large poster board and pencils. I have made this an editable activity. I use it as an intro activity to the Industrial Revolution. This is an activity that my special education and regular education students love! This can take anywhere from 2-5 days depending on the group of students and
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8th - 12th
Survive, Thrive, or Doom! Early Civilizations Game
I designed the Survive, Thrive, or Doom! game as I was trying to include more inquiry and the inquiry arc into an early history research unit (an important element of the C3 Social Studies standards). While I have been successful in this regard, I have found that my students have a chance to be creative, they are more engaged in the subject matter (some spent many lunch hours in my classroom trying to improve their civilizations), and they had a lot of fun!This game fits into my 7 week research
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Survive, Thrive, or Doom! Game & Looking at Maps
The Bridge Challenge Activity - Beginning of Year Community Building, Team Work
This is a great activity for building or re-building community, teaching problem solving and team work through the metaphor of building a bridge, and taking time to create classroom culture.Includes Gallery Walk Rubric & Exit TicketGreat for all classrooms, all ages!I give each team a plastic bag with spaghetti, marshmallows, cotton balls, legos...you decide the contents. I also include tape. I make sure that each team has the same size and quantity. You can even throw in a challenge object
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Debate - Safety versus Freedom - AP Language Synthesis Essay Prompt Practice
* Updated 11/21/23 with 2 rubrics + Line of Reasoning handout/slideThis is my students' favorite AP Language activity each year. Facilitated as a debate using the Synthesis essay structure, the "Freedom v. Safety" prompt from a previous AP Language exam is great practice combining skills in research, argument writing, and debate. Please see the preview for a view of all materials in this resource.This resource includes hyperlinks to videos on my YouTube channel for Argument/Synthesis writing spe
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam Protests: Era of Social Change Group Project
This engaging group project has students act as major protest groups from the Civil Rights Era, culminating in an immersive in class experience called Woodstock. Let students learn about protest groups, their purpose, and their strategies in a fun, role-playing project that fosters creativity and learning. Have students research, create, and role-play major groups in the protest era and host an event your students won't forget!Students will work in groups and represent: Students for a Democratic
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9th - 12th
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Land Development vs Conservation A Role Playing Project
This project puts students into a role-playing scenario. The end result is a large class debate where the class will decide the outcome of a conservation vs land development issue. The students will assume a wide variety of roles (12 in total) that range from marine biologist, land developers, city council members, environmental lawyers and several more. Once the students are divided into their groups they will begin to research the issue, form their ideas and argument and then begin to partner
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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NGSS:
MS-ESS3-2
, MS-ESS3-1
, MS-LS2-2
, MS-LS2-3
, MS-ESS2-2
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Economics Activity | Create a Business and Merge with others in a Market Economy
CEO’s are always looking to improve their companies. Often times, merging with another company (or forming trusts) may help remove competition within the market, diversify product, or streamline company logistics.In this activity, students will create their own company, present their company for the purpose of merging with another company within the class. Groups will begin to consider all presented companies and then choose which company to merge with. After the merging process, groups will
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6th - 12th
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Survive, Thrive, or Doom! Early Civilizations Game with Artifacts & Archaeology
This is a bundle of my Survive, Thrive, or Doom! Game and my Artifacts & Archaeologists activities that compliments the final stages of the game.I designed the Survive, Thrive, or Doom! game as I was trying to include more inquiry and the inquiry arc into an early history research unit (an important element of the C3 Social Studies standards). While I have been successful in this regard, I have found that my students have a chance to be creative, they are more engaged in the subject matter (
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5th - 8th
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Community Building Debate - Habits of Mind, Growth Mindset, SEL
The Habits of Mind debate combines SEL and academic learning. It is: a great entry to a unit on persuasion/argumentation a brush-up on debate skills a chance to build an argument using source material an opportunity for self-reflection and metacognitive writing an all-around engagement boosterIt's a "4-sided debate" as it involved 4 groups of students; materials are editable, so you can definitely adapt to fit your own classroom needs. This activity provides an opportunity for students to apply
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Election Simulation Activity - Government/Civics
This week-long activity is something that I use with my 12th grade government students, but could easily be adjusted for any grade. At the beginning of the week students each get a role in a fake class election to be "class president". Each student is given a different role: political candidate, lobbyist, visual media expert, writer, and technological media expert work together to participate in a campaign and participate in the political process. In the end the group who wins the election gets
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Not Grade Specific
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Human Body Corporation Debates
Fantastic constructivist curriculum unit integrating reading, research, oral communication, peer collaboration, technology, and debate with the content of the human body systems. Sure to be a motivating, memorable learning experience for elementary intermediate aged students on up through high school. CCSS's are only referenced for 4th grade - however, the amount of reading and oral communication standards addressed in this project is extremely comprehensive.
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4th - 11th
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NYSESLAT Speaking Test Prep (5 Speaking Activities)
Each spring across New York State, English Language Learners and Multilingual Learners (ELLs/MLLs) in Kindergarten and Grades 1–12 take the New York State English as a Second Language Achievement Test (NYSESLAT) in order to assess their English language proficiency and determine appropriate services in Bilingual Education and English as a New Language programs.NYSESLAT test samplers, or practice tests, are available for educators, students, and parents to show the types of directions and questio
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3rd - 4th
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