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1st grade critical thinking social studies task cards
Community Signs Skill Pack Leveled for Special Education - Life Skills
Do your students need a high level of varied practice in order to learn community signs? This community signs skill pack will help your students progress from identifying a sign to understanding what the community signs mean. Being able to identify and understand community signs is a crucial life skill. These activities help students recognize and understand the meaning of the different signs.This life skills and social studies set is already differentiated for you. There are 3 levels included t
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K - 12th
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2D Shape Pattern Block STEM Challenge Cards
The perfect addition to your morning STEM tubs, these challenge cards ask students to make a variety of different 2D shapes from pattern blocks. Ideal for building visual discrimination skills as children have to rotate and flip smaller shapes to create the new shape.Focus shapes included - triangle, square, rectangle, rhombus/diamond, hexagon, trapezoid. Perfect to use as an invitation to play in the Early Years, as math centers or even as a cross-curriculum literacy center for early readers to
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K - 3rd
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Math Logic Puzzles Shapes - Early Finisher Activities - levels A,B,C BUNDLE
These pattern block math logic puzzles for kindergarten, first, and second grade make a great, NO PREP math center activity, morning work activity, or challenge math activity. These logic puzzles keep students highly-engaged while improving and developing their logic and visual discrimination skills. These brain teasers are a great way to teach your students to persevere through challenging tasks and help to develop their growth mindset. This bundle includes three different levels of math logic
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K - 2nd
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LEGO Challenge Task Cards {Great for STEM or fun building!}
I am really excited to show you some cute, older-kid friendly LEGO Challenge Task Cards! These are bright, colorful, and can appeal to older students without looking too primary. Don’t’ have LEGOs? That’s okay! These can be used for any building materials you may have—unifix cubes, plastic Flake Discs (Amazon), Bunchems (Amazon or Target), Wiki Stix, pipe cleaners, play-dough, etc. Get those kids engineering and manipulating. They work great as an independent station for special education, a STE
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PreK - 8th
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End of School Year Breakout - Last Day Escape Room - Activities Digital - Summer
A fantastic, fun end of the school year or last day of school activity to work on team building, perseverance, critical thinking, and using a Growth Mindset! Ideal for students grades 2 - 8.Recommended Use:Allow children to attempt the digital breakout challenge individually, in pairs, small teams, or as a whole class. Share the clues with your students, either by sharing the Google Slides of the clues with your students (two versions to choose from: with or without lock hints) or printing out h
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1st - 8th
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Spring Break Breakout - Spring Break Escape Room - Activities - Digital - Fun
A fantastic, fun pre- or post-spring break activity to work on team building, perseverance, critical thinking, and using a Growth Mindset! Ideal for students grades 2 - 8.Recommended Use:Allow children to attempt the digital breakout challenge individually, in pairs, small teams, or as a whole class. Share the clues with your students, either by sharing the Google Slides of the clues with your students (two versions to choose from: with or without lock hints) or printing out hardcopies. You may
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1st - 8th
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Critical Thinking Activities Logic Puzzles, Algebraic Thinking, Math Enrichment
Engage your students with these critical thinking activities and math logic puzzles. Included in this bundle are 3 critical thinking products for grades K-2. These ready to use logic puzzles are the perfect addition to your classroom to promote mathematical reasoning, problem solving, and creativity!These student friendly critical thinking activities will build a foundation for algebraic reasoning. With 96 puzzles in total, your students will be buzzing with excitement every time they complete o
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K - 2nd
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Why and How Questions Inferential Reasoning Speech Therapy No Prep Boom Cards
This Boom Cards™ deck is perfect for teaching answering why and how questions regarding visual inferences and requiring inferential reasoning. It has 20 real-life picture scenarios with three cards for each scenario (1) the main photo with a draggable prompt guide on the right (2) open-ended boxes for answering why and how questions (how did you know?) and (3) a page for multiple choice in the field of 3 and draggable highlights to be placed on the clues.The breakdown of the deck is as follows:★
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1st - 3rd
Depth of Knowledge (DOK) 105 Question Stem Cards MATH EDITION
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With the new assessments coming into play, students will be expected to answer more complex questions. Are your students answering higher-order questions properly and regularly? If not, use these questioning stems to get kids thinking more deeply about their learning.
This set of DOK Level 1-4 cards, makes it easy to scroll through and select various levels of questions before, during, and after instruction. They are
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PreK - 12th
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Place Value Riddles Mystery Number Puzzles Task Cards Scoot Tens and Ones
Build number sense and engage your students in critical thinking with these mystery number task cards! Each card requires students to guess a two-digit mystery number based on place value and greater than/less than clues. This is a fun way to practice place value and number sense skills up to 100 and are a great challenge for early finishers. INCLUDES:24 task cardsrecording sheetanswer keydigital activitiesDigital activitiesThis resource includes a digital version in Easel. It includes moveable
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: PLACE VALUE Math Bundle 2-Digit Numbers Tens and Ones 1st Grade
Sequencing Math Logic Puzzles, Early Finisher Activities, Enrichment 2nd Grade
Improve your students' critical thinking and problem-solving skills with these 36 sequencing logic puzzles. Students must use logic and reasoning to create a set of birds on a wire that satisfies all the clues in the puzzle. The activities require them to analyze statements about relationships, evaluate a solution to see if it meets given criteria, explain their reasoning, create more than one solution to a problem, and generate their own problems and solutions. Check out the preview for a c
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1st - 3rd
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Valentine Breakout - Valentine's Day Escape Room - Activities - Digital - Fun
A fantastic, fun valentine activity to work on team building, perseverance, critical thinking, and using a Growth Mindset! Ideal for students grades 2 - 8.Recommended Use:Allow children to attempt the digital breakout challenge individually, in pairs, small teams, or as a whole class. Share the clues with your students, either by sharing the Google Slides of the clues with your students (two versions to choose from: with or without lock hints) or printing out hardcopies. You may wish to provide
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1st - 8th
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Biography Card Bundle (Daily Routine)
This bundle includes resources to help you incorporate under-represented history into your classroom without having to give up lesson time needed to cover the curriculum. These biography profile cards can be used in 5 minutes a day and will introduce students to 30-42 people a month, not to mention create thoughtful discussion and reflection based on the challenge question cards included.Unfortunately, our curriculum doesn't feature many black and brown faces, or many women. Electing to erase th
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K - 8th
Lego STEM Task Cards Mega Bundle - 7 Sets of Task Cards- 208 Task Cards Total!
Total of 180 Task Cards (Buy all 7 sets for the price of 5!)7 PDFS--each is color coded.Bundle includes 7 sets in task card format:First EditionSecond EditionFallWinterSpring/SummerAnimals and HabitatsSchoolFor most challenges, students won't need more than a handful of legos.There are easier challenges, and some challenges that will really push your students to think "outside the box". There are NOT images on the challenge cards as the purpose of the cards is creativity and exploration.I use t
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K - 5th
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Math Logic Puzzles - Early Finisher Activities - set 1 & 2 - print & digital
This set of 56 interactive logic puzzles will have kids begging for more! Easy to use, these brain teasers are a great math center that will keep kids engaged while thinking logically. These puzzles are perfect to help your 1st and 2nd grade students learn to persevere through challenging tasks.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Now includes DIGITAL logic puzzles formatted for students to use with G
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1st - 2nd
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Number Sense Brain Teasers Task Cards - Math Fast Finisher Logic Puzzles
Build students' number sense with 2 & 3 digit numbers with these Number Sense Brain Teaser task cards. These rigorous and engaging math task cards are perfect fast finisher activities for 1st and 2nd grades. Students are given clues on how to solve the missing numbers using logical reasoning, addition, and/or subtraction, helping to build students' critical thinking, mental math skills and number sense.WHAT'S INCLUDED:• 40 brain teasers task cards• optional number tiles in color or black and
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1st - 2nd
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BUNDLED September Unique Learning Systems Task Boxes- Unit 1 Government
**Save 40%** Need extra independent tasks to pair with Unique Learning System (ULS) lessons? I’ve got you covered! These interactive independent task boxes & work stations use Symbolstix images to coordinate with the Unique Learning System (ULS) September Unit 1--Government Rules & Laws. **monthly digital versions coming soon!**This file includes:* addition task cards (1-10) with worksheet* subtraction task cards (1-10) with worksheet * tens frames 1-10* tens frames to 1-20* tens frames
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PreK - 12th
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Types of Communities │Rural, Urban, & Suburban
This is the perfect bundle to use when teaching your students about the different types of communities (rural, suburban, and urban)! Your students will enjoy these hands on activities and task cards, which are great to use in centers. Posters are also provided for your students to refer to. Included in this bundle:-"What is a Community" Poster-Rural Communities Poster-Urban Communities Poster-Suburban Communities Poster-Rural, Urban, and Suburban Picture Cards (1 page each, 4 images to a page)-R
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K - 6th
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Map Skills - First Grade Mapping - Social Studies - Google Slides™
Teaching beginning map skills to 1st graders is always a lot of fun! Students love learning about maps, compass roses, cardinal directions, and map keys! This interactive Google Slides™ unit is a perfect activity to introduce and practice beginning mapping.Audio is included on all slides in this unit.Here's what's included in this deck:Audio included for definitions, instructions, sentencesDifferent uses of mapsCardinal directions on a compass roseUsing directions on a mapUsing a map key activit
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1st - 2nd
St. Patrick's Day Breakout - St Patricks Day Escape Room - Activities - Digital
A fantastic, fun St. Patrick's Day activity to work on team building, perseverance, critical thinking, and using a Growth Mindset! Ideal for students grades 2 - 8.Recommended Use:Allow children to attempt the digital breakout challenge individually, in pairs, small teams, or as a whole class. Share the clues with your students, either by sharing the Google Slides of the clues with your students (two versions to choose from: with or without lock hints) or printing out hardcopies. You may wish to
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1st - 8th
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Math Logic Puzzles Shapes - Year Bundle
Send these Math Logic Puzzles home as a distance learning BUNDLE that will keep students engaged in critical thinking, hands-on learning activities for hours with minimal prep for parents. (Included in the download are paper copies of the pattern blocks needed for the puzzles)This bundle of interactive picture pattern block logic puzzles will have your primary students begging for more! Easy to use, these brain teasers are a great hands-on math center that will keep kids engaged while improving
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K - 3rd
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Map Skills and Directions BOOM CARDS™ Distance Learning | Reading a Map
This set is a great way to review cardinal directions and reading a map! This deck reviews north, south, east, west, and skills that primary students need to know when looking at a map. This set is geared toward first grade or second grade students! There are 52 slides in this deck. This set randomizes to play 20 cards at a time. So, each time your students play, they will get a new set of cards! The first 2 will stay consistent though (clicking on the map key and compass rose). This
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: 1st and 2nd Grade SOCIAL STUDIES Boom Cards™ BUNDLE Distance Learning
Chrome Music Lab Task Cards -Distance Learning
Looking for GOOGLE CLASSROOM compatible resources? Need fresh new ideas?Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments. FREE ACCESS 24/7. NO Download! NO Login.Just open https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/ andCreate, Perform and Respond while Connecting to technology and to other subjects. It automatically supports STEAM initiatives as well as the National Standards of Excellence. This file uses 4 components of the website with a so
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1st - 5th
Also included in: Chrome Music Lab - ALL 3 Task Card Sets + Bonus: Groove Pizza
Math Logic Puzzles Shapes Early Finisher Activities - level A
This set of interactive pattern block logic puzzles will have kids begging for more! Easy to use, these brain teasers are a great math center that will keep kids engaged while improving your students’ skills needed to solve logic tasks as well as developing their visual discrimination skills.These puzzles are perfect to help your students learn to persevere through challenging tasks.
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- Learn about the achievements, challenges, perspectives, traditions, and customs of different societies
- Evaluate information, analyze evidence, and make informed judgments about complex social, economic, and political issues
- Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
- Comprehend global issues such as human rights, environmental sustainability, and economic disparities
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