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Critical thinking Common Core CCRA.SL.5 resources
Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit | 5th-7th Grades | Social Studies
The Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit is PERFECT for 5th-7th grade students! This incredible unit focuses on the importance of primary and secondary sources of information and will help grow your students critical thinking skills and abilities, as well as how to examine sources of information for bias and cause and effect relationships, and MUCH more!! The amazing resources included with this unit have been used with GREAT SUCCESS by THOUSANDS of students, and can easily be used with an
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Bundle for Virginia
End of the Year Activities - Digital Mystery Game - Inferencing - Team Building
Keep your students engaged with this end of the year activity. Great for team building. This is a new spin on the classic mystery games I have created. Keep inferencing skills up during Summer break! Students will work together to solve the mystery AND learn about inferencing! The material is so fun and engaging, students won't even know they are actually learning! This activity can be used anytime of year and is a fantastic way to get students excited about learning. Do your students enjo
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4th - 8th
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My Brother Sam is Dead — Hyperlinked PDF project to accompany novel
This hyperlinked PDF is designed for use on a computer or tablet to be completed with the reading of the book My Brother Sam is Dead by James and Christopher Collier. It includes questions and activities for each chapter, some based on the book and some based on videos and articles hyperlinked within this PDF (perfect for iPads or Chromebooks).Additional information and activities enrich the experience of reading the book and are aligned with Common Core State Standards. Hyperlinked sites includ
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4th - 8th
Social Studies SUPER BUNDLE | Units 1-9 for 5th-8th Grades! | Google Apps!
The Social Studies SUPER BUNDLE Units 1-9 for 5th-8th grades is COMPLETELY ready for both in-person and digital learning (via Google Apps)! With this amazing Social Studies SUPER BUNDLE you'll receive EVERYTHING you need to cover the Age of Exploration all the way to the Reconstruction Era with your students, -PLUS- you'll also receive an Intro to U.S. Geography Unit -AND- Thinking Like a Historian Unit!! ***STOP the stressful and endless search for amazing, high-quality, and affordable Social S
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5th - 8th
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Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit for 8th-10th Grade Social Studies
The amazing resources included with the Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit for 8th-10th Grade Social Studies have been successfully used by thousands of students and come completely ready to use for BOTH in-person and digital learning (via Google Apps)! The Thinking Like a Historian Unit lays the foundation for your students to succeed in your social studies class! They'll explore and discuss learning strategies that promote and encourage students to think critically, how to effectively
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8th - 10th
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Also included in: 8th Grade U.S. History YEAR-LONG Curriculum Bundle!! | Google Apps
Create Your Own Holiday Creative and Critical Thinking Project
I created this resource as a way to meet several needs in my classroom. I wanted to:→help students reflect and deepen their understanding of why we celebrate special days in our lives→provide an outlet for student creativity both in thinking and with presenting their ideas →supply an inclusive activity that ALL of my students would be able to work on, at any point in the year→allow students the opportunity to have FUN while activating critical thinking skillsEngaging in a project like this reall
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3rd - 6th
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PBL Plant Unit for Kindergarten, First, and Second Grades with Lesson Plans
This PBL unit includes the planning/description phase, full lesson plans,reflection outline for students, presentation planning outline for students, rubrics,activities for both hands on and technology. It covers plants from facts to awareness of their importance to our lives. The unit has 4 weeks of detailed lesson plans with guidance for both teacher and students. Planning, description outlines, lesson plans, and printables consist of 75 pages. Students can use an ongoing journal, or lap book
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K - 2nd
Personalized Learning Project (Cap Stone) (Senior Project) (Independent Study)
An EDITABLE GOOGLE-DOC VERSION of this resource is included (on the last page). You can customize this resource. Then print or have students complete online as a Google Doc. FROM STUDENT MANUAL INTRODUCTION PAGE:What is the Personalized Learning Project, and what is its purpose?The Personalized Learning Project (PLP) is an independent learning project based on your interests. The PLP allows you to explore an area of interest and provides you with the opportunity to apply and demonstrate k
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8th - 12th
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Bee Bot Command Cards
Bee Bot is an amazing way to learn beginning programming. The set of command cards include Go, Forward, Back, Left, Right, Clear, Pause. I created them mainly for my students to use prior to mastering the Bee Bot commands and as a resource during use (I printed, laminated, and put the cards on a ring).
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PreK - 2nd
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The Wild Robot Questions - The Wild Robot Novel Study Discussion Questions
⭐ Make sure to take a sneak peek at this amazing resource ⭐Do you love the novel, The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown, but need low-prep activities to integrate into a fun novel unit? The Wild Robot Discussion Questions for Google Slides are a perfect way for students to synthesize information as they read each chapter in the novel. This resource includes a printable and digital option and is designed so that you can simply download, print, and go! This is ideal for teachers wanting a high-quality a
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3rd - 5th
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Whodunit Hotel: A Deep and Complex Multidisciplinary Mystery Genre Study
Welcome to the Whodunit Hotel! In this multidisciplinary genre study, students will work with a variety of mysteries in order to develop their concept of the genre and literary analysis skills. Students love mysteries, and they readily engage with the genre because it inherently encourages them to think deeply about a text to find solutions. Mysteries also provide an excellent opportunity as a genre to explicitly teach and discuss many facets of literature, including setting, characters, plot de
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4th - 7th
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Brave New World Unit Plan: CCSS Teaching Plans, Lessons & Activities
This 101-page plan is a Common Core Standards based unit containing: time frame, day by day lessons, vocabulary, chapter by chapter study guide for discussion ideas, 50+ worksheets, assessments, group and individual projects and much, much more. In this day and age when even a hamburger can be cloned, students are fascinated by the What-ifs of human reproduction. What would happen if people could choose their baby's gender as well as each and every physical, mental and emotional aspect?In this c
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9th - 12th
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The Stranger Unit Plan: CCSS Teaching Notes, Lessons, and Activities
Aligned with the Common Core principles, 'The Stranger Unit Plan,' a 90-page compilation of lessons and activities, has been detailed and developed for clarity, depth, comprehension, and analysis- from basic to higher level cognition. This version is a third larger than the previous one with a flexibility terrific for Distance, Classroom, and Home School Learning. It includes a table of contents, a copious variety of activities for teachers to meet their goals and the needs and skills of their h
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
EPCOT Workbook, Full Park Curriculum for Trips and Homeschooling
The "Ultimate EPCOT Workbook: Curriculum for Educational Trips and Homeschooling in the World's Most Magical Place" is a comprehensive educational companion designed for students and educators alike to enhance their EPCOT experience with a robust curriculum that makes each visit both fun and informative. This innovative printable workbook includes a diverse range of activities that are specifically tailored to each attraction within EPCOT, aiming to deepen the understanding of themes such as cul
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Not Grade Specific
Making Inferences with Implicit vs. Explicit Text
Note: Some of my products have some “out there” ideas. Make sure to look at the preview before purchasing. Everyone's classroom is unique and while these lessons work within my classroom, that may not be the case in another’s room.". . . Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings."-Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)I love searching for the connotative or "unsaid" meaning in words. That's why in many of my learning guides, I incorporate music to search for deeper meanings in the written word
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6th - 8th
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Socratic Seminar Tracking Sheets
This is a great resource for teachers to use when performing a Socratic Seminar in their classes.Included in this file:3 sets of tracking sheets, each with different look-fors when performing a Socratic Seminar.Each set includes a teacher tracking sheet and 2 student tracking sheets. One where students are required to track the number of participants and provide examples from their partner and one where students only have to track their partner's participation.2 teacher sheets to track student
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2nd - 12th
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Academic Conversation MEGA Unit Power Point (214 slides!) - Digital Resource!!
This is a complete MEGA unit PowerPoint teaching students how to have high quality, higher-level thinking, academic conversations with each other. It is based on the book, "Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings" By Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford.Overall this unit is 9 separate lessons, working through the 5 academic conversation skills and then allowing students to practice and evaluate their contributions in conversations. The amount
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2nd - 8th
The Canterbury Tales Unit Plan: CCSS Teaching Plans, Lessons & Activities
This 52-page unit plan for The Canterbury Tales includes all of the material from my various products for Geoffrey Chaucer’s masterfully satirical piece depicting the people and society of the Middle Ages, plus added activities, projects and material offering teachers and students multiple ways to study this text. A five-page satire section offers information on satire, as well as vocabulary that is prevalent in satiric works, both written and visual. A fun closure activity invites the class t
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9th - 12th
Pre-Reading Collaborative Existential Philosophy Research~Camus & "The Stranger"
This is a 2-page, detailed PDF (printable!) pre-reading / research activity to set the stage for reading Albert Camus's existentialist masterpiece novella The Stranger (L'Etranger). The PDF includes:
a.) cooperative learning tasks within teams
b.) jigsaw topics (5 separate topics for 5 separate teams to research, from French colonization in Algeria, to Camus himself, to the origins and resolution of WWII, to current and historic death penalty laws -- both within and outside of the U.S., to Exist
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Holocaust: A Project Based Learning Opportunity
Note: Some of my products have some “out there” ideas. Make sure to look at the preview before purchasing. Everyone's classroom is unique and while these lessons work within my classroom, that may not be the case in another’s room."These are the days it never rainsbut it pours."Under Pressure (Queen and David Bowie)In essence, project-based learning is an educational opportunity geared towards the learner. In contrast to typical classroom instruction, project-based learning provides the autonomy
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8th - 10th
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Teaching Line of Reasoning: A Whodunit Activity Unit (Bundle)
This is a unit about teaching Line of Reasoning (Line of Argument) that can be expanded at the teacher's discretion to include a presentation and a paper that practices both utilizing evidence and line of argument, or alternatively can also be collapsed into a mini-unit of just teaching Line of Reasoning (Line of Argument). It is structured as an investigation for students to explore how a Professor at an elite school is murdered and by whom. It includes a presentation, all the evidence (which
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9th - 12th
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Model United Nations Conference - High School Debate Unit
Comprehensive Model United Nations Teaching Materials: Empower Your Students to Debate Global IssuesTake your Model United Nations (MUN) program to new heights with this comprehensive collection of teaching materials! Designed by experienced MUN educators, this resource package contains everything you need to guide your students through the exciting world of international diplomacy and debate. Equip your learners with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to become effective delegates, policymak
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9th - 12th
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Savvy by Ingrid Law Novel Study
Are you needing help on how to teach the novel Savvy by Ingrid Law, but you don't have time to prepare challenging and engaging lessons? Give your students an abundance of fun work rolled into one super unit with 363 slides. To check out my work, download Savvy Freebie of Chapters 1 - 4.Click here to save 25% off the price of individual resources with the Savvy Bundle.Inside this easy to use PowerPoint, you'll find:Vocabulary activitiesHigher-level thinking questionsProject ideasQuestions that c
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Savvy Novel Study and Activities
Night Unit Plan - CCSS: Teaching Plans/Lessons/Activities/Assessments
If adolescents are to understand the physical, emotional and spiritual effects of man's inhumanity to man, Night (Elie Wiesel), is a good starting platform for English and Social Studies teachers. This 68-page unit engages the students on an emotional level and pushes them to think and analyze through thought-provoking discussions and writings about some of the principle players of the Third Reich, its victims, philosophies, and the power of propaganda. Aligned with CCS, it has over 30 activitie
Grades:
8th - 12th
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