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Kindergarten critical thinking applied math centers
Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
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K - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
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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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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Creativity Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle Finish the Picture, STEM
Need a quick, no prep, creative STEM challenges to get your students to think outside the box?! Creativity challenges can be used as a quick warm up before a STEM challenge to help jumpstart students’ creativity. They can also be used for morning work, brain breaks, and at various other times throughout the school day.This bundle includes 100+ Creativity Challenges and Activities. Featuring Balloons Over Broadway, Snowflake Bentley, Valentine's Day, Groundhog Day, Earth Day, Halloween, Christmas
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K - 5th
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3-D Shapes Activity with Monsters (Geometry Math Craft for Elementary)
This fun elementary craftivity will get kids excited about 3-D geometric shapes while incorporating art into the classroom. This product includes 7 different shape (monster) templates (both in color and as line art for the student to color) and 3 accompanying worksheets. Please open my preview file to view everything that is included. This activity can also foster teamwork when students work together in groups of two to assemble their 3-D shape monsters.Save Money, buy the bundle! Monster Themed
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: 2-D & 3-D Shapes Monster Bundle
Goldilocks STEM Activity - Goldilocks and the Three Bears STEM Design a Bed
Goldilocks and the Three Bears STEM: Design a New Bed for Goldilocks! What do you get when you combine fairy tales and STEM? A fun, hands-on STEM tale! This fairy tale with a twist guides students through the engineering design process to create a new bed for Goldilocks. The storybook can be read aloud together. Students will complete it as they work through the STEM activity.⚙️ The STEM Activity ⚙️Your students will help Baby Bear build Goldilocks a new bed of her own! In this story, there is a
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K - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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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Math Workshop Rotation Board | EDITABLE | Math Centers
Plan, organize and manage your math centers effectively with this easy-to-use rotation chart! This visual will help your students understand exactly where they should be going and what activity they should be completing during your math workshop time! Here's What's Included:Note: All files are available in a BLACK BACKGROUND and WHITE BACKGROUND version! Group Headers (Groups 1-4)Rotation Numbers (1-4)Letter Cards to represent each center: M- Meet with the teacher/ Math Facts/ Mat
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K - 6th
Visual Math Activities for Children with Autism
Elevate your math instruction for students with autism using this comprehensive packet designed for special education teachers and parents. Focused on building basic foundational skills, these visual and engaging activities provide structured and repetitive learning experiences. Targeting essential skills like counting, number identification, more/less, bigger/smaller, and number sequencing, these activities serve as a crucial foundation for mastering more advanced math concepts. The packet incl
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PreK - 4th
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Kindergarten Math Games - Low Prep Reusable Games for Partners or Math Centers
KINDERGARTEN MATH GAMES / MATH CENTERSI love these simple MATH GAMES for PARTNERS. They’re quick and easy to assemble and the children enjoy playing them over and over. You can use them in multiple ways, but I most often use them:during math workshop for fun skill practiceas independent math centersfor a home-school connectionThere are 20 partner games included in this set. They cover multiple math concepts and skills such as:identifying and comparing shapessequencing numberscomparing numbersrec
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K
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The Napping House Retelling Pack
The Napping House Retelling Pack is intended to be used after reading the book The Napping House by Audrey Wood. This is a favorite student book. Use this pack to make the story come to life! Here is what is included in the pack.Vocabulary Cards: Print on cardstock, laminate, and cut apart words or leave as a poster. Preview vocabulary from the story prior to reading and/or review vocabulary after reading the story. Place in writing center, pocket chart, or back with magnetic tape and use
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PreK - K
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Money Bingo! Coin Identification Game - Identifying Coins
My students love this game because it is so much fun! I love this game because it helps my students identify coins, know their value, and know facts about coins. This game is great for whole group, small group, and center work.This pack includes 48 clue cards and 8 versions of the bingo game boards.There is also a coin rubbing worksheet included for extra fun and practice!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Click the
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K - 2nd
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Fix it Math Cards! Higher Order Thinking Math Questions
These "Fix it" cards are perfect for math talks and higher-order thinking! Students will use what they know about different math skills to figure out what is wrong on each card and share how they can fix it!★WHAT ARE FIX IT CARDS?★Fix it cards are great questions to pose to your students to promote HIGHER ORDER thinking!These fix it cards pose typical questions in a different way to help your students identify mistakes in another person’s work AND show how they can fix it. Many of the cards have
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K - 2nd
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IReady Math Complete Full Year Bundle Kindergarten Units 1 - 6
You can save by downloading this bundle instead of the individual packs. They are bundled by unit and include all lessons contained in that unit.This Bundle contains ALL Extra Practice Packs for the ENTIRE year! All 32 Lessons are included.A digital version of the worksheets (PDF) ONLY is included and can be used with Google Slides and added to your Google Classroom for a paperless center or distance learning. Use the snip tool and then add to the google classroom. This is extra practice for i R
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PreK - 1st
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Transportation Pattern Blocks Activity Mats & Task Cards
These transportation pattern blocks activity mats and task cards are perfect for enhancing your transportation unit or lesson. Students can create a picture with the pattern blocks, count and write how many of each block was used, then trace the name of the transportation. This set includes land, water and air transportation. Two versions are included to allow for differentiation. Just provide your kids with pattern blocks and let them complete the challenges/activities. The images on the mats
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: TRANSPORTATION BUNDLE
Christmas STEM Pattern Block Challenge Cards
Celebrate the holiday season in your classroom with the help of this pattern block Christmas math activity! A hands-on fun way to explore shapes making them the perfect addition to your math centers, morning work or STEM bins this Christmas! Few can resist working with pattern blocks and these Christmas STEM Challenge Cards provide ideal support for young children learning about shapes while also focusing on building visual discrimination, fine motor skills and transforming shapes by rotating, s
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K - 4th
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The Day The Crayons Quit...Book Companion...Color Activities!
Visit this site to learn more!!Updated to to include Color pages and Colour pages.This is one of my favorite stories. So many Common Core Standards can be addressed using this piece of literature. Best is that it will bring a smile to your children's faces as they listen to this delightful tale and maybe even take a peek at their own crayons.Activities are differentiated to meet the variety of levels found in the classroom.The packet contains:Story Recall...Problem identification/how it was so
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K - 2nd
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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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Money Mega Pack for Special Education
This comprehensive packet is designed to foster the development of crucial coin value skills in early childhood, specifically tailored for students with disabilities. Through a diverse array of hands-on materials, engaging games, and targeted worksheets, this resource prioritizes effective and inclusive learning. The packet includes four informative posters, each dedicated to a specific coin, two hands-on file folder manipulatives, and over 30 worksheets covering coin identification, value, addi
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PreK - 5th
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Building Challenge STEM and Writing Centers distance learning with google slides
Building Challenge STEM and Writing Centers These centers have students building and writing about their build. There are challenges that include measurement, research and writing that go along with each build. There are 9 different building challenges with differentiation in some of the builds. I have also included a recording form for their thinking.I have included printables with just metric units of measurement using centimetres and milimetres for those classrooms outside of the US.GOOGLE
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K - 5th
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Learning About My 5 Senses!
Use your Mr. Potato Head toy to help teach your little learners about their five senses. This pack adds so much to learning!
Here's what is included:
Potato People Patterns: Choose from two black and white patterns and/or a color pattern. Students make a potato person (boy or girl options available) and label the senses used.
• My Five Senses Emergent Reader: A simple reader that teaches about the five senses using potato people pieces. Both a boy and girl version are provided to choose fr
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PreK - K
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Also included in: Five Senses Pack {Bundled}
35 Different Tangram Puzzles - Black & Color
Here are 35 different Tangram puzzles for you to cut out and use in your classroom! Each tangram is on a 3.7" x 4.9" card and there are 4 cards per page. The color tangrams show the individual shapes while the black tangrams only show the whole figure as a sold color. The tangram cards will go with any sized tangrams. They aren't made to line up directly with the tangrams / aren't sized to any particular tangram set size, but were created give the students challenge cards to work with.I have
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PreK - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Hundred Board Number Puzzles! Math Enrichment Activities (1st grade)
Hundred Chart Number Puzzles! Math Enrichment Activities (1st grade)This resource includes 20 higher order thinking puzzles designed to challenge and engage your high flyers. Your students will utilize critical thinking and problem solving skills while building a deeper understanding of numeracy and place value. Each of the 20 activities offers an interesting, non-routine way to explore essential math concepts and skills. Each Hundred Board puzzle provides a series of 4-6 mathematical clues. Stu
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Hundred Board Enrichment Puzzles - The BUNDLE!
It's Not a Box! 25 Creative Drawing Prompts Your Kids Will Love
These 25 open-ended drawing prompts range from basic shapes to abstract lines to engage your students' creativity and critical thinking skills! Use them as a drawing warmup, mindfulness activity, or for early finishers. These are perfect for any art class, and can be paired with Antoinette Portis' book Not a Box for a literacy connection. My K-1 students loved these challenges, and they could easily be implemented up to high-school grades depending on the level of depth you encourage. As an art
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K - 10th
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