3,145 results
3rd grade critical thinking games
Would You Rather Sampler - Fun Questions for Discussion, Writing Prompts, & More
Dive into writing prompts, classroom discussion, and more with our exclusive sampler from Would You Rather Questions!!These 18 digital or print Would You Rather questions are great for discussion, class polls, writing prompts, language building, facilitating higher-level thinking, brain breaks, building community, and more! This sampler gives you a taste of our comprehensive Would You Rather resource that promises to make learning engaging and effective.Try before you buy!Purchase this sampler f
Grades:
2nd - 9th
Types:
Create a Board Game! Project Based Learning Unit - Templates + Rubrics + Slides
Unleash creativity with our Board Game Project Based Learning Unit! Ideal for 1st grade and up! Make learning fun by creating a board game. Includes templates, rubrics, and more! PDF & Powerpoint Slides to introduce the project to students.KEY FEATURES:64 PAGES OF VALUE: Includes 464 pages of resources to support the entire project lifecycle from planning and crafting to reflecting.TEMPLATES FOR EVERYTHING: Comes with a variety of templates including warm up activities, planning, game design
Grades:
2nd - 8th
15 Working Memory Brain Games: Improve executive function in 5 minutes a day!
WORKING MEMORY BEST SELLER--UPDATED FOR 2024! These 15 research-based brain games are designed to improve kids' working memory in five minutes of partner game play daily for just 9 weeks! If you've ever complained that students lack the following skills, an executive function of the brain called working memory might be the issue!-staying focused and on-task-following complex and multi-step directions-copying information and taking notes-keeping their place in a text-retelling stories-explaining
Grades:
K - 6th
Types:
End of the Year Escape Room for 3rd Grade Bundle: Reading & Math Activity
Love classroom escape rooms or break outs? Are you looking for a more engaging ways to practice the ELA and math standards during test prep time? Escape rooms are the most fun way to review the standards while encouraging team work, critical thinking, and problem solving! This bundle includes two 90 minute escape challenges that will help your students practice the 3rd grade math and reading standards that will be on the state test.**This is the print version of the game. If you prefer the digit
Grades:
3rd
Types:
Summer Digital Escape Room Game - End of the Year UPDATED-No Google Form!
UPDATED! No Google Form is needed! Breaking Into Summer is a digital escape room loaded with puzzles for students to celebrate heading into summer in an engaging and interactive way. Students must solve 7 summer clues to unlock the codes that will help them 'break into summer'. Can they crack the code? Students love solving the different digital clues to unlock the codes! Teachers love the NO prep assignment for studentsHow does it work? Students start with the scenario and follow the directions
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
3rd Grade Reading Review Game | ELA Test Prep Game Escape Room
Escape rooms are the most fun way to review the reading / ELA standards while encouraging team work, critical thinking, and problem solving! In this classroom escape, students will compete as teams to escape Planet Emoji! This is the print version. If you'd prefer to use this game digitally on Google, please purchase this version.Buy the bundle of Reading + Math Escape Challenges here.This team escape challenge is great for teams of 4-6 students, up to 8 teams. The best thing is, you don't have
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd
Types:
Digital Escape Room Math and Reading Review | End of Year | 3rd Grade
Two engaging digital review games are included in this emoji escape bundle! *This is a digital version for use with student Google accounts. If your students don't have access to Google accounts, use the print version instead. Escape from Emoji IslandThis digital (Google Classroom) end of the year test prep escape room game is the most fun way to review the 3rd grade math standards while encouraging critical thinking and problem solving! It can be used live in the classroom or via distance learn
Grades:
3rd
Types:
Think Outside the Box Thursday Doodle Prompt Finish the Drawing SEL Activity
Are you looking for an engaging morning meeting activity? Think outside the box Thursday is the creative solution you're looking for! These 21 creative drawing prompts use half of a "common" image to prompt your students to create an outside the box picture! This Doodle activity works great for a warm-up, morning work, morning meeting activity, crew or advisory time, early finisher activities, or a sub plan day. As you go Back to School, challenge your students to think outside the box with this
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Types:
Make Ten Math Puzzle
The Make Ten math game is a triangle puzzle. Each side of the triangle has a number that can be used to add up to the number ten. The file includes 4 black and white pages of numbered triangles and one blank page of triangles in case you want to write in some of your own combinations. This is great for practicing addition facts, or for critical thinking skills.
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Types:
Oregon Trail: Simulation Game
Super engaging slideshow game to get students thinking about what life on the Oregon Trail was like. You lead the class with 13 scenarios, and students make decisions and keep track of survival points. A great way to introduce the Oregon Trail to students. It includes 42 slides, directions, and a student handout to record survival points. I use this activity with my 8 graders a few details might need to be edited if used with younger grade levels.Takes about 1 hour.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Types:
Also included in: Western Expansion Games Bundle: Oregon Trail, Gold Rush, Lewis and clark
Back to School Activity Pack - 3 Great Getting to Know You Activities
This Back to School Activity Pack includes three engaging getting to know you activities complete with teacher instructions, ideas to put different twists each activity, and super attractive student pages to print and copy! The three activities included are:
1) All About Me Poster - This poster asks students to illustrate a picture of themselves, write their favorite food/color/etc., tell about their favorite book, and more!
2) Classmate Scavenger Hunt - This is an interactive activity where
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Types:
Fun Food Escape Room | 2nd Grade Reading | Digital Google Forms | Teamwork
Help!!! There was an explosion in the science lab and all the cafeteria food has came alive. The food is trying to eat everyone at school. Help us find the antidote in the science lab to turn all this food back to normal.This is an escape room like activity in which students complete language arts tasks and use problem solving skills. Students are very EXCITED and ENGAGED when working through this activity. Students will have to solve problems and follow the directions in a scavenger like hunt w
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Types:
Science Jokes Bingo Game and Bookmarks to Color
Laugh and learn while playing this game using 30 science-themed riddles appropriate for upper elementary. Print up to 24 unique bingo cards and 30 calling cards and start playing! Each joke has a HINT to help students figure out answers. Kids LOVE that, plus it helps focus their critical thinking. Many of the jokes review multiple-meaning words. A bookmarks coloring page is also included with 4 of the jokes from the game. Makes a great reward activity!Play this game digitally using Easel Activit
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
Also included in: Jokes Bingo Games and Bookmarks to Color Bundle
2nd Grade Money & Coins Activities Games, Centers, Counting Money Word Problems
Your kids will love these money activities that involve students in real-world applications involving counting money, solving money word problems, showing monetary amounts in different ways, and more! More than just worksheets, this money unit for 2nd grade and 3rd grade includes 15 challenging yet fun money centers, games, and activities to keep your kiddos excited about learning to count money in different ways. If you're looking for a resource in which students must use mathematical reasoning
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Word Work Game like Boggle™ for Centers Fast Finishers ELA Block Activity Sample
Dive into ELA word work fun (similar to Boggle™) with our exclusive sampler from Word-O-Rama!This sampler gives you a taste of our comprehensive word work game for centers and fast finishers that promises to make learning engaging and effective. Try before you buy!Purchase this sampler for just $1, and if you love it, get your dollar back with the included coupon code for the full version of Word-O-Rama.It’s our way of saying thank you for trying out our resources and ensuring you get the best
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Types:
The Teacher's Box of Tricks: No prep, collaborative active learning strategies
Does lesson planning take you HOURS?Are you spending way too much time thinking up or searching out a creative, engaging way for kids to practice what they’ve learned?Have your students lost interest in school because you're forced to give them so many boring test prep worksheets?The solution is simple: add more engaging activities to your teaching “box of tricks”!I’m sharing my own personal box of tricks: no-prep learning activities that I’ve tested out in a wide variety of classrooms for more
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Types:
Prefix and Suffix Game #1 Common Prefixes & Suffixes I Have, Who Has?
Working on prefix and suffix? Need a fun activity that your students will beg to play?This "I Have... Who Has..." game works to practice the meanings of common prefixes and suffixes: un, re, pre, -able, -ful, and -less. This prefix and suffix game is great to have on hand as an extension activity for early finishers, a remediation activity led by a volunteer or paraprofessional, or as a review prior to standardized testing. **This game is included in the Prefix and Suffix Game Collection - CCSS
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Types:
Also included in: Prefix and Suffix Bundle 4 Games and 24 Task Cards for grades 2-4
Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Back to School Icebreaker STEM Bundle! Need back to school icebreakers or games that get students moving, communicating, working in teams, and building relationships? Here are 50+ of our favorite basic activities that are low-cost and low-prep for any classroom or subject!Working as a team, they will learn lessons in communication, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity that are central to the engineering process. Use as a warm-up, icebreaker, team building activity, or basic STEM and en
Subjects:
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Summer Jokes Bingo Game and Bookmarks to Color
Laugh and learn while playing this game using 30 humorous summer and vacation-themed riddles appropriate for upper elementary. Print up to 24 unique bingo cards and 30 calling cards and start playing! All the jokes have a HINT to help students figure out answers. Kids LOVE that, plus it helps focus their critical thinking. Many of the jokes review multiple-meaning words. A bookmarks coloring page is also included with 4 of the jokes from the game. Great for an EOY activity!Play this game digital
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
Also included in: Jokes Bingo Games and Bookmarks to Color Bundle
Context Clues Task Cards and Quick Assessment Print and Easel Activities
Students need to practice using Context Clues, and this collection of 36 Context Clues Task Cards / SCOOT Game and Quick Assessment will save you time as you differentiate instruction. Students use the context embedded in the surrounding sentence and select the best answer multiple-choice style. This printer-friendly set is flexible to meet the needs of diverse learners, and can be an extension activity for early finishers, in small groups during a guided reading mini-lesson, projected for whole
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Types:
Paul Klee Abstract Art Lesson: Portrait Dice Games Art Project - Nsw Visual Arts
Are you teaching an abstract art lesson on Paul Klee? Are they going to create an abstract portrait? Here's a fun lesson to brighten up your lesson plans! This is the perfect addition to your elementary art curriculum! Engaging abstract portrait art lesson with language (writing) activities. These no-prep abstract portrait art projects are perfect for your art sub tub. Super easy to implement for substitute teachers. Plus, the engagement will help with behavior! Perfect to start your art integra
Grades:
K - 12th
Types:
Also included in: Art History Lesson - Famous Artists - Art Activities and Sub Plans
Creative Thinking & Writing Task Cards | Print & Digital | Fun Game Included!!
Use these 60 cards as a fun creative thinking enrichment activity. Students can work on cards individually using notebook paper for their answers, or use as a game with groups. When using as a game, students can set a timer for one to three minutes depending on the age of your students. Students use personal white boards or notebook paper to list as many things as possible for the given card. One way to encourage original answers is to score the game by having students cross off answers given b
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
Design and Build a Board Game - Project Based Learning Activity - STEM
All of us grew up playing board games. It was fun for the whole family. Design a Board Game is a project based learning unit that involves students learning about the history of games, the importance of playing games, and skills learned by playing games. Students will design and create a game that is either educational or for entertainment. Playing games has important values, both educational and social. Games provide families with an opportunity to play and spend time together. In the classroom
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Scratch Computer Coding 25 Lessons | Computer Science and Programming
Empower your students to become confident coders with this engaging, exciting, and interactive Scratch Coding course that includes 25 lessons! Your students will develop fluency with computational thinking as they create their own interactive projects that include sprites, sounds, math operations, and logic. And the best part? The preparation has already been completed for you, so you can jump right in! The lessons, activities, and Scratch games are easy to follow, with step-by-step instruction
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Types:
Showing 1-24 of 3,145 results
TPT is the largest marketplace for PreK-12 resources, powered by a community of educators.
IXL family of brands