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5th 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
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2nd - 9th
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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.Fun and highly engaging unit / project to get kids creative!This product is fun a unit which requires students to be creative create a board game. There are warm up and investigation activities to begin and then brainstorming activities, rubrics, templates
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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
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K - 6th
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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
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2nd - 5th
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6th Grade Fractions Review: Fractions Math Mystery Activity Game
Fractions Review Math Mystery Activity - 6th Grade Edition: Reciprocals, Divide, Multiply, Adding & Subtracting Fractions. Engage and motivate your students with this fun fractions math mystery activity! Great for review of a few different fraction skills in one. Easy prep! Just Print & Solve! Or go paperless with the new Google Slides option provided within your download.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------⭐Optional video hook inc
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: 6th Grade Mixed Math Mystery Bundle Pack
CHRISTMAS Escape Room (Activities, Trivia & Puzzle Games for Students)
There are five Christmas escape room-type (trivia) challenges included in this file. Each activity can be completed individually or in conjunction with one another, depending on the time available in your planning. The challenges could be used as individual, pair or small group activities. The puzzles and games are designed to promote communication, cooperation and problem-solving skills. A detailed and thorough teacher instruction page has been included, which provides differentiated instructio
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5th - 12th
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Team Building Escape Room with Logic Puzzles Critical Thinking Escape Room
Engage your students with this Team Building Escape Room! This is great as a back to school escape room! This escape room is perfect for both the end of the year and beginning of the year. Students will be engaged and challenged with logic puzzles, codes to decipher, and more. There is both a full easy prep printable version as well as a Google(TM) form digital version for virtual or distance learning.This resource includes everything you need to implement a challenging and fun escape room fo
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4th - 9th
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Adding & Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators Digital Escape Room
Practicing addition and subtraction of fractions with unlike denominators takes on a new level of excitement in this online breakout game. Escape the arcade is a great alternative to adding & subtracting fractions worksheets and activities. Instead of winning prizes at the arcade, your students need to earn tickets to get a key to escape the arcade! This activity can be completed either in class or online for distance learning. There are no clues to hide, and the entire process is automated
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4th - 6th
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ELA Escape Room - Escape the School Reading Comprehension Activities
Are you looking for an activity that is so much fun students won't even notice they're learning? Here you go! Use this escape room as an end-of-year team-building activity or ANY time you want to strengthen students' reading comprehension skills, provide figurative language practice, and hone their critical thinking and problem solving skills.This engaging breakout is immersive and fun! Your students are trapped in school by a giant who thinks they are way too clever. They will be there forever.
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Escape Room: School, Forest, and Planet
YEARLONG Themed Logic Puzzles Early Finishers and Brain Teasers Grades 4-6
Logic puzzlers and brain teasers are great for developing strong problem solving skills. Your students will use logic skills such as deduction, reasoning and inference in a fun way to systematically figure things out from a set of clues. Your students will learn new interesting facts, build brain power and gain confidence as they complete these challenging puzzlers.GRAB THE BUNDLE TO SAVE BIG!!!Each month includes 3-4 differentiated themed logic puzzlers. Assign a logic puzzler to each student i
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4th - 6th
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Holiday Escape Rooms Math Games Holiday Bundle (No cutting, gluing or locks!)
A Case File Math Challenge is a logic puzzle and a mystery rolled into one fun, collaborative math review game. This bundle of 6 escape room style games are READY TO PRINT resources that are low maintenance for teachers!Students will begin with a short themed introductory passage which will outline the mystery or problem that needs to be solved. Next, students will complete fun math problem solving challenges to receive clues to the case file. The clues from correctly solving the math challenges
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4th - 6th
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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
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2nd - 12th
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Four Quadrants of the Coordinate Plane Digital Escape Room 6th Grade Math
Can your students solve problems in all four quadrants of the coordinate plane in order to recover stolen diamonds? Students will race through a train station following clues, plotting points, solving word problems, as they go undercover to recover the goods stolen in a diamond heist. This online breakout is based on 6th grade math standards. They'll need to be quick reflecting points across the x-axis, finding the distance a point lies from the y-axis, finding the distance between points, and p
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5th - 7th
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
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3rd - 12th
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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
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2nd - 6th
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Logic Puzzles: Digital Detective Escape Room | Team Building Mystery Game
Build your students' critical thinking skills with this no prep detective themed digital escape room. Students will work together to solve 4 engaging logic puzzle "clues" to solve to track and catch the criminal. Students start off reading their case file and begin solving each puzzle. Each puzzle will give them the code to unlock the next clue in the game. Your students will love this fun escape room game that works with any content, you will love that it is no prep!The game is totally digi
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5th - 7th
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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.
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in: Western Expansion Games Bundle: Oregon Trail, Gold Rush, Lewis and clark
Escape Room Context Clues and Inferences for Middle School English
This creative escape room adventure is a well-organized context clue breakout with a fun sci-fi twist! Your students are visiting relatives on the planet Nonsensica, but their only map home to Earth has been torn to shreds. They'll have to stay forever...unless they can work in teams to solve a series of FUN context clue and inference challenges!*This unit was updated on 2/26/20. We made it even faster and easier to set up! We also added photo props and an early finisher coloring page.What have
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Escape Room: School, Forest, and Planet
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
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Jokes Bingo Games and Bookmarks to Color Bundle
Order of Operations with Exponents Digital Escape Room 6th Grade Math Activity
Can your sixth graders use their knowledge of exponents and order of operations to assist in Operation Restore Order? In this easy to implement digital escape room, students evaluate expressions with exponents as they face challenging puzzles where their understanding of the order of operations will be put to the test. With only one page to print per group of students, prep is super simple. Students can scan a QR code (or use the link included in the PDF) to access a Google Form™ that automates
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5th - 7th
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Math Brain Teasers - Bell Ringers - Logic Puzzles
★This is a collection of animated math brain teasers and puzzles for PowerPoint. They are great for warm-up problems or just as a quick change of pace activity with either a projector or smart-board. Many of the classic math puzzles (as well as some newer ones!) are included, all with animated solutions. A lot of them even have animated explanations showing how to solve the problem. The difficulty level ranges from Elementary all the way to Algebra. Even other teachers are likely to get foo
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5th - 8th
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
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2nd - 6th
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Coping Strategies Escape Room - Social Emotional Skills Activity
This escape room is a scavenger hunt style activity that includes seven interactive challenges related to coping strategies. Students work together to solve a variety of puzzles and challenges in order to discover the secret phrase to unlock the door and win the challenge in a specified amount of time. This coping strategies escape room activity is ideal for small groups, advisory periods, or resource rooms. A whole-class version is also included!What is an Escape Room?An escape room activity is
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Escape Room Bundle for Social Emotional Learning | SEL Activities
Team Building Escape Room - Teamwork Challenge - Back to School Activity
The Team Building Escape Room will take students on a “treasure hunt” around the classroom! This SUPER FUN Back to School activity has students decode fun puzzles using teamwork and critical thinking while trying to beat the clock.This is the perfect resource for back to school activities, team building, end of year, ice breakers or any time! This team activity can be used in any subject area!The Team Building Escape Room has students walking around the classroom solving puzzles. Students come u
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4th - 6th
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