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Free critical thinking games
Christmas Would You Rather Questions to Print FREEBIE! Fun Holiday Activity!
Here are 20 Fun Would You Rather Questions to use with your students. These are great discussion starters for when you have a few extra minutes. They can also be used for classroom polls or journal prompts.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:1 Page with 20 Would You Rather QuestionsGreat for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade! NOTE: This resource uses American English and is not editable. Here’s what teachers are saying: ✏️ "My students loved this resource. I’m sure they weren’t even thinking
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1st - 8th
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Free Thanksgiving Maze with Easel Activity
Thanksgiving puzzle fun for your students! Enjoy this free printable maze. One of my favorite Thanksgiving activities for free! It’s a fun Thanksgiving holiday filler activity to use up some time, especially when kids need to settle down after a transition. The objective is to find the way to get the family through the maze to reach the Thanksgiving turkey dinner. Fun to use in the classroom just before the Thanksgiving holiday, or at a family gathering. Teaches spatial awareness and critical th
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K - 4th
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Also included in: Thanksgiving Activities Bundle Grades 3 - 6
Thanksgiving Would You Rather Questions with Poll FREEBIE
Here is a set of 20 Would you Rather Questions about Thanksgiving. Great for discussion starters, class polls and journal prompts.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:List of all 20 Would You Rather ChoicesDIGITAL:Classroom PollGreat for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade! NOTE: This resource uses American English and is not editable. Here’s what teachers are saying: ✏️ "My students love this activity and shared with some others at home! with all the stressful things going on at this point in t
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1st - 8th
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Executive Functioning Escape Room Activity
This free escape room activity is a puzzle challenge related to executive functioning skills. Students can work together or independently to solve a puzzle and discover the secret phrase to unlock the door and win the challenge in a specified amount of time. This escape room activity is ideal for small groups, advisory periods, morning work, resource rooms, or just for fun!Note that this is a free sample puzzle that includes only one challenge. If you are interested in more similar challenges pu
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4th - 8th
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Maze Run Escape Room Logic Puzzle Game Challenge Activities Freebie Pack No Prep
Maze Run Escape Room Puzzles provide a fun brain boosting challenge for students. Great for School Party Activities, Puzzle Competitions, Extra Credit, Individual or Team Building Activities! These escape room games are designed to help exercise problem-solving, critical thinking, and focusing skills. It is a great way to keep the students busy and help build/improve essential skills. There are 4 Fun Unique Levels of the Maze Run to choose from. Each level is different and as the levels increase
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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ESCAPE THE MUMMY'S TOMB! MINI ESCAPE ROOM ACTIVITY
This FREE Escape Room resource is perfect to leave with a sub or to use anytime you want your kids to experience some self-directed learning. It begins when YOU- the most awesome and creative teacher in the history of the world- take your class to tour the great pyramids of Egypt. The trip doesn't go exactly as planned, and now the kids must work to solve a series of FUN challenges based on reading comprehension and steeped with a variety of skills that begin with FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS!
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5th - 8th
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FREE Printable Mazes for Early Finishers Activities | 18 Mazes
These 18 fun, FREE maze puzzles are perfect to keep on hand for early finishers, substitute plans, morning work, and more! 18 differentiated puzzles are included to give you multiple ways to differentiate!The mazes come with 6 levels of difficulty, and each level includes 3 mazes each. Simply print and let students choose the level that they want!Love These And Want More?I have multiple maze packs available! If you want more fun mazes, just like these, here are other maze packs I have available:
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1st - 5th
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Word Search Mini Escape Room Puzzle Game Pack - No Prep Easel Activity Freebie
This fun mini-word search escape room activity is great for individual skill building or team building. This quality word search escape room puzzle is designed to be as one escape room activity or can be combined with other escape room activities that may work with this type of puzzle.A great way to expand your escape room adventure! It is a 3 in 1 Puzzle Escape Room. A fun way to help exercise students’ problem-solving, critical thinking, and focusing skills. Great to help keep students busy wh
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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FREE | 2nd Grade Math | Fun Escape Room | Digital & Classroom | Teamwork
Would you please help us? We are trying to find the hidden pirate’s treasure. This Evil Pirate stole our village’s gold and we must get it back.This is an escape room like activity in which students complete math 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 working on math concepts along the way. The teacher may need to help guide students on
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2nd - 3rd
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Save Fred! Community and Teamwork Builder
Save Fred! is a great community builder and review of the Scientific Method. I've used this activity at the beginning of the year for 2 years with my 5th graders. They LOVE saving Fred and talk about it for the rest of the year!
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This goes along with the Save Fred! lesson on my blog.
Save Fred! Blog Post
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The Following Directions Test is another fun Back to School activity!
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3rd - 8th
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Law & Order: Sentence Structure Unit - Fun Test-Prep Review Game
A fun way to get students to practice and develop their knowledge of sentence structure, sentence types, and common sentence errors. It's a great activity for test prep and review, holidays, the last day or week of school, or other filler days.
I usually hate "test prep." But let's be honest: we all want to review a bit before sending our students into spring state tests to make sure they can do their best. "Law & Order: SSU" is a fun, interactive way for students to review what they know a
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6th - 12th
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Lego Task Cards
These task cards are great for stations, calm down corner, free activity time. Use with legos or building blocks and the ideas help students begin their creations. Our students really enjoy working with these cards on their own or with a partner to create some of the ideas they see. I hope you enjoy this product.
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PreK - 3rd
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Revealing Evidence Freebie - an ELA game for critical thinking
Revealing Evidence is a classroom game that incorporates critical thinking and riddlelike clues. Students are given seven clues about a mystery person, place, or thing. The clues, which appear automatically on a PowerPoint screen, get progressively easier. By the end, most of the students will experience the success of getting the correct answer, but the challenge is to see who can link the clues together the fastest. *SIGN UP AS A FOLLOWER OF “OFF THE PAGE” AND GET NOTIFICATIONS OF ANY SALES F
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Revealing Evidence Bundle - a game for critical thinking
Escape the Classroom: A Pirate Adventure! (Digital Breakout, Escape Room)
Engage your students with this editable, digital breakout using Google Forms! Scenario:“Pirates have sailed into your school and have taken your teacher hostage! You and your classmates try to run after the pirates, but they locked the door behind them! You are trapped inside! You notice a small leather bag on the floor that must have fallen off the waist of one of the pirates during all the commotion. Search through the bag, solve the puzzles, and escape the classroom before your teacher walks
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4th - 9th
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Mystery Logic Puzzle Brain Teaser Worksheet Activity Free - #13
Mystery Logic Puzzle FREEBIE #13! Looking for something to challenge your early finishers? Want to help your students develop their logical thinking skills? Or perhaps a brain-stimulating activity to keep handy for when you have a few minutes to spare before the bell goes?This Wizard Tournament themed mystery logic puzzle activity helps develop logical and deductive reasoning skills in a fun way!- Print and solve!- Save paper by laminating and using washable markers to reuse- Use on a tablet wit
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3rd - 6th
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The Road to Regulation - Zones of Regulation Board Game
An interactive board game to help reinforce The Zones of Regulation.Players take turns rolling a dice and moving their piece (not included) down the track. When they land on their square, they must pick up a card of the same colour and answer it for the group. Each set of cards focuses on a different Zone of Regulation and offers prompts, questions or role-play situations that the players must navigate on their Road to Regulation.
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K - 9th
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FREE Think Outside the Box Winter Doodle | Social Emotional Learning
Are you looking for an engaging morning meeting activity? Think outside the box Thursday is the creative WINTER solution you're looking for! ...or grab the growing bundle and get all the prompts!These 20 creative drawing prompts use half of a "common" winter 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 t
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2nd - 12th
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Also included in: Spanish Winter Resource Bundle
Easy Sudoku Puzzle Freebie Starter Bundle No Prep Worksheet
This starter bundle introduces students to the world of Sudoku with fun and easy to learn 4 by 4 grid puzzles arranged in single or double per worksheet. Grayscale and Colored puzzles are included. This ready to print no prep free beginner's puzzle packet provides how-to-play instructions, fun easy-level puzzles to help spark up and exercise brain strengthening math, critical thinking, and problem solving skills. Instructions are included along with an answer key.This 4x4 Easy Sudoku Starter Bun
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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FREE Christmas Activities | Following Directions Team Builder FREEBIE
Bring cheer to your classroom with this team building activity that provides practice of following directions. Students will take turns carefully listening to each other to complete the “Employee of the Month” Wall. Enjoy and thanks for being a follower! Need more holiday activities?Winter Holiday Themed Math Performance Tasks Grades 4-5
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4th - 6th
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ELA Games & Activities Fun FREEBIE
These fun ELA games and activities are vital in your teacher toolkit and sub plans for Friday afternoon and other dire emergencies. Build classroom community and class spirit! There are team games, games for individuals, writing activities, silly speeches and riddles to solve. If you and your students enjoy these freebie frolics, it would be wonderful if you could write a quick review ! The pages are drawn from a combo of two resources:ELA Games Grades 5-8ELA Games grades 9-12If your students l
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: CHRISTMAS BRAIN TEASER ACTIVITIES FUN Grades 5-8
Murder Mystery Escape Room
This is one of my non-content escape rooms. Students will need to mainly use logical thinking to solve the puzzles. Students should be divided into teams of 3-4 to complete it in a group. There is no prep required aside from perhaps a set of scissors for each group of students. You will want to separate and print the files into two packets. All of the Part I files and all of the Part II files should be combined together. Be sure not to include the answer key for each part.Students start
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9th - 12th
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Murder Mystery: The Case of the Unfortunate Acrobat
The year is 1885. A raucous crowd has gathered to enjoy a thrilling night at the circus, but suddenly, tragedy strikes! A talented trapeze artist freezes in midair and falls to her death. Foul play is immediately suspected, but who among the performers and the audience members would have reason to kill? Download a series of letters, witness statements and mysterious coded messages, then challenge your students to work together to find the means, method and motive of the killer. Includes six
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7th - 12th
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Frog Pond Programing STEM: An Unplugged Coding Activity
This is a computer science STEM activity. In it students will practice programing skills without a computer. In this coding activity, students create a set of commands to move a frog across the lily pads on a small pond. Can they get across? Can they do it in as few moves as possible? This is a fun way for students to learn about and practice the skill of "sequencing." This is also a great activity for "An Hour of Code" with young students.If you enjoy this activity, check out the full version.
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PreK - 2nd
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Critical Thinking Mystery Activity: The Break-In
In this fun mystery activity, students have to follow the clues to figure out why criminals broke into a store, but took nothing! Why did this happen? What's the real crime? This is a great way to teach and practice critical thinking skills as your students practice their reading skills and use their logic skills.Also available as a PowerPoint presentation or Google Slides.What is a Clue by Clue Mystery?It's a great warm-up, filler, or time killer for early finishers. Students are given a myster
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
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