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High school critical thinking informational text internet activities
Citing Text Evidence Digital ESCAPE ROOM! Virtual Field Trip Game & ELA Review
In this interactive and engaging citing text evidence review game, students will review and practice citing evidence while they attempt to escape the jungle! This immersive and engaging escape room will have your students citing text evidence like champions and begging for future escape games! This activity requires ZERO preparation** just share the link with your students, and they are on their adventure!**Please make sure your school does not block Google Sites or Forms. Some buyers may ne
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5th - 9th
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Media Literacy - Detect & Dismiss Fake News and Media Bias - Full 15-Lesson Unit
Are your students gullible or easily swayed by dubious sources and fake news? This fifteen-lesson unit is designed to train middle and high school students to evaluate source credibility and recognize questionable content on the Internet. It is provided in both Google Slides and PDF.Topics are CURRENT and include Israel and Hamas, Trump and Biden, ChatGPT, and more.This unit is regularly updated to remain current. CONTENTS:◈Lesson 1: The Problem Students will learn relevant terminology and apply
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8th - 10th
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Waves Close-Reading Packet- Mechanical and Electromagnetic (Print & Digital)
This All About Waves CLOSE reading packet is a great way to introduce, review, reinforce or provide differentiation during your Waves lesson. Each informational reading text is standards-based and will provide the essential information for your students. The questions provided for each text requires students to dig deeper to find, analyze and synthesize the key points within the reading. Need a digital option? No Problem! I have included a digital version, making it perfect for flipped classroom
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6th - 11th
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How to use GOOGLE SEARCH like a BOSS!! | Research Skills | Digital Citizenship
Teach your students an ESSENTIAL LIFE SKILL of the INFORMATION ERA. Learn how to refine and filter GOOGLE SEARCH QUERIES using PROVEN TECHNIQUES that improve RESEARCH and CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS in 2024. This ❤️NO PREP unit teaches you and your students how to USE GOOGLE SEARCH LIKE A BOSS!This EDITABLE resource comes with all the instructional slides, graphic organizers, and video tutorials you need to make an immediate impact.Learn exactly how to find what you want online, filter out unwant
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Text Structure Digital Escape Room
Your students will love this nonfiction text structure activity in the form of a no-prep digital breakout. Working together or alone, students will enjoy text organization while trying to discover the codes to 'breakout'. ⭐If you need more text structure resources, check out the Text Structure Bundle!⭐This nonfiction text structure activity can be used for online, virtual, or distance learning. The text structure activity focuses on the following structures:•compare and contrast•cause and effect
Grades:
5th - 9th
Also included in: Text Structure Activities Bundle - Middle School ELA
Organization 101 - Full Curriculum: Study Skills; Executive Functioning
This is a BUNDLE of Organization 101 modules containing a full curriculum that will help your students establish a strong foundation for academic success. This is a giant bundle of 10 separate modules covering so many aspects of how to be organized mentally and physically in school.This is a perfect unit to use remotely with students through Google Classroom. The Student Playlists are a stand-alone Google doc that can be copied for students. Students will independently work through the activitie
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6th - 12th
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Elements of Art Escape Room: Visual Art Digital Escape Room 360 for Art
This Escape into Art digital escape room is a full 360° escape room that introduces your students to The Elements of art in a fun and engaging way. Students must solve clues for the seven elements of art and a final hidden clue! By clicking on the play button in the center of the gallery the digital escape room opens. The start icon inside the escape is the setup for the game and gives the student instructions for the escape. There is eight clues and eight locks total.Clues include; Line: Line d
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: *Introduction to Art Curriculum for Middle School Art or High School Art
Halloween Digital Breakout Tricks or Treats! | Halloween Escape Room
While out trick-or-treating, you and your friends stumble upon an old abandoned mansion. The mansion looks like a black silhouette against the light of the full moon. Feeling daring, you and your friends approach the three-story mansion and see spider webs glistening in the moonlight. Laughing nervously, you decide to knock on the door to trick-or-treat. Much to your surprise, your knocking pushes the door open and it creaks loudly. You and your friends peek your heads in to look around in the d
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4th - 10th
Internet Research: How to Search, Select, Cite Credible Sources
How do you use a search engine, like Google or Bing, to locate information online? What we assume comes naturally for our students of the Digital Age is actually a complex process that requires instruction and scaffolding. Students need guided practice in this process that requires many skills and decisions.This product teaches students the basic information and gives them the practice needed to become a skilled online researcher. (*Note - several of the pages and ideas in this product are dupli
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Reading Bundle - Middle School Grades 6 - 8
Newton's 2nd Law of Motion F=ma Logic Puzzle + Graphing Worksheet
Support Your Students' Understanding of Newton's 2nd Law with This Engaging Logic Puzzle!Dive into Physics with Critical Thinking: Bring Newton's 2nd Law of Motion to life in your classroom with this captivating logic puzzle. Designed to reinforce the fundamental relationship between force, mass, and acceleration (F=ma), it's an excellent tool for both in-person and online learning environments.Key Features of the Puzzle:In-Depth Exploration: Students will deepen their understanding of the inter
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8th - 9th
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MS-PS2-2
ESL Hero Research Project Paragraph Writing and Oral Presentation
In this week-long project, Beginner to Intermediate ESL students write about and present their heroes. Their hero can be someone in their personal lives, like a family member, someone who is from their country, or someone who is well-known internationally. First, students read a text about Jesse Owens and identify the topic sentence, details, examples and concluding sentence. Students deconstruct the Jesse Owens paragraph in order to help them in writing their own paragraphs. Then, they conduct
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3rd - 11th
TERMINUS - Digital Escape Room Series - Making Inferences - End of Year Activity
How do you make reading more engaging? With a cross between an escape room and an adventure book! Terminus is a four-part digital adventure series geared towards 8th and 9th grade students who read below level. You can use this in ELA, Science, and Reading Intervention.This story is a dystopian found-text adventure. Students play as Rania, a teenager who’s just woken up from cryosleep. She begins to learn more about MILSA, a pandemic her mother was researching. Rania must follow her mother’s clu
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8th - 10th
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Using the CRAAP Test to Determine Source Credibility! Customizable Google Slides
Do your students tend to hit "share" "like" or "retweet" before checking a source is legitimate? Can your students determine the difference between a credible source and fake news? Do they know what to look for when analyzing articles, online material, tweets, and images for credibility? Do they understand which sources are acceptable to utilize as evidence in a writing assignment? In a world where misinformation can be spread like wildfire via social media and the internet, it is vital that stu
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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My Dream Car: A Microsoft Excel Project
I found that my students really enjoyed doing this Excel project in Computer Applications. Students will use Excel and its capabilities, to apply formulas and charts to a subject which they find fun and interesting, their dream car. They will choose several cars and will then do a cost analysis of their selected cars. To do this project, they have to select several cars, find cost and fuel economy information on those cars, download pictures of the cars and use Excel to do a cost analysis.
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Microsoft EXCEL Activities - 6 PROJECTS!
Heroes of the Holocaust Article and Mini-Research Project
This resource is a mini-research project for students to find out more about Heroes of the Holocaust. Instead of having your students research the most vile war criminals of the Holocaust, have students study the brave and honorable people that tried to save those who were being oppressed. This is a great activity to teach students about kindness and that there is always a choice to do what is right.Students will research heroes of the time and read a short article about the "Righteous Among the
Grades:
8th - 11th
New Year Around the World Comprehension + FREE Boom Cards BONUS
Have students working on reading or listening comprehension? Incorporate this printable resource AND bonus Boom Cards™ into your January speech-language therapy sessions! These New Year traditions from around the world will keep your students engaged with fascinating passages & the sight and sounds of New Year celebrations from across the globe! Thanks to the 18 included videos and 22 passages, it'll have your students begging for more while you collect tons of valuable data!I have used thi
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4th - 9th
Also included in: New Year Speech and Language BUNDLE
Prove It! Teach Students to use Evidence to Support Argument Claims
Teaching students to meet the Common Core’s expectations for argumentative writing can be a challenge. Teenagers seem very skilled at making claims (perhaps due to their natural inclination to having very strong opinions!?), but seem to struggle to find and use effective evidence to support those claims. This 3-day lesson is designed to ease students into using evidence to support claims. Students first learn to identify and evaluate the six main types of evidence before being asked to find evid
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7th - 12th
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Murder on Crimson Express Escape Room Mystery Escape Middle School Escape
⭐Welcome to Murder on the Crimson Express, a team-building virtual escape room. This virtual escape room is a traditional puzzle escape made to build problem-solving and reasoning skills, made shorter to be done within an hour. It includes a paper notes sheet and a "We solved it" poster. The entire escape, includes 6 locks plus a final puzzle at the end to determine whodunnit! ⭐⭐The entire escape is played from one link. No Google form is used! It's all virtual and all ready to play! Players wil
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6th - 12th
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Decision-Making Lessons: A TPT Best-Selling Unit on Dangerous Teen Decisions!
TPT's #1 Best-Selling High School Decision Unit!!If you work with 6th through 12th grade teens, these decision-making lessons are so powerful! I consider this one of my BEST Health units since it deals with the consequences of teen decisions! Your students will LOVE this-it's so relevant to their lives and the world we live in today!Articles are shocking, revealing, often heart-breaking, and very relatable for teens!>> Integrated Skills Based, Content Based / Knowledge Based. The best of b
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6th - 12th
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Escape Room Break Out Box Game, Macbeth
Get ready to dive into an exciting escape-room style adventure with this break-out game designed to follow a reading of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth with secondary students! From the most reluctant learner to the most advanced, all of your students will be 100% engaged in solving the clues in this interactive lock box game for reviewing drama. Plus, you'll be on the cutting edge with this educational teaching trend that will be exciting and purposeful in classrooms for years to come! In
Fake News: Evaluating Reliable & Credible Sources Online | Evaluating Websites
Want to teach your students scientifically-based lessons on how to stop the spread of fake news by recognizing unreliable sources but don't have the time to develop plans on this ever-developing topic? We all know that it is essential to teach our students to recognize fake news, or misinformation and disinformation, especially if they’ll be voting soon, but it’s so hard to teach the higher level thinking that is required to navigate today’s media. If someone tells you that you can teach your
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8th - 12th
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Principles of Design Escape Room- Visual Art Digital Escape Room
This Principles of Design digital escape room is a full 360° escape room that introduces your students to Principles of Design in a fun and engaging way. Students navigate through the virtual room to learn and solve clues for seven of the nine Principles of Design. The setup: The hottest new visual art class is finally open, and it's on your schedule! You arrive in the classroom and are excitedly talking to your friends when suddenly the room is plunged into darkness and you hear the door slam!
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: *Introduction to Art Curriculum for Middle School Art or High School Art
End of the Year - Logic Puzzles ESCAPE ROOM - Digital Breakout
Students will love working together to break out of this escape room! There are 5 digital rooms with puzzles that will engage students and challenge their problem-solving skills. Great for team-building! Quick and easy to setup! QUICK AND EASY SETUP:Print/copy the logic questions for each group.Print/copy the recording sheet for each student.Provide a device for each group (the Escape Room link is on the recording sheet).100% Digital / REMOTE OPTION INCLUDED - Simply post the link"HOW TO" VIDEO
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Escape Room - Digital Breakout for ANY CONTENT - BUNDLE
WebQuest Evaluating Argument Claims, Evidence, Reasoning: Captive Orcas Debate
Updated in 2020 as a distance learning WebQuest in Google Slides (and still in PDF) while the debate continues (killer whales continue to be sold worldwide in worse-than-ever conditions, plus think about the other marine mammals). Authentic, relevant, in-depth argument examination! Truly delves into both sides of this hotly debated issue by examining and analyzing multiple primary sources.Step-by-Step guided activity leads students to read and analyze claims, counterclaims, and evidence presente
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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