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Adult education critical thinking projects
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
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Student Lawyers: Criminal Court Mock Trials & Cases with PowerPoint
Students will get the opportunity to be lawyers and prosecute or defend an accused person in a criminal trial (11 total). Each group will consist of 2 lawyers (prosecuting and defending), and an accused person. The teacher will act as the judge and guide the jury as they vote on the verdict. The majority vote determines the verdict. This unit includes court brief handouts, directions, and PowerPoint explaining how the cases will proceed. Visit our store for much more helpful and free stuff!Crim
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Save Fred! A STEM and Team building Challenge
This STEM has a challenge for students to save the gummy worm Fred from falling in the water because he can't swim! It's great for a back to school or team building activity! This is a great way to teach your students how to work together, as well as to teach how to think outside the box! You will need to have gummy worms, gummy life savers, paper clips, and a cup in order to do this activity. This packet includes:- Fred's story and student instructions- An experiment log handout for your stude
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Intro to STEM Bundle: Icebreaker & Teamwork Activities
Want to introduce STEM to your classroom? Here are 45 of our favorite basic (Stage 1) STEM challenges that are low-cost and low-prep for any classroom! Activities are perfect as back to school icebreakers or games that introduce STEM while getting students moving, communicating, and working in teams! BACKGROUNDBefore tasking students to complete rigorous engineering design challenges, educators should start with Stage 1 STEM activities. Click here to learn more about the Stages of STEM. Through
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Brand and Package Design - Printable Cereal Box Project
This brand and package student project is somewhat complex, fun and extremely educational. Geared toward any student learning art and design, entrepreneurship, or advertising, and marketing. The 98 page presentation starts off with a lesson in target audiences, then quickly moves onto product gimmicks and taglines. The goal is for students to create an original - "real-world" cereal box design that he or she can proudly put in their portfolio.
Take one-two days (depending on class time) to pr
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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At-Home STEM Activity Calendar: 6 Weeks of Daily Activities (Plus Spanish!)
Use this editable STEM activity calendar for 6 weeks of daily activities for at-home distance learning! Now includes a Spanish version of the activity chart! A PreK-12 daily enrichment STEM activity calendar with science, engineering, and math challenges! Activities are straightforward and accessible to students of all levels with little or no supplies needed. Get them up, outside, and exploring the world! Students will build a bird feeder, code an app, make a bee hotel, cook with fractions, and
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PreK - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, HS-ETS1-2
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Also included in:Â Year-Round STEM Activity Calendar Bundle
Shopping List Activity Cards
These is 3 activities in one.
Grocery List - Includes 30 grocery items and 6 grocery lists each with 5 items (ten item lists included for higher learning).
Pharmacy List - Includes 30 grocery items and 6 grocery lists each with 5 items (ten item lists included for higher learning).
Christmas List - Includes 28 Christmas items (teen) and 4 Christmas lists.
Visual of activity here - http://empoweredbythem.blogspot.com/2015/12/shopping-list-activity.html
Print on Cardstock and laminate cards
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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Rebus Puzzles/Brain Teasers/Word Puzzles
This resource contains 181 word puzzles that will get students thinking outside of the box! Each puzzle is on a separate slide to display on the Smartboard/Loft Board. There are lots of ways that you can use these puzzles in your classroom! Use the puzzles as a bell-ringer, an extension activity or throughout the days as a transitional tool! Print the puzzles out for students to work on independently by selecting the option to print multiple slides per page (up to 16).Take the resource apart and
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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HISTORY MYSTERIES BUNDLE!
Grab a bargain - History Mystery lessons for less! (Over 20% off actually!)This bundle contains lessons to help your students deduce, infer and evaluate arguments and evidence. They are suitable for middle and high school and have been a great success in my and others' classrooms. I will be creating more of these types of lessons and adding them to this bundle as I go along and if you buy now, you will never pay more.Check out the links below for the individual resources, their details and t
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
Microsoft Access (PBL) - The Stranger Things Project
This project is an excellent introduction to MS Access. Project: Access Project – Stranger Things EditionStyle: Project Based LearningDuration: This takes my class about 1.5 hours to completeProject Includes: Editable 14 page Word documentProject Videos: 6 videos Project InformationThis packet introduces students to MS Access and shows them how to build a MS Access database step-by-step. This packet is made up of 4 MS Access projects. Project 1 – Data Skill Practiced:1. First this project exp
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Marshmallow Challenge Handout
This FREEBIE includes a color and black and white handout to provide to teams of students engaging in the Marshmallow Challenge activity. This activity is great to use as an icebreaker or to engage students in critical thinking, cooperative learning, and innovative thinking. It can also be used to reinforce basic principles of physics or as a fun math activity involving measurement.
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Microsoft Access (PBL) - The Harry Potter Project
In the Harry Potter project students will work with data, create and update tables, create forms, create queries using a where clause, and create reports.Style: Project Based LearningDuration: 1.5 hoursProject Includes: Editable 11 page Word documentProject Videos: 8 videos Project Information Project 1 – Data & TablesSkill Practiced:1. Adds data to a table2. Asks about missing data3. Adds a field to a table4. Creates a table5. Explains Primary Key Project 2 - Forms Skill Practiced:1. Create
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Inquiry Based Learning Project: FAST FASHION
An Inquiry Based Learning Project your students are going to love!Fast Fashion has become one of the biggest environmental and human rights issues of the last 15 years - so much so that the fashion industry has been identified as contributing 10% of global CO2 emissions annually! So if we all know it's a problem, why haven't we fixed it?!In this package, students are given a general overview of how inquiry projects work, and are then set loose to dive into an authentic research process. At the e
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â THE INQUIRY BASED LEARNING RESEARCH BUNDLE
Gun violence argumentative passages critical thinking end of year social studies
GUN VIOLENCE, MENTAL HEALTH, ARGUMENTATIVE PASSAGES, CRITICAL THINKING, DEBATEDo you want to address gun violence in the classroom but are not sure how to do it? This product explores how mental health issues are associated with gun violence. COURT CASE SUMMARY DEBATE (#3) (GUN VIOLENCE & MENTAL HEALTH)My COURT CASE SUMMARY DEBATES are excellent supplements to any class focusing on ethics, law, justice, argumentative writing, and debate, and they also work well as last-minute sub-plans or st
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Second Amendment, Informational Writing, Argumentative Passages, gun rights
Design Thinking - Vacant Lot Challenge
Design Thinking is the revolutionary way to teach your students to be human-centered confident problem solvers! Dive deeper into the five phases of Design Thinking with this full Vacant Lot Challenge. Students will learn to develop empathy and creativity to solve a real-world problem.Design Thinking is a constructivist way of approaching a problem that seeks to leverage a bias toward action in order to find a radical solution to an end user’s need. The Design Thinking mindset has been pioneered
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5th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Shark Tank Invention & Innovation Classroom Project (Digital & Print)
This is a great DIGITAL INNOVATION PROJECT to spark your students' inner entrepreneur! They can work independently or with a group to build a company from the ground up and design, market, and pitch their inventions to the SHARKS (AKA you and their peers). Students conduct market research and write their own mission statements, slogans, and user manuals for their invention. This project touches on writing as well as speaking & listening standards. Also a spectacular homeschool project!I crea
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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STEM Lesson: Problem-Solving Urban Food Insecurity with Design Thinking
Engage your students in STEM learning with this Design Thinking lesson plan that addresses the problem of food insecurity in urban areas. Through a trial-by-fire activity, students will be introduced to the Design Thinking process and gain a foundational understanding of the steps involved. The first activity works best as an introduction to be followed by content delivery explaining the terms and the steps of the intentional design process. This lesson plan also includes 18 pages of a full proj
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Math Summative Project Based Algebra Activity EDITABLE: Building a House
This EDITABLE math summative algebra assessment (project based learning) is comprised of eight questions based on four levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy and requires solving for one unknown using basic mathematical formulas. The theme is centered on the construction of a house. The student is the building contractor who must make a variety of decisions to correctly solve each portion of this assessment. The students may present the project in two different ways, as a power point or as a written projec
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7th - 9th, Adult Education
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The Picture of Dorian Gray Final Project
Fun, creative project to culminate the unit. My students love this project because it is all about them. They create a self-portrait in 5 parts, a facade, a soul, an anthem, which includes song lyric annotation, an original free-verse poem, and a 400 word essay for which they write their own essay prompts. Notes to the teacher for assigning and grading, as well as evaluation forms for grading, are included.
I recommend this project for honors and AP students. It is a great way for them to sho
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) BUNDLE
We are living in the age of Artificial Intelligence-AI. Get your students talking and writing on a higher level about AI with this bundle, by building their vocabulary, speaking, and writing skills and close the lessons or unit with role-play, a complete Inquiry-Based Learning: IBL project, debate or case-study. How can I use this resource?You can use it at the end of a unit in computers, technology and AI; end of term culmination; to introduce AI, or as staged lessons ranging from 45 minutes, 1
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Community Engagement Action Plan: Empowering Students Through Service Learning!
Empower your high school students to make a positive impact in their community with this community engagement action plan lesson! As an experienced educator, I understand the importance of providing students with opportunities to engage in meaningful service learning experiences.This lesson is designed to achieve clear learning objectives and address essential questions while guiding students through the process of getting involved in their community. Through interactive discussions and collabor
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Current Global Events BUNDLE
Get your students talking and writing on a higher level about current global events with this bundle, by building their vocabulary, discussion, and writing skills and extend the two lessons with role-play or debate.How can I use this resource?You can use it at the end of a unit, end of term culmination or as staged lessons ranging from 3 hours to 8 weeks, or more- entirely depending on the level of your class. This bundle can supplement a unit or serve as self-contained lessons and projects. Su
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
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Environment BUNDLE
Environment, Issues- and Solutions: Get your students talking and writing on a higher level about environment with this bundle, by building their vocabulary, speaking, and writing skills and close the lesson or unit with role-play, a complete Inquiry-Based Learning: IBL project, a debate or in-depth case study. How can I use this resource?You can use it at the end of a unit; end of term culmination; to introduce AI, or as staged lessons rangin
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Microsoft Office (PBL) - The Jurassic Park Project
Project: Jurassic ParkProject Description: This project shows how Excel, Access, and Word work together. Students will be given an Excel spreadsheet and will have to import it into Access. While in Access the students will create a form. Next, students will create a mail merge in Word importing data from the Excel spreadsheet or the Access Table. Style: Project Based LearningDuration: 1+ hoursProject Includes: Editable 5 page Word documentTutorial Videos: 3 videos Access Skills Practiced:1. Impo
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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