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Higher education problem solving projects
Project Based Learning - Let Students Be The Teacher - Secondary English
This project-based learning opportunity allows students to become the teacher for a whole class period! Divide the class into groups and have each group teach a chapter of the novel, complete with a list of requirements, a lesson planning template, an essay reflection prompt, and a full Great Gatsby sample project.
All documents are included; just update the editable dates to match your schedule, print, and go!
Students love the autonomy of this project and do a fantastic job of becoming the
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8th - 12th, Higher 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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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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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
Geometry Constructions Project with Points of Concurrency {Treasure Hunt Theme}
This is a THEMED version of my popular Points of Concurrency Project in which students have to locate "Euler's Treasure" lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Students search "Beneath the Palm Tree", "Visit Teeny Tiki Town", "Enter the Volcano", and go "Behind the Waterfall" before taking all parts of their journey to the Bermuda Triangle and locate the treasure.An all around constructions project with a "magical" ending! Students receive an instruction sheet, rubric and 5 identical triangles (you will
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Probability Activity: The Monty Hall Problem - Fun and Engaging
Transform your probability lessons with this fun and engaging activity on the Monty Hall Problem! This comprehensive resource is designed to help students understand probability concepts in a real-world context.In this activity, students will explore the classic game show scenario of "Let's Make a Deal" and the famous Monty Hall Problem. They will learn about conditional probability, independent events, and strategic decision-making while having fun and collaborating with their peers.This activi
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6th - 12th, Higher 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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Divergent Thinking Questions: "What If" Questions For All Subject Areas
How could introducing rabbits into the rainforest affect that habitat? What would a passport for Christopher Columbus look like? In the story, Hansel and Gretel, instead of dropping breadcrumbs, how could the children avoid getting lost in the woods? Our new, 21st Century standards require students to argue, inform, and explain. Divergent thinking questions offer opportunities for students to demonstrate original, elaborate, and flexible thinking, enabling them to become actively involved in t
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education
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Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery Unit (Bundle)
This is a unit about teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) that can be expanded at the teacher's discretion to include a presentation and a paper that practices utilizing evidence, reasoning, and argument, or alternatively can also be collapsed into a mini-unit of just teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER). This unit can also be used to teach the concept of Line of Reasoning for the AP Lang and AP Seminar Classes. It is structured as an investigation for students to explore the murder of a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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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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Woodshop Projects
In this package there are 8 different woodshop projects with templates, directions and pictures. The templates are real scale. Also there are 5 different student driven design projects guidelines. This allows students to use past concepts and how to problem solve and come up with creative solutions. Finally there is a general project rubric with student self evaluations and a parent permission slip. Project plans for: Bird house, Box with sliding lid, Bunny, Gumball machine, Heart shaped jewelr
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery Unit
This is the accompanying teaching sequence for the unit “Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery.” It includes a mystery to solve, all the evidence (which can be turned into manipulatives), rubrics for presentations and writing, teaching instructions, graphic organizers, and solutions. It does not include the "Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery" PowerPoint presentation which can be purchased separately or as part of a bundle.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Microsoft Office: The Student Development Edition - 13 PBL Projects
Microsoft OfficeStudent Development EditionProject Based Learning (PBL) This book is made up of 13 projects and is available as pdf and docx files. Also, there are 19 videos explaining each project along with solutions/examples for each project. Project 1 – Calendar (Excel)Skills: Excel Template, Entering Data, Update DataComments: I do not allow late work and it seems to surprise students. I wanted students to develop a tool to help them with time management. Project 2 – Class Grades (Excel)
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
ELA Extra Credit Project Ideas
This product is inspired by a middle school math teacher that I had, who offered extra credit for projects we completed outside of class. I adapted this idea for the 8th-12th Grade ELA classroom! There are 9 prompts in total, each varying in points. You can use this to provide extra credit opportunities to students, or to assign regular projects and assignments based on the ideas listed, such as a timeline of an author's life, a diorama depicting a vital scene in a novel, and more. The rubrics f
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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50 Sports Themed STEM and Engineering Challenges MEGA Pack
PREVIEW AVAILABLE!LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? CHECK OUT OTHER STEM RESOURCES IN MY SHOP!50 Sports STEM Labs is a set of 50 sports-themed STEM Labs based off of 5 major sports: baseball, basketball, football, ice hockey, and soccer. This book offers materials lists, guidelines, and graded assignment suggestions. It also includes some blank pages for journaling and planning in the process. Get all those fabulous Sports Labs STEM Packs in one cool volume!This is the kind of thing you'll want to print, hole-
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Island Adventure Project!
This group project allows students to collaborate in a fantasy setting where every team member's input must be valued in order to win gold coins and glory!The Island Project is perfect for the beginning of the year icebreakers, classroom community building or as a soft launch to group work. It encourages creative thinking, problem-solving and teamwork. In this choose-your-own-adventure style activity, teams are offered a mystery medallion that determines the problem they will solve together usin
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
STEM/STEAM Challenge LED Flashlight
Teach students about open and closed circuits by making this simple flashlight. This is a great extension to any lesson about circuits, conductivity, light, electricity, and many more. It includes instructions for the build, challenge cards, links to the products to help aid in purchasing the right materials, and a link to a short how to video. This can be used across all grade bands by presenting the material with more or less teacher direction. The standards listed are picked from a range of
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K - 12th, Higher Education
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NGSS:
1-PS4-4
, MS-PS3-3
, MS-ETS1-1
, HS-PS3-5
THE CLOTHING UPCYCLE STEM DESIGN CHALLENGE
The purpose of this project is to get the students to connect the engineering design process with care for the environment through recycling. Before beginning this project, the students will need to bring in a bag of old clothes. The teacher may bring his/her own bag of old clothes for groups that may have forgot. The teacher will also need at least 20 needles and 20 spools of thread if no sewing machines are on hand.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Six Thinking Hats_Graphic Organizers
ABOUT RESOURCEYou will be downloading 28 different graphic organizers for the 6 thinking hats for all sorts of NO PREP usage! **scroll up to PREVIEW, to see all the graphic organizers included**If you liked this, you might enjoy the following:Six Thinking Hats_ClipartSix Thinking Hats Dice TemplateSix Thinking Hats_Clipart Six Thinking Hats_MEGA BUNDLE-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here is my explanation ab
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Six Thinking Hats_MEGA BUNDLE
Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) - Mini Mysteries
This is a mini unit on CER (Claim Evidence Reasoning) that can also be used for exercises of Line of Reasoning/Line of Evidence for AP Classes. It contains graphic organizers, five "mini" murder/mystery scenarios with original characters to solve, a rubric for a written portion, sentence stems to use for writing, and solutions. Students will be able to utilize close reading and critical thinking skills in order to solve the scenarios. Attached to the unit is the Presentation for CER (Claim Evi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Design Thinking for Creative Action: Interactive Notebook
Organized into 6 Challenges each with the following: • Introduction to a Persona with a Challenge • Comprehensive Organizer for the Design Thinking Phases 1 through 5 Challenge 1 will focus on Food Supply Challenge 2 will focus on Water Supply Challenge 3 will focus on Understanding Autism Challenge 4 will focus on Urban Health Care Challenge 5 will focus on Quality Education and Gender Equality Challenge 6 will focus on Social Innovation for Daily Living This notebook will provide a platfo
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, HS-ETS1-1
, HS-ETS1-4
Goal and Rapport Building Packet
Sometimes creating treatment plans is tough!! Look no further though. This packet will help you and your teen client build rapport and vocalize goals. With a variety of activities, your client will learn to identify areas in their life they wish to change and skills they want to grow in.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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STEM and Engineering Challenge MEGA pack #1 with 50 learning activities
PREVIEW AVAILABLE!LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? CHECK OUT OTHER STEM RESOURCES IN MY SHOP!THOUSANDS OF COPIES SOLD - NOW GET VERSION 2.0!!!I've redesigned and cleaned up all of my 50 stem labs in this new version. What's new? They're in full color with updated designs. Grading suggestions have been redone. Old typos and errors have been cleared up. Directions have been cleared up. Materials lists have been added. More teacher options have been added. Forms and Journal pages have been added!This is the kind
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Can you escape the AIRPORT? Physical Escape Room
Can you ESCAPE the AIRPORT??A physical escape room designed to get students on their feet and working together for approximately 40 minutes! Great for team building, comprehension, basic math operations, critical thinking, and problem-solving! This escape room is sure to get your students engaged with each other in the classroom! NO REAL LOCKS REQUIRED! Everything you need is included in the file attached to your purchase!
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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