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2nd grade critical thinking simulations
Wants and Needs Sort - 1st grade Social Studies Needs vs Wants Activities
These interactive needs vs wants activities are perfect to teach your students about wants and needs, and to help them understand the consequences of choosing wants vs needs in real-life situations.PACKED with everything you need! Includes a lesson plan, simulation activity with teacher script, vocabulary aid, sorting activities, critical thinking worksheet, and writing activity.Description:This fun interactive activity sends students on an adventure simulation as they pack their backpacks with
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K - 2nd
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Escape Room Challenge Bundle | Breakout Games | Teamwork Challenges
Bring the fun and excitement of a breakout room to your classroom! These cross curricular mystery challenges will have your students engaged, investigating and challenged from start to finish without the need of complicated locks or boxes. This bundle includes over 10 different escape room challenges.Students will work their way through clues, each time they complete the clue challenge, they eliminate a suspect or collect tools to move on to the next challenge. You can use this as an introductio
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2nd - 4th
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Escape Room Secret Agent Challenge | Main Idea | Multiplication and Division
Bring the fun and excitement of a breakout room to your classroom! This Secret Agent themed breakout will have your students engaged, investigating and challenged from start to finish without the need of complicated locks or boxes. Students will complete 5 missions in order to earn each of the spy tools and show that they are ready to become official Secret Agents! This Breakout Game is also included in Last Week of School Activities product. This resource includes:•Teacher Directions- Step by
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Escape Room Challenge Bundle | Breakout Games | Teamwork Challenges
Boot Camp Escape Room Challenge | Main Idea | Multiplication | Breakout Game
Bring the fun and excitement of a breakout room to your classroom! This Boot Camp themed breakout will have your students engaged, investigating and challenged from start to finish without the need of complicated locks or boxes. Students will complete 5 missions in order to earn each of the military tools and show that they are ready to graduate from Basic Training! This resource includes:•Teacher Directions- Step by step directions for setup of the breakout activity and how to play. •Military T
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Escape Room Challenge Bundle | Breakout Games | Teamwork Challenges
Tuesday by David Wiesner Socratic Seminar Plan + Extras
Need a way to creatively reach your student's Speaking and Listening standards? Want to assess ALL students based on their thoughts and not what they are able to write down? Socratic Seminar is an amazing way to assess student understanding and find holes in it, too. In addition, students who have difficulty with writing, but are able to verbalize their thinking will find an even playing field.
This seminar on David Wiesner's book, Tuesday, is meant for younger students. I have used it as earl
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K - 4th
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STEM - Lewis and Clark
STEM lesson about Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery.
Students learn lessons for today and skills for tomorrow as they collaborate to solve historical problems! In this Mind Missions lesson, students will learn about Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their journey to explore the West. Then, they will collaborate to solve a problem that faced the great explorers on their adventure.
This lesson is part of our American Pioneers series.
Mind Missions are team-based, creative problem
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1st - 4th
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Valentine's Day Mystery Escape Room | Breakout Game | Math | Reading | STEM
Bring the fun and excitement of a breakout room to your classroom! This cross curricular Valentine’s Day mystery challenge will have your students engaged, investigating and challenged from start to finish without the need of complicated locks or boxes. Students will work their way through 4 clues. Each time they complete the clue challenge, they eliminate a suspect. This is a great activity for teambuilding, an introduction to teaching mysteries or a review day game!This resource includes: Susp
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Escape Room Challenge Bundle | Breakout Games | Teamwork Challenges
STEM Activities Bundle | Teambuilding | Camping | Energy | End of the Year
This STEM Activities Bundle includes six engaging and educational resources designed to spark curiosity, foster teamwork, and promote critical thinking in your students. Perfect for teachers, homeschoolers, or anyone looking to make learning fun and interactive. These activities can be used year round and are great for teaching hard to understand concepts, using with classroom transformations, or just for getting students excited about learning and working together!Take a look at the full detail
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2nd - 4th
Escape Room Challenge Holiday Bundle
Bring the fun and excitement of a breakout room to your classroom! These holiday-themed cross curricular challenges will have your students engaged, investigating and challenged from start to finish without the need of complicated locks or boxes. Students will work their way through clues, each time they complete the clue challenge, they eliminate a suspect or collect tools to move on to the next challenge. You can use this as an introduction to teaching mysteries or a review day game!⭐ By purch
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2nd - 4th
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Life Skills at it Best!
Life Skills at its Best!
Comprehensive Activities to promote good citizenship, school spirit, responsibility, self-esteem, decision making, balancing a budget, appropriate socialization & punctuality. This plan is developed to be used at the end of the week on a weekly basis through out the school year.
These activities were made for you to expand and use at your students ability level. Worksheets have been included for low functioning as well as higher functioning students. These activiti
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K - 12th
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STEM - Henry Ford
STEM lesson about Henry Ford and Assembly Lines.
Students learn lessons for today and skills for tomorrow as they collaborate to solve historical problems! In this Mind Missions lesson, students will learn about Henry Ford and the invention of the assembly line. Then, they will collaborate to devise their own invention.
This lesson is part of our American Innovators series.
Mind Missions are team-based, creative problem solving activities that engage students in solving historical challenges
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1st - 4th
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Escape Room Challenge Bundle | Digital and Printable
Bring the fun and excitement of a breakout room to your classroom! These escape room challenges will have your students engaged, investigating and challenged from start to finish without the need of complicated locks or boxes. Students will work their way through clues, each time they complete the clue challenge, they eliminate a suspect or collect tools to move on to the next challenge. You can use this as an introduction to teaching mysteries or a review day game!This bundle includes a printab
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2nd - 4th
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Classroom Restaurant Simulation - Nutrition Lessons Unit
Students will learn how proper nutrition, exercise and rest are important to good health by setting up a classroom restaurant. The sixteen sessions in this unit contain lessons on different types of advertising, food safety rules, how to take your heart rate, analyzing food lables, understanding cooking terms, analyzing menus for nutritious offerings. Children will perform an original nutrition rap (included), write limericks, listen to speakers, learn proper table manners, serve and be served.
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1st - 5th
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St. Patrick's Day Mystery Escape Room | Breakout Game | STEM | Math | Puzzles
Bring the fun and excitement of a breakout room to your classroom! This cross curricular St. Patrick's Day mystery challenge will have your students engaged, investigating and challenged from start to finish without the need of complicated locks or boxes. Students will work their way through 4 clues. Each time they complete the clue challenge, they eliminate a suspect. This is a great activity for teambuilding, an introduction to teaching mysteries or a review day game!This resource includes: Su
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Escape Room Challenge Bundle | Breakout Games | Teamwork Challenges
Mind Missions: Harriet's Heroics
A lesson about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad.
Students learn lessons for today and skills for tomorrow as they collaborate to solve historical problems! In this Mind Missions lesson, students will learn about Harriet Tubman and her heroics along the Underground Railroad. Then, they will devise a solution to help other travelers along the way.
This lesson is part of our American Heroes series.
Mind Missions are team-based, creative problem solving activities that engage students
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1st - 4th
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Life Skills at its Best! (MAC Friendly)
Life Skills at its Best! MAC Friendly
Comprehensive Activities to promote good citizenship, school spirit, responsibility, self-esteem, decision making, balancing a budget, appropriate socialization & punctuality. This plan is developed to be used at the end of the week on a weekly basis through out the school year.
These activities were made for you to expand and use at your students ability level. Worksheets have been included for low functioning as well as higher functioning students
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K - 12th
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Brussels Sprouts: A Social Skills Board Game
An Overview of the Brussels Sprouts Social Skills ProgramThe Brussels Sprouts simulation board game and related activities are intended to help young students, in grades 1 to 4, learn and rehearse important social skills. The board game is primarily focused on building social cognitive problem solving skills. The related social skills learning activities can also be used. They address self awareness and self regard, recognizing and labeling emotions, values clarification, interpersonal skills of
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1st - 4th
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Figurative Language
Looking to enhance your child's figurative language but don't know how to start ? Fret not as this product will help your child to learn with pictures. If your child is a visual learner and not interested in words, this product will be useful. It can be a fun interactive learning as well. Plant the seed of love for figurative language using this simple product.
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1st - 3rd
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Unplugged Coding Puzzles for the Elementary Classroom
With Computer Science standards popping up across the nation and devices not always being easily accessible, it's great to have unplugged activities to help students understand the concepts. This product helps students to understand simple coding concepts while moving "Robbie Robot" around.These puzzles use block coding to help a friendly robot move around a grid. This is very similar to some of the educational robots used within classrooms these days that use a grid. Due to the necessary rea
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2nd - 5th
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Animal Adaptations - Interactive Camouflage Learning Experience (STEAM)
Start your Life Science unit with an easy check for understanding activity. Then wrap up your unit with an activity that will have your students using actively engaged with a habitat simulation. Students will investigate animal adaptations and camouflage. Students will help an octopus survive being “eaten” by its predator, a hungry sea otter. A simple simulation will be used to demonstrate how animals that blend into their environment are better suited to survive a predator on the hunt. The si
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2nd - 5th
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NGSS:
1-LS1-1
, 4-LS1-1
, K-ESS3-1
, 1-LS1-2
, 5-LS2-1
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Also included in: Ocean Theme Bundle for STEAM Learning
STEM - Robert Fulton and Buoyancy
STEM lesson about Robert Fulton and Buoyancy.
Students learn lessons for today and skills for tomorrow as they collaborate to solve historical problems! In this Mind Missions lesson, students will learn about Robert Fulton and the development of the steamboat to transport goods. Then, they will collaborate to engineer an effective design for Mr. Fulton.
This lesson is part of our American Innovators series.
Mind Missions are team-based, creative problem solving activities that engage students
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1st - 4th
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Lemonade Stand Business Simulation Project
Students get to experience what it is like to be an entrepreneur or business owner by simulating the running of their own business, a lemonade stand! They will go through four parts of a project using a free online lemonade stand simulation game for part of it.This project is a learning simulation that can be completed whole-class, small group, or as part of a learning center. There are four parts to the project: The project introduction, simulation experience involving data collection, data ana
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2nd - 5th
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Maze Maze1
This maze book is sure to get kids thinking!.GREAT GIFT IDEAS - PUZZLE BOOKS - COLORING BOOKS - ACTIVITY BOOKSGrab some colored pencils and set your child up for hours of screen-free fun with this book of amazing mazes. Solving maze activities can be a crucial yet fun part of your kid's development, they help in nurturing the development of your child's brain, thought processes, problem solving skills, IQ and intelligence by having them map out the best path to reach the goal in every activity.T
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PreK - 3rd
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Mind Missions: Ruby's Reward
A lesson about Ruby Bridges and Integration.
Students learn lessons for today and skills for tomorrow as they collaborate to solve historical problems! In this Mind Missions lesson, students will learn about Ruby Bridges and her difficult days integrating an all-white school. Then, they will devise a solution to encourage little Ruby.
This lesson is part of our American Heroes series.
Mind Missions are team-based, creative problem solving activities that engage students in solving historical
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1st - 4th
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