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4th grade critical thinking simulations
Oregon Trail: Simulation Game
Super engaging slideshow game to get students thinking about what life on the Oregon Trail was like. You lead the class with 13 scenarios, and students make decisions and keep track of survival points. A great way to introduce the Oregon Trail to students. It includes 42 slides, directions, and a student handout to record survival points. I use this activity with my 8 graders a few details might need to be edited if used with younger grade levels.Takes about 1 hour.
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in: Western Expansion Games Bundle: Oregon Trail, Gold Rush, Lewis and clark
Lunch Bunch Games | Friendship Escape Room
This Friendship Escape Room is the perfect challenge for upper elementary and middle school students to build teamwork and learn about positive friendship skills. This challenge is meant to be given in a shorter time span than other escape rooms and is perfect for those lunch time groups! Students are given the a scenario where there school is infected with Bully Fever and to release the antidote students need to work together to solve the challenges, release the keys and solve the secret co
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Escape Room Counseling Bundle | Friendship Growth Mindset Career
Thanksgiving Escape Room Activity | Breakout Game | Review Game | Multiplication
Bring the fun and excitement of a breakout room to your classroom! This cross curricular 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 Thanksgiving week, an introduction to teaching mysteries or a review day game!Click here to save 20% with the Escape
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: Escape Room Challenge Bundle | Breakout Games | Teamwork Challenges
CELLS CSI Investigation - Examining Plant and Animal Cells
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In this lesson, students will be given a mystery to solve, based on their knowledge of cells. To solve the mystery, they need to know the major differences between plant and animal cells. Students apply their knowledge to a "real-life" scenario in which they must classify cells as plant or animal. Students will record their conclusions in a forensic lab report similar to one that could be used in court. This is an excellent activity for the end of a unit on plant and animal ce
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4th - 7th
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Escape Room Solve the Mystery Challenge | Teamwork Activity | Breakout Game
Bring the fun and excitement of a breakout room to your classroom! This cross curricular 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. You can use this as an introduction to teaching mysteries or a review day game!This is the PRINTABLE VERSION, the DIGITAL VERSION is available her
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3rd - 4th
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Back to School Escape Room | Team Building Activities | First Week of School
Are you ready to kick off the new school year with a thrilling and collaborative experience for your students? Our Back-to-School Escape Room Team Building Activities will make the first week of school unforgettable as students work together to solve puzzles, decode challenges, and build lasting connections.This is the PRINTABLE VERSION, the DIGITAL VERSION is available here. Why Choose Our Back-to-School Escape Room Team Building Activities?Engaging and Interactive: The escape room format adds
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: Escape Room Challenge Bundle | Breakout Games | Teamwork Challenges
Mock Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Classroom Mystery/Detective Simulation Game
Stage a mock crime scene investigation in your classroom! Kids solve the mystery through observation and science labs. They study crime scene photos, gather clues, analyze fingerprints, and experiment with powders and chromatography. Students love participating in this forensic science simulation - and cracking the case!Open the preview to take a closer look at the game-like project. The crime scene and detective activities are laid out for you. With a few common household items (such as pens, p
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3rd - 5th
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Football Escape Room Mystery Challenge | Breakout Game | Teamwork Activity
Bring the fun and excitement of a breakout room to your classroom! This cross curricular 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. You can use this as an introduction to teaching mysteries or a review day game! This football themed mystery works great in the fall during footba
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: Escape Room Challenge Bundle | Breakout Games | Teamwork Challenges
Design a Zoo: A Digital Project Based Learning Experience
Thanks for choosing this project based learning experience for your students! They are sure to have fun, be creative, and learn some valuable skills.
In Design a Zoo, students take on the role of a design consultant asked to create a new zoo. Students will need to:
–Name the Zoo
–Create a welcoming sign
–Select the animals
–Design animal habitats
–Create information sheets
–Create a budget
–And present their work to a "Board of Directors"
This experience is designed to be completed without sub
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3rd - 8th
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Editorial vs. Regular News Article Game (Is it Fact or Opinion Writing?)
In this engaging, self-checking Google Slides game, students gain a valuable skill for interacting with media. Students are guided to learn the difference between fact and opinion writing—even when the difference is subtle—by reading information about both, then looking at headlines and choosing whether the headlines are for editorials or regular facts-only news articles. All headlines are from real articles, so students are learning with content that is relevant. Students are given feedback i
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4th - 10th
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Robotics Competitions for Dash Robot
BEFORE YOU PURCHASE:This packet works with Dash robot. In order to effectively implement this resource, you must have at least 1 Dash robot and 1 iPad OR one compatible laptop.This packet includes 8 robotics competitions to use with Dash robot. The competitions range from easy to more difficult. They will not only test your students' coding skills, team work, communication, problem solving, and logical reasoning skills! Scoring sheets are provided for each competition. Suggested implementation i
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3rd - 6th
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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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Create your own civilization based off of 'Weslandia'
Create your own civilization based off of the book 'Weslandia'. Students will use their social studies knowledge to create their own utopian society. Your students will have a blast taking knowledge that they have previously learned about and applying it to their new civilization! Their creativity will amaze you!!!!
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Teacher information page included
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CCSS Writing: W.2, W.4, W.5, W.6, W.8, W.10
Social Studies: geog
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4th - 12th
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The Mystery of Harris Burdick Simulation
Engage your students in an exciting mystery simulation based on Chris Van Allsburg's book (The Mysteries of Harris Burdick) where YOU become the Chief of Police, and your students become first-rate detectives! Students will delve into a mystery that at first seems to have no solution, but through open-ended questioning and investigation through role-play, your students will come to a conclusion and arrest the culprit — maybe.
Every mystery is different since the students use their creativity to
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3rd - 7th
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Holidays Around the World Escape Room | Math Fact Practice | Zodiac Calendar
Bring the fun and excitement of a breakout room to your classroom! These holiday challenge activities will have your students engaged, investigating and challenged from start to finish without the need of complicated locks or boxes. Students will complete 5 challenges in order to earn each passport stamp while learning about holidays celebrated around the world at the same time!This would be an excellent culminating activity to a Holidays Around the World unit or a stand alone activity to fill t
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: Escape Room Challenge Bundle | Breakout Games | Teamwork Challenges
Stranded: Island survival icebreaker/team-building
Thieving monkeys. Angry ghosts. And there's SOMETHING in the jungle. Can YOU survive the island until help arrives?Many students have played the classic critical thinking game in which they prioritize a list of items to survive on a remote tropical island. But there's two major drawbacks of this original version. First, most of these games reward a clear preference for certain items ("What do you mean you didn't take the compass?"). Second, the game basically ends as soon as the students m
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
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Project Based Learning Bundle
PBL Lessons will engage your students as they create simulations of real live event learning tasks. Students will engage and think critically as they go through these projects. Students love learning when it is real, relevant, and engaging!How to Start a School Newscast is a guide to help teachers or administrator start a school newscast. STEM Starting a School Post Office will introduce students to many important economics concepts as they start and run a School Post Office Simulation. Studen
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3rd - 6th
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End of the Year Escape Room - Summer Vacation Escape Activity feat. GoogleSlides
Need a fun and engaging activity to get your students excited about the end of the school year? Then this is the product for you! Escape Rooms have been all the rage this year and this End of the Year Escape Room will not disappoint. Through unique and creative puzzles, clues and activities, students will digitally interact with the various items in the room to figure out the 7 Letter code (in ALL CAPS) to escape the classroom. Once they have compiled the 7 letter code (in ALL CAPS), students wi
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4th - 7th
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Money Matters: A Real-World Simulation for Upper Elementary Students
A creative problem-solving unit that simulates real life. Students are faced with real-world decisions related to money management, budgeting, jobs, taxes and bills.Students are randomly assigned families and jobs. They then are presented with real-life situations and decisions that they must make (just as their parents do).Creative problem-solving, decision-making, Socratic seminar, and real-world dilemmas are incorporated into this unit.Printables: Everything you need is in this unit. It h
Grades:
4th - 6th
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
Snowman Detective Mystery | Problem Solving | Escape Room | Growth Mindset
Experience the thrill of being a detective to follow the clues and solve the Case of the Missing Snowman. Can you find the solution before time runs out? This Clue Mystery Game is the perfect teambuilder challenge for upper elementary and middle school students to both teach teambuilding and problem solving.● ● ● Students are given the a scenario describing the mysterious disappearance of the class snowman. Then they must use their Clue Recording Sheet to elimate suspects, time of incident,
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Middle School Classroom Guidance Lessons Bundle | SEL Counseling Lessons
Fun Project-Based Learning Trio - Food Trucks, Ice Cream Shops and Theme Parks!
Get all three of our awesome project-based learning resources for $1 more than the price of two!These projects will lead your students through an amazing and in-depth journey as they design all aspects of their very own food truck, theme park or ice-cream shop business. With the provided grade-appropriate support, your students will design each aspect of their business as well as how to market their business. There is a wealth of information in this packet to guide you and your students through
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3rd - 9th
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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
Robotics Competition for Dash Robot - 2nd Edition
BEFORE YOU PURCHASE:This packet works with Dash robot. In order to effectively implement this resource, you must have at least 1 Dash robot and 1 iPad OR one compatible laptop.This packet includes 8 robotics competitions to use with Dash robot. The competitions range from easy to more difficult. They will not only test your students' coding skills, team work, communication, problem solving, and logical reasoning skills! Scoring sheets are provided for each competition. Suggested implementation i
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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