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Problem solving applied math simulations
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
Electoral College Activity - PPT/Notes/Super Fun Competition! - Paper & Digital
Looking for a great bell ringer activity to start class each day?Full Year of Writing/Discussion Prompts - 180 Bell RingersGet ready for the 2024 election with your students!! Used in over 2,500 classrooms, this is the most fun your students will have learning about the Electoral College! I have used this Electoral College activity over and over throughout my two decades in the classroom, and it has always been a hit; especially on an election year! [For the Google Drive version click here].
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Bundle: What is the Electoral College? Voting with Mystery Candidates
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
Peace Path: A Visual Conflict Resolution Strategy
I have used a Peace Path for the past 8 years of teaching Special Education, and absolutely love it. It is an awesome way to help students work out any issues that arise. I also use it personally with my students if an issue needs to be addressed. It really helps students learn how to work out a problem in a safe way. Just print the pages on card stock, laminate each one, and tape it together. It's very easy to use- two people step on each sides of the path on the footprints and walk through the
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PreK - 9th
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Digging For Fossils - A Cookie Excavation Experiment
Students will love acting as an archaeologist as they dig for fossils during this experiment! Using simple materials such as toothpicks and cookies, students will learn what it's like to excavate fossils. Students will formulate a hypothesis, collect data, and develop conclusions using this experiment aligned with both Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards. Teaching tips included! A great resource and hands-on lesson for any fossil unit.
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3rd - 6th
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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Characteristics of Living Things Interactive PowerPoint AND Case Studies
Fun, animated review of the material as well as TWO case studies exploring the characteristics of life. Students journey to Europa, where they must analyze samples for the presence of life. In the second case study, students discover the tobacco mosaic virus.
This extremely fun PowerPoint was created to get kids thinking! No more simple lectures centered around listing the shared characteristics of life - your students will be putting themselves in the shoes of xenobiologists and research bota
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7th - 12th
Going to the Championship Football Game Project Based Learning
Engage your students in a relevant project with this Championship Game Project. (Please note, Super Bowl is trademarked and not authorized for use in commercial products therefore I am using the words Championship Game instead.) ****Now updated for the 2024 Championship Game in Las Vegas****Students will spend several days going through the planning of a trip to this year's championship game in Las Vegas, Nevada. Students will use a variety of math skills for budgeting and problem solving, as
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning Bundle
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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Project Based Learning Bundle
Engage your students throughout the school year with relevant projects where they can apply a variety of skills from math and language arts. Project Based Learning Projects are actually my favorite products to make. This product includes 15 different projects; 4 of which are also in a digital format. Click on each of the individual products to see previews, and read below for more details of what's included.Design an Aquarium (A Digital version is also included for use with Google Classroom™
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3rd - 6th
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Class Escape Problem Solving Game
Modeled after the popular "Escape" games in many cities around the country, this classroom version prompts students to work together as a class to solve puzzles, connect the clues, and crack the code! This is a great activity for the first week of school to encourage teamwork and help students get to know each other and the classroom. Your students will be totally engaged in this hands-on challenge!
You will need the following tools:
- tape
- color printer
- scissors or paper cutter
- white c
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7th - 12th
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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
Project Based Learning: Volume and Area of Prisms and Cylinders
This cooperative project involves applying many math and language skills to a real life situation. Teams are tasked with planning an aquatic center. Specifications include rectangular and circular pools which allow students to practice older skills such as perimeter, area, and volume of rectangles and prisms, as well as newer skills such as circumference, area, and volume of circles and cylinders. Measurement conversions are integrated, as well as writing and presentation skills. A final po
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6th - 8th
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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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Dinosaur Themed Differentiated Multiplication Project
Turn your students into paleontologists with this differentiated multiplication project. Your students will totally "dig" getting to create their paleontologist ID badge, buying their paleontology tools, setting up their dig site, and using their magnifying glasses on different dino bones. This product includes pages that help students practice basic, single digit multiplication and multi-digit multiplication (2 digit x 1 digit and 2 digit x 2 digit). This product also helps students practice
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: 3rd Grade Math Project Bundle
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
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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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
Workplace Math 10 - Earning an Income (Full Unit Bundle)
Have you ever wanted to teach a unit on earning an income by actually letting your students earn an income? Look no further than this authentic classroom currency earning experience for your students.Students will work through unit notes, formative assessments, authentic work experiences, and portfolios. All the while, they will be paid for their efforts in classroom currency. They will experience income inequality, the merits of different pay structures, and pay deductions (like taxes) in an au
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Grades:
10th - 12th
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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Book About Hands-On Financial Literacy Simulations for Teens & Young Adults
These simulations come from Nick's book, "You're Gonna Need a Bigger Wallet." The book is available on Amazon for $24, or on TPT for $21 in .pdf format. The .pdf format is more ideal for teachers than the printed copies of the book because it allows for easier access to print the activities and handouts.
"You're Gonna Need a Bigger Wallet" is geared towards teachers and organizations who desire to teach personal finance skills in engaging and practical ways. Several industry experts contribute
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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High Engagement Murder Mystery Classroom Activity! (Murder at the Dance)
This "whodunit" style classroom murder mystery game will have your students collecting and evaluating information, making inferences, identifying red herrings, practicing speaking and listening skills and so much more! This activity will have your students' full attention as they try to find the "killer" at the homecoming dance. This interactive activity includes all necessary pieces to run your own murder mystery game in the classroom!Setting the Scene: During the homecoming dance, the dead bod
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7th - 12th
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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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