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1st grade critical thinking resources $5-10
15 Working Memory Brain Games: Improve executive function in 5 minutes a day!
WORKING MEMORY BEST SELLER--UPDATED FOR 2024! These 15 research-based brain games are designed to improve kids' working memory in five minutes of partner game play daily for just 9 weeks! If you've ever complained that students lack the following skills, an executive function of the brain called working memory might be the issue!-staying focused and on-task-following complex and multi-step directions-copying information and taking notes-keeping their place in a text-retelling stories-explaining
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K - 6th
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100th Day of School Activities STEM Activities
Make your 100th day of school celebration STEM-TASTIC with these 6 engaging activities that are STEM challenges. These Smitten with First 100th Day STEM challenges can be used as stations or as activities completed throughout the day. See preview! Challenges Included:Pattern Hats (students build a party hat with 100 pattern blocks)Build 100 (students build the number 100 using 100 building blocks)Hairy Glasses (students build shape glasses using 100 gray hairs/pipe cleaners)100 Wishes (student
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade Year Long STEM Activities Bundle
Logic Puzzles Critical Thinking Activities - Printable & Digital Brain Teasers
⭐ Improve critical thinking skills and reading comprehension with this fun set of 45 full-page logic puzzles for elementary students. Comes in printable PDFs and digital for Google Slides™️. ⭐ Students use the clues to eliminate wrong answers and come to logical conclusions. Includes directions, a step-by-step model for solving the puzzles, digital versions of all the puzzles, and an answer key. ♦ Includes seasonal puzzles as well as puzzles to use any time of the year! ♦ 30 regular logic puzzle
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1st - 3rd
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Math Logic Puzzles Shapes - Early Finisher Activities - levels A,B,C BUNDLE
These pattern block math logic puzzles for kindergarten, first, and second grade make a great, NO PREP math center activity, morning work activity, or challenge math activity. These logic puzzles keep students highly-engaged while improving and developing their logic and visual discrimination skills. These brain teasers are a great way to teach your students to persevere through challenging tasks and help to develop their growth mindset. This bundle includes three different levels of math logic
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K - 2nd
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Fairy Tale STEM and STEAM Activities and Challenges Makerspace Task Cards
Hands-on fairy tale STEM challenges that are open-ended and allow for student creativity! Students can complete all 20 STEM activities OR use the choice board and pick their challenge(s). These low prep activities are easy to set up with materials you already have, like paper, recyclables, or building bricks and blocks. Your students will be begging to do more!✅ What You'll Get ✅20 Fairy Tale STEM challenges: These can be displayed from the PDF file or from Google Slides, or printed at 4 per pag
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K - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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CREATIVE SQUIGGLE PROMPT PICTURE STORY WRITING DAILY PRACTICE 1ST 2ND 3RD GRADE
CREATIVE SQUIGGLE PROMPT PICTURE DRAWING AND STORY WRITING ACTIVITY PAPERS: FUN MORNING WORK AND DAILY PRACTICE FOR KINDERGARTEN / 1ST / 2ND / 3RD / 4TH GRADEIf you are looking for fun activities to spark your students' creativity and imagination, you have come to the right place. This resource includes 100 no-prep templates which come in 8 differentiated versions. The sheets contain a squiggle or a shape so that students can continue the drawing to create something new!Younger students can us
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K - 4th
End of the Year Activities Camping Theme for Last Week of School Camp Days
Our week-long End-of-Year Camping Theme unit is a fun way to end the year! Get ready for a classroom transformation! With engaging activities like an all about me worksheet, camp games, and more where students enjoy camping days while teachers can use the time for work at school. Keep kids engaged while creating memorable adventures during this unforgettable end-of-year camp experience!⭐️ Be sure to open up the preview to see what is inside.Key Features In This Week Long Camp Themed Unit:✓ Daily
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1st - 3rd
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Map Skills 2nd grade 3rd grade worksheets, continents, vocabulary, landforms
This unit has everything you need for a great unit to teach map skills, vocabulary, continents, and landforms. This unit was written and used with first, second and third graders.What is included….MAP SKILLS-A 12 page no prep packet to help your students understand basic map skills. A cover is included so all you need to do is copy and staple. This pack would be great for distance learning, easy enough so students can do this independently. This pack includes these concepts…-What is a globe?-Wh
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1st - 3rd
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Homework Choice Boards (EDITABLE): Play/Experience HW for Kinder & 1st Grade
As teachers, we know how hard our students work each day. We also know that fine-motor, gross-motor, and social-emotional skills are just as important as academic skills…especially with our young learners. These critically important skills are often pushed to the side at school and at home. I created these EDITABLE (PowerPoint and Slides versions included) experience-based homework calendars to address the non-academic skills my students were missing, as well as, comply with our school’s “Homewo
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K - 1st
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Logic Puzzles & Brain Teasers Enrichment Activities Early Finishers Yearlong Set
Challenge & excite your students with this Daily Logic Puzzles & Brain Teasers Yearlong Set for Early Finishers. This BEST SELLING set of Logic Puzzles & Brain Teasers can be used in a variety of ways in your classroom to engage your students in fun & challenging ways! Easy-to-use, and substitute friendly, this set of 180 daily logic puzzles & brain teasers will motivate your students while targeting problem-solving, critical thinking, inferencing, patterning, word building,
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1st - 4th
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Math Logic Puzzles: 1st grade Enrichment - [Digital & Printable PDF]
Math Logic Puzzles for 1st grade includes 18 higher-order thinking puzzles designed to challenge and engage your high flyers and fast finishers. Your students will utilize critical thinking and problem-solving skills while building a solid understanding of essential math concepts and skills.These puzzles are available as a printable PDF and a paperless version made with Google Slides™ for virtual learning.Every activity is directly aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Math.----------
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K - 2nd
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Why and How Questions Inferential Reasoning Speech Therapy No Prep Boom Cards
This Boom Cards™ deck is perfect for teaching answering why and how questions regarding visual inferences and requiring inferential reasoning. It has 20 real-life picture scenarios with three cards for each scenario (1) the main photo with a draggable prompt guide on the right (2) open-ended boxes for answering why and how questions (how did you know?) and (3) a page for multiple choice in the field of 3 and draggable highlights to be placed on the clues.The breakdown of the deck is as follows:★
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1st - 3rd
Fix it Math Cards! Higher Order Thinking Math Questions
These "Fix it" cards are perfect for math talks and higher-order thinking! Students will use what they know about different math skills to figure out what is wrong on each card and share how they can fix it!★WHAT ARE FIX IT CARDS?★Fix it cards are great questions to pose to your students to promote HIGHER ORDER thinking!These fix it cards pose typical questions in a different way to help your students identify mistakes in another person’s work AND show how they can fix it. Many of the cards have
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K - 2nd
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Critical Thinking Activities Logic Puzzles, Algebraic Thinking, Math Enrichment
Engage your students with these critical thinking activities and math logic puzzles. Included in this bundle are 3 critical thinking products for grades K-2. These ready to use logic puzzles are the perfect addition to your classroom to promote mathematical reasoning, problem solving, and creativity!These student friendly critical thinking activities will build a foundation for algebraic reasoning. With 96 puzzles in total, your students will be buzzing with excitement every time they complete o
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K - 2nd
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HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) Reading Response Sheets
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This download includes the first edition of my no-prep H.O.T.S reading response sheets. The activities are designed to encourage your students to understand, create, evaluate, and analyze text on a deeper level. They are aligned to the Common Core Standards and can be used over & over with different books in a variety of ways {differentiated guided reading lessons, homework, early finisher work, literacy stations, etc}.
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1st - 3rd
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Cardinal Directions and Map Skills for KIDS!
This product is the perfect solution for teaching cardinal directions and map skills for lower elementary kiddos!
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Cardinal Direction Posters for the classroom 1 set with arrows 1 set without (Color and Black and White)
Label the Directions: 5 fun worksheets! Students Label the directions, come up with their own way to remember the directions (ex: Never Eat Soggy Waffles) Cut and paste the correct directions, etc...
Color by Direction: 10 worksheets ( 5 without cardinal rose, 5 wit
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PreK - 2nd
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Paul Klee Abstract Art Lesson: Portrait Dice Games Art Project - Nsw Visual Arts
Are you teaching an abstract art lesson on Paul Klee? Are they going to create an abstract portrait? Here's a fun lesson to brighten up your lesson plans! This is the perfect addition to your elementary art curriculum! Engaging abstract portrait art lesson with language (writing) activities. These no-prep abstract portrait art projects are perfect for your art sub tub. Super easy to implement for substitute teachers. Plus, the engagement will help with behavior! Perfect to start your art integra
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K - 12th
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Also included in: Art History Lesson - Famous Artists - Art Activities and Sub Plans
Depth of Knowledge (DOK) 105 Question Stem Cards MATH EDITION
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With the new assessments coming into play, students will be expected to answer more complex questions. Are your students answering higher-order questions properly and regularly? If not, use these questioning stems to get kids thinking more deeply about their learning.
This set of DOK Level 1-4 cards, makes it easy to scroll through and select various levels of questions before, during, and after instruction. They are
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PreK - 12th
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Early Finishers - Indoor Recess Activities – Busy Boxes - Fun Boxes BUNDLE
Designed to fit into photo storage boxes, these early finishers and indoor recess fun boxes are easy to store, quick to assemble, and great for encouraging positive attitudes about school. Each of these 16 busy box activities will fit in a 4” x 6” container and requires few or no additional supplies. Fast to clean up and requiring little introduction, these games work well for indoor recess, early finishers, and as incentives for reaching goals.What’s included in this early finishers set?This bu
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PreK - 1st
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March STEAM STEM Activities & Challenges - St Patrick's Day STEM Projects March
Engage your students with these fun St. Patrick’s Day activities and March STEM challenges this year. Your students will love being challenged to build the longest rainbow, create a leprechaun launcher, build a marshmallow catapult, and construct a bucket tower. All of these engaging STEM challenges are perfect for St. Patrick’s Day or use all month long! These March activities are perfect for your first grade, second grade, third grade, and fourth grade students. Complete them as a whole clas
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1st - 4th
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Revised Bloom's Taxonomy Posters for Higher Level Thinking
Whether you're a Common Core school, a 21st Century school, or just a school that's making it a focus to prepare all learners for their future, you know how essential it is for the teaching and learning to be in the highest levels of Bloom's everyday. Display these student-friendly (and not too overwhelming) posters in your classroom (or if you're an administrator, purchase these for all the teachers in your building, so there's a set in every classroom) to help you and the students do "the wor
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
School Kids Behavior Calming Strategies Clip Art
This calming strategies clip art set is great for demonstrating calming techniques and positive behavior.You will receive 51 high-quality image files, which includes 25 color images and 26 black & white images in 300dpi png.This set includes:Boy bouncing a ballGirl coloringBoy counting to 10Girl getting a drinkGirl going for a walkBoy hugging selfBoy hummingBoy imagining favorite placeGirl listening to musicGirl playing with blocksGirl sitting in a quite placeGirl reading a book at deskBoy r
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PreK - 5th, Staff
Also included in: Back to School and Classroom Kids Behavior Clip Art Bundle
Weekly Reading Logs: Skill based
Do you want to take your students reading logs to the next level??? Check out these skill based, weekly reading logs! These reading logs help your students use critical thinking skills to develop and analyze their reading. Help your students think deeply and actively comprehend what they read by pairing the week's reading log to your weekly learning targets! How it works: First, choose which template to use for the week. Students will have this in their guided reading or take home folder. Studen
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K - 2nd
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Print and Go Bundle
Thanksgiving STEM Activities | November Activities and Thanksgiving Activities
Are you looking for a fun way to keep your students engaged and learning during the beginning of the holiday season? Then try these Thanksgiving activities that focus on STEM designs! Your students will be super excited to work together to construct different elements associated with the holiday to help build STEM skills while also reviewing Thanksgiving content at the same time!Check out the preview above for more information about the Thanksgiving STEM activities!Grab my seasonal BUNDLE HERE a
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1st - 4th
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