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1st grade critical thinking Common Core W.2.7 resources
READ ALOUD STEM Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle #1 STEM Club, STEM Centers
Integrate STEM and Literacy in your classroom all year with READ ALOUD STEM Volume One! Everything you need to be the master STEM Teacher at your school! Awaken imagination and creativity all year. Students learn coding, engineering, explore real-world problems, learn about STEM role models, pioneers, inventors, and more!Amazing resource for STEM clubs, STEM Teachers, STEM Stations, STEM Centers, parents who love hands-on learning, and elementary teachers who want to create a hands-on educationa
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1st - 5th
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READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges #2 Real World Science Engineering
Bundle and get 50% off! Integrate STEM and Literacy in your classroom all year with READ ALOUD STEM Volume 2! Awaken imagination and creativity all year. Students learn coding, engineering, explore real world problems, learn about STEM role models, pioneers, inventors, and more! Perfect for librarians, STEM Club, K-5 Teachers, and any teach who loves to integrate hands-on learning activities with their students!This collection of STEM Projects focuses on connecting ELA and STEM. Each challenge c
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1st - 5th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-PS3-1
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 4-PS3-4
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Seed Dispersal and Pollinator STEM Plant STEAM
Ecosystem interdependence with animal STEM, challenges students to use engineering design process! Model will show how insects help pollination or seed dispersal. Bees and pollination reading passage and writing prompts included with this Life Science project. Next Generation Science Standard Alignment: 2-LS2-2, K-2ETS1-2☝ Click HERE to Save over 25% on the Money Savings ALL STEM and STEAM BUNDLE! ☝ (Currently: 16 NGSS aligned Projects) ❤ All STEM Projects are OPEN ENDED, allowing student flexib
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1st - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 2-LS2-2
Also included in: STEM Activities STEM Challenges
Making Inferences with Pictures - Inferring Graphic Organizers
Struggling to teach your students how to make inferences? Making inferences with these 50 graphic organizers is an absolute breeze! These real life photography shots makes inferring pictures not only super fun but realistic too. Ideal for picture of the day, literacy centers, morning work or homework. Completed work samples look amazing on classroom bulletin boards! This resource is available in both print and digital format, therefore is suitable for:First GradeSecond GradeThird GradeFourth Gr
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1st - 4th
Second Grade Nonfiction Shared Reading 20 Text Companion BUNDLE
Getting started with shared reading texts this year in your curriculum? This product is a BUNDLE of nonfiction text companions for 2nd Grade shared reading texts. At least 10 PRINT AND GO activities to use with your students for each text featured. Great for independent, guided practice, enrichment, or reinforcement. These activities have been designed to allow for repetitive practice of important literacy skills. You choose which to work on using your shared reading texts! This product include
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1st - 3rd
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Room Transformation Bundle | Theme Days for the Primary Classroom
A collection of theme day activities and/or room transformation plans and activities. These were designed with first and second graders in mind. Theme days and room transformations are such a big hit in my classroom. They are fun and engaging and something to break up the routine and keep excitement for learning at the forefront! These are a great option for review days, once a quarter or seasonally. I will be adding more as I complete them.Here's What You Get:Back to school read aloud (20 socia
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1st - 3rd
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Matter Interaction STEM and STEAM
Studying matter properties? This matter project challenges students to create objects from the same set of pieces by taking them apart and putting together in a new way. Students show how solid matter changes. The engineering design process helps students investigate, plan, create, improve, and evaluate designs. Students observe and write a report on findings. A leveled text and writing prompts round out this jammed packed physical science set! Next Generation Science Standard Alignment: 2-PS1-3
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1st - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, 2-PS1-3
Also included in: STEM Activities STEM Challenges
Design A Haunted House Hotel | Halloween Project-Based Learning Activity K-2
Witches, ghosts, and vampires need a place to stay! This Halloween have students plan, design, and create their own Haunted House Hotel in an October project-based learning activity tailored for kindergarten through second grade. Explore real-life connections, entrepreneurship, and map-making skills! This resource engages the whole brain while nurturing critical thinking, creativity, and teamwork with a spook-tacular theme!This resource is also part of an Integrated Project-Based Learning (PBL)
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K - 2nd
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Design A Recycling Center! | Virtual Earth Day Field Trip & PBL Activity
Elevate your Earth Day with this K-3 project-based learning activity! See the inside of a recycling center with a virtual field trip! Students learn about the recycling process beyond the bin. They will gain an understanding of each step while envisioning their own facility designs. Following the virtual tour, students engage in hands-on learning by applying their knowledge to obtain a construction permit and embark on designing their own recycling centers. This is lesson 2 in Recycling Heroes:
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K - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-ESS3-3
Also included in: Recycling Heroes! Earth Day Science & Writing PBL K-2 Lesson Bundle
Canadian Geography Bundle - Cities, Provinces & Territories Research Templates
The resources in this bundle include a range of Geograhy resources about Canada. They include research page templates about Canadian provinces and territories, and research page templates about Canadian cities and towns. They are fun, no prep and educational resources. Click on the Preview button above to take a closer look at everything included! Products inluded in this bundleCanadian Cities and Towns Research Project Pages | Canadian GeographyCanadian Provinces and Territories Research Projec
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1st - 3rd
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Be A Community Superhero - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:How can we be heroes in our community?Description:In this project, students practice opinion and persuasive writing as they explore the concept of heroes. Through reading and interviewing, students investigate local and historical heroes and conduct an in-depth study on one specific person. Finally, students vote for and take on a service learning project in order to become community heroes themselves. A community exhibition at the end of the project allows students to practice
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K - 2nd
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Inquiry Research in the Library - No Prep "I Wonder" Questioning
Looking for end of year no prep activities? Have you noticed your students struggling to write questions during the inquiry research process? Inquiry based research is an important part of a strong future ready library program and in meeting the new AASL standards.This complete introduction to writing quality questions will prepare your primary students for inquiry based research. Students will learn the definition of inquiry, identify the three features of a question, learn to use I Wonder W
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K - 3rd
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Genius Hour: A Super Adventure in Project Based Learning
This packet includes lots of activities to help you structure your Genius Hour or to help you get started on project-based learning activities.
This is what you'll receive with this packet:
Parent Letter
Parent Involvement/Student Homework Page
Learning Log
Inquiry Web
Driving Question Web
Conference Log
Cite Your Sources Activity
Partner Project Brainstorm
Presentation Outline
Presentation Plan
Record Your Plan Page
Research Robots Activity
Teacher Tracker
Detailed Directions for what to do w
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1st - 5th
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Valentine's Day Makerspace Project Based Learning and Enrichment Task Cards
These Valentine's Day themed project-based learning and enrichment activities put ownership of learning into your student's hands and enrich your students through independent work study, allowing you to focus on providing instruction and support to your students who need to work individually or in small group. What’s Included:These ten activities were created around Literacy, Math, STEM, Research and Art standards. They come in both color and black and white copies, so you can chose which you’d
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1st - 4th
Design A Pumpkin Patch | K-2 Project-Based Learning Activity for Fall & October
This October have Students design and create their very own pumpkin patch in this immersive project-based learning activity tailored for kindergarten through second-grade students. Explore real-life connections! This resource engages the whole brain while nurturing critical thinking, creativity, and teamwork. A perfect companion activity for your next pumpkin study or field trip!Product Features:4 Interactive Planning Pages: Our meticulously crafted planning pages guide students through brainsto
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K - 2nd
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Magic Tree House Activities Pirates Past Noon
Are you looking for help in teaching Pirates Past Noon from The Magic Tree House series? This comprehensive bundle will make teaching the book easy for you and fun for your students. Don't travel a swashbuckling adventure without this colorful literary unit to guide you with questions and activities to go along with Mary Pope Osborne's The Magic Treehouse adventure, Pirates Past Noon. I've even included enough fun transitions to keep attention without losing class time with too much splash. So c
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K - 2nd
Insects Galore! PBL for the Primary Classroom
Are you looking for authentic Project Based Learning experiences for your second or third graders? This unit will engage and challenge your little learners to collaborate and invent a brand new species of insect!
Included in this file:
Detailed plans for 4 weeks of instruction
Research journal for students
Reflection journal and rubrics for students
Vocabulary cards
Anchor Chart Headers
Photographs from actual classrooms for examples
This unit will help take the guess work and headache out o
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1st - 3rd
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Canadian Capital Cities & Towns Research Project Pages - Canada Geography
These Canadian city research project pages help students learn about capital cities in Canadian provinces and territories. They record the cities' population, province, fun facts, tourist attractions and plot the city on the country map. Students can also use an untitled page to research ANY town or city in Canada. These pages also help children read, summarise and present information gained from reading about Canadian Provinces and Territories.Click on the Preview button above to take a closer
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1st - 3rd
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Helping the Homeless
This document includes a presentation as well as resources for a week's unit on how to help the homeless. Students will research ways to help the homeless, write letters to the homeless, and have a class fundraiser to collect money to make goodie bags for the homeless.Included:Helping the Homeless presentationStudent friendly note-taking sheet and websitesLetter templatesGoodie bag item ideasTally chart/pictograph template
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1st - 5th
USA Capital Cities and Towns Research Pages - Geography Report Worksheets
These USA city research project pages help students learn about capital cities in USA states and territories. They record the cities' population, province, fun facts, tourist attractions and plot the city on the country map. Students can also use an untitled page to research ANY town or city in the USA. These pages also help children read, summarise and present information gained from reading about USA States.Click on the Preview button above to take a closer look at everything included!This res
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1st - 3rd
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Black History Month Project Grid!
Get your students EXCITED about Black History Month, by allowing them to pick their project to explore!
This project allows for students to explore Black poets, activists, leaders in their community, artists, inventors, and important people from the Harlem Renaissance.
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-Generic Information Sheet to send home (input your own due dates)
Check out the full version for complete rubrics!
Each project is graded out of 100 points.
Grades:
1st - 8th
Exploring Animal Communities - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:What is a community? How do inhabitants adapt and interact within a community?Description:In this inquiry based Project, students work together to define the word "community" and investigate one animal community and its inhabitants. Reading and writing informational text becomes purposeful as students share their findings with the class by creating an informational poster to present to the rest of the class about their animal community. What's Included with this Project:NextLess
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K - 2nd
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Animal Senses: Classroom and On-Site Lessons (Ages 3-12, NGSS & CC)
This product from Explore Science and the Santa Barbara Zoo offers 5 lessons, specifically designed for teachers seeking curriculum that integrates the classroom and a field trip. In addition to flexible on-site activities, Animal Senses also contains interactive pre- and post- field trip lessons for classroom use.
All activities are aligned to NGSS* and CC standards, spanning from ages 3-12. Download includes a master materials list, activity-specific standards, procedures, and curriculum int
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PreK - 6th
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Farmyard Animals - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:Why are farms important around the world?Description:This project introduces a wide range of farm animals and is ideal for springtime with young children. Students will understand how farms create food for us to eat and clothes for us to wear as well as naming different animals and their babies.Students complete a range of activities that include whole class discussions, group and individual work, critical thinking, spelling and singing. At the end the children will have a portf
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K - 2nd
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