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Kindergarten critical thinking physical science resources for Microsoft Word
Making Inferences: Pixar Short Film For the Birds
After watching Pixar's short film: For the Birds, students will infer by answering three questions and providing clues that lead to their inference.
Grades:
K - 10th
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Behavior Reflection Sheet
We use this in our first grade class to help students understand the consequences of their actions. They "Stop and Reflect" in order to make a better choice the next time.
*I have recently updated the document to include a middle grade version for 3-5 with more grade appropriate wording and formatting!
After it is completed, fold in half to keep private. The student signs it, the teacher signs it, then it goes home for the parent to sign.
It has helped our parent communication immensely to
Grades:
PreK - 5th
Primary GATE with Caldecott -- "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!" Mo Willems
Let’s have some fun along with the Pigeon and expand DOK along the way! This lesson will lead your primary GATE students through four challenging activities, culminating in an artistic response showing why they “never get to do anything!” either.
Gifted and talented learners carry similar characteristics throughout their lives—even as kindergarten and first graders. One common characteristic of gifted learners is a strong sense of justice. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus gives us a good o
Grades:
K - 3rd
Making Inferences: Pixar Short Film Partly Cloudy
After watching Pixar's short film: Partly Cloudy, students will infer by answering four questions and providing clues that lead to their inference.
Grades:
K - 6th
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Making Inferences: Pixar Short Film Lifted
After watching Pixar's short film: Lifted, students will infer by answering two questions and providing clues that lead to their inference.
Grades:
K - 6th
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Making Inferences: Pixar Short Film One Man Band
After watching Pixar's short film: One Man Band, students will infer by answering three questions and providing clues that lead to their inference.
Grades:
K - 8th
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Primary GATE with Caldecott COLLECTION - 180 pages - 7 Books!
Your primary kids will love these lessons! You save a bundle: 33% off individual purchases!
I teach 30-45 minute groups once a week of 1st and 2nd graders all year, and this collection is more than enough to get me through an entire school year of groups. I can’t absolutely guarantee it will do the same for you, but it’s going to be very close if it doesn’t . . .
You’ll see best practices in gifted education throughout. You’ll see many graphic organizers, age-appropriate and challenging cr
Grades:
K - 3rd
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How Do We Use Natural Resources?
After a teaching about four of the basic natural resources: sand, water, rocks, and soil; students can show what they know with this sort.
Glue the headings across the top of the page, then have students places the products each resource can make below the heading.
I have also made a Promethean flipchart that leads up to this assessment. Message me and I'll e-mail it to you for free!
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K - 3rd
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12 Days of Christmas Health-Staying Healthy and Safe During the Holidays
This fun lesson gives students information on health and safety during the holidays, presented in the "12 Days of Christmas" theme. There are fun activities and coloring pages. Clip art, printables, no prep needed. CDC HEALTH STANDARD SEVEN: Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health enhancing behaviors and to avoid or reduce health risksTopics covered are; Wash your hands oftenCough or sneeze into your elbow Take along a buddy for safety while outside playing in the cold weather
Grades:
K - 5th
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Picture Sort for Science Unit on Matter
This file contains pictures of 20 everyday items that are solids, liquids, and gases. This sort can be printed once and used as an interactive sort into solid, liquid, and gas categories. It can also be used as an assessment (students each receive a copy, cut out each item, and sort independently). This file includes two pages: one with solid, liquid, and gas labels (I have students glue one of each label onto the short end of a 12x18" sheet of construction paper), and the other with the objects
Grades:
K - 2nd
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Test Taking Strategies / Follow Directions Prank/Fake Quiz
This quiz is a fun and funny way to get students to realize they need to pay attention to directions.
There is a list of numerous steps to complete, which can actually be fun for students. HOWEVER, the first step says to "read all directions before continuing" and the last step says "only do..." so most students mess this up and do all the steps as they go along. Then you can give them the lesson at the end :)
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Grades:
PreK - 12th
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Oil and Water Science Experiment
I did this with my students today. I saved up a bunch of water bottles and the students watched as I put it together. All you do is add some water, oil and food coloring. I put a little super glue on the lids so my behavior babies wouldn't have the chance to make a mess.
I teach kindergarten, so I used the younger version of the papers I created. I first let them explore with the bottles, tilt them, move them, give them a little shake. Then I had them get our their science journals. We added t
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PreK - 5th, Staff
Kindergarten Common Core & Next Generation Science NGSS Lessons: Full Curriculum
This fun curriculum effectively teaches every Kindergarten Next Generation Science Standard in an engaging way while integrating a common core standard into each lesson. There are 72 lessons provided (approximately 2 per week for an entire school year).
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Engaging-Lessons-By-Frank
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Grades:
K
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KEVA Planks STEM Activities
This is a set of 4 different activities that your class can do in groups with KEVA planks, KEVA balls (or ping pong balls), and connectors. Each page is set to print just a couple times so you have one for each group. 4 activities are Motion, Inclined Plane, Dominoes, and Wall Bounce.
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K - 5th
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Primary GATE with Caldecott -- "Two Bad Ants" by Chris Van Allsburg
If you're like me, you can't easily find activities designed for primary grade gifted learners. This one hour activity, however, is specifically designed for Chris Van Allsburg’s "Two Bad Ants" and primary gifted and talented students—nurturing talent for both verbal and nonverbal high ability students.
In this activity, students use critical thinking and creative perspective-taking to create a “mystery drawing” similar to the close-ups in "Two Bad Ants."
In an interactive follow-up, classma
Grades:
K - 2nd
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IQ Test (teaching students to follow directions)
This is a fake test that simply asks students to read ALL questions before answering anything. The final question asks them to turn in the paper for 10 extra credit points if there is no writing or erase marks on the paper. There are questions such as: "write your middle name", or "solve for X when 4 - X = 2". Can be easily modified for any grade level. It is a fantastic way to remind students of the importance of following directions. Works for high schoolers and adults, too!I remember my
Grades:
K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Things That Go Together Cards
10 matching card pairs (20 cards) of pictures that 'Go Together.' This set includes a control chart for self checking. This is great for a Montessori 3-6 year old primary or preschool age classroom. You could print this on card stock paper, laminate it and it would be ready to go on your classroom shelf.
Grades:
PreK - K
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Monkey Hear, Monkey Do! A Hear! Think! Do! Auditory Charades Lesson
Here's the latest in the Hear! Think! Do! Series. In Monkey Hear, Monkey Do!, Students get the chance to practice their listening skills in a fun and challenging way. Kids must listen carefully as a pose is described for them in detail. Children must then demonstrate their auditory abilities as they pose their own body exactly as described. Large, full-page cards of each pose give students a chance to self-check and self-correct, if necessary. Delightful and simple stick figures make that s
Grades:
PreK - 1st
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Pirate Island: A Hear! Think! Do! FREE Listening and Moving Activity!
Are your students ready to get moving? Do they need to enhance their listening and recall skills? Pirate Island is the first in the Hear! Think! Do! Series, all of which build auditory skills and teach kids to listen, make connections, and get moving in fun ways!
Pirate Island is an engaging activity that helps children of all ages practice hearing a verbal cue and recalling an action associated with that cue. You will love watching your children listen and recalling--and they'll love reme
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PreK - 5th
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Student Achievement Award Certificates Editable and Printable
Student recognition is a snap with editable, printable certificates. These certificates give teachers flexibility to customize each certificate with student names suing their own fonts! Give those kiddos a high-5 and a certificate to show mom and dad when they earn 100% on a test. Just click in the text box where it says TYPE NAME HERE, then print. Piece of cake!Included are 9 certificates:HealthHistorySpellingScienceMathLanguage Arts3 blank to customize (enter subject the same way name is
Grades:
PreK - 6th
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Primary GATE -- AIR! Active, Creative, Academic, and Hands-on!
I am always trying to figure out what to do with my little primary groups, and this unit was a definite hit with my kindergartners. It would work well with 1st grade too or the regular 2nd grade classroom. The full unit contains more than 2 hours of contact time.
It’s active, fun, and challenging for these little ones and seemed to have the right combination of “get up and move,” imagination, creativity, and “making” along with academic tasks.
We learn about four important properties of air
Grades:
K - 2nd
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Simple Machine Cut and Sort
A fun assessment to see if students understand what images are examples of simple machines (pulleys, ramps/inclined planes, screws, levers and wedges.)
Have students cut out the dotted lines surrounding the pictures and then glue each picture under the correct simple machine.
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Grades:
K - 2nd
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Asking Questions and Critical Thinking - Forming Inquiry / Research Questions
Help your students learn how to identify and ask higher-order thinking inquiry questions in class (science as well as other subject areas) and in life in general because this type of deep thinking promotes a richer classroom environment, critical thinking skills, and lifelong learning!
Getting students to think deeply about what they want to know and generating higher-order inquiry questions is a skill that often, in my experience, needs to be explicitly taught in order the help students from
Grades:
PreK - 9th, Staff
Primary GATE with Caldecott -- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Come along for a challenging lesson and fun extensions with Ezra Jack Keats’s 1963 Caldecott winner, The Snowy Day.
I use this lesson with my 1st grade advanced readers. 2nd and 3rd graders should be right on target as well. Got a gifted kindergarten group? This will be an especially tough challenge for them but promises to stretch kids’ imagination and critical thinking skills across 4+ grade levels.
Pre-reading activities warm up your students for critical thinking questions as we “count
Grades:
K - 3rd
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