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High school critical thinking algebra resources for Microsoft Word
Combining Like Terms with Distributive Property - Scavenger Hunt
This scavenger hunt allows students to practice with combining like terms and the distributive property. There are 12 cards, a recording sheet for students and an answer key for teachers. Enjoy! **No integers!**
Item also available in my Math Scavenger Hunt - Bundle and Math Scavenger Hunts (Most Popular)
Here’s how to play:
- Post the cards all over your room.
- Split students up into groups (I typically do pairs, depending on class size).
- Have students start at any one of the cards. The ca
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Computer Science Webquest: 8 Ways Computer Technology Solves Real Problems
From artificial intelligence to artificial limbs, computer science is changing lives, and the way we work and find solutions to problems. These 8 (actually 10 with an added nonprofit example!) scenarios present problems in life (such as car safety, and graffiti), ask students to think and reflect quietly about these problems cause damage and how computers might solve them, and then show cutting edge videos from the past 3 years that employ solutions using computers and automation. Updated for 2
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6th - 9th
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TED Talk Worksheet
Use this worksheet as a general guide for any TED Talk! This worksheet asks students to identify the speaker's claim/thesis and support for it. Students then reflect on the information shared in the talk.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Infographic Creation Mini Unit & Assignment
Infographics are great tools to get students processing and contextualizing the information that they research while allowing them to creatively convey what they’ve learned. This makes them perfect for any class! This assignment was designed to teach students about the core concepts of infographic texts, how to make the basic visualizations (graphs, flow/pie charts, tables, titles, etc.) that comprise them, and how to incorporate them all together into a layout that conveys information for a sin
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Algebra 1 End of the Year Project
This is a great project idea to connect topics in Algebra 1 with the real world. In the past, I have used this project as something to be presented after End of Course Exams. The students will take an Algebra 1 topic of their choice and relate to something in the real world. I have had students come back with projects on the following: Reading Music (functions with scales); Catering (conversions with recipes); Real Estate (multiple topics); Statistics of various activities or surveys (Graphs
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8th - 10th
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Math Project-Create Own Dream Home-Blueprints and Floor Plan (perimeter & area)
Create blueprints and/or floor plans for your own dream home!!
Your little architects will love dreaming big with this project. Using their imaginations and graph paper, they will create their own blueprints.They will be learning area, measurement and perfecting those problem solving and critical thinking skills. The bonus is they won't even know it because they will be having fun.
This project is very "real life" oriented.
For the younger grades this would be better for the GT students. Or
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
Inquiry Based Learning Project: VAPING
An Inquiry Based Learning Project your students are going to love!Vaping has become more and more common over that past decade, but how (un)healthy is it really for us? Students are given a general overview of how inquiry projects work, and are then set loose to dive into an authentic research process. At the end, they are given the option of presenting in one of four different modes: A presentation, a podcast, a documentary film, or an essay. This Package Includes:An Introduction to VapingAn Ov
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Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in:Â THE HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASS BUNDLE
Informational Text Lesson on Hot Topics: Internet Safety, Woes of the Web
This is a set questions paired with two articles that pose the essential question: Do you know what your digital footprint looks like? The articles catch students' attention immediately, and spark some serious discussion. Not only will students be engaged throughout this mini unit, but also they will be practicing key ELA skills. Student Experience: This lesson provides a close reading guide with questions for each article and then provides and argumentative prompt to pull both of them togeth
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in:Â Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #1
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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Inquiry Based Learning Project: ENERGY DRINKS
An Inquiry Based Learning Project your students are going to love!Energy Drinks are one of the fastest growing sections of the food industry, and a growing issue in high schools everywhere (over 40% of students admit to having had one in the last three months!). But what exactly are they at risk of? Are energy drinks better than drinking coffee or a can of soda? Are they ok to have on occasion?Our students should know the truth about the drinks they're consuming and their affects, but more impor
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â THE HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASS BUNDLE
2024 March Mathness Madness NCAA Basketball Probability and Statistics Lesson
Every year I get my students excited about the NCAA Men's Basketball March Madness Tournament. I see articles written year after year from statisticians, sports journalist, celebrities, etc. about predicting the perfect bracket. Regardless that most have accepted it is nearly impossible, it has not deterred these enthusiast from finding an algorithm or a machine that can predict the outcomes.This packet guides students through 1) An explanation of what March Madness is all about2) A reading abou
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Grades:
4th - 12th
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Algebra 1 End-of-Year Creature Project
The Creature Project is a great end-of-year project for connecting content that was covered all year in Algebra 1. It requires students to graph several functions as well as restrict boundaries for domain and range. See examples attached.
Solving Equations Calendar Project
Students will create and solve equations to represent dates on a calendar month using one step equations, two step equations, equations with terms on both sides, combining like terms, and the distributive property. The answers to the equations should represent the dates on the calendar.
**Rubric for grading included!
Word document so you can easily change any formatting to fit your individual classroom.
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6th - 12th
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Life During the Dust Bowl: A Gallery Walk Exercise
Engage your students in developing historical empathy regarding the experience of an individual living through the Dust Bowl with the use of historical photographs. Using a gallery walk format, students will examine the impact of the Dust Bowl and the experience of migrant families. Activity includes a pre-gallery walk activity and exit ticket, which involves students using what they learned to imagine that they are writing to a family member about their experience living during the Dust Bowl. T
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Grades:
8th - 11th
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Also included in:Â US History Gallery Walk Activity Bundle
High School IEP Math Goal Bank - Algebra
This IEP goal bank was created to assist special education teachers with the task of writing standards-based IEP goals in math. After spending countless hours developing IEP goals myself and really having to think through how to best individualize goals and objectives for my own students, I wanted to share this resource to help other special education teachers gain back some of their time.This goal bank includes the following:An introduction and guide that explains how to use the document.Each s
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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The Critical Thinking Toolkit: DESIGN SPRINT (Design Thinking Activity)
Give your classes the critical thinking tools and frameworks they need to think through big, complicated issues, as well as training them to reflect on their own thinking patterns and behaviours!Design Sprints are creative problem-solving tools for moving your student’s thinking forward a lot in a small amount of time (1-2 hours) by taking them through a series of timed brainstorming, feedback, and iteration sessions. The logic behind them is that it’s better to test and figure out all the thing
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â THE CRITICAL THINKING BUNDLE
Algebra 1 - Online Practice & Homework Using Microsoft Forms - Digital Learning
#DigitalLearning #RemoteLearningThis is an incredible, completely EDITABLE compilation of 72 practice/homework assignments created in Microsoft Forms. Is it intended for teachers and students who are familiar and currently use Microsoft Teams and Forms for instructional purposes. Are you a Google user? Do you and your students use Google Classroom? The proper version for you would be in this format: Algebra 1 Google Forms for the Entire School YearThe resource you will receive is a Microsoft
Movie Questions- Freedom Writers
I typically do not watch movies in my classroom, but this movie is excellent when paired with our required reading of Nikki Grime's Bronx Masquerade. There are three days of watching and responding. The movie times for each day is located on the top of the pages that correspond to the showing of the DVD.
If you are not reading the paired book, you may make any changes needed.
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10th - 12th
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Argumentation/C.E.R. writing- Murder Mystery #2 - Improve student argumentation!
This is a follow up lesson to the Slip or Trip Murder Mystery! I use this lesson to re-teach my students understand Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning in writing later on in the school year. I've also used it as an extension activity for students that need to be challenged as this one is a bit more challenging than Slip or Trip. Cross-curricular - can be used in science and social studies classes as well.Included with purchase:- Copy of crime scene photo with story and discussion questions for group
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5th - 12th
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Heroes vs. Villains Argument Claim Counterclaim Counterargument Activity
Students use a graphic organizer to practice creating argumentative claims, counterclaims, and counterarguments using heroes and villains of their choice from fairy tales, movies, comic strips, etc.
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6th - 9th
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Algebra / 8th Grade Math Laws of Exponents Quiz or Test
This is a 40 questions quiz or test that will evaluate the student's ability to follow the laws of exponents. There are separate sections for
* Product and Quotient rules
* Power rule
* Negative exponents
As well as a combined section where the student will need to do multiply laws in the same problem.
This is done in Word so you are free to edit!
There is no answer key with this item.
Grades:
8th - 9th
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End of Year Project
This EIGHT PROJECT BUNDLE (!!!!!) will keep your Algebra 1, Geometry, or Algebra 2 students busy for the last 1 - 3 weeks of school doing either independent or group projects, with or without access to technology. Projects include rubrics and grading criteria for the most part, although I sometimes just grade this with a daily participation grade rather than for correctness. Project topics include:
- Area and Perimeter -- Design Your Own Playground!
- Linear Modeling -- Human Height and Bone Le
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Grades:
8th - 12th
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Math Skills Pre-Assessment for English Language Learners
This math skills pre-assessment (which was updated in March 2022) was created for newly arrived English Language Learner students so that teachers could identify any major gaps in mathematical understanding before heading straight into the grade level math content. This 100 question assessment is specifically created for students with limited English proficiency as it limits the linguistic demands that are often found in many other math assessments and contains a sample question for each section
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Grades:
4th - 12th
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Inquiry Based Learning Project: CLIMATE CHANGE
An Inquiry Based Learning Project your students are going to love!Climate change has been a topic of discussion and debate, under various titles, for many decades. With an increase in droughts and flooding, ecologically forced human migration, and the melting of ice sheets globally, climate change is obviously a major issue. But if we know it's a problem, why is so hard to solve?! With the ability to look at climate change scientifically, politically, socially, economically, or any combination o
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in:Â THE INQUIRY BASED LEARNING RESEARCH BUNDLE
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