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High school critical thinking geometry resources for Microsoft Word
Geometry Project - Geometry Town
Students will create a town map made of different geometric figures. They will demonstrate their knowledge of parallel and perpendicular lines, acute and obtuse angles, geometric shapes as well as many other geometric concepts through this creative and fun project.
This project can be adapted to higher level geometry courses and high school classes. You can add parameters to the geometric shaped buildings (ex. must label the dimensions of the building given a certain area or perimeter).
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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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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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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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.
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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
Graphing and Writing Equations of Circles: Cell Phone Towers Task
This lesson plan and activity were created to allow students to explore a real life situation involving graphing circles. Students will get lots of practice writing equations for circles and graphing circles on a coordinate plane as well as using some problem solving skills to make their own decisions.A lesson plan with some estimates of time are included in the pages.Make sure students have graph paper that has at least 40 units total for the x-axis.Standard graph paper from the store normally
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9th - 11th
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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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8th - 11th
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Also included in:Â US History Gallery Walk Activity Bundle
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
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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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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8th - 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
Formula Sheet: Volume and Surface Area of 3D shapes! (Editable!)
Quick and easy formula reference sheet! These half sheets fit perfectly in binders, folders, notebooks, etc. for easy access. Completely customizable! Just download, edit if you wish, and print!This formula sheet includes volume and surface area formulas for rectangular prisms, cubes, cylinders, spheres, cones, and pyramids complete with pictures! Have a question? Send a message or leave a review!Thank you! ***Muggle Math***
Grades:
5th - 10th
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Inquiry Based Learning Project: ANXIETY
An Inquiry Based Learning Project your students are going to love!Anxiety is a growing issue in high schools everywhere, and our students need to know the warning signs, its affects, how to cope, and who they can talk to if they're going to be able to tackle it! In this project, 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
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in:Â THE HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASS BUNDLE
Brain Games from National Geographic: Worksheets (Easy Sub Plans!)
This document contains 3 separate worksheets (2 pages each) and matching answer keys to follow along with the three episodes in Season 1 of National Geographic's "Brain Games." Each episode is approximately 44 minutes long (DVDs available online or full episodes found on youtube or other video websites).
Episode 1 focuses on Optical Illusions & the 5 Senses.
Episode 2 takes a look at Attention.
Episode 3 focuses on Memory & Memorization Techniques.
Each worksheet has three parts:
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Deductive Reasoning Logic Puzzle
This is an investigative activity where students are given evidence (assumed true) and asked to fill in the missing information in a logic grid.
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Independent Classwork
Homework
Small Group Work
Problem of the Week
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1 Logic Puzzle Worksheet
1 Answer Key
Lesson Objectives:
Students will compare deductive and inductive arguments.
Students will construct deductive arguments.
Students will evaluate inductive reasoning.
There is a short prompt introducing the situation regarding 5 ne
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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Inferences, Evidence, Crime Scene Investigation
Students will find and record clues throughout 5 different stations that allow them to practice making inferences. This "real world" lesson asks students to become text detectives to find evidence that supports their inferences. Students must read through eye witness accounts, police reports, a media blast, observe a crime scene, and analyze some forensic evidence to collect information. At the end of the five stations, they must write up a police report. You will need to set up your crime s
Grades:
6th - 10th
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High School Math IEP Goal Bank - Geometry
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
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Murder Mystery Puzzle (Law of Syllogism and Detachment)
Help students improve their logic skills with these murder mystery puzzles. You get 5 different puzzles. Each person was questioned and give 3 statements. Only the murderer lies. Improve student's critical thinking while helping them to apply the Law of Syllogism and the Law of Detachment to combine statements. As a hint of where to start, look for statements that contradict! Answers are included!!
Instructions: Someone was murdered! Use the laws of logic to determine who was the murderer. All
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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