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4th grade critical thinking handouts
Finish the Drawing/Early Finisher/Time Filler/Creativity
This "Finish the drawing" activity is the perfect way for your students to express their creativity! I love using this as a time filler, fun Friday, etc.! It is so interesting to see all of the different ways they can finish the picture.This set includes 43 pages.
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PreK - 6th
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39 Digital Moveable Tangram Puzzle Activities STEM Team Building Math
Have fun with your students while they solve these Tangram Puzzle Activities! This set of puzzles can be used in Google Slides or it can be downloaded and printed on paper. You choose! Great for developing critical thinking skills and team building activities!Great for distance learning!Included is a Google Slide version of the Following:39 Digital interactive Moveable Tangram Puzzles and their answers as well as a printable version. Your students will be able to move the tangrams into posit
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Plot Diagram of a Story: Model + Template
Use the MODEL as a resource to provide for teaching students who are discussing a fictional text. This should support their ability to analyze the development of the conflict, identify the climax and its importance to the story, and how this provides the impetus for the final resolution. Use the provided TEMPLATE to create continuity within instruction and provide to use with each fictional text you read. You can also use the Color Coding of the boxes to correlate within PPTs, mini-lessons, tas
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3rd - 12th
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Weekly Brain Teasers to Improve Critical & Creative Thinking Skills
These weekly brain teasers are designed to help improve students’ critical and creative thinking skills. Use these weekly brain teasers
as morning work, early finisher activities, centers, homework, or as extra credit. Students of all learning styles will love this resource,
and their problem-solving abilities will improve as they learn to think more critically.
There are 36 weeks of brain teasers to be used all year long. There are four student pages included that give definitions and examp
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4th - 8th
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Reading Level Guide for Parents - Bundle of Levels A - Z
Encourage reading every night by sending this guide home to parents throughout the school year. Parents want to help their students, but many don't know the things to say and ask their child throughout reading time! This handout serves as an outline of what some effective, higher - order prompts might look like. All of the prompts are based off my experience teaching reading skills and behaviors to students (and explaining these expectations to parents) and the Fountas & Pinnell Continuum of
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K - 5th
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DOK | Webb's Depth of Knowledge | Posters | Question Stems
Rigor, Rigor, All Around!Use these DOK Posters to help your students understand the 4 levels of Webb's Depth of Knowledge.Each poster has two sections:• One section that states "Thinking requires you to... (draw, identify, conclude, critique, etc...)" • The other section gives students examples of question stems for that DOK level.This product contains posters for a bulletin board and half sheet versions that you can use to make a booklet. Both the posters and booklet versions come in full colo
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Stone Soup Folktale Handouts
I read the folktale "Stone Soup" aloud to my students, focusing on the fact that the soup made the entire town happy at the end. I asked questions to make sure that the students have understood the book and its message.This was my absolute favorite folktale when I was younger, and that is why I wanted to create a fun, bold handout to go along with my lesson on folktales.How I used handout 1: "Elements of a Folktale" The teacher should model how to use the Stone Soup graphic organizer. The studen
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Grades:
K - 5th
Dictionary Skills Context Clues STAAR prep TEK 6.2E Lesson 1
Do your students struggle with dictionary standards involving words with multiple meanings? This dictionary-based practice set allows students to practice using context clues and inferencing to decide which definition is being used within a passage. This is oftentimes seen on STAAR / state testing and is a difficult concept for students to master!This resource includes:✔️ 6 Short reading passages featuring 1-2 underlined vocabulary words✔️ 10 mock dictionary excerpts, showing multiple definition
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4th - 7th
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Health - Substance Use & Abuse - Smoking, Drugs, Drinking, Alcohol PDF 70 Pages
NO PREP. Substance Abuse - Health Education. 70 Pages. This PDF file includes a variety of pages for the students to read and complete in Health Education. The topics covered are smoking and alcohol. Included in the file are:1) Smoking - short term effects of smoking.2) Smoking - long term effects of smoking3) What is in a cigarette.4) A word search5) A real life situation/problem for the student to read, discuss, and problem solve surrounding smoking.6) Influences of smoking - Media, family, pe
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3rd - 6th
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Socratic Seminars and Philosophical Chairs
Teaching kids to be more philosophic helps them acquire new ways of expressing themselves and innovative ways of thinking. It pushes students to be more logical, think critically, connect ideas, and to be more accepting of opposing views.Through the use of Socractic Seminars and Philosophical Chairs, you can bring philosophy into your classroom and give your students the opportunity to formulate questions, reason with peers, develop arguments, and contribute to constructive conversations.I trie
Grades:
1st - 5th
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Movie Questions ANSWERS | MOVIE GUIDE Worksheet
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind movie questions (released 2019) help keep students engaged throughout the film by providing 27 questions for them to answer to keep them on track. The The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind movie guide comes with a key that has suggested answers provided at the end.The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind worksheet follows along as a 13-year-old boy is thrown out of the school he loves when his family can no pay this bill so he sneaks into the library and learns how to build a windm
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4th - 12th
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May Puzzles Activity Packet End of the Year Activities During Testing Week
Are you looking for fun puzzle activities for the month of May? This easy-to-use End of the Year and May flower-themed packet is a great resource to have on hand anytime during the month of May, during testing week, or the end of the school year. Enhance critical thinking with fun puzzles and mazes: Keep your students engaged this May with these fun worksheets which will help them to enhance their critical thinking. With a range of exciting activities like mazes and riddles, your students will b
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3rd - 5th
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CNN 10 Digital and Print
Use CNN 10 videos to introduce students to current events and spark conversation and questions about the world they live in. Includes: -- Worksheet Print -- Digital Worksheet / Google Classroom Ready
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4th - 12th
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End of Year Logic Puzzles, Differentiated Levels
These 8 End of Year themed logic puzzles are great activities to fill the time as the year winds down, but still engage students in critical thinking. The 4 different levels are great for students of different grades and/or abilities. (grade levels indicated are suggestions as you know your students' abilities best). Answer keys included.Perfect for group activities, early finishers, those who crave extra challenges, GATE students, substitutes, etc. These grid logic puzzles are ready to go--just
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Growth Mindset lessons using The Dot, Ish, and Sky Color by Peter H. Reynolds
When you are teaching students about growth mindset, I believe it is vital to use stories they can relate to. If they are seeing other characters showing both a growth mindset and a fixed mindset, they will be more likely to understand what each look like.
This is a packet of Growth Mindset lessons which use the three books from Peter H. Reynolds collectively called the Creatrilogy. You will need to purchase these books or be able to borrow them to teach these lessons. Each book has wonderful
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K - 5th
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FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS 1 - No Prep - Multistep - Occupational Therapy -
Are you looking for NO PREP printable activities that address:critical thinkingproblem solvingfollowing directionsorganizational skills handwritingWell here it is!! This packet has ten activity sheets that require your student to read and follow the directions to complete a picture. Students will have to use critical thinking to figure out how to complete each activity. It's a fun challenge for students that will keep them engaged for the entire session!This activity packet is intended for a va
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1st - 4th
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Also included in: Worksheet Printable BUNDLE 1- HANDWRITING - Occupational Therapy
Go Math! 3rd grade Chapter 12 Resource Kit for TWO-DIMENSIONAL SHAPES!
In this packet you will find Vocabulary Cards, Pretests, and Journal entries per section for chapter 12 in the GO Math! Series for Grade 3!
Two-Dimensional Shapes
In this Grade 3 Go Math! Chapter 12 Resource Kit you will find:
* A genuine resource kit to help your students master two-dimensional shapes
* Everything is aligned to common core standards
* Vocabulary cards to use on bulletin boards or a focus wall
* A Pretest per chapter to assess students before beginning the chapter. It could al
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2nd - 4th
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STEM Emergency Sub Plans | 5 Day STEAM Sub Plans Using Just Paper
Do you struggle leaving engaging lessons for your STEM class when you have a substitute teacher? This set of 5 day emergency plans that only uses paper is your answer! Print and go plans for elementary students will make taking a day so much easier. This resource has 5 different design challenges that need only paper to complete. Each child will have their own engineering packet that will walk them through the design process. Plus, you will receive step-by-step teacher directions and templa
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1st - 5th
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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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Also included in: STEM Emergency Sub Plans Bundle: 5-Day STEAM Sub Plans for Elementary
Connections for Kids (based on the New York Times game)
Connections is a new game featured daily on The New York Times. This version is created based on the NYT game for students of all ages to enjoy!How to Play: Categorize four groups with four words in each group based on one common theme. Each word can only be used once! Included: 12 Printable Connections gamesAn answer key for each gameWhen to use this Resource:Connections can be a fun and engaging worksheet that students can use throughout the day. I would recommend using it during any of the
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2nd - 7th
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Westward Expansion: Homestead Act of 1862 and Native Americans
Students will read and answer text dependent questions how the Homestead Act of 1862 and how westward expansion impacted the settlers and the Native Americans. They will have a variety of activities involving vocabulary activities, primary source analysis, writing prompts, and informational text to evaluate the struggles and impact of westward expansion.
Grades:
4th - 8th
Personal Space Camp Activities
I created this resource to supplement the book "Personal Space Camp", written by Julia Cook. However, it can be used with or without the book. If you don't have the book you might want to have some discussions about personal space before using the activities.This resource includes:- Personal Space vs. Bubble Buster Large Sorting Activity with 30 different scenarios- Personal Space vs. Bubble Buster Cut and Paste Activity- Instructions for Personal Space Demonstration (game with movement)- Inst
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K - 5th
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Close Readings: 20 Art Literacy Activities for Grades 3-12 - Includes Worksheets
These "close readings" are the perfect way to use visual art to incorporate and build literacy into your art curriculum. Close reading is the art of looking at a specific aspect of a thing in order to get a better sense of the whole. Close readings also provide students the opportunity to build on their critical thinking skills, interpret art, make connections and apply knowledge learned to their art making. This package includes 20 printable worksheets each with a painting or sculpture created
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3rd - 12th
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World War II: War's End, Germany Surrenders, Manhattan Project, Atomic Bombs
Students will learn about Germany's surrender and the splitting of Berlin. They will read about Japan's refusal to surrender, the Manhattan Project, and the Atom Bombs. There are critical thinking questions and photos to analyze.
Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in: World War II Bundle
Think Outside The Box - Drawing Prompts to Promote Creative Thinking
Think Outside the Box Drawing PromptsThe 'Think Outside The Box' booklet includes 30 drawing prompts to promote student's creative thinking skills. This super engaging activity is perfect for morning work, early finishers, problem solving tasks and more! Through these printable prompts, students are able to strengthen their creative thinking skills, develop flexible thinking, strengthen their ability to see and understand from different perspectives, celebrate their ideas and appreciate the idea
Grades:
K - 8th
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