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Critical thinking science task cards
Science Unit Activities Solar System, Weather, Plants, Force and Motion, Light
Looking for a comprehensive collection of science lessons and activities that will engage and excite your third through fifth-grade students? Look no further than this GROWING elementary science units bundle!With a full year of lessons and activities, this bundle covers a range of topics, including the water cycle, plants, scientific method, weather, sound and light, human body systems, solar eclipses, and more! Plus, as this is a GROWING bundle, it will include future science units as they are
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3rd - 5th
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Place Value Task Cards Number Sense Logic Puzzles Enrichment Critical Thinking
Use these 24 Name that Number cards (print or digital) for added math enrichment! These rigorous task cards require students to use a variety of math skills including place value, rounding, addition, subtraction, multiplication, greater than/less than, and more, in order to solve the puzzles. They would make a great warm-up activity or would also be good for centers or partner work.Each card is numbered so students can easily track which cards they have completed. Students can record their answe
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4th - 6th
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2D Shape Pattern Block STEM Challenge Cards
The perfect addition to your morning STEM tubs, these challenge cards ask students to make a variety of different 2D shapes from pattern blocks. Ideal for building visual discrimination skills as children have to rotate and flip smaller shapes to create the new shape.Focus shapes included - triangle, square, rectangle, rhombus/diamond, hexagon, trapezoid. Perfect to use as an invitation to play in the Early Years, as math centers or even as a cross-curriculum literacy center for early readers to
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K - 3rd
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Cup Stacking Challenge Cards
Grab these Cup Stacking Challenge Cards for endless classroom fun and engagement.Indoor Recess? perfect!Relay Race in P.E.? you bet!S.T.E.M. Activity? for sure!Need to boost student problem solving? you know it!What's Included:• 50 Illustrated Challenge Cards• Interactive PDF Full Page CardsEXTRA: Valentine Heart Cup Stacking ChallengesHow To Use:These challenge cards can be used several different ways. Ultimately, use these cards in a way that works best in your classroom and for your students.
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K - 3rd
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Math Logic Puzzles Shapes - Early Finisher Activities - levels A,B,C BUNDLE
These pattern block math logic puzzles for kindergarten, first, and second grade make a great, NO PREP math center activity, morning work activity, or challenge math activity. These logic puzzles keep students highly-engaged while improving and developing their logic and visual discrimination skills. These brain teasers are a great way to teach your students to persevere through challenging tasks and help to develop their growth mindset. This bundle includes three different levels of math logic
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K - 2nd
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Food Chains & Food Webs Whodunnit Activity - Printable & Digital Game Options
Nothing like a good criminal investigation to liven up food chains and food webs! Based off my popular CSI projects, I have created Whodunnits? The Whodunnits plan to focus on single content topics as opposed to units and will focus more on skill building than application. Every day can't be a project day, so Whodunnits can be an engaging out-of-their-seat activity to practice important skills. In a Whodunnit, students will work in teams to solve 10 practice problems that increase in difficulty.
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: Biology Whodunnit Activity Bundle - Printable & Digital Game Options
Cell Organelles Card Sort Game
This printable or digital resource is a Cell Organelles Mix-n-Match Card Sort Game used to reinforce and review the structures found in plant and animal cells. The set includes organelles found in both plant and animal cells: Nucleus, cell membrane, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, mitochondria, ribosome, vacuole, cytoskeleton, centrioles, lysosome, peroxisome, cilia, flagella, cell wall, plastids, chloroplast, chromoplast, leucoplast, extracellular matrix (ECM), intercellular junctions
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7th - 10th
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MS-LS1-2
Inferencing Task Cards
Inferencing can be a difficult concept to teach, learn, and master. Our students often need additional support to fully understand this skill. This product contains various components to support your students' learning. Included in this product are 32 task cards containing short stories, 32 task cards containing pictures for inferencing, 1 visual support to help teach what inferencing is, and 2 graphic organizers that can be used with each task card. Each card contains questions that target infe
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3rd - 12th
Climate Change Causes and Effects: Stations
The Climate Change Carousel (task cards) is a great way to introduce your students to the causes, effects, and solutions of climate change. Students travel from station to station analyzing information, data and graphs relating to climate change and recording their ideas on the answer sheet provided (SEE PREVIEW). This set of 25 EDITABLE task cards covers: greenhouse gases, human population, deforestation, effects on human health, water, sea level, temperature, extreme weather, carbon tax,
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8th - 12th
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HS-LS2-7
, HS-ESS3-1
, HS-ESS3-5
LEGO Challenge Task Cards {Great for STEM or fun building!}
I am really excited to show you some cute, older-kid friendly LEGO Challenge Task Cards! These are bright, colorful, and can appeal to older students without looking too primary. Don’t’ have LEGOs? That’s okay! These can be used for any building materials you may have—unifix cubes, plastic Flake Discs (Amazon), Bunchems (Amazon or Target), Wiki Stix, pipe cleaners, play-dough, etc. Get those kids engineering and manipulating. They work great as an independent station for special education, a STE
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PreK - 8th
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Scientific Method Task Cards | Science Investigations Experiments Variables
If your students are like mine, they need extra help with science process skills like supporting claims, identifying variables, asking testable questions, and writing investigation procedures.This task cards set has 20 task cards that each have 5 questions about an investigation scenario (100 total questions).Skills Included:identify independent variablesidentify dependent variablesidentify constantsformulate hypothesescommunicate valid conclusionsunderstand repeated trials can increase the reli
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4th - 7th
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End of School Year Breakout - Last Day Escape Room - Activities Digital - Summer
A fantastic, fun end of the school year or last day of school activity to work on team building, perseverance, critical thinking, and using a Growth Mindset! Ideal for students grades 2 - 8.Recommended Use:Allow children to attempt the digital breakout challenge individually, in pairs, small teams, or as a whole class. Share the clues with your students, either by sharing the Google Slides of the clues with your students (two versions to choose from: with or without lock hints) or printing out h
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1st - 8th
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Circulatory System Exhibition Stations
Check out this set of human body systems exhibition stations- your students will love the "Circulatory Exhibition Lab"- exhibition style! Students can travel from station to station - OR- you can print smaller versions and have the students use the cards as independent centers. Their task is to analyze the cards in different ways and write the answers on the sheet provided (see preview). Inspired by the Bodies Exhibit, my exhibition labs always go above and beyond- exploring interesting facts, m
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7th - 11th
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Also included in: Human Body Systems Stations BUNDLE
Converting Measurements Task Cards
A set of 36 digital and printable task cards to engage your students as they learn to convert customary and metric measurements. measurements. These math task cards support CCS 5.MD.1 and perfect differentiation for CCS 4.MD.1 and review for other grade levels. What's included in this Converting Measurements Task Card Set?20 Customary Measurement Conversion Cards (Weight, Capacity, Length Measurement)16 Metric Measurement Conversion Cards (Weight, Capacity, Length Measurement)Student recording
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Geometry and Measurement Task Card Bundle
Scientific Method Task Cards
This set of 45 task cards is designed to teach, review, and reinforce the APPLICATION of the scientific method. Students will write hypotheses, identify independent and dependent variables, describe experimental and control groups, read tables and graphs, form conclusions, make predictions, and more. Choose to use the traditional printable version, or the paperless, digital Google Apps version. Both Google Slides and Google Forms versions are included.This resource is perfect for distance lea
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Science Skills Bundle: Metrics, Measurement, Scientific Method, Graphing
Perspective Taking Scenarios - Social Skills for Middle School & High School
Your older students will get lots of point of view practice with these perspective taking task cards! Each card features a social scenario card with real life situations relatable and current for teens, where your student must identify 3x points of view of both characters. The expectations and complexity of language rapidly increases once students hit middle school and high school. I find students can have difficulty understanding the points of view of others, which can significantly impact on
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9th - 12th
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Graphing Stations: Middle School Science NGSS Aligned Graphing Activities
This student-centered NGSS-aligned graphing lesson is fun and interactive! My class gave it a thumbs up! It was created specifically for Middle School grades 6-8 NGSS Practice 4: Analyzing and Interpreting Data. These graphing stations are a great way to get students to interact with different forms of data. The graphing stations include:⭐ A Graphing Notes Printable - The notes explain the different types of graphs and how they are most commonly used. This is a great resource for students to ref
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6th - 8th
Analyzing Data 5th Grade Science Test Prep Task Cards + Digital Resource Option
The pack from my new 5th Grade Science Test Prep product line has 20 multiple choice task cards that ask students to analyze data, charts, graphs, and observations.Designed with 5th Grade Science STAAR in mind, these versatile test prep task cards are perfect for review games!Analyzing Data Test Prep Task Cards Includes:• 20 rigorous task cards about a variety of topics and forms of data• Recording Sheet• Answer Key• Ideas for Use• Questions set up in Google Forms for auto-gradingTopics Addresse
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5th - 6th
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90 Animal Flash Cards - Real Photos of Animals
Great for vocabulary building in speech therapy, RTI, learning centers, and ESL/ELL/EFL!Included:- 90 photo cards, 6 per page- 1 design for back of cards- Animals include: farm, pets, insects, forest, marine, Australian, jungle, arctic, desert, and more!Ideas for use:- Select desired cards and print 2 sets for a memory game, go fish, etc.- Categorize by environment, diet, appearance, etc.- Charades- Describing attributesHow to prepare the cards:Page 3 can be used as the back of the cards. Print
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Not Grade Specific
Early Finishers Activities and Fast Finisher Activities
These 60 Early Finishers Task Cards are a great way to answer the common classroom question, "I'm Done. Now What?" Perfect as challenges during Distance Learning. Creative thinking, sequencing, writing and cause and effect skills are taught through these engaging activities. This would be useful as an enrichment activity, or as a bonus reward for great effort by students. This would also be useful in a reliever or substitute teacher pack.Click HERE to SAVE over 12% with our Early Finishers Activ
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Early Finishers Activities Task Cards BUNDLE
Fact and Opinion Task Cards | Print & Digital | Google | Easel Self-Checking
Your students will love these 32 Fact & Opinion Task Cards!Use these 32 task cards to help students learn the difference between fact and opinion. Each card features three related sentences. Students must select which one is either a fact or an opinion. The multiple-choice format makes these cards ideal for test prep. If you want your students to go a little deeper, there are also two challenge cards that can be added to any of the other cards and answered either verbally or on notebook pap
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3rd - 5th
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200 Engaging Writing Prompts Slides - for discussion, journals, and more!
This product contains 200 writing prompts that can be used in four unique ways! Each prompt features a different kid-friendly, open-ended question or prompt.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:200 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColor200 Journal Pages (1 prompt per page)Black-lineColorList of 200 Prompts20 Tic-Tac-Toe BoardsGeneric Response SheetDIGITAL:Google Slides - Slideshow to project to the classGoogle Slides - Student ActivityYoutube - Prompt Randomizer VideoDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital
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2nd - 8th
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Analogy Task Cards | 3 sets of analogies! | 72 Print & Digital Multiple Choice |
These 72 Analogy Task Cards are divided into 3 color-coded sets of 24 cards each. Students can solve the analogies orally in groups or use the included answer sheet to record their answers. There are also answer keys for each card set so that your students can check their work. Analogy Task Cards are also available in a short answer format. Please see below for link.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Short Answer Analogies Task Cards are available here.Other great products:•
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2nd - 4th
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Nervous System Exhibition Stations
Your students will love the "Nervous System Exhibition Lab"-exhibition style! Students travel from station to station analyzing the cards and writing answers on the sheet provided (see preview). My exhibition labs always go above and beyond- exploring interesting facts, medical conditions, as well as the traditional classroom knowledge. ____________________________________________________________THIS RESOURCE IS ALSO FOUND IN THIS DISCOUNTED BUNDLE:Body Systems Exhibition Stations Growing Bundle
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Human Body Systems Stations BUNDLE
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