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Critical thinking Common Core RI.4.9 resources
How to use GOOGLE SEARCH like a BOSS!! | Research Skills | Digital Citizenship
Teach your students an ESSENTIAL LIFE SKILL of the INFORMATION ERA. Learn how to refine and filter GOOGLE SEARCH QUERIES using PROVEN TECHNIQUES that improve RESEARCH and CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS in 2024. This ❤️NO PREP unit teaches you and your students how to USE GOOGLE SEARCH LIKE A BOSS!This EDITABLE resource comes with all the instructional slides, graphic organizers, and video tutorials you need to make an immediate impact.Learn exactly how to find what you want online, filter out unwant
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Interactive Reading Notebook * Book Reports & Comprehension Strategies
Interactive Reading Notebook to use with ANY Fiction Book! There are over 100 foldables and activities included in this resource. This product will accompany almost any fiction book that you use in your classroom. There are interactive activities that focus on whole book comprehension {book reports}, as well as foldables that reinforce once specific strategy or skill. This resource also works great as an added resource to Guided Reading or intervention groups. Test prep doesn't have to be b
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Wind Car STEM Activity: Can be used with If I Built a Car
Are you looking for a fun STEM activity that connects to the book If I Built a Car by Chris Van Dusen? Designing a Wind Car STEM Challenge gives students the opportunity to design and create a wind car. Google Slides are included. It is a fun team building activity that gets students thinking critically as they design and build a car after reading the book. STEM Wind Car Lab is an activity that engages students in thinking through the Engineering Next Generation Science Standards. It can be us
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Reading Log - Independent Reading Response Homework Log - Use with any book
A few years ago, I ditched timers and parent signatures from my nightly reading homework log – and I’ve never looked back. This resource was created from a need to engage students in their independent reading rather than make it a dreaded chore. This Homework Reading Log contains two main parts: the reading log and a question choice sheet. On the log, students list the book they read each night and then choose a response question to show what they've learned from their reading. Students are to
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3rd - 5th
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Reading Homework - Response Questions & Logs for Independent Home Reading 4th
Need to assign reading homework, but want to engage students with choice? This weekly homework reading log resource is for you! It provides you with 36 weeks of grade-appropriate reading homework logs full of questions from every CCSS reading standard for literature and informational text.Each reading log contains ten questions - four are for fiction texts, four for nonfiction, one reflection question, and one free choice option. No two logs are the same.Your Download Includes:36-weeks of printa
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4th
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Also included in: Weekly Reading Logs & Reading Skills Task Cards YEAR-LONG BUNDLE 4th
Online Scavenger Hunt - Learning and Practicing Research Skills Online
This is the update of my PDF file project for learning to refine search skills. This file allows you to share a Google Slides to your students from Drive or Google Classroom. It is editable by students and can be turned into you for marking when completed. This scavenger hunt is one of two digital and editable online projects that I am selling. If you want to teach basic skills for Grade 2 - 5 students, please take a look at my other scavenger hunt. This project helps students learn about and pr
Grades:
4th - 8th
Literal and Inferential Comprehension Questions for ANY book! (Grade 4)
This product includes literal, inferential, and critical questions to use with any book for students in fourth grade. The questions focus on summarizing, making predictions, making connections, synthesizing, inferring, analyzing, and critiquing.
The questions included reflect expectations of students in fourth grade. Use the questions to help students dig deeper when reading and to propel them toward more difficult texts.
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Grades:
4th
UPDATED Women's History Month Biography Research Project- Exploding Box Project
Updated to now include Dr. Jill Biden and Vice President Kamala HarrisMarch is the time of year to celebrate all of the accomplishments women have made around the world. This Women's History Month project is sure to your engage students and assist them with the research process. Included in this resource:Step by step instructions explaining how to prepare and cut the pop-up box. A video tutorial is linked for assembling and creating your pop-up box.53 different Notable Women to choose from in co
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3rd - 6th
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Social Activism and Justice: Upper Elementary, Middle School ELA Unit
Teach your students about social activism. This unit includes definitions, examples of causes and activists, books to read and discussion questions, written response prompts, and quotes.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Reading Comprehension Cards Based on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
Comp. Quest Cards 2 are based on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. Cards are color coordinated based on various levels of thinking. They are a great tool for teachers, teacher assistants and parents to engage children during a read aloud, and reading groups. I have used these cards as a third grade teacher, a resource room teacher and as a reading specialist.⭐ These are based on more recent changes from Anderson & Krathwohl (2001).➀ Light red: Remembering➁ Light orange: Understanding➂ Light yellow:
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K - 5th, Staff
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Bundle
Unit of Study: Roller Coaster Physics | Isaac Newton | Laws of Motion
Through this unit of study, student's will be introduced to and will actively explore Newton's Laws of Motion. At the end of the unit, students will put their knowledge to practice as they build a marble roller coaster. ***This unit is also available in my VIP PASS (July 2023), a $4.99 monthly subscription for new curriculum resources (or save 15% on a yearly subscription with code VIP15). Once you are a member you have access to all previous VIP PASS curriculum downloads as well, forever! Thi
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3rd - 5th
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Animal Classification: Inherited Traits MEGA-BUNDLE
Enrich your study of animal classification while you meet your NGSS/TEKS standards with the Inherited Traits MEGA-BUNDLE, from my Animal Classification series. This comprehensive 179-page bundle focuses on standards relating to the inherited traits, life cycles, and adaptations of eight animal groups: amphibians, arachnids, birds, crustaceans, fish, insects, mammals, and reptiles. RESOURCES INCLUDED:8 ACTIVITY BOOKS use a cut-and-glue format to illustrate the defining traits of each animal group
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, 3-LS4-3
, 2-LS4-1
, 4-LS1-2
, 3-LS4-2
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Earth Day Digital Research Project for Grades 3-5
Distance learning doesn't mean you can't engage your students in a creative, digital research project focused on Earth Day! Your students will enjoy reflecting on the many ways they can Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle in order to protect our planet.Click Here to see a video of the resource.This resource has four different writing prompts that will allow your students to use critical thinking skills to identify ways they can help the planet. I have also included a slide that gives background knowledge
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3rd - 6th
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Reading Comprehension passages - Leadership - PDF and EASEL!
Are you looking for a way to grow students' leadership abilities and their reading comprehension at the same time? This resource uses biographies of diverse leaders to teach students about the attributes of a leader and then guides them through growing this leadership skills with a project. Now updated and ready to go in EASEL! You choose the format that works best for you!This unit teaches students leadership skills (using the Habits of Mind) while also meeting Common Core Standards in readi
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4th - 5th
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Socratic Seminar Bundle: Debate for Gifted and Talented Reading Enrichment
Should kids be allowed to bring their phones to school? What are the benefits? What are the concerns? Should recycling be required? What are the benefits of recycling? What are the concerns about mandating it? What is your opinion of artificial intelligence? What are the benefits? What are the concerns? In Socratic Seminar, students will read all about the pros and cons of each issue and form an opinion. They will then cite evidence from the text to discuss their point of view and listen to the
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4th - 6th
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Science & Nature Curriculum Bundle: all my units & mini-studies in one bundle!
Simply EVERY unit in my shop, in one discounted bundle!→ This collection includes environmental science-inspired complete units and study materials.→ It is perfect for homeschooling, nature camps, STEM camps, and earth/environmental science classrooms.→ All the materials feature my artwork and are based on my experience as an environmental scientist.*** What age/grade can use these materials?*** These materials were designed with universal design and mixed-age group classroom in mind! All units
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Grades:
Homeschool
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 4-LS1-1
, 1-LS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-LS4-3
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Reading Strategies and Independent Reading Response Unit, SB & PDF
A best selling unit!
This unit is designed to set up your independent reading program, and to specifically teach each reading strategy through a series of 15 lessons.
This download includes the Smartboard file (50+) and all pdf handouts (70+ pages)
The unit is divided into 2 parts, the first 6 lessons are dedicated to setting up an effective independent reading program.
The second part of the unit is dedicated to teaching reading strategies through a variety of mini lessons, read-a-louds
Grades:
4th - 6th
STEM Innovation Project Unit - Student Instruction Packet, Rubrics & Standards
This product is a complete 18-page unit packet called the STEM Innovation Project.During this 8-week project, students form teams (or work in pairs or alone if desired), research, design, draw, write paragraphs and present an oral presentation about a new product of their own invention. Science, reading, writing and oral language activities and concepts are included. Students are asked to design a new product that would make the world better. This project aligns well to the 4th grade CKLA "Stude
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Should Kids Have Phones in School Socratic Seminar: Debate for Gifted & Talented
Should kids be allowed to bring their phones to school? What are the benefits? What are the concerns? In this Socratic Seminar, students will read all about the pros and cons of phones in schools and form an opinion. They will then cite evidence from the text to discuss their point of view and listen to the points of view of their classmates. The typical format of a Socratic Seminar involves two circles. The inner circle participates in the discussion. The outer circle keeps track of the interac
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4th - 6th
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Socratic Seminar: Debate for Gifted and Talented
What is your opinion of artificial intelligence? What are the benefits? What are the concerns? In this Socratic Seminar, students will read all about the pros and cons of artificial intelligence and form an opinion. They will then cite evidence from the text to discuss their point of view and listen to the points of view of their classmates. The typical format of a Socratic Seminar involves two circles. The inner circle participates in the discussion. The outer circle keeps track of the interact
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4th - 6th
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Black History Month Biography Research Project
Are you looking for an independent or semi-independent research project that incorporates Bloom's Taxonomy? This African American History Research Project allows students choose an African America Figure and requires students to take a deeper look into this person's accomplishments and contributions to our society. This Biography Project also addresses many Common Core State Standards. I use it as a hybrid type project. We do some in class and students do some at home. I also bind the materia
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Earth Day Socratic Seminar: Required Recycling Debate for Gifted and Talented
Should recycling be required? What are the benefits of recycling? What are the concerns about mandating it? In this Socratic Seminar, students will read all about the pros and cons of required recycling and form an opinion. They will then cite evidence from the text to discuss their point of view and listen to the points of view of their classmates. The typical format of a Socratic Seminar involves two circles. The inner circle participates in the discussion. The outer circle keeps track of the
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4th - 6th
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Geography Project and Mystery: Temperate Climate Zone - ELA and Art for Spring
In this geography mystery project, your students will be "dropped off" in a mysterious location somewhere in the TEMPERATE CLIMATE in the spring. SCROLL DOWN TO REVEAL THE MYSTERY LOCATION:Your students will be dropped off in...A Northeastern American Pond!They'll discover clues about their location through 3 reading passages with comprehension questions: What's do plant life do you see? What temperature does your thermometer read? What wildlife is around you? What is the weather like?After answ
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3rd - 6th
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Geography Mystery: Polar Climate Zone with ELA and Art Project
SCROLL DOWN TO REVEAL THE MYSTERY LOCATION:Your students will be dropped off in...❄️ANTARCTICA!❄️In this geography mystery project, your students will be "dropped off" in a mysterious location somewhere in the POLAR CLIMATE. They'll discover clues about their location through 3 reading passages with comprehension questions:❄️What's the reading on your compass?❄️What can you see through your binoculars?❄️What wildlife is around you?❄️How cold is it?After answering these comprehension questions (a
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3rd - 6th
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