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Critical thinking Common Core RST.9-10.3 resources
Decision-Making Lessons: A TPT Best-Selling Unit on Dangerous Teen Decisions!
TPT's #1 Best-Selling High School Decision Unit!!If you work with 6th through 12th grade teens, these decision-making lessons are so powerful! I consider this one of my BEST Health units since it deals with the consequences of teen decisions! Your students will LOVE this-it's so relevant to their lives and the world we live in today!Articles are shocking, revealing, often heart-breaking, and very relatable for teens!>> Integrated Skills Based, Content Based / Knowledge Based. The best of b
Grades:
6th - 12th
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CCSS:
Alcohol Refusal Skills: Use These Role-Plays and Activities for Teen Health!
Should a dad let his 17-year old son have a graduation party with alcohol in their basement? Use this true story to grab your students' interest and hone their decision-making skills in this alcohol refusal role-play lesson! >> Integrated Skills Based, Content Based / Knowledge Based. The best of both worlds.>> Meets HS/MS National Health Education Standards. >> Meets HS/MS Technical Subjects Health Common Core Standards.>> Meets Washington State’s rigorous Health Educat
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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Psychology Sleep/Dreams Unit: Evaluating Habits Questionnaire+Analysis
This is a newly updated 2013 PDF sleep habits questionnaire which works perfectly as an attention-grabber or K-W-L activity to introduce a Psychology 1, 2, or AP unit on Sleep/Dreams and Consciousness. Reinforce the notion that students should answer as honestly as possible, and it'll be a genuine eye-opener. Continuing from here into a full, broader Consciousness unit, teenagers/young adults will soon see they need MUCH more sleep than they are getting on a typical night.
In taking this quest
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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CCSS:
Cost of Production: Factory Simulation
Two day class simulation of a car factory. Students work together to figure out how many workers will maximize output and how many cars should be produced per hour to maximize profit.
Objectives of Simulation :
1. Explain how firms decide how much labor to hire in order to produce a certain level of output
2. Analyze the production costs of firms
3. Explain how a firm chooses to set output
4. Identify the factors that a firm must consider before shutting down an unprofitable business
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Grades:
7th - 12th
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CCSS:
CONSUMER PROTECTION DESIGN BRIEFS
This is a collection of content applications that address the most common science areas found in middle and high school settings. Each challenge is introduced with a context statement and a brief scenario that helps to set the stage for introducing the dilemma. The challenge invites the students to solve the problem while adhering to specific limitations and rules.While possible procedures are provided for all the design briefs, they should never be considered the only procedures. The rationale
Grades:
5th - 11th
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CCSS:
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, HS-ETS1-1
Daily Mind Builders: Language Arts - Quick, Fun Brain Energizers for Grades 5+
A 37-page printable PDF ebook for grades 5 and up to wake up sleeping brains with fun daily doses of critical thinking! This book is comprised of intriguing ELA-themed activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essential skill as
Grades:
5th - 12th
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{EDITABLE} Lesson Plan: How to make Mind Maps
QR code is included and linked to a video with an overview of the lesson.
If you would like to teach how to create Mind Maps, but have no time to put a lesson together, than this I lesson plan is for you.
This product contains Lesson Plan with directions for the teacher, a sample of student-generated map, QR code with the lesson overview, copy of a possible mind map created during the lesson.
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Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff, Not Grade Specific
Establishing Correlation: Writing A Survey (Psychology Activity)
This graphic, detailed PDF printable survey activity provides the step-by-step process by which students will begin to utilize correlational surveying methodologies. I have included some examples as well as detailed guided questions to aid students in developing, conducting, analyzing, and presenting their survey and findings, as well as moving to a potential connection to the scientific method, to consider moving from a correlation to a potential causation (at your discretion). Students will co
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Daily Mind Builders: Social Studies - Quick, Fun Brain Energizers for Grades 5+
A 137-page printable PDF ebook for grades 5 and up to wake up sleeping brains with fun daily doses of critical thinking! This book is comprised of intriguing social studies themed activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essent
Grades:
5th - 12th
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STRANGE CONCOCTION - A DESIGN BRIEF
This challenge is one in a series of investigations that concentrates on forensic science and the process skills associated with pursuing such inquiries. This investigation presents an opportunity for students to develop a reasonable procedure for testing the effect unknown liquids have on an unknown semi-solid (slime). Students should be cautioned about making any assumptions about the materials with which they will work. It is also critical that they make and record accurate observations and d
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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CCSS:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
Also included in:Â Forensic Science Design Briefs
CREATING A FORENSIC STANDARD - A DESIGN BRIEF
This challenge is one in a series of investigations that concentrates on forensic science and the process skills associated with pursuing such inquiries. This challenge will help students understand how and why scientists establish standards, as these benchmarks can be used to evaluate new information or predict the outcome of new investigations. Students should be made aware that accurate measurements are critical, and that averaging data is a necessity. This challenge can also be used to evalu
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Grades:
6th - 10th
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CCSS:
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-3
Also included in:Â Forensic Science Design Briefs
Engineering Design Process - High School
The engineering design process is the core concept of technology, engineering, and STEM education. Having a solid foundation for reference and visualization makes all the difference for student understanding. This 8 step version of the engineering design process is geared towards high school students
Grades:
9th - 12th
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CCSS:
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
Daily Mind Builders: Science eBook - Quick, Fun Brain Energizers for Grades 5+
A 145-page printable PDF ebook for grades 5 and up to wake up sleeping brains with fun daily doses of critical thinking! This book is comprised of intriguing science-themed activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essential sk
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Grades:
5th - 12th
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BIOLOGY EOC Test Prep #2 NATURE OF SCIENCE
One of the most difficult standards for students, the Nature of Science encompasses a variety of skills for mastery. This is a 30 question test to assess student's understanding of the Nature of Science. This includes understanding the scientific process, analyzing and interpreting data, making inferences, and identifying variables.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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Psychology: Collaborative Scientific Experiment (Critical Thinking Activity)
This is a brand new, graphic and detailed 2013 PDF printable critical thinking and collaboration activity in a Psychology and/or Biology classroom. With this activity, students are provided step-by-step critical thinking questions with which they will create a scientific experiment to attempt establishing a causal relationship on paper only in your classroom. The objective here is to determine whether students are understanding the process by which psychologists create experiments to test hypoth
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Outlining Content Information Resource (Making Outlines of Text)
In the age of the internet, students need skills for acquiring and criticizing information from media. This product is a trove of outlining resources offered by the author of this publication on outlining.Trove includes: rubrics, presentations, samples, computer shortcut tips, and tutorials.
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Using a Spreadsheet to Track Your Budget
This advanced spreadsheet activity uses functions like payments and goal seek to track their expenses. Students research jobs, homes, cars and estimate other expenses. Task cards are included to help break the project down into manageable sections.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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Lab Report Format Posters
Help your students learn how to write and format a lab report. From their introduction and hypothesis to descriptive methods, results with data analysis and graphs, discussion and citations, your students will learn to think and write like scientists. High impact icons underlying each poster's guiding text helps students remember what each section of their lab report should contain.
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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CCSS:
Distance Learning: Collaborative Namibia Conservation Project - Cheetah Style!
This project is a fantastic way for students to develop a holistic understanding of conservation - and what that means for local human-wildlife relations - all while working together to achieve a common goal! This project focuses on 6 stakeholders that most directly affect/are affected by Cheetah Conservation in Namibia. Students will be conducting research on the stakeholder of their choice, taking notes and synthesizing information, and becoming peer teachers for other students, representing d
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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NGSS:
HS-ESS3-3
, HS-ESS3-4
Philosophical Phenomena to Engage Students In The Scientific Study of God
A poster introducing several research activities that teachers can use to engage students in the scientific study of God. The activities span a range of subjects: Scientific Research, Computer Logic, Probability and Statistics, ELA Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects, and Religious Studies. There is a free book that accompanies poster that contains background for all activities, entitled: "Proof of God Using The Scientific Method, " Available on the Social Science Research Network at h
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Quiz for Chemsitry
Quiz for chemistry
Subjects:
Grades:
9th - 12th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
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