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Critical thinking Common Core SL.1.5 resources
Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides Activities Digital Resources Morning Work
Are you ready to turn your morning meeting into the best part of your daily routine? Unlock the power of morning meetings with this Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides & Activity Pages Yearlong Set, designed for K-6 grade. These NO PREP INTERACTIVE EDITABLE morning meeting slides will revive your morning routine in a fun and engaging way. These Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides are an easy-to-use, time-saving way for you to build a consistent morning routine and a strong classroom co
Grades:
K - 6th
STEM Challenges & Activities for the Year STEAM Team Building Summer No Prep
Looking to use STEM Challenges and activities in your elementary classroom? These hands on simple STEAM activities are low prep and use common classroom materials. These STEM activities are both digital and printable! There are STEM challenges and activities for the entire year for you to use - 48 challenges! You will find just what you need for Back to School, Team Building, Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer STEM fun! This STEM Bundle includes STEM challenges and STEM activities for the entire ye
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K - 5th
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Morning Meeting Sharing Questions- 200 Fun Discussion Questions
Do you participate in morning meetings? Do you ever get to the sharing time and find yourself asking the same types of questions or simply having trouble thinking of new questions to promote a safe and fun classroom community? This download contains 180 unique morning meeting sharing questions--one for each day of the school year. It is a great addition to any morning meeting space. You can choose to print out the master copy of the questions if you have a way of organizing the questions on your
Grades:
K - 5th
Also included in:Â Morning Meeting BUNDLE: Greetings, Sharing Questions, and Activities
Morning Meeting Activities Conversation Starters Daily Writing Prompts Advice
Are you ready to turn your morning meeting into the best part of your daily routine? ADVICE OF THE DAY MORNING MEETING ACTIVITY provides you with a consistent morning routine that will build a strong classroom community in a fun and engaging way! You will get 180 days worth of thought-provoking conversation starters, offering your students advice they can use in every part of their world,in both a printable and projectable version, with a matching student writing journal. This resource is not on
Grades:
1st - 4th
Valentine's Day Tower STEM Challenge
Happy Valentine's Day! Let's put our engineering and design thinking hats on to build the tallest towers using only jelly hearts and toothpicks. Students are asked to design a tower, get feedback from their peers and then work in a group to build their tower.
Included in this pack are:
Teacher Tips and Materials
Teamwork Tips
Design Paper
Reflection Questions
Graph
Check out my other Valentine's Day STEM Challenges too:
Candy Heart STEM Challenge
Valentine's Bag STEM Challenge
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PreK - 3rd
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Six Thinking Hats Unit
This unit has lessons to teach all of De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats with picture books! This method of metacognition provides a way for students to use common language to solve problems in creative and critical thinking ways.
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Seven lessons to use in your GT class as a push-in, pullout or self-contained class for grades K-6. Lessons differentiate for the primary and intermediate students and each lesson lasts between 30-45 minutes. The lessons will also work for the classro
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K - 5th
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Lesson Plan - Positive Body Image
This lesson aims to raise students' awareness of their bodies' essential functions beyond their looks, increasing their appreciation and understanding of their bodies. Guided by the principles of CASEL and ELA competencies, students engage in discussions, activities, and creative expressions to deepen their understanding of their emotions, social dynamics, and responsible decision-making regarding body image. By fostering empathy, gratitude, and self-awareness, this lesson empowers students to c
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K - 7th
There's Nobody Like Me | Body Image Unit | 4 Lesson Plans
Body image is both mental and emotional. It is not just about what you see in the mirror, it is also about how you feel about your body when you look in the mirror. Having a healthy body image means that you truly accept yourself as you are right now. You don’t need to change in order to accept yourself.Grades level: K-2Lesson Plan Durations: 30 mins each + 15 minute extension activitiesLessons:Lesson Plan 1: I am SpecialLesson Plan 2: I am EnoughLesson Plan 3: There's No Win in ComparisonLesson
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K - 2nd
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Uniquely Me | Personal Identity Unit | 4 Lesson Plans
The way we view our personal identity is shaped by an understanding of our value. Throughout this unit, students will be reminded of their worth and will learn about their unique identity by exploring what they enjoy, who they admire, and where their strengths lie. Grades level: K-2Lesson Plan Durations: 30 mins eachLessons:Lesson Plan 1: What do I like?Lesson Plan 2: How do I want to behave?Lesson Plan 3: What are my special talents?Lesson Plan 4: Do I matter?Learning outcomes:It is expected th
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K - 2nd
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A Project Based Learning Unit For Primary Grades: The Three Little Pigs
Welcome to this Project Based Learning, or PBL, teaching unit. This unit is designed for grades K, 1 and 2. Included in this unit is an explanation of project-based learning and a step-by-step guide on how to teach this project with rigor and authentic connections to the real-world.
Through this unit, your students will publicize, practice, and perform their own Three Little Pig plays complete with puppets or masks, props and scenery. Additional ideas are included to make this experience closer
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K - 3rd
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Magic Tree House Activities Pirates Past Noon
Are you looking for help in teaching Pirates Past Noon from The Magic Tree House series? This comprehensive bundle will make teaching the book easy for you and fun for your students. Don't travel a swashbuckling adventure without this colorful literary unit to guide you with questions and activities to go along with Mary Pope Osborne's The Magic Treehouse adventure, Pirates Past Noon. I've even included enough fun transitions to keep attention without losing class time with too much splash. So c
Grades:
K - 2nd
Valentine's Day STEM Pack
Get ready to get your students thinking critically, designing, revising and building...all while using Valentine's Day to make it fun! Included are 3 STEM projects:
Valentine’s Day Tower STEM Challenge
Candy Heart STEM Challenge
Valentine’s Bag STEM Challenge
STEM Projects include directions, teacher tips, teamwork tips, design papers, reflection papers and graphs.
In the Valentine's Day Tower Challenge, students will be asked to build the tallest tower using limited materials. In the Candy H
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PreK - 3rd
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Year Long Vocabulary Center- First Grade
There are 10 Units of Vocabulary, each being 3 weeks long, which means you get 30 weeks of vocabulary centers! Each week has 3 - 4 vocabulary words that students will be working with. The goal of this center is to get students listening, speaking, reading, and writing high level vocabulary.
In the beginning of the week we display the vocabulary cards with the pictures. If you use the new Benchmark curriculum these words align and are pulled from the weekly big books- if you don’t use Benchma
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1st
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100th Day of School STEM Challenge Pack
The 100th day is so exciting for kids, and now we can work on STEM while celebrating our 100th day of school! Included in this pack are:
Lego STEM Engineering Pack- Students use 100 legos to create a design.
100th Day Penny Boat STEM Challenge- Students create a boat to hold at least 100 pennies without sinking.
Unifix Cube STEM Challenge- Students use 100 unifix cubes to create the tallest tower.
Each STEM Challenge includes teacher directions, teamwork tips, design paper, reflection questions
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K - 2nd
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Can You Find Me? Early Learning, Building Thinking Skills for Pre-Kindergarten
Award-winning 112-page printable PDF ebook for PreK starting your students on the road to critical thinking! This fun, colorful book of mind-building riddles introduces young minds to critical thinking and organized analysis. To solve the riddles, students practice:     • Identifying Similarities and Differences     • Forming/Following Sequences and Patterns     • Classifying Objects and Groups     • Identifying/Interpreting Analogies     • Logic The riddles in this book develop thinking skill
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PreK
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Capturing Change - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:What patterns of change do we see in nature?Description:Through photography, students will identify a pattern in nature that changes over time. Students will describe the pattern and the science behind it by writing a photo story to be displayed in a community art exhibition. Changes such as plant and animal life cycles, seasons, and weather may be explored.What's Included with this Project:NextLesson Projects are extended lessons based in real life situations or simulations, c
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K - 2nd
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Also included in:Â PBL Bundle (Grades K-2) - In Collaboration with A.J. Juliani - 26 Projects!
First Grade Common Core Science Lessons and Experiments (8 Lesson Sample)
This product takes the scientific method, simplifies it into a first grade curriculum, and connects common core standards to every lesson. While this product only contains eight lesson plans, the full version (80 lesson plans--20 per quarter) can be purchased for $3 per quarterly outline or $10 for the whole year. Many other engaging resources will be available from my store, so check back often!
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1st
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Themed Cooperative Group Projects for Primary Grades
Teach your students how to work in small groups with this product which includes, 24 themed cooperative group projects to use in either Kindergarten, 1st Grade, or 2nd Grade.
Some of the cooperative group projects include:
- creating a device for the gingerbread man to use to cross across the lake.
- creating a scarecrow for the 21st century.
- creating a character holiday dinner.
- creating a set of rules for being a turkey out in the wild.
Along with many other fun and creative group projec
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K - 2nd
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Becoming My Best | Growth & Development Unit | 4 Lesson Plans
Personal growth is all about improving how we take care of ourselves and the world around us. This unit will provide students with a foundation to help them become their best selves by teaching them how to live without fear of failure, spread kindness, communicate their needs, and develop healthy habits. Grades level: K-2Lesson plan durations: 30 mins each + Extension ActivitiesLesson plans:Lesson Plan 1: Aim at progress, not perfectionLesson Plan 2: How can I spread kindness?Lesson Plan 3: How
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K - 2nd
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Across the Curriculum with Pirates - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:ARRR, Matey! How much language treasure can we steal from a pirate?Description:In this theme-based project, students cover different elements of the curriculum through the theme of pirates. They listen to stories and answer comprehension questions, write descriptions, listen to and compose different types of poetry, listen for and use pirate language in conversation, use simple coordinates for battleship type pirate games, and make their own floating pirate ships. Arts and craft
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K - 2nd
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Also included in:Â PBL Bundle (Grades K-2) - In Collaboration with A.J. Juliani - 26 Projects!
Book based Socio-Emotional Learning Lesson Plans
Socio-emotional learning are especially important and the main building blocks in developing the emotional intelligence of a child. This set of 11 lesson plans are linked to books and activities used are in response to the book. Every lesson is tagged to a skill from making friends, identifying my feelings, fears, learning I am unique in my own way! Each lesson includes the lesson focus, the book used, teacher talk and response question and concluding the lesson.
Grades:
K - 2nd
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Gizmos Galore - Learning to Invent
Learning to Invent is a package of instructional materials for children in Grades K and 1. It is designed to be used by classroom teachers or extracurricular activity leaders who want to introduce young children to basic principles of inventing and design in a project-based format. The program includes an Introduction for teachers, six session guides, supplementary worksheets, an Inventor's Notebook, and a rubric and individual student score sheet for those who want to use the materials as part
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K - 1st
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
Exploring Animal Communities - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:What is a community? How do inhabitants adapt and interact within a community?Description:In this inquiry based Project, students work together to define the word "community" and investigate one animal community and its inhabitants. Reading and writing informational text becomes purposeful as students share their findings with the class by creating an informational poster to present to the rest of the class about their animal community. What's Included with this Project:NextLess
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K - 2nd
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Also included in:Â PBL Bundle (Grades K-2) - In Collaboration with A.J. Juliani - 26 Projects!
Animal Senses: Classroom and On-Site Lessons (Ages 3-12, NGSS & CC)
This product from Explore Science and the Santa Barbara Zoo offers 5 lessons, specifically designed for teachers seeking curriculum that integrates the classroom and a field trip. In addition to flexible on-site activities, Animal Senses also contains interactive pre- and post- field trip lessons for classroom use.
All activities are aligned to NGSS* and CC standards, spanning from ages 3-12. Download includes a master materials list, activity-specific standards, procedures, and curriculum int
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PreK - 6th
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