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Critical thinking Common Core SL.7.1 resources
Twilight Zone “Number 12 Looks Just Like You," Analysis of Twilight Zone CCSS
There’s a reason Rod Serling’s series, The Twilight Zone, has stood the test of time. The stories are compelling, the episodes are well-crafted, and the themes are timeless. With this lesson download (PDF & Google Drive formats), you can also use The Twilight Zone to help students develop analysis skills and connect classic storytelling to modern issues.In this episode, “Number 12 Looks Just Like You,” a teen girl resists efforts to look, act, and think like everyone else around her. Issues
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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A Wrinkle in Time: Novel Study Unit Plan
This 4 ½ - 6 week novel study will guide students through an imaginative exploration and critical analysis of Madeleine L’Engle’s Newberry Award Winning book, A Wrinkle in Time. Students will be challenged to think deeply about the book’s themes and respond thoughtfully through written work and oral discussions. Their imaginations will be stretched and their critical thinking skills will be developed on a daily basis. The study is divided into three segments: Chapters 1-4, Chapters 5-8, and Cha
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5th - 9th
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate Format - Debate Outline, Graphic Organizer, and Rubric
Looking to engage your students in a style of debate that they’ll love? This debate outline teaches the Lincoln-Douglas debate format with a slideshow lesson, debate graphic organizer, teacher moderator script, and an editable debate rubric. Suitable for online learning with digital slide decks for Google Classroom®!Included with this Lincoln-Douglas Debate Format Outline:✏️ Lincoln-Douglas Debate Format Slideshow Lesson - Google Slides®, Microsoft PowerPoint®, & PDF✏️ Lincoln-Douglas Deba
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6th - 12th
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Literature Circles Made Easy | Classroom Book Clubs Discussion Bundle
The Literature Circles Made Easy | Classroom Boom Clubs Discussion Bundle includes three products that will motivate your students to love reading as they learn how to have productive team discussions. The most important component of this bundle is Classroom Book Clubs: Literature Circles Made Easy, a series of short videos for the teacher that explain how to implement a fun and effective method for using Literature Circles with upper elementary students. You'll also find all the printables you'
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3rd - 6th
Four High Interest Games for Training Students to Work in Small Groups
So often, when we ask students to work in groups, they talk in front of each other, rather than TO each other. Why not establish rules for how small-groups should work? Better yet, why not have the students themselves create these rules?With these 4 games, you will cover skills such as taking turns, commenting on another student's response, managing time, helping shy students, and more. The following four small-group games are included: * Question Cards* Would You Rather...?* Who Would You Hire?
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6th - 10th
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Twilight Zone “Time Enough at Last” Media Analysis of Twilight Zone Episode CCSS
There’s a reason Rod Serling’s series, The Twilight Zone, has stood the test of time. The stories are compelling, the episodes are well-crafted, and the themes are timeless. With this lesson download (PDF & Google Drive versions), you can also use The Twilight Zone to help students develop analysis skills and connect classic storytelling to modern issues.In this episode, “Time Enough at Last,” a bookish man who wants only to be left alone to read survives a nuclear bomb blast and finally has
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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End of the Year Activities - Digital Mystery Game - Inferencing - Team Building
Keep your students engaged with this end of the year activity. Great for team building. This is a new spin on the classic mystery games I have created. Keep inferencing skills up during Summer break! Students will work together to solve the mystery AND learn about inferencing! The material is so fun and engaging, students won't even know they are actually learning! This activity can be used anytime of year and is a fantastic way to get students excited about learning. Do your students enjo
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4th - 8th
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Growth Mindset Activities | Social Emotional Learning Bell Ringers | Volume 1
These fully-editable growth-mindset bell ringers will get your class thinking and are perfect for social emotional learning as well! With thought-provoking and engaging prompts, they can be used as individual writing prompts or large group discussion topics. Teachers agree that these bell ringers are perfect for daily warm ups or morning meetings. I’m so excited for your students to experience a variety of life-impacting questions to write about individually or discuss within groups.You will rec
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Not Grade Specific
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End of Year Life Skills Activities: Critical Thinking, Bias, Fake News, ChatGPT
24 Critical Thinking lessons.Perfect for END OF YEAR life skills activities when the marks are done but you want something meaningful and fun.Explore Fake News, Point of View, Bias, Social Media vs Traditional News.Strategies to help your students make informed decisions about the news, search engine results, and Chat GPT / Artificial InformationIncludes detailed lesson plan with discussion points, review questions, slideshow lesson, handouts, and activities! This life-long tool is great ANY TIM
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6th - 9th
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Debate Choice Board: Digital Argumentative Topics & Graphic Organizers/Google
Digital Debate Choice Board is a fun and engaging debate topic board full of ten editable argumentative prompts with graphic organizers. Students click on any number on the interactive (hyperlinked) Google Slide board to reveal their "mystery" debate topic. They then complete an argumentative graphic organizer focusing on claim, reasons, and evidence. Afterward, you can decide to have students debate, present, and or write. Debate choice boards build critical thinking and reasoning skills, w
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4th - 8th
Create a Utopia: a Reflective Group Project
Utopia | Create a Utopia | Utopia Project | Dystopian Project
The concept of a utopia is one with applications in both the English and history classrooms. Many people have tried, and failed, to create utopias at various stages in human history. In many works of literature, including many of the current popular dystopian novels, an attempted utopia provides the backstory. By developing a utopia of their own, students will gain a better appreciation for the challenge and the risk behind such an
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6th - 9th
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Discussion Stems: Talk Moves for Student-Led Conversations | Digital and Print
Ready to level up student-led discussions? Build in discussion stems with accountable talk moves. Peer to peer conversations will be richer, and students will have specific strategies for pushing their thinking.RESOURCE CONTENTS:1. 40 discussion stem accountable talk movesThe discussion stems are in secure PDF format as well as on a Google Slide™. The Google Slide™ is secure, but a blank slide with a secure background and editable textbox is included. These talk moves are arranged in two formats
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7th - 10th
Introduction to Debate
This four lesson unit is designed to be a comprehensive debate tutorial for teachers who are new to debate or who want to implement debate into their current curriculum. I tried to design these materials with lots of explanation where necessary and minimal prep work to finish. I have taught debate for over ten years in the classroom and online and the knowledge and expertise I have gained have gone into these lessons to make them a perfect gateway to argumentation and debate. All lessons are onl
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3rd - 12th
Growth Mindset Bell Ringers | 40 SEL Writing Prompts For Any Subject | Volume 2
These fully-editable growth-mindset bell ringers will get your class thinking and are perfect for social emotional learning as well! With thought-provoking and engaging prompts, they can be used as individual writing prompts or large group discussion topics. Teachers agree that these bell ringers are perfect for daily warm ups or morning meetings. I’m so excited for your students to experience a variety of life-impacting questions to write about individually or discuss within groups. You will r
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The Phantom Tollbooth: Novel Study Unit Plan
This 6 - 8 week novel study will guide students through an imaginative exploration and critical analysis of Norton Juster’s classic, fun-filled tale, The Phantom Tollbooth. Students will be challenged to think deeply about the book’s themes and respond thoughtfully through written work and oral discussions. Their imaginations will be stretched and their critical thinking skills will be developed on a daily basis. The study is divided into four segments: Chapters 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, and 16-20. Dur
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5th - 8th
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Mars Patel: Season 2- Distance Learning Approved
The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel is an engaging podcast middle schoolers will quickly fall in love with! This distance learning plan has comprehension questions for each of the ten episodes. The questions help students practice supporting their theories and predictions with evidence from the podcast. Extension activities are also provided after each episode for students to spark their creative sides and further comprehend ideas from the podcast. These can be optional for your studen
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4th - 8th
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Social Emotional Learning Activities LEGO Movie Activities
Looking to support your student's social-emotional needs?What better way to engage students than with a MOVIE TIME? ... THE LEGO MOVIE is certainly a fun childhood favorite!This movie guide workshop supports, Understanding Creative Thinkers, Embracing Uniqueness and Understanding the Individuality in all of us, because together, "Everything is Awesome, Everything is cool when you’re part of a team !"This resource includes a printable AND digital version to use with Google Classroom™Looking for m
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4th - 7th
Class Debating | Debate Speech Writing | Oral Presentations, Argumentative Essay
This unit will guide your students to write excellent DEBATE SPEECHES and craft ARGUMENTS that are well-researched, constructed and ready for critique during a CLASS DEBATING SESSION or an ORAL PRESENTATION.This EDITABLE UNIT will provide you with the TOOLS and STRATEGIES for running highly engaging CLASSROOM DEBATES and writing powerful ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAYS.Topics Covered in Lessons⭐ Knowing your Debating Topic⭐ The purpose and process of Research⭐ Delivering Strong Openings in a Debate⭐ T
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Persuasive Writing Bundle | Opinion | Debating | Advertising & Influence
Slavery in the Southern Colonies: A Socratic Seminar
Looking for a higher order thinking activity? Need a way to close out a unit on the Southern Colonies? Do you want to do a Socratic Seminar with your students? Students will evaluate three primary source documents to answer document-based questions. Students will engage in higher-level thinking and improve listening and speaking skills during this common-core supported activity. This activity is appropriate for 5th-7th graders and meets the Common Core Standards for Speaking and Listening.
If
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5th - 8th
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Leadership Skills For Groups & Teams (SEL, Character Ed, Life Skills)
Facilitate job, life, and leadership skill development through engaging activities and discussion based learning relating to relevant and practical character and leadership topics. Let teens lead the way in crucial conversations, critical thinking, and social emotional growth as they build their community and leadership identity. 10 Lessons are included in this curriculum bundle, with supplemental resources linked below. Each lesson can be led in one to two hours, but may be adjusted to your gro
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6th - 12th
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The Giver Pre-Reading Activities: "Tea Party" + "Roundtable Prediction"
Two unique pre-reading activities to use before reading "The Giver" by Lois Lowry! Pique students' interest and spark critical thinking at the same time! Activities are aligned with multiple CCSS standards and are very interactive!
I use this activities to get students thinking critically about the story or novel we are reading by having them predict what is coming next - and even add a friendly competition component to the activity.
This product comes with a thorough "How to" guide that guar
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6th - 10th
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Invisible by Gonzalez Graphic Novel Study comprehension, composition, activities
Complete with the option for Google Slides™ and pdf format. This product provides resources for studying the graphic novel INVISIBLE by Christina Gonzalez and Gabriela Epstein. The resource is great for comprehension guidance, classroom discussion, literature circles, book clubs, novel studies, task cards, book challenges, reflection journals, and/or student writing prompts. This book is a timely work of fiction that is thought-provoking, humorous, serious, hopeful, assuring, and committed to
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5th - 8th
End of the Year Activities Mystery Game - Team Building - Reading Comprehension
Are you ready to watch student engagement skyrocket before the end of the year?! Great for team building and they won't even know they're improving reading comprehension skills. Students will work together to solve the mystery AND practice a variety of academic skills including; inferencing, critical thinking, problem solving, reading comprehension, and much more! The material is so fun and engaging, students won't even know they are actually learning! This activity can be used anytime of yea
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4th - 9th
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Public Speaking Introduction, Speech and Debate Lesson - Writing a Speech
Public Speaking Activities to Write a SpeechSpeech ActivitiesDebate ActivitiesKnow Your Audience for Public Speaking, Speech, and DebateDifferentiated Activities for Public Speaking, Speech, and DebateEnrichment Activities for Public Speaking, Speech, and DebateGoogle Classroom Ready!*****************************************************************************************Introducing how to write a speech when preparing for a speech has never been easier! This lesson guides students through a st
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6th - 8th
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