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Critical thinking Common Core RI.7.1 resources for Microsoft PowerPoint
Fake News Unit | Critical Thinking | Media Literacy | Fact Analysis & Research
Teaching students to navigate news and information on mainstream, traditional and social media as critical thinkers is essential in 2024. It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate FACTS and OPINIONS, SATIRE from LIES, and PERSUASION from PROPAGANDA in the "MISINFORMATION:" eraA well-grounded understanding of MEDIA-LITERACY is crucial in stopping FAKE NEWS and RADICALIZATION. And This PROVEN resource will teach your students the skills to identify, analyze and critique information throug
Grades:
5th - 10th
Critical Thinking Mystery Game: Clue by Clue PowerPoint Bundle
Clue by Clues are mystery activities that help students practice critical thinking skills, reading strategies including close reading, critical reading, and inference, and get them discussing and talking! Students work in pairs or small groups to solve a mystery. They get a situation with a mystery. They have to figure it out by reading a series of clues, one at a time. As they receive each clue, they speculate on its significance, what it tells them about the situation, and how it fits with the
Grades:
6th - 12th
Ancient Mayan Civ.: Geo, Agriculture, Architecture and Social Structure
Lessons from Mesoamerica on farming and architecture in a rain forest using only stone-age tools. This 90-slide power point presentation vividly illustrates the problems of living in a hostile environment and solutions the ancient Mayans adopted to survive and thrive in the tropics.How did Stone Age peoples manage over 100 inches of rain a year? How did they grow enough food to feed entire cities in a rain forest? What did they use to construct buildings that did not rot or mildew and are still
Grades:
7th - 9th
Also included in:Â Ancient Mayan Civilization PowerPoint Presentation Bundle
Home Invasion Heist: Critical Thinking Mystery PowerPoint Edition
In this mystery activity that encourages discussion and critical thinking, a millionaire's home is invaded and robbed. There are two suspects: his son and a known jewel thief! Your students read the evidence and use their logic and reading skills to figure out which one is guilty.The PowerPoint format makes it easy to share face-to-face in class, with large audiences, or in online classes. You can also easily import it in Google Slides and use it in Google Classroom!You can also click here for t
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in:Â Critical Thinking Mystery Game: Clue by Clue PowerPoint Bundle
Murder by Appointment: Critical Thinking Mystery PowerPoint Edition
In this mystery activity that encourages discussion and critical thinking, a woman tells a rival CEO she will kill her at a specific time and day. The rival CEO is indeed found dead, but the alleged killer has the perfect alibi. She was across town at a party! How did she do it? Can your students use their reading strategies, critical thinking, and logical reasoning to analyze the evidence and figure it out?The PowerPoint format makes it easy to share face-to-face in class, with large audiences,
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in:Â Critical Thinking Mystery Game: Clue by Clue PowerPoint Bundle
Empty Safe: Critical Thinking Mystery PowerPoint Edition
In this mystery activity that encourages discussion and critical thinking, a rich man dies, but his home safe is empty and he has no bank accounts! Can your students use their reading strategies, critical thinking, and logical reasoning to analyze the evidence and figure out what happened to the missing money? Can they identify the key clue?The PowerPoint format makes it easy to share face-to-face in class, with large audiences, or in online classes. You can also easily import it in Google Slide
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in:Â Critical Thinking Mystery Game: Clue by Clue PowerPoint Bundle
The Missing Jewel: Critical Thinking Mystery PowerPoint Edition
In this brainteaser riddle that encourages discussion and critical thinking, a man gets a new job. He immediately mails himself two letters. When he receives the letters, he throws them away without opening them. Why did he do this? Can your students use their reading strategies, critical thinking, and logical reasoning to analyze the evidence and figure out the reasoning of this character based on a true story?The PowerPoint format makes it easy to share face-to-face in class, with large audien
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Grades:
7th - 11th
Also included in:Â Critical Thinking Mystery Game: Clue by Clue PowerPoint Bundle
The Missing Jewel: Critical Thinking Mystery PowerPoint Edition
Can you students solve this mystery by reading the clues, applying their reading strategies, inferring, and critical thinking skills? In this mystery activity that's perfect for groupwork or pairwork, a woman has her jewels stolen on her wedding day from the basement of the church. There are two suspects, but which one did it?The PowerPoint format makes it easy to share face-to-face in class, with large audiences, or in online classes. You can also easily import it in Google Slides and use it in
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in:Â Critical Thinking Mystery Game: Clue by Clue PowerPoint Bundle
IB-MYP- Digital Design Cycle-Step-by-Step Process Journal Template For Beginners
When my 7th and 8th-grade students make the transition from PYP to MYP, It is always very difficult and frustrating for them to progress through the criteria and strands of the design cycle. They have to do a progressive write-up on each strand within the four criteria. This is called the "Process Journal". Therefore, I designed a template for them to follow that has changed everything. They can now progress logically step-by-step through the entire design cycle. They will not need it in the up
Grades:
5th - 12th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ESS2-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ESS2-1
, MS-ESS2-4
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Drive Through Drama: Critical Thinking Mystery Activity PowerPoint Edition
Can you students figure out these brainteaser by reading the clues and using their inference and critical thinking skills? A man goes through a drive-through and is refused service even though he ordered off the menu and they are happy to serve him inside the restaurant. So what's the problem?Can your students figure the mystery out?The PowerPoint format makes it easy to share face-to-face in class, with large audiences, or in online classes. You can also easily import it in Google Slides and us
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
CCSS:
Also included in:Â Critical Thinking Mystery Game: Clue by Clue PowerPoint Bundle
Author's Point of View (Including Segregation Gallery Walk)
This presentation comes as a pdf which can easily be made into a PowerPoint or into Google Slides. (I used it as a PowerPoint at the time). Within the presentation, students go over what an author's point of view is. There is one example we read together and complete, then one for the students to complete with a partner. Once students are finished with those tasks, they are redirected to a gallery walk, where they discuss and respond to prompting questions about each quote. There are a tota
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
The Letter Thief: Critical Thinking Mystery PowerPoint Edition
In this mystery activity that encourages discussion and critical thinking, students investigate why a man kills a woman. He goes home, waits five days, and then steals a letter from a totally different woman across town. What is going on here? Can your students piece the clues together to figure it out?The PowerPoint format makes it easy to share face-to-face in class or in online classes, distance learning, or remote learning (whatever we're calling it now)! You can also easily import it in Goo
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
CCSS:
Also included in:Â Critical Thinking Mystery Game: Clue by Clue PowerPoint Bundle
Science Fiction: Critical Thinking Research
This PowerPoint Presentation is great for introducing the Science Fiction genre or as a culminating activity, as it explores the question "What if?" These activities are aimed at middle school gifted and talented students, but can be tweaked for any level student in a classroom that utilizes cooperative learning. Students have discussion questions, scenarios to analyze and generate their own questions, and then opportunities to research and develop solutions to their problems. The activity concl
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
The Write Fit Why English? Performance Task Bundle
The bundle is a Performance Task Unit Plan and the corresponding PowerPoint. This unit was conceived as a Back to School or Beginning of the Year activity to have a student understand why they are in ELA and how the class is important to them. The Unit Plan contains Unit Notes, a Pacing Guide, 4 Lesson Plans, 4 additional Graphic Organizers, and alternate sources for the Performance Task. The PowerPoint contains 36 slides to correspond with the unit. Included in The Write Fit TAG Topic Sentence
Grades:
6th - 10th
Designing Temporary Shelters: A STEM Design Team Project
Designing shelters to provide safety to those in harm’s way.Temporary Shelters is a design team project that supports critical thinking and collaboration as student teams make decisions about how to solve the critical need for temporary shelters. Each team will focus on one need for temporary shelters by randomly selecting from the provided Challenge Cards. They will be guided on a design path to learn about the specific need for shelters, analyze current solutions, and decide how to improve upo
Grades:
5th - 9th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Bumped Off Banker: Critical Thinking Mystery Activity PowerPoint Edition
In this PowerPoint Slide edition of the Clue by Clue mystery activity that encourages discussion and critical thinking, a banker is found dead even though he was on the phone with his banker a moment ago. It looks like a suicide, but police suspect it is a murder. What clue tipped the police off?Can your students use their logic and reading skills to figure it out?The PowerPoint format makes it easy to share face-to-face in class, with large audiences, or in online classes. You can also easily i
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Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
CCSS:
Also included in:Â Critical Thinking Mystery Game: Clue by Clue PowerPoint Bundle
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