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Free critical thinking resources for Microsoft PowerPoint
STEM Challenge Task Cards - Learning Tubs - Pattern Blocks - Bridge Building
STEM challenge task cards - features 14 full color pictures for students to try to replicate with pattern blocks! Simply print and place in page protectors. Or print 2-4 slides to a page, laminate, and put on a ring to go with your pattern block math manipulatives. Scaffolds children's learning with a variety of difficulty levels - flat designs, towers, and bridges. Print & go! All you need is pattern blocks and a flat surface.
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PreK - 2nd
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Law & Order: Sentence Structure Unit - Fun Test-Prep Review Game
A fun way to get students to practice and develop their knowledge of sentence structure, sentence types, and common sentence errors. It's a great activity for test prep and review, holidays, the last day or week of school, or other filler days.
I usually hate "test prep." But let's be honest: we all want to review a bit before sending our students into spring state tests to make sure they can do their best. "Law & Order: SSU" is a fun, interactive way for students to review what they know a
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6th - 12th
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Whodunit Mystery: Football/School Investigation (Drawing Conclusions)
These drawing conclusion mysteries are the perfect answer for a fun and engaging reading comprehension activity! Set up as a "whodunnit" investigation, students use critical thinking skills as they read a scenario, clues, and four suspect descriptions. They can work as a team, whole class, or independently to use the facts and find the culprit!Everything is provided in a PowerPoint presentation to display as students work to solve the mystery.***Update: Now available with a google slide link for
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Whodunit Mysteries: Mega ELA Investigation Bundle (Drawing Conclusions)
FREE Gifted & Talented Challenge Extension Math ELA Early Finishers Activities
12 daily challenge tasks that are perfect extension activities for gifted and talented students. Gifted and talented students thrive on daily challenge, and are often deep thinkers. With Google Slides, powerpoint and task cards in both colour and ink saving black and white they are sure to save teacher lots of time preparing enrichment activities for their gifted and talented students. Great for early finishers activities!If you and your students enjoyed this resource…you might like to purchase
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2nd - 6th
Revealing Evidence Freebie - an ELA game for critical thinking
Revealing Evidence is a classroom game that incorporates critical thinking and riddlelike clues. Students are given seven clues about a mystery person, place, or thing. The clues, which appear automatically on a PowerPoint screen, get progressively easier. By the end, most of the students will experience the success of getting the correct answer, but the challenge is to see who can link the clues together the fastest. *SIGN UP AS A FOLLOWER OF “OFF THE PAGE” AND GET NOTIFICATIONS OF ANY SALES F
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5th - 8th
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FREEBIE: 180 Middle School Math Warm-Ups: No-Prep Daily Bellringers & Starters
First five minutes? Planned! With this set of daily bellringers, you'll engage your students and get them thinking!Made for 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade math, these interesting and challenging starters will have your students ready for your lesson.With a pre-made student response sheet, this resource is truly print-and-go, no-prep for the whole school year.Help your students make connections by using this resource at the beginning of class each day!Want all 180 No-Prep 5-Minute Math Warm-Ups? Cli
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5th - 8th
Adjective Game ~ Interactive PPT game with 24 questions, grades 2-4
Do your students struggle with identifying adjectives? Use this game for mini-lessons, whole group lessons, an interactive literacy center, or as a springboard for whole class discussions. With this interactive PowerPoint game, your students cheer as it provides immediate feedback when you click on your answer choice. It's chock full of engaging tier-two style words, as it contains the multiple choice questions from my free Adjectives Task Cards! #TPTtechThis interactive game is only available h
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2nd - 4th
Speak Think Understand - KWL Chart
This KWL chart can be used for any age of student that can read and write. I have used it as young as first grade, but also with college students. It is designed to get students thinking about how the things we know, want to know, and have learned are connected. Coming out of the mouth, you will find a space for students to write what they already know, or can tell you about. In a thought bubble above the head, is a space for what a student might want to know, or be thinking about, but not sure
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Morning Challenges/Brain Teasers
FREE DOWNLOAD
Enjoy these Morning Challenges/Brain Teasers designed to get young minds thinking hard.
Included is 22 pages of challenges including:
- Optical Illusions
- Spot the difference
- What/Who am I?
- Real or fake
- Riddles
Enjoy
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K - 4th
Challenging Math & ELA Puzzles Extension Tasks for Gifted and Talented Students
These Math and ELA Puzzles are perfect extension tasks for gifted and talented students, who thrive on daily challenges and are often deep thinkers. With Google Slides, PowerPoint and task cards, in both colour and ink saving black and white, they are sure to save teachers lots of time preparing enrichment activities for their gifted and talented students. This resource is also great for early finishers!Kimberly Jayne Creates is THREE! To celebrate I created this birthday themed Daily Challenge
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2nd - 6th
Elements of Literature PowerPoint: CCSS Aligned
The ten slides in this FREE Elements of Literature PowerPoint enable teachers to show students how to analyze literature in depth. Each slide offers a visual lesson for Setting, Characters, Plot, Conflict, The World the Author Creates, Theme, Symbols, Tone and Literary Terms.Teachers can use this presentation as an overview before delving into a literature study, or as a reinforcement prior to analyzing a short story, a novel, or narrative non-fiction. Another idea is to show each slide as each
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5th - 12th
Frankenstein's Monster - Customizable PowerPoint Review Game
A fun way to get students to practice or review any concept in any subject at any grade level. It's a great activity for test prep and review, holidays, the last day or week of school, or other filler days.
NOTE: This product is also available as part of my Review Anything COMBO PACK ONE! In this combo pack, you'll get TWELVE different customizable review games!
During my first year of teaching, a mentor teacher passed on a great Jeopardy PowerPoint review game template. The menu animations an
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4th - 12th
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FREE! 4 CER SCIENCE Image Writing Prompts Bell Ringers Graphic Organizers
Here are 4 Free CER SCIENCE photo writing prompts for critical, scientific thinking that can be used as bell ringers, introductions or full discussions either with distance learning or in class. Each slide has an image, the main question and a graphic organizer for the students to fill in the claim, evidence and then reasoning. The second slide for each image supplies a place for the students to write the completed CER paragraph.****Please see my blog post on how I teach CER in my classroom. Us
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7th - 9th
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Free Logic Puzzle Tutorial
Introduce your students to logic puzzles! While these critical thinking activities can be fun, they are intimidating to students who don't know how to do them. This presentation shows step-by-step how to solve a grid logic puzzle. Each clue is examined, and the presentation shows exactly what to fill out and explains the thought process behind marking X's on O's on the grid. As a teacher, this is easy to use, and if you get distracted in the middle of it- no big deal- the thought process is
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5th - 8th
Analyzing a Persuasive (Argumentative) Text - Graphic Organizer
*This graphic organizer can be used during your mini-lesson, with collaborative groups, as homework, or as independent practice. It's very versatile!* I created this graphic organizer for my students while they read an argumentative or persuasive text. They will have to identify the claim and any facts and/or opinions to help prove that claim. They will also have to identify the audience that the main character or person is speaking to. This could be used with fiction or nonfiction genres de
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2nd - 12th
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Brain Teaser Puzzles - Free Sampler of Logic and Word Puzzles
Logic Puzzles - Brain Teaser Puzzles - Free SamplerEngage and reward your students with this sampler of free puzzles. Whether you’re looking to supplement a lesson, or are looking for fun ways to reward your students, we have a sampler of freebies ready for you to download and use immediately!Brain teaser puzzles included in this sampler (includes answer key):Quotation Detective - students are challenged to reconstruct quotes from famous historical figures. Defeat the Dragon #2 contains puzzles
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5th - 11th
FREEBIE Interactive Growth Mindset Notebook & Powerpoint Printable Activity
This FREE unique growth/fixed mindset activity includes 18 different and unique mindsets. Students interact and discuss the different mindsets and cut and place each mindset into a fixed or growth mindset pocket that can be placed into their notebooks and referred to when motivation is needed for different lessons. The lesson pack includes a powerpoint presentation with detailed and explicit lesson instructions and explanations on how to craft the growth and fixed mindset pockets and use the int
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PreK - 9th
Growth vs Fixed Mindset Graphic Organizer Notes & PowerPoint - FREE
THE PRODUCT Teach your middle school or high school students the difference between a growth and a fixed mindset, and why it’s important to develop a growth mindset using these engaging graphic organizers guided by a PowerPoint presentation. The presentation concludes with ideas for students to apply their skills with self-reflection writing prompts and Internet-based activities. PDF files for printing a poster and infographic also included. INTENDED AUDIENCE Growth vs Fixed Mindset is part
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
Teaching Analogies
This PowerPoint presentation uses graphic organizers to help students understand and decode analogies. Understanding and decoding analogies is a higher level thinking skill transferable to reading comprehension, critical thinking, and creativity. Using graphic organizers to decode the analogies provides the students with the tools to make the interconnections by linking new information with information they already know. Each analogy includes visual and animated illustrations to assist the s
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
Short Vowel Sound PowerPoint Presentations A, E, I, O, U
Short Vowel Sound PowerPoint Presentations A, E, I, O, U
Each presentation deals with one short vowel sound following the CVC pattern. You control the slides, so you can take time to discuss the words as you go. The initial and ending consonants change one at a time to form new words. An example would be a, at, cat, cap. The format is purposely uncluttered. Whole groups, small groups, and individual students would benefit from this direct instruction. These PowerPoints are meant to enhance your
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K - 2nd
Free Choice Board Template
A fun freebie for you!Choice boards allow students to make their own decisions on how they want to learn about a specific topic! This increases meaningful learning and allows for differentiated instruction. Use for early finishers, small group activities, or independent work!Great for combo classesWorks well for grades 2-6Students select between research, create, speak, read, write, or listening activitiesEditable title and choice board tasksPrintable or display on your screen or projector for a
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2nd - 6th
Lego Challenges for Kids | Digital Product | Free
Lego challenges for kids are a game-changer for any kindergarten, 1st, or 2nd-grade classroom. A lot of teachers want to create lego challenges for kids that leave their students with problem-solving skills, and creativity but are often left with students not engaged and students being confused. This is no longer the case with this interactive google slide that contains lego challenges for kids! With these 3 unique lego challenges for kids, students are engaged and are on task. These challenges
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K - 2nd
Kids Yoga Poses PowerPoint Digital Spinner Game- LIMITED TIME FREEBIE
This kids yoga digital spinner game is a SUPER FUN way to help children learn and practice yoga poses while playing a familiar BRAIN BREAK activity!What’s Included: ✨ 4 Different PowerPoint Games ✨ Please Note: The animations in this PowerPoint Presentation file will not work when uploaded to Google Slides™ and may not work as intended with the online version of PowerPoint (Microsoft 365) or older versions of PowerPoint. Please make sure you have access to the appropriate software before purch
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Not Grade Specific
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