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Problem solving Common Core CCRA.L.5 resources
Critical Thinking Skills BUNDLE - Creative Challenging Activities Worksheets
Watch critical thinking skills soar with these challenging and creative activities! Improve critical thinking skills and you're sure to improve reading comprehension, problem solving and math skills! Aligned with Bloom's Taxonomy, these step-by-step activities are carefully structured, research-based and give students the thinking and logic skills they need to master every area of learning. SEQUENTIAL ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE CRITICAL THINKING:These delightful exercises are based on Bloom's Taxo
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2nd - 6th
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Norse Mythology Escape Room - Thor's Quest
This engaging escape room introduces your students to the Norse myth “Aegir’s Feast: How Thor Triumphed.” Can Thor use his force and cunning to successfully steal a mead kettle from the Giant Hrymer?Students don’t need prior knowledge of Norse Mythology to understand the myth. If you have taught my Norse Mythology Unit, the escape room will serve as a great review and extension.The text is broken down into six sections – beginning, four challenges, end. Students will read the sections and answer
Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in: Norse Mythology Escape Room & Elon Musk Escape Room BUNDLE
Logic Puzzle Brain Teaser Worksheets for Gifted and Talented in Print or Digital
Improve critical thinking skills with these fun logic puzzles and brain teasers which are perfect for gifted and talented students! This product contains NINE multi-subject, fun, standards based resources with a variety of puzzles and challenges to keep your students happy and motivated. Plus, the printables may be used digitally with Google Docs and Easel worksheets. #joycelogicBy purchasing this bundle, you are saving about 25% off the price of individual resources.Use these gifted activities
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4th - 6th
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EPCOT Workbook, Full Park Curriculum for Trips and Homeschooling
The "Ultimate EPCOT Workbook: Curriculum for Educational Trips and Homeschooling in the World's Most Magical Place" is a comprehensive educational companion designed for students and educators alike to enhance their EPCOT experience with a robust curriculum that makes each visit both fun and informative. This innovative printable workbook includes a diverse range of activities that are specifically tailored to each attraction within EPCOT, aiming to deepen the understanding of themes such as cul
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
Language Activities Digital Escape Rooms Bundle 1
This comprehensive bundle is a treasure trove of language arts and speech therapy challenges, including analogies, multiple meaning words, homonyms, synonyms, antonyms, context clues strategies, tier two vocabulary, analogies, and idioms digital escape room adventures. With a whopping six unique escape rooms included, your students will embark on unforgettable journeys all without the hassle of logins or complicated setups. Students solve puzzles, decipher clues, and unlock mysteries of language
Grades:
2nd - 7th
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Language Activities Digital Escape Rooms Bundle 2
This comprehensive bundle is a treasure trove of language arts and speech therapy challenges, including analogies, multiple meaning words, homonyms, synonyms, antonyms, context clues strategies, tier two vocabulary, and analogies digital escape room adventures. With a whopping six unique escape rooms included, your students will embark on unforgettable journeys all without the hassle of logins or complicated setups. Students solve puzzles, decipher clues, and unlock mysteries of language in a h
Grades:
2nd - 7th
Spring Literacy and Math NOPREP Packet - (2nd Grade)
Spring Literacy and Math Printables[Helpful for Distance Learning] ☆See the preview☆This pack is FULL of spring-themed printables... a fun way to incorporate spring into your literacy and math lessons!!!The packet includes:LiteracySynonyms & AntonymsHomophonesHomographsDictionary SkillsClosely Related VerbsClosely Related AdjectivesMain Idea and DetailsLong A and ABC Order to the 1st LetterLong A and ProofreadingLong ELong E and ProofreadingLong I and ABC Order to the 2nd LetterLong I and Pr
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1st - 3rd
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Once Upon a Crime - ELA Debate Argument Unit
My students had so much fun doing this, they didn't want it to end! Four Disney villains are being brought to court with charges and your students will either prosecute or defend them in "court":Ursula - The Little Mermaid: Fraud & Exploitation Scar - The Lion King: Manslaughter & Environmental CrimesGaston - Beauty & The Beast: Attempted Murder & Inciting a RiotLady Tremaine - Cinderella: Emotional Abuse/Neglect & ExploitationAssign your students to be prosecutors and defend
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Argument Unit Bundle
Escape the Rainbow No-Locks Breakout Easy to Prep and Engaging
Are you ready for some Lucky Charms? Or chasing a pot of gold? This No Locks Escape Room has some tasks related to those topics that also cover some basic skills of upper elementary students. Students love these events and you will love the low prep!In this No Locks Escape Room students complete tasks to earn a method of ‘escaping’. The prep for the events with NO LOCKS is minimal- just making copies. No locks or boxes! Teams are working together to escape a rainbow!NOTE: This Escape Room is av
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4th - 5th
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Also included in: No Locks Escape Room Bundle 11 Easy Prep Paper/Pencil Breakouts
Cockroach Cooties by Laurence Yep: A PDF Book Club Guide
This is a ready-to-use, custom-designed, independent-work packet to guide students who are reading Laurence Yep's book, Cockroach Cooties. Included is a 23-page student "booklet" (or worksheets), an answer key, and a vocabulary bookmark. The student booklet is designed to reinforce essential reading and writing skills for students in grades 3-5. Skills addressed include expanding vocabulary, demonstrating comprehension, visualizing, sequence-of-events, understanding figurative language & sim
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Easter ELA Scavenger Hunt with 10 Tasks and Activity Record Sheet
Set as a homework, or just complete for fun! Aimed at grades 8-12, this ten-task scavenger hunt mat can be printed as a double-sided worksheet or laminated for repeated use.It comes in four designs, including a low-ink grayscale version, and both US and UK sizes (and spellings). The scavenger hunt tasks include:VocabularyAdditional languagesInstructive writingSpeaking and listeningSynonymsPersuasive writing and speechWord groupsAnnotation and reasoningSong lyricsDescriptive writingYou might also
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Grades:
8th - 11th
Stuck in School Fun Simulation Game (Critical Thinking, Problem Solving)
This resource is an editable, fun simulation game in which students work in groups to survive scenarios. The scene is set as the students being stuck in school overnight, with all windows and doors barricaded. If any school personnel catches them, they will die/lose. Groups must strategize tactful ways out of the situations to make it through all 12 scenarios and survive the game.
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5th - 12th
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Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery Unit (Bundle)
This is a unit about teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) that can be expanded at the teacher's discretion to include a presentation and a paper that practices utilizing evidence, reasoning, and argument, or alternatively can also be collapsed into a mini-unit of just teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER). This unit can also be used to teach the concept of Line of Reasoning for the AP Lang and AP Seminar Classes. It is structured as an investigation for students to explore the murder of a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Symbolism Tiny House Project: A Body Biography Alternative
THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES:Intro Symbolism activities and pointers for getting students startedA link to a digitally editable planning page House plan and furniture printable blueprintsProject grading rubricExemplar images for a completed Tiny House projectOption for extension activity with a video tutorialThis is a wonderful project to use after or in place of a body biography!Students will create a tiny home for a character. They must use symbolism to identify an aesthetic and design a place where
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: 7th Grade ELA Unit 3 Bundle: Argumentative Texts
Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery Unit
This is the accompanying teaching sequence for the unit “Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery.” It includes a mystery to solve, all the evidence (which can be turned into manipulatives), rubrics for presentations and writing, teaching instructions, graphic organizers, and solutions. It does not include the "Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery" PowerPoint presentation which can be purchased separately or as part of a bundle.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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The Recess Queen Book Companion and Activities
The Recess Queen book Companion and Activities is a print and go resource. This book companion offers multiple resources to teach story elements along with a connection to social emotional needs children deal with daily. This is standards-based and covers almost all aspects of language arts instruction. The activities were designed to be open-ended for easy differentiation and modification.The Recess Queen is a wonderful book written on a level that helps children understand and make connection
Grades:
K - 3rd
Break Out: Poe's Poetry escape room (virtual and in person)
By Kathy Applebee; Students read and analyze Poe’s poems and events in his life to successfully open the locks. Includes clues, directions, exit ticket and writing prompts suggestions, reflection questions, online resources and review games, standards in ELA and math and editable rubric. Recommended Ages/ target audience: middle/high school; Ideal Group Size: classroom; Suggested Time: 5 minute introduction, 50 minute playing time, additional time for reflection and exit ticketsSTORY: The diar
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7th - 12th
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ELA Bell Ringers | Full Year 180 Original Brain Teasers
Need some fresh ways to engage your students? Use this bundle of 180 Riddles for daily bell ringers, warm-ups, or games all year long to give your students a quick burst of challenge.Project these unique word riddles on your board every day for the whole school year to activate kids' critical thinking, problem solving, and vocabulary connections.You get 418 pages of riddles and answers. Use one per day at the start of class as a bellringer/warmup, for end of class sponge activities, or to create
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5th - 8th
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Norse Mythology Escape Room & Elon Musk Escape Room BUNDLE
This resource is a bundle of my Norse Mythology and Elon Musk Escape Rooms.NORSE MYTHOLOGY ESCAPE ROOM - Thor's QuestThis engaging escape room introduces your students to the Norse myth “Aegir’s Feast: How Thor Triumphed.” Can Thor use his force and cunning to successfully steal a mead kettle from the Giant Hrymer?Students don’t need prior knowledge of Norse Mythology to understand the myth. If you have taught my Norse Mythology Unit, the escape room will serve as a great review and extension.Th
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7th - 12th
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Gingerbread Hunt
Please enjoy this Gingerbread scavenger hunt bundle for the holidays! This activity pairs well with reading a gingerbread read aloud to the children! The students will be so excited to explore their school, look for clues and discover a variety of activities when they return to their classroom!
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PreK - 2nd
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Executive Function Skills; TONS OF FUN ACTIVITIES!
For Funs Sake!This packet contains activities, definitions, and age ranges for 14 executive functioning skills all people use in daily life.The packet describes around when each skill is ready to be learned developmentally (+/- 1year is normal), what they mean, and a whole slough of fun- and gut-busting exercises & activities. Almost all activities listed in the packet can be done with no materials or materials at hand, some are independent activities and some are meant to be enjoyed togeth
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
ELA Extra Credit Project Ideas
This product is inspired by a middle school math teacher that I had, who offered extra credit for projects we completed outside of class. I adapted this idea for the 8th-12th Grade ELA classroom! There are 9 prompts in total, each varying in points. You can use this to provide extra credit opportunities to students, or to assign regular projects and assignments based on the ideas listed, such as a timeline of an author's life, a diorama depicting a vital scene in a novel, and more. The rubrics f
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) - Mini Mysteries
This is a mini unit on CER (Claim Evidence Reasoning) that can also be used for exercises of Line of Reasoning/Line of Evidence for AP Classes. It contains graphic organizers, five "mini" murder/mystery scenarios with original characters to solve, a rubric for a written portion, sentence stems to use for writing, and solutions. Students will be able to utilize close reading and critical thinking skills in order to solve the scenarios. Attached to the unit is the Presentation for CER (Claim Evi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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CRITICAL THINKING PUZZLES Thinking Corner Vol. 1 Daily Challenge Logic GATE
THINKING CORNER is a MADE-FOR-EASEL product that provides an engaging, interactive, digital activity for exercising logic and reasoning skills among gifted and high achieving, 3rd – 6th graders. Each daily slide challenges learners to solve 5 critical thinking puzzles:Hink PinksMystery MathTriadsWord LaddersWord Winkers A total of 90 days' worth of critical thinking puzzles are supplied. Combined with Vol. 2, you will have an entire year of activities.No print product is available with this down
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3rd - 6th
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