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Problem solving Common Core SL.1.5 resources
Social Stories Problem Solving Strategies Scenarios & Social Skills Activities
Do you have students who struggle with determining whether their problems are big or small? Does EVERY problem, and decision-making situation, regardless of the size, seem to result in a BIG reaction? If the answer is yes, then this Problem Solving Social Skills Story & Emotional Regulation Activities Set is just what you need. This set includes an engaging and informative social skills story and multiple high-interest activities. Perfect for strengthening social emotional learning in your
Grades:
K - 4th
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Also included in: Social Stories Social Skills Activities Expected vs Unexpected Behaviors
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
Grades:
K - 5th
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Character Education | Conflict Resolution Activities | SEL Activities
This Conflict Resolution Unit and Negotiating Differences uses Character Education and social skills to help students to be able to resolve conflicts on their own without the help of an adult. It also builds community within your classroom. A class that lacks character and social skills will have a difficult time during the school year learning anything. I spend a considerable amount of time each year teaching social skills. This unit will help your students not to rely on you to fix all their p
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Character Education Curriculum Lessons and Activities | Social Skills
1st Grade Project Based Learning - Playground Design
For the adventurous teacher who likes an active classroom and trying new things!Students will design, in 2D and again in 3D models, the ultimate playground design. They will conduct polls throughout the school to figure out what other students like the most in a playground and then graph their data. They will visit a playground to take measurements and, of course, play around. They will record their measurements, and draw the playground on graph paper.
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Grades:
1st
Little Spot of SEL Social Stories and Scenarios Cards (Write the Room)
This social-emotional learning resource has many different activities you can use in the classroom. Students will love doing discussions about the scenarios and talking about how each event would make them feel. These stories can be used for whole-class discussion, in partnerships, or as a write-the-room activity. Included with this product: - 2 sets of emotion cards-40 short social story scenarios -2 write the room templates If you are interested in other activities with this series, check out
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Also included in: A Little Spot of SEL Resources!
Helping Everyday Heroes Make Positive Choices
A social/emotional teaching resource to be used with or without Shelly Becker's Book "Even Superheroes Have Bad Days". This product includes: No-Prep Weekly Lesson Plan at a Glance6 Levels of Essential Questions/Activities Aligned with Bloom's Learning Domains3 Differentiated Writing Tasks12 Page Emergent Reader 3 Differentiated SWBST ChartsNegative & Positive Behavior Matching Exercise Reader's Theater Play 7 Character Headbands to Color and PersonalizeTeach your students about making posi
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Ruby Finds a Worry Read A Loud SEL Book companion + Writing Activities
Ruby Finds a Worry by Tom Percival book companion to integrate SEL into your literacy block. Understanding emotions and ways to work through them benefit individual students and the classroom community as a whole.Use as an introductory lesson in discussing the Zones of Regulation framework and how it can be used to create and develop your social emotional learning community. Beginning of the year to establish community, Middle of the year to review, End of school year to keep students (and your
Grades:
PreK - 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
Grades:
PreK - 3rd
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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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Dr. DooRiddles A1: Fun Associative Reasoning Early Learning Riddle Activities
This 48-page printable PDF ebook for Preschool through Grade 2 is packed full of brain-scratching riddles that develop students' fluency and understanding of word meanings and associations. These riddles also develop spelling, vocabulary, reading, critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills. Everyone loves the mystery of a riddle and Dr. DooRiddles will bring laughter, groans, and challenges (perhaps for as much as a week or more per riddle) to you and your students. Perceiving relatio
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PreK - 2nd
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Dr. DooRiddles A2: Fun Associative Reasoning Riddle Activities for Grades PreK-2
This 48-page printable PDF ebook for early learners is packed full of brain-scratching riddles that develop students' fluency and understanding of word meanings and associations. These riddles also develop spelling, vocabulary, reading, critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills. Everyone loves the mystery of a riddle and Dr. DooRiddles will bring laughter, groans,and challenges (perhaps for as much as a week or more per riddle) to you and your students.Perceiving relationships betwee
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PreK - 2nd
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Candy Heart STEM Challenge
A STEM engineering project for elementary students is here! Students are challenged to build a boat that will support the most weight. The weight used to measure are candy hearts. Students will be asked to collaborate, design, build and revise their ideas. They are asked to reflect and graph their results at the end. Happy engineering!
Also, be sure to check out my Valentine's STEM pack! This pack includes 3 STEM projects to do around Valentine's day. Included are:
Candy Heart STEM Challenge
V
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Morning Meeting Share Slides
This product contains 169 days worth of morning meeting google slides. What better way than to start your day by meeting with your class and doing a little sharing. I used to play a song each morning at a certain time and when the kids heard the song they knew it was time to come down to the carpet in front of the slides and be prepared to start our day by sharing.
Grades:
1st - 8th
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Teddy Bear Shoppe: Build Math Problem-Solving & Critical Thinking Skills
This is a supplementary unit that believes in students learning “a mile deep” not a mile long. This unit is designed to help students take the fear out of math problem solving, develop listening and speaking skills and build math vocabulary. Using this supplemental math resource, your students will gain confidence in their math problem-solving abilities, develop higher level critical thinking skills, and do so while developing growth mindset attitudes.
Students will use a teddy bear theme to so
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Valentine's Bag STEM Challenge
It's that time of year! Time to pass out valentines! But, first you need to create your container to collect them! Students will be given various materials and asked to design and create a container to collect their valentines cards. Students will work with a partner to get feedback on their design and utilize components of Design Thinking. This activity is appropriate for elementary students.
Be sure to check out my Valentine's STEM Pack to get more projects and save! Included in this pack ar
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PreK - 3rd
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The Behavior Engineering Model K-2 SEL non-graded activity
A fun and engaging activity for students to learn the principles of working in teams, without the pressure of being "graded on behavior." The NASA Behavior Engineering Model is just that - a MODEL of the qualities and characteristics found with NASA's best engineers. Studied in 2008, Mrs. Stern-Protz put together these lessons for you to enjoy with your students during pull-out, WIN periods, during and after-school enrichment, and in groups or one-on-one. This is a new effort by Mrs. Stern, a le
Grades:
1st - 3rd
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-1
Feelings: Healthy Tools for Dealing with Feelings
This social narrative* is designed to help students with choosing healthy coping strategies (tools) to deal with their feelings. It can be helpful to understand positive and negative social consequences for dealing with feelings in (un)healthy ways.*"Social narrative" is a similar term to Social Story (TM), a term copyrighted by Carol Gray. Social narratives are an evidence-based practice, based on Gray's research, that explains a concept or skill. They can be beneficial for students who have di
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PreK - 8th
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100th Day STEAM Challenges
100th day STEAM challenges. This can be used as whole class challenges or as centers. Students can build individually or in groups. These signs will help set up activities for students on the 100th day. Challenges include building materials that are usually available in classrooms. The last page is blank so you can add in something you have 100 of that students can build with. Let students use their creativity and problem solving skills as they engineer different things.
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Not Grade Specific
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Think Time Sheet
This is a think time sheet designed for early elementary level students and homeschool learners. It is something that can be given to a student as a tool to help them reflect on something that happened and resulted in them having big feelings or big reactions (good or bad). It can help students understand what they are feeling, why they are feeling that way and what they can do to feel better.
Grades:
K - 3rd
Standards-Aligned Guide Grades 1-3, Kinzie's Kinventions: Kinzie's Got Talent #1
WARNING: This book may turn problem makers into problem solvers!This three-page guide is the perfect educator's guide for reading Kinzie's Got Talent with your classroom. Includes a reading discussion guide & questions, magnetic slime STEM activity, and an Inventor's Planning Guide to introduce students to the Design Process used for problem solving. ISBN: 978-1-951546-0-07 (paperback); 978-1951546-03-8 (hardback); 978-1951546-02-1 (ebook); 978-1951546-01-4 (audio)Author: Donna BoockIllustr
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Standards-Aligned Guide Grade 1-3mKinzie's Kinventions:Kinzie and the P. U. Zoo
Don't worry - this book doesn't stink!This three-page guide is the perfect educator's guide for reading Earth to Kinzie with your classroom, Includes a Discussion guide with pre and post-reading questions and a printable crossword puzzle.ISBN: 978-1-951546-08-3 (paperback); 978-1951546-09-0 (hardback); 978-1951546-10-6 (ebook); 978-1951546-11-3 (audio)Author: Donna BoockIllustrator: Stephanie HiderPublisher: Indigo BooksRecommended for ages 6-9, this chapter book series will appeal to readers of
Grades:
1st - 3rd
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-1
Spanish SEL Lesson: "No quiere ser mi amigo/a!"
Spanish SEL lesson for teaching students how to manage the all too common situation when they are told by another student "I don't want to be your friend anymore!" or "No quiero ser tu amigo/a!". As we all know, this hurts students feelings badly and it takes time from our day to talk students through how to manage this situation. If you have been wondering how you can be proactive about this, whether at the beginning of the year or in the middle, here is your solution! This resource includes a
Grades:
PreK - 1st
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Build a Robot!
Students work together to identify a real-life problem to be solved and come up with a solution by building a robot. This activity is a great opportunity to help students practice problem-solving and collaboration skills!
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K - 3rd
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First Grade Sequencing
Using the children's story "Birthday Soup" teach sequencing to K - 2nd graders through transition words, reading aloud,a hands-on cut and paste packet, retelling, and a summative assessment.
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Grades:
1st
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