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High school problem solving informational text resources for GATE
Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle
Teach your students with depth and complexity!This "Mega Bundle" contains 8 of my best selling resources that are designed to elicit critical thinking. $65.00 if purchased separately; Save over 30%! Click on the links below for detailed information on each of the 9 resources that are included in this bundle. Two versions--with and without icons--are now included!!IMPORTANT: This bundle has changed. Please read through the product description carefully and check out the links below to see exac
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4th - 10th, Higher Education
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Sudoku Puzzles for Critical Thinking and Logical Reasoning Digital and Print
Sudoku Puzzles for Critical Thinking engages students in logical reasoning. Easel Activity included. This file includes a blank sudoku student answer sheet, 10 sudoku puzzles for printing (use in math centers or individually, or for projection on a whiteboard), and 5 sets of 4 puzzles for a group sudoku race to solve. Teacher directions include how to make reusable dry erase answer sheets so you can save ink, and suggestions for teaching Sudoku strategies. A great way to get students thinking! I
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6th - 9th
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Infographic Project: Summative Assessment Projects
Infographic Project: Communicating Non-Fiction Information
This infographic project contains a two page teacher information sheet and five pages of student worksheets! Student worksheets include: a two page step by step "how to" on making a digital infographic, a project introduction page, a planning sheet and a project grading rubric.
About the Product
Infographics are a wonderful tool for analyzing and communicating information. This product contains materials for guiding students in usi
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5th - 9th
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Music Album Soundtrack & Cover Design Project
Summative Assessment Project: Music Album Soundtrack Project
This end of the unit project is great as a summative assessment for any content area! Students will pick "soundtrack" of songs and make a connection between the songs and the main idea of the unit! They will then design a CD album cover based on the big ideas of the unit. Students will utilize the planning sheets to identify the key themes and big ideas/essential understandings to include in their project. This project provides opti
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5th - 9th
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Ancient Greek Philosophers of Ancient Greece Activities Middle School 6th grade
Interactive? Check! Engaging? Check! Deep thinking? Check! Your students will love learning about Classical Greek philosophers with this set of three activities that focus on six philosophers of Ancient Greece. They'll learn about Hypatia, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, and Thucydides in original one-page biographies, and then they'll create trading cards about the philosophers. In the third activity, they will select three of the philosophers and create an imaginary conversation they would
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5th - 9th
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Chistmas Informational Text 5 Things You Didn't Know about Christmas Songs
Informational Text Christmas Theme
Christmas Informational Text 5 Things You Didn’t Know about Christmas Songs” is a set of five original articles based on 5 familiar Christmas songs. Each text features a little-known fact about a particular song. In many cases, events from American history were involved in shaping the song, and sometimes, the song shaped history. Think of this informational text collection as a combination history/music/reading resource!
Each informational article is two pag
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5th - 9th
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Artificial Intelligence Escape Room Digital and Print AI reading Escape Room
Let your students learn about and discover Artificial Intelligence (AI) with this digital and print ELA escape room. This escape room is designed to enhance their nonfiction reading skills while nurturing critical thinking and analysis abilities. This escape room is the perfect blend of rigorous informational text analysis and engagement!In this comprehensive escape room experience, students will be immersed in four challenges, each centered around informational texts about artificial intelli
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5th - 9th
Lesson Plan: This I Believe
"This I Believe" is a long-running program that began with Edward R. Murrow. This lesson plan, by exploring student's own beliefs, assists students in better understanding themselves in this complex and challenging world. The plan includes
* 7 required readings
* audio links
* teacher resources
* vocabulary, quiz, glossary, and key
* writing prompt
* rubric
* images
and more. See the preview table of contents for more details.
This plan should take two weeks to complete.
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6th - 12th
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Mystery Game - A Whole Class Whodunit
This logic game is played similarly to the classic board game “Clue”. I usually play the game throughout our mystery genre reading/writing unit of study over the course of a few weeks.
When playing this game you will need to prepare a place in your classroom to keep track a list of the suspects, places, and times the crime was committed.
Included with this game:
-Full teacher instructions
-"Mysterious" Letters and Clues for your class
-Student detective graphic organizer
Please note this gam
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3rd - 9th
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Informational Text for October and Halloween
Informational Text Halloween Theme
Informational Text for October begins with an article about Frankenstein’s monster. Not only is he one of Halloween’s most versatile characters, he is also a star of stage, screen, and TV. The strange thing is—he has never had a name and he owes everything to his strikingly ugly looks.
The second article takes students back to 1816, known as the Year Without a Summer when people in New England and a few states father south were shoveling out from under
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6th - 9th
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GIFTED AND TALENTED PROBLEM SOLVING #2
Gifted and talented classes usually have an abundance of educational materials for English, the arts and social studies, but very little for mathematics, critical thinking, and problem solving. “GIFTED AND TALENTED PROBLEM SOLVING #2” has 42 pages of activities specially designed to motivate and challenge your gifted-talented students. All of the activities involve mathematics, critical thinking and problem solving. This material can also be used in the regular classroom. Our students need to be
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5th - 12th, Staff
SAT-PSAT-ACT PREP An Introduction for MIDDLE-HIGH SCHOOL
It is never too early to start preparing for the PSAT, SAT or ACT. If students want to do well on these tests they need a solid foundation in mathematics, but they also need experience practicing the types of problems that are on these tests. Most school mathematics curriculums do not prepare students to take these standardized tests. LEVEL #1 provides 60 units (360 problems) of questions like what’s on the SAT/ACT. There are also 30 evaluations to check the progress of your students. LEVEL #
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6th - 12th, Staff
Logic Grid Puzzles - Intermediate
Work on literacy skills without anyone knowing with these logic grid puzzles from Ms. Merry Mac!
Logic grid puzzles are an addicting way for students to practice deductive reasoning and inferring without having to read longer texts. They encourage readers to look carefully at evidence in the text and draw conclusions based on that information. They can even freshen up interventions for students in need of moving beyond literal interpretations in reading comprehension work. Plus, making a mod
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5th - 12th
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FREE Close Reading Bookmarks - Annotating Text & Post-it Note Strategy
Print these bookmarks for your students and they will never forget how to close read! I print mine double-sided and students use one side for when we can write on the text and the other (post-it) side for when we're close reading something we can't write on!*****************************************************************************CCSS Aligned Interactive Reading NotebooksI use interactive notebooks in my classroom on a daily basis. I've created my own interactive notebook pages that are align
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4th - 12th
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Current Events Report
This template can be used as a graphic organizer for any newspaper, magazine, or nonfiction article. It is a wonderful activity to have on hand for enrichment, and most local newspapers will deliver free to schools if you request papers for your class. I use this activity for early finishers and always a folder full on hand along with a basket of newspaper articles for the students to choose from. Bring the real world into your classroom with current events!
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1st - 9th
Math Logic Puzzles for Middle School
Challenge your math students' critical thinking and problem solving with these 9 math themed logic puzzles.Included in this resource are:4 grid logic puzzles based on factual information (women mathematicians, Ancient Greek mathematicians, and recent International Mathematic Olympiad competitions2 grid logic puzzles based on fictitious students of math, their schedules, and a MS math competitiona Math CryptogramMath Ladder WordsMath Word SudokusThese logic puzzles can be used for team building,
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6th - 9th
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Source Analysis (OPCVL) Reference Guide
IB aligned reference guide that gives students the tools/language to use for evaluating sources. It includes:A comprehensive list of types of sources (i.e. memoirs, documentaries, podcasts,etc...) with descriptions of their values and limitations. One pagers that define Origin, Purpose, Content and categorize their values and limitations A “Handy Dandy One Pager” with sentence starters to help students write their analysis of a source.All in a ready to print packet! I.B. (International Baccala
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Digital Research Report / Project Template Google Classroom DISTANCE LEARNING
This is a Research Report/Project Template that supports all stages of the research/ writing process. This was designed for Google Classroom in mind. This includes brainstorming opportunities, note-taking space (gathering), source tracking, graphic organizers (planning), and the presentation itself (final product). The slides are already titled and you can customize the final report template for your students. Text boxes are already set to go! Use the editable slides to add any element you wish.
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3rd - 9th
8 Amazing Female Inventors
Bet you didn't know that windshield wipers were invented by a WOMAN! Mary Anderson came up with the idea in the early 1900s -- a time when women were often not viewed as capable of scientific ideas. Let's hear it for those women who were pioneers in their fields!!! Read more about women inventors in this packet that contains 8 high-interest passages with coordinating activity sheets. The activity sheets address analytical thinking, vocabulary, language formulation and text-dependent comprehensio
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6th - 12th
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Common Core Text-Dependent Writing Prompt Argumentative Grade 8
The new common core standards will require students to relate their story and essay writing to two-three passages of text. The text may be nonfiction, charts, quotations, environmental print, fiction, or poetry. In line with PARCC demands.
This writing prompt contains three texts for the student to read (very short) and specific writing prompt directions. The type of writing the students will be composing will fall under the category "argumentative" because the student will be forced to establi
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7th - 9th
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Non-Fiction Reading Skills ELA Question Loop and Middle School Trail Game
Elevate your classroom experience with this captivating Interactive ELA skills lesson that puts students at the center of their learning journey. This engaging activity offers a unique twist on traditional instruction, seamlessly blending rigorous questioning, collaborative problem-solving, and active movement. Ideal for middle school and high school students, this lesson provides a dynamic way to grasp essential non-fiction reading concepts while fostering teamwork and critical thinking.I belie
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Dynamic ELA Question Trails Bundle - Engaging Middle School Activities
Sphero Basics: Controls Card Set
This card set describes the basic "control" commands to program the sphero. This card set is designed for use with the SpheroEDU app.Great as a reference when doing any coding challenges with the sphero! Includes cards for the students and full pages for projection.
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Sphero Card Set Bundle 1
Winter Word Puzzles - Snow Day Activities for Fast Finishers - Critical Thinking
This might be your favorite Winter puzzle pack ever! My students have nicknamed these "The Harder Than It Looks Puzzle". Do not be fooled by the easy words, the puzzles are challenging and require some perseverance and critical thinking. My son and I write these together. :)This fun, very challenging logic puzzle collection challenges students to use deductive reasoning and clues to arrange the clue words in the appropriate rows and columns. Convergent thinking is a must! :). There is
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Thanksgiving Logic Puzzle
This might be your favorite Thanksgiving Puzzle ever! First Thanksgiving Logic Puzzles are word puzzles. My students have nicknamed these "The Harder Than It Looks Puzzle". Do not be fooled by the easy words, the puzzles are challenging and require some perseverance and critical thinking. My son and I write these together. :)This fun, very challenging logic puzzle collection challenges students to use deductive reasoning and clues to arrange the clue words in the appropriate rows and colum
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Holiday Logic Bundle- Middle School - Easter Activities- Fast Finishers
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