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"Life of Pi" COMPLETE UNIT EDITABLE Activities,Tests,Essays,AP Style,Keys
NEW REVISED VERSION UPLOADED! Tests and quizzes are now in Excel format for easy upload to the free program socrative.com. You can now test your students electronically with instant feedback and assessment!A 269 page COMPLETE unit on the novel! This unit focuses on LITERARY DEVICES, SKILLS APPLICATION, and LITERARY ANALYSIS. Unit includes reading guide questions and quizzes, vocabulary, literary analysis activities, and AP style tests and essays. Includes a sample essay. Original photographs of
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Philosophy Unit Bundle Epistemology and Being Human Lectures and Activities
This is a unit bundle for IB Philosophy and non-IB philosophy high school classes. The thematic focus of this unit is Epistemology and Being Human. The unit contains lectures, a presentation project, essay prompts, vocabulary, in-class activities, questions for readings, questions for films, all 46 Philosophy Crash Course video questions, and an IA (Internal Assessment) assignment. Details of Included Items:7 PowerPoint Lectures with detailed teacher's notes41 Vocabulary terms and 4 vocabulary q
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Design a School Project (Based on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs) | PBL
This project-based learning activity is intended as a culminating project following a lesson on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. This project would be appropriate for a high school Psychology course or Social Studies course. I used this project with my Social Studies students as a culminating project after watching the documentary film, "The Bad Kids" (could also be used with "Stand and Deliver," "Lean on Me," or a similar film.Step I:In this exercise, students will connect what they've learned abou
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â Psychology Store Growing Bundle
Rebus Puzzles/Brain Teasers/Word Puzzles
This resource contains 181 word puzzles that will get students thinking outside of the box! Each puzzle is on a separate slide to display on the Smartboard/Loft Board. There are lots of ways that you can use these puzzles in your classroom! Use the puzzles as a bell-ringer, an extension activity or throughout the days as a transitional tool! Print the puzzles out for students to work on independently by selecting the option to print multiple slides per page (up to 16).Take the resource apart and
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Listening and Following Directions Activity With Lesson Plan
Listening and Following Directions
An Activity That Challenges Students To Pay Attention To Details
This activity is designed to challenge students to listen closely to directions and complete tasks in the correct locations on a grid.
Interested in more following directions and reading comprehension activities? Check out:
Listening and Following Directions Growing Bundle + Reading Comprehension
Listening & Following Directions Back To School Edition +Reading Comprehension
Listening & Fol
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
Nazca Game - gifted geometry critical thinking problem solving activity
This game is part maze, part geometry, and part mind puzzle. Draw lines along the paths to connect the outer ring dots to the inner goal dot. Some missions are quick, while others take some planning. All the rules are included, as are some rules for multiplayer! You can also have a whole bunch of students flip their pages over at one time and race to see who is fastest! Challenge yourself with 50 different levels of critical thinking!
All you need is a crayons, colored pencils, or markers to pl
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Design a Cell Phone - PBL, STEAM, STEM, Entrepreneurship, Team Work, GATE
A self-guided activity booklet where students research, design and make a model of an innovative cell / mobile phone (both US and UK versions included!)Encouraging your students to get creative and design products helps them develop an important life skill in how to solve problems.Problem solving is a crucial skill to teach our students as it helps them apply their all the knowledge they have gained to real life scenarios – after all, what use is having knowledge if you don’t know how to use it!
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5th - 10th, Higher Education
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Mr. Harper's Public Speaking and Reading Textbook Thingee
Dear Teachers,I’ve entitled my first book, Mr. Harper’s Public Speaking and Reading Textbook Thingee (where he keeps trine to make us talk good) not simply out of whimsy but as a means to point out the declining gifts of articulation amongst our students. This book was developed for two purposes. The first is to provide schools with the materials needed to create two new elective courses for their students devoted to public speaking, reading and acting. The second purpose is to give our beleague
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Who is Temple Grandin
A worksheet of 16 questions from 2 web sites about the most famous autistic adult today. It presents valuable information about autism and also presents information on her work with agriculture. Extra credit is offered at the end of the worksheet for viewing the HBO movie of her life staring Clare Dane and writing a reaction paper.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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First Day Skittles "Getting to Know You" Activities
Bust out a bag of Skittles and get ready for your students to have an interesting first day in your class!This resource contains fifteen task cards that students choose at random (according to what color Skittle they grab from a handful first), as well as a Skittle-themed checklist of thoughtful reflection question prompts so you, their intrepid teacher, can get to know them as more than a name, birthday, and student ID number.This resource provides quirky prompts in a colorful, fun format. Happ
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Project based learning: The Toxic Ooze Mystery PBL unit
The Toxic Ooze Mystery is loosely based on the chemical accident at Love Canal in the 1970’s. The residents of Glenhill have been experiencing greater than expected health problems for several years. A mystery 55 gallon drum shows up. Then another and another. What secrets do these rusting containers hold? Can the residents (students) themselves piece together the evidence?
Package includes 23 character dossiers, unit plan with 4+ lessons, assignments (tiered), PPT, for using, numerous in
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Phobias Haunted Halloween Project for Health & Psychology
What if aliens tried to make a haunted house? This multi-day research activity asks students to use unusual phobias to design a haunted house. This activity includes: an assignment sheet, research worksheet, phobia list, teacher instructions and a phobia key for you. Your students will pretend they are aliens on a cultural exchange to earth who have decided to make a haunted house. One google search later, things are going very wrong! Imagine a room filled with ferns (Pteridophobia) with a w
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â Phobia Resource Bundle for Psychology or Health Halloween
32 Latin and Greek Roots Multisensory Resource: Upper Level Students
This is a 320 + PDF formatted multisensory resource for upper-level students working to develop comprehension, structural analysis of words and a great word study and sort to support student internalization of the meanings of Latin and Greek roots! The preview resource is one of the multisensory lessons included in the bundle. Please review it before purchasing to ensure it is what you need. This resource can be used for an entire school year and includes a pre-test, post-test, model for creati
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Position Puzzles
The first, and most popular, chapter of THINKLERS! Position Puzzles are a great filler and good thinking activity for ANY classroom. Included are over 1700 puzzles!
These will keep you, or a classroom, engaged for HOURS!
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Philosophy Discussion Prompts and Thought Experiments Bell Ringers High School
This resource is ideal for a high school philosophy classes, and works for Intro to Philosophy, Epistemology, and the IB Core Theme "Being Human." It contains 16 slides, each with thought experiments and questions to get your students thinking about philosophical problems. Each slide includes detailed speaker notes with background information. These can be used simply as quick-write bell ringers, or they can be the starting point for a mini class discussion. Half of the slides contain thought ex
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in:Â Philosophy Unit Bundle Epistemology and Being Human Lectures and Activities
Scholar Bowl / Quiz Bowl Question Sets 6 - 10: Bundle #2
This bundle includes OVER 500 questions!I am the Junior High Scholar Bowl Coach for our school and have been involved with scholar bowl for many years. The cost to purchase questions for my team is quite high so I began writing my own questions for practices and meets that I host. These questions are written in the format designated by the state of Missouri in 2018. There are 26 toss-up questions with three bonus questions following each toss-up. I write my questions with the intention of te
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Think Outside the Box Thursday
THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX THURSDAY is a flexible thinking activity that is so fun and engaging, your kids will be begging to do it all the time. In fact, it’s not just for Thursdays. You can easily implement the activity into your classroom any day, just use the optional sheet included. While thinking outside the box, kids gain so much from this activity. They strengthen their flexible thinking skills, imagine possibilities, learn to see and understand different perspectives, appreciate the work of
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Assessment Board Games How-To for ELA/English and History
Everything you need to for students to make their own game boards based on concepts from unit lesson plans:Student examplesTemplates for squares, objects, and more...Images for game pieces (male/female of different ages, modes of transportation)Images for pitfalls and rewards (bridges, buildings, desert, mountains trees, etc...) Directions Suggestions for using/playingScoring RubricsMany items for students to make their own game boards! A great assessment tool for project based classrooms! Use a
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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"A Clean,Well-Lighted Place" COMPLETE UNIT EDITABLE Activities,Tests, AP Style
46 page COMPLETE unit on the short story! NO "FLUFF": This unit focuses on LITERARY DEVICES, SKILLS APPLICATION, and LITERARY ANALYSIS. Unit includes reading guide questions and quizzes, vocabulary, literary analysis activities, and AP style tests and essays. Includes a sample essay. * 14 READING/ANALYSIS SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (based on Bloom's cognitive levels)* 10 READING/LITERARY ANALYSIS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS* 2 FOCUSED ACTIVITIES (Individual or group work)* 2 READER RESPONSE ESSAY QUES
Grades:
10th - 12th, Higher Education
6 Unit Bundle: High School Finding Flow Solutions
Bulk discount: get the complete curriculum line for high school!Unit 1: Foundations of FlowI can find my “flow state” in the learning environment.I can direct my focused attention.I can problem solve when it’s hard to concentrate or be productiveI can create habits that support energy and focus.I can develop a toolbox of strategies to help me find flow.Unit 2: Self-Directed LearningI am in control of my own learning.I view myself as a life-long learner.I am curious and inquisitive.I take initiat
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Brain Teasers Book [digital]
Visual Brainteasers Book will definitely feed your mind, light up your neurons, please the eye, and entertain you, too! There are over 50 puzzles inside. Designed to stretch logical thinking skills, these radiantly colorful puzzles challenge solvers to find matching sequences, determine which image doesn’t belong in a group, match similar items, find differing designs, and solve dozens of other clever conundrums. This Book has easy to medium colorful brain bending activities that both children a
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Divergent Thinking Questions: "What If" Questions For All Subject Areas
How could introducing rabbits into the rainforest affect that habitat? What would a passport for Christopher Columbus look like? In the story, Hansel and Gretel, instead of dropping breadcrumbs, how could the children avoid getting lost in the woods? Our new, 21st Century standards require students to argue, inform, and explain. Divergent thinking questions offer opportunities for students to demonstrate original, elaborate, and flexible thinking, enabling them to become actively involved in t
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education
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College Teams and Their Nicknames Crossword & Word Search
The clues are the nicknames. The answers are the colleges and universities associated with the nickname. There are 50 colleges/universities covered. KEYs are provided for both puzzles. The word search uses the 50 colleges and their 50 nicknames. This is a pdf file and ready for immediate duplication. It is a fun and easy handhout that can be used as a time filler or "just at water" type LP for an attention getter, starter or extra credit activity.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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End of the Year Exciting Lesson : Wicked is a Contronym!
This super FUN and challenging lesson is great for your secondary- especially gifted-students. I use the day before Spring Break or the end-of-the- year to grab my students' attention.
Do you know what a contronym is? It's an auto-antonym. "Wicked" means both "evil" and "great"- complete opposites!
There are over 50 contronyms for students to learn and use in an activity. The PowerPoint is the basis of the lecture. Worksheets, an activity and a lesson plan are included.
This product is gr
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in:Â The High School Bundle- Language Arts Lessons, PPTs & More!
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