Critical thinking physics resources for Montessori

Critical Thinking, Occupational Therapy, Winter

Introduce your toddler and preschool children to sensory bins and vocabulary practice with this set of Winter-themed puzzles and matching mats!CLICK HERE to save $$$ on the full bundle of Toddler Sensory Bins!ACTIVITIES INCLUDED3 sets of matching sensory binsRecording sheets for matching3 sets of puzzles! These sensory bin activities are perfect for practicing fine motors skills, visual discrimination and discussing seasonal vocabulary!CLICK HERE to grab over 400 centers + 450 worksheets + 72 se

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Grades:

PreK - 1st

Types:

Project Based Primary LLC

Also included in: Sensory Bin Toddler Activities | Homeschool Preschool | Fine Motor Skills

Popsicle Stick Picture Puzzles

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This resource contains 20 picture puzzle cards that students can use to refine their visual discrimination, practice ordering and sequencing, reinforce positional words such as next to, on top, below, behind, etc., and build fun picture puzzles using rainbow colored popsicle sticks. Printable sticks also included if you do not have colored popsicle sticks. There are a variety of difficulty levels, making this a resource that grows with students and can be used in a multi age learning space. Perf

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Geometry, Visual Arts

Grades:

PreK - K

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Newton's 3 Laws of Motion - Information & Picture Cards

Created by

Physical Science, Physics

Newton's 3 Laws of Motion - Information and photographs explaining Newton's 3 Laws of Motion.This set includes:short bio card on Isaac Newton3 information cards (1 for each law)3 formula cards (1 for each law)3 information cards (force, mass, acceleration)Each of the 3 laws includes the following:4 picture cardstitle carddescription cardformula card1 control chartPicture cards are approx. 4" x 3½".

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Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

Printables, Montessori

Fall Toddler Sensory Bin Activities | Autumn Homeschool Preschool | Tot School

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Autumn, Critical Thinking, Occupational Therapy

Introduce your toddler and preschool children to sensory bins and vocabulary practice with this set of Fall-themed puzzles and matching mats!CLICK HERE to save $$$ on the full bundle of Toddler Sensory Bins!ACTIVITIES INCLUDED3 sets of matching sensory binsRecording sheets for matching3 sets of puzzles! These sensory bin activities are perfect for practicing fine motors skills, visual discrimination and discussing seasonal vocabulary!CLICK HERE to grab over 400 centers + 450 worksheets + 72 sens

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Grades:

PreK - 1st

Types:

Project Based Primary LLC

Also included in: Sensory Bin Toddler Activities | Homeschool Preschool | Fine Motor Skills

Shape Stacking Puzzle Cards

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This resource contains 20 picture puzzle cards that students can use to refine their visual discrimination, practice ordering and sequencing, reinforce positional words such as on top, below, behind, etc., and build fun picture puzzles using colored shapes. There are a variety of difficulty levels, making this a resource that grows with students and can be used in a multi age learning space. Perfect for morning tubs, early finishers, Montessori shelf work, indoor recess, sub plans, and more. If

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Geometry, Visual Arts

Grades:

PreK - K

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Valentine's Day Toddler Sensory Bin Activities | Homeschool Preschool

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Critical Thinking, Occupational Therapy, Valentine's Day

Introduce your toddler and preschool children to sensory bins and vocabulary practice with this set of Valentine's Day-themed puzzles and matching mats!CLICK HERE to save $$$ on the full bundle of Toddler Sensory Bins!ACTIVITIES INCLUDED3 sets of matching sensory binsRecording sheets for matching3 sets of puzzles! These sensory bin activities are perfect for practicing fine motors skills, visual discrimination and discussing seasonal vocabulary!CLICK HERE to grab over 400 centers + 450 worksheet

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Grades:

PreK - 1st

Types:

Also included in: Sensory Bin Toddler Activities | Homeschool Preschool | Fine Motor Skills

Spring Toddler Sensory Bin Activities | Homeschool Preschool | Fine Motor Skills

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Critical Thinking, Occupational Therapy, Spring

Introduce your toddler and preschool children to sensory bins and vocabulary practice with this set of Spring-themed puzzles and matching mats!CLICK HERE to save $$$ on the full bundle of Toddler Sensory Bins!ACTIVITIES INCLUDED3 sets of matching sensory binsRecording sheets for matching3 sets of puzzles! These sensory bin activities are perfect for practicing fine motors skills, visual discrimination and discussing seasonal vocabulary!CLICK HERE to grab over 400 centers + 450 worksheets + 72 se

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Grades:

PreK - 1st

Types:

Biology, Critical Thinking, Science

Also included in: Sensory Bin Toddler Activities | Homeschool Preschool | Fine Motor Skills

Marine Food Webs and Food Chains Card Sort Activity - Temperate Ocean Ecosystem

Created by

Steampunked Science

Engage students with this huge card sort activity to construct marine food chains and food webs. Use the suggestions to a lead discussion about how human activity affects temperate ocean food webs through climate change and the accidental introduction of invasive species. Use the provided labels to practice key vocabulary by assigning terms such as producer, detritivore, autotroph, etc to ocean organisms. ✨ Here’s What You’ll Get✨- 32 organism cards- Energy arrows- Labels (including but not limi

Subjects:

Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

Engineering, Gifted and Talented, Physics

NGSS:

HS-LS2-3

, MS-LS2-2

, MS-LS2-3

Also included in: Everything in My Store MEGA BUNDLE

Paper Roller Coasters

Created by

Outstanding Outliers

Paper roller coasters is sure to be a project students will love! It is an engineering project that requires collaboration, problem solving, exact measurement, and a knowledge of physics. Students will explore and put to test Newton's Laws of motion while building their vertical paper roller coaster made out of card stock, tape, and a foam board for the base. You will be amazed at your students creativity in designing and problem solving. I love how cost efficient this STEM project is, using onl

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Grades:

5th - 9th

Types:

Projects, Montessori, Rubrics

Montessori Constructive Triangle Command Cards

Created by

Montessori Mac

This material is a popular extension to the Constructive Triangles set. Using command cards will help students enhance critical thinking skills while refining their mastery level of the triangle boxes and the polygons each box creates. This set of 22 Sensorial command cards contains: *5 cards for the Large Hexagon Box *8 cards for the Small Hexagon Box *5 cards for the Triangle Box *4 cards for the Rectangle Box All cards are shaped to match their corresponding boxes for aesthet

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Geometry

Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Montessori

Four Seasons - Real Picture Sorting Activity Cards w/ Introductory Info Cards

Created by

The Montessori Treehouse

Bring the four seasons to life in your classroom with these vivid photo flash cards! Work on visual discrimination and problem solving skills as you decide whether the pictures belong to winter, spring, summer, or fall. This activity comes with: • four information cards, one for each season • four headers (winter, spring, summer, fall) • 24 picture cards (six for each season) to be sorted into their appropriate seasonEach header has a different colored border, and each picture card has a reverse

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Science, Speech Therapy

Grades:

PreK - 1st

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States of Matter - Information Cards, Sorting Cards & Control Chart

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States of Matter - Identify, sort, and classify matter into the three states of solid, liquid, and gas. Check the classification using the control chart.Includes:4 information cardsclassification title cards3-part cards for solid, liquid, gas24 photographic sorting cards1 control chartSorting Cards are approx. 2½" x 3".You may be interested in the States of Matter Blackline Masters.

Subjects:

General Science, Physics

Grades:

K - 3rd

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Parts of an Atom Book - Montessori Nomenclature

Created by

Physics, Reading, Science

Atom Nomenclature Book illustrates and describes 7 parts of an atom: atom, subatomic particles, nucleus, protons, neutrons, electrons, and electron shells. Includes: book cover7 picture pages7 description pagesThere are two styles of books included. Style one is approx. 3¾" x 5", style two is approx. 5½” x 5½“ and requires little preparation.You may be interested in the Atom Nomenclature Cards.

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Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

Printables, Montessori

Opposite Picture Cards with Real Photos

Created by

The Montessori Treehouse

Work on critical thinking and problem solving skills with your students with these real photo opposite cards! This set comes with 36 picture cards to match by opposites. Flip the cards over to check your answers.Designed so your students can use the cards independently, the back of the cards are colour coded: orange backs are your control cards, and teal backs are your working cards. Once sorted into two piles, the child can confidently match the pictures on the working cards with the pictures o

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, Speech Therapy

Grades:

PreK - 1st

Types:

Critical Thinking, Geometry, Math

Frog Theme Shape Sorting Puzzle - NO PREP Math Activity - Frog Shape POSTERS

Created by

AsToldByMom

Along with 11 FROG Shape Posters, 11 Trace and Color Frogs, 11 Clip Cards and 11 Cut & Paste Matching Sets for your bulletin boards, this Cut & Paste Shapes Activity will help students identify and distinguish various basic shapes and introduce them to the spellings of the shapes also.3 Activities Included:>> Cut & Paste of all Shapes' Frogs>> Trace and Color Shapes & Frogs>> Clip Cards>> PostersHow to do?Activity 1The cut outs which are to be cut are gi

Subjects:

Grades:

PreK - 3rd

Types:

Activities, Montessori

Also included in: Math Centers - Learn Shapes - Sorting & Matching Activity (Homeschool)

Montessori Story of Creation Universe First Great Lesson MEGA BUNDLE Media DL

Created by

Minkybubs Montessori

Montessori's first great lesson is known as The Story of Creation, The Coming of the Universe, and/or The Story of the Creation of the Universe. The story begins 15 billion years ago through the Azoic Era to the present day state of our planet, Earth.Deliver the story with confidence and save yourself hours with this professionally produced, quality resource - this resource has everything you need and offers differentiated levels of support. Save yourself hours. This resource includes:An interac

Subjects:

Astronomy, Physics, Science

Grades:

1st - 6th

Types:

Montessori

NGSS:

5-PS1-3

, 5-PS1-4

, 5-ESS1-1

, 5-PS1-2

, 5-PS1-1

Parts of an Atom 3-Part Cards - Montessori Nomenclature

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Atom Nomenclature Cards are formatted in a 3-part card series with a blackline master included. Match the correct labels to the pictures. Check the matching using the control cards (cards with labels attached).The 7 parts of the atom: atom, nucleus, protons, neutrons, electrons, subatomic particles, and electron shells. Includes:7 cards with labels7 cards without labels7 labels1 blackline masterAfter the children have learned the individual parts, they can create their own booklet by coloring a

Subjects:

Physics, Science

Grades:

1st - 4th

Types:

Ms Emilys Montessori Shop

Geometric Solids Paper Patterns 3D Cut and Paste | Montessori Distance Learning

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In the Montessori sensorial area, we have beautiful wooden 3D shapes called the geometric solids. They are painted with an alluring glossy blue paint. The children build with these and learn their names gradually. There is a guessing game they play with a blindfold once they know all the names. These make a great extension activity or may offer a swift placeholder during social distancing. They could also serve as an anchor for the child who wants to play a memory game or match objects from

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Geometry, Problem Solving

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

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Christmas Toddler Sensory Bin Activities | Homeschool Preschool | Tot School

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Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Critical Thinking, Occupational Therapy

Introduce your toddler and preschool children to sensory bins and vocabulary practice with this set of Christmas-themed puzzles and matching mats!CLICK HERE to save $$$ on the full bundle of Toddler Sensory Bins!ACTIVITIES INCLUDED3 sets of matching sensory binsRecording sheets for matching3 sets of puzzles! These sensory bin activities are perfect for practicing fine motors skills, visual discrimination and discussing seasonal vocabulary!CLICK HERE to grab over 400 centers + 450 worksheets + 72

Subjects:

Grades:

PreK - 1st

Types:

Critical Thinking, Place Value, Winter

Also included in: Sensory Bin Toddler Activities | Homeschool Preschool | Fine Motor Skills

TEN AND ONES MAT COUNTERS N WORKSHEET WINTER THEME ENVISION

Created by

First and Fun

Tens and Ones Mat Counters n Worksheet WINTER THEME Envision 12 Fun Winter Theme Printable worksheets: 2 of each lessons one has an answer keyLessons:1. Counting with Groups of Ten and Leftovers2. Numbers made with Tens3. Tens and Ones4. Expanded Form5. Different Ways to make Numbers6. Problem Solving Make an Organizing ListThese work sheets can be used for homework, class work, early finishers or teacher assessments. This file consists of 12 work sheets, 2 Math Mats in both full color and grey

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Printables, Montessori, Centers

CCSS:

Changes of Energy Form Cards Level 1 - Transformation of Energy

Created by

Heather GraceRutledge

Cards featuring 12 common objects that transform energy from one form to another, with 12 matching cards showing the input type of energy and output type of energy. Including: electrical energy, chemical energy, heat energy, sound energy, and energy of movement. Student matches each object to the corresponding energy transformation card. Level 1: Both input and output energy types are on a single energy transformation card. Also see Level 2, available in my store: Input and output energies ar

Subjects:

Physics

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, Science

On the Farm Sequencing Cards / Montessori / Unit Study / Where Does It Come From

Created by

Firefly and Fairy

Sequencing meets critical thinking! These On the Farm Sequencing Cards allow you to discuss with your preschool, kindergarten, and elementary students how six simple farm crops or animals turn into everyday items that most of us use or consume. Self-correcting makes them a great independent activity for workboxes, centers, unit studies, and more.Each themed sheet includes four cards that take the student from the plant or animal to the finished product through several stages that they will recog

Subjects:

Grades:

PreK - 2nd

Types:

Printables, Games, Montessori

Also included in: GROWING BUNDLE: On the Farm Unit Study Self-Correcting Montessori Activities

Things That Go Together Cards

Created by

Montessori Garden

10 matching card pairs (20 cards) of pictures that 'Go Together.' This set includes a control chart for self checking. This is great for a Montessori 3-6 year old primary or preschool age classroom. You could print this on card stock paper, laminate it and it would be ready to go on your classroom shelf.

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Reading Strategies, Vocabulary

Grades:

PreK - K

Types: