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Critical thinking biology Common Core RI.7.1 resources
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Science Sub Plans - 52 Articles MEGA BUNDLE | Printable & Distance Learning
Updated to Include Distance Learning Options. Each article sub plan comes in two versions with full answer keys: 1) Easily printable PDFs, as well as 2) Google Slides. Students can type in their answers directly in the Google Slides for paperless classrooms / distance learning. Don't fear, get your emergency secondary science sub plans right here! This bundle contains 52 SCIENCE ARTICLES with questions and full answer keys at 44% OFF the price of them separately. A whole year's worth of s
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7th - 12th
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Lunar New Year 2024 | Year of the DRAGON Reading Comprehension | Spring Festival
Chinese New Year in 2024 starts on Saturday, February 10th!It’s the Year of the DRAGON!Did you know that the Chinese believe that people born in the Year of the DRAGON are strong, tenacious, and ambitious? Do you know what the lucky colors and numbers are for people born during the Year of the DRAGON?Find out more by close-reading interesting text all about the Year of the DRAGON.Create a Cool DRAGON Collage, perfect for a 2024 Year of the DRAGON Bulletin Board!*** This resource has been updated
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4th - 7th
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Fake News Unit | Critical Thinking | Media Literacy | Fact Analysis & Research
Teaching students to navigate news and information on mainstream, traditional and social media as critical thinkers is essential in 2024. It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate FACTS and OPINIONS, SATIRE from LIES, and PERSUASION from PROPAGANDA in the "MISINFORMATION:" eraA well-grounded understanding of MEDIA-LITERACY is crucial in stopping FAKE NEWS and RADICALIZATION. And This PROVEN resource will teach your students the skills to identify, analyze and critique information throug
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5th - 10th
Seeds, Plants, Pollination, & Reproduction Differentiated NF Reading Passages
In this resource, there is a nonfiction reading passage summarizing Seeds, Plants, Pollination, & Reproduction. General overview of how pollination occurs is given. It is differentiated for your high, mid, and lower level students. Integrate science content with your reading texts and meet each reader's needs with this set. Guided Reading levels are M, O, and Q.$Why should I purchase this passage set?$• Textbooks aren't what they used to be...if we have them at all. Often textbooks are writt
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4th - 8th
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate Format - Debate Outline, Graphic Organizer, and Rubric
Looking to engage your students in a style of debate that they’ll love? This debate outline teaches the Lincoln-Douglas debate format with a slideshow lesson, debate graphic organizer, teacher moderator script, and an editable debate rubric. Suitable for online learning with digital slide decks for Google Classroom®!Included with this Lincoln-Douglas Debate Format Outline:✏️ Lincoln-Douglas Debate Format Slideshow Lesson - Google Slides®, Microsoft PowerPoint®, & PDF✏️ Lincoln-Douglas Deba
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6th - 12th
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Middle School Interactive Reading Log {Common Core Aligned}
Give your 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students meaningful homework where they can read a fiction or non-fiction text of their choice and apply a wide-variety of reading prompts to the section of the text they read each night. Interactive reading logs provide a necessary bridge between students, teachers, and parents. They were created using the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th reading standards for literature and informational texts. Beyond the Common Core, the reading prompts will ensure that students a
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5th - 8th
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Star Wars Day Escape Rooms | May the Fourth Be With You Reading Passages | STEM
What better way to engage your students and enrich their learning than with these growth mindset passages, OUTER Space STEM Challenges, ESCAPE ROOMS and critical thinking activities that are centered around a FAVORITE FORCE theme?The activities in this BUNDLE add up to about 9+ hours of INTERGALACTIC FUN!*~*~Make it a real party and add a fun appetizer!~*~*Students can easily make this appetizer in the classroom with a little help from adult TROOPERS. It's a fun and engaging activity called, 're
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4th - 8th
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Cell Structure and Function of Cells Differentiated Nonfiction Reading Passages
In this resource, there is a nonfiction reading passage based on Cell Structure and Function of Cells. It is differentiated for your high, mid, and lower level students. Integrate science content with your reading texts and meet each reader's needs with this set. Guided Reading levels are I, K, and M.$Why should I purchase this passage set?$• Textbooks aren't what they used to be...if we have them at all. Often textbooks are written well above grade level and simply aren't interested. I use my l
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Science Passages: Nonfiction Texts bundle
Nonfiction Independent Reading Journal - Middle School English
Nonfiction Independent Reading
This reading response resource is interactive and perfect for assessing nonfiction independent reading. Better yet, it covers ALL of the informational text standards! It is easy to use, simple to grade, and can be assigned over and over again for books or articles.
We all know how important independent reading is, but it’s not always easy to hold students accountable without issues such as...#1. Driving yourself crazy with all of the grading involved; #2. Knowing
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6th - 8th
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The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
By popular demand, all my clue by clue mysteries PDF (printable) format in one big bundle, plus a free mystery story organizing worksheet. Be sure to check the list above to see the exact list of Clue by Clue Mysteries!Each individual mystery is in PDF format and contains:A cover imageComprehensive teacher notes outlining how to use the activity in class - 2 pagesA teacher sheet with a description of the situation and mystery to be solved, hints to give students if they get stuck, and the soluti
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Latitude Longitude Worksheets and an Ancient Egyptian Map -Geography
This resource is a two worksheet lesson on latitude and longitude using a map of Ancient Egypt. It provides map reading practice as well as background information on Ancient Egypt. There is a Key provided. Good geography practice for all middle school students.This lesson is google classroom ready.Please e-mail me with any questions about this resource or suggestions for future resources at: ljmccormick33@yahoo.com. If you are dissatisfied in any way, please contact me right away by email or
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5th - 9th
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Introduction to Cells and Cell Theory Activities and Worksheets
Are you looking for fun ways to teach about cells and cell theory? Do you want to add more student inquiry to your lessons on cells? This Introduction to Cells lesson is a perfect way to engage students and get them excited about cells, all while promoting critical thinking skills and cooperative learning!You'll start your students off with a card sort activity, challenging them to develop their own ideas about what qualifies something as living or non-living, a key aspect of cell theory. The ca
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6th - 8th
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MS-LS1-1
Living Things: Animals - Passages - Distance Learning Compatible
With this resource, students will learn all about animals through reading engaging passages on differentiated reading levels. Students can respond to short-answer questions after reading. The questions are aligned to informational text reading standards. Teaching notes and lesson plans are included. This resource can be printed or shared digitally. What is included?+ Printable and interactive digital versions10 reading passages – (See topics below.)5 differentiated reading levels for each passag
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Life Science Differentiated Passages Bundle
STEM Problem Solving Service Learning Project
Help your students to think critically, develop good character traits, improve our world, and create heartfelt persuasive writing using the 8 components of this project:
Inspirational Quotes
Random Acts of Kindness
Kids Improving Our World Research Project
STEAM Project - Identifying a Real World Problem and working on a Solution
Online Giving Challenge
Oral Presentation
Carousel Presentations & Scavenger Hunt
Comparing Themes with "A Dolphin's Tale
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Webquest or Internet Scavenger Hunt Grades 5-10
The goal of this webquest lesson is to build your students' research skills and their ability to find reliable resources when asked to research a topic. This is an internet scavenger hunt. Students answer the questions by using a search engine to locate the requested information. There are a variety of engaging questions that your students will enjoy locating the answers for. There is a chart where they are asked to answer questions, provide the URL where the information is found, and to writ
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5th - 10th
Also included in: Social Studies, Science, Language Arts, & Health Webquest Bundle
Critical Thinking Mystery Game: Clue by Clue PowerPoint Bundle
Clue by Clues are mystery activities that help students practice critical thinking skills, reading strategies including close reading, critical reading, and inference, and get them discussing and talking! Students work in pairs or small groups to solve a mystery. They get a situation with a mystery. They have to figure it out by reading a series of clues, one at a time. As they receive each clue, they speculate on its significance, what it tells them about the situation, and how it fits with the
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6th - 12th
OCEAN LIFE 360° VR DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM/BREAKOUT STEM
Unleash your students' curiosity and let them dive into the enchanting world of Ocean Life through our 360° Virtual Reality STEM breakout. With 11 mesmerizing virtual reality environments, your students will have the chance to explore the secrets of starfish, seahorses, fish, manta rays, jellyfish, bivalve mollusks, coral, crustaceans, and ocean plants. Engage and inspire all learners with 20 exhilarating digital activities that will make learning an unforgettable adventure.⭐⭐ Don't miss out on
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4th - 8th
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MS-LS4-3
, MS-LS4-2
Also included in: Escape Room, Breakout - All Digital Bundle 360 Virtual Reality!
Burrowing Owl Nonfiction Reading Passage, Worksheet and Color-by-Number Activity
This resource contains a non-fiction reading passage (two pages – 720 words) about burrowing owls, comprehension questions about the reading, and a color-by-number answer sheet for students to color based on their answers to the comprehension questions. The passage was written specifically to be useful as a paired text for use with the book Hoot by Carl Hiaasen but can definitely be used as a stand-alone reading passage to integrate science with ELA and give students opportunities to read nonfic
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5th - 8th
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Critical Thinking Activity: The Candy Thief Halloween Mystery Game
In this fun mystery activity with a Halloween twist, students investigate who stole a bag of candy from a trick or treater. There are three witness, but one of them is lying. Can your students read their statements, use their critical thinking, logical reasoning, and textual analytic skill to figure out who the liar is? This is the printable PDF Version, perfect for group work in class. You can also find it in other formats: Click here for the PowerPoint Version and a Click here for the Google S
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Holiday Mysteries and Puzzles Bundle: Four Critical Thinking Activities
Plant Cell Differentiated Nonfiction Reading Passages
In this resource, there is a nonfiction reading passage based on Plant Cell. It is differentiated for your high, mid, and lower level students. Integrate science content with your reading texts and meet each reader's needs with this set. Guided Reading levels are M, O, and S.$Why should I purchase this passage set?$• Textbooks aren't what they used to be...if we have them at all. Often textbooks are written well above grade level and simply aren't interested. I use my love of science to make pas
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Science Passages: Nonfiction Texts bundle
Critical Thinking Mystery Activity: Elevator Routine Mystery Activity
In this fun mystery activity, students have to solve a classic riddle: Why does a woman ride the elevator up to the 15th floor and then walk up to the 20th floor to get to her apartment? Practice critical thinking skills and follow the clues to find the answer.This is a PDF format perfect for printing and handing out to students to work on in groups. You can also get this activity in other formats: Click here for PowerPoint edition and Click here for Google Slides edition.Inside find:Teacher No
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
Life Science Differentiated Passages Bundle
Life Science Differentiated Passages BundlePrintable + Digital Paperless Versions IncludedWith this resource, students will learn about all things life science by reading engaging passages on differentiated reading levels. There are 41 original reading passages included on 5 reading levels covering grades 3-8, totaling 205 passages. Questions (as well as answer keys) aligned to Common Core State Standards are included for each passage. Students can respond to these questions after reading. This
Living Things: Plants - Passages - Distance Learning Compatible
With this resource, students will learn all about plants through reading engaging passages on differentiated reading levels. Students can respond to short-answer questions after reading. The questions are aligned to informational text reading standards. Teaching notes and lesson plans are included. This resource can be printed or shared digitally. What is included?+ Printable and interactive digital versions4 reading passages – (See topics below.)5 differentiated reading levels for each passage
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Life Science Differentiated Passages Bundle
Teaching Inference Using Historical Pictures | Literacy Center | Quick Activity
Engage your students in literacy and history with this quick and easy teaching inference activity that uses historical pictures! Perfect for literacy centers or last-minute social studies activities. Great for SUB PLANS! WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS BUNDLE: 51 historical images from the Public DomainStudent handoutDirections for teachersDirections for studentsRubric for scoringI use this activity in a LITERACY CENTER! Teach your students inferential thinking by analyzing historical images and make a
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5th - 8th
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