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Critical thinking science Common Core 1.NBT.C.4 resources
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Emergency First Grade Sub Plans for the Year BUNDLE | Substitute Plans for 1st
First Grade Emergency Substitute Lesson Plans! This substitute bundle includes 24 DETAILED first grade sub plans. These first grade sub plans are perfect for any emergency sub day or a day packed with engaging themed activities! These plans are no prep - just print and leave for your sub! Students and substitutes will love the activities included in each sub pack! These sub plans include reading, math, writing, social studies and science activities. These plans also include an editable PowerPoin
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K - 2nd
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Math Logic Puzzles: 1st grade Enrichment - [Digital & Printable PDF]
Math Logic Puzzles for 1st grade includes 18 higher-order thinking puzzles designed to challenge and engage your high flyers and fast finishers. Your students will utilize critical thinking and problem-solving skills while building a solid understanding of essential math concepts and skills.These puzzles are available as a printable PDF and a paperless version made with Google Slides™ for virtual learning.Every activity is directly aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Math.----------
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K - 2nd
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Shark Week: A Thematic Unit for 1st Grade
This is a thematic unit for first grade. It includes activities for phonics, reading, writing, social studies, science, math, and STEAM.Included in this unit:-Hungry for digraphs- sort for beginning digraphs ch, sh, th, and wh-R-controlled vowel sharks- differentiated word building activity for r-controlled vowels (ar, er, ir, or, and ur)-Resources for read aloud: If Sharks Disappeared- if/then pocket chart cards, cause and effect graphic organizer, two writing prompts-Resources for read aloud:
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1st
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Hundred Board Number Puzzles! Math Enrichment Activities (1st grade)
Hundred Chart Number Puzzles! Math Enrichment Activities (1st grade)This resource includes 20 higher order thinking puzzles designed to challenge and engage your high flyers. Your students will utilize critical thinking and problem solving skills while building a deeper understanding of numeracy and place value. Each of the 20 activities offers an interesting, non-routine way to explore essential math concepts and skills. Each Hundred Board puzzle provides a series of 4-6 mathematical clues. Stu
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Hundred Board Enrichment Puzzles - The BUNDLE!
Owls Unit - Owl Activities - Pellet Dissection - Owl Reading Passages - Projects
This 158 page Owl unit provides upper elementary students with all of the owl activities they need to complete a rigorous owl unit. These no prep owl activities include owl reading passages, owl pellet dissection activity, owl research activities, and more.COMMON CORE ALIGNED!!!✅Be sure to check out the thumbnails and preview for detailed images and information about some of the engaging activities included in this resource.This engaging resource contains the following:⭐Vocabulary Resources!-Owl
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1st - 4th
1st Grade NGSS Science Unit - FULL YEAR Earth, Life & Physical Science + STEM
This is a full YEARS’ Comprehensive STEM curriculum unit that covers ALL of your 1st Grade Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). In this bundle we’ve included the COMPLETE Earth, Physical and Life Science Units from our store. These units are PACKED with engaging investigations and activities, engineering design challenges, technology integration, math application and integrated literacy lessons! (CCSS). With step-by-step instructions and easy to follow plans, you’ll be able to bring engagi
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1st
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, 1-LS1-1
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 1-LS1-2
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All About Sharks | Shark Activities Writing Craft | Shark Week Science
Do your students or children want to learn all about sharks? Looking for a fun and engaging way to connect important science and language arts skills? Look no further than this jam-packed All About Sharks Unit. This shark unit will take your students on an underwater journey to the world of sharks. They will work on key reading skills while learning about sharks, their habitat, characteristics, and important facts. They will love tackling life science standards as they learn about the shark
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1st - 2nd
Pumpkin Math and Science Activities - A Week-Long Study for 1st and 2nd Grades
PUMPKIN MATH & SCIENCE ACTIVITIESIf you have 5 pumpkins and a few basic supplies, you have collaborative math and science investigations for a whole week!THIS SET INCLUDES:• Teacher Notes• Key Word Posters• A Science Notebook Cover• Investigations for a Week (5 Days)• Student Recording SheetsMATH & SCIENCE CONCEPTS addressed in this unit:• counting by tens• place value (tens and ones)• numerical order• finding sums• measurement (length and time)• making predictions• collecting, recording
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1st - 2nd
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2-PS1-1
, K-PS2-1
FIRST GRADE STRATEGY POSTERS ANCHOR CHARTS AND VOCABULARY WORD iREADY MATH
FIRST GRADE STRATEGY POSTERS ANCHOR CHARTS AND VOCABULARY WORD iREADY MATH 2017This set includes eye-catching Strategy Posters, Anchor Charts, and Vocabulary Posters for the full year that go along with the first grade iReady series or any other First Grade math curriculum. These posters are great to hang in your classroom as a resource for your students to use daily to help reinforce the standards! The illustrations and instructions on each poster help students understand the learning goals. Yo
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K - 2nd
End of School Year Escape Room | 1st Grade Math | Digital Google Forms | Team
Please help us!!! It is the end of the year and we have Miss Meany. She is the meanest sub in the world. She comes with hundreds of worksheets. Please help us hide from Miss Meany till recess. Our teacher will be back at recess time. We are so close to summer. Please save us.This is an escape room like activity in which students complete math tasks and use problem solving skills. Students are very EXCITED and ENGAGED when working through this activity. Students will have to solve problems and fo
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1st - 2nd
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Math Logic Puzzles 1st Grade - 6th Grade Enrichment BUNDLE Volume One
48 math logic puzzles that engage students to develop fact fluency and problem solve using critical thinking skills. These problems are great for morning math routines, warm-ups, plenaries and centres. Perfect to use as extension tasks for high ability and gifted and talented students. - Level 1 includes problems with Addition Facts to 10. It would suit approximately grade one, but could be below or above depending on student ability.- Level 2 includes Addition and Subtraction problems to 30. It
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Math-1st Grade-Month 01: Challenge Problem Solving (Questions 1-20)
Math-1st Grade-Month 01: Challenge Problem Solving (Questions 1-20)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ENGAGE YOUR STUDENTS WITH MATH PROBLEMS THE WHOLE YEAR!
In this series, there are 10 units. Each unit is a set of 20 constructed-response problems. Students’ skills and conceptual understanding progress through the units. Each unit is a building block for the next. A student should show understanding of each problem before progressing to the next unit.
♥ Math Challenge
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1st
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Hundred Board Enrichment Puzzles - The BUNDLE!
Hundred Board Enrichment Puzzles – The BUNDLE!This is a bundled set of 3 individual listings. Purchase the bundle and save over 20%!!! Each individual resource includes 20 higher-order thinking puzzles designed to challenge and engage your high flyers. Your students will utilize critical thinking and problem-solving skills while building a deeper understanding of numeracy and place value. Each of the 20 activities offers an interesting, non-routine way to explore essential math concepts and ski
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K - 4th
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Common Core & NGSS Student-Friendly I Can Statements for Kindergarten
This huge bundle of EDITABLE student-friendly "I can" statements is aligned to the Common Core & NGSS Standards. In this resource you will find every ELA, Science, & MATH standard for kindergarten rewritten as an I Can statement. As an experienced evaluator, I know the importance of having standards written in kid-friendly terms that allow students to focus on the intended learning. Some of the standards are divided up into various I can statements to allow students to reach mastery.*TIP
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K
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-PS3-1
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, K-ESS3-1
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Would You Rather - BUNDLE - Math Talks & Math Centers for Early Primary
***** NOW INCLUDES GOOGLE SLIDES FORMAT as well as PDF*****Great for in person learning and digital classes!**A YEAR LONG RESOURCE WITH MORE THAN 350 MATH TALKS!!**~NOW 11 RESOURCES IN 1~Get your students TALKING about math, thinking critically, using math vocabulary, and expanding their math understandings with these Would You Rather math activities. Students will love the opportunity to form their own opinions and share their ideas. These activities do not necessarily have one correct answer,
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PreK - 1st
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Farm Week: A Thematic Unit for 1st Grade
This is a thematic unit for first grade. It includes activities for phonics, reading, writing, social studies, science, math, and STEAM.Included in this unit:-CVC/CVCe vowel sound cows (differentiated)- sort for vowel sounds in CVC or CVCe words-Short Vowel Word Family Corn- differentiated word building activity for short vowel word family words -Resources for read aloud: Farm by Elisha Cooper- pocket chart cards, sequencing graphic organizer, two writing prompts-Resources for read aloud: Otis-
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1st
First Grade Depth of Knowledge {DOK} Math Questions {BUNDLE}
BUNDLE & SAVE!Get ready to challenge your students with this Depth of Knowledge {DOK} BUNDLE Question SetThis set includes Operations & Algebraic Thinking {OA}, Number & Operations in Base Ten {NBT}, Geometry, Graphing, Measurement, Telling Time, & FractionsThis set includes 176 total {DOK} QuestionsLevel 1: 40 questionsLevel 2: 48 questionsLevel 3: 48 questionsLevel 4: 40 questionsThese are great for whole group, small group, or independent work for your students.Enjoy!If you ar
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K - 2nd
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Math Focus Wall - First Grade Number Sense Activities | Place Value to 120
These Math Wall Number Sense to 120 activities can truly have a lasting effect on your student's numeracy skills! Kids absolutely love these number sense activities and teachers love being able to start their math lessons with this engaging resource. KIDS love to walk into a bright and colorful room and so do PRINCIPALS! There's just something that screams, "This is an AMAZING Place to learn!" You can have that room with this beautiful, colorful, yet very POWERFUL Math Wall!Small Group Idea: If
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K - 2nd
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Rainforest Week: A Thematic Unit for 1st Grade
This is a thematic unit for first grade. It includes activities for phonics, reading, writing, social studies, science, math, and STEAM.Included in this unit:-Long a raindrop sort- sort for words with long a spelling patterns ai, ay, and a_e. -Long e leaves- differentiated word work activity for long e vowel team spelling (ea, ee, ey, ie). Includes picture cards with and without words for easy differentiation-Resources for read aloud: The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry- pocket chart cards, gra
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1st
Counting Collections Survival Kit
I absolutely LOVE building number sense in the primary grades with Counting Collections. Counting Collections is a student-centered activity where students become aware of their mathematical thought processes and gain a strong sense of numerical relationships. It’s perfect for building number sense in preschool-2nd grade. Counting Collections can also be used as an intervention tool for 3rd-5th graders.This is a collection of ALL the resources I could possibly think of that can support you in su
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PreK - 3rd
STEM and STEAM: Light and Sound NGSS Integrated Unit
This huge, integrated STEAM Light and Sound Unit is centered around the first grade Next Generation Science Standard 1-PS4-4 (Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communication over a distance) while also integrating in inquiry based science experiments to cover the NGSS 1-PS4-1, 1-PS4-2, and 1-PS4-3
It works up to the design thinking process (engineering) in which the students will interview and find a communication problem to so
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1st - 2nd
1st, 2nd, & 3rd Grade Addition/Sub Extension Project - Gifted/Advanced Students
1st-3rd Grade Addition and Subtraction Extension Project: Be The TeacherThis product was designed for advanced/gifted students to explore the topic of addition and subtraction at a deeper thinking level. The project is geared toward younger grades as it has much repetition to allow for student independence. **Great for small group extensions, seat work, independent work for early finishers, and activities for students who demonstrate mastery on pretest.Students will have the opportunity to "Be T
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Entire Gifted with Goldens TPT MATH Resources GROWING BUNDLE
Variation and Traits: Heredity "Create A Fish" 1st Grade STEM NGSS 1-LS3-1
This engaging and integrated life science STEM lesson is perfect for 1st graders as they explore how young plants and animals are similar but not exactly the same as their parents! (NGSS- 1-LS3-1) Make the concept of traits and variations and how they are passed down to offspring (Heredity) fun and easy for your students to understand!Students will be creating their own baby fish using the traits of its parents. Students roll dice and practice math skills as they make their fish come to life! Gu
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1st
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1-LS3-1
Bowling Field Trip Math & Science Activity Journal
This activity journal requires students to use knowledge of force an motion standards to answer questions and investigation along with math fact fluency while they are bowling.Be sure to check out my other products.TPT store https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Guptons-Gimmicks
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- Question the world around them and seek evidence-based explanations
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- Nurture a sense of curiosity, awe, and wonder about the natural world
- Understand natural phenomena and the laws that govern the universe
With a solid foundation in science, teachers can help empower students to think critically, solve problems, make informed decisions, and engage with the world around them in meaningful ways.
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