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Critical thinking character education Common Core W.7.4 resources
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Write a Scary Story: Creative Writing Notebook Activities Print and Digital
Your students will love writing their own scary stories with this print and digital notebook. This resource guides them step-by-step through setting up the plot, characters, setting, and theme. The end result is a creative writing project your students will feel successful about.Students usually get bogged down by a creative writing assignment -- but this resource breaks all the elements of a good story down into manageable pieces. You're students will know exactly what they want to write -- b
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4th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
150 Kindness or Thank You Note Cards for Appreciation Days w/ Template
Use this ultimate Kindness Note Card kit, complete with 150 card designs, to spread thank yous, gratitude, and more to students and staff! Includes is everything you need to teach writing thank you, support, and well wishes for a whole year of kindness:Year-long calendar of appreciation days and holidaysDetailed teacher overviewStudent directions, sample letters, and rubrics to formally teach4 different designs and 4 different size optionsPrint PDF and digital Google Slides of all student materi
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Leadership Student Council Government Course for Middle High School Advisors
Thank You Note Card Acts of Kindness Project or Middle or High School
Teach the art of the thank you note card to spread gratitude and kindness in your middle or high school with this 3-part letter writing project.Complete all 3 parts at once or throughout the year:School-wide thank you card flash mobThoughtful note of appreciation to someone from your pastResearched thank you letter to a never-met-before hero for their contribution This complete kit comes with 30 card designs, especially for middle or high school studentsProject sheets, templates, samples, and r
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in:Â Leadership Student Council Government Course for Middle High School Advisors
Depth and Complexity Icons Getting Started BUNDLE
If you've been wanting to use depth and complexity icons in your classroom, but aren't sure where to start, this is the bundle for you! It includes everything you need to get started using depth and complexity icons with your students tomorrow! Add rigor and differentiate with ease for those gifted and high ability students using the products in this bundle.Your purchase includes these amazing depth and complexity icons products:-Sentence Stems (**best seller!)-Question Stems for Discussion (**b
Grades:
5th - 8th
Growth Mindset Activities | Social Emotional Learning Bell Ringers | Volume 1
These fully-editable growth-mindset bell ringers will get your class thinking and are perfect for social emotional learning as well! With thought-provoking and engaging prompts, they can be used as individual writing prompts or large group discussion topics. Teachers agree that these bell ringers are perfect for daily warm ups or morning meetings. I’m so excited for your students to experience a variety of life-impacting questions to write about individually or discuss within groups.You will rec
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Not Grade Specific
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El Deafo by Cece Bell: A Google Slides/PDF/Easel Novel Study
Overview: This versatile product is a custom made, ready-to-use novel study that offers the buyer three different formats! It is a google slides product complete with text boxes for use digitally in distance learning. It is also a completed "Easel by TpT" activity that makes it possible for students with any device to use the editable text boxes that have already been installed to complete the entire workbook digitally. Being a PDF, this can also be printed and used with pencil and paper. Desi
Grades:
4th - 6th
Character Education, Sudoku Puzzles Lesson, Growth Mindset, First Week of School
A week of Growth Mindset lessons + Student Growth Mindset Survey. Great First Week of School activities to teach students HOW to struggle using Sudoku Puzzles. This life-long tool is great for the first week of school! Use it during Back to School season with your new class to set the tone for a year of learning!Teach important lessons if you ever need to fill a period.Use this anytime to hit the re-start button in your classroom community.Great for sub plans: it's fun, "easier" work that still
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6th - 10th
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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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Anti-Bullying Campaign - Bullying Group Project - Bullying Prevention Lesson
This bullying prevention activity is the PERFECT anti-bullying group project to engage middle school and high school students in real-world discussions about bullying and ways to prevent it at your school. The anti-bullying campaign is a student-centered activity that turns your students into researchers and teachers. Students will work together with a group of their classmates to research the harmful effects of bullying and ways to stop it. The best part of this collaborative activity is that s
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6th - 9th
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Growth Mindset Bell Ringers | 40 SEL Writing Prompts For Any Subject | Volume 2
These fully-editable growth-mindset bell ringers will get your class thinking and are perfect for social emotional learning as well! With thought-provoking and engaging prompts, they can be used as individual writing prompts or large group discussion topics. Teachers agree that these bell ringers are perfect for daily warm ups or morning meetings. I’m so excited for your students to experience a variety of life-impacting questions to write about individually or discuss within groups. You will r
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Not Grade Specific
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Leadership Skills Activity Project for Student Council - Book Study Lit Circle
Use this print-and-teach book study or lit circle project to cultivate leadership skill-building in your student council officers. Students choose a book focused on skills they want to improve--developing better habits, building stronger relationships, being a better public speaker. They choose!With the included Dialectic Journal, students engage in self-guided learning and teaching their classmates with the included review and infographic. So many ways to use this:independent, small group, or w
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Leadership Student Council Government Course for Middle High School Advisors
STEM: Acts of Kindness Project
It's Back to School time - Plan ahead for a great school year!
Critical Thinking and Service Learning are Common Core! Great for the beginning of the year, Open House, or use it anytime throughout the year.
Help your students to think critically, develop good character traits, improve our world, and create heartfelt persuasive writing. Teach them to Pay it Forward!
This service learning project incorporates critical thinking, research, and problem solving.
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Teacher U
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4th - 12th, Staff
Inquiry Based Learning Project: Step-by-Step Student Booklet
Inquiry Based Learning: Everything teachers need to know to get started includes over 25 pages. A step-by-step student booklet allows for teachers to guide students through the process of developing and researching an inquiry based question to engage all learners in higher order critical thinking skills.
A How-To for Teachers
Inquiry based learning is a pedagogical approach to learning that is gaining momentum in mainstream education in many countries. It is not a new approach but rather a mor
Grades:
4th - 8th
Student SMART Goal Setting | Template | Worksheet | Graphic Organizer | SEL
Everyone says "work smarter, not harder." Use the SEOT Wheel of Success so students can independently reflect on whether they are working "harder" (effort alone) or working "smarter" (learning from mistakes.)Student SMART Goal Setting Lesson Slideshow (100 slides) explains to students how to set goals and fill out the Student Goal Setting worksheets. Student Goal Setting Graphic Organizer Students can visually see if they're working harder or working smarter.Student Goal Setting Template Student
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6th - 10th
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Debating Topics for Middle School: School and Education
Get your middle school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints.Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refining y
Grades:
5th - 7th
Year of Bell Ringers: Motivational Monday Quote Prompts Expansion Pack #2
Mondays are hard for students and teachers alike. Ease into the period with an inspirational quote and thought-provoking writing prompts. The quotes I used are meaningful and relevant to students; many of my students said they looked forward to reading and writing about the prompts each Monday. And the best part? They promote a positive growth mindset that is reinforced each week and all week long. This pack is a second expansion pack to my first resource; however, it can be used alone or with t
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Custom Bundle for Jen W.
Conversation Starters Package on Quality of Life
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on the quality of life.What's included:A list of 12 thought-provoking questions for middle school students on the subject of quality of lifeActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expression
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Growth Mindset ELA Skill Review Bell Ringer | SEL Bundle | Digital Printable
This bundle helps you address the social-emotional learning and mental health needs in your classroom while simultaneously covering your ELA and writing content. These no-prep spiralled language review activities are great as centers, bell ringers, morning work, or individual worksheets. Fiction and nonfiction texts cover a range from brain science to positive psychology with various reading comprehension, critical thinking, and writing responses. Students engage in evidence-based practices that
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5th - 8th
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Growth Mindset ELA Skill Review Bell Ringers SEL Activities | Digital Printable
Struggling to address the social-emotional learning and mental health needs in your classroom between all the content you have to cover? Do both with these no-prep, spiralled ELA writing and language review activities that are great as centers, bell ringers, morning work, or independent worksheets. Fiction and nonfiction texts cover a range from brain science to positive psychology with various reading comprehension, critical thinking, and writing responses. Students engage in evidence-based pra
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Growth Mindset ELA Skill Review Bell Ringer | SEL Bundle | Digital Printable
Debating Topics for Middle School: Family Life
Get your middle school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints. Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refining
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5th - 7th
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Trash or Treasure: Analysis from Multiple Perspectives
A lawsuit was filed against the city of Washington D.C. on behalf of their homeless citizen. The lawsuit alleges that 1,000's of important personal items have been thrown away by city workers clearing homeless encampments. Is this an issue of public health and safety?Is it wrong to throw away the belongings of people who already have so little?Is it a violation of the 4th amendment?The answers to those questions will probably depend on who you ask. In Trash or Treasure: Analysis from Multiple
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6th - 8th
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Conversation Starters Package on Entrepreneurship
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on entrepreneurship. What's included:A list of 13 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of entrepreneurshipActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expres
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Keep the Change: Stakeholder Analysis
Instead of telling young people WHAT TO THINK let's teach them HOW TO THINK!The nation is currently facing a nation-wide coin shortage! Chipotle made a special policy for customers paying in cash. Customer totals would be rounded up to the nearest dollar amount if bills were being paid in cash. A lot of Chipotle customers thought this policy was unfair and filed a class-action lawsuit in August of 2020.In this lesson students will take the role of an attorney that is advising Chipotle and lea
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6th - 8th
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Can Colors Be Trademarked?
Trademarks are designed to help protect companies. Slogans and logos are protected by trademarks. But should companies be able to trademark colors? Sometimes the answer is yes and sometimes the answer is no!Have your class look at multiple examples and synthesize what they think the rule should be!Should Owens-Corning be able to trademark pink insulation?Should Cheerios be able to trademark yellow?Should UPS be able to trademark brown?Ask your class!his lesson download includes:- Teacher's Gu
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6th - 8th
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