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Classroom community Common Core SL.9-10.4 resources
Intro to Leadership or Student Council Middle High School Unit
Start your Leadership class or Student Council off on a successful year with this introductory unit filled with enough student-centered, get-them-thinking activities to use for 2-3 years before any repeats- great if students are in student government year after year! Then, culminate student learning and growth with a campus-wide Kindness Project to kick off a positive year.This unit kit comes in both print PDF and digital for Google Slides!Greatness is maximizing all group members' strengths to
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Also included in: Leadership Student Council Full Course for Middle High School Advisors
Partner Pairing Cards for Groups - Icebreaker Game - 50 Partner Matching Cards
Use these partner pairing cards as a back-to-school icebreaker game or to quickly and easily pair students for classroom activities and assignments! Includes 50+ partner matching cards to pair 25+ groups. Differentiated partner cards have also been provided.Included with these Partner Pairing Cards for Groups:✏️ 51 Partner Matching Cards - GreyscalePartner Cards to Create 25 Pairs and 1 Set of Three✏️ Differentiated Partner Matching Cards - Greyscale✏️ DIY Headband Template for Icebreaker G
Grades:
5th - 10th
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AVID Team Building Digital and Printable Activities
Looking for some icebreakers or teambuilding activities to build your classroom community and make fun Friday or Framework Friday planning an easy task? Then you're in the right place! These resources encourage skills like public speaking, communication, leadership, writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization and reading!⭐OVER 30% OFF!⭐ *We have 51 resources included in this bundle!*⭐AVID Mega Bundle!⭐What's Included7 Communication/Public Speaking Resources2 30-Second Speech ActivitiesEditable
Grades:
5th - 12th
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80 ELA GAMES and 15 BRAIN TEASER MINI-MYSTERIES BUNDLE | Grades 9-12
This exciting 20% off brain breaks no-prep activities bundle is crammed with games and brain teaser mini-mysteries designed to entertain and challenge even the 'coolest' High School ELA students. Fun for grade 9-12 students that also requires them to keep their critical thinking skills zinging!ELA Games80 fun, educational games are packed into the vibrant pages of this resource. There are games for individuals, team games, mini writing activities, silly speeches and riddles to solve. The preview
Grades:
9th - 12th
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AVID Speed Philosophical Chairs Lesson and Activity - DIgital Resource
This AVID Speed Philosophical Chairs note taking lesson plan with teaching slides has everything you need to teach your students the process of speed philosopical chairs while they practice the 5 phases of focused note taking! This lesson also includes 40 speed philosophical topics for students to apply they're learning at the end of the lesson.What's Included:Lesson plan that walks you through the slides43 teaching slides40 speed philosophical chairs topicsparticipant reflective checklistrules
Grades:
5th - 9th
Social Emotional Learning Activities and Coping Strategies
Students need mental health support to manage their stress, emotions, changing life circumstances and trauma as well as every day social emotional struggles. Teachers already know that, but finding ways to support them is difficult. Here is a bundle of ALL my best mental health and SEL resources! When I couldn't find what my students needed I created my own resources for my classroom. Here are my most loved and popular resources all in one bundle. This is a multi-faceted tool kit including inter
Grades:
7th - 10th
Classroom Management Game Changer!: Teacher Off Duty!
Are your students misbehaving - disrupting class, talking back, or all in all making it a MILLION times harder to do your job? This resource will change your life. I am not even exaggerating. This is hands down the BEST thing I have ever done for my classroom management. In this activity, students take on the role of teacher and legit have to teach themselves the lesson that you otherwise would have taught. They are responsible for any teacher task you want to give them - managing attendance, ke
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2nd - 12th
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Winter Activity - Would You Rather Questions
Do your students need a brain break activity during the winter season? Do your students love to talk or debate? Use this no-prep ice breaker digital icebreaker game to allow your students the opportunity to share and discuss some fun and silly winter traditions. Use this game as an ice breaker activity, brain break, community building activity, or discussion starters. You can also use these questions as writing prompts or even debate prompts! What do you get?15 winter themed would you rather sli
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Would You Rather Activities - Digital Resources Growing Bundle
Oral Communication Language Empathy Scenarios Social Skills Activities Game
Empathy Awareness is vitally important to maintaining all relationships. Empathy is a life long skill that bonds humans in understanding each other through heartfelt compassion. Appreciation for our others is essential to interpersonal social success.Use Worksheets, Lessons, and Activity Game to Teach:Empathic Feelings in Self and OthersEnables Perspective and Perception Critical Thinking in Social SettingsEnhances Respect and SensitivityExpands Behavior RecognitionDevelops Growth MindsetHelps t
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Teach Me a Lesson | Student Presentations | Communication | Speaking & Listening
This resource is a guide and preparation pack for teaching students to plan and teach a 10-minute lesson to their peers. It covers everything from selecting a topic to creating a lesson plan, and provides tips and strategies for effective teaching. Ideal for avoiding presentations copied and pasted from the internet!This product is also included in my Middle School Combo BUNDLE and my High School Combo BUNDLE.With clear and concise instructions, this resource is perfect for students who want to
Grades:
8th - 11th
Also included in: Gifted and Talented ELA BUNDLE | Ambitious Reading, Writing and Analysis
The Bridge Challenge Activity - Beginning of Year Community Building, Team Work
This is a great activity for building or re-building community, teaching problem solving and team work through the metaphor of building a bridge, and taking time to create classroom culture.Includes Gallery Walk Rubric & Exit TicketGreat for all classrooms, all ages!I give each team a plastic bag with spaghetti, marshmallows, cotton balls, legos...you decide the contents. I also include tape. I make sure that each team has the same size and quantity. You can even throw in a challenge object
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Getting to Know You Activity for Back to School
Harness the power of selfies and storytelling using this engaging, no-prep back to school digital getting to know you activity for high school or middle school students. Students will self-reflect and selfie it up, creating a personalized slide in your collaborative Google slideshow to share with the class!This is not your typical name game or icebreaker, but a beginning of school activity that is both engaging and skill-based. 21st-century skills, check. Speaking and listening skills, yes, yes
Grades:
7th - 10th
Mingle! ANIMATED ICEBREAKER for All Grade Levels & Subjects
Get to know your students, and help them get to know each other with this fun, animated icebreaker! The MINGLE! icebreaker is excellent to get your kids moving around the room, which of course is effective for engaging our kinesthetic learners. Each slide contains colorful space graphics with animations to keep your kiddos focused and having fun! While this resource is great for Back to School, you can certainly use this icebreaker at any point in the school year as a community building / brain
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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Let's Be Friends: A Quick Remedy for Conflict Between Students
This is a conflict/resolution tool to help your students change from focusing on a problem to focusing on commonalities. In my 20 years of teaching, this helped with personality conflicts every time!You will receive a template for students to fill out as they work out their problem and a guide of many potential commonalities to help them make that happen.The best part is the way that the students see a new side to one another and that helps diminish the current and future conflicts. Instilling
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Not Grade Specific
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Team Builder or Icebreaker Activity with Popular Characters
Use these character cards to create a positive classroom culture at the beginning of the school year. In a game much like the classic “21 Questions,” students use critical thinking as they walk around the classroom asking one another questions in order to guess the characters from classic and young adult literature named on the cards on their backs. Each card has information on the character to help students respond to the questions. It makes a fun first day of school activity but can also be u
Grades:
8th - 11th
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Also included in: Team Builder Activities Bundle
Student Choice Talk | Individual Presentation | Oracy | Speaking and Listening
This slideshow and planning pack allows students to think about their own interests and knowledge before they structure it into a presentation. A great sneaky way to get them preparing their ideas before they are told that they're giving a talk to the class!This product is also included in my Middle School Combo BUNDLE and my High School Combo BUNDLE.Includes editable research sheets in Word and Google Docs as well as PDF.No more will you hear "I don't know what to talk about..."Check out the fu
Grades:
7th - 10th
"Draw It!" skillbuilder/icebreaker activity for group communication skills
PURPOSE: This skillbuilder activity can be done as an icebreaker to introduce students to process of effective group communication and collaboration. Or it can be used as a refresher to hone communication skills within the span of an extended group project. In my 10th grade World History classroom, I have used this skillbuilder as part of an International Negotiations simulation (prior to students writing their proposals for addressing global issues) to highlight the idea that sometimes what we
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6th - 12th
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Socratic Seminar: Powerpoint with Teacher and Student Guidelines
Increase participation, comunication, and critical thinking skills in your classroom by having students conduct a Socratic Seminar.
This product is a powerpoint presentation including:
-teacher slides with directions and guidelines
-class slides for teacher presentation to students
-rubric for grading students on preparation and contribution to the seminar
This presentation is all you need to easily conduct a seminar in your classroom. It has teacher and student guidelines as well as a grading
Grades:
5th - 10th
Also included in: Socratic Seminar Bundle (Ancient Civilizations)
Getting To Know You
Need an icebreaker or activity to help your class bond? First day of school? Need to develop empathy and understanding amongst your students? Try this easy printable worksheet! Partner students up and give them time to interview one another, filling out the questions on this worksheet together. When they are finished, they will highlight or underline the things they they have in common. Expand on this activity by having partners share one thing they learned about the other person, or creating 30
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6th - 9th
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Getting to Know You CD Project
A great project to begin the year! Students will make a "mixtape" (list) of 5 songs that represent something about them. They will also make an album cover to share a bit about themselves. Also includes a presentation rubric if you'd like students to share their CD project with the class. Students really have fun with this project and it's a great icebreaker!
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7th - 12th
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To Kill a Mockingbird Mock Trial
Hold a mock trial for the book, To Kill a Mockingbird. This is a fantastic activity that involves the entire class with differentiation and student-led discussion. You can assign each student a role, including a judge, lawyers, character witnesses, or back up characters/jury duty. This purchase includes all of the explanations, preparation worksheets for each role, and during-the-trial worksheets for jury duty (19 pages). Following is the explanation at the beginning of the documents for the stu
Grades:
8th - 11th
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Also included in: To Kill a Mockingbird Mock Trial Bundle
Speed Conversations: A Digital, No Prep Valentine's Day Game/Activity!
This Valentine's Day themed activity is designed to mimic speed dating! This activity encourages classroom fun and participation while building community. It's perfect for elementary, middle school, or even high school classrooms. It's a fun way to work on the speaking and listening standard especially around Valentine's Day and is easy to use as a Google Slides Presentation. It's also completely editable!This product is completely ready to go with no prep as soon as you want. Enjoy!WHAT'S INCL
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Syllabus Slides- First week of School
Every year when I go back to school, I always lose my voice. That first week of school always seems to be me talking, and the kids still don't know how to act when they come into my class the next week. I needed to avoid that struggle. I do that by having my students fill out one question off of the syllabus. They are responsible for one of these slides, and they present the answers to the class. You will not believe how many kids tell me "Miss, I have never actually read a syllabus before until
Grades:
4th - 12th
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Life Skills Task Cards with Lesson Set 2
Using Life Skills Task Cards (52 included), students will participate in discussions using task cards. The lesson plan guides the teacher slide by slide through the PowerPoint as s/he models how "Collaborate and Listen" works. An example task card and sample answers are included on the PowerPoint. Students follow along, filling in the worksheet. Students, in groups of 3, are each given a Life Skill Task Card- and will brainstorm, read, discuss, collaborate, listen, and respond.More Life Skills T
Grades:
6th - 10th
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