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Problem solving social studies Common Core 1.G.A.2 resources
Freedom Quilts - MINI UNIT
This freedom quilts mini unit is the perfect addition to your social studies curriculum with 4 different math connections!
This freedom quilts mini unit includes information pages to give students background knowledge on the underground railroad and the use of freedom quilts, printable of quilt patterns, and 4 different math connection printables. There are also book ideas to read aloud to your class on the topic!
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- 16 information pages (these can be
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1st - 4th
STEM Challenges & Activities for the Year STEAM Team Building Summer No Prep
Looking to use STEM Challenges and activities in your elementary classroom? These hands on simple STEAM activities are low prep and use common classroom materials. These STEM activities are both digital and printable! There are STEM challenges and activities for the entire year for you to use - 48 challenges! You will find just what you need for Back to School, Team Building, Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer STEM fun! This STEM Bundle includes STEM challenges and STEM activities for the entire ye
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K - 5th
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Ocean Printable Tangram Math Puzzles Congruent 2D Shapes Center and Worksheets
Ocean animal tangrams are an engaging no prep 2D shape math center activity your students will love! They'll develop problem solving, critical thinking, geometry and spatial reasoning skills with 2 differentiated versions of each puzzle. Match congruent shapes on the outline version, or solve as a puzzle with the picture versions. This set includes a turtle, shark, flounder, angel fish, lobster, sea horse and whale. They make an awesome activity for early finishers, as a center, or even as morn
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K - 3rd
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Tangram Puzzle Task Cards, Mats, and Clip Art
The tangram is a puzzle consisting of seven very specific shapes called tans, and the objective is to recreate a shape, given only a silhouette, using all seven pieces. This game is a wonderful and fun tool for teaching problem solving, critical thinking, shapes, and geometry concepts like symmetry and congruency.This tangram set contains 32 unique puzzles, plus high-quality transparent PNG images of the 7 individual tans, which can be used to create your own puzzles and solutions! All 32 puzzle
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K - 4th
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Also included in:Â Math Manipulatives Mega Bundle
Math Logic Puzzles Shapes - Year Bundle
Send these Math Logic Puzzles home as a distance learning BUNDLE that will keep students engaged in critical thinking, hands-on learning activities for hours with minimal prep for parents. (Included in the download are paper copies of the pattern blocks needed for the puzzles)This bundle of interactive picture pattern block logic puzzles will have your primary students begging for more! Easy to use, these brain teasers are a great hands-on math center that will keep kids engaged while improving
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K - 3rd
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Math Enrichment & PBL Common Core State Standard Task Card MEGA Bundle
These yearlong project-based activities are a way to enrich your high-achieving students through independent work study, while you are able to focus on providing instruction and support to your on level and approaching level students. These high-level thinking projects incorporate reading and writing, and allow all students to stay actively working on the same standards as the instruction you are giving to the students who are still working on learning the math skills you are teaching.NEWLY UPDA
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K - 2nd
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Polar Animal Printable Tangrams Congruent 2D Shapes Math Center and Worksheets
Polar Animal Tangrams are an engaging no prep 2D shape math center activity your students will love! They'll develop problem solving, critical thinking, geometry and spatial reasoning skills with 2 differentiated versions of each puzzle. Match congruent shapes on the outline version, or solve as a puzzle with the picture versions. This set includes a penguin, polar bear, howling husky, arctic fox, walrus and arctic hare. They make an awesome activity for early finishers, as a center, or even as
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K - 3rd
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Also included in:Â First Grade Math Centers Year Long Bundle | Back to School Math Activities
Math Logic Puzzles Shapes Early Finisher Activities - level A
This set of interactive pattern block logic puzzles will have kids begging for more! Easy to use, these brain teasers are a great math center that will keep kids engaged while improving your students’ skills needed to solve logic tasks as well as developing their visual discrimination skills.These puzzles are perfect to help your students learn to persevere through challenging tasks.
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K - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Math Logic Puzzles Shapes - Early Finisher Activities - levels A,B,C BUNDLE
Spring Printable Tangram Puzzles Congruent 2D Shapes Math Center and Worksheets
Spring Tangrams are an engaging no prep 2D shape math center activity your students will beg for! They'll develop problem solving, critical thinking, geometry and spatial reasoning skills with 2 differentiated versions of each puzzle. Match congruent shapes on the outline version, or solve as a puzzle with the picture versions. There are 2 butterflies, 2 birds, a snail, water lily and a bunny - something to appeal to everyone! They're an awesome activity for early finishers, centers and morning
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K - 3rd
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Fairytale Pattern Block Mats, Task Cards and Design Activities
This collection of 10 Fairytale Pattern Block mats and task cards will support your learners as they learn to identify, sort, flip, rotate and turn shapes. Great as part of a castle, medieval, or fairytale theme topic!How challenging is it?There are three levels of difficulty so you can tailor the activities to your learners:full-size color and ink saver version for practicing matchingtask cards for learners to put the shapes together without a matoutline version for those that need an extra cha
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PreK - 1st
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Printable Tangram Puzzles Congruent 2D Shapes Math Centers and Worksheet Ocean+
40 printable tangram puzzles for ocean, spring, farm, Halloween and Chinese New Year make 2D shape and geometry practice fun! Easily differentiate with both outline (matching congruent shape) and more difficult picture versions. Use them as a self checking math center, or have students glue on the congruent shapes for easy math worksheets! They're awesome for early finishers, morning work, inside recess, your sub plans and more. My kiddos LOVE working with these tangrams and I'm sure yours will
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K - 3rd
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Math Logic Puzzles Shapes - Early Finisher Activities - level C
This set of interactive pattern block logic puzzles will have kids begging for more! Easy to use, these brain teasers are a great math center that will keep kids engaged while improving your students’ skills needed to solve logic tasks as well as developing their visual discrimination skills.These puzzles are perfect to help your students learn to persevere through challenging tasks.You save 15% by purchasing the BUNDLEYou can learn more on this BLOG POSTIncluded in this resource: are 14 differ
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K - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Math Logic Puzzles Shapes - Early Finisher Activities - levels A,B,C BUNDLE
Math Logic Puzzles - Composite Shapes - BUNDLE
Math Logic Puzzles - Composite Shapes - BUNDLEThis set of interactive shape composition pattern block logic puzzles will have your primary students begging for more! Easy to use, these brain teasers are a great hands-on math center or early finisher activity that will keep kids engaged while improving your students’ skills needed to solve logic tasks as well as developing their visual discrimination skills. These puzzles are perfect to help your students learn to persevere through challenging ta
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1st - 3rd
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Lunar New Year Printable Tangrams Congruent 2D Shapes Math Center and Worksheets
Chinese New Year tangrams are a great way to develop knowledge of 2D shapes and fine motor skills! All 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac are included, and each puzzle is differentiated with an outline version (matching congruent shapes) and a more difficult picture version. Use as a whole class activity, for a math center, or as a hands on morning work activity, or have students glue down the paper tangram shapes to make a Chinese New Year math craft!Blank tangram patterns are included to ensure
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K - 3rd
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Farm Animals Printable Tangrams Congruent 2D Shapes Math Center and Worksheets
These Farm Animal Tangrams will help develop problem solving, critical thinking, geometry and spatial reasoning skills in your PK - 2nd grade students! Easily differentiate with 7 tangram puzzles in both outline (matching congruent shapes) & shaded form (more challenging). This set includes a horse, duck, hen, barn, bull, goat, and goose & makes an awesome activity for early finishers, as a center, math or sub tubs, or even as morning work. Students LOVE them!Blank tangram patterns in 4"
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K - 3rd
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1st Grade Math Journals / Problem of the Day
1st Grade Math Journals contains 150 prompts to foster problem solving and review key math concepts. Multiple tasks for all 1st Grade math standards (CCSS) are included.Included in this resource:a comprehensive guide to using math journals150 math journal promptsa math journal rubric in both student notebook and classroom display sizeEach math journal task is provided in multiple formats:Notebook Size: Print on Avery Standard, 5160 mailing labels (30 labels per page) or print on paper and cut ap
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1st
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Also included in:Â 1st Grade Math Bundle 1
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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3D Shape Math Center for Kindergarten - Construct with blocks & count 3D shapes
There are 15 construction cards included in this set and children will love the challenge of building the various items: towers, bridges, robot, car, train, rocket etc. After making the item, the student must count how many of each 3D shape they used and write the number. Then they can add the total to find out 'how many blocks they used altogether' to build their item.This would make an ideal Maths activity station/Math centre for a Kindergarten to Grade 1 class. There are varying levels of dif
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K - 1st
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Halloween Printable Tangrams Congruent 2D Shapes Math Center and Worksheets
Halloween Tangrams help develop problem solving, critical thinking, geometry and spatial reasoning skills in your PK - 2nd grade students! Easily differentiate with 7 tangram puzzles in both outline (matching congruent shapes) & shaded form (more challenging). This set includes a cat face, toadstools, flying bat, spider, cat, crow and vulture & makes an awesome activity for early finishers, as a center, math or sub tubs, or even as morning work. Students LOVE them!Click here to be notifi
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K - 3rd
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Spring STEM Activities April STEAM Challenge shapes pattern block Mat Worksheet
This Spring STEM challenge reviews shapes and uses pattern blocks to get students building spring designs. Count the 2D shapes on the worksheet. LOW PREP for any classroom or makerspace. 24 pages and 20 page Google slideshow. Great for March, April & May for math or STEAM center!★Grab all 5 SPRING challenge at $13.30 & save 30%. Click here to view the bundle!!!This activity includes a printable version AND Google Slides Presentation (works with Microsoft PowerPoint). This digital version
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in:Â STEM Challenges & Activities for the Year STEAM Team Building Summer No Prep
Spring STEM Activities Earth Day Challenges Bird House Nest Caterpillar April
These Spring STEM Activities are great for engaging your students. This Spring bundle has 4 exciting challenges for March, April & May. LOW PREP for any elementary classroom! Each low prep STEAM activity comes with a digital slide show, certificates, task cards & more.What’s Included in the Spring Stem Challenges Bundle: 5 fun & simple activities all Spring themed and LOW PREP for your convenience!Spring STEM Activity 1: Earth Day Activities STEM Recycling Challenge Students will le
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K - 3rd
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Geometric Quilt Patterns
We were playing with pattern blocks when I had the idea to try making quilt designs.Quilts are a great way to study math, history, and art all at the same time.I had trouble finding a book with square and triangle designs that would be easy for us to replicate. All of the books I found at the library were aimed at sewing. I only needed some good diagrams. So I researched historical quilt patterns and made my own book of diagrams!It includes 40 different designs in color and the same 40 designs a
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PreK - 3rd
BOOK ACTIVITIES and EXTENSIONS Legend of Indian Paintbrush Thematic Unit
BOOK ACTIVITIES and EXTENSIONS to accompany The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush is a thematic unit based on Tomie dePaola's wonderful book. Included in this product are activities for literacy, speaking and listening, math, writing, and visual arts. There are materials for 2 literacy centers and 2 math centers. These extension activities relate to Native American culture, cover a broad range of subjects, and include differentiation ideas. [social studies, craftivities, ELA, math, writing, sp
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Mapping Your Community - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:What is a community? How do the inhabitants of a community work together?Description:In this inquiry based project, students investigate their local neighborhoods in order to come to a shared understanding of "a community." Research skills, map reading, oral and written communication, and creativity will become purposeful as the class builds a model of the local community to present at a public exhibition.What's Included with this Project:NextLesson Projects are extended lessons
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K - 2nd
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Also included in:Â PBL Bundle (Grades K-2) - In Collaboration with A.J. Juliani - 26 Projects!
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