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8th grade science task cards for special education
Life Skills Task Boxes - set 1 & 2
Life Skills Task Boxes: Set 2Are you tired of boring worksheets! Looking for something new? Here are 16 Primary task boxes that are all related to life skills that are needed, that can be used in small groups, independent centers, one on one instruction, and take-home boxes for homework for that extra needed practice!! These tasks boxes, or task cards, help promote independent learning skills for early learners, gifted students, ELL students, and Special needs or SPED teachers.This resource can
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PreK - 8th
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Executive Functioning Skills Task Cards Activities
Use these 200+ executive functioning skills task cards to teach and practice all areas of executive function! This includes planning, time management, working memory, self-control, organization, task initiation, metacognition, attention and focus, flexible thinking, and perseverance. Just read the cards and discuss together to build these critical brain skills. A page explaining each skill is also included.All Students Can Build EF SkillsThe task cards are aimed to help students at middle and hi
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5th - 8th
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Community Signs Skill Pack Leveled for Special Education - Life Skills
Do your students need a high level of varied practice in order to learn community signs? This community signs skill pack will help your students progress from identifying a sign to understanding what the community signs mean. Being able to identify and understand community signs is a crucial life skill. These activities help students recognize and understand the meaning of the different signs.This life skills and social studies set is already differentiated for you. There are 3 levels included t
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K - 12th
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Synonyms and Antonyms Speech Therapy Vocabulary Activities BOOM™ CARDS BUNDLE
This BUNDLE of BOOM CARDS is an easy and engaging way to target vocabulary IN CONTEXT! It contains a total of 90 cards targeting synonyms and antonyms at 3 different levels!▶ Beginner: Grades 1 - 4▶ Intermediate: Grades 5 - 8▶ Advanced: Grades 9 - 12Each card has a PHOTOGRAPH with a SENTENCE containing an underlined word for the student to identify a synonym or antonym from a field of 4 choices.The first card of each deck is a menu card that gives a brief description of what synonyms and antony
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1st - 12th
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Social Skills Task Cards for Middle & High School SEL Activities
Engaging social skills task cards and writing prompts to help middle and high school students build social-emotional skills for success! The 100+ cards are organized into five different sets that target different social skills: Basic Interactions, Conversations, Empathy, Friendships & Relationships, and Conflict Resolution Skills. These cards are great for ALL students but especially learning with social challenges and needs. Use these task cards to allow students to discuss a variety of soc
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6th - 9th
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Functional Life Skills Task Boxes {special education} 53 task boxes
Are you looking to teach Life Skills in a fun, hands-on way to your special education students? This set of 53 different task boxes that focus on life skills is a great addition to your collection of task cards in your special education classroom. Now including Candian money versions of the task boxes.**********************WARNING!!!!!*************************These task boxes are pulled directly from my Functional Life Skills Curriculum. If you already own that curriculum or any unit in it, y
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PreK - 12th, Adult Education
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Self-Advocacy Scenarios Task Cards & Worksheets
Teach and practice self-advocacy skills with kids and teens! These task cards and worksheets include over 90 unique situations to provide practice. They include an introductory mini-lesson on what it means to self-advocate as a "SUPER Self-Advocate." Note that BOTH task cards and worksheets versions are included, allowing you to provide practice however is best for your learners.Digital VersionDigital-friendly worksheets included. Students can access the task cards through Google Drive to record
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4th - 8th
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Food Chains & Food Webs Whodunnit Activity - Printable & Digital Game Options
Nothing like a good criminal investigation to liven up food chains and food webs! Based off my popular CSI projects, I have created Whodunnits? The Whodunnits plan to focus on single content topics as opposed to units and will focus more on skill building than application. Every day can't be a project day, so Whodunnits can be an engaging out-of-their-seat activity to practice important skills. In a Whodunnit, students will work in teams to solve 10 practice problems that increase in difficulty.
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: Biology Whodunnit Activity Bundle - Printable & Digital Game Options
Grocery Store Math & Grocery Shopping Life Skills Special Education Activities
Teach your life skills students how to go shopping and use money in this real-life grocery shopping activity. Students will practice grocery store math skills including counting money, next dollar up skills, calculating discounts, using coupons, writing checks, and more real-world money skills. For effective independence in the community, life skills students need to be able to go shopping for themselves, and the grocery store is where they will need to shop most often. In this life skills &
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8th - 10th
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Cell Organelles Card Sort Game
This printable or digital resource is a Cell Organelles Mix-n-Match Card Sort Game used to reinforce and review the structures found in plant and animal cells. The set includes organelles found in both plant and animal cells: Nucleus, cell membrane, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, mitochondria, ribosome, vacuole, cytoskeleton, centrioles, lysosome, peroxisome, cilia, flagella, cell wall, plastids, chloroplast, chromoplast, leucoplast, extracellular matrix (ECM), intercellular junctions
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7th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-LS1-2
Inferencing Task Cards
Inferencing can be a difficult concept to teach, learn, and master. Our students often need additional support to fully understand this skill. This product contains various components to support your students' learning. Included in this product are 32 task cards containing short stories, 32 task cards containing pictures for inferencing, 1 visual support to help teach what inferencing is, and 2 graphic organizers that can be used with each task card. Each card contains questions that target infe
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3rd - 12th
Climate Change Causes and Effects: Stations
The Climate Change Carousel (task cards) is a great way to introduce your students to the causes, effects, and solutions of climate change. Students travel from station to station analyzing information, data and graphs relating to climate change and recording their ideas on the answer sheet provided (SEE PREVIEW). This set of 25 EDITABLE task cards covers: greenhouse gases, human population, deforestation, effects on human health, water, sea level, temperature, extreme weather, carbon tax,
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8th - 12th
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HS-LS2-7
, HS-ESS3-1
, HS-ESS3-5
LEGO Challenge Task Cards {Great for STEM or fun building!}
I am really excited to show you some cute, older-kid friendly LEGO Challenge Task Cards! These are bright, colorful, and can appeal to older students without looking too primary. Don’t’ have LEGOs? That’s okay! These can be used for any building materials you may have—unifix cubes, plastic Flake Discs (Amazon), Bunchems (Amazon or Target), Wiki Stix, pipe cleaners, play-dough, etc. Get those kids engineering and manipulating. They work great as an independent station for special education, a STE
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PreK - 8th
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Social Problem Solving Task Cards for Middle and High School - SEL Activities
This is a pack of 100 task cards that highlight social scenarios and situations that kids can discuss and identify how they would solve each situation. The social situation cards are organized into five different sets that target different situations: With friends, with family, in classes, in the hallway and cafeteria, and online and texting.These cards are great for students with social difficulties and those who are rigid and might get "stuck" in their way of thinking. Use these task cards to
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6th - 9th
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Figurative Language Speech Therapy Activities BUNDLE Boom™ Cards Task Cards
Sentence context is key for teaching students how to identify the meaning of figurative language. These BOOM CARDS™ activities help students understand what idioms, metaphors, similes, and hyperboles are, then provide tons of practice for the skill!Since it's not practical to teach all figurative language expressions, we must teach students the strategy of utilizing context clues to determine the meaning of idioms, metaphors, similes, and hyperboles. These digital task cards are a great addition
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4th - 10th
Tier 2 Vocabulary for Middle School using Context Clues
Teach middle school vocabulary to your students (5th-8th grade) by working on understanding and defining Tier 2 vocabulary using context clues. This packet includes a total of 195 different Tier 2 Vocabulary words used in sentences and differentiated to accommodate a variety of student needs. This packet is perfect for SLPs, special education teachers, or general education teachers looking to increase their student's middle school vocabulary skills through the use of context clues. Check out thi
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5th - 8th
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Circulatory System Exhibition Stations
Check out this set of human body systems exhibition stations- your students will love the "Circulatory Exhibition Lab"- exhibition style! Students can travel from station to station - OR- you can print smaller versions and have the students use the cards as independent centers. Their task is to analyze the cards in different ways and write the answers on the sheet provided (see preview). Inspired by the Bodies Exhibit, my exhibition labs always go above and beyond- exploring interesting facts, m
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7th - 11th
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Also included in: Human Body Systems Stations BUNDLE
Scientific Method Task Cards
This set of 45 task cards is designed to teach, review, and reinforce the APPLICATION of the scientific method. Students will write hypotheses, identify independent and dependent variables, describe experimental and control groups, read tables and graphs, form conclusions, make predictions, and more. Choose to use the traditional printable version, or the paperless, digital Google Apps version. Both Google Slides and Google Forms versions are included.This resource is perfect for distance lea
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Science Skills Bundle: Metrics, Measurement, Scientific Method, Graphing
Graphing Stations: Middle School Science NGSS Aligned Graphing Activities
This student-centered NGSS-aligned graphing lesson is fun and interactive! My class gave it a thumbs up! It was created specifically for Middle School grades 6-8 NGSS Practice 4: Analyzing and Interpreting Data. These graphing stations are a great way to get students to interact with different forms of data. The graphing stations include:⭐ A Graphing Notes Printable - The notes explain the different types of graphs and how they are most commonly used. This is a great resource for students to ref
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6th - 8th
Problem Solving Scenarios | Social Skills Activities for Teens
This is an activity pack of 42 problem solving task cards providing difficult social scenarios that students can work through. Practice using and applying problem solving skills to determine what to do in an everyday problem scenario. This activity can be used for therapy sessions, social skills online groups, teachers, special education teachers and home-schooling parents. This resource will help students work through the ability to put themselves in a situation, identify (and justify) an appr
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8th - 11th
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The Fossil Record Analyzing Patterns and Evidence of Evolution Fossil Evidence
What does the fossil record tell us about life on Earth in the past? The Fossil Record: Students will analyze the patterns in the fossil record to see that the Earth’s surface has changed over time, some organisms are now extinct, and some organisms have changed over time. The fossil record provides evidence for evolution on Earth. Students will analyze this evidence and make inferences about life long ago. They will look for patterns in the fossil record. This is a huge unit with 66 pages and s
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6th - 8th
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MS-LS4-1
Human Body Systems Stations BUNDLE
Looking for a FUN and engaging way to teach your students about the body systems? Students can travel from station to station - OR- you can print smaller versions and have the students use the cards as independent centers. Their task is to analyze the cards in different ways and write the answers on the sheet provided (see preview). Inspired by the Bodies Exhibit, my exhibition labs always go above and beyond- exploring interesting facts, medical conditions, as well as the traditional classroom
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8th - 11th
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SEL Morning Meeting - Social Skills Activities & Slides for the Year
Use these morning meeting cards to teach social emotional learning skills on a daily basis for the entire year! This set is now printable AND digital-friendly! You can choose whether to print the cards and go over topics in person, or share your screen to host a virtual morning meeting for distance learning.These 175 morning meeting cards (and over 1000 digital slides) highlight SEL skills for self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationships, and decision-making. The idea is simp
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5th - 8th
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Visual Cue Cards
Visual Cue Cards for Students with Autism: Use these visuals to quickly reinforce verbal directions or redirect student behavior. Print, laminate, and cut out each visual. Hole punch the visual at the top or in the corner. Place selected visuals on a binder ring and attach to a lanyard. There are 42 visuals included, but I would recommend choosing the ones you’ll use most so that you can easily access them. You can also create multiple binder rings for different settings (teacher table, transiti
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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