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Critical thinking teacher manuals for staff and administrators
Literacy Night Open House Make and Take - Parent Involvement 3rd, 4th, 5th
Involve your upper elementary students and their parents with fun and simple projects they can use at home at your next Open House, Curriculum Evening, or Literacy Night! A Make-and-Take night gives them an immediate tool they can use at home to support essential literacy skills. Perfect for a diverse class in upper elementary, as it can be tailored to suit your school. In this packet, I walk you through the planning of a literacy event at your school, whether you are inviting just your class, o
Grades:
3rd - 5th, Staff
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy Posters for Higher Level Thinking
Whether you're a Common Core school, a 21st Century school, or just a school that's making it a focus to prepare all learners for their future, you know how essential it is for the teaching and learning to be in the highest levels of Bloom's everyday. Display these student-friendly (and not too overwhelming) posters in your classroom (or if you're an administrator, purchase these for all the teachers in your building, so there's a set in every classroom) to help you and the students do "the wor
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
The Blooms Bunch: Kid-Friendly Revised Bloom's Taxonomy Posters
Get your students' minds to bloom into higher-order thinking with The Blooms Bunch: Kid-Friendly Revised Bloom's Taxonomy Posters. Introduce your students to a character for each higher-order thinking level:
The Big Sibs: (Higher-Order Thinking Levels)
Create: Christie the Creator
Evaluate: Evan the Evaluator
Analyze: Anna the Analyzer
The Lil' Sibs: (Lower-Order Thinking Levels)
Apply: Adam the Applier
Understand: Ursula the one who Understands
Remember: Robert the one who Remembers
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Grades:
1st - 7th
Depth and Complexity Quick Guide Ebook | Learn the Depth and Complexity Icons
Do you love Depth and Complexity and need a quick guide to how to use it in class? Have you seen the Depth & Complexity icons and wondered how to use them? This Depth and Complexity Quick Guide E-book will be a time saver (and maybe even a lifesaver!!). You'll get a two-page, attractive spread for all eleven thinking prompts and one-page guides to all of the Content Imperatives.Depth & Complexity doesn't have to be overwhelming.Do any of these sound familiar?You love Depth & Complexi
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2nd - 12th, Staff
Also included in: Depth and Complexity Ebook BUNDLE | Question Stems and Quick Guide
2023 Morning Meeting Calendar Questions
What is included?This product NOW contains calendars for every month of 2023. Due to the length of time this product took me to make, this product will not be updated each year. With this price you are paying for 12 calendars and questions for all 12 months of 2023.What are the questions from?Questions are based on fun/silly National/International holidays that are celebrated each day of each month. For examples, download the preview to see the entire month of January. = ) What is Morning Meetin
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3rd - 5th
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Webb's Depth of Knowledge Common Core Classroom Posters
Whether you're a Common Core school, a 21st Century school, or just a school that's making it a focus to prepare all learners for their future, you know how essential it is for the teaching and learning to be in the highest levels of thinking everyday. Display these student-friendly (and not too overwhelming) posters in your classroom (or if you're an administrator, purchase these for all the teachers in your building, so there's a set in every classroom) to help you and the students do "the wo
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
PE Elementary Physical Education K-5 Yearly Plan 5
The wait is over… The moment is upon us… Months, days, hours of building, creating, and enhancing has been completed!Mr. Clark's Physical Education 2017 Yearly Plan Full Edition (K-5th Grade) has arrived!!!-40 Jam-packed weeks of Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd,4th, and 5th grade fully detailed Elementary Physical Education Lesson Plans-486 Full Pages of Completely New Lessons, New Ideas, and New Resources. A completely new Yearly Plan from any that I have created before- 18 Individual Volumes rig
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PreK - 6th
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Also included in: Elementary Physical Education Yearly Plan 5 and 8 Bundled Curriculum
Kindergarten Math Standard DOK Extension and Differentiation for Advanced/Gifted
Kindergarten Math Standard Extension Questions for DifferentiationHave you been stuck on how to differentiate math without just making it "harder"? When we ask Kindergarteners to add 44 + 55 instead of 4 + 5, it is not helping them develop critical thinking math skills - rather just learning a harder problem.This resource helps teachers go deeper with each standard, rather than jumping to 1st grade skills. Using depth of knowledge, this teacher resource has 4 example questions for each standard.
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K
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Also included in: Entire Gifted with Goldens TPT MATH Resources GROWING BUNDLE
STEAM Activity - Not A Stick: An Introduction to Engineering
Are you looking for a great STEM or STEAM activity for your classroom? This is my first STEM/STEAM activity in the “FULL STEAM AHEAD” series! I know that this product will help spark your students’ LOVE of STEM!
What Is the Purpose of This Activity?
Having a “Growth Mindset” is an important concept to help our students achieve. The ability to be comfortable to take chances and make mistakes is important to the growth of our learners and will stick with them into their adult lives. Along with t
Grades:
1st - 5th
Depth of Knowledge Common Core Posters {Webb's DOK}
Critical Thinking, Common Core and DOK!
Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK) provides a frame of reference and vocabulary for students to understand how they engage with the content. DOK offers a common language to understand "rigor," or cognitive demand in all academic areas.
Print these colorful posters out and mount on construction paper. If you choose, laminate them for more durability. Have the students secure a set of individual size posters into their various academic notebooks, folders,
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
AICE Thinking Skills- Unit 1- Intro and Sections 1, 2 and 3 Package
Teaching AICE Thinking Skills and feel overwhelmed with the Problem Solving Part? Do your students feel lost as well and are they thinking they will never pass? They will! And these lessons will not only help them pass the exam but also give you the confidence to know what you're talking about when explaining these hard problems.My lessons also have fully printable materials and pdf's for all items inside. You'll see in the thumbnails that I provide VERY clear and understandable explanations so
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Mardi Gras in New Orleans Social Studies Unit
Mardi Gras in New Orleans Social Studies Unit
Price: 77 pages X .10 = $7.70
This social studies unit delves into the unique holiday of Mardi Gras as experienced by a New Orleans native. It is a largely secular celebration with a religious history, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The unit contains a plethora of activities, so you can decide how much time you would like to spend on it or tailor it to the time you have available. Below is the Table of Contents for the unit:
Special Teacher Dire
Grades:
2nd - 6th, Adult Education
Winter Olympics PE Activities
Every 4 years PE teachers around the world get the opportunity to introduce, engage, and take their students inside the Winter Olympic Games! This resource is like a torch, ready to be passed to you and your students! It comes with 15 fully detailed visuals filled with ideas/activities to bring the Winter Olympic games to life inside your gym. Passing the TorchFigure SkatingSkeleton RacesLugeBobsleddingBiathalonHockey (2)Ski JumpCurlingAlpine SkiingCross-Country SkiingSnowboardingSpeed Skatin
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K - 12th
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Also included in: Winter and Summer Olympics PE Activities Bundle
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy Posters for Higher Level Thinking - UK/AUS/NZ Spelling
ATTENTION POTENTIAL BUYERS....****this is the UK/Australia version of my Revised Bloom's Taxonomy Posters, but with British and Australian spellings for the Bloom's Verbs... ANALYSE instead ANALYZE. I know how to spell. I have been asked to create these posters using British and Australian spellings of these verbs.****
Whether you're a 21st Century school or just a school that's making it a focus to prepare all learners for their future, you know how essential it is for the teaching and learn
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Critical Thinking Language Sentence Frames {Say What?} Aligned to Common Core
***I'm pleased to share that as of September 2013, these Critical Thinking Language Frames (along with my Reading Interventions "If/Then" Menu) were selected for inclusion as a professional learning resource in the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Digital Library. Read more about it here.***
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Get all your students into the highest levels of Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT) today with these lang
Grades:
K - 12th
STEM / STEAM Activity: Straw Rockets - A Look Into Aerospace Engineering
Are you looking for a great STEM or STEAM activity for your classroom? This is my second STEM/STEAM activity in the “FULL STEAM AHEAD” series! I know that this product will help spark your students’ LOVE of STEM!
My students had a blast with this as they got to learn about what an Aerospace Engineer does and actually become one! This product contains the following:
Presentation Slides Include:
1. A quick look at what an Aerospace Engineer does
2. Engineering/STEM Design Process Poster
3. Slid
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Nurturing Our Students Self-Worth and Self-Confidence
Keala Settle's incredible performance of the song "This is Me," from the hit movie "The Greatest Showman," is the inspiration to this complete unit of study teacher's guide, certain to help lift your students' self-esteem!This unit of study will guide you and your students through activities that promote critical thinking, reading comprehension and analysis, and build classroom community as well.Activities included in this guide-*Copy of the lyrics*Video links of two powerful performance of "Thi
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Coaching Our Students' Literacy Skills Through Inspirational Song Lyrics
Bloom's Taxonomy {Posters and Student Resources} HOTS
This unit has been updated to now have the VERBS for Bloom's AND also a choice of backgrounds, to enhance star power in the classroom.
Focusing on the cognitive domain of development, Bloom's Taxonomy divides the important categories of thinking into levels from the lowest level (simple recall) to the highest level of thinking (evaluating). Encourage your students to become high level thinkers.
• Remembering
• Understanding
• Applying
• Analyzing
• Evaluating
• Creating
Print these colorfu
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
STAAR Reading Question Stems: A Teacher Cheat Sheet
STAAR Reading Question Stems: A Teacher’s Cheat Sheet is a question bank teachers can use to design their reading lessons in order to prep students for the state assessment. The questions allow students to get familiarized with the wording and academic language found on the STAAR Reading. The teacher supplies the reading passage, and the questions will lend themselves to any type of reading passage the students will encounter on the state assessment.
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6th - 11th
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Exit Tickets for Staff- Principals/Activity Leaders (Exit Slips for Assessment)
Need a quick way to receive some feedback, reflection, assessment, or maybe check on your staff climate? These exit slips are ready for immediate download and ready-to-print. Use for staff meetings, department meetings, PLC meetings…or place in staff mailboxes ANYTIME! Ready-to-go question prompts PLUS tickets to customize and add your own question prompts!INCLUDED IN THIS FILE: (PDF and PPTX included)*Twelve different questions (three tickets per page) six different color backgrounds*Four pages
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Staff
Your Capacity to Learn is Limitless - 9 Lesson Course (Teach/Indiv Notes)
Your Capacity to Learn is Limitless - 9 Lesson Course includes:- Teaching Outline (fully hyperlinked) - 38 Pages- Study Guide (Printable in different Styles for your particular purposes) - 62 PagesAs an educator for the past 20 years, I have seen the value of learning how to learn. We attend school, a place of learning, but therein lies the gap. There are no specific classes on HOW TO LEARN. This series of lessons could be the answer you have been looking for for you and/or your students.Grab th
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Growth Mindset Brain Facts Brochure
If you are teaching growth mindset in your classroom, then learning about the brain is a must. Use these Growth Mindset Brain Facts Brochures to talk all about the different parts of the brain and why having a growth mindset is important.What's included?There are 8 brochures to help teach about the brain!Your Amazing Brain A Learning BrainYour Growth Mindset Brain Your Cerebellum Your Frontal Lobe Your Temporal Lobe Your Occipital Lobe Your Parietal LobeBuy now and any additional brochures I mak
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Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Also included in: Growth Mindset Brain Facts BUNDLE
Reading Comprehension Bundle
This product includes Comp. Quest Cards 1 Based on Bloom's Taxonomy. It also includes Comp. Quest Cards 2 Based on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. Comp. Quest Cards 1 is based on Bloom's original Taxonomy.Reading comprehension cards are color coordinated based on various levels of thinking.They are a great tool for teachers, teacher assistants and parents to engage children during a read aloud, and reading groups. I have used these cards as a third grade teacher, as a resource room teacher and as a re
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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