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3rd grade critical thinking classroom community lessons
Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
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K - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Back to School Bundle! Google Slides Printable Activities First Days of School
The Back to School Bundle has everything you need for the first days and weeks of school to help you start the year strong with your students!! Lower your stress by getting this ALL IN ONE Bundle with Meet the Teacher, Parent Night, First Days of School Plans, Activities, Classroom Management Tools, and MORE!I've put together everything I do with my own students to start the year and made it easily accessible for any classroom to enjoy! Fun, engaging, and simple activities are provided for you t
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2nd - 4th
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12 Life Skill Activities for Students
Help your students become their best selves by teaching them life skills! This resource includes 12 life skills for kids with: Detailed lesson plans47 engaging activitiesDiscussion questionsHistorical figure spotlightsClassroom decorLife skill signsColoring pagesUse this resource every month (or as needed) and introduce a new life skill! You will see growth in your students, see improvement in classroom management, and foster a wonderful classroom community. The life skills included are:Active L
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1st - 12th
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STEM Challenge Bucket Tower Problem-Solving Learning Activity Upper Elementary
This unique and original STEM Activity features a bucket with the challenge to build a tower that will hold weight. It's an engaging student favorite and you will love the ready-made lab sheets and low prep. Students must also explain why their towers need a bucket. Imaginative answers are one of the high points of this challenge- along with seeing those creative bucket towers!➡️ Click here to save 20% on this STEM resource in a bundle of 3 projects.➡️ Click here for the Easy Supplies 6-Pack bun
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM CHALLENGES ENTIRE YEAR 60 Projects, Planning Guide, and Posters
Back to School Google Slides First Days of School Slides Editable
These Back to School Slides will help you plan fun, engaging, and memorable activities for the first days of school! TWO background sets (original-clean and bright, updated-soft pastel) are included for every slide! Reuse the slide sets all year round with the "Extra Slides" provided outside of the first two days of school slide sets.Use the slides and activity descriptions (60+ activities and routines explained!) to help yourself plan the activities you will use. Slides can also be used as a vi
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1st - 5th
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CONFLICT RESOLUTION: Social Skills School Counseling Lesson | Digital SEL
The low-prep Conflict Resolution Game Show will teach your students useful peaceful problem solving skills. Now includes both Google Slides™ and Power Point Presentation files, which allows you to use for SEL distance learning, teletherapy, virtual counseling groups, school counseling guidance and in person lessons.Ways to Use☀️ This FUN, interactive guidance lesson & game can be used as a stand-alone classroom guidance lesson about conflict resolution and/or supplement to your social emotio
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Also included in: Bundle for Izza
Social Boundaries Lesson and Friendship Skills
This resource is for teaching upper elementary students about friendship boundaries and solving conflict in friendships. It focuses on identifying the personal boundaries (togetherness vs. exclusion, fun vs. mean joking, caring vs. hurtful touching, sharing ideas vs. controlling/bossing, saying negative vs. positive things about a friend), generating examples of behaviors on the okay and not okay side of boundaries, and giving I-statements to friends. It's a great SEL lesson or guidance lesson.I
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3rd - 5th
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Creativity Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle Finish the Picture, STEM
Need a quick, no prep, creative STEM challenges to get your students to think outside the box?! Creativity challenges can be used as a quick warm up before a STEM challenge to help jumpstart students’ creativity. They can also be used for morning work, brain breaks, and at various other times throughout the school day.This bundle includes 100+ Creativity Challenges and Activities. Featuring Balloons Over Broadway, Snowflake Bentley, Valentine's Day, Groundhog Day, Earth Day, Halloween, Christmas
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K - 5th
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Character Education Mini-Lessons BUNDLE | PowerPoint & Google Slides
Bite-Size Character Ed lessons are perfect for distance learning or remote learning. These paperless, no-prep slides will keep your students’ social emotional learning going while at home. Send the files home via your chosen platform (Google Classroom, SeeSaw, etc)It's so hard to find time to squeeze social emotional learning into our already jam-packed schedules. With so many things vying for our (and our students') attention, I looked to find a way to incorporate short, no-prep, paperless char
Grades:
K - 3rd
Growth Mindset Activities and Lessons
Growth Mindset Activities and Lessons Are you ready to start fostering a growth mindset culture with your elementary students and unsure where to start? This resource is designed with explicit, research based lessons, activities, anchor charts, and an interactive bulletin board to help your students distinguish between growth and fixed mindsets, how the brain learns, goal setting, and much more! When students believe that dedication and hard work can change their performance in school, they gro
Grades:
K - 5th
Also included in: Growth Mindset Mega Bundle
Conflict Resolution Activities with Conflict Resolution Situation Cards
Teaching, modeling, and practicing conflict resolution skills (including types of conflict and I-messages) with students helps everyone – fewer behavior issues, stronger friendships, more time for learning, and kiddos are more prepared for the real world. This resource bundles six of my conflict resolution resources for a complete guidance lesson unit, social emotional learning lesson unit, or small group counseling curriculum.Activities incorporate movement, cooperative learning, and opportunit
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2nd - 5th
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STEM Popcorn Challenge - Problem-Solving & Volume Project - Measurement Activity
It’s the Popcorn STEM Activity! This Easy Prep Challenge is one of my absolute favorites to use as an exploration into volume. This challenge has been tested with 2nd-5th graders and they all enjoy designing those containers to hold the popcorn. Inevitably, there will be gigantic containers. Please note: This challenge is available in money-saving bundles!➡️ Click HERE to save 20 % with STEM Volume Bundle➡️ Click HERE to save 20 % with STEM 6-Pack Math Skills Bundle➡️ Click HERE to save 20 % wit
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Challenges Volume BUNDLE featuring Problem-Solving & Math
ESL Newcomers Curriculum: Activities, Vocabulary, Back to School Resources ( U1)
Are you looking for an ELL newcomer curriculum or activities that cover listening, vocabulary, speaking, reading, and writing without additional prep work? This ESL newcomer unit includes digital resources, and over 150 printable pages, to prepare your ELL newcomer for the first 4 weeks of school. Unit 1 includes in-depth learning of greetings, pronouns, "I am" statements, asking questions, and school vocabulary cards. Story topics include My School, In the Classroom, Classroom Rules, and Our Da
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K - 5th
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READ ALOUD STEM Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle #1 STEM Club, STEM Centers
Integrate STEM and Literacy in your classroom all year with READ ALOUD STEM Volume One! Everything you need to be the master STEM Teacher at your school! Awaken imagination and creativity all year. Students learn coding, engineering, explore real-world problems, learn about STEM role models, pioneers, inventors, and more!Amazing resource for STEM clubs, STEM Teachers, STEM Stations, STEM Centers, parents who love hands-on learning, and elementary teachers who want to create a hands-on educationa
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1st - 5th
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STEM Spaghetti Tower Challenge Problem-Solving Project
Who knew a project using spaghetti could be so engaging and have easy prep for you? Students love this tower-building event with the unlikeliest of materials- spaghetti and one marshmallow. You will enjoy the ready-made lab sheets and the 4 different versions of this resource. ➡️ Click here to save 20% on this STEM resource in a bundle of 3 projects.What is the challenge?Students will use raw spaghetti strands to build a structure that will hold weight at the top. There are 4 variations of this
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Be a Bucket Filler - Bucket Filler Activities
Character education needs to be explicitly taught. Teach your students the importance of kindness and how to be a Bucket Filler using this Bucket Filling resource. This pack includes everything you need to complete your bucket filler display, lessons, bucket notes and a booklet. This resource is perfect for:✔Teachers of Kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade.✔Teachers who are looking for a concrete way to discuss kindness.✔Teachers who want a set of READY TO USE lessons to teach the concept of
Grades:
K - 3rd
Also included in: Back To School Bundle of Essential Products for K-3
SEL Lessons and Respect Lessons for What if Everybody Did That? Social Emotional
Teach your first, second, or third-grade students the importance of respect with this set of engaging and comprehensive respect sel lessons, designed to be used in conjunction with the book 'What if Everybody Did That?' by Ellen Javernick.WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THESE SEL LESSONS?Five days of done-for-you sel lessons that aim to teach and reinforce students respecting each other and their classroom (each lesson is designed to take only 15 minutes!)Guiding questions for your read-aloud timeRespect so
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K - 3rd
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Book Companions with Social-Emotional Learning Activities and SEL Activities
Take the guesswork out of your SEL instruction with this set of 40+ SEL book companions - at only 15 minutes per lesson, these structured social emotional learning activities based on popular children's books will realistically fit into your busy day!HOW ARE THESE SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING ACTIVITIES DIFFERENT FROM OTHER SEL AND CHARACTER EDUCATION LESSONS?⇨ Each weekly unit focuses on ONE SEL 'goal' so your students have time to digest and understand the message.⇨ Each weekly focus is based upo
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1st - 3rd
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Classroom Rules and Expectations Establishing Routines and Procedures Activities
Get your classroom management on track! This resource will guide you through creating classroom rules and expectations, determining fair consequences, and handling mistakes made by students. Setting high standards has never been easier!As a new teacher, I heard people say "Set high expectations" and "Be fair and consistent with rules and routines". But, I didn't really understand how to get started with setting and implementing expectations. Use these materials to set the tone for the school yea
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1st - 3rd
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Morning Meeting Slides + Afternoon Meeting Slides - Back to School BUNDLE
*This bundle includes my full Paperless, Whiteboard-Based Morning Meeting product found HERE): as well as my full Paperless, Whiteboard-Based Afternoon Meeting product found HERE*MORNING MEETING (View the full product listing HERE):Do you enjoy the benefits of morning meeting but dread the prep and planning that go into it? Is your morning meeting routine getting stale? This electronic morning meeting product is pre-planned so you have 40 weeks of morning meeting right at your fingertips! Almost
Grades:
PreK - 4th
CONFLICT RESOLUTION BUNDLE: Help Students Resolve Conflicts Peacefully
This Conflict Resolution Bundle is jam packed with tools, like community-building lessons, posters, fortune teller craftivities, a choice board intervention, which support students to learn how to resolve conflicts peacefully.What's Included:✔ An interactive Choice Board / Guide to help students resolve conflicts on their own✔ 2 Quiz Show style lessons; one on the broader theme of Conflict Resolution, and the other one specific to creating I-Messages✔ Fortune Tellers (both pre-formatted and DIY)
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2nd - 8th
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Kindness Challenge Social Skills Activities - Coloring Pages, Cards, Calendars
This Kindness Classroom pack was created for teachers who want to incorporate more kindness and social skills activities into each school day. With kindness idea cards, notes, calendars, and project worksheets, challenge students to complete random acts of kindness all year! Create a kindness bulletin board with the daily challenge and the kindness coloring poster pages that everyone will be proud to show off! The Kindness Classroom pack includes all the materials to turn your classroom into a K
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K - 5th
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Identity, Cultural Diversity and Inclusion, & Social Justice Activities
This is a set of five lessons that help students develop social justice skills through understanding identity, diversity, and injustice. 1. IDENTITY LESSON: Understanding the different elements of identities and exploring our own2. DIVERSITY & DIFFERENCES LESSON: We have lots of commonalities, it’s okay to talk about differences, diversity is valuable3. STEREOTYPES LESSON: What is a stereotype, discussing common stereotypes, how stereotypes don’t define us4. IDENTIFYING INJUSTICES LESSON: Un
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3rd - 6th
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My Place in the World Project: "Me on the Map" Geography for Kids
This hands-on geography project "My Place in the World" has kids create a visual representation of how we fit into the world. Teachers often use it with the kids' geography book "Me on the Map," by Joan Sweeney. Ideal for integrated Social Studies, ELA, Geography, Literacy, and Map Skills.Using a series of nesting circles to show the relative sizes of different geographic places, this simple but effective geography lesson helps kids sort out their relation to one another. This activity includes
Grades:
K - 5th
Also included in: Geography for Kids Bundle: Three Essential Hands-on Activities
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