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Middle school critical thinking rubrics
Persuasive Techniques Unit - Media Literacy Analysis PowerPoint & Project Bundle
Teach persuasive techniques, ad analysis, and propaganda with this bundle of media literacy activities. This comprehensive bundle includes bellringers, projects, PowerPoints, and quizzes for teaching persuasion through engaging advertising analysis, interactive practice, and creative projects. In this bundle, you’ll get 3 weeks of engaging activities to introduce or strengthen student understanding of persuasive techniques. This is a perfect foundation for media literacy with a variety of activ
Grades:
6th - 9th
Persuasive Techniques and Media Literacy - Make a Commercial Project
Get students up, moving, and speaking while they demonstrate their knowledge of persuasive techniques and make a commercial. This is a great way to integrate drama and media literacy in the ELA classroom, and students' creativity will make you laugh.Your Persuasive Techniques project includes:✅ Step-by-Step guidelines to make a commercial (editable)✅ Analytic & holistic rubrics✅ +/Δ Peer Feedback sheets Why should you have your students make a commercial? Putting their understanding of persu
Grades:
7th - 10th
Statistics & Data Display Project for 6th Grade Math PBL (Fully Editable)
This product includes a student guide for a 6th grade middle school mathematics project that will require students to develop a statistical question, conduct a survey with their classmates, create numerical summaries, represent their findings using visual data displays, and finally present their findings! The thorough student guide provides step by step directions for each part of the project and could be used as either an in class project or to be assigned as homework. The student guide also in
Debate for Kids & Tweens (Tips, Outlines, Rubrics & Other Resources)
Teaching students to debate is not just for debate teachers!Attention all 4th-8th grade ELA, social studies, and speech communication teachers! Debate for KIDS & TWEENS is a great way to improve your student's argumentation, organization, writing, research, interpersonal and group communication skills.This file includes the following resources to simplify the complicated world of debate AND to make learning (and arguing) FUN:Page 1 Table of contentsPage 2 Notes for the teacherPage 3
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4th - 8th
Marzano Learning Scale Templates
This document is FULLY editable as a .pdf! No powerpoint needed.
This template allows you to add your own learning scale based on CCSS or your own learning target. There are 0-4 and 1-4 scales that come with two versions: "Standard" or "Learning Target".
This kid-friendly scale will help students understand how to reach proficiency on each target. Feel free to use along with the other Learning Scale products in my TPT Store!
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K - 8th
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Introduction to Debate
This four lesson unit is designed to be a comprehensive debate tutorial for teachers who are new to debate or who want to implement debate into their current curriculum. I tried to design these materials with lots of explanation where necessary and minimal prep work to finish. I have taught debate for over ten years in the classroom and online and the knowledge and expertise I have gained have gone into these lessons to make them a perfect gateway to argumentation and debate. All lessons are onl
Grades:
3rd - 12th
RAFT Rubric (Role, Audience, Format, Topic)
RAFT Rubric (Role, Audience, Format, Topic)
R.A.F.T, which stands for Role, Audience, Format, and Topic, is a unique, highly engaging way for students to apply what they have learned. RAFTs encourage students to write creatively, to consider a topic from different points of view, and to gain practice writing for different audiences.
This rubric can be used with any RAFT assignment. This rubric is designed to support your students before, during, and after the RAFT writing process. With de
Grades:
4th - 6th
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An introduction to 3D Printing
Includes: PowerPoint, 3D printing videos, 3D printing examples, 10 week program, rubric, worksheets, 3D printer anatomy, safety tips and more
Grades:
3rd - 12th, Staff
Entrepreneurship Lesson Plans - Teaching The Basics of Entrepreneurship
Trep Prep is an entrepreneurship education resource that serves as an Introduction to Entrepreneurship; providing core principles, ideas, and easy to implement activities that teach the fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Trep, is a trending word for a young entrepreneur and as such, it is our hope that this material will serve as a foundation for inspiring more young entrepreneurs, by furthering their interest in, and preparation for, entrepreneurship.The Trep Prep resource includes 6 unique less
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6th - 12th
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NGSS Science Multi-Rubric
This rubric can be quickly and easily used to assess any type of task related to any NGSS Cross-Cuttting Concept or Science and Engineering Practice. It is designed to be used with any Performance Expectation task as well. Also well suited for assessing Common Core writing and reading tasks in science.
With the implementation of the NGSS (Next Gen Science Standards) happening across the United States, it is essential to find ways to assess students according to these new standards. I wanted to
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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College and Career Readiness Student Portfolio
This editable portfolio is designed to trace students’ progress throughout their four years of high school but it can easily be used for middle school as well. It also teachers students about the value of metacognition and self-reflection. In this portfolio you will fine the follow:- Creating a Personal Philosophy- Creating a Resume- Creating a Cover Letter- Grade Progress Monitoring- Standardized Testing Analysis and Reflection- Academic Artifact Reflection- Product Rubrics- Speaking Rubrics- G
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6th - 12th
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College and Career Readiness High School Goal Setting Individual Growth Plan
An alternative to SMART goals, Individual Growth Plans or IGP is an assignment that forces students to engage in reflection and metacognition skills multiple times per quarter. This assignment also forces students to be organized and in charge of their own learning as they set the deadline, standards, and their own rubrics. As the teacher, it is our job to help students understand and create achievable and specific goals that become their quarterly focus. This assignment is not meant to be a “po
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Grades:
8th - 12th
Hatchet Unit BUNDLE
A workbook to use with the anchor text, Hatchet. This workbook includes all the introduction activities, journals, supplemental activities, and assessment options.As students read Hatchet and follow Brian on his journey, they will also be on a journey to learn about what it means to survive, the importance of perseverance, and the roles that mindset, instinct, and luck play in one’s ability to survive. By the end of this unit, students will be able to apply these concepts not only to Brian’s exp
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education
Self-Assessment Reflection Sheets Based on British Columbia's Core Competencies
**Updated August 2021**Using this formative assessment tool, students reflect on their learning style, communication skills, attitude, work habits, and personal responsibility to take ownership of their learning. Each term has a checklist and three questions which incorporate aspects of the three areas of the core competencies: communication, thinking, and personal and social abilities. There is also space to set a goal for the next term. I have included a self-reflection 3-2-1 page, and two v
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: British Columbia's Core Competencies Poster and Self-Reflection Bundle
Performance Task - Students Teach The Class
Do you ever wish there was some other way to present information to your class? If so, this is the activity for you! This can be academic or fun- your choice! Students have real chances to present information while helping to teach or review concepts with the class, or it can be non-academic and a great way to share about themselves! You may find this helpful for concepts you need to review before assessments or you may want to use it with a class that needs to experience teaching (instill res
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Egg Drop Challenge Worksheets and Rubrics
Having an egg drop challenge in your classroom? Download this resource for instructions, pre-experiment activities, post-experiment discussion questions. Rubrics for teacher assessment and student assessment are also available.
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3rd - 8th
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Q Matrix Chart with Learning Levels
This is a Q Matrix chart to foster student's higher order thinking skills. Students would be able to refer to this chart to generate higher order thinking questions. As learning levels are clearly colour coded, students and teachers can have clear understanding and expectations of what consists of good questions and how to go to the next step. This chart is great for classroom discussions, guided reading, inquiry based learning and much more.
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1st - 12th, Staff
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Narrative Story Grammar Progress Monitoring Rubric and Speech Therapy Packet
It can be overwhelming to collect targeted data for a range of reading comprehension and narrative expression goals. This is a no fluff speech language therapy checklist for progress monitoring of narrative comprehension and expression. This carefully created checklist is a go-to for data collection, monitoring progress, and creating goals and objectives for a private practice or an IEP. It includes sample goals and short samples of narrative analysis write ups.It is carefully constructed to ta
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2nd - 8th
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Freak the Mighty: Movie Compare/Contrast Project
Creative, engaging poster project to compare and contrast the novel and movie versions of Freak the Mighty!With this resource, your students will create a poster comparing and contrasting characters, plot events, and setting in Freak the Mighty and the movie version, The Mighty. You can incorporate technology by having your students create a poster in Google Slides, PowerPoint, or another program. Perfect for partner or group projects!This resource includes:Detailed project directionsGraphic org
Grades:
5th - 8th
PBL: Mapping Your School on a Coordinate Grid: CORE (Geometry and Number Sense)
For an in-depth preview go here: http://pblparadise.blogspot.com/
CORE Standards
6.G.3 Draw polygons in the coordinate plane given coordinates for the vertices; use coordinates to find the length of a side joining points with the same first coordinate or the same second coordinate. Apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.
6.NS.6.b Understand signs of numbers in ordered pairs as indicating locations in quadrants of the coordinate plane; recognize th
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5th - 8th
Using Socratic Seminar with the Short Story LOVE and TIME
This short story is an excellent tool for teachers who have never used the Socratic Seminar in their classrooms. The Socratic seminar is a powerful teaching and learning strategy that improves comprehension and challenges students to think and apply knowledge on increasingly higher levels. This product comes with a copy of the short story along with all the resources you need to implement this teaching technique into your classroom.
This product works well at the beginning of the sch
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4th - 6th
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SBAC ELA Grade 5 Complete Assessment with Informational Performance Task
Susan's Here to There ConnectionsYour feedback means the WORLD to me!Get them ready! Prepare your students with a complete ELA Smarter Balance Assessment aligned to SBAC's high stakes summative assessment. This assessmentprepares your students with the format and item types they will encounter. This assessment would also be a valuable resource for preparing for all test types.SBAC requires that students write three types of essays: Narrative, Opinion and Informational. This complete assessm
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4th - 6th
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Robert Frost Poetry Mini Unit | Poetry Analysis | Poetry Discussion
Work a little Robert Frost into your poetry unit! Whether as a standalone poetry analysis mini unit or an element of your larger poetry unit, my 6-day Robert Frost Poetry Mini Unit includes poetry analysis of Frost’s most famous poems, a biography of the poet himself, a class discussion on Frost, and a final assessment. ❤️Why you will LOVE this resource!Students will love engaging with one famous poet in this poetry mini unit. Whether as a standalone mini unit or part of your larger poetry unit
Grades:
7th - 9th
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Also included in: Robert Frost Poems BUNDLE
Think Like a Philosopher: Social Contract Theory Small Group Activity
Great Class Opener! Potential for More! Get your Students Thinking About Their World! Students debate and discuss the philosophical question, "Are humans inherently evil or inherently good?"Simple, but engaging, The Think Like a Philosopher: Social Contract Theory lesson has students discuss and debate the question, "Are humans inherently evil or inherently good?" This group discussion activity will introduce students to the enlightenment philosophy made famous by Thomas Hobbes and John Locke t
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: Think Like a Philosopher Bundle
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