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Critical thinking teacher manuals for Microsoft Word
How To Steal a Dog Literature Circle Guide
If you do literature circles or book studies with your students, then you'll be interested in this lit guide I created for the book How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor! This is a fantastic book about a young girl who experiences hardships, moral dilemma and friendships. For each chapter of the book, I created critical thinking questions for your students to answer along with some vocabulary words to reflect on as you go. The book's levels are: 4.4 Grade level, 700 Lexile, and 40 DRA. Enjoy!
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Socratic Seminar Guide for Teachers (Common Core)
**Updated**
Socratic Seminar have so many benefits for students and developing their critical thinking skills.
Includes assessment ideas for seminar.
Use this easy guide to help get you started with using Socratic Seminars within your classroom. I have used seminars for all subject areas and use this guide for staff professional development as well as introducing to my students.
This is a word document, so you can change to meet your classroom needs.
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Grades:
4th - 12th
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Restorative Circle ToolKit for Teachers: Building a Positive Classroom Community
Here is a great toolkit to add to your resources if you are using Restorative Circles or plan on trying them. It includes a T-Chart of student role and Teacher role, a letter to parents about Restorative Circles, a planning sheet for lessons, an example plan, and a brainstorm sheet for students so that they can help decide on a talking piece. If you are wanting to create a positive classroom and prove to your principal that you are highly effective this toolkit should help you begin this proce
Grades:
2nd - 5th
2nd Grade Common Core Interactive Math Journal-ALL STANDARDS
With the implementation of the Common Core, the rigor has been raised and standards are higher. More is expected out of our students. This journal addresses these challenges in a very practical and easy to use way. Here are some of the features:
1. – A reading passage to begin the unit.
2. – An interactive journal for students to use during teaching.
3. –Challenge Questions are at the end of each journal set to work on problem solving skills and application of what they have learned.
4. –A “c
Grades:
2nd
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Equity Questioning Time
There are many programs that address critical thinking skills and the development of higher order questions. But very few (if any) that address managing the classroom environment. Well-constructed, probing questions are not any good if the students are disruptive or un-engaged. My “Equity Questioning” program helps you to create a classroom for the benefit of all your students. It eliminates disruptions and shows you how to draw the quiet reserved student into the learning environment in a suppo
Grades:
K - 12th, Staff
Airplane Team Competition - Workforce Readiness Interactive Lesson Plan
Youth will work in teams to create the best airplane that will fly farther than any of the other teams. They will develop their teamwork, critical thinking, leadership, verbal communication, and resourcefulness skills while creating a passion for STEAM. Focus on soft skill development that is necessary for the workplace.
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Charlotte Danielson Module of Evaluation - 66 Essential Questions - Domain 1
66 Essential questions created by my own personal research and expertise to break down and identify through thoughtful, challenging questions divided into each of the six components of DOMAIN 1 - Planning and Preparation.
Grades:
Staff
6+1 Writing Traits, song, information, informal assessments, and resources
It is very important to know and teach the 6+1 Writing traits to help students develop writing skills. I compiled, added color, and organized a few great resources I found on-line into one document for easy reference. There is also a catchy song that I made up to the tune of head, shoulders, knees and toes to help students and teachers memorize the 6+1 writing traits. The pages in this word document download answer questions:
What are the six traits?
What do you look for within each trait?
Grades:
PreK - 6th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Proposal for Game station - Volume & Surface Area
Proposal for creating a game activity where the students learn how to make use of the formulae they learn for calculation of volume and surface area, and applying it to practical life situations. Find the Volume and Surface areaThe students will be finding the volume and surface area of 4 objects.1. A suitcase2. A laptop bag3. A small cardboard box4. A water dispenser refill tumbler Instructions in the handout with a 30cm ruler printed on the edge of the handout. The objects will be placed as se
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Game station - Volume & Surface Area
Differentiation Planning Tool
This matrix can be used to develop inquiry questions, break open areas of a topic you are unfamiliar with, and create learning activities that meet the different needs, interests and skills of students. You are unlikely to use all the activities that you plan/place in this matrix; the purpose of the matrix is to help you create differentiated learning activities and expand your own understanding of a topic. This is a planning tool taught to me during my university studies. It was presented as a
Grades:
Staff
Legal Personhood | Geography Year 10 | Fieldwork Techniques
This document is aimed at teachers and accompanies the year 10 Geography kit on Legal Personhood. It provides examples of fieldwork techniques to gather data that can be used for Stage 1 Geography Fieldwork. Many of these techniques can be used across a wide range of different fieldwork topics and locations.Access the accompanying resources here.Explore our other Animal Protection Education (APE) kits here.This Australian Curriculum alignment statement is based on the Australian Curriculum, Asse
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10th
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So Kid! You Want to be a Success?
Leadership Development is first in a series of 12 books “So Kid! You want to be a Success?” all based on how to navigate life with Entrepreneurship, Etiquette, Ethics, and Energy at its foundation. After 42 years of research, development, and implementation of Leadership Development; these are the most important lessons for all students. Students must have Leadership training; this training is expected as an element of their foundation and not only provides the education of a well-round student
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5th - 8th
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The development students' creative thinking
The development of students' creative thinking is one of the most important outcomes of the learning process. To better see the level of development of creative thinking of a group of students and a particular student, it is convenient to collect data into a table (map).
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Not Grade Specific
Cosmology Course Syllabus
Cosmology is a discipline of Astronomy focusing on the origin and the development of the Universe. This syllabus provides the overview of the course without active links. An active link syllabus is available as well as a complete Cosmology course packet provided by the same educator.
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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Nomenclature for Teaching with Froebel Gifts
This is two lists of vocabulary suitable for using with the Froebel GIfts, Boxes 1 - 9, or other blocks. The first list covers the physical qualities of the blocks and their capabilities, and the second list addresses logico-mathematical relationships. The vocabulary is arranged from simple to complex.
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
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