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2nd grade problem solving thematic unit plans
Project Based Learning with STEM and Research: Animal Habitats and Enclosures
The zoo needs help! Students work cooperatively to design an animal habitat and enclosure for the zoo! In this STEM project, students use their imagination and creativity to build an animal habitat and enclosure designed to meet their animal's needs. A fabulous way to integrate science standards for animals into your classroom!Students work in collaborative units to design a proper animal habitat for their chosen animal. Their animal enclosures must meet the project requirements to be safe for t
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Zoo Animal Habitat Bundle: PBL, STEM, Writing, Literacy
ANCIENT EGYPT - A UNIT TO TURN YOUR CLASSROOM INTO A MUSEUM
MEETS VIRGINIA SOLS FOR ANCIENT EGYPT
PROJECT BASED LEARNING!
This packet will give you everything you need to make teaching Egypt a fantastic experience! I have made museums with my students and it is just amazing to see the end result! All you need are about a dozen books about Egypt from the library for reference. Spend a couple days introducing concepts and then divide the class up by "Museum Rooms" and projects and let the invest
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2nd - 6th
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Zoo Animal Habitat Bundle: PBL, STEM, Writing, Literacy
Project-Based Learning with zoo animals and their enclosures! You get the persuasive writing project, the PBL and STEM resource, and the zoo animal literacy response sheets! A 3 in 1 fabulous deal! What kid doesn’t love the zoo? Now you can bring the zoo to your classroom! Students can create zoo animal habitats and enclosures, persuade the public to come see their enclosure, and respond to zoo books and animal literature all in your classroom! Teachers can provide rich literacy experiences by u
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2nd - 4th
100th Day of School Fun {FREE}
Celebrate the 100th Day of School!Have some fun on the 100th Day and celebrate learning with the printables in this FREE pack! To see how I use these activities check out my blog post here: Top 5 100th Day Activities Features: • STEM building project with 2 different options • Writing 100 Words • 100 Sticker/Stamp 10 frames • Star for 100 Stamp Crowns • Sorting Sheet for 100th Day Necklaces***************************************************************************
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PreK - 2nd
PBL with STEM: Little Red Riding Hood Build a Basket with Persuasive Writing
Project-based, problem-based, STEM, and persuasive speaking and writing all rolled into one great project! This isn’t just a regular STEM project; it’s a week’s worth of cross-curricular activities designed to stimulate your students’ thinking! PBL has never been more fun!Fairy tales come to life in this project-based resource! Student connect to the fairy tale story while engaging in project activities. Classic fairy tales serve as a great motivator to students! Teachers can provide rich fairy
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2nd - 4th
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Easter Peep Big Problems, Little Problems: A Social Skills Activity
This activity includes 60 situations in which students must determine if the problem is a big issue or a little one. Students can also provide a solution to the problem.
To prepare: Print and cut out all cards. Laminate for durability, if desired.
To use: Students take turns drawing cards. Then, they determine if the situation is a big problem or a little problem. They can also state what makes the situation a problem. Last, students can generate a solution to the problem.
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2nd - 5th
Color My Feelings
Feelings book to paint, draw or color. Great activity to go with Dr. Seuss’ My Many Colored Days book or any other color or feelings themed activity. Use crayon and paint over the top or use it any other creative way you want!See more details & photos on my website: https://teachbesideme.com/color-my-feelings-many-colored-days/
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PreK - 3rd
Project Based Learning with STEM: Princess and the Pea Marble Run
Project-based, problem-based and STEM all rolled into one great project! Students dive into the fairy tale, Princess and the Pea. The Royal Pea has been stolen from the Royal museum! Can your students make a marble run to help return the stolen pea?Fairy tales come to life in this project-based resource! Student connect to the fairy tale story while engaging in project activities. Classic fairy tales serve as a great motivator to students! Teachers can provide rich fairy tale experiences by util
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2nd - 4th
Also included in: PBL, STEM, Literacy, & Writing: Princess and the Pea Bundle
Life Science STEM/STEAM Unit Bundle: Features and Functions
Are you looking to integrate more science, STEM, or STEAM education into your curriculum? This is a great product to help integrate all the subject areas around real life science learning. This STEAM Bundles includes over 150 pages of lesson plans and integrate activities that cover these three Next Generation Science Standards:
1-LS1-1: Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plans and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their
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1st - 2nd
Project Based Learning with STEM and Literacy: Little Red Riding Hood Bundle
PBL at its best! Project-Based Learning based on the beloved story of Little Red Riding Hood. Fairy tales come to life in this project-based resource! Student connect to the fairy tale story while engaging in building a basket to take to Grandma's house. Then students write a persuasive radio ad to sell their basket. Using graphic organizers, students react to literature engaging in higher order thinking skills. Teachers can provide rich fairy tale experiences by utilizing the book list or video
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2nd - 4th
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Crayon Themed Behavior Plan
This is a Crayon themed classroom management plan. It includes the printables to create your own behavior board, weekly behavior charts to send home, a parent note explaining the system, and notes to send home for behavior problems and great behavior.
In my classroom I printed the large crayons on their color of paper, to create a display on my whiteboard. Students each have a picture magnet and start on the green crayon each day. Students make moves to other colors based on the decisions t
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PreK - 4th
STEM: Structures in a context: Kite Building (Research, design, make, review)
When you purchase and download this resource, you will receive an 11 page booklet. It includes all you need to achieve success in teaching your children about structures in making working, flyable kites using recycled materials and minimal resources.This project is aimed at developing both skills in STEM learning alongside team work skills, problem solving, cooperation and communication skills, within a meaningful scenario. The booklet includes:Cover PageContents and resourcesAims of the project
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1st - 5th
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Patterning the Number of Days in School-Animals
Counting the days of school provides an excellent opportunity to reinforce patterning skills on a daily basis. The pieces in this packet are in order with the patterns getting progressively more difficult. There is a different pattern for each 10 days, so you can also teach about patterns in numbers as well.
Every day, during your morning routine, have the children predict which picture they think is going to be next.
This packet includes:
*Sign
*Sample pattern combinations (AB, ABB, ABC,
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PreK - 2nd
STEM Makerspace Activities FREEBIE
Combine thematic units and creative, artistic, outside-the-box thinking in these STEM and STEAM Makerspace activities! They are a great way to incorporate STEM into your core Reading, Math, Science or Social Studies instruction. They come in a variety of sets so that you can differentiate based on your student’s needs. These are open-ended Makerspace lessons, so they are less 'science experiment' and more 'maker'. They are less 'directions, guidelines and lists of materials' and more 'here is th
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K - 3rd
Star-Sational Social Skills for Speech-Language Pathologists
Who better to embody the premise of appropriate vs. inappropriate behavior than our favorite characters from a galaxy far, far away? This is a 34-page packet developed for practice with various social skills as illustrated with familiar space-sational characters! Good for year-round use, students can discuss or practice role-playing with code-switching, perspective taking, repairing conversations, understanding figurative language, and identifying whether given behaviors are expected (i.e. app
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1st - 6th
Activities for "My Strong Mind" by Niels van Hove *Growth Mindset*
Help your students have a growth mindset and exercise their minds with these activities to go with "My Strong Mind" by Niels van Hove. The package includes the following: Page 1 – Table of ContentsPage 2 – Teacher DirectionsPage 3 – Three Things that are difficult for me (Interactive notebook)Page 4 – Draw a picture of something you wish you could doPage 5 – Teacher DirectionsPage 6 – How Kate Changed Page 7 – Answer Key for How Kate ChangedPage 8 – Teacher DirectionsPages 9-13 – My Strong Min
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K - 8th
PBL, STEM, Literacy, & Writing: Princess and the Pea Bundle
PBL at its best! Project-Based Learning based on the beloved fairy tale story of Princess and the Pea. You get the mystery writing resource, the PBL and STEM resource, and the Princess and the Pea literacy response sheets! A 3 in 1 fabulous deal!Fairy tales come to life in this project-based resource! Student connect to the fairy tale story while engaging in project activities. Classic fairy tales serve as a great motivator to students! Teachers can provide rich fairy tale experiences by utilizi
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2nd - 5th
Patterning with Calendars-Down on the Farm
The classroom calendar provides an excellent opportunity to reinforce patterning skills on a daily basis. To use the calendar in this way, you need to create a set of calendar pictures that can be used to create a specific pattern. In August you may want to use ducks and horses. Your pattern might be duck, horse, duck horse (ABAB), etc. Every day, during your morning routine, have the children predict which picture they think is going to be next. As the year goes on, make the pattern more diffic
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PreK - 2nd
Powerful You Intermediate Bundle - SEL/YOGA
Intermediate Digital Bundle: This bundle has the Powerful You book, educator cards, breathe and stretch poster, and 26 classroom skill signs available digitally. Breathe and stretch videos (6-9 minutes) are also available for each lesson. These SEL lessons are aligned with the ASCA (American School Counseling Association) standards.
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2nd - 11th, Adult Education
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Economics Unit
This product includes everything you need to teach your economics unit!It includes:Anchor Charts- Anchor charts for the terms: producer, consumer, goods, services, supply & demand, scarcity, entrepreneur & budgetFlipbook- Students will create a flipbook with all of their vocabulary words and notes for easy referenceSlides-Project slides, have students write definitions in flipbook. Also discuss and encourage students to write/draw examples. Play informative videos from links.Scenario
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2nd - 5th
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BeeBot Sports BUNDLE
Are you ready to use robotics and coding to increase vocabulary using Sports? Bee Bot robots are a perfect way to encourage critical thinking and increase student engagement. Sports are a perfect topic to gain student interest. This resource is designed to be used with a programmable BEE BOT robot. It's the perfect addition to your unit on team work and community. This BUNDLED BEE-BOT resource includes 36 picture squares. Each square should be cut out and made into a BEE-BOT mat. There is 1 “
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PreK - 2nd
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STEM: Research, design and make Arcade Games using recycled materials
When you purchase and download this resource, you will receive an 11 page booklet. It includes all you need to achieve success in teaching your children about structures/arcade machines using recycled materials and minimal resources.This project is aimed at developing both skills in STEM learning alongside team work skills, problem solving, cooperation and communication skills, within a meaningful scenario. The booklet includes:Cover PageContents and resourcesAims of the projectLesson Plans for
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1st - 5th
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STEM Project Water Filter
This activity will take about 3 hours to complete. Students will work through the Engineering Design Process to solve real world problems. The first page is an explanation of their mission. It also has a materials list for the students to refer to as they plan. The following two pages are work pages that students use to guide their project. You can use these projects to build thematic units as well!
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K - 6th
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Enrichment for Gifted/After School Programs INSTRUCTOR/STUDENT GUIDE UNIT 3 K-2
You know about STEM and STREAM but NOW there is STREAMS! S.T.R.E.A.M.S Unit Studies :Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art, Math, Social Studies Our ready-to-use thematic units focus on hands-on learning to foster creativity, while promoting social and emotional learning.everything is aligned with state learning standardshands-on activities and gamesintegrated learning between subjectsdesigned for multi-aged classroomspromotes social- emotional learningNo extra prep work requiredactivit
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K - 2nd
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