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5th grade problem solving thematic unit plan pdfs
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
Zombie Apocalypse Unit - End of the Year Project or Emergency Sub Lesson Plans
This week-long, self-guided zombie apocalypse project is the PERFECT end of the year unit! It is so versatile and can be used for many different grades and subjects; appropriate for middle school or high school, science or language arts, accelerated or remediation, even upper elementary. It could also be used for a Halloween unit or emergency sub lesson plans. Directions on each page are self explanatory and will keep your students engaged from start to finish.I originally created this activity
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4th - 12th
Also included in: Biology Lessons and Curriculum for the ENTIRE YEAR
Fantastic Food Trucks: Flexible No-Prep Project-Based Learning (PBL)
Welcome to the Fantastic Food Trucks PBL project! This project will lead your students through an amazing and in-depth journey as they design all aspects of their very own food truck business. With the provided grade-appropriate support, your students will design their menu, plan the layout of their truck, consider startup costs as well as how to market their business. There is a wealth of information in this packet to guide you and your students through this incredible learning experience. Whet
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4th - 9th
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Restaurant Themed Social Skills & Auditory Processing Cafe {Middle School}
Welcome to SpeechSnacks Cafe!! I was inspired to create a restaurant-themed packet that would help students with social skills for proper table etiquette. The packet evolved into other areas of language and auditory processing as well---and is the perfect addition for your life skills groups! What you will find in this restaurant-themed language packet:•(pgs 3-5) 18 cards of social scenarios related to restaurant situations/table manners•(pgs 6-9) 24 cards of restaurant descriptions in which t
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3rd - 8th
Team Building and Cooperation Unit
Welcome to Survivor: PE Edition! I never thought I could keep my students engaged, excited and active during team building activities until I began the Survivor Unit. Now it is one of their favorites units all year!
What's included in this 4-week unit:
-Teacher Guide outlining the unit
-8 cooperative, challenging games
-Full lesson plans including learning objectives
-Suggested Unit Plan
-Lesson resources and printables
-Post activity reflection sheets
This comprehensive unit is perfect f
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4th - 8th
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
Thanksgiving SEL Group Work
Connect the Dots Social Skills: Cornucopia CaperThis product targets the goals needed for successful social skills, specifically working in a group. Your upper grade students will work together to complete seven puzzles to “connect the dots” and find the key to “breakout” of the speech room! What’s included?Group Rules template Group work skills rubric and keyTeam Mission cardsSLP mission cards with explanation and keys to answersHELP cardsMission Accomplished cards with a letter clue for eac
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4th - 9th
Also included in: SEL Group Work Fall Bundle
Robotics: Aren't They Just Toys - An Introductory Robotics Unit
This unit was designed as an introduction to robotics since many of the students are unfamiliar with robotics. Many students see robots as only being a toy, but this unit was developed to show them the multiple uses and fields in which robotics are used every day. The lessons were developed to help students develop higher order thinking skills, group-building activities, technology, inter/intrapersonal skills, and learning skills from the Autonomous Learner Model. Throughout the unit, multiple o
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3rd - 5th
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
STEM Activities and Challenges | Growth Mindset | Human Body Systems
Here’s a creative and fun way to share the importance of a GROWTH MINDSET with Grades 5-7. Using STEM Activities, learn what it means to be GUTSY by taking on NEW Challenges and Having the GUTS to Go For It even if you think you can’t! This Outta the Box Classroom Competition can be done on a Fun Friday or throughout the week during your science blockThe theme is “GUTSY”. Students will read tidbits of information about Being GUTSY in figurative language and Literal GUT Feelings. Best of all, th
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5th - 7th
Manage the Market- A math PBL Unit
Summertime Pricing is half-off this PBL!Need a PBL for those last days of school or summer school? This PBL unit is perfect for that! The unit begins by asking students to manage a supermarket. The tasks center around a grocery store and the many roles needed to run the store properly. Students will be practicing math skills, reading about the history of cereal, and working as a team to think logically. Tasks are designed for 4th and 5th graders and many include varied versions of the same
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4th - 5th
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Hatchet Novel Study, Survival Unit Study, Activity Guide, Teaching Unit
While the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen was not written as a how-to survival guide, it is a great fictional novel to use as the backbone of a survival unit study. The book is 19 chapters long, and for each chapter I have provided two different survival themes and activities to explore. Throughout the 38 activities, students will explore survival topics such as food, water, shelter, fire, herbal medicine, first aid, physical fitness, and mindset. There are also some STEM activities included that
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5th - 7th
Also included in: Survival Homeschool Unit Study, Writing Prompts and Hatchet Novel Guide
Self Advocacy Work Book for grades 3 to 8
Eight lessons about self advocacy for students with disabilities (suitable for grades 3 to 8). Written at a level understandable to younger students. Help your speech students and special needs students begin to advocate for themselves with these basic lessons. Starting younger with lessons directed at self advocacy will form a foundation that older students can build on. Store Name: Speech-n-Stuff.
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3rd - 8th
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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Election Readers' Theater Script - The Great Debate
This three-part readers' script focuses on the concept of election debates. The script helps students understand the importance of using debates as a method to understanding, opposing, or supporting political views. Task cards and activity sheets are included. Check out the preview!
This script may also be purchased as part of a bundle for $10.00. Other scripts in this bundle include: Pathway to Presidency, Exercising Your Right, What is a Political Party?
If you would like to "Follow M
Grades:
4th - 8th
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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Easter Themed Social Skills
This product has everything you need to target social skills with a fun, Easter theme. It includes the following: Pages 3-4: Appropriate versus inappropriate behavior worksheets - read each scenario and decided if the person acted appropriate or inappropriately. Pages 5-6: Identifying feelings worksheets - reach each scenario and choose the emotion that best describes how that person might be feeling. Page 7: Bunny Feelings Matching Worksheet - match the bunny face to the correct feelingPage 8:
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PreK - 5th
Enrichment Learning for Gifted & After School Programs STUDENT GUIDE UNIT 1 UE
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 StudiesOur 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 requiredactivitie
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3rd - 5th
Big Problem, Little Problem Shamrocks: 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
FREE Math Curse Mini-Unit Sample Lesson - Solving Word Problems
This FREE Math Curse Lesson Plan uses the book by Jon Scieszka to teach students to solve word problems in everyday life by using problem-solving strategies effectively.Includes:Extremely detailed lesson to engage learners in solving word problems based on the book by Jon Scieszka.All necessary materials/worksheetsThis is a FREE sample of my Math Curse Mini-Unit. This lesson plan is Day 1 of the 5-day mini-unit.If you liked this product, please consider downloading the full mini-unit, which incl
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2nd - 5th
Science Fair and Language Report
This is an 8 page unit for the Science Fair project in your classroom. It includes the note to send home to parents, the directions for doing the project, 2 pages for students to record Question, Hypothesis, Research, Experiment, Results, and Conclusion -following the Scientific Method, a page that models the Poster they should make, an Experiment Journal for the student to record daily progress, a graph to record result, and a list of internet addresses for students to search for ideas. I have
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3rd - 12th
Water Striders and Surface Tension
An interactive unit that uses critical thinking and problem-solving strategies to build understanding of the important role surface tension plays in how water striders and other insects walk on the surface of the water without sinking.
Water strider and surface tension background information is also provided. The big finale is always a hit with the students!
The student worksheet includes having students develop a hypothesis, understanding lab safety, recording their observations, and writ
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4th - 7th
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Mindfulness Activities Unit - Becoming Social Emotional Superheroes
This Mindfulness Unit includes mindfulness activities for primary learners, including guided mindfulness exercises, mindfulness activities and mindfulness coloring pages for kids. Just like we practice reading, writing and math, we want to teach these little leaders to practice growth mindset, kindness, creativity, gratitude and mindfulness. Our series of creative lessons and activities adapted from sparkjournals.com have been designed to help incorporate these skills in a way that is fun, easy
Grades:
1st - 6th
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