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Crime Scene Activity: Analyzing Primary and Secondary Source Evidence
“The Case of the Student Teacher Gone Missing” is an activity that asks students to solve a crime based on their analysis of evidence. First students must classify the twelve pieces of evidence as primary or secondary source evidence. Then students must decide which type of evidence they will use: primary or secondary, and explain why. Finally, students will analyze each piece of relevant evidence to draw conclusion about who the guilty teacher might be. You can use the case as is or personalize
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6th - 8th
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Halloween Digital Breakout Tricks or Treats! | Halloween Escape Room
While out trick-or-treating, you and your friends stumble upon an old abandoned mansion. The mansion looks like a black silhouette against the light of the full moon. Feeling daring, you and your friends approach the three-story mansion and see spider webs glistening in the moonlight. Laughing nervously, you decide to knock on the door to trick-or-treat. Much to your surprise, your knocking pushes the door open and it creaks loudly. You and your friends peek your heads in to look around in the d
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4th - 10th
Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit | 5th-7th Grades | Social Studies
The Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit is PERFECT for 5th-7th grade students! This incredible unit focuses on the importance of primary and secondary sources of information and will help grow your students critical thinking skills and abilities, as well as how to examine sources of information for bias and cause and effect relationships, and MUCH more!! The amazing resources included with this unit have been used with GREAT SUCCESS by THOUSANDS of students, and can easily be used with an
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Bundle for Virginia
Socratic Seminar/Fishbowl Discussion Planning, Tracker, & Reflection
Socratic Seminar/Fishbowl Discussion Planning, Tracker, & ReflectionTo hold a successful Socratic Seminar, Fishbowl Discussion or any kind of structured classroom dialogue, planning ahead is key, especially for your students who are reluctant speakers. This resource provides planning materials so that your students are prepared for the discussion, tracking materials so that your students are active listeners during the discussion, and reflection materials so that students can identify areas
Grades:
6th - 12th
End of Year Project Based Learning PBL Genius Hour Passion Project High School
Feeling uninspired and in need of a creative jumpstart in your class? This Genius Hour Project jumpstarted my students' minds and hearts. It reignited their passion for learning, increased their motivation, and reinvigorated their spirit. This project will leave you and your students feeling excited about learning by offering a new perspective and helping you gain new insight on an interesting subject! Passion Projects or Genius Hour is the most powerful project based learning student activity t
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: High School Digital Resource SEL Building Classroom Culture
How to Build Meaningful Student-Led Discussion Pack
Do you want your students to lead their own meaningful discussion as they engage in critical thinking without you orchestrating the process? Like other academic skills, student-led discussion needs to be taught explicitly. This pack is designed to give you the tools you need as the teacher to do just that! Here's what is included in this pack:--16 Meaningful Discussion Stems Posters (3 different sizes)--How to Be a Respectful Listener and Speaker Posters--Student-Led Discussion Rubrics and Recor
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1st - 5th
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STRUCTURED ACADEMIC CONTROVERSY | GROWING BUNDLE
Structured Academic Controversies are one of my favorite ways to teach reading, writing, analysis, speaking, and listening all in one lesson! They help students learn vital skills about how to respectfully disagree with and learn from others, and how to engage in controversial topics without resorting to insults.In these lessons, students will read reliable information and make arguments for or against different topics. Students will be reading, writing, speaking, listening, analyzing and crafti
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6th - 12th
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End of the Year Activities - Digital Mystery Game - Inferencing - Team Building
Keep your students engaged with this end of the year activity. Great for team building. This is a new spin on the classic mystery games I have created. Keep inferencing skills up during Summer break! Students will work together to solve the mystery AND learn about inferencing! The material is so fun and engaging, students won't even know they are actually learning! This activity can be used anytime of year and is a fantastic way to get students excited about learning. Do your students enjo
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4th - 8th
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The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
By popular demand, all my clue by clue mysteries PDF (printable) format in one big bundle, plus a free mystery story organizing worksheet. Be sure to check the list above to see the exact list of Clue by Clue Mysteries!Each individual mystery is in PDF format and contains:A cover imageComprehensive teacher notes outlining how to use the activity in class - 2 pagesA teacher sheet with a description of the situation and mystery to be solved, hints to give students if they get stuck, and the soluti
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Social Studies SUPER BUNDLE | Units 1-9 for 5th-8th Grades! | Google Apps!
The Social Studies SUPER BUNDLE Units 1-9 for 5th-8th grades is COMPLETELY ready for both in-person and digital learning (via Google Apps)! With this amazing Social Studies SUPER BUNDLE you'll receive EVERYTHING you need to cover the Age of Exploration all the way to the Reconstruction Era with your students, -PLUS- you'll also receive an Intro to U.S. Geography Unit -AND- Thinking Like a Historian Unit!! ***STOP the stressful and endless search for amazing, high-quality, and affordable Social S
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5th - 8th
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Perspective Taking Scenarios Middle School Social Skills Autism Worksheets
Are you looking for upper elementary and middle school social skills worksheets? Add these digital and printable social skills worksheets to your social skills curriculum to work on perspective taking scenarios and understanding opinionsUse these scenario cards social skills worksheets to teach perspective taking, and stating opinions, and point of view. This speech therapy and social emotional lesson practices identifying your own perspective, someone else’s perspective, and how it compare and
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4th - 7th
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How to Debate Teaching Resources and Activities
Google App version here.Although debates can be a very formal process, the classroom teacher can exercise some flexibility as to how the classroom debate will function. Rules regarding debates will differ depending upon the country. These instructions focus on learning how to debate at the classroom level. Topics, planners and graphic organizers to support classroom debates in large or small groups from beginning to end.Included are: Instructions for debates, graphic organizers, over 75 debate t
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4th - 9th
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Slavery in the Southern Colonies: A Socratic Seminar
Looking for a higher order thinking activity? Need a way to close out a unit on the Southern Colonies? Do you want to do a Socratic Seminar with your students? Students will evaluate three primary source documents to answer document-based questions. Students will engage in higher-level thinking and improve listening and speaking skills during this common-core supported activity. This activity is appropriate for 5th-7th graders and meets the Common Core Standards for Speaking and Listening.
If
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5th - 8th
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Back to School Digital Breakout - Escape Room WEBSITE!
You and your class are really excited because your teacher is having a back to school party! She has been planning this party since last school year and locked all her party supplies in her classroom's storage closet. When you arrived to school, your teacher said that the back to school party has been canceled! Your teacher added extra locks to keep the supplies safe over the summer, but when she arrived back to school, she forgot the lock combinations! Your teacher announced that unless someone
Grades:
4th - 10th
Distance Learning Constitution Day Digital Breakout | Constitution Escape Room
Your school year was going great until one day your teacher stated that there were going to be some new rules put into place and there was nothing you can do about it. You have been studying U.S. History, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, so this statement did not seem right. Your teacher started listing off new rules that were unfair and seemed to benefit only the teacher.You realized that these new "rules" were considered unconstitutional! When you approached your teacher about these "
Grades:
4th - 10th
Create Your Own Holiday Creative and Critical Thinking Project
I created this resource as a way to meet several needs in my classroom. I wanted to:→help students reflect and deepen their understanding of why we celebrate special days in our lives→provide an outlet for student creativity both in thinking and with presenting their ideas →supply an inclusive activity that ALL of my students would be able to work on, at any point in the year→allow students the opportunity to have FUN while activating critical thinking skillsEngaging in a project like this reall
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3rd - 6th
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Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit for 8th-10th Grade Social Studies
The amazing resources included with the Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit for 8th-10th Grade Social Studies have been successfully used by thousands of students and come completely ready to use for BOTH in-person and digital learning (via Google Apps)! The Thinking Like a Historian Unit lays the foundation for your students to succeed in your social studies class! They'll explore and discuss learning strategies that promote and encourage students to think critically, how to effectively
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8th - 10th
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Also included in: 8th Grade U.S. History YEAR-LONG Curriculum Bundle!! | Google Apps
The Crucible Hexagonal Discussion Activity
Need an activity to enliven your study of The Crucible with rich discussion? Hexagonal thinking is a simple, yet powerful activity which is really a discussion model to help students explore theme, characterization, conflict, and symbolism in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. 72 hexagonal cards made specifically for The Crucible are guaranteed to get your scholars talking! This thinking model may have its roots in the business world, but has found a dedicated following in classrooms where rich discu
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Remember the Titans Movie Guide with Questions, Activities & Worksheets
Remember the Titans Movie Guide is a complete lesson plan with discussion questions, writing activities, and leadership worksheets. This resource helps teachers engage students in a thought-provoking exploration of historical events and social issues while using the story of the T.C. Williams High School football team in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971 as a tool to teach valuable life lessons.WARNING: This is a DEEP LEARNING lesson plan to help students employ a LEADERSHIP approach to SOCIAL &
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: Popular Sports Movie Guides Bundle
Thanksgiving Mystery Activity: The Missing Mashed Potatoes
This mystery activity practices reading strategies and critical thinking while getting students talking. Students follow a set of clues to solve a Thanksgiving-themed mystery: Mom is busy getting Thanksgiving dinner ready when someone sneaks into the dining room and steals the delicious mashed potatoes! Can your students use logic and figure out who did it?This is the PDF printable version. There's also a Google Forms edition and PowerPoint Slides version that make distance learning and sharing
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Holiday Mysteries and Puzzles Bundle: Four Critical Thinking Activities
PBL Plant Unit for Kindergarten, First, and Second Grades with Lesson Plans
This PBL unit includes the planning/description phase, full lesson plans,reflection outline for students, presentation planning outline for students, rubrics,activities for both hands on and technology. It covers plants from facts to awareness of their importance to our lives. The unit has 4 weeks of detailed lesson plans with guidance for both teacher and students. Planning, description outlines, lesson plans, and printables consist of 75 pages. Students can use an ongoing journal, or lap book
Grades:
K - 2nd
Project Based Learning Bioethics Debate Presentation Genetics Evolution Ecology
Project-based learning is “a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging and complex question, problem, or challenge” from BIE . The Bioethics Debate allows students to choose a side from an extensive list of bioethical topics and work with a partner to research and present both sides of the ethical problem. The project can be introduced by showing the movie Gattaca but is not required.
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8th - 12th
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, HS-ESS3-1
, HS-ESS3-4
, HS-ETS1-1
K-2 Social & Racial Justice Morning Meeting Slides-Anti Bias Education-ABAR
UPDATE: GOOGLE SLIDES FORMAT NOW AVAILABLE 10/15/20Teaching Tolerance’s Social Justice Standards is a road map for anti-bias education at every grade level. These particular slides were developed for K-2 classrooms. **Grades 3-5 Available!**Grades 6-8 Available!The purpose of these slides is to engage our students in deep and meaningful conversations that go beyond the basic "my favorite color is...". They are meant to elicit dialogue about inequalities and equity. What does that look like? How
Grades:
K - 2nd
Critical Thinking Mystery Game: Clue by Clue PowerPoint Bundle
Clue by Clues are mystery activities that help students practice critical thinking skills, reading strategies including close reading, critical reading, and inference, and get them discussing and talking! Students work in pairs or small groups to solve a mystery. They get a situation with a mystery. They have to figure it out by reading a series of clues, one at a time. As they receive each clue, they speculate on its significance, what it tells them about the situation, and how it fits with the
Grades:
6th - 12th
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