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Critical thinking Common Core W.7.1 resources
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200 Daily Bell Work Writing Prompts (Grades 7/8)
Be prepared to teach your Grade 7/8 Language class with a year's worth of bell work writing prompts for Google Slides™! This resource is perfect for a soft start to the Language block and for creating a daily routine for your students to follow.This resource includes 200 writing prompts themed for each day of the week to spark student interest and promote engagement. The writing prompts also contain three sub-questions for those students who find it difficult to brainstorm ideas. With prompts an
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7th - 8th
Also included in:Â Grade 7 Ontario 2023 Language Bundle (FULL YEAR)
Listening Skills Podcast Activity, Listen & Learn #1, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
Students need to be able to sit and listen to a passage or short audio program, take notes, recall information, and then answer critical thinking questions about the material. To help prepare students for our e-learning world, I’ve scoured the internet to find high-interest, school-appropriate podcasts that fit within one class period. In this Listen & Learn activity, students will listen to a 19-minute podcast focused on the case of Tony, the tiger, an animal that serves as a roadside attra
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8th - 11th
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Persuasive Writing Public Service Announcement Activities Write and Analyze
Your students will love analyzing, researching, and creating their own PSA with this ready-to-use resource. What an engaging way to introduce persuasive language and writing. Lots of practice means your students are confident as they create their own PSA.Digital and print -- guides your students step-by-step through the process – from analyzing what a PSA is and does to choosing their own topic, researching and creating it. This is what you'll get:print and digital versionstips and suggestions
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
Listening Skills Podcast Activity, Listen & Learn #2, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
Students need to be able to sit and listen to a passage or short audio program, take notes, recall information, and then answer critical thinking questions about the material. To help prepare students for our e-learning world, I’ve scoured the internet to find high-interest, school-appropriate podcasts that fit within one class period. In this Listen & Learn activity, students will listen to an 18-minute podcast focused on a police officer who volunteered to dive into the thick, toxic sludge
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8th - 11th
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Growth Mindset Activities | Social Emotional Learning Bell Ringers | Volume 1
These fully-editable growth-mindset bell ringers will get your class thinking and are perfect for social emotional learning as well! With thought-provoking and engaging prompts, they can be used as individual writing prompts or large group discussion topics. Teachers agree that these bell ringers are perfect for daily warm ups or morning meetings. I’m so excited for your students to experience a variety of life-impacting questions to write about individually or discuss within groups.You will rec
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Not Grade Specific
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Debate Choice Board: Digital Argumentative Topics & Graphic Organizers/Google
Digital Debate Choice Board is a fun and engaging debate topic board full of ten editable argumentative prompts with graphic organizers. Students click on any number on the interactive (hyperlinked) Google Slide board to reveal their "mystery" debate topic. They then complete an argumentative graphic organizer focusing on claim, reasons, and evidence. Afterward, you can decide to have students debate, present, and or write. Debate choice boards build critical thinking and reasoning skills, w
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4th - 8th
Growth Mindset Bell Ringers | 40 SEL Writing Prompts For Any Subject | Volume 2
These fully-editable growth-mindset bell ringers will get your class thinking and are perfect for social emotional learning as well! With thought-provoking and engaging prompts, they can be used as individual writing prompts or large group discussion topics. Teachers agree that these bell ringers are perfect for daily warm ups or morning meetings. I’m so excited for your students to experience a variety of life-impacting questions to write about individually or discuss within groups. You will r
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Not Grade Specific
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Inquiry Based Learning Project: Step-by-Step Student Booklet
Inquiry Based Learning: Everything teachers need to know to get started includes over 25 pages. A step-by-step student booklet allows for teachers to guide students through the process of developing and researching an inquiry based question to engage all learners in higher order critical thinking skills.
A How-To for Teachers
Inquiry based learning is a pedagogical approach to learning that is gaining momentum in mainstream education in many countries. It is not a new approach but rather a mor
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4th - 8th
Invisible by Gonzalez Graphic Novel Study comprehension, composition, activities
Complete with the option for Google Slides™ and pdf format. This product provides resources for studying the graphic novel INVISIBLE by Christina Gonzalez and Gabriela Epstein. The resource is great for comprehension guidance, classroom discussion, literature circles, book clubs, novel studies, task cards, book challenges, reflection journals, and/or student writing prompts. This book is a timely work of fiction that is thought-provoking, humorous, serious, hopeful, assuring, and committed to
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5th - 8th
New Kid Jerry Craft Graphic Novel Study PDF and Digital Resource
Complete with the option for Google Slides™ and pdf format. This product includes 110+ cards to use as resources for studying the graphic novel, New Kid by Jerry Craft. The resource is great for comprehension guidance, classroom discussion, literature circles, book clubs, novel studies, task cards, book challenges, reflection journals, and/or student writing prompts. This book is a timely work of fiction that is thought-provoking, humorous, serious, hopeful, assuring, and committed to engaging
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4th - 8th
Debating Topics for Middle School: School and Education
Get your middle school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints.Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refining y
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5th - 7th
Shark Tank Project - Business Plan Project - Business Economics Project
Students get a firsthand experience for what it's like to develop a simple business plan, just like the contestants on The Shark Tank! Using the guided notes and worksheets in this printable, no prep .pdf project, students will develop a Business Idea, brainstorm ways they will Market their business, think of how they will Finance their business, determine if they need Employees, and more! After students have applied entrepreneurial thinking and completed their packet, they can present their pit
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5th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Shark Tank Business Projects for Grades 6-12 | Interactive Business Lessons
A Wolf Called Wander Novel Study Discussion Question Cards
This product includes 176 comprehension, literary instruction, reflection, critical thinking, discussion, and composition prompts on cards for studying the novel A Wolf Called Wander, written by Rosanne Parry. This book is a wonderful fiction novel based on the true story of a wolf called OR-7. This novel opens the door to many important discussion opportunities for students within the classroom and beyond.Book Themes: Adventure, Animals, Wolves, Nature, Survival, FamilyThis book is an especial
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3rd - 6th
Signs of Survival a memoir and oral history by Hartman for ELA and history
This product includes over 100 comprehension, literary instruction, reflection, critical thinking, discussion, and composition prompts on cards for studying the memoir, Signs of Survival, by Renee Hartman with Joshua M. Greene. This book is an inspiring narrative account of Renee and Herta Hartman's experiences as children in Czechoslovakia during WWII. This novel opens the door to many important discussion opportunities for students within the classroom and beyond.Book Themes: Family, Courage,
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6th - 8th
Argument or Persuasive Writing Research Notebook
Argument and Persuasive Writing Notebook for Research • Middle school no prep notebook that will help your students stay organized when they're researching topics to argue or persuade.
Use for writing, debate, or oral presentations. Step-by-step graphic organizers guide students through choosing and narrowing a topic, collecting research, and organizing their argument.
This resource includes:
→ Idea generator "What should I write about?"
→ Narrow your topic funnel. Help students get that t
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6th - 10th
Critical Thinking Skills | Differentiated ELA Center Activities - BUNDLE
Critical thinking skills are fundamental to student success. Help your students build them with these critical thinking puzzles!Differentiated ELA center activities just got cool and fun! These are ELA center activities that will enrich your middle-school students' critical thinking skills and are fun and novel --- through fun logic puzzles! Relatively new to TpT, these critical thinking puzzles will get your kids solving problems like rockstars!When you keep these critical thinking puzzles hand
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6th - 8th
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Very Hot Coffee: Investigation and Discovery
A woman spills hot coffee on her lap and sues McDonald's. Should she win her case? This case is often referenced as a joke. Is it serious case? Tap into your students' curiosity and sense of justice by using this real-life legal case. Investigation and Discovery lessons allow students to take on the role of investigator. Students are given a little bit of information and tasked with investigating the claim.What witnesses should be interviewed? How are they biased?What evidence should be coll
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6th - 8th
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Conversation Starters Package on Quality of Life
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on the quality of life.What's included:A list of 12 thought-provoking questions for middle school students on the subject of quality of lifeActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expression
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Solar Energy BUNDLE (Global Warming and Climate Change)
92 printable or digital pages exploring renewable solar energy and global warming + climate change: internet activities - 15 WebQuest and Google activities,analyze global warming charts and graphs - 17 pagescompare and contrast - 10 pageswriting prompts - 25 pages brainteasers and word puzzles - 25 pagesPRINT: I created PDF versions that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and download your copy. DIGITAL ACTIVITY: I cre
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4th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS3-2
, MS-ESS3-5
Nurturing Our Students Self-Worth and Self-Confidence
Keala Settle's incredible performance of the song "This is Me," from the hit movie "The Greatest Showman," is the inspiration to this complete unit of study teacher's guide, certain to help lift your students' self-esteem!This unit of study will guide you and your students through activities that promote critical thinking, reading comprehension and analysis, and build classroom community as well.Activities included in this guide-*Copy of the lyrics*Video links of two powerful performance of "Thi
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4th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Coaching Our Students' Literacy Skills Through Inspirational Song Lyrics
Would You Rather Wednesday - Full Year of Weekly Thinking Warm Ups (Grade 6-12)
MIDDLE SCHOOL and HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS! This pack includes a full year of weekly warm ups asking the age-old question "Would you rather...?"These weekly warm-up cards are a great way to spark discussion, encourage critical thinking, and prompt journal writing. They are formatted as question cards that can be cut out and laminated! These questions are also a part of my 135 Writing Prompts For Middle School and High School collection. (In that collection, they are included as a list only, and
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6th - 12th
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Debating Topics for Middle School: Family Life
Get your middle school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints. Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refining
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5th - 7th
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Words on Fire Novel Study Discuss Reflect Write Classroom and Distance Learning
Complete with Google Slides™ and pdf formats! This resource includes 125+ comprehension, literary instruction, reflection, critical thinking, discussion, and composition prompts on cards for studying the novel Words on Fire, written by New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Nielsen. This book is a compelling historical fiction novel that continues the tradition of Nielsen's earlier works including Resistance and A Night Divided by highlighting an important story from history. It centers on
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4th - 9th
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Claim Evidence Reasoning Graphic Organizer and Lesson Plan Free
Do your students struggle with providing strong, credible evidence for their claims? These two free Evidence Graphic Organizers can be used for any argument, opinion, persuasive, or research essay to help students gather and analyze arguments and evidence that they need to support a claim.Students gain critical thinking skills as they justify the use of their evidence and the evidence checker graphic organizers allow them to see exactly what kind of evidence they are using.This freebie includes
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5th - 9th
Also included in:Â Analyze Bias Evaluate Websites Fact Check Wikipedia Research Skills Bundle
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