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Critical thinking library skills lessons
Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
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Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
STEM Challenge Bucket Tower Problem-Solving Learning Activity Upper Elementary
This unique and original STEM Activity features a bucket with the challenge to build a tower that will hold weight. It's an engaging student favorite and you will love the ready-made lab sheets and low prep. Students must also explain why their towers need a bucket. Imaginative answers are one of the high points of this challenge- along with seeing those creative bucket towers!➡️ Click here to save 20% on this STEM resource in a bundle of 3 projects.➡️ Click here for the Easy Supplies 6-Pack bun
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM CHALLENGES ENTIRE YEAR 60 Projects, Planning Guide, and Posters
STEM Challenge Earthquake Resistant Structures Project- 3 Versions
This STEM activity features an earthquake simulation with students building and shaking! You will love the shake tray instructions and ready-made lab sheets. This engineering project is one of our favorites! Your students will love building the structures and cheering when they remain standing. I include 3 different methods for the challenge.➡️ Click here to save 20% with a bundle including this resource and 2 more Earth challenges.NOTE: This resource contains many ways to complete this challeng
Grades:
4th - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
, 4-ESS3-2
, 4-ESS3-1
Also included in: Earth Projects STEM Challenge Bundle Featuring Earthquake Structures
Avoiding Plagiarism: A Mini-Unit
FULLY UPDATED IN AUGUST 2023. The update now reflects APA 7 and MLA 9 styles!___________________________________________________________________________Most teachers have had to deal with plagiarism in some form or another, and many still haven’t quite figured out the best way to combat it. Some teachers give a stern warning and threaten serious consequences. Others use software to detect plagiarism.These methods work to some extent, but many students plagiarize because they don’t always know wh
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Grades:
7th - 12th
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Creativity Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle Finish the Picture, STEM
Need a quick, no prep, creative STEM challenges to get your students to think outside the box?! Creativity challenges can be used as a quick warm up before a STEM challenge to help jumpstart students’ creativity. They can also be used for morning work, brain breaks, and at various other times throughout the school day.This bundle includes 100+ Creativity Challenges and Activities. Featuring Balloons Over Broadway, Snowflake Bentley, Valentine's Day, Groundhog Day, Earth Day, Halloween, Christmas
Grades:
K - 5th
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Inside Out Movie Worksheets | Movie Day Activities | Social Emotional Learning
Looking to support your student's social-emotional needs?What better way to engage students than with a MOVIE TIME? ... INSIDE, OUT is certainly a fun childhood favorite!Check out these LEARNING ACTIVITIES created just for the movie!Personality Islands Digital PBLPersonality Islands Printable PBLHow to Make Broccoli Pizza - A Fun and Engaging Reading and Math ActivityThis resource includes a printable AND digital version to use with Google Classroom™Looking for more MOVIE GUIDES? Click HERE-Movi
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Library Labels Library Skills Posters How to Treat a Book Library Lessons
Keep an organized classroom library with these one-of-a-kind How to Treat a Book posters! This collection includes eight colorful posters with tips on how to treat a book plus a title poster in both English and Spanish. Students will love seeing these posters as helpful reminders on how to treat books in their classroom! Each poster is in full color and measures 8.5" x 11" for easy printing. Please note these posters do not come in black-and-white.The How to Treat a Book Posters read:- Hug you
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
STEM Popcorn Challenge - Problem-Solving & Volume Project - Measurement Activity
It’s the Popcorn STEM Activity! This Easy Prep Challenge is one of my absolute favorites to use as an exploration into volume. This challenge has been tested with 2nd-5th graders and they all enjoy designing those containers to hold the popcorn. Inevitably, there will be gigantic containers. Please note: This challenge is available in money-saving bundles!➡️ Click HERE to save 20 % with STEM Volume Bundle➡️ Click HERE to save 20 % with STEM 6-Pack Math Skills Bundle➡️ Click HERE to save 20 % wit
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Challenges Volume BUNDLE featuring Problem-Solving & Math
READ ALOUD STEM Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle #1 STEM Club, STEM Centers
Integrate STEM and Literacy in your classroom all year with READ ALOUD STEM Volume One! Everything you need to be the master STEM Teacher at your school! Awaken imagination and creativity all year. Students learn coding, engineering, explore real-world problems, learn about STEM role models, pioneers, inventors, and more!Amazing resource for STEM clubs, STEM Teachers, STEM Stations, STEM Centers, parents who love hands-on learning, and elementary teachers who want to create a hands-on educationa
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Grades:
1st - 5th
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Elementary Library Curriculum Lesson Plans K-5 (Weeks 3-9)
K-5 Library Lessons (Weeks 3-9)After receiving such a positive response to my free Week 1 Library Lesson Plans, I am excited to offer this new bundle!I know that it is impossible to design lesson plans that will fit everyone’s needs. As media specialists/librarians/library teachers, etc. we all have different schedules and student populations. Some of us are lucky to have lots of technology available to us to use during our classes and others have next to nothing. I hope these lessons will wo
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Grades:
K - 5th
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Media Literacy - Fake News and Media Bias - Digital Media Literacy Project
Are your students gullible or easily swayed by dubious sources and fake news? Looking for a media literacy project? This fifteen-lesson media literacy unit is designed to train middle and high school students to evaluate source credibility and recognize questionable content on the Internet. It is provided in both Google Slides and PDF.Topics are CURRENT and include Israel and Hamas, Trump and Biden, ChatGPT, and more.This unit is regularly updated to remain current. CONTENTS:◈Lesson 1: The Probl
Grades:
8th - 10th
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STEM Toothpick Tower Challenge Easy Prep Problem-Solving Activity
Are you looking for an easy prep challenge? This Toothpick Tower STEM Activity is the one! Towers are the best! Students love to build and stack items to create the tallest possible tower. With this tower challenge, they also have to be diligent in maintaining a solid base and must constantly rethink the task. This is one of our favorites!➡️ Click here to save 20% on this STEM resource in a bundle of 3 projects.➡️ Click here to save 20% on this STEM resource in a bundle of 6 projects.What is the
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Fake News Unit | Critical Thinking | Media Literacy | Fact Analysis & Research
Teaching students to navigate news and information on mainstream, traditional and social media as critical thinkers is essential in 2024. It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate FACTS and OPINIONS, SATIRE from LIES, and PERSUASION from PROPAGANDA in the "MISINFORMATION:" eraA well-grounded understanding of MEDIA-LITERACY is crucial in stopping FAKE NEWS and RADICALIZATION. And This PROVEN resource will teach your students the skills to identify, analyze and critique information throug
Grades:
5th - 10th
My Place in the World Project: "Me on the Map" Geography for Kids
This hands-on geography project "My Place in the World" has kids create a visual representation of how we fit into the world. Teachers often use it with the kids' geography book "Me on the Map," by Joan Sweeney. Ideal for integrated Social Studies, ELA, Geography, Literacy, and Map Skills.Using a series of nesting circles to show the relative sizes of different geographic places, this simple but effective geography lesson helps kids sort out their relation to one another. This activity includes
Grades:
K - 5th
Also included in: Geography for Kids Bundle: Three Essential Hands-on Activities
PreK Library Lessons for the Whole School Year PK PreKindergarten Preschool
Do you teach PreK students in your school library media center? Looking for lesson plans to engage those early childhood learners, teach them effectively, and help them love reading while you all have fun at the same time? Check out these library lessons for your pre-K students!These lesson plans are based on my nine years of teaching preK lessons in our elementary school library. I found ways to save time, get organized, and have a blast with our youngest learners. With over 210 lessons, you'll
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Grades:
PreK
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Library Lessons - Back to School Library Orientation for Two Weeks!
Everything you need for the first two weeks of classes in the library! Includres read alouds, step by step directions for how to model library expectations and check out directions. All ideas come from my ten plus years of experience in the elementary library. Trust me when I say that these things work!Everything included for:Week 1:Send letter home to familiesRead aloud to Pre-K through 5Complete Library Orientation PowerPoint™ Check Out OR Library Expectations PowerPoint™ (K-2) or Library Surv
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Grades:
K - 5th
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STEM Spaghetti Tower Challenge Problem-Solving Project
Who knew a project using spaghetti could be so engaging and have easy prep for you? Students love this tower-building event with the unlikeliest of materials- spaghetti and one marshmallow. You will enjoy the ready-made lab sheets and the 4 different versions of this resource. ➡️ Click here to save 20% on this STEM resource in a bundle of 3 projects.What is the challenge?Students will use raw spaghetti strands to build a structure that will hold weight at the top. There are 4 variations of this
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
STEM Marshmallow Bridge Challenge Project-Based Learning Activity
You will love the simple materials used in this challenge! The marshmallow bridges are not very long but will test the patience and diligence of students as they work to finish this successfully. And, they will! Great cheering will happen when a bridge spans the gap and holds a little bit of weight!➡️ Click here to save 20% on this STEM resource and 2 additional bridge building activities.What is the challenge?The design challenge lesson contained in this package is a bridge-building experience.
Grades:
4th - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Challenges Bridges Bundle 3 Activities
Cookie Crime Scene Investigation: An Activity in Making Inferences
BEST SELLER ALERT!Lead your students on an engaging, hands-on, inference-making journey using this crime scene investigation!Students will come back to the classroom, which has been the scene of a crime! Their teacher (you, of course!) baked two-dozen cookies to share with the class this afternoon. However, while away from the classroom, someone came into the room and stole those cookies after snacking on one of them him or herself!By planting clues in your classroom and creating a crime scene,
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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STEM Easy Bridge Challenge One-Day Problem-Solving Project
Here’s another easy prep and easy materials STEM challenge that will be the most fun in your STEM class ever! It’s a bridge-building activity that gives students a choice of the style of bridge they want to try. The best news is: there are only two materials! That’s right! Two materials!➡️ Click here to save 20% on this STEM Challenge in a 3-pack bundle!➡️ Click here to save 20% on this STEM Challenge in a 6-pack bundle!What is the challenge?In this challenge, students will have images of four k
Grades:
4th - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM CHALLENGES ENTIRE YEAR 60 Projects, Planning Guide, and Posters
Organization 101; Full Curriculum; Study Skills; Executive Funct; Summer School
This is a BUNDLE of Organization 101 modules containing a full curriculum that will help your students establish a strong foundation for academic success. This is a giant bundle of 10 separate modules covering so many aspects of how to be organized mentally and physically in school.This is a perfect unit to use remotely with students through Google Classroom. The Student Playlists are a stand-alone Google doc that can be copied for students. Students will independently work through the activitie
Grades:
6th - 12th
Types:
Elementary Library Curriculum Lesson Plans K-5 (Weeks 10-18)
K-5 Library Lessons (Weeks 10-18) After receiving such a positive response to my first bundle of library lesson plans, I am excited to offer this new bundle! I know that it is impossible to design lesson plans that will fit everyone’s needs. As media specialists/librarians/library teachers, etc. we all have different schedules and student populations. Some of us are lucky to have lots of technology available to us to use during our classes and others have next to nothing. I hope these lessons
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Grades:
K - 5th
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Library Catalog Practice for K - 5 Library Lessons - Elementary Library Skills
Make library catalog lessons fun for your elementary students! It’s easy to teach library catalog skills to your K-5 students with these scaffolded library lessons and activities. Help your students gain independence in using the library! Use this library skills unit with the Destiny Discover Library Catalog or any other catalog system.⭐️ EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO TEACH LIBRARY CATALOG SKILLS IN YOUR ELEMENTARY LIBRARY! ⭐️These library catalog lessons make it easy for you to teach and review catalo
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K - 5th
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STEM 12 Straws Tower Challenge Problem-Solving Activity Easy Prep - 3 Versions
If you have limited supplies for a STEM Challenge can you still build a tower? Yes, you can! This is a STEM project using only 1material with the option of adding tape. This resource includes three versions of the tower-building activity.➡️ Click here to save 20% on the Easy Tower Bundle of 3.➡️ Click here for the Easy Supplies 6-Pack bundle that includes this challenge!What is the challenge?Students will follow the steps of the Engineering Design Process in this challenge. They will also have t
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
Also included in: STEM CHALLENGES ENTIRE YEAR 60 Projects, Planning Guide, and Posters
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