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Team Building Energizers - Building Classroom Community Games and Activities
This product includes forty games and activities you can play with students to build your classroom community. Each game is described thoroughly so you can successfully play them with your students! The games that are included are:
1) Hangman
2) Celebrity
3) Quick Change
4) Electricity
5) 2 Truths/1 Tall Tale
6) Human Knot
7) Lucky 6's
8) Maze
9) Helium Stick
10) Sentence Story
11) Left Out - Clumps
12) Giggles
13) Charades
14) People to People
15) Back 2 Back Drawings
16) Bippity Bipitty Bop
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K - 9th
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The Critical Thinking Toolkit: DESIGN SPRINT (Design Thinking Activity)
Give your classes the critical thinking tools and frameworks they need to think through big, complicated issues, as well as training them to reflect on their own thinking patterns and behaviours!Design Sprints are creative problem-solving tools for moving your student’s thinking forward a lot in a small amount of time (1-2 hours) by taking them through a series of timed brainstorming, feedback, and iteration sessions. The logic behind them is that it’s better to test and figure out all the thing
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â THE CRITICAL THINKING BUNDLE
How to draw /build a house with shapes Creative Curriculum Buildings
This is a printout use to make two shape houses (they are the same color) using different colored contact paper. This is used in the building study with the Creative Curriculum. I printed out on white paper and then stuck the colored contact paper wanted for each piece in copy machine one at a time to make sure each piece turned out the color I wanted. The picture you see for the thumbnail is when it is printed on different colored contact paper. In word it does not look like might much as it is
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PreK - 2nd
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Grant: Winning Proposal for LEGO Mindstorm Robotics Kits
This is a winning grant proposal to purchase LEGO Mindstorm Invention System robotics kits to use for science, physics, technology and engineering activities. A state electrical cooperation awarded $1500.00 for this grant in 2002. This proposal is customizable and can be adjusted to compensate for the variations in prices and costs of the equipment so please adjust this grant as you see necessary to meet your project needs. The customizable parts of this proposal are highlighted in yellow. The R
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Grades:
4th - 12th
Problem Solving Picture Cards with Solutions for Special Education
20 Problem Solving Situation Cards with Real Pictures and 2 Solution Card Choices for Each---See the preview please!
These cards are a great problem solving resource to use with special education students that are learning how to fix problems that they encounter in their daily lives, and especially at school.
An example of how to use them in your classroom is provided.
*Data Sheet and Mastery Sheets are included.
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PreK - 12th
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The Critical Thinking Toolkit: HEXAGONAL THINKING
Give your classes the critical thinking tools and frameworks they need to think through big, complicated issues, as well as training them to reflect on their own thinking patterns and behaviours!Hexagonal Thinking is an analysis and facilitation tool that gets individuals, pairs, or groups to make connections between ideas, themes, terms, people, places, and just about anything else they can think of. It generally involves arranging hexagonal tiles together in a ‘web’ or mosaic. The only real ru
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â THE CRITICAL THINKING BUNDLE
Editable Scratch Coding Lesson Plans Bundle - Computer Science
This is the EDITABLE bundle for Scratch 3.0. Resources open in Google Slides so that resources can be shared with students in Google Drive or Google Classroom. This bundle is suitable for Distance Learning. These lessons are not just step by step tutorials, but cover programming concepts in details such as IF statements, loops etc…. Questions in the worksheet also expect students to look at their created scratch blocks and explain how and why they work as well as how and why they can be modified
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Not Grade Specific
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Social Problem Solving Pictures
A variety of picture scenes to use for lessons on inferencing, social problem solving, and other social pragmatics lessons. Can be used digitally, or print and laminate to use in person. Great for counseling, social skills, and speech pathology groups or individual sessions!Some examples of questions to use with these picture scenarios:What is happening in this picture?How does this person feel?What is this person thinking?What just happened or what might happen next?What is the size of the prob
Grades:
PreK - 6th
Deductive Reasoning and Problem Solving Task for adults.
This problem solving activity targets deductive reasoning. The patient must have intact vision and basic reading comprehension to complete this activity.
Grades:
10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Design a Room Floorplan Project | Scale Factors, Surface Area | PBL
Students will get so engaged with this project because they get to personalize it!Objective: Students will get a chance to solve an authentic design and budget problem using their knowledge of scale diagrams and surface area. Students develop their financial literacy and communication skills too!Concepts: Scale Diagrams, Surface Area, Financial Literacy, Problem SolvingGrade Level: 8-11What is Included:Student instructions and worksheet including a detailed shopping list for furniture and paint
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6th - 11th
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The Critical Thinking Toolkit: THE LADDER OF INFERENCE
Give your classes the critical thinking tools and frameworks they need to think through big, complicated issues, as well as training them to reflect on their own thinking patterns and behaviours!The Ladder of Inference is a thinking tool / model created by Harvard professor Chris Argyris to help people with decision making and understanding. Students use the ladder to map out the different stages of decision making (from collecting data, through interpreting the data, all the way to making a dec
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in:Â THE CRITICAL THINKING BUNDLE
Geo Block Designs
These designs are great when using tangrams or Geoblocks. Students can either lay their Geoblock on the design or try and copy the design. The colors on the shapes correlate with the colors and shapes of Geoblocks.
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PreK - 2nd
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Lego Team-building Activity
One of my favorite first day of school team-building or icebreaker activities! Perfect for any class or subject but especially great for a STEM class.
In this activity students practice their communication skills through a hands-on activity using Legos (other building materials can be substituted).
Scenario:
It’s the year 2030 and the United States has successfully landed their first human mission on Mars. A group of ten astronauts will inhabit the planet for the next ten years. In order to s
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Not Grade Specific
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Job Skill Boxes In Your Life Skills Classroom
This is a packet of ideas to make your own job skill boxes for your life skill class with direction cards for each and blank cards to make your direction cards. They can be adapted to any age or grade level but, are geared to the older students and the skills they need for transition from school to adult life.
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Functional cognitive-linguistic questions for SNF/acute/rehab/inpatient
You will find questions related to: orientation, long- and short-term memory, rehab facility, home safety, and daily living; sequencing, naming, directions, problem solving, and medication management. This is a 10 page word document that you may edit as you desire.
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in:Â Complete Bundle
Middle School Computer Science Coding Curriulum for Beginners
This is a whole year supply of computer coding bundles to help you meet the computational thinking standard of the ISTE 2016 Standards. This bundle includes 6 units of work (bundles) to teach your students how to computer code in different coding software, as follows: • Introduction to coding in Scratch 3.0 Bundle - $65 Click Here• Introduction to coding in Kodu Bundle - $27 Click Here• Introduction to Python Programming Bundle 1 - $34 Click Here• Python Programming Bundle 2: Creating Shapes - $
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Not Grade Specific
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Consumer Math: On a Budget
Students will learn how to set a personal budget while building a clothing wardrobe for themselves.
Situation: A fire has destroyed all of your clothes. You must replace your entire wardrobe. The catch? You are on a strict budget.
How strict? $400.00. The less you spend, the more you win.
Skills: Finding percent; budgeting
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6th - 12th
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Editable Scratch Coding Activities - Digital Computer Worksheets
This is the EDITABLE student work book for Scratch 3.0. Resources open in Google Slides™ so that resources can be shared with students in Google Drive or Google Classroom. This 70 PAGE work book is suitable for Distance Learning and comes complete with an answer keyA lovely booklet which teaches students the basics of programming in Scratch 3.0 (a free downloadable software which can also be accessed online). Very easy to use. As students work through the booklet they build up their skills in pr
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Not Grade Specific
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SUPER SILENT DAY: Teamwork Activity (first days of school)
SUPER SILENT DAY is a lot of fun for both the students and the teacher. The students see it as a challenge... a pretty fun one, where they are in groups that compete against other groups in the class. It is a great team-building activity for the beginning of school, last few days of school, or between units. It also challenges communication skills and promotes creativity. It even incorporates some language arts terminology. ENJOY!!
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4th - 12th
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Financial Life Skills for Young Adults-High School, CDC Health Standard 5
This lesson plan covers the "Financial Life Skills" young adults need to learn as they go out into the world. 4 activities included with assessment and answer key, clip art, printables, no prep needed. Easel assessment available. CDC STANDARD FIVE: Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance healthCovered in the lesson: 5 steps to creating a budget Prioritize your spending Work on establishing credit Think about insurance Key financial terms FICO credit scor
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Divergent Thinking Questions: "What If" Questions For All Subject Areas
How could introducing rabbits into the rainforest affect that habitat? What would a passport for Christopher Columbus look like? In the story, Hansel and Gretel, instead of dropping breadcrumbs, how could the children avoid getting lost in the woods? Our new, 21st Century standards require students to argue, inform, and explain. Divergent thinking questions offer opportunities for students to demonstrate original, elaborate, and flexible thinking, enabling them to become actively involved in t
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education
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Decision-Making Matrix and CER Activity (John's Sandwich Dilemma!)
This activity has students utilizing a simple "rated" decision-making matrix to create a claim with evidence and reasoning. Students are provided a problem regarding which sandwich John should buy and then provided some options from which to choose based on specific criteria.This is a word document that can be edited.
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5th - 8th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Lego Therapy Group for Social Skill Development
Lego therapy groups are great in developing children's social skills and facilitating peer interaction and cooperation! This resource includes everything you need to run a successful Lego therapy group, including a 6-week plan, job title tags, a parent note template and more!
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K - 4th
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Saving Fred: Teaching the Scientific Method and Teambuilding
Learning Goals: Students will learn the scientific method, define a problem using appropriate reference materials to support scientific understanding, plan and carry out scientific investigations of various types, such as systematic observations or experiments, identify variables, collect and organize data, interpret data in charts, tables, and graphs, analyze information, make predictions, and defend conclusions.Students have to work together to SAVE FRED. However, they cannot use their bare ha
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Not Grade Specific
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