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Middle school for all subjects simulations
Escape Room - Students Create Their Own
Students create their OWN themed escape room in this terrific editable Google Slide product.....and NO LOCKS ARE NEEDED!!!!! This is a print and go Escape Room concept for ANY content area.Have students edit the template to include a theme, a mystery letter and 5 different puzzles/riddles that lead to a solution for the ESCAPE!!! When finished, students print and exchange their escape challenges for an engaging classroom ADVENTURE!! Every step is guided with video tutorials (if needed) to help
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3rd - 10th
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Class Escape Problem Solving Game
Modeled after the popular "Escape" games in many cities around the country, this classroom version prompts students to work together as a class to solve puzzles, connect the clues, and crack the code! This is a great activity for the first week of school to encourage teamwork and help students get to know each other and the classroom. Your students will be totally engaged in this hands-on challenge!
You will need the following tools:
- tape
- color printer
- scissors or paper cutter
- white c
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7th - 12th
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Back to School REVERSE Escape Room: Candy Land-Inspired Break IN to ANY Class!
The only thing sweeter than summer break? Knowing that you’ve got a game-changing activity in store for the first days back. Kick your new school year off with a REVERSE escape room -- which is *SO. MUCH. BETTER.* than the traditional approach of “hi! Now let’s waste 40 minutes reading the syllabus" and “Let’s Do Some Super Awkward Icebreakers!” approach to a traditional course introduction. Introduce course routines, cool tech tools, and classroom procedures to start your class year off with a
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5th - 12th
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Classroom CLUE Back to School REVERSE Escape Room: Break IN to ANY Class!
Ready to solve the mystery of back to school engagement? Put the power of old-school detective work to use for this game-changing activity for your first days back. Kick your new school year off with a REVERSE escape room -- which is *SO. MUCH. BETTER.* than the traditional approach of “hi! Now let’s waste 40 minutes reading the syllabus" and “Let’s Do Some Super Awkward Icebreakers!” approach to a traditional course introduction. Introduce course routines, cool tech tools, and classroom procedu
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5th - 12th
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Explore the Circulatory System
The heart holds many mysteries. Connect the dots to uncover one of them: how much blood flows through its chambers.
In the lungs, what waste product does deoxygenated blood exchange for more oxygen?
What happens to the oxygen in blood when it leaves the heart?
Aligned with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS):
K-LS1-1. Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
1-LS1-1. Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimi
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K - 9th
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Bank Account: The Checkbook Project class economy financial literacy
The Checkbook Project pumps life into a classroom the way the Paycheck Protection Program pumped cash into Corporate America. It improves test scores, inspires the entrepreneurial spirit, and even turns your most-challenging students into pussycats. We know, almost no one writes checks anymore, but The Checkbook Project isn’t about checks or paper money. It’s about creating an economic infrastructure in your classroom. It teaches financial literacy and real-world math skills while serving as an
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4th - 8th
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Wizard's Quidditch Back to School REVERSE Escape Room! Break IN to ANY Class!
Ready to say “expelliarmus!” to the traditional “Death by Syllabus” and the “Let’s Do Some Super Awkward Icebreakers!” approach to a course introduction? Rather than snoozing through the same routine you’ve endured in countless other classes, start your class year off with a wizarding twist. Ready to take flight? Jump start your new school year with a game-changing small group activities approach to back to school basics for ANY COURSE OR GRADE LEVEL. Introduce course routines, cool tech tools,
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5th - 12th
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End of Year Zombie Apocalypse Simulation
The zombie apocalypse is upon us! Like it or not, your students are the only ones who can save the world! Together, they will solve math puzzles, complete STEM challenges, and travel across the United States to solve the mystery of how the outbreak started and determine how to stop it. This simulation reviews all of the math concepts taught in 6th grade, but it could be used for later grades as well.
You get to choose how much you do - I've included all subject (LA, SS, Math, and Science), bu
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Grades:
6th - 8th
CLASS IS LAVA! Gamify ANY Syllabus for ANY Class or Content Area
Look out below! Today we’re kicking off a full year of adventure to prepare for an action-packed class that you’ll never forget. Which team will reign supreme!?Your goal is to work with your teammates to successfully navigate your way through a series of challenges scattered throughout the classroom, collecting all ten items of furniture as you go! You can explore these locations in any order that you’d like.Picture this: it's the first day back in your classroom! Do you go the traditional "two
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5th - 12th
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Checking Account Register :: Show your work!
Teaching students about financial responsibility can be a challenge, use this activity to teach them about budgets and recording transactions, and registering information in a checking account.
This is an old school exercise that will familiarize you with a check register. Simply put the items from the top list into the register as you think they should be.
Check the answer sheet or with your teacher to see if you got the right balance. (Balancing your account these days is as simple as l
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
Zombie-Themed Back to School REVERSE Escape Room! Break IN to ANY Class!
Ready to transform any sleepy syllabus and get your students BRAaAAaAaaains engaged from the very first day of class? Say goodbye to the “Death by Syllabus” and the “Super Awkward Icebreakers!” approach to welcome back activities with bleary eyed rooms full of student zombies! Rather than snoozing through the same routine you’ve endured in countless other classes, start your year off right with a slapstick cartoonish undead-themed adrenaline rush. No gore or guns -- just growth mindset in action
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5th - 12th
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Rule the World: A Nation Building Simulation
Watch your students become entirely engaged as they compete to see who will be the supreme ruler of the world. This simulation has students work in teams (nations) to create their own culture or the teacher can adapt the 'tasks' to have them research and report out on real nations. Diplomats and spies from each nation move around the world and develop trade / defence agreements (or steal valuable information!) in preparation for the 'War' phase of the game. Every time I have run the simulatio
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4th - 12th
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Camping in the Classroom - A Simulation for Grades 3-6
Are you looking for a highly engaging way to keep your students learning until the last day of school? This week-long camping simulation is the answer! Turn your classroom into a campground with this cooperative learning unit which includes reading, math, language, science, problem solving, and art lessons. Guaranteed to be a week your students will never forget!
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3rd - 6th
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Review Game: Classroom Baseball
A fun and interactive review game for students of every age!
Classroom Baseball can be used as a review tool in any subject, at any age level. Whether you ask the questions yourself, or put the game in the students hands by having them create questions ahead of time, this game leads to increased student engagement and allows them to show what they know before a test or summative assessment.
Two slides of instructions and suggestions are included, but play the game however it works best for you
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3rd - 12th
Summer Camp In The Classroom: Cross Curricular Lesson Plans
Summer Camp in the Classroom is a simulation in which you transform your classroom into a campground. It has many computer related and non-computer related activities.
Students will work with team mates to select a campsite and map a route. They will participate as a team in learning about:local wildlife; fishing regulations; constellations; campfire cooking; plant, insect, weather, and water safety; using an obstacle course.
Campers will keep logs and scrapbooks while engaging in reading, writ
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
Dinosaur Park-Inspired Back to School REVERSE Escape Room! Break IN to ANY Class
Ready to transform any sleepy syllabus and make a (pre)historic first impression for the new school year? Eat the traditional “Death by Syllabus” and the “Let’s Do Some Super Awkward Icebreakers!” approach to a course introduction for lunch! Rather than snoozing through the same routine you’ve endured in countless other classes, start your year off with dino-sized adrenaline rush. The Park is now open!Jump start your new school year with a high-energy small group activities approach to back to s
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5th - 12th
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JOB INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: "Plan, Prepare, Practice & Perform!"
JOB INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: "Plan, Prepare, Practice & Perform!" prepares students for the questions that they will be asked during a job interview. The questions that have been included in this Education Get Real activity are those that students will encounter in almost all job interviews. Learning to "think quickly on their feet" and respond to job interview questions in a direct, honest, knowledgeable, and "marketable" manner is a skill that students need to develop. As the teacher, it is i
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Make Monet Paper Water Lilies
Step by step tutorial on making beautiful paper water lilies. Enhance your bulletin boards or displays with this easy, inexpensive project. Appropriate for children in grades 3 and up. I made them to decorate a display of "Monet-style" tempera paintings by my students. Our classroom water lily pond was just stunning!
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Zombie Apocalypse Team Building Lesson
This lesson is designed as a collaborative, team building activity meant for advanced middle school, as well as high school courses, ranging from English and Mythology to Government and Environmental Studies. The lesson is based meant to be a fun project for students, while also being an academic challenge that emphasizes creative problem solving and teamwork, as well as teaching students about a real government document that hypothesizes possible (and even verified) zombie situations. The gover
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7th - 12th
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Meet the Teachers Using Historical Thinking Skills: The Backpack
This is the perfect start to the school year lesson! Students are assigned the role of historical detectives to figure out what the contents of a backpack reveal about the owner. Little do they know, each backpack belongs to one of their teachers! When the secret is revealed, students are astonished by all they have learned about their teachers! This lesson sets up the vocabulary students will need to use all year as historical thinkers. It's a great intro lesson to these skills while also int
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4th - 9th
GAMIFIED Syllabus: Gamify ANY Syllabus for ANY Class or Content Area
It's the first day back in your classroom! Do you go the traditional "two truths and a lie" route followed by awkwardly reading the syllabus aloud to a room full of sleepy teens? Keep dreaming!Wake up any tired back to school routine by turning your day one rules, procedures, and consequences housekeeping items into an all-out gamified supply race that blends icebreakers, getting to know you activities, and MEANINGFUL face-to-face dialogue that's guaranteed to stand out from the parade of other
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5th - 12th
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Peer Pressure
• Students will be able to identify high-risk behaviors and the consequences for common high-risk behaviors in adolescence.
• Students will be able to model refusal skills.
• Students will be able to model respectful persuasion skills.
Say: “Today we are going to practice skills for refusing high-risk behaviors and for persuading others not to engage in high-risk behaviors.”
• Lead a discussion on peer pressure.
Say: “We have all experienced peer pressure. What are some examples of negative
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Newscast Simulation Activity
This simulation contains all the instructions you will need to guide the students in a fun role-play activity simulating being a part of a news broadcast. They are allowed to pick their own topic and job occupation. This is a great group activity that teaches communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and presentation skills. The packet includes step-by-step instructions, criteria sheet, and rubric to be used to assess the students.
This project is also included in my Math and Activiti
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Math and Activities (Bundle)
Extemporaneous Public Speaking Lesson Kit (slides, assignment, & speech topics)
Empower students to develop and delivery AMAZING extemporaneous speeches by developing the necessary skills and transforming their perception public speaking. This public speaking resource has everything you need to teach, assign, and assess students in making high-quality impromptu speeches using a simple 4 step preparation process. Includes 2 different assignments (introductory with background article link and advanced) each are 3 pages, grading rubric, and 41 speech prompt topics. Prepare
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8th - 12th
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