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Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides Activities Digital Resources Morning Work
Are you ready to turn your morning meeting into the best part of your daily routine? Unlock the power of morning meetings with this Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides & Activity Pages Yearlong Set, designed for K-6 grade. These NO PREP INTERACTIVE EDITABLE morning meeting slides will revive your morning routine in a fun and engaging way. These Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides are an easy-to-use, time-saving way for you to build a consistent morning routine and a strong classroom co
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K - 6th
STEM Challenges & Activities for the Year STEAM Team Building Summer No Prep
Looking to use STEM Challenges and activities in your elementary classroom? These hands on simple STEAM activities are low prep and use common classroom materials. These STEM activities are both digital and printable! There are STEM challenges and activities for the entire year for you to use - 48 challenges! You will find just what you need for Back to School, Team Building, Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer STEM fun! This STEM Bundle includes STEM challenges and STEM activities for the entire ye
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K - 5th
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Food Chains Sorting Activity Game about Producers, Consumers, Decomposer CCSS
A fun sorting activity for students to practice, reinforce, and show what they have learned about Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers in a food chain! Great way to assess students!
Sorting Cards were created with ELL students and higher level thinking in mind. All pictures include a label. Descriptions cards make students think about what it truly means to be classified as a producer, consumer, and decomposer. Question Cards help students think about each sorting card they pick up.
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2nd - 5th
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Genius Hour Passion Projects For Elementary Students
This Genius Hour project-based learning pack will help you and your students begin passion projects with ease! This set will help your students develop a growth mindset as they go through a series of self-awareness activities to create a project that interests them all while learning important skills as they go along. Step-by-step students are taken through the process as they plan and prepare their passion projects or project-based learning projects.This is a great end-of-the-year way for stude
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2nd - 4th
Literature Circles Made Easy | Classroom Book Clubs Discussion Bundle
The Literature Circles Made Easy | Classroom Boom Clubs Discussion Bundle includes three products that will motivate your students to love reading as they learn how to have productive team discussions. The most important component of this bundle is Classroom Book Clubs: Literature Circles Made Easy, a series of short videos for the teacher that explain how to implement a fun and effective method for using Literature Circles with upper elementary students. You'll also find all the printables you'
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3rd - 6th
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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Daily Discussion Questions or Writing Prompts | Full Year Bundle #hjhalf
Morning meeting is the perfect opportunity to create an engaging and positive classroom environment. Sharing and discussing these prompts with peers on a daily basis helps support academic, social, and emotional learning.What's Included in for Each Month:25 discussion promptsList, card, & slide formats (Google slides link included - perfect for distance learning!)A mix of monthly themed, character education, social emotional, & just for fun promptsTeacher Instructional GuidePlease Note:
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3rd - 6th
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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Create a Commercial Project - Persuasive Techniques and Media Literacy
Get students up, moving, and speaking while they demonstrate their knowledge of persuasive techniques and make a commercial. This is a great way to practice media literacy, and students' creativity will make you laugh. Teach Persuasive Techniques at the upper primary level! This project is written for grades 3-5 and helps students strengthen media literacy. (Find the older grades’ version here) Why should you have your students make a commercial? Putting their understanding of persuasive techniq
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Persuasive Techniques and Media Literacy Activities (grades 3-5)
Introduction to Debate
This four lesson unit is designed to be a comprehensive debate tutorial for teachers who are new to debate or who want to implement debate into their current curriculum. I tried to design these materials with lots of explanation where necessary and minimal prep work to finish. I have taught debate for over ten years in the classroom and online and the knowledge and expertise I have gained have gone into these lessons to make them a perfect gateway to argumentation and debate. All lessons are onl
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3rd - 12th
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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Morning Meeting Sharing Questions- 200 Fun Discussion Questions
Do you participate in morning meetings? Do you ever get to the sharing time and find yourself asking the same types of questions or simply having trouble thinking of new questions to promote a safe and fun classroom community? This download contains 180 unique morning meeting sharing questions--one for each day of the school year. It is a great addition to any morning meeting space. You can choose to print out the master copy of the questions if you have a way of organizing the questions on your
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K - 5th
Also included in: Morning Meeting BUNDLE: Greetings, Sharing Questions, and Activities
CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES BUNDLE Literature Extensions Critical Thinking GATE
Story Sleuths I, II, and III Bundle delivers 3 products at 20% savings. You will receive 12 weeks of clues for the Story Sleuth challenge; an enrichment unit using Caldecott Award winning books to cultivate critical thinking. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is
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K - 4th
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Academic Conversation Placemats
Get your students talking about text! Building students’ knowledge of academic language is essential for academic success. These Academic Conversation Placemats use sentence frames to encourage students to speak in complete sentences with varying degrees of grammatical complexity. These placemats were created to be used with both fiction and non-fiction text. They promote discussion around text, which research shows increases reading comprehension. Each placemat begins with having students prepa
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: The Ultimate Text Talk Bundle
The Wild Robot Questions - The Wild Robot Novel Study Discussion Questions
⭐ Make sure to take a sneak peek at this amazing resource ⭐Do you love the novel, The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown, but need low-prep activities to integrate into a fun novel unit? The Wild Robot Discussion Questions for Google Slides are a perfect way for students to synthesize information as they read each chapter in the novel. This resource includes a printable and digital option and is designed so that you can simply download, print, and go! This is ideal for teachers wanting a high-quality a
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3rd - 5th
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Something Stinks!: Settlement and Negotiation Strategy
When is the last time you had to settle a conflict? The answer to that question is probably today! Solving problems and conflicts is a valuable real-world skill. Using the settlement and negotiation process taught in law skill can help your students develop these important skills and mindsets. In this lesson, students will analyze a real-life legal case. A group of neighbors got together and sued their neighborhood pig farm. The neighbors had three complaints.1. The overwhelming smell. Pigs actu
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3rd - 5th
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Accountable Talk Stems: Posters, Bookmarks, Desk Plates, Bulletin Board
These Accountable Talk bulletin board posters, bookmarks, desk plates (desktags), and notebook inserts were made to help students learn to communicate with others in an engaging, yet respectful and meaningful way. Use the posters to help when creating anchor charts; use the talking stems on student reference cards to scaffold in whole group, small group, or partner discussions and activities; students end up totally taking the reigns once they've got this down and they love it!Click here to view
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3rd - 10th
CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES Story Sleuths I Literature Extention Critical Thinking
STORY SLEUTHS I is a 4 week, critical thinking project based on Caldecott Award winning books. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which Caldecott Award winning book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is CCSS aligned. Students also enjoy great literature, learn about artistic media, and participate in col
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K - 4th
STEM Challenge | Design a Dream Classroom
This STEM Math Challenge is a fun and engaging way to learn the STEM process, utilize real-world math skills, and work collaboratively with a team! It provides students with great opportunities to think through problems and find creative solutions to them. Once you mention the words "Dream Classroom" you will have them hooked!The Design a Classroom STEM Challenge is a GREAT Back to School activity to teach and/or reinforce procedures. It's also designed to use at ANY time of the year as well!
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3rd - 4th
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3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
Morning Meeting Activities Conversation Starters Daily Writing Prompts Advice
Are you ready to turn your morning meeting into the best part of your daily routine? ADVICE OF THE DAY MORNING MEETING ACTIVITY provides you with a consistent morning routine that will build a strong classroom community in a fun and engaging way! You will get 180 days worth of thought-provoking conversation starters, offering your students advice they can use in every part of their world,in both a printable and projectable version, with a matching student writing journal. This resource is not on
Grades:
1st - 4th
Reading Comprehension question stems | guided reading | Reading Discussion Cards
These reading comprehension discussion cards , question stems are perfect for guided reading, buddy reading, book talks, tutoring or even literature circles. These reading comprehension question starters include reading questions for either fiction or nonfiction texts. You will support reading independence and engagement with several question starters and prompts to guide discussions. These are great to leave with a sub, give to a student teacher or even parent helper to guide them if they are
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K - 5th, Staff
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Do I HAVE to Go to School?: Root Cause Analysis
Do I really have to go to school? If you've ever had your students ask this question, this is the lesson for you!"Do I Have to Go to School" has your upper elementary students think like a lawyer as they analyze the landmark Supreme Court case Wisconsin v. Yoder. In the case, Amish families wanted their children to stop going to school at 14. The state said that students might attend school until they are 16. Who should win?Students conduct a root cause analysis to answer the big question; W
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3rd - 5th
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Who's the Boss: What Will the Rules be on Mars?
Moving to Mars might seem like something out of a science fiction movie, but it will be a reality for our students as they become adults. The idea of moving to Mars presents a lot of opportunities for rich critical thinking. For example, who makes the rules on Mars?The UN declared in 1967 that no individual country can claim land on Mars. So who will make the laws? We actually have a similar situation on Earth now with our oceans. Maritime law says that sailors have to follow of the laws of the
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3rd - 5th
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Children's Rights Activities Bundle
This comprehensive Children's Rights Activities Bundle is ideal for supporting your students in learning about Children's Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (also known as the UNCRC).This Children's Rights Bundle includes:Children's Rights Collaborative Display - This display pack includes a 32 piece display based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Each page features a large hexagon with a statement regarding a right identified in the UNCRC and space for the st
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3rd - 5th
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