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Critical thinking Common Core RI.8.1 resources
Lincoln-Douglas Debate Format - Debate Outline, Graphic Organizer, and Rubric
Looking to engage your students in a style of debate that they’ll love? This debate outline teaches the Lincoln-Douglas debate format with a slideshow lesson, debate graphic organizer, teacher moderator script, and an editable debate rubric. Suitable for online learning with digital slide decks for Google Classroom®!Included with this Lincoln-Douglas Debate Format Outline:✏️ Lincoln-Douglas Debate Format Slideshow Lesson - Google Slides®, Microsoft PowerPoint®, & PDF✏️ Lincoln-Douglas Deba
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6th - 12th
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Nonfiction Independent Reading Journal - Middle School English
Nonfiction Independent Reading
This reading response resource is interactive and perfect for assessing nonfiction independent reading. Better yet, it covers ALL of the informational text standards! It is easy to use, simple to grade, and can be assigned over and over again for books or articles.
We all know how important independent reading is, but it’s not always easy to hold students accountable without issues such as...#1. Driving yourself crazy with all of the grading involved; #2. Knowing
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6th - 8th
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Middle School Interactive Reading Log {Common Core Aligned}
Give your 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students meaningful homework where they can read a fiction or non-fiction text of their choice and apply a wide-variety of reading prompts to the section of the text they read each night. Interactive reading logs provide a necessary bridge between students, teachers, and parents. They were created using the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th reading standards for literature and informational texts. Beyond the Common Core, the reading prompts will ensure that students a
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5th - 8th
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Listening Skills Podcast Activity, Listen & Learn #7, 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 our students for this challenge, 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 23-minute podcast focused on shark attacks, including a story of survival and information on research
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8th - 12th
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Star Wars Day Escape Rooms | May the Fourth Be With You Reading Passages | STEM
What better way to engage your students and enrich their learning than with these growth mindset passages, OUTER Space STEM Challenges, ESCAPE ROOMS and critical thinking activities that are centered around a FAVORITE FORCE theme?The activities in this BUNDLE add up to about 9+ hours of INTERGALACTIC FUN!*~*~Make it a real party and add a fun appetizer!~*~*Students can easily make this appetizer in the classroom with a little help from adult TROOPERS. It's a fun and engaging activity called, 're
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4th - 8th
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Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit | 5th-7th Grades | Social Studies
The Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit is PERFECT for 5th-7th grade students! This incredible unit focuses on the importance of primary and secondary sources of information and will help grow your students critical thinking skills and abilities, as well as how to examine sources of information for bias and cause and effect relationships, and MUCH more!! The amazing resources included with this unit have been used with GREAT SUCCESS by THOUSANDS of students, and can easily be used with an
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Bundle for Virginia
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
The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
By popular demand, all my clue by clue mysteries PDF (printable) format in one big bundle, plus a free mystery story organizing worksheet. Be sure to check the list above to see the exact list of Clue by Clue Mysteries!Each individual mystery is in PDF format and contains:A cover imageComprehensive teacher notes outlining how to use the activity in class - 2 pagesA teacher sheet with a description of the situation and mystery to be solved, hints to give students if they get stuck, and the soluti
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Latitude Longitude Worksheets and an Ancient Egyptian Map -Geography
This resource is a two worksheet lesson on latitude and longitude using a map of Ancient Egypt. It provides map reading practice as well as background information on Ancient Egypt. There is a Key provided. Good geography practice for all middle school students.This lesson is google classroom ready.Please e-mail me with any questions about this resource or suggestions for future resources at: ljmccormick33@yahoo.com. If you are dissatisfied in any way, please contact me right away by email or
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5th - 9th
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STEM Problem Solving Service Learning Project
Help your students to think critically, develop good character traits, improve our world, and create heartfelt persuasive writing using the 8 components of this project:
Inspirational Quotes
Random Acts of Kindness
Kids Improving Our World Research Project
STEAM Project - Identifying a Real World Problem and working on a Solution
Online Giving Challenge
Oral Presentation
Carousel Presentations & Scavenger Hunt
Comparing Themes with "A Dolphin's Tale
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Webquest or Internet Scavenger Hunt Grades 5-10
The goal of this webquest lesson is to build your students' research skills and their ability to find reliable resources when asked to research a topic. This is an internet scavenger hunt. Students answer the questions by using a search engine to locate the requested information. There are a variety of engaging questions that your students will enjoy locating the answers for. There is a chart where they are asked to answer questions, provide the URL where the information is found, and to writ
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5th - 10th
Also included in: Social Studies, Science, Language Arts, & Health Webquest Bundle
Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit for 8th-10th Grade Social Studies
The amazing resources included with the Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit for 8th-10th Grade Social Studies have been successfully used by thousands of students and come completely ready to use for BOTH in-person and digital learning (via Google Apps)! The Thinking Like a Historian Unit lays the foundation for your students to succeed in your social studies class! They'll explore and discuss learning strategies that promote and encourage students to think critically, how to effectively
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8th - 10th
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Also included in: 8th Grade U.S. History YEAR-LONG Curriculum Bundle!! | Google Apps
Critical Thinking Mystery Game: Clue by Clue PowerPoint Bundle
Clue by Clues are mystery activities that help students practice critical thinking skills, reading strategies including close reading, critical reading, and inference, and get them discussing and talking! Students work in pairs or small groups to solve a mystery. They get a situation with a mystery. They have to figure it out by reading a series of clues, one at a time. As they receive each clue, they speculate on its significance, what it tells them about the situation, and how it fits with the
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6th - 12th
Critical Thinking Activity: The Candy Thief Halloween Mystery Game
In this fun mystery activity with a Halloween twist, students investigate who stole a bag of candy from a trick or treater. There are three witness, but one of them is lying. Can your students read their statements, use their critical thinking, logical reasoning, and textual analytic skill to figure out who the liar is? This is the printable PDF Version, perfect for group work in class. You can also find it in other formats: Click here for the PowerPoint Version and a Click here for the Google S
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Holiday Mysteries and Puzzles Bundle: Four Critical Thinking Activities
Critical Thinking Mystery Activity: Elevator Routine Mystery Activity
In this fun mystery activity, students have to solve a classic riddle: Why does a woman ride the elevator up to the 15th floor and then walk up to the 20th floor to get to her apartment? Practice critical thinking skills and follow the clues to find the answer.This is a PDF format perfect for printing and handing out to students to work on in groups. You can also get this activity in other formats: Click here for PowerPoint edition and Click here for Google Slides edition.Inside find:Teacher No
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
Teaching Inference Using Historical Pictures | Literacy Center | Quick Activity
Engage your students in literacy and history with this quick and easy teaching inference activity that uses historical pictures! Perfect for literacy centers or last-minute social studies activities. Great for SUB PLANS! WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS BUNDLE: 51 historical images from the Public DomainStudent handoutDirections for teachersDirections for studentsRubric for scoringI use this activity in a LITERACY CENTER! Teach your students inferential thinking by analyzing historical images and make a
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5th - 8th
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Latitude and Longitude Webquest or Internet Scavenger Hunt- Geography
The goal of this webquest lesson is to build your students' research skills and their ability to find reliable resources when asked to research a topic. This is an internet scavenger hunt. Students answer the questions by using a search engine to locate the requested information. There are a variety of engaging questions that your students are required to answer in two ways. They are asked to identify a place from clues and then to list its coordinates. There is an optional review lesson w
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5th - 10th
Also included in: Social Studies Bundle- 11 Powerpoints, Worksheets, Games, and Webquests
"The Giver" Instagram Character Trait Activity: No-Prep, CCSS, Student Example
Students will create an original Instagram post that a character from the story might have posted during an important event in the story. Follow me on Instagram for more tips, ticks and freebies for your classroom!****Find the digital version of this product here (designed for Google classroom and 1:1 technology classrooms): Digital Version: The Giver Instagram Character Trait Activity: CCSS, Student Ex. Not only do students have to create an Instagram post, but they also have to complete a prin
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6th - 10th
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Social Justice 11 Hour Unit
11 hours of fully resourced lesson packs focusing on social justice, what this is and what it means today in practice - from the classroom to the workplace, to wider society.The packs also explore the fights and gains of marginalised groups, the progress that has been made towards inclusion, equality and diversity and the hurdles still to overcome. You don’t need to know anything much about this beforehand - all of the information on each subject topic is included in detailed information shee
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8th - 11th
Critical Thinking Mystery Activity: The Perfect Crime
In this engaging mystery activity, students have to follow the clues to figure out how a woman killed her husband without anyone suspecting anything! In fact, it's unclear whether or not she did anything wrong at all? Can they follow the clues and use their critical thinking skills and reading strategies to figure it out!This is a PDF Printable copy that works well for a small group activity in a face-to-face classroom. Click here for the PowerPoint version. Or Click here for the Google Slides
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
Gun violence argumentative passages critical thinking end of year social studies
GUN VIOLENCE, MENTAL HEALTH, ARGUMENTATIVE PASSAGES, CRITICAL THINKING, DEBATEDo you want to address gun violence in the classroom but are not sure how to do it? This product explores how mental health issues are associated with gun violence. COURT CASE SUMMARY DEBATE (#3) (GUN VIOLENCE & MENTAL HEALTH)My COURT CASE SUMMARY DEBATES are excellent supplements to any class focusing on ethics, law, justice, argumentative writing, and debate, and they also work well as last-minute sub-plans or st
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Cost of Free Speech: A Two-Part Lesson
The right to free speech is a fundamental right granted by the US Constitution. But how does it apply to students in school?The Cost of Free Speech is a two part lesson that examines three lawsuits dealing with schools and students' right to free speech.Lesson 1- During the Vietnam War students wore black armbands to protest the war. Should they be allowed? How did the Courts rule? What precedent was set?Lesson 2-Fast forward to two other cases: A girl protests the "Day of Silence" organize
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6th - 8th
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Bigfoot Podcast Listening Skills, Mystery Picture, No Prep Writing Activities
If you're looking for a no-prep, high-interest listening skills activity, check out Listen, Learn, Write: Bigfoot! This interactive podcast activity will enhance students' comprehension, writing, and listening skills, while engaging them in critical thinking about everyone's favorite urban legend: Sasquatch. First, kids will listen to the captivating podcast, while answering self-checking, multiple choice questions that reveal a hidden picture. But we're not finished yeti. (Oh man, I groaned ov
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Podcast Listening Skills & Writing No Prep Activities BUNDLE
Chat GPT Critical Thinking Bundle | Digital Literacy | Ontario Language 2023 A2
High-interest critical thinking lessons: Should ChatGPT be allowed in schools? Or is this cheating?The slideshow / video lesson provides information from different points of view to help students make a more informed decision.Digital Literacy (Ontario Language 2023 Curriculum Strand A2 Digital Media Literacy) is about helping students demonstrate and apply the knowledge and skills needed to interact safely and responsibly in online environments.Artificial Intelligence is here now, and it's not g
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6th - 12th, Staff
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