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Preschool critical thinking unit plans
NGSS Pumpkin and Five senses Unit Kindergarten First Grade
Learn about pumpkins and explore using your five senses with this kindergarten or first grade science unit.
Aligned with NGSS standards for kindergarten and first grade.
Students will engage in inquiry-based learning, discussions, activities, and more while learning about plants.
Unit focus areas:
5 senses
Observing pumpkin changes
Parts of a pumpkin
How pumpkins survive
Life cycle of a pumpkin
Uses of a pumpkin
Students have an opportunity to guide the learning through questions and researc
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PreK - 1st
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Integrated Digital Technology Unit - Australian Curriculum Aligned
This unit of work is based around the story Rosie’s Walk. Students will work in small groups to explore and create a set of sequences / instructions (algorithms) to guide the Bee-Bot around Rosie’s Farmyard. Students will also design their own map, trail and algorithm to guide the Bee-Bot to a set destination.
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PreK - 2nd
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NGSS Butterfly Unit Kindergarten First grade Butterflies
Learn about and explore butterflies with this kindergarten or first grade butterfly science unit.
Aligned with NGSS standards for kindergarten and first grade.
Students will engage in inquiry-based learning, discussions, activities, and more while learning about butterflies.
Unit focus areas:
Butterfly Life cycle
Parts of a butterfly
Parts of a caterpillar
How a butterfly survives
Migration
Wing Symmetry
Butterfly Facts
What butterflies eat
Students have an opportunity to guide the learning
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PreK - 1st
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NGSS Plant Unit Kindergarten First Grade
Learn about and explore plants with this kindergarten or first grade science unit.
Aligned with NGSS standards for kindergarten and first grade.
Students will engage in inquiry-based learning, discussions, activities, and more while learning about plants.
Unit focus areas:
Needs of a plant
Growing plants (*some materials need to be provided by you)
Parts of a plant
Plant life cycle
Young vs. adult plants
Plant adaptations
Students have an opportunity to guide the learning through questions a
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PreK - 1st
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The Ultimate PreK-3rd CLASS Instructional Support Bundle
Unlock a treasure trove of resources with our Ultimate Pre-K CLASS Instructional Support Bundle! Specifically crafted for Pre-K and elementary educators, this comprehensive toolkit is designed to elevate your classroom environment and enhance instructional quality in line with Teachstone’s CLASS framework. Perfect for teachers aiming to boost their CLASS scores and create an engaging, high-quality learning experience for young learners.What’s Inside:CLASS Open-Ended Questions & Prompts Tool
Grades:
PreK - 3rd
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy for Elementary
List of Revised Bloom's Taxonomy for elementary students. This tool helps teacher determine the taxonomy level and what it means, gives sample action verbs/expectations, methods of assessments of level, and question stems to help students demonstrate student mastery of the taxonomy level.
Easy to follow chart containing:
Level of Taxonomy
Definition
Process Verbs
Assessments
Question Stems
Grades:
PreK - 6th
the PLAY CD: Music for teaching special education kids and everyone else!
This CD is close to 50 min long and is choc full of action songs using simple concepts and moving to directions. The educational word for this is “receptive language” and it involves taking in information and assigning meaning to it. This is crucial to following directions, interaction with others, and learning.
Below are the benefits of each song and a prestigious review/award:
Benefits of PLAY CD
1.1. Homemade Band
This tune opens the jam session on a positive note! They are int
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PreK - 3rd
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STEAM: Build a Bear Bridge
In this engineering challenge students will build a bridge to hold the specified number of bears. The lesson includes student and teacher directions, sentence stems, discussion questions, and an extension for learners who complete the task quickly. Great for PreK-grade 8 students.
Grades:
PreK - 8th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
...
STEAM, Engineering Design Process: Build A...
This multi-day unit focuses on creating a design or prototype to meet the needs of a specific group for a specific purpose. Learners will then practice the "Improve" step of the engineering design process as they learn they must alter one need of their design in the second part of the unit. This STEAM unit would work well for preK-adult learners, and could be used for professional development. The step by step instructions for teachers and students are included, as well as the prototype workshee
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
...
STEAM, Engineering Design Process: Building Challenge with Options
This STEAM lesson/ unit works for any grade level, including for professional development or higher education. Learners will work as engineers as they create a prototype to solve a problem. There are three different building challenges. You could use this lesson once where students choose which of the three they prefer, or assign to differentiate. You could also have students complete all three challenges over multiple days. Includes the step-by-step instructions for teachers and students, mater
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
...
STEAM, Engineering Design Process: Building Challenge
This 4-slide STEAM lesson/ unit focuses on the engineering design process, perseverance, and problem solving. Students will use a teamwork worksheet (included, which can be used for any future teamwork activities/ learning) and discussion to build a prototype to solve a problem. The entire lesson can be re-used with a different building challenge, or purchase my "building challenge with options" lesson.
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
...
STEAM: Longest Link Chain
The Longest Link STEAM activity can be completed in one, two, or three lessons. I recommend using it to practice teamwork, classroom behavior routines, and the engineering design process. This lesson can be used preK-grade 12. Includes the lesson steps for students and teacher, material list, and engineering design process worksheet.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Plan a Camp Out Project Based Learning Unit
Explore the great outdoors with this nature loving Project Based Learning unit. Students will take on the role of Camping Experts to plan their own campouts. Along the way they will learn about animals, the outdoors, and how to solve a real world problem.
This document is used as a handout for my PBL workshops. It is a simple, step-by-step guide for getting started with PBL. I hope you enjoy learning and using the ideas presented.
Grades:
PreK - 6th
Living Things & Habitats No-Prep Thematic Unit Plan
Teach your classroom all about animals, plants, and the environments and habitats where they live! With this unit, start digging into the deepest mysteries of nature and spark a desire in your students to literally change the world! By thinking through questions like, "What makes something alive?" and "How do animals work together to survive?" your students will easily see how everything in nature is connected! Then, your whole class can start working towards literally changing the world! Let's
Grades:
PreK - 5th
Sink or Float Google Slides
In this unit, students will learn about how object sink or float in water. They will also use recycled items to build a boat that will flat for 30 seconds.
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PreK - 1st
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
Numbers vs Letters BOOM CARDS
This deck provides students the chance identify the difference between numbers and letters. It helps with learning how to categorize items, and following directions.
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PreK - 4th
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Inquiry Curriculum Planning TEMPLATE
Planning for an inquiry-based learning environment looks a lot different than planning for a traditional classroom. As an inquiry teacher, you need to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. That means you need to be okay with letting the learning take its course without having every activity, every lesson and every project planned. This planning template allows you to think about the OVERALL EXPECTATIONS, identify the BIG IDEAS and create FOCUS BIG QUESTIONS based on your curriculum! It is
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PreK - 12th
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ChangeMaker Innovation Tool Kit
The ChangeMaker Innovation Toolkit is our most robust toolkit yet, valued at over $160! With 13 major resources including our other toolkits bundled together, you will have all you need to begin and enhance innovation and prototyping within your classroom or school. You will have free access to our online learning community called ChangeMakers for Impact and free, lifetime access to our Impactful Prototyping 101 workshop.Downloadable Resources + Online Community + Prototyping for All Ages Onlin
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PreK - 12th
*EDITABLE* Planning Template //ACARA // EYLF // TEFL // Executive Functions //
This planning template is great for any teacher who wants to plan for effective learning.
The template not only provides opportunities to plan out the day to day things like timetables but also provides the opportunity for teachers to really think about what and how they are going to teach.
The best part is that it is completely editable, change it to suit your teaching style!
The Topic overview planning map can be used for term plans, weekly plans or even single lessons, the options are endle
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PreK - 12th
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8 Steps to Get Started with Inquiry!
Starting your inquiry journey with your students can be scary. With this 8 step planner, teachers can ease into inquiry based learning with their students.⠀HOW DO YOU DO THAT? With these 8 steps you can begin with presenting a provocation to your students and let the inquiry learning journey unfold. Check out these easy 8 steps that you can do once you share only ONE provocation with your students. ⠀⠀Provocation⠀Observations⠀Ask Questions⠀Record Ideas⠀Review Ideas⠀Categorize⠀Make Connections⠀Beg
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PreK - 8th
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Mary Had A Little Lamb Activities
Mary Had A Little Lamb is a combination product of activities to help with reading comprehension, word to object matching, image matching, sequencing and coloring.
This product contains 2 work sheets, coloring page, set of 5 sequence cards, and a file folder with 8 black line images and 8 color images for matching.
This product works well for centers and circle time.
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PreK - K
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Object Classification BUNDLE
These decks provide students the chance to identify the correct classification of objects, such asm clothing, animals, furniture, school objects and more! It helps with learning how to categorize items, and following directions.
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PreK - 4th
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Mindful Mondays: A Yearlong Framework for Increasing Engagement and Interest!
Imagine this time one month from now your students can't WAIT for Monday! Imagine that they are eager and excitedly waiting at the doors to see what the day will hold, and imagine them being SO sad when Monday is a holiday!!
Think it's not possible? Think again!
Follow this framework to make Mondays the best day of the week, to incorporate mindfulness into your weekly teaching and to make learning fun for both students and teachers.
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Grades:
PreK - 6th
Resilient Problem Solvers (Transdiscplinary and Differentiated)
Empower children to handle challenges by asking and seeking answers to questions like: What is a challenge? How can I be a solutions-based thinker and solve my challenges?
This lesson plan is organized as a choice board to empower both the educator and the learner by providing multiple ways to differentiate, learn, re-learn, review, and extend learning. Many of these ideas are great to share with parents as activities they can do at home (e.g. share in a monthly newsletter or at a parent-teache
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PreK - 5th
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