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1st grade critical thinking social studies resources for Microsoft OneDrive
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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Thanksgiving STEM Challenges 5 Fall Activities STEAM Turkey November Low Prep
These Thanksgiving STEM Activities are great for engaging your students. LOW PREP for any elementary classroom! Activities come with a GOOGLE slideshow, read aloud story & more! Infuse math skills with the response sheets.What’s Included in the Thanksgiving Stem Challenges Bundle:5 fun & simple activities all Thanksgiving themed and LOW PREP for your convenience!Thanksgiving STEM Activity 1: Apples Activities STEM ChallengeHow many apples can you balance? Challenge your students to desig
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K - 3rd
Maps, Continents, and Communities Digital Unit | Google Slides
Do you need exciting and engaging social studies materials to teach maps, communities, and continents? This digital unit has tons of activities, reading informational text passages, and digital interactive notebook options that your students can do! It covers locating on places on maps and globes their local community and the USA, the seven continents, and the four oceans. They also practice constructing/reading a simple map, using cardinal directions and map symbols. Lastly, they'll compare and
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1st - 3rd
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Team building 5 STEM Activities Growth Mindset STEAM Skills Challenges School
Start the year off right with this STEM skills bundle! This bundle includes 5 team building STEM Activities. Teach & review important skills: growth mindset, teamwork, getting to know myself, brainstorming. Tie in SEL too! This is a great whole group lesson that is printable & digital. ⭐Save money and get all five skills in one bundle!This bundle includes five essential STEM skills that will help your students succeed in any STEM activity. The skills included in this STEM bundle are:Bra
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1st - 4th
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STEM Challenge Bird House Craft Easy Earth Day April Spring STEAM Activities
Build a bird house this Spring for Earth Day! In this STEM challenge students will learn about bird nests and build a bird home using recyclable materials only. This activity is digital and printable. ★Grab all 5 SPRING challenge at $13.30 & save 30%. Click here to view the bundle!!!THE STEM CHALLENGE:Your students will design and build a bird house MATERIALS NEEDED:Use basic recyclable materials to create a bird house. You can even use reusable items like blocks, LEGO, magnets for younger s
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1st - 4th
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Presidents Day Digital Activities | Google Slides™
These digital activities will help your students learn all about the Executive Branch, as well as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln on Presidents Day! The they are all PAPERLESS and DIGITAL! You can share with your class using Google Classroom™, Google Slides™ or via Microsoft OneDrive™. You can even use these with SeeSaw and PicCollage too. It includes:-Various graphic organizers-Writing prompts -Washington reading passage-Lincoln reading passage-Comprehension activities and questions-KWL c
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Presidents Day Activities Bundle | Digital Google Slides™ + Print
Back to School STEM Challenges No Prep STEAM Activities for the first day Easy
These Elementary Back to School STEM Challenges are great for engaging your students right from the first day. With 6 LOW PREP print and digital STEM activities including back to school STEM challenges has never been easier! Each of the back to school STEM challenges comes with a Google Slideshow, read aloud story and print and digital STEM activities that infuse math skills on the response sheets. These 6 fun and simple elementary back to school STEM challenges will get your students working on
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1st - 4th
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Continents and Oceans Geography Interactive PowerPoint and Mini Book with Easel
Continents and Oceans PowerPoint. Useful for studying the seven continents of the Earth and the five oceans in your geography or Social Studies classes. Includes examples of some major features of each continent of the world and some animals that are unique to each. Students will also see a visual about the equator and the hemispheres of the planet. Great supplemental activity for Earth Day, too. Has l interactive review slides and a printable for students to follow along. There are two Easel As
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1st - 4th
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Also included in: Earth Day Activities Bundle
Apple Activities STEM Challenge Fall STEAM October Johnny Appleseed November
Celebrate Apple Johnny Appleseed Day with this fun fall STEM Challenge. In this engaging Fall STEM challenge students will design their own tower to balance apples. Use any materials you have!! Includes a digital & printable version! They will even incorporate math skills to answer questions. LOW PREP so set up is easy for you!This activity is included in my FALL BUNDLE. Use STEM all month long with the FALL BUNDLE! Click here to Save 30% with 5 activities!MaterialsI bought fake plastic app
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K - 3rd
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STEM Activities for the first day of school STEAM Challenges Getting to know you
Start off the year by reviewing STEM SKILLS. This STEM Activity will review the terms interests & talents. Students will get to know themselves by figuring out what their interests, talents & hobbies are. This is a great whole group lesson that is printable & digital. When people hear the word “talent,” they often think of an artistic area of expression such as drawing or playing a musical instrument. We also refer to people as being talented athletes or talented in science. Most exp
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1st - 4th
Community Helpers PowerPoint Guessing Game - What's My Job
Your students will love this fun and interactive community helpers game. This is a PowerPoint game of "Who Am I?" Students get three clues to guess the job of the community helper. There are 14 different workers represented. Students have to figure out who it is from clues about where they work, what they wear, what vehicles they drive, and what tools they use. Fun for review or assessment in kindergarten. Project on your whiteboard or Smartboard or use it at a computer center. No prep. Easy to
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PreK - 1st
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Christmas Around the World PDF and Digital
This Christmas Around the World bundle, PDF and Google Slides, is perfect for distance learning, in the classroom, and with hybrid learning. The digital component is a brand new resource, not the PDF converted to Google Slides. You will get the informational texts digitally with all new digital jigsaw puzzles, digital match games, digital word searches, and more! Games can be played online, on the slides, or even printed. I have included easy to follow directions for the crafts. Families will be
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K - 2nd
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Halloween STEM Challenge Spookley The Square Pumpkin October Activities Stories
Do your students love Spookley The Square Pumpkin? The Halloween STEM challenge is a perfect pair. Include literacy with Simple STEM Stories. This is an easy-to-set up STEM activity that focuses on the popular story, Spookley. This challenge is printable and digital, with Google Slide & Seesaw activities. ★ Begin your lesson by reading Spookley The Square Pumpkin as a whole group. Introduce your class to the building challenge. Students will be challenged to create a square pumpkin. Review t
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1st - 4th
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Dia de los Muertos | Dia de Muertos | Day of the Dead
Do you need exciting and engaging social studies materials to teach about Dia de los Muertos/Dia de Muertos/Day of the Dead? This digital unit has tons of activities, reading informational text passages, and digital interactive notebook options that your students can do. This Dia de los Muertos unit contains:-KWL chart-inquiry chart-various graphic organizers -compare and contrast holidays to Dia de los Muertos-informational text passage -comprehension activity-fill in the blank activity-safesh
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1st - 4th
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Also included in: Dia de los Muertos | Dia de Muertos Paper & Digital Bundle
Groundhog Day Digital Activities
This NO PREP digital interactive notebook and activities will help your students learn all about Groundhog Day. The coolest part is that it is all PAPERLESS and DIGITAL! Share with your class using Google Classroom™, Google Slides™ or via Microsoft OneDrive™. You can even use these with SeeSaw and PicCollage!It includes:-Graphic organizers-KWL Chart-Groundhog Day reading passages-Groundhog reading passages-Comprehension questions-Graphing activities-Links to Groundhog Day informational videosChe
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1st - 3rd
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Travel Brochure Digital Writing Template Activity - No-Prep for Microsoft Word
Engage students' curiosity about the world with the Travel Brochure template. They can easily add their research and information to this template, print, and share their information in brochure form! Great addition for a Ontario Grade 2 Social Studies - Global Communities unit.What is included:Microsoft Word editable templateCategory boxes: Climate, Food, Things To Do, LocationAdditional space to include pictures, maps and additional textGet both Microsoft WORD AND Google SLIDES version in this
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1st - 5th
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The Pigeon Has to Go to School STEM Challenge Back to School Steam Activities
Do you want to include literacy with STEM challenges? Then Simple STEM Stories are perfect for you. This is an easy-to-set up STEM challenge that focuses on the popular story, The Pigeon HAS to Go to School. This challenge is printable and digital, with Google Slide & Seesaw activities. ★ Begin your lesson by reading The Pigeon HAS to Go to School by Mo Willems as a whole group. Introduce your class to the building challenge. Students will be challenged to create some kind of transportation
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1st - 4th
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The Recess Queen STEM Challenge Back to School STEM Activities Playground
Do you want to include literacy with STEM challenges? Then Simple STEM Stories are perfect for you. This is an easy-to-set up STEM challenge that focuses on the popular story, The Recess Queen. This challenge is printable and digital, with Google Slide & Seesaw activities. ★ Begin your lesson by reading The Recess Queen by Alexis O’neill as a whole group. Introduce your class to the building challenge. Students will be challenged to create a piece of playground equipment that everyone can ha
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1st - 4th
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Halloween STEM Challenge 3D Shapes October STEAM Activities Witch Fall Low Prep
This Halloween STEM challenge will get student to design their own haunted tower and use math skills to answer questions. Includes a DIGITAL version too! Students will review shapes with the slide show, and try building those 3D shapes.LOW PREP for any maker space or STEAM class. Great for lower elementary as a center or as a whole class activity. Set up is easy! Use foam balls or play doh and tooth picks!Looking for more Halloween challenges? Save 30% and receive ALL activities! CLICK HERE fo
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K - 3rd
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Transportation PowerPoint - Ways to Go
Transportation Ways to Go PowerPoint. What kind of transportation moves you? All kinds of transportation in this PowerPoint. Introduce and investigate the concept of transportation from the days of Paul Revere's ride to the present, with the many types of transportation we have available today. Students will have 54 different kinds of transportation to identify and classify, including interesting ones like Segway and the ISS. Each one is numbered, and then the answer is on the next slide, so the
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K - 2nd
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Earth Day STEM Challenge Spring Activities Bird Feeder Craft Science Birds April
This Spring STEM challenge will show off your students' creative thinking skills!! Students will learn about birds and build a bird feeder using recyclable materials only. The digital slide show includes fun interactive activities about birds and what they eat. This is great for Earth Day & all April long!★Save 30% off by purchasing the year long bundle & all future challenges FREE!THE STEM CHALLENGE:Your students can create a bird feeder out of recyclablesMATERIALS NEEDED:Use basic recy
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1st - 4th
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K-2-ETS1-2
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Finish the Drawing Thanksgiving STEAM Challenge Disguise a Turkey Trouble FREE
Looking for a critical thinking fall activity? Students will think outside the box to disguise a TURKEY! They will be challenged to finish the drawing & turn it into something new!Want more FALL STEM? Click here to view the Full Fall STEM Challenge Bundle with 5 activities! These activities will get students to think in a unique way. Use this as a warm up or entire lesson. Incorporate creative writing to create a full lesson. Includes printable & digital versions! Even incorporate writi
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1st - 4th
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Love Monster Valentine's Day STEM Challenge February Activities Chocolate Box
This Valentine's Day, challenge your students to create their own chocolate box design. This is a perfect STEM Challenge for February. Include literacy by reading Love Monster and the Last Chocolate. This challenge is printable and digital, with Google Slide & Seesaw activities. ★ Begin your lesson by reading Love Monster and the Last Chocolate, by Rachel Bright as a whole group. Introduce your class to the building challenge. Students will be challenged to create their own chocolate box.
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1st - 4th
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United States map. Learning States and Capital. Google classroom. Digital.
United States map. Learning States and Capital. Google classroom. Digital classroom for paperless activities.
Did you start transitioning to a paperless classroom? I have this product that can be fun and perfect for your student to learn states and capitals from the United States.
You will receive:
- PDF with instructions. (for both Google Drive and OneDrive users)
Your student will have so much fun learning states and capitals, while taking advantages of a paperless digital classroom.
Te
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K - 2nd
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- Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
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