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7th grade critical thinking resources for SMART Notebook
Visual Word Puzzles -- 10 Fun verbal brainteasers for Smartboard
Are you m1llion (one in a million)? Do you have timing ti ming (split second timing)? Then you will love these puzzles. Try these ten verbal brain teasers with your class, and they will definitely ask for more!
The hidden answer is revealed by moving the blue circle around the page.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Internet Hoaxes, Viral Emails, Viral Videos
This notebook file contains examples of true and hoax viral emails and viral videos as well as resources and guidelines for evaluating them. It is designed to give students the tools to evaluate them.
Grades:
5th - 8th
6 Word Life Memoir SMARTboard Lesson (Editable!)
This activity encourages critical thinking and higher order questioning by having students write their own 6-word memoir. The lesson is a SMARTboard file, so you can edit it to fit your needs!
Started by Ernest Hemingway and popularized in the book "Not Quite What I Was Planning," students will write a story about their lives. The only catch - they can only use 6 words!
In my classroom, I had my students draw an illustration to accompany their six word memoir. We bound the memoirs in a boo
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Riddles and Brainteasers
This is a collection of 54 riddles/brain-teasing exercises that are great for weekly warm-up activities or as a brain break activity when students are overwhelmed. Also great to use as sub plans for an unexpected absence. Each of the questions has an answer as well as an explanation of the answer when necessary.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Christopher Columbus and October 12th
This presentation is not only about Columbus, but also about how many Spanish speaking countries are there in the world, and other essential questions surrounding October 12th. It motivates the students to figure out the answer to these questions by involving critical thinking, and the use of cultural comparisons. It also has engaging activities that will have students wanting to know more! It includes links to videos and teacher's notes. In Spanish, with more extensive explanations in English.
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
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Critical Thinking: Crossword - NOTEBOOK Gr. 3-8
**THIS is a SMART Notebook Version**
View this video by copying this link and pasting it into a web browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7VZogaRzSI
In this crossword mini, 18 vocabulary words are provided with across and down clues. This mini is great for vocabulary and comprehending all the words centered around the vocabulary in the Critical Thinking lesson plan. Vocabulary Words include: anticipate, attributes, brainstorm, conclusion, consequences, critical, evaluate, facts, independent,
Grades:
3rd - 7th
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Discovery and Inquiry Learning Strategy SmartBoard Lesson
Want to train your students for hands-on, discovery learning? This is an incredibly fun, engaging way to introduce students to the four basic steps in inquiry learning. It uses Greg Tang's Grapes of Math patterns and poems to train students to think of a viable strategy, commit it to paper, share it with others, then reflect on their strategies and the strategies of others to revise their thinking. It is a great way to introduce and use the eight Common Core math practices needed for all effec
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Grades:
4th - 9th
Thinking time (loads of cognitive reasoning slides)
I created 'Thinking Time' last year and now all the classes in my school are using it. There are over 100 slides. This is a brilliant tool to have in the class room. It can be used as an exciting early morning work, a time filler on any given day or as a way of really getting the kids into a thinking state of mind. There are slides appropriate to all ages and different cihldren will get different things from the activities. I use this every single day that I'm teaching and the children LOVE
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Multiple Intelligence (MI) SMARTboard (Secondary/Adult) by Jennifer A. Gates
Teaching gifted, talent development or preparing students for Common Core by teaching them to identify their strengths?
This is the perfect way to introduce Multiple Intelligence: 8 characteristics that students can use to best identify ways in which they can make positive growth. They are: nature smart, logic smart, self smart, people smart, word smart, picture smart, body smart, and music smart.
Introduce and explore Multiple Intelligence in depth with students the elementary or primary and
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Critical Thinking: Memory Match Game - NOTEBOOK Gr. 3-8
**THIS is a MAC Version**
View this video by copying this link and pasting it into a web browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWZaBoPDnjU
In this Memory Match Game mini, 6 matching pairs of critical thinking and their definitions are hidden in the puzzle. This mini is great for comprehending the 6 topics covered in your Critical Thinking lesson plan.
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You need no extra software; upon download, this game will open.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Can You Help These Scarecrows Figure Out Their Names?
Pick the scarecrow whose name you want to figure out and place the
"?" card under his picture. Then follow the numbered cards with the clues to figure out your scarecrows name, then place the pink name card under your scarecrow once you know his name. Have fun!!
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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FunRiddles1
15 smart book pages of interactive riddles. Use at the beginning of class or at the end of the day. Appropriate for all ages. Lots of fun!
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Grades:
3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Classroom rules
Create schema, and collaboratively create classroom rules that students can take ownership of.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Viking Challenge
A group activity that challenges students to try prepare for a Viking ocean voyage.
Grades:
6th - 9th
FunRiddles
Smart board program with 5 pages of riddles. Interactive pages. Can be used to start the class period or end the day. Appropriate for grades 3-12. Fun!!
Check out my other riddles for sale.
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Grades:
3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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