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National Parks Research Project Activities Road Trip PBL Project Based Learning
Do you love our National Parks and want to find a way to integrate reading, writing, math, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills in a fun, real-life context into your lessons? Consider using project-based learning in your classroom! In this PBL unit, students can plan a road trip to the national parks with their families, while also creating a realistic budget for their vacation. One of the benefits of this project-based learning unit is that it allows for student choice and personaliza
3rd - 6th
Geography, Math, Writing
Following Directions Puzzles Beginning or End of Year Activity with Easel
Following directions puzzles are a fun way to teach critical thinking. Great for back to school at the beginning of the year or at the end of the year as standardized test preparation. 6 challenging puzzles that gifted and talented students enjoy! Includes: Puzzle 1: cross words off a table according to the directions provided to reveal an inspirational quote about life. Helps students concentrate and develop skills needed for state testing. Puzzle 2: follow directions to travel the world t
6th - 8th
English Language Arts, For All Subjects, Reading
CCSS
CCRA.R.1
Paper Chair: Engineering Challenge Project ~ Great STEM Activity!
Engineering Challenge: Can you create a chair that can hold a stuffed animal using paper and tape? Paper Chair ChallengeMaterials Needed: (per individual, pair, or team)- Copy paper (3-5 sheets per chair) - Ruler - Masking tape - Stuffed animal (small to medium sized) - Scissors This packet contains all the information you need to make this a great engineering activity in your classroom! Lab sheets, student and teacher instructions, and challenge signs are all included! Using simple and c
2nd - 7th
Engineering
Also included in: Personalized STEM Pack #19 - 10 Engineering Challenges
STEM Bins® Brain Flakes® Plastic Snowflakes Speed Builds: STEM Activities SET 1
STEM Bins Speed Builds for Plastic Snowflakes or Brain Flakes® are ideal STEM Activities for hands-on morning work or soft starts, early finishers, enrichment, Brain Breaks and team building. Two different difficulty levels are provided to accommodate a range of learning levels. Level 1 cards are recommended for Pre-K-2nd Grade and Level 2 cards are recommended for 2nd Grade-5th Grade. There are 12 cards provided per difficulty level. These STEM Activity cards are compatible with Plastic Snowf
PreK - 6th
Engineering, Math
11 Minecraft Logic Puzzles - Various levels
Looking for some fun Minecraft activities? These Minecraft logic grid puzzles are a great way for students to be introduced to the technique of utilizing logical process rather than educated guesses to achieve answers. They foster critical thinking, which transition into math and problem solving skills.
This set of 11 logic puzzles is ideal for all students, not just the Minecraft minded. There are 3 levels of worksheets in this set. The easier one is great for younger students or can be used a
1st - 7th
Other (Math)
Multiplication and Division CSI Math Mystery Back To School Activities Teacher
Are you looking for a fun Detective CSI Math Mystery to engage your students in multiplication and division? Then these math activities are for you. Designed to be used at any time during the year, but perfect for an end-of-the-year worksheet and a back-to-school activity at the stat of the school year. Capture your students' attention with this fun CSI Math Mystery activity by guiding them to solve math problems and puzzles. Students narrow down the possible options by completing the activit
3rd - 8th
Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Math
CCSS
3.OA.A.1
, 3.OA.A.3
, 3.OA.A.4
+2
Vocabulary Activities & Word Work Templates for Any List: Word Work for Big Kids
Struggling to find challenging vocabulary practice for your upper elementary students? These paperless vocabulary activities are the perfect upper elementary word work for any list of words. Students will love choosing a new vocabulary activity each day to practice their vocabulary words. With these no-prep vocabulary activities, just print, laminate, and place in your Word Work center for easy student instructions. Students then complete the vocabulary activities or create their own vocabula
2nd - 6th
English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Vocabulary
Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Literature Circles Book Clubs
Add some depth and complexity to traditional Literature Circles with this complete and ready-to-use resource! You will be amazed by the level of discussion and critical thinking that will take place among your students. Each Literature Circle role (listed below) is directly connected to 11 elements of critical thinking: Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives). J
4th - 9th, Adult Education
Literature, Reading
Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle
Snowman STEM Winter Math & Science - Fun After Winter Break Activity -Winter SEL
The perfect after winter break activity is here! The Snowman Stretch Winter STEM Challenge combines winter math, science and STEM in a hands-on snowman activity where kids design, build, and test the tallest snowman or the one with the greatest volume or surface area while applying real math, science, and SEL skills. It's an ideal winter math or STEM activity to smooth the transition coming back to school after Winter Break! ⛄️ Activity OverviewIn this winter STEM activity, kids work
2nd - 8th
Engineering, Other (Math), Social Emotional Learning
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
+5
Halloween STEM Activity - Fall Science Activity - Fun Friday Bone Bridge® STEM
This Bone Bridge® Halloween STEM Activity is an engaging challenge that brings together Halloween STEM, Halloween science, and fun making it perfect for fun Friday activities, fall centers or classroom party alternatives to keep students excited, collaborative, and focused during October. In this challenge, students work in partners or groups to design and build a bridge using skeleton “bones” (cotton swabs, craft sticks, and more). Their goal? To create the longest, strongest, or most stabl
2nd - 8th
Engineering
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
+7
Back to School STEM Activities First Day of School Team Building Icebreakers
Team building activities and ice breakers are the perfect first day of school STEM activities for elementary (including a fun cup stacking challenge )! Not only will your students instantly engage in these hands-on challenges, they will begin to build your classroom community. Your students will need to work in teams throughout the year, and the best way to set the foundation for that is with fun, engaging, and brain-stretching STEM challenges. What You'll Get ✅ This resource includes ice brea
2nd - 7th
Engineering
NGSS
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
STEM Bins® Pool Noodle Speed Builds End of Year Spring Summer STEM Activities
These End of the Year and Summer STEM Bins Activity cards are compatible with Pool Noodle pieces and toothpicks. These STEM Activities are ideal for hands-on morning work, early finishers, enrichment, and team building at the end of they school year or during the summer. They are also perfect for summer school activities!Prior to completing these challenges, the teacher will need to use a serrated knife to cut pool noodles into circular slices, halves, and fourths. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE POOL
PreK - 6th
Engineering
Winter Activities, Christmas Activities, Logic Puzzles, Sub Plan, Middle School
Winter Holiday Activities and Logic Puzzles for Middle School! No prep except to print and copy, or assign on Easel! This packet of eleven activities includes a variety of logic puzzles and other challenges: one reindeer games logic puzzle, one Christmas logic puzzle, one New Year’s logic puzzle, one temperature logic puzzle, one cryptogram with winter holiday words, one word search based on the cryptogram words, one grid matching activity, one elf grid drawing sheet, one 9-piece square puzzle,
6th - 8th
General Science, Informational Text, Other (Math)
CCSS
RI.6.8
, RI.7.8
, RI.8.8
Also included in: Year Round Logic Puzzle Activities for Middle School!
End of School Year Activity - Summer Fun End of Year STEM & Science Activity
This end of school year activity is the perfect way to keep your students excited and learning through the very last day of school. The Wicked-Fast Water Slide STEM end of school year activity combines creativity, problem-solving, and STEM concepts while celebrating the arrival of summer. It’s a great fit for end of year activities, end of school year, last week of school, and summer activities that keep kids engaged and learning.🧠 The Summer STEM Challenge:Students will work in teams to:Design
2nd - 8th
Engineering, Social Emotional Learning
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
+7
Project Based Learning: Run A Lemonade Stand (PBL) For Print & Google Classroom
Project Based Learning for Math and ELA. Running A Lemonade Stand! This project integrates elements of math, ELA, technology, design, and planning into a student-made final product as they prepare to run a lemonade stand. This project at all of the preparation areas within Sales, Marketing, Organization, and Production that must be accounted for. There are 20 ACTIVITIES (1 page for each) for students to complete. Each page involves a problem or idea they must solve, recreate, or answer to pre
2nd - 6th
English Language Arts, Math
Mystery Theme Logic Puzzles
Challenge your students to improve their higher-order thinking skills with these mystery theme grid logic puzzles! There are 5 logic puzzles included: 1. Museum Mishaps, 2. Pet Mess, 3. Mystery Books, 4. Mystery Theater and 5. Hot on the Trail. Each puzzle includes a story and 5 clues or less. Each comes in color and black and white and includes an answer key. These are a great way to challenge students to work on skills such as deductive reasoning, critical thinking, making inferences, process
4th - 6th
Also included in: Logic Puzzles MEGA Bundle
End of Year Treasure Map Math Activity Types of Angles Art Project Summer Craft
Pirate Treasure Map Mini Math Project Based Learning - Types of Angles, Drawing and Measuring Angles with a Protractor - 4th Grade Measurement Activity. This Math & Art Project (printable, digital, editable) is a perfect Pirate Day, end of the year, back to school, math centers, summer camp, or summer school math activity. If your students don't like geometry, be sure to check out math & art projects.Measure & Draw Angles in the spirit of mathematical adventure. You will give your class th
4th - 6th
Geometry, Math, Measurement
CCSS
4.MD.C.6
It's Not a Box! 25 Creative Drawing Prompts Your Kids Will Love
These 25 open-ended drawing prompts range from basic shapes to abstract lines to engage your students' creativity and critical thinking skills! Use them as a drawing warmup, mindfulness activity, or for early finishers. These are perfect for any art class, and can be paired with Antoinette Portis' book Not a Box for a literacy connection. My K-1 students loved these challenges, and they could easily be implemented up to high-school grades depending on the level of depth you encourage. As an ar
K - 10th
Visual Arts
Ancient Egypt Hieroglyphics Escape Room Game Crack the Code Activity Project
In this Ancient Egypt Escape Room activity, students are introduced to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and are placed in the shoes of investigators as they work to solve mysterious clues left behind from ancient Egypt. Student investigative teams have one class period to solve four clues from Egypt's history, each written in hieroglyphics, then complete the final formula to crack the code. Students only have a set number of attempts to open the lock before the ancient lock deteriorates and rema
5th - 9th
Ancient History, Social Studies, World History
CCSS
RH.6-8.1
, RH.6-8.2
, RH.6-8.4
+1
No Prep End of the Year STEM Activity Paper Airplane Engineering Design Process
This is the paper airplane STEM activity you are looking for! This low prep paper engineering challenge is EASY to implement and a fun force and motion exploration. ✅ This activity can be used with ANY grade (students will need to be able to fold and crease paper). It's an excellent fine motor skills activity and always produces surprising results. If you are learning about force and motion or measurement, this challenge is perfect for you! ✅ What You'll Get ✅ Challenge PosterDescription and te
2nd - 8th
Engineering, Physics
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
+7
Would You Rather Sampler - Fun Questions for Discussion, Writing Prompts, & More
Dive into writing prompts, classroom discussion, and more with our exclusive sampler from Would You Rather Questions!! These 18 digital or print Would You Rather questions are great for discussion, class polls, writing prompts, language building, facilitating higher-level thinking, brain breaks, building community, and more! This sampler gives you a taste of our comprehensive Would You Rather resource that promises to make learning engaging and effective. Try before you buy!Purchase this sampl
2nd - 9th
Other (ELA)
Abandoned Places - Creative Writing Activity from Nonfiction (print + digital)
In this creative writing activity, students draw inspiration from a nonfiction article about ten real-world abandoned places! Students choose one as a setting for a piece of Flash Fiction. This is a great reading comprehension and creative writing activity for even the most reluctant readers! ✅ Nonfiction reading comprehension ✅ Vocabulary in context ✅ Differentiated creative writing activities Your Creative Writing from Nonfiction resource includes:Nonfiction reading about ten abandoned place
7th - 10th
Close Reading, Creative Writing, English Language Arts
CCSS
CCRA.R.4
, CCRA.W.3
Digital Vision Board Template GRADES 6-8 | New Years 2026 | Google Slides
⭐ NO PREP DIGITAL ACTIVITY: Engage students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades as they create vision boards that reflect their dreams, goals, and priorities and learn about a motivational technique that can help them be successful in life. **DESIGNED FOR GRADES 6-8** Students will:learn about vision boards and their benefitsview examples of vision boardsthink about their dreams, goals, and priorities and record them on a chartlearn tips for creating, finding, and adding imagescreate a vision board th
6th - 8th
English Language Arts
Also included in: BUNDLE 25 Interactive Google Apps LANGUAGE ARTS Lessons and Activities
Cryptogram Logic Word Puzzles No-Prep Fun Critical Thinking Activity Digital
These no-prep cryptogram puzzles are a fun and meaningful way to give students practice with logic puzzles, word puzzles, critical thinking, spelling skills, and problem solving. This 1 5-puzzle cryptogram pack includes easy, medium, and hard levels, making it simple to differentiate for beginners, confident code-breakers, early finishers, gifted students, enrichment groups, or students who need an engaging challenge. With printable worksheets, digital versions, and answer keys included, t
3rd - 8th
For All Subjects, Not Subject Specific, Spelling
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