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Brain Pop: Changes Think Sheet/Guided Notes w/Answer Key
Use this think sheet to keep students focused on the quick Tim and Moby video on physical and chemical changes. Perfect way to introduce or review the topic before a lab activity or use as a hook for your lesson. After the video students can pair up or work in small groups to check their work. Collect from all students or have everyone at the group put their head together and collect one paper for the whole group.
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3rd - 8th
General Science, Physical Science
French and Indian War Readings and Scenario Activity: Guided Notes PowerPoint
This French and Indian War lesson includes an engaging background readings and scenario activity, guided notes, and a PowerPoint activity to teach the different perspectives and outcomes of the French and Indian War. This activity kicks off class with a discussion on "war" and what causes it (and if war can be avoided) before diving into an indepth analysis of the different players involved in the French and Indian War. This activity is guaranteed to get students discussing who is at fault fo
5th - 8th
Native Americans, Social Studies, U.S. History
CCSS
RH.6-8.1
, RH.6-8.2
, RH.6-8.3
+4
Creative Thinking Task Cards Word Links 128 Lateral Critical Thinking Puzzles
Use these 126 critical thinking cards to help your students gain fluency with lateral thinking. Similar to the board game, TriBonds, each card requires students to come up with one word that links the three words on each card together. For example, the words, “camp,” “place,” and “wild,” are linked by the word “fire.” These cards can be used by students from grade four all the way to adults (try them yourself!). WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:128 Task Cards (prints 6 to a page)Black-lineColorRecordi
2nd - 12th
Vocabulary
Creative & Critical Thinking No-Prep Worksheets + NEW Digital Version - Set 1
This is a bundle of 21 fun and challenging worksheets designed to facilitate creative and critical thinking in your students. Most of them utilize the upper levels of Bloom's Taxonomy, inviting students to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate. Some are more writing-based, while others focus on logic skills. Most would work well as a warm-up, homework, or enrichment. WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:20 WorksheetsAnswer KeysDIGITAL:Google Slides ActivityDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintMany Areas of
2nd - 6th
Creative Writing
24 Creative Thinking Task Cards - 3 Reasons Why - Lateral Thinking
Use these 24 creative thinking task cards to challenge your students' critical thinking and lateral thinking skills! For best results, encourage students to come up with creative, yet plausible answers. You may also want to use these cards for sentence writing practice by requiring students to answer in complete and error-free sentences. Another option is to use the cards in groups and have students brainstorm answers verbally. WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:24 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-li
3rd - 6th
Creative Writing
Spring Worksheets for Critical Thinking Logic Puzzles Challenge Writing Activity
Here are twelve no-prep spring worksheets to facilitate higher-level critical thinking for math and ELA. They will make great enrichment for your fast finishers, center work, homework, or whole class activities. They would also work well as break activities during standardized testing. WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:12 Spring Worksheets (logic puzzles, writing activities, and more!)Answer KeysDIGITAL:Google Slides + Google Sheets ActivityDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintLots of Options!Great f
3rd - 6th
3rd Grade Math Mats with Notes for Math Intervention & Small Group Toolkit
Support student understanding of key 3rd grade math skills with this growing bundle of printable Math Support Mats with Notes. These reusable math mats combine visual math notes, worked examples, strategy reminders, and open workspace to help students model strategies, organize their thinking, and solve problems independently.Think of them as graphic organizers for math.Perfect for small group instruction, math intervention, guided math, RTI, math centers, and independent practice. Simply print
3rd
Basic Operations
Divergent Critical Thinking: Powerpoint and 30 Daily Practices
Critical Thinking Skills Development: DivergentStudents need help developing critical thinking skills - not just academic skills. This resource combines an instructional powerpoint (1 lesson) and one month of practice activities (30 days) to help you develop students that use deep thinking. Suggested Uses: - Morning Work or Morning Meeting - Math/Reading warm up - Math/Reading critical thinking center - Daily class challenge problem - Homework challenge question - and many more!!! Note: Answer
2nd - 5th
Math
Also included in: Critical Thinking Skills Bundle: Powerpoints and 30 Daily Practices
New Year Around the World {Creative Thinking Task Cards}
This is a fun way to learn about New Year's traditions from around the world while encouraging critical thinking and creativity!
You are purchasing 28 task cards and a task card checklist. Each card includes a fact about a New Year tradition from a different country, and it also includes a creative thinking writing or discussion prompt based on that country. Great for gifted students or any out of the box thinkers. Good for practicing divergent thinking skills, too! Versatile activity can be u
3rd - 5th
English Language Arts
Think Outside the Box - Gifted Activity or Extension
Looking for a way to enrich, challenge, and encourage imagination and outside the box thinking in your students? Use these 30 fun prompts to encourage them to think creatively! This gifted writing activity has questions that your students are NOT meant to know the "correct answer" to - rather it pushes your kids to think by having them come up with a unique answer!Perfect as an extension activity for your gifted students and early finishers. This product is differentiated with 2 layouts to ensu
K - 5th
Creative Writing
Also included in: Gifted and Talented - Enrichment Activity Bundle
6 Thinking Hats: Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Posters, Journal
Bright & colourful posters and resources to foster creative thinking using de Bono's 6 Thinking Hats. Get your children thinking outside the box and developing higher-order thinking skills which are so crucial for future careers in this ever-evolving world. Great for use for self-reflection or group work. ♥ WHAT’S INCLUDED:♥ ♥ 6 x 6 Thinking Hat posters ♥ 6 x Information posters ♥ 1 x 6 Thinking Hats Dice ♥ 1 x Personal Reflection journal ♥ 1 x Mindful Reflection journal PRINTING NOTE: To o
1st - 7th
Design Thinking Notebook | Introduction to Engineering Interactive notebooks
Introduce your students to the EDC in an interactive and comprehensive way! This print-and-go interactive notebook is perfect for 5th - 7th grade STEM, science, engineering, or design-thinking. Aligned with NGSS and designed for middle school engagement, this resource helps students connect real-world problem solving with hands-on learning—while building academic vocabulary and critical thinking. ✨ What’s Included: ✅ Engineering Design Cycle Overview Wheel✂️ Cut-and-Paste Sequencing Activitie
5th - 8th
Basic Principles, Engineering
NGSS
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
+4
Coloring Sheets Positive Affirmation Quotes State Testing Growth Mindset Notes
Prepare 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade kids for state testing with these self-statements and motivational coloring pages foster confidence, resilience, and a positive outlook towards exams. Encourage a growth mindset as children believe in their capabilities and approach tests with determination and calmness. With these positive affirmations, kids are inspired to trust their preparation, work hard, and stay motivated throughout the testing period. Celebrate their efforts and growth, reinforcing the ide
2nd - 5th
Gifted Thinking Choice Boards | Critical & Creative Thinking for Learners
Looking for ready-to-use enrichment activities that keep your gifted and advanced learners challenged? This resource includes 8 differentiated choice boards designed to spark curiosity, promote higher-order thinking, and encourage creativity across subjects. Perfect for literacy circles, centers, fast finishers, enrichment groups, and independent projects! ✨ What’s Included: 8 Ready-to-Use Choice Boards: • Critical & Creative Thinking (any subject) • ELA – Novel/Story Extensions • Math Enrichm
K - 4th
Other (ELA), Other (Math)
Critical Thinking: Advanced Logic & Patterns | Scaffolded Sequences (K-G2)
Critical Thinking: Advanced Logic & Patterns | Scaffolded Sequences (K-Grade 2)Challenge young minds with logic puzzles inspired by world-class math competitions!Are you looking for high-quality resources that go beyond simple repetition? This Advanced Logic Sequences pack is designed to bridge the gap between basic patterns and complex cognitive reasoning. Inspired by the rigorous standards of SASMO and Math Kangaroo, these worksheets push students to observe, analyze, and deduce—not just gue
K - 3rd
Geometry, Math Test Prep, Mental Math
CCSS
K.G.B.4
, 1.G.A.1
, 2.G.A.1
+2
Music Notes Assessments & Practice | PreK–5 Music Fundamentals
🎵 Music Notes Assessments & Practice | PreK–5 | Print & GoHelp your students truly understand music notes with this differentiated assessment and practice pack designed specifically for elementary music classrooms. Created by Green Beans Music, this resource supports students from PreK through 5th grade with developmentally appropriate assessments and a flexible practice page that works across multiple grade levels. This pack includes intentional differentiation by grade band: PreK–K 1 de
PreK - 5th
Instrumental Music, Music, Music Composition
Also included in: Music Notes Pack | Assessments, Practice & Flashcards | PreK–5
Animals & Structures: Extension Questions for Creative Scientific Thinking
These questions are designed to encourage creative and outside-of-the-box thinking in your class. They are great as centers (use the coloured sheets and laminate) or as hand out pintables (use the black and white sheets) These activites are great for early finishers, enrichment tasks, homework or group work activities. Included: *4 Questions, each provided in full colour task page and black and white student response page *Teacher Notes Perfect addition to: Science Stable Structure Centers
2nd - 4th
Science
D&C Icons Note Taking Cards - Common Core, GATE, Depth of Knowledge
Depth and Complexity Prompts Note Taking Cards for teaching Common Core State Standards and/or GATE!
Use D&C Prompts to guide students to think critically about everything they are learning about in the classroom. Use them in Literature Units, Guided Reading, Literature Circles, Mathematics Groups, Social Studies, and Science! Aligned with Common Core State Standards!
Students fill in the note-taking card with a specific example to fit the Icon represented and there is a space for recordin
K - 6th
Literature
CCSS
CCRA.R.1
, CCRA.R.2
, CCRA.R.3
+7
Outer Space Logic Puzzle | Moon-Themed Critical Thinking for 3rd Grade
Junior Moon Scientists Logic Puzzle | Outer Space Critical Thinking Activity Looking for a fun, brain-boosting way to integrate space science and critical thinking into your classroom? This moon-themed logic puzzle will have your students solving clues like real space explorers! In this engaging activity, students meet four fictional young scientists who each used a different tool, made a different moon-related discovery, and worked independently on a special moon mission. But their notes
2nd - 4th
General Science, Other (ELA), Reading
CCSS
RL.3.1
, RL.3.3
, RL.3.7
+5
Notice and Note with Mrs. Katz and Tush & Related Activities
This pdf has 21 pages (including the cover page, credits page, and teacher background information page). Mrs. Katz and Tush by Patricia Polacco is a guided reading level P (depending on whether you're looking at the revised levels) and the activities in this packet lend themselves to those reading levels and higher. They should be done with a bit of teacher scaffolding and interaction. They can be completed (with book reading) in three class periods. The design of the questions and activities al
2nd - 5th
Close Reading, Reading Strategies
AI Impact & Discussion Task Cards | Critical Thinking, Digital Citizenship
Critical Thinking, Fairness, Digital CitizenshipHelp young learners think deeply, kindly, and confidently about the technologies shaping their world. These AI Ethics & Impact Task Cards are designed specifically for Grades 1–3, introducing students to age-appropriate conversations about fairness, responsibility, creativity, privacy, and feelings in a world where AI and smart technologies are part of everyday life. No technical knowledge required—just curiosity, conversation, and care. What’s
1st - 3rd
Character Education, Computer Science - Technology
Valentine’s Day Ethical Dilemmas & Critical Thinking Activities | Grades 3–5
Looking for a meaningful Valentine’s Day activity that goes beyond crafts and candy? This Valentine’s Day Ethical Dilemmas resource engages upper elementary students in thoughtful discussions about friendship, fairness, expectations, and ethical decision-making. Students analyze real-world scenarios, consider multiple perspectives, and justify their reasoning using evidence and trade-offs. Perfect for Grades 3–5, gifted classrooms, enrichment groups, or whole-class discussions. What’s Included:
3rd - 5th
Other (ELA), Social Emotional Learning, Writing
CCSS
W.3.1
, W.3.5
, W.4.1
+3
Homographs Task Cards & Worksheets - Critical Thinking
Do your students know that “bass” can mean a low musical note AND a type of fish? Do they get confused when “wind” (moving air) and “wind” (to twist) sound different but look identical? Do they read “I will present the present” and stumble because they don’t know which pronunciation to use?You’re not alone. Homographs – words that have the same spelling but different meanings (and sometimes different pronunciations) – are a constant source of confusion for readers and writers. Words like “record
4th - 9th
ELA Test Prep, Grammar, Writing
Also included in: Homophones, Homographs & Homonyms Bundle: 5 Task Card & Worksheet Sets
Fall Critical Thinking Worksheet BUNDLE for Kindergarten 1st and 2nd Grades
Fall is in the air! Treat your students to some puzzles, mazes, and challenges that get their brains buzzing! Need something to keep kids busy (and thinking!) while working at their desks? This bundle is for you. This set includes popular critical thinking worksheets for kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grades. The resources included are: Finish the patternPicture analogies Spelling mazesCategorizingSudoku puzzlesWith these worksheets, students will cut and paste, circle the answer, or write the sente
K - 2nd
CCSS
MP1
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