Capture the Mind EDU

Did your students LOVE reading Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief? Continue the fun with this outdoor relay styled competition with your students! We typically run this activity for 120 minutes, but it can easily be split up and adapted to fit your schedule! Included in this purchase:- Instructions with annotated notes from our own experiences - Diagram of set-up - Eight relay race styled activities - Signage - Certificates - Extension quiz of 20 questions with

We recommend completing this creative writing activity during book two of the series, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters (following chapter 5: I Get a New Cabin Mate). However, you may incorporate it once reading book one, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, once Percy has been to Camp Half-Blood and your students are familiar with the various Greek gods and goddesses! We included brief directions that can be used with students to print with the brainstorming

Inspire and encourage your students to complete the 40 Book Reading Challenge. This is a year-long effort to track reading progress of students to read 40 chapter books! This product contains Google Slide templates where students can track their progress and level up their mode of transportation as they travel to Hogwarts! This 40 Book Reading Challenge is inspired and themed by Harry Potter. This product contains a ZIP download that includes the following products... 40 Book Reading Challenge A

Introduce yourself to students with a pop quiz about you and have students sculpt their answers. Then, students will reveal information about themselves by sculpting their response to various prompts. This is an engaging, hands-on getting-to-know-you activity that students are sure to enjoy! (Note: must purchase one small tub of Play-Doh per student.) Check out our blog to learn about how we use this resource in our classroom! https://sites.google.com/view/capture-the-mind-edu/blogs/getting-to-k

ABOUT THIS RESOURCE: This getting to know you activity taps into students’ love of games and serves as a wonderful first writing sample! Start by asking students about their favorite games, and then get to know which type of player (and learner) they are! You will receive our “teacher script,” a Google Slides presentation to use while teaching students, a description of the four different player types, five multiple choice questions to further promote understanding, and our writing prompt worksh

This resource includes ready to use Would You Rather questions to enjoy with your students. The slides incorporate physical activity as students stand or sit to show their preferences. Check out our blog to see how we us this activity in our own classrooms! https://capturethemindedu.com/getting-to-know-you-activities

Use these prompts to get students into a habit of regularly journaling. We’ve found that journals are the perfect low-prep morning work activity and typically have students write in them every other day. Journals provide time for students to express ideas, reflect on learning, activate background knowledge, brainstorm thoughts, and build writing stamina. At the start of the year, a lot of the prompts ask students to share about themselves or become silly, yet interesting, discussion topics. As t