Challenging Minds

Online Research Tips - Helpful Hints for Finding Accurate & Relevant Information A 2-page easy reference guide summarizes key points when researching topics online. --What are search engines and how do they work? --How do keywords and Boolean Operators help your search? --What websites and domains are most trustworthy and reliable? --How can I check the accuracy of website information? This is helpful when introducing the basics to internet research!

Unsolved? — A Mysteries Research Unit This complete 127-page unit of 10 full lessons is designed with class instruction guiding research, culminating to an independent study of a famous historical unsolved mystery. Includes Pre and Post Assessment ideas for each lesson. Depending on length of class time, lessons can last 12-18 sessions. Duration is flexible because lessons can be shortened or extended as needed. Many informational handouts are available separately to purchase, but you save wh

For these introductory puzzle shapes, 10 of the 12 pentomino piece shapes can form puzzles that can be solved using only four of the pentomino pieces. Challenge your students to solve each one. There can be more than one solution in many of the puzzles! Versatile activities for warm-up brain teasers, early finisher folders, or learning centers! Emphasize the use of Visual/Spatial Smarts, Kinesthetic/Body Smarts, and Logic Smarts multiple intelligences. Includes -- "Transformations Poster" also

ALL YOU NEED to outline and facilitate independent topic investigations, both teacher & student resources! **Flexible Unit Timeline for Conferencing & Project Deadlines **Performance Task Learning Contract **Performance Task Plan **Multiple Intelligence Survey & Scoring **Revised Blooms Information Page **Observations & Student Conferences Log **Performance Event Rubric & Task Assessment **Research categories with topics and possible Real World **Challenge questions to get started (4 pages) **

In this 27 page guide, you have 3 activities that explore the vast and varied geographical features and Nile River of Egypt. There are vocabulary, student information guide as a resource, activity suggestions, and scoring rubrics for each activity, in PDF and Google doc formats! You will download a ZIP folder that contains the main PDF document (with embedded Google doc links), as well as individual copies of the resource guides for easy upload with Drive or Google Classroom. There are links emb

The Westing Game—96 Task Card Activities Organize activities and clues using Task Cards that are divided by chapter groupings and also include **Comprehension Questions with Answer Key **Prompts for Story Trail Activities Chapter Task Sets A-P: Task Cards 1 - 4 The variety of characters and unfolding events of The Westing Game provide the perfect background to differentiate task cards. Activities can be modified easily for readiness—include more or less detail for tiering Task Card 5: What’

Use this information booklet and lesson activities to introduce the each of the 7 Ancient World Wonders. Spotlight a journey through time as you visit and learn about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. This Travel Guide can accompany our Ancient World Wonder Travel resources like the Passport, Unit Overview & Timeline, and Destination Posters available. Individual Travel Guides for other ancient wonder destinations with background information and lesson activities coming soon too! Destination

***NEW! 2020 Revision*** Added additional files for links to Google Slides version and individual PDF copies of each Thinkercise for easy virtual learning integration! Perfect for challenging students during remote teaching :) Thinkercises Set includes: Basic Level B Book (84 pages) $9.50 and Basic Level B2 Book (86 pages) $9.50 SAVE $ and download both books here for ONLY $15!! Challenge learners with puzzles and activities that sharpen creative and critical thinking skills. Each 2-page activi

$30 Value - Buy Complete Unit for $20 and SAVE $10! World Travel Guide Unit Format ($3.50/17 pages): Use as is or easy to modify! **Tour Team Folders—create team names, design folder to hold independent activities being worked on **Ancient Wonder Timeline—students graph the span of existence for each wonder as each Destination is introduced or concluded; note short span of overlap of all 7 ancient wonders **Introduce the “Secret Mystery” - at the completion of independent activity, award a lett

An easy to use 2-page chart that aligns terminology with depth of knowledge terms, questioning cues, possible products and activity examples. A quick reference tool that combines multiple resources into one chart.

For this stock market unit, you'll receive everything in easy to use PDF format for any or all parts you want to teach hands-on, or have students work on paper. As a bonus,within in the PDF document, there are embedded Google doc links! The links prompt you to make a copy of the document for easy download to use with Drive or Google Classroom. These Google documents may be used in place of any paper-version of the activity. This PDF guide with activities can be implemented hands-on with PDF for

***NEW! 2020 Revision*** Added additional files for links to Google Slides version and individual PDF copies of each Thinkercise for easy virtual learning integration! Perfect for challenging students during remote teaching :) Challenge learners with puzzles and activities that sharpen creative and critical thinking skills. Each 2-page activity sheet is a combination of different puzzles that apply and strengthen problem solving and logic thinking skills. Great for early finishers, warm-ups, an

See 20 samples pages of this 84 page book FREE! Challenge learners with puzzles and activities that sharpen creative and critical thinking skills. Each 2-page activity sheet is a combination of different puzzles that apply and strengthen problem solving and logic thinking skills. Each activity sheet is an excellent resource for enrichment or extension learning including practice with analogies, improvisation writing, word connections, and brain teasers. Each activity sheet also focuses on on

Use this information booklet and lesson activities to introduce the oldest of the 7 Ancient World Wonders. Spotlight a journey through time as you visit and learn about the Great Pyramid. This Travel Guide can accompany our Ancient World Wonder Travel resources like the Passport, Unit Overview & Timeline, and Destination Posters available. Individual Travel Guides for other ancient wonder destinations with background information and lesson activities coming soon too! Destinations for an Anci

In this 44 page guide, you have 3 lesson groups that explore regions of Upper and Lower Egypt, the capital cities & nome regions, and famous pharoahs. There are vocabulary, student information guide as a resource, activity suggestions, and scoring rubrics for each activity, in PDF and Google doc formats for both hands-on and virtual learning integration. Lesson Outline 1 – KINGDOMS BACK IN TIME Lesson Outline 2 – PHA-MOUS PHAROAHS Lesson Outline 3 – CAPITAL CITIES & NOME REGIONS This uni

Thinkercises (Level A: Grades 1-3) Ages 7-9The puzzles in this book are designed to help students improve their logical thinking and problem solving skills. These activity pages are perfect for "bell ringer" or anchor activities. Our cognitive abilities are brain-based skills we need to carry out any task, simple or complex. These abilities have more to do with how we learn, learn, remember, problem-solve and pay attention rather than actual knowledge. The problems in this book are also designed

Use this information booklet and lesson activities to introduce the each of the 7 Ancient World Wonders. Spotlight a journey through time as you visit and learn about the Pharos (Lighthouse) of Alexandria. This Travel Guide can accompany our Ancient World Wonder Travel resources like the Passport, Unit Overview & Timeline, and Destination Posters available. Individual Travel Guides for other ancient wonder destinations with background information and lesson activities coming soon too! Dest

***NEW! 2020 Revision*** Added additional files for links to Google Slides version and individual PDF copies of each Thinkercise for easy virtual learning integration! Perfect for challenging students during remote teaching :) Challenge learners with puzzles and activities that sharpen creative and critical thinking skills. Each 2-page activity sheet is a combination of different puzzles that apply and strengthen problem solving and logic thinking skills. Great for early finishers, warm-ups, an

An easy-to-use reference chart aligning product options leveled with Blooms Taxonomy and organized according to Multiple Intelligences. Categorization is a starting point for product ideas, which can be loosened or tightened according to grade level, criteria and readiness.

A versatile lesson to introduce types of volcanoes and their eruptions! RESEARCH—Use the 30 Volcano Activity Card Outside Covers with the Inside Cover copied on the backside of each. Cut apart half-sheets and fold to fill in volcano information. Divide up cards between students or assign sets for groups of students. Present information. CLASSIFY & SORT— Use before, during and after researching information for trading cards. Distributing sets individually or in small groups to cut apart, student