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Capture the excitement of Valentine's Day in your classroom with this fun challenging critical-thinking mystery escape room. This is a no-prep digital mystery game that uses Google Slides. You can use this game as a class party activity or for a fun learning activity anytime in February! *Students need Google Accounts to access the slides in "edit" mode to drag and drop elements and solve each clue. Students will solve analogies, and complex word problems, complete a logic puzzle, and decipher

Capture the excitement of Spring Time and Easter Fun in your classroom with this challenging critical-thinking mystery escape room. Students will practice ELA skills such as discovering word relationships as they solve analogies! They will practice spelling as they complete a word ladder. They will use close-reading skills and critical thinking as they figure out a logic puzzle and solve a crime. Students will solve analogiescomplete a logic puzzle decipher a word ladder decode a cipher solv

Are you looking for a fun way to teach synonyms and antonyms? Would you like to get your kids thinking critically about word relationships? Enjoy this fun Mystery Game! Your students will solve 39 analogies, and have fun along the way! This is a great way to build vocabulary and introduce students to the concept of analogies. In this game, students will solve analogies to uncover three clues that will lead them to the criminal who stole Baby Bear's spaghetti dinner. The game is easy to assign

Celebrate the holiday Christmas season with this fun, digital vocabulary mystery. Students will think critically and enjoy working with words as they solve analogies, crack codes, solve logic puzzles, complete word ladders, and more. The puzzles contain a mix of easier and more difficult vocabulary to stretch students while keeping them motivated by some simpler clues. This escape room game is unique because the Google Slides game is interactive. Students can manipulate the slides and many conta

Are you looking for Thanksgiving Word Games for your upper Elementary class ( 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th)? This Fall worksheet set can be used as a class starter, collaborative game, warm-up, or early-finisher activity. These highly-engaging games will capture your student's attention with holiday fun! While your kids have a great time playing, they will be thinking critically through these higher-level thinking word games! These 25 worksheets will keep your kids engaged through all of November. T

Check out these games for early/finishers! These activities are perfect for gifted students who need differentiation! Need worksheets to engage your early finishers? Want to teach your class to think outside the box? Infuse your classroom with fun critical-thinking games that get your students' creative juices flowing. This freebie provides samples of the types of games I've made to foster engagement in my gifted and talented classroom. Included:Logic puzzle making words activity word ladder ch

Are you looking for a fun game to build vocabulary & Language skills? Use this digital escape room to give students practice with analogies, expose them to new words and encourage critical thinking! Students will practice ELA skills such as discovering word relationships as they solve analogies! They will practice spelling as they complete a word ladder. They will use close-reading skills and critical thinking as they figure out a logic puzzle and solve a mystery. Students will solve analogie

Celebrate the Winter holidays and Christmas time with fun, digital vocabulary and ELA games that keep kids learning! Students will think critically and enjoy working with words as they solve analogies, crack codes, solve logic puzzles, complete word ladders, and more. Escape Room Puzzles contain a mix of easier and more difficult vocabulary to stretch students while keeping them motivated by some simpler clues. This escape room game is unique because the Google Slides game is interactive. Stude

Engage your students this Fall with Digital Halloween Escape Games. No-prep critical thinking activities are great for parties, early finisher activities, or gifted and talented lessons! Analogies, logic puzzles, and ciphers will keep kids thinking, foster collaboration, and teach logical reasoning and perseverance! Students will match analogies, decode a cipher, solve a logic puzzle, and complete a word ladder to find clues and solve the mysteries! Assign through Google Classroom with just a

Capture the excitement of Saint Patrick's Day in your classroom with this fun and challenging critical-thinking mystery escape room. Students will solve analogies, solve complex word problems, complete a logic puzzle, decipher a word ladder, and figure out guess and check and find a pattern math problems to find clues to solve the crime: Who stole Lucky the Leprechaun's Gold? Your students will practice using logical reasoning to persevere to solve problems. This puzzle works great for Early F

This 25-question interactive analogy practice will get your students thinking! Use this Google Slides activity for GATE test prep and/or to build critical thinking skills. Students will drag and drop analogies, supply their own answers, and finally demonstrate their mastery by creating their own analogies. Some analogies are simple while others provide opportunities to learn new vocabulary words. This practice is a mix of analogy types (antonyms, synonyms, parts of a whole, function, etc.) Sa

Review telling time to the nearest half-hour, five minutes, minute, and elapsed time with these leveled review games. You can differentiate instruction and make test-prep review meaningful for all students with these digital, no-prep Google Slides Games. 6 games are included:Activity 1: Tell Time to the Nearest Half-Hour and Hour Clickable Game (24 ?s) Activity 2: Time Vocabulary (Half past, quarter to, quarter past) Clickable Game (20 ?s) Activity 3: Tell Time to the Nearest 5 Minutes Clicka

Are you looking for Winter Word Games for your upper Elementary class ( 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th)? This Fall worksheet set can be used as a class starter, collaborative game, warm-up, or early-finisher activity. These highly-engaging games will capture your student's attention with holiday fun! While your kids have a great time playing, they will be thinking critically through these higher-level thinking word games! These 25 worksheets will keep your kids engaged through the Winter season. These

Infuse your class with fun this February with this Valentine's Day Critical-thinking enrichment bundle. This includes 43 Critical thinking word games to use throughout the month. A "Creative Countdown" challenge is included that is great for counting down to Valentine's Day with an activity a day that will get your students' creative juices flowing. Culminate the month with the Missing Cupcake escape room that includes word analogies, critical thinking math problems, a word ladder, and analogies

Do your students need a little extra excitement to get through these cold weather months? Enrich your winter units with these snowman-themed critical thinking challenges! You can challenge your early finishers and use these as enrichment to enhance your students' thinking and problem-solving skills. Designed in small batches to keep kids motivated, these games are easy to assign in Google Classroom to keep all your kids learning! You will love: The ease of assigning these click-and-go digital s

Are you looking to give your students practice with growing and repeating patterns? This interactive snowman-themed activity will build student confidence as they work through repeating and growing patterns that increase in difficulty. Use this to enrich younger students and prepare for COGAT testing or to build confidence with older students. Increase number sense and pattern recognition through this no-prep, self-paced Google Slide activity.

Challenge your early finishers with these Valentine's Themed ELA Enrichment Critical-Thinking Word Games! These tasks are also great for February morning work. I love these games because they don't feel like extra work. Your students will be learning while they are having fun! These challenges are also great for class team-building challenges that promote a growth mindset and flexible thinking. This download includes a variety of games to use throughout February to spice up learning. You can

Keep your students learning and engaged through the Christmas/ Winter Holiday with these Twelve Days of Christmas critical thinking challenges! You can challenge your early finishers and use these as enrichment to enhance your students' thinking and problem-solving skills. Details:12 Google Slides contain Twelve Days of Christmas themed ELA, Critical-thinking challenges. There is one per slide. Assign them one at a time for the 12 days leading up to break, or assign all at once for students t