Winding Path Teaching

Need a ready-to-go activity for Valentine's Day for something all kids love? Food! This Blind Date with a Dish activity is perfect for making Valentine cards your students will love to make. This activity gives your students a chance to do some Valentine's Day coloring or craft, or could even be your emergency sub plans! Students create fun and mysterious descriptions of their favorite dishes while decorating personalized cards using 15 included templates (5 are Valentine's Day-themed!). It’s e

Don’t miss out on the perfect way to challenge your students’ minds: logic puzzles! These 20 logic puzzles are perfect for building critical thinking skills while keeping students entertained and engaged! Each logic grid puzzle is designed to spark logical reasoning, critical thinking, deduction skills, making them ideal for Fun Friday activities or as part of your emergency sub plans. Whether you're looking for brain-boosting activities for early finishers or something to energize your class,

Need an activity fast that helps students practice their critical thinking? Here are eight more logic grid puzzles will engage your students' brains, logical reasoning, critical thinking, and deduction skills! Students will use clues provided and logic to complete each puzzle and solve the problem presented in each puzzle. These are perfect for your emergency sub plans or when you need extension activities for early finishers.All eight puzzles are themed around food, farms, and meals. Provide

Are you looking for a powerful way to teach immigration as a current event while enhancing students' critical thinking skills? This immigration lesson is the perfect resource for your classroom. Focusing on using evidence to make claims, this lesson encourages students to explore historical and current immigration trends through data analysis. They’ll learn how to craft strong arguments backed by facts, a crucial skill in both ELA and social studies courses. With structured activities, ready-mad

Upgrade your Civics or Government classroom decor with our American Government classroom posters that make key concepts in American Government easily accessible to students. These visually engaging posters cover over 50 essential American Government key terms in a simple, alphabetical format that acts like a glossary on your walls. Perfect for reinforcing core ideas, these posters are a powerful tool to help students familiarize themselves with the language of Government and Politics. Designed

Looking for a comprehensive exploration of the connections between culture and food, with informative examples from around the world and throughout history? You'll have a expert way to get students to answer "What is a food culture?" This bundle introduces students to food cultures in an interactive lesson in which they will read the perspectives of 12 people from around the world. In the process of evaluating the perspectives, students will work together to develop a definition of food cultu

Need extension activities that will engage your students across multiple dimensions of thinking? These seven activities will engage your students' creativity, logical reasoning, computation skills, and artistic abilities! You will have access to several activities that will utilize different modes of thinking and interests, so all your students will have something to engage with. Some activities are great for individual work and some work well for groups. These are perfect for your emergency s

Need an activity fast that helps students practice their critical thinking? These eight logic grid puzzles will engage your students' brains, logical reasoning, critical thinking, and deduction skills! Students will use clues provided and logic to complete each puzzle and solve the problem presented in each puzzle. These are perfect for your emergency sub plans or when you need extension activities for early finishers.All eight puzzles are themed around food, restaurants, chefs, and the field

Looking for a clear way to explain early river valley civilizations and the effects of the Neolithic Revolution? This lesson includes a slide deck about the effects of Neolithic Revolution and the importance of creating settlements in river valleys, guided notes (with an answer key!), key vocabulary defined, and a list of 10 possible quiz questions to help reinforce the key concepts of the effects of Neolithic Revolution and early river valley civilizations, including exploring the spread of ag

Looking for a way to add some excitement to your lesson about the Interstate Commerce Clause? Or your lesson on the national government's regulatory powers? In this engaging lesson with simulation game, students role-play the scenarios described in the Supreme Court's decision that empowered the national government's regulatory power through the Interstate Commerce Clause. Students learn about the Interstate Commerce Clause, prep for their simulation game using an anticipatory activity about sc

These printable posters outline the essential safety rules of using various cooking instruments you may use in your classroom, such as microwaves, blenders, hot plates, and convection ovens (like air fryers). In addition, a poster outlining general hygiene principles are useful for any classroom recipe! That makes five posters total. These colorful and easy-to-read posters will ensure your students know the best ways to stay safe in the classroom and prevent any accidents or insects. Each po

This bundle prepares you to teach about the Atlantic Revolutions from beginning to end, with slides, guided notes (with answer keys!), and quiz questions. Students will explore the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions, as well as the unifications of Italy and Germany. Each lesson includes a slide deck, guided notes, and a list of 10 possible quiz questions to help reinforce the key concepts, vocabulary words, and important figures. In each lesson, students will learn about the causes of the

In this engaging and analytical assignment, students will analyze primary source documents of child labor during the Industrial Revolution, and then use the information they learn to create a letter from the perspective of a child laborer. In doing so, students will gain important historical understanding of working conditions of child laborers as a prelude to reform movements during the Industrial Revolution. This is a fantastic way to engage your students in historical analytical skills and

In this engaging and modern activity, students learn about the influences on the Constitution and teach each other using the theme of social media. There are many documents that shaped the Constitution, from the Magna Carta to the English Bill of Rights, to Aristotle's Politics, and the Iroquois Confederation. The thread of democracy, natural rights, and limited government bring them all together. Students use technology to create fake influencers to introduce them to how ideas flow from one s