The process of critical thinking requires you to ask more questions of both others and of yourself before a decision or determination is made. In order to successfully evaluate data in a critical m...
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According to a system devised by William Golding, there are three categories of thinking grades one, two and three. Many people may think it's hard to categorize some-
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Organizing is a cornerstone of critical thinking. As humans, its our nature to think. However, we must be able to make sense of the continuous information that our brain receives. To understand the ...
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This grade 2-3 vocabulary development center focuses on matching high-frequency words (sight words) from word cards to a game board of frogs and lily pads. The center includes six game boards, word...
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This grade 2-3 vocabulary development center focuses on matching high-frequency words (sight words) through a card game similar to Go Fish. The center includes word cards, teacher directions, and t...
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This vocabulary unit for grades 2-3 provides a word slider (with a child on a sled) and word lists to help students master the high-frequency words used in centers at Level D. (For the centers, key...
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This vocabulary unit on high-frequency word games provides an overview for teachers that includes an introduction, how to prepare the materials, and a games checklist for Level D. (To find centers ...
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This thinking skills unit provides three pages of activities about autumn, including coloring leaves in a pattern, finishing sentences, drawing a tree, finding differences in a picture, and more. (...
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This thinking skills unit provides three pages of activities about winter, including answering questions, drawing a mitten, determining the smallest to the largest snowmen, patterns, and logically ...
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This thinking skills unit provides three pages of activities about spring, including drawing a flower, writing about what you see or hear, selecting words that do not belong, finding flower pairs, ...
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This thinking skills unit provides three pages of activities about summer, including choosing what summer activities you like to do, opposite words, true versus not true, listing items to take on a...
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This thinking skills unit presents three pages of activities about Halloween, including writing about three things that scare you, adding up pumpkins, drawing a jack-o'-lantern, finishing a pattern...
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This thinking skills unit presents three pages of activities about Thanksgiving, including listing favorite foods, what you are thankful for, coloring turkeys, writing about being a Pilgrim, and mo...
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This thinking skills unit presents three pages of activities about Christmas, including describing how your senses react to Christmas, finishing a pattern of candy canes, decorating a tree, and mor...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about the celebration of Hanukkah, including drawing Hebrew letters on dreidels, counting triangles in the Star of David, adding chocolate...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities in celebration of Valentine's Day, including finishing sentences, answering questions about Valentine colors, completing a pattern of hear...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities to celebrate the 100th day of school, including filling in missing numbers, making 100 into a face, answering questions about cost, identi...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about cats and dogs, including answering questions, describing the animals, filling in a Venn diagram, drawing a cat and a dog, and more. ...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about elephants, including answering questions, identifying attributes, finding the elephant Etta, and more. (For more thinking skills uni...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about lions, including writing sentences, selecting the best lion words, filling in a Venn diagram about lions and house cats, and more. (...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about giraffes, including writing sentences, adding spots to a giraffe, writing about why a selected group of animals belong together, and...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about kangaroos, including identifying animals with similar attributes, drawing a joey, coloring stones that are marked with even numbers,...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about bears, including defining how real bears are the same as or different from teddy bears, making a bear pattern, finishing sentences a...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about snakes, including writing sentences, finding words that rhyme with 'snake,' coloring a snake's stripes in patterns, identifying oppo...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about butterflies, including writing descriptive words about caterpillars and butterflies, drawing butterflies, matching patterns on butte...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about ants, including where you might find ants, counting body parts of ants, writing sentences about ants, collecting crumbs in an anthil...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about fish, including coloring four fish differently, writing sentences about fish, drawing a bird-fish, identifying which fish is Fred, a...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about going to the grocery store, including filling the shopping bag with heavy things on the bottom, writing sentences, sequencing pictur...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about being at the playground, including writing about a favorite thing to do, selecting opposite words, identifying things that you have ...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about being at the beach, including listing things you can do at the beach, numbering shells from smallest to largest, identifying differe...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about being on the farm, including listing three chores, naming baby animals, solving problems about eggs, drawing at least three items pe...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about being in my room, including identifying items in the room, defining how the room is the same/different from the kitchen, finding 10 ...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about the familiar folk tale 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears,' including identifying opposite words, drawing patterns of bowls, writing se...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about the familiar folk tale 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff,' including filling in missing words, writing opposite words, drawing a troll, d...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about the familiar folk tale 'The Three Little Pigs,' including giving names to the pigs, filling in missing words, sequencing the story, ...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of ideas about the familiar folk tale of the 'Gingerbread Man,' including filling in missing words, drawing a tasty gingerbread man, answering questions...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about the familiar folktale of 'Hansel and Gretel,' including answering questions, sequencing the story, defining differences between two ...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about cars, trucks, and buses, including answering questions, matching pictures, filling in a Venn diagram of vehicles, and more. (For mor...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about boats, including drawing a sailboat and a ship, answering questions, finishing a pattern of oars, naming differences in two pictures...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about riding a train, including writing sentences in response to questions, drawing pictures of what you see from the train window, creati...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about planes, including writing sentences about what is true/not true, listing opposite words, finding words in a puzzle, and more. (For m...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about bikes, including writing sentences to complete a paragraph, finishing a drawing of a wheel, using clues to identify Adam's bike, and...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about apples, including describing apples through the five senses, finishing a pattern of apples, writing sentences, sequencing a story, a...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about trees, including naming four different kinds of trees, writing sentences to answer questions, defining a tree by the five senses, fo...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about the topic of water, including listing words that rhyme with 'rain,' writing sentences about water, using a Venn diagram to locate bo...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about crayons, including showing favorite colors, answering questions, finishing a pattern of crayons, filling in a word box puzzle, and m...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about vegetables, including circling ones that you like, drawing a head made only of vegetables, solving mysterious riddles, and more. (Fo...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about shirts, including describing your favorite shirt, adding shirts, writing the differences between a shirt and a jacket, filling in a ...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about hats, including reasons to wear hats, answering questions with sentences, describing the characters that wear specific hats, and mor...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about ice cream, including writing sentences about ice cream, listing different flavors, defining which bowl is different, identifying Ann...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about shapes, including writing sentences with specific shape words, defining the number of triangles or circles in a picture, drawing ite...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about shoes and socks, including answering questions without looking at your shoes and socks, defining pairs of socks, finding matching sh...
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This thinking skills unit presents a variety of activities about my family, including answering questions about the family, writing sentences to describe the family, filling in a Venn diagram about...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about going back to school, including identifying vowels in words, matching children with their seats in a classroom, and more...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about rainy weather, including writing sentences about rainy weather, drawing a picture of clouds and rain, and more. (For sim...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about snow, including solving word problems about snowballs, following directions to draw what Carla did in the snow, and more...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about sunshiny days, including making compound words, solving word problems about watermelon seeds, planning a picnic, and mor...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about taking a sick day, including reading temperatures on a thermometer, making words from letters in alphabet soup, helping ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about a substitute teacher directing your class, including describing what the substitute teacher looks like, listing ideas to...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about Halloween items, including naming things that scare you, drawing faces on pumpkins, finding the correct pumpkin based on...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about Groundhog Day, including drawing a groundhog, identifying shadows, listing rhyming words, completing a word puzzle, and ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about baskets and bunnies, including writing sentences using the words 'bunny' and 'basket,' decorating an egg, listing synony...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about Mother's Day, including writing about good things your mom does for you, analyzing what words go together, circling a pr...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about birds, including listing kinds of birds, writing sentences about being a bird, unscrambling names of birds, and more. (F...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about bugs, including naming bugs, counting spots on ladybugs, writing sentences about bugs, matching bug pairs, and more. (Fo...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about bats, including listing words that rhyme with 'bat,' solving word problems about how far a bat flies, writing about bat ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about turtles, including writing the missing numbers on the backs of turtles, creating sentences to answer questions about tur...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about penguins, including writing answers to questions about penguins, identifying which penguins look alike, helping Polly Pe...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about mice, including describing a mouse, writing a short rhyme about a mouse, counting the pieces of cheese a mouse collects,...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about squirrels, including listing types of nuts, comparing large and small, tracing a path for a squirrel to find nuts, and m...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about alligators, including describing alligators, solving word problems about alligator teeth, choosing between fact and opin...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about dinosaurs, including describing specific dinosaurs, writing sentences about dinosaurs, finding mistakes in a picture of ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about creatures who live in the sea, including drawing a fish, writing sentences about sea creatures, completing a Venn diagra...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about what is in the kitchen, including writing sentences about things in the kitchen, matching words with pictures, completin...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about being at the library, including writing sentences about why you do or don't like the library, solving a multiplication p...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about the animals in the zoo, including numbering pictures of animals from small to large, designing a place for an animal, dr...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about going on walk, including estimating the number of steps you would take to get to a specific place, writing down what you...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about being at the dinner table, including seating family members at the table, solving word problems about time, creating rhy...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about different kinds of drinks, including naming drinks according to their color, sequencing the steps in making lemonade, so...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about cookies, including describing cookies using the senses, alphabetizing cookie names, finding things wrong in a picture, a...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about eating breakfast, including choosing four favorite breakfast food items, writing sentences about breakfast, inventing an...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about eating spaghetti, including listing words that begin with 's,' counting meatballs on plates of spaghetti, figuring out t...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about peanuts and popcorn, including describing peanuts and popcorn, counting pieces of each, reading clues, and more. (For si...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about hair, including describing your hair, writing sentences about the hair of the person next to you, using a code to find t...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about eyes, including describing the various colors in your eyes, matching pictures of eyes with words, drawing four scenes fr...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about teeth, including drawing your own smile, writing about meeting the tooth fairy, figuring out words that answer a riddle,...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about hands, including writing sentences about hands, filling in vowels to make words about hands, listing words that rhyme wi...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about feet, including counting the number of toes in the classroom, unscrambling letters to make words, reading clues and draw...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about friends, including matching names that rhyme, listing things that make a good friend, coloring bookmarks according to cl...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about balls, including listing different kinds of balls, solving riddles about balls, completing a Venn diagram about balls, a...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about windows and doors, including counting the number of doors and windows in your house, reading clues and solving a word pu...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about tools, including listing different kinds of tools, matching pictures of tools with their names, reading clues and changi...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about our world, including adding and subtracting numbers around the world, answering questions about places in our world, wri...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about balloons, including matching pictures of balloons with words, solving word problems about balloons, reading clues and co...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about wheels, including listing things that have wheels, writing sentences about using a wagon, figuring out the probability o...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about string, including listing different ways to use string, answering riddles about string, making bead patterns on a string...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about forks and spoons, including completing a pattern of forks and spoons, creating a fork/spoon combination tool, reading a ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about music, including naming songs, finishing the first lines of songs, completing a crossword puzzle about songs, and more. ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 2 presents a variety of activities about sticks and stones, including figuring out numbers to place on stones to solve problems, choosing words that rhyme with '...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about a spectacular September, including writing sentences about starting school, solving word problems about time, figuring o...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about October chills (especially Halloween), including writing words that begin with 'tr,' listing parts of costumes, using th...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about feasting in November, including seating 18 people at your Thanksgiving dinner, creating a menu of unusual Thanksgiving D...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about December celebrations (especially Christmas and Hanukkah), including solving word problems about money, finding shapes i...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about how the month of January is #1, including finishing sentences about the new year, drawing a New Year's hat, writing a no...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about February fun, including listing three holidays, finding mistakes on a February calendar, coloring valentines according t...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about marvelous March, including drawing a leprechaun saying something, defining phrases about luck, listing items that a lepr...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about April surprises (especially April Fool's Day and Easter), including unscrambling words and sentences, solving word probl...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about the month of May, including creating questions to fit answers, listing the names of months according to the number of le...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about the month of June, including completing sentences about this past school year and advice for the future, solving word pr...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about monkeys, including describing a monkey, writing words that have 'mon' in them, filling in a chart with similarities and ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about spiders, including listing ideas about why people fear spiders, writing about problems you might have if you had eight l...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about frogs, including drawing the cycle from tadpole to frog, solving word problems about frogs, finishing a folk tale, and m...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about pets, including listing different pets that you would like to own, solving word problems about numbers of heads and legs...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about reptiles, including numbering a list of dangerous reptiles, turning the word 'lizard' into 'turtle,' writing questions t...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about ducks, including comparing ducks to other birds, solving word problems about ducks and ducklings, helping Mama Duck find...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about slugs and worms, including writing tongue twisters about slugs and worms, solving word problems about earthworms, writin...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about bees, including writing answers to questions about bees, solving analogies, figuring out the code to solve a riddle, and...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about lions, tigers, and bears, including writing descriptions, choosing to be a lion/tiger/bear, completing a comparison of l...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about ocean life, including solving word problems about what a shark eats, naming creatures that live in oceans and are not fi...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about home sweet home, including completing word analogies, counting numbers of things in your house, coloring a grid accordin...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about the classroom, including comparing the classroom to your bedroom, sequencing items in the class, writing items made from...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about the woods, including finding synonyms for words about woods, matching animals with their attributes, completing a crossw...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about a party, including writing the answer to a question, solving the color of balloons in a word problem, planning a party o...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about what is in the garden, including solving word problems about vegetables, using garden vocabulary to answer word puzzles,...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about pizza, including figuring out fractions with pizzas, counting three-sided shapes on a pizza, sequencing the delivery of ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about lunchtime, including inventing the worst sandwich ever, designing the perfect healthy lunch, creating different lunch co...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about vegetables, including counting peas in pods, looking at shapes of vegetables, completing a word puzzle, and more. (For s...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about apples, including listing adjectives to describe apples, solving a word problem about baking apple pies, adding plus or ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about ice cream, including inventing a new ice cream flavor, solving word problems about ice cream, naming 21 flavors of ice c...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about water, including listing 10 different things that need water, telling about your preference for a shower versus a bath, ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about what to wear, including completing a series of analogies about clothing, solving word problems about the cost of what yo...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about boxes, including describing what is in a box that you found, solving word problems about finding money in a box, dividin...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about pockets, including counting the pockets on your clothing, completing word puzzles with the word 'pocket,' listing 3 thin...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about bottles and jars, including listing what you could do with empty jars, unscrambling words from mixed-up letters, complet...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about paper, including describing a sheet of paper, showing how to cut paper into equal pieces, using word clues to answer a r...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about cartoons, including naming as many cartoon characters as you can, solving word problems about cookies shared by cartoon ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about listening, including describing events that might happen if you could not hear, drawing quiet lines and loud lines, usin...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about what's on the screen, including listing things to do if all screens stop working, solving word problems about time spent...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about what's lost and what's found, including answers to questions about getting lost, following a path to get home, solving a...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about getting the giggles, including solving silly story problems, listing words that make you giggle, finishing sentences abo...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about nighttime, including writing sentences about what you hear at night, listing nocturnal animals, counting stars in variou...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about a birthday, including solving a riddle about what Risa got for her birthday, filling in vowels in birthday words, making...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about homework, including correcting Calvin's math homework page, writing about how much time you spend on homework, sequencin...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about books, including matching six children with titles of books they read, comparing a bookstore with a library, listing tit...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 3 presents a variety of activities about change, including identifying money in piggy banks, listing what you could do with 1,000 pennies, solving problems about...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about being in my room, including completing a number of vocabulary-related tasks, rating areas of my room, figuring out a cro...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about being in school, including comparing school and home, figuring out how late Jordan was, using clues to set up a seating ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about going to the supermarket, including using a map to plan efficient grocery shopping, figuring the cost of products, compl...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about being at the dinner table, including writing questions for discussion at the table, listing parts of a most disgusting m...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about eating out, including figuring out how much lunch cost, writing questions about ketchup, deciding what each member of th...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about being in a car, including figuring out the hidden joke, translating license plate letters and numbers, using special voc...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about going on a walk, including comparing the country with the city, figuring the cost of shoes, planning the path that four ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about being at the library, including writing questions about the library, sequencing actions for finding information in the l...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about being at the beach, including writing sentences about favorite things to do at the beach, sequencing activities, filling...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about going on a field trip, including figuring out how many minutes it takes to get from school to the destination, setting u...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about 6-legged crawlies, including choosing which bug to be, figuring out a word problem about how many bugs, finding patterns...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about big birds, including comparing an ostrich to a flamingo, adding adjectives and adverbs to descriptions of birds, figurin...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about wild cats, including comparing tigers with panthers, defining phrases like 'lion's share,' determining how much big cats...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about snakes, including writing sentences about snake-hair, measuring the length of anaconda snakes, creating a poem of words ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about dolphins and whales, including listing 4-letter words about whales and dolphins, comparing the two animals, measuring di...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about trees, including creating words for a word puzzle, figuring out answers to word problems about trees, decoding words to ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about mountains, including drawing a picture of two mountains, writing sentences about mountains, figuring out a chart that te...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about getting caught in a storm, including listing types of storms, solving word problems about snow, creating new names for h...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about fictional characters, including identifying characters by their attributes or through a descriptive adjective, choosing ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about friends, including listing the traits of good friends, figuring out word problems that involve friends, reading clues an...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about members of your family tree, including identifying members of your family and their relationships, filling out a family ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about who is in charge and what a leader is, including writing out the qualities of a good leader, identifying something you w...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about superheroes, including naming current superheroes, choosing a superpower, creating a new superhero, and more. (For simil...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about elves and fairies, including comparing elves and fairies, listing stories about them, matching descriptions with flowers...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about dragons, including comparing alligators and dragons, answering word problems about dragons, drawing a dragon, and more. ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about kings and queens, including writing how to keep a kingdom running smoothly, helping a charming prince, identifying which...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about magic, including listing books that contain examples of magic, writing about a best friend who has a magical skill, fill...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about mythical creatures, including completing word puzzles that name the creatures, adding adjectives and adverbs to sentence...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about riding bicycles, including listing parts of a bike, helping Kevin figure out how to earn money to buy a bike, matching n...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about using pencils, including listing jobs that you could do with a pencil, measuring a classroom with pencils, filling in wo...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about hands, including listing adjectives that describe your hands, taking your own fingerprints, figuring out how many finger...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about using the dictionary, including answering questions about the dictionary, listing smaller words formed from 'dictionary,...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about locks and keys, including answering questions about locks and keys, finding the combination to open a lock, matching spe...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about using manners, including listing the most important manners, deciding which family member is most polite, answering ques...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about hats and caps, including solving word problems about hats, listing words that rhyme with 'hat' and 'cap,' matching peopl...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about getting presents and what they might be, including describing what present you would give to a specific person, matching...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about doing chores, including listing chores for specific children, completing a family chores chart, solving word problems ab...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about our earth, including choosing favorite places on earth, listing seas and deserts (and other places), completing a puzzle...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about garbage, including describing a family through its garbage, solving word problems about garbage, listing synonyms for ty...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about colors, including completing a word puzzle, solving word problems about colors of shirts and marbles, coloring words in ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about cats and dogs, including filling in a Venn diagram comparing cats and dogs, defining expressions, answering questions ab...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about things lost and found, including a word puzzle, writing sentences that answer questions, filling in answers about people...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about flying to and from places, including solving analogies, figuring out if a person will make a connecting flight, deciding...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about needing help, including decoding words on a shopping list, solving word problems about cookies and time, listing synonym...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about sticky things (glue, tape, candy), including listing sticky things, solving math problems about peanut butter sandwiches...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 4 presents a variety of activities about rules, including finding words that rhyme with 'rule,' writing about the game of tic-tac-toe, solving word problems, and...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about being out in the woods, including counting the creatures found in the woods, filling in similes and synonyms, placing tr...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about being in a cave, including figuring out how long it takes for stalactites to grow, adding adjectives and adverbs to sent...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about being in a desert, including multiplying gallons of gas per mile, figuring out syllogisms, finding a path through a lett...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about being in or around water, including listing words that have a double 'oo,' adding coins tossed in the pool, deciding on ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about going to get ice cream, including using a phone keypad to spell out flavors of ice cream, figuring out the number of sco...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about being in the kitchen, including measuring ingredients, completing sentences about cooking, figuring out how many nuts an...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about being at a party, including writing sentences about parties, describing parties with adjectives and adverbs, matching ch...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about going to a carnival, including writing different kinds of sentences about the carnival, adding numbers on balloons, fixi...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about going to a museum, including sequencing activities in the museum, solving a puzzle about Kristina's favorite exhibit, fi...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about going to a garage sale, including solving word problems about selling goods at the sale, organizing items on tables, fil...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about ocean life, including solving fraction problems about a school of fish, completing syllogisms about fish, describing an ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about rain, including defining the term 'raining cats and dogs,' selecting true/false statements, completing a chart about rai...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about being in sunshine, including solving word problems about distances to the sun, constructing words that include 'sun,' fi...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about having a snow day, including writing questions to match the answer 'snowball,' solving a word problem about snow accumul...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about earthquakes and volcanoes, including finding words that use the letters in 'volcanoes,' listing events in sequence, crea...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about the giant squid, including solving word problems about the size of a giant squid, creating words that have 'qu' in them,...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about bears, including writing sentences using 'bear' and 'bare,' filling in a chart about hibernation, completing a crossword...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about dinosaurs, including explaining why one dinosaur would make a better pet, filling in a Venn diagram to compare a dinosau...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about eating dessert, including choosing favorite desserts, naming the attributes of desserts, completing a chart about which ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about eating pizza, including explaining pizza to someone who has never seen one, solving word problems about pizza at a class...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about soup, including unscrambling words about soup, listing different kinds of soup, creating a recipe for soup that fits the...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about school lunches, including rating my school's lunch program, creating the worst lunch, matching children with what items ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about eating breakfast, including solving word problems about the cost of breakfast food, completing sentences about breakfast...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about playing ball, including writing sentences about sports, completing similes, listing sports and filling in a Venn diagram...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about sports and games that require speed, including listing speedy sports, solving how fast runners run per minute, completin...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about bowling, including figuring out the cost to go bowling, listing uses for a bowling ball, solving equations with bowling ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about playing board games, including listing similarities and differences between two board games, matching people with games,...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about extreme sports, including indicating which sports you have done and like to do, listing vocabulary words that include 'e...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about using shoes and socks, including unscrambling words, solving word problems about probability, answering questions on the...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about using spoons and forks, including listing uses for spoons and forks, solving math word problems, completing a puzzle in ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about using wheels, including unscrambling words and using them in a crossword puzzle, identifying common numbers in small whe...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about using a remote control, including listing words that use the letters 'r' and 't,' solving word problems about remote con...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about using money, including choosing a picture to be placed on each type of coin or bill, solving puzzles about money, select...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about using water, including listing places where water may be found in nature, identifying three facts from a word puzzle, so...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about concepts of light and dark, including coloring the patterns on grids, making words from 'light' and 'dark,' solving prob...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about collections, including listing types of collections, solving word problems about collections, coloring a map based on wh...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about sticks and stones, including creating new vocabulary words by changing letters, defining the familiar phrase about stick...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about brothers and sisters, including listing the advantages and disadvantages of a large family, solving word problems about ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about windows and doors, including solving word problems about height and perimeter, listing responses to questions about buil...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about reading, including listing titles of favorite books, matching authors with titles, solving word problems about how many ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about watching television, including choosing favorite types of TV programs, creating a pie chart about watching TV, completin...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about pets, including identifying words in a word puzzle, listing pets by favorite types and how hard they are to care for, ma...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about getting the giggles, including listing things that make you laugh, completing word puzzles, writing sentences with spoon...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about emotions, including listing things that make you happy or sad, identifying similes and synonyms, drawing faces to repres...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about making choices, including choosing between two items and writing reasons, determining the color of walls in the house, a...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 5 presents a variety of activities about doing homework, including setting up a homework assignment, identifying compound words on a chart, completing a homework...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about being in my room, including selecting adjectives to describe the room, finding the perimeter, completing a word puzzle,...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about what happens at the dinner table, including writing and answering questions about the table, creating a place map for p...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about being in outer space, including developing questions to match answers, creating a picture from coordinates, listing 5 p...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about being out in the wilderness, including identifying plants and animals in a food chain, placing animals in categories, d...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about eating out in a restaurant, including deciding what each family member ordered for dinner, writing a menu, figuring the...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about being at the movies, including completing syllogisms, marking a chart of children/movies/snacks, writing about the adva...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about being at the mall, including listing duties of movie workers, completing a word puzzle, developing a map of stores in t...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about U.S. landmarks, including locating landmarks on a map, calculating answers about height or other features, sequencing a...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about being on the bus, including finding answers for problems about a bus, defining words that have 'bus' in them, arranging...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about being in a mythical world, including counting how many creatures are in the world, listing 5 ways that mythical worlds ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about rivers and streams in nature, including writing a short poem about a river or stream, listing items needed on a rafting...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about rough weather in nature, including using homonyms, computing the amount of snowfall in Alaska, figuring out how to use ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about sharks, including adding up the number of fish a shark eats in four weeks, solving a coded message, figuring out a shar...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about bats, including computing the number of insects a bat eats, writing about bat reputations, figuring out a message on ba...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about arachnids (spiders), including creating words from letters in a spider's web, computing the percentage of spider eggs, ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about predators and their prey, including pairing predators with prey, completing a Venn diagram, deciding which rabbits got ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about baby animals, including filling in a word puzzle, matching animals with a child, computing the number of baby animals, ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about reptiles, including writing about which reptile you would want to be, finding patterns in a puzzle, counting reptiles i...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about ancient Egypt, including writing a sentence of fact and one of opinion, adding numbers in a pyramid, creating a coded m...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about the Middle Ages, including writing about why you would like to live in a castle, computing the number of people who die...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about ancient Rome, including determining which years specific emperors were in power, translating Roman numerals, determinin...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about living in pioneer days, including solving word problems about pioneer life, figuring out the schedule of chores for the...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about living in the future, including writing about your life when you are 24 years old, computing word problems about the fu...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about the Internet, including listing uses of the Internet, creating a pie chart of how one person uses the Internet, creatin...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about cellphones, including translating text messages, solving word problems about costs and time, listing which people you c...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about transportation methods, including figuring out gas prices and miles per gallon, improving cars and bicycles for the fut...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about robots, including listing the advantages/disadvantages of a robotic dog, designing a robot, programming a robot to get ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about inventions, including solving word problems about Thomas Edison's inventions, figuring out when specific objects were i...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents activities about clocks, calendars, and how time is measured, including using vocabulary about time, drawing a 16-hour clock, writing sentences that ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about clothing, including rating the way you dress, defining similes about clothing, creating a comic strip about socks, and ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about having your picture taken, including listing words that make you smile (like 'cheese'), writing about why you do or don...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about numbers, including picking a number and solving questions about it, translating number symbols, using a value chart, an...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about how glue and tape are used, including listing the uses of glue and tape, writing answers to questions, creating compoun...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about video games, including figuring out how much time a player uses the game, filling out a Venn diagram on two favorite ga...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about using maps and globes, including figuring miles on a map, completing a word puzzle with clues, answering questions abou...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about tunes, including using the notes on the musical scale as a code for words, solving word problems about practice time, l...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about surprises, including sequencing household tasks to surprise Mom, figuring out how many cookies are ready for eating, cr...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about things that are supersized, including writing synonyms and antonyms for 'big,' comparing ice cream sundaes, completing ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about friends, including identifying the qualities of a friend, figuring the cost of sharing a pizza, matching names to clues...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about holidays, including figuring out how many trees could be planted for Arbor Day, creating a new holiday, acting and talk...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about Earth, including naming specific places on Earth, writing about three big challenges facing Earth, completing a crosswo...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about nighttime, including deciding on true/false statements, listing rhyming words, figuring out how many hours of sleep som...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about celebrating my birthday, including figuring how many days you must wait until your next birthday, listing ten different...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about bells and whistles, including defining phrases like 'clean as a whistle,' marking the fingering on a whistle or flute, ...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about cooking, including unscrambling cooking words, figuring out labels for herb and spice jars, defining the phrase 'variet...
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This thinking skills unit for grade 6+ presents a variety of activities about leaders and followers, including writing about the leadership qualities of Martin Luther King, Jr., listing the leaders...
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During his eight days as a part-time high school biology teacher, Kris Helphinstine included Biblical references in material he provided to students and gave a PowerPoint presentation that made lin...
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Amsterdam (dpa) - Seven Dutch soldiers have been wounded in a
suicide attack at a busy market in the Afghan province of Uruzhgan,
media report said Tuesday.
T...
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Jordan and Kuwait are the top educational reformers in the Arab world, but more work needs to be done in the region, according to a report released Monday by The World Bank.Despite progress in maki...
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Is Teaching to the Test Bad? It all depends on the test and the teacher. If the test measures the skills students are expected to be learning and teachers prepare students by teaching those skills,...
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The vaunted "$100 laptop" that Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers dreamed up for international schoolchildren is becoming a slightly more distant concept.Leaders of the nonprofit One...
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Madrid (dpa) - Spain's National Court decided Thursday not to
impose bail conditions on nine Catalan separatists who burned
pictures of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia duri...
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The International Consumer Electronics Show is such a glitzy celebration of technology that it was striking to see a set of panel discussions here Tuesday exploring whether electronic connectedness...
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Schools have long struggled with how to protect their students from predators and crooks lurking on the Internet. Now, some are teaching kids to mind their own behavior.School districts throughout ...
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Amsterdam (dpa) - A Dutch sergeant was killed and one corporal
wounded during military action in Afghanistan, Dutch Defence Staff
Chief General Dick Berlijn confirmed during...
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Amsterdam (dpa) - A Dutch sergeant was killed and one corporal
wounded during military action in Afghanistan, while in a separate
incident in the same region four Taliban fi...
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Critical Thinking
Ribbit! (High-Frequency Words: Center Games, Level D)
Ore. teacher fired over Bible references
