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This creative Winter Concert Decorations: Art Unit was designed to be printed and displayed as examples while you teach. Use this PDF file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on the big screen. For this assignment, I asked students to get with a partner or into small groups and brainstorm subject matter, orientation, and theme of the overall composition. Plus, decide which group member(s) will be in charge of what to draw and where to draw it. Students will need to sketch out ideas first inside a sketchbook, transfer the sketches to Final Copy Paper, outline the large image, and start coloring in everything with crayon. Sadly, most other art materials will ruin the roll paper. I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy!

This creative Winter Concert Decorations: Art Unit was designed to be printed and displayed as examples while you teach. Use this PDF file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on the big screen. For this assignment, I asked students to get with a partner or into small groups and brainstorm subject matter, orientation, and theme of the overall composition. Plus, decide which group member(s) will be in charge of what to draw and where to draw it. Students will need to sketch out ideas first inside a sketchbook, transfer the sketches to Final Copy Paper, outline the large image, and start coloring in everything with crayon. Sadly, most other art materials will ruin the roll paper. I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy!

This creative Winter Concert Decorations: Art Unit was designed to be printed and displayed as examples while you teach. Use this PDF file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on the big screen. For this assignment, I asked students to get with a partner or into small groups and brainstorm subject matter, orientation, and theme of the overall composition. Plus, decide which group member(s) will be in charge of what to draw and where to draw it. Students will need to sketch out ideas first inside a sketchbook, transfer the sketches to Final Copy Paper, outline the large image, and start coloring in everything with crayon. Sadly, most other art materials will ruin the roll paper. I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy!

This creative Winter Concert Decorations: Art Unit was designed to be printed and displayed as examples while you teach. Use this PDF file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on the big screen. For this assignment, I asked students to get with a partner or into small groups and brainstorm subject matter, orientation, and theme of the overall composition. Plus, decide which group member(s) will be in charge of what to draw and where to draw it. Students will need to sketch out ideas first inside a sketchbook, transfer the sketches to Final Copy Paper, outline the large image, and start coloring in everything with crayon. Sadly, most other art materials will ruin the roll paper. I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy!

The "Can you guess the Career" activity is a fun and interactive experience designed to engage and educate students in grades 3-5. This activity aims to help young learners explore various career options while improving their critical

thinking and decision-making skills. By participating in this engaging activity, students will develop a better understanding of different professions and their roles in the real world. By guessing different careers, students will not only broaden their knowledge but also gain insights into the skills and qualifications required for various professions.

This activity can inspire students to think about their future career paths and instill motivation to excel academically. Additionally, it encourages creativity and imagination as students envision themselves in different professional roles. The benefits of participating in "Can you guess the Career" are immense. First, it encourages curiosity and exploration, fostering a love for learning. Students will gain exposure to a wide range of careers, helping them make informed decisions when choosing their own paths later on. Furthermore, this activity promotes critical thinking and problem-solving abilities as students analyze clues and make educated guesses about each profession.

"Can you guess the Career" is an exciting and educational experience for students in grades 3-5. It offers a unique opportunity for young learners to expand their knowledge about different professions while enhancing vital skills necessary for their future success. Join in this engaging activity and unlock the doors to a world of possibilities!

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Unlock the potential of your students with these engaging Interactive Notebooks designed for teaching crucial skills like anger management, emotional regulation, friendship, and coping strategies. These interactive notebooks are perfect for fostering social-emotional learning (SEL) in a fun and engaging way.

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In need of activities to help your students form healthy friendships and lasting relationships? This crafty and engaging small group counseling curriculum is designed to teach young girls how to make friends, solve friendship problems, recognize signs of healthy friendships, identify frenemies, and warning signs for unhealthy friendships.

Empower students to learn friendship red flags, and how to respect themselves and their friendship boundaries as they design their very own Friend vs. Frenemy Interactive Book.

Facilitate students’ social skills development while they color, cut, glue, and develop a better understanding of how healthy friendships should look and feel.

Give the girls in your group the tools needed to create healthy friendships with peers, navigate difficult friendships, identify frenemy-like behaviors, resolve conflict, and respectfully end friendships that aren’t a good fit. 

Here’s What’s Included in the Ten Interactive Sessions: 

• Lesson outlines, lesson objectives, and printables of all needed materials 
• Session 1: All About Me Activity
• Session 2: What is a Friend? Frenemy?
• Session 3: Describing Friends and Frenemies
• Session 4: Friendship Quality Sort
• Session 5: Questionable Friendships
• Session 6: Healthy Friendships
• Session 7: How to Deal
• Session 8: Roleplaying Friendships
• Session 9: Letter Writing Activity 
• Session 10: Self-Reflection Activity

With this Healthy Friendships Interactive Book, students will be counting down the minutes until their next session, bubbling over with excitement. Don’t miss out on this engaging friendship skills builder small group counseling curriculum!

Grab some crayons, scissors, colorful paper, and glue! You’ve got all you need to teach healthy friendship skills to your students! Students will love laughing and learning with their small groups while using these interactive and enlightening activities. 

Precut the materials or spend extra time getting to know your students better as they cut and create their books.  With this download, you will save time on lesson prep, and in the end, your students will walk away with a highly informative keepsake. 

Activities in each session are designed to build upon one another as students create additional pages in their interactive books. After each session, I collect all newly made pages (held together by a paperclip) and keep them until the very last session. I then bind them together, creating a precious memory for students to refer back to as needed. 

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Carlyn W. says, “Great tool to use with small groups dealing with friendship issues.  My girls enjoyed the "girls group" we had once a week (they even were happy to miss recess) to talk about these issues and ways to be true friends.”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Alison S. says, “I used this resource with a group of second-grade girls who were having a lot of difficulty with getting along with one another and handling disagreements in a productive way. This was perfect for what I needed and I highly recommend it!”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nikki C. says, “This worked well with my 5th-grade girl's group.  I like that they were able to learn while creating a really cute book to keep as a souvenir! Good resource!”

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Do you have students struggling to develop friendship skills or make new friends? Are you in search of new friendship activities for your classroom, school counseling program, or targeted small groups? This friendship activities small group counseling curriculum is perfect for your students. 

This interactive cut-and-glue book helps teach kids the social skills needed to build confidence and make new friends. Students will have a blast learning friendship skills while they design their own keepsake Friendship Book. 

Each session, students will create an additional page or two of their Friendship Book. In the end, they have the Friendship Book to look back on as a treasured keepsake. 

Here’s What’s Included:

TEN interactive activities, including session outlines, objectives, and all necessary materials. 

Each lesson builds upon the last and is designed to teach students how to: 

• identify a good friend
• be a good friend 
• develop friendship skills
• identify signs of healthy friendships 
• how to keep friends 
• how to deal with friendship rejection 

In the end, students will have a better understanding of the intricacies of friendship. Help equip students with friendship-making tools as they complete the action-packed activities included in this small group curriculum. 

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ TtC says, “I love how this breaks down the dynamics of friendship. This is perfect for a small group. I also used some of these lessons whole group.”

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GEOGRAPHY THUMBPRINTS: A CHARACTER ANALYSIS OF A PERSON, CHARACTER, COUNTRY, OBJECT, EVENT

This lesson, although written for geography, is not subject-specific and is adaptable to any subject or topic — history, ancient studies, book studies or any time you are studying a person, character, country, object, or event. Use this character analysis to explore people, reading characters, historical characters or people, events, countries, and objects. No, an object, country, or event does not have feelings, but what if they did? How would they feel? What would they see? What would they hear? What would they say? Encourage your student to think outside the box and stretch their minds and higher-level thinking skills.

Materials Needed

• butcher paper, poster board, or drawing paper
• Emotional chart (Included)
• Character analysis chart (Included)
• Markers
• Rulers

Type of Lesson

Group cooperation, research, exploratory, examination

Closure:

3-5 minute Presentations

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Use this Valentine's Day-themed AVID speed philosophical chairs icebreaker team-building activity to promote debate through dialogue and public speaking in your classroom as well as get students in the Valentine's Day spirit! Students will not only learn what speed philosophical chairs is but they will enjoy some exciting dialogue through 5 fun debate topics.

For example, students will choose to agree or disagree with the statement, "Scientists should design robots that can feel emotions like love."

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Directions:

1. A central statement will be announced to the class and you will define the two sides of the debate (Agree/Disagree).
2. Students move to the side of the room that they intend to defend.
3. An embedded timer will be set for 5 minutes, and the debate will start between the two groups.
4. Students attempt to keep contributions to less than 30 seconds each.
5. A new prompt is displayed and we start another round of quick debates.

What's Included:

• A teaching slide for "the why" of speed philosophical chairs
• A slide that includes the rules of engagement for students
• A slide for the steps of this speed philosophical chairs activity
• 5-speed philosophical chairs Christmas-themed debate statements
• A 5-minute silent timer embedded in each slide

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AVID College Debate Activity - Speed Philosophical Chairs for Team Building: Use this college-themed AVID speed philosophical chairs icebreaker activity to promote debate through dialogue and public speaking in your classroom as well as get students in the college spirit! Students will not only learn what speed philosophical chairs is but they will enjoy some exciting dialogue through 20 fun debate topics.

For example, students will choose to agree or disagree with the statement, "College should be free."

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Directions:

1. A central statement will be announced to the class and you will define the two sides of the debate (Agree/Disagree).
2. Students move to the side of the room that they intend to defend.
3. An embedded timer will be set for 5 minutes, and the debate will start between the two groups.
4. Students attempt to keep contributions to less than 30 seconds each.
5. A new prompt is displayed and we start another round of quick debates.

What's Included:

• A teaching slide for "the why" of speed philosophical chairs
• A slide that includes the rules of engagement for students
• A slide for the steps of this speed philosophical chairs activity
• 20-speed philosophical chairs college-themed debate statements
• A 5-minute silent timer embedded in each slide

*These resources are available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

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AVID Career Debate Activity - Speed Philosophical Chairs for Team Building: Use this career-themed AVID speed philosophical chairs icebreaker activity to promote debate through dialogue and public speaking in your classroom! Students will not only learn what speed philosophical chairs is but they will enjoy some exciting dialogue through 20 fun debate topics.

For example, students will choose to agree or disagree with the statement, "There should be a salary cap for celebrities like athletes and actors."

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Directions:

1. A central statement will be announced to the class and you will define the two sides of the debate (Agree/Disagree).
2. Students move to the side of the room that they intend to defend.
3. An embedded timer will be set for 5 minutes, and the debate will start between the two groups.
4. Students attempt to keep contributions to less than 30 seconds each.
5. A new prompt is displayed and we start another round of quick debates.

What's Included:

• A teaching slide for "the why" of speed philosophical chairs
• A slide that includes the rules of engagement for students
• A slide for the steps of this speed philosophical chairs activity
• 20-speed philosophical chairs college-themed debate statements
• Preview (Optional)

*These resources are available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

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Check out more Speed Philosophical Chairs resources HERE!

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Use this Summer-themed end-of-the-year AVID speed philosophical chairs as an icebreaker or team-building activity! This resource helps to promote debate through dialogue and public speaking in your classroom and gets students excited for summer break! Students will learn what speed philosophical chairs is and they will enjoy some exciting dialogue through 20 fun debate topics.

For example, students will choose to agree or disagree with the statement, "summer break should be longer with fewer breaks during the school year."

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Directions:

1. A central statement will be announced to the class and you will define the two sides of the debate (Agree/Disagree).
2. Students move to the side of the room that they intend to defend.
3. An embedded timer will be set for 5 minutes, and the debate will start between the two groups.
4. Students attempt to keep contributions to less than 30 seconds each.
5. A new prompt is displayed and we start another round of quick debates.

What's Included:

• A teaching slide for "the why" of speed philosophical chairs
• A slide that includes the rules of engagement for students
• A slide for the steps of this speed philosophical chairs activity
• 20-speed philosophical chairs Christmas-themed debate statements
• A 5-minute silent timer embedded in each slide

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AVID iphone Memories Photo Album

Summer Roll a Story

AVID May Early Finisher Packet

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AVID Back to School Speed Philosophical Chairs Debate for Team Building: Use this speed philosophical chairs icebreaker activity to introduce your students to public speaking/listening and dialogue! Students will not only learn what speed philosophical chairs is but they will enjoy some exciting dialogue through 20 back to school themed debate topics!

For example, students will choose to agree or disagree with the statement, "everyone should be allowed to bring their pet to school."

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What's Included:

• A teach slide for "the why" of speed philosophical chairs
• A slide which includes the rules of engagement for students
• A slide for the steps of this speed philosophical chairs activity
• 20 speed philosophical chairs back to school themed statements
• A 5 minute silent timer embedded in each slide

The Steps:

1. A central statement will be announced to the class and we will define the two sides

of the debate (Agree/Disagree).

2. You will move to the side

of the room with the position that you intend to defend.

3. A timer will be set for 5 minutes, and the debate will start between the two groups.

4. Be concise and attempt to keep you contributions to less than 30 seconds each. The goal is to have an up-tempo debate, where the arguments for and against the prompt are batted back and forth with quick, verbal strokes. When the timer goes off, the conversation is immediately over.

5. A new prompt is displayed and we start another round of quick debates.

*These resources are available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

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AVID Thanksgiving Activity - Speed Philosophical Chairs Debate for Team Building: Use this speed philosophical chairs icebreaker to promote debate through dialogue and public speaking/listening in your classroom as well as get students in the Thanksgiving spirit! Students will not only learn what speed philosophical chairs is but they will enjoy some exciting dialogue through 20 fun debate topics.

For example, students will choose to agree or disagree with the statement, "You should not start decorating for Christmas until after Thanksgiving."

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What's Included:

• A teach slide for "the why" of speed philosophical chairs
• A slide which includes the rules of engagement for students
• A slide for the steps of this speed philosophical chairs activity
• 20 speed philosophical chairs Halloween themed debate statements
• A 5 minute silent timer embedded in each slide

The Steps:

1. A central statement will be announced to the class and we will define the two sides

of the debate (Agree/Disagree).

2. You will move to the side

of the room with the position that you intend to defend.

3. A timer will be set for 5 minutes, and the debate will start between the two groups.

4. Be concise and attempt to keep you contributions to less than 30 seconds each. The goal is to have an up-tempo debate, where the arguments for and against the prompt are batted back and forth with quick, verbal strokes. When the timer goes off, the conversation is immediately over.

5. A new prompt is displayed and we start another round of quick debates.

*These resources are available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

Check out other AVID resources HERE!

Check out more Speed Philosophical Chairs resources HERE!

Check out more Public Speaking resources HERE!

Check out more Collaboration resources HERE!

AVID Halloween - Speed Philosophical Chairs Debate Activity for Team Building: Use this speed philosophical chairs icebreaker team-building activity to promote debate through dialogue along with public speaking and listening skills in your classroom as well as get students in the Halloween spirit! Students will not only learn what speed philosophical chairs is but they will enjoy some exciting dialogue through 20 spooky debate topics.

For example, students will choose to agree or disagree with the statement, "You are never too old to trick-or-treat."

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What's Included:

• A teach slide for "the why" of speed philosophical chairs
• A slide which includes the rules of engagement for students
• A slide for the steps of this speed philosophical chairs activity
• 20 speed philosophical chairs Halloween themed debate statements
• A 5 minute silent timer embedded in each slide

The Steps:

1. A central statement will be announced to the class and we will define the two sides

of the debate (Agree/Disagree).

2. You will move to the side

of the room with the position that you intend to defend.

3. A timer will be set for 5 minutes, and the debate will start between the two groups.

4. Be concise and attempt to keep you contributions to less than 30 seconds each. The goal is to have an up-tempo debate, where the arguments for and against the prompt are batted back and forth with quick, verbal strokes. When the timer goes off, the conversation is immediately over.

5. A new prompt is displayed and we start another round of quick debates.

*These resources are available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

Check out other AVID resources HERE!

Check out more Speed Philosophical Chairs resources HERE!

Check out more Public Speaking resources HERE!

Check out more Collaboration resources HERE!

Use this Christmas-themed AVID speed philosophical chairs icebreaker team-building activity to promote debate through dialogue and public speaking in your classroom as well as get students in the Christmas spirit! Students will not only learn what speed philosophical chairs is but they will enjoy some exciting dialogue through 20 fun debate topics.

For example, students will choose to agree or disagree with the statement, "It is acceptable to play Christmas music after Halloween."

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Directions:

1. A central statement will be announced to the class and you will define the two sides of the debate (Agree/Disagree).
2. Students move to the side of the room that they intend to defend.
3. An embedded timer will be set for 5 minutes, and the debate will start between the two groups.
4. Students attempt to keep contributions to less than 30 seconds each.
5. A new prompt is displayed and we start another round of quick debates.

What's Included:

• A teaching slide for "the why" of speed philosophical chairs
• A slide that includes the rules of engagement for students
• A slide for the steps of this speed philosophical chairs activity
• 20-speed philosophical chairs Christmas-themed debate statements
• A 5-minute silent timer embedded in each slide

*These resources are available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

Check out other AVID Christmas Resources HERE!

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Check out more Speed Philosophical Chairs resources HERE!

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