6th Grade Problem Solving Activities

Crossword puzzle using words related to school. Great way to get the kids brains to begin working after the long summer break!

This is a great sheet for following directions and coming up with a strategy to follow those directions. It checks reading comprehension and knowing left and right as well. I use it with 6th graders to show how important carefully following directions can be. It could easily be used with younger grades or possibly older grades as well.

Kids will LOVE this pack of 30 Days of Silly STEM Building Challenge Task Cards based on silly stories! There is a printable PDF, as well as Google Slides perfect for distance learning and back to school. Pair these problem solving cards with the STEAM / STEM activities and use them in a variety of ways. Use them in Makerspaces, morning tubs or centers, as an activity for early finishers, or rewards for a great day!

**Perfect for classrooms, distance learning, homeschool, and even parents just looking for a fun, adventure filled activity for their children.**

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Distance Learning Compatible: This product can be downloaded as a printable PDF or copied into Google Slides. This will allow you to send the product to your students as an editable document. Download as a PowerPoint to upload to Microsoft Teams.

What’s included in the 21 page PDF download, as well as the 38 Google Slides:

PDF

• 7 pages of 30 unique full color challenge task cards
• 2 STEAM / STEM worksheets in full color for early and upper elementary
• Instructions Page
• Terms of Use
• Black and white copies of the instructions, task cards, and STEM / STEAM printables

Google Slides

• 30 Individual Google Slides for each daily challenge
• 5 STEM / STEAM slides for discussion, with space to type in responses to the questions
• Instructions
• Terms of Use

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How can you use these task cards?

• Have the task cards available in makerspaces, centers, tubs, busy boxes, morning baskets, or available for early finishers to complete using ANY available materials. Students can even draw their creations instead of building them!

• Use one card a day during morning time. Have students fill out a STEAM / STEM worksheet or discuss and use the Google Slides as a class.

• Use them for public speaking practice. Allow students to build and then show and tell with the class or their parents. They can discuss what they made, liked, what they would improve, and how it solved the problem on the task cards. They can practice speaking and listening skills, using loud and clear voices, and giving full attention to the speaker. Encourage students to ask questions to their classmates.

• Ideally the goal is to do one challenge a day, but you could certainly allow students to do more than one.

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Why do I think you will love this product, and what makes my challenge set unique?

I love silly stories that bring humor and adventure to life for kids, but also that force them to use their imaginations in fun and exciting ways. This challenge task set does exactly that through the loose wacky stories where they are the main character. Silly scenarios, adventure and disaster, problem solving, and learning, are all part of the experience when building these challenges.

Most building challenge task cards are independent from each other. “Build a boat,” or “build an airplane,” are common themes among the cards. While those are fantastic, and we have done many of them ourselves, I wanted to do something different and more cohesive and engaging for kids.

The only rule is to HAVE FUN and allow those imaginations to soar!

**Please note that while the intent is for these to be independent, early readers may need some assistance in reading the cards.**

**This is not an editable document.**

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Back-to-School Word Search : Engaging Topics for 5th Grade

This comprehensive word search bundle is designed to excite and engage 5th-grade students as they return to school. With a variety of engaging topics, this bundle provides hours of educational fun.

Topics included:

• Academic Focus: Math, science, reading, writing, history, geography, language arts, school supplies, school terms, school activities
• Fun and Seasonal: Fall, autumn activities, school events, classroom pets
• Current Events and Trends: Technology, social issues, environmental awareness, pop culture
• Personal Growth and Development: Goals, character traits, emotions, self-care

Features:

• Comprehensive coverage: A wide range of topics to cater to diverse interests.
• Age-appropriate vocabulary: Words are carefully selected to suit the vocabulary and comprehension level of 5th graders.
• Engaging themes: Fun and relevant topics to keep students motivated.
• Printable format: Easy to download and print for classroom use.

Benefits:

• Educational value: Reinforces important vocabulary and concepts.
• Engaging activity: Provides a fun and interactive way to learn.
• Time-saving resource: Ready-to-use worksheets for teachers.
• Differentiated learning: Suitable for students of varying abilities.

This word search bundle is a valuable resource for teachers looking to enhance their classroom activities and make learning fun. Download today and start the new school year with a bang!

Make any kids' activity time a blast (with ZERO prep)! Featuring 6 puzzle challenges that reveal a final secret code, this fun and engaging printable game will be a huge hit for kids ages 7-12.

How is this Escape the Museum Placemat Game NO PREP?

NO LOCKS

NO HIDING

NO CUTTING, FOLDING, OR TAPING/GLUING

YOU LITERALLY JUST PRINT & GO

Our escape room game is designed to be easy to set up and play, with no props or complicated instructions required. Kids can complete the puzzles individually or in small groups, making it a great activity for classrooms, youth groups, or team-building exercises. With no cutting, folding, or taping required, our no-prep escape room allows you to start experiencing the thrill of the escape room today, while only having to do one task: print the placemat!

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THE INSTANT DOWNLOAD?

~one Escape the Museum-themed placemat game

~sizes 11x8.5 and 18x12

~black and white or faint image background

~Answer key

Gameplay: 20-30 minutes

Ages: 7-12

Number of players: As many as you want!

HOW DO YOU PLAY?

1. Print the one-sheet game.
2. Read the instructions at the top of the page to get started (each puzzle has additional instructions).
3. Start where indicated and follow the directions to solve the puzzle. The answer to the puzzle will direct you to which direction to take in the maze.
4. Continue solving the puzzles and taking the correct direction in the maze. Once all puzzles are completed, collect the letters from the maze in the path taken.
5. Finally, unscramble the letters to get the secret code.

WHAT GAMES ARE INCLUDED?

~Lockbox

~Text Message

~Atbash Cipher

~Line, Word, Letter

~First Place

~Pictogram

WHAT DO I NEED AND HOW DOES IT WORK?

Print the one-page placemat and hand them out with a pencil. THAT’S IT! No other prep is required!

WHERE WOULD I USE THIS GAME?

~Rainy or sick day

~Parties

~Restaurant activity

~Gift or reward

~Teambuilding Game

~Fast-finisher activity

~Welcome activity

This project rubric was designed with student input. There is a one-page rubric that focuses on self-assessment, but that also has space for students to comment on how their team worked. There is space for teacher comments as well. This is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards.

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Empower learners to handle money transactions confidently with our comprehensive ABA program focused on independent money skills. This digital download is ideal for educators, therapists, and parents seeking to teach essential skills for counting money, determining totals, and calculating change. The program includes a detailed instruction sheet and a vending machine visual to make learning engaging and practical.

What's Included:

1. Program Instruction Sheet: A step-by-step guide on how to implement the independent money skills program. This sheet includes detailed instructions, goals, and strategies to ensure effective teaching and learning.
2. Vending Machine Visual: A colorful and interactive visual aid designed to simulate real-life purchasing scenarios. Learners can practice selecting items, counting money, and determining the total cost, enhancing their understanding through hands-on experience.

Key Features:

• Comprehensive Guide: The instruction sheet provides clear and detailed steps for teaching money skills, making it easy for educators and parents to implement the program effectively.
• Interactive Learning: The vending machine visual creates a fun and engaging way for learners to practice money transactions, helping them apply skills in a realistic context.
• Skill Development: Focuses on crucial money skills such as counting coins and bills, calculating the total cost of items, and determining the correct change to receive from the cashier.
• Versatile Use: Suitable for a variety of learning environments, including classrooms, therapy sessions, and home use, providing flexibility for different educational needs.

Equip your learners with the skills they need to handle money transactions independently with our Independent Money Skills ABA Program. Download today to provide a comprehensive, engaging, and practical learning experience!

• My students had so much fun doing this, they didn't want it to end! Four Disney villains are being brought to court with charges and your students will either prosecute or defend them in "court":

• Ursula - The Little Mermaid: Fraud & Exploitation

• Scar - The Lion King: Manslaughter & Environmental Crimes

• Gaston - Beauty & The Beast: Attempted Murder & Inciting a Riot

• Lady Tremaine - Cinderella: Emotional Abuse/Neglect & Exploitation

Assign your students to be prosecutors and defenders with their own custom files. Each team has their own responsibilities and will need to craft their argument well to win the judge & jury.

-Reinforce learning of claim, support, point of view and more!

- Students need to support their claims with facts from the movie. Perfect for an argumentative unit!

*Lesson has been adapted with extensive sentence stems and examples. Teacher made examples are also included. This is a scaled activity that all students can do without too much teacher intervention.

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Struggling with challenging behaviors? This comprehensive behavioral management bundle is your one-stop shop for creating a positive and productive environment, whether you're a teacher, parent, or caregiver.

Here's what you'll get:

• Engaging Google Slides: Deliver interactive presentations that keep students interested and actively involved in learning key behavioral management concepts.
• Reinforcing Workbook: Solidify understanding with practical exercises and activities that help students retain information and develop essential skills.
• Hands-on Printables: Put theory into practice with downloadable resources that make learning fun and engaging.

Benefits for Students:

• Improved Self-Regulation: Develop the ability to manage emotions and impulses, leading to better decision-making and increased focus.
• Enhanced Social Skills: Learn effective communication and conflict resolution techniques to foster positive relationships with peers and adults.
• Stronger Academic Performance: Create a classroom environment conducive to learning by minimizing distractions and promoting positive behavior.
• Increased Confidence: Gain a sense of accomplishment and self-worth by learning to manage behaviors effectively.

Master These Key Areas:

• Behavior Modification Techniques: Explore proven strategies to encourage positive behavior change.
• Positive Reinforcement Strategies: Discover effective ways to praise and reward desired behaviors, fostering a sense of motivation and accomplishment.
• Conflict Resolution Skills: Learn how to navigate disagreements constructively and develop solutions that work for everyone.

Say goodbye to frustration and hello to:

• A calmer and more organized learning environment
• Stronger student-teacher relationships
• Improved academic outcomes
• A sense of empowerment and self-control for students

This comprehensive bundle is designed to be practical and easy to implement. See positive results quickly and take control of challenging behaviors. Transform your interactions with students and create a thriving learning environment. Don't miss out on this opportunity to become a master of behavioral management! Order now and see the difference it can make!

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Move your mastery meter from "empty" to "full" as you use the chart to find expert peer tutors in your class. By the end of the semester, students' skills will improve through the use of peer tutoring. Easy to follow directions with lined chart.

Back to School Easy mazes are the best activities for brain teasing labyrinths, these exercises support learning through play by developing concentration and problem solving skills.

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This is a one page handout which provides numerous strategies to support an individual to learn to take turns. This is a great handout for parents, carers and/or other allied health professionals. This resource has been very valuable and beneficial in supporting children with learning difficulties, cognitive impairments and/or intellectual disabilities to learn how to take turns.

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SOCIAL SKILLS, PUBERTY, PROTECTIVE BEHAVIOURS, RELATIONSHIPS AND SEXUALITY

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How My Engine Runs Social Story

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This creative Stained-Glass Tree Painting Unit was designed to be printed and displayed as examples while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. For this assignment, I asked students to practice drawing different trees. Next, I taught students how to draw a tree that has branches extending to the edge of the paper. I demonstrated how to outline and fill in the tree. Students created their own stained-glass tree artwork on Final Copy Paper. Students outlined and colored their artwork. Students used mostly watercolor paints for their artwork. I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

Looking for fun activities to keep your early and fast finishers busy? Looking for fun activities for the first days or week back to school? Wish you didn't have to lesson plan? Need fun puzzles, games, and activities to keep students on task after break?

This money-saving bundle is now over 30% off and includes 13 best-selling flipbooks that will be game-changers in your classroom! Buy now and receive every flipbook added to this bundle in the future for free!

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Use these interactive flipbooks for Early Finishers or at any time of year for a no-prep, yet FUN learning activity that kids will actually enjoy doing! Looking for fun games and puzzles that early finishers can pull out at the drop of a hat? Check out these printable flipbooks that are the perfect fillers for keeping kids busy while also being challenged.

Each flipbook prints on a single page. After students put together their flipbook, let them keep it in their folders so they can use it after testing or whenever they finish work early. Purchase once, and this product can be used year after year! Pull this sheet out as students for an easy and engaging activity.

This resource requires NO PREP - simply print and go! This flip book can be printed in black and white or on color paper, but it only requires 1 sheet for the each flip book! Simply cut, glue or staple the flaps and your students have an amazing activity at their fingertips.

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Simply print and go! These flipbooks can be used in a multitude of ways. Keep them on hand to use later! This is a Growing Bundle, which means any new Flipbooks created will be added to this file and can be downloaded at no additional cost!!

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PERFECT FOR...

• early finishers
• soft starts
• fillers
• holidays
• morning work
• independent classwork
• small groups
• after break
• class games
• end of day
• after testing
• end of the year
• brain breaks
• sub work
• rewards

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Check out the Pop Culture ACTIVITY BUNDLE - your solution to no-stress lesson planning and easy print and go sub plans.

INCLUDES THESE HIGH-INTEREST TOPICS FOR TEENS...

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6-Page Article & Activity Sets - Includes 8 Sets!

Each set includes...

► 1-page pop culture article

► Reading Comprehension - 7 multiple choice questions

► Critical Thinking - 5 short answer questions

► Crossword Puzzle

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► Impossible MAZE

This Pop Culture Bundle for Middle School will make your students WANT to work and stay on task as they read about high-interest trending topics among teens. Also available for High School and Upper Elementary School.

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This product includes 1 social story that focuses on bullying. Students will also learn the meanings of the following words: bullying, vulnerable, feeling left out, and empathy.

In this product that relates with bullying, students learn what makes a bully a bully, how you can stop bullying if it happens, when being bullied what can be done to handle a situation, and what to do when bullied. Students will then be required to reflect on a time when they were bullied.

The social story includes comprehension questions throughout. Some of the questions require students to put their feet in the shoes of the characters. At the end of this product, there are 4 role-playing scenario cards that will require students to discuss bullying, how students would feel in a given situation that relates with bullying, and what students can do when they are bullied or when someone else is bullied.

Unlocking Logic: 20 Engaging Puzzles for Grades 5–8 is a fun and challenging collection of brain teasers designed to boost critical thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving skills in middle school students. This ebook features 20 diverse puzzles, including number patterns, riddles, code-breaking, magic squares, logic grids, spatial reasoning, and more. Each puzzle is crafted to spark curiosity and encourage creative thinking, making it perfect for classroom use, homework, enrichment, or early finishers.

The puzzles vary in difficulty and style to engage a wide range of learners and support flexible use across grades 5–8. Students are encouraged to work individually or in pairs, explore multiple strategies, and build resilience through thoughtful problem-solving. A full answer key is provided to support self-checking and guided discussion.

Whether you're a teacher looking to inspire your class or a parent wanting to support logical thinking at home, this ebook is the perfect companion for building sharp minds—one puzzle at a time!

This resource is a simple template for an apology letter. While working with middle school students, I heard a lot of snarky comments being spewed without much forethought. I started having students write apology letters when those comments came out. The template is designed to help students think about their intentions, how they likely made the other person feel, and what they will do differently in the future.

Imagine turning your classroom into an exciting escape room adventure where students are engaged and eager to learn! The "French Halloween Escape Room - The Spooky Subway" offers a fun way to enhance vocabulary acquisition through interactive challenges focused on Halloween themes. With 27 pages, including 6 challenges, teacher instructions, an answer key, and tracking sheets, this resource is designed to make your teaching experience smoother and more effective.

You can introduce the escape room as a special end-of-unit activity or as part of a Halloween celebration. With both printable and digital formats, you can easily adapt the resource to fit **different learning styles and classroom settings.**The included Google Forms link and QR code allow for easy access, making it simple to create a memorable learning experience!

Download the “Free French Escape Room Rewards" now and celebrate your students' achievements in a fun and engaging way!

SKILLS TARGETED

- Reading

- Comprehension

- French Halloween Vocabulary

- Critical Thinking

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Are you looking for a different approach to using the Scientific Method/ Engineering Design Process? “Can They Do That?” is a "TV-show type" series that presents things made in the movies/television and challenges the students to prove or disprove "Can They Do That?" This first episode looks at a hot air balloon contraption built out of hair dryers and trash bags on the A-Team.

Students start the lesson by watching a clip from a TV show (included in PowerPoint). They are presented with a “problem” by the TV Show Host and then they work through the EDP.

This lesson includes the Video Introduction embedded in a PowerPoint with a Student Handout that guides students research, prototype and solution.

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The Summer Crossword Puzzle is a fun and engaging activity that tests your knowledge and vocabulary related to the summer season. This crossword puzzle is specifically designed to celebrate the joys and activities associated with summer.

The crossword puzzle is a great way to challenge yourself and have fun while expanding your summer-related vocabulary. It encourages critical thinking, problem-solving, and word recognition skills. Whether you're enjoying a sunny beach day or staying indoors during a summer rain shower, this crossword puzzle is a perfect way to pass the time and enjoy the spirit of summer.

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• 5 Coloring PAGES
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