This project contains a collection of problem solving activities that can be used across multiple grade levels. Each of the four activities has a back-to-school focus (team building, procedures, cooperation, etc.) that will engage and excite all students. This is a modified escape room activity, since it’s the beginning of the year and students are still learning classroom routines and procedures. There are several editable options to allow the activities to follow your personal classroom rules and procedures.

Here’s what’s included:

• Teacher Directions: Including a link to a detailed blog post with example set-up pictures.
• Student Directions: Easy to understand and student friendly.
• Clue 1: Students must all work together to complete the puzzle together. The pictures in the puzzle do not provide help, so this puzzle will be a bit challenging for students.
• Clue 2: Everyone wants to feel respected, so it’s important to use good social skills throughout the year. For this clue there are 12 different social situations where
  students should work with their group to determine what they should do in that situation. When students finish writing their responses, they will bring the recording sheet to the teacher to get a maze that will allow them to find the 3-digit code.
• Clue 3: Students will find members of their group who have completed the activities on the BINGO board and write their name on the line below the activity. Each group
  member must be on the board at least once. When students have a BINGO when they have 5 in a row, column, or diagonally. When they have a BINGO, bring you the
  recording sheet to get the Clue 3 code.
• Clue 4: In this activity, students review some of their classroom rules and procedures. Students will circle the correct option for each of the procedures. The letters circled are the letters needed for the 5-letter lock.This activity is 100% editable.

This can be used with Breakout Edu boxes or with your own boxes and locks. If you do not have boxes and locks, you may use the digital version, where students submit their answers on Google Forms.

Total Pages: 22
File Size: 16 MB

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Incorporate reading standards while teaching students about holidays around the world with these interactive notebook activities!

Save by purchasing both of my Holidays Around the World products in this Holidays Around the World Bundle!

What’s Included?

• A picture of a completed interactive notebook entry for each country/culture.
• A black and white version of each activity.
• I’ve include two options for some countries to keep the interactive notebooks flexible for all classroom needs. All countries come with one generic template where students can record what they learned, facts, important info, etc.
• There is a second version for most countries that requires students to apply reading skills and strategies from the Common Core Language Arts Standards for Informational Text. For instance, students may have to determine the text structure of the passage they were reading about that holiday or need to identify the point of view of the passage.

Countries/Cultures Included:

• Australia
• Brazil
• France
• Germany
• Greenland
• Israel
• Italy
• Kwanzaa
• Mexico
• Sweden
• Spain
• United States

What About the Reading Passages
This product does NOT contain reading passages for holidays around the world. I’ve written them so they can be used with any text. I plan to use these activities with my Holidays Around the World Close Reading pack. That product includes three reading passages for each of the countries/cultures included in this pack, along with close reading questions and writing prompts.

Check these other holiday products!
Twas the Week Before Christmas
Christmas Math Centers

Total Pages: 77
File Size: 18 MB

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The resource includes my Holidays Around the World Interactive Notebook and my Holidays Around the World Close Reading resources!

What’s Included in the interactive notebook?

• A picture of a completed interactive notebook entry for each country/culture.
• A color and black and white version of each activity to save on colored ink.
• Two interactive notebook templates for each country.

What’s Included in the close reading product?

• 10 nonfiction reading passages based on ten cultures/nations holiday celebrations. Each passage is written on three different reading levels to make differentiation a little easier.
• 3 sets of questions for each set of passages. The first set of questions requires students to cite evidence in the text, and the second set of questions require students to analyze the text structure and word choice of the passage. The third set of questions have students respond to a question that promotes high order thinking.

Countries/Cultures Included:

• Australia
• Brazil
• France
• Germany
• Greenland
• Israel
• Italy
• Kwanzaa
• Mexico
• Sweden
• Spain
• United States

Check these other holiday products!

• Twas the Week Before Christmas
• Christmas Math Centers

Total Pages: 279
File Size: 88 MB

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