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Common Core RI.2.1 resources for Gifted and Talented
Project Based Learning Activity: Ancient Greece Social Studies PBL
These ancient civilization activities put your students in the shoes of a travel agent preparing to send their clients back in time to Ancient Greece!Time Travel to Ancient Greece is a social studies project based learning activity (PBL) that results in a sales pitch to potential clients. Along the way, students will research, make real-life decisions, all while learning more about this ancient civilization, developing 21st-century skills, communicating, designing, and working on financial skill
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Project Based Learning Activities: Social Studies PBL BUNDLE
Project Based Learning Activity: Ancient Egypt Social Studies PBL
This interactive PBL activity puts your students in the shoes of a museum curator designing an authentic Ancient Egyptian museum experience!Ancient Egyptian Museum is a social studies project based learning activity (PBL) that results in a commercial to entice potential guests. Along the way, students will research, make real-life decisions, all while learning more about this ancient civilization, developing 21st-century skills, communicating, and designing. This PBL is self-differentiating, mea
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
Also included in:Â Project Based Learning Activities: Social Studies PBL BUNDLE
Moonshot by Brian Floca Apollo 11 PRIMARY GATE Lessons -- Rocket Model
Astronauts, space ships, and the moon . . . what kid doesn’t like that kind of stuff, huh? We should build a space ship!
Here’s another collection of lessons and activities for your primary gifted and talented groups. It’s full of hands-on activities across the curriculum, critical thinking questions, participatory reading, and age-appropriate primary source lessons. As always, you’ll get ready-to-print activity sheets, explanations, pictures to lead you through, and Common Core State Standa
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Kindergarten and 1st Grade GATE Bundle - Gifted and Talented and Advanced
Project Based Learning Activity: Ancient China Social Studies PBL
This PBL puts your students in the shoes of an Ancient Chinese newspaper creator!This Ancient China newspaper PBL is a social studies project based learning activity (PBL) that results in a newspaper that is engaging and intriguing to readers. Along the way, students will research, make real-life decisions, all while learning more about this ancient civilization, developing 21st-century skills, communicating, and designing. This PBL is self-differentiating, meaning that students have the ability
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
Also included in:Â Project Based Learning Activities: Social Studies PBL BUNDLE
STEM Units 2nd Grade: Science COMPLETE YEAR Grade 2 Activities & STEM Challenges
STEM Units of Study Bundle Using the 5E model includes FOUR STEM Units of Study with 90 activities, lesson plans, challenges, inquiries, science, engineering, technology, math, and literature integration, as well as a complete curriculum to teach each unit. These units are aligned to NGSS (The Next Generation Science Standards.)Each unit is four-six weeks of STEM for your second graders. Each day focuses on the 5E model and provides you with the exact tools to illustrate the concepts. All of the
Grades:
2nd
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 2-PS1-4
, 2-LS4-1
 ...
Rube Goldberg Machines - 11 day Cross-Curricular Unit
Rube Goldberg was an engineer-turned-cartoonist who is best known for his comics with ridiculous inventions. This action-packed, engaging, and rigorous unit includes 11 days worth of lessons where students learn about Rube Goldberg, create a comic, design and build a machine, and then create a video summary of their learning. These lessons are great for gifted/talented students!This download includes: 11 detailed lessonsDifferentiated student worksheetsDesign Brief TemplateAn video alternative f
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Informational Text Second Grade Choice Menus Choice Boards
These choice boards cover all of the second grade informational text standards. These boards provide easy differentiation for your students, as well as provide enrichment activities for your early finishers.In this unit you will find 13 choice boards. These boards have 10 mini choice boards, one for each second grade literature standard and 3 choice boards sorted by the different domains.On each mini choice board, you will find 8 activities for your students to use with their independent inform
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1st - 3rd
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Matter Interaction STEM and STEAM
Studying matter properties? This matter project challenges students to create objects from the same set of pieces by taking them apart and putting together in a new way. Students show how solid matter changes. The engineering design process helps students investigate, plan, create, improve, and evaluate designs. Students observe and write a report on findings. A leveled text and writing prompts round out this jammed packed physical science set! Next Generation Science Standard Alignment: 2-PS1-3
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, 2-PS1-3
Also included in:Â STEM Activities STEM Challenges
Text Features Graphic Organizers
These nature-themed graphic organizers are PERFECT for practicing text features! They are Common Core aligned and will help your students learn how to navigate all those nonfiction books! Use them during whole group instruction, guided reading, and independent reading times, including Reader’s Workshop time. They are also GREAT for independent work for your GT students! You may need to gather an armload of appropriate books from your own closet or the library but other than that, these are n
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Who Would Win on Land? (Reading Response)
Do you struggle to get your boys interested in reading? The "Who Would Win?" book series by Jerry Pallotta is perfect for them. Students read engaging and informative facts about the two different animals and respond to their reading with this organizer. Students must read the facts and determine who is the winner in multiple categories. There are also writing opportunities for students to determine the advantages one animal has over the other. Students may write to change the ending based on wh
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
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Magic Tree House Activities Pirates Past Noon
Are you looking for help in teaching Pirates Past Noon from The Magic Tree House series? This comprehensive bundle will make teaching the book easy for you and fun for your students. Don't travel a swashbuckling adventure without this colorful literary unit to guide you with questions and activities to go along with Mary Pope Osborne's The Magic Treehouse adventure, Pirates Past Noon. I've even included enough fun transitions to keep attention without losing class time with too much splash. So c
Grades:
K - 2nd
Independent Science Experiment Grades 3 & 4
This product contains one simple science experiment that can be done independently by third and fourth graders. I have done this activity with second graders, but with teacher guidance. The fact sheet may be too difficult to read for early second graders. Materials needed are: a baby-food jar or small, clear water bottle, water, food coloring, a liquid measuring cup & cooking oil
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2nd - 4th
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Famous American Inventors {Franklin}
Updated with a cut and paste timeline and display timeline.
This is a packet that centers around Benjamin Franklin
There is a comprehension passage, comprehension questions, graphic organizers, writing prompts, time lines, vocabulary page, and flip book.
This is included in the Famous America Inventors #2 - Please do not purchase both - you will get the same information. If you have any questions or comments, please email me: ilovetheflgators@gmail.com
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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CCSS:
Brain Growers Early Asian Civilizations; No-Prep Creative Thinking CKLA G2D2
Brain Growers are designed to get your students thinking critically, ethically, and creatively. This download includes 17 engaging printables that can be used many ways in your classroom, such as:early finisher activitiesindependent work during small group rotationshomework projectswhole class assignmentssmall group assignmentssubstitute workenrichment for gifted and talented studentsand more!All of the printable activities in this download are related to Early Asian Civilizations, CKLA Grade 2
Grades:
2nd
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Adventures With Jules Verne
This curriculum is designed as a companion to the Jules Verne classics, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days. Each Unit will have assignments for all three subjects: Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science. You can help your student by adapting the assignments to meet their abilities. If you follow the Recommended Timeline, you should have five Learning Periods (5 months) worth of work in Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies!This curriculum was designed to be fu
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Be A Perfect Person in Just Three Days! Literary Unit
Are you looking for a book unit to go along with your novel study of Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days? If so, here is just the lesson bundle to engage and challenge your students with this complete literacy unit in PowerPoint for Be A Perfect Person in Just Three Days! I have used this unit with my third and fourth grade gifted classes and with fifth graders, too. Many kids struggle with perfectionism, so this book sends a great message for kids.Inside you'll find:Introduction to the Novel
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Grades:
4th
Brain Growers Cycles in Nature: Aligned with CKLA Grade 2 Domain 6
Brain Growers are designed to get your students thinking critically, ethically, and creatively. This download includes 14 engaging printable activities that can be used many ways in your classroom, such as:early finisher activitiesindependent work during small group rotationshomework projectswhole class assignmentssmall group assignmentssubstitute workenrichment for gifted and talented studentsand more!All of the printable activities in this download are aligned to Cycles in Nature, CKLA Grade 2
Grades:
2nd
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Brain Growers War of 1812: Aligned to CKLA Grade 2 Domain 5
Brain Growers are designed to get your students thinking critically, ethically, and creatively. This download includes 8 engaging printable activities that can be used many ways in your classroom, such as:early finisher activitiesindependent work during small group rotationshomework projectswhole class assignmentssmall group assignmentssubstitute workenrichment for gifted and talented studentsand more!All of the printable activities in this download are aligned to War of 1812, CKLA Grade 2 Domai
Grades:
2nd
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Brain Growers Insects: No-Prep Critical, Creative, and Ethical Thinking
Brain Growers are designed to get your students thinking critically, ethically, and creatively. This download includes 23 engaging printable activities that can be used many ways in your classroom, such as:early finisher activitiesindependent work during small group rotationshomework projectswhole class assignmentssmall group assignmentssubstitute workenrichment for gifted and talented studentsand more!All of the printable activities in this download are aligned to Insects, CKLA Grade 2 Domain 8
Grades:
1st - 4th
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Literacy and Engineering: Snowflake Bentley
Challenge your students to think and problem solve as they work on this winter themed STEM challenge. Your students will work on character traits, making observations in nature, and problem-solving. This activity includes a suggested read aloud, lesson plan, graphic organizer, and a STEM challenge. The STEM challenge includes a design page where students must describe the problem, plan their design by sketching and labeling, evaluate their end product, and make suggestions for improvement. Thi
Grades:
K - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Interactive Story and STEM bundle Work Book
This package includes the story, multiple STEM and ELA based activities through interactive web links, interactive Google files, and printable material. Assessment quizzes are also included to round out the lessons.Pumpus Has a Flowing Idea is an inspiring story recommended by the NSTA (National Science Teaching Association) for kids ages 4-9. Pumpus' limitless creativity and imagination will inspire budding young inventors to imagine their own ways to solve real-world problems. Children will di
Grades:
PreK - 4th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-PS2-1
, 4-PS3-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Bundle- Literacy and Engineering Winter Challenges
Challenge your students to think and problem solve as they work on this winter themed STEM challenge bundle. Your students will work on literacy skills, making observations, and problem-solving. These activities include suggested read alouds, lesson plans, graphic organizers, and STEM challenges. The STEM challenges include planning, sketching, labeling, recording observations, and reflecting. These activities are a great addition to learning centers and enrichment activities. The activitie
Grades:
K - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
 ...
Editable Differentiated Main Idea and Supporting Details_Raccoons
This is a 26 page differentiated informational NF reading passage set with in depth activities centered around RACCOONS. This product is a main idea and supporting details product. It is differentiated to support multiple levels of learners approximately 2nd through 5th grade. The activities give an opportunity to fully engage with the text in a number of ways. There are also a couple of additional activities for extension as needed. These include the opportunity for the student to draw and
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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Brain Growers- Human Body: No-Prep Critical, Creative, and Ethical Thinking
Brain Growers are designed to get your students thinking critically, ethically, and creatively. This download includes 20 engaging printable activities that can be used many ways in your classroom, such as:early finisher activitiesindependent work during small group rotationshomework projectswhole class assignmentssmall group assignmentssubstitute workenrichment for gifted and talented studentsand more!All of the printable activities in this download are aligned to Human Body, CKLA Grade 2 Domai
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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