3rd grade english language arts internet activities for GATE

Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Close Reading, Informational Text

Holidays Around the World is a fun and engaging way to introduce students to different winter holidays celebrated around the world. Each of the holidays represented has an informational paragraph about the holiday, a short video, and a game to play to find the clue for the escape room. The holidays represented are:Christmas in AmericaLas Posadas (Mexico)Kwanzaa (African inspired)Christmas in AustraliaChinese New YearDiwaliHanukkahSt. Lucia DayCheck out the preview and video to see more!How does

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Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1

Also included in: Holiday Digital Escape Room Growing Bundle - Breakouts All Through the Year

Pronouns Digital Escape Room for Grammar - ELA Resource - Test Prep

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English Language Arts, Gifted and Talented, Grammar

This pronoun escape room is an engaging way for kids to review and practice pronoun skills. This digital escape is paperless and requires NO PREP! All you do is assign the link to your students and they are immediately engaged in their learning. Escape rooms allow students to practice skills and use problem-solving to figure out puzzles to unlock the locks, all while learning about pronouns. Can they crack the code? This escape room has skills for:Subject pronounsObject pronounsPossessive pronou

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Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Also included in: Grammar Growing Bundle Digital Escape Rooms Parts of Speech {Upper Elementary}

Oregon Trail Learn about Pioneers Interactive Digital Escape Game

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Gifted and Talented, Informational Text, U.S. History

Try this FREE sample to check out how they work! The Oregon Trail Interactive Learning Experience/Escape Room, is a fun and engaging way to introduce students to Westward Expansion, the pioneers, and the Oregon Trail. Each topic covered has an informational passage a video about the topic being covereda video about the stop along the traila puzzle to solve to find the clue for the escape rooma 'just for fun' game for early finishers Can they crack the code?At each stop along the trail, different

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

RI.3.10

, RI.4.10

, RI.5.10

, RI.6.10

Verbs Digital Escape Room Upper Elementary Action, Agreement, Tenses, Helping...

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English Language Arts, Gifted and Talented, Grammar

This verb escape room is an engaging way for kids to review and practice verb skills. These activities are good to use for test prep. Escape rooms allow students to practice skills and use problem-solving to figure out puzzles to unlock the locks. Can they crack the code? This escape room has skills for:action verbssubject/verb agreementsimple verb tenses (past, present, future)helping verbslinking verbsCheck out the preview and video to see what your kids will be learning!How does it work?Stude

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Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Enriching Elementary with Amanda

CCSS:

L.3.1

, L.3.1a

, L.3.1d

, L.3.1e

, L.3.1f

...

Also included in: Grammar Growing Bundle Digital Escape Rooms Parts of Speech {Upper Elementary}

Orbit Enrichment Project

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This is the perfect project for gifted or early finishers. You could alsogive to the whole class as a ”May Do” assignment when they’re finishedwith their “Must Do” tasks. This project can be used in various ways.Choice is powerful with students, especially when providing enrichment foradvanced students. Your students will surprise you with their end result.Students pick a topic that “orbits” around something they’ve learnedabout or are learning about in their grade level. For example: division,v

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies - History

Grades:

2nd - 6th

Types:

Projects, GATE

Also included in: Enrichment Activity Growing Bundle

Pasquala — Hyperlinked PDF project to accompany novel

Created by

Ms Cookie

This product has been reworked with chapters split apart, images and links added, and questions updated. More than 30 links are embedded in this PDF. These links provide curated research, videos, and more. Questions and activities have been developed to aid and deepen comprehension and spark critical thinking. It can be used individually or as a class; use all or part of it; the many links to enrichment material make it ideal for early finishers and great for homeschoolers, too. This is a great

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Native Americans, Science

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

CCSS:

...

CRITICAL THINKING TASK CARDS Word Relationships TRIADS I Literacy

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Combine critical thinking with vocabulary development and have fun doing it with TRIADS I. Teach your students to use Bloom's upper level skills -- analysis, evaluation, and creation with TRIADS I. At the same time, they will be exploring word relationships. This resource is available in print and digitally on TPT Easel. HOW TRIADS WORKThe challenge in this activity is to find 1 word that can be added to each of the TRIAD words to make a well-known phrase or compound word. The common word may b

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

Enriching Elementary with Amanda

Also included in: CRITICAL THINKING BUNDLE Triads 1.0 Literacy Centers Vocabulary Task Cards

Depth + Complexity Prompts BUNDLE / Printable + Online

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Online or in person project that includes the *ORIGINAL* AND *NEWER* depth and complexity prompts/GATE Icons which are great for all learners, especially gifted students.INCLUDES:+ Teacher Guide Instructions+ Google Slides Prompts with original and newer prompts+ Printable 1/2 Sheets with both original and newer promptsThere are *multiple* ways to complete this project. You could assign specific slides alongside another resource for students to complete with!+ FREEBIE INCLUDED +Depth + Complexi

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies - History

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Enriching Elementary with Amanda

Depth + Complexity Prompts 1 / PRINTABLE + DIGITAL

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Great note takers that are PRINTABLE -or- DIGITAL that include the *ORIGINAL* depth and complexity prompts/GATE Icons which are great for all learners, especially gifted students.INCLUDES:+ Teacher Guide Instructions+ Google Slides Prompts with 13 slides+ Printable Half Sheets with 13 slidesThere are *multiple* ways to complete this project. You could assign specific slides alongside another resource for students to complete with!+ FREEBIE +Depth + Complexity Prompts/GATE Icons Guide

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies - History

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Also included in: Depth + Complexity Prompts BUNDLE / Printable + Online

CRITICAL THINKING TASK CARDS Word Relationships TRIADS II Literacy

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TRIADS II combine critical thinking with vocabulary development, while building word relationships. Teach your students to use Bloom’s upper level thinking skills – analysis, synthesis, and creation – while having fun! These task cards are available in print and digitally on TPT Easel.HOW TRIADS WORKFind a word that can be added to each of the words on the TRIAD. The common word comes before or after each of the 3 words to make a familiar phrase or a compound word. Example: The common word for

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Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

Also included in: CRITICAL THINKING BUNDLE Triads 1.0 Literacy Centers Vocabulary Task Cards

Adverbs Digital Escape Room for Grammar - Upper Elementary ELA Resource

Created by

English Language Arts, Gifted and Talented, Grammar

This adverb escape room is an engaging way for kids to review and practice adverb skills. This digital escape is paperless and requires NO PREP! All you do is assign the link to your students and they are immediately engaged in their learning. Escape rooms allow students to practice skills and use problem-solving to figure out puzzles to unlock the locks, all while learning about adverbs. Can they crack the code? This escape room has skills for:learning what an adverb is and that it modifies ver

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Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Also included in: Grammar Growing Bundle Digital Escape Rooms Parts of Speech {Upper Elementary}

Adjectives Digital Escape Room {Upper Elementary} - Grammar - Adjective Arena

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English Language Arts, Gifted and Talented, Grammar

This adjective escape room is an engaging way for kids to review and practice adjective skills. These activities are good to use for test prep. Escape rooms allow students to practice skills and use problem-solving to figure out puzzles to unlock the locks. Can they crack the code? This escape room has skills for:learning what an adjective is and that it describes a nounhow to identify adjectives in sentencescomparative and superlative adjectivesarticle adjectiveslearning about the different cat

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Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Also included in: Grammar Growing Bundle Digital Escape Rooms Parts of Speech {Upper Elementary}

Martin Luther King Jr. Biography Interactive Activity- Learn About Black History

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Black History Month, Close Reading, Social Studies - History

This Martin Luther King, Jr. Interactive Activity introduces your students to this great leader of the civil rights movement in a fun and engaging way. This fully interactive biography has students read (or listen to) an animated biography, watch a short video, read some famous quotes, read some fun facts, and then take a quiz to check for understanding. They will then assemble a puzzle to finish up.This is a perfect activity for a 35-45 minute class period, leaving time for students to open com

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Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Also included in: Black History Biographies Bundle Interactive Learning Upper Grades

CRITICAL THINKING with Word Relationships TRIADS III Task Cards Literacy Center

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Combine critical thinking with vocabulary development and have fun doing it with TRIADS III. Teach your students to use Bloom's upper level skills -- analysis, evaluation, and creation with TRIADS. At the same time, they will be exploring word relationships. These task cards are available in print and digitally on TPT Easel.HOW TRIADS WORKThe challenge in this activity is to find 1 word that can be added to each of the TRIAD words to make a well-known phrase or compound word. For example, t

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

Computer Science - Technology, Informational Text, Instructional Technology

Also included in: CRITICAL THINKING BUNDLE Triads 1.0 Literacy Centers Vocabulary Task Cards

30 minute Internet Basics WebQuest

Created by

Ashley Giron

I know that you and your students will learn so much from this WebQuest. It teaches the basics of internet usage and it's a great way to start the conversation of internet safety. It is a 30 min or less lesson and comes with a BONUS activity page for those go-getters. This file may be used in many ways: 1.Whole group instruction: How to complete a web quest. 2. Individual/station work: Leave copies at the computer and …BAM! Meaningful work for early finishers. You’re welcome. 3. Homework 4. Int

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Grades:

3rd - 7th

Types:

Chinese New Year Mini Digital Escape Reading Comprehension

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Close Reading, Gifted and Talented, Holidays/Seasonal

This Chinese New Year Mini Escape game is a one-lock escape room that introduces your students to the holiday in a fun and engaging way. This fully interactive informational game has students read animated text, watch 2 short videos, read some interesting information about what animal they were born under in the Chinese zodiac, and then play a game (quiz) to solve the clue and win the escape!The benefits of this mini-version are that it is perfect for introducing students to the concept of escap

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 8th

Types:

Engineering, Math, Poetry

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1

Also included in: Holiday Digital Escape Room Growing Bundle - Breakouts All Through the Year

PBL Baseball Pack | Project Based Printable/Digital

Created by

Science School Yard

What better way to have students use real-life math, poetry and STEM connections with this fun, high-interest Project Based Learning Baseball Pack? Includes a DIGITAL version! In this unit, students will have the opportunity for STEM Challenges as they create a board game, pitching machine, and baseball tee and more! Students will learn how to write a persuasive paper to encourage others to pick their baseball stadium as the model to be built. Please see the PREVIEW above for an idea of everythi

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

CCSS:

NGSS:

3-5-ETS1-3

, 3-5-ETS1-1

, 3-5-ETS1-2

Also included in: Project Based Learning Duo: Baseball and Arcade Pack

Ruby Bridges Biography Interactive Activity - Learning About Black History

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Black History Month, Close Reading, Social Studies - History

This Ruby Bridges Interactive Activity introduces your students to this great leader of the civil rights movement in a fun and engaging way. This fully interactive biography has students read (or listen to) an animated biography, watch a short video, read some famous quotes, read some fun facts, and then take a quiz to check for understanding. This is a perfect activity for a 35-45 minute class period, leaving time for students to open computers, link, and learn about a person from history.Assig

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

RI.3.1

, RI.3.2

, RI.3.3

, RI.4.1

, RI.4.2

...

Also included in: Black History Biographies Bundle Interactive Learning Upper Grades

CRITICAL THINKING with Word Relationships TRIADS FREEBIETask Cards GATE

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FREEBIE!! TRIADS combine critical thinking with vocabulary development, while building word relationships. Teach your students to use Bloom’s upper level thinking skills – analysis, synthesis, and evaluation – while having fun! These FREE TRIADS allow you to try them before you buy them. FREE TRIADS are available in both print and digitally on TPT Easel.HOW TRIADS WORKFind a word that can be added to each of the words on the Triads. The common word comes before or after each of the 3 words to ma

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Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

Anatomy, Biology, Informational Text

PBL Project on Body Systems, Diseases, and Prevention.

Created by

Corey Morton

This is a basic outline of a PBL project for students to discover more about the different body systems and common preventable diseases. In this project the students are put into groups and then given a list of symptoms that a patient is experiencing. It is the the students job to learn about the different systems, diagnose the patient, and come up with a treatment plan.

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Grades:

3rd - 7th

Types:

Back to School, English Language Arts, Gifted and Talented

Introduction to Being Gifted Video Project

Created by

Miss U

A trendy, fun, and creative way to introduce students to their gifted program. We've all seen the power of holding handwritten messages in commercials, dog confessions, music videos, youtube videos, wedding announcements, baby announcements, etc. Why not make this trend a teaching and learning tool! Students will learn about their giftedness and present what they've learned in a speechless video- (no spoken words allowed!) They can get creative and have fun holding signs that tell about the

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Projects, GATE

Distance Learning Edition: Critical Thinking- Brainteasers

Created by

Southern Smarticles

This packet includes 20 brain teasers that can be used for four weeks. You can post them in your digital classroom and have your students fill out the answer key digitally. This would be a perfect enrichment activity. I use these for my Gifted and Talented students, but they can be used as brainteasers too.

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Other (ELA)

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Beebes Inspiration Station

Enrichment/Extension Esperanza Rising - Human Rights Padlet

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After a novel study or reading of Esperanza Rising, this is a padlet of extension/enrichment activities. It is a great project for early finishers. (It is not a novel study for chapters, it is activities after completing the novel.) The file is the link to the padlet with simple directions to use with Google Classroom and TinkerCad--both free resources that are great technology additions to any classroom! This resource is intended for classrooms already utilizing the Google Classroom platform.St

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Reading

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

RI.3.1

, RI.3.2

, RI.3.3

, RI.3.5

, RI.3.10

...

CRITICAL THINKING TASK CARDS Word Relationships FEET TRIADS Vocabulary HOTS

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Combine critical thinking with vocabulary development and have fun doing it with FEET TRIADS. Teach your students to use Bloom's upper level skills -- analysis, evaluation, and creation with FEET TRIADS. At the same time, they will be exploring word relationships. All of the TRIAD words are related to feet, shoes, and socks. These task cards are available in print and digitally on TPT Easel.HOW TRIADS WORKThe challenge in this activity is to find 1 word that can be added to each of the TRIAD

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

CCSS: