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Common Core RI.5.3 resources for GATE
Solve a Mystery | Crime Scene Investigation Activity Bundle | CSI Forensics
Students love CSI Activities and Hands-on Investigations. These popular C.S.I. activities are a great way to teach inference, logic, analysis, and critical thinking.Looking to go DIGITAL in the CLASSROOM or Distance Learning Mode?Check out the C.S.I BUNDLE below which includes this Printable Resource as well as a Digital Format Link for each activity... C.S.I. for Kids Bundle - digital and printableGo 100% paperless with these C.S.I. ActivitiesC.S.I. Activities for Google ClassroomBy purchasing
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4th - 6th
5th Grade ELA Choice Boards for Reading and Writing - Early Finishers
Fifth grade teachers searching for engaging reading and writing activities, look no further! This resource includes 15 ELA choice boards aligned to common 5th grade ELA topics. Choice boards are excellent for differentiating your instruction for ALL students, including intervention and enrichment students! These choice boards are perfect for reviewing and extending what you've taught in class. Printable and digital versions are both included, and it's ready to be used!➡️ BUY THIS 5TH GRADE BUNDL
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5th
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Crime Scene Investigation | Reading Mystery | Forensics | Inference
Are you looking for an engaging activity that will help your students better understand deductive logic and reasoning? Crime Scene Investigation is a great theme that teaches all the skills of critical thinking in a fun and interesting way!Investigate the Basics of CSI with this exciting differentiated resource!Ready-to-Go Printables! Easy Prep Go completely DIGITAL with this version! Click the link below to PREVIEWCrime Scene Basics for GOOGLE DriveThis workshop takes about 2 to 2 1/2 hours to
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4th - 6th
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An Introduction to 3D Printing!
Discover the wonders of 3D printing! This unit includes 58 pages of lesson plan outlines, lesson extensions with suggested activities, step-by-step walk-through on how to create a personalized keychain, vocabulary enrichment, task cards, graphic organizers, informational texts, comprehension activities with text-dependent questions, design brainstorming activities, games, sketch center, and a lot more! This is a great way to introduce 3D printing technology to your students!Total pages (includin
Crime Scene Investigation | CSI | Mystery Science BUNDLE | Drawing Conclusions
Need fun and engaging activities for practicing INFERENCE? Looking to differentiate with some deductive reasoning and critical thinking skills? This Crime Scene Investigation Bundle includes 10 exciting mystery workshops for over 17 hours of engaging reading, logic, and hands-on investigations. By buying this bundle, you are saving 30% off the total price of the individual resources!The labs use simple materials and are easy to prep. For the CSI activities, students read and analyze suspects thr
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4th - 6th
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Mystery Reading Comprehension | Making Inferences | CSI
This Crime Scene Investigation Activity has everything you need for an engaging hands-on experience that reinforces critical thinking, inference, and good old-fashioned common sense! Did someone say, CANDY? This workshop requires a little bit for investigation purposes. It's up to you if you want your students to sample the evidence afterward.**Note that a variety of candy is required for the hands-on investigation. Suggested candies are listed in the Teacher's Directions.This critical thinking
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4th - 6th
Football Crime Scene Investigation Activity | Mystery Reading Comprehension
Looking to add a little differentiation to your classroom? Your students will love using inference and deductive logic as they follow the crime scene protocol to solve The Case of the Jinxed Jersey!Looking for a DIGITAL Version of this CSI Activity? Click HERE >> Jinxed Jersey: Digital and Printable The Jinxed Jersey Mystery is an engaging hands-on activity that’s super easy to set up. Students use critical thinking skills to analyze suspects through witness statements, a
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4th - 6th
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FALL Activities | Mystery Science | CSI Reading Comprehension | Art History
Get your students excited about drawing conclusions and making inferences with this fun crime scene investigation. Through witness statements, logic puzzles, and trace evidence, students will use deductive reasoning to unlock the mystery of the stolen Scream painting. An engaging and educational way to celebrate the FALL season in the classroom!Students will love inferring and using deductive logic as they follow the Crime Scene Protocol and unlock the mystery of the Stolen ScreamThis Fall Activ
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Halloween Mystery Activities | CSI Reading Comprehension | Art History
Mystery Reading Comprehension | Making Inferences | CSI Science Problem Solving
Looking for an engaging way to differentiate in the classroom? Check out this HANDS-ON Crime Scene Investigation!Want a hybrid version that uses Google Slides? Click the link belowHoagie Hoax | Google SlidesThe Hoagie Hoax Mystery is an engaging hands-on activity that’s easy to set up using common materials. Students analyze suspects through witness statements, alibis, inferences, and trace evidence. It all leads up to a final dirt analysis which reveals the culprit. Students LOVE it! This fun r
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4th - 6th
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5th Grade Choice Boards for Differentiation - Science, ELA, Math, Social Studies
Fifth grade teachers searching for engaging science, math, social studies, and ELA activities, look no further! This bundle includes 15 math choice boards, 15 science choice boards, 15 social studies choice boards, and 15 reading and writing choice boards. Choice boards are excellent for differentiating your instruction for ALL students, including intervention and enrichment students! These choice boards are perfect for reviewing and extending what you've taught in class. Printable and digital v
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5th
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NGSS:
5-ESS2-2
, 5-PS1-3
, 5-ESS1-2
, 5-ESS1-1
, 5-LS2-1
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Easter Reading Comprehension & Craft | Making Inferences | Spring CSI Mystery
Add a little Springtime differentiation and art to your classroom. Students will love inferring and using deductive logic as they follow the Crime Scene Protocol and unlock the mystery of the Bunny BrainteaserThis Springtime Activity is an engaging hands-on workshop that’s super easy to set up. Students start off by reading, Bunny Background: History of the Domesticated Rabbit. Students re-read a CLOSE READ for better comprehension. For the CSI activity, students read, What Happened? and analyze
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Easter Reading Comprehension | Easter Math Activities Escape Room BUNDLE
Mystery Reading Comprehension | Making Inferences | CSI Science Problem Solving
Add a little C.S.I. enrichment to your classroom every season. Students love inferring and using deductive logic as they follow Crime Scene Protocol and unlock the mystery of the Stolen Scream, the Elf Enigma, the Bunny Brainteaser and the Sabotaged SlideEach of these 4 workshops includes engaging hands-on activities that use simple materials and are super easy to set up. By purchasing this BUNDLE, you are saving 20% off each individual resource!For the CSI activities, students read and analyze
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4th - 6th
Biography Activities - Task Cards & Choice Boards for Any Book
Dozens of biography activities come in two formats: task cards or choice boards. Each focuses on one informational text standard, as well as a higher order thinking skill (applying, analyzing, evaluating, or creating).Open the preview to take a closer look.They can be used with any biography: picture or chapter book, read-aloud or independently. You may pick and choose, ask students to specific tasks, or allow them to choose their own activities using the tic-tac-toe menus.All materials come in
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4th - 5th
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Also included in: Biography Unit - Genre Study for Fourth and Fifth Grade Students
Mexican Independence Day Depth and Complexity Activities for El Grito de Dolores
This Mexican Independence Day Activity Pack is chock-full of print-and-go activities to help you celebrate Mexican Independence Day and/or El Grito de Dolores while addressing loads and loads of English Language Arts and Social Studies standards. It's perfect for teacherIf you're looking for a way to teach students about Mexican Independence Day that is culturally sensitive, has lots of activities, and uses the Depth & Complexity framework, this activity pack is perfect!You'll find Mexican I
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Fall Activities Depth and Complexity Print and Go Autumn BUNDLE
September STEM Activities and Challenges with Close Reading Passages
STEM challenge activities are so much fun. But, finding the time to incorporate design challenges into your curriculum can be difficult. The September STEM Design Challenge COLLECTION is part of the STEM with CLOSE READING series. It gives you FOUR OF MY BEST SELLING STEM CHALLENGES and will seamlessly allow you to tie together the curriculum by giving you rigorous text dependent questions that go with a high interest reading passages IN ADDITION to the fun STEM activities! Watch your kids
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3rd - 6th
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Solve the Chuck Wagon Mystery - Westward Expansion Reading Comprehension & C.S.I
Looking for an engaging way to explore westward expansion? Uncover the mystery of the Chuck Wagon Challenge with GATER Educator!Students will love completing logic puzzles, deducting and inferring as they follow the Crime Scene Protocol and unlock this Wild West mystery with reading comprehension and C.S.IThe Chuck Wagon Challenge is a fictitious investigation, but the characters are notorious legends from the Wild West. The victim is Charles Goodnight, inventor of the chuck wagon and also known
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3rd - 6th
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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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2nd - 5th
Astronaut Space Research Project Gifted Students Enrichment PBL
Are you looking for a student-driven project for your gifted (AIG) students? In this resource, students will research 6 prominent astronauts. They will then create a project demonstrating what they learned. This resource includes ideas for online resources students can use but you can easily use your own resources for students to use.This resource is perfect for your AIG and/or gifted students as it includes broad ideas, openness, and student choice. What is included?Teacher & Student Instru
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4th - 6th
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Spanish Explorers of North America
Looking for a way to put the learning into the hands of your students? Students will learn about the Spanish explorers that came to the Americas and as they read the informational passages of each, they will collect information to make a set of explorer trading cards. Using this information, students will then decide which explorer to portray in a living history museum. In addition to discussing the history of their explorer, they will have to take a stance regarding the impact they had on the N
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5th
Also included in: Early American History Growing Bundle
Reading Comprehension passages - Leadership - PDF and EASEL!
Are you looking for a way to grow students' leadership abilities and their reading comprehension at the same time? This resource uses biographies of diverse leaders to teach students about the attributes of a leader and then guides them through growing this leadership skills with a project. Now updated and ready to go in EASEL! You choose the format that works best for you!This unit teaches students leadership skills (using the Habits of Mind) while also meeting Common Core Standards in readi
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4th - 5th
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The Great Depression Dust Bowl Research Project Gifted Students Enrichment
Are you looking for a student-driven project for your gifted (AIG) students? In this resource, students will research the Great Depression. They will then create a project using the R.A.F.T.S technique where they will demonstrate what they learned. This resource includes ideas for online resources students can use, but you can easily use your own resources for students to use.What is included?Teacher & Student InstructionsGoogle Slides™ presentation that includes graphic organizers for stude
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5th - 6th
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1st Week Literacy Enrichment - Hands-on and Challenging Fun
We reach all students, no matter their ability!
In this lesson, we work with primary source photos to develop strong reading skills—citing key details, making inferences, determining message or theme, and establishing historical context. Your students will be engaged and invited to be creative as they make origami book marks and write empowering messages about reading.
Hands-on and highly participatory enrichment!
This school year we’re working on filling up the portable with whole-class
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
STEM Kid Constructions MINI-GLIDER Upper Elementary GATE
Got a couple extra classroom hours? Kids bouncing off the walls eager for a vacation or a sunny day? . . . what to do? This!!!!
This STEM unit can go JUST A COUPLE HOURS OR SEVERAL HOURS—you choose.
Easily built inside two hours, these cool little mini-gliders fly very well. They’re about 100 steps up from any paper glider plans you might see, but you won’t have to break your piggy bank to purchase materials even for a large class.
Not just fun and games here: this little unit addresses
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4th - 8th
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Finding the Titanic Close Reading and Writing Prompt Multiple Perspectives
This is a Close Reading activity to be used with Finding the Titanic, by Robert Ballard. There is also a writing lesson using Multiple Perspectives. Included is a page of text-evidence close reading questions, Multiple Perspective cards, a graphic organizer for writing and a "newspaper" type paper for publishing.
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3rd - 5th
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