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Common Core SL.4.1 resources for GATE
The Smart Cookie Read Aloud Book Companion | Multiple Intelligences | Activities
The Smart Cookie by Jory John is a great book to teach students that everyone is smart in different ways and the importance of perseverance. It is also the perfect segue into a study of multiple intelligences. This The Smart Cookie Book Companion requires students to delve into analyzing and interpreting literature. This book companion is jam-packed with resources that provide opportunities for your students in grades 2-4 to think critically and creatively, analyze the author's craft, and make c
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Depth & Complexity Math Word Problems Bundle: Division, Fractions, Decimals
This bundle includes three different Depth & Complexity math word problem frames which examine division, comparing fractions/finding equivalent fractions and comparing and ordering decimals. ***Digital overlay version now included for Distance Learning! Each of these frames are sold individually, but I decided to combine them at a discounted price (you save $1.50!).Included in this lesson are:+ Optional frames (independent solving and one with embedded cooperative learning structures for k
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3rd - 5th
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SHARK TANK Economics Pitches Prototypes PROJECT BASED PBL GATE
Welcome to the shark tank project-based learning unit. Let’s begin our entrepreneurial careers today!
Build critical thinking skills, public speaking success, and bring creativity, language arts, and economics into your classroom in a purposeful and authentic way.
Students will work in collaborative teams to solve a complex, ongoing, inquiry-based problem with a physical product for an authentic audience:
• Brainstorm a product, citing a need that will be fulfilled.
• Construct a prototyp
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
Mock Trial: Cinderella and the Case of the Missing Glass Slipper
Are you looking for an engaging and creative way to harness the power of persuasion and argument? Then this activity surely is for you! As a follow-up to my best-selling mock trial about The Three Little Pigs, I've created Cinderella and the Case of the Missing Glass Slipper. It takes approximately five days to complete in class. I have planned out three days of trial preparation and about two days of courtroom action! Students love this activity. It's a favorite every year! Not only does it tea
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Mock Trials: Classic Tales
Stop, Collaborate, & Listen: Speaking & Listening Like Rock Stars!
Speaking and Listening skills are becoming increasingly more important inside of school and in the workplace. I believe that it is so important to lay the foundation in elementary school, to teach accountable talk, and to give my students plenty of opportunities to collaborate, share, and integrate technology! This packet is packed with 173 pages of activities that foster discussion, critical thinking, debate, and more! Check out the description below for an overview!
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3rd - 4th
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Lego Communication & Collaboration Game - 4 C's Practice
Lego Communication and Collaboration Game Pairs with 4 C's Thinking & Innovation Skills The Lego Game was created to support students understanding of teamwork and communication. As one student describes, they may find that what they think is clear communication, might not make sense to another student.I love playing this game at the beginning of the year to build trust and understanding. I have played it with all grade levels!
Grades:
K - 5th
CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES Set II Literature Extension Critical Thinking GATE
Continue the fun from STORY SLEUTHS I with 4 more weeks of critical thinking fun. STORY SLEUTHS II is a 1 month, critical thinking project based on Caldecott Award winning books. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which Caldecott Award winning book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is CCSS aligned. Students
Grades:
K - 4th
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
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
Becoming an Entrepreneur PBL Unit
This PBL project unit guides students in learning about entrepreneurship and then becoming entrepreneurs! Students will design and implement their own business from conception to development to marketing to sales with this engaging and challenging project, building real-life skills while learning and having fun! This detailed activity provides students with step-by-step guidance, planning sheets, check lists, and all the information they need to build and launch their own business. The project
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4th - 6th
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Problem-Based Learning Activity: Design a Room for Colleen Moore's Fairy Castle
Stimulate critical thinking with this realistic problem-based learning activity! Students learn that the Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry will add a new room to their popular dollhouse exhibit, Colleen Moore’s Fairy Castle. Working as teams of designers, they collaborate to select a room, add design elements, and create a proposal. After the problem is posed, each group has nine days to learn more about the fairy castle, decide upon a fairy tale inspired room, determine a presentation st
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4th - 5th
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CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES Set III Literature Extension Critical Thinking GATE
STORY SLEUTHS III provides 4 more weeks of critical thinking fun in a project based on Caldecott Award winning books. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which Caldecott Award winning book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is CCSS aligned. Students also enjoy great literature, learn about artistic media, and
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K - 4th
Decades Project: Journey Through Time! Google Slides and Printable Bundle!
Students will be working in teams to research and create a presentation on a decade in the 20th or 21st century. This project will walk them through research and presentation creation from start to finish and help them to stay organized along the way!This product includes:Table of Contents linked to the slidesDecades Project Example on the 1890s from start to finishChoice of DecadeSlide to help them organize who will research and be in charge of what during the decade study (who will research mu
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4th - 7th
Metric Capacity Addition & Subtraction Depth & Complexity Frames & Task Cards
Solve word problems involving metric system capacity concepts such as: adding and subtracting liters and milliliters, ordering and comparing mixed units (liters and milliliters), and converting units! Students also must communicate their thinking and steps through both oral and written language which easily lends itself to the Common Core Standards!
This packet includes Depth and Complexity frames, organizers, and even task cards for further practice with Metric System capacity concepts. Stude
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3rd - 5th
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Enrichment Writing Projects! Printable Bundle!
Three Enrichment Projects for Students! Decades Research ProjectStudents will be working in teams to research and create a presentation on a decade in the 20th or 21st century. This project will walk them through research and presentation creation from start to finish and help them to stay organized along the way!This product includes:Table of Contents Decades Project Example on the 1890s from start to finishChoice of DecadePage to help them organize who will research and be in charge of what du
STEAM Through the Year: Mathematics – January Edition
STEAM Through the Year: Mathematics for January guides you through the month with STEAM lessons and projects. Students build mathematical proficiency with monthly-thematic lessons correlated to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards. Here you will find easy-to-use lessons providing practical strategies and problem-solving activities. The math and poetry lessons are themed around January special days and holidays – New Year’s Day, Celebration of Life Month, International Thank
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1st - 6th, Not Grade Specific
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Human Body Corporation Debates
Fantastic constructivist curriculum unit integrating reading, research, oral communication, peer collaboration, technology, and debate with the content of the human body systems. Sure to be a motivating, memorable learning experience for elementary intermediate aged students on up through high school. CCSS's are only referenced for 4th grade - however, the amount of reading and oral communication standards addressed in this project is extremely comprehensive.
Grades:
4th - 11th
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All Access Class Enrichment - Summary Writing w Primary Sources + GATE Metaphors
Success in summary writing can come with a bit more fun, visual challenge, and a bit of mystery in primary sources.
All good students—from 1st grade to graduate school--must master summary writing. Let’s add critical thinking skills, creativity, and a bit of history mystery to this whole class enrichment opportunity! A metaphor-building summary and 3D design lesson for advanced and gifted learners (or everyone!) is included in this bundle as well. A few other extension tasks are offered as w
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3rd - 6th
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STEAM Through the Year: Mathematics – August Edition
August thematic STEAM Units with a focus on Mathematics.Your students build mathematical proficiency with thematic lessons correlated to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards. You will find easy-to-use lessons providing practical strategies and problem-solving activities. The math and poetry lessons are themed around August special days and holidays:National Back-to-School MonthNational Sandwich MonthNational Friendship WeekNational Ride the Wind Day.Students gain access to t
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Not Grade Specific
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Multiple Intelligences: DISCUSS IT! CHOICE CARDS® - SET 1
Power-Up your classroom with BYTES Power Smarts! Worried that you students are losing The Art of Conversation? Introduce your students to Discussion Etiquette and The Art of Conversation with 2 posters included in this pack. Discuss It! contains 26 divergent thinking, thought-provoking Choice Cards designed as discussion prompts, but they could also be used as writing prompts. See the full packet contents listed below and click on Preview under the thumbnails above to see a sample of the pac
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4th - 6th
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Multiple Intelligences: DO IT! CHOICE CARDS® - SOCIAL CONCERNS - SET 1
Power-Up your classroom with BYTES Power Smarts! Activate your students' empathy for social causes with the Do It! Choice Cards. Students will choose a project to raise awareness, raise empathy, and raise resources for the social concern they choose while also working to meet Common Core Standards. See the full packet contents listed below and click on Preview under the thumbnails above to see a sample of the packet contents.Choice Cards® are task cards, but we think the word CHOICE is more mo
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4th - 8th
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STEAM Through the Year: Mathematics – February Edition
STEAM Through the Year: Mathematics for February guides you through the month with STEAM lessons and projects. Students build mathematical proficiency with monthly-thematic lessons correlated to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards. Here you will find easy-to-use lessons providing practical strategies and problem-solving activities. The math and poetry lessons are themed around February special days and holidays – Black History Month, National Freedom Day, Valentine’s Day an
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2nd - 6th
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Character Analysis--Identifying Feelings, Traits and Motives with IMNPB
Written as an accompaniment to In My National Park Backyard, students in grades 2 through 5 are engaged in lessons and activities written in a “gradual release” format (“I Do, We Do, Do Together, Do Alone”). Students develop the concept of feelings, traits and motives for themselves through hands-on activities, like "Feeling & Trait Introductory Sort." Independent practice is provided for students using the "Feelings Reference Card" and "Trait Cluster Cards" with graphic organizers and int
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2nd - 5th
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Enrichment Writing Projects! Google Slides
Three Enrichment Projects for Students! All editable on Google Slides!Decades Research Project Students will be working in teams to research and create a presentation on a decade in the 20th or 21st century. This project will walk them through research and presentation creation from start to finish and help them to stay organized along the way!This product includes:Table of Contents linked to the slidesDecades Project Example on the 1890s from start to finishChoice of DecadeSlide to help them o
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Socratic Seminar: "The Sneetches"
This resource provides teachers with a fun way to introduce students to Socratic Seminars using Dr. Seuss' "The Sneetches"! Students have the chance to facilitate their own discussions during this activity while focusing on key themes including tolerance and inclusion.
Grades:
4th - 6th
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