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1st grade microsofts for GATE
Primary GATE Gifted and Talented Program for the Year -- 410 Pages, 50%+ off!
You will be a rock star! This collection is highly interactive, creative, and rich in age-appropriate critical thinking.
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This collection takes me through an entire year of lessons with my advanced groups of kindergarteners, 1st, and 2nd graders . . . but many of these lessons can also be used for middle and upper elementary kids, especially if you come into the regular classroom to teach whole-class enrichment lessons.
19 units and 419 pages of lessons!
Grades:
K - 3rd
Get to Know You Activity Digital | Back to School Ice Breakers Volume 1
These get-to-know-you questions are the perfect way to get to know your students this back-to-school season. It's the perfect ice-breaker for students to share and get to know each other!This resource is a part of the Classroom Community Bundle where you will get even more resources for building a strong classroom community! Click here!What’s included?There are 40 slides with get-to-know you questions. Use one a day and get to know your students all month long. It also includes eight additional
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in: Get to Know You Activity Bundle
September STEM STEAM Challenge: First Day of Fall Edition
The first day of fall is a great day for some seasonal STEM! If you're looking for a fun activity to welcome autumn and engage your students, First day of Fall STEM is a low-prep, budget-friendly challenge they will surely enjoy!Cooler temperatures, falling leaves, and shorter days can only mean one thing...FALL! But in this activity, a fall is just what your students will want to avoid. To succeed, students will need to design a scarecrow that can stand on its own, even when the breeze blows.
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1st - 4th
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Primary GATE with Caldecott -- "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!" Mo Willems
Let’s have some fun along with the Pigeon and expand DOK along the way! This lesson will lead your primary GATE students through four challenging activities, culminating in an artistic response showing why they “never get to do anything!” either.
Gifted and talented learners carry similar characteristics throughout their lives—even as kindergarten and first graders. One common characteristic of gifted learners is a strong sense of justice. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus gives us a good o
Grades:
K - 3rd
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
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1st - 3rd
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Primary GATE with Caldecott COLLECTION - 180 pages - 7 Books!
Your primary kids will love these lessons! You save a bundle: 33% off individual purchases!
I teach 30-45 minute groups once a week of 1st and 2nd graders all year, and this collection is more than enough to get me through an entire school year of groups. I can’t absolutely guarantee it will do the same for you, but it’s going to be very close if it doesn’t . . .
You’ll see best practices in gifted education throughout. You’ll see many graphic organizers, age-appropriate and challenging cr
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K - 3rd
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Reading Comprehension STEM mega bundle
UPDATE - Now with a DECODABLE READER version of most stories included. The rest to be updated asap. Want to save time and teach reading comprehension and STEM together? I developed this program to simplify my planning. With Reading Comprehension STEM, you'll have a full year of lessons that'll keep your students engaged and inspire them to learn more. Easy to prep, and developmentally sequential, this bundle provides reading, writing, and STEM lessons for grades 1-3. Connecting STEM and ELA
August September STEM STEAM Challenge: Back to School Edition
Jump-start your year with some seasonal STEM! If you're looking for a fun activity to welcome your students back and get them thinking, Back-to-School STEM is a low-prep, high engagement challenge! Back to School is a time for using new school supplies and making new friends on the playground! With this STEM challenge, students work together (using school supplies!) to design and construct a piece of playground equipment! In addition to fostering new friendships, this activity is a great link
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1st - 4th
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Backpack Jack Super Bundle -- Every STEM Adventure in one Resource!
Why just "do" a STEM activity when your students can have a STEM adventure? Every lesson in this resource is a STEM activity with a purpose. Empathy is an important part of the engineering process. It answers the question "Why?" And in this case, the answer is simple...to help Backpack Jack. Does he need to cross a frozen river? Roast his food over a campfire? Scale a tall mountain? What can your students do to solve his problems?There are 19 STEM "backyard adventures" that ask your stude
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1st - 4th
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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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Little Island Primary Gifted and Talented Social-Emotional Values and Identity
We use this Caldecott Award Winning book to address social-emotional standards for primary gifted students. Not just a social-emotional unit, we answer critical thinking questions, explore literary theme and other ideas, and create a fun island adventure using a grid.
Great stuff for our youngest gifted learners: It’s hands-on, requires critical thinking, and good fun.
NAGC Learning and Development Standards
1.1 Self-Understanding. Students with gifts and talents demonstrate self-knowledge
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K - 3rd
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Primary GATE with Caldecott -- "Two Bad Ants" by Chris Van Allsburg
If you're like me, you can't easily find activities designed for primary grade gifted learners. This one hour activity, however, is specifically designed for Chris Van Allsburg’s "Two Bad Ants" and primary gifted and talented students—nurturing talent for both verbal and nonverbal high ability students.
In this activity, students use critical thinking and creative perspective-taking to create a “mystery drawing” similar to the close-ups in "Two Bad Ants."
In an interactive follow-up, classma
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K - 2nd
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Claim Evidence Reasoning: "The Bad Dog Mystery" PPT
Students will be introduced to using Claim Evidence Reasoning to solve The Bad Dog Mystery. This step by step powerpoint allows students to make a Claim, review the Evidence, and lastly, determine their Reasoning with support. An evidence sheet is avialable for purchase to allow students to review their work and disucss thier findings with other students. This lesson allows students to analyze data, make measurements, and think critically. It is interactive and fun! Your students will enjoy
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1st - 5th
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Math Higher Level Thinking Questioning Stems
Do you want to raise the level of questioning in your students during math? Do you want to raise your level of questioning? Then this product is for you! Based on Bloom's four highest level of thinking, these questions help to guide discussions. There are "Questions for my Peers" and "Questions for Self-Reflection". There is also a tracking sheet included for students to be aware of types of questions they ask and to set questioning goals. Great for gifted and talented students! Can also be adap
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1st - 12th
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Backpack Jack Travels the Globe! 8 Great STEM STEAM challenges & Bonus Passport!
Ready for 8 new STEM/STEAM adventures with Backpack Jack? This time he is traveling the globe! In this bundle, you'll find 8 complete STEM lessons, 8 student STEM activity books, 8 "fun facts" pages about the famous landmarks, and additional support materials and resources. Searching for STEM lessons to do with my students, I found that there were lots of STEM "activities" but very few intro-to-close all inclusive lesson plans. That's where the idea for Backpack Jack was born. When my student
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1st - 5th
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Primary GATE with Caldecott -- Owl Moon Pop-up and Critical Thinking
Now with a more kid-friendly pop-up option:
Owl Moon is incredibly rich in critical thinking potential, rich in artwork, and rich in the feelings words evoke.
Come along for a challenging lesson and a fun extension activity with the poetic 1988 Caldecott Award winner Owl Moon. Critical thinking about poetry, participatory reading, and figurative language along with a project in which we create an owl to “pop up” and spread its wings poetically will energize your students.
Caldecott books a
Amazing Race Printable Templates
This file is a PowerPoint file with Amazing Race templates to create challenges, detours and roadblocks in any content area. These templates can be used digitally or as printables. Just click inside the editable text boxes to add your content.Template includes: planning pageschallenge folderroute information carddetour cardroadblock cardplayer name tagsPowerPoint slides template
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K - 12th, Staff
Kindergarten Bird-Themed Challenges for Gifted and Talented GATE - Storytelling
You’ll have loads of fun with this thematic “birds” bundle of lessons and activities. We address BEST PRACTICES for our youngest gifted and advanced learners with hand-on puzzles, storytelling, participatory reading, acting, humor, video, and improvisation. In the process, we will deliver two social emotional messages—one about teamwork, and one about diversity. So little time, and so much to do! That’s why we always, always, always engage and challenge students in critical thinking across the c
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K - 2nd
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Primary GATE -- AIR! Active, Creative, Academic, and Hands-on!
I am always trying to figure out what to do with my little primary groups, and this unit was a definite hit with my kindergartners. It would work well with 1st grade too or the regular 2nd grade classroom. The full unit contains more than 2 hours of contact time.
It’s active, fun, and challenging for these little ones and seemed to have the right combination of “get up and move,” imagination, creativity, and “making” along with academic tasks.
We learn about four important properties of air
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K - 2nd
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Making Tracks with Footprint Mysteries KG 1st 2nd GATE Primary Challenges!
Engaging challenge of a highly participatory and creative nature for our youngest primary kids!Here’s another lesson for our youngest gifted learners based on research and best practices advocated by the National Association of Gifted Children. It’s rich in age 4-7 critical thinking opportunities with hands-on learning, visual discrimination and details, improvisational opportunities including creativity, storytelling, writing and art, and engaging activities associated with the kids’ immediate
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: 2019-2020 Gifted and Talented GATE Program for the Year - Elementary
The Clubhouse - Deep Creativity, Design, STEAM, Critical Thinking, and GATE
Because we are evil teachers with evil, cackling laughs, we will entice and engage students like the witch in Hansel and Gretel with a metaphorical candy house. Oh, this looks like all fun and games, but that’s not how we evil teachers do things!You know that STEM activity going around where you have a certain amount of time to build a tower out of notecards? This activity takes the notecard tower activity to about level 44. At Portable Gifted and Talented, we love to build stuff, and we love pl
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1st - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: 2019-2020 Gifted and Talented GATE Program for the Year - Elementary
Primary GATE with Caldecott -- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Come along for a challenging lesson and fun extensions with Ezra Jack Keats’s 1963 Caldecott winner, The Snowy Day.
I use this lesson with my 1st grade advanced readers. 2nd and 3rd graders should be right on target as well. Got a gifted kindergarten group? This will be an especially tough challenge for them but promises to stretch kids’ imagination and critical thinking skills across 4+ grade levels.
Pre-reading activities warm up your students for critical thinking questions as we “count
Grades:
K - 3rd
CAMOUFLAGE: How Do I Hide Myself?
This PowerPoint presentation shows 33 slides in which the animals are camouflaged. After the class has guessed where the animal is, you click to display a line around the animal. The photographs are awesome, very descriptive, provoke questions and encourage some great discussions.The 40 photographs are very descriptive, provoke questions and encourage some great discussions.By using this PowerPoint you will enjoy no prep and no printing.After the presentation you can do the following activities:
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K - 4th
Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express READING + STEM Elementary GATE
If you’ve come to know my units, you’ll find the same sort of critical thinking and hands-on exploration and creativity here . . .
Come all the way across the curriculum from READING to STEM activities in this hands-on unit. My advanced group 2nd graders loved this! I would use this for advanced 1st graders in their second semester or 3rd grade as well. I don’t think it would be a stretch to say 4th graders would enjoy it as well.
“Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express” is a Reading Rainbow
Grades:
1st - 4th
Landforms, Bodies of Water, Natural Resources and How People Use Them
EXPLORING PLACES!! This PowerPoint presentation shows 42 slides with very descriptive pictures of Landforms: canyon, volcano, mountains, cave, desert, plateau, valley, plain, hill, and island. Bodies of Water: River, Lake, pond, ocean, coast, waterfall, and glacierNatural Resources: Oil, water, trees, mines, wind, and soil. Uses of natural resources: to build highways, buildings, airports, stadiums, bridges, amusement parks, swimming pools, gardens, etc.At the end of the presentation, the pict
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K - 4th
Also included in: BODIES OF WATER, LANDFORMS, AND, NATURAL RESOURCES BUNDLE
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