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5th grade Presidents' Day resources for GATE
February STEM Activities Challenges Valentines Day Party STEM and Close Reading
February STEM and Valentine's Day STEM challenge activities are so much fun. But, finding the time to incorporate design challenges into your curriculum can be difficult. The February STEM Design Challenge COLLECTION is part of the STEM with CLOSE READING series. It gives you FOUR OF MY BEST SELLING STEM CHALLENGES that 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
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3rd - 6th
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February STEM STEAM Challenge: President's Day Edition
President's Day is a great time to honor our founding fathers. And what better way to honor our first president than by building a new monument? Using the listed materials, students will create a presidential pillar so that Washington's portrait (a quarter) can balance on top.
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-chart for student record keeping
-- Self-assessment/Reflection page (diffe
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K - 5th
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Abraham Lincoln Log Cabin STEM
Abraham Lincoln - President's Day STEM - In this STEM challenge your students will learn some facts about Abraham Lincoln and will complete the challenge of building a one room log cabin similar to his childhood home. Students must stick to a budget and use the available supplies. This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards and encourages critical thinking, budgeting, and engineering skills.
Suggested Plan of Implementation:
Prior Week: Send home the parent letter requesting supplies.
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K - 6th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Presidents' Day STEM Activities Abraham Lincoln's Cabin February STEM Challenge
STEM challenge activities are so much fun. But, finding the time to incorporate design challenges into your curriculum can be difficult. The Presidents Day Lincoln's Cabin Design Challenge is part of the STEM with CLOSE READING series. It seamlessly allows you to tie together the curriculum by giving you rigorous text dependent questions that go with a high interest reading passage IN ADDITION to the fun STEM activity! Watch your kids faces LIGHT UP as they put their thinking caps on and let
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3rd - 6th
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February Brain Teasers & Challenge Puzzles | Boom Cards | Digital & Print
Do you struggle to engage and differentiate for your:early finishers?gifted and talented students?smart students who just love a challenge?Then this product is perfect for you! It includes 20 fun and challenging brain teaser puzzles of all types. My students have LOVED solving these puzzles as a reward for completing their other work. I LOVE that they are self-checking which frees me up to help the students who need it.★★★★ Preview this deck in action here ★★★★It includes 20 varied February-th
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3rd - 8th
Presidents With Pizzazz! A Research Choice Menu for Gifted/Enrichment
Want differentiation for your gifted or advanced learners made easy? Try an activity menu! Great for President's Day! This 30 page Presidents With Pizzazz Research menu packet includes 3 levels of difficulty and multiple intelligences/learning styles.
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All the forms you need are included for all 8 activities! Ready-to
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1st - 9th
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Also included in: Holiday Menu Bundle for Critical & Creative Thinking!
President Election Day Logic Puzzles
Get your kids thinking a little deeper with five (5) US Presidential history - Election Day trivia themed table logic puzzles. These logic puzzles are designed for 4th - 7th grade students, but can be used with younger gifted students or as whole-class enrichment activities.When you use Everyday Learning with Hand In Hand logic puzzles, you help students develop deductive reasoning skills. You also get to explore little-known fun facts about American presidents, like which president walked their
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4th - 8th
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Presidents Bio-Box Research Project for Gifted/Enrichment
Study Presidents with pizzazz...just in time for Presidents' Day! The Presidents Bio-Box is perfect for your Gifted or advanced students, fast finishers, enrichment or differentiation!
(NOTE BEFORE BUYING: This product is part of my larger Presidents with Pizzazz research menu packet with 8 activities....please check out that menu product with this link below before purchasing!)
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Presidents-With-Pizzazz-A-Research-Choice-Menu-for-GiftedEnrichment
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Grades:
1st - 7th
Presidents' Day Research Low Prep
Informative Research and Writing: Presidents' Day
Students research and write an informative composition on George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.! Biographies, note taking outlines, and blank writing pages are included in this purchase. Multiple Common Core Standards and TEKS for 5th Grade Writing are supported.
Included:
* 2 Biographies
* 4 Outlines / Graphic Organizers for Note-taking (Topics Provided)
* 2 Composition Pages (Blackline)
* 1 Product List (for teacher flexibility)
Suggested I
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4th - 8th
President Time Machine
Just in time for President's Day! Study Presidents with pizzazz...What if a President from the past stepped into a Time Machine...and it is set to travel to your year? Your students get to greet him in modern times! This packet helps them plan their adventures with the President through research and creativity. The President Time Machine project is ready-to-go for your Gifted or advanced students, fast finishers, enrichment or differentiation!
(NOTE BEFORE BUYING: This product is part of my la
Grades:
1st - 8th
Art STEAM: Making a Monument
STEAM Challenge: Making a MonumentLearn and use key techniques sculptures use to build and create monuments! In addition, learn about scaling and technique while making your own modeling clay scale model of a monument you design.What is STEAM?STEAM is about Community, Collaboration, and Confidence! STEAM programming is essential for communities. STEAM is so much more than just fun science, technology, engineering, art and math activities. When STEAM is done right, it challenges kids to solve pr
Charts and Graphs - Presidents' Day
22 printable or digital pages for students to analyze charts and graphs exploring the Presidents and Donald Trump: the trade deficit, the height of presidents, age of presidents, employment and unemployment numbers, experience of presidents prior to office, vocabulary level of presidents, popular vote and the electoral college, firing within the executive branch by the president, executive orders, immigrants, the stock market, defense spending, civilian deaths in Afghanistan, mass shootings, sch
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: Presidents' Day BUNDLE
FREE President Rap/Song Research Mini-Project
Study Presidents with pizzazz...just in time for Presidents' Day! Your Gifted, advanced students, or fast finishers can compose their own musical masterpieces about any President through research and creativity! Perfect for enrichment or differentiation! Includes guidelines, and lower & upper grade music paper.
(NOTE: This is part of my larger Presidents with Pizzazz research menu packet with 8 activities....please check out that menu product with this link below!)
http://www.teacherspayt
Grades:
1st - 8th
Presidents Day Activities Bundle | Reading | Writing | Math | Logic Puzzles
Help your students learn about the United States Presidents with this fun and engaging bundle of Presidential Activities.Reinforce learning of Presidential history with this bundle of fun and engaging activities, puzzles, and printables. Your students will love researching and learning about the Presidents with this easy-to-use bundle!***Please see the PREVIEWS above for an idea of everything included!By purchasing this BUNDLE, you are saving 20% on each individual resource!All tasks in this cha
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5th - 7th
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Portrait of a President
Have your students discuss the Habits of a Scholar and what three qualities they think the President of the United States should possess. They can nominate a person they know in real life, make up a person, or write about themselves! They can draw a portrait of this person or attach a picture in the frame.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
President's Day Puzzler -- Logic Matrix and Word Ladder for Upper Elementary
Develop thinking skills with these President's Day puzzlers.
Help solve the mystery of who really chopped down the cherry tree in Augustine Washington's backyard by solving a 4x2 logic matrix.
Where is Thomas Jefferson's favorite pen? Three word ladders will help solve that mini-mystery.
These activities are designed for grades 4-6. 3rd graders who are already familiar with the logic matrix format will probably be successful as well.
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3rd - 6th
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George Washington GATE Frame & Five Finger Summary Accordion Fold Book
Let students use these five finger summary templates:
Title…
Somebody wanted….
But…
So….
In the end….
to summarize a turning point in George Washington’s life, and turn it into a five finger summary accordion fold book.
Use the prewritten summary pages for your younger students. They simply illustrate each page to make it their own. Older students can use the lined templates to write their own summaries.
A GATE frame is also included for those more capable students to challenge, inspire, an
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2nd - 5th
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Abraham Lincoln GATE Frame & Five Finger Summary Accordion Fold Book
Let students use these five finger summary templates:
Title…
Somebody wanted….
But…
So….
In the end….
to summarize a major event in an Abraham Lincoln book and turn it into a five finger summary accordion fold book. Use the prewritten summary pages for your younger students. They simply illustrate each page to make it their own. Older students can use the lined templates to write their own summaries.
A GATE frame is also included for those more capable students to challenge, inspire, and invo
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1st - 5th
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Spelling Unscramble for Presidents' Day
10 printable or digital pages of scrambled words to use on Presidents' Day: election, respect, debate, choice, united, honor, rights, equality, protect, serve, borders, charity, leader, health, terror, peace, safety, and more. Students will work with images of:The White House, US soldiers, US flag, USA, voting, Statue of Liberty, Mt Rushmore, and more... Use with your Gifted students, as challenge for early finishers, at a Literacy Center, or as homework. Take a look at the Preview to see sa
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: New Teacher Activities - February (First Year Teacher) BUNDLE
Critical Thinking Questions - Abraham Lincoln
21 printable pages combining critical thinking with Abraham Lincoln, responding to prompts like: How to win a staring contest…Weird stuff to wear on your head…Things you might run away from…Things that make you smile…Things with too many colors…Stuff that surprises everyone…How to dress like a cowboy…How to Hold onto something…How to be a spy…Why you should save money…and more… PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Abraham Lincoln BUNDLE
Divergent Thinking - Presidents' Day - George Washington + Abraham Lincoln
20 printable or digital pages for students to think about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and the Presidency. Students generate multiple answers to each page’s question, like: What might a president wear on their head? What might a President hold in their hand? What activities might a President do after they finish serving as President? What fun Activities might the President do with a kid? What small things might the President carry in a pocket?How does a person become the President?What
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: Abraham Lincoln BUNDLE
Critical Thinking Questions on Presidents' Day
21 printable or digital pages for students to think critically on Presidents' Day, responding to prompts like: How to celebrate Presidents’ Day…Why it is important to laugh…How to act like a President…How to get people to like you…How to be an American…How to look good…How to avoid a fight…How to smile…How to make a decision…How to get people to listen…and more…Take a look at the preview to see several sample pages. And if you want more for PRESIDENTS' DAY, then look at these packets: Critical
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Presidents' Day BUNDLE
Electoral Map Math: Race to 270!
This is the perfect game to get your kiddos flexing their math muscles. Easy to learn, fun to play… and kind of addicting! To play, students choose a state-- that state’s electoral votes is the target number. Now spin the spinners to get 5 numbers. Players must use all 5 numbers to create an equation (using any math operation / symbol) that equals (or gets closest) to the target number. Whoever gets closest wins that states’ votes. On to the next state!Great as a warm-up activity or for math ce
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1st - 12th
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President's Day Menus - Choice Boards and Activities- 3rd - 5th Grade
Are you looking for your enrichment or exemplary tasks to be done for the year? These President's Day choice boards are perfect for your early finishers or students that need a challenge or even a simple way of bringing the holidays into your classroom.You can use this by telling students to complete 3 boxes or as a tic-tac-toe challenge. Each box comes with a matching work page.Print at the beginning of the unit and give to each student so they can work on it throughout the unit.Holidays Choice
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Holiday BUNDLE Choice Boards and Activities- 3rd - 5th Grade
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