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Kindergarten critical thinking math resources for GATE $10 and up
STEM CHALLENGES for ENTIRE YEAR: Spring, End of the Year, Summer STEM Activities
***SAVE BIG WHEN YOU PURCHASE THIS DISCOUNTED ALL YEAR BUNDLE!***This best-selling bundle contains 9 months of engaging STEM & STEAM Activities for your little engineers, with 3 STEM Challenges and 1 Bonus Brainbuilder per month for a total of 36 NGSS Aligned STEM Activities!*INCLUDES BACK TO SCHOOL, FALL, HALLOWEEN, THANKSGIVING, CHRISTMAS, WINTER, VALENTINE'S DAY, ST.PATRICK'S DAY, EASTER, SPRING, END OF THE YEAR, and SUMMER STEM ACTIVITIES AND CHALLENGES!***TOP 20 ALL TIME BEST SELLING PR
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K - 5th
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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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FAIRY TALE STEM Activity Challenges BUNDLE Family STEM Night and Homeschool STEM
These fairy tale STEM activities bring a classic story alive in a hands-on way, exploring force and motion, sound, measurement, kinetic and potential energy, and more using the engineering design process to creatively problem solve. ⭐ Students will join characters like Goldilocks, Rapunzel, and Jack and the Beanstalk on 12 engineering adventures, with 48 STEM activities included. They will be challenged to use their problem-solving skills to help the characters solve an engineering dilemma! ⭐Stu
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K - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
Early Finisher Activities 1st Grade Math & Language Arts | Fast Finishers 1st
The words every teacher dreads…”I’m done! Now what?” Are you looking for learning tasks & activities for your 1st grade early finishers?! This Language Arts and Math Early Finisher resource has 90 activities aligned to the Common Core Standards.This printable pack will allow your students to continue to work on important skills like place value, fact families, graphing, short/long vowels, word families and so much MORE! Tasks that they can do independently and track their own progress! Stu
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K - 2nd
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Bot Basics BUNDLE: Robotics / Robot Activities and Stations for Beginners
Save 20% by purchasing the Bot Basics BUNDLE!The Bot Basics Bundle includes ALL FOUR of my Robot Station and Activity packs for beginners:1) Bot Basics2) Bot Basics: Language Arts Edition3) Bot Basics: Math Edition4) Bot BowlingCompatible with the following robots:-Sphero Spark-Sphero Bolt-Sphero Ollie-Sphero Mini-Ozobot Bit (OzoBlockly) -Ozobot Evo (OzoBlockly or Evo app)-Dash-BeeBot-Code and Go Mouse-Botley-Sphero indi Includes the following :10 Bot Basics Challenges10 Seasonal Maze Challenges
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K - 2nd
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2nd Grade Logic Print & Digital Puzzles Critical Thinking Activities Bundle
Engage your students all year long with these fun and challenging printable logic puzzles that will help them develop important critical thinking skills! With 5 different sets and over 180 2nd grade logic puzzles for you to choose from, your students will remain engaged throughout any season. These beginner logic games are perfect to introduce your students to logic and deductive reasoning! Easily teach your students reasoning, logical thinking, and comparing and contrasting with this incredibl
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K - 2nd
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STEM Activities and Makerspace Tasks for the Whole Year
My favorite lower elementary STEM center! These STEM tasks are designed for building bricks like LEGO ®. These challenge cards are easy to set up but highly rigorous. Not only will your students be working creatively to solve problems, they will be reading, writing, and using math skills. What You'll Get: Includes original set plus sets listed below!Basic STEM Mats SetTeacher instructions and sample imagesLetter to send home to parents, caregivers, and friends to ask for donations10 basic STEM M
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K - 4th
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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Logic Puzzles & Critical Thinking Activities for Kindergarten, 1st, & 2nd Grade
These logic puzzles for kindergarten, first, and second grade are the perfect way to help students practice their critical thinking skills! Meant to be done in a whole group or small group setting, these tasks allow students to collaborate, explain their thinking, and approach problems with an open mind. You can use these all year long!This quick, daily practice allows students to come up with strategies to solve problems, recognize that there may be more than one way to solve a problem, and ide
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K - 2nd
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Christmas Critical Thinking Bundle | Logic | Sequencing | Math Puzzles
This is a bundle of my five CHRISTMAS CRITICAL THINKING PRODUCTS for grades 1-3. This bundle teaches logic and deductive reasoning, analogies and classifying, and attribute listing to get your kiddos thinking at those higher levels. This bundle is completely updated with new clip art and fonts and now includes a digital version of each product from use in Google Slides™.Purchase this bundle and save 20% off the price if purchased separately!HOW CAN I USE THIS PRODUCT?In a Center: Print out the
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K - 2nd
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Depth and Complexity Primary Extension Literature Units BUNDLE (Gate)
Depth & Complexity Primary Literature Units (4 Included)4 Units Included: Details, Big Idea, Unanswered Questions and RulesEACH UNIT CONTAINS: 1 Week Long Unit - 5 LessonsThis weeklong unit was designed to introduce primary aged students to the one depth and complexity icon through mentor texts. It is great for whole group lessons, small group extensions, and independent practice.Each unit has:One full week of lesson plansActivities and extensionsSuggested mentor texts (fiction and non-ficti
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K - 5th
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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2019-2020 Gifted and Talented GATE Program for the Year - Elementary
Hours and hours and hundreds and hundreds of pages. Renew, refresh, and re-energize with engaging, challenging hands-on products!THESE PROGRAMS FOR THE YEAR ARE MY MOST POPULAR PRODUCTS.Inspire your students with FLOATING ON HOPE. Your youngest KG kids and 1st graders will love MAKING TRACKS. The JELLYFISH FLYER is so cool and combines economics, graphic design, challenging math, and flying stuff! Do you have the courage to challenge your kids with the GLITTER CLEAN-UP TOOL PBL? Break out t
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Grades:
K - 7th
STEM - Christmas Bundle
Santa has been left behind! The snowman is melting! The Gingerbread Man needs a safe place to hide! The White House needs a Christmas Tree! Your students need to help solve these 4 holiday STEM challenges with their engineering skills. This bundle includes the full download for all 4 of my holiday STEM/ STEAM challenges. It's a savings of almost 40%!!!Gingerbread Man STEMChristmas Tree STEMChristmas STEM - Save SantaSave Olaf STEM - He is Melting!Please download the preview to get a peek i
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K - 6th
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A Deep and Complex Look at Patterns- Mega Unit
“I cannot teach anyone anything. I can only make them think.” ~SocratesUsing this resource, students will critically analyze the universal theme of patterns in the world around them. Patterns help students make sense of the world. Our brains naturally look for patterns to create order in our world. This multi-disciplinary unit focuses on developing complex thinking about patterns in literature, mathematics, science, music, and the arts.Included in this resource:Full implementation guides Lessons
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K - 2nd
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CogAT Practice Packet for K-1 with Answer Key and Administration Directions
Are you looking for something to help your Kindergarten/1st grade child or class to use for practicing the CogAT (Cognitive Abilities Test)? I teach Talent Development to Kindergarten and First graders as well as gifted resource to first grade through sixth grade. I have created this packet to use during Talent Development to help my K-1 students become familiar with what the questions may look like on the CogAT. I created all questions based on the types of questions that have been shared as pu
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K - 1st
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Also included in: CogAT Practice BUNDLE: Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd Grade
STEM Fairy Tale Bundle 2
3 of my most popular STEM Challenges bundled in one package.
Fairy Tales and STEM are a great combination for early primary aged children. LOOKING FOR A DETAILED, EASY TO PREP, STEM UNIT???? This one’s for you.
This package contains lessons and activities about 3 different STEM challenges based around the stories of Jack and the Beanstalk, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and Little Red Riding Hood.
- Full color posters
- a slide presentation about the Inquiry Learning process
-blackline mas
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K - 4th
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HINK PINK & HINKY PINKY PUZZLES for KINDERS BUNDLE Task Cards Vocabulary
Save 20% when you buy the bundle! HINK PINKS and HINKY PINKIES for KINDERS are visual task cards that help young children learn to problem solve while exercising literacy skills (vocabulary, syllables, rimes, ... ). These printable cards prompt your students to interpret data, draw conclusions, and analyze new information. Hink Pinks and Hinky Pinkies for Kinders are terrific for pre-readers, ESL - EFL - ELD, and speech & language students. HOW HINK PINKS & HINKY PINKIES for KINDERS WORK
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PreK - 2nd
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Entire Gifted with Goldens TPT MATH Resources GROWING BUNDLE
Are you a Gifted Teacher that works with many grade levels looking for a large supply of MATH resources?This bundle would be perfect for you! BEST PART? It will continue to grow and include ALL FUTURE Math Resources! **Make sure to purchase it NOW and receive all future notifications to re-download FOR FREE as I add more products.It includes all math resources I have created over the years for my classroom teachers to use with their students. They have used these resources for:Gifted EnrichmentS
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K - 3rd
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My Father's Dragon Advanced Book Study PLUS Thinking Skills and Math Tasks
This is an advanced book study unit for My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett. This book is soon to be an animated feature film on Netflix! (Release: October 2022)As my father and the dragon passed over the Ocean Rocks they heard a tiny excited voice scream, ‘Bum cack Bum cack! We dreed our nagon! I mean, we need our dragon!’~My Father’s Dragon, by Ruth Stiles GannettThis novel study guide is designed to use with high-level 1st and 2nd-grade students and was specifically designed with gifted
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Order 1: Patterns Create Order
Using this resource, students will critically analyze the universal thems of patterns and order in the world around them. Patterns help students make sense of the world. Our brains naturally look for patterns to create order in our world. This multi-disciplinary unit focusses on developing complex thinking about patterns in literature, mathematics, science, music, and the arts.
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K - 2nd
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Math Logic Puzzles First Grade Brain Teasers Math Enrichment Add Subtract to 20
Are you searching for engaging math enrichment activities tailored to 1st and 2nd grade students, focusing on critical thinking skills? These 120 math logic puzzles are designed to stimulate young minds while practicing adding and subtracting to 20. Math brain teasers offer an extra challenge for fast finishers or gifted students and can be used in an early finisher packet, morning brain teasers, or math centers for first or second graders. They're conveniently available as both printable brain
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K - 2nd
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TANGRAMS BUNDLE TANGRAM PUZZLES Math Center Critical Thinking
This TANGRAM PUZZLES BUNDLE combines 8 tangram units into one economical product. Your students will use the traditional Chinese tangram pieces to make thematic pictures. Engaging your students in these brain teasing tasks will challenge their critical thinking and problem solving skills. It will further their visual discrimination skills, spatial awareness, and knowledge of geometric shapes. And, you will have enough tangram units to provide frequent and enduring practice.CONTENTSForest Friend
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K - 3rd
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Logic Puzzles 1st 2nd Grade Brain Teasers Fast Finishers Math Enrichment Bundle
Balance beams are exactly like math logic puzzles or math brain teasers! In these 1st or 2nd grade logic puzzles, students solve to make each side of the balance beam equal while practicing adding and subtracting to 20! These non-themed brain teasers are perfect for building critical thinking skills, for fast finishers, early finishers, math talks, gifted students, as morning brain teasers, and an early finishers math packet. Print and digital versions are included for first and second grade as
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K - 3rd
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Simply SCAMPER-IT BUNDLE | GATE | Critical Thinking | Gifted
Help your students think “Outside the Box”! A Brain Builder ResourceYour students will love these SCAMPER activities! SCAMPER is a method of brainstorming ideas, objects, and situations in a specific way, using strategies that foster creative and critical thinking, logic, and problem solving. Perfect for GATE and Enrichment. Bundle Includes:· 10 - SCAMPER-IT resourcesHave Fun:) Be sure to check out my other GATE Logic & Thinking Skills resources. More coming soon!
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K - 5th
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CogAT Practice #2 for K-2 with Answer Key and Administration Directions
Are you looking for something to help your Kindergartener, 1st or 2nd grade child or class to use for practicing the CogAT (Cognitive Abilities Test)? I teach Talent Development to Kindergarten as well as gifted resource to first grade through sixth grade. I have created this packet to use during Talent Development to help my K-2 students become familiar with what the questions may look like on the CogAT. I created all questions based on the types of questions that have been shared as public kn
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: CogAT Practice BUNDLE: Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd Grade
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