381 results
Free high school resources for GATE
Listening and Following Directions Activity With Lesson Plan
Listening and Following Directions
An Activity That Challenges Students To Pay Attention To Details
This activity is designed to challenge students to listen closely to directions and complete tasks in the correct locations on a grid.
Interested in more following directions and reading comprehension activities? Check out:
Listening and Following Directions Growing Bundle + Reading Comprehension
Listening & Following Directions Back To School Edition +Reading Comprehension
Listening & Fol
Grades:
3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Types:
Also included in: Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
FREE Close Reading Bookmarks - Annotating Text & Post-it Note Strategy
Print these bookmarks for your students and they will never forget how to close read! I print mine double-sided and students use one side for when we can write on the text and the other (post-it) side for when we're close reading something we can't write on!*****************************************************************************CCSS Aligned Interactive Reading NotebooksI use interactive notebooks in my classroom on a daily basis. I've created my own interactive notebook pages that are align
Grades:
4th - 12th
Types:
Standards Based 6-Traits Writing Elements (revising/editing)
NEWLY UPDATED!!
An Interactive student Guide to build self-efficacy in 6-Trait Text Revising and Editing. Ready to use for lessons with printables for Students. The guides includes a process with steps that will guide students through each of the 6 traits of writing (i.e., ideas & content, sentence fluency, word choice, organization, voice, conventions) for 6-8th grade.
The new updated version includes both color and black and white pages, a fun design, and all the same helpful content!
Grades:
5th - 10th
Types:
Public Speaking Template, Tips, and Tricks for the 1-2 Minute Informative Speech
The common core wants effective speakers and 21st Century Learners!
Here is a template for the one to two minute informative speech in handy notecard-sized cutouts.
This document includes public speaking tips and tricks for all ages and ability levels.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Types:
Bell Ringers and Brain Teasers for Young Scholars Free Sample Activities
Challenge your students (and adult friends) to make the connections with these two activities from Brain Teasers for Young Scholars. Keys, fortunately, are included! Download and enjoy.
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 9th
Types:
PUZZLE MATH: Special Right Triangles
In this one-page assignment students find missing side lengths and angle measures of special right triangles. Every possible permutation from given to missing side is used, and problems include ones where students are given integers that they must both multiply and divide by radical expressions. When applicable students must rationalize the denominator. Correct answers decode a secret message, providing immediate feedback for the learner as this free math worksheet is self-checking. If you enjoy
Subjects:
Grades:
10th - 12th, Higher Education
Types:
Table Texting
"Table Texting" is a fun, interactive strategy you can use with any piece of text or topic. The key is to pose a higher-level question that encourages thinking among students. Students respond to the question in writing. The teacher or facilitator collects the papers and redistributes them. Students get to read other responses and reply. The process continues until all of the speech bubbles are completed. At the end, students get to read their classmates' responses. I have used this with success
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Types:
Menu of Independent Reading Projects FREE Enrichment and GATE
Just say YES to the five C’s for gifted learners with CHALLENGES, CHOICES, COMPLEXITY, CONTROL over what and how they learn, and teachers who authentically CARE. Energize all readers with this project choice menu – FREE! Come back for over 200 lessons and units specifically designed for gifted learners.
Grades:
3rd - 10th
Draw Starts (10 Sets) for Creative Thinking
Draw starts are great creative thinking warm-ups. Students add to the drawing to create something unique. Have students think of things that no none else will think of. Let your students get creative with their drawings.
There are 10 sets of 4. They work great as morning work.
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 12th
Types:
Contrived Math--Tricked-Out Word Problems with Ordinary Numbers
This download is for those students and their teachers who enjoy solving somewhat twisted, definitely unusual (aka "tricked out") word math problems. An equal combination of language arts and basic math skills, Contrived Math challenges participants to collect common data, such as the number of days in a year, shuffle it around according to instructions, and come up with a targeted answer.
The activity is divided into two parts of twenty problems each. Full answer keys are included. Eigh
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 9th
Characteristics of Quadratics-3 Forms of Equations (Standard, Vertex, Factored)
Comparison activities increase the potential for student achievement and incorporate critical thinking. In this activity students are finding four key characteristics of parabolas from three different equations. Each equation is written in a different format, factored form, vertex form, and general form. As students are identifying the characteristics they are analyzing the structure of the form of the equation and interpreting key elements.
This activity works well as practice or as forma
Grades:
7th - 10th
Types:
CCSS:
Scatterplot Project Using Real Data
Students are asked to find an example of time-series data in which the dependent variable (y) varies linearly with time (X). The data should have a strong positive or negative correlation. Students will be asked to:
Make a scatter plot of the data.
Use a straight edge to draw a line of best fit.
Find the equation of the line where they must show work for how they determined this.
Use their equation to predict the value of the variable in 2012 and 2018.
A very detailed rubric is provided. 1
Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" Student Workbook Short Story Mini-Unit
Teaching Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" can be a really exciting time in a high school classroom with the potential for powerful discussions and a new distaste for the idea of conformity. Student favorite! This short story student workbook makes your life and the lives of your students easier. Students love having their own little workbook and teachers have zero prep to do!This short story student workbook includes:-Author bio and quiz-Pre-reading discussion guide-Vocabulary organizer with
Grades:
7th - 12th
Financial Literacy | Writing Prompt | Personal Finance | Opinon Writing
Help your students become proficient persuasive writers with this FREEBIE! Persuasive language is everywhere! Commercials, social media, movie ads and political speeches. Teaching persuasive writing and language is important and takes time and practice. Here’s an activity that supports persuasive writing by giving students a topic they can relate to, Financial Intelligence!What do your students already know about Financial Intelligence?If you’d like to give them a head start, check out this fun
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 9th
April Vocabulary Downpour
April's designation as a month of rain is the anchor for this fifty-item brain teaser/vocabulary builder. Students are challenged to identify words that have the actual letters r-a-i-n or letter combinations that sound like "rain" within their spellings. Also included are interpretive questions based on idiomatic expressions with the word rain.
Five total pages including full answer keys. Download and enjoy.
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 9th
Animation and Critical Thinking for GATE and Generation Z -- The Piano FREE
4th Graders through adults find this video and activity fascinating. Let's try it FREE!Maybe your students will ask the same question mine did, "When can we do this again?"Using a short 2 minute video and an accompanying "Visual Inference Guide," students quickly become engaged in a critical analysis as they share insights with classmates--connecting video and literature.This format works for upper elementary through high school honors classes because students respond according to their abilit
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 12th, Adult Education
Types:
Christmas Song Titles in Gobbledygook
Gobbledygook, high-sounding language that confuses and amuses, is the subject of this fun Christmas activity. Students are challenged to identify the titles of twenty-six popular Christmas tunes written in extreme gobbledygook. The activity is organized into two handouts--Set One with twelve titles and Set Two with fourteen. An introductory page for students explains the nature and origin of the term.
The last page is a graphic organizer for writing a letter to Santa in gobbledygook.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Salem Witch Trials - FULL UNIT
Unit on the Salem Witch Trials where students learn about the people and the town, create their own mock trial, compare trials from then to today, and come up with alternative solutions. Visit Gifted Guide for more awesome, free resources.
Grades:
4th - 10th
Types:
Ancient Civilizations Logic Puzzles FREE
These work sheets teach history using logic puzzles. The puzzles are intended to advance the students organizational and logic skills while also giving them knowledge of historical events. The attempt here is to teach across the curriculum using a fun format. Designed by Stephen Thompsen; a teacher with an in depth knowledge of history.You can buy the whole packet for $2.00-look for it listed beside this free offering.
Keywords: Logic, puzzles, ancient history and math, deductive reasoning.
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Types:
Personality Type Quiz-Shapes | Get to Know You Inventory Test | Back to School
Boost student relationships with this no-prep, easy-to-use Shape Personality Inventory! This personality survey, based on the long-standing four temperaments, turns this abstract concept into a lesson that is high-interest, easy to understand, and memorable! TWO LEVELS of the personality test are included, making it applicable for 3rd-12th grade students...and beyond! This personality quiz theme can be used in any school subject as a Get to Know You Activity at Back to School Time, or any other
Grades:
3rd - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
Types:
Affective Unit for Gifted Learners
Developing Self-Understanding and
Resilience in Gifted Students:
A Unit for Upper Elementary and Secondary Gifted Learners, provides a series of lessons, each with a variety of group and independent activities, to assist teachers and specialists in gifted education in meeting the social and emotional needs of this special population of learners. Each lesson is centered around a common question of gifted students, such as "What is giftedness and what is it not?" and "How do I advocate for myself
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 12th
Types:
Common Core: Order of Operations Puzzle! Math Puzzle for Grades 6 and up
Order of Operations Puzzle meets Common Core Standards. This puzzle will give your students practice with simplifying numeric expressions, while problem solving too. This puzzle is designed for students in Grades 6 and up (depending on level). I have used this as an individual, partner, cooperative team activity. Students like the challenge of determining the correct answer (it is self checking) and of creating the final triangle. This puzzle directly addresses both the Common Core Standards for
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 9th, Adult Education
Types:
Radio Drama Play Script Sample The Canterville Ghost
Are you looking for something a lightly scary, but also thought provoking and a classic? Check out my adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost dramatized as a radio play script. This sample gives you a taste of the resource--the script has roles for 15 + students plus a sound effects crew. Students strengthen their reading, writing, listening and speaking skills while performing this play. The Canterville Ghost story by Oscar Wilde concerns a girl who befriends the ghost haunting Cante
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 9th
Types:
FREE Greek Alphabet Wall Display Gifted Language Arts
FREE Greek Alphabet Wall Display Gifted Language ArtsIf they already know the alphabet, try posting this one above your whiteboard instead! It includes upper and lower case symbols, English (Latin) equivalences, and pronunciations. It prints in landscape format with two letters per page and fit just perfectly in a horizontal row over my board as traditional alphabet displays do--but with a real wow effect that makes everyone entering the room stop and actually look at the letters. Letters are
Grades:
3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Types:
Showing 1-24 of 381 results
TPT is the largest marketplace for PreK-12 resources, powered by a community of educators.
IXL family of brands