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High school Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa resources for GATE
Sled STEM Challenge Low Prep Force and Motion STEM Activity or Santa's Sleigh
In this force and motion STEM challenge, students will use the engineering design process to create a fast or s l o w sled. If you are studying force and motion or how friction can affect force and motion, this challenge is the perfect low-prep hands-on activity! *If you would like to make this into a holiday or Christmas challenge, you can call it Santa's sleigh! All other design criteria are the same. Students can even draw and color a "Santa" of their own to put on their sleigh.You will need
Grades:
1st - 10th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Listening & Following Directions Christmas Edition +Reading Comprehension
Listening and Following Directions – Christmas EditionAn activity that challenges students to listen and pay attention to detail.Save over 20% when your purchase the Listening and Following Directions Growing Bundle Pack!This activity is designed to challenge students to follow oral and/or written directions and complete tasks in the correct locations on a grid. During the activity the directions can be read to the students by the teacher or the students can read the directions to themselves. Th
Grades:
4th - 9th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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CCSS:
Also included in: Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
12 Days of Christmas: A Computer Spreadsheet Activity
This great holiday activity shows students how to use a computer spreadsheet to calculate the cost of their true love's gifts in today's dollars.The simple step-by-step procedure will allow both beginning and computer-savvy students to experience success as they learn how to use spreadsheet software. Students will enjoy the engaging and entertaining activity. No computer? No problem! Use the activity master so students can calculate the costs themselves.
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Twas the Night Before Christmas Common Core Study Guide for Middle School
Introduce the classic holiday poem to your students with rigor and creative thinking! This product includes the text of the poem, a vocabulary activity, questions about form/style, and an SBAC style SCR. The SCR also includes a template for students to follow in order to write a solid paragraph response. Finally, there is an art project assignment, with rubric, to support the focus on imagery in the assignment.
It is based on 7th grade standards, but due to the cyclical nature of the Common Co
Grades:
7th - 9th
Types:
Also included in: Christmas and Winter Holiday Mega Middle School Bundle-Save 50%
CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES BUNDLE | Christmas Around the World Craft STEM Winter
SAVE 10%!...Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, 97-page Christmas & Winter Holidays Activities Mega Kit for Middle Grades (Grades 4-8) Unit It includes everything you need to celebrate Christmas and Winter holidays with your students! Students will read and answer questions about American Christmas traditions, write responses to what they’ve read, compare/contrast holiday traditions from different countries, complete a Christmas Ar
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Morse Code Crack the Code Christmas Riddles and Jokes Activity Worksheets
This Christmas Morse Secret Codes activity helps students learn how to encrypt and decrypt Morse Code messages. They are great at engaging your students with problem solving worksheets during the Xmas months and help support your STEM teaching for back to school activities after fall break in October, November, and December.Included in this STEM resource areWriting your name in Morse CodeMorse code conversion sheetFive secret messages with jokes and riddlesAnswers have been includedPerfect as a
Grades:
4th - 12th
Types:
CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS ELA BUNDLE | Winter Holiday Christmas Around the World
SAVE 20%!...Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep,32-page Christmas and Winter Holiday Reading, Writing, and Research ELA Unit! It includes learning opportunities to understand the history of American Christmas Traditions like the Christmas Tree, Wreath, and Christmas Stockings. Students can then write in response to what they’ve read (narrative, informative, and opinion prompts included), then use online research to compare/contrast the
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Fractal Ornament Bundle
This fun holiday activity engages students in an exploration of geometry, fractals, measurement, and scale factor. Students will utilize mathematics and creativity in this exciting holiday project. Includes lesson plan, student guides, activity questions, and graph paper. Includes both Sierpenski Tree and Koch Snowflake ornaments.
Grades:
4th - 10th
Types:
CCSS:
Holiday Hink Pinks, Hinky Pinkies and Hinkitiy Pinkities
This is a compilation of all of the different Hink Pinks, Hinky Pinkies and Hinkity Pinkities I've found over the years. Answer key included. My gifted kiddos can't get enough of these!
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Types:
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas Student Discourse Guide
Perfect for a meaningful conversation during the holidays!
Student academic discourse is a fantastic way to engage in quality classroom talk and further student learning. Use this classroom tested Student Discourse guide for the classic holiday story, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss to encourage higher level thinking.
After reading the story to your class, scaffold student dialogue with Talking Stems, Key Ideas to consider, and open ended Questions to Consider as you unpack the tex
Grades:
3rd - 9th
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Christmas Cupcakes Logic Puzzles
These fun brain busters are perfect for your early finishers this Christmas. Set includes 2 Logic Puzzles. The first puzzle is a traditional matrix grid puzzle. Your students will match each person with one cupcake using process of elimination, critical reading and deductive reasoning. The second puzzle requires convergent and divergent thinking as they use the clues, and the locations of the cupcakes to determine what color each cup cake liner is. The challenges are designed for the m
Grades:
5th - 9th
Types:
MATH Graham Cracker House STEM Project with Differentiation.
Have you ever wondered why the size of graham crackers keep getting smaller? Did you know the boxes are also getting smaller? And yet, the crackers are more expensive. How much smaller? How much more expensive? We will explore this in class. MATH. Engineering? Why do homebuilders use triangles to construct homes? We will explore this too. Powdered sugar will be our glue, and graham crackers will be the building material. Students will use candy and other foods (like pretzels, coconut, etc) for
Grades:
3rd - 10th
Christmas Telephone Codes Brainteasers
In this brainteaser activity, students use a telephone keypad (a graphic of one is included) to decipher what Christmas words each set of numbers spells. Students will use their phonics and logical thinking skills to figure out Christmas songs, sights, smells, and tastes. These brainteasers are appropriate for gifted and general education classrooms from around third grade through high school! These brainteasers are sure to put a smile on your students' faces, and sneak in some critical thinki
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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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
Christmas Carol Thinking and Writing Prompts
Christmas Carol, A by Charles Dickens
Christmas Carol Thinking and Writing Prompts is a 7-page set of thinking and writing prompts for Dickens' classic tale of Christmas redemption is based on the HIGHER-LEVEL THINKING SKILLS of Bloom's taxonomy.
The thirty-seven items challenge students to recognize and interpret implied meanings, analyze and interact with character behavior, predict, and apply story events to their own lives. Some items double as vocabulary builders.
Download the f
Grades:
6th - 11th
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College and Career Readiness- "Thinking about our future"
This is a Google Drive Presentation that can be used both in person or online to generate discussions among groups of students. Great for Circle Time! Graphics in slide show can be removed if needed. College and Career ReadinessCollege and Career Readiness series is a whole curriculum focusing on getting students thinking and preparing for post graduation life and goals. The topic of this slide show discussion is: "Thinking about our future"In this slide show discussion students will:-Learn abou
Grades:
7th - 12th
December in Alphabetical Order
This mostly-for-fun holiday activity entitled DECEMBER IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER (Part One and Part Two) combines vocabulary building with December trivia.
Students are challenged to use definitions, clues, and research skills to identify a set of terms, titles, and names--the first beginning with the letter A and the last with the letter Z--all of which are connected to December weather, events, or holidays. The last few questions in each activity set change themes slightly by focusing on famou
Grades:
5th - 10th
Coloring Snowman Book for Holiday Christmas Gift - 50 Pages of Festive Fun
Title:Coloring Snowman Book for Holiday Christmas Gift - 50 Pages of Festive Fun for Kids!Introduction:Delight your little ones this holiday season with our "Coloring Snowman Book." This festive masterpiece is Christmas gift, offering 50 pages of snowy wonder and creative joy for kids. Watch their imaginations come to life as they bring these delightful snowmen to vibrant, colorful existence!Highlight Features: Snowman Designs: 50 pages filled with adorable snowman illustrations. Coloring Fun: A
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Types:
Koch Snowflake Ornaments
This fun holiday activity engages students in an exploration of geometry, fractals, measurement, and scale factor. Students will utilize mathematics and creativity in this exciting holiday project. Includes lesson plan, student guides, activity questions, and graph paper.
Grades:
4th - 10th
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CCSS:
Also included in: Fractal Ornament Bundle
Sierpenski Tree Ornaments
This fun holiday activity engages students in an exploration of geometry, fractals, measurement, and scale factor. Students will utilize mathematics and creativity in this exciting holiday project. Includes lesson plan, student guides, activity questions, and graph paper.
Grades:
4th - 10th
Types:
CCSS:
Also included in: Fractal Ornament Bundle
FREE PDF Presentation Christmas Math Grades 7 & up
Get set for a holly-jolly math challenge with your middle school students, or just take a break and laugh with your high school students! Our Christmas-themed presentation features four fun competition problems covering:Logic Puzzles: Apply deductive reasoning and critical thinking.Ratios/proportions: Solving proportion problems involving three quantitiesWorking Backwards: Using the final results of the series of operations to work back one step at a time to get to the beginning.Calendar: Findin
Grades:
6th - 10th
Snowflake Cross-Number Puzzle
This fun puzzle looks like a crossword puzzle, but uses numbers instead! Numbers can run left-to-right or top-to-bottom. Fun for middle schoolers, high schoolers, and adults alike. These make great extra credit activities, substitute fillers, or can be used just for fun!You can purchase all four Christmas-themed puzzles as a bundle here!Download three free puzzles here!
Grades:
4th - 12th
Types:
Also included in: Christmas Cross-Number Puzzle Bundle!
Christmas Fry Words 901-950 Bingo Game
Christmas is nearly here. There is a chill in the air. Let’s hang the wreaths and get ready for a game of sight word bingo. There are a total of 16 pages in this packet. 11 pages hold game cards with 2 different game cards on each page. 3 pages contain the word cards.
Instructions for use:
This game is print ready for 22 children, unless more copies are made. Print 1 copies of pages 3-16. Cut pages 6-16 in half to make 22 game boards. For durability laminate or use clear contact paper on the
Grades:
6th - 11th, Adult Education
Types:
Santa's Mathematics Workshop
18 Christmas themed problem solving cards for individual, pair or group work. Use for fast finishers, revision, maths centre activities or homework!
Grades:
5th - 9th
Types:
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