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8th grade Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa resources for GATE
Christmas STEM Activities Challenges - 12 Easy Low-Prep Ideas for Elementary
Low prep and FUN Christmas STEM activities! Make a parachute gift drop, a snowball launcher, an elf zip line, and 9 more festive challenges!Easy to differentiate, with color-coding based on level of difficulty, these activities are easy enough to do in one class period! With 12 challenges to choose from, there is something for everyone. Host a 12 days of Christmas STEM event, a STEM family night, or use some challenges this year and some next.✅ What You'll Get ✅Suggested Material ListSTEM Challe
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Christmas STEM Activities MEGA Bundle
Figurative Language for December: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole
Figurative Language
Figurative Language for December (Deck the Halls with Figurative Language) is a holiday-themed study of figurative language presented as a series of original sentences, popular song lyrics, and a verse from a familiar Christmas poem.
Organized into three parts with twenty-five items each, students are challenged to identify and interpret the six featured figures of speech--simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, and onomatopoeia.
A total of
Grades:
5th - 8th
Types:
Christmas Low-Prep Activities Depth and Complexity Print-and-Go
This Depth and Complexity Christmas Activity Pack is perfect if you're looking for a fabulous selection of Christmas activities that use the Depth & Complexity framework. This Depth and Complexity Christmas Activity Pack has language arts, social studies, math, and science activities, all in one great resource. You'll find Christmas writing prompts, fiction and non-fiction pieces to read, Depth and Complexity frames to complete, a Christmas Around the World mini-book and more! Of course ther
Grades:
4th - 8th
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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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A Christmas Tree History-- Leveled Reading Comprehension Activity & Task Cards
Did you know Christmas trees were once illegal in the US!? Let your students explore the history of this popular holiday tradition while strengthening their close reading and critical thinking skills!
We LOVE to celebrate holidays in our classroom, but it can be a struggle to balance celebration time with education time! That's why I created this set of holiday-themed leveled passages and reading response tasks. We get to engage in some fun holiday learning and celebrating while still sneakin
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Christmas Logic Puzzles - Holiday Activities for Middle School
Just in time for Christmas! I know, I know....but better late than never, right? Your students will love thinking critically with these challenging logic puzzles! This NO prep four pack includes unique critical thinking brain busters. Your middle school students will love these brain busters, and beg for more! Perfect for early finishers, challenge board, after testing, and more! Have a look!Set includes 4 Logic Puzzles. Blitzen's Baubles! iA challenging location logic puzzle, to color
Grades:
5th - 8th
Types:
Also included in: Holiday Logic Bundle- Middle School - Easter Activities- Fast Finishers
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
Winter Themed Logic Puzzles with Critical Thinking Challenges
Enrich Your Classroom with Engaging Math & Logic Brain Teasers!Spark Joy and Learning with Winter-Themed Puzzles: Perfect for the winter season, these six brain teasers blend basic math skills like addition, multiplication, subtraction, and logic to solve intriguing cryptograms. With themes of Christmas, winter sports, and snow fun, they are ideal for creating an engaging and festive learning environment.Bundle Highlights:Diverse Puzzle Themes: Includes one Winter Olympics puzzle, two Snow F
Grades:
6th - 8th
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
Types:
Christmas Science Activity | Borax Crystal Growth Experiment | GR 6 7 8
Discover the properties of mixtures and solutions by growing borax crystals. You'll get a comprehensive teacher guide, a hands-on investigation gear for middle school, and a borax ornament STEAM challenge. This unit uses inexpensive materials and gives results in 24 hours, a wonderful way to reinforce the scientific method and journal writing. This hands-on Investigation and Teacher Guide IncludesTeacher Guide and Background Information and TipsAlignment to Standards6 Page Student Investigatio
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS1-4
, MS-PS1-2
, MS-ETS1-3
Also included in: Borax Crystal STEAM Experiment | Multi Grade Bundle | Christmas Activity
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
Hanukkah Activities Depth and Complexity Passages + Math Winter Holidays
Looking for a wide selection of Hanukkah activities that use the Depth & Complexity framework? This activity pack has language arts, social studies, math, and science activities, all in one great resource perfect for 4th grade through 8th grade. You'll find Hanukkah writing prompts, fiction and non-fiction pieces to read, Depth and Complexity frames to complete, all of the instructions for playing dreidel, dreidel math, the science of the candle and more! Of course there is a digital version
Grades:
4th - 8th
December/Christmas Vocabulary Builder/Brain Teaser
This five-set group of fun vocabulary activities, entitled The Anagram Express, involves using definitions and clues to decode given anagrams (words with the same letters but in different order, hush and rush, for instance) and then rearranging them into terms from various subjects throughout the curriculum. Each activity set has 35 items. Keys are included. Twelve total pages counting cover.
Download the free first page from sets 1 and 4 and have a closer look.
Grades:
4th - 8th
Unplugged Coding for Christmas STEM Activity
Unplugged Coding for Christmas includes 3 levels of printable directional coding challenges:Simple maze: Students follow 3 conditional statements and draw a path through the maze)Intermediate maze: Students follow the rules of 4 conditional statements and code a path of their choice through the maze.Challenging maze: Students follow the 4 rules with multiple steps and code the shortest path they can through the maze, avoiding an infinite loop where they might get stuck forever!Binary Puzzles2 de
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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Also included in: Unplugged Coding BUNDLE of STEM Activities No tech needed!
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:
December Brain Teaser Challenge Puzzles | Boom Cards | Digital & Print
December Brain Teaser Challenge Puzzles | Boom Cards | Digital & PrintableDo you struggle to engage and differentiate for your:early finishers?gifted and talented students?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.★★★
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
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CCSS:
Drama Lessons And Units | Christmas Themed
30% OFF! This bundle (125 pages) has EVERYTHING you need for teaching about drama using a Christmas or holiday theme. Study stage properties, costume design, tableau, set design, sound effects and end it with a really fun two-day lesson on the beloved musical, A Christmas Story! And...….there's a BONUS LESSON (To thank you for purchasing the bundle.)This is a perfect bundle for the busy teacher--enough material for at least 3 WEEKS.Each lesson includes:letter to teacherprocedure--with time a
Grades:
6th - 8th
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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
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The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry Short Story Study Guide
The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry Short Story Study Guide
The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry is not an easy read and generally reserved for high school classrooms. This Short Story Study Guide is designed for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. It offers specific activities and resources to help middle schoolers understand and enjoy one of O. Henry’s most famous, head-shaking tales.
The 6 different instructional components are:
1. The Cop and the Anthem—a full copy of O. Henry’s story, whic
Grades:
6th - 8th
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
Types:
Twelve Very Challenging Math Word Problems for Grades 4-8
Twelve Very Challenging Math Word Problems… Christmas/Winter Edition- Grades 4-8
These twelve challenging multi-step problems will intrigue your students who love going the extra mile! Higher-order critical problem-solving is at the forefront as your students solve…
- An estimation question that requires students to make volume approximations
- An estimation question that requires students to make surface area approximations
- A straightforward long division question
- A question asking about
Grades:
4th - 8th
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