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8th grade microsofts for GATE
The Arrival by Shaun Tan -- 100+ Page Unit and Teacher's Guide GATE
Yes, we can teach reading, writing, speaking and listening, and critical thinking skills using this amazing graphic novel which has no “words!” It’s a journey about who we are, where we have come from, and the humanity we share. It’s about hope and love and understanding. At times powerful, at times breathtakingly beautiful . . . Shaun Tan’s The Arrival should be on every bookshelf in every classroom.This 100+ page teaching guide and unit has been developed over the past three years in my adv
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5th - 12th
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Logic Puzzles for Spring
Logic problems are fun for bell-ringers, time-fillers, and challenge. This set of ready-to-use 6 Spring-themed problems are great for your middle school math and secondary math students. Keep even your brightest students challenged. Included in this resource:- 6 Spring-themed logic problems of medium level- Answer Key- Great for math centers, time fillers, or bell-ringers.- Note: the logic puzzles may require more than one review of the clues. Love Logic Puzzles? MUST have logic puzzles sets
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Logic Puzzles Bundle of seasonal logic puzzles for middle school math
Rhetorical Appeals: Ethos, Pathos, Logos Multiple Choice (EDITABLE) TEST
INCLUDES REAL VINTAGE ADVERTISEMENTS! Ready to PRINT and USE. This multiple choice exam on ethos, pathos, and logos - tests learners on definitions and knowledge. THEN includes more advanced and rigorous questions where students read famous quotes, look at advertisements, and identify the correct appeal. Full Unit:*****This product is also included our COMPREHENSIVE Persuation and Rhetorical Appeals UNIT BUNDLE above - along with a classroom presentation, videos, writing assignments, practice t
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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STEM Bell Ringers Discussion Questions Warm-Ups Middle School High School
Science bell ringer discussion questions, technology bell ringers, as well as some engineering and math topics. This resource includes 70 editable slides with questions to get your students thinking about STEM topics. Display these at the start of class one day a week so that as students walk into your classroom they can begin forming opinions and ideas about these thought-provoking questions! CONTENTS70 Slides (each with a main question and some with a follow-up question) Questions range in top
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5th - 12th
STEM Kid Engineering for GATE -- FERRIS WHEELS plus Primary Sources
In this GATE engineering journey, students will each construct a very cool Ferris wheel prototype as a final product. Along the way, they will examine primary source images, read primary source history, and integrate math, engineering, and economics in a learning process which incorporates best practices in gifted and talented education for 21st Century Learners.
This is a challenging engineering project—teacher guided. I used it for GATE 4th grade; however, my kids are experienced builders.
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
180 Middle School Math Warm-Ups: Full Year of Daily Bell Ringers & Starters
First five minutes? Planned! With this set of daily bellringers, you'll engage your students and get them thinking! Made for 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade math, these open-ended and challenging starters will have your students ready for your lesson. This resource is truly print-and-go, no-prep for the whole school year. Either print the provided student answer sheet for a weekly grade or have students respond on a dry-erase board or paper. Help your students make connections by using this resourc
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5th - 8th
Cesar Chavez Day Power Point Presentation
Power Point Presentation, Cesar Chavez Day, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Pesticides, Fair Wages, Farms, Migrant Farmworkers, Mexican Americans, Chicano Studies, Ethnic Studies, Heroes, Social Justice, Multicultural Education, Holidays and Celebrations, Birthday, California, Arizona, Politics, US Government, Farm Workers, United Farmworkers Union, Latino, Dolores Huerta, Robert Kennedy, Spanish Language, Cultural studies
26 Slide Power Point Presentation on the Legacy of Cesar Chavez. This prese
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2nd - 12th
Da Vinci Parachute Prototypes -- Hands-on STEM
In this lesson, students solve geometry problems and learn background physics concepts as they build a working model of Leonardo Da Vinci’s parachute. Logic, critical thinking, a bit of Renaissance history, writing and supporting conclusions with details from a source—it’s all here too!
Make this extended lesson a cross-curricular, standards-based mini-unit, or just make it a cool building activity. Pick and choose the level of commitment right for you and your students. With the suggested e
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4th - 8th
STEAM DaVinci Renaissance Style: A Unit for Elementary GATE
In STEM Renaissance Style, students will follow the engineering process as they return to the 16th Century. With these lessons, the teacher defines the problem, helps students gather background research, and specifies the requirements. The students do the rest: creating alternative solutions, choosing the best solution, doing development work, building a prototype, and testing and redesigning.
Students construct a prototype of Da Vinci’s parachute while learning about falling objects, gravity,
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
SHARK TANK Economics Pitches Prototypes PROJECT BASED PBL GATE
Welcome to the shark tank project-based learning unit. Let’s begin our entrepreneurial careers today!
Build critical thinking skills, public speaking success, and bring creativity, language arts, and economics into your classroom in a purposeful and authentic way.
Students will work in collaborative teams to solve a complex, ongoing, inquiry-based problem with a physical product for an authentic audience:
• Brainstorm a product, citing a need that will be fulfilled.
• Construct a prototyp
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
Political Parties: Notes,Quiz, and Make your Own Party
I love teaching about political parties! I especially love this lesson because students learn about the political spectrum and even take a quiz to find where they are on the spectrum.Students also create their own political party!This products includesPowerPoint presentationMake your own political party activity Democrats vs republican cut out worksheet Where are you on the spectrum quizPolitical Party notes Political Party notes for interactive notebookWant access to ALL of my civics resources?
Grades:
6th - 12th
STEAM Kid Engineering -- The Playable Golf Course Design Unit for GATE
In this unit, students will build a contraption to hit a small, wooden golf ball through a scaled version of a golf course which they and their classmates have designed. They’ll make a trundle wheel for measuring and marking the course, write down their scores on a scorecard, design putters, and learn background in physics through their work in the engineering and design process.
The Playable Golf Course is not just fun. It’s a challenging engineering, design, and construction unit including
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan - Teacher's Guide and Activities GATE
The beauty in The Lost Thing is that it settles into one’s soul in a casual and poetic way. What starts as a sort of amusing but sad story finds its way deeper into your heart. You begin to wonder, to ask questions. Soon you find yourself wanting to stand up and defend all the lost things in the world—including that lost part of yourself.
Are you somehow guilty too, you wonder? Quite unexpectedly, you begin to really feel the world Shaun Tan creates. It is a wonderful experience in mindf
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: 2019-2020 Gifted and Talented GATE Program for the Year - Elementary
Essay Template aligned with Lucy Calkins Boxes and Bullets
Students can use this template to plan and organize their essays for Informative, Persuasive, and Expository essays.
It includes Sentence Starters and Language Frames and lined paper to start their essays on.
The C_ O_ P_ S_ S_ is a checklist for students to check their writing for Capitalization, Organization, Punctuation, Spelling, and Sentence structure.
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4th - 8th
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Math Brain Teasers- Google Edition
PAPERLESS BRAIN TEASERS FOR GOOGLE DRIVE
Wanting to move towards a paperless classroom? Imagine using your time to plan effective lessons instead of printing, cutting, laminating, and organizing activities for early finishers! With this file you will be able to share directly with your students through your Google Classroom without ever having to hand out any paper!
Contents of this set include:
-125 slides
-Problems vary in difficulty
-Sudoku
-Logic puzzles
-NRICH word problems
-Picture/visua
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3rd - 8th
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Shakespeare in 30 - All Plays & Guides (abridged Shakespeare plays)
This is my Shakespeare in 30 collection. Each abridged Shakespeare play in this series has been adapted for teens to tackle in a half an hour. These Shakespeare adaptations are perfect for ELA, ESL, and Shakespeare camps. These abridged Shakespeare plays has been used with:✅ Reader’s Theatre (1-2 class periods)✅ Staged Readings (1 week)✅ Full production (3-4 weeks) The Shakespeare in 30 collection is perfect for students in grades 6-12 studying William Shakespeare. Each Shakespeare play has been
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6th - 12th
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Literature Circles Bundle With Depth and Complexity
This Literature Circles Bundle With Depth and Complexity will be a great resource when implementing literature circles in your classroom. A literature circle is a small group instructional approach with structure, high expectations, and rigor. ****This file comes with editable products! (Need PowerPoint to edit)**** Depth and Complexity will help your students dig deeper in their learning and think in more complex ways. This product encompasses the 11 elements of Depth and Complexity that were
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3rd - 8th
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Road Trip Adventure PROJECT BASED LEARNING for GATE and 3rd - 8th Grades
Come along on a fun project-based adventure as students practice different forms of writing, geography skills, computer and internet technology skills, engineering and design skills, math skills, public speaking, creativity, and art.
Here is your Gold Medal Standard project based learning unit ready to go. Because this project-based unit relies heavily on student creativity and invention, the key knowledge, understanding, and success skills can be scaffolded across many grade levels. This un
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
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.
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5th - 9th
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A Greek or Latin Root is Worth 1,000 Words
This is my absolute favorite way to introduce a year-long study of Greek and Latin roots! Students need to know your why and "buy in." What better way than to get them hooked into solving a puzzle! Present the incredibly LONG word in this slide show, and students will be competing to figure it out! With clear motivation and a game-like presentation, your students will be much more motivated to study etymology! You can find out more about how I used this in my class, HERE.If you're looking for re
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3rd - 8th
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Gifted and Talented GATE WRITING COLLECTION 122 Pages
Get six highly rated GATE writing lesson bundles at 33% off individual purchases. This collection is packed with variety, creativity, challenge, and the Common Core.
See the big preview! Hours and hours of class instruction and engagement!
You'll get the following bundles adaptable from 3rd through 8th grade:
Road Trip Adventure Cross-Curricular Writing Journey: Students practice all sorts of writing from graphic design to narrative to expository as they journey across the USA and create p
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3rd - 8th
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Rhetorical Analysis Basics: President Bush's Speech on 9/11
The following file is a mini unit I use with my AP English Language class to get us started thinking about rhetorical analysis. I usually do this in the first week of school.
File includes the following:
- Full text of President George W. Bush's speech on 9/11, formatted to give students room to annotate.
- Full text of President George W. Bush's speech on 9/11, with a starter key pointing out basic rhetorical moves Bush is making in regards to language and structure.
- Notes for students
NOGGLE!- A Fun Math Warm-Up Activity
Noogle is played like the game Boggle, but uses numbers instead. Students are challenged to find a string of numbers that meet the different categories. Students may use any operation (addition, subtraction, multiplication or division). Great for GATE students, early finishers, or as a Math Center activity. Product comes as a Microsoft Word document so that you can change the numbers as often as you would like. You can also keep the grid blank and have students write in their own numbers or
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4th - 8th
T-Shirt Entrepreneurs PROJECT BASED LEARNING Math Economics GATE 4-8th
Your students will be excited for this “gold medal standard” project-based math, design, and economics activity. It’s appropriate and adaptable for 4th – 8th grade. It has been a staple for my 4th grade gifted and talented math group since 2013.You won’t be the sage on the stage. Students will problem-solve their way through the project working in collaborative teams, and the teacher will guide, be a resource, spur discussion, play devil’s advocate, and provide mini lessons when necessary.In
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class BUNDLE - Math Focus Hours of Hands-on Projects GATE Gifted
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