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Middle school informational text microsofts for GATE
Source Analysis (OPCVL) Reference Guide
IB aligned reference guide that gives students the tools/language to use for evaluating sources. It includes:A comprehensive list of types of sources (i.e. memoirs, documentaries, podcasts,etc...) with descriptions of their values and limitations. One pagers that define Origin, Purpose, Content and categorize their values and limitations A “Handy Dandy One Pager” with sentence starters to help students write their analysis of a source.All in a ready to print packet! I.B. (International Baccala
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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California Gold Rush Digital Interactive Activity
California Gold Rush Digital Interactive ActivityExamine the California Gold Rush using this digital interactive activity!The file link is provided and will ask you to make a copy of it into your google drive!Students are asked to explore websites, listen to audio, examine photos, etc. about various aspects of the gold rush such as mining tools, diseases of the time, routes to CA, and MUCH MORESkills covered: analyze, compare, infer, critical thinking, listening, explore and MOREStudents are als
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4th - 8th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Distance Learning California History Hyperdoc Bundle
Balloons Over Broadway - Non Fiction Newspaper Writing Assignment
Put the FUN back into learning! After reading Balloons Over Broadway, we always research a lot about the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. This can be used as a stand alone research project or as a group collaboration project through Google Classroom. In my 3rd grade class, we use this as an extension project for our gifted and talented GT students. This set has been updated to include a text features anchor chart, an example of our class newspaper, a template for newsletter and printable cut a
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Balloons Over Broadway Writing and Comprehension Quiz Bundle
CCSS Volcano Project with Report, Model and Presentation
This performance task (PT) can serve as a unit and will assess students ability to write an informational report. It engages students by including a model and presentation component. The PT is Common Core aligned and includes rubrics for W.4.2 and SL.4.4. A rubric is also included for the model.
The research report asks students to research one of the following volcanoes:Mount Fuji, Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, Kilauea, Santa Maria, Mayon Volcano, Osorno, Stromboli, Yellowstone Caldera, Popocat
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3rd - 6th
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Lesson Plan & PPT Package Explaining Hero vs Villain Protagonist vs Antagonist
This is a two-part package -- a Power Point presentation and a lesson plan. The PPT is available separately by the same name.
This 14-slide Power Point presentation presents hero, villain, protagonist, and antagonist. It explains the shift from using the terms "hero" and "villain" to the more contemporary "protagonist" and "antagonist." The presentation also uses Greek and early English root words to explain how the terms "protagonist" and "antagonist" evolved.
The fourteen slides include 1
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Ancient China: The Silk Road- it's origin and impact
How did the Silk Road originate? How did people travel from East to West during the ancient times? What products and ideas were exchanged as a result of trade at the Silk Road?
This presentation includes anticipation guide to grab your students' attention and lots of images to keep them engaged throughout the lesson. As you teach the lesson and explain the main ideas about the Silk Road students take notes on a differentiated graphic organizer that goes with the presentation. You may design a
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5th - 8th
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Adjectives PowerPoint - Describing Nature Photos
Students describe wildlife photos by inserting ADJECTIVES into compound and complex sentences: wading mallards, dangling butterflies, soaking frogs, gorgeous flowers, silhouetted birds, pollinating bees, submerged rocks, floating feathers, chewed leaves, dangling seed pods, ants herding aphids, katydids standing motionless, hiding spiders, web-encrusted fruit, blue-eyed birds, pink spiders, and so much more... This PowerPoint slideshow can be used for whole-class interactive participation (for
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2nd - 6th
Also included in: Science and Nature PowerPoint BUNDLE
Most Used AP English Literary Terms PowerPoint Presentation
This 103-slide PPT presentation covers more than 130 of the most-often-used literary terms found on the Advanced Placement / AP English Language and Composition and AP English Literature and Composition exams.The presentation is also useful for 8-12 grade non- AP / Advanced Placement courses including honors, gifted and talented, and on-level.Terms range from allegory and alliteration to understatement and verse.Each slide provides the term, definition, examples, and an image to help students re
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8th - 12th
Island of the Blue Dolphins Summative Project Choice Boards
This is a summative project based learning choice board. With 9 different student choice options, students are able to create a project that showcases their reading comprehension, creativity, and interests. Projects include writing, filming, presenting, creating diorama and 3d models. Each project has a google slide page that describes the expectations. My 3rd and 4th GATE students love this project, and it is wonderful to provide them authentic opportunities to showcase their unique talents as
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3rd - 6th
PBL Project on Body Systems, Diseases, and Prevention.
This is a basic outline of a PBL project for students to discover more about the different body systems and common preventable diseases. In this project the students are put into groups and then given a list of symptoms that a patient is experiencing. It is the the students job to learn about the different systems, diagnose the patient, and come up with a treatment plan.
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3rd - 7th
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Explaining Hero vs. Villain Protagonist vs. Antagonist PowerPoint
This 14-slide presentation presents hero, villain, protagonist, and antagonist. It explains the shift from using the terms "hero" and "villain" to the more contemporary "protagonist" and "antagonist." The presentation also uses Greek and early English root words to explain how the terms "protagonist" and "antagonist" evolved.The fourteen slides include 15 images, dynamic and active presentation methods, and colorful representations.THIS ITEM is also available in a package that includes a lesso
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Primary and Secondary Source Activity Cards
An activity to teach how to identify a primary source or a secondary source and the difference between them. Includes 24 source cards such as journal entry, pottery, marriage license, and movies. Suggested ways to sort cards - written, audio, video, artifact or object or "more than one". Suggested topics for discussions, two vocabulary cards and a handout with guiding questions.
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4th - 7th
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Young Traveler's Gift--Information Text Analysis
Informational Text Task Guide for Young Traveler's Gift
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6th - 8th
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Human Body Corporation Debates
Fantastic constructivist curriculum unit integrating reading, research, oral communication, peer collaboration, technology, and debate with the content of the human body systems. Sure to be a motivating, memorable learning experience for elementary intermediate aged students on up through high school. CCSS's are only referenced for 4th grade - however, the amount of reading and oral communication standards addressed in this project is extremely comprehensive.
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4th - 11th
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Reading Response Journal Instructions and Questions
This is a two-page item that students can keep or glue into their reading response journal. It gives instructions at the top of the first page, and then lists dozens of reading response questions that students can choose from to write about their reading. It is great for homework or classwork. Great for common core incorporation of students making text connections and being able to ask and answer questions about the text. Includes questions for nonfiction and fiction text.
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2nd - 8th
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All Access Class Enrichment - Summary Writing w Primary Sources + GATE Metaphors
Success in summary writing can come with a bit more fun, visual challenge, and a bit of mystery in primary sources.
All good students—from 1st grade to graduate school--must master summary writing. Let’s add critical thinking skills, creativity, and a bit of history mystery to this whole class enrichment opportunity! A metaphor-building summary and 3D design lesson for advanced and gifted learners (or everyone!) is included in this bundle as well. A few other extension tasks are offered as w
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3rd - 6th
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Art History Exam and Study Notes (Humanities-Literature class)
Here is a 100-question Art History Exam from the Renaissance to Contemporary periods. The test includes matching and multiple choice, covering a wide array of specific artists, art works, and artistic eras. Also included is an Art Notes handout for student study.
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
Main Idea, Details, Summary with GATE Icons
A PowerPoint presentation reviewing main idea, supporting details, extra details and summarizing using Kaplan's Depth and Complexity Icons (GATE Icons). Articles can be changed out according to topic and grade level. Current articles for independent practice in this presentation are about Colonial America.
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3rd - 6th
HISTORY MYSTERY
This is a list of questions based on the what has happened on that particular month and day. While most of the questions are historical, there are some geographical questions. For each question, there are five possible choices. The way it works in my class is that students research the question at home and come to class in the morning and make their guess on a small piece of paper and put it in the History Mystery box. At the end of the day, we discuss the question and the History Mystery manage
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4th - 12th
GATE Forms:Parent Appeal, HOPE Scale,Characteristic Behavior Scale-Editable doc.
Editable and fillable GATE Forms:HOPE ScaleThe HOPE Scale is designed to measure two very broad categories: Social and Academic components of giftedness and talent. It is meant to serve as a tool with which to focus a classroom teacher's nomination and perceptions of his/her students onto behaviors that are often observable by a classroom teacher.GATE PARENT APPEAL FORMThis is form is used in order for your child to be considered for alternate identification. This information along with test sco
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K - 12th, Staff
Also included in: Gifted and Talented editable forms, presentations & PD
Earthquakes: Disaster Relief Project
This project takes your average earthquake research project to the next level! Your students will research an assigned earthquake, discussing the area's seismic activity and geography, in addition to the details of the specified earthquake. They will also report about the disaster relief aid available and create their own organization to help! Rubric, common core standards, and entrepreneurial standards are included!
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6th - 10th
Ray Bradbury's "The Pedestrian," powerpoint notes supplement
This PowerPoint supplement makes for a nice companion to teaching The Pedistrian by Ray BradburySlides address style, settings, main characters, irony, symbolism, and themes.
Grades:
4th - 12th
Animal Adaptations Hyperdoc
This hyperdoc is great for anyone studying animal adaptations. It will guide them through exploration and then have them create a product to explain their knowledge.
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2nd - 6th
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The Modern Freytag Pyramid and Other Plot Diagrams
This 48-slide Power Point Presentation briefly reviews the Classic Freytag Pyramid that includes introduction / exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, revelation, resolution / conclusion. However, since the Victorian period when Freytag developed the pyramid plots have changed in dramatic ways.The presentation explains three more recent diagrams including the Modern Freytag Pyramid, the Post Modern Plot Diagram, and the Post Post Modern Plot Diagram. The presenta
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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