Critical thinking social emotional learning resources for Microsoft Word and for GATE

STEAM DaVinci Renaissance Style: A Unit for Elementary GATE

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Critical Thinking, Engineering, Gifted and Talented

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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Grades:

4th - 8th

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Projects, Unit Plans, GATE

Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE

Primary GATE with Caldecott COLLECTION - 180 pages - 7 Books!

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Your primary kids will love these lessons! You save a bundle: 33% off individual purchases! I teach 30-45 minute groups once a week of 1st and 2nd graders all year, and this collection is more than enough to get me through an entire school year of groups. I can’t absolutely guarantee it will do the same for you, but it’s going to be very close if it doesn’t . . . You’ll see best practices in gifted education throughout. You’ll see many graphic organizers, age-appropriate and challenging cr

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Unit Plans, Activities, GATE

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K - 3rd

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Primary GATE with Caldecott -- "Two Bad Ants" by Chris Van Allsburg

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If you're like me, you can't easily find activities designed for primary grade gifted learners. This one hour activity, however, is specifically designed for Chris Van Allsburg’s "Two Bad Ants" and primary gifted and talented students—nurturing talent for both verbal and nonverbal high ability students. In this activity, students use critical thinking and creative perspective-taking to create a “mystery drawing” similar to the close-ups in "Two Bad Ants." In an interactive follow-up, classma

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Grades:

K - 2nd

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Activities, GATE

Going Commercial -- a GATE Unit for the 21st Century and the Common Core

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Critical Thinking, For All Subject Areas, Gifted and Talented

Going Commercial is 100 pages of lessons and materials for the 21st Century Learner. It’s designed for 4th and 5th grade GATE students, but it is appropriate up through 8th and even 9th grade because of the nature of critical thinking and creativity involved. This unit in its entirety will extend well beyond 20 classroom hours. You get lessons in economics, common core language and math activities, bunches of primary sources for best practices in social studies, public speaking opportunities,

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Grades:

4th - 8th

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Projects, Unit Plans, GATE

Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted

STEM Kid Engineering -- Span the Gorge Secret Spy Adventure Challenge

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Critical Thinking, Engineering, Gifted and Talented

In the Span the Gorge Secret Spy Adventure challenge, students launch their careers as secret spies and then solve an engineering challenge to save the day. A vintage primary source postcard launches the mystery for our 21st Century Learners. Students will use logic interpretive skills (which include translating vintage cursive handwriting) and Internet and Computer Technology skills to “crack a code” and solve a mystery. Next, in a collaborative effort (Common Core skills in Language), stude

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Grades:

3rd - 6th

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Primary GATE with Caldecott -- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

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Come along for a challenging lesson and fun extensions with Ezra Jack Keats’s 1963 Caldecott winner, The Snowy Day. I use this lesson with my 1st grade advanced readers. 2nd and 3rd graders should be right on target as well. Got a gifted kindergarten group? This will be an especially tough challenge for them but promises to stretch kids’ imagination and critical thinking skills across 4+ grade levels. Pre-reading activities warm up your students for critical thinking questions as we “count

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Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Other (Social Studies - History)

Grades:

K - 3rd

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GATE, Lesson

SCAMPER Invention Project

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Jennifer Granberry

This two page activity includes instructions, expectations, descriptions, and a rubric for a "SCAMPER" project. Students will use the "SCAMPER" process to invent a new product. This is editable so that it can be modified for your specific purpose and grade-appropriate activity.

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Grades:

2nd - 12th

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Projects, GATE, Rubrics

Friday Math -- Sports Pennants Geometry Design for 21st Century Learners

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Critical Thinking, Geometry, Gifted and Talented

Powerful visual-mathematical connections with hands-on design challenges. . . Everyone likes to cheer for someone, and the traditional pennant has been a mainstay of “fandom” for more than a century. Tried, tested, and refined with GATE nonverbal ability 4th and 5th graders, this lesson should be a hit with 6th grade, 7th grade (or beyond) too! In this lesson, students use geometry, number sense, and measurement skills to design their own pennants. The keyword is PRECISION in these designs.

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Grades:

4th - 8th

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Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented

Also included in: STEAM Class BUNDLE - Math Focus Hours of Hands-on Projects GATE Gifted

September Brain Benders

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Brain Benders

Brain Benders are critical thinking activities designed for each month. Use them as enrichment activities, journal prompts, learning center activities, or however you choose! Each monthly Brain Bender comes with 20 activities organized in a 5x4 grid to resemble a calendar. You can choose to print the calendar with its corresponding multiple intelligence label for each activity or print it without. This is a great way to challenge your students!

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Grades:

K - 4th

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Activities, GATE, Homework

STEM Kid Engineering and Construction -- Air Rockets x 2

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Critical Thinking, Engineering, Gifted and Talented

In the Air Rockets project, students build two different air rockets (one “blow rocket” and one rocket with a launching pad) using easy to find materials along with ready-to-print templates. Students build background knowledge about the properties of air and explore the differences between wings and rocket fins through class discussion, experimentation, and the use of a graphic organizer. Appropriate for grades 3rd-6th—included all the instructions a teacher will need, ready-to-print templates

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3rd - 6th

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Masking: A Social-Emotional Lesson About Individuality and Growth

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Gifted and Talented, School Psychology, Social Emotional Learning

Rather than following any didactic approach, this unit allows students to form understandings through collaboration, experience, and creative projects. In this way, the social-emotional growth “sneaks up on” our learners in an engaging, organic experience.In this unit, students explore masking—or hiding one’s true self—through video, class discussion, metaphor-making, and thoughtful hands-on activities. The heart of the unit, the Superhero Mask-up project, invites students to imagine positive gr

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Grades:

5th - 8th

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Unit Plans, Activities, GATE

Jury of Her Peers: Short Story Test

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Litteacher

Jury of Her Peers: Short Story Test.7 Short answer questions and 1 timed essay question. Test created for 9th grade gate, but can be differentiated for other grades/levels. Asks higher level questions (Costa's level three questions) that force students to close read and think critically about the text. Questions can be used for Socratic seminar, or lead students through the text. Essay questions can be used to build background prior to reading the text. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Stor

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Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, Short Stories

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Not Grade Specific

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CCSS:

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Factsketball

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Varner Advanced

Engage your students with a fun and exciting game of Factsketball! This game is great for a reward or any time you want to enjoy a fun and educational activity with your students! Students answer trivia questions independently, collaborate with a group, and get rewarded with chances to make baskets. The team with the most baskets scored at the end of the game is the winner! **Editable!

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Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Other (ELA)

Grades:

4th - 6th

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Activities, GATE, Games

Classified Ads For Classroom Jobs, Application Form, & Student Checkbook

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Bylow and Reach High

This item contains classified ads for classroom jobs in a newspaper format. You can personalize all parts of the product to make it suit your personal needs. The packet also contains a job application form, & student checkbook register. The checkbook register is an easy way to track classroom money that may be used with or without actually using class money.

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Classroom Management, Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented

Grades:

5th - 12th

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GATE, Classroom Forms

A.N.C.H.O.R. Meeting

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Rainbeau Learning

ANCHOR stands for Appreciations, News, Concerns, Highlights, Obscurities, and Reading. This can be done in discussion group orally, can be done written and then discussed in small or whole-class groups, or a one-on-one conference with the teacher/counselor/admin. I added explanations for certain letters because it is powerful to articulate why something was a highlight or an appreciation, and why you are concerned about something. This is a good way to get to know students and see where they are

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Classroom Community, School Counseling, Social Emotional Learning

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Not Grade Specific

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Activities, GATE, For Parents

Week in Review Reflection (Meta-Analysis)

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Rainbeau Learning

This is a useful tool for students to start to see patterns in their own lives as it relates to weekly behaviors. Typically, students refer to previous Week in Reviews, and complete averages based on those categories. They then record those averages on the Week in Review Reflection. It gives students an opportunity to see a "bigger picture" and introduces/reinforces the concept of meta-analysis, or systematically assessing previous results of their own recorded data and to reach conclusions base

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Health, School Counseling, Social Emotional Learning

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Not Grade Specific

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Activities, GATE, For Parents

Perfect Unit Study - Wonders of the World

Created by

Starla T. Gresham

Identified Gifted and Talented Independent Study - EVERYTHING is included - too many Common Core Links to List. A semester's worth of work - just Click - Print - Teach

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Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Study Skills

Grades:

3rd - 5th

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PowerPoint Presentations, GATE, Lesson

Character Traits

Created by

Rainbeau Learning

This is a great way to get students to have the language to talk about character and to identify their top 6 character traits.

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Character Education, School Counseling, Social Emotional Learning

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Not Grade Specific

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Activities, GATE, For Parents

Thank You M'am Depth and Complexity Frame

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Keegan for Kids

Throught provoking questions for the Jr. Great Books story "Thank You, Ma'm" using Sandra Kaplan's depth and complexity iconsExample: Details (Flower Icon)What details from the story prove that Mrs. Jones trusts Roger not to leave?Format is a table with the left column being the question and the right column being open to write a response. Also available in my store:Thank You Mam Digital Breakout Escape Room

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Critical Thinking, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

Assessment, GATE, Homework

Energy and Circuit Game Show Menu

Created by

Laurie Westphal

This is a game show menu covers the topics of:formation of fossils (and therefore fossil fuels), thermal energy (molecular structure of the states of matter), energy transfers, static electricity, conductors and insulators, and parallel and series circuits. There are activities designed for the lower, middle and upper levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. View the PREVIEW for a complete look at this product so you can better decide if this file will meet your needs. NOTE: I support copyright and tradema

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Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Science

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Activities, GATE

GATE Literacy Extensions Cube for Upper Elementary

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Still looking for more activities and extensions for those pesky GATE verbal kids in your classroom? Give this one a try! Roll the cube, and your eager learners will be on their way to a creative, standards-infused extension activity in critical thinking. This free "cut and fold" cube is appropriate for upper elementary GATE and is generic enough to be used for either short fiction, biographies, or novels.

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