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Hispanic Heritage Month middle ages resources for GATE
Mexican Independence Day Depth and Complexity Activities for El Grito de Dolores
This Mexican Independence Day Activity Pack is chock-full of print-and-go activities to help you celebrate Mexican Independence Day and/or El Grito de Dolores while addressing loads and loads of English Language Arts and Social Studies standards. It's perfect for teacherIf you're looking for a way to teach students about Mexican Independence Day that is culturally sensitive, has lots of activities, and uses the Depth & Complexity framework, this activity pack is perfect!You'll find Mexican I
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Fall Activities Depth and Complexity Print and Go Autumn BUNDLE
HALLOWEEN & DAY OF THE DEAD BUNDLE | Read Write STEM Art Games Research Activity
SAVE OVER 50%!...Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, 137-page (+4 PowerPoints) Halloween Megan Kit for Middle Grades (Grades 4-8) Unit! It includes everything you need to celebrate Halloween and Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) with your students! 2 reading passages, CCSS-aligned questions with Answer Key, 6 writing prompts (2 narrative, 2 informative, 2 opinion) with 10 writing papers, Revising & editing checklists, Online res
Grades:
3rd - 12th
PERSONALITY TYPES & ART BUNDLE | Picasso Self Portrait Glyph | Back to School
Save 25%...includes 4 personality surveys + art activity! Boost student relationships and remember your students’ personality types all year with this no-prep, easy-to-use Picasso Personality Type Glyph Unit Bundle! This unit allows students to determine their True Colors Personality Type, Shape Personality Type, Learning Style (visual, auditory, or kinesthetic), and Brain Dominance (right- or left-brained), then create a Picasso-inspired art piece that represents their personality through a sp
Grades:
3rd - 12th
DAY OF THE DEAD Reading Writing & Art Integration Unit | Hispanic Sugar Skulls
Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep,30-page Day of the Dead Sugar Skull Reading, Writing, Research, and Art Unit! It includes everything you need to celebrate and understand the tradition of Sugar Skulls as it relates to Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos). It also allows students to compare/contrast Halloween and Day of the Dead through online research.The following resources are included:•Sugar Skull nonfiction passage, CCSS-aligned
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3rd - 12th
ABOUT ME ART | PICASSO PERSONALITY PORTRAIT & Research | Back to School
Remember your students’ personality types all year with this no-prep, easy-to-use Color-Coded Picasso Self Portrait Personality Glyph & Research! This activity allows students to represent their personality through a special color code by either coloring OR painting their self portrait! This is useful for you (and your class) because everyone can recall their personality types at-a-glance, thus turning this abstract concept into an activity that is high-interest, easy to understand, and memo
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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WHO AM I UNIT-Picasso Self Portrait Glyph Art, Poetry, & Personality Type BUNDLE
BUNDLE save 25%...includes 4 personality surveys + Picasso Personality Portrait glyph art activity + Inside/Outside Two Voice Poem Activity! Boost student relationships and remember your students’ personality types all year with this no-prep, easy-to-use WHO AM I UNIT-Picasso Personality Self Portrait Glyph Art, Poetry, & Personality Type SEL BUNDLE! This full unit allows students to FIRST determine their True Colors Personality Type, Shape Personality Type, Learning Style (visual, auditory,
Grades:
3rd - 12th
ABOUT ME ART & POETRY BUNDLE |Picasso Portrait & Two Voice Poem | Back to School
Save 25%...includes Picasso Self Portrait Personality Glyph & Inside/Outside Two Voice Poem Activity! Boost student relationships and remember your students’ personality types all year with this no-prep, easy-to-use Color-Coded Picasso Self Portrait Personality Glyph & Inside/Outside Traits Two Voice Poem BUNDLE! This unit allows students to integrate art and poetry into one Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) unit. Students will first create a Picasso-inspired art piece that represents the
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3rd - 12th
Knight Vs. Samurai: A multimedia comparison/point-of-view experience
What middle school student doesn't like to learn about fighting? This lesson (which is one of my best sellers) comparing Knights and Samurais gets them interested right away and relates to Common Core! Using Voicethread.com or GoAnimate4Schools.com students take on the point-of-view of a Knight and Samurai to compare various aspects of each (i.e. appearance, responsibilities, combat skills, weapons, code of conduct, etc...).
This product includes my rough lesson plan (allowing you to see my
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: $ Saving Bundle: Buy My Store-Erin Schneider Secondary Social Studies
SUGAR SKULLS ART INTEGRATION Self Others Book Character Hispanic Day of the Dead
Easily incorporate ART INTEGRATION into your classroom routine with this no-prep,18-page Day of the Dead Sugar Skull Reading and Art Unit! It includes everything you need to celebrate and understand the tradition of Sugar Skulls as it relates to Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos). The following resources are included:•Sugar Skull nonfiction passage, CCSS-aligned questions, & answer key•Create a Sugar Skull •Choose whether to create it with paper or clay•Choose whether to create it about yo
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Black History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month & MLK- Primary Source Activity
If you are teaching Primary Source Analysis, then this activity is PERFECT for you. Use this product during Hispanic Heritage Month, Dr. King's Birthday, or Black History Month. Because of the layering of products (pre-activity, lesson, graphic organizer, and essay), this is a tool to teach and reinforce primary analysis skills. NO PREP NECESSARY! I've done all the work (other than making copies) for you, including a pre-activity to expose your students to the subject-matter. IDEAL FOR: College
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6th - 12th
The 95 These of Martin Luther; Common Core Approach
The 95 Theses of Martin Luther triggered the Reformation and brought an era of great change to Europe. The 95 Theses of Martin Luther triggered the Reformation and brought an era of great change to Europe. In a Common Core approach, the students are going to create an illustrated pamphlet by reading five of the “95 Theses” of Martin Luther, visually demonstrating their understanding, and concisely explaining why the Church’s actions angered him. Martin Luther was passionately defending Christ
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6th - 12th
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Viking Activities
Included in this activity packet are a Viking Helmet, a Viking Shield for designing, a Viking Longboat Paper model, and a lesson on Viking Runes with a recipe for pretend stone included so that students can carve their own Viking Runes. We believe strongly in adding to history learning by creating fun and engaging activities that add to the overall experience. You can see more about this activity packet (including pictures of the projects in process) by heading over to our blog post, "We're Vi
Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in: Ancient World History BUNDLE
Medieval Europe PowerPoint Project
Students in groups research an important aspect of the history of Medieval Europe. With the research students will summarize this topic, define key terms, create a cause-and-effect chart, write point-of-view and informative writing, invent quiz questions, and present the topic to the class through a detailed and illustrative PowerPoint presentation.
Grades:
7th
MEDIEVAL TIMES UNIT FOR SMART BOARD!!!! Grades 4,5,6
Medieval Times Unit
Grades 3-6
*Make your focus topic selections based on how appropriate for the grade you teach
Time Frame approx. 2-3 weeks
Document includes:
• Full unit of smart board lessons and slides to teach Medieval Times in your classroom
• Made for a 3rd grade Gifted Class, you can adapt it for topics using books of your choice OR the books I’ve suggested.
• Graphic organizers
• Format for research paper
• Format for poster
• Materials needed
• Information about
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Differentiated graphic organizer:analyze the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages
Use this graphic organizer to examine and analyze the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. How did the church evolve over time?
This frame/graphic organizer should be used as students learn about the Catholic Church. Students may take notes from the textbook or lecture notes. They may work in teams or with a partner to complete the organizer. This organizer may also be used as pre-writing activity for the essay to follow or as a study guide for the test.
This product is a bundle and might be
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5th - 9th
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Create-a-Center: The Middle Ages
ABOUT THE CREATE-A-CENTER SERIESEach center provides 90 tasks, ready to cut out and make into a center, as well as a crossword puzzle and an enrichment activity. The multi-disciplinary activities are keyed to Bloom's Taxonomy and include tasks from the 6 major classifications of the cognitive domain: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Create-a-Centers are great for gifted and talented students.Answers are provided for the crossword puzzle and most of the
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Middle Ages Bundle for Grades 4–8
Door in the Wall student packet CCSS meet critical thinking strategies
This in depth study of Marguerite de Angeli's book Door in the Wall is a complete student handout; just copy and start! Each chapter has vocabulary, an introduction to medieval concepts and comprehension follow up based on Project Zero's "Visible Thinking" strategies that are the perfect window into your student's grasp of Common Core SS. Pair this unit with your studies of medieval Europe for great cross curricular integration. You will download a PDF version, but can contact me if you have a
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6th - 11th
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Dragon Tamer Help Wanted Poster
The village is under attack, and it needs your students' help! Let them use their creative thinking skills to create a help wanted ad in order to hire the perfect dragon tamer. This activity is perfect for any study involving fantasy or medieval times. Extend this activity with creative writing by having your students write a narrative about their problem and their search for the perfect dragon tamer.
I use this activity with my study of Beowulf:
Beowulf Informational Text Scavenger Hunt
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Not Grade Specific
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The Middle Ages
Students are naturally drawn to the magic and mystery of the Middle Ages with its kings, queens, castles, courts, and knights in shining armor. The booktalks and activities included have been chosen to strengthen and enrich learning about this period of history and to help students develop language arts, reading, social studies, and critical and creative thinking skills. Topics include Europe during the Middle Ages, the successions of European rules, Medieval literature, and religions and mythol
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5th - 9th
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Samurai Diary Unit Project
You are a samurai writing 5 entries in your diary as you grow up in Medieval Japan. Through a rewriting of the Japan Content Standards, students will create a first person, historical fiction story of their life and training as a samurai. A rubric based on the 6 traits of writing is also included in this activity.
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7th
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Dear Niccolo; A Common Core Approach to Machiavelli's The Prince
Machiavelli's The Prince examines politics during the Renaissance, changing the way people looked at government in the same manner that art and literature were forever changed. Any study of the Renaissance and politics must take into account Machiavelli's examination of politics, not as an ideal version but a practical guide, derived from history. Have your students turn the Prince into an advice column for princes, allowing them to delineate both the problems and the solutions offered by Mach
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7th - 12th
Apply what you know: Create a CD/Album Cover for the Mongols-Distance Learning
A student favorite! Students will use higher-level thinking skills to apply information they have learned about the Mongols to create a CD/Album cover (as you would see on iTunes etc...). My students created the cover after listening to a song that I purchased on TPT at http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Mongols-Song-by-EdTunes (you could also use Flocabulary.com). The assignment could also be done as an assessment after learning about the Mongols.
The song is NOT included with this p
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: $ Saving Bundle: Buy My Store-Erin Schneider Secondary Social Studies
Feudalism in Japan vs. Feudalism in Europe- differentiated graphic organizer
Use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast feudalism in Japan and feudalism in Europe. In what way was it similar? How did it differ? If you have been using Icons of Depth and Complexity for differentiated instructions, your students should be familiar with the icons. If not, the explanation is below:
This frame/graphic organizer could be used as students learn about feudalism. Students may take meaningful notes from the textbook or lecture notes as they note the language of the discipl
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5th - 9th
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Renaissance Grid Project
This project has 2 main objectives: 1. To increase knowledge about European Renaissance, Reformation and Early Modern Europe – its concepts, people, and terms. 2. To be able to select activities of interest to the individual student.
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7th
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