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Kindergarten U.S. History tools for common cores for GATE
Depth of Knowledge and Learning Icons - Digging Deep - Critical Thinking Skills
These focus wall resources are designed to be engaging and meaningful. Help your kiddos reach for deep knowledge and content mastery using a variety of critical, complex thinking skills.Digging Deep Learning Practices assist students in engaging in critical thinking and developing meaningful understanding of concepts.This resource contains both large and small posters as well as “quick cards” that can be displayed on focus walls, resource walls, or simply during specific lessons.Encourage your s
Grades:
K - 6th
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Abraham Lincoln Log Cabin STEM
Abraham Lincoln - President's Day STEM - In this STEM challenge your students will learn some facts about Abraham Lincoln and will complete the challenge of building a one room log cabin similar to his childhood home. Students must stick to a budget and use the available supplies. This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards and encourages critical thinking, budgeting, and engineering skills.
Suggested Plan of Implementation:
Prior Week: Send home the parent letter requesting supplies.
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K - 6th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Differentiated Instruction CCSS STEM Choice Boards & Extension Menus K-8
Teachers, meeting the needs of all learners through differentiated instruction is more important now than it ever was. With the transition to the Common Core, more English language learners, and differing learning styles and abilities makes it pertinent for teachers to offer activities that appeal to each and every student. This is a collection of choice boards, extension menus, and Think-Tac-Toe boards for all grade levels and content areas. These will allow you to reach all students, ensure th
Grades:
K - 8th
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Labor Day Emergent Reader
This little reader is the perfect way to explain what Labor Day is to elementary students. The book explains when Labor Day was celebrated, when it became an act by Congress and why is was created.
This would be a good resource to add to your Labor Day social studies or government unit on the holiday.
US History
Labor Day
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Grades:
K - 5th
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Function, Feature, Class Task Cards
Use these 24 FFC task cards to help children identify items given either their function, their features, or their class. Perfect for children with autism and other developmental disabilities.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.5.a
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PreK - 2nd
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What is this Thing?
Part of Nancy Polette's Fact or Fiction Series
Have you ever wandered through a museum, looked at an artifact, and wondered,
“What IS This Thing?”
So did Nancy Polette as she toured the Montgomery County Historical Society in Missouri.
As she wandered through the museum, she imagined a child of the 1800s suddenly appearing in her kitchen, at a mall, or in a classroom. How puzzled that child would be! A microwave, a blender, a cell phone, a computer, an escalator – what strange objects!
Just as a
Grades:
K - 12th
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Multiple Intelligence (MI) SMARTboard (Primary/Elementary) by Jennifer A. Gates
Teaching gifted, talent development or preparing students for Common Core by teaching them to identify their strengths?
This is the perfect way to introduce Multiple Intelligence: 8 characteristics that students can use to best identify ways in which they can make positive growth. They are: nature smart, logic smart, self smart, people smart, word smart, picture smart, body smart, and music smart.
Introduce and explore Multiple Intelligence in depth with students the elementary or primary and
Grades:
K - 5th, Staff
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Blunder or Brainstorm
Part of Nancy Polette's Fact or Fiction Series
Fact & Fiction of Famous Inventors and Inventions
4th in the series, Nancy presents not only fact and fiction statements, but also offers an original limerick for each of the inventors. From Archimedes to the Wright Brothers, Alexander Graham Bell to Alfred Nobel. Students learn about the first friction match, the first computer program, the first car, Velcro®, Coca-Cola,® Smith Brothers’® Cough Drops, Colt’s revolver and more. Great for just re
Grades:
K - 12th
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Blooming Thinkers (Revised Bloom's Taxonomy explained for young learners)
The revised Bloom's Taxonomy compared to household chores for young learners. This resource can help teachers explain the increase in thinking complexity with household chores for analogy (great to act out for kinesthetic learners).
Great for connecting higher level thinking to the common core and using with other fantastic Revised Bloom's products.
Set includes overview, each level, and 2 resource links pages.
Grades:
K - 5th
Damsel or Daredevil
Did Molly Pitcher hide in a well when bullets flew during the Battle of Monmouth? Could Sacagawea, the interpreter for Lewis and Clark, speak English? What did Jacqueline Cochran, Bessie Coleman, and Amelia Earhart have in common? What do Sarah Emma Edmonds and Frank Thompson have in common? Did critics of Susan B Anthony drag her through the streets because she supported women's rights? Who was a world famous photographer who captured on film the bombing of Moscow by the Germans, recorded the s
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K - 12th
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Successful Scholarly Traits and Attributes
This is a set of 10 posters great for a bulletin board to display all the attributes and traits of a successful scholar. This is a zip file of PNGs.
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Trial or Triumph
Part of Nancy Polette's Fact or Fiction Series
Nancy brings 30 contemporary actors and actresses, athletes, government officials, television stars, singers, and musicians into her Fact or Fiction series. Personalities include Barbara Walters, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lance Armstrong, Madeleine Albright, Alan Alda, and Tom Hanks. The question is posed "Fact or Fiction? Michael Landon was the top student in his graduating class" only to find he was 3rd from the bottom of the class, was very small, and w
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K - 12th
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Partner or Pleaser? Fact & Fiction of the First Ladies
Part of Nancy Polette's Fact or Fiction Series
Whether in the background or out front promoting their causes, the First Ladies of the U.S. presidents make an interesting read and basis for classroom research as addressed in the Writing component of the Common Core Standards:
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation. (The format of Fact or Fiction? i
Grades:
K - 12th
Chalkboard Polygon Graphics Clipart
This clipart/graphic set is a collection of high quality PNG files for commercial or personal use. Files are formatted at 300dpi for clean, crisp printing. Please see the thumbnail preview to see the included images. Graphics are easy to layer and size with transparent backgrounds.
INCLUDED IMAGES: (15 Graphics)
Chalkboard Fill:
- Large Square
- Small Square
- Rectangle
- Large Right Triangle
- Small Right Triangle
- Hexagon
- Large Isosceles Triangle
- Small Isosceles Triangle
- Small Scalen
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Power or Politics?
Part of Nancy Polette's Fact or Fiction Series
Was George Washington the 1st President of the United States?
Who put grizzly bears on the front lawn of the White House?
Which president dropped out of law school but still passed the New York law exam?
Who owed his election to the presidency to a cocker spaniel?
What was Chief Tecumseh’s curse on the Presidency?
What did Warren Harding’s and Richard Nixon’s Presidency have in common?
Which President was born with a different name?
Which President
Grades:
K - 12th
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George Washington Interactive Journal Activities (English only)
Learn about George Washington using these interactive journal activities that are simple enough for Kinder to complete and glue into their daily journals. Keep your students engaged and ready to learn! Each activity inclues information/details about his life. Included are 4 different activities to keep the learners engaged. You can use the examples provided, or have the students draw their own. Its up to you!
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Whole or Small Group Creative and Critical Thinking Skill Enrichment Grade 1
The attached is an Active Inspire flipchart that has 36 slides addressing the skills of fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration, analysis, evaluation, synthesis. There are three book suggestions within the slides to help illustrate creative thoughts and unique brainstorming examples.
The activities were designed as whole group, brainstorming centered things but can be done in small groups or printed out for children to do independently.
It is meant for first graders towards the second
Grades:
K - 2nd, Staff
State Symbols Student Notebook
Two different levels of student notebooks that met the needs of my diverse GT 1st grade classroom. Either could be used with or without the more detailed partner project as a second step. Both can be used with provided resources in the Texas QR symbol research materials or with any other state/materials.
These are not specific to Texas expect for the cover. I can provide edits for each state on request or within updates.
Grades:
K - 2nd
Texas State Symbols Student Resources - Adv. Level
Two different levels of student notebooks that met the needs of my diverse GT 1st grade classroom. Either could be used with or without the more detailed partner project as a second step. Both can be used with provided resources in the Texas QR symbol research materials or with any other state/materials.
These are not specific to Texas expect for the cover. I can provide edits for each state on request or within updates.
Grades:
K - 2nd
Individualized Lesson Plan: Benjamin Franklin
Need an idea for teaching your 1st grade students about Benjamin Franklin? How about giving them a choice? This lesson plan was created for my own 1st grade gifted and talented class, however this could also be used for any regular ed classroom in need of some extra engagement. This product is geared for Georgia's 1st grade social studies standards.
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K - 2nd
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Texas State Menu
Allow for choice..
each student may choose a product to show what they learned about state symbols.
This menu was created with multiple learning styles and ability levels in mind and allows for varied levels of depth and complexity in student products.
A TOP TEN favorite in the student opinion!
That said, 80% chose two of six product choices. Sometimes they really focus on a certain type, you have a particular class, or they just needed that type at this point. I intend to update after ano
Grades:
K - 2nd
Presidents Day l Twos Day l February 22, 2022 day
Perfect for Wordle, crossword activity that involves studying the Presidents. I used this with my 2nd graders and they loved it!
Grades:
K - 2nd
Introducing Details
These questions are designed to introduce kids to the idea of details as a element of learning in depth.
Teaching students to identify about important details teaches them to prioritize, reflect and make judgements as opposed to just remembering.
Grades:
K - 6th
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