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Logic Puzzles & Brain Teasers Enrichment Activities Early Finishers Yearlong Set
Challenge & excite your students with this Daily Logic Puzzles & Brain Teasers Yearlong Set for Early Finishers. This BEST SELLING set of Logic Puzzles & Brain Teasers can be used in a variety of ways in your classroom to engage your students in fun & challenging ways! Easy-to-use, and substitute friendly, this set of 180 daily logic puzzles & brain teasers will motivate your students while targeting problem-solving, critical thinking, inferencing, patterning, word building,
Grades:
1st - 4th
Introduction to STEM & the Engineering Design Process PowerPoint
This Introduction to STEM and the Engineering Design Process PowerPoint presentation can be used to teach students about what STEM is, help them understand how the Engineering Design Process works, and have them experience working on STEM challenges with their peers.The 27-slide Introduction to STEM and the Engineering Design Process PowerPoint presentation contains the following:A slide for the title5 slides on what STEM is7 slides on skills developed by STEM2 slides on the importance of STEM8
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2nd - 5th
Main Ideas and Details in Expository Text
Multi-level resources for teaching main ideas! This set includes over 50 pages of targeted instruction to help students find topics and main ideas in paragraphs and expository texts.A 60-slide presentation guiding students through the process of finding topics and main ideas, with carefully written texts and attractive photosUncluttered practice pages with paragraphs for students to find topics and main ideasTexts written at different levels with activities, graphic organizers, and multiple choi
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3rd - 6th
4th Grade Math Number Talk Warm-Ups: Paperless Question of the Day Morning Work
These 4th grade math number talks will help gifted and talented students warm up with journal prompts and problems each day! While morning work is a great way to start your day, staying after school to make copies is not! That’s where paperless math prompts come in! This bundle of math warm-ups makes a great “Question of the Day” routine in your math classroom. They are a perfect enrichment activity for early finishers or a springboard to your daily math lessons. With 101 unique prompts, you are
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Grades:
4th - 5th
Introduction to STEAM and the Engineering Design Process PowerPoint
* This is the STEAM version of my Introduction to STEM and the Engineering Design Process PowerPoint.This PowerPoint presentation can be used to introduce to students what STEAM is, help them understand how the Engineering Design Process works, and have them experience working on STEAM challenges with their peers.UPDATE: Link to Google Slides version added. - September 7, 2021The 30-slide PowerPoint presentation contains the following:A slide for the title6 slides on what STEAM is7 slides on ski
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Computer Digital Citizenship - Digital Footprint
Help students understand the concept of digital citizenship and digital footprint using the teaching slide along with the printable worksheet. Decorate the computer lab or hallway with the students' finished projects..
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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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Grades:
5th - 8th
Optical Illusions Activity for the Upper Grades - Distance Education
This Optical Illusions Project is a critical thinking activity. It can be used for Distance Education learning. This creative thinking project can accompany any Science, Psychology or Language Arts unit. It also acts well as a stand-alone activity where students are encouraged to think convergently and divergently. Students love this engaging project that captivates their interest. The questions that accompany each image require the students to think critically (and creatively) to try to ex
Grades:
5th - 10th
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
Terrible Things - An Allegory of the Holocaust
Questions for Eve Bunting's "Terrible Things - An Allegory of the Holocaust". The last questions ask students to compare theme with the poem "First They Came for the Jews", and to rewrite poem using modern situations.
Grades:
7th - 10th
Gifted Lessons in Forensic Science Handwriting & Document Analysis
Forensic Science and criminal investigations involving handwriting and document analysis are real-world, high-interest, engaging topics your gifted students will love to explore. Gifted kids love to learn about handwriting and document analysis in forensics and how detectives can determine if a handwriting sample is a forgery. In this age-appropriate lesson, students will be given an introduction to, and an overview of, handwriting and document analysis as it relates to criminal investigations.
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Gifted Lessons In Forensic Science Bundle
Moonshot by Brian Floca Apollo 11 PRIMARY GATE Lessons -- Rocket Model
Astronauts, space ships, and the moon . . . what kid doesn’t like that kind of stuff, huh? We should build a space ship!
Here’s another collection of lessons and activities for your primary gifted and talented groups. It’s full of hands-on activities across the curriculum, critical thinking questions, participatory reading, and age-appropriate primary source lessons. As always, you’ll get ready-to-print activity sheets, explanations, pictures to lead you through, and Common Core State Standa
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1st - 3rd
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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
Activist Project *DIGITAL VERSION INCLUDED*
**UPDATED to include:1. Student Graphic Organizers to guide research and speech writing (8 pages) 2. Digital Student Graphic Organizers through Google Docs (non-editable and editable versions included) ___________________________________________________________________In this research project, students are guided in creating a presentation and speech telling the story of a chosen activist. Students will first dig into the meaning of activism, what it is and what it looks like. Students will then
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5th - 8th
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Genius Hour - Bundle of Units (Middle School)
This is a bundle of our 2 units that focus on bringing Genius Hour to your classroom:1. Genius Hour Foundations2. Genius Hour Part 2 *****************************************************************************Genius Hour – Bundle of LessonsThe concept of personalized learning and passion driven education has been growing in many educational systems around the nation. The overall concept has been developed off of the Genius Hour model proposed by Google. Students are given the opportunity le
Grades:
4th - 8th
Gifted Lessons In Forensic Science Bundle
Forensic Science and criminal investigations are real-world, high-interest, engaging topics your gifted students will love to explore. In this forensics bundle, ten different forensic science topics are included. In these age-appropriate lessons, students will be given an introduction to and overview of the following topics, as they relate to solving crimes:Forensic ScienceProcessing a Crime SceneCounterfeit MoneyDeath Investigation: Autopsy EntomologyFingerprints Handwriting and Document Anal
Grades:
5th - 8th
Teach Tone, Mood, and Paraphrasing Using The Raven by Edgar A. Poe HALLOWEEN!
Teach an engaging, high interest lesson on tone, mood and paraphrasing using "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe! This flexible lesson plan can be used with cooperative groups and includes links to audio and video to use with "The Raven," as well as the text and a list of definitions for difficult words, a jigsaw paraphrasing activity, a word splash activity where students choose words from "The Raven" that contribute to the tone and mood, and finally, a Venn Diagram where students choose from a lis
Grades:
7th - 12th
Scholarly Pursuits: How to be a Scholar PowerPoint, Posters, and Activities
Scholarly Pursuits - How to be a Scholar Bundle (Introduction PowerPoint and Activities)
Explore the world of Scholarly Pursuits with this 14 slide presentation introducing students to the concepts based on Sandra Kaplan's research in gifted education. Scholarly Pursuits are often used in the field of gifted education, yet are extremely helpful to all students, especially those lacking many models of successful student-learner behavior.
This presentation is intended as a beginning of schoo
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Primary GATE with Caldecott COLLECTION - 180 pages - 7 Books!
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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K - 3rd
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Game Designer: A Product Based Learning Unit with the Engineering Design Process
Game Designer is a Project Based Learning Unit using the Engineering Design Process for the middle grades. Students work independently or collaborativelyto design and create an educational game. This is a great STEM or STEAM activity. This unit contains the following components:1. Game Designer Tips – Tips for making and sources to purchase game components2. Game Design Lesson - PowerPoint lesson to introduce the task and teach theEngineering Design Process.3. Game Design Guidelines – Handout fo
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4th - 8th
180 No-Prep Critical Thinking Starters: GATE Word Morning Work Warm-Ups Activity
Does your class need a fun class starter that teaches critical thinking and vocabulary? This 180 day no-prep activity set will engage your students from the get-go! Each slide includes: 1) a thought-provoking challenge, 2) an interesting new word, and 3) a fun fact. Student response pages are also included! Simply print-and-go!Not sure? Click here for the first 5 days of this set FREE!This set includes the following activities:Making WordsEpic Word ProblemNumber CruncherCategorizeYay or Nay!Pro
Grades:
3rd - 6th
How to Conduct Research at the Elementary Level - Slideshow
This 15 slide powerpoint walks students through narrowing research questions, determining validity of sources, choosing primary and secondary sources, citing sources, and recording facts.
Grades:
1st - 5th
First Day 3D Metaphor Nameplate and MORE!
On the very first day, your students will have created a personal metaphor, completed a cool 3D visual art nameplate which can be used as an effective classroom management strategy throughout the year, completed a public speaking opportunity straight from the Common Core Standards, and will have proven themselves to be a supportive listener in the classroom. Yep, all in this one interactive critical thinking activity . . .
In this introductory lesson, students use a graphic organizer to brains
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL CURRICULUM 1st-8th GATE
The Victorian Era - Pre-Reading Research Project and Simulation
For years I have taught A Christmas Carol, and each time I have tried to find an interesting way to teach my students about the Victorian setting of the novel. This activity I created has worked perfectly for my gifted students, but can be easily accommodated for any level of learning!What I have created is a three-part activity that doesn't just give students a research project, but also a role as a character from Victorian England. Adding the personal element has allowed my students to not j
Grades:
7th - 8th
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