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Higher education measurement projects for Gifted and Talented
MS and HS Tech Lesson - Design Your Own Home!
Design Your Own Home is a fun, project-based activity introducing students to architecture and home design.Made for use with:PCMacChromebookAll resources are organized for assigning through Google Classroom!In this activity, students will explore and design a digital floor plan for their dream home! They will be required to place specific objects and layout, but the rest is up to their own creativity!Students in middle through high school can spend up to two 45-50 minute class periods working on
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in:Â Middle and High School STEM and Technology Curriculum
Rebus Puzzles/Brain Teasers/Word Puzzles
This resource contains 181 word puzzles that will get students thinking outside of the box! Each puzzle is on a separate slide to display on the Smartboard/Loft Board. There are lots of ways that you can use these puzzles in your classroom! Use the puzzles as a bell-ringer, an extension activity or throughout the days as a transitional tool! Print the puzzles out for students to work on independently by selecting the option to print multiple slides per page (up to 16).Take the resource apart and
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Marshmallow Challenge Handout
This FREEBIE includes a color and black and white handout to provide to teams of students engaging in the Marshmallow Challenge activity. This activity is great to use as an icebreaker or to engage students in critical thinking, cooperative learning, and innovative thinking. It can also be used to reinforce basic principles of physics or as a fun math activity involving measurement.
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Mr. Harper's Public Speaking and Reading Textbook Thingee
Dear Teachers,I’ve entitled my first book, Mr. Harper’s Public Speaking and Reading Textbook Thingee (where he keeps trine to make us talk good) not simply out of whimsy but as a means to point out the declining gifts of articulation amongst our students. This book was developed for two purposes. The first is to provide schools with the materials needed to create two new elective courses for their students devoted to public speaking, reading and acting. The second purpose is to give our beleague
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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City Block Construction Project - Geometry
In this exciting project student create an entire city block using basic geometric shapes. Students have an option of creating a 3D model of the city or they can create a 2D template. This project can be differentiated in many ways. Students can hand draw the shapes or use a computer program like google drawing to construct a city block. • Teachers can choose what building to assign depending on the grade level.• Students can work independently or in a group.• Students can create building de
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Project based learning: The Toxic Ooze Mystery PBL unit
The Toxic Ooze Mystery is loosely based on the chemical accident at Love Canal in the 1970’s. The residents of Glenhill have been experiencing greater than expected health problems for several years. A mystery 55 gallon drum shows up. Then another and another. What secrets do these rusting containers hold? Can the residents (students) themselves piece together the evidence?
Package includes 23 character dossiers, unit plan with 4+ lessons, assignments (tiered), PPT, for using, numerous in
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Learning Stations: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Lesson in a box! Everything you need to share a multi-media presentation is included in a compressed file. No links. No searches. No downloading. Unzip and go!Collaborative, small-group instruction in the upper-level classes using learning stations. While reading the book *Into the Wild* by Jon Krakauer, small groups of students will rotate through eight stations to complete several activities on the following:= Transcendentalism= Influences= Author's Style= Literary Connections= Secondary
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Divergent Thinking Questions: "What If" Questions For All Subject Areas
How could introducing rabbits into the rainforest affect that habitat? What would a passport for Christopher Columbus look like? In the story, Hansel and Gretel, instead of dropping breadcrumbs, how could the children avoid getting lost in the woods? Our new, 21st Century standards require students to argue, inform, and explain. Divergent thinking questions offer opportunities for students to demonstrate original, elaborate, and flexible thinking, enabling them to become actively involved in t
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education
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What would Barbie Look like if she were Real?
Ever wondered what Barbie would look like if she were real? Now you can work with your students to find out!
Part 3
In order to save you and your students time, I measured various segments of Barbie's actual doll measurements. Students can use their measurements from Parts 1 and 2 of the Human Body Proportion Lab (available on TCP) OR measure their height or foot size to determine the SCALE FACTOR between their body and the doll's body. Using the SF, students will determine Barbie's measure
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7th - 10th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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INVENTORS RESEARCH PROJECT
Students research an inventor and his or her invention. Generic worksheets include: biographical information about the inventor, questions about how the invention works, its purpose and level of user difficulty, A chart to record the effect the invention has on society, industry, the world, manufacturing. Another questions if the inventor encountered obstacles, if he/she collaborated with others and more. Small group activities ask students to compare their research and to draw conclusions.Anoth
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5th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Cooperative Poster Bundle - American Gothic
My cooperative posters now feature two versions of the project for a single purchase.
Coop Coloring Grids provide pre-printed tiles to be colored in your choice of media and assembled into a large final design. Coop Grid Drawings feature the additional challenge of having the students draw the tiles themselves. Both variations are included in the product.
Distribute individual sections to draw or color and then assemble into a larger artwork. Encourage your students to experiment with differe
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1st - 12th, Higher Education
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Tiny Home Design Project
Covers many different standards and skills. Designing using proportions and scale drawings. Finding measurements, perimeter, area, square feet, and more. Online shopping to equate how much is actually needed for purchase. Google Sheet Calculation practice. Creating an Advertisement and giving a sale pitch to a shoulder partner with a self assessment and partner assessment.Comes with links to examples of each task to use in your classroom and slides to go along with the week-long lesson plan.My s
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Mr. Harper Makes Us Speak and Read Totally Good ... er
Note:This book has been edited and updated for 2022. It includes the new project "The Box" which has become a new favorite. What I wrote below still applies, but I would simply tell you that if you enjoyed the first book, you will find the same pleasure in this one. The difference lies in that there are more oriented projects in this book.Dear Teachers, I’ve entitled my second book, Mr. Harper Makes Us Speak and Read Good ... er not simply out of whimsy but as a means to point out the declining
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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March Madness U.S. History
This is a fun project for U.S. history classes for March Madness. Students will complete a bracket to determine the most significant moment in U.S. history. Then, the entire class will vote to determine the "winner" of each round. This download includes:Suggested instructions (with pictures of how I created a bracket to hang in the hallway)Printable Prediction BracketSample ScheduleSample Slideshow Printables for Large Classroom/Hallway Bracket
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Six Thinking Hats_Graphic Organizers
ABOUT RESOURCEYou will be downloading 28 different graphic organizers for the 6 thinking hats for all sorts of NO PREP usage! **scroll up to PREVIEW, to see all the graphic organizers included**If you liked this, you might enjoy the following:Six Thinking Hats_ClipartSix Thinking Hats Dice TemplateSix Thinking Hats_Clipart Six Thinking Hats_MEGA BUNDLE-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here is my explanation ab
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in:Â Six Thinking Hats_MEGA BUNDLE
Contemporary Epistemology Lesson for High School Philosophy and IB Philosophy
This contemporary epistemology lesson contains a 17-slide PowerPoint with detailed teacher's notes that covers the following topics and philosophers:Non-European EpistemologiesDaniel DennettW.E.B Du BoisNoam ChomskyMichel FoucaultPaulo FreireLogicIncluded with the lecture slides are three readings, a Ted Talk, and a fallacy activity with a short skit project. All readings come with questions and answer keys as applicable. Readings and activities include:An excerpt from Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â Philosophy Unit Bundle Epistemology and Being Human Lectures and Activities
Mirror Mystery Grid Drawing Art Project - Eagle
A more advanced grid exercise. Students will surprise themselves when they draw the simple squares while reassembling them to complete an impressive drawing. The squares provided, however, only complete the left half of a symmetrical image. The right half is completed by the students reproducing the squares again, this time drawing the contents in reverse to create a mirror image of the left side.
Download the preview for a free Mirror Mystery Grid worksheet. Click here to watch a mystery grid
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Frank Herbert's DUNE-Individualized Research Projects
Frank Herbert's novel Dune explores rich themes across a broad range of disciplines including environmental change, religious zealotry, the benefits and dangers of technology, man's relationship to and with nature, and far more.These individualized research options allow the students to choose one and personalize it to investigate an area of greatest interest to themselves, engages them in meaningful and extended academic research and synthesis of ideas, and culminates in a final major research
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Ready to Print! Passion Project Bundle! CCGPS Aligned! CCRPI Ready!
A unit for gifted (or any students, really) students to explore their minds and their passions! Their creativity comes first with this new product! Students are given the freedom to navigate through their own minds and focus and research on one particular area for the duration of a semester. Students select a passion, research it, create something based on that passion, and then put that product in use! Excellent product for gifted education! This product includes instructions, rubrics, sel
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Engaging Students Through Capstone Projects
Capstone Project:
- A culminating experience calling upon students to utilize a vast amount of skills and knowledge learned throughout high school.
- The projects in this book will ask students to research a chosen topic, create their own experiment, analyze the results of this experiment, and disseminate the results of the project.
Why Do This Project?
- Consider Bloom’s Taxonomy - The expectations of capstone projects place students consistently in the highest levels of thought. Where does yo
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Banned Books Media Project Presentation
Have students pick a book that has been banned somewhere in the world to read. Students should research the reasons why the book was banned. You can use this banned book video project to have students show you what they've learned about banned books. They will present their video to the class.
It has two video options: (1) Students can create a book trailer video for their chosen book that includes the reasons for the ban and persuades their peers to read it anyway or (2) They can create an ar
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Measurement in 3D!: Area and Volume
This 6 part experiential activity investigates common 3 dimensional objects including:
Cones
Rectangular Solids (boxes)
Cubes
Cylinders
Spheres
This project has 6 independent activities with worksheets and so it lends itself well to small groups.
Through the course of this project, students will:
1. Measure 3D objects with common measurement tools (rulers, yard/meter sticks, tape measures, measuring wheels, strings, etc).
2. Use the linear measures to calculate and explore the connection
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7th - 9th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Leadership Project
Is there a leader that inspires your students? Are you looking for an independent project that allows students to express themselves? This Leadership Project includes everything you will need!The item includes: -Project Guidelines-Student Checklist-Rubric
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Mesopotamia Website and Inquiry Questions for a Project Based Learning Activity!
Students love this website project! To add depth and complexity to your unit on Mesopotamia, students start by picking an inquiry question from the ones provided or create their own based on their interests. They can work individually, in pairs, or small groups to create a website using Google Sites, Canva or any other platform that you have taught them to use. What should be included is on the assignment page, but you can tell students that these are some ideas to include or ideas that they hav
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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