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Middle school literature project microsofts for Gifted and Talented
Table-top Mini Golf: STEAM Engineering and Design for Elementary GATE
In From Putt-putt to Pebble Beach--Table-top Mini Golf, students will design and construct a playable table-top sized miniature golf course using the engineering design process. 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. The result is a classroom filled
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
The Odyssey Theme Park Unit Project - Print & Digital Activities - Assessment
Cap off your exploration of "The Odyssey" with a grand finale that'll leave your students beaming with pride! Use this with the graphic novel or any version of the text. Imagine the excitement as they come together in groups to embark on an epic journey of creativity and learning, all while crafting and marketing their very own theme park inspired by the heroic events and unforgettable characters of the epic poem.This project is more than just a culmination; it's a masterclass in essential life
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Grades:
8th - 11th
Integer Project Bundle
Integer Projects Bundle
Need an integer project idea? This bundle includes 5 Integer Projects that you can use in your classroom. This is great for grades 6-8. I have used these in the past for an alternative to a written integer test. These projects are 21st century and provide real-world application. Great part about this – completely editable.
Projects Included:
-Budgeting Your Money with Integers (with rubric)
-Integer Timeline (with rubric)
-Integer Rules Comic Strip
-I am an Integer
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Passion Project Unit | Genius Hour | Project Based Learning | PBL | Homework
This PROJECT-BASED LEARNING UNIT is consistently my ❤️MOST BELOVED activity of the year. Taking STUDENT ENGAGEMENT and MOTIVATION to another level. PASSION PROJECTS can be done as HOMEWORK or a GENIUS HOUR classroom program to learn about things that excite your students. This unit allows students to develop a GROWTH MINDSET as they face challenges and successes to reflect upon as learning experiences. EVERYTHING you need to run an incredible 8-12 week learning experience is included in this 11
Grades:
4th - 9th
40 Book Challenge Dot Tracker Materials
40 Book Challenge Dot Tracker Materials
THIS RESOURCE IS A FULLY EDITABLE POWERPOINT FILE.
First, read “The Book Whisperer” by Donalyn Miller.
•If you need a quick refresher, read this article by her The 40 Book Challenge Revisited.
•These materials are not designed by Ms. Miller or endorsed by her. They are simply the materials that I designed to use in my classroom to implement her brilliant strategies. I believe in helping students become life-long readers and in helping them find books tha
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Grades:
2nd - 12th
Seedfolks Novel Unit (30 pages) - Chapter Notes, Essays, Quiz, Themes
This is a creative unit/student project (30 pages attached) to teach with the novel Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman, which emphasizes character analysis and response to literature. (See the preview for the overview of the student project.) It includes chapter-by-chapter notes (or you may buy just these notes separately on my profile), a One-Pager activity, a character report card, a Response to Seedfolks Quiz, Reflection questions, a student Seedfolks story (students write their own chapter), a c
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Grades:
4th - 9th
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Math Project-Create Own Dream Home-Blueprints and Floor Plan (perimeter & area)
Create blueprints and/or floor plans for your own dream home!!
Your little architects will love dreaming big with this project. Using their imaginations and graph paper, they will create their own blueprints.They will be learning area, measurement and perfecting those problem solving and critical thinking skills. The bonus is they won't even know it because they will be having fun.
This project is very "real life" oriented.
For the younger grades this would be better for the GT students. Or
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
"Masque of the Red Death" Symbolism Analysis Floor Plan Activity
Edgar Allan Poe's short story "Masque of the Red Death" is an allegory, so the focus is on symbolism and setting in this post-reading floor plan activity. To begin, students work in small groups to decode the symbolism of characters, colors, and features of the castle as they closely examine descriptions from the text. This activity is also a good opportunity to discuss the link to Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Man" and other historical texts with information included in this activity. Next, th
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8th - 12th
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Literature Unit
This is a literature unit for the first Harry Potter Book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling. There are 36 pages as follows:
Page 1 - Cover Page
Page 2 - Vocabulary Words for the Book
Page 3-14 - Printable Blank Line Pages for Vocab
Page 15 & 16 - Optional Vocabulary Pages
Page 17 - Ch. 1 & 2 Questions
Page 18 - Ch. 3 & 4 Questions
Page 19 - Ch. 5 & 6 Questions
Page 20 - Ch. 7 & 8 Questions
Page 21 - Ch. 9 & 10 Questions
Page 22 - Ch. 11 & 12 Ques
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3rd - 8th
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Folktales: Fables, Myths, and Legends Lesson on Theme and Genre; STAAR
Folktales: Fables, Myths, and Legends Lesson Theme and Genre Lesson for 3rd Grade
You can choose to make a poster, a flip book, or any other creative project you can think of to make this assignment fun! The pages 3-4 are for the poster pictured above, and page 5 if the front of a flip book I made that will be easier to do if you are pressed for time! I also left the same information in an easy to copy/paste format just in case you would like to change this project to fit your needs.
Use an
Grades:
2nd - 12th
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Love That Dog - discussion questions and student packet
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Before purchasing, you can check out all of the discussion questions by downloading my FREE Power Point product. This product contains the printable packet.
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These questions can be used to accompany reading the novel Love That Dog, by Sharon Creech, aloud to students. However, it is best when students have their own copies in either large or small group.
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Script Writing Unit Plan
This is a detailed unit plan for a Language Arts 7-9 class or a Drama class. This unit focuses on script writing, scaffolding skills from Radio Plays to Reader's Theatre to adapting children's stories into original scripts. This is a great way to expose students to a variety of texts.This product includes: - Detailed lesson plans are included for 12 lessons- Teacher notes- Warm up game options- Comprehension reading with questions and answer key- Rubric, checklists, and peer assessments
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Grades:
7th - 9th
STEAM DaVinci Renaissance Style: A Unit for Elementary GATE
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,
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
SHARK TANK Economics Pitches Prototypes PROJECT BASED PBL GATE
Welcome to the shark tank project-based learning unit. Let’s begin our entrepreneurial careers today!
Build critical thinking skills, public speaking success, and bring creativity, language arts, and economics into your classroom in a purposeful and authentic way.
Students will work in collaborative teams to solve a complex, ongoing, inquiry-based problem with a physical product for an authentic audience:
• Brainstorm a product, citing a need that will be fulfilled.
• Construct a prototyp
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
Holes Powerpoint
This powerpoint is the perfect resource for teaching the novel, Hoot, by Louis Sachar. It contains 46 slides, and is fully animated and illustrated.
Created by Beverly Brown, it includes slides covering the following topics: author study, essential pre-reading questions, topics, themes, protagonist, antagonist, setting, conflicts, foreshadowing, flashback, characterization, palindromes, allusion, cause and effect, and compare and contrast.
It also includes these activities: conflict disc
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Grades:
5th - 8th, Adult Education
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Stranded on a Deserted Island Project
I use this unit to teach the theme of Needs in our Gifted and Talented curriculum. This unit covers Maslow's Pyramid of Needs in depth and allows students to apply this knowledge to new situations. Teacher and student slides (PPT has been converted to a PDF, can't be edited.) are included to teach about each level of the pyramid. With each level activities are included in order for students to apply new knowledge about Maslow's Pyramid of Needs. At the end of this unit I have students complete a
Grades:
4th - 7th
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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Literary Lenses Unit: Literary Criticism / Theory Presentation and Project
Literary Lenses Unit: This unit includes an introduction slideshow, song analysis, and final project that could be applied to any novel or book club. This Literary Theory/ Literary Criticism Google Folder includes everything you need to walk students through the six most important lenses for analyzing literature. The Google Drive folder includes a slideshow that walks students through 6 literary theories and a video example that can be applied to each theory and discussed. It also includes a pra
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
Diary of Anne Frank "I Am" Poem Project on Characterization (direct & indirect)
This "I Am" Poem project can be used at any time during the novel or play, however, I find it best as a cumulative project after the students get to know all of the characters.
This project consists of the instruction page, the poem rough draft/outline page, and the final draft letter "I" page so them to write inside.
The rough draft/outline page gives them enough structure to write a poem that uses CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT and analyzes a characters thoughts/feelings/etc. as well as gives the
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Grades:
6th - 10th
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The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis: Chapter Questions and Activities
This is a set of Chapter questions for the entire book. I have also included a few activities to help the students retain and comprehend what they have read. There are also a few discussion questions that you can use to stimulate discussion in the classroom about concepts that are mentioned throughout the book.
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Grades:
4th - 10th
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Rhetorical Appeals PROJECT Ethos, Pathos, Logos Project - Magazine Ad Creation
TOTALLY EDITABLE (Grading Rubric Included). Students 'invent' and advertise a product that they wished existed using all three rhetorical appeals: Ethos, Pathos, & Logos. This imaginative project gets students critically thinking while practicing rhetorical appeals.This assignment is a Power Point / Google Slides presentation with a warm up, project directions, student examples, and self reflection for students after the project is done. Also included is a Word / Google Doc grading rubric to
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Banned Books Intro Presentation & Poster assignment
This short editable PowerPoint (also included as .pdf) introduces kids to banned books. It includes statistics and general information from the Office of Intellectual Freedom for the American Library Association, as well as author quotes and information about the banning of popular books. Buy once, and re-download each fall with updates from the American Library Association's April report! I usually update the presentation at the end of August/early September.After the PowerPoint and for the nex
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Grades:
7th - 12th
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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Grades:
4th - 8th
Seedfolks Activities~Choice Board! Bloom's Taxonomy/ Depths of Knowledgechoice
Seedfolks is a wonderful story about thirteen individuals that built a community through a garden. This activity board is based on Bloom's taxonomy/ Depths of knowledge (DOK); including Gardner's theory of multiple intelligence. Using these concepts, students create projects based on their level of understanding! This is a choice board of different activities/ projects that students may complete OR you can individually assign. These activities are great for both final projects and/or as in clas
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Grades:
5th - 9th
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