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Simulations for Gifted and Talented $5-10
Gifted and Talented - Living on Your Own: Lessons in Financial Responsibility
Challenge your gifted and talented to play the “game of life” and survive financially during their first year in college. This concept-based unit allows students to “earn” an inheritance from a distant relative by repurposing items from a barn. With this “money,” students find affordable housing, transportation, furnishings, and other essentials. Then the “game of life begins with monthly reoccurring expenses, opportunities to buy additional necessities and/or wants, as well as challenges or o
Grades:
5th - 8th
Choose Your Adventure: Dystopia
Immerse your students in the world of Dystopian literature with this "Choose Your Adventure" activity! Students are inserted into the story as the protagonist and are given a series of choices that will determine their fate. There are 74 choices and 28 possible endings! They must navigate through social classes, a rebellion, totalitarian rule, and a dubious government. Use as a hook activity for a novel, a genre study, or to accompany another dystopian text!
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Gifted Education Unit- Design Your Own App
As of 2017, 77% of Americans own a smartphone or tablet. It is estimated that in 2020, people will spend $189 billion on apps. Design Your Own App is an excellent extension for students to use critical thinking and problem solving skills to develop a new innovative app. Their new app can be used to entertain, connect people, educate, or make everyday living easier. Students will create a thorough description of how to app works and a visual design of the app. Finally, students will have the opp
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Gifted Education Unit- Medical Interns
Medical Interns is an excellent student extension for students who are learning about human body systems.Working as an intern students will diagnose patients with varied medical conditions. Armed with prescription cards in their white lab coats, they will determine staff members ailments. If faced with an unknown disease, students will research plausible possibilities, return to the patient with a prescription and present various treatment options.
This is a great unit for gifted education cla
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Mars Mission Chaos Breakout
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Your students will have 45 minutes to escape your room in this immersive learning escape game about Mars. You are the commander and as you read the scenario, build up the suspense for your students to crack the codes for 6 locks and several challenging clues! They will learn facts about Mars and complete a math problem to breakout of this chaos! This Breakout does use real locks and boxes to add to the real feel of escaping!
Goals of a Breakout Room:
• Teamwork and collabo
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Florida Science Unit Projects - Earth & Space Science Bundle
These engaging unit projects hit your 5th grade Florida science standards NGSSS for earth and space science. These science projects can be used as independent work for your advanced students or for all students at the end of your unit. Written by a Florida teacher to meet Florida state academic standards for science. No fluff!Included Projects:Students work for NASA in this fun science activity where they discover a new solar system.Students work as real estate agents in this fun science activit
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Stock Market Challenge Complete Unit - Google Drive & Classroom Links!
For this stock market unit, you'll receive everything in easy to use PDF format for any or all parts you want to teach hands-on, or have students work on paper. As a bonus,within in the PDF document, there are embedded Google doc links! The links prompt you to make a copy of the document for easy download to use with Drive or Google Classroom. These Google documents may be used in place of any paper-version of the activity. This PDF guide with activities can be implemented hands-on with PDF form
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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Economics {Bundle} Profits & Losses; Property Rights; Entrepreneurship
Gifted Education Economics Bundle 3 Lessons: Profits & Losses; Property Rights, and Entrepreneurship Famous Entrepreneurs are Bundled Together
These lessons include a simulation, webquest, and rubric to guide a research paper.
*Economics Profits and Losses Manage a Musical Production
This unit takes approximately 4 class periods to complete. Students create flyers, tickets, and manage marketing for a mock theater production. Students work in cooperative learning groups, or it can be adap
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Road Trip
A unit to get your students ready for summer vacation! Students will plan a week long vacation with a $500.00 budget. Students use the internet to find locations, map route, find hotels and attractions. Students learn how to calculate mileage, map their trip, figure taxes and tips and budget money. Students complete mini reports on locations visiting as well as attractions. I use the lesson with gifted 4th grade students but it could easily be used for grades as high as 8th grade. My student
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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Gifted Education Unit- Sunrise Vacation Agency
Sunrise Vacation Agency is an excellent extension for students who want to learn more about the world and practice research and communication skills. Working as a travel agent students will identify the perfect vacation destination for their client and create a dream vacation package to meet their client’s needs. Students will use travel magazines, online websites and personal interviews to research various cities and attractions throughout the world. With a set budget, students will create the
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Bungee Egg Challenge App
Why leave egg survival in drop challenges to blind chance? Experience how technology and physics principles can be leveraged to design for success. Do exciting hands-on activities in your classroom.How do you determine if an egg will survive a drop from a given height suspended inside a container? Do you know what forces develop, how much the egg can handle, where the best place to position the egg is inside a container, how much the chords will stretch, or how fast energy is dissipated? With th
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, HS-ETS1-4
What's Next? Planning For Your Future--A Problem Solving and Using Decimals
In this math problem-solving activity, students have graduated from high school and are ready to take on the world. They will need to find a job, a place to live, fill out a job application, plan menus, and stay on a budget. This activity is always a huge eye-opener for my fifth graders. It gets them thinking about the future and how much it really costs to live out there in the big old world. I have included some extensions at the end. One of my favorites is the job interview. One year, b
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Grades:
5th - 6th
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Math Simulation: PARTY PLANNER
1-2 weeks of math time. In partners students draw the number of guests and a budget. They gather coupons and magazine clippings to plan out their party.
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Simulation Station-Hurricane Relief Budgeting Activity
This hurricane relief simulation is designed to challenge students to think outside the box to help others in a time of need. It provides real-world problems that students will be able to connect with on many levels. It consists of a total of 4 tasks that uniquely address issues that arise in a time of disaster. This product may be presented as a center/station. It is ready to print and go. The simulation design allows teachers to be flexible while meeting the needs of the students.
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Entrepreneur/STEM Project
This product is a hands-on experience through which students will learn basics of creating a product and pitching your idea to an investor, inspired by the hit television series, Shark Tank! Students will select a large community concern that is important to them. Students will then learn the ins and outs of every detail needed in designing a creative product that will address a community concern, which will reach the needs of their target market. They will be equipped with the tools needed to s
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
American Gov. Simulation (Congressional Term Limits) Lesson Plan
Introducing the "Senate Subcommittee Simulation: Writing, Debating, and Voting on Congressional Term Limits"! Engage your students in the fascinating world of legislative decision-making with this immersive and interactive activity.In this simulation, students will step into the roles of senators serving on a subcommittee. They will delve into the procedures and duties of a Senate subcommittee as they embark on the task of crafting a proposed bill to limit congressional terms.Through hands-on ex
Grades:
9th - 12th
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