46 results
Common Core SL.4.1 resources for Gifted and Talented
Genius Hour Passion Projects For Elementary Students
This Genius Hour project-based learning pack will help you and your students begin passion projects with ease! This set will help your students develop a growth mindset as they go through a series of self-awareness activities to create a project that interests them all while learning important skills as they go along. Step-by-step students are taken through the process as they plan and prepare their passion projects or project-based learning projects.This is a great end-of-the-year way for stude
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Back to School STEM Activities Intro Booklet What is STEAM First Day of School
Are you looking for a way to introduce STEM to your class? This STEM introduction booklet is the perfect resource! Discuss the importance of science, technology, engineering, art, math, and the design process. The booklet is available in both English and Spanish, and it can be used in Google Slides or as a printable PDF.This booklet is a great way to start an open discussion with your students about STEM. It can help them to understand the different components of STEM and how they all work toget
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
The Smart Cookie Read Aloud Book Companion | Multiple Intelligences | Activities
The Smart Cookie by Jory John is a great book to teach students that everyone is smart in different ways and the importance of perseverance. It is also the perfect segue into a study of multiple intelligences. This The Smart Cookie Book Companion requires students to delve into analyzing and interpreting literature. This book companion is jam-packed with resources that provide opportunities for your students in grades 2-4 to think critically and creatively, analyze the author's craft, and make c
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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
Types:
Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
Genius Hour Interactive Notebook Printable and Digital
Are you looking for a way to have your students participate in genius hour? This student interactive journal is the answer! It comes in two formats: printable and digital Google Slides. Students will use the Engineering Design Process to research a topic they are interested in. This can be used to guide whole class lessons or early finishers can work through the journal independently. Genius hour is a perfect way to offer engaging extensions in your classroom.What’s Included?Digital Student
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Synonyms and Antonyms Analogies Lesson Plan in PowerPoint
Teach synonyms and antonyms with this fun, ready made analogies lesson in PowerPoint. This standard-based lesson uses the gradual release method to guide students through the procedure of solving synonym and antonym analogies with multiple examples of analogies and problems to solve. Use in whole or small groups for a great learning activity which is detailed enough for your teacher evaluation. This colorful PowerPoint will challenge and engage your students in grades 3 - 5.Inside this easy to u
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES Story Sleuths I Literature Extention Critical Thinking
STORY SLEUTHS I is a 4 week, critical thinking project based on Caldecott Award winning books. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which Caldecott Award winning book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is CCSS aligned. Students also enjoy great literature, learn about artistic media, and participate in col
Grades:
K - 4th
Socratic Seminar 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th Printable & Digital Templates for ANY TEXT
Run a Socratic Seminar for any text in your 3rd-6th grade classroom with this comprehensive printable and digital resource complete with everything you need to ignite higher-level thinking, critical thinking, and depth & complexity. This is an excellent activity to extend ELA (reading & speaking) skills! Student workbook, project templates, teaching slides, and much more are included. Students will make deeper connections to any text or topic through collaborative conversation and though
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Types:
Empathy and Compassion Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions
When your bright student behaves rudely to struggling students, here's the activity to teach them empathy. This reading passage and questions will open a few eyes while invoking powerful discussions about learning disabilities. Its quick and easy setup will provide a needed lesson to build compassion for others.Click HERE to save 25% with the Reading Passages bundle.Click HERE to save 30% off the price of individual resources with the Character Education bundle.This activity is effective as brig
Grades:
4th - 6th
Types:
Also included in: Historical Fiction Passages for Reading Comprehension Questions
EDITABLE Fraction Cooking Project!!PBL with Presentation Option!
Looking for a way that students can apply FRACTIONS in their own lives?? This multi-disciplinary project is fun for your students (and productive for you)! The editable slides includes a full project with the following steps...Students can select a culture or country to focus on. They can conduct research on their country and learn about the different foods of their selected culture. This is a great way to introduce your students to researching and even works cited!Students can pick two recipes
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Types:
CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES Set II Literature Extension Critical Thinking GATE
Continue the fun from STORY SLEUTHS I with 4 more weeks of critical thinking fun. STORY SLEUTHS II is a 1 month, critical thinking project based on Caldecott Award winning books. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which Caldecott Award winning book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is CCSS aligned. Students
Grades:
K - 4th
COUNTRY PRESENTATION PARTY Around the World Cultural Food Manners LOW PREP
Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, 73-page/slide Countries Research Project Presentation Party! It includes everything you need to have a Presentation Party Day for students to present their country reports, presentations, or projects. Letter to parents, Rubric, Presentation question cards, Presentation BINGO, Decorative banners (“It’s a Small World” and ”Around the World”), 8 Center signs, PowerPoint and editable agenda slides (“Arou
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 12th
1st Week Literacy Enrichment - Hands-on and Challenging Fun
We reach all students, no matter their ability!
In this lesson, we work with primary source photos to develop strong reading skills—citing key details, making inferences, determining message or theme, and establishing historical context. Your students will be engaged and invited to be creative as they make origami book marks and write empowering messages about reading.
Hands-on and highly participatory enrichment!
This school year we’re working on filling up the portable with whole-class
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Types:
Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
Becoming an Entrepreneur PBL Unit
This PBL project unit guides students in learning about entrepreneurship and then becoming entrepreneurs! Students will design and implement their own business from conception to development to marketing to sales with this engaging and challenging project, building real-life skills while learning and having fun! This detailed activity provides students with step-by-step guidance, planning sheets, check lists, and all the information they need to build and launch their own business. The project
Grades:
4th - 6th
Types:
Gratitude Quote Falls for Critical Thinking Challenges 1st-5th Grade
Quote Falls are an incredible strategy for developing critical thinking skills in your students, and these GRATITUDE quotes are perfect to quickly add in to your lessons around Thanksgiving. NO PREP. So Versatile! You can use these resources for all your students, but your Gifted and Talented Learners will most certainly appreciate the challenge these critical thinking practices offer them. Thanksgiving and Fall are perfect opportunities to focus on gratitude and being thankful. These quote fall
Grades:
1st - 5th
Types:
The Great Balloon Debate
The year is 2050 and due to great advances in science our civilization has discovered a new land, untouched by humanity. Strangely, this new land is accessible only by a specially designed and technologically advanced hot air balloon. This magical hot air balloon is guaranteed to take any passenger safely to the new land where a brand new society can be formed. Several science crews have already landed safely and begun to form the roots of a new world. However, there’s room left for one more per
Grades:
4th - 7th
Types:
Building Good Habits! SEL Skills (Grades 3-5)
Are you looking for a way to build habits that stick around? You've found the method! Change Cards are a simple and sure way to understand how habits are formed and why Change Cards work. Five lessons use a metaphor of software coding to explain the importance of creating positive self-images. You will have a stellar year when you notice your classroom running smoother, children treating each other kindly, and substitutes complimenting your class!Use these no- or low-prep lessons as the hook on
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
Problem-Based Learning Activity: Design a Room for Colleen Moore's Fairy Castle
Stimulate critical thinking with this realistic problem-based learning activity! Students learn that the Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry will add a new room to their popular dollhouse exhibit, Colleen Moore’s Fairy Castle. Working as teams of designers, they collaborate to select a room, add design elements, and create a proposal. After the problem is posed, each group has nine days to learn more about the fairy castle, decide upon a fairy tale inspired room, determine a presentation st
Grades:
4th - 5th
Types:
The High Five Speech - Speech Organization for New Public Speakers
The High Five Speech is speech organization for new public speakers. Designed with an elementary to middle level student in mind this unit covers, in detail, the purpose and structure of an informative speech. This unit is light on the text and heavy on the student participation. Think graphic organizers, not guided notes. Included in this lesson are :Detailed lesson plans that eliminate the guesswork and allow you to focus on the learning at hand.A fun high-five themed presentation that helps s
Grades:
4th - 8th
CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES Set III Literature Extension Critical Thinking GATE
STORY SLEUTHS III provides 4 more weeks of critical thinking fun in a project based on Caldecott Award winning books. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which Caldecott Award winning book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is CCSS aligned. Students also enjoy great literature, learn about artistic media, and
Grades:
K - 4th
Mathematical Discourse Sentence Stems
Sentence Stems are used to support mathematical discourse and student-led discussions. These simple supports will change the depth of math discussion in your classroom! In a thinking classroom, (Building Thinking Classrooms - Peter Liljedahl) we want students to do the thinking and this only happens through student discourse.WHY: Asking students to talk about math is an abstract concept. They need support in going beyond “my answer is ____. What’s yours?” Sentence stems help students think more
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-3
Arctic Animals Research Foldable Project and Editable Rubric- Exploding Box
Are your students beginning a project on Arctic Animals? Then this project is just for you!Use this engaging and exciting research project to identify important information about our Earth's Arctic Animals.If you choose to have students present their projects, I have included a resource to keep the audience focused on task called "Listening and Learning from my Classmates: Arctic Animals".Even the not-so crafty teacher will love making this project! You will need scrapbook paper, scissors, glue
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Also included in: Arctic and Rain Forest Animals Interactive Foldable Research Project
Decades Project: Journey Through Time! Google Slides and Printable Bundle!
Students will be working in teams to research and create a presentation on a decade in the 20th or 21st century. This project will walk them through research and presentation creation from start to finish and help them to stay organized along the way!This product includes:Table of Contents linked to the slidesDecades Project Example on the 1890s from start to finishChoice of DecadeSlide to help them organize who will research and be in charge of what during the decade study (who will research mu
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 7th
Metric Capacity Addition & Subtraction Depth & Complexity Frames & Task Cards
Solve word problems involving metric system capacity concepts such as: adding and subtracting liters and milliliters, ordering and comparing mixed units (liters and milliliters), and converting units! Students also must communicate their thinking and steps through both oral and written language which easily lends itself to the Common Core Standards!
This packet includes Depth and Complexity frames, organizers, and even task cards for further practice with Metric System capacity concepts. Stude
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
Showing 1-24 of 46 results
TPT is the largest marketplace for PreK-12 resources, powered by a community of educators.
IXL family of brands