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5th grade geography resources for Microsoft Word and for Gifted and Talented
Compare World Religions Chart --Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism
This is a chart I use with my students to compare five major world religions-- Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. It is meant to have the students learn the basics and be able to know the major aspects of all the religions. I included a blank copy and a completed version. In my social studies textbooks, there is quite a bit of info about each of these religions. This can also be done this as a group jigsaw activity. Feel free to edit it to suits your needs. Let me know if
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5th - 10th
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 Arrival by Shaun Tan -- 100+ Page Unit and Teacher's Guide GATE
Yes, we can teach reading, writing, speaking and listening, and critical thinking skills using this amazing graphic novel which has no “words!” It’s a journey about who we are, where we have come from, and the humanity we share. It’s about hope and love and understanding. At times powerful, at times breathtakingly beautiful . . . Shaun Tan’s The Arrival should be on every bookshelf in every classroom.This 100+ page teaching guide and unit has been developed over the past three years in my adv
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5th - 12th
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Types of Fossils Activity
Different types of fossils. True form, cast, mold, and trace fossils. Students will replicate each type of fossil and glue it to the handout.
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1st - 10th
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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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3rd - 9th
Map skills quiz includes continents, oceans, scale, time zones, latitude & more
This is a social studies assessment for basic map skills for late elementary and middle school students. Skills included are:Map skills vocabulary: equator, prime meridian, times zones, hemisphere, physical map, political map, map keyLabel compass rose and latitude and longitude lines. Matching continents and oceans. Interpret maps-- latitude and longitude, time zones, and grid map. It could also be used as a group activity rather than a test. Feel free to adapt it to your own needs. Answer
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4th - 9th
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Travel Agency Brochure Project worksheet - 5 Themes of Geography
Students create a travel brochure for an assigned or chosen country using the 5 themes of geography to generate content for their brochure.
Rubric included.
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5th - 8th
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SPIES! A GATE Adventure 18+ Contact Hours - Challenging and Engaging!
Your students will ask to stay in from recess for this. It is the most popular unit I've taught in 32 years, and it is packed with challenging critical thinking.We imagine students are training at the school for spies: mini survivor challenges, mini crossbows, a jewel heist, footprint mysteries, memory games, cipher disks, case files, messages hidden in gel caps. This unit is STEM and critical thinking at its coolest and finest, and we’ve thrown in reading, speaking and listening, and a social-
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4th - 7th
Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
Map Scale Practice Quiz
Check out my other $1 sale here: Latitude and Longitude BattleshipI use this simple quiz as an introduction to using map scale. It can be used as a pre-assessment, post-assessment, or as an instructional tool. The quiz can be used in many different grade levels depending on how much practice your students have had with using scale. We do these five simple questions together as a class, and then I give them an additional scale worksheet that students complete on their own. This particular file is
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4th - 7th
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Small Group Reader's Theater Twisted Fairy Tales - Book Two
In this second book of Reader's Theaters for small groups, I have placed 7 scripts. They are: Sleeping Homely, The Princess and the Pizza for 3 people, The Princess and the Pizza for 4, Peter Pants and Captain Looks, Beauty & the Beets (and the Turnips and the Onions), Romeo and Juliet, Hansel and Pretzel. I realize that Peter Pants and Captain Looks as well as Romeo and Juliet are not strictly fairy tales but they are very well known and fun for the students. You can buy each of these indiv
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4th - 8th, Adult Education
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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
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,
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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
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
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
Ancient Egypt Map Activity
This document includes instructions and a blank map of Egypt. Students will use resources such as textbooks, atlases, or the internet to complete the map. Students will color the map, then label certain cities, bodies of water, and landforms. This activity combines geography and mapping skills and ancient history.
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5th - 8th
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Geography: United States Map Exercise
This activity is a map of the United States containing some landforms and physical features as well as political state lines. Students are asked to label landforms like mountain ranges, rivers, lakes, and bodies of water as well as the state names. Students are also asked to create a map title and a legend to show what colors they used to color in bodies of water and mountain ranges.
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
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Twisted Fairy Tales for Small Group Reader's Theater - Three!
My name is Melanie Whitesides but my store name is Wonbyone. One of the things I am passionate about is Reader's Theater. It is a fun way for my students to improve on their fluency. In a world where reading is pushed so hard on students that many are losing their love of reading it is IMPORTANT to give them opportunities to read that are fun. Reader's Theater does this. In this package I have placed 6 Reader's Theater. They are: CinderFELLA, The Emperor's New Nose, The Not-so-Charming Prince, T
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4th - 8th, Adult Education
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Middle School Social Studies Question Bank - Geography & Maps
This 30+ page document is a collection of both multiple-choice and extended written response questions that require students to demonstrate their knowledge of geography and map interpretation. Latitude/longitude , directional compasses, and interpreting maps are a major focus of this question bank. Use this question bank to design your own graded do nows, quizzes, and tests for your intermediate classroom (grades 4 - 8).
latitude, longitude, geography, maps, climate, region, city, town, settl
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4th - 8th
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Cinderella Around The World - Small Group Reader's Theater
This package contains 9 Cinderella stories. The stories come from England, China, West Africa, Greece/Egypt, America (Native American), and Ireland. My name is Melanie Whitesides but my store name is Wonbyone. One of the things I am passionate about is Reader's Theater. It is a fun way for my students to improve on their fluency. In a world where reading is pushed so hard on students that many are losing their love of reading it is IMPORTANT to give them opportunities to read that are fun. Reade
Carnival Game Economics PBL Project-Based Learning GATE
Smaller tasks add up to big, big learning with this gold medal standard project-based learning activity! What a sneaky cool way to learn math, economics, and functional design! (Insert evil teacher laugh.) It’s a hands-on approach to Common Core Standards.
In Carnival Game Economics, students design a carnival skill game and gather data as junior market researchers during the test phase. They’ll use this data to help make decisions. After making calculations for probability, students will
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented SURVIVAL KIT Bundle -- 235 pages, big discount!
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
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL CURRICULUM 1st-8th GATE
Ratios Scale Comparison 6 Pack GIFTED AND TALENTED Hands-on Real World Math
Low prep! Get started tomorrow! Here are math selections from my most popular math and STEM units for GATE students.
Included in this collection are a baker’s half-dozen activities for real-world, high-interest hands-on math projects with ratio and scale. The activities often extend into art, science, engineering, or other areas of math as well.
You get at least 6 hours of contact time here. These activities are challenging for my 5th grade gifted and talented students and will still be
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4th - 7th
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5 Themes of Geography Test
Comprehensive unit test for 5 Themes of Geography. Included are multiple choice questions, short answer, fill in the box and true/false questions as well as an answer key.
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4th - 7th
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Arctic Dogsled Racing Design Challenge - STEAM for Upper Elementary
Here’s an applied engineering challenge in which—just like in the real world of engineering—a poor design means limited success or even failure.
In the Iditarod Sled Challenge, students apply their background knowledge of physical science and use logic and imagination to construct a miniature sled that will deliver “serum” to Nome, Alaska, just like Balto once did.
Use this challenge in conjunction with your study of the arctic or the Iditarod--or as a stand-alone engineering challenge for the
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented SURVIVAL KIT Bundle -- 235 pages, big discount!
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