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3 Branches of Government Sort Worksheet
This is a sorting worksheet I made for my students to show what they've learned about the three branches of government. Everything I looked for was much too difficult for my CDC students, so I created this worksheet as a simple activity but one that still covers all the important concepts.
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K - 5th
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Primary GATE Gifted and Talented Program for the Year -- 410 Pages, 50%+ off!
You will be a rock star! This collection is highly interactive, creative, and rich in age-appropriate critical thinking.
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This collection takes me through an entire year of lessons with my advanced groups of kindergarteners, 1st, and 2nd graders . . . but many of these lessons can also be used for middle and upper elementary kids, especially if you come into the regular classroom to teach whole-class enrichment lessons.
19 units and 419 pages of lessons!
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K - 3rd
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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GREEN EGGS AND HAM WRITE THE ROOM, Dr. Seuss, Read Across America
This (inspired by Dr. Seuss) Green Eggs and Ham theme write the room activity would be great to use in a literacy center. Students can search the classroom to find the pictures and write the word after the corresponding number on the recording sheet. This write the room activity includes **12 pictures**2 corresponding numbered sheets**Plus one blank write the room Green Eggs and Ham themed sheet to create your own write the room activity, students will write the word around the room that corresp
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PreK - 2nd
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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
Etymology (Word Origin) Lesson
This is an instructional tool to introduce students to the concept of etymology (word origin). Students will learn that 60% of the words in the English Language come from Greek/Latin roots and that there are powerful decoding skills that come from knowledge of these roots and word derivation. Students will practice using a resource to explore word derivation (origins). How base words, prefixes, suffixes and root words enter into the picture and contribute to word meanings is also provided. S
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5th - 9th
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Gifted and Talented COMPLETE 3rd 4th Grade Introductory Program - 45+ Hours
Every other teacher in your building probably has a handy curriculum to follow, a set of textbooks as resources . . . so why not you, the Gifted and Talented Teacher?Here is a complete first year GATE program adaptable to 3rd or 4th grades--all tried and tested, Common Core Standards based, and successfully implemented using best practices in gifted education.SEE THE BIG PREVIEW FOR MORE -- 33% off Individual Purchase PricesYou get 263 pages of materials guaranteed to produce 45+ hours of contac
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3rd - 4th
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Elementary Art Lesson - Lovely Landscapes
This is a great drawing and painting lesson for elementary students that focuses on what a landscape is and what the components of a landscape are. This lesson starts off with students viewing examples of landscapes and discussing the parts of a landscape including the horizon line, foreground, middle ground and background. Also included are step-by-step instructions (with illustrations) for drawing a lovely landscape! There are sample questions included at the end of the lesson that are sugg
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K - 5th
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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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Greek Myth ARACHNE and ATHENA w/ 15 Multiple Choice Reading Comprehension Qs
Here is a fun, exciting 3 page retelling of the Greek myth "Arachne and Athena." It tells of the weaving contest between the goddess of wisdom and the girl named Arachne. Even though Arachne made flawless tapestries, she was turned into a spider because of her boastfulness. The lesson comes with 3 drawings and 15 multiple choice questions. Vocabulary includes myth, loom, tapestries, cloak, boast, offended, cross (as in angry) and Mount Olympus. Reading comprehension skills are making inferences,
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4th - 7th
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Christmas Readers Theater
A funny, language arts centered Readers Theater with 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. A hit as a presentation for parents, other classes, or performances.
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3rd - 6th
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Telling Time Unit with Five lessons - Digital analog and elapsed time - Editable
Time Unit - This is my editable MS Word version. Through this unit the student will be able to understand how to tell time to the hour, half-hour, and quarter- hour. They will demonstrate telling time and applying appropriate vocabulary to their daily activities. They will apply the skill of telling time in the classroom, at school, and at home. This unit is an integrated unit: the first two lessons are vocabulary lessons introducing the related vocabulary. The remaining three lessons are m
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2nd - 5th
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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
Elements of Drama Notes | Interactive Notebook | ELAR | Editable
Great for introducing a unit on drama. This note sheet provides students with some of the major elements that students will encounter in drama texts. Students can fill in this note sheet and then glue it into their reading notebook. Perfect for standardized test prep, such as the STAAR.This document is completely editable to meet the needs of your students.This product is a Word Document, but also includes a link to a Google Doc.Check out my other reading-related activities!Vocabulary Menu⭐️Plea
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3rd - 7th
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Primary GATE with Caldecott -- "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!" Mo Willems
Let’s have some fun along with the Pigeon and expand DOK along the way! This lesson will lead your primary GATE students through four challenging activities, culminating in an artistic response showing why they “never get to do anything!” either.
Gifted and talented learners carry similar characteristics throughout their lives—even as kindergarten and first graders. One common characteristic of gifted learners is a strong sense of justice. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus gives us a good o
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K - 3rd
Pre-Algebra Vocabulary Word Sort
Students match 14 terms with definitions and/or visual. Can scaffold by providing 1 or 2 of the clues. You cut out the words and students place them in the template on the following page. This can also be used a vocabulary station activity, or simply print out as a vocab reference tool. Terms include: variable, coefficient, constant, expression, equation, solution, evaluate, order of operations, substitution, inverse, algebra, and more.
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5th - 8th
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Charlotte's Web Tier II Vocabulary Cards
This product consists of Charlotte's Web Tier II vocabulary cards. These words were designed to be used with the Ready Gen reading program for second grade; however, can be used with any lesson based on Charlotte's Web. Generally, these Tier II words, which are sophisticated or unusual words for known concepts. These words are taught in context during close reading and are often reinforced later. Print and laminate these cards and then display them in your classroom for students to refer to
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2nd - 5th
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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
Moonshot by Brian Floca Apollo 11 PRIMARY GATE Lessons -- Rocket Model
Astronauts, space ships, and the moon . . . what kid doesn’t like that kind of stuff, huh? We should build a space ship!
Here’s another collection of lessons and activities for your primary gifted and talented groups. It’s full of hands-on activities across the curriculum, critical thinking questions, participatory reading, and age-appropriate primary source lessons. As always, you’ll get ready-to-print activity sheets, explanations, pictures to lead you through, and Common Core State Standa
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1st - 3rd
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Treasure Island Book Unit
Bullseye Step Into Classics
Treasure Island - Written by Robert Louis Stevenson and adapted by Lisa Norby.
Packet includes vocabulary and comprehension worksheets and assessment.
Reading Level: DRA 28-34
Grade Level - 2-3
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2nd - 3rd
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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
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