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Kindergarten physical science resources for Microsoft Word and for Gifted and Talented
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!
Grades:
K - 3rd
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
Grades:
K - 3rd
Primary GATE with Caldecott COLLECTION - 180 pages - 7 Books!
Your primary kids will love these lessons! You save a bundle: 33% off individual purchases!
I teach 30-45 minute groups once a week of 1st and 2nd graders all year, and this collection is more than enough to get me through an entire school year of groups. I can’t absolutely guarantee it will do the same for you, but it’s going to be very close if it doesn’t . . .
You’ll see best practices in gifted education throughout. You’ll see many graphic organizers, age-appropriate and challenging cr
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K - 3rd
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How Do We Use Natural Resources?
After a teaching about four of the basic natural resources: sand, water, rocks, and soil; students can show what they know with this sort.
Glue the headings across the top of the page, then have students places the products each resource can make below the heading.
I have also made a Promethean flipchart that leads up to this assessment. Message me and I'll e-mail it to you for free!
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K - 3rd
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Picture Sort for Science Unit on Matter
This file contains pictures of 20 everyday items that are solids, liquids, and gases. This sort can be printed once and used as an interactive sort into solid, liquid, and gas categories. It can also be used as an assessment (students each receive a copy, cut out each item, and sort independently). This file includes two pages: one with solid, liquid, and gas labels (I have students glue one of each label onto the short end of a 12x18" sheet of construction paper), and the other with the objects
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K - 2nd
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Little Island Primary Gifted and Talented Social-Emotional Values and Identity
We use this Caldecott Award Winning book to address social-emotional standards for primary gifted students. Not just a social-emotional unit, we answer critical thinking questions, explore literary theme and other ideas, and create a fun island adventure using a grid.
Great stuff for our youngest gifted learners: It’s hands-on, requires critical thinking, and good fun.
NAGC Learning and Development Standards
1.1 Self-Understanding. Students with gifts and talents demonstrate self-knowledge
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K - 3rd
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Oil and Water Science Experiment
I did this with my students today. I saved up a bunch of water bottles and the students watched as I put it together. All you do is add some water, oil and food coloring. I put a little super glue on the lids so my behavior babies wouldn't have the chance to make a mess.
I teach kindergarten, so I used the younger version of the papers I created. I first let them explore with the bottles, tilt them, move them, give them a little shake. Then I had them get our their science journals. We added t
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PreK - 5th, Staff
Kindergarten Common Core & Next Generation Science NGSS Lessons: Full Curriculum
This fun curriculum effectively teaches every Kindergarten Next Generation Science Standard in an engaging way while integrating a common core standard into each lesson. There are 72 lessons provided (approximately 2 per week for an entire school year).
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Engaging-Lessons-By-Frank
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K
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Primary GATE with Caldecott -- "Two Bad Ants" by Chris Van Allsburg
If you're like me, you can't easily find activities designed for primary grade gifted learners. This one hour activity, however, is specifically designed for Chris Van Allsburg’s "Two Bad Ants" and primary gifted and talented students—nurturing talent for both verbal and nonverbal high ability students.
In this activity, students use critical thinking and creative perspective-taking to create a “mystery drawing” similar to the close-ups in "Two Bad Ants."
In an interactive follow-up, classma
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K - 2nd
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Primary GATE with Caldecott -- Owl Moon Pop-up and Critical Thinking
Now with a more kid-friendly pop-up option:
Owl Moon is incredibly rich in critical thinking potential, rich in artwork, and rich in the feelings words evoke.
Come along for a challenging lesson and a fun extension activity with the poetic 1988 Caldecott Award winner Owl Moon. Critical thinking about poetry, participatory reading, and figurative language along with a project in which we create an owl to “pop up” and spread its wings poetically will energize your students.
Caldecott books a
Welcome Letter to Parents Template- Just add your information
I used this to welcome my gifted students back at the beginning of the year, but it could be used for any grade level. A very friendly professional letter that you-just add your information.
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PreK - 9th
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Kindergarten Bird-Themed Challenges for Gifted and Talented GATE - Storytelling
You’ll have loads of fun with this thematic “birds” bundle of lessons and activities. We address BEST PRACTICES for our youngest gifted and advanced learners with hand-on puzzles, storytelling, participatory reading, acting, humor, video, and improvisation. In the process, we will deliver two social emotional messages—one about teamwork, and one about diversity. So little time, and so much to do! That’s why we always, always, always engage and challenge students in critical thinking across the c
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K - 2nd
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Primary GATE -- AIR! Active, Creative, Academic, and Hands-on!
I am always trying to figure out what to do with my little primary groups, and this unit was a definite hit with my kindergartners. It would work well with 1st grade too or the regular 2nd grade classroom. The full unit contains more than 2 hours of contact time.
It’s active, fun, and challenging for these little ones and seemed to have the right combination of “get up and move,” imagination, creativity, and “making” along with academic tasks.
We learn about four important properties of air
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K - 2nd
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Simple Machine Cut and Sort
A fun assessment to see if students understand what images are examples of simple machines (pulleys, ramps/inclined planes, screws, levers and wedges.)
Have students cut out the dotted lines surrounding the pictures and then glue each picture under the correct simple machine.
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K - 2nd
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Making Tracks with Footprint Mysteries KG 1st 2nd GATE Primary Challenges!
Engaging challenge of a highly participatory and creative nature for our youngest primary kids!Here’s another lesson for our youngest gifted learners based on research and best practices advocated by the National Association of Gifted Children. It’s rich in age 4-7 critical thinking opportunities with hands-on learning, visual discrimination and details, improvisational opportunities including creativity, storytelling, writing and art, and engaging activities associated with the kids’ immediate
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: 2019-2020 Gifted and Talented GATE Program for the Year - Elementary
Divergent Thinking Questions: "What If" Questions For All Subject Areas
How could introducing rabbits into the rainforest affect that habitat? What would a passport for Christopher Columbus look like? In the story, Hansel and Gretel, instead of dropping breadcrumbs, how could the children avoid getting lost in the woods? Our new, 21st Century standards require students to argue, inform, and explain. Divergent thinking questions offer opportunities for students to demonstrate original, elaborate, and flexible thinking, enabling them to become actively involved in t
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education
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Primary GATE with Caldecott -- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Come along for a challenging lesson and fun extensions with Ezra Jack Keats’s 1963 Caldecott winner, The Snowy Day.
I use this lesson with my 1st grade advanced readers. 2nd and 3rd graders should be right on target as well. Got a gifted kindergarten group? This will be an especially tough challenge for them but promises to stretch kids’ imagination and critical thinking skills across 4+ grade levels.
Pre-reading activities warm up your students for critical thinking questions as we “count
Grades:
K - 3rd
Baking Soda and Vinegar Experiment Worksheet
A simple worksheet to quiz your students senses with the products of the experiment and the result. Easily changeable for all grades.
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PreK - 6th
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Change in Matter Assessment
This resource is an quick assessment tool to assess students knowledge about how matter can be changed by heating, cooling, tearing and smashing.
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PreK - 8th
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Gifted Student Identification Checklist
Great for gifted educators starting out and need easy resources for identificaitonHere is a variety of examples of gifted education checklistsThese can help assist with identification and be edited to your own program's criteriaVariety of gifted educational theory was used in creating these various lists.This includes criteria for identifying creative, leadership, and learning ability talents.You may also like these gifted/enrichment products from my TPT store:Enrichment RubricsJournal for Affec
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PreK - 12th
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Geography worksheet: Label the Major USA Rivers
Students have to label the major USA rivers (Mississippi, Hudson, Rio Grande, Colorado, Ohio)Word bank providedWorksheet aimed at primary level/ high school levelAnswer key included on the second page
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K - 10th
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Also included in: Geography worksheets: USA Bundle (10 worksheets, 70%+ off)
Gifted Program Brochure Template- Just add your information
This is the perfect pamphlet to give to parents when a child qualifies for gifted services or at open house. All you have to do is add your name and the schools name and you look like a gifted teacher extraordinaire!
Please visit my store for other great products to help with open house or the start of the school year.
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Mse
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PreK - 8th
My 4 Seasons Book
This is a mini-book used to get students talking and writing about the four seasons. There is a bare tree on 4 different pages, where the students are able to color and draw what the tree would look like in each corresponding season. There is a small space to write about what happens in each season, and there is also a blank thermometer (in Celsius and Fahrenheit) where the student can mark the temperatures that can usually be found in each season. When finished, it can be stapled together and b
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K - 3rd
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Slime Experiment worksheet (Solid or Liquid unit)
Students will be able to use what they have learned in class to explain what they know about their slime.
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PreK - 8th
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