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Elementary geometry resources for Microsoft Word and for Gifted and Talented
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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
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
Grades:
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
Grades:
5th - 12th
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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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Grades:
3rd - 9th
Geometry Project - Geometry Town
Students will create a town map made of different geometric figures. They will demonstrate their knowledge of parallel and perpendicular lines, acute and obtuse angles, geometric shapes as well as many other geometric concepts through this creative and fun project.
This project can be adapted to higher level geometry courses and high school classes. You can add parameters to the geometric shaped buildings (ex. must label the dimensions of the building given a certain area or perimeter).
5th Grade: Volume Unit Test (Summative Assessment)
Volume Test- A Perfect Fit to Common Core Standards: Assesses student understanding of the unit cube, unit cube irregular shapes, unit cube rectangular prisms, rectangular prisms with U.S. and metric measurements, and combined volume. Utilizes the formulas V = l x w x h and V = B x h. Test is constructed of multiple choice, open-ended, and constructed response questions.*Need activities and classwork for this unit? Visit my page to find lots of Volume printables! Standards Addressed:Geometr
Kindergarten Go Math Lesson Plans for the Year
These plans are for an entire year of Kindergarten math. Plans are written so you may just add the date for the Go Math lesson you are teaching each day.
Each lesson has the following components:
Common Core State Standards identified
Lesson Essential Question
Objective
Activating Strategy
Key Vocabulary
Teaching Strategies
Instruction with Assessment prompt
Graphic organizer
Assignment
Summarizing strategy
Materials
Additional Resources
Each chapter/unit has the Unit Essential Question at th
Grades:
K
Graphing Polygons on the Coordinate Plane to Find Area/Perimeter
This activity asks the students to plot various ordered pairs on a coordinate plane and connect the points to make a polygon. Then they are expected to calculate the area and/or perimeter of each shape. The first worksheet has a square, two rectangles and a triangle. The triangle is starred to show higher level thinking. Each polygon is to be colored a different color. The second worksheet asks the students to plot the points of five polygons: a triangle, two rectangles and two composite f
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
Grades:
3rd - 4th
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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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Grades:
4th - 8th, Adult Education
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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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Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
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
Lines of Symmetry Activity
The learner will use this hands on activity to recognize lines of symmetry by cutting 15 figures, fold them to find its lines of symmetry and paste them in groups depending on the number of lines of symmetry each figure has.
By manipulating and folding each figure to discover its lines of symmetry, the student will bring the abstract concept of symmetry to an easy manipulative concrete figure.
The teacher will also have ans answer sheet that can be used to show the students the lines of symmetry
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Easter Pattern Block Puzzles - Bunny and Easter Egg
Kindergarten and first grade students can practice their counting skills and knowledge of shapes and they use these templates to make pattern block pictures. After they construct their pictures, they count and record how many of each shape they used. Included are a bunny and an Easter egg. (Bonus Easter basket picture too!)
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
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Da Vinci Parachute Prototypes -- Hands-on STEM
In this lesson, students solve geometry problems and learn background physics concepts as they build a working model of Leonardo Da Vinci’s parachute. Logic, critical thinking, a bit of Renaissance history, writing and supporting conclusions with details from a source—it’s all here too!
Make this extended lesson a cross-curricular, standards-based mini-unit, or just make it a cool building activity. Pick and choose the level of commitment right for you and your students. With the suggested e
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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,
Grades:
4th - 8th
Types:
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
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
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
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Reflecting Points and Shapes over the Axes
This worksheet gives students an opportunity to practice reflecting points and shapes over the x and y axis. Students explore that a reflection has on the impact on x and y values of a point. There are 20 problems on reflecting points and 4 problems on reflecting triangles.
Grades:
5th - 7th
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How to draw /build a house with shapes Creative Curriculum Buildings
This is a printout use to make two shape houses (they are the same color) using different colored contact paper. This is used in the building study with the Creative Curriculum. I printed out on white paper and then stuck the colored contact paper wanted for each piece in copy machine one at a time to make sure each piece turned out the color I wanted. The picture you see for the thumbnail is when it is printed on different colored contact paper. In word it does not look like might much as it is
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
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Coordinate Plane Battleship
Fun way to have your students practice reading and identifying points on a coordinate plane. Uses 1st quadrant only.
Print and laminate for repeated use! Have students place their ships on the left. Using 2 colors of dry erase markers, they make guesses on the right side, marking a miss with one color and a hit with another. On the left side, they mark the misses and hits from their opponents guesses.
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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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Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
Nets: Foldable Solid Figures (3-D Shapes)
Allow students to explore geometric solids with this packet of 15 foldable nets featuring an assortment of basic to complex three-dimension shapes, including a(n):
Cone, Cube, Cylinder, Pyramid, Pentagonal Pyramid, Hexagonal Pyramid, Triangular Prism, Rectangular Prism, Rhombic Prism, Pentagonal Prism, Hexagonal Prism, Tetrahedron, Octahedron, Dodecahedron, and Icosahedron.
Use this collection for hands-on construction activities by printing directly onto paper or card stock. Nets are in print
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Formula Sheet: Volume and Surface Area of 3D shapes! (Editable!)
Quick and easy formula reference sheet! These half sheets fit perfectly in binders, folders, notebooks, etc. for easy access. Completely customizable! Just download, edit if you wish, and print!This formula sheet includes volume and surface area formulas for rectangular prisms, cubes, cylinders, spheres, cones, and pyramids complete with pictures! Have a question? Send a message or leave a review!Thank you! ***Muggle Math***
Grades:
5th - 10th
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