Halloween resources for Microsoft Word and for Gifted and Talented

Primary GATE Gifted and Talented Program for the Year -- 410 Pages, 50%+ off!

Created by

You will be a rock star! This collection is highly interactive, creative, and rich in age-appropriate critical thinking. SEE THE DETAILED PREVIEW DESCRIPTION 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!

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Gifted and Talented, Science

Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Unit Plans, Homeschool Curricula, GATE

Table-top Mini Golf: STEAM Engineering and Design for Elementary GATE

Created by

Portable Gifted and Talented

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

Subjects:

Engineering, Gifted and Talented, Physical Science

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Projects, Unit Plans, GATE

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

Created by

Portable Gifted and Talented

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

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Gifted and Talented, Social Studies - History

Grades:

5th - 12th

Types:

Unit Plans, GATE, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.5.3

, RL.5.7

, RL.5.9

, RL.6.7

, RL.6.9

...

Integer Project Bundle

Created by

Common Core Math Middle Grades

Integer Projects Bundle Need an integer project idea? This bundle includes 5 Integer Projects that you can use in your classroom. This is great for grades 6-8. I have used these in the past for an alternative to a written integer test. These projects are 21st century and provide real-world application. Great part about this – completely editable. Projects Included: -Budgeting Your Money with Integers (with rubric) -Integer Timeline (with rubric) -Integer Rules Comic Strip -I am an Integer

Subjects:

Algebra, Gifted and Talented, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

Projects, Unit Plans, Lesson

Halloween Short Research Project: Myths, Ghosts, & Legends Media Presentation

Created by

Julie Faulkner

With this standards-based short research task AND a digital media presentation project, your middle and high school students will be 100% engaged on Halloween. Student Experience: Students will be assigned a myth from their state or from a state in the US. They will research and create a media presentation to share their findings. This type of assignment is very flexible and is 100% editable. It could be used to teach MLA and research, review MLA, conclude a unit on Dark Romantic or Gothic lit

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Halloween, Social Studies - History

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Research, Projects, Independent Work Packet

CCSS:

Also included in: Research Writing Unit, Curriculum BUNDLE+

Math Project-Create Own Dream Home-Blueprints and Floor Plan (perimeter & area)

Created by

City Teacher Goes Country

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

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Math

Grades:

3rd - 9th

Types:

Projects, Homeschool Curricula, Printables

CCSS:

...

Gifted and Talented COMPLETE 3rd 4th Grade Introductory Program - 45+ Hours

Created by

Portable Gifted and Talented

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

Subjects:

Engineering, English Language Arts, Gifted and Talented

Grades:

3rd - 4th

Types:

Unit Plans, GATE

Lab: Paper Plate Periodic Table and m&m Atoms - Energy Levels and Electrons

Created by

TheScienceGiant

Students study the structure of the atom with m&m's atoms on a paper plate periodic table! This lab investigation on edible "electrons" and elements explores the Essential Question: How are Elements Arranged in the Periodic Table? And, How Are Electrons Configured in an Atom?"Share with your students edible electrons; EX: m&m's, skittles, smarties, cereal, or mini-marshmallows. Ss will model atoms of elements using a paper plate and different sorts of sweets. At the end of the lab, when

Subjects:

Halloween, Physical Science, Science

Grades:

7th - 11th

Types:

Activities, Laboratory

CCSS:

RST.6-8.3

, RST.6-8.6

, RST.6-8.9

NGSS:

HS-PS1-1

, HS-PS1-2

, MS-PS1-1

Also included in: StayGiant Candy Mix Bundle: Lab Investigations

Small Group Reader's Theater Twisted Fairy Tales - Book Two

Created by

WonbyOne

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

Subjects:

Drama, EFL - ESL - ELD, Gifted and Talented

Grades:

4th - 8th, Adult Education

Types:

Printables, Scripts, Centers

CCSS:

RL.4.10

, RL.5.10

, RL.6.10

SPIES! A GATE Adventure 18+ Contact Hours - Challenging and Engaging!

Created by

Portable Gifted and Talented

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-

Subjects:

Applied Math, Engineering, Gifted and Talented

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Unit Plans, Thematic Unit Plans, GATE

Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted

El libro de la vida | The Book of Life | Movie Guides in ENGLISH & SPANISH

Created by

Spanish and Film Studies Store

2 Movie Guides. 1 completely in English and 1 completely in Spanish. 27 Movie Guide Questions in chronological order that include pre-listening questions, questions to answer during the movie, and reflection/analysis questions that can also serve as discussion questions after the movie. 2 guías de películas. 1 completamente en inglés y 1 completamente en español. 27 Preguntas de la guía de películas en orden cronológico que incluyen preguntas previas a la escucha, preguntas para responder durant

Subjects:

ESL / ELL / EFL, Halloween, Spanish

Grades:

3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff

Types:

Activities, Movie Guides, Cultural Activities

Also included in: Día de los Muertos Bundle Activities: Complete Lesson: Readings, Projects, More

Primary GATE with Caldecott -- "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!" Mo Willems

Created by

Portable Gifted and Talented

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

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, Gifted and Talented

Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Projects, GATE, Lesson

The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan - Teacher's Guide and Activities GATE

Created by

Portable Gifted and Talented

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

Subjects:

Gifted and Talented, Graphic Arts, Literature

Grades:

4th - 12th

Types:

Activities, GATE, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.4.1

, RL.4.7

, RL.5.1

, RL.5.7

, RL.6.1

...

Also included in: 2019-2020 Gifted and Talented GATE Program for the Year - Elementary

Terrible Things - An Allegory of the Holocaust

Created by

Jodie Atwood

Questions for Eve Bunting's "Terrible Things - An Allegory of the Holocaust". The last questions ask students to compare theme with the poem "First They Came for the Jews", and to rewrite poem using modern situations.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, European History, Gifted and Talented

Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Notebooks, Lesson

STEAM DaVinci Renaissance Style: A Unit for Elementary GATE

Created by

Portable Gifted and Talented

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,

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Engineering, Gifted and Talented

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

Projects, Unit Plans, GATE

Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE

SHARK TANK Economics Pitches Prototypes PROJECT BASED PBL GATE

Created by

Portable Gifted and Talented

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

Subjects:

Economics , English Language Arts, Gifted and Talented

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

Projects, Unit Plans, GATE

CCSS:

SL.4.1

, SL.4.4

, SL.4.5

, SL.5.1

, SL.5.4

...

Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL

Moonshot by Brian Floca Apollo 11 PRIMARY GATE Lessons -- Rocket Model

Created by

Portable Gifted and Talented

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

Subjects:

Close Reading, Gifted and Talented, Informational Text

Grades:

1st - 3rd

Types:

Unit Plans, Activities, GATE

CCSS:

2.MD.D.10

, RL.3.4

, RI.1.3

, RI.1.7

, RI.2.1

...

Also included in: Kindergarten and 1st Grade GATE Bundle - Gifted and Talented and Advanced

STEAM Kid Engineering -- The Playable Golf Course Design Unit for GATE

Created by

Portable Gifted and Talented

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

Subjects:

Applied Math, Engineering, Gifted and Talented

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

Unit Plans, Activities, GATE

Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE

Teach Tone, Mood, and Paraphrasing Using The Raven by Edgar A. Poe HALLOWEEN!

Created by

Going the Distance

Teach an engaging, high interest lesson on tone, mood and paraphrasing using "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe! This flexible lesson plan can be used with cooperative groups and includes links to audio and video to use with "The Raven," as well as the text and a list of definitions for difficult words, a jigsaw paraphrasing activity, a word splash activity where students choose words from "The Raven" that contribute to the tone and mood, and finally, a Venn Diagram where students choose from a lis

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Gifted and Talented, Poetry

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers

Primary GATE with Caldecott COLLECTION - 180 pages - 7 Books!

Created by

Portable Gifted and Talented

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

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Literature

Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Unit Plans, Activities, GATE

Spooky Halloween Mad Libs

Created by

Ms O

These two mad libs are a fun and spooky way to practice parts of speech, including nouns pronouns possessive pronouns adjectives prepositions past-tense verbs present-tense verbs My classroom was full of laughter as each student excitedly read her mad libs to the class. You could even have your students work in pairs, asking each other to fill in the story, and then reading to each other. Prints in fun color, but also works great in grayscale.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Halloween

Grades:

5th - 10th

Types:

Activities

Twisted Fairy Tales for Small Group Reader's Theater - Three!

Created by

WonbyOne

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

Subjects:

Drama, Gifted and Talented, Reading

Grades:

4th - 8th, Adult Education

Types:

Printables, Scripts, Centers

CCSS:

RL.4.10

, RL.5.10

, RL.6.10

“The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe: Setting and Tone

Created by

Rockermom's World of Literature

This is a nice “take a break from non-stop writing” sort of lesson plan, and it appeals to those future Van Gogh’s and Picassos in your classroom, as well. Using Poe’s delightfully melancholy and bizarre poem, “The Raven,” students discuss first how setting creates tone which then creates mood for the reader. It is a literary domino effect, so to speak! Reading with purpose, underline examples of descriptive words describing setting and creating tone and then students are assigned a creative

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Halloween, Poetry

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

Activities, Centers

CCSS:

RL.6.4

Road Trip Adventure PROJECT BASED LEARNING for GATE and 3rd - 8th Grades

Created by

Portable Gifted and Talented

Come along on a fun project-based adventure as students practice different forms of writing, geography skills, computer and internet technology skills, engineering and design skills, math skills, public speaking, creativity, and art. Here is your Gold Medal Standard project based learning unit ready to go. Because this project-based unit relies heavily on student creativity and invention, the key knowledge, understanding, and success skills can be scaffolded across many grade levels. This un

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Geography, Gifted and Talented

Grades:

3rd - 8th

Types:

Projects, Unit Plans, GATE

CCSS:

5.NBT.B.7

, 4.NF.B.4

, 5.NF.A.2

, RI.5.1

, W.5.2