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7th grade basic principles resources for Microsoft Word and for Gifted and Talented
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
NGSS Back to School Science Bundle of STEM Activities and Labs Middle School
Jumpstart your school year with this bundle of NGSS-aligned Back to School resources (and 3 freebies) which are sure to engage and challenge your students' thinking and impress parents and colleagues during the first few weeks of school! These middle school activities have been updated to include digital interactive notebooks if you're teaching remotely! Get your students NGSS ready from the first weeks of school and introduce them to the shift in science education! Check out the descriptions an
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5th - 10th
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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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Integer Project Bundle
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
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6th - 8th
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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
Bill Nye Life Cycles Video Guide Sheet
This 14 question worksheet provides a way for students to follow along with the Bill Nye Life Cycles video. The questions are all fill-in-the-blank. The video and worksheet cover the following concepts: living things, birth, growth, reproduction, death, life span, offspring, adult, spontaneous generation, Louis Pasteur.
The worksheet goes in order of the video so students don't lose their place while filling in the guide sheet. There is plenty of line space for students to fill in their answer
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5th - 8th
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Geologic Time Scale Scavenger Hunt
Students will use the Geologic Time Scale as a resource to answer the questions about earth's history. There are 13 questions, copy of a time scale, and answer key. Students will explore extinctions, periods, eras, glaciation and order of life on earth.
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6th - 9th
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Bill Nye Food Web Video Guide Sheet
This 11 question worksheet provides a way for students to follow along with the Bill Nye Food Web video. The questions are all fill-in-the-blank. The video and worksheet cover the following concepts: plants, animals, decomposers, living things, food, scavengers, energy, photosynthesis. The worksheet goes in order of the video so students don't lose their place while filling in the guide sheet. There is plenty of line space for students to fill in their answers. This worksheet is intended to keep
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5th - 8th
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Interpreting Science Graphs Activity
The thumbnails aren't showing up right. Everything will look nice when you download it :) This is a collection of 27 graphs with analyzing questions that correspond with each. In my science classroom, I had each student work on one, and then we rotated, so kids were able to see each graph. I laminated each sheet and had kids write their answers on notebook paper. These questions analyze:
Hypothesis and if they are supported by the data or not
Independent/Dependent variables
Bias
Interpreting gra
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5th - 8th
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Test My Genes Lab: Students Use Their Traits to Practice Punnett Squares - NGSS
In Brief: The lab proceeds as follows1. Students complete a short matching section using important genetics terms2. Students read about five different human traits (Interlacing of fingers, PTC tasting, Presence of Palmaris Longus Muscle, Hair Texture, and Color Vision)3. Students attempt to determine their genotpyes, based upon their phenotypes, and the information in the lab.4. Students perform Punnett Squares using their genotypes, in order to make predictions about future generationsA. NEXT
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7th - 12th
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
Bill Nye Energy Video Guide Sheet
This 14 question worksheet provides a way for students to follow along with the Bill Nye Energy video. The questions are all fill-in-the-blank. The video and worksheet cover the following concepts: energy, potential energy, kinetic energy, movement, fossil fuel, energy transfer, microwaves, heat energy.
The worksheet goes in order of the video so students don't lose their place while filling in the guide sheet. There is plenty of line space for students to fill in their answers. This worksheet
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4th - 8th
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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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Osmosis Jones Movie Worksheet with KEY
Welcome to my biggest seller! This is a 2-page Word document. I sat in front of the tv with the movie playing and created this worksheet from the movie. All questions go in order. The answer KEY is included for a 4-page download.This comedy movie is part real/part cartoon. It's a staple in biology classrooms. As a matter of fact, it's often shown in other classes so by the time students get to biology they've already seen it - so this means that they're excited to see it again. It stars B
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6th - 12th
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
These 24 questions go with the Journey to the Center of the Earth movie released in 2008. All questions are science related and follow the order of the movie. There is a 3 page set of fill in questions for regular education students It also includes a four page multiple choice set of pages for special education students and a two page answer key. Topics include layers of the earth, minerals, and other general science topics.
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6th - 9th
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Sound and Light Wave Review
A simple worksheet I use in class for reviewing sound and light waves. Simple vocabulary and wave anatomy is presented. Worksheet is suitable for elementary or high school although it would probably be overly simplistic for a high school physics course except as a pre-test. Satisfies CA Physics Standards 4a, 4b,and 4d. Created by Rob Whitbey.
Keywords: Wave, Sound, Light, Wavelegth, crest, trough, longitudinal, tranverse.
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5th - 10th
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Bill Nye Storms Video Guide Worksheet
This 10 question worksheet with answer key allows a way for students to follow along with the Bill Nye Storm video. The items are all fill-in-the-blank. The video and worksheet cover the following concepts: extreme weather, El Nino, hurricanes, tornadoes, lighting, thunder, air masses. The worksheet goes in order of the video so students don't lose their place while filling in the guide sheet. Like all Bill Nye videos, the Storm episode is both educational and entertaining.
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4th - 7th
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Bill Nye: S2E10 Heat, Thermal Energy Video sheet (with answer key)
Bill Nye: S2E3Heat (energy) video sheet.
Very easy for my 6th grade EC classes, it's multiple choice answers. This way they get a chance to watch the video and not spend all of the time on reading and answering the follow along questions.
3 short response questions
Define conduction
Define convection
What did you find interesting from the video
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Bill Nye: The Science Guy. Chemistry (5) Video Bundle (With answer keys)
Sound Waves Webquest
This webquest was designed to provide students with an opportunity to use technology while learning about sound-related concepts such as characteristics of sound waves (pitch, frequency, Doppler Effect, etc) QR code and the web address is included!
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5th - 10th
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Bill Nye The Moon Video Guide
This 14 question worksheet with answer key allows a way for students to follow along with the 21 minute Bill Nye The Moon video. The items are all fill-in-the-blank. The video and worksheet cover the following concepts: what is the moon; the affects of gravity on the moon; moon phases; eclipses. The worksheet goes in order of the video so students don't lose their place while filling in the guide sheet.
Like all Bill Nye videos, The Moon episode is both educational and entertaining.
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4th - 7th
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Density Bundle
Included in this bundle is a powerpoint, variety of labs, and quiz all on density. Check out the previews of each product above!Be sure to follow my TpT store by clicking on the green "follow me" next to my seller picture to receive notifications of new products and upcoming sales. Don't forget to leave feedback to earn TpT credits that can be used for future purchases! Want free tips and resources sent to your inbox once a week? Subscribe to my newsletter! You can also...♻️ Check out my blog ♻️
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7th - 9th
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
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
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
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