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7th grade career and technical education 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
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
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Computer Science Career Exploration Webquest (Career In STEM Explorer)
Computer science is one of the fastest growing industries, with over 1 million new jobs being added annually. Expose your students to lucrative careers in computer science using interactive online career exploration activities with this Computer Science Career Exploration Webquest! In part one students will work to define computer science and explain why computer science is important. In part two students will use Career In STEM® Explorer resources to discover 13 cool computer science careers (3
Grades:
6th - 12th
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NGSS:
MS-PS4-3
The Founder Movie Questions w/ Answers- Franchising/Entrepreneurship
The Founder Movie Questions w/ Answers- Franchising/EntrepreneurshipThe Founder movie released in 2016 is an amazing movie on franchising that tells the story of how Ray Kroc maneuvered himself into the position of taking the McDonald's restaurant franchise from the McDonald's brothers. The summary is as follows: The Founder features the true story of how Ray Kroc (played by Michael Keaton), a struggling salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 19
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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
Computer Applications Activities Bundle
This Computer Applications Course Bundle includes activities for the following topics:Ice Breaker Activity30 Daily Bell Ringers Digital Footprint Slideshow & ActivityParts of a Computer Slideshow, Guided Notes & ActivityEmail Communication Slideshow & ActivityInternet Safety Scavenger HuntIntro to KeyboardingGoogle Docs Formatting ActivitiesGoogle Sheets ActivitiesGoogle Slides ActivitiesGoogle Drawings ActivitiesGoogle Sites ActivityFinal ProjectA total of 36 resources are included
Grades:
6th - 12th
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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
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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Computer Science: Computer Programming "Angry Birds Game" Editable Resource
Greetings,I would like to thank you so very much for viewing this product. Out of all the Computer Science resources I have created, this Unplugged Coding Activity is one of my all time favorites.So you want to teach young scholars how to write lines of code? Look no further. What better way to introduce them to Computer Programming than empowering them to use their imagination to create their very own video game.Using the Angry Birds' theme, scholars are given a variety of tasks and challeng
Grades:
1st - 12th, Adult Education
Business Ethics- 5 Steps to Ethical Decision Making Scenarios Activity
Business Ethics- 5 Steps to Ethical Decision Making Scenarios ActivityThis document contains 4 different ethics scenarios in which students have to use the 5 steps of an ethical decision making process to respond to. They then need to create their own scenario and then respond using the 5 steps. The steps of the process are:1) Identify the dilemma.2) Discover the alternative actions. 3) Decide who might be affected. 4) List the probable effects of the alternatives. 5) Select the best alternative
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Hydroponics, Aquaponics and Aeroponics WebQuest
This WebQuest introduces students to 3 different media-less methods of agriculture: hydroponics, aquaponics, and aeroponics and walks them through how they are similar and different. The article is provided in the last pages, the link is also copied and pasted for reference.Goes in order to make your own key, I have done this as an online webquest, and as notes for an interactive notebook! Works for freshmen, and for upper level horticulture and science courses too.
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7th - 12th
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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
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
Biography PowerPoint Project
Students create a PowerPoint presentation based on a person who has contributed something to society or to history. This is a beginning project for high school or middle school students. The lesson lays out what should be included on each slide. There is a rubric for grading the project as well.
Grades:
7th - 12th, Adult Education
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
Landscape Design Project
Landscape Design Project*This project will challenge your students to...1. Design a landscape using the plant reference sheet provided which includes a picture of each plant, information about each plant, and prices2. Stay within a budget 3. Calculate the total cost of plants and design materials4. Estimate the amount of design materials needed for the landscape5. Take various factors into consideration before placing them in the landscape*Editable*Includes...-Plant reference sheet with informat
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7th - 9th
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Business Ethics- Code of Ethics Assignment
Business Ethics- Code of Ethics AssignmentThis download is an assignment students will complete using the Internet. The assignment deals with business ethics and involves businesses' code of ethics. A code of ethics is a document that outlines the principles of conduct to be used in making decisions within an organization. The document contains 19 URL addresses/links to different companies code of ethics documents. Students will choose the company they are interested in, slowly type in the link
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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
Terrible Things - An Allegory of the Holocaust
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.
Grades:
7th - 10th
Teach Tone, Mood, and Paraphrasing Using The Raven by Edgar A. Poe HALLOWEEN!
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
Grades:
7th - 12th
"Modern Marvels - Welding" Video Viewing Guide
“Modern Marvels” is a video series that focuses on the effect and use of technology in various aspects of modern society. It aired on the History Channel. Each video is approximately 45-50 minutes in length and would be a great addition to any CTE or STEM class.The “Welding” episode discusses how technology is used in relation to electric arc welding, stick welding, explosion welding, underwater welding, industrial spot welding, and friction welding with plastics.The video viewing guide is a res
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7th - 12th
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Google Sheets Activities Bundle
This bundle includes 12 engaging Google Sheets Activities consisting of:Introductory level (Shows students why spreadsheets are useful and efficient)Intermediate level (formatting, sorting, formulas)Advanced level (conditional formatting, pivot tables)Links to the Products included in this bundle:Intro Activity: Calculator VS SpreadsheetSpreadsheet Vocabulary Word SearchGoogle Sheets Basics Google Sheets Budgeting ActivityGoogle Sheets Functions ActivityPivot Tables ActivityGoogle Sheets Large D
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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House floor plan design project
Students use math and design skills to create their own home floor plan
Grades:
5th - 9th
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