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8th grade resources for Microsoft PowerPoint and for Gifted and Talented
Passion Project Unit | Genius Hour | Project Based Learning | PBL | Homework
This PROJECT-BASED LEARNING UNIT is consistently my ❤️MOST BELOVED activity of the year. Taking STUDENT ENGAGEMENT and MOTIVATION to another level. PASSION PROJECTS can be done as HOMEWORK or a GENIUS HOUR classroom program to learn about things that excite your students. This unit allows students to develop a GROWTH MINDSET as they face challenges and successes to reflect upon as learning experiences. EVERYTHING you need to run an incredible 8-12 week learning experience is included in this 11
Grades:
4th - 9th
Drawing Conclusions, Jumping to Conclusions!
Have fun playing "gotcha!" with your 3rd to 6th-grade students while also reinforcing the skill of drawing conclusions. This slide show is a fun way to introduce or review inferencing. The skill is reviewed in the introductory slides, then two stories follow that purposely lead your students to draw the wrong conclusions! Students are praised for "jumping to conclusions" though, and careful reading is reinforced. In my classroom, I've often followed this up with a writing lesson. Students unders
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3rd - 8th
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Fractured Fairy Tales - COMPLETE UNIT with rubrics, handouts and powerpoints
One of my favorite units to do with my 6th grade gifted language arts class is my month-long Fractured Fairy Tale unit. The reason I love it so much is because of how much it has blossomed over the years. It went from a simple unit to something much more complex, including a brief study of the psychology that goes into creating fairy tales. This unit is aligned to Bloom's Taxonomy. I included an overview showing the correlation for each activity.How I Use the Products:I begin the unit with s
Grades:
6th - 8th
Hands-On Equations Interactive Whiteboard No Prep Companion Resource: Levels 1-3
If you haven't used Hands-On Equation kits to introduce algebra, then do so! It's an incredible program. I have used it with students as young as 3rd grade and with high school students. I created this product to use in conjunction with the program to model the equations on my interactive whiteboard. This file coincides perfectly with Levels 1-3 (all 26 lessons) of the Hands on Equation kit. It ensures that you have to do NO PREP! Students are able to practice using pawns and cubes directly on
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3rd - 10th
180 Middle School Math Warm-Ups: Full Year of Daily Bell Ringers & Starters
First five minutes? Planned! With this set of daily bellringers, you'll engage your students and get them thinking! Made for 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade math, these open-ended and challenging starters will have your students ready for your lesson. This resource is truly print-and-go, no-prep for the whole school year. Either print the provided student answer sheet for a weekly grade or have students respond on a dry-erase board or paper. Help your students make connections by using this resourc
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5th - 8th
Optical Illusions Activity for the Upper Grades - Distance Education
This Optical Illusions Project is a critical thinking activity. It can be used for Distance Education learning. This creative thinking project can accompany any Science, Psychology or Language Arts unit. It also acts well as a stand-alone activity where students are encouraged to think convergently and divergently. Students love this engaging project that captivates their interest. The questions that accompany each image require the students to think critically (and creatively) to try to ex
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5th - 10th
Gifted Lessons in Forensic Science Handwriting & Document Analysis
Forensic Science and criminal investigations involving handwriting and document analysis are real-world, high-interest, engaging topics your gifted students will love to explore. Gifted kids love to learn about handwriting and document analysis in forensics and how detectives can determine if a handwriting sample is a forgery. In this age-appropriate lesson, students will be given an introduction to, and an overview of, handwriting and document analysis as it relates to criminal investigations.
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Gifted Lessons In Forensic Science Bundle
Activist Project *DIGITAL VERSION INCLUDED*
**UPDATED to include:1. Student Graphic Organizers to guide research and speech writing (8 pages) 2. Digital Student Graphic Organizers through Google Docs (non-editable and editable versions included) ___________________________________________________________________In this research project, students are guided in creating a presentation and speech telling the story of a chosen activist. Students will first dig into the meaning of activism, what it is and what it looks like. Students will then
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5th - 8th
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Genius Hour - Bundle of Units (Middle School)
This is a bundle of our 2 units that focus on bringing Genius Hour to your classroom:1. Genius Hour Foundations2. Genius Hour Part 2 *****************************************************************************Genius Hour – Bundle of LessonsThe concept of personalized learning and passion driven education has been growing in many educational systems around the nation. The overall concept has been developed off of the Genius Hour model proposed by Google. Students are given the opportunity le
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4th - 8th
Gifted Lessons In Forensic Science Bundle
Forensic Science and criminal investigations are real-world, high-interest, engaging topics your gifted students will love to explore. In this forensics bundle, ten different forensic science topics are included. In these age-appropriate lessons, students will be given an introduction to and overview of the following topics, as they relate to solving crimes:Forensic ScienceProcessing a Crime SceneCounterfeit MoneyDeath Investigation: Autopsy EntomologyFingerprints Handwriting and Document Anal
Grades:
5th - 8th
Optical Illusion Power Point
Things aren't always as they seem. Your students will love this fun and engaging power point. Featuring a variety of optical illusions, this power point can be used as a jumping off point for a number of different lessons. Whether for education, or just for fun, students of all ages will love this power point.
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1st - 12th
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Game Designer: A Product Based Learning Unit with the Engineering Design Process
Game Designer is a Project Based Learning Unit using the Engineering Design Process for the middle grades. Students work independently or collaborativelyto design and create an educational game. This is a great STEM or STEAM activity. This unit contains the following components:1. Game Designer Tips – Tips for making and sources to purchase game components2. Game Design Lesson - PowerPoint lesson to introduce the task and teach theEngineering Design Process.3. Game Design Guidelines – Handout fo
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4th - 8th
Literature Circles Bundle With Depth and Complexity
This Literature Circles Bundle With Depth and Complexity will be a great resource when implementing literature circles in your classroom. A literature circle is a small group instructional approach with structure, high expectations, and rigor. ****This file comes with editable products! (Need PowerPoint to edit)**** Depth and Complexity will help your students dig deeper in their learning and think in more complex ways. This product encompasses the 11 elements of Depth and Complexity that were
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3rd - 8th
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A Greek or Latin Root is Worth 1,000 Words
This is my absolute favorite way to introduce a year-long study of Greek and Latin roots! Students need to know your why and "buy in." What better way than to get them hooked into solving a puzzle! Present the incredibly LONG word in this slide show, and students will be competing to figure it out! With clear motivation and a game-like presentation, your students will be much more motivated to study etymology! You can find out more about how I used this in my class, HERE.If you're looking for re
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3rd - 8th
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Cognitive Bias and Logical Fallacy Unit | Instruction Slides + Worksheets
No Prep! Get your students to think critically about the world around them by teaching them about cognitive bias, like confirmation bias, and logical fallacies, like sunk cost fallacy. Understanding bias is the key to get students aware of it, and the beginning of helping them minimize the impact that these biases and fallacies have on their thinking, decision making, and actions.This Resource Includes:140 Instructional Slides (PowerPoint format) + Editable Version9 page Student Work Packet + Ed
Grades:
7th - 10th
Gifted Lessons In Forensic Science Counterfeit Money
Forensic Science and criminal investigations involving counterfeit money are real-world, high-interest, engaging topics your gifted students will love to explore. Gifted kids love to learn about forensics, counterfeit money, and how detectives can determine if money is real or fake. In this age-appropriate lesson, students will be given an introduction to, and overview of, counterfeit money as it relates to a criminal investigation.Don’t know much about counterfeit money? No problem! Everything
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Gifted Lessons In Forensic Science Bundle
Editable Monthly Newsletter Templates with Gifted Support Tips
Are you a gifted intervention specialist or classroom teacher with a large population of gifted students? I teach the gifted cluster classroom for my grade level and find that a monthly newsletter is a great way to provide support tips for parents of gifted students.
This resource is a Power Point file with space for you to input your own information in the areas of curriculum updates, student birthdays, and upcoming events. You can change the titles of those boxes if you'd like. Gifted support
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3rd - 8th
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Project Based Learning: Ratios and Proportions Project (CORE Connected)
For an in-depth preview and classroom pics from my classroom go here: http://pblparadise.blogspot.com/
This project is built on the Project Based Learning (PBL) framework and covers CORE Curriculum Standard: Ratio and Proportions.
Task: Students create a board game that teaches their peers consumer mathematics.
Approximate Timeline: 9 50-minute periods.
* 44-slide PowerPoint that serves as a lesson plan and contains slides for all 9 days of the project.
* Project Rubric
* Individual: Col
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6th - 8th
Micro Fiction, Fast Fiction, 55 Word Fiction, Narrative Writing, Creative, Fun
Writing fluency! Fast Fiction Fifty-Five Word Stories arms teachers with a fun writing assessment tool that students will create and evaluate. The peer tutoring worksheet allows them to read and evaluate a partner’s writing. It also gives students a lifetime skill of improved writing fluency that will help them meet future writing goals.Students should write in active voice and show, not tell, what is happening in the stories. Dialogue can also add much to the voice in the story. Description is
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Gifted and Talented Students - Independent Unit of Study
This powerpoint teaches your gifted and talented students the step by step process of working on their own research projects that will lead to an ultimate product and presentation.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
The Fallacy Detective: How to Spot Bad Reasoning and Errors in Logic
Learn how to win arguments and debates with active listening and logic.This is an introductory course to logic and part of a Classical Education. Sometimes it's easiest to teach things by using the opposite approach, in this case teaching fallacies. Fallacies, or errors in logic, are used every day in all types of situations. Everyone has committed a fallacy before. For example, this class is great. Why? No one has every told me it wasn't. (Proof by Lack of Evidence Fallacy - which isn't rea
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Back to School Escape Room! Make Learning Classroom Rules EASY & FUN!
Are you in love with escape rooms as much as I am? My students love them and everyone is engaged. The first day of school is stressful enough. Don't stress out, instead use this activity which has worked for years. The students have a blast and you are facilitating instruction from the 1st day of school. The following escape room includes 6 stations with 4 questions each to help students review these topics:Topics include: Starting ClassLeaving ClassTechnology UsageAssignmentsLabsDuring ClassThi
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5th - 12th
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Scientific Measurement Powerpoint
Easy to follow presentation in a format that makes it perfect for stations, blended learning or flipped classrooms. Can be used in conjunction with the Metric Measurements Guided Notes.
This presentation covers:
*the metric system and conversions
*metric details for: length, mass, time, temperature, density, volume
*scientific notation
*dimensional analysis
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Elementary Computer Science, Coding, and Algorithms PPT
This presentation includes an introduction to CS, Coding, and Algorithms for elementary students. It includes vocabulary, discussion slides, and an algorithm activity for assessment. For a copy of the activity page referred to in the presentation, please email me at justin.browning@barren.kyschools.us. PDF, PPT, and KEYNOTE versions of this are available on TPT. Also, please email me at justin.browning@barren.kyschools.us for the algorithm worksheet if needed. Thanks!
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K - 8th
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