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Earth sciences Common Core W.3.7 resources for Gifted and Talented
Genius Hour Pack for Elementary
Are you looking to do Genius Hour in elementary? This packet has all of the teaching materials and plans, student worksheets, and caregiver letters to make sure that your Genius Hour is one of the best things you do all year in second, third, or fourth grade. Genius Hour in the lower grades can be a lot of work if you are unprepared, but this packet makes it simple! What's included in this Genius Hour planning pack? For Teachers: What is Genius Hour? A brief overview of Genius Hour and its pur
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2nd - 4th
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Who Would Win? Independent Animal Research Project- Digital or Non-Digital!
Now includes an editable Googles Slides option for students along with a printable option that can be sent to students digitally! Perfect for distance learning!My students LOVE books from Scholastic’s Who Would Win? series and I wanted an extension project that allowed them to research their own animals to create their own Who Would Win? book. The book is a total of 10 pages that include the following:Page 1- Title page showing the two animals and a picture of eachPage 2- Scientific name of the
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3rd - 5th
Grade 3 Science Lessons BUNDLE, Digital and Printable
This is a BUNDLE of 5 hands-on science units that are perfect for Grade 3. All grade 3 science lessons are aligned to the British Columbia Grade 3 BC Big Ideas and NGSS. Each science unit includes detailed lesson plans so you don't have to create them! This bundle covers all of the Grade 3 BC Big Ideas for Science. In other provinces/territories/states the curriculum and content may be more appropriate for other grade levels.(See "Preview" for a specific breakdown of the curriculum covered).
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2nd - 4th
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Water Pollution Water Filter STEM
This environmental project challenges students to create a water filter to use with grey water to conserve water resources. The water filtration lab is a perfect Earth Day project. The engineering design process helps students investigate, plan, create, improve, and evaluate their filter. Students observe and collect data to write a report on findings. Leveled texts and writing prompts round out this jammed packed set! ☝ Click HERE to Save 25% on the Money Savings ALL STEM and STEAM BUNDLE! ☝ (
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3rd - 5th
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5-ESS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
Also included in: STEM Activities STEM Challenges
Genius Hour Passion Projects For Elementary Students
This Genius Hour project-based learning pack will help you and your students begin passion projects with ease! This set will help your students develop a growth mindset as they go through a series of self-awareness activities to create a project that interests them all while learning important skills as they go along. Step-by-step students are taken through the process as they plan and prepare their passion projects or project-based learning projects.This is a great end-of-the-year way for stude
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2nd - 4th
Gifted and Talented Curriculum - Fairy Tale Unit Third Fourth Fifth Grade
This unit contains both a printable packet version AND individual JPEG files for each document so that you can easily upload to Google Classroom. Since they are in JPEG format, students should be able to write on the documents in Google Classroom.Additionally, this unit now includes a PARENT INSTRUCTIONS edition that you can easily pass on to parents when students are out of school. The instructions are easy to follow and allow parents to work with students just as you would in the classroom! Th
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2nd - 6th
Also included in: Gifted and Talented Curriculum BUNDLE - Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade
Gifted and Talented Curriculum - Time Travel Unit Third Fourth Fifth
This unit contains both a printable packet version AND individual JPEG files for each document so that you can easily upload to Google Classroom. Since they are in JPEG format, students should be able to write on the documents in Google Classroom.Additionally, this unit now includes a PARENT INSTRUCTIONS edition that you can easily pass on to parents when students are out of school. The instructions are easy to follow and allow parents to work with students just as you would in the classroom! Th
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2nd - 6th
Also included in: Gifted and Talented Curriculum BUNDLE - Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade
Solar Oven Investigation: Make S'mores with a Pizza Box Solar Oven
Investigate the energy from the sun with this fun Common Core related unit. Students will work through the scientific process while responding in writing. This digital download contains:
Detailed Instructions on how to assemble a pizza box solar oven with photographs
Donation request sheet
Note pages for the scientific investigation
Data collection sheet
Graph for a bar or line plot
Graphic organizer for procedural writing
S'more themed writing paper
Standards addressed: RI.5, RI. 6, RI
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2nd - 5th
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Gifted and Talented Curriculum - Not Scary Zombie Grades 3 4 5
This unit contains both a printable packet version AND individual JPEG files for each document so that you can easily upload to Google Classroom. Since they are in JPEG format, students should be able to write on the documents in Google Classroom.Additionally, this unit now includes a PARENT INSTRUCTIONS edition that you can easily pass on to parents when students are out of school. The instructions are easy to follow and allow parents to work with students just as you would in the classroom! Th
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2nd - 6th
Also included in: Gifted and Talented Curriculum BUNDLE - Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade
Project Based Learning Activity: Ancient Egypt Social Studies PBL
This interactive PBL activity puts your students in the shoes of a museum curator designing an authentic Ancient Egyptian museum experience!Ancient Egyptian Museum is a social studies project based learning activity (PBL) that results in a commercial to entice potential guests. Along the way, students will research, make real-life decisions, all while learning more about this ancient civilization, developing 21st-century skills, communicating, and designing. This PBL is self-differentiating, mea
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning Activities: Social Studies PBL BUNDLE
Solar System Lapbook and Interactive Notebook Activities
The Solar System Lapbook will make a great interactive learning tool and study guide for your students as they learn about the sun, moon, planets, and more! The following is included with this resource:1. A lapbook title page (3 boy and 3 girl choices)2. “Composition of the Solar System” spinner. This spinner features the makeup of the solar system, including pictures that represent planets, the sun, the moon, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.3. Solar System Vocabulary Pocket (24 cards with d
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2nd - 5th
Planets Research Report: Multi-Draft Informative Writing for Grades 3-5 (CCSS)
“I have done planet research writing for several years. This was a helpful resource to have everything ready to go.”“This made research so much easier for my students! Everything was scaffolded and easy to follow. Their reports came out great!”“I used this with ELL students as a research project. It was well laid out and I could adapt it easily to my students' needs. It did a good job walking students through the writing process.”Instead of doing several Informative Essays, I like to focus on j
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3rd - 5th
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Project Based Learning Activities: Social Studies PBL BUNDLE
Save 20% with this ancient civilizations bundle, which includes an Ancient Greece PBL, Ancient Egypt PBL, Ancient China PBL, and Ancient Rome PBL. These PBLS are a social studies project based learning activity (PBL) that results in a research and making real-life decisions, all while learning more about this ancient civilization, developing 21st-century skills, communicating, and designing. These PBLs are self-differentiating, meaning that students have the ability to work at their own pace and
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3rd - 5th
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Passport To Family Heritage Project
Focusing on cultural awareness? Studying immigration? Looking for a research project that connects to students' lives? Well, then this Passport to Family Heritage Project has exactly what you need. This project will help students discover their family's journey to America, research facts about their family's native country, and explore their family's heritage.
This 15 page product includes the following items:
1. Project Cover Page
2. Student "Passport" Information Page
3. My Family Portrait Pa
Grades:
1st - 5th
Second Grade Natural Disasters Research Project
Looking for a primary note taking lesson on natural disasters? This lesson focuses on the basic facts and characteristics of extreme weather events and natural disasters. Students must identify the important words and phrases to include on these note taking sheets.Natural Disaster note taking sheets include:AvalanchesBlizzardsDroughtsDust StormsEarthquakesFloodsHurricanesLandslidesSinkholesThunderstormsTornadoesTsunamisVolcanoesWaterspoutsWildfiresA blank note taking page for customizationResear
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1st - 3rd
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Changes in Ecosystems and Biomes Activity - Natural Disaster Research Project
This environmental changes science writing project will engage your students as they choose from five natural disasters to research! Keep your upper elementary writing students organized with printable graphic organizers that guide them to write detailed paragraphs describing environmental changes caused by a disaster. Students will illustrate the ecosystem before and after the natural disaster occurred using the printable final project pages. This no-prep, Common Core Aligned, cross-curricular
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3rd - 6th
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Weather Hazard Flood STEM and STEAM Challenge
Studying natural hazards, weather or hurricanes? This Earth Science Weather STEM helps students design and create a model to prevent and reduce flooding during storms using the engineering design cycle. A Hurricane Maria leveled text and writing prompts round out this jammed packed set! Next Generation Science Standards: NGSS 3-ESS3-1, 4-ESS3-2 ☝ Click HERE to Save over 25% on the Money Savings ALL STEM and STEAM Challenges BUNDLE! ☝ (Currently: 16 NGSS Aligned Projects) ❤ All STEM Projects are
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3rd - 5th
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3-ESS3-1
, 4-ESS3-2
Also included in: Weather Unit
Introduction to 3D Printing – STEAM PROJECT – GRADES 3-6 - Distance Learning
Have you purcahsed or are considering purchasing a 3D printer and don’t know where to start? This resource is perfect for classrooms just starting out in the world of 3D imaging and provides you with everything you need to teach the fundamentals of 3D printing. This STEAM project is broken up into two parts: BUILDING BACKGROUNDYour kiddos will begin by doing a research project of the history, current uses, benefits, and future innovcations of 3D printing. Graphic organizers are provided to assi
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3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Natural Disaster Research and Poster Project
Students will love the chance to research natural disasters and then creatively display what they learned with this Natural Disaster Poster Project! Included are unique research packets that will help students organize information they gather from books or online resources on 10 natural disasters. Packets will contain questions that ask disaster definitions, cause/effects, locations, ways to measure, safety precautions, interesting facts, and a famous disaster. Packets are divided into 4 section
Sun, Moon, Earth Solar System Digital Distance Learning Units BUNDLE for Google
SUN, MOON, EARTH Solar System GOOGLE Classroom Digital Unit captivates attention, promotes higher learning and leads to independent exploration about the world around us. This bundle includes 3 separate digital units listed at 20% off: The Sun, The Moon, and Earth. 51 Interactive pages for GOOGLE classroom AND 43 GOOGLE slide presentations for research.Utilize Google Classroom and open the entire resource in Google Slides to present information about tornadoes in an interactive, digital format t
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2nd - 3rd
Light Reflection STEAM and STEM Challenge
Are your students studying reflection and light? This Physical Science STEAM and STEM challenge provides a hands-on learning approach to understanding how reflection impacts human sight! This project requires students to develop a model which describes how light reflecting from objects enters the eyes, causing sight. The activity incorporates the engineering design cycle and includes a leveled text. Students use their observations to write a learning report before a classroom showcase. Writ
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
4-PS4-2
Also included in: STEM Activities STEM Challenges
Magnet STEM & STEAM Force and Motion
Are your students learning about magnetic repel and attraction? This hands-on magnetic station helps students understand magnetism! Students use the engineering design process to modify a product using magnets to help make a task easier in this invention magnet lab. Also included: a leveled text, submission report, a classroom showcase, and writing prompts! ☝ Click HERE to Save over 25% on the Money Savings ALL STEM and STEAM BUNDLE! ☝(Currently: 16 NGSS Aligned Projects) ❤ All STEM Projects are
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2nd - 4th
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NGSS:
3-PS2-3
, 3-PS2-4
Also included in: STEM Activities STEM Challenges
Shadow Length Direction STEM and STEAM
Learning about Earth's rotation, light and shadows? In this Earth Science Shadow STEM, students create a shadow catcher to see how Earth's rotation effects shadows. Students use the engineering design process in this shadow activity to investigate, plan, create, improve, and evaluate their catcher. Observations and collected data is used to write a report on their findings. Leveled texts and writing prompts round out this jammed packed set! Next Generation Science Standards: NGSS 5-ESS1-2, 1-ESS
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
1-ESS1-1
, 5-ESS1-2
Also included in: STEM Activities STEM Challenges
UPDATED Women's History Month Biography Research Project- Exploding Box Project
Updated to now include Dr. Jill Biden and Vice President Kamala HarrisMarch is the time of year to celebrate all of the accomplishments women have made around the world. This Women's History Month project is sure to your engage students and assist them with the research process. Included in this resource:Step by step instructions explaining how to prepare and cut the pop-up box. A video tutorial is linked for assembling and creating your pop-up box.53 different Notable Women to choose from in co
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3rd - 6th
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