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Earth sciences Common Core W.7.4 resources for Gifted and Talented
Christmas Writing Activities Middle School Prompts Persuasive Letter to Santa
Are your students on Santa's naughty list? This writing activity will keep your students engaged during the pre-holiday excitement as they write a persuasive friendly letter to Santa convincing him that they really don't belong on the naughty list! Creative and fun!What teachers are saying about this resource:"THE BEST UNIT I HAVE PURCHASED! So comprehensive, works students through editing, examples and just sets them up for a perfect end product if they try their best the whole way through th
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Christmas No Prep Persuasive and Descriptive Writing Bundle
Tsunami Activity Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Teach students about the natural disaster, tsunami, using this science text and digital activity. Students will learn the word origin of a tsunami, how this natural disaster forms, where it occurs, and safety and preventative measures. This activity will give students a thorough understanding of a tsunami, Like this activity? Check out the tsunami unit and save 20% by clicking here! Students will learn:Word origin of tsunamiWhat a tsunami isHow it formsWhere it is likely to occurSafety and preve
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5th - 7th
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The Comic Book Project with Template & Strips | ELA Narrative Writing Assignment
Student Avengers Assemble! Help bring out the creativity in your students with this modern digital version of the comic strip project. Watch student engagement soar and eliminate prep time, as this includes everything you and your students will need— tons of premade comic strip templates and drag-and-drop elements! Just copy and paste the elements provided onto one of the stip templates and let your imagination run wild!It's designed to be used across grade levels, and subjects, and can act as a
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6th - 9th
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Depth and Complexity Icons Getting Started BUNDLE
If you've been wanting to use depth and complexity icons in your classroom, but aren't sure where to start, this is the bundle for you! It includes everything you need to get started using depth and complexity icons with your students tomorrow! Add rigor and differentiate with ease for those gifted and high ability students using the products in this bundle.Your purchase includes these amazing depth and complexity icons products:-Sentence Stems (**best seller!)-Question Stems for Discussion (**b
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5th - 8th
Ancient Egypt Project Based Learning with Easel Activity Digital and Printable
This Ancient Egypt project allows students to choose from a list of 21 different choices to research! Includes teacher directions, student directions, Egypt Project Requirements (one hundred point checklist), project idea list, project choice sheet (students choose their top four choices), topic assignment sheet (teacher assigns project to student from their choices), bibliography example sheet, and a peer review sheet for the research paper and for an oral presentation. Students can research to
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4th - 7th
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October Daily Writing Warm Up Bell Ringer Journal Prompt Print or Digital
Print and Digital Versions! No matter what your year looks like, this is an easy way to keep your students writing! Engage them with daily journal writing with 31 October prompts that focus on quirky holidays, important days in history, funny/inspirational quotes, and research.Did you know that October 4 is National Cinnamon Bun Day and that October 14 is National Chocolate Covered Insect Day? (Neither did I!!) Those are two of the over thirty prompts you'll find in this resource. Topics in
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Bundle Monthly Warm up Bell Ringer Writing Journal Prompts
Deserted Island Survival STEM Challenges
Are you looking for a fun and engaging activity for your students? Deserted Island Survival STEM Challenge is a unit centered around a fictional story of Suzanna Airfly who's plane crashed on a deserted island. Your students will complete five different challenges to help Suzanna survive. Each challenge encourages students to define the problem, plan a design, build, test, and reflect. I have included a rubric for each challenge. I have also added a narrative writing extension where students
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3rd - 8th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Narrative Writing Contractions SCAMPER Upper Elementary Middle School
Can narrative writing be interactive and engaging? Yes! You're going to love this narrative writing lesson that also enables students to practice their contractions. Yep! It's a two-for-one special! If you have reluctant writers, you'll love how the prompt and activities along with loads of graphic organizers, and clear instructions will help all students be successful as they write about a day they were invisible. In addition to narrative writing and contraction practice, students will also get
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4th - 7th
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Dystopia: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving for Gifted and Talented
These are enrichment or acceleration activities for gifted and talented middle school students who are about to embark on independent reading of novels with a Dystopian element. Included in this resource are group discussion questions, four project based research learning options which culminate in a presentation, and teacher resources, such as an action plan to help students develop a project timeline. These activities lend themselves to multiple learning styles, and require critical thinking,
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5th - 8th
November Daily Journal Print or Digital Google Drive OneDrive
Print and Digital Versions! No matter what your year looks like, this is an easy way to keep your students writing! Engage them with daily journal writing with 30 November prompts that focus on quirky holidays, important days in history, funny/inspirational quotes, and research.Did you know that November 10 is National Vanilla Cupcake Day and that November 20 is National Absurdity Day? (Neither did I!!) Those are two of the thirty prompts you'll find in this resource. Topics include trivia,
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Bundle Monthly Warm up Bell Ringer Writing Journal Prompts
August Daily Warm Up Bell Ringer Writing Monthly Journal Print and Digital
Print & Digital! No matter what the year looks like, this is an easy way to keep your students writing! Engage them with daily journal writing with 31 August prompts that focus on quirky holidays, important days in history, funny/inspirational quotes, and research.Did you know that August 21 is National Spumoni Day? That's one of the over thirty prompts you'll find in this resource. Topics include trivia, historical events, silly/serious holidays, research prompts, and thoughtful quotes
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Bundle Monthly Warm up Bell Ringer Writing Journal Prompts
Writing Satire
Are you looking for a way to challenge your students through higher level thinking in writing that can be screen shared for distance learning? One of the most difficult forms of writing is satire. Here is a PowerPoint which defines satire, gives an example of a short satirical story, uses the gradual release process to guide students to writing their own stories, and provides topic ideas to get students started on their own writing challenge.Click here to save 25% off the price of individual res
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7th - 11th
FULL YEAR of Picture Prompts for Creative Writing | Weekly Visual Prompts
WEEKLY WRITING PROMPTS FOR A FULL YEAR Increase your students' writing stamina with weekly creative writing picture prompts! This product includes 37 high-interest images that are great for any creative writing activity and are an excellent way to increase students’ writing stamina. Great to use as a bell ringer or part of Freewrite Fridays.PDF & Google Slides versions included
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4th - 12th
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Gifted and Talented Story Elements Activity Choice Board - POETRY!
Do you need an engaging activity to challenge your students? Do you struggle to find an activity that will tap into your students' creativity? Then download this Gifted and Talented Story Elements Activity Choice Board - POETRY! With this engaging choice board, which contains 7 activities focusing on poetry, students demonstrate their deep understanding of any story. Perfect for the creative student who needs to be challenged! Each no-prep high-level thinking activity centers around a type of po
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7th - 10th
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Greek Mythology Living Art Exhibit Activity - Great Paired with The Odyssey!
Teaching The Odyssey? Dabbling in Greek mythology? Engage your students in a week-long, skill-building activity they will remember for years! "The day we got to dress up like Greek statues was my favorite." "I really like how we got to research Medusa. I learned much more about mythology than just reading about it in a book." "I had another teacher at my last school teach us about Greek mythology. All he did was show a long documentary that put everyone to sleep. This is actually something that
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5th - 12th
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Shakespeare and the Globe Theater, Hands-On Student Activity! GOOGLE SLIDES
Wondering how to cultivate a love for all things William Shakespeare with your upper grade students and get them psyched for reading Shakespeare? Need an extension activity that allows creativity and maintains student engagement? Your answer is here and completely ready to go! Your students will research, design an infographic and build Shakespeare's beloved GLOBE THEATER! This almost entirely editable Google Slides resource guides students through the beginning stages of research and culminates
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6th - 12th
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STEM Design for Learning: Designing Weather Instruments
A Webquest for Real World Project-Based Learning
The Weather Station WebQuest is a great way to introduce students to the world of weather measurement and invention. The webquest and design process supports critical thinking and collaboration as students form teams and make decisions about weather instrument design. The final product is a weather station with models representing best efforts in inquiry, research, design, collaboration, and decision making.
WebQuest project-based learning teac
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5th - 8th
Writing Fluency: 90 15 Minute Quickwrites, 40 Writing Topics, Test Prep,Sub
Writing fluency! The Fifteen Minute Quickwrite Unit arms teachers with a writing tool that will increase how much students can write during a timed writing assessment. It also gives students a lifetime skill of improved writing fluency that will help them meet future writing goals. 40 Writing Topics can be used in shared classroom timed writing notebooks to improve fluency and allow students to have fun writing.Product includes:90 Quickwrites (4 pages) in PDF format. Printable.40 Writing Topi
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6th - 12th
Birthstone Brochure Research Project
DESCRIPTION: Ready to turn your students into young mineral experts? Look no further then the Birthstone Brochure Project- a dynamic and engaging activity that will bring students on an exciting journey of discovery. Students will delve into the enchanting properties of their specific birthstones, exploring their color, hardness, luster, breakage, and streak. They'll uncover the mystical and mythical aspects linked to each stone, discovering intriguing properties steeped in lore and legends.Ven
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6th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS2-3
, MS-ESS2-2
, MS-ESS2-1
Ecosystems Report Printable and Google Slides Bundle
This blended resource is great for distance learning and in person learning. It contains materials for your students to complete an Ecosystems Research Report. Combine resources to easily BLEND your classroom! This resource contains both a printable and digital - Google Slides Ecosystems research report.Engage your students with this fun and comprehensive Ecosystems Research Report resource. It helps has make report writing easy! It contains questions, organizers, tools and forms to use for your
Volcanoes | Volcano Activity Report | Google Classroom | Google Slides
Students LOVE studying volcanoes and using TECHNOLOGY! This Google Classroom resource makes producing a volcanoes research report fun and easy! These colorful Google Slides contain a complete paperless report perfect for Chromebooks, HP Streams, and other devices in a 1:1 classroom. Use these activities to engage students in a whole class, small group, or independent environment. This resource is also perfect for home school students.Templates are included to create, develop, write, edit, presen
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3rd - 7th
Also included in: Volcanoes Report Printable and Google Slides Bundle
Gifted and Advanced ELA End of the Year Choice Projects
I really like to challenge my advanced students. However, they worked so hard preparing for the state test that I wanted to provide them with engaging activities and allow them to be in control of what they are learning, while having fun and learning about things that interest them. The majority of my class is made up of students who are gifted. I discovered that they have rather poor time management skills. They work linearly, and cannot meet multiple deadlines at the same time. This projec
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6th - 8th
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Ecosystems | Research Report
Engage your students with this fun and comprehensive Ecosystems Research Report resource. It helps make report writing easy! It contains vocabulary, worksheets, questions, organizers, tools and forms to use for your students to create, develop, write, edit, illustrate, present, and assess your students’ Ecosystems Research Report.This is a fun, 51 page resource to help your students produce a research report on Ecosystems.This resource can be for their formal report or utilized as a study guide
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Ecosystems Report Printable and Google Slides Bundle
Idioms I Have Who Has? Games Bundle
Three fun I Have...Who Has? Games that review over 108 idioms! Pack 1-Popular Idioms (36 card set), Pack 2-Animal Idioms (36 card set), Pack 3-Sports Idioms (36 card set). All include answer keys.Preview files available on each individual game's product page.Student love this and really have fun learning idioms. Common Core Writing 3.4, 4.4, 5.4, 6.4, 7.4Customers Tips:Be the first to know about our new products, discounts, freebies and sales:• Look for the green star next to our store logo and
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3rd - 7th
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