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Thematic unit plan microsofts for Gifted and Talented
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
Gifted and Talented GATE WRITING COLLECTION 122 Pages
Get six highly rated GATE writing lesson bundles at 33% off individual purchases. This collection is packed with variety, creativity, challenge, and the Common Core.
See the big preview! Hours and hours of class instruction and engagement!
You'll get the following bundles adaptable from 3rd through 8th grade:
Road Trip Adventure Cross-Curricular Writing Journey: Students practice all sorts of writing from graphic design to narrative to expository as they journey across the USA and create p
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3rd - 8th
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Toy Car Golf Math STEAM Design - Gifted and Talented GATE 2nd-4th 9 Hours
Engaging math and engineering with ramps and toy cars! Your students will go home and share the news about how absolutely cool school seems now. My mathematically gifted 2nd graders were VERY Challenged by this unit, and I would not hesitate to use it for 3rd grade GATE or in 4th grade as an enrichment for the whole class.Schoolhouse Rock Math: We’re using Zero My Hero and 5’s Multiplication to learn multiplication, repeated addition, and patterns to calculate areas of rectangles—a very advance
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2nd - 4th
Also included in: KID CREATED GAMES Standards-based STEM and Math Games Bundle
Origami Frog Obstacle Course Enrichment - Blended Learning Choice Board STEAM
Can you safely navigate your origami frog through the obstacle course?
The Frog Obstacle Course has elements of STEAM, blended learning, thematic units, and problem-based learning wrapped together to make something 100% so cool!
Here we have kid-built engineering, standards-based independent challenges, and hands-on learning adaptable for your class, grade level, or group.
But wait . . . you have to earn your spot on the “frogstacle course” by completing independent, standards-based activit
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: KID CREATED GAMES Standards-based STEM and Math Games Bundle
Kindergarten Bird-Themed Challenges for Gifted and Talented GATE - Storytelling
You’ll have loads of fun with this thematic “birds” bundle of lessons and activities. We address BEST PRACTICES for our youngest gifted and advanced learners with hand-on puzzles, storytelling, participatory reading, acting, humor, video, and improvisation. In the process, we will deliver two social emotional messages—one about teamwork, and one about diversity. So little time, and so much to do! That’s why we always, always, always engage and challenge students in critical thinking across the c
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K - 2nd
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CSI Time Travelers: A Gifted Unit
This is a 12-lesson unit for gifted 3rd-6th graders, designed to last one semester. It teaches the history of forensic science in a very hands-on and engaging way. Students track a criminal through history, but he keeps slipping away! The ancient forensic science techniques just aren't enough for keep up with this criminal. But when he reaches modern day and students can use modern day techniques, the criminal better watch out!The crimes occur in Medieval Times, the Wild West, and Modern Day New
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Primary GATE -- AIR! Active, Creative, Academic, and Hands-on!
I am always trying to figure out what to do with my little primary groups, and this unit was a definite hit with my kindergartners. It would work well with 1st grade too or the regular 2nd grade classroom. The full unit contains more than 2 hours of contact time.
It’s active, fun, and challenging for these little ones and seemed to have the right combination of “get up and move,” imagination, creativity, and “making” along with academic tasks.
We learn about four important properties of air
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K - 2nd
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Primary Sources Collection -- Complete Lessons with All You Need! 144 Pages
Best practices in history and 21st Century learning through primary sources, the Common Core, critical thinking, expository writing, public speaking, creative projects—they’re all here!THIS IS A VERY POPULAR, SOMEWHAT SMALLER, VERSION OF AN EVEN LARGER BUNDLE.You get five sets of bundled primary sources lessons—145 pages of lessons and materials in all—and a nice savings over buying the bundles individually. Each activity comes with explanations, guides, ready-to-print activity sheets, graphic
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4th - 12th
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Weather Unit Room Transformation
Weather Unit Room TransformationThis product is a bundle of items to use in a room transformation for K-2.There is a project-able PowerPoint lesson for you to use whole group, printable pages for anchor chart discussion, ideas for experiments, crafts, and room transformation ideas and pictures! INCLUDED:Project-able lessonIdeas for room transformation that I usedIdeas for weather experimentsVideo linksWebsite linksExamples that I used in my roomCrafts and coloring pages
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
PI DAY Activity Editable PowerPoint & Google Slides for 6th- 7th - 8th Grade
Explore the fascinating world of Pi with our All About Pi customizable PowerPoint & Google Slides for 6th-8th Grade. Delve into the history of pi, discover its real-life uses, and uncover interesting facts you never knew. Engage in friendly discussions with peers and spark your creativity with fun writing prompts included in this interactive presentation.Celebrate Mathematical Holidays with our vibrant Presentation! It highlights significant days like Pi Day, International Mathematics Day, N
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Grades:
5th - 8th
THANKSGIVING CREATION STATIONS | MakerSpace | Art DIY Creativity | November Fall
Easily integrate creation of all types into your classroom routine with these Thanksgiving and Fall Art Integration Creation Station & MakerSpace Activities. It includes everything you need to celebrate Thanksgiving and integrate art/creation into your classroom. 18 Creation Station direction cards, all supplements needed, PowerPoint directions, and Supply Request Letter are included! 18 Thanksgiving/Fall Creations Stations Included:Zhanksgiving ZentangleThanksgiving Dinner Place CardsThankf
Grades:
3rd - 12th
HALLOWEEN CREATION STATIONS | MakerSpace | Art DIY Creativity | October Fall
Easily integrate creation of all types into your classroom routine with these Halloween Art Integration Creation Station & MakerSpace Activities. It includes everything you need to celebrate Halloween and integrate art/creation into your classroom. 16 Creation Station direction cards, all supplements needed, PowerPoint directions, The Starry Night Collaboration Poster, and Supply Request Letter are included! 16 Halloween Creation Stations (great for MakerSpace too!) are included. These are a
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Area 51 and ET Learning Module
This can be for a fun Science Unit or a Gifted and Talented Unit.I made this learning module with 6 different sessions, all utilizing different mediums of learning such as videos, articles, projects, and more.This unit should take about 10 class periods to complete.Intro - KWL chart (complete K and W)Session 1:Students read an article and watch a clip about Area 51 and then complete comprehension questionsSession 2:Students will create their own Area 51 base using resources provided. They will a
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6th - 10th
"Go Set a Watchman" Thematic Literary Unit
"Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee is a sequel to "To Kill a Mockingbird." This unit should NOT be taught to students who have not yet read To Kill a Mockingbird either as part of this course or a previous one. This unit is intended for advanced students and accelerated courses--much of the reading is assigned outside of classroom time.
This unit loosely follows the CSU format for Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC) modules and includes activities for unit background
Grades:
10th - 12th
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Also included in: "Go Set a Watchman" Bundle
Holes: Digging Deeper into Novel - -- Symbolism, Irony and Plot Elements
Higher-level lessons and quizzes on the novel Holes... This is series of lessons on the novel Holes featuring higher-level elements. It contains lessons on Symbolism, Irony, and Plot elements; each lesson ties these terms specifically into examples from Holes. There is a student quiz or short writing assignment after each lesson that you can use as an assessment. Key is included. Holes by Louis Sachar is a fun mystery/adventure novel with lots of plot twists and turns, lots of humorous epi
Grades:
6th - 8th
Engineering Unit
This document includes a bundle of extensive, detailed lessons regarding the field of engineering. Engineering careers are on the rise today. In order to promote interest in this field, the teacher will provide the students with multiple learning experiences in the areas of language, math, and science. Based upon the students’ unique learning styles and interest, students will engage in problem solving tasks, work cooperatively, and demonstrate individual creativity by developing personal, auth
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Christmas Around the World Germany
This power point contains real pictures for students to see what Christmas in Germany looks like.
Slides include:
-Pictures of Germany
-Germany's Flag
-Children of Germany
-Traditions
-Food
-What originated from Germany
-How to say Merry Christmas in German
Please check out my other PPT for other countries around the world! Happy Shopping! :)
Grades:
K - 5th
March/Math Madness
This 7 lesson unit includes an interest inventory, pretest, learning centers, learning contract, and task cards. Students will use the NCAA Basketball Tournament to learn about data, graphing, probability, outlining/classifying, map skills, and more!
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Be A Perfect Person in Just Three Days! Literary Unit
Are you looking for a book unit to go along with your novel study of Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days? If so, here is just the lesson bundle to engage and challenge your students with this complete literacy unit in PowerPoint for Be A Perfect Person in Just Three Days! I have used this unit with my third and fourth grade gifted classes and with fifth graders, too. Many kids struggle with perfectionism, so this book sends a great message for kids.Inside you'll find:Introduction to the Novel
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4th
DINOSAURS BLOOMS UNIT
To open and edit this unit you need Microsoft Publisher. This 23 page Dinosaurs unit contains everything you need to create an exciting classroom atmosphere while facilitating independent learning. It is set out under Bloom's 6 levels and as tasks become increasing challenging, allocated points rise accordingly. I have taught this unit with Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 and have found that students love to keep score of the points they earn, which in turn lead to rewards.
In the unit you will find: 2 titl
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Text Set The Holocaust
This document can be used for a variety of purposes; it is a text set for the Holocaust. Teachers can use this as a springboard for ideas when completing a unit of study on the Holocaust in their classrooms. In addition, this can be used a guide for ordering texts for curriculum. This text set can even help you to organize literature circles or learning centers/stations in your classroom. This text set was written for an 8th grade classroom, but could be easily adapted for a 7th or 9th grade cla
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7th - 9th, Higher Education, Staff
ESPERANTO (ZAMENHOF'S INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE)
This resource about the extra-easy international language Esperanto starts with basic vocabulary and a grammar sketch. Next there is a page of material for reading practice in the language. Finally there are ten worksheets in the form of fun word searches for helping to impart the vocabulary, photos accompanied by text in English, Esperanto, Spanish and French; and finally a Certificate Of Completion. One current estimation is that the language is known by up to 1.6 million people around the
Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education
Frog Dissection Unit
This frog unit is made up of centers and a culminating dissection activity. Students will research different types of frogs, create powerpoints, write comparison paragraphs, make dioramas and posters, learn about careers, and create research guides.
Kelley's Kreations
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Hope in the Midst of Trauma: Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian, etc
In this unit, students will educate themselves about the effects of trauma while exploring resiliency within the protagonist of their given novel. Students will explore the effects of trauma upon the human body and mind, apply this knowledge to the novel they are reading, and then analyze the resiliency found within the character in a thematic essay. Although this at the core is a simplistic theme essay, the unit allows students to self identify the ACES they might have, but then shifts the foc
Grades:
7th - 12th
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