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Thematic unit plans for Microsoft Word and 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
Grades:
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
Grades:
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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"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
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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4th - 8th
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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4th - 6th
Challenge Project: Mythology
Challenge Projects are designed as differentiated experiences for any student - whether he/she is gifted, high potential, average, an underachiever, an English language learner, struggling, and/or displaying other special needs. These enrichment units are designed to be chosen by students based upon their interests and strengths. Challenge Projects do not have a set length of study. Rather, each avenue of study should be flexible and determined by the length of time daily that a student is able
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3rd - 8th
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Golden Ratio and Other Ratio Activities!
Use this as an exploration into the world of ratios. Enjoy various activities that include golden ratio, the "bunny problem," the ratio of body parts, etc.
Grades:
4th - 8th
The Story Machine
The whole unit for 4 weeks of investigating and writing mystery stories for year 5 with a gifted and talented extension and a year 4 differentiation. Confidently extend gifted and talented students using the Australian Curriculum, included in the Unit plan. Teachers will have teacher notes, student notes and associated activities and reading activities for exploring a shared writing experience in writing mystery stories. Students start a story which other students further and finish. This suppor
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Grades:
6th
5 Week Vocabulary Unit: All tests, quizzes, notes included!
This 5 week vocabulary unit use related roots to build upon each previous week. At the end of this unit, students will know 5 prefixes, 23 roots referring to numbers, and many words.
What I did with this unit is include quizzes that build upon each previous week. The students were scared about the unit test at the end, but out of the 60 students who took the test, there was not one score below a B! They all agreed that they knew the words better than they realized because of using them each
Grades:
6th - 8th
Immigration Book Club and Choice Menu Project
As I was taking AIG courses through my school district, I completed this unit that I am currently using with my students. Students first complete book clubs or literature circles (however you want to structure this part) and then complete projects related to immigration issues on a choice board. Though I made this for AIG learners, it can be adjusted and modified to fit all learners.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Open Court-6 GATE Unit 2, Ancient Civilizations
30 pages of material written specifically to use as a GATE supplement for Open Court-6, Unit 2. eg: student contracts, vocabulary, skills list, worksheets, bibliography and resources for Unit 2
You can preview what's available in each of these units by checking out the free downloads for Unit 1.
Grades:
6th
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Diary of Anne Frank Bundle
This bundle consists of vocabulary words to study when reading the book and the page number they are found on, as well as vocabulary test over those words. There is also a comprehension book over the test included. This a bundle that focuses on deep thinking skills! It is not your average vocabulary test! I used this unit with a gifted sixth grade class, but it could be adapted.
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6th - 8th
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4th GA GPS Ecosystems Tiered and MODIFIED Student Contract.docx
This tiered contract and modified tiered contract allows students to vault-up from their classroom lessons to create mini-projects throughout the unit from multiple intelligence standpoints, and use research and presentation skills.
I've implemented this successfully in a collaborative 4th grade classroom with special needs students, which is why this document includes a modified version of the contract.
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Grades:
4th
Lord of the Flies Anticipatory Set / Preview / Theme Preparation / Focus Questio
Use this Lord of the Flies Theme Preparation Worksheet to introduce students to the larger concepts of the novel. Questions about power, the importance of and how to establish community, and what makes a just society cause students to consider large issues, while introducing the conflicts and themes in the novel. Not only does this generate great discussion that you will use throughout your reading of the novel, but it also provides excellent essay topics for a final assignment.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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