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Art history unit plans for Gifted and Talented under $5
Gifted and Talented Six-Word Digital Memoir Project Based Unit
How do you capture a moment from your life in just 6 words? In this project based unit, students will do just that. They will learn about the power of simplicity in writing and the strength a visual adds to words. Your students will be captivated by their own creativity and as a teacher you will learn more than you ever have about your students.
I hope you find this unit enlightening.
This product includes:
>Complete unit in plans
>List of online resources to accompany the unit
>PDF P
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4th - 8th
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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
Gifted and Talented - Everyone Needs a Hero Unit
WHAT is a hero? WHO is your hero?
In this concept based unit, students will learn about the men and women whose achievements have made a direct or indirect influence in the lives of others. Students will explore the distinction between a hero and a celebrity. They will develop a personal definition of heroism and characteristics of heroes. Students will then select, research, and develop a product on a hero and compare them to a hero from a book they have read. As a follow-up, students will re
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4th - 8th
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Moonshot by Brian Floca Apollo 11 PRIMARY GATE Lessons -- Rocket Model
Astronauts, space ships, and the moon . . . what kid doesn’t like that kind of stuff, huh? We should build a space ship!
Here’s another collection of lessons and activities for your primary gifted and talented groups. It’s full of hands-on activities across the curriculum, critical thinking questions, participatory reading, and age-appropriate primary source lessons. As always, you’ll get ready-to-print activity sheets, explanations, pictures to lead you through, and Common Core State Standa
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1st - 3rd
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A Literature Unit for Patricia Polacco's Junkyard Wonders
This unit was made to go Patricia Polacco's book The Junkyard Wonders. Included are 18 pages of activities to challenges your students to think more deeply about the story. The unit was created with the 4th and 5th grade Common Core Standards in mind. Topics explored are theme, setting, character traits, visualizing, and many more. Writing assignments and a project idea are also included. The themes in this book would also be perfect to explore with a gifted class. Email me at ideabackpack@
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3rd - 6th
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Gifted and Talented - Created Creature Talents Unlimited Unit
Create your own hybrid animal species? Why, yes, we can do that!
In this unit, which utilizes the Talents Unlimited Model based on the work of Calvin Taylor and adapted by Carol Schlichter, students will do just that. While it's all good fun, they will be using creative and critical thinking skills that will help them be successful in all areas of life. Those include: productive thinking, decision-making, planning, communication, and forecasting.
Come...take a walk on the wild side....
This
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3rd - 6th
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Gifted and Talented - Style Profile Concept Based Unit
Every student is unique. They look differently and have individual personalities. They also have a preferred style of learning and expressing their learning. Additional they have intelligence strengths and weaknesses. All these differences need to be respected, embraced, and accommodated in the classroom. In this concept based unit for gifted learners, students will develop a learning profile for their teachers in the form of a brochure to be used as a tool in differentiation for their indi
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3rd - 6th
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T-Shirt Entrepreneurs PROJECT BASED LEARNING Math Economics GATE 4-8th
Your students will be excited for this “gold medal standard” project-based math, design, and economics activity. It’s appropriate and adaptable for 4th – 8th grade. It has been a staple for my 4th grade gifted and talented math group since 2013.You won’t be the sage on the stage. Students will problem-solve their way through the project working in collaborative teams, and the teacher will guide, be a resource, spur discussion, play devil’s advocate, and provide mini lessons when necessary.In
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class BUNDLE - Math Focus Hours of Hands-on Projects GATE Gifted
Olympics-lesson plans, articles, writing, research, potato Olympics & more!
This product includes 100 pages of all thing Olympics! The Summer & Winter games are featured! This unit can be adapted to all grades! This product includes:Writing and planning pages for- sports, countries, Olympic host, & athletesColor/notes/design pages for Summer & Winter gamesCountries & Territories that participate - explanation of NOCMultiple informational text articles about modern and ancient Olympics3 different articles about the 2020 Tokyo OlympicsHistory of the Olympi
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Not Grade Specific
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Line Elements of Art Worksheets and Art Lesson
In this lesson, the students study each element step-by-step (color, line, texture, value, space, shape, and form) and include color reproductions on informational pages. Includes fun activities for the students to participate in. These activities call for students to look closer at artwork included in the magazine and to apply knowledge learned.Included in this lesson:Each element is displayed on a separate sheet that can be used as a poster or handoutStudent Handout on artwork and information
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3rd - 8th
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Little Island Primary Gifted and Talented Social-Emotional Values and Identity
We use this Caldecott Award Winning book to address social-emotional standards for primary gifted students. Not just a social-emotional unit, we answer critical thinking questions, explore literary theme and other ideas, and create a fun island adventure using a grid.
Great stuff for our youngest gifted learners: It’s hands-on, requires critical thinking, and good fun.
NAGC Learning and Development Standards
1.1 Self-Understanding. Students with gifts and talents demonstrate self-knowledge
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K - 3rd
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STEM Roller Coaster Challenge and Elementary Physics Unit
Engage your students in this hands-on learning experience! Explore the concepts of gravity, momentum, friction, acceleration, and speed with five no-prep lessons (all you'll need are a few household materials!) Each lesson comes with all your students need to conduct an exploration of each concept. Students will then apply what they have learned throughout the unit to design and build their very own roller coaster in the STEM Roller Coaster Challenge!
This STEM Roller Coaster Challenge and Ele
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2nd - 5th
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Exploring Famous Artists - Art Unit
Try this art unit with your junior and intermediate students for a fun, very independent, art history unit which has students research and create a piece of artwork of their own! Art History is usually the most dreaded unit for my students. This unit was originally designed for students during distance and virtual learning but the kids loved it in class as well!Students get a brief understanding of art history and periods, then select an artist of their choice to research, and then finally creat
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5th - 10th
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The Precedents of the Early Presidents - US History - Project Based Learning
This 1 - 2 week Project Based Learning Unit will organize your classroom study of our first three presidents perfectly. It ends with a presentation and a presentation rubric for the teacher. George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson were foundational in setting up the role of president for all future presidents and your class will have to prove it. Optional Start: Students will be started with a fun, online game requiring 1:1 or 1:2 technology called Executive Command that can be fou
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5th - 12th
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Locomotive by Brian Floca - Primary GATE Unit with Caldecott STEAM!
Another amazing Caldecott book and another load of opportunities across the curriculum for our primary GATE kids: hands-on and participatory activities, critical thinking, creativity, art and graphic design, and always best practices in gifted education. I’ve used this unit with 2nd graders, and it will definitely stretch to 3rd grade GATE.
You get 35+ pages of instructions, critical thinking questions and activities, and ready-to-print student activity sheets—assuredly more than you’ll ever
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2nd - 4th
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Gifted Education Lesson Plans PBL Unit Hazards of Cell Phone Use
Gifted Education Lesson Plans Problem Based Learning Unit Hazards of Cell Phone Use
This Problem Based Learning Unit focuses on the problems of cell phone use. Students research, write, and present their findings. Written especially for sixth grade gifted students, this unit incorporates many rigorous skills. This PBL unit can last for at least eight class periods. It may be used in the gifted classroom, and in the regular classroom as well. It may be beneficial for differentiated instruct
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5th - 7th
A Literature Unit for Drew Daywalt's The Day The Crayons Quit
This unit was made to go with Drew Daywalt's The Day The Crayons Quit. Included are 17 pages of activities to challenge your students to think more deeply about the story. The unit was created with the 4th and 5th grade Common Core Standards in mind. Topics explored are point of view, theme, character traits, visualizing, text structure, plot, letter writing, comparing/contrasting, responding to quotes, and more. Writing assignments are also included. Email me at ideabackpack@gmail.com with
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3rd - 5th
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Natural Disasters Unit
This unit includes the following:Posters/slides for the definitions of the following:HurricaneTornadoEarthquakeTsunamiFlash FloodAvalancheBlizzardMudslideWildfire4 page research packet1 page research sheetMeteorologist Report ScriptNatural Disaster Opinion Writing Planning PageNatural Disaster Opinion Writing PageHurricane STEM ChallengeEarthquake STEM ChallengeWe ended this fun unit by filming weather reports for these natural disasters using a Green Screen app!
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1st - 3rd
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Frida Kahlo Art Unit: Slides, Lesson, Homework, Written Response, Rubric
Includes:Slides/PPT Unit (concepts, objectives, materials, lesson outline)Opinion writing prompt (homework, extra credit, etc.)Completed project exampleRubricThis is a detailed unit outline on Frida Kahlo, symbolism, and self-portraiture, with a coordinating PowerPoint presentation. I use it for eighth grade--I would recommend it be used for upper middle school and high school levels.The unit is a Word document, and it includes the unit concepts, objectives, outlines for lessons that lead to a f
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7th - 12th
Engineering Design Process - Design and Technology Unit
This unit is a ten week unit where students will follow the Engineering Design Process!The Engineering Design Process is a series of steps a person can take to create something which solves a problem. 1. Define the Problem 2. Do Your Research 3. Develop a Possible Solution 4. Design Your Solution 5. Build a Prototype 6. Test It 7. Evaluate Your SolutionsIn the first week students are introduced to Engineers and the Engineering Design Process. They then follow the engineering design
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Technologies - Year Long Lesson BUNDLE! (Upper Primary)
Types of Dance
As a music teacher, I am an advocate for the arts. Some of the schools in my district offer dance classes but mine does not. I wanted to give my students a quick run-down on dance styles and history. This presentation is perfect for upper elementary and middle school ages. My future sister in-law Brynn has been a dancer since she was five and is now thirteen! She was kind enough to assist me in creating example videos for this presentation. Your students will be engaged when they see someone clo
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3rd - 9th
Making Tracks with Footprint Mysteries KG 1st 2nd GATE Primary Challenges!
Engaging challenge of a highly participatory and creative nature for our youngest primary kids!Here’s another lesson for our youngest gifted learners based on research and best practices advocated by the National Association of Gifted Children. It’s rich in age 4-7 critical thinking opportunities with hands-on learning, visual discrimination and details, improvisational opportunities including creativity, storytelling, writing and art, and engaging activities associated with the kids’ immediate
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: 2019-2020 Gifted and Talented GATE Program for the Year - Elementary
Art Lesson Plan Template (Word)
This one-page lesson plan was designed specifically for the visual art teacher in mind. The easy-to-read layout allows the teacher to not only create the plan quickly, but also allows for easy navigation by the non-art observer or substitute. Each section is 100% editable in Microsoft Word, or you could print it out and fill it in by hand. I have even used it as a project plan sheet for students to fill in as I introduce a new project! Click here for the Google Slides version or here for the Edi
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Not Grade Specific
Genre Study - Complete Unit
Engage your students as readers by exploring the 10 main genres through picture books, chapter books, and graphic novels. Teach mini-lessons with picture books and note-taking pages, and assess students’ understanding of genre before, during, and after the unit. Knowledge of genre is a foundational skill of responsible, informed readers.Genres Covered: Realistic FictionHistorical FictionScience FictionFantasyMysteryTraditional LiteratureAutobiographyBiographyMemoirInformationalThis resource incl
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4th - 8th
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