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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
Grades:
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
Grades:
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
Grades:
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@
Grades:
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
Grades:
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
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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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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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
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
Grades:
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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Grades:
2nd - 5th
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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
Grades:
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
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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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
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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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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Grades:
5th - 7th
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!
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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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
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: Technologies - Year Long Lesson BUNDLE! (Upper Primary)
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
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
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express READING + STEM Elementary GATE
If you’ve come to know my units, you’ll find the same sort of critical thinking and hands-on exploration and creativity here . . .
Come all the way across the curriculum from READING to STEM activities in this hands-on unit. My advanced group 2nd graders loved this! I would use this for advanced 1st graders in their second semester or 3rd grade as well. I don’t think it would be a stretch to say 4th graders would enjoy it as well.
“Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express” is a Reading Rainbow
Grades:
1st - 4th
Mirette on the High Wire CALDECOTT for Primary GATE Hands-on with STEM
Bring Emily Arnold McCully’s Caldecott Winning book, Mirette on the High Wire, alive with this active unit! We combine a rich exploration—primary grades appropriate—of language and science to produce a meaningful learning experience.
Materials: Activity Sheets (included), string, and other common classroom supplies
Time: About 3 hours total if all the parts are included
Level: GATE 1st or 2nd and 3rd
Primary Source Analysis and Inferences: Let’s set the stage by seeing what students ca
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Medieval Times:Travel Back to the Middle Ages!
I loved teaching about the Middle Ages and would like to offer teachers my notes, activities and resources that I found of value when I taught the subject.Perhaps, these additional resources might be of interest:1. Want a fun activity to review vocabulary terms for a unit of study on the Middle Ages?Looking for an enrichment activity in history? Try my Medieval Puzzler: Secret Message Review Activity. The activity involves students working individually or in groups to review vocabulary terms con
Grades:
4th - 9th
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Also included in: Medieval Times: A Bundle of Resources
Math Projects for High Ability Students
This is a series of math projects for high ability students in second grade. The projects give your students enrichment in number sense, computation, data, patterns, money, time, and problem solving. Your students also have the option to create a project of their own design on other math skills. The projects involve integration with writing, art, technology, research, and communication. I copy the pages and put them in a math binder or folder. These are projects that the high ability studen
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1st - 2nd
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Drama Set Design The Rendering For Fairy Tale Grades 5 to 8
This theater arts lesson on the rendering of a set design will get you started on your set design unit. Students design a rendering for a fairy tale. A more complete lesson can be found at: Set Design the Rendering for Fairy Tale Tale Setting Included in the Lesson:• A short description of the definition of a rendering (found on the assignment sheet) • Source Page This is a time tested product from an award-winning veteran drama teacher of 38 years. If you'd like to teach the full unit on set
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Grades:
5th - 7th
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Also included in: Theater Arts Lessons Grades 5 to 7 Drama Curriculum
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