3rd grade specialty unit plans for Microsoft Word

Engineering, English Language Arts, Gifted and Talented

Every other teacher in your building probably has a handy curriculum to follow, a set of textbooks as resources . . . so why not you, the Gifted and Talented Teacher?Here is a complete first year GATE program adaptable to 3rd or 4th grades--all tried and tested, Common Core Standards based, and successfully implemented using best practices in gifted education.SEE THE BIG PREVIEW FOR MORE -- 33% off Individual Purchase PricesYou get 263 pages of materials guaranteed to produce 45+ hours of contac

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 4th

Types:

Unit Plans, GATE

Start Your Own School Newspaper and Newspaper Club

Created by

Reach for the Stars

Starting your own school newspaper isn't difficult. I've run (and created) our school newspaper for three years. This document has most of the materials you'll need for set-up. The newspaper club in my school was open to fifth grade students and printed copies were distributed in the school to faulty, staff, classroom libraries, school common areas, and to the newspaper club members. Our newspaper is usually 12 pages long and we use Microsoft Publisher to create it. ****If the file shows the

Subjects:

For All Subjects, Vocational Education, Writing-Expository

Grades:

3rd - 6th, Staff

Types:

Projects, Unit Plans, Activities

Creative Curriculum Trees Study Visuals

Created by

Caputo's Crew

28 Pages of Visuals for the Creative Curriculum "Trees" study. It starts with Large images of trees, parts of trees, things made out of trees, etc.. to print out for around the room. Then the rest of the document is smaller pictures for you to show on a SMARTboard as question of the day or print out.Visuals range from types trees, images to help identify different kinds of trees, parts of a tree, things made out of wood, and then questions of the day about things that come from trees and animal

Subjects:

Child Care, Earth Sciences, Environment

Grades:

PreK - 6th

Types:

Unit Plans, Thematic Unit Plans, Printables

Moonshot by Brian Floca Apollo 11 PRIMARY GATE Lessons -- Rocket Model

Created by

Close Reading, Gifted and Talented, Informational Text

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

Subjects:

Grades:

1st - 3rd

Types:

CCSS:

2.MD.D.10

, RL.3.4

, RI.1.3

, RI.1.7

, RI.2.1

...

Also included in: Kindergarten and 1st Grade GATE Bundle - Gifted and Talented and Advanced

Elementary Floor Hockey Unit (Grades K-6)

Created by

Court's PE Corner

This is a comprehensive Floor Hockey Unit for students in Kindergarten to grade six. The skills focused on in this unit include stick-handling, passing, and shooting; as well as a focus on the rules and game play associated with the game. Over this 6 lesson unit students will increase their skill set while playing one of their favorite games!

Subjects:

Physical Education

Grades:

K - 7th

Types:

Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Tools for Common Core

Grade 3 Ontario Curriculum Language 2023 Lesson Plans A-D (55+ Lesson Plans)

Created by

Kevin Scott

Streamline your Grade 3 Language teaching with our comprehensive lesson plans aligned to the Ontario Curriculum. This resource pack includes:Example Long-Range Plan: Organize your year effectively with an overview of Grade 3 language expectations.Lesson Plan for Each Specific Expectation: Detailed plans for strands A to D, covering all areas of language learning.Learning Goals and Success Criteria: Measure progress and guide student understanding.Assignment and Rubric for Each Lesson: Assess stu

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd

Types:

Unit Plans, Assessment, Lesson

Primary GATE with Caldecott COLLECTION - 180 pages - 7 Books!

Created by

Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Literature

Your primary kids will love these lessons! You save a bundle: 33% off individual purchases! I teach 30-45 minute groups once a week of 1st and 2nd graders all year, and this collection is more than enough to get me through an entire school year of groups. I can’t absolutely guarantee it will do the same for you, but it’s going to be very close if it doesn’t . . . You’ll see best practices in gifted education throughout. You’ll see many graphic organizers, age-appropriate and challenging cr

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

For All Subject Areas, Life Skills, Special Education

Unique Learning System Daily Lesson Data

Created by

Missi Wolfe

To use in conjunction with Unique Learning System and N2Y curriculum. File is currently set up for Middle School grade band, but is fully editable and can me adapted to each of the grade bands.

Subjects:

Grades:

PreK - 12th

Types:

Unit Plans, Assessment, Classroom Forms

Road Trip Adventure PROJECT BASED LEARNING for GATE and 3rd - 8th Grades

Created by

English Language Arts, Geography, Gifted and Talented

Come along on a fun project-based adventure as students practice different forms of writing, geography skills, computer and internet technology skills, engineering and design skills, math skills, public speaking, creativity, and art. Here is your Gold Medal Standard project based learning unit ready to go. Because this project-based unit relies heavily on student creativity and invention, the key knowledge, understanding, and success skills can be scaffolded across many grade levels. This un

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 8th

Types:

Projects, Unit Plans, GATE

CCSS:

5.NBT.B.7

, 4.NF.B.4

, 5.NF.A.2

, RI.5.1

, W.5.2

...

Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted

Entrepreneur Project- DIY: Open for Business

Created by

Maguire's Lessons

Entrepreneur Project- DIY (Do It Yourself) Open for Business: is multi-step, long term economics project for students of all abilities and varied grade levels to learn how to form a small business and become young entrepreneurs. Students of all ages are very aware of the hard economic times that many are experiencing in the country, in their neighborhoods and even in their own homes. This project allows students to see that with creativity, ingenuity, organization, hard work, dedication, m

Subjects:

Business, Economics , Math

Grades:

2nd - 12th

Types:

Unit Plans, Thematic Unit Plans, Centers

3rd Grade Common Core Lesson Plan Template with Drop-down Boxes

Created by

Germain Teachers

A lesson plan template for creating unit or chapter plans that are aligned to the Common Core Standards. This lesson plan format has all ELA and Math standards for third grade available to select from in a single drop down box saving time to search for and type in standards. This format will make you look great to your administrator! Included is a drop down list of Bloom's Taxonomy descriptive verbs to easily identify student learning objectives. Standards for Mathematical Practice and ELA Anch

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Math, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

3rd

Types:

Unit Plans, Classroom Forms, Lesson

Little Island Primary Gifted and Talented Social-Emotional Values and Identity

Created by

English Language Arts, Gifted and Talented, Literature

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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Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Computer Science - Technology, For All Subjects, Gifted and Talented

CCSS:

RL.2.1

, RL.2.2

, RL.2.7

, RL.3.4

Also included in: 4th 5th +more COMPLETE PROGRAM Bundle Gifted and Talented GATE 400 pages 46% off

Computer Coding with Scratch 3.0 Computer Coding | Unit 1

Created by

Zachary Trautwein

THIS IS A LIVING BUNDLE! This bundle is starting at 5 products but will grow to be a total of 12 PRODUCTS + BONUS MATERIAL! Buy it for a discounted price now!Future items will be placed in the bundle and available for you to download FOR FREE once you purchase. This Scratch 3.0 Computer Coding bundle include my first unit of Scratch 3.0 coding lessons. In the future there will be more available units covering more advanced coding and programming concepts such as controlling the LEGO EV3 platfor

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Grades:

1st - 8th

Types:

AIR -- An Incredibly Cool STEAM Unit for Upper Elementary!

Created by

Engineering, Gifted and Talented, Physical Science

Balloon cars, hovercrafts, gliders, prototypes, zip-lines and air rockets, helicopters and more . . . Here is a full unit with more than 20 hours of critical thinking and hands-on activities designed specifically for all 21st Century Learners and nonverbally gifted learners. STEM teachers: this unit guides students through the engineering process time and time again—elementary style! Not only is this unit packed with critical thinking opportunities and rich in deeper understanding of physica

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Unit Plans, GATE, Lesson

Also included in: Gifted and Talented SURVIVAL KIT Bundle -- 235 pages, big discount!

Dance Dance Dance!

Created by

Court's PE Corner

Have fun teaching dance to any age group! This booklet provides the K-12 teacher different types of dances that are not only easy to do and teach, but fun as well! This booklet also has fun creative dance ideas and alternatives to dance that will help you meet curriculum requirements! Dances included are Roger Robot, the Hamsterdance, Swing, Gangnam Style, Don't Mind, JuJu on that Beat, Circle Dances, and others!. Also included are rubrics to help grading the older students in dances like swing

Subjects:

Dance, Physical Education

Grades:

K - 12th

Types:

Teacher Manuals, Unit Plans

Locomotive by Brian Floca - Primary GATE Unit with Caldecott STEAM!

Created by

Close Reading, Gifted and Talented, U.S. History

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

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 4th

Types:

Computer Science - Technology, Social Studies - History, Tools for Common Core

CCSS:

3.MD.B.3

, RL.2.7

, RL.3.1

, RL.3.4

, RL.3.7

...

Inventions and Inventors: How Technology Changes Over Time

Created by

Quality Counts

This is an OUTSTANDING unit on inventions and inventors. It is a 24+ page reosurce with detailed lesson plans, technology integration links, and student worksheets and handouts (including a parent letter and guidelines on how to set up the end of unit Invention Convention). Download the preview file to see a sample of both the lesson plans and some student worksheets. It is scheduled to last for 8-10 weeks. It is adaptable from 2nd-5th grade with the best age range being in 3rd or 4th. The uni

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Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

STEM Kid Constructions -- Rubber Band Swing Ride

Created by

Engineering, Gifted and Talented, Math

Another STEM unit that is very popular with my students. We teachers are a sneaky sort, though . . . because this unit is packed with challenging critical thinking activities, math, physics, and engineering—even a GATE social-emotional lesson. If you’ve purchased any of my STEM design lessons and units before, you know what to expect. If you have not, please read the reviews! Use this for your advanced groups, or send students off on an independent investigation. Level: Extra challenging f

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 7th

Types:

Unit Plans, GATE, Lesson

CCSS:

, 6.G.A.1

Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE

Teaching Elementary PE - Not Just Games, But Sports!

Created by

Koko's PE Store

This is a comprehensive, 55 page document that gives the buyer seven complete units of PE sports. This includes: volleyball, basketball, badminton, handball, track and field, golf and baseball/softball. Each unit is set for ten lessons giving you SEVENTY days of PE classes covering the seven sports above. The great part is all of these sports are part of Jr. High athletic programs so you will be doing those schools and your students a huge favour by giving them this headstart in athletics!

Subjects:

Coaching, Health, Physical Education

Grades:

PreK - 12th

Types:

Oral Communication, Reading, Writing

Common Core lesson plan - point of view using Fairy Tales

Created by

Kmoore

This 5+ day lesson plan is designed to help classroom teachers teach to multiple Common Core standards at once. Using the recipricol nature of reading and writing teachers can use two versions of The Three Little Pigs and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs to work through multiple common core standards. This lesson plan can last 5 or more days in both a reading and writing workshop based classroom. Graphic organizers used are Venn diagram and/or T-chart. These are not included as they are t

Subjects:

Grades:

1st - 3rd

Types: