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5th grade specialty projects for Microsoft Word
Table-top Mini Golf: STEAM Engineering and Design for Elementary GATE
In From Putt-putt to Pebble Beach--Table-top Mini Golf, students will design and construct a playable table-top sized miniature golf course using the engineering design process. With these lessons, the teacher defines the problem, helps students gather background research, and specifies the requirements. The students do the rest: creating alternative solutions, choosing the best solution, doing development work, building a prototype, and testing and redesigning. The result is a classroom filled
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
MOCK TRIAL! - The Guide, Rubrics, and Handouts to the Ultimate Project
Would you like to see your students rise to the highest of expectations? Watch your students transform into lawyers pushing the envelope of persuasion, witnesses carefully building a case, or judge/jury to conduct it fairly and appropriately. Do you want to have some of the most fun in your teaching life? Then purchase this Word document - easily my most downloaded and highly rated product - and customize it for your students and the trial of your choice. There are role descriptions and customiz
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Math Project-Create Own Dream Home-Blueprints and Floor Plan (perimeter & area)
Create blueprints and/or floor plans for your own dream home!!
Your little architects will love dreaming big with this project. Using their imaginations and graph paper, they will create their own blueprints.They will be learning area, measurement and perfecting those problem solving and critical thinking skills. The bonus is they won't even know it because they will be having fun.
This project is very "real life" oriented.
For the younger grades this would be better for the GT students. Or
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
Start Your Own School Newspaper and Newspaper Club
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
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3rd - 6th, Staff
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Fun Persuasive Writing Project - Food Product Sales Pitch Presentation
This is a fun persuasive writing project aimed at middle school students. It involves several parts. First, students must develop an original food product. Then, students will write a persuasive letter convincing a food company to produce their product (a template is provided). Next, students will design a 2-D or 3-D model of their food product packaging. Lastly, students will create a two-minute oral sales pitch aimed at pitching their product to a food manufacturing company. Students use
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Grades:
5th - 10th
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Computer Science: Computer Programming "Angry Birds Game" Editable Resource
Greetings,I would like to thank you so very much for viewing this product. Out of all the Computer Science resources I have created, this Unplugged Coding Activity is one of my all time favorites.So you want to teach young scholars how to write lines of code? Look no further. What better way to introduce them to Computer Programming than empowering them to use their imagination to create their very own video game.Using the Angry Birds' theme, scholars are given a variety of tasks and challeng
Grades:
1st - 12th, Adult Education
Social Stories for Students with Autism: School Behaviors
Enjoy this super pack of social stories! This is a collection of 22 social stories about common problems related to appropriate school behaviors.
The stories included are:
1. Complete Work Quickly
2. Good Sitting
3. How to Start Work By Myself
4. Keep Shoes On
5. Leaving the Classroom
6. Listening While Others Are Reading
7. Quiet Please
8. School Assemblies
9. School Holidays
10. Staying Where My Teacher Tells Me
11. Taking Tests
12. Touching
13. Use My Words
14. Waiting
15.
Grades:
PreK - 8th
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STEAM DaVinci Renaissance Style: A Unit for Elementary GATE
In STEM Renaissance Style, students will follow the engineering process as they return to the 16th Century. With these lessons, the teacher defines the problem, helps students gather background research, and specifies the requirements. The students do the rest: creating alternative solutions, choosing the best solution, doing development work, building a prototype, and testing and redesigning.
Students construct a prototype of Da Vinci’s parachute while learning about falling objects, gravity,
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
Grant: Winning Proposal for LEGO Mindstorm Robotics Kits
This is a winning grant proposal to purchase LEGO Mindstorm Invention System robotics kits to use for science, physics, technology and engineering activities. A state electrical cooperation awarded $1500.00 for this grant in 2002. This proposal is customizable and can be adjusted to compensate for the variations in prices and costs of the equipment so please adjust this grant as you see necessary to meet your project needs. The customizable parts of this proposal are highlighted in yellow. The R
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Grades:
4th - 12th
SHARK TANK Economics Pitches Prototypes PROJECT BASED PBL GATE
Welcome to the shark tank project-based learning unit. Let’s begin our entrepreneurial careers today!
Build critical thinking skills, public speaking success, and bring creativity, language arts, and economics into your classroom in a purposeful and authentic way.
Students will work in collaborative teams to solve a complex, ongoing, inquiry-based problem with a physical product for an authentic audience:
• Brainstorm a product, citing a need that will be fulfilled.
• Construct a prototyp
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
Real World Project: Game of Life
The seven day unit allows students the opportunity to use math, reading, writing and problem solving skills to complete a real world project. Students will be given a career and a budget to buy groceries, pay for gas, buy a car, find a place to rent, and more. Students will also find out that life throws them speed bumps and will have to use money from their budget to pay for these unforeseen expenses. There are writing prompts to get students thinking about how these skills will apply to them a
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5th - 9th
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House floor plan design project
Students use math and design skills to create their own home floor plan
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Daily Routine Visuals for Students with Autism
This packet includes various daily routine visuals. Students with autism struggle with receptive and expressive language abilities. Providing students with autism visuals helps them to express their needs/wants and understand their environments.
Students in a special education or in a general education classroom can benefit from these visuals.
These visuals can also be used various schedules in the classroom and on student specific schedules.
Print, laminate, cut out, and use!
This packet i
Grades:
PreK - 8th
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French Public Speaking Speeches - Discours d'art oratoire UNIT
6 week-long fun unit that keeps your students busy and talking French!
This unit walks you and your students through the process of:
- choosing a topic for their speech
- researching their topic
- writing their speech
- revising and correcting their speech
- writing cue-cards
- memorizing their speech
- presenting their speech in front of the class
- choosing two class winners.
*** Word document, allowing you to adapt/adjust to your classroom needs and routines.
I have used this unit in Grade
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Grades:
4th - 12th
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Future City Project - MYP Rubrics IB Stem Tech Design Cycle
The Future City Project is a perfect project for students to show off their design skills.This project is geared towards students between 5th and 8th grade, and focuses on using the design cycle - RESEARCH, PLANNING, CREATING, EVALUATING - to create a future city that solves contemporary problems.8-11 Work PeriodsThis project includes:-A full project plan from start to finish-Lesson plans for each task-x5 Printable assignments-x4 Printable MYP IB rubrics-Extension ideas to further challenge and
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Design Unit and Project Bundle Grades 4-6, MYP IB Compatible Rubrics
Research Project Planning Packet
This research packet can be used as a whole for any major research project to help students plan their project and budget their time, or parts of it can be used for individual research lessons or short-term assignments. The teacher needs to walk through every part of this packet in order to teach students the various aspects of planning a successful research project and citing their sources.
p. 1 – The Research Planning page is for students to record their research topic and begin to organize t
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5th - 8th
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Carnival Game Economics PBL Project-Based Learning GATE
Smaller tasks add up to big, big learning with this gold medal standard project-based learning activity! What a sneaky cool way to learn math, economics, and functional design! (Insert evil teacher laugh.) It’s a hands-on approach to Common Core Standards.
In Carnival Game Economics, students design a carnival skill game and gather data as junior market researchers during the test phase. They’ll use this data to help make decisions. After making calculations for probability, students will
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Grades:
4th - 7th
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented SURVIVAL KIT Bundle -- 235 pages, big discount!
Road Trip Adventure PROJECT BASED LEARNING for GATE and 3rd - 8th Grades
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
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
STEM Kid Engineering and Construction -- Hoop and Launcher Game GATE
Kid-built in a few hours . . . this 7 inch tall basketball hoop can be assembled and re-assembled. We’re not going to toss a ball to make baskets with this project. Oh, no . . . we are making a little catapult to launch marshmallows at the hoop! Oh, yes! Sweet!
Use this building project as a challenging independent study for upper elementary, as a whole-class engineering project, or use it to make math and science applications like percentages, measurements and geometry, action/reaction, tr
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Organ Wanted Project - Body Systems - Organs, Diseases
INCLUDES: Poster Rubric, Student Information Sheet, Student Directions/Checklist, Student PosterStudents are to create a poster based on individual research of specific organs.Can be used as a Summative Assessment or Extra Credit Project.
Community Service Project
Students plan and carry out their own community service project to learn how to be a part of a community. Students learn that even though they are young, they can be a valuable asset within their city. Students complete forms to help them plan, carry out, and reflect on their service projects.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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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
News report and Newscast Project
In this project, students select local news, world news, sports or weather as their focus. They they self direct their research with teacher support and graphic organizers to help guide them. They then write a news story and participate in a newscast. I had the students use iMovie to create their finished newscast, but it is not required. Students can perform their newscast in front of the class. My students loved this activity and I loved that it hit individual interests, but also had the
Grades:
4th - 8th
KEVA Planks STEM Activities
This is a set of 4 different activities that your class can do in groups with KEVA planks, KEVA balls (or ping pong balls), and connectors. Each page is set to print just a couple times so you have one for each group. 4 activities are Motion, Inclined Plane, Dominoes, and Wall Bounce.
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Grades:
K - 5th
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