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Elementary critical thinking mental math projects for Microsoft Word
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
Primary GATE with Caldecott -- "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!" Mo Willems
Let’s have some fun along with the Pigeon and expand DOK along the way! This lesson will lead your primary GATE students through four challenging activities, culminating in an artistic response showing why they “never get to do anything!” either.
Gifted and talented learners carry similar characteristics throughout their lives—even as kindergarten and first graders. One common characteristic of gifted learners is a strong sense of justice. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus gives us a good o
Grades:
K - 3rd
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
The Cost of Growing Up: A career focused personal finance project
Recently reformatted as an editable Word document. This project allows students to individually research a future profession and walks them through the math to figure out a monthly paycheck. Once there, the students are able to research a home, car, and other necessities all while determining whether or not they will be able to afford them. This is a great project for those in the state of Georgia attempting to fulfill the fifth grade career requirement or anyone wanting to help give their stu
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4th - 8th
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Business Plan and Entrepreneurship Project for Elementary School
Overview: Students will develop and operate a business. Students will conduct market research, analyze the results, develop a business plan, and implement the business. After each day of operation, students will determine profits and losses based on their expenditures and sales. Students will graph and analyze the results to make decisions for their business.
The business described below was a “movie theater” my students ran during the last weeks of school. Students who earned the privi
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3rd - 5th
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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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K - 5th
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Going Commercial -- a GATE Unit for the 21st Century and the Common Core
Going Commercial is 100 pages of lessons and materials for the 21st Century Learner. It’s designed for 4th and 5th grade GATE students, but it is appropriate up through 8th and even 9th grade because of the nature of critical thinking and creativity involved.
This unit in its entirety will extend well beyond 20 classroom hours. You get lessons in economics, common core language and math activities, bunches of primary sources for best practices in social studies, public speaking opportunities,
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
STEM Kid Engineering -- Span the Gorge Secret Spy Adventure Challenge
In the Span the Gorge Secret Spy Adventure challenge, students launch their careers as secret spies and then solve an engineering challenge to save the day.
A vintage primary source postcard launches the mystery for our 21st Century Learners. Students will use logic interpretive skills (which include translating vintage cursive handwriting) and Internet and Computer Technology skills to “crack a code” and solve a mystery. Next, in a collaborative effort (Common Core skills in Language), stude
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Create your own genetically modified organism
Learning about Genetics? Try this fun extension about GMOs. Students will use this worksheet to create their own genetically modified organism. This project requires them to design the packaging for their innovative new item!
Grades:
5th - 6th
Third/Fourth Grade Invention Project
This project is for use with 2-5 grade students who are studying inventions or famous inventors. Students create their own invention, design an advertisement for it, and present it. The five-page packet is for students to use and plan their project - complete with rubric and schedule.
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2nd - 5th
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Complete T.U.S.C (TUSC) Book with Roles and Worksheets
Kids love TUSC! If you're struggling with where to start, look no further! This is a complete booklet and basically all you need to get started.
This booklet can be kept in a binder or duo-tang for students to use each week to prepare for their TUSC role.
There are 22 fully detailed roles in this book, with description and easy-to-use, scaffolded worksheets.
The document is also fully editable.
Enjoy and thanks for the look!
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4th - 7th
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SCAMPER Invention Project
This two page activity includes instructions, expectations, descriptions, and a rubric for a "SCAMPER" project. Students will use the "SCAMPER" process to invent a new product. This is editable so that it can be modified for your specific purpose and grade-appropriate activity.
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Cultural flag-start the year w/bright + positive reflections of your students!
…This common core rich, activity starts as a group collaboration, discussion, and quick presentation and ends with a student analyzing the factors that create his or her own unique culture. Students analyze and then synthesize the aspects that truly make up their culture....beyond just ethnicity. Student fills out a chart and reflects on individual aspects of his or her life. Then creates symbols to represent those ideas. Finally students create vivid and exciting cultural flags that will repr
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2nd - 10th
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Middle School Novel Project Packet with Common Core Alignment
This packet contains instructions for the teacher, 12 book project ideas including book report and alternatives, and 12 easy-to-follow rubrics to match the projects. Projects are great culminating tasks for literature/novel units, and the variety of presentation formats offered appeals to different modalities as well as multiple intelligences. Fourteen pages in all.
Middle School Book Project Packet by Valerie Shaw is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licen
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5th - 9th
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The Giver UDL Choice Board
I have created a Universal Design for Learning Choice Board for the novel "The Giver" by Lois Lowry. The students have the ability to choose the activities they want to complete for a total of 70 points. Activity #1: Create a Children’s Rule BookStudents will create a children’s book that would explain that rules of Jonas’ community to children.Activity #2: Character “I have a Dream” SpeechStudents will listen to Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech on the chrome books. Students wi
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5th - 8th
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Cribbage Investigation
Teaching students cribbage improves their mental math, problem solving and strategies. It also allows them to be social with peers and get involved with parents. When having students learn cribbage I made this research sheet. They had to finish the investigation to be allowed to play in our class cribbage tournament. It helped the students learn the terminology and rules so that the tournament could be played without having students lagging behind. Also included is a quiz that for the studen
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Grades:
4th - 12th
Friday Math -- Sports Pennants Geometry Design for 21st Century Learners
Powerful visual-mathematical connections with hands-on design challenges. . .
Everyone likes to cheer for someone, and the traditional pennant has been a mainstay of “fandom” for more than a century. Tried, tested, and refined with GATE nonverbal ability 4th and 5th graders, this lesson should be a hit with 6th grade, 7th grade (or beyond) too!
In this lesson, students use geometry, number sense, and measurement skills to design their own pennants. The keyword is PRECISION in these designs.
Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in: STEAM Class BUNDLE - Math Focus Hours of Hands-on Projects GATE Gifted
Summer Vacation: Planning with a Budget
Your students will love this activity so much, they won't want to leave for the summer!
This end-of-year activity incorporates the real-life skills of researching a vacation destination using an atlas & the internet, using math in everyday life, and working within a budget. The document includes a 6-page printable worksheet for your students & a bibliography of websites -- I linked these sites to my classroom computers, in order to give access to all & to save valuable search time
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3rd - 5th
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STEM Project - Create a Board Game
A complete STEM project package for upper primary to lower secondary school students. Included items:1. Assessment sheet detailing the project requirements2. Detailed rubric on for assessing 3. Individual design process booklet for students to complete4. Self assessment and peer evaluationCan be completed in groups or individually. Can easily be linked to any theme or topic you are studying! Alternatively, this could be set as long term homework project.Comes as a fully editable word document.
Grades:
4th - 9th
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HAIRY MONEY Activity! Great for visual learners or extension!
Great extension resource for the hairy money method! Can use this resource for a sub day, math center, or as an extension after reviewing the concept!Materials Needed:Copy of Hairy Money worksheetHole PuncherSmall Paper PlatesPipe Cleaners, Yarn, or RibbonTeacher TIP: Have the paper plates hole punched and put in separate piles first, before starting the activity. Have yarn, ribbon, or pipe cleaners precut before activity.
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1st - 6th
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Decade Delight - A Research Project for the Decades
This is a great way to get students to integrate writing and research into Social Studies. Students are divided into groups of 2-3, and given the attached packet. They are assigned a decade and will research it. They will not only fill out the packet, but also create posters and a presentation. Some presentations even include dances from the decade! Students are encouraged to dress the part as well for the presentation. It's a great way to build team working skills as well. Students really
Grades:
4th - 8th
Multi-Digit Multiplication Menu Project
If your students are like mine they love projects no matter what they are! This project allows them to use their creativity and show their math skills at the same time! This Multiplication Menu Project allows students to show their understanding of multi-digit multiplication. I had students complete this project after completing Chapter 2 and 3 of the Go Math curriculum. Students can complete independently or in groups/partners, that's up to you!
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3rd - 5th
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STEM Kid Engineering and Construction -- Air Rockets x 2
In the Air Rockets project, students build two different air rockets (one “blow rocket” and one rocket with a launching pad) using easy to find materials along with ready-to-print templates. Students build background knowledge about the properties of air and explore the differences between wings and rocket fins through class discussion, experimentation, and the use of a graphic organizer.
Appropriate for grades 3rd-6th—included all the instructions a teacher will need, ready-to-print templates
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Conducting a survey
This assignment is designed to walk students through how to conduct a survey and represent their findings in a bar graph. This ties in closely with the Ontario Math Curriculum for data management. Students come up with their own close ended survey questions, and conduct surveys among their classmates or other classes in the school.
The assignment outlines the steps to conducting a survey, provides a checklist for the students and for evaluation purposes, and a blank bar graph sheet.
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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