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6th grade social studies posters for Microsoft Word and for GATE
The Arrival by Shaun Tan -- 100+ Page Unit and Teacher's Guide GATE
Yes, we can teach reading, writing, speaking and listening, and critical thinking skills using this amazing graphic novel which has no “words!” It’s a journey about who we are, where we have come from, and the humanity we share. It’s about hope and love and understanding. At times powerful, at times breathtakingly beautiful . . . Shaun Tan’s The Arrival should be on every bookshelf in every classroom.This 100+ page teaching guide and unit has been developed over the past three years in my adv
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5th - 12th
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STEM Kid Engineering for GATE -- FERRIS WHEELS plus Primary Sources
In this GATE engineering journey, students will each construct a very cool Ferris wheel prototype as a final product. Along the way, they will examine primary source images, read primary source history, and integrate math, engineering, and economics in a learning process which incorporates best practices in gifted and talented education for 21st Century Learners.
This is a challenging engineering project—teacher guided. I used it for GATE 4th grade; however, my kids are experienced builders.
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
Reconstruction Amendments Project
Students will create a poster informing formerly enslaved people of their newly gained rights in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. I have included 15 guiding questions and websites for research. An answer key and rubric are included. Please message me if you have any questions.⭐ Engaging and fun project!⭐ No Textbook Required!⭐ Student-Friendly Websites⭐ Editable Word Document⭐ Explicit Student Directions ⭐ The project requires a poster board or an 8 1/2 X 14 sheet of paper.
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5th - 9th
Also included in: American History Projects (US History Projects)
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
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
Biography Research Poster
This poster can be used to create a snapshot of a person's life after a biography research project is complete. After students research someone in history, have them complete this poster to present their research.Or, this can be used to highlight any person and not just one from history.Feel free to change it to suit your needs as it is in a word document.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
History Projects-26 total with Detailed Rubrics-Any Area/Grade of History
This is for 26 different project ideas to do with any level/grade and any subject history class. Each project has in depth rubric to go along with the directions. I have done all of these with my students in both Middle and High School and have had great success. I love that they can work for any class and any grade level.
I sell each of these assignments separately in my store, so this is a huge discount versus buying each one individually. Also if you would like to see each item before buyin
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5th - 12th
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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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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
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
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
STEAMy GATE 4th 5th 6th PYRAMIDS Unit
Very STEAMy with reading and writing, too! This unit is loaded with higher order thinking tasks, variety across the curriculum, creative responses, and hands-on learning through building and design. It’s the same sort of stuff you’re used to seeing here, and your kids will love it!
• Level—4th through 6th grade GATE
• Time—about 15 hours
• Materials—start saving cardboard!
Craft sticks and tape or low temp hot glue. Otherwise, common classroom materials.
You’ll get explanations, teacher
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4th - 7th
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Features of the Ocean Floor Creative Illustration Activity
Wish I would have thought of this idea years ago because I always had a hard time teaching the features of the ocean floor without it being boring. Hope you enjoy! Did it this year for the first time-loved the results. 11/11/2015
Includes very creative ideas for visuals relevant to each feature of the ocean floor...For example, students may draw NEMO going to touch the "butt" (boat) at the drop off (continental slope)
I have provided several very cool examples for each feature of the ocean fl
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1st - 6th
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Leadership, Identity, Cultural Relevance -- Two GATE Social-Emotional Lessons
Here we have two GATE social-emotional lessons promoting self-understanding, cultural relevancy, and leadership. These lessons correspond to the National Association for Gifted Children’s programming standards 1.1, 3.3, and 3.5.Does your school district/state require gifted learners to complete an Advanced Learning Plan? These activities will help provide background as students make plans and set goals for the aspects of their lives they value the most. File these activities away, add them to
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3rd - 8th
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The Water Cycle Worksheet and Answers
This activity works well when projected onto a whiteboard and writing in the answers together with the class while discussing the purpose of each part of the Water Cycle. Answer sheet is included.
Activity can also be used for assessment of knowledge of the Water Cycle.
Answers sheet can be printed out and used as a poster for the classroom.
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Paleolithic Era vs. Neolithic Era Project
This assignment gives you all you need in order to give your students a project comparing/contrasting people of the Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras. I have used the resources as follows:1. Use the info reading article to introduce (or review) information from these eras, and complete article questions.2. Using the reading and prior knowledge, have students fill out the comparison chart (be brief, key included) – this will be the key part of the info gathering for the project!3. Follow the checkl
Grades:
5th - 10th
Industrial Era and Gilded Age Project (Robber Barons or Captains of Industry)
A social studies project where students will research and investigate various entrepreneurs from the Industrial Era or Gilded Age to determine whether they were Robber Barons or Captains of Industry. Through this student centered project, students will practice research skills and then using that information to make their own determination of an essential question, "Were the biggest entrepreneurs of the late 19th and early 20th century robber barons or captains of industry?" Students will work
Grades:
6th - 12th
Primary Sources - Ferris Wheels from the Renaissance to 1893
It’s best practices in history and social studies!
This lesson bundle includes the primary sources lessons from the unit, STEM Kid Engineering—Ferris Wheels. In the full unit, students construct a cool Ferris wheel prototype. That full unit is available in my store.
In this series of primary sources lessons, students will examine several primary source images, read primary source history, and integrate math and economics in a learning process which incorporates best practices in gifted and tal
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4th - 8th
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Create Your Own Map! Project & Rubric
In this project students get to become Map Makers! They use their knowledge of Maps to create their own unique map. Included in this product is a "Creating a Map: Rubric", a "Map Brainstorming & Planning Sheet", project directions for students to follow, and photos of students' work to use as a guide/example. This product was made in a Microsoft Word document and is easy to edit in order to meet your individual classroom needs. 5 Essentials of a map include (in no particular order):1. Title
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4th - 7th
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13 Colonies Poster Project
Includes are the directions AND grading rubric for a poster project I did with my 8th grade. It's very involved and I've made it a word document download so that you can modify as needed. A great way to assess learning/use as a summative assignment!
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6th - 8th
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American Revolution Propaganda Poster Project
This project is designed to go with the events/causes leading up to the American Revolution. Along with the directions is a rubric I designed that was formed for this project. The students are to design a creative propaganda poster depicting one of the key events/causes of the American Revolution to try and persuade an audience of what occurred. Use your knowledge of propaganda during the Revolution to assist you in explaining this to the students.
Grades:
5th - 11th
Primary Sources Collection -- Complete Lessons with All You Need! 144 Pages
Best practices in history and 21st Century learning through primary sources, the Common Core, critical thinking, expository writing, public speaking, creative projects—they’re all here!THIS IS A VERY POPULAR, SOMEWHAT SMALLER, VERSION OF AN EVEN LARGER BUNDLE.You get five sets of bundled primary sources lessons—145 pages of lessons and materials in all—and a nice savings over buying the bundles individually. Each activity comes with explanations, guides, ready-to-print activity sheets, graphic
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4th - 12th
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Primary Sources: Propaganda and Vintage Posters
Best practices in history through primary sources, critical thinking with logic and inferences, expository writing, 21st Century Learning, more than a dozen standards from the Common Core, and creative extensions – all in one lesson!
In this lesson, students learn student-friendly propaganda technique definitions using “picture-notes”—an effective note-taking technique that fosters the visual-language connection. Depth of knowledge increases as students examine primary source posters and apply
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4th - 12th
Family History Project and Rubric
Parents and students both enjoy working on this project! This project will help students put their Social Studies and ELA skills to work by creating a map and key, writing captions under pictures, and writing a personal narrative about their family tree. Finally, they will put everything together on a poster board and present to the class. You will enjoy learning all about your students and their families. You will receive the requirement page, example of a finished project, and a rubric for
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Building Study Visuals
33 Pages of Visuals for the Creative Curriculum "Buildings" study. It starts with Large images of buildings to print out for around the room. Then the rest of the document is smaller pictures for you to show on a SMARTboard or print out. Visuals range from local type buildings, to iconic buildings found around the world, and them tools and building supplies.
Grades:
PreK - 6th
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
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