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Martin Luther King Day creative writing resources for GATE under $5
Descriptive Writing Unit - Low-Prep Lesson Plans, Prompts, Sensory Word Lists
This descriptive writing mini unit is super quick to teach and will improve your students' descriptive writing instantly with descriptive writing prompts, sensory word lists, and more! It's got an engaging descriptive writing lesson plan that will launch your students into fabulous descriptive writing so they show, not tell, in addition to other resources you'll return to again and again. In this descriptive writing mini unit, you'll find graphic organizers that will support all learners, with t
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4th - 7th
A Recipe for Writing a Sonnet (like Shakespeare)
This is a graphic organizer that allows your students to write sonnets that are amazing. I have used this in both a Gifted 4th and 5th grade, and a regular 5th grade and the results were amazing in both. This clearly lays everything out...topic and structure. It can be used all the way up to high school!
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4th - 12th
Black History STEM Activities Civil Rights and February Stem Design Challenge
STEM challenge activities are so much fun. But, finding the time to incorporate design challenges into your curriculum can be difficult. The Civil Rights Monument Design Challenge is part of the STEM with CLOSE READING series. It seamlessly allows you to tie together the curriculum by giving you rigorous text dependent questions that go with a high interest reading passage in addition to the fun STEM activity! Use your creativity to honor our civil rights heroes and let the STEM adventure be
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3rd - 6th
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Halloween Writing Prompts - Creepy Quick Writes - Quick Writing Prompts
Ever heard your students say, “I don’t know what to write”? These quick write visual writing prompts are going to make your teacher heart happy! These creepy, spooky, and otherworldly visual writing prompts are perfect for Halloween activities and all of October! The purpose of these writing prompts is to get students’ creative juices flowing! The goal is to build writing fluency and creativity, so students get used to writing right away, without worrying about whether their grammar is correct,
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4th - 7th
Halloween Math Project Haunted House Estate - October Project Based Learning
Don't get "SPOOKED" with this bewitching Halloween Project Based Learning math unit. This PBL unit involves planning a HAUNTED HOUSE ESTATE SALE. Your students will love using their math and problem-solving skills as they work with decimals, word problems, and writing. This haunted house Halloween math project is a real-world challenge that requires students to use inquiry, critical thinking, and creative minds. During the high-interest cross-curricular [math, ELA] activities, you can play spook
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3rd - 5th
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Creative Writing Create a Comic Book Hero Activities 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th
Telling students they're going to do "creative writing" can result in panic. Not with this fun lesson that has great graphics, fabulous graphic organizers, and an engaging partner activity.This lesson is made up of three activities that culminate in the students' creating a comic book. Students will work together to learn a variety of character traits to use to create a comic book hero. Then they will imagine how this champion could save the world. Finally, students will use illustrations and sp
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4th - 8th
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More Than A Scribble: A Creative Drawing Activity for Gifted & Talented Students
This activity promotes creative thinking as students transform scribble lines into ART! There are four pages of scribbles (24 total). In addition, there are ideas for extension activities in Reading, Science, and Social Studies!This is a great task for centers or early finishers!
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PreK - 6th
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Creative Writing Prompts - Journal Prompts using Poetry & Song Lyrics Task Cards
Use these poetry snippets & song lyrics as journal prompts to inspire creative writing and storytelling. These journal and creative writing prompts help to demystify poetry and show students that they can draw inspiration anywhere. They also make for a great writing activity during National Poetry Month (or any time of year)! Use these poetry task cards as bellringers, journal prompts, a creative writing station, or for small-group inspiration. Daily exposure to poetry through these journal
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7th - 10th
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Birthday Depth and Complexity Activities Low-Prep Social Emotional Learning
Who doesn't love a birthday? This super fun set of Birthday Depth and Complexity activities offers low-prep and no-prep printables perfect for any day of the year. Six different activities offer a range of opportunities to learn while celebrating birthdays.✨✨This Depth and Complexity Birthday print-and-go set of activities can be done on one day or spaced out over time (no need to wait for a birthday!). The activities are geared to fourth through seventh grade students (or high-ability 3rd grade
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4th - 7th
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Halloween & Fall S.C.A.M.P.E.R
This product contains 12 different S.C.A.M.P.E.R. templates for the following:Pumpkin PatchWitch's Broom Haunted HouseJack-O-LanternCandy CornTrick-Or-TreatScarecrowApple PieCorn MazeHayrideThanksgiving DinnerCandy Apple+ Create Your OwnEACH template comes with 4 different creative thinking questions to spark critical thinking and unique answers around the specific topic that is being scampered!
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K - 12th
Also included in: S.C.A.M.P.E.R The School Year BUNDLE
February Writing Journal and Task Cards
This printable journal with 30 seasonal topics is a perfect addition to your writing curriculum or work on writing center. Looking at a big blank piece of paper can be really intimidating to a young writer. These pages are perfectly sized and designed to be inviting and interesting for your first, second, and third graders.
Print as few or as many pages as you'd like then staple together and you're set for the month! You can also print one topic at a time instead of using as a journal. Also inc
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1st - 5th
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The Mysteries of Harris Burdick - Inferring Lesson
Are you working on inferring with your students? Use an exciting, mysterious book to help them practice utilizing their inferring skills!
This lesson should be used after students after learned some about inferring. It is a great way to practice what they've learned.
The book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, features interesting and strange illustrations with elusive titles and lines. In this lesson plan, you will walk through the book with your class, and then have them infer what Harris Bu
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3rd - 8th
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CaptionThis! Christmas Divergent Thinking Gifted & Talented Early Finishers
These Christmas themed Caption This... tasks are perfect extension activities for gifted students. These tasks focus on the divergent thinking higher order and creative thinking skills. Gifted students thrive on daily challenge, and are often deep thinkers. With Google Slides, PowerPoint and task cards in both colour and ink saving black and white they are sure to save teacher lots of time preparing enrichment activities for their gifted and talented students. Great for early finishers!Check out
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Not Grade Specific
STEM STEAM Challenge: Martin Luther King Jr. Edition "I Have a Dream" Challenge
With young students, a balance scale is a great way to physically demonstrate what equality looks like. Using one to balance two different colored cubes can be a great discussion starter for sharing Dr. King's famous dream. In this challenge, students will design, construct, and test their own balance scales using some simple, every day objects.
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-ch
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1st - 4th
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Genius Hour Passion Projects | Real World Writing PBL | Grade 4th 5th 6th
This real world mini ELA genius hour passion project, provides students with the chance to research and share their knowledge of an interesting topic with the class. It has been designed for students in grades 3 to 6. Now suitable for home and distance learning with PDF and Google slides.Each English project is designed to run between 3-5 lessons depending on how much time you wish to allocate to the tasks. The projects are easy to follow and can either be teacher run or student driven. Have stu
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: ELA PBL | Real World Writing Projects Growing BUNDLE!
Halloween Critical & Creative Thinking
Keep your students engaged all month long with hair raising riddles, spooky logic problems, and eerie transformations.In this resource you will find logic and word play to keep your students engaged during the month of October. Please look at the preview to see if this would be challenging (too much or too little) for your students. There are a variety of activities as it is designed with the K-6 Gifted and Talented teacher in mind but includes multiple activities that can span all of K-6.There
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K - 6th
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Daily Quick Writes - Visual and Engaging Writing Prompts | Set 2
These quick write visual writing prompts are going to make your teacher heart happy! Included are 20 high-interest images and variety of prompts that will have your students begging for more time to write!The purpose of these writing prompts is to get students’ imagination flowing! The goal is to build writing fluency and creativity, so students get used to writing right away without worrying about whether their grammar is correct, completing the piece, or even if they love their ideas. Every 2
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4th - 7th
Christmas & Winter S.C.A.M.P.E.R
This product contains 12 different S.C.A.M.P.E.R. templates for the following:snowmanSnow globeSledUgly SweaterMistletoeCandy CaneGingerbread HouseChristmas TreeNutcrackerWreath Christmas LightsStocking+ Create Your OwnEACH template comes with 4 different creative thinking questions to spark creative/critical thinking and unique answers around the specific topic that is being scampered!
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K - 12th
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Also included in: S.C.A.M.P.E.R The School Year BUNDLE
Nonfiction Mysteries and Creative Writing Activities + Vocabulary in Context
In this creative writing activity, students draw inspiration from a nonfiction article about ten real-world maritime mysteries! Students choose one as inspiration for a piece of Flash Fiction. This is a great reading comprehension and creative writing activity for even the most reluctant readers! ✅ Nonfiction reading comprehension✅ Vocabulary in context✅ Differentiated creative writing activitiesYour Creative Writing from Nonfiction resource includes:Nonfiction reading about ten maritime mysteri
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7th - 10th
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Thinking Activities for Early Finishers Language Arts Brain Busters Grades 3-5
This collection of 65 brain teasers incorporate Blooms Taxonomy and creative and critical thinking. These anchor pursuits are for students of mixed abilities - including the gifted and talented. They can be cut and pasted into a spiral notebook or journal. Our young scholars can skip around through pages of tasks to revisit and generate more ideas, days later. Another option is to have students choose one activity at a time which is always helpful when there is a substitute.Finding meanin
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3rd - 5th
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Potato Chip Advertisement and taste testing project, taste test, PBL
Project based learning at it's best!This Potato Chip Advertisement Project Resource is packed full of fun activities that will keep your kiddos engaged while practicing and extending their skills.This resource includes engaging activities geared towards the upper elementary and intermediate student. The activities can be used stand alone in centers, teacher and small group, or for a full-blown classroom transformation. I added a few more “props” like aprons and chef hats and and they absolutely
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3rd - 6th
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Squiggle Stories! A Creative Writing Activity
Squiggle is a fun, no-prep, creative writing activity that is differentiated for many different grade levels, while still being engaging and teaching important writing standards and skills.Squiggle is a fun and engaging creative writing activity that you will love as much as your students! Every time I use this activity, my students get so excited about it and beg to do it again and again! The nature of the lesson (using a squiggle to draw an illustration and using that as the basis of an origin
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2nd - 5th
Christmas Creative & Critical Thinking Frenzy
Keep your students engaged all month long with jolly word play and merry and bright brainteasers. In this resource you will find logic and word play to keep your students engaged during the month of December. Please look at the FULL preview to see if this would be challenging (too much or too little) for your students. There are a variety of activities (at different grade levels) as it is designed with the K-6 Gifted and Talented teacher in mind but includes multiple activities that can span all
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K - 6th
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S.C.A.M.P.E.R Creative Thinking with Animals A-Z Activity Packet
S.C.A.M.P.E.R is a tool for creative thinking developed by Bob Eberle. In this packet they use SCAMPER to change animals from A-Z. These can be used with gifted learners or with any student to help them develop higher-order and creative thinking skills. You can use these worksheets whole class or put them in an independent center.
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K - 5th
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