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Free holidays literature resources for GATE
Halloween Activity / STEM Challenge - Witch's Brew
Design a witch's brew potion that bubbles! Students will need to mix various ingredients until they find two that create a chemical reaction to make the potion bubble. This is a very fun activity even your youngest scientists will love! ContentsGetting StartedSuggested Material List (you will need baking soda, vinegar, and various other baking supplies)Teacher NotesPrintable Challenge Poster: Hang at your STEM center or near where the STEM creations are, especially if they will be on display for
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K - 4th
Also included in:Â STEM Activities and Challenges for K-2 - Whole Year Bundle
Halloween Logic Puzzle FREEBIE!! Costume Contest
Check out this FREE LOGIC PUZZLE and WRITING PROMPT for OCTOBER!Looking to engage your students with some deductive logic fun this Halloween Season? This logic puzzle is designed to challenge upper elementary students and is perfect for Halloween seatwork, homework, math centers, literacy centers, early finishers, or sub plans. Find this LOGIC PUZZLE, along with many other engaging Halloween Activities, in this BUNDLED RESOURCEHalloween BUNDLE 30% Off Each Individual Resource!Find Fabulous Octob
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4th - 6th
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Also included in:Â Halloween Reading Activities | Persuasive Writing
FREE Christmas and Holidays Around the World STEM Challenge Passport
Looking for a FREE Christmas and Holidays Around the World STEM Challenge Passport? Are you planning to do some Christmas and/or Holidays Around the World STEM challenges? If yes, then here's a great FREEBIE just for you! Use this FREE Christmas and Holidays Around the World STEM Challenge Passport to track your students' progress! It works well with my Christmas Around the World STEM Challenges BUNDLE and Holidays Around the World STEM Challenges BUNDLE.Included are five pages that you can use
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Holidays and Christmas Around the World STEM Activities & Challenges BUNDLE
CRITICAL THINKING SQUARE PUZZLES Christmas Activity Brain Teasers Logic GATE
CHRISTMAS SQUARE PUZZLERS are fun, yet challenging brain teasers. They exercise critical thinking & problem solving, build perseverance & stamina, and stimulate the brain while disguising it all as fun. Similar to Scrambled Squares, these differentiated, logic puzzles must be reconstructed so that the images match on every interior side. Use them for centers, stations, rotations, fast finishers, enrichment, GATE (gifted & talented education), and/or a class reward. Adored by all ages
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in:Â CRITICAL THINKING SQUARE PUZZLES BUNDLE Holidays Brain Teasers
Weekly Reading Log with Depth and Complexity Icons Bundle
Help your readers stay on track with this weekly reading log. We use this as homework but it could easily be used in the classroom as well.Students track their daily reading, including title, time spent reading, and pages read. On the back, there is space for a text response. At the end of the week, readers add up their pages and time spent reading. A space for a parent signature is the final piece.The icons of depth and complexity (often called GATE Icons) are added so that students may thi
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3rd - 8th
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5th Grade Division Review Game J.K. Rowling Harry Potter Activities
Practice division with remainders while learning facts about J.K. Rowling in this fun math game, similar to 20 questions! After completing worksheets, students practice their writing skills with an informational paragraph on their subject. Reinforce content from multiple disciplines in one activity. This activity is perfect for review, early finishers, whole class, differentiation, enrichment, and sub packets! Browse the Kitten Approved Curriculum Freebie Library for more freebies!!Buy all 28 ga
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5th - 6th
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Also included in:Â Math Worksheets Mixed Review 5th Grade Bundle
Holiday Theme Logic Puzzles (3 included)
This free set of three logic puzzles will challenge and engage your students while letting them have fun. Students will use their critical thinking skills. The holiday-related stories are fun to read and solve using deductive reasoning skills. A grid is used to find the solution.
Answer keys included
If you are looking for additional seasonal activities for your students, take a look at my Winter Math Bundle for Upper Elementary OR the bundled items are sold individually in my store (the bu
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4th - 6th
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STEAM Bins Activities / STEM Bin Activities (Fall)
STEAM BIN / STEM BIN FALL EDITION ! STEAM Bins/STEM Bins Activities is a great resource to get students collaborating with one another, exploring ways to build structures, manipulating resources, and team building. It also allows them to express their creativity in different ways through Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics. STEM bin Activities allow students to think critically and solve problems. Practicing these skills are essential for children throughout their life. STEAM
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PreK - 4th
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Christmas STEM Challenge Freebie - Winter STEM Freebie
This STEM pack has everything you need to implement a fun Christmas themed STEM challenge. Your students will be engaged and learning while having fun seeing who can stack the most mini cups in the shape of a Christmas tree.
This is just a small sample of one of my many STEM challenges. For the complete Christmas STEM challenge set please visit:
Christmas STEM Challenges for the Month of December
STEM challenges work best with groups and encourages design and construction, while working thr
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Cereal Box Book Report - Project Based Learning
This is a fun way for students to show their understanding of either a book you've read together as a class or a book they've read on their own. This resource includes printable pieces that students can fill out, cut, and glue directly to a used cereal box. There is structure, but also the opportunity for creativity. The following template pieces are included in this resource:-Front of box: Students create a cereal name and look for the cereal-Back of box: Students create a game/activity that re
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2nd - 8th
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February Idioms from the Heart
February Idioms from the Heart is a combination history and figurative language lesson.
Each of the forty original sentences, organized as two separate activities of twenty items each, are constructed around an idiom with the word heart in it. Students are challenged to interpret the hidden meaning in each one. The preliminary Student Page briefly explains the history behind our language's large collection of idiomatic expressions that erroneously attribute human emotions and person
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5th - 8th
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Menu of Independent Reading Projects FREE Enrichment and GATE
Just say YES to the five C’s for gifted learners with CHALLENGES, CHOICES, COMPLEXITY, CONTROL over what and how they learn, and teachers who authentically CARE. Energize all readers with this project choice menu – FREE! Come back for over 200 lessons and units specifically designed for gifted learners.
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3rd - 10th
Back To School Menus - Choice Boards and Activities- 3rd Grade - 5th Grade
Are you looking for your enrichment or exemplary tasks to be done for the year? The Back To School choice boards are perfect for your early finishers or students that need a challenge or even a simple way of bringing the holidays into your classroom.You can use this by telling students to complete 3 boxes or as a tic-tac-toe challenge. Each box comes with a matching work page.Print at the beginning of the unit and give to each student so they can work on it throughout the unit.Spring Choice Boar
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Holiday BUNDLE Choice Boards and Activities- 3rd - 5th Grade
Six Hats Thinking and Cinderella
Six Hats Thinking, a process developed by Edward de Bono, can be integrated into literary discussions with young children io encourage higher-level thinking and more in-depth character analysis. In these sample activities, students analyze decisions made by Cinderella characters in two different versions of the classic tale, and identify how using Six Hats Thinking could have helped. Coloring pages help students identify the different types of thinking and aid discussion of character traits.If
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1st - 3rd
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Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" Student Workbook Short Story Mini-Unit
Teaching Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" can be a really exciting time in a high school classroom with the potential for powerful discussions and a new distaste for the idea of conformity. Student favorite! This short story student workbook makes your life and the lives of your students easier. Students love having their own little workbook and teachers have zero prep to do!This short story student workbook includes:-Author bio and quiz-Pre-reading discussion guide-Vocabulary organizer with
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7th - 12th
Gift of the Magi - Adapted Text Version (Narrative/Short Story Study)
A perfect tale for the winter season, this classic short story, "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry, makes the perfect holiday text for my gifted 4th grade students. Since this version of the text is a freebie, feel free to download and assess the reading level for the needs of your students! The text has been rewritten to suit the reading level of upper elementary students and includes a wide variety of vocabulary words, intentional literary elements, and loads of figurative language. The litera
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4th - 7th
Halloween Critical Thinking Logic Puzzles
These two logic based puzzles are great for deductive reasoning and critical thinking skill reinforcement. Enjoy! Please take a moment and rate this product.
If you like these, you may be interested in checking out other logic puzzles in my store. Just look in the Logic Puzzles catergory.
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
STEM Leprechaun Trap Planning Sheet
Here's an easy planning sheet for your kids to outline their plans for making a leprechaun trap. It's great for St. Patrick's Day fun at home and in the classroom. There's a full color printable and an ink saving black and white printable.
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Here are the links to some of my other STEM units:
GOLDILOCKS AND THE 3 BEARS STEM
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD STEM
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK STEM
THREE LITTL
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1st - 3rd
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Animation and Critical Thinking for GATE and Generation Z -- The Piano FREE
4th Graders through adults find this video and activity fascinating. Let's try it FREE!Maybe your students will ask the same question mine did, "When can we do this again?"Using a short 2 minute video and an accompanying "Visual Inference Guide," students quickly become engaged in a critical analysis as they share insights with classmates--connecting video and literature.This format works for upper elementary through high school honors classes because students respond according to their abilit
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Project Based Learning - Holiday Tea
Project Based Learning - Holiday TeaThis Freebie is taken from a complete Project Based Learning Unit. The complete unit contains a research component where students research a country and share a sweet treat or sample of a favorite food. - Resources for your holiday tea- Gingerbread Man design- Holiday Tea invitation or design your own- Organizing your tea (decorations, paper goods, additional food, favors)- Spice Tea recipe with shopping list- Cocoa Mix Recipe- Gingerbread Man Recipe with doub
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3rd - 6th
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Christmas Song Titles in Gobbledygook
Gobbledygook, high-sounding language that confuses and amuses, is the subject of this fun Christmas activity. Students are challenged to identify the titles of twenty-six popular Christmas tunes written in extreme gobbledygook. The activity is organized into two handouts--Set One with twelve titles and Set Two with fourteen. An introductory page for students explains the nature and origin of the term.
The last page is a graphic organizer for writing a letter to Santa in gobbledygook.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Witch's Brew - a Halloween Math and Writing Activity FREEBIE!
I love using this Witch's Brew Halloween Math and Writing center with younger students. It is fun and engaging, yet it requires students to use some higher level thinking. There are 28 task cards for this center. All task cards are open ended so there is no one right solution to the problem. Students are given a number of ingredients and a total of all the ingredients in the witch’s brew recipe they are to create. For example, they might be told the brew has 4 ingredients for a total of 12 items
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1st - 3rd
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Westing Game Wanted Posters
Directions and rubric to make Wanted Posters for The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin. This will work well for 5th thru 9th grade. These can be passed out directly to students to use as directions and then scored by the teacher for a grade. Can be adapted for other books. Excellent for GATE students. Standards covered: Drawing Conclusions, Character Analysis, Noting Details
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5th - 8th
The Giver Characterization using Icons of Depth and Complexity
A lesson plan including thinking map (graphic organizer) which uses characterization to make predictions for future events. Complete lesson plan is written using a five step (direct instruction) format and incorporates higher order thinking skills, Sandra Kaplan's icons of depth and complexity, check for understanding questions, and sentence frames for English learners. This lesson plan/organizer is written to be used after students read about the Ceremony of Twelve in The Giver.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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