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Easter holidays/seasonal resources for Microsoft Word and for GATE
First Day 3D Metaphor Nameplate and MORE!
On the very first day, your students will have created a personal metaphor, completed a cool 3D visual art nameplate which can be used as an effective classroom management strategy throughout the year, completed a public speaking opportunity straight from the Common Core Standards, and will have proven themselves to be a supportive listener in the classroom. Yep, all in this one interactive critical thinking activity . . .
In this introductory lesson, students use a graphic organizer to brains
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL CURRICULUM 1st-8th GATE
3D initials Art Project
Perfect lesson for 6th-12th grade students. It is an intensely fun project that your intense art students will love.The lesson uses recycled materials and beautiful collage of scraps of decorative paper.
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Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in: 28 lessons and activities: Beginning HS Art (9th to 12th grade)
1st Week Literacy Enrichment - Hands-on and Challenging Fun
We reach all students, no matter their ability!
In this lesson, we work with primary source photos to develop strong reading skills—citing key details, making inferences, determining message or theme, and establishing historical context. Your students will be engaged and invited to be creative as they make origami book marks and write empowering messages about reading.
Hands-on and highly participatory enrichment!
This school year we’re working on filling up the portable with whole-class
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
**THREE DAY** Earth's Spheres WebQuest
All you need to do is print and hand this out to students, or post on your Google Classroom. NO PREP REQUIRED. This is a set of three WebQuests (meant for 3 40-60 minute class periods) where students will analyze graphs, articles, and videos to answer questions about science. They will be focused on the concepts of the different spheres of earth (atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere), the amounts of fresh and salt water, climate vs. weather, and the concept of seasons. This is perfe
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in: NO PREP! WEBQUEST BUNDLE
Santa's Sleigh S.T.E.A.M Challenge - Christmas - Winter - Summer
Get into the Christmas spirit with this fun & engaging STEAM activity. Students work collaboratively to plan, design and construct a festive sleigh for Santa and his reindeers! This hands on project integrates science, technology, engineering, art, and math as students explore principles such as aerodynamics, stability, and creative design. Throughout the challenge, students conduct research, sketch plans, and make use of the provided materials to bring their sleigh designs to life.They then
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Grades:
K - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Christmas STEAM Activities Bundle - Winter - Christmas - December
Christmas Ornament S.T.E.A.M Challenge - Winter - Summer
Looking for a way to link S.T.E.A.M to the theme of Christmas? Here's a no-prep activity for you!This is a festive and engaging way for students to explore and apply their knowledge in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. Lots of fun to be had!Take a look at the preview!What's included in this resource?STEAM Christmas Ornament lesson plan with suggested read aloud (4 total). These focus on the Christmas spirit, perseverance and problem solving. If you don't have the books ava
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Grades:
K - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
Also included in: Christmas STEAM Activities Bundle - Winter - Christmas - December
Light-Up Greeting Card STEAM Challenge - Winter - Christmas - Holidays
Have students use their design and creativity skills to make their very own light-up greeting card. This STEAM activity is focused on Christmas, however it can be easily adapted to any celebration throughout the year!Students create a special greeting card that lights up using simple circuit components like an LED (light-emitting diode) and a coin-cell battery. The project involves designing the card, incorporating artistic elements, and building a circuit to make the LED light up when the card
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K - 6th
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Also included in: Christmas STEAM Activities Bundle - Winter - Christmas - December
Gifted Ed New Years Math Challenge
To celebrate the new year, present this unique challenge to your gifted math students. The directions are explained on the worksheet. Students will need to use math processes to arrive at the value of the new year number, beginning with their age number and moving through ten steps. Students will begin to see the magic of numbers, patterns, and the power that we have in arriving at the answers we need, sometimes through some trial and error, as they complete this New Years Math Challenge.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Friendship Community Self Esteem Lesson Plan
This series of three lessons will help your upper-elementary, middle school, or gifted elementary students learn more about what friendship means, where to find friends, and what kinds of friends they might have. Complete with activities and rubrics, this set of lessons will raise everyone's awareness of each other's emotional needs.
This set of lessons is perfect for the beginning of the year or as a mid-year community builder. It is also ideal for counselors or prevention specialists to use
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Halloween STEAM - Spinning Vampires
Adaptable as a 4 hour lesson (with an extension) or a 1 hour purposeful Halloween activity exploring a Next Generation Science Standard . . . this works either way!
Includes printable patterns so you'll be ready to go today!
In this lesson, students explore the concept of air resistance/gravity and unbalanced forces, engineer a paper helicopter from blueprints, and transform the helicopters into spinning vampires or other “creatures of the air.” In an extension option or independent study, st
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Adaptable to VIRTUAL or ONLINE Gifted and Talented STEAM PBL Bundle GATE
GATE Forms: Parent Appeal, HOPE Scale, Characteristic Behavior Scale(Editable)
Editable and fillable GATE Forms:HOPE ScaleThe HOPE Scale is designed to measure two very broad categories: Social and Academic components of giftedness and talent. It is meant to serve as a tool with which to focus a classroom teacher's nomination and perceptions of his/her students onto behaviors that are often observable by a classroom teacher.GATE PARENT APPEAL FORMThis is form is used in order for your child to be considered for alternate identification. This information along with test sco
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Not Grade Specific
The Grinch - WhoBook
Students can create a social media page for the Grinch. Start with the bottom stays being the beginning of the book, the middle is the midsection, and the top would be the most recent as the book ends.
THE IMAGE LOOKS "OFF", HOWEVER IT SHOULD DOWNLOAD CORRECTLY! It did when I tried it!
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Earth Day, Healthy Earth
Follow the journey of a soccer ball as it takes you through a garden to teach you the benefits of produce in one's diet. Plant a garden, Celebrate Earth Day! Harvest and enjoy the fruits, or do I dare say, "the vegetables" of your labor. Allow the soccer ball to help you draw parallelism between these foods and your body organs. Show how our Creator made these foods in our likeness, engaging students in tactile learning experiences.
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5th - 7th
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Can vs Don't
This play/program was written for a Red Ribbon Week Assembly and worked beautifully in encouraging students to stay off of drugs. It points out all the things that you can do instead of all the things people tell you not to do. There are four main speakers and a multitude of one liner parts. There is very little acting requried by the main 4 speakers, but the one liners have quite a few actions. There is a section where either students can do the actions and not speak or you could have teach
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Grades:
3rd - 11th
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Beginning Ice Breakers Guide
This packet contains examples of ice breakers for students grades 3- 12. These are best used at the beginning of the school year, after long breaks, or as energizers. Most use little to no materials, so it is budget friendly.
Grades:
3rd - 10th
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Brain Teasers Vol. 4
Brain Teasers Vol. 4 is a great way to have the class active, thinking and participating. Print and edit the activity as you like to have the kids work individually OR the Teacher plays to role of activity "host" and the class shouts out answers.
Fun, interactive and thought-provoking!
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Create a Clown 2 Digit Subtraction Minus TENS and ONES Game
Create a Clown 2 Digit Subtraction Minus TENS and ONESis a great game to practice subtraction facts.
When the player gets the fact correct they get to spin the spinner of clown body parts. The first player to create a clown wins.
Setting it up: The first page is the directions and title page. I glued it to the front of the file folder. The page that has 8 squares is the game board referred to, I glued that in the middle of the file folder on the left side. The page that has clown body parts is
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
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It's Better to Give... Christmas Charity Shopping Activity
This is an activity designed for third, fourth, and fifth grade students who are part of a Gifted/Talented program. This activity is part of the program's goal to help students develop solutions for the problems in the world around them.
Students are provided with information about a fictional family in need of help at Christmas. Students act as members of a local charity who have $1,000 to spend on the family at Christmas. Students are encouraged to think beyond toys and electronics and focus
Grades:
3rd - 5th
MLK Persuasive Essay
Common Core aligned persuasive essay about Martin Luther King Jr. Originally made for fourth grade, but can be easily adapted to other grade levels.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Placement Application/Student Data Sheet for Gifted and Talented students
Editable, fillable and clickable. Also, includes drop down menu to choose from
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented editable forms, presentations & PD
Roll a Scarecrow Fall Activity
Use in conjunction with "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves".
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K - 2nd
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Think Tanks
Students will work with a partner (or, in groups of 3) to complete enrichment activities that review concepts learned the previous six weeks.
Grades:
K - 3rd
Who was Martin Luther King: What's the Color of Your Skin?
We are about to enjoy a national holiday and a day off from school to celebrate the life and accomplishments of a truly great man, Martin Luther King, yet many children have no idea who or what it’s about.
Essential Question: Who was Martin Luther King?
Goal of this lesson: To discover that Martin Luther King helped people discover their civil rights through peaceful means.
Objectives:
-To understand who Martin Luther King was and realize what he did for the people of the United States of Americ
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics Newspaper Project
Students work in groups to create a newspaper about the 2018 Winter Olympics. Topic ideas and student expectations are provided.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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