7th grade Halloween specialty resources for GATE

Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, Gifted and Talented

Reading and Responding to The Giver and Complexity!Bring your students’ thinking and discussion to a whole new level while reading Lois Lowry’s The Giver. This critical thinking companion resource is designed to “dig deeper” when compared to traditional novel worksheets available. Each chapter has a unique graphic organizer that contains 4 critical thinking questions questions and 1 related "Core Question". All questions within the graphic organizers are open-ended, can be answered in multiple

Subjects:

Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

GATE, Graphic Organizers

Winter STEM Activities and Challenges with Paper ❄️ Snowflakes ❄️

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Critical Thinking, Engineering, Gifted and Talented

**BEST SELLER!** Winter STEM / Snowflake STEM activities! Create a variety of snowflakes with these 3 STEM engaging challenges. For these challenges, the only material that is necessary is plain paper. This is a great companion activity if you are reading about Snowflake Bentley (Wilson Bentley).✅ What You'll Get ✅Teacher Instructions and sample imagesWarm up activities: How snowflakes form in nature (1 page informational text)Cutting practice page (if your students need it, recommended!)Which f

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 8th

Types:

CCSS:

4.G.A.3

NGSS:

MS-ETS1-2

, 3-5-ETS1-3

, 3-PS2-2

, 3-5-ETS1-1

, MS-ETS1-1

...

Also included in: FLASH SALE ⭐ Low Prep STEM Activities and Challenges Engineering Design Process

Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Literature Circles Book Clubs

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Critical Thinking, Literature, Reading

Add some depth and complexity to traditional Literature Circles with this complete and ready-to-use resource!You will be amazed by the level of discussion and critical thinking that will take place among your students. Each Literature Circle role (listed below) is directly connected to 11 elements of critical thinking: Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives). Ju

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 9th, Adult Education

Types:

GATE, Literature Circles

Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle

Halloween STEM Activities | Fall STEM Activities for October | Halloween Science

Created by

Kerry Tracy Feel-Good Teaching

Halloween STEM Activities will keep your kids engaged in brain-busting work disguised as fun!This bundle includes the following 6 Halloween STEM activities:⭐ Bone Bridge® STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Creature Catcher STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Ghosts in the Graveyard STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Treat Toss STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Wings Wanted STEM Challenge Activity⭐ Halloween STEM Improv Activity (336 possible combinations!)The basic idea: In the 5 Halloween STEM Challenge Activities, students

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Engineering, Halloween

Grades:

2nd - 8th

Types:

Activities, GATE, Centers

NGSS:

K-2-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-3

, MS-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-1

, 3-5-ETS1-3

...

Greek and Latin Roots Activity Pennant ✏️ 4th Grade 5th Grade Creative

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Gifted and Talented, Reading, Vocabulary

Enhance your students' vocabulary with a creative and engaging Greek and Latin Roots Pennant Activity! In this hands-on morphology activity, students become active participants in their learning process. Students add words, definitions, or visuals to create their own unique representation of these 60 roots. Why learn root words?Root words are useful for strengthening vocabulary.They can help understand language (including when learning many foreign languages) and build reading skills.Roots are i

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 12th, Adult Education

Types:

GATER Educator - Kris Prince

CCSS:

L.3.4c

, L.4.4b

, L.5.4b

, L.6.4b

, L.7.4b

...

Also included in: Greek and Latin Roots Pennant Activity Games BUNDLE Display Vocabulary Test Prep

Inside Out Movie Worksheets | Movie Day Activities | Social Emotional Learning

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Looking to support your student's social-emotional needs?What better way to engage students than with a MOVIE TIME? ... INSIDE, OUT is certainly a fun childhood favorite!Check out these LEARNING ACTIVITIES created just for the movie!Personality Islands Digital PBLPersonality Islands Printable PBLHow to Make Broccoli Pizza - A Fun and Engaging Reading and Math ActivityThis resource includes a printable AND digital version to use with Google Classroom™Looking for more MOVIE GUIDES? Click HERE-Movi

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Life Skills

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

GATE, Movie Guides, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.5.2

, RL.5.3

, SL.4.1d

, SL.4.3

, SL.5.1

...

Also included in: Independent Projects | Gifted and Talented Students | Early Finishers | BUNDLE 1

Back to School STEM Activities Team Builders and Icebreakers Elementary & Up

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Back to School, Engineering, Gifted and Talented

Team building activities and icebreakers are perfect for the first week of school in STEM! Not only will your students instantly engage in these hands-on challenges, they will begin to build your classroom community. Your students will need to work in teams throughout the year, and the best way to set the foundation for that is with fun, engaging, and brain-stretching STEM challenges.✅ What You'll Get ✅This resource includes ice breaker challenges / activities: ✨✨✨ 3 STEM team building activitie

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 7th

Types:

Kerry Tracy Feel-Good Teaching

NGSS:

3-5-ETS1-3

, 3-5-ETS1-1

, 3-5-ETS1-2

Also included in: STEM Activities and Challenges for K-2 - Whole Year Bundle

Halloween STEM Activity - Bone Bridge® - Halloween STEM Challenge

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The Bone Bridge® Halloween STEM activity is collaborative, brain-busting work disguised as fun! This STEM challenge goes beyond Halloween. Connect it to your science lessons on skeletal system, bridges/transportation, and/or forces (specific ideas provided in the resource). The basic idea: Students work in partners or groups against a list of criteria and constraints to build a bridge for length, strength, or capacity using simple materials. This is the first resource from Bone Bridge® STEM Ch

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Engineering, Halloween

Grades:

2nd - 8th

Types:

Activities, GATE, Centers

NGSS:

K-2-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-3

, MS-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-1

, 3-5-ETS1-3

...

Also included in: Halloween STEM Activities - 6 STEM Challenges - Print & Paperless

Team Building Escape Room with Logic Puzzles Critical Thinking Escape Room

Created by

Teach With all Your Heart

Engage your students with this Team Building Escape Room! This is great as a back to school escape room! This escape room is perfect for both the end of the year and beginning of the year. Students will be engaged and challenged with logic puzzles, codes to decipher, and more. There is both a full easy prep printable version as well as a Google(TM) form digital version for virtual or distance learning.This resource includes everything you need to implement a challenging and fun escape room fo

Subjects:

Classroom Community, Critical Thinking, End of Year

Grades:

4th - 9th

Types:

Activities, GATE, Games

Also included in: Team Building Escape Room with Logic Puzzles BUNDLE - Critical Thinking Escape

STEM Challenge Projects Desert Island Winter Pioneer 15 Science Activities

Created by

Fishyrobb

STEM activities are a great way to integrate math and science into meaningful, hands-on learning! This bundle includes 3 themed-packs, each with its own engaging storyline. Students will help a stranded sailor escape a desert island, a group of explorers stuck in the arctic, and a pioneer family brave the wild west. Each challenge solves a problem faced by the characters in the story. Exciting and fun!Includes the following: The Great Desert Island STEM ChallengeThe Great Arctic Circle STEM Chal

Subjects:

Engineering, Gifted and Talented, Science

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

GATE, Centers

Partner Pairing Cards and Grouping Cards Pick a Partner

Created by

Back to School, Classroom Management, Engineering

Pick a partner or do small group pairing with these fun cards!With a variety of fun ways to pair or group students, students each choose (or receive) one card and then seek out their pair or group. Forming groups for projects or STEM challenges can elicit groans from students, but by making it fun and engaging for students, this will become your go-to way for no-argue partnerships.Pick a Partner Cards may be printed at full size or at 2 pages per sheet to save paper.✅ What You'll Get ✅✅ Partneri

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 12th

Types:

Projects, Activities, GATE

Also included in: STEM Teacher ❤️ Favorites ❤️ Bundle Best Sellers in One Place

End of Year & Summer Math Logic Puzzles Worksheets - Enrichment Activities

Created by

Live Laugh Math

Need summer math activities to keep kids learning & challenged? Math logic puzzles allow students to practice critical thinking & math skills during the end of the year and over the summer. Use as end of year enrichment worksheets for early finishers, a cooperative learning activity, a math challenge center, or a summer math review packet. Available as a printable resource (PDF) and a digital version (made with Google Slides™).Math Skills Included:- Basic Operations & Prime Numbers-

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Math

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Activities, GATE

Also included in: Math Enrichment: Math Logic Puzzles Bundle

Coding with ROBOTS ⭐ Mazes Tracks STEM Robotics Hour of Code Dash Sphero Finch

Created by

Engineering, Gifted and Talented, Robotics

"This is my absolute favorite robot resource. Students loved to make their own maze and try to get their Sphero through it. It was wonderful for kids to work on teamwork and problem-solving skills.""In one word, "WOW!" My students are obsessed with this product!"Tired of taping mazes all over your floors? Not sure what to do with your class set of robots? Save the tape for STEM challenges and use these coding maze cards instead. Use your robots like Dash, Cue, Sphero, BeeBot, Finch, and Code and

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 8th

Types:

Activities, GATE

Also included in: STEM Teacher ❤️ Favorites ❤️ Bundle Best Sellers in One Place

All About Me Activities - Learning Styles, Multiple Intelligences+ Quizzes

Created by

Amy Mezni - Teaching Ideas 4u

Do you want to get to know your students and help them work on their Growth Mindset? Use the All About Me Flipbook with a Learning Styles Inventory, Personality Test (Introvert vs. Extrovert), & Multiple Intelligences Survey! These quizzes are perfect for Back to School, Open House, or metacognition unit.These completed flipbook activities are a perfect resource to use when discussing metacognition to help students analyze and reflect on their thinking. Students take the quizzes and mark the

Subjects:

Back to School, Gifted and Talented, Study Skills

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

Kerry Tracy Feel-Good Teaching

Halloween STEM Activity - Bat Wings Wanted Halloween STEM Challenge

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This Halloween STEM activity will keep your kids engaged & learning! Not doing Halloween activities this year? No problem! Just add this to a science unit on bats, life science, the physics of flight, or as a supplement to Stellaluna.Basic Premise:In this Halloween STEM challenge activity, students design and engineer a new set of bat wings, with the goal being to achieve maximum flight distance and/or accuracy. You can even throw in style points, if you like! It's a paper airplane challenge

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Engineering, Halloween

Grades:

2nd - 8th

Types:

Activities, GATE, Centers

NGSS:

K-2-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-3

, MS-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-1

, 3-5-ETS1-3

...

Also included in: Halloween STEM Activities - 6 STEM Challenges - Print & Paperless

Depth and Complexity Teaching Critical Thinking Using Fairytales

Created by

Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Literature

Teach your students how to explore content with depth and complexity.Here it is, a complete and ready-to-use resource for teaching all 11 elements (Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives) of critical thinking.! Your students will explore of these elements by applying them to familiar stories, such as “Cinderella”, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, “Goldilocks and the

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 10th

Types:

Unit Plans, GATE, Printables

Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle

Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle

Created by

Critical Thinking, For All Subject Areas, Problem Solving

Teach your students with depth and complexity!This "Mega Bundle" contains 8 of my best selling resources that are designed to elicit critical thinking. $65.00 if purchased separately; Save over 30%! Click on the links below for detailed information on each of the 9 resources that are included in this bundle. Two versions--with and without icons--are now included!!IMPORTANT: This bundle has changed. Please read through the product description carefully and check out the links below to see exac

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 10th, Higher Education

Types:

Brittany Washburn Technology Skills Resources

Crack the Code Puzzles for Technology Class Printable Worksheets

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Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach your students about technology? Look no further than our Binary Code, Hexadecimal, and Morse Code Encoded Messages packet! Introducing the ultimate tech-inspired resource for teachers and students - Binary Code, Hexadecimal, and Morse Code Encoded Messages with silly phrases as well as technology facts! Perfect for those days when you don't have access to devices, this packet provides an engaging and entertaining way for students to explore basic conce

Subjects:

Computer Science - Technology, Gifted and Talented, Problem Solving

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Also included in: Technology Curriculum Back Up Plans Bundle | K-5 Computer Lab Activities

PI DAY Activities 5th 6th 7th 8th ⭕ Middle School Math STEAM Art ⭕

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Gifted and Talented, Holidays/Seasonal, Word Problems

If Pi Day isn't your FAVORITE holiday...yet, it might be after completing these hands-on circle math activities with your students! This download is packed with Pi Day math activities and STEAM art projects that are the perfect way to celebrate National Pi Day, which is March 14th (3/14). Start off by introducing pi and then dive in into all things pi. These activities are suitable for students in grade 5 and up.✅ What You'll Get ✅What is Pi? (2 pages)Pi Day Fun Facts (1 page)Get creative with c

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, GATE, Task Cards

CCSS:

5.NBT.B.7

, 7.G.B.4

, 6.EE.B.7

, 7.EE.B.3

Also included in: PI DAY Activities BUNDLE ⭕ Math Fun & More for Pi Day March 14th! ⭕

Lunar New Year 2024 | Year of the DRAGON Reading Comprehension | Spring Festival

Created by

GATER Educator - Kris Prince

Chinese New Year in 2024 starts on Saturday, February 10th!It’s the Year of the DRAGON!Did you know that the Chinese believe that people born in the Year of the DRAGON are strong, tenacious, and ambitious? Do you know what the lucky colors and numbers are for people born during the Year of the DRAGON?Find out more by close-reading interesting text all about the Year of the DRAGON.Create a Cool DRAGON Collage, perfect for a 2024 Year of the DRAGON Bulletin Board!*** This resource has been updated

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Informational Text, The New Year

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

GATE, Cultural Activities, Centers

CCSS:

RI.4.1

, RI.5.1

, RI.6.1

, RI.7.1

Also included in: Chinese New Year 2024 | Year of the DRAGON Reading Comprehension | Art BUNDLE

Depth and Complexity Novel Study for Tuck Everlasting

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Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, Gifted and Talented

Reading and Responding to Tuck Everlasting with Depth and Complexity!Bring your students’ thinking and discussion to a whole new level while reading Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting. This critical thinking companion resource is designed to “dig deeper” when compared to traditional novel worksheets available. Each chapter has a unique graphic organizer that contains 4 critical thinking questions questions and 1 related "Core Question". All questions within the graphic organizers are open-ende

Subjects:

Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

GATE, Graphic Organizers

STEM Activities and Challenges Low Prep Engineering Design Process and Careers

Created by

Engineering, Gifted and Talented, Science

The best variety of low prep STEM activities you'll find! These 20 STEM and STEAM activities can be completed with readily available materials and minimal prep - you can even use these for sub plans! Students will get hands-on exploring different STEM careers with these activities. Each activity is designed to take about one class period however the activity can span across two class periods to give ample time for redesigns and re-testing, or for a repeat challenge using different materials.Thes

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 8th

Types:

Projects, GATE

NGSS:

MS-ETS1-2

, 3-5-ETS1-3

, MS-ETS1-4

, 3-5-ETS1-1

, MS-ETS1-1

...

Depth and Complexity Novel Study for Number the Stars

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