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Middle school Earth Day other (math) resources for GATE
Gifted and Talented Unit - Sneaker Design and Marketing
★ ★ Sneaker Design & Marketing Unit ★ ★
Students work together to research sneaker design, design a sneaker, as well as create a marketing and economic plan for developing their product.
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★Check it out!: This unit is included in the Gifted and Talented Middle Grades Unit Bundle at a discounted price!
After brainstorming ideas, students will complete a research webquest to investigate websites about sneaker design topics. Students may use QR codes or find their own s
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3rd - 6th
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Input - Output Machine Math Challenge Task Cards - Function Machine Problems
This set of 24 input/output table task card math challenges are perfect to use as whole class warm-ups, small group instruction, math stations or centers, or even as intervention groups to work on problem solving and algebra thinking. Students love the function machines and the level of challenge varies for easy differentiaton.Although designed to be used with fourth and fifth graders, these cards would also be perfect to use with older students needing additional review with algebra thinking.
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4th - 6th
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Math Enrichment: Math Challenge Problems for Older Students
This is a collection of 52 non-routine math problems perfect to challenge your gifted and talented students or any student you want to push and/or teach perseverance. Non-Routine math problems are problems that do not have a conventional way to solve them. There can be many ways to approach these types of problems. In addition to building perseverance, they will also build critical thinking skills and expand a student’s mathematical reasoning.Each problem comes in three different formats: 1/2 pa
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4th - 6th
iLogo Slope Activity Graphing Lines Project Based Learning (PBL) with Math
Students will love creating their own custom logo design by graphing linear equations, finding the slope of a line on the coordinate plane, locating the y-intercept, and writing their equations in slope-intercept form. You will love the flexibility of this student driven project. Rigor is high but student engagement is even higher!The purpose of the iLogo Slope Activity Project is to give students an opportunity to use slope in an artistic endeavor that has real-world applications. Every company
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7th - 11th
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Daily Math Challenge
Updated 2/13/14
This 56 page digital file contains 50 math challenges with answer keys. These could be used as a warm-up or a problem of the day. I use them as a warm-up with my gifted class. It gets the kids thinking and problem solving. The math challenges include:
mental math
math analogies
mystery number
logic puzzles
find the order
shape puzzles
patterns
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3rd - 6th
Earth Day STEM Challenge Activity - New Earth City
This is the perfect Earth Day STEM activity!The basic idea: It is Earth Day, and the year 2035. Earth has become overcrowded. The students are part of a pioneering crew tasked with setting up the first city (New Earth City) on Planetopia, a fictional name for a recently discovered Earth-like planet in a distant solar system. Part of the mission is to set up the city to prevent or address the problems we are having on Earth so we don’t repeat our errors on our new home planet. This challenge is b
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2nd - 8th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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100 Brain Teasers , Logic Problems , and Riddles for Brain Breaks and More!
Our students beg for riddles and brain teasers. We decided to curate 100 of the best brain teasers that students will love. These can be used as brain breaks, warm-ups, exit tickets, or challenges for teams or groups. Answers are at the bottom in the presenter notes. The graphics are engaging and leave students begging for more! Ages 8 and up, There are enough teasers to do 3 a week for the school year.Follow us at www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/thank-a-teacher
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3rd - 8th
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Math Brain Teasers- Google Edition
PAPERLESS BRAIN TEASERS FOR GOOGLE DRIVE
Wanting to move towards a paperless classroom? Imagine using your time to plan effective lessons instead of printing, cutting, laminating, and organizing activities for early finishers! With this file you will be able to share directly with your students through your Google Classroom without ever having to hand out any paper!
Contents of this set include:
-125 slides
-Problems vary in difficulty
-Sudoku
-Logic puzzles
-NRICH word problems
-Picture/visua
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3rd - 8th
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Ecosystems & Environmental Concerns PBL | Science Project Based Learning
Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach about different ecosystems and their environmental concerns? Interested in student driven learning?This Project Based Learning unit allows students to learn about ecosystems by examining an environmental issue within an ecosystem. Students act as environmentalists as they research the causes and effects as well as problems and solutions of an environmental issue by examining the different factors that make up an ecosystem. This is a student-centered wa
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4th - 8th
Also included in: Science PBL | Project and Problem Based Learning Bundle
April STEM Activities with Earth Day STEM Challenges and Close Reading Passages
STEM challenge activities are so much fun. But, finding the time to incorporate design challenges into your curriculum can be difficult. The APRIL STEM Design Challenge COLLECTION is part of the STEM with CLOSE READING series. It gives you FOUR OF MY BEST SELLING STEM CHALLENGES that will seamlessly allow you to tie together the curriculum by giving you rigorous text dependent questions that go with a high interest reading passages IN ADDITION to the fun STEM activities! Watch your kids fac
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3rd - 6th
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Exponents & Radicals Activities Project - Project Based Learning (PBL) with Math
Ignite student imagination with sixteen exponents and radicals activities! Watch students explore the rules of exponents and simplify radicals, while making creative connections and leveraging math strategies. No two projects are identical!This student-led activity allows students to choose their activity for each operation. There are eight exponents activities, and eight radicals activities, one for each of the multiple intelligences. Understanding and enjoyment increase when the personal inter
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Exponents Activities Bundle – 8th Grade PBL with Math
What Problem Will You Solve: A Critical Thinking and Writing Activity
So often, we ask students what they want to be when they grow up but let's shift the mindset. Instead, pose the question of, "What problem will you solve?" This project encourages students to think both critically and globally to help solve issues in our world today. Included in this product are multiple ways for students to brainstorm problems, vocabulary, and processes. There is also draft and final publishing paper that can be used to write a culminating essay.This is a great beginning OR
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Bundle: Monthly Writing Projects for Upper Elementary
Earth Day STEM Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Earth Day Activity - This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards and encourages critical thinking, budgeting, and engineering skills. Oh no! People are throwing away too much trash! Your students need to reuse some things from the trash to make something new and useful. What will they come up with? This Earth Day STEM will get your students using their critical thinking skills to solve this challenge! Students must stick to a budget and use the available supplies.
Suggested Plan of
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Angle Pair Relationships Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal Math & Art Project
Mystery Picture Missing Angle Puzzles (Heart) - Supplementary Angles, Vertical Angles, Special Angle Pairs when two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. You can use it for Valentine’s Day or at any time of the year.Use this activity to find missing angles in triangles and quadrilaterals and practice identifying angle pair relationships, and parallel lines cut by a transversal.Calculate the angle measurements marked with question marks, write the angle measurements in the picture and color it
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7th - 10th
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Lego Math Challenges
These five math challenges engage students using Lego bricks to build towers, models, and solve problems. Challenges address a variety of upper elementary and middle school math skills including:
- adding fractions with unlike denominators
- finding equivalent fractions
- finding a fraction of a whole
- adding percentages
- finding a percentage of a whole
- area and perimeter
- factors
- prime numbers
- composite numbers
- Goldbach's conjecture
- multiplication
- scale factor
- proportional rel
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4th - 6th
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Gifted and Talented- Cross Country Road Trip Unit
Stimulate students with this cross-curricular, project based unit which includes geography, research, math and creative writing, culminating in an oral presentation. Students will have the opportunity to plan a cross country road trip for a family of four. They will stay busy planning their route, researching landmarks and keeping track of their exact budget. Students creativity will be ignited and they won’t even realize the extent of higher level thinking that they are engaging in. This unit
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4th - 6th
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Earth Day Coding "Unplugged"
Earth Day Binary Coding Do you want to introduce your students to coding? This is a easy way to get your students using and understanding binary code.
This packet includes:
Design and write an Earth Day Code Bracelet using Binary Code. Students will pick a word to code. They will string the beads and then tie the ends for their bracelet.
Earth Day Code-Do the Math Worksheet
Students will use math skills to determine the number of digits in each word.
Earth Day Code- Read the Code Worksheet
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Coding "Unplugged" Bundle for the Entire Year
Marble Run Lab Sheet
This data sheet walks students through the design process of making a slow marble run.I included areas where they need to measure and average times.
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3rd - 6th
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Which One Doesn't Belong Blank Template (Math)
This resource serves as a blank template for “Which One Doesn’t Belong” math challenges! There are no challenges included in the resource, just blank Google Slides Template to easily add challenges to.- What is INCLUDED -Teacher's GuideStudent GuidelinesBlank Google Slide Design Templates+ WODB is great to use for Math Talks and will increase critical thinking, problem solving, and use of academic language.+ You can either use the website www.wodb.ca to find premade challenges or create your ow
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3rd - 6th
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Candy Parachute STEM Challenge
This STEM challenge gets your kiddos up, creating, problem solving, all while having fun! Grab some simple materials and impress your students (and administrators)! This fun filled STEM activity allows students to plan, create, problem solve, and then reflect.
There's a fun extension FREEBIE added in, too!
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PreK - 6th
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Math Crossword Puzzles
Math crossword puzzles are good for a cognitive workout. Crosswords benefit your brain: strengthen vocabulary, improve memory, develop problem solving skills and enhance attention. Two versions: with and without a word list and includes answer key. Great for early finishers or serve as extras for the substitute teacher.
BONUS: includes a word scramble, word search and a brain teaser page for GATE differentiation/independent learning. Word search includes: square rectangle rhombus trapezoid par
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Grades:
1st - 6th
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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8th - 12th
Also included in: 28 lessons and activities: Beginning HS Art (9th to 12th grade)
Error Analysis - Add, Subtract, Multiply, and Divide Fractions
In this error analysis, students are given a problem that is already solved in the left column. Students must review each problem, describe all errors (not just the first error), and correctly solve the problem.
This activity is great for students who need practice identifying and correcting errors. This practice also helps students during assessments by allowing them to check already solved work and not assume it is correct, which is sometimes what happens when students are asked to check th
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4th - 8th
Turtle Logic Puzzle
Turtles in Trouble is a Matrix Grid Logic Puzzle. In this fun brain teaser students use critical reading and deduction to discover which of the 8 students did or is doing which of the 8 acts to help save the turtles. It's a deal at only $1.50. Great for early finishers or centers. Critical reading, elimination and problem solving are the heart of this activity which can be used for early finishers or as a support resource for your environmental lessons, perfect for Earth Day activities! Ans
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Earth Day Activities - Logic Puzzles
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