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Middle school Earth Day other (specialty) resources for GATE
Halloween 4 Lesson STEM Bundle - STEAM
This package includes directions, goals/targets, planning page and material list for the following Halloween STEAM lessons, a $8.00 value for only $5.89!1. Build a Bridge - $1.992. Five Little Pumpkins - $1.993. Build a Bone Tower - $1.994. Build a Haunted House - $1.99If you are interested in the editable word version for $7.99 visit the following link:Halloween STEM *Editable Word Documents* $7.99Feel free to contact us with any questions! whatskrakentpt@gmail.comFollow us on Social Media to s
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K - 6th
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GATE Students Counseling Group Mega Minds Gifted Group
Mega Minds is a 10 week school counseling small group designed to help GATE and gifted students share their challenges and connect with their strengths. The group focuses on helping gifted and talented students cope with high expectations, perfectionism, labels, bullying, friendships, and more.*Can be used in conjunction with “The Gifted Kids Survival Guide” by Judy Galbraith or alone.Group OutlineWeek 1: What It Means to Be a GATE KidWeek 2: Life as a GATE KidWeek 3: Why am I GATE Kid?Week 4: G
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4th - 7th
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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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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:Â 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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Also included in:Â STEM Activities Projects Bundle with April Spring and Easter STEM Challenges
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:Â 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.
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in:Â STEM Activities Bundle
Developing Media Literacy: Real News and Fake News
Published January 2019: With so much fake news being called real and so much real news being called fake, how is a young person (or anyone) supposed to know the real truth in the “post-truth world”? This is a three-day lesson plan with recently written real news and fake news articles provided that gives students an introduction to the topic of media literacy and fake news. It also helps develop their investigation, creativity, and writing skills by providing three interesting activities for the
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8th - 10th
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Genius Hour - The Quest
This packet of 37 pages gives you the current resources that I use for my class Genius Hour. All of these resources are available as free downloads on my blog at http://engagetheirminds.wordpress.com/genius-hour-resources/. However, this packet allows you to download them as one bundle. It includes: an augmented reality flyer that will play a Genius Hour trailer, a Genius Hour "Villains" poster (obstacles to learning), QR Code Bookmarks (that lead to websites to help students find topics), a
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4th - 7th
Linguistics for Young People (LYP Curriculum) Chapters 1-10
This is a workbook of the first 10 chapters of the Linguistics for Young People (LYP) Curriculum for Grades 5-8. This download contains over 100 mini-lessons that introduce the basic concepts of linguistics to kids, including:Language as a ScienceMedia of LanguagePhoneticsPhonologyMorphologyWriting SystemsLanguages of the WorldThe History of English
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5th - 8th
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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.
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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:Â Coding "Unplugged" Bundle for the Entire Year
SEL Quotes
52 of My Favorite SEL Quotes to build character, support the SEL competencies, and to SELebrate YOU!One of our favorite SEL activities is discussing and interpreting SEL quotes! You can use this resource in so many ways! Here's what I do:Each Monday. I introduce a new quote, one to support the building blocks of SEL and that gets my kids thinking deep. We display it in the room, talk about it for a couple of days, and I try to read books related to the overall message. Then midweek, I’ll ask eac
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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:Â 28 lessons and activities: Beginning HS Art (9th to 12th grade)
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:Â Earth Day Activities - Logic Puzzles
**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:Â NO PREP! WEBQUEST BUNDLE
TRASH TO TREASURE Trash & Recycling STEAM Unit
This 16-page, 6-hour (more or less...easily adjustable) STEAM unit includes lesson plans, hand outs, parent notes, criteria sheets, and examples for 4 hands-on activities related to trash and recycling!Activities include:Collect trash from outside or around the school to create a Trash Ball. Hypothesize how big the ball will be. Then compare/contrast the balls from different classrooms, grades, areas, etc.Make paper from paper scraps!Design Recycling Posters to put around the schoolCreate Tras
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2nd - 6th
Human Impact of Ecosystem - Ecosystem Project - Earth Day - Middle School
Do you teach students about the human impact of ecosystem and are looking for an engaging and low-prep ecosystem project? The Protecting Ecosystems Project is an engaging way to get kids researching, writing, and creating a project about an ecosystem, how humans impact it, and the benefits of protecting the ecosystem!Scenario: Your student is the director of the EOE (Ecosystems of Earth Committee) and will present their argument to the Earth Day Board of Directors to protect their ecosystem. S
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6th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-LS2-4
Middle School Makeover: A PBL Project
Have fun exploring school design through this hands-on, STEAM-based PBL:A local middle school has not had a major renovation in many years and is in need of an extensive makeover. The school board has requested student input in order to design a school that meets the needs of every student. The new school will start small and be designed to be added on to later as the population grows. Your students will work through a planning packet and then create their designs for a new middle school! As par
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6th - 8th
Unplugged Coding Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Lesson Plan
Lesson Description: Unplugged Coding - Peanut Butter and Jelly SandwichThis engaging and interactive lesson plan is designed for 4th to 6th-grade students to introduce fundamental algorithms, computational thinking, and problem-solving concepts through an unplugged coding activity. The activity involves creating step-by-step instructions (algorithms) for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.Overall, this lesson plan provides a dynamic and inclusive approach to introducing coding concepts, p
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3rd - 6th
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Landforms STEM Challenge
If you’re looking to apply learning in landforms, weathering & erosion, plate tectonics & more, this STEM / STEAM challenge is a perfectly engaging way to get the job done joyfully! The basic premise: Students work individually or in partners/groups against a list of criteria and constraints to create the nonliving surface (geosphere & hydrosphere) of the fictional planet, Planetopia. Note: This is the printable version. If you are in a 1:1 / paperless classroom, you will want to
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2nd - 8th
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"Education Pays!" College & Career Readiness **California Specific** NO PREP
Education Pays!Looking to prepare your students for higher education? Look no further! This presentation provides just the perfect amount of information for students to begin understanding their different options. Students will learn about the different methods of higher ed along with programs such as "TAG" that can help them secure their spot into a 4-Year University. Every state is different with cost and examples of school so you can tailor the presentation to fit your needs. This is Specific
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Grades:
8th - 12th
American Beaver Unit
This download was created with the you in mind. Please check out the rest of my store for more awesome resources!Thank you!Amie
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
Earth Day Activities - Logic Puzzles
This mini bundle includes 2 matrix grid puzzles, 3 Venn diagram Puzzles and 1 Decoder Activity.
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4th - 6th
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April and Earth Day Connections with Researchable Trivia
Challenge your students with this five-part April activity packet. Begin with APRIL CONNECTIONS, forty sets of three words that can be connected with a common term to form a familiar word or phrase. All the mystery words are related to the month of April. Follow up with EARTH DAY CONNECTIONS, another group of thirty-five word trios, connectable with a single term related to the April 22nd celebration of Earth Day. Allow your students to sharpen their internet research skills with APRIL TRIVI
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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