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Astronomy resources for GATE
Solar Eclipse 2024 Project Based Learning Activity For 3rd, 4th, and 5th STEM
This PBL activity is perfect for the next Solar Eclipse! Your students will learn about and apply research skills, writing skill, science skills and more during this PBL. It includes text about solar eclipses and 5-10 days of activities. One STEM activity included (building a solar eclipse viewer). I suggest allowing for at least 5 days to complete this project-based learning activity.Driving Question: D.Q.: How can I plan a solar eclipse viewing party that is fun, but also teaches students abou
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3rd - 5th
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Solar System Logic Puzzle for Developing Critical Thinking Skills
Enrich Your Solar System Unit with This Planetary Logic Puzzle!Astronomical Fun for Young Astronomers: Dive into the wonders of our solar system with this enthralling brain teaser. Perfect for students in grades 6-8, this puzzle combines learning with logic, tasking students with solving a mystery using clues about the planets and their order from the sun, and distinguishing between gas giants and terrestrial planets.What’s Included in the Puzzle:Ready-to-Use Easel Activity: With all answer boxe
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6th - 8th
Also included in:Â Science Logic Puzzle Bundle Measurements, Motion, Force, Atomic Structure
Stars STEM: Types of Stars
This STEM project explores how STARS can appear different in the night sky based on how far they are from the Earth! You provide materials for students to design and try their own stars in a 1/2 hour time limit. This STEM's goal is to explore properties of stars, their brilliance, and how this is affected by their distance from the Earth. All the materials you need for documenting student progress are found inside! Look What's Inside the Types of Stars STEM! For the Teacher• Notes for the Tea
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3rd - 6th
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Astronaut Space Research Project Gifted Students Enrichment PBL
Are you looking for a student-driven project for your gifted (AIG) students? In this resource, students will research 6 prominent astronauts. They will then create a project demonstrating what they learned. This resource includes ideas for online resources students can use but you can easily use your own resources for students to use.This resource is perfect for your AIG and/or gifted students as it includes broad ideas, openness, and student choice. What is included?Teacher & Student Instru
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4th - 6th
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Logic Puzzles Outer Space Science
Extend your outer space - astronomy lesson plans with these three (3) table logic puzzles.Geared for 3rd and 4th grade students with an interest in outer space, these logic puzzle brainteasers are a fun way to boost learning and explore more about:Lunar LandingSpace ProbesEarly Rocketry DevelopmentWe've taken critical thinking activities to a whole new level by integrating content-area facts with fun brain teasers. Whether you need a time filler, a homework assignment, an activity for an early f
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2nd - 5th
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Eclipses and the Founding Fathers: Revolutionary War Eclipse Perspectives - DBQ
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A Document-Based Question Unit on Eclipses and the Founding Fathers - Revolutionary War Eclipse Perspectives.
With the upcoming SOLAR ECLIPSE on Monday, August 21, 2017 in the U.S.A., it is prudent to discover that this is not the first in our history. In the midst of the Revolutionary War, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson took time out of their busy and important schedules to acknowledge two eclipses in the U.S. In this assignment, discover in t
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5th - 8th
Women's History Month - Female Astronauts
30 investigations of female astronauts: Christina Koch, Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, Valentina Tereshkova, Stephanie Wilson, Eileen Collins, Joan Higginbotham, Kathryn Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, Judith Resnik, Anna Lee Fisher, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Peggy Whitson, Svetlana Savitskaya, Ellen Ochoa, Kalpana Ochoa, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Samantha Christoforetti, Christa McAuliffe, Catherine Coleman, Helen Sharman, Laurel Clark, Anousheh Ansari, Roberta Bondar, Anne McClain, Yi So-yeon, Liu Yang, Naoko Yama
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4th - 12th
Also included in:Â Space BUNDLE
Total Solar Eclipse 2024 STEM Challenge | Build a Pinhole Projector Activity
April 8, 2024 is almost here, and your teacher life just got a little busier with total solar eclipse activities you need to plan. Celebrate and learn more about the Great North American Total Solar Eclipse with my Total Solar Eclipse 2024 STEM Challenge | Build a Pinhole Projector Activity. Use Total Solar Eclipse STEM activities to cover standards and give your students super fun Great American Solar Eclipse activities they will love. This ready to go Build a Pinhole Projector Activity is just
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Total Solar Eclipse 2024 Activities Bundle | STEM Challenge and more
Invent an alien: learning about the solar system & systems of the body
This project gives students the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of the solar system, systems of the human body, and adaptations. Students will be given the opportunity to research a planet (it's atmosphere, weather, composition, etc.), then invent an alien that would be able to survive on the planet. While inventing their alien, students need to create systems of the alien's body that will allow it to survive on the assigned planet. Students also need to ensure that the alien's bod
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3rd - 9th
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SOLAR SYSTEM PROJECT: ALIEN TOURISM CONFERENCE
Get your students engaged in the solar system by having them research about their planet and host a tourism event for their planet!This Solar System Project: Alien Tourism Conference is a great engaging activity to get students involved in the planets in our solar system. This project allows students to do a deeper dive in researching planets in the solar system (or planets outside the solar system if you want an extension) and display their understanding in a unique way. This is a great project
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3rd - 7th, Higher Education
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Challenge Project: Black Holes
Challenge Projects are designed as differentiated experiences for any student - whether he/she is gifted, high potential, average, underachievers, English language learners, struggling, and/or displaying other special needs. These enrichment units are designed to be chosen by students based upon their interests and strengths. Challenge Projects do not have a set length of study. Rather, each avenue of study should be flexible and determined by the length of time daily that a student is able to
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4th - 6th
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Rocket PBL Student Research Packet for Gifted & Talented - IIM Process
Made with the gifted students in mind! This Project Based Learning (PBL) packet uses STEM-based learning to captivate students with a problem-statement for students to develop an original solution to solve. It also follows along with the IIM (Independent Investigation Method/Model) research methodology. This is perfect for younger gifted students who have never done IIM before and need a more structured way to complete the process, or perfect for older gifted students in the general education se
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K - 6th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Zaccaro Math Gifted Enrichment - Astronomy
Passion is an important part of developing excellence. Unfortunately, math is often taught as all scales and no music. These lessons will give teachers the tools to help students take intellectual risks; learn to think deeply and with insight; see the magic and wonders of mathematics and help students understand and appreciate mathematics and its place in the world. Problems are provided with numerous levels of difficulty to meet the needs of all gifted students.
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3rd - 6th
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Mission Mars
Students are challenged with first getting to Mars, and then build a colony on Mars. Students work in groups to go through the engineering design process to create a Mars lander, a spacesuit and then a colony that livable on Mars. Includes a video link on a Mars rover.
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4th - 6th
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The Solar System Informational PowerPoint
This product is an informational PowerPoint presentation focusing on The Solar System.
The Product Includes:
- The Solar System Overview
- The Sun
- Mercury
- Venus
- Earth
- The Moon
- Mars
- The Asteroid Belt
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Uranus
- Neptune
- Dwarf Planets
Also includes video links to help supplement the material.
This PowerPoint is also part of a larger novel study that includes the novel The Magic School Bus - Space Explorers and journal pages that go along with the PowerPoint.
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1st - 5th, Staff
Drop an Egg
This classic contest combines fun with science and engineering using common materials. Students work alone or in teams.This product includes my description of how my students dropped eggs AND a web page with links to more options that make it easy for you can tailor the activity to your students. Bonus: Have students practice creating a container that protects the raw egg just like scientists at NASA protected the Spirit rover we sent to Mars. Use images, a presentation, or three videos of NASA
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3rd - 6th
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Space Objects Review Game - Quiz, Quiz, Trade
Quiz Quiz Trade is a fun, engaging activity to review skills! To play, each student gets a card. The students walk to a partner. Once they are with a partner, they quiz each other. To quiz, they take turns reading each other’s card. After each partner has a turn, they trade cards. The students move onto a new partner and repeat the quiz, quiz, trade!This product includes 36 games card, teacher directions, and tips to include student accountability.Terms Include:CometAsteroidMeteorMeteoroidMeteor
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5th - 10th
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Canva Project: Research a Famous Astronomer / Contributor to Space Exploration
Generally used with 8th grade. Using Canva, students will create a presentation about a famous astronomer / contributor to space exploration.
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7th - 10th
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Fortune Tellers for Phases of the Moon
This fun device can also be called a Cootie Catcher. You can use it to help students review the names for the phases of the moon. It could be a great distance learning resource!I included two different version, real images of the moon and drawn images of the moon. You can have students create a fortune teller to play with a friend or one that they can play solo. You might have students use the blank form to create their own fortune teller for the phases of the moon. I created a web page with dir
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4th - 6th
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Combat Sports Martial Arts Research Project Gifted Students Enrichment PBL
Are you looking for a student-driven project for your gifted (AIG) students? In this resource, students will research 6 prominent boxers, wrestlers and/or martial artists. They will then create a project demonstrating what they learned. This resource includes ideas for online resources students can use but you can easily use your own resources for students to use.This resource is perfect for your AIG and/or gifted students as it includes broad ideas, openness, and student choice. What is include
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4th - 6th
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Solar System Extension Choice Board
This menu board is great for students that are currently learning or have learned about the solar system. There are a total of 9 boxes of activities students can choose. It gets them to create and analyze information. It also incorporates the technology piece in a few of the choices. This would be great to use with GATE students, early finishers, and independent workers.
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3rd - 5th
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Art STEAM: Constellation Creations
STEAM Challenge: Constellation CreationsLearn about the stars, sun, and constellation formations with our constellation art! Students loved the freedom to create their own constellations.What is STEAM?STEAM is about Community, Collaboration, and Confidence! STEAM programming is essential for communities. STEAM is so much more than just fun science, technology, engineering, art and math activities. When STEAM is done right, it challenges kids to solve problems with many answers. Children have to
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PreK - 5th
iPad Learning Station - Touch the Sky! An Astronomy Adenture
Are you looking for a great way to use an iPad in your classroom? This learning station is designed to use the new kind of interactive textbooks created just for the iPad. Students are engaged with an Air Force pilot as they learn about astronomy. The station is designed for students to work through 5 "Missions". Correlations to the Common Core ELA standards grades 3-6 are included in the iBook.
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3rd - 6th
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Create-a-Center: Astronomy
ABOUT THE CREATE-A-CENTER SERIESEach center provides 90 tasks, ready to cut out and make into a center, as well as a crossword puzzle and an enrichment activity. The multi-disciplinary activities are keyed to Bloom's Taxonomy and include tasks from the 6 major classifications of the cognitive domain: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Create-a-Centers are great for gifted and talented students.Answers are provided for the crossword puzzle and most of the
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4th - 8th
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