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Critical thinking career and technical education resources for Microsoft Word and for GATE
Primary GATE with Caldecott -- "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!" Mo Willems
Let’s have some fun along with the Pigeon and expand DOK along the way! This lesson will lead your primary GATE students through four challenging activities, culminating in an artistic response showing why they “never get to do anything!” either.
Gifted and talented learners carry similar characteristics throughout their lives—even as kindergarten and first graders. One common characteristic of gifted learners is a strong sense of justice. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus gives us a good o
Grades:
K - 3rd
STEAM DaVinci Renaissance Style: A Unit for Elementary GATE
In STEM Renaissance Style, students will follow the engineering process as they return to the 16th Century. With these lessons, the teacher defines the problem, helps students gather background research, and specifies the requirements. The students do the rest: creating alternative solutions, choosing the best solution, doing development work, building a prototype, and testing and redesigning.
Students construct a prototype of Da Vinci’s parachute while learning about falling objects, gravity,
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
Primary GATE with Caldecott COLLECTION - 180 pages - 7 Books!
Your primary kids will love these lessons! You save a bundle: 33% off individual purchases!
I teach 30-45 minute groups once a week of 1st and 2nd graders all year, and this collection is more than enough to get me through an entire school year of groups. I can’t absolutely guarantee it will do the same for you, but it’s going to be very close if it doesn’t . . .
You’ll see best practices in gifted education throughout. You’ll see many graphic organizers, age-appropriate and challenging cr
Grades:
K - 3rd
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Primary GATE with Caldecott -- "Two Bad Ants" by Chris Van Allsburg
If you're like me, you can't easily find activities designed for primary grade gifted learners. This one hour activity, however, is specifically designed for Chris Van Allsburg’s "Two Bad Ants" and primary gifted and talented students—nurturing talent for both verbal and nonverbal high ability students.
In this activity, students use critical thinking and creative perspective-taking to create a “mystery drawing” similar to the close-ups in "Two Bad Ants."
In an interactive follow-up, classma
Grades:
K - 2nd
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Going Commercial -- a GATE Unit for the 21st Century and the Common Core
Going Commercial is 100 pages of lessons and materials for the 21st Century Learner. It’s designed for 4th and 5th grade GATE students, but it is appropriate up through 8th and even 9th grade because of the nature of critical thinking and creativity involved.
This unit in its entirety will extend well beyond 20 classroom hours. You get lessons in economics, common core language and math activities, bunches of primary sources for best practices in social studies, public speaking opportunities,
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
STEM Kid Engineering -- Span the Gorge Secret Spy Adventure Challenge
In the Span the Gorge Secret Spy Adventure challenge, students launch their careers as secret spies and then solve an engineering challenge to save the day.
A vintage primary source postcard launches the mystery for our 21st Century Learners. Students will use logic interpretive skills (which include translating vintage cursive handwriting) and Internet and Computer Technology skills to “crack a code” and solve a mystery. Next, in a collaborative effort (Common Core skills in Language), stude
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Primary GATE with Caldecott -- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Come along for a challenging lesson and fun extensions with Ezra Jack Keats’s 1963 Caldecott winner, The Snowy Day.
I use this lesson with my 1st grade advanced readers. 2nd and 3rd graders should be right on target as well. Got a gifted kindergarten group? This will be an especially tough challenge for them but promises to stretch kids’ imagination and critical thinking skills across 4+ grade levels.
Pre-reading activities warm up your students for critical thinking questions as we “count
Grades:
K - 3rd
SCAMPER Invention Project
This two page activity includes instructions, expectations, descriptions, and a rubric for a "SCAMPER" project. Students will use the "SCAMPER" process to invent a new product. This is editable so that it can be modified for your specific purpose and grade-appropriate activity.
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Friday Math -- Sports Pennants Geometry Design for 21st Century Learners
Powerful visual-mathematical connections with hands-on design challenges. . .
Everyone likes to cheer for someone, and the traditional pennant has been a mainstay of “fandom” for more than a century. Tried, tested, and refined with GATE nonverbal ability 4th and 5th graders, this lesson should be a hit with 6th grade, 7th grade (or beyond) too!
In this lesson, students use geometry, number sense, and measurement skills to design their own pennants. The keyword is PRECISION in these designs.
Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in: STEAM Class BUNDLE - Math Focus Hours of Hands-on Projects GATE Gifted
September Brain Benders
Brain Benders are critical thinking activities designed for each month. Use them as enrichment activities, journal prompts, learning center activities, or however you choose! Each monthly Brain Bender comes with 20 activities organized in a 5x4 grid to resemble a calendar. You can choose to print the calendar with its corresponding multiple intelligence label for each activity or print it without. This is a great way to challenge your students!
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Grades:
K - 4th
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STEM Kid Engineering and Construction -- Air Rockets x 2
In the Air Rockets project, students build two different air rockets (one “blow rocket” and one rocket with a launching pad) using easy to find materials along with ready-to-print templates. Students build background knowledge about the properties of air and explore the differences between wings and rocket fins through class discussion, experimentation, and the use of a graphic organizer.
Appropriate for grades 3rd-6th—included all the instructions a teacher will need, ready-to-print templates
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Jury of Her Peers: Short Story Test
Jury of Her Peers: Short Story Test.7 Short answer questions and 1 timed essay question. Test created for 9th grade gate, but can be differentiated for other grades/levels. Asks higher level questions (Costa's level three questions) that force students to close read and think critically about the text. Questions can be used for Socratic seminar, or lead students through the text. Essay questions can be used to build background prior to reading the text.
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Not Grade Specific
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Factsketball
Engage your students with a fun and exciting game of Factsketball! This game is great for a reward or any time you want to enjoy a fun and educational activity with your students! Students answer trivia questions independently, collaborate with a group, and get rewarded with chances to make baskets. The team with the most baskets scored at the end of the game is the winner! **Editable!
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Classified Ads For Classroom Jobs, Application Form, & Student Checkbook
This item contains classified ads for classroom jobs in a newspaper format. You can personalize all parts of the product to make it suit your personal needs. The packet also contains a job application form, & student checkbook register. The checkbook register is an easy way to track classroom money that may be used with or without actually using class money.
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Perfect Unit Study - Wonders of the World
Identified Gifted and Talented Independent Study - EVERYTHING is included - too many Common Core Links to List. A semester's worth of work - just Click - Print - Teach
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Thank You M'am Depth and Complexity Frame
Throught provoking questions for the Jr. Great Books story "Thank You, Ma'm" using Sandra Kaplan's depth and complexity iconsExample: Details (Flower Icon)What details from the story prove that Mrs. Jones trusts Roger not to leave?Format is a table with the left column being the question and the right column being open to write a response. Also available in my store:Thank You Mam Digital Breakout Escape Room
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4th - 6th
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Energy and Circuit Game Show Menu
This is a game show menu covers the topics of:formation of fossils (and therefore fossil fuels), thermal energy (molecular structure of the states of matter), energy transfers, static electricity, conductors and insulators, and parallel and series circuits. There are activities designed for the lower, middle and upper levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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GATE Literacy Extensions Cube for Upper Elementary
Still looking for more activities and extensions for those pesky GATE verbal kids in your classroom? Give this one a try!
Roll the cube, and your eager learners will be on their way to a creative, standards-infused extension activity in critical thinking.
This free "cut and fold" cube is appropriate for upper elementary GATE and is generic enough to be used for either short fiction, biographies, or novels.
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Awesome Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi Activity
This Qin Dynasty activity brings Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi to life for students! This obituary activity is a fabulous writing activity that ties into the ancient China curriculum. There is a creative component as well, including artwork and advertisements for students to create. All of your students will be engaged during this project!
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Earthworms
Kaplan's Think like a scientist as you observe a real live earthworm (nightcrawler)! Kindergarten, first, and second graders will love this hands on science activity. The lesson can be scaffolded by having Kindergarteners first observe the earthworm with a scientific tool (magnifying lens) and then complete the observation sheet with or without teacher help. The older children do the same, except think more critically by comparing the earthworm to a human- did you know earthowrms have 5 hearts?
Grades:
PreK - 3rd
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Passion Project - Research Project Outline/Letter to Parents
Not sure where to begin with a long-term research or Passion Project? My letter to parents breaks it down for you. It's a great way for you and your aspiring researchers to get started on a topic that interests them! It contains:Research RequirementsTopic Idea ListReport Requirements/DirectionsAnd More!Parents must sign it so that they know what is happening. You decide on the due dates.
Grades:
4th - 6th
Gifted and Talented Bell Ringer Let's Think Activity
Gifted Education Bell Ringer Gifted and Talented students will use critical thinking to answer questions to this bell ringer. What a great way to start the class! There are 5 critical thinking questions and an answer sheet is included.Created By, Teresa LomasneyIf you liked this product, then you may like some others in my store. ***************************************************************************** CUSTOMER TIPS: How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: * Please go to your M
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Career Research Project
This project guides students through the process of thinking about skills and interests that they have and applying them to potential careers. Students also research what colleges have these degree programs.
Grades:
1st - 12th
Tricks and Maneuvers for Ascertaining Your Students' Learning Styles
This several page plan can help either the full-time teacher or the temporary guest teacher to quickly determine their students' learning styles. This tool helps the teacher to most effectively teach TO their students' aptitudes and strengths.
Grades:
4th - 12th
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