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Middle school environment tools for common cores for GATE
Depth of Knowledge and Learning Icons - Digging Deep - Critical Thinking Skills
These focus wall resources are designed to be engaging and meaningful. Help your kiddos reach for deep knowledge and content mastery using a variety of critical, complex thinking skills.Digging Deep Learning Practices assist students in engaging in critical thinking and developing meaningful understanding of concepts.This resource contains both large and small posters as well as “quick cards” that can be displayed on focus walls, resource walls, or simply during specific lessons.Encourage your s
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K - 6th
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Social Media, Digital Citizenship, & the Internet Depth & Complexity Bundle
Teach your students how to be digital citizens using the prompts of Depth and Complexity and Content Imperatives! This bundle offers Depth & Complexity frames, thought provoking games, and engaging activities all about social media, digital citizenship, and the internet! Students will have the chance to write, collaborate with others, share opinions, create a website and blog about it (on paper), and participate in many other activities.
Never used Depth and Complexity icons or frames in
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2nd - 8th
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Essay Template aligned with Lucy Calkins Boxes and Bullets
Students can use this template to plan and organize their essays for Informative, Persuasive, and Expository essays.
It includes Sentence Starters and Language Frames and lined paper to start their essays on.
The C_ O_ P_ S_ S_ is a checklist for students to check their writing for Capitalization, Organization, Punctuation, Spelling, and Sentence structure.
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4th - 8th
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A Literature Unit for Patricia Polacco's Junkyard Wonders
This unit was made to go Patricia Polacco's book The Junkyard Wonders. Included are 18 pages of activities to challenges your students to think more deeply about the story. The unit was created with the 4th and 5th grade Common Core Standards in mind. Topics explored are theme, setting, character traits, visualizing, and many more. Writing assignments and a project idea are also included. The themes in this book would also be perfect to explore with a gifted class. Email me at ideabackpack@
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3rd - 6th
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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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Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in: Science PBL | Project and Problem Based Learning Bundle
Science PBL | Project and Problem Based Learning Bundle
Project/problem based learning is a great way to teach science and have your students learn through discovery. This bundle includes PBLs that teach force and motion, ecosystems, and meteorology. In the force and motion PBL, students design a roller coaster to illustrate different key content vocabulary. While doing the meteorology PBL, students research different locations in the world and create a weather report script. In the ecosystem project they will research the causes and effects as well
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4th - 6th
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NGSS:
5-ESS2-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-ESS2-1
, 3-LS4-3
, 5-ESS3-1
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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
Differentiated Instruction CCSS STEM Choice Boards & Extension Menus K-8
Teachers, meeting the needs of all learners through differentiated instruction is more important now than it ever was. With the transition to the Common Core, more English language learners, and differing learning styles and abilities makes it pertinent for teachers to offer activities that appeal to each and every student. This is a collection of choice boards, extension menus, and Think-Tac-Toe boards for all grade levels and content areas. These will allow you to reach all students, ensure th
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K - 8th
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Human Impact on the Environment: Learn about Dams and Human Adaptation
Human adaptation of the environment is a critical standard, but it's not always the most exciting. Learning about dams and their impact on the environment can be fun and engaging! If you're looking for a powerful geography activity your students will remember all year, this is the one. This resource will guide your students through an understanding of how dams work, and also the effects of human adaptation of the environment. Using the GATE creativity tool of SCAMPER, task cards, and an explorat
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Geography Lessons and Activities | Critical and Creative Thinking BUNDLE
Error Analysis: Multiplication
Higher Order Thinking Task Cards
Newly update with new graphics: This is a set of critical thinking task cards. Students are required to analyze a traditional algorithm multiplication problem to find the single error. Students are then required to use their math knowledge and vocabulary to describe the problem. Then students write an extended response to help fix the error.
The task cards in this packet can be used in a variety of ways in the classroom: individual work stations, partner/ gro
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4th - 7th
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Zombie Apocalypse STEM
This Ultimate Zombie Apocalypse Survival Pack includes everything your students need to engineer survival tools for a zombie apocalypse.
Students use the engineering design process to create a fence/gate, water filter, solar oven, mobile greenhouse and a mobile cooler.
Most materials are everyday repurposed items. Perfect for after school clubs or enrichment activities,
Happy Engineering!
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4th - 8th
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Multiple Intelligence (MI) PowerPoint (Secondary Version) by Jennifer A. Gates
Teaching gifted, talent development or preparing students for Common Core by teaching them to identify their strengths?
This is the perfect way to introduce Multiple Intelligence: 8 characteristics that students can use to best identify ways in which they can make positive growth. They are: nature smart, logic smart, self smart, people smart, word smart, picture smart, body smart, and music smart.
Introduce and explore Multiple Intelligence in depth with students the elementary or primary and
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Common Core Text-Dependent Writing Prompt Argumentative Grade 8
The new common core standards will require students to relate their story and essay writing to two-three passages of text. The text may be nonfiction, charts, quotations, environmental print, fiction, or poetry. In line with PARCC demands.
This writing prompt contains three texts for the student to read (very short) and specific writing prompt directions. The type of writing the students will be composing will fall under the category "argumentative" because the student will be forced to establi
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7th - 9th
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Common Core Text-Dependent Writing Prompt Explanatory Grade 6
The new common core standards will require students to relate their story and essay writing to two-three passages of text. The text may be nonfiction, fiction, quotes, environmental print, or poetry.
This writing prompt contains three texts for the student to read (very short) and specific writing prompt directions. The type of writing the students will be composing will fall under the category "explanatory" because the student will be forced to respond to a question by making a definitive answ
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5th - 7th
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Dodecahedron - A 3-D - Novel Study - Book Project - to Fit Any Novel!
This is a student all time favorite of mine over the past 10 years. It is fun, engaging, and makes an absolutely beautiful final project to display.Typically, I do this while reading a class novel to enhance our study of the book (click here to find book specific projects) But this particular project is meant to fit any novel and can be done independently while students read their novel or as a book project after they finish reading.The project is easily differentiated and adapts to all learners
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Dodecahedron - Book Study Bundle - Upper Grades
Oceanography Unit-Exploration, Pollution, Technology,Benefits/Disadvantage,Floor
This complete 5 lesson unit covers the basics of oceanography. Included are handouts, photos of final products, QR codes, and foldable. Students will create a large booklet using a folder or large construction paper. After each lesson, they will place their product in the folder. At the end of the unit, students will have a folder full of information about oceanography. Students will use technology and QR codes to research information and perform experiments.
Lesson 1- The Benefits and Disadvant
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3rd - 6th
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Wetlands Ecosystem Simulation
Welcome, young ecologists, to an immersive exploration into the intricate web of life within various ecosystems! In this engaging activity, students will assume the roles of key organisms within diverse habitats, unraveling the complexities of their interactions and dependencies. Through hands-on simulations and critical thinking scenarios, participants will not only play the part of different ecosystem inhabitants but also ponder the profound impacts that the absence of each species could have
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3rd - 6th
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Global Warming and Wind Power - Analyzing Charts and Graphs
17 printable or digital pages for students to analyze charts and graphs on global warming and wind power: Wind farms, Residential wind turbines, Which states are investing money into this renewable resource, How the cost has gone down, The top nations of the world in this industry, Noise pollution from turbines, Injuries to birds, Reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, Offshore wind farms, and more... PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students
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4th - 10th
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MS-ESS3-2
, MS-ESS3-5
Also included in: Wind Power BUNDLE (Global Warming and Climate Change)
STEM Engineering for Elementary GATE - Wind Power, Windmills, and Wind
Two challenging but age-appropriate engineering projects highlight this unit. If you’ve taught my other STEM units, however, you know they’re not simply building projects. We’re thinking, learning science concepts, developing explanations, applying math and non-fiction reading skills, and bringing a wide variety of areas into a unit. But let’s not take lightly how cool it is to build and experiment with a cool mini glider and a working windmill!
As usual, we have ready-to-print activity shee
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3rd - 6th
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Art Social Change & Advocacy Project
Art Social Change & Advocacy Project:
Students read short explanations and facts about eight different world issues. They may research these (and others of their choice) more extensively, if desired. Students choose an issue they care about, and create an art poster that persuades others to create social change. Their artwork will creatively advocate for their cause, as well as inspire and educate others.
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5th - 10th
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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
Argumentative Essay Brainstorm Outline - College Prep
Many students have difficulty writing an argumentative essay... and this document is the perfect solution!
It doubles as a brainstorming/outline worksheet, and requires students to provide both evidence to support their claim as well as analysis of the evidence they choose.
Furthermore, it requires one of the most important components of an argumentative essay that students often forget or ignore... counter-argument.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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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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Grades:
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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Grades:
6th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-LS2-4
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