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Middle school other (science) tools for common cores 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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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
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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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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Bible Stories STEM Activities & Challenges | Sunday School VBS Religion Lessons
Have you ever wondered if STEM and Religion can be combined? Well, the answer is YES. Try this Bible Stories STEM Activities and Challenges BUNDLE. The Bible lessons in this bundle will show you how fun and engaging the study of Bible stories can be when combined with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics! The STEM/STEAM/STREAM activities and challenges in this amazing bundle were created especially for Vacation Bible School (VBS) and it was a hit among students of all ages. Kid-test
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2nd - 6th
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Bible Stories STEM Challenge | Noah’s Ark Sunday School Lesson | Buoyancy
Have you ever wondered if STEM and Bible stories can be combined? Well, the answer is YES. Try my Noah's Ark STEM Challenge and see how fun and engaging the study of Bible stories can be when combined with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)! I created Bible Stories STEM Challenge | Noah’s Ark Sunday School Lesson | Buoyancy especially for our church's Vacation Bible School and it was a hit among students of all ages. Kid-tested, I'm pretty sure your Sunday School students o
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2nd - 6th
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Bible STEM Challenge | David and Goliath Sunday School Lesson | Force & Motion
Have you ever wondered if STEM and Bible stories can be combined? Well, the answer is YES. Try my David's Sling STEM Challenge and see how fun and engaging the study of Bible stories can be when combined with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)! I created Bible STEM Challenge | David and Goliath Sunday School Lesson | Force & Motion especially for our church's Vacation Bible School and it was a hit among students of all ages. Kid-tested, I'm pretty sure your Sunday Schoo
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2nd - 6th
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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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Bible Stories STEM Challenge | Build a Tower of Babel Sunday School Lesson
Have you ever wondered if STEM and Bible stories can be combined? Well, the answer is YES. Try my Tower of Babel STEM Challenge and see how fun and engaging the study of Bible stories can be when combined with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)! I created Bible Stories STEM Challenge | Build a Tower of Babel Sunday School Lesson especially for our church's Vacation Bible School and it was a hit among students of all ages. Kid-tested, I'm pretty sure your Sunday School stude
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2nd - 6th
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NEW STEM Teacher Bundle
Are you a new STEM teacher? This resource will give you the background training you need to:Understand and utilize the engineering design process (EDP) with teacher training ebookSet up your classroom (posters and word wall)Vet STEM challenges and evaluate student work (checklist and rubrics)Provide you with dozens of best-selling STEM ideas so you can try a variety of STEM challenge types and see what works best for you and your students!STEM with stories (fairy tale, picture book, read aloud b
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K - 6th
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Bible STEM Challenge | Paul Escapes Sunday School Lesson | Simple Machines
Have you ever wondered if STEM and Bible stories can be combined? Well, the answer is YES. Try my Paul Escapes in a Basket STEM Challenge and see how fun and engaging the study of Bible stories can be when combined with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)! I created Bible STEM Challenge | Paul Escapes Sunday School Lesson | Simple Machines especially for our church's Vacation Bible School and it was a hit among students of all ages. Kid-tested, I'm pretty sure your Sunday Sc
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2nd - 6th
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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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DNA Bracelets
This lesson takes two class periods of around 50 minutes. I use this in my gifted and talented class to teach about DNA base pairs in through hands on learning. Students learn about the 4 bases of DNA and will make a 3D model, which can be worn as a bracelet. They will pick a living organism and develop a key (bead colors to represent bases) in order to make their bracelet. Once they make the first part of the bracelet from the DNA code they are given they will then match the bases with the pair
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3rd - 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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The Great Wall of China Create Problem Solving STEM Activity
Do you love STEM and want to integrate STEM into your China Unit? This creative problems solving activity integrates STEM principles into creating a Great Wall which will hold a 3 pound bag of rice! Through trial and error students will think outside of the box to come up with a unique Great Wall.
Included in this unit:
Teacher Guide and Lesson plan with additional extensions
Student guide
Planning sheet
Rubric
Student team evaluation form
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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Card Tower STEM Challenge
This tower building STEM / STEAM Challenges is perfect for summer – or any time of the year! It brings the joy back to your classroom with collaborative, hands-on, brain-busting work (disguised as fun)!If you have spare index cards, at least 30 minutes, and a class to inspire, run this challenge as a fun, quick task for a rainy day, or select from multiple options provided to add depth and rigor to extend this activity to days or weeks of active learning!The basic premise: Individually, or in p
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2nd - 8th
Also included in: Card Tower STEM Challenge Mini 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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Bible Stories STEM Activities & Challenges | Sunday School VBS Religion Lessons
Have you ever wondered if STEM and Religion can be combined? Well, the answer is YES. Try this Bible Stories STEM Activities and Challenges BUNDLE. The Bible lessons in this bundle will show you how fun and engaging the study of Bible stories can be when combined with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics! The STEM/STEAM/STREAM activities and challenges in this amazing bundle were created especially for Vacation Bible School (VBS) and it was a hit among students of all ages. Kid-test
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2nd - 6th
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Robotics Contract for All Types of LEGO Robotics
This is a contract that I have made to give to my students before starting the LEGO Robotics portion of our class. This sets the ground rules for students to follow and to help them to understand not only how to treat the LEGO Robotics, but to also work with their partner to program the robot.
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3rd - 12th
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Bible Stories STEM Activities & Challenges | Sunday School VBS Religion Lessons
Have you ever wondered if STEM and Religion can be combined? Well, the answer is YES. Try this Bible Stories STEM Activities and Challenges BUNDLE. The Bible lessons in this bundle will show you how fun and engaging the study of Bible stories can be when combined with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics! The STEM/STEAM/STREAM activities and challenges in this amazing bundle were created especially for Vacation Bible School (VBS) and it was a hit among students of all ages. Kid-test
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2nd - 6th
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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
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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
Grades:
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
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