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Middle school life skills tools for common cores for GATE
Inside Out Movie Worksheets | Movie Day Activities | Social Emotional Learning
Looking to support your student's social-emotional needs?What better way to engage students than with a MOVIE TIME? ... INSIDE, OUT is certainly a fun childhood favorite!Check out these LEARNING ACTIVITIES created just for the movie!Personality Islands Digital PBLPersonality Islands Printable PBLHow to Make Broccoli Pizza - A Fun and Engaging Reading and Math ActivityThis resource includes a printable AND digital version to use with Google Classroom™Looking for more MOVIE GUIDES? Click HERE-Movi
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4th - 7th
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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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Middle School Math Financial Literacy | Real World Summer School Curriculum
Are you looking to make teaching personal financial literacy exciting? This Real World Math budgeting project is perfect for Middle School students and for an end of Year Project.It will have them looking at budgeting and finance skills as they plan their 'future life'. Student have so much fun during this project and get a real insight into the cost of living. Are you looking for a financial literacy project that will engage your students?This unit of work has been designed to allow middle scho
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Financial Literacy Project Bundle Grades 5 to 9 | Economics and Business
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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Gifted and Talented Curriculum BUNDLE - GATE for Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade
Looking for a resource designed to support newly identified gifted learners?Look no further... While some may argue that everyone is gifted, not everyone is a "gifted learner." This bundle of activities and lessons is here to assist educators, parents, and gifted students on their lifelong journey of navigating giftedness.For educators, there's the, "Got a GATE Program?" guide, and for parents, "A Guide to Gifted Resources That Stand Out From the Crowd." Gifted learners will benefit f
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3rd - 6th
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INSIDE OUT Movie Activities | Encanto | Social Emotional Learning | BUNDLE
***GRAB the POPCORN!*** It's time for FUN FRIDAY!ALL your MOVIE GUIDES and activities for the year are ready to go with this amazing Movie Guide Bundle for upper grades! Movie Days are GREAT INCENTIVES for awesome classrooms! ***Each MOVIE GUIDE supports Social-Emotional Learning objectives as well!***With 7 of your student's favorite movies in an organized and guided format, you will be all set for special movie theme days sprinkled throughout the year. >> PLEASE click on the PREVIEW abov
Grades:
4th - 8th
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STEM Activities and Challenges | Growth Mindset | Mental Health | Brain Anatomy
Here’s a creative and fun way to share the importance of a GROWTH MINDSET! This "Outta the Box" Classroom Competition can be done on a Fun Friday or throughout the week during your science block. The theme is “BRAINY”. Students will read tidbits of information about Neurons and the Brain/Spinal Cord relationship, but best of all, they will be challenged with building a neuron connection and a Tall Spinal Cord Tower! Talker challenges have students thinking creatively about expansion and when bad
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4th - 6th
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SCAMPER Creative Thinking & Problem Solving Packet
SCAMPER is a technique used by successful companies and individuals to create new products and to improve their services. Teach your students SCAMPER to improve their creative thinking and problem solving abilities! The activities in this packet provide scenarios for students to apply SCAMPER in order to create and invent new ideas! It will challenge them and help them utilize their imagination in the classroom.
This packet includes the following:
SCAMPER anchor chart
Instructions for teaching
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Habits of Mind Unit with Answer Key!
This Habits of Mind Unit has it all!
Students will practice the following habits of mind in engaging activities that can be completed as a class or in stations! The habits of mind included in this unit are Responding with Wonderment & Awe; Creating, Imagining, & Innovating; Striving for Accuracy & Precision; Gathering Data Through All of the Senses; and more! These are great 21st century skills for students to have and practice!
There are 16 Habits of Mind in total and 16 engaging
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4th - 7th
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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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May the Fourth Be With You Reading and GROWTH MINDSET
May the Force Nurture Your NeuronsWhat better way to teach a GROWTH Mindset or celebrate May the Fourth than with tips from favorite characters? This Easy Prep Workshop includes over 2 hours of activities that can be taught all at once or separately in sections. The activities in this unit are designed to inspire students to take responsibility for their own learning and success in a fun and meaningful way. Bulletin Board Banner Quotes and a blank student form are included as a bonus activity. E
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4th - 6th
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Multiple Intelligence Test for Kids (Free)
Learning about multiple intelligence theory can be very empowering for students, especially when you administer a survey to help them discover their own strengths and growth areas. Because most online survey tools are too long and complex for kids, I created this quick and easy classroom version for my students. I included an example of a completed survey on page 4 so you can see how it works.How to Use this Survey to Foster a Growth MindsetBefore you use this survey, please watch my free MI Sur
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4th - 7th
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Social Emotional Project Based Learning | Inside Out Movie Activity | Digital
Here’s a great way to teach PSYCHOLOGY concepts and Project Design to your students in an engaging and fun manner.This is a DIGITAL Project Based Learning activity that your students are sure to love!How fun is it to create your own PERSONALITY ISLAND similar to the ones in the Kid-favorite movie, "INSIDE, OUT"?Looking for the movie guide? Click the link below...Digital or Printable Movie GuideLooking for MORE PBL Opportunities? Check out this section of GATER Educator Activities >>>>
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4th - 7th
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Social Emotional Learning Activities | Movie Guide | The Croods
Looking to support your student's emotional needs?This MOVIE GUIDE activity supports, Understanding Anxiety and FearWatching Movies IS GOOD FOR YOU! Especially if you can learn a life lesson or two from them!This is a great movie for teaching students about Social-Emotional Intelligence and helping them understand how Anxiety and Fear can impact their daily lives. Healthy strategies are suggested for discussion points at the end.This resource includes a printable AND digital version to use with
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4th - 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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ELA Centers | Enrichment Activities for Gifted Students | Early Finishers 3
Classroom Challenge: How can I meet the needs of Gifted Learners, Early Finishers, or High-Achievers?Are you wondering how you can provide differentiation in the classroom, meet the needs of gifted learners, or simply provide kids with creative and critical thinking opportunities that are fun and engaging?By purchasing this bundle, you are saving 30% off the total price of each individual resource!Creativity is a skill that should be nurtured in all students. Creative thinking activities provide
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4th - 6th
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Gifted and Talented Escape Room | Color by Code | Reading Comprehension BUNDLE
Get your GIFTED and TALENTED students engaged with this awesome BUNDLE of easy-prep reading comprehension activities.Featuring escape rooms, color-by-code activities, close readings, and more! Perfect for gifted and talented learners seeking to learn more about social-emotional learning. Save 30% off each individual resource when you purchase the bundle today!Close Reading ESCAPE ROOM CHALLENGES include:Informational Text- 2 Pages in Each ResourceBreakout Task 1- Plot an Escape: Vocabulary Word
Grades:
4th - 8th
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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Paying for College Project
This project helps teach and reinforce an understanding of methods of paying for college. It focuses on federal aid (as determined using the FAFSA calculator), scholarships available at specific colleges, and private scholarships available through other resources. I made this for my 6th-8th graders but I think it could be beneficial for older students who are unfamiliar with the methods of paying for college.
Grades:
6th - 10th
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
ENCANTO Movie Guide | Worksheet | Questions | Google Slides | Movie Day
Check out the latest favorite movie, ENCANTO!Teachers, are you looking to support your student's social-emotional needs?What better way to engage them than with MOVIE DAY? ... ENCANTO has some great life lessons!This resource includes a printable AND digital version to use with Google Classroom™Looking for more MOVIE GUIDES? Click HERE-Movie Guide for INSIDE, OUT (digital and printable)-Movie Guide for How to Train a Dragon (digital and printable)-Movie Guide for Wreck-it Ralph (digital and prin
Grades:
5th - 9th
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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