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Biology tools for common cores for GATE under $5
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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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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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
DNA Extraction from Strawberries
This Power Point slide show provides a visual for my 5th grade gifted students as they follow the procedures for extracting DNA from strawberries. The entire DNA Extraction lesson, created by Irene Salter, is available at My Science Box: http://www.mysciencebox.org/DNAextraction. I took photographs of each step and have found that it has greatly helped my students and me as we work through each step of the experiment. Every year, I am amazed by the results!If you're looking for resources to u
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5th - 8th
A Literature Unit for Drew Daywalt's The Day The Crayons Quit
This unit was made to go with Drew Daywalt's The Day The Crayons Quit. Included are 17 pages of activities to challenge 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 point of view, theme, character traits, visualizing, text structure, plot, letter writing, comparing/contrasting, responding to quotes, and more. Writing assignments are also included. Email me at ideabackpack@gmail.com with
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3rd - 5th
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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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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
Assessment Compare and Contrast Informational Text
This is the Common Core Assessment addressing the standard 2.RI.9 Compare and Contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic. A science piece on ladybugs (two articles) and two articles on Jackie Robinson (a timeline and narrative). Two different compare and contrast graphic organizers are used as well as multiple choice and short and essay answers.
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
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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CAMOUFLAGE: How Do I Hide Myself?
This PowerPoint presentation shows 33 slides in which the animals are camouflaged. After the class has guessed where the animal is, you click to display a line around the animal. The photographs are awesome, very descriptive, provoke questions and encourage some great discussions.The 40 photographs are very descriptive, provoke questions and encourage some great discussions.By using this PowerPoint you will enjoy no prep and no printing.After the presentation you can do the following activities:
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Grades:
K - 4th
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
Parts of a Plant Foldable
The parts of a plant foldable can be used with your favorite textbook, article, or video on the parts of a plant. This foldable is used as a place to consolidate and keep the information. There are sections identifying each part of the plant, explaining the function of the leaf, stem, root, and flower, explaining the life cycle of a plant, describing how a plant makes its own food, and drawing a picture of photosynthesis. Included are detailed pictures which show what each area says or has drawn
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2nd - 6th
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Depth and Complexity Icons Posters
These classroom posters with Depth and Complexity Icons will enhance the thinking, learning, and discourse in your classroom! Depth and Complexity Icons come from the work of Dr. Sandra Kaplan. These icons were developed to help gifted learners to think more deeply about various content topics and can be used in multiple subjects areas. Using depth and complexity in the classroom can benefit all learners and add rigor to your existing content. This product includes:3 sets of color posters (all 1
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Depth and Complexity Icons Getting Started BUNDLE
Function, Feature, Class Task Cards
Use these 24 FFC task cards to help children identify items given either their function, their features, or their class. Perfect for children with autism and other developmental disabilities.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.5.a
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PreK - 2nd
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How Does Your Garden Grow? Long Term Plant Observation Booklet
To fulfill our NGSS requirement of sustaining a long-term observation within the classroom, our fifth grade team is using plant observations!
Students were able to design their own experiment, choosing from a variety of seeds, containers, soil types, watering methods, growing locations and light sources. The trick? They could only pick ONE of these to be their variable!
I created this booklet to help them visualize their experiment-they had to outline exactly how they were going to grow Plant
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3rd - 6th
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Grade 4 math DOK: FRACTIONS-4 DIfferentiated tasks, MINI PROJECT+Math Monster!
Math Mania!
(Rubric Included for EACH TASK) Total of 17 pages!!
** NEW COMPONENTS
1) COMMON CORE ALIGNED PERFORMANCE TASK (MINI- PROJECT)
2) THE Math Monster!! He munches his way through your math work and just loves hanging around! See if you can find him on each page!!
3) 5 total tasks, each task is aligned to CCS and includes: word problems, and short response!
CCS: 4.NF (Numbers and operations in fractions)
a) making fractions based on shaded/unshaded parts
b) comparing fractions
c) order
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Grades:
4th, Staff
Penguin Depth and Complexity Low-Prep Activities with writing 4th - 6th Grades
Who doesn't love penguins? If your students have been reading "Mr. Popper's Penguins" or if you just love penguins, this set of Penguin Depth and Complexity activities offers low-prep and no-prep printables perfect for 4th - 6th grade students. Five different types of activities offer a range of opportunities to learn while about penguins.✨✨This Depth and Complexity penguin print-and-go set of activities can be done on one day or spaced out over time. The activities are geared to fourth through
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4th - 6th
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The Eye & Vision
This unit explores eye anatomy and physiology. Students begin by building a foundation of basic eye structures, building a clay model to visualize and engage with the anatomy. This is followed by interactive, discovery-based lessons that demonstrate the functions of the human eye and gain an understanding of how they are able to see the world around them.
What is included:
- "Terms to Know" vocabulary sheet
- "Anatomy of Eye" worksheet
- Step-by-step teacher guide for building a clay eye (with
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1st - 5th
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Halloween Creature Adaptation STEAM Activity
In this engaging STEM lesson, students will explore the fascinating world of animal adaptations by creating their own fictional Halloween creatures. They will design unique creatures, place them in Halloween environments with specific challenges, and develop adaptations to help their creatures survive. This project will encourage critical thinking, creativity, and a deeper understanding of how animals adapt to their surroundings. To make this activity even more festive, included is a fictional s
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6th - 12th
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Primary Gifted and Talented Social Emotional MARSHMALLOW Respecting Differences
We all share common hopes, dreams, feelings, and abilities no matter what ethnicity, nationality, gender, or group we belong to. That message is the key take-away from this primary GATE unit. As such, this unit is a social-emotional unit with NACG standards . . . but much more:Primary GATE best Practices with a Social-Emotional Emphasis· Critical Thinking· Language and Reading· Creativity· Science We use Clare Turlay Newberry’s Caldecott Honor book, Marshmallow, as our vehicle. We also use Lisa
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K - 2nd
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Ectomy: a brain parts board game
Nine major brain regions, one set of forceps: how long will it take your students to put their brain together and win?Each student gets a blank brain map, but all of its parts are in a pool in the middle. Draw a card and answer the question correctly to win that brain part. What if you win two of the same lobes? Trade with other players to get a complete set as fast as you can! Watch out for the hazard cards, mixed into the pile, that force you to "-ectomy" a part and win it all over again.Sampl
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Body Systems Bundle
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.
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education
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