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Geography 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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Travel Agent Research Project | No Prep | Digital & Printable
This open-ended research project turns students into travel agents as they plan a trip! They will conduct research and select a destination, then use the internet to figure out flights, hotels, activities, and more! Students will also use addition, and maybe a bit of multiplication, to determine the total cost of their trip!This Resource Includes:Digital PowerPoint VersionDigital Google Slides VersionPrintable Black & White PDF VersionCompleted in 6 Steps!1. Location Research2. Select a Loca
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Geography Activities Geographer's Tools Upper Elementary Social Studies
Looking for an engaging upper-elementary geography lesson? This resource is chock-full of activities you can use to teach the geographer's tools of maps, tables, photographs, and charts! You'll get four activities that explore the different tools geographers use to organize geographic information. You'll love the quality graphics and original articles. Your students will love how interesting geography can be!You'll get four low-prep activities that can be used together or individually. Each acti
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Geography Lessons and Activities | Critical and Creative Thinking BUNDLE
Flags of the World STEM Mats - STEM Center for Building Bricks
If you are looking for a STEM and geography resource, or are celebrating any international sporting events, this is a great set to add to your toolbox!STEM Mats are SO easy to set up in your classroom! If you were thinking of trying STEM Fridays or Maker Mondays, or you need something more engaging for your early finishers than worksheets or reading, this is the resource for you. Not only will your students be working creatively to solve problems, they will be reading, writing, and using math sk
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1st - 5th
Also included in: STEM Activities and Challenges for K-2 - Whole Year Bundle
Amazing Race Printable Templates
This file is a PowerPoint file with Amazing Race templates to create challenges, detours and roadblocks in any content area. These templates can be used digitally or as printables. Just click inside the editable text boxes to add your content.Template includes: planning pageschallenge folderroute information carddetour cardroadblock cardplayer name tagsPowerPoint slides template
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K - 12th, Staff
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
Research a Country for Primary Gifted Students
This unit is based on the work of Dr. Sandra Kaplan. Using her areas of Depth and Complexity, a student can learn more about a country than just the name of its capital, and the population. This unit includes 15 pages of activities designed for gifted and talented students in first or second grade. The student will have such activities to complete as to create a cartoon about the ethics of the country, or to draw pictures showing how something has changed over time.
clipart used from www.scra
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1st - 3rd
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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Salt Dough California Regions Map for Distance Learning
This is a grab and go, self-directed project. Students will create a salt-dough topographical map of California. They will label the regions. This slide presentation has detailed instructions to allow students to do this from home. The ingredients are listed. Instructions go step by step. It is a STEM project that they can work on from home with their parents.
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
K-ESS3-1
, 4-ESS3-2
, 4-ESS3-1
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
Topographical Salt Dough Map of the United States
It's ready for Distance Learning! This is a turn-key project. Assign it to your students and let the parents work with them. They can present it with pictures or video. The format is Google Slides, so you can alter it any way you see fit. There is a list of features that students must label. From mountains to bodies of water, basins to rivers, the goal is to get them familiar with the landscape of the United States. I am using this as a GATE enrichment project. But, it can be used with a
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4th - 12th
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National Park Distance Learning Research Project: Report, PowerPoint, and Float
This project-based activity is designed to let students research, design a PowerPoint presentation, and parade a float representing a National Park for an audience of your choice. Easy to use because there are teacher tools to track assigned Parks and a rubric to score it all! Students LOVE this project and you will too! Inside You Will Find1 Parade of National Parks General Information Page1 How to Host the Parade Page1 Parent Information Page for Book Project1 Parent Information Page for Boo
Geography North American Map Skills Game Activity Second Grade Third Grade
Memorization doesn't have to be boring or mundane! If you need your students to memorize aspects of a map, this resource is your best friend! Add in a game - bonus points if they create the game! - and you've got an interactive, powerful geography tool for memorizing a simple North American continent map and the essential elements of that map.Direct instruction guidance is included to help you teach your students what they need to move forward in the activities.You can read the provided passage
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Geography Lessons and Activities | Critical and Creative Thinking BUNDLE
Geography Latitude and Discovery of Longitude Activities Plotting Coordinates
The discovery of longitude is so fascinating! Your students will love reading or listening to the story of how the mystery was solved and engaging in super fun activities to practice their coordinate grid latitude and longitude plotting. There's an original article about the discovery of longitude written especially to keep the attention of students. Do you love making geography come alive? I made this especially because my own students got so easily bored with latitude and longitude. I knew the
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Geography Lessons and Activities | Critical and Creative Thinking BUNDLE
25 STEM Challenges for use with LEGO® or Building Blocks: Landforms!
Teach Social Studies and landforms in a hands on, interactive way through building brick challenges for kids! These hands on activities are motivating, but also useful in teaching landforms! Perfect for bringing the Social Studies Geography curriculum to life!Have a BLAST teaching your students all about landforms! Bring STEM to your classroom in an innovative way!How to Use:In my classroom, each child uses a tupperware of building bricks. Each child has the same pieces to use for each challenge
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2nd - 5th
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Logic Puzzles Human Geography
Extend your geography lesson plans with these 5 table logic puzzles geared for 5th to 7th grade students. Use these deductive reasoning logic puzzles as a jumping off point for extension ideas that explore:Factory Wage EarningsLiteracy RatesLife Expectancy and Population Densities. We've taken critical thinking activities to a whole new level by integrating content-area facts with fun brain teasers. Whether you need a time filler, a homework assignment, an activity for an early finisher, or an e
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3rd - 8th
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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Landforms, Bodies of Water, Natural Resources and How People Use Them
EXPLORING PLACES!! This PowerPoint presentation shows 42 slides with very descriptive pictures of Landforms: canyon, volcano, mountains, cave, desert, plateau, valley, plain, hill, and island. Bodies of Water: River, Lake, pond, ocean, coast, waterfall, and glacierNatural Resources: Oil, water, trees, mines, wind, and soil. Uses of natural resources: to build highways, buildings, airports, stadiums, bridges, amusement parks, swimming pools, gardens, etc.At the end of the presentation, the pict
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K - 4th
Also included in: BODIES OF WATER, LANDFORMS, AND, NATURAL RESOURCES BUNDLE
State Research Report Digital Google Slide & Print
Are you looking for a quick state research report for students to display for Open House or want students to learn more about their own state history?This research report will work great. It's easy to use, engaging, and looks great. Make sure to click the video preview for an in-depth preview of what is included.This product includes:A digital Google Slide Version and a print versionPrint Version Includes:-1 Page Quick Option-4 Page Option more in-depth (can also be used with a file folder to ma
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: State Report & Country Report Bundle
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