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Other (ELA) Common Core W.8.7 resources for Gifted and Talented
The Bucket List: “Short Research Project” with Real-World Goal-Setting
Bucket Lists don’t have to be morbid; they can inspire us, give us hope, and force us to change or try new things. Setting goals is a valuable skill made even more priceless when we learn HOW to achieve them!Hook students into doing research in disguise, hiding the work within a topic that they actually care about! In this project, students first make their own bucket lists and are then instructed to go RESEARCH how to actually accomplish at least ONE of those list items in a step-by-step manner
Internet Activities - Rockets, Space Shuttles, Satellites and Rovers
28 printable or digital internet investigations on space exploration. Students use a laptop, tablet or smart phone to search online for information about... NASA, space suits, accidents in space, animals in space (dog, monkey, rabbits, mice, spiders, flies…), people in space, rockets, the Apollo space program, space shuttles, SpaceX, going to the Moon, going to Mars, Luna 1, Sputnik 1, Explorer 1, Voyager 1, Messenger, the lunar rover, Sojourner, Chang’e 4, Hubble telescope, Chandra, satellites
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3rd - 10th
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Also included in: Space BUNDLE
Dream Vacation Research Project-Digital & Printable- 6th, 7th, 8th Grade
Embark on an exciting research adventure with your middle school students as they plan their dream vacation! This resource provides a comprehensive and enjoyable framework to guide both you and your students through a captivating research project that brings their ideal getaway to life.Within this resource, you will find everything you need to seamlessly facilitate this short but engaging research project. From instructions to helpful resources, this resource takes the guesswork out of the plann
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: End of the Year Activities Bundle- 5 Resources Included
Survival Literature Research Project - Survival Skills - Man vs. Nature Conflict
Enhance your survival unit with survival skills tests, analysis activities using thematic songs on survival, and a research project on real-life teens who survived person vs. nature conflicts! This includes teenagers and young adults who survived natural disasters, animal attacks, or being lost in the wilderness!The materials support and enhance survival literature units and will compliment your reading of novels with survival themes!The activities are also great way to reinforce text-to-world
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8th - 11th
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Biography Symbolism Assignment
Biography Symbolism Assignment | PDF and Digital Formats: Students will read a biography, memoir, or autobiography and then create a life map outlining the important events in their chosen person's life. After creating the life map students will provide a written explanation and oral presentation of their life map. This assignment is Google Classroom ready with individual PDFs and Google Drive graphic organizers.Curriculum LinksThis lesson covers reading, writing, oral/speaking, and media litera
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6th - 8th
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Shark Tank: Genius Hour Project Proposals
Provide your students with an authentic audience for presenting their Genius Hour project pitch - "Shark Tank" style!Kick off Genius hour with this highly engaging Shark Tank Activity. Students will choose a topic and final product for their passion project, develop and refine their research question, and hone speaking and 21st century skills by presenting their proposal to a panel of experts. After hearing student pitches, the panel will provide meaningful feedback to help students develop a u
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7th - 10th
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Ancient Egypt Project Based Learning with Easel Activity Digital and Printable
This Ancient Egypt project allows students to choose from a list of 21 different choices to research! Includes teacher directions, student directions, Egypt Project Requirements (one hundred point checklist), project idea list, project choice sheet (students choose their top four choices), topic assignment sheet (teacher assigns project to student from their choices), bibliography example sheet, and a peer review sheet for the research paper and for an oral presentation. Students can research to
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4th - 7th
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Middle School BUNDLE
This bundle contains 557 printable activities for 6th grade, 7th grade and 8th grade students: frequently misspelled words, internet research activities, quotations, villains and heroes, ASL fingerspelling, taking selfies, discrimination and stereotypes, blindness, stealing, how to make people laugh, the purpose of school, Helen Keller, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Martin Luther King Jr., Native Americans, Spanish missions, rock-climbing, geometry, adjectives and nouns, divergent thinking,
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6th - 8th
April Digital and Print Writing Journal Bell Ringers Warm Ups Activities
Print and Digital options! Keep your students writing every day! Quirky holidays, historical events, inspirational quotes, and mini research -- a different prompt for each day gives students lots of choices!Did you know that April is National Grilled Cheese Month? That's one of the over thirty prompts you'll find in this resource. Topics include trivia, historical events, silly/serious holidays, famous birthdays, and thoughtful quotes. This resource includes:Both digital and print versions3
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Bundle Monthly Warm up Bell Ringer Writing Journal Prompts
January Daily Writing Journal Warm Up Bell Ringers Print and Digital
No matter what your year looks like, this is an easy way to keep your students writing! Engage them with daily journal writing with 31 January prompts that focus on quirky holidays, important days in history, funny/inspirational quotes, and research.Print or digital -- You'll get both!Did you know that January 7 is National Bobblehead Day and January 20 is Penguin Awareness Day? (Neither did I!!) Those are two of the over thirty prompts you'll find in this resource. Topics include trivia, histor
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Bundle Monthly Warm up Bell Ringer Writing Journal Prompts
MyPerspectives 9th Grade Unit 4: Star Crossed Romance (Romeo & Juliet)
This comprehensive and engaging resource consists of 114 Slides for Romeo and Juliet. Slides contain activities, prompts, assessments, discussion questions, a mock trial, close readings, Jeopardy game links, mini-lessons, and so much more to make teaching and learning Romeo and Juliet fun, educational, and creative!The handouts bundle includes over 20 resources of corresponding handouts for the unit, which includes a mock trial framework, a ready to use end-of -play assessment with a step-by-ste
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8th - 12th
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May Digital Writing Journal Prompts Warm Ups Bell Ringers
Print & Digital Versions! Keep your students writing every day! No matter what your classroom set up is. Fun and wacky daily prompts with open-ended creative prompts that encourage creative and critical thinking.Did you know that May 7 is World Laughter Day or that May 13 is Frog Jumping Day? Those are a few of the thirty-one prompts you'll find in this resource. Topics include trivia, historical events, silly/serious holidays, famous birthdays, and thoughtful quotes. This is what you
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Bundle Monthly Warm up Bell Ringer Writing Journal Prompts
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (BUNDLE WITH HANDOUTS)
This resource breaks down Karen Russells' "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" and allows students to study the phenomenal short story through creative writing prompts, discussion, and guided questions. Students will also learn about culture shock as it relates to the text. The mini-unit ends with a narrative writing task in which students explore the connections between assimilation attempts and the actual results of assimilation.This bundle includes a total of SEVEN resources with guid
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8th - 12th
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My Perspectives Unit 1 "Rites of Passage" Slides
My Perspectives Unit 1 "Rites of Passage" Slides - includes: - introduction to unit theme - unit goals for pre-teaching - all unit vocabulary with definitions, sentence examples, synonyms and antonyms - word studies with noted affixes and meanings - conventions: verb moods (Indicative Mood, Imperative Mood, & Interrogative Mood)aligns with state standards.
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8th
MyPerspectives 9th Grade Unit 6 BUNDLE Slides & Printable Activities, etc
This comprehensive and engaging resource comprises a thematic unit plan of short stories, poems, videos, etc. Slides contain activities, prompts, assessments, discussion questions, mini-lessons, and more to make teaching and learning fun, educational, and creative!This bundled resource also includes printable and ready-to-use handouts, activities, assessments, etc that correlate to the unit plan.
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8th - 12th
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MyPerspectives 10th Grade Unit 2 BUNDLE Slides & Printable Activities, etc
This comprehensive and engaging resource comprises over 100 SLIDES corresponding. Slides contain activities, prompts, assessments, discussion questions, mini-lessons, and more to make teaching and learning fun, educational, and creative!This handouts resource includes over ten printable and ready to use handouts, activities, assessments, etc that correlate to the "Outsiders and Outcasts" unit plan.
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8th - 12th
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October Daily Writing Warm Up Bell Ringer Journal Prompt Print or Digital
Print and Digital Versions! No matter what your year looks like, this is an easy way to keep your students writing! Engage them with daily journal writing with 31 October prompts that focus on quirky holidays, important days in history, funny/inspirational quotes, and research.Did you know that October 4 is National Cinnamon Bun Day and that October 14 is National Chocolate Covered Insect Day? (Neither did I!!) Those are two of the over thirty prompts you'll find in this resource. Topics in
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Bundle Monthly Warm up Bell Ringer Writing Journal Prompts
Asian American Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month One Pager
Celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May with this creative, artistic, unique one-pager project that requires students to research important people throughout history. Completed projects make beautiful hallway or classroom displays... they're also great for bulletin boards that highlight AANHPI Heritage Month!Included in this purchase is:Student directions for the one pager projectRubric for the one pager projectExample one pager (Featuring Malala Yous
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Right Ways to Research
This is an extensive lesson that covers everything students need to know about finding credible information. Some of the incredible things students will learn include the differences in website domains, the difference between using databases and search engines, and how to determine credibility. There are plenty of activities worked into this presentation to solidify learning. Best of all, the speaker notes on each slide provide a word-for-word transcript to use while teaching!
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6th - 12th
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Asian Literature Unit BUNDLE (SLIDES & HANDOUTS)
This comprehensive and engaging resource consists of 81 Slides for an Asian Literature Unit. The handouts bundle includes over 75 pages of resources of corresponding handouts for the unit, which include but are not limited to: Graphic organizers, creative writing prompts, engaging activities, text-based questions and analysis, and so much more!
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8th - 12th
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Unsolved Mysteries | 1 Day Mini-Research Project Google Slides™ Presentation
Encourage curiosity with your students and allow them to explore an unsolved mystery of their choice. Teach research skills with a smaller, manageable topic. The perfect activity for an extra day or early finishers! Engaging, organized, and succinct. Use as a standalone lesson or incorporate into a larger unit.This product includes 7 slides:1 example slide1 directions slide (editable)1 rubric slide (editable)1 topic options list slide (editable)2 Google Slides templatesterms of useThe Google Sli
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6th - 12th
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End of Year Internet Research Projects (Grades 5-8)
This packet has 101 different internet research projects for middle school students. Students search for interesting facts about Canada, Ireland, Egypt, Madagascar, North Korea, Greece, Panama, Kenya, China, Germany, Israel, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Russia. Students locate postage stamps from foreign countries and illustrate them. Students explore the wild animals and people of Hawaii, Alaska, Pennsylvania, Texas, California and New York. Students find and describe coins from foreign countrie
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Grades:
4th - 9th
Also included in: End of Year BUNDLE
Gothic Literature BUNDLE Slides & Printable Activities, Assessments, etc!
This comprehensive and engaging resource comprises over 180 SLIDES of short stories, poems, and videos, of gothic literature. Slides contain activities, prompts, assessments, discussion questions, mini-lessons, and more to make teaching and learning fun, educational, and creative!This bundled resource also includes over 16 printable and ready-to-use handouts, activities, assessments, etc that correlate to the unit plan.
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8th - 12th
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MyPerspectives 10th Grade Unit 1 BUNDLE Slides & Printable Activities, etc
This comprehensive and engaging resource comprises over 180 SLIDES of short stories, poems, and videos, of gothic literature. Slides contain activities, prompts, assessments, discussion questions, mini-lessons, and more to make teaching and learning fun, educational, and creative!This bundled resource also includes over 16 printable and ready-to-use handouts, activities, assessments, etc that correlate to the unit plan.
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Grades:
8th - 12th
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