Halloween Common Core W.8.7 resources for Gifted and Talented

Geography, Gifted and Talented, Informational Text

24 printable or digital pages to engage your students in Internet Research on Haiti. Students use a phone, tablet or laptop to search online about the people of Haiti: language,customs,flag,coat of arms,coins and paper currency,mountains,rivers,wild animals,leadership and politics,national anthem,history,sports,famous people,and more...PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and download

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Grades:

4th - 10th

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CCSS:

, W.8.7

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Also included in: The Caribbean Internet Research BUNDLE

Internet Activities - Rockets, Space Shuttles, Satellites and Rovers

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Astronomy, Gifted and Talented, Writing-Expository

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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Grades:

3rd - 10th

Types:

Homework, Printables

CCSS:

Ancient History, Gifted and Talented, World History

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Also included in: Space BUNDLE

Ancient Egypt Project Based Learning with Easel Activity Digital and Printable

Created by

HappyEdugator

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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Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

W.6.2

, W.6.2a

, W.6.2b

, W.6.2c

, W.6.2d

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Middle School BUNDLE

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Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Science

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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Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

CCSS:

W.6.6

, W.7.6

, W.8.6

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April Digital and Print Writing Journal Bell Ringers Warm Ups Activities

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Creative Writing, ELA Test Prep, Gifted and Talented

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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Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Printables

CCSS:

W.5.7

, W.5.10

, W.6.10

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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

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Creative Writing, ELA Test Prep, Gifted and Talented

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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Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

CCSS:

, W.4.10

, W.5.10

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Also included in: Bundle Monthly Warm up Bell Ringer Writing Journal Prompts

May Digital Writing Journal Prompts Warm Ups Bell Ringers

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Creative Writing, ELA Test Prep, Gifted and Talented

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

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Printables

CCSS:

W.5.7

, W.5.10

, W.6.10

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Also included in: Bundle Monthly Warm up Bell Ringer Writing Journal Prompts

October Daily Writing Warm Up Bell Ringer Journal Prompt Print or Digital

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Creative Writing, ELA Test Prep, Gifted and Talented

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

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

CCSS:

W.5.1

, W.5.2

, W.5.4

, W.5.6

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Also included in: Bundle Monthly Warm up Bell Ringer Writing Journal Prompts

End of Year Internet Research Projects (Grades 5-8)

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End of Year, Gifted and Talented, Writing

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

Types:

Printables, Cultural Activities

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Also included in: End of Year BUNDLE

Dangerous Insects and Spiders and Arthropods - Internet Activity

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Halloween, Science, Writing

35 pages for students to search online for facts about dangerous insects and spiders and arthropods: fire ant, yellow jacket,mosquito,housefly,puss caterpillar,spotted lanternfly,tent caterpillar,spotted wing fruit fly,Asian giant hornet,assassin caterpillar,human botfly,kissing bug,tsetse fly,Africanized bee,blister beetle,velvet ant,bark beetle,termite,cockroach,army ant,bed bug,emerald ash borer,assassin bug,louse,flea,locust,parasitic worm,house centipede,centipede,chigger, deer tick,scorpio

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Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

W.6.7

Halloween, Short Stories, Writing

, W.8.7

, W.9-10.7

, W.11-12.7

Edgar Allan Poe Brochure - Final Project

Created by

Language Arts Excellence

This product features an engaging final project that meaningfully incorporates technology in a culmination of your unit on Edgar Allan Poe.For this final assignment, students will showcase their knowledge of Edgar Allan Poe, his works, and his life by creating brochures using Microsoft Word. Students will love the chance to practice using technology with this project as opposed to writing the same-old same-old essay and if they are like my students, will not even realize how much research and wr

Subjects:

Grades:

7th - 11th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Assessment

CCSS:

RL.8.1

, RL.8.2

, RI.8.7

, RI.8.8

, RI.8.9

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Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Resource Bundle

Internet Research on Reptiles and Amphibians

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Gifted and Talented, Informational Text, Science

15 printable or digital pages to engage your students in Internet Research on Reptiles and Amphibians. Students use a phone, tablet or laptop to search online about the alligator, tree frog, sea turtle, Komodo dragon, chameleon, rat snake, crocodile, bullfrog, desert tortoise, iguana, rattlesnake, anaconda, box turtle, cobra, and more. PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and downlo

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 10th

Types:

Homework, Printables

CCSS:

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Pets - Internet Activity - Search online for information about each type of pet

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Gifted and Talented, Science, Writing

21 print or digital pages investigating pets: bird, cat, dog, duck, ferret, fish, frog, gecko, gerbil, guinea pig, hamster, horse, lizard, pig, praying mantis, rabbit, rat, scorpion, snake, tarantula, and turtle. Students visit websites to learn more about: the food that the pet eats (plant or meat); whether it has hair, scales, feathers, or a hard exoskeleton; where it lives (in a bowl, cage, or back yard); the dangers it faces and how it protects itself; where it came from in the wild; its

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Grades:

3rd - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

RI.3.5

, RI.4.7

, RI.5.7

, W.4.7

Halloween, Literature, Short Stories

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Also included in: Cats and Dogs BUNDLE

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Short Story Analysis

Created by

Chomping at the Lit

The short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving with Reading Comprehension Questions & Creative Writing Project is perfect for reading gothic, romantic literature! Who hasn't heard of the mysterious legend of the headless horseman? This spooky tale is known to many, but read and understood by few. Read Irving's original tale and have your students analyze the text with these close reading, literary analysis questions. This product includes:anticipation guide and activating

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Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Independent Work Packet

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Also included in: Reading Paired Texts Bundle — The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Hand

Internet Research - Insects, Bugs and Spiders

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Gifted and Talented, Halloween, Writing

32 printable or digital pages to help students investigate insects, bugs and spiders: the food a bug eats (live plants, dead and decaying matter, other insects), how it stays alive (avoiding predation), where it lives (air, on or in trees, grass, underground, in or on water), how it moves (flying, running, digging, wiggling, swimming), how it changes (partial or complete metamorphosis), how it contributes to life on the planet (pest or friendly to humans).Bugs: the ant, aphid, black widow spide

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Grades:

3rd - 8th

Types:

Activities, Printables

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Also included in: Bugs BUNDLE

November Daily Journal Print or Digital Google Drive OneDrive

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Creative Writing, ELA Test Prep, Gifted and Talented

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 30 November prompts that focus on quirky holidays, important days in history, funny/inspirational quotes, and research.Did you know that November 10 is National Vanilla Cupcake Day and that November 20 is National Absurdity Day? (Neither did I!!) Those are two of the thirty prompts you'll find in this resource. Topics include trivia,

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

CCSS:

W.5.1

, W.5.2

, W.5.4

, W.5.6

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Also included in: Bundle Monthly Warm up Bell Ringer Writing Journal Prompts

Dominican Republic - Internet Research Activity

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Geography, Gifted and Talented, Informational Text

25 printable or digital pages to engage your students in Internet Research on the Dominican Republic. Students use a phone, tablet or laptop to search online about the people of the Dominican Republic:language,customs,flag,coat of arms,coins and paper currency,mountains,rivers,wild animals,leadership and politics,national anthem,history,sports,famous people,and more...PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click o

Subjects:

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

, W.8.7

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Also included in: New Teacher Activities - June (First Year Teacher) BUNDLE

Belize - Internet Research Activities

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Geography, Gifted and Talented, Informational Text

24 printable or digital pages to engage your students in Internet Research on Belize. Students use a phone, tablet or laptop to search online about the people of Belize: language,customs,flag,stamps,coat of arms,money (coins and currency),biggest mountains,major rivers and lakes,wild animals,history,national anthem,capitolsize (population and land),most popular sports,and more...PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at hom

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 10th

Types:

CCSS:

W.3.7

, W.4.7

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Also included in: Central America Internet Research BUNDLE

Stephen Hawking - One-hour Internet Research Projects

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Astronomy, Gifted and Talented, Writing

11 printable or digital pages about STEPHEN HAWKING. Students search online for information about the world’s most well-known cosmologist and theoretical physicist, answering questions like: Who is Stephen Hawking? What do we know about Black Holes? What is Lou Gehrig’s Disease? What does it take to become a scientist? What is the study of cosmology? What do we know about the Milky Way? How do we learn about the universe? What is space filled with? Where did the Earth come from? and m

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Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

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Also included in: Space BUNDLE

Middle School Internet Research Projects (Grades 5-8)

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For All Subjects, Gifted and Talented, Writing

101 different internet research projects for middle school students. Students search for interesting facts about Egypt, Israel, Russia, China, Mexico, Ireland, Germany and Puerto Rico. Students locate postage stamps from foreign countries and illustrate them. Students investigate Alaska, North Carolina, Texas, Hawaii, New York and California. Students find and describe coins from foreign countries. Students discover national parks and monuments. Students locate cities, mountains and bodies

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Grades:

4th - 9th

Types:

Homework, Printables

CCSS:

DiGiGoods and Printables ELA

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Also included in: Middle School BUNDLE

Halloween Writing Prompt with Passages and RACE Strategy FREE

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Google Slides virtual classroom with digital writing prompts, article ( informational text ) using RACE strategy is great for distance learning AND for in-class use! This set is just in time for October and Halloween. Prompt is written to resemble state test prompts. Students are asked to cite evidence, describe, explain, summarize, etc., using the RACE + Transitions strategy. Students can click the article links on their virtual chalkboard to read and watch highly engaging content that is re

Subjects:

Halloween, Informational Text, Writing

Grades:

6th - 9th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard

CCSS:

RI.6.1

, RI.7.1

, RI.8.1

, RI.9-10.1

, W.6.2

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August Daily Warm Up Bell Ringer Writing Monthly Journal Print and Digital

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Creative Writing, ELA Test Prep, Gifted and Talented

Print & Digital! No matter what the year looks like, this is an easy way to keep your students writing! Engage them with daily journal writing with 31 August prompts that focus on quirky holidays, important days in history, funny/inspirational quotes, and research.Did you know that August 21 is National Spumoni Day? That's one of the over thirty prompts you'll find in this resource. Topics include trivia, historical events, silly/serious holidays, research prompts, and thoughtful quotes

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

CCSS:

W.5.1

, W.5.2

, W.5.4

, W.5.6

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Also included in: Bundle Monthly Warm up Bell Ringer Writing Journal Prompts

Space BUNDLE

Created by

Astronomy, Gifted and Talented, Writing

This BUNDLE has 219 writing and research activities on space exploration: NASA, space suits, accidents in space, animals in space (dog, monkey, rabbits, mice, spiders, flies…), people in space, rockets, the Apollo space program, 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, the International Space Station, fuel, and the earth. And, projects on the planets Mercu

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 10th

Types: