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6th grade environment resources for Microsoft Word and for Gifted and Talented
Table-top Mini Golf: STEAM Engineering and Design for Elementary GATE
In From Putt-putt to Pebble Beach--Table-top Mini Golf, students will design and construct a playable table-top sized miniature golf course using the engineering design process. With these lessons, the teacher defines the problem, helps students gather background research, and specifies the requirements. The students do the rest: creating alternative solutions, choosing the best solution, doing development work, building a prototype, and testing and redesigning. The result is a classroom filled
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
The Arrival by Shaun Tan -- 100+ Page Unit and Teacher's Guide GATE
Yes, we can teach reading, writing, speaking and listening, and critical thinking skills using this amazing graphic novel which has no “words!” It’s a journey about who we are, where we have come from, and the humanity we share. It’s about hope and love and understanding. At times powerful, at times breathtakingly beautiful . . . Shaun Tan’s The Arrival should be on every bookshelf in every classroom.This 100+ page teaching guide and unit has been developed over the past three years in my adv
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5th - 12th
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Integer Project Bundle
Integer Projects Bundle
Need an integer project idea? This bundle includes 5 Integer Projects that you can use in your classroom. This is great for grades 6-8. I have used these in the past for an alternative to a written integer test. These projects are 21st century and provide real-world application. Great part about this – completely editable.
Projects Included:
-Budgeting Your Money with Integers (with rubric)
-Integer Timeline (with rubric)
-Integer Rules Comic Strip
-I am an Integer
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6th - 8th
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Human Impact on the Environment Poster Project
The purpose of this assignment is to research a chosen topic on how humans are currently having an impact on the Earth and then create an educational, environmental poster/public service announcement. The posters will cover topics such as pollution, deforestation, eutrophication, poaching, global warming, invasive species, genetically modified organisms, and more.This assignment includes project descriptions, expectations, student work examples, and grading rubric. This is an editable assignment
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4th - 8th
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Photosynthesis & Cellular Respiration Webquest
Students visit different websites to learn more about photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Note to Potential Customers: My goal is to provide you with a high-quality lesson that is effective and engaging. All my activities are designed to be clear, concise, and easy to implement. I use all lessons in my own classroom so they are tried and true! You can use the files just as they are or they can be edited and customized. The full lesson can be seen in the preview. I believe it is important fo
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5th - 8th
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Landfill Harmonic Movie Guide Questions in ENGLISH & SPANISH | Paraguay 2016
2 Movie Guides.1 in English and 1 completely in Spanish. 29 Movie Guide Questions in chronological order that include pre-listening questions, questions to answer during the movie, and reflection/analysis questions that can also serve as discussion questions after the movie. Rated G and perfect for any classroom! Includes Answer Key. and is EDITABLE! Great for units on the environment, music, recycling, Paraguay, disparity, families and communities, nonprofits and more.Synopsis: The world genera
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Planet Earth: The Complete Series Videos Questions
All of the BBC Planet Earth Videos: From Pole to Pole, Mountains, Freshwater, Caves, Deserts, Ice Worlds, Great Plains, Jungles, Shallow Seas, Seasonal Forests, Ocean Deep, Saving Species, Into the Wilderness, and Living Together are included in this packet of video questions. These video questions are meant to guide students through the films while emphasizing the interesting scientific facts found in the series. These video questions are appropriate for general middle science classes as well a
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5th - 12th
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Math Project-Create Own Dream Home-Blueprints and Floor Plan (perimeter & area)
Create blueprints and/or floor plans for your own dream home!!
Your little architects will love dreaming big with this project. Using their imaginations and graph paper, they will create their own blueprints.They will be learning area, measurement and perfecting those problem solving and critical thinking skills. The bonus is they won't even know it because they will be having fun.
This project is very "real life" oriented.
For the younger grades this would be better for the GT students. Or
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3rd - 9th
Bill Nye Biodiversity Video Guide Sheet
This 12 question worksheet with teacher answer key provides a way for students to follow along with the Bill Nye Biodiversity video. The questions are all fill-in the-blank. The video and worksheet introduce and explain the following concepts - biodiversity, ecosystems, environments, human impact, living things, interdependence. The worksheet goes in order of the video so students don't lose their place while filling in the guide sheet. Like all Bill Nye videos, the Biodiversity episode is both
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5th - 7th
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A Bug's Life Movie Worksheet
This product is based on the 1998 Disney / Pixar movie A Bug's Life. Includes24 Multiple-Choice QuestionsAnswer Key IncludedPLOT DESCRIPTIONFlik (Dave Foley) is an inventive ant who's always messing things up for his colony. His latest mishap was destroying the food stores that were supposed to be used to pay off grasshopper Hopper (Kevin Spacey). Now the strong-arming insect is demanding that the ants gather double the food -- or face annihilation. To avert disaster, Flik goes on a journey to r
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2nd - 12th
NGSS:
3-LS2-1
Create-A-Fish Marine Biology Activity
I use this activity as an introduction activity for our Fish Chapter in my high school Marine Biology Class. We are are one-semester general level science elective, with a mixture of students from all sorts of backgrounds. I like this activity because it allows the students to bring their background knowledge to the activity, and combine it with a creative flair. Plus, it gets my students working together in small groups. The activity itself can be made as simple or complex as needed, so is prob
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5th - 12th
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SPIES! A GATE Adventure 18+ Contact Hours - Challenging and Engaging!
Your students will ask to stay in from recess for this. It is the most popular unit I've taught in 32 years, and it is packed with challenging critical thinking.We imagine students are training at the school for spies: mini survivor challenges, mini crossbows, a jewel heist, footprint mysteries, memory games, cipher disks, case files, messages hidden in gel caps. This unit is STEM and critical thinking at its coolest and finest, and we’ve thrown in reading, speaking and listening, and a social-
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4th - 7th
Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
Small Group Reader's Theater Twisted Fairy Tales - Book Two
In this second book of Reader's Theaters for small groups, I have placed 7 scripts. They are: Sleeping Homely, The Princess and the Pizza for 3 people, The Princess and the Pizza for 4, Peter Pants and Captain Looks, Beauty & the Beets (and the Turnips and the Onions), Romeo and Juliet, Hansel and Pretzel. I realize that Peter Pants and Captain Looks as well as Romeo and Juliet are not strictly fairy tales but they are very well known and fun for the students. You can buy each of these indiv
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4th - 8th, Adult Education
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Creative Curriculum Trees Study Visuals
28 Pages of Visuals for the Creative Curriculum "Trees" study. It starts with Large images of trees, parts of trees, things made out of trees, etc.. to print out for around the room. Then the rest of the document is smaller pictures for you to show on a SMARTboard as question of the day or print out.Visuals range from types trees, images to help identify different kinds of trees, parts of a tree, things made out of wood, and then questions of the day about things that come from trees and animal
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PreK - 6th
Bill Nye Climate Video Guide Sheet
This 14 question worksheet provides a way for students to follow along with the Bill Nye Climate video. The questions are all fill-in-the-blank. The video and worksheet cover the following concepts: temperature, precipitation, types of climates, equator, land features effecting climate, El Nino, atmosphere, plants and animals of different climates.
The worksheet goes in order of the video so students don't lose their place while filling in the guide sheet. There is plenty of line space for stu
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5th - 9th
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Carrying Capacity and Limiting Factors Game
Very fun and engaging game/activity to help teach your students about Carrying Capacity and Limiting Factors. Students will compete for "food" in this activity in order to determine the carrying capacity of the class. The worksheet comes with a pre-activity question and 3 post activity questions. Includes "food" cards and guidelines for teacher to use. Your students will enjoy this activity, while learning. Item is completely editable.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Ecology Bundle
Biology Amusement Park End of Year Project
Biology teachers looking for a project to fill those post-state testing days, look no further! Students use biology concepts to create a theme park project. Great for a year-end project. Students can create paper, physical, or digital products. This project gives students the opportunity to be creative while using what they've learned. This file includes a list of product ideas, detailed rubric, student checklist, sample vocabulary list, brainstorm sheet with prompts, and a planning sheet.
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6th - 12th
Friend or Foe Garden Game: Pests and Pollinators
This is an original game I invented and used at school gardens in California and Texas - HUGE HIT! It's fun to challenge students' knowledge and INTUITION about creatures that might be found in nature and around the garden. All photos are original!
Students learn by playing the game. Find out which insects are beneficial and why. Instead of instantly swatting at all insects, students will respect the role they play, e.g., predator, member of the food web, pollinator, etc.
To play, two groups
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3rd - 6th
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Interpreting Weather Maps
In this activity, students practice being meteorologists by interpreting weather maps. The activity includes three different weather maps with standards-aligned interpretation and analyses questions.
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5th - 10th
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Evolution Unit - Natural Selection (Six 90min Lesson Bundle with Assessment)
Everything you need to teach Evolution in a science classroom. This bundle includes six 90 minute lessons (which can easily be split into twelve 40 minute lessons) and an assessment. Topics covered include Natural Selection Inquiry, M&M Selection lab, Evolutionary Theory, Population Genetics, Speciation, & a Variation Lab. After covering these topics with your class, review and assess their understanding with the assessment (two versions with keys included).Your purchase includes everyth
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6th - 12th
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STEAM Kid Engineering -- The Playable Golf Course Design Unit for GATE
In this unit, students will build a contraption to hit a small, wooden golf ball through a scaled version of a golf course which they and their classmates have designed. They’ll make a trundle wheel for measuring and marking the course, write down their scores on a scorecard, design putters, and learn background in physics through their work in the engineering and design process.
The Playable Golf Course is not just fun. It’s a challenging engineering, design, and construction unit including
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
Trophic Level Bundle
Everything you need to teach students about ecological trophic levels! This bundle includes lessons, labs, and engaging activities for the following topics: Producers, consumers, decomposers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, food chains, food webs, trophic pyramids. The lessons are listed in the recommended sequence/teaching order. Bonus quiz on food chains included. See individual previews to check out the products before you buy. Be sure to follow my TpT store by clicking on the green "follo
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6th - 9th
STEAM DaVinci Renaissance Style: A Unit for Elementary GATE
In STEM Renaissance Style, students will follow the engineering process as they return to the 16th Century. With these lessons, the teacher defines the problem, helps students gather background research, and specifies the requirements. The students do the rest: creating alternative solutions, choosing the best solution, doing development work, building a prototype, and testing and redesigning.
Students construct a prototype of Da Vinci’s parachute while learning about falling objects, gravity,
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
SHARK TANK Economics Pitches Prototypes PROJECT BASED PBL GATE
Welcome to the shark tank project-based learning unit. Let’s begin our entrepreneurial careers today!
Build critical thinking skills, public speaking success, and bring creativity, language arts, and economics into your classroom in a purposeful and authentic way.
Students will work in collaborative teams to solve a complex, ongoing, inquiry-based problem with a physical product for an authentic audience:
• Brainstorm a product, citing a need that will be fulfilled.
• Construct a prototyp
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
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