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Middle school archaeology activboard activities for Gifted and Talented
Fossil Excavation with a Cookie
Can't take your students to a fossil dig? Bring the "dig" to your students! Each student receives a chocolate chip cookie and follows this PDP guide as they conduct an excavation! My students absolutely "dug" this activity and I'm so excited to share it with you.
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1st - 7th
Scranimals Creative Poetry Complete Writing Activity Packet w/ Rubric!
This is always one of my favorite classroom activities, creating scranimals! We usually read some of the scranimal poems first from the book Scranimals, by Jack Prelutsky and then create our own as a follow up.
The students LOVE this activity and get very creative and involved in their work.
This packet includes all the steps to creating a final published scranimal poem and even a rubric for the teacher.
This packet is aligned with the CCSS! Please see the preview for specific targeted sta
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3rd - 6th
Amplify Evolutionary History Digital Choice Board
Looking for an online activity? Want a great review of the Evolutionary History unit for students? This resource is perfect for e-Learning. I used these with my students all year and they loved it!This is a Google Slides resource that can easily be uploaded to Google Classroom or Canvas so the students can work at their own pace. This is also EDITABLE! Don't like one of the activities? Switch it out with one of your own!Digital Choice Board created for students on the topics of Evolutionary Hist
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Amplify 8th Grade Digital Choice Boards Bundle
Friday Math: "Hands-on" Scaling -- Ratios and Fractions
Why not spice up the common core standards with this (literally) hands-on activity? It's a perfect fit for a Friday or two or for an extension to challenge advanced learners.
Students will use critical thinking to explore area, scale, fractions, ratios, and spatial relations by tracing their hand and transforming their hand to 1:4 scale. An extension activity extends this lesson to art and mechanical drawing applications.
This lesson is recommended for 4th or 5th grade gifted and talented an
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4th - 7th
Cave Art of the Stone Age Google Slides Pear Deck
Engage your students with a journey into the past and analyze the historical significance of cave art with these interactive Pear Deck slides! Your students will watch a brief National Geographic video about cave art and take a virtual tour. They will also have the opportunity to draw their own cave art and describe the differences between the Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras. This lesson includes constructive writing tasks with analysis questions about different types of cave art.By analyzing sou
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Early Humans Stone Age BUNDLE Pear Decks, Google Docs, and more!
Otzi Investigation - Death Theories Google Slides Pear Deck
Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach your students about the theories behind Otzi the Iceman's death? These short and interactive Pear Deck slides are perfect for incorporating into a center, flipped classroom assignment, or as a whole group discussion - the possibilities are endless! With this lesson, students will learn the skills necessary for analyzing sources, which is an essential skill for DBQs. Additionally, they will practice important ELA skills such as finding and citing eviden
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6th - 8th
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Plan a Family Vacation--$5,000 Budget
Students will have fun with this real life budgeting lesson as they plan their very own family vacation. Students must budget for the family members that live in their household, and must stay with a $5,000 limit. There is a Presentation to discuss all the rules and an excel sheet to help with their totals. As they plan their trip students can create a PowerPoint or a Google Slide that documents their itinerary. The presentation needs to include all expenses and their total cost of the trip
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4th - 12th
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Scoops - A Logical Thinking Enrichment Game
“Scoops” is a fun logic center game that develops critical thinking skills and encourages independent thinking. Students will read clue cards and use their reasoning skills to build ice cream cones and record their answers. The center contains: 1 whole class introductory white board lesson, (I have included a PDF for those who cannot open an ActiveInspire file), 60 student challenges, and student manipulatives. Print and laminate as many sets of manipultaives as you want. The learning center
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3rd - 6th
Winter Activities | Winter Packet | Winter Coloring | No Prep Winter | Sub Plans
Introducing our Winter Fun Packet – the ultimate solution for infusing your winter days with joy and educational engagement! Packed with 15 delightful winter-themed activities, this packet is designed for hassle-free enjoyment, making it ideal for sub plans, morning work, or spontaneous winter fun.No more last-minute preparations! Our Winter Fun Packet requires zero prep time, allowing teachers, parents, and students to dive right into the winter spirit. With a diverse range of activities, this
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3rd - 6th
Show Don't Tell for PROMETHEAN Board
Do your students use too much telling when writing? If so, here is the lesson to up their writing skills. Challenge and engage your students with this Promethean Board flipchart that helps kids understand the value of showing in writing and to practice the skill. This standards based lesson, from Catch My Products, gives the students plenty of opportunities to practice writing skills.Inside you'll find:I can statement and standardsModeling of skillGame to practice showingSix writing challengesCh
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4th - 6th
Also included in: Writing Lesson Plans Bundle PROMETHEAN BOARD Version
Bell Ringers & Exit Tasks, Early Finisher Activities Formative Assessment Tool
Calling all time-poor Teachers! Have you ever been in a situation where you have had to pull an amazing bell ringer or exit task out of the bag and not had a clue what to do?! Yeah, me too! Less prep = better work life balance! This HUGE BUNDLE has something for every subject, age and occasion. It is guaranteed to enthuse, engage and develop students.Do not fear...ONCE YOU PURCHASE this resource will be there to save the day from now on! Never plan a Bell Task or Exit Task again with this fantas
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2nd - 12th, Staff
tracing coloring book animals
The book "Tracking and Coloring for Animals" is an entertaining and educational resource for children that combines learning tracking and coloring skills with learning about different animal species. The book presents colorful pages containing images of a variety of animals, such as lions, elephants, birds, turtles, and others. Each page includes overlapping lines or dots that make it easier for children to track, helping them improve their fine motor skills and learn to write. In addition, chil
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1st - 6th
Valentine's Day and February Early Finisher Upper Elementary BUNDLE
This bundle is full of early finisher activities for Valentine's Day and February such as brainteasers, puzzles, logic puzzles, and creativity activities to keep your students working and thinking!It is February and your upper elementary students have finished their work early with nothing to do. These two PRINT AND GO resources will offer you over 75 pages of options to keep your students thinking, engaged, and working while others finish.Creativity Resource - These creativity activities will p
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2nd - 6th
Choice Board for the Gifted (ELA Florida BEST Standards)
This choice board of activities was created for gifted students. They tend to be early finishers, or they become bored because the content of the lesson is too easy for them. This is a resource to challenge these students and keep them busy avoiding unwanted behaviors and chaos in the classroom.
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4th - 6th
Inspirational Posters - Farmhouse Style
This product has 6 inspirational farm house inspired posters to choose from to use as decor in your classroom.
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PreK - 12th
Figurative Language Flipchart for Promethean Board
Now that you have a Promethean Board, do you need challenging and fun lessons to engage your students? If so, kids will love this standards based flipchart from Catch My Products. This lesson gives students an introduction to similes, metaphors, alliterations, personifications, hyperboles, onomatopoeias, and idioms. It also contains an exit ticket, where students link the type of figurative language to an example. Click HERE to save 25% off the purchase of individual resources with the bundle.AT
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Figurative Language MEGA-Bundle for PROMETHEAN Board
Color By Number for Adult: Activity Book
Color by Numbers for Adults EasyColor by Number Books By Number Easy to Hard Designs of Animals, Birds, Flowers and Patterns Fun and Stress Relieving Coloring By Numbers Book For Adult
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3rd - 7th
Moon Phases PowerPoint Presentation
This moon phases (lunar phases) PowerPoint presentation is an ideal way to explain the phases of the moon to your students.
This PowerPoint is animated to capture the students imagination and engage their learning. Only high quality images have been used so the bigger the screen the better.
It helps to explain new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full, waning gibbous, third quarter and waning crescent.
This moon phases presentation is for Northern Hemisphere only as it
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1st - 8th
Strong Verbs for PROMETHEAN Board
Do your students need help with writing skills? Take their writing to the next level by teaching kids how to use strong verbs. Your students will love seeing their writing improve after step by step writing instruction on how to replace boring "be" verbs with strong action verbs.ATTENTION Make sure you use ActivInspire Software before downloading this product or it will NOT open on your computer. If you do not use the Promethean Board, you may purchase an identical product in PowerPoint at: Str
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Strong Verbs in Writing for Promethean Board Use
Scratch Coding Activity Hour of Code Vocabulary with Jeopardy Word Game
Scratch Coding and Hour of Code Jeopardy Game to engage your students and is the perfect way to bond with your class with an end-of-year activity, back-to-school fun, or all year round. I typically put the class into small groups and ask a member to choose a color and number. That is the question that they have to answer. If correct they get one point. Then I move to the next group. Alternatively the whole class answers and then we tally up the points to get a winner.I run it on an interactive w
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2nd - 7th
Savvy by Ingrid Law Book Study for PROMETHEAN Board Use
Give students an abundance of fun work rolled into one super unit, 364 slides, for the novel Savvy by Ingrid Law. This complete and colorful power point includes vocabulary activities, higher level thinking questions, and project ideas for a full study of the unit Savvy. I used this unit with my fifth grade gifted and talented class. Please download chapters 1-4 as a freebie and preview. Savvy Freebie of Chapters 1 - 4ATTENTIONBe sure you have Active software before purchasing this product. If y
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5th - 6th
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Printable Bookmarks Template, llama, alpaca, cactus Bookmark ,Printable Bookmark
Printable Bookmarks Template12 Flat cards -PRINTABLE filesllama, alpaca, cactus - bookmarks printablesNo hard copy will be shipped!YOU WILL RECEIVE:-- 12 Flat card 2x6 inch-- 3 PDF FILE - folded card template ready to print on 8.5" x 11"All at 300 dpi high quality .I recommend printing them on heavy cardstock.Print as many as you like. They are great as is or you can embellish them with ribbon.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Not Grade Specific
Shakespeare Choice Board/Tic Tac Toe Boards
Incorporate some creative thinking into your culminating activities for A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, and/or Romeo and Juliet with these Choice Board Menus.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Short Writing Prompts for Promethean Board
Do you ever want to get your students creativity flowing with the Promethean Board, but you are low on time? Find these short writing prompts that are sure to challenge your students, while they have a great time using their imaginations. The kids will love it!Students will enjoy the interesting challenges in this Powerpoint, while teachers will love the easy to use format with examples.Inside this ActivInspire resource, that can only be used with Promethean Boards, you will find:I can statement
Grades:
4th - 6th
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