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Free printables for Microsoft Word and for Gifted and Talented
The Principal's New Clothes - Reader's Theater for the Entire Class!
This reader's theater is for the entire class! You will need at least 11 students but more is always better. This ties into my other twisted fairy tales except that it was written to do as a class. I split my class into two groups and both groups practice. When we perform we discuss what things we liked about each group. I use this to introduce the small group reader's theaters I have them do the rest of the year. I have also come back to the script at the end of the year to perform in front of
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3rd - 8th, Adult Education
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Animal Classification Choice Menu
Looking for an extension activity for early finishers?? You came to the right place! This is a choice menu on animal classification appropriate for grade1 through grade 5. Students can work on this as an extension to the content they are learning, as a center activity, as an individual or group research project, etc. Students choose which activities they would like to do according to their individual talents and learning styles. A great addition to any unit on animal classification!
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1st - 5th
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Probability Practice Problems and Answer Key
Over 30 problems dealing with probability of independent and dependent events, conditional probability and expected value. Probability scenarios involve the use of dice, cards, marbles, experimental data and survey results. Have your students practice using tables, graphs and real world scenarios to find the probability of an event. Can be used as homework or as a review before a test.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Ultimate Paper Airplane Unit
This is a scientific method/creative problem solving unit that my GT students look forward to every year! After using the scientific method to test several different variables that can affect the flight of a basic "dart" design paper airplane, students design their own paper airplanes using their findings and have a competition to decide who designed the "ultimate" paper airplane!
Before testing, we build basic dart paper airplanes, fly them around outside, and have a discussion of what variabl
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3rd - 5th
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FREE Greek Alphabet Wall Display Gifted Language Arts
FREE Greek Alphabet Wall Display Gifted Language ArtsIf they already know the alphabet, try posting this one above your whiteboard instead! It includes upper and lower case symbols, English (Latin) equivalences, and pronunciations. It prints in landscape format with two letters per page and fit just perfectly in a horizontal row over my board as traditional alphabet displays do--but with a real wow effect that makes everyone entering the room stop and actually look at the letters. Letters are
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Rock Band Tour - STEM
This lesson has be used for a STEM enrichment. This lesson asks students to work collaboratively or independently. Students will create a rock band and plan an international tour. Students must log their travel expenses, distances, and elapsed time. This lesson allows students to see the needs for budgeting, planning, and provides a wonderful introduction to the global perspective. Requirements can easily be adjusted to fit the needs of any class.
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5th - 8th, Higher Education
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VALENTINE'S DAY WORDPLAY ACTIVITIES
How do you make students think and have fun without it feeling like work? Pick from any of these Valentine's Day Wordplay Activities. The first activity is about homophones, including a second optional page for challenge or enrichment. The second activity is a twist on the typical "words within a word" activity. Using the letters in Valentine's Day, students have to make groups of words that relate to certain subject areas, such as science or art. Finally, the third activity features word r
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5th - 8th
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The Parable of the Sower and the Seeds - Small Group Reader's Theater
This is a religious reader's theater intended for a small group of 6 students. Ever wondered what the parable of the Sower and the Seed was about? This will help you understand it! In the script, three of four friends answer an altar call one Sunday. This story is what happens to them after that experience. Cammy did not answer it, Hilton tries for a brief time to do better, Will works to do better but gives up, and Nelson works hard and prays daily to keep working and following what he believes
Aquarium Logic Puzzle
A 4X4 logic puzzle that we did when we were studying sea life.
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K - 3rd
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Extra Credit Projects for Middle School ELA (1st, 2nd, and 3rd Six weeks)
You will find a detailed extra credit project for middle school students. It is available to save, modify to your needs, and print out.
1st six weeks "Hispanic Heritage Month" September-- Details directions and rubric for student
2nd six weeks "Poetry" Detailed directions and rubric for student and useful websites
3rd six weeks "Newspaper" I used this before we began our research unit. Detailed directions and rubric for student
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Parts of the brain
This is a an information handout that I created for Year 5 students.
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5th - 7th
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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in the Classroom
This is a short unit from Duwauhkabec Learning for Life using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to “decode” words, titles, and a short historical passage. It invites students to "reverse transcribe" from IPA to standard American English.
Included in this package are the following:
• An instructional sheet on how to introduce IPA to a class
• Printable sheets that include charts of the IPA consonants and vowels, plus practice “decoding” exercises based on color words, animal words, t
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Gifted Enrichment Unit - Vikings Exploration and Discovery
Enjoy a free sample of this interactive team-building unit that is based on the overarching theme of Exploration and Discovery. By acting as Vikings who sail the seas, students use their creativity and higher-level thinking skills to solve daily challenges and earn Viking Coins along the way. Through a series of 9 challenges, the students learn about the concepts of Exploration and Discovery as they relate to the past, present and future while having fun along the way!
This unit is perfect
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3rd - 8th
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3rd Grade Data and Goal Setting Sheet
Students are actively involved in their academic progress by using this goal setting grid. It enables students, in conference with their teacher, to analyze their progress and set new and attainable goals. This sheet is sent home after each testing segment for parents to praise their child's growth, but is returned to school and kept in student's binder.
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3rd - 5th
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What it takes to be ALL IN for Christ! - Small Group Reader's Theater
This is a religious reader's theater intended for a small group of 4 students.This script deals with how a person can know when they are living for Christ. In the script, Elijah is going on a mission’s trip and his friends want to know about it. When he says he’s ALL IN - they ask him to explain just what he means. Elijah tells them that it is a little like poker when you put everything on the line for what you believe. Elijah goes on to say that the three signs you are living a Christian life a
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
Renaissance Artist or Ninja Turtle??
This is a simple introduction activity for Kindergarten or 1st grade Gifted and Talented students to a Renaissance artists unit. Students cut out characteristic cards and paste them into the columns of "Renaissance Artist" or "Ninja Turtle." I usually use this as our first activity as we get into the artists, so this is not an incredibly difficult task.
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K - 1st
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Customizable Planbook Template
This is a planbook template that you can customize.
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Staff
Think Different! Chess coaching made simple.
You'd like to teach chess but you're feeling a bit overwhelmed and would like to stick to the KISS principle.How does a two-sided A4 page sound?Basic ideas on page one, more complex on page two.Yes, you need to know how to play.Yes, you need to understand forks, pins, skewers and double attacks.But as a 'nudge sheet' for your students, to remind them of what they need to consider, this A4 page could be the key.
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3rd - 8th
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Engineering Design Challenge Planning Sheet
This is a template for students to use when completing Engineering Design Challenges. All steps of the engineering design process are included with room for students to sketch and explain their thinking.
This can be used to guide students through the engineering design process as you present challenges tied to other subject areas.
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5th - 8th
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Olympic Reading Challenge
GREAT FOR GIFTED AND TALENTED STUDENTS AND/OR STUDENTS WHO NEED MOTIVATION!!!!!!
PURPOSE:
The purpose of the Reading Olympics is to motivate students to read different genres and increase the number of pages they read.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE:
The Olympic Reading Challenge can be used anytime during the year, however, it is most fun when used in connection with the actual Olympics. This year (2014) the Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia. During the 17-day span of the Olympics, I am
Grades:
4th - 8th
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ZOO schedule Logic
A logic problem that involves creating a scedule. Great filler activity while you are getting everything ready before a zoo field trip!
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2nd - 4th
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Editable monthly newsletter / Prompting with verbal cues
Pick up this newsletter to cut down on your monthly newsletter-writing hassles. This newsletter addresses ways to encourage language/actions through scaffolding at your students instructional level, as well as parent-friendly definitions and examples. This is perfect to send home to parents, or for TA's/classroom teachers who need a refresher.
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Not Grade Specific
Anger management skills sheet/book
5 anger management skills with photos for non-readers
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PreK - 6th
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Progress Rockets
It can be used to set mini goals with your students and to check their progress during the lesson. They are based on one of the principles of Differentiated Instruction, tier tasks, and they could be useful with Special Education or struggling students.
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Not Grade Specific
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