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Test preparation lessons for Microsoft Word and for Gifted and Talented
Mamaw Yates TPA Lesson Plan Template
One of my most popular products! Now improved with links to tutorials and samples!This is an editable lesson plan template that you can use for your TPA. This is a unique resource that not only gives you a structure for your learning segment plans but it also includes interactive support. This template works best for all Elementary, Middle, Secondary grades and subjects. With some modification, many have also used it for Early Childhood, World Language, and all of the "specials." This resource h
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Task One Bundle for 3-Task TPA Handbooks
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
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Primary GATE with Caldecott -- "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!" Mo Willems
Let’s have some fun along with the Pigeon and expand DOK along the way! This lesson will lead your primary GATE students through four challenging activities, culminating in an artistic response showing why they “never get to do anything!” either.
Gifted and talented learners carry similar characteristics throughout their lives—even as kindergarten and first graders. One common characteristic of gifted learners is a strong sense of justice. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus gives us a good o
Grades:
K - 3rd
The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan - Teacher's Guide and Activities GATE
The beauty in The Lost Thing is that it settles into one’s soul in a casual and poetic way. What starts as a sort of amusing but sad story finds its way deeper into your heart. You begin to wonder, to ask questions. Soon you find yourself wanting to stand up and defend all the lost things in the world—including that lost part of yourself.
Are you somehow guilty too, you wonder? Quite unexpectedly, you begin to really feel the world Shaun Tan creates. It is a wonderful experience in mindf
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: 2019-2020 Gifted and Talented GATE Program for the Year - Elementary
Terrible Things - An Allegory of the Holocaust
Questions for Eve Bunting's "Terrible Things - An Allegory of the Holocaust". The last questions ask students to compare theme with the poem "First They Came for the Jews", and to rewrite poem using modern situations.
Grades:
7th - 10th
BTLPT Sample Lesson Plans, Practice Questions, Strategies, and more!
Are you studying for bilingual certification? This oral and written response guide will help you prepare for the speaking and writing requirements of the TExES #190 - BTLPT. This pack includes helpful transition words, outline suggestions, the rubric for scoring the lesson plan, the gradual release model ("I do, we do, you do") suggested for the plan and a step-by-step plan for writing a great lesson plan along with 16 examples you can use to build your own lesson plan! Sticky notes are added wi
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Not Grade Specific
TPA Learning Segment Progression Organizer for Elem Literacy
Are you prepping for your TPA and feeling like a fish out of water? Fret not! If you're Elementary Literacy, then this graphic organizer will be your lifesaver! This resource has been created to support those completing the edTPA®. If you have questions about which TPA you need to complete, feel free to ask here or to contact us at papaw.yates.edtpa@gmail.com.With this support, you'll be able to plan your lessons in a logical TPA-friendly progression. This organizer covers all the basics, from o
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Task One Bundle for Elementary Literacy TPA Handbook
First Day 3D Metaphor Nameplate and MORE!
On the very first day, your students will have created a personal metaphor, completed a cool 3D visual art nameplate which can be used as an effective classroom management strategy throughout the year, completed a public speaking opportunity straight from the Common Core Standards, and will have proven themselves to be a supportive listener in the classroom. Yep, all in this one interactive critical thinking activity . . .
In this introductory lesson, students use a graphic organizer to brains
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL CURRICULUM 1st-8th GATE
Ratios Scale Comparison 6 Pack GIFTED AND TALENTED Hands-on Real World Math
Low prep! Get started tomorrow! Here are math selections from my most popular math and STEM units for GATE students.
Included in this collection are a baker’s half-dozen activities for real-world, high-interest hands-on math projects with ratio and scale. The activities often extend into art, science, engineering, or other areas of math as well.
You get at least 6 hours of contact time here. These activities are challenging for my 5th grade gifted and talented students and will still be
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4th - 7th
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Arctic Dogsled Racing Design Challenge - STEAM for Upper Elementary
Here’s an applied engineering challenge in which—just like in the real world of engineering—a poor design means limited success or even failure.
In the Iditarod Sled Challenge, students apply their background knowledge of physical science and use logic and imagination to construct a miniature sled that will deliver “serum” to Nome, Alaska, just like Balto once did.
Use this challenge in conjunction with your study of the arctic or the Iditarod--or as a stand-alone engineering challenge for the
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented SURVIVAL KIT Bundle -- 235 pages, big discount!
Gifted and Talented GATE WRITING COLLECTION 122 Pages
Get six highly rated GATE writing lesson bundles at 33% off individual purchases. This collection is packed with variety, creativity, challenge, and the Common Core.
See the big preview! Hours and hours of class instruction and engagement!
You'll get the following bundles adaptable from 3rd through 8th grade:
Road Trip Adventure Cross-Curricular Writing Journey: Students practice all sorts of writing from graphic design to narrative to expository as they journey across the USA and create p
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3rd - 8th
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Who is Temple Grandin
A worksheet of 16 questions from 2 web sites about the most famous autistic adult today. It presents valuable information about autism and also presents information on her work with agriculture. Extra credit is offered at the end of the worksheet for viewing the HBO movie of her life staring Clare Dane and writing a reaction paper.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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MCAS PREP for ELA: Grades 6,7,8, and 10
(please let me know if you'd like me to send this to you as a Google doc.)This a four-week, twenty day, MCAS prep unit for English Language Arts; all of the lesson plans—activator, mini-lesson, activity, wrap-up—are included, and most importantly, the actual hand-out/s for each day. In addition, the English Language Arts Core Curriculum standards are included both on the daily lesson plans, and on the activity itself. Included are high interest short stories—such as Amy Tan’s “The Rules of the
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Grades:
6th - 10th
Computer Coding with Scratch 3.0 Computer Coding | Unit 1
THIS IS A LIVING BUNDLE! This bundle is starting at 5 products but will grow to be a total of 12 PRODUCTS + BONUS MATERIAL! Buy it for a discounted price now!Future items will be placed in the bundle and available for you to download FOR FREE once you purchase. This Scratch 3.0 Computer Coding bundle include my first unit of Scratch 3.0 coding lessons. In the future there will be more available units covering more advanced coding and programming concepts such as controlling the LEGO EV3 platfor
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1st - 8th
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Julius Caesar - Brutus' and Antony's Speeches
Students compare and contrast the funeral speeches from Julius Caesar looking specifically for persuasive techniques and stylistic devices. This assignment is made for AP students, but can be modified for other high school levels.
Other related Julius Caesar products:
• JULIUS CAESAR - Targeting Themes
• Julius Caesar - Shakespeare - Group Critical Response Questions
• PLOT TWIST! Julius Caesar
• Julius Caesar - Character Interview writing assignment
• JULIUS CAESAR - Agree or Disagree
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
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AIR -- An Incredibly Cool STEAM Unit for Upper Elementary!
Balloon cars, hovercrafts, gliders, prototypes, zip-lines and air rockets, helicopters and more . . .
Here is a full unit with more than 20 hours of critical thinking and hands-on activities designed specifically for all 21st Century Learners and nonverbally gifted learners. STEM teachers: this unit guides students through the engineering process time and time again—elementary style!
Not only is this unit packed with critical thinking opportunities and rich in deeper understanding of physica
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented SURVIVAL KIT Bundle -- 235 pages, big discount!
MAPLE SYRUP TIME Mini-Lesson w/ 12 questions: STEPS IN A PROCESS + SEQUENCE
MAPLE SYRUP TIME is a minilesson giving explanatory info telling how maple sap gets changed to maple syrup. The written info is 3/4 of a page. It is followed by 6 multiple choice questions about the maple sugaring process. Finally, there are 6 steps that students have to number in order. (The 1st is done for them.) The activity is quality test prep and practice for reading skills of SEQUENCING and ARRANGING STEPS IN A PROCESS. It also provides a suitable model if students need an example of e
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1st - 3rd
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Reading BOOT CAMP - STAARing 5th grade recruits
BOOT CAMP!! BASIC TRAINING!! BE A STAAR in the ARMY!Dress in fatigues! Military t-shirts! Wear your dog tags!See pictures of activities and things we create with Pony beads...***Now do your bracelets with Loom Bands***Boot camp folders decorated, and more. Activities are included for each strategy. Make school fun again!! Yes, we have to "drill" them with comprehensions but there are anchor charts included that they can make...so get out markers and colored cardstock and make some folda
Grades:
4th - 6th
SURVIVOR Challenge SPY Training STEM STEAM for GATE 4th to 8th Grades
Talking about too fun for school! I had 4th and 5th graders skipping recess for this one!
Let’s combine an engineering challenge, physics background, creativity and engineering, and three dimensional building skills to create a Survivor-type challenge and training for professional spies. Here we have the engineering process--complete and in miniature!
Note: This activity is a part of our bigger Spies unit. Watch for the unit to be published this spring. It is going to be recess-skipping co
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: KID CREATED GAMES Standards-based STEM and Math Games Bundle
The Crane Design and Building Challenge -- STEM Problem Solving
A best practice lesson for the teaching of physical science or GATE talent pools:
In this lesson, students use the engineering process to build a working crane model that is strong enough to lift a stapler.
There are no set patterns, pre-cut materials, or teacher-led building instructions here! Students engage in the engineering process to design and build their own working models of cranes. The teacher sets guidelines and limitations, provides feedback and monitors progress, instructs the
Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
Comparing and Evaluating Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush- APUSH 2015 redesign
Students complete a chart using your text or reliable internet resources. They are categorizing and evaluating six pieces of foreign policy and six pieces of domestic policy making sure to include specific details or legislation where appropriate.
Students will also provide two quotes from each president and then make a personal evaluation of the presidency.
For AP US History teachers, this lesson helps to cover material in the 2015 course redesign and corresponds with period 9.
A student s
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9th - 12th
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WWII Airplane Fighter Gliders - GATE STEM + Reading 3rd-7th Grades
Yes, we get to throw little gliders around the classroom. This is the sneakiest, most evil sort of teacher trick: learning standards and being challenged academically while having fun!
This unit is perfect for a Friday or the day before a vacation. Start it in the morning, and run across the entire curriculum throughout the school day. Or take pieces out of the unit here and there over the course of days and weeks . . . as the components can work as “stand alone” or as a cohesive trip acr
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
BILLBOARDS - Language + STEM + Advertising + GATE
Want to combine language skills, graphic design skills, and engineering skills in a way that will keep your students thinking and engaged?
Here’s a 2 to 3 hour activity which is fun and hands-on, takes critical thinking skills and building skills, and refers to real-world experiences in advertising and economics. It’s perfect for upper elementary GATE and made to order for our 21st Century Learners—combining language, engineering, and graphic design. As always, these activities help meet Comm
Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
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