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8th grade Winter lessons for Gifted and Talented
To Build a Fire Short Story Literature Guide Unit, Lesson Plan
Teaching "To Build a Fire" doesn't have to be a long, cold experience! With this up-to-date mini unit teaching pack, you have everything you need to set, teach, enjoy, and assess this classic short story. Plus -- it's all super low prep and standards based. Student Experience: Students will step into the shoes of the traveler in the pre-reading activities and explore the Alaskan terrain, answer text-based questions, read about a real-life survivor and make comparisons, and analyze the film versi
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: American Literature Curriculum, Year-Long, BUNDLE, English Lesson Plans
Paul Klee Abstract Art Lesson: Portrait Dice Games Art Project - Nsw Visual Arts
Are you teaching an abstract art lesson on Paul Klee? Are they going to create an abstract portrait? Here's a fun lesson to brighten up your lesson plans! This is the perfect addition to your elementary art curriculum! Engaging abstract portrait art lesson with language (writing) activities. These no-prep abstract portrait art projects are perfect for your art sub tub. Super easy to implement for substitute teachers. Plus, the engagement will help with behavior! Perfect to start your art integra
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K - 12th
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Also included in: Art History Lesson - Famous Artists - Art Activities and Sub Plans
Christmas : Bright Wishes - Art Lesson Plan
Here is a Christmas project that leaves a lot of place for creativity from the students. You will be working with symmetry and patterns. Your students can even add wishes inside of their light bulbs. This project takes 4 periods. A magnificent project working with engravable aluminium.Happy Holidays!Level:Grades 4 to 6Junior Hugh and High SchoolTechnique:DrawingEngravingVisual Language: PatternsSymmetryMaterials:Engravable metal (1/2 sheet per student)PencilEraserWhite sheets (photocopy paper)Sc
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4th - 12th
Also included in: Art Lesson Plans Bundle : Grade 6 Visual Art
La Navidad y Día de los Reyes Magos Spanish Christmas Activities Before Break
Save yourself time during this hectic season with these easy to use station activities! Students explore a variety of activities to learn about the history, traditions, and practices that comprise La Navidad, Día de los Reyes Magos, La Nochevieja, and other cultural holiday traditions. Print and go stations are ready for your students to use! Stations Include:• Reading the Letter to the 3 Kings• El Calendario Readings in Spanish• Three Kings Day (Los Reyes Magos) Writing Activity • Un Video Cort
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6th - 9th
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Christmas Grammar Worksheets, NO PREP, Middle and High School
These five Christmas grammar worksheets designed for high school students aren’t your typical Christmas grammar exercises! These are truly NO PREP, print and go, age-appropriate exercises to challenge and review your teens' grammar skills during December.Student Experience: These grammar activities for Santa reflect a seasonally-inspired thematic concept of the page that coincides with key, standards-based grammar skills. For example, students will repair broken sentences (fragments and run-ons)
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8th - 11th
Also included in: Grammar Worksheets Holiday and Seasonal BUNDLE
Invention "SHARK TANK" Classroom Competition, Step-By-Step Guide w/ Handouts
PDF or Digital! Shark Tank! Classroom or school invention competition! It's never too early to encourage your young entrepreneurs. I've included everything you need with this resource to have a "Shark Tank" inspired classroom competition in your own classroom. Students will use innovative math, social studies and science skills with partners to create a product that will help students with specific problems at school. Great for teaching inventions, personal finance with profits, losses and etc
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4th - 8th
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Christmas Activities for Reading Comprehension
Are you looking for fun, different, and challenging Christmas reading activities for your middle school students? This Christmas Activities for Reading Comprehension pack includes everything you need to engage your students in those long days before Christmas break. This resource includes 9 positive, upbeat, and inspiring activities that are sure to hold your students' interest while practicing reading comprehension skills.You will find that these Christmas activities are ready to teach tomorrow
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Christmas Activities for Middle School Bundle
GIFTED AND TALENTED PROBLEM SOLVING #1
TEACHERS-PARENTS are you having trouble finding gifted and talented teaching materials in mathematics, problem solving, and critical thinking? “GIFTED AND TALENTED PROBLEM SOLVING #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7 and #8 each have 42 pages of activities specially designed to motivate and challenge your gifted-talented students. All of the activities involve mathematics, critical thinking, and problem solving. Great for those high achieving students in your classes who need something extra to challenge
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5th - 12th, Staff
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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Winter Holiday Art Lesson: Watercolor Snowflake Resist Paintings
Students will learn about radial symmetry and the formation of snowflakes. Then students will use this knowledge to create a watercolor-resist painting.This package includes: teacher directions, student directions, example images, a complete PowerPoint, and technique video!Project Materials:Watercolor Paper (at least 90lb)PencilHexagon Stencils (included)RulerWhite Oil PastelLiquid Watercolor Paints and brushesTable SaltIf you have any questions, comments, or concerns please feel free to contact
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Elementary Art Lesson Plan Bundle
Winter Social Skill Activities for Speech Therapy
Doing a winter theme with your speech therapy caseload and need activities to work on social skills and conversation with students? Use these winter-themed social skill activities to work on perspective-taking, inferencing, conversation, and tone of voice.What are they Thinking Perspective taking activity?Pages 3 & 5- Visual posters. Print on cardstock and laminate. Write with dry erase marker what the kids think Jessie or snowman is thinking.Pages 4 &6- 9 stimulus cards on each page w
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2nd - 8th
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Winter Holiday Art: Value Landscapes
Teach your students about the element of art - value with this fun and engaging winter-themed art lesson! This is a lesson that I ALWAYS get compliments on (from students, parents, teachers, and admin) and makes such beautiful hallway displays! The PowerPoint that goes with this lesson covers the ideas of value, tints, shades, highlights, cast shadows, and form shadows.This package includes teacher directions, simplified student directions, a PowerPoint, a few student examples, and a step-by-ste
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2nd - 8th
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Also included in: 6-Lesson Vertical Elementary Art Color Unit Bundle
Winter Protein Synthesis Activity or Game- DNA Transcription Translation
This winter protein synthesis activity will spice up your DNA unit! Using transcription and translation of DNA sequences, students compete to make cozy winter sentences!Please note: This activity can also be found in my Biology UNIT 7: DNA & Protein Synthesis.Students are divided into teams and given paper DNA sequences. After transcribing these sequences into mRNA, students look for the correct anticodon card to determine the protein "sentence" that will be made! Better yet- these senten
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8th - 10th
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Also included in: High School Biology Lab Experiments - Biology Lab Activity Bundle
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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Tim Burton Snowman - Holiday and Christmas Art Lesson
This Tim Burton-inspired drawing art lesson is a perfect winter or Christmas lesson for your intermediate elementary art students or middle school artists. Students will be able to recall information about artist Tim Burton, create a snowman in the style of Tim Burton and use value to create a self-portrait that looks 3 dimensional. The PowerPoint slides include: objectives, standards, vocabulary (style, value and self-portrait), materials, class discussion questions and art critique, step by s
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3rd - 8th
Figurative Language in Winter/Holiday Songs Question Trail: Engaging Activity
Practice identifying examples of figurative language in winter/holiday songs with this engaging question trail activity that gets your students up and moving around the room. All songs are winter/secular holiday songs that do not mention Christmas or other specific holidays, so this activity is inclusive and appropriate for all students.A question trail is an activity comprised of different multiple choice “stations” or “spots.” These questions are posted throughout the classroom. At each statio
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5th - 10th
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How to Differentiate a Lesson Reference Guide
Need a fast and easy way to create a differentiated lesson for your students? This handy one page "cheat sheet" or reference guide is all you need to create a lesson to meet the needs of your GATE students. This idea was developed by Sandra Kaplan who has worked in the field of Gifted Education for years. YOU MUST HAVE SOME BASIC KNOWLEDGE ON DEPTH AND COMPLEXITY AND HOW TO PLAN DIFFERENTIATED LESSONS IN ORDER TO USE THIS PRODUCT. It is a guide only. Here's how it works: You decide on the th
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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Animals In Sweaters Inspired by Indi Maverick Art Lesson
Your intermediate elementary and middle school students will thoroughly enjoy this mixed media drawing lesson! It is a perfect lesson for winter or celebrating women artists for Women's History Month! Students will be able to identify and critique the artwork and style of artist Indi Maverick. Students will used hatching and stippling to create implied texture. Lastly, students will use unity when adding color to their creative patterns in the sweater, hat and/ or scarf worn by the woodland anim
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4th - 8th
Gingerbread House Drawing Art Lesson - 2 Point Perspective Christmas Art Lesson
This Christmas/ holiday themed art drawing lesson will keep your middle school boys and girls ENGAGED during this very exciting time of year. Students will learn how to create a 3D house using 2 point perspective technique. In addition, students will use value and colored pencil techniques to create a 3D form. The PowerPoint and PDF slides include: vocabulary (2 point perspective, vanishing point, value scale, tint, shade and value), objectives, standards, step by step instructions, student refe
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6th - 12th
Christmas Art Lesson, Reindeer Art Project Activity for Middle School
Christmas art inspired by Reindeer and the Element of Art: Value! Use soft pastel/chalk pastel to create a unique Christmas art project with your students. This is a great way to keep them engaged as the days tick closer to Christmas. Spend an afternoon creating art! This product is complete with a visual and text step-by-step (each step on its own page with description), a rubric for marking, a lesson plan, a finished example, and a step-by-step drawing handout to allow your students to create
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Christmas Art Lesson Activity BUNDLE
Navidad Spanish Future Winter Break Spanish Christmas Weekend Chat el invierno
What to do on the day before Thanksgiving break or the day before Winter break in Spanish class to practice the informal future tense in Spanish? This is the perfect future tense interpersonal Spanish speaking and writing activity using ir + a infinitive for the week before winter break. Get Spanish 1, Spanish 2, or Spanish 3 to talk about what they plan to do over Thanksgiving break in the future tense in Spanish. ⭐ Get the Winter Holidays Bundle for the best deal on all of my Winter resourcesT
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8th - 11th
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Rock Music Escape Room - Learn about Rock Music!
This Escape Room is an all-in-one lesson to teach your students about Rock Music & Rock Musicians in a fun and engaging way. Simply share the google form link with students and they are ready to go! Students will search for answers on the internet as they learn about the topics below. 7 puzzles cover the topics of:1. The Origin of the Rock2. The First Hit (Rock Around the Clock)3. Sister Rosetta Thorpe4. Famous Band (Rolling Stones)5. Led Zeppelin6. Queen of Rock & Roll (Janis Joplin)7.
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6th - 9th
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I Am Poem Template (Features 9 Bright Colored Borders)
"I Am Poem" template used for upper elementary and beyond! Students can do rough draft on black and white copy and then choose a colored copy for the final. Enjoy
Comes in: purple, seafoam, pink, dark blue, sky blue, lime green & orange, red and brown.
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5th - 12th
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STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
115+ hours of class time, 374 pages. This collection is big and includes big savings--42% off individual purchases of some. Pretty much everything in the Portable Gifted and Talented store is rated 4.0, but take a couple minutes to peruse the comments for these individual units. I think you’ll like what you see.Designed for two purposes:A curriculum for Middle School STEAM classes with an engineering focus. Or . . .Upper Elementary GATE – Very Challenging!These units are big, fairly comprehe
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4th - 8th
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