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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
Primary GATE with Caldecott COLLECTION - 180 pages - 7 Books!
Your primary kids will love these lessons! You save a bundle: 33% off individual purchases!
I teach 30-45 minute groups once a week of 1st and 2nd graders all year, and this collection is more than enough to get me through an entire school year of groups. I can’t absolutely guarantee it will do the same for you, but it’s going to be very close if it doesn’t . . .
You’ll see best practices in gifted education throughout. You’ll see many graphic organizers, age-appropriate and challenging cr
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K - 3rd
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Carnival of the Animals Unit Lesson Plan Pack
This all-inclusive unit helps primary aged students explore the Carnival of the Animals. Laid out in a 10-week program, but could easily be adapted to fit your room. This unit is jam-packed with every musical aspect you can think of: from movement to composition. It even incorporates classroom aspects of literature, writing, and responses.
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K - 3rd
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Complete Wonderland and Looking-Glass Comprehension and Logic Unit Combo
This is my complete combo for both the "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There" books. It has chapter comprehension worksheets for both books. This also includes my logic unit study which teaches a basic introduction to formal logic as well as analyzes a lot of the hidden logic lessons within the first Alice book.Logic Unit Description:This is a collection of worksheets and tests that work for a month long introduction to formal logic and fal
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5th - 12th
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Introduction to Criminology- A four to five week course
Updated August 2021 with working current links. Please re-download the unit if you purchased it previously. This unit presents a complete overview of criminology and includes daily lessons (along with articles, materials, and web quests) games and activities and three short assessments. Everything needed to teach the introduction tocriminology is present in the unit and students in grades 8-12 would be appropriately and actively engaged in the activities, readings, and supplementary materials.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Full Year Middle School Literacy: Non-Fiction Units
The following is a compilation of the high interest, non-fiction units I have developed and used in my classroom over the last five years. Each unit comes with a variety of readings that will provoke debate and discussion in your classroom. Each reading also has questions that allow your students to look beyond the text while working on important skills such as connecting, inferring, questioning, summarizing, and synthesizing. Combined with any fiction you introduce in your class, there is enoug
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7th - 9th
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Going Commercial -- a GATE Unit for the 21st Century and the Common Core
Going Commercial is 100 pages of lessons and materials for the 21st Century Learner. It’s designed for 4th and 5th grade GATE students, but it is appropriate up through 8th and even 9th grade because of the nature of critical thinking and creativity involved.
This unit in its entirety will extend well beyond 20 classroom hours. You get lessons in economics, common core language and math activities, bunches of primary sources for best practices in social studies, public speaking opportunities,
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
Debate- Basic Argumentation and Fallacies Unit Packet
This is my introductory unit packet for my Debate class. It prompts bellwork assignments, explains several fallacies, provides opportunities for practice, previews a formative project, as well as outlines basic information on sources and argument structure. There are answer keys provided at the end.
This is great for a debate class or even for a debate team to use in between competition preparation!
I use this packet for a 2 week unit in class. You could use an abbreviated pacing or you could
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Ukulele rubrics for grading and peer assessment!
Looking for a set of rubrics to help grade your pupil's ukulele performance?This one does the job. Tick statements that best represent how your pupils have performed. Then tally up the score to see which band the grade falls under.This set of rubrics provides statements that work as a checklist from your pupil's perspective so that pupils are able to measure themselves as they work towards their goals. The rubrics are provided in a Microsoft Word document format so that you may change it to suit
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5th - 8th
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STOMP Lesson Plan
This STOMP Unit (Exploration of creating music using non-traditional instruments) contains 10 lesson plans (which could be extended or shortened) in LFS format. This unit was designed for a 6th grade general music class, but could be used in grades 3rd through 8th. This lesson also includes the music standards, essential questions, activating strategies, teaching strategies, assessment prompts, summarizing strategies, and much, much more. Please feel free to edit or revise to fit your class. Bel
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3rd - 8th
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Orchestra Curriculum Map for 2nd and 3rd Years {Editable}
Are you teaching a second or third year orchestra course and don't know where to start? This "Orchestra Curriculum Map for 2nd and 3rd Years" is a great place to start! This curriculum map breaks down a year of orchestra into 4 Quarters. Each quarter contains the following lesson planning markers to help sequence material:Measurement Topic: The overarching organizational structure used to group content/concepts within the curriculum mapPacing: The recommended time period within the year for inst
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3rd - 12th
Also included in: Orchestra Curriculum Map Bundle
Beginning Orchestra Curriculum Map {Editable}
Are you teaching a beginning orchestra course and don't know where to start? This "Beginning Orchestra Curriculum Map" is a great place to start! This curriculum map breaks down a year of beginning orchestra into 4 Quarters. Each quarter contains the following lesson planning markers to help sequence material:Measurement Topic: The overarching organizational structure used to group content/concepts within the curriculum map Pacing: The recommended time period within the year for instruction rela
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3rd - 12th
Also included in: Orchestra Curriculum Map Bundle
CSI Unit Activity File
If you're looking for a creative way to teach critical thinking skills, Common Core Standards and STEM principles to middle school students using a hands-on, real-world approach, then this is the unit for you! Full of tips, resources, ideas and printable, editable notebook pages for your students, this activity file will give you everything you need to plan your own interdisciplinary CSI unit.
CSI Notebook & Unit by Terri Samson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercia
Grades:
7th - 9th
Grade 7 Bullying Awareness Campaign Project
This project-based learning opportunity allows students to create a bullying awareness campaign to present to younger grades. This package includes everything you need: resources for teachers, prior learning suggestions, ways to accommodate various types of learners, a detailed and structured assignment layout, multiple assessments (self assessment, group assessment, rubric, descriptive feedback sheet) etc. Students love this project and really take away a lot from it!
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6th - 8th
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Popular Guitar/Rock Band Lesson Plans
Bulk Lesson Plans for guitar and rock band. Basic lesson plans to lesson plans with songs and checklists are included. This is a Word document so that editing can be done.
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4th - 12th
48 Laws of Power unit
The 48 Laws of Power is an amazing and informative book; however, it is too long for most high school students. This unit gives students a taste of the text and its concepts, aiming to get students to reflect on power plays and power dynamics in jobs and relationships. Hey, maybe they will decide to read the entire book on their own! This unit:suggests ways to implementhas a TED Talk linkYouTube links to short informative videos on each of the 48 laws encourages reflection and application to st
Grades:
11th - 12th, Adult Education
Classroom Restaurant Simulation - Nutrition Lessons Unit
Students will learn how proper nutrition, exercise and rest are important to good health by setting up a classroom restaurant. The sixteen sessions in this unit contain lessons on different types of advertising, food safety rules, how to take your heart rate, analyzing food lables, understanding cooking terms, analyzing menus for nutritious offerings. Children will perform an original nutrition rap (included), write limericks, listen to speakers, learn proper table manners, serve and be served.
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1st - 5th
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Design and Technology Wheels and Axles Full Unit
Full unit designed to teach children about wheels and axles. Detailed planning and teaching resources to support teaching in effective teaching. The bundle includes children's worksheets.
Grades:
1st - 3rd
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Design and Technology Wheels and Axles Teaching Plan
Teaching plan for teaching children about wheels and axles. The teaching plan works alongside the teaching slides adding more detail for teachers.
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1st - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Design and Technology Wheels and Axles Full Unit
Music Lesson Plan Template (Orff, General, Elementary)
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This organizer for music lesson plans is based on the Orff-Schulwerk approach to music teaching. This flow chart allows music teachers to organize their their goals and objectives and then create short descriptions of the activities occurring in the three main phases of the Schulwerk process (imitate, explore, create) that lead to the creation of a final product showing student understanding and achievement. This template i
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PreK - 8th, Adult Education, Staff
First Grade Common Core Science Lessons and Experiments (8 Lesson Sample)
This product takes the scientific method, simplifies it into a first grade curriculum, and connects common core standards to every lesson. While this product only contains eight lesson plans, the full version (80 lesson plans--20 per quarter) can be purchased for $3 per quarterly outline or $10 for the whole year. Many other engaging resources will be available from my store, so check back often!
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1st
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6-12 Choir Music Theory Curriculum Unit 1 Resources
Over the past 30 years I have been creating a system to teach music literacy skills to my choirs. This is just the structure of what I cover for each unit. For each quiz students will recognize symbols and describe/define each termThese are the resources I use for our first unit. I've included what I use for each level. Also included are the Google Slides I use to introduce each symbol and description.
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6th - 12th
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Flint, Michigan Water Crisis (2014-2016) Discussion Anticipatory Set (EDITABLE)
This is a Word document version of this product: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Flint-Michigan-Water-Crisis-2014-2016-Discussion-Anticipatory-Set-2343915
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Beginner Modern Band Resource Links - A Guide for Supporting Your Music Makers
Modern Band is the coolest! It is IMO, lifelong-learner music, and super fun! After teaching it online, in classrooms, afterschool clubs, and private lessons for 5 years, I have created this master list of links on many platforms like Google Classroom, Teams Class Notebook, and two different types of blogs. The content in the links includes tutorial and skills videos from Music Will, as well as tried and true lesson vids from YouTube, and some cloud resources like posters and jam cards. The lis
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3rd - 12th
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