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Critical thinking projects for Microsoft Word
Math Project-Create Own Dream Home-Blueprints and Floor Plan (perimeter & area)
Create blueprints and/or floor plans for your own dream home!!
Your little architects will love dreaming big with this project. Using their imaginations and graph paper, they will create their own blueprints.They will be learning area, measurement and perfecting those problem solving and critical thinking skills. The bonus is they won't even know it because they will be having fun.
This project is very "real life" oriented.
For the younger grades this would be better for the GT students. Or
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
Inquiry Based Learning Project: VAPING
An Inquiry Based Learning Project your students are going to love!Vaping has become more and more common over that past decade, but how (un)healthy is it really for us? Students are given a general overview of how inquiry projects work, and are then set loose to dive into an authentic research process. At the end, they are given the option of presenting in one of four different modes: A presentation, a podcast, a documentary film, or an essay. This Package Includes:An Introduction to VapingAn Ov
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: THE HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASS BUNDLE
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
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K - 3rd
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,
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
Family Tree Research Project - Independent Assessment
The Family Tree Research Project includes instructions for each activity, 20 family history interview research questions, individual Family Member Fact Cards, and a student reflection paper assignment. The project includes plan sheets for the visual display projects and reflection paper featuring guiding questions for student success.The Family Tree Research Project features informational writing, speaking and listening, and active research in order for students to apply their skills and invest
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7th - 12th
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KEVA Planks STEM Activities
This is a set of 4 different activities that your class can do in groups with KEVA planks, KEVA balls (or ping pong balls), and connectors. Each page is set to print just a couple times so you have one for each group. 4 activities are Motion, Inclined Plane, Dominoes, and Wall Bounce.
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K - 5th
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The Cost of Growing Up: A career focused personal finance project
Recently reformatted as an editable Word document. This project allows students to individually research a future profession and walks them through the math to figure out a monthly paycheck. Once there, the students are able to research a home, car, and other necessities all while determining whether or not they will be able to afford them. This is a great project for those in the state of Georgia attempting to fulfill the fifth grade career requirement or anyone wanting to help give their stu
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4th - 8th
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Inquiry Based Learning Project: FAST FASHION
An Inquiry Based Learning Project your students are going to love!Fast Fashion has become one of the biggest environmental and human rights issues of the last 15 years - so much so that the fashion industry has been identified as contributing 10% of global CO2 emissions annually! So if we all know it's a problem, why haven't we fixed it?!In this package, students are given a general overview of how inquiry projects work, and are then set loose to dive into an authentic research process. At the e
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: THE INQUIRY BASED LEARNING RESEARCH BUNDLE
Business Plan and Entrepreneurship Project for Elementary School
Overview: Students will develop and operate a business. Students will conduct market research, analyze the results, develop a business plan, and implement the business. After each day of operation, students will determine profits and losses based on their expenditures and sales. Students will graph and analyze the results to make decisions for their business.
The business described below was a “movie theater” my students ran during the last weeks of school. Students who earned the privi
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3rd - 5th
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US History End of Year Museum Project
This product gives guidelines for students to create their own museum floor plan as an end of the year project for US History. It instructs students to create 10 exhibits, one from each of 10 eras in US History, to represent their learning through out the year. The floor plan and pictures are to be done on a poster. Students will also create a booklet guide to accompany their visitors throughout their museum. This guide will include a description of each exhibit as well as an explanation for eac
Grades:
7th - 9th
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,
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
Create your own genetically modified organism
Learning about Genetics? Try this fun extension about GMOs. Students will use this worksheet to create their own genetically modified organism. This project requires them to design the packaging for their innovative new item!
Grades:
5th - 6th
Math Summative Project Based Algebra Activity EDITABLE: Building a House
This EDITABLE math summative algebra assessment (project based learning) is comprised of eight questions based on four levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy and requires solving for one unknown using basic mathematical formulas. The theme is centered on the construction of a house. The student is the building contractor who must make a variety of decisions to correctly solve each portion of this assessment. The students may present the project in two different ways, as a power point or as a written projec
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7th - 9th, Adult Education
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STEM Kid Engineering -- Span the Gorge Secret Spy Adventure Challenge
In the Span the Gorge Secret Spy Adventure challenge, students launch their careers as secret spies and then solve an engineering challenge to save the day.
A vintage primary source postcard launches the mystery for our 21st Century Learners. Students will use logic interpretive skills (which include translating vintage cursive handwriting) and Internet and Computer Technology skills to “crack a code” and solve a mystery. Next, in a collaborative effort (Common Core skills in Language), stude
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Career Exploration 2-5-8 Projects
15 differentiated assessment projects for middle and high school career exploration class. Students complete two projects to equal 100 points. Each project is either worth 20, 50 or 80 points depending on the complexity of the projects. Students can choose an easy (20 point) project and a more complex project (80 points) to total 100 or can choose to do two 50 point projects. Project products include students creating posters, children's picture books, creating a quiz, conduct an interview,
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7th - 10th
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Summer Vacation: Planning with a Budget
Your students will love this activity so much, they won't want to leave for the summer!
This end-of-year activity incorporates the real-life skills of researching a vacation destination using an atlas & the internet, using math in everyday life, and working within a budget. The document includes a 6-page printable worksheet for your students & a bibliography of websites -- I linked these sites to my classroom computers, in order to give access to all & to save valuable search time
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3rd - 5th
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Third/Fourth Grade Invention Project
This project is for use with 2-5 grade students who are studying inventions or famous inventors. Students create their own invention, design an advertisement for it, and present it. The five-page packet is for students to use and plan their project - complete with rubric and schedule.
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2nd - 5th
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Complete T.U.S.C (TUSC) Book with Roles and Worksheets
Kids love TUSC! If you're struggling with where to start, look no further! This is a complete booklet and basically all you need to get started.
This booklet can be kept in a binder or duo-tang for students to use each week to prepare for their TUSC role.
There are 22 fully detailed roles in this book, with description and easy-to-use, scaffolded worksheets.
The document is also fully editable.
Enjoy and thanks for the look!
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4th - 7th
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SCAMPER Invention Project
This two page activity includes instructions, expectations, descriptions, and a rubric for a "SCAMPER" project. Students will use the "SCAMPER" process to invent a new product. This is editable so that it can be modified for your specific purpose and grade-appropriate activity.
Grades:
2nd - 12th
STOCK MARKET GAME!
I use this in my math classes and marketing classes. IT WORKS GREAT and students LOVE IT!!! Here you go...Students will invest in 6 companies that they are interested in. Over an eight week time period, students will watch their stocks either earn or lose money. Students will learn how to research information about each company. Students will learn how to graph their weekly amounts for each company and how to figure out how much each company has earned or lost. Finally, students will pres
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7th - 12th
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Middle School Novel Project Packet with Common Core Alignment
This packet contains instructions for the teacher, 12 book project ideas including book report and alternatives, and 12 easy-to-follow rubrics to match the projects. Projects are great culminating tasks for literature/novel units, and the variety of presentation formats offered appeals to different modalities as well as multiple intelligences. Fourteen pages in all.
Middle School Book Project Packet by Valerie Shaw is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licen
Grades:
5th - 9th
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The Giver UDL Choice Board
I have created a Universal Design for Learning Choice Board for the novel "The Giver" by Lois Lowry. The students have the ability to choose the activities they want to complete for a total of 70 points. Activity #1: Create a Children’s Rule BookStudents will create a children’s book that would explain that rules of Jonas’ community to children.Activity #2: Character “I have a Dream” SpeechStudents will listen to Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech on the chrome books. Students wi
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Cultural flag-start the year w/bright + positive reflections of your students!
…This common core rich, activity starts as a group collaboration, discussion, and quick presentation and ends with a student analyzing the factors that create his or her own unique culture. Students analyze and then synthesize the aspects that truly make up their culture....beyond just ethnicity. Student fills out a chart and reflects on individual aspects of his or her life. Then creates symbols to represent those ideas. Finally students create vivid and exciting cultural flags that will repr
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2nd - 10th
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"The Jinx" Investigation Board Project
I modified this project for one I originally did with In Cold Blood for the docuseries "The Jinx." Students explore investigative processes as they explore the crimes and trials of Robert Durst. This is a good culminating project for any true crime unit. The rubric is included.
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11th - 12th
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Also included in: "The Jinx" Season One Quizzes & Investigation Project
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