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2nd grade science resources for Microsoft Word and for GATE
Primary GATE Gifted and Talented Program for the Year -- 410 Pages, 50%+ off!
You will be a rock star! This collection is highly interactive, creative, and rich in age-appropriate critical thinking.
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This collection takes me through an entire year of lessons with my advanced groups of kindergarteners, 1st, and 2nd graders . . . but many of these lessons can also be used for middle and upper elementary kids, especially if you come into the regular classroom to teach whole-class enrichment lessons.
19 units and 419 pages of lessons!
Grades:
K - 3rd
Toy Car Golf Math STEAM Design - Gifted and Talented GATE 2nd-4th 9 Hours
Engaging math and engineering with ramps and toy cars! Your students will go home and share the news about how absolutely cool school seems now. My mathematically gifted 2nd graders were VERY Challenged by this unit, and I would not hesitate to use it for 3rd grade GATE or in 4th grade as an enrichment for the whole class.Schoolhouse Rock Math: We’re using Zero My Hero and 5’s Multiplication to learn multiplication, repeated addition, and patterns to calculate areas of rectangles—a very advance
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2nd - 4th
Also included in: KID CREATED GAMES Standards-based STEM and Math Games Bundle
Primary GATE -- AIR! Active, Creative, Academic, and Hands-on!
I am always trying to figure out what to do with my little primary groups, and this unit was a definite hit with my kindergartners. It would work well with 1st grade too or the regular 2nd grade classroom. The full unit contains more than 2 hours of contact time.
It’s active, fun, and challenging for these little ones and seemed to have the right combination of “get up and move,” imagination, creativity, and “making” along with academic tasks.
We learn about four important properties of air
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K - 2nd
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The Clubhouse - Deep Creativity, Design, STEAM, Critical Thinking, and GATE
Because we are evil teachers with evil, cackling laughs, we will entice and engage students like the witch in Hansel and Gretel with a metaphorical candy house. Oh, this looks like all fun and games, but that’s not how we evil teachers do things!You know that STEM activity going around where you have a certain amount of time to build a tower out of notecards? This activity takes the notecard tower activity to about level 44. At Portable Gifted and Talented, we love to build stuff, and we love pl
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1st - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: 2019-2020 Gifted and Talented GATE Program for the Year - Elementary
Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express READING + STEM Elementary GATE
If you’ve come to know my units, you’ll find the same sort of critical thinking and hands-on exploration and creativity here . . .
Come all the way across the curriculum from READING to STEM activities in this hands-on unit. My advanced group 2nd graders loved this! I would use this for advanced 1st graders in their second semester or 3rd grade as well. I don’t think it would be a stretch to say 4th graders would enjoy it as well.
“Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express” is a Reading Rainbow
Grades:
1st - 4th
Parts of a Plant Foldable
The parts of a plant foldable can be used with your favorite textbook, article, or video on the parts of a plant. This foldable is used as a place to consolidate and keep the information. There are sections identifying each part of the plant, explaining the function of the leaf, stem, root, and flower, explaining the life cycle of a plant, describing how a plant makes its own food, and drawing a picture of photosynthesis. Included are detailed pictures which show what each area says or has drawn
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2nd - 6th
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Mirette on the High Wire CALDECOTT for Primary GATE Hands-on with STEM
Bring Emily Arnold McCully’s Caldecott Winning book, Mirette on the High Wire, alive with this active unit! We combine a rich exploration—primary grades appropriate—of language and science to produce a meaningful learning experience.
Materials: Activity Sheets (included), string, and other common classroom supplies
Time: About 3 hours total if all the parts are included
Level: GATE 1st or 2nd and 3rd
Primary Source Analysis and Inferences: Let’s set the stage by seeing what students ca
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1st - 3rd
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David Weisner's THE THREE PIGS - Primary GATE with Caldecott Books
Not sure if I had more fun with this or the kids did! Huh? This must be another Primary GATE with Caldecott lesson from Portable Gifted and Talented. Woo hoo!
• Students make a wolf that actually huffs, puffs, and blows down a straw house while they learn about physical science.
• Students create a cool, creative, and witty POP-up story extension which saves the life of one of the three pigs.
• Students learn to orient themselves to cardinal directions, about the position of the sun in the
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1st - 5th
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers Caldecott for Primary GATE +STEM
Strong STEM-literacy springboard activities with this nonfiction piece! Pair it thematically with my Mirette on the High Wire Caldecott lessons, and the students will experience literature from inside to outside and from up to down.
You get instructions, ready-to-print activity sheets, Common Core references, and everything you need to set you down the path on this book. Make a quick trip to the local craft store for a really cool extension, or just use common materials in the classroom to ge
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2nd - 4th
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Primary Gifted and Talented Social Emotional MARSHMALLOW Respecting Differences
We all share common hopes, dreams, feelings, and abilities no matter what ethnicity, nationality, gender, or group we belong to. That message is the key take-away from this primary GATE unit. As such, this unit is a social-emotional unit with NACG standards . . . but much more:Primary GATE best Practices with a Social-Emotional Emphasis· Critical Thinking· Language and Reading· Creativity· Science We use Clare Turlay Newberry’s Caldecott Honor book, Marshmallow, as our vehicle. We also use Lisa
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K - 2nd
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Multiple Intelligences Projects - Natural Disasters
Teachers should offer multiple intelligences projects to cater to diverse learning styles, promote engagement, and support personalized learning. These projects help students discover their strengths, stimulate cognitive growth, and prepare them for real-world challenges. They also foster collaboration, communication skills, and holistic development while offering a more comprehensive assessment approach.This resource provides 27 project options covering the topics of natural disasters, specific
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1st - 7th
Claim Evidence Reasoning: "The Bad Dog Mystery" Worksheet
Students will be introduced to using Claim Evidence Reasoning to solve The Bad Dog Mystery. This worksheet follows along with the step by step powerpoint that allows students to make a Claim, review the Evidence, and lastly, determine their Reasoning with support. This evidence sheet is provided to allow students to review their work and discuss their findings with other students. This lesson allows students to analyze data, make measurements, and think critically. It is interactive and fun!
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1st - 5th
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Earthworms
Kaplan's Think like a scientist as you observe a real live earthworm (nightcrawler)! Kindergarten, first, and second graders will love this hands on science activity. The lesson can be scaffolded by having Kindergarteners first observe the earthworm with a scientific tool (magnifying lens) and then complete the observation sheet with or without teacher help. The older children do the same, except think more critically by comparing the earthworm to a human- did you know earthowrms have 5 hearts?
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PreK - 3rd
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Animal Adaptations Hyperdoc
This hyperdoc is great for anyone studying animal adaptations. It will guide them through exploration and then have them create a product to explain their knowledge.
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2nd - 6th
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Inquiry Into Endangered Species and Wildlife Protection
This is a collection of student centered activities that can be used in a unit planner that stretches across several weeks or as an "All In A Day' Theme Day. It includes a short skit, fluency work, learning through perspective, critical thinking, and glyphs.
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1st - 3rd
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Life Cycle Tic Tac Toe Menu
This menu is designed to provide anchor activities following a class project on Life Cycles. One of the easiest class projects to conduct is one on the life cycle of a beetle. You can buy about 100 mealworms from your local pet store for under $2.00. They feed on oatmeal. The students can watch them go through the same stages that a caterpillar goes through to become a butterfly.
This menu is set up by Bloom's Taxonomy. In each activity box, you will see one of the following letters: E (Ev
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2nd - 3rd
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Reinventing a Robot
This document is a template that supports technology in innovative technology advancements in our world. Students have the opportunity to create a robot that assists with a task, by making that task easier. Students are then asked to describe how their reinvention assists with making life easier. Great for social studies technology lessons, as well as science and robotics support.
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K - 4th
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STEAM Activity - Make Your Own TOPS - Upper Elementary and Gifted and Talented
Make a cool top in just about an hour with a few materials! They work great, are fun, and are a good engineering challenge for upper elementary students.
Materials
• 110 weight or heavier card stock
• Construction Paper
• Compass or circle template
• Glue
• 5” of 3/16” round dowel per student – only costs about 25 cents per 3 feet
• ¾” diameter wooden wheels with 3/16” holes (optional but with the optimal coolness)
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2nd - 6th
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Gobs of Goo Science Unit
This is a science unit for young students to explore the properties of slime and goo. It is perfect for an enrichment unit for young gifted students. It includes color mixing, ice cream making, Oobleck, mixtures, solutions, and more!It has a general 6 day outline and accompanying recipes and worksheets in the form of a science journals for the students.
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PreK - 2nd
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NO PREP Plant Unit - Elementary Science
ENTIRE SEVEN-LESSON UNIT PREPPED WITH ANNOTATED MATERIALS! Lessons include videos, articles that focus on literacy, writing prompts, and more! Every lesson has a Do Now, Guided Notes, and Exit Ticket/Independent Practice.All exemplars already written for you. All teacher notes already created for you. Objectives:Lesson 1: SWBAT describe the function of different parts of the plant.SWBAT classify plants based on their characteristics.Lesson 2: SWBAT describe the function of different parts of the
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1st - 7th
Ancient Egyptian Creative Activity- Complete the Artifact
Creative, fun activity to use when learning about Ancient Egypt
Could be used as a prompt for creative writing or an extension activity.
Students use their imaginations and their creative/artistic side to finish the 'broken' artifact to show what it could have been in Ancient Egyptian society.
They finish it by writing about what the artifact would have been and what it would have been used for.
Some examples past students have done: pyramid fragment, tools, a piece of jewelry , statue to
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2nd - 8th
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Common Core Math Project: African vs. North American Animals Comparison
Common Core Math real world application problem. In this project, your students have just gotten a great summer job as an Intern at the Columbus Zoo. Their first assignment is to help the research department put together a series of graphs to compare data about North American and African animals. This project provides all of the data and instructions for students to meet the Common Core standards under Representing and Interpreting Data related to graphing. It also integrates the ELA concep
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2nd - 4th
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Ancient Greek Creative Activity- Complete the Artifact
Creative, fun activity to use when learning about Ancient Greece
Could be used as a prompt for creative writing or an extension activity.
Students use their imaginations and their creative/artistic side to finish the 'broken' artifact to show what it could have been in Ancient Greek society.
They finish it by writing about what the artifact would have been and what it would have been used for.
Some examples past students have done: pottery, tools, a piece of jewelry , statue to the Gods...
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2nd - 8th
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Differentiated Vertebrate/Invertebrate Cube
This was designed to use with all ability levels within my third grade class room, but could be used for higher grade levels also studying vertebrates and invertebrates. It is differentiated through Bloom's Taxonomy and by learning styles. Allows for easy differentiation by ability level or learning preference. Teacher could assign sides or allow students to roll.
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PreK - 12th
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