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4th grade environment resources for GATE $5-10
Ecosystems & Environmental Concerns PBL | Science Project Based Learning
Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach about different ecosystems and their environmental concerns? Interested in student driven learning?This Project Based Learning unit allows students to learn about ecosystems by examining an environmental issue within an ecosystem. Students act as environmentalists as they research the causes and effects as well as problems and solutions of an environmental issue by examining the different factors that make up an ecosystem. This is a student-centered wa
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4th - 8th
Also included in: Science PBL | Project and Problem Based Learning Bundle
Zombie Apocalypse STEM
This Ultimate Zombie Apocalypse Survival Pack includes everything your students need to engineer survival tools for a zombie apocalypse.
Students use the engineering design process to create a fence/gate, water filter, solar oven, mobile greenhouse and a mobile cooler.
Most materials are everyday repurposed items. Perfect for after school clubs or enrichment activities,
Happy Engineering!
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4th - 8th
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Choice Boards and Rubrics: the next level -- plus bonus rainforest unit
Trying to push all students into deeper thinking? Need to differentiate for highly capable students? Looking for ways to pull that small guided group?
Recently, I have been frustrated by the choice boards available that seem to focus mostly on “activities” (see my blog on activities at sarahsteachingpointblog.blogspot.com) or various multiple intelligences, but not deeper levels of thinking. Most Choice Boards seem to ask for Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Level 1 Recall/ Reproduce or 2 Application /
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3rd - 5th
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Change over Time: Madagascar Enrichment Unit for Gifted & Talented
Change over Time: MadagascarUpdated 2022! In this unit, students will learn about Madagascar and the unique animals that are endemic to the island. They will learn about the changes that have occurred over time in Madagascar, the changes that isolated the island millions of years ago and the changes to the environment that are putting the animals in danger. This product includes:1. Lesson Plans including objectives and suggested resources Bibliography of books – including Kindle version
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2nd - 4th
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STEM Engineering for Elementary GATE - Wind Power, Windmills, and Wind
Two challenging but age-appropriate engineering projects highlight this unit. If you’ve taught my other STEM units, however, you know they’re not simply building projects. We’re thinking, learning science concepts, developing explanations, applying math and non-fiction reading skills, and bringing a wide variety of areas into a unit. But let’s not take lightly how cool it is to build and experiment with a cool mini glider and a working windmill!
As usual, we have ready-to-print activity shee
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3rd - 6th
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TRASH TO TREASURE Trash & Recycling STEAM Unit
This 16-page, 6-hour (more or less...easily adjustable) STEAM unit includes lesson plans, hand outs, parent notes, criteria sheets, and examples for 4 hands-on activities related to trash and recycling!Activities include:Collect trash from outside or around the school to create a Trash Ball. Hypothesize how big the ball will be. Then compare/contrast the balls from different classrooms, grades, areas, etc.Make paper from paper scraps!Design Recycling Posters to put around the schoolCreate Tras
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2nd - 6th
Sharks Research - Project Based Learning Science - Sharks STEM PBL Unit
This powerful, collaborative Shark Research and Shark Conservation Project Based Learning Science unit addresses damaging threats to our sharks and other ocean animals. Students will gain information about sharks in how they can help with this environmental problem. Sharks are important to our ecosystem and the food chain.This PBL unit incorporates 21st Century skills with challenging, engaging, and creative activities. There are lots of opportunities for differentiation and technology integrati
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3rd - 5th
Gulf of Mexico - Real-World Environmental Challenges
This project-based learning activity allows students to work in pairs, small groups, or individually while addressing 4 real-world environmental issues related to the Gulf of Mexico. Students will put on their "Marine Biologist" hats to work to research and present their findings. This project was designed for Florida students in grades 4-12; however, it can be easily adapted to address local ecological issues in any coastal community, especially along the Gulf Coast. Students can be assigned
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4th - 12th
Ecosystem Depth and Complexity Frames, Games, and Activities
Teach ecosystems in an engaging way using Depth and Complexity frames, fun and educational activities, and even games! This 40+ page packet will have kids answering comprehension questions, participating in collaborative conversations, playing games, sorting living and nonliving parts of ecosystems, creating illustrations and labeling using science academic vocabulary, and writing informatively, creatively, and persuasively.
Additionally, students will need to research information about speci
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2nd - 5th
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Life Science Choice Boards - Customize!
There are 7 pre-made choice boards with a guiding topic statement and 9 product choices on each board. You can simply assign that one slide with the choices already on there, or if you would like to change any of the product choices, the last 2 pages are 36 different choice cards that you just copy and paste into the choice board over the choice you don’t want to use.*Digital Option Included! Google slide option with 36 interchangeable choices for each board.Topics:Living and Non LivingFood Webs
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Science Choice Boards - Customize!
Distance Learning Photosynthesis Hyperdoc
Engage, explore, apply, extend and more!Engage your students with an all digital interactive activity all about PHOTOSYNTHESISThe hyperdoc will have students watch a video, explore websites, slideshares and more!Students will be asked to share responses via flip grid, padlet, and thinglink; and create digital products to demonstrate understanding (editable)Through working through these activities, students will understand the process of photosynthesis, key vocabulary terms, and why photosynthesi
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Distance Learning Photosynthesis Bundle
Ecology Unit Autumn Colors G&T Grades 1 - 8 and Up
Ecology unit about vegetation focusing on autumn leaf color changes for gifted and talented students. Learn in depth about the ecology of autumn leaf color change. Explore science, language and more while exercising your brain with deep-thought inducing questions and problems to solve that revolve around ecology and the changes in leaves that happens in the Fall. Aligned with NAGC gifted standards and specifically tuned for students in areas with little color change in the Fall, but can be use
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1st - 8th
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Designer Dirt - Creating Classroom Adobe
Combine the ancient art of adobe with the modern applications of material science! This engaging hands on - minds on unit has students exploring the properties of mud, designing and building better bricks, testing their creations and presenting their findings. It is a complete unit with all lesson plans, resources, and assessments tools. Correlations to the Common Core Standards are included.
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4th - 8th
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Island of the Blue Dolphins Literature Unit
This literature unit, perfect for whole-group, cluster-groups, or independent study, includes vocabulary and journal prompts for each chapter section, as well as ideas for research projects: Native Americans - perfect for grade 4, and a Sea Creatures science research project. There is also a multi-disciplinary Final Project idea sheet, perfect for differentiating instruction within the classroom!
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4th - 6th, Staff
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Rufus the Doofus Chapter Book
Rufus the Dufus is the first in a series of Middle Grade chapter books for boys and girls. The story is a comical mystery about Rufus and his two pals, Pismo and Patti Murphy, three happy go lucky surfers that attend San Dune Middle School. Along the way they pull sidesplitting pranks on their nemesis, the bully Cleon and uncover the diabolical plans of Principal Borak. . Will they save the school and win the surf championship or end up as fish food?
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4th - 7th
STEM AND SCIENCE EDUCATION LESSONS AND IDEAS FOR GIFTED AND ADVANCED STUDENTS
Creativity Inspirations, Lessons and G&T Classroom Challenges.
“School Won’t Change – Until We are Brave Enough to Change the Way We Teach Teachers”*
*Said by Harry Roman’s High School Science Teacher, Morris Lerner.
Excerpts from a New Book (Volume 1) by Harry T. Roman – Applied Science and Technology for Gifted Students
Changing Education –Thoughts about Creating and Inventing Tomorrow’s Schools
An Example of 360 Degree Problem Solving – More than the Science and Math
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4th - 10th, Staff
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Create-a-Center: The Environment
ABOUT THE CREATE-A-CENTER SERIESEach center provides 90 tasks, ready to cut out and make into a center, as well as a crossword puzzle and an enrichment activity. The multi-disciplinary activities are keyed to Bloom's Taxonomy and include tasks from the 6 major classifications of the cognitive domain: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Create-a-Centers are great for gifted and talented students.Answers are provided for the crossword puzzle and most of the
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4th - 7th
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