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1st grade geography elective course proposals for GATE
MAP SKILLS BUNDLE - CLASSROOM, BEDROOM, HOUSE, ZOO, TEST, AND CENTER
These are engaging and fun projects to teach basic mapping skills. The students learn how to use a compass, place objects using the four cardinal directions, and follow multi-step directions. Describe the location of objects relative to other locations in the classroom. (Over, near, far, left, right, north, south, east, west).- Students create an interactive house map placing pictures of the house furniture on the assigned spots. Or/and they create their own house!- Blank map for your own additi
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1st - 4th
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BUNDLE Around the World in 10 Days {STEM & Target Book}
Looking for an engaging way to teach geography and letter writing? Go cross-curricular and teach both simultaneously! Students start by 'Packing up their questions' about geography by creating an anchor chart with their teacher. Then model letter writing skills and off you go! Spend one day in each of the continents and complete a STEM Challenge! On the last day of your travels create a world map to document your experience!
This product is a BUNDLE, which is at a discounted price! These are th
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1st - 4th
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Flags of the World STEM Mats - STEM Center for Building Bricks #SizzlingSTEM2
If you are looking for a STEM and geography resource, or are celebrating any international sporting events, this is a great set to add to your toolbox!STEM Mats are SO easy to set up in your classroom! If you were thinking of trying STEM Fridays or Maker Mondays, or you need something more engaging for your early finishers than worksheets or reading, this is the resource for you. Not only will your students be working creatively to solve problems, they will be reading, writing, and using math sk
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1st - 5th
Also included in: STEM Activities and Challenges for K-2 - Whole Year Bundle
STEM Around the World in 10 Days
This product is included in a bundle with an Around the World in 10 Days Travel Journal. Check it out HERE!
Looking for an engaging way to teach geography? Why not have students solve a STEM challenge that relates to each continent? There is STEM challenge for each of the 7 continents in this product.
This product includes:
•STEM Challenge Background information pages
•STEM Challenge Problem pages
•STEM Challenge Criteria & Materials pages
•Student STEM journal pages (Includes background i
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1st - 4th
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Amazing Race Printable Templates
This file is a PowerPoint file with Amazing Race templates to create challenges, detours and roadblocks in any content area. These templates can be used digitally or as printables. Just click inside the editable text boxes to add your content.Template includes: planning pageschallenge folderroute information carddetour cardroadblock cardplayer name tagsPowerPoint slides template
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K - 12th, Staff
Research a Country for Primary Gifted Students
This unit is based on the work of Dr. Sandra Kaplan. Using her areas of Depth and Complexity, a student can learn more about a country than just the name of its capital, and the population. This unit includes 15 pages of activities designed for gifted and talented students in first or second grade. The student will have such activities to complete as to create a cartoon about the ethics of the country, or to draw pictures showing how something has changed over time.
clipart used from www.scra
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1st - 3rd
Landforms, Bodies of Water, Natural Resources and How People Use Them
EXPLORING PLACES!! This PowerPoint presentation shows 42 slides with very descriptive pictures of Landforms: canyon, volcano, mountains, cave, desert, plateau, valley, plain, hill, and island. Bodies of Water: River, Lake, pond, ocean, coast, waterfall, and glacierNatural Resources: Oil, water, trees, mines, wind, and soil. Uses of natural resources: to build highways, buildings, airports, stadiums, bridges, amusement parks, swimming pools, gardens, etc.At the end of the presentation, the pict
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K - 4th
Also included in: BODIES OF WATER, LANDFORMS, AND, NATURAL RESOURCES BUNDLE
May the Fourth STEM Mats - STEM Center for Building Bricks
May the 4th be with you! These ARE the STEM mats you are looking for. If you are searching for a STEM / space themed resource for May the 4th, this set is out of this ✨world✨!STEM Mats are so easy to set up in your classroom! If you like these please check out the other available sets (below).What You'll Get⭐ Instructions and sample images⭐ 3 May the 4th STEM Mats ⭐ Recording sheet⭐ Metric options and two color themesLearn MoreFor a detailed explanation of how to use STEM mats, please visit this
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1st - 5th
Also included in: STEM Activities and Makerspace Tasks for the Whole Year
Create Your Own Country
In this unit, you are going to create your county. You will plan out the process, and then create a final drawing (large-scale) of your countryYour country can be any shape you link (be creative), the more points and wiggles the better. Maybe your country is a chocolate chip cookie or a hamburger. The sky's the limit. Your country will have (all with names and Labels):5 CitiesOne CapitalMountainA ForestA river or LakeNational LandmarkA Map KeyA Compass RoseAlong with creating your country, you w
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1st - 5th
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MAP SKILLS BUNDLE - CLASSROOM, BEDROOM, HOUSE, ZOO - TESTS AND CENTERS SPANISH
IN SPANISH!! Mapping it out!! Activities for 4 weeks. These are engaging and fun projects to teach basic mapping skills. The students learn to describe the location of objects relative to other locations in a bedroom (Over, near, far, left, right, north, south, east, west). They create and use simple maps such as maps of the home, classroom, bedroom, and a zoo using cardinal directions, and easy to follow instructions. Besides, Hands-on maps that you can laminate and use in a center!!- House or
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1st - 4th
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Landforms, Bodies of Water, Natural Resources and How People Use Them - Spanish!
EXPLORING PLACES!! In Spanish!!This PowerPoint presentation shows 42 slides with very descriptive pictures of Landforms: canyon, volcano, mountains, cave, desert, plateau, valley, plain, hill, and island. Bodies of Water: River, Lake, pond, ocean, coast, waterfall, and glacierNatural Resources: Oil, water, trees, mines, wind, and soil. Uses of natural resources: to build highways, buildings, airports, stadiums, bridges, amusement parks, swimming pools, gardens, etc. At the end of the presentati
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K - 4th
Also included in: BODIES OF WATER, LANDFORMS, NATURAL RESOURCES BUNDLE IN SPANISH
Mailing Me Family Geography Project
Mailing Me is a fun and engaging way to bring geography to life! Students will mail off a mini paper doll version of themselves to family and/or friends in other states/countries- The further away the better! Friends and family will take pictures of the Mini's adventures and send back information in the Travel Journal (provided) and include postcards, books or other items that help tell about that city. My students have received beads from New Orleans, wheat from Kansas, salt water taffy from
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1st - 3rd
Oh The Places You'll Go!
This editable Google Slides presentation can be copied for individual students. It can be used during Read Across America week or during a unit about travel, geography, etc. Allow students to do their research and present the final product!
Choosing a Host City for the Olympic Games MEA (Model Eliciting Activity)
Set includes lesson plan and guidelines for implementation, 2 data sets, 2 reading passages, letter template, and rubric for grading.
Summary: In this model eliciting activity, students are asked to help the International Olympic Committee choose the best host city for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. Students are provided with data about three applicant cities and then must rank the cities and write a proposal to the IOC explaining their rankings. At the end of the MEA, the students will write
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1st - 4th
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Passport Research Project
The Passport project is great for the beginning of the year as a way to get to know students and their cultural background, and interests. Or it can be used in conjunction with your research unit. It’s also great for social justice and community building. My gifted students all loved doing the project as it allowed independent time with the computer completing the research. And, it opens many possibilities for creativity in how the student chooses to represent the artifacts they find, and ho
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K - 4th
Country Research Activity
This Country Study packet could be used with an entire class or as an independent learning activity. I created this for a student who is a fast finisher and has family living in another country. He can work on this Country Study whenever he has free time. He loves it!This packet includes a QR code to a kid-friendly website with information about countries all around the world and 4 graphic organizer pages for the student to complete about the country they choose:1. Learn the language (write comm
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K - 5th
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Volcano Challenges K-6 STEM/Design&Tech/Geography/Arts
Volcano Challenge Cards Included 19 CHALLENGES & Ring of Fire map STEM, creativity, technology and geography These challenges are easy to use. Simply copy, laminate and cut them out. Students can choose their preferred challenge OR teachers can allocate specific challenges. Teachers can use their preferred design thinking scaffold to manage students' engineering process. Resources needed across all challenges; Lego/Duplo (lots of it) Ipads or other recording devices Play-Do Plasticin
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K - 6th
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Mapping Sam - A Compass Activity
After reading Mapping Sam my students use compasses and notebooks to map their own neighborhood. I have included some worksheets to help students learn about a compass and how to use one. This is part of my series of take-home STEM bags that are based on children's picture books. My students check these bags out of our library and first read the book and then complete the activity.
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1st - 5th
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