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High school Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa geography resources for GATE
Sled STEM Challenge Low Prep Force and Motion STEM Activity or Santa's Sleigh
In this force and motion STEM challenge, students will use the engineering design process to create a fast or s l o w sled. If you are studying force and motion or how friction can affect force and motion, this challenge is the perfect low-prep hands-on activity! *If you would like to make this into a holiday or Christmas challenge, you can call it Santa's sleigh! All other design criteria are the same. Students can even draw and color a "Santa" of their own to put on their sleigh.You will need
Grades:
1st - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Listening & Following Directions Christmas Edition +Reading Comprehension
Listening and Following Directions – Christmas EditionAn activity that challenges students to listen and pay attention to detail.Save over 20% when your purchase the Listening and Following Directions Growing Bundle Pack!This activity is designed to challenge students to follow oral and/or written directions and complete tasks in the correct locations on a grid. During the activity the directions can be read to the students by the teacher or the students can read the directions to themselves. Th
Grades:
4th - 9th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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CCSS:
Also included in: Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
12 Days of Christmas: A Computer Spreadsheet Activity
This great holiday activity shows students how to use a computer spreadsheet to calculate the cost of their true love's gifts in today's dollars.The simple step-by-step procedure will allow both beginning and computer-savvy students to experience success as they learn how to use spreadsheet software. Students will enjoy the engaging and entertaining activity. No computer? No problem! Use the activity master so students can calculate the costs themselves.
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Geography Lessons and Activities | Critical and Creative Thinking BUNDLE
If you're looking for fabulous lesson plans about many aspects of geography, this bundle is for you! They're the perfect way to build geography skills, critical thinking skills, and creativity skills, all at once! You'll love the super high quality graphics, original articles, and the super clear teacher instructions for every single lesson.Ten different lessons/activities are included, and all of them align with National Geography Standards. Every resource has more than one activity, so this is
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Grades:
2nd - 9th
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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Grades:
K - 12th, Staff
Twas the Night Before Christmas Common Core Study Guide for Middle School
Introduce the classic holiday poem to your students with rigor and creative thinking! This product includes the text of the poem, a vocabulary activity, questions about form/style, and an SBAC style SCR. The SCR also includes a template for students to follow in order to write a solid paragraph response. Finally, there is an art project assignment, with rubric, to support the focus on imagery in the assignment.
It is based on 7th grade standards, but due to the cyclical nature of the Common Co
Grades:
7th - 9th
Types:
Also included in: Christmas and Winter Holiday Mega Middle School Bundle-Save 50%
CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES BUNDLE | Christmas Around the World Craft STEM Winter
SAVE 10%!...Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, 97-page Christmas & Winter Holidays Activities Mega Kit for Middle Grades (Grades 4-8) Unit It includes everything you need to celebrate Christmas and Winter holidays with your students! Students will read and answer questions about American Christmas traditions, write responses to what they’ve read, compare/contrast holiday traditions from different countries, complete a Christmas Ar
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Topographical Salt Dough Map of the United States
It's ready for Distance Learning! This is a turn-key project. Assign it to your students and let the parents work with them. They can present it with pictures or video. The format is Google Slides, so you can alter it any way you see fit. There is a list of features that students must label. From mountains to bodies of water, basins to rivers, the goal is to get them familiar with the landscape of the United States. I am using this as a GATE enrichment project. But, it can be used with a
Grades:
4th - 12th
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Geography Latitude and Discovery of Longitude Activities Plotting Coordinates
The discovery of longitude is so fascinating! Your students will love reading or listening to the story of how the mystery was solved and engaging in super fun activities to practice their coordinate grid latitude and longitude plotting. There's an original article about the discovery of longitude written especially to keep the attention of students. Do you love making geography come alive? I made this especially because my own students got so easily bored with latitude and longitude. I knew the
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Geography Lessons and Activities | Critical and Creative Thinking BUNDLE
Morse Code Crack the Code Christmas Riddles and Jokes Activity Worksheets
This Christmas Morse Secret Codes activity helps students learn how to encrypt and decrypt Morse Code messages. They are great at engaging your students with problem solving worksheets during the Xmas months and help support your STEM teaching for back to school activities after fall break in October, November, and December.Included in this STEM resource areWriting your name in Morse CodeMorse code conversion sheetFive secret messages with jokes and riddlesAnswers have been includedPerfect as a
Grades:
4th - 12th
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Fractal Ornament Bundle
This fun holiday activity engages students in an exploration of geometry, fractals, measurement, and scale factor. Students will utilize mathematics and creativity in this exciting holiday project. Includes lesson plan, student guides, activity questions, and graph paper. Includes both Sierpenski Tree and Koch Snowflake ornaments.
Grades:
4th - 10th
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CCSS:
CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS ELA BUNDLE | Winter Holiday Christmas Around the World
SAVE 20%!...Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep,32-page Christmas and Winter Holiday Reading, Writing, and Research ELA Unit! It includes learning opportunities to understand the history of American Christmas Traditions like the Christmas Tree, Wreath, and Christmas Stockings. Students can then write in response to what they’ve read (narrative, informative, and opinion prompts included), then use online research to compare/contrast the
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Geography: Physical Landmarks in the United States
Have students mark up their maps and learn about physical landmarks in the United States!
This can be an extension activity to the geography packet and
gifted geography packet
Whats in this worksheet
- checklist for students to keep track of their work .
- make this worksheet into doodle notes and have students customize their worksheet
Students will
-identify major physical landmarks in the United States
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Grades:
5th - 12th
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Also included in: Civics U.S. Geography and Map Skills Bundle
Holiday Hink Pinks, Hinky Pinkies and Hinkitiy Pinkities
This is a compilation of all of the different Hink Pinks, Hinky Pinkies and Hinkity Pinkities I've found over the years. Answer key included. My gifted kiddos can't get enough of these!
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Expedition into America’s National Parks
This unit is comprised of 24 lessons designed to meet the needs of 4th-8th
grade gifted students. The three main goals of the unit are to: (a) introduce students
to the concept of exploration, (b) afford students an opportunity to use the problem-based learning method described by Gallagher (2009), and (c) provide context
whereby students can explore the five themes of geography. By the end of the unit
students will have completed an individualized research project requiring strategic
planning a
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Grades:
4th - 10th
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WONDERS OF THE WORLD INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROJECT Based Learning PBL Genius Hour
This easy-to-follow, NO PREP, FULLY-EDITABLE resource gives you everything you need to have your students do a WONDERS OF THE WORLD INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PBL PROJECT! Simply print out or post the Student Directions, Student Answer Sheets, and Student Tracker and GO! Students will follow the Design Process/Creative Problem-Solving Cycle to Research, Brainstorm, Plan, Create, Share, and Evaluate to learn about any "wonder" of the world (ancient, animal, art, modern, monumental, natural) and create
Grades:
4th - 12th
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas Student Discourse Guide
Perfect for a meaningful conversation during the holidays!
Student academic discourse is a fantastic way to engage in quality classroom talk and further student learning. Use this classroom tested Student Discourse guide for the classic holiday story, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss to encourage higher level thinking.
After reading the story to your class, scaffold student dialogue with Talking Stems, Key Ideas to consider, and open ended Questions to Consider as you unpack the tex
Grades:
3rd - 9th
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Christmas Cupcakes Logic Puzzles
These fun brain busters are perfect for your early finishers this Christmas. Set includes 2 Logic Puzzles. The first puzzle is a traditional matrix grid puzzle. Your students will match each person with one cupcake using process of elimination, critical reading and deductive reasoning. The second puzzle requires convergent and divergent thinking as they use the clues, and the locations of the cupcakes to determine what color each cup cake liner is. The challenges are designed for the m
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Europe Crossword Puzzles
Europe Crossword Puzzles is a set of crossword puzzles that focuses on the themes of: European geography, European people, & European history. The crossword puzzles act as a great overview of Europe because they have the students looking at the continent in a variety of ways. They are great to use: · an opening lesson when starting to cover Europe· as auxiliary studies of Europe when you lack the textbook or time to cover Europe· great emergency lesson plans· for extra credit· as a great way
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4th - 12th
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MATH Graham Cracker House STEM Project with Differentiation.
Have you ever wondered why the size of graham crackers keep getting smaller? Did you know the boxes are also getting smaller? And yet, the crackers are more expensive. How much smaller? How much more expensive? We will explore this in class. MATH. Engineering? Why do homebuilders use triangles to construct homes? We will explore this too. Powdered sugar will be our glue, and graham crackers will be the building material. Students will use candy and other foods (like pretzels, coconut, etc) for
Grades:
3rd - 10th
Christmas Song Titles in Gobbledygook
Gobbledygook, high-sounding language that confuses and amuses, is the subject of this fun Christmas activity. Students are challenged to identify the titles of twenty-six popular Christmas tunes written in extreme gobbledygook. The activity is organized into two handouts--Set One with twelve titles and Set Two with fourteen. An introductory page for students explains the nature and origin of the term.
The last page is a graphic organizer for writing a letter to Santa in gobbledygook.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Christmas Telephone Codes Brainteasers
In this brainteaser activity, students use a telephone keypad (a graphic of one is included) to decipher what Christmas words each set of numbers spells. Students will use their phonics and logical thinking skills to figure out Christmas songs, sights, smells, and tastes. These brainteasers are appropriate for gifted and general education classrooms from around third grade through high school! These brainteasers are sure to put a smile on your students' faces, and sneak in some critical thinki
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Christmas Carol Thinking and Writing Prompts
Christmas Carol, A by Charles Dickens
Christmas Carol Thinking and Writing Prompts is a 7-page set of thinking and writing prompts for Dickens' classic tale of Christmas redemption is based on the HIGHER-LEVEL THINKING SKILLS of Bloom's taxonomy.
The thirty-seven items challenge students to recognize and interpret implied meanings, analyze and interact with character behavior, predict, and apply story events to their own lives. Some items double as vocabulary builders.
Download the f
Grades:
6th - 11th
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Transcontinental Railroad Bundle
You may also be interested in: Transcontinental Railroad WebquestContent Standards Addressed:4.4 Students explain how California became an agricultural and industrial power, tracing the transformation of the California economy and its political and cultural development since the 1850s. 1. Understand the story and lasting influence of the Pony Express, Overland Mail Service, Western Union, and the building of the transcontinental railroad, including the contributions of Chinese workers to its co
Grades:
4th - 10th
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