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Presidents' Day resources for GATE under $5
February STEM STEAM Challenge: President's Day Edition
President's Day is a great time to honor our founding fathers. And what better way to honor our first president than by building a new monument? Using the listed materials, students will create a presidential pillar so that Washington's portrait (a quarter) can balance on top.
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-chart for student record keeping
-- Self-assessment/Reflection page (diffe
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K - 5th
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Abraham Lincoln Log Cabin STEM
Abraham Lincoln - President's Day STEM - In this STEM challenge your students will learn some facts about Abraham Lincoln and will complete the challenge of building a one room log cabin similar to his childhood home. Students must stick to a budget and use the available supplies. This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards and encourages critical thinking, budgeting, and engineering skills.
Suggested Plan of Implementation:
Prior Week: Send home the parent letter requesting supplies.
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K - 6th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Presidents' Day STEM Activities Abraham Lincoln's Cabin February STEM Challenge
STEM challenge activities are so much fun. But, finding the time to incorporate design challenges into your curriculum can be difficult. The Presidents Day Lincoln's Cabin Design Challenge is part of the STEM with CLOSE READING series. It seamlessly allows you to tie together the curriculum by giving you rigorous text dependent questions that go with a high interest reading passage IN ADDITION to the fun STEM activity! Watch your kids faces LIGHT UP as they put their thinking caps on and let
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3rd - 6th
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Charts and Graphs - Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War
15 charts and graphs about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Students analyze and describe:Resources of the Union and Confederacy,1860 Election - popular vote and electoral college, Deaths in Civil War battles (Gettysburg, Shiloh, etc),Deaths in US wars (WWI, WWII, Korean, etc),Causes of discharge in Civil War,Retaking of the South by year (1862, 1863…),Most Popular Presidents,Age of Presidents, Height of Presidents,Cost of Presidential Campaigns,Vote of Succession by counties,and more...Take a
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7th - 12th
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President Election Day Logic Puzzles
Get your kids thinking a little deeper with five (5) US Presidential history - Election Day trivia themed table logic puzzles. These logic puzzles are designed for 4th - 7th grade students, but can be used with younger gifted students or as whole-class enrichment activities.When you use Everyday Learning with Hand In Hand logic puzzles, you help students develop deductive reasoning skills. You also get to explore little-known fun facts about American presidents, like which president walked their
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4th - 8th
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CRITICAL THINKING SQUARE PUZZLES Presidents Brain Teasers GATE Problem Solving
PRESIDENTS SQUARE PUZZLERS are fun, yet challenging brain teasers. They exercise critical thinking & problem solving, build perseverance & stamina, and stimulate the brain while disguising it all as fun. Similar to Scrambled Squares, these differentiated, logic puzzles must be reconstructed so that the images match on every interior side. Use them for centers, stations, rotations, fast finishers, enrichment, GATE (gifted & talented education), and/or a class reward. Adored by all age
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Not Grade Specific
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Presidents' Day STEM Center for Building Bricks
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 skills. CONTENTSInstructions and sample imagesLetter you can send home to parents, caregivers, and friends to ask for donations6 Presidents' Day related
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K - 4th
Also included in: STEM Activities and Makerspace Tasks for the Whole Year
LATIN SQUARES MATH LOGIC PUZZLE Patriotic Sudoku GATE Differentiated Enrichment
These Latin Squares math puzzles will challenge children's deductive reasoning skills and help them acquire the critical thinking needed to solve Sudoku puzzles. PATRIOTIC SQUARES begin with an easy, 3x3 grid appropriate for young learners. The tasks progress gradually, increasing in difficulty up to a 7x7 grid. Create a critical thinking center with these brain teasers. PATRIOTIC SQUARES are available in print and digitally on TPT Easel. #kindergarten #1stGrade #2ndGrade #3rdGrade #4thGrade #5t
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Not Grade Specific
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Presidents' Day Math
Presidents' Day Math Task Cards
2nd- 4th grade
Engage students in math skills as they learn some American history. Students will gain knowledge on 2 pivotal American Presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln while they practice math one-step word problems. In addition, two mini posters and a depth and complexity activity is included for your use.
Included:
~ 10 task cards (20 questions)
~ 1 "Show What You Know" (Depth and Complexity activity)
~ Student answer document
~ Answer Key
~ 2
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2nd - 4th
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Presidents Bio-Box Research Project for Gifted/Enrichment
Study Presidents with pizzazz...just in time for Presidents' Day! The Presidents Bio-Box is perfect for your Gifted or advanced students, fast finishers, enrichment or differentiation!
(NOTE BEFORE BUYING: This product is part of my larger Presidents with Pizzazz research menu packet with 8 activities....please check out that menu product with this link below before purchasing!)
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Presidents-With-Pizzazz-A-Research-Choice-Menu-for-GiftedEnrichment
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1st - 7th
World Changers - Influential People Biographies, Google Slides
A Google Slide with 10 video read aloud biographies including:Martin Luther King Jr.Sally RideAlbert EinsteinMarie CurieJackie RobinsonAbraham LincolnJane GoodallGeorge WashingtonAlexander Graham BellGeorge Washington CarverEach read aloud has a paired note sheet using Depth and Complexity Icons/Gate Icons (Details, Impact, Motive, and Language of the Discipline). 2nd Grade Social Studies Standard:2.5 Students understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes fr
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1st - 3rd
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Presidents' Day Research Low Prep
Informative Research and Writing: Presidents' Day
Students research and write an informative composition on George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.! Biographies, note taking outlines, and blank writing pages are included in this purchase. Multiple Common Core Standards and TEKS for 5th Grade Writing are supported.
Included:
* 2 Biographies
* 4 Outlines / Graphic Organizers for Note-taking (Topics Provided)
* 2 Composition Pages (Blackline)
* 1 Product List (for teacher flexibility)
Suggested I
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4th - 8th
President Time Machine
Just in time for President's Day! Study Presidents with pizzazz...What if a President from the past stepped into a Time Machine...and it is set to travel to your year? Your students get to greet him in modern times! This packet helps them plan their adventures with the President through research and creativity. The President Time Machine project is ready-to-go for your Gifted or advanced students, fast finishers, enrichment or differentiation!
(NOTE BEFORE BUYING: This product is part of my la
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1st - 8th
Art STEAM: Making a Monument
STEAM Challenge: Making a MonumentLearn and use key techniques sculptures use to build and create monuments! In addition, learn about scaling and technique while making your own modeling clay scale model of a monument you design.What is STEAM?STEAM is about Community, Collaboration, and Confidence! STEAM programming is essential for communities. STEAM is so much more than just fun science, technology, engineering, art and math activities. When STEAM is done right, it challenges kids to solve pr
Charts and Graphs - Presidents' Day
22 printable or digital pages for students to analyze charts and graphs exploring the Presidents and Donald Trump: the trade deficit, the height of presidents, age of presidents, employment and unemployment numbers, experience of presidents prior to office, vocabulary level of presidents, popular vote and the electoral college, firing within the executive branch by the president, executive orders, immigrants, the stock market, defense spending, civilian deaths in Afghanistan, mass shootings, sch
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: Presidents' Day BUNDLE
George Washington Digital Research Project
Your students will enjoy reading and researching about George Washington. I recommend reading or having several pictures books for students to choose from- although this is not necessary. Students can use the included links for summaries and research. In this activity your students will read online web information, summarize it. Then they will sequence the history of George Washington as well as write facts to create a poster and write a biography. This activity is wonderful for the 21st centu
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Not Grade Specific
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Portrait of a President
Have your students discuss the Habits of a Scholar and what three qualities they think the President of the United States should possess. They can nominate a person they know in real life, make up a person, or write about themselves! They can draw a portrait of this person or attach a picture in the frame.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Patriotic Same and Different Clip Cards
Here are 24 Patriotic same & different clip task cards. Perfect for a preschool or kindergarten classroom, or for use in therapy with children with autism and other developmental disabilities.
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PreK - 1st
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President's Day Puzzler -- Logic Matrix and Word Ladder for Upper Elementary
Develop thinking skills with these President's Day puzzlers.
Help solve the mystery of who really chopped down the cherry tree in Augustine Washington's backyard by solving a 4x2 logic matrix.
Where is Thomas Jefferson's favorite pen? Three word ladders will help solve that mini-mystery.
These activities are designed for grades 4-6. 3rd graders who are already familiar with the logic matrix format will probably be successful as well.
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3rd - 6th
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George Washington GATE Frame & Five Finger Summary Accordion Fold Book
Let students use these five finger summary templates:
Title…
Somebody wanted….
But…
So….
In the end….
to summarize a turning point in George Washington’s life, and turn it into a five finger summary accordion fold book.
Use the prewritten summary pages for your younger students. They simply illustrate each page to make it their own. Older students can use the lined templates to write their own summaries.
A GATE frame is also included for those more capable students to challenge, inspire, an
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2nd - 5th
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Abraham Lincoln GATE Frame & Five Finger Summary Accordion Fold Book
Let students use these five finger summary templates:
Title…
Somebody wanted….
But…
So….
In the end….
to summarize a major event in an Abraham Lincoln book and turn it into a five finger summary accordion fold book. Use the prewritten summary pages for your younger students. They simply illustrate each page to make it their own. Older students can use the lined templates to write their own summaries.
A GATE frame is also included for those more capable students to challenge, inspire, and invo
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1st - 5th
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George Washington Interactive Journal Activities (English only)
Learn about George Washington using these interactive journal activities that are simple enough for Kinder to complete and glue into their daily journals. Keep your students engaged and ready to learn! Each activity inclues information/details about his life. Included are 4 different activities to keep the learners engaged. You can use the examples provided, or have the students draw their own. Its up to you!
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PreK - 2nd
Nancy Hanks - Get Creative With Poetry!
This is an incredibly unique poetry activity for elementary, middle, and high school students! Students write a poetic response to Abraham Lincoln’s mother in the poem ‘Nancy Hanks’ by Rosemary Benét. Students will answer her questions: What’s happened to Abe? What’s he done? Did he grow tall? Did he have fun? Did he learn to read? Did he get to town? Do you know his name? Did he get on? I actually have my students memorize the poem ‘Nancy Hanks’ before having them write the response to these qu
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Spelling Unscramble for Presidents' Day
10 printable or digital pages of scrambled words to use on Presidents' Day: election, respect, debate, choice, united, honor, rights, equality, protect, serve, borders, charity, leader, health, terror, peace, safety, and more. Students will work with images of:The White House, US soldiers, US flag, USA, voting, Statue of Liberty, Mt Rushmore, and more... Use with your Gifted students, as challenge for early finishers, at a Literacy Center, or as homework. Take a look at the Preview to see sa
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: New Teacher Activities - February (First Year Teacher) BUNDLE
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