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8th grade Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa graphic arts resources for GATE
Technology Integrated Art - Pi Day STEAM Project
Welcome to an art meets math AND technology project that is fun for all! In this STEAM project, there are three leveled options that cater to all skill levels. Students will overlay circles onto provided art canvases to create a circle-themed technology art display, transforming a classic work of art into something new that's both technology and math infused!What You'll GetOption 1: Print and Go! If you don't have time to work through the lesson with your students or would prefer to just color i
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Also included in: Pi Day Activities MEGA Bundle Math STEAM Crafts STEM Challenge
Figurative Language for December: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole
Figurative Language
Figurative Language for December (Deck the Halls with Figurative Language) is a holiday-themed study of figurative language presented as a series of original sentences, popular song lyrics, and a verse from a familiar Christmas poem.
Organized into three parts with twenty-five items each, students are challenged to identify and interpret the six featured figures of speech--simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, and onomatopoeia.
A total of
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Christmas STEM Activities Challenges - 12 Easy Low-Prep Ideas for Elementary
Low prep and FUN Christmas STEM activities! Make a parachute gift drop, a snowball launcher, an elf zip line, and 9 more festive challenges!Easy to differentiate, with color-coding based on level of difficulty, these activities are easy enough to do in one class period! With 12 challenges to choose from, there is something for everyone. Host a 12 days of Christmas STEM event, a STEM family night, or use some challenges this year and some next.✅ What You'll Get ✅Suggested Material ListSTEM Challe
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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NGSS:
3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Christmas STEM Activities MEGA Bundle
Gifted and Talented Six-Word Digital Memoir Project Based Unit
How do you capture a moment from your life in just 6 words? In this project based unit, students will do just that. They will learn about the power of simplicity in writing and the strength a visual adds to words. Your students will be captivated by their own creativity and as a teacher you will learn more than you ever have about your students.
I hope you find this unit enlightening.
This product includes:
>Complete unit in plans
>List of online resources to accompany the unit
>PDF P
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Christmas Low-Prep Activities Depth and Complexity Print-and-Go
This Depth and Complexity Christmas Activity Pack is perfect if you're looking for a fabulous selection of Christmas activities that use the Depth & Complexity framework. This Depth and Complexity Christmas Activity Pack has language arts, social studies, math, and science activities, all in one great resource. You'll find Christmas writing prompts, fiction and non-fiction pieces to read, Depth and Complexity frames to complete, a Christmas Around the World mini-book and more! Of course ther
Grades:
4th - 8th
Types:
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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A Christmas Tree History-- Leveled Reading Comprehension Activity & Task Cards
Did you know Christmas trees were once illegal in the US!? Let your students explore the history of this popular holiday tradition while strengthening their close reading and critical thinking skills!
We LOVE to celebrate holidays in our classroom, but it can be a struggle to balance celebration time with education time! That's why I created this set of holiday-themed leveled passages and reading response tasks. We get to engage in some fun holiday learning and celebrating while still sneakin
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Christmas Logic Puzzles - Holiday Activities for Middle School
Just in time for Christmas! I know, I know....but better late than never, right? Your students will love thinking critically with these challenging logic puzzles! This NO prep four pack includes unique critical thinking brain busters. Your middle school students will love these brain busters, and beg for more! Perfect for early finishers, challenge board, after testing, and more! Have a look!Set includes 4 Logic Puzzles. Blitzen's Baubles! iA challenging location logic puzzle, to color
Grades:
5th - 8th
Types:
Also included in: Holiday Logic Bundle- Middle School - Easter Activities- Fast Finishers
The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan - Teacher's Guide and Activities GATE
The beauty in The Lost Thing is that it settles into one’s soul in a casual and poetic way. What starts as a sort of amusing but sad story finds its way deeper into your heart. You begin to wonder, to ask questions. Soon you find yourself wanting to stand up and defend all the lost things in the world—including that lost part of yourself.
Are you somehow guilty too, you wonder? Quite unexpectedly, you begin to really feel the world Shaun Tan creates. It is a wonderful experience in mindf
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Grades:
4th - 12th
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Also included in: 2019-2020 Gifted and Talented GATE Program for the Year - Elementary
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
3-D Name Project: Isometric Drawing
This engaging project develops students' understanding of crucial geometry concepts of volume, surface area, and spatial visualization. The comprehensive 21-page handout will provide everything you need to help your students foster these skills: isometric drawing paper, examples, full instructions, answer keys, and actual student samples. The Common Core connection is also included. You and your students will be rewarded with eye-popping examples of the beauty of mathematics.The activity include
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Winter Themed Logic Puzzles with Critical Thinking Challenges
Enrich Your Classroom with Engaging Math & Logic Brain Teasers!Spark Joy and Learning with Winter-Themed Puzzles: Perfect for the winter season, these six brain teasers blend basic math skills like addition, multiplication, subtraction, and logic to solve intriguing cryptograms. With themes of Christmas, winter sports, and snow fun, they are ideal for creating an engaging and festive learning environment.Bundle Highlights:Diverse Puzzle Themes: Includes one Winter Olympics puzzle, two Snow F
Grades:
6th - 8th
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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Beginning of the Year Collage DIGITAL
This is a fun, digital activity that students can work on from home or at school! Students add information reflecting their own personalities and life to create a personalized collage. This is a great getting to know you activity as well as an awesome keepsake for the parents to have! The pdf file is also available for students to complete in the classroom on paper.
Grades:
1st - 8th
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Also included in: Digital Growing Bundle
Christmas Science Activity | Borax Crystal Growth Experiment | GR 6 7 8
Discover the properties of mixtures and solutions by growing borax crystals. You'll get a comprehensive teacher guide, a hands-on investigation gear for middle school, and a borax ornament STEAM challenge. This unit uses inexpensive materials and gives results in 24 hours, a wonderful way to reinforce the scientific method and journal writing. This hands-on Investigation and Teacher Guide IncludesTeacher Guide and Background Information and TipsAlignment to Standards6 Page Student Investigatio
Grades:
6th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-PS1-4
, MS-PS1-2
, MS-ETS1-3
Also included in: Borax Crystal STEAM Experiment | Multi Grade Bundle | Christmas Activity
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
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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
Hanukkah Activities Depth and Complexity Passages + Math Winter Holidays
Looking for a wide selection of Hanukkah activities that use the Depth & Complexity framework? This activity pack has language arts, social studies, math, and science activities, all in one great resource perfect for 4th grade through 8th grade. You'll find Hanukkah writing prompts, fiction and non-fiction pieces to read, Depth and Complexity frames to complete, all of the instructions for playing dreidel, dreidel math, the science of the candle and more! Of course there is a digital version
Grades:
4th - 8th
December/Christmas Vocabulary Builder/Brain Teaser
This five-set group of fun vocabulary activities, entitled The Anagram Express, involves using definitions and clues to decode given anagrams (words with the same letters but in different order, hush and rush, for instance) and then rearranging them into terms from various subjects throughout the curriculum. Each activity set has 35 items. Keys are included. Twelve total pages counting cover.
Download the free first page from sets 1 and 4 and have a closer look.
Grades:
4th - 8th
Unplugged Coding for Christmas STEM Activity
Unplugged Coding for Christmas includes 3 levels of printable directional coding challenges:Simple maze: Students follow 3 conditional statements and draw a path through the maze)Intermediate maze: Students follow the rules of 4 conditional statements and code a path of their choice through the maze.Challenging maze: Students follow the 4 rules with multiple steps and code the shortest path they can through the maze, avoiding an infinite loop where they might get stuck forever!Binary Puzzles2 de
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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Also included in: Unplugged Coding BUNDLE of STEM Activities No tech needed!
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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How to Draw a 3D House (2-Point Perspective)
This lesson is designed for students who have learned how to draw basic boxes using 2-point perspective.
This is a two-part lesson that is designed to show students that their quality of their artwork can be improved by applying what they know about linear perspective. The lesson will reveal successful "before and after" pictures.
Part #1: Students (who have been taught the principles of 2-point perspective) will be challenged to draw a house. Most students will revert to old drawing habits
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Grades:
4th - 12th
TECHNOLOGY PROJECT BUNDLE Choice Board Independent Project Digital Genius Hour
30% OFF WITH THE BUNDLE...This easy-to-follow, NO PREP, FULLY-EDITABLE resource gives you everything you need to provide your students with a TECHNOLOGY INDEPENDENT PROJECT CHOICE BOARD! Students can complete projects using the provided Choice Board, or you separate the activities so that you have 4 technology units with this resource! Simply print out or post the Student Directions, Student Answer Sheets, and Student Tracker and GO! Students will follow the Design Process/Creative Problem-Solvi
Grades:
4th - 12th
Pi Day Activity Doodle and Sketch Coloring Great for Note Taking
A great Pi Day activity! Try these pi doodles for defining circles, radius, circumference, diameter, and pi! Introduce the concept of pi with an interactive activity. This is perfect if you like incorporating doodling, drawing, or coloring into your math lessons, or are looking for a creative way for students to take notes and personalize their learning experience.⭕ What's Included ⭕Multiple Printable Options: choose from heavily filled out to lightly filled out, to pages with various diameter c
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Grades:
5th - 9th
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CCSS:
Also included in: Pi Day Activities MEGA Bundle Math STEAM Crafts STEM Challenge
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