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8th grade science microsofts for GATE
STEM Bell Ringers Discussion Questions Warm-Ups Middle School High School
Science bell ringer discussion questions, technology bell ringers, as well as some engineering and math topics. This resource includes 70 editable slides with questions to get your students thinking about STEM topics. Display these at the start of class one day a week so that as students walk into your classroom they can begin forming opinions and ideas about these thought-provoking questions! CONTENTS70 Slides (each with a main question and some with a follow-up question) Questions range in top
Grades:
5th - 12th
STEM Kid Engineering for GATE -- FERRIS WHEELS plus Primary Sources
In this GATE engineering journey, students will each construct a very cool Ferris wheel prototype as a final product. Along the way, they will examine primary source images, read primary source history, and integrate math, engineering, and economics in a learning process which incorporates best practices in gifted and talented education for 21st Century Learners.
This is a challenging engineering project—teacher guided. I used it for GATE 4th grade; however, my kids are experienced builders.
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
Da Vinci Parachute Prototypes -- Hands-on STEM
In this lesson, students solve geometry problems and learn background physics concepts as they build a working model of Leonardo Da Vinci’s parachute. Logic, critical thinking, a bit of Renaissance history, writing and supporting conclusions with details from a source—it’s all here too!
Make this extended lesson a cross-curricular, standards-based mini-unit, or just make it a cool building activity. Pick and choose the level of commitment right for you and your students. With the suggested e
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4th - 8th
STEAM DaVinci Renaissance Style: A Unit for Elementary GATE
In STEM Renaissance Style, students will follow the engineering process as they return to the 16th Century. With these lessons, the teacher defines the problem, helps students gather background research, and specifies the requirements. The students do the rest: creating alternative solutions, choosing the best solution, doing development work, building a prototype, and testing and redesigning.
Students construct a prototype of Da Vinci’s parachute while learning about falling objects, gravity,
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
STEAM Kid Engineering -- The Playable Golf Course Design Unit for GATE
In this unit, students will build a contraption to hit a small, wooden golf ball through a scaled version of a golf course which they and their classmates have designed. They’ll make a trundle wheel for measuring and marking the course, write down their scores on a scorecard, design putters, and learn background in physics through their work in the engineering and design process.
The Playable Golf Course is not just fun. It’s a challenging engineering, design, and construction unit including
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
SURVIVOR Challenge SPY Training STEM STEAM for GATE 4th to 8th Grades
Talking about too fun for school! I had 4th and 5th graders skipping recess for this one!
Let’s combine an engineering challenge, physics background, creativity and engineering, and three dimensional building skills to create a Survivor-type challenge and training for professional spies. Here we have the engineering process--complete and in miniature!
Note: This activity is a part of our bigger Spies unit. Watch for the unit to be published this spring. It is going to be recess-skipping co
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: KID CREATED GAMES Standards-based STEM and Math Games Bundle
The Crane Design and Building Challenge -- STEM Problem Solving
A best practice lesson for the teaching of physical science or GATE talent pools:
In this lesson, students use the engineering process to build a working crane model that is strong enough to lift a stapler.
There are no set patterns, pre-cut materials, or teacher-led building instructions here! Students engage in the engineering process to design and build their own working models of cranes. The teacher sets guidelines and limitations, provides feedback and monitors progress, instructs the
Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
DNA Extraction from Strawberries
This Power Point slide show provides a visual for my 5th grade gifted students as they follow the procedures for extracting DNA from strawberries. The entire DNA Extraction lesson, created by Irene Salter, is available at My Science Box: http://www.mysciencebox.org/DNAextraction. I took photographs of each step and have found that it has greatly helped my students and me as we work through each step of the experiment. Every year, I am amazed by the results!If you're looking for resources to u
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Grades:
5th - 8th
STEM Kid Engineering and Construction - Roman Polyspastos Crane
It’s kid-built with some guidance in a couple hours and the envy of friends—the ancient Roman polyspastos crane with treadwheel.
Do you have a young engineer who needs an independent study project, a talented builder in home school, or need an engaging summer project for your nonverbally gifted child? If you have an engineering classroom and understand the value of hands-on exploration, the Roman Polyspastos Crane project is right for you. While building with kits or Legos or K’Nex is good, n
Grades:
3rd - 8th
STEM Challenge - Desktop Putt-putt Golf Elementary GATE and Middle School
Two fun, hands-on lessons here which teach physical science concepts such as momentum, friction, elastic and inelastic collisions, and Newton’s Laws of Motion! National core standards including physical science and expository writing? 21st Century Learning Skills? Critical Thinking? They’re all here too!
These two lessons will take two or more hours of instruction time and are appropriate for 4th grade GATE classes through regular 8th grade science.
These lessons are the quick and easy versi
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: KID CREATED GAMES Standards-based STEM and Math Games Bundle
BILLBOARDS - Language + STEM + Advertising + GATE
Want to combine language skills, graphic design skills, and engineering skills in a way that will keep your students thinking and engaged?
Here’s a 2 to 3 hour activity which is fun and hands-on, takes critical thinking skills and building skills, and refers to real-world experiences in advertising and economics. It’s perfect for upper elementary GATE and made to order for our 21st Century Learners—combining language, engineering, and graphic design. As always, these activities help meet Comm
Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
Science Bell Ringers Middle School Year Bundle
Be ready for the ENTIRE YEAR with Science Bell Ringers for Middle School Students! Also great for STEM lesson warm ups! These innovative technologies PowerPoint slides (BUNDLE), are set up and ready to go, and encourage creative thinking, with a focus on engaging class discussions. Includes 10 weeks worth of topics!~~ The perfect way to hook your students into learning and start your lesson off the right way! ~~BY BUYING THIS BUNDLE YOU SAVE 20% OFF THE INDIVIDUAL LIST PRICE OF EACH RESOURCEPlea
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Grades:
6th - 9th
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
The Clubhouse - Deep Creativity, Design, STEAM, Critical Thinking, and GATE
Because we are evil teachers with evil, cackling laughs, we will entice and engage students like the witch in Hansel and Gretel with a metaphorical candy house. Oh, this looks like all fun and games, but that’s not how we evil teachers do things!You know that STEM activity going around where you have a certain amount of time to build a tower out of notecards? This activity takes the notecard tower activity to about level 44. At Portable Gifted and Talented, we love to build stuff, and we love pl
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1st - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: 2019-2020 Gifted and Talented GATE Program for the Year - Elementary
STEAM Glider Prototype Engineering Challenge for Upper Elem Gifted and Talented
We use the engineering process for this open-ended design challenge. All semester, my GATE kids have been building different gliders from blueprints, direct instruction, specific materials with patterns, and even store-bought balsa wood fighter gliders.
Now it’s time for the real test!
Can students construct—limited to specific resources—a glider which meets the three guidelines in the rules? As a bonus, can students research and apply physics knowledge to their real-world prototyping challen
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3rd - 8th
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Science Bell Ringers Middle School | STEM Warm Ups Innovative Tech 1
Are you looking for a fun Science Bell Ringers for Middle School Students? Also great for STEM lesson warm ups! These innovative technologies PowerPoint slides (Set 1), are set up and ready to go, and encourage creative thinking, with a focus on engaging class discussions. Includes 10 weeks worth of topics!~~ The perfect way to hook your students into learning and start your lesson off the right way! ~~Please click the PREVIEW button above to view this resource in more detail.In this pack (SET 1
Grades:
5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Science Bell Ringers Middle School Year Bundle
Science Bell Ringers Middle School | STEM Warm Ups - Use it Differently 3
Are you looking for a fun Science Bell Ringers for Middle School Students? Also great for STEM lesson warm ups! These Use it Differently PowerPoint slides and worksheets (Set 3), are set up and ready to go, and encourage creative thinking, with a focus on engaging class discussions. Includes 10 different items! ~~ The perfect way to hook your students into learning and start your lesson off the right way! ~~Please click the PREVIEW button above to view this resource in more detail.The task: Stud
Grades:
5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Science Bell Ringers Middle School STEM Use it Differently BUNDLE
Science Bell Ringers Middle School | STEM Warm Ups Innovative Tech 4
Are you looking for a fun Science Bell Ringers for Middle School Students? Also great for STEM lesson warm ups! These innovative technologies PowerPoint slides (Set 4), are set up and ready to go, and encourage creative thinking, with a focus on engaging class discussions. Includes 10 weeks worth of topics! ~~ The perfect way to hook your students into learning and start your lesson off the right way! ~~Please click the PREVIEW button above to view this resource in more detail.By the BUNDLE to S
Grades:
5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Science Bell Ringers Middle School Year Bundle
**THREE DAY** Earth's Spheres WebQuest
All you need to do is print and hand this out to students, or post on your Google Classroom. NO PREP REQUIRED. This is a set of three WebQuests (meant for 3 40-60 minute class periods) where students will analyze graphs, articles, and videos to answer questions about science. They will be focused on the concepts of the different spheres of earth (atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere), the amounts of fresh and salt water, climate vs. weather, and the concept of seasons. This is perfe
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in: NO PREP! WEBQUEST BUNDLE
Germs Everywhere Petri Dish Sampling Lab & Hand-washing Germs Simulant
Students learn how to conduct a good experiment using petri dishes, and real lab techniques such as sterile sampling and consideration of sample sizes. Also contains a hand-washing activity I have done using GloGerm available online- shows students how well they wash their hands (or don't!). They love this part!Student worksheets available for this lab with pre-lab questions, data collect, analysis, and post-lab questions in English and Spanish within the powerpoints via Google Drive links.
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5th - 10th
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Science Bell Ringers Middle School | STEM Warm Ups Innovative Tech 3
Are you looking for a fun Science Bell Ringers for Middle School Students? Also great for STEM lesson warm ups! These innovative technologies PowerPoint slides (Set 3), are set up and ready to go, and encourage creative thinking, with a focus on engaging class discussions. Includes 10 weeks worth of topics! ~~ The perfect way to hook your students into learning and start your lesson off the right way! ~~Please click the PREVIEW button above to view this resource in more detail.By the BUNDLE to S
Grades:
5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Science Bell Ringers Middle School Year Bundle
STEM Kid Constructions MINI-GLIDER Upper Elementary GATE
Got a couple extra classroom hours? Kids bouncing off the walls eager for a vacation or a sunny day? . . . what to do? This!!!!
This STEM unit can go JUST A COUPLE HOURS OR SEVERAL HOURS—you choose.
Easily built inside two hours, these cool little mini-gliders fly very well. They’re about 100 steps up from any paper glider plans you might see, but you won’t have to break your piggy bank to purchase materials even for a large class.
Not just fun and games here: this little unit addresses
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4th - 8th
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Invent an alien: learning about the solar system & systems of the body
This project gives students the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of the solar system, systems of the human body, and adaptations. Students will be given the opportunity to research a planet (it's atmosphere, weather, composition, etc.), then invent an alien that would be able to survive on the planet. While inventing their alien, students need to create systems of the alien's body that will allow it to survive on the assigned planet. Students also need to ensure that the alien's bod
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3rd - 9th
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Science Bell Ringers Middle School | STEM Warm Ups - Use it Differently 2
Are you looking for a fun Science Bell Ringers for Middle School Students? Also great for STEM lesson warm ups! These Use it Differently PowerPoint slides and worksheets (Set 2), are set up and ready to go, and encourage creative thinking, with a focus on engaging class discussions. Includes 10 different items! ~~ The perfect way to hook your students into learning and start your lesson off the right way! ~~Please click the PREVIEW button above to view this resource in more detail.The task: Stud
Grades:
5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Science Bell Ringers Middle School STEM Use it Differently BUNDLE
Science Bell Ringers Middle School | STEM Warm Ups - Use it Differently 4
Are you looking for a fun Science Bell Ringers for Middle School Students? Also great for STEM lesson warm ups! These Use it Differently PowerPoint slides and worksheets (Set 4), are set up and ready to go, and encourage creative thinking, with a focus on engaging class discussions. Includes 10 different items! ~~ The perfect way to hook your students into learning and start your lesson off the right way! ~~Please click the PREVIEW button above to view this resource in more detail.The task: Stud
Grades:
5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Science Bell Ringers Middle School STEM Use it Differently BUNDLE
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