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8th grade science resources for Microsoft Word and for GATE
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
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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
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
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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**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
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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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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STEM Kid Engineering -- Street Lights and Desk Lamps
Need an independent study or small group GATE lesson that will be a sure-fire hit?
Imagine your students had a personal desk lamp, the classroom lights dimmed, only a glow from a tiny bulb midst the quiet occasional rustling pages of novels atop desks. Ahh, peaceful! Now imagine the students built the lamp themselves—a miniature streetlight. They applied geometry and math calculations, constructed the light’s base from scratch and from blueprint specifications, and completed the wiring all o
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4th - 8th
Brain Graphic Organizer and Puzzle
Students write notes labeling each part of the brain and its function.
Then students put the puzzle together so that they have a graphic organizer full of information as a reference for later.
Includes the cerebrum, frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, temporal lobe, cerebellum, and brain stem.
Great for a unit on neurology, neuroscience, and the brain.
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
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Skeletal System - Exam, Notes, and Activities
Human anatomy, scientific diagrams, tissues, organs, organ systems, body systems, bones, ligament, spongy bone, calcium, health and nutrition, life science, skeleton, exam, answer key, cooking for health activity, calcium rich foods, functions, vocabulary, definitions, note taking, femur, ribs, marrow, red and white blood cells, biology,
Human Skeletal System - Complete Unit
The Skeletal System Complete Unit was designed for an upper elementary, middle school, or introductory level, high sch
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5th - 10th
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STEM Kid Engineering for GATE -- Pendulum Wrecking Ball and Magnetic Crane
Come on . . . who doesn’t at least occasionally want to smash stuff?! Use this as an independent project for future engineers, for a smaller STEM group--or if you have a “shop” at your disposal--as a whole class project.
I used this with 5th grade GATE. It could be extended to experienced 4th grade engineers or up through 7th and 8th grade. The math concepts will be a big stretch for the younger kids but provide a healthy discussion. They’ll be right on target for our middle schoolers.
We’
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4th - 8th
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A Month of Science and Math Differentiated Word Problems
This document contains math word problems based on scientific concepts. There are 20 problems - enough to assign one problem each day for a month! (Teacher key with all answers included) Perfect for someone looking for science word problems, cgi math word problems, or differentiated math word problems.
Problems are formatted onto Avery 6193 label paper so that the teacher can quickly "peel and stick" the problem of the day onto students' math notebooks or a piece of lined paper. (If desired
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3rd - 8th
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Quick Lab Sheet Balloon Rockets - Newton's Third Law
Great activity for Newton's Third Law. Just a quick and easy lab sheet for the classic balloon rocket lab for 8th grade physical science but also appropriate for high school physics and conceptual physics or for 5th-7th graders that have more than one class period. Includes materials needed, procedure and some questions for students to answer. I put two of these to a page so that paper can be saved. Just a simple lab - but one of the year's favorites!!
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5th - 12th
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AIR CAR ENGINEERING CHALLENGE Blended or Independent Learning STEAM GATE
Can your students build a car propelled only by a blower/vac—using only the materials provided--that will travel 8 feet in the fastest time possible?
This project takes grit, creativity, and kid engineering skills. Do your kids have it in them?
But wait! We’re not just handing students the tools and materials to meet this engineering challenge. Students have to show they have the background, the grit, the resilience, the training, and the motivation to complete a series of 5 standards-bas
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4th - 8th
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DNA Extraction - Fruit DNA Inquiry Lab
Students will learn about genetic modification of fruit through selective breeding/polyploidy and then hypothesis which fruit will have the most visible DNA after extraction. I provide my college prep students with bananas, strawberries and grapes and have them choose between the three after showing pictures of what the heritage fruit looks like whereas I let my honors biology do their own research and bring in the fruit of their choice.
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7th - 10th
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Chromatography
This Chromatography lesson produces a tangible memento of the lesson. It also very visually illustrates the use of chemical dissolution methods as used in CSI investigations. The creative writing assignment attached is so challenging and integrated with the project that students may not even realize they are working!
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7th - 8th
Earthquakes: Disaster Relief Project
This project takes your average earthquake research project to the next level! Your students will research an assigned earthquake, discussing the area's seismic activity and geography, in addition to the details of the specified earthquake. They will also report about the disaster relief aid available and create their own organization to help! Rubric, common core standards, and entrepreneurial standards are included!
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6th - 10th
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