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Martin Luther King Day environment resources for GATE
Animal Classification Zoo Design Research Project
Are you looking for a fun, engaging research project to assess your unit on classifying animals? Download this Animal Classification Zoo Design Research Project to give your students a hands-on educational experience that they'll never forget!This project is not just another worksheet! Students will be able to use real-life knowledge of animal classifications and get the chance to bring their learning to life by constructing a zoo map. When complete, your students' maps will showcase their under
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2nd - 5th
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January STEM Winter STEAM Activities Project with Reading New Year Science
STEM challenge activities are so much fun. But, finding the time to incorporate design challenges into your curriculum can be difficult. The January STEM Design Challenge COLLECTION is part of the STEM with CLOSE READING series. It gives you FOUR OF MY BEST SELLING STEM CHALLENGES AT that will seamlessly allow you to tie together the curriculum by giving you rigorous text dependent questions that go with a high interest reading passages IN ADDITION to the fun STEM activities! Watch your ki
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3rd - 6th
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Black History STEM Activities Civil Rights and February Stem Design Challenge
STEM challenge activities are so much fun. But, finding the time to incorporate design challenges into your curriculum can be difficult. The Civil Rights Monument 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! Use your creativity to honor our civil rights heroes and let the STEM adventure be
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3rd - 6th
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Living Things STEM Bird Nest Building
STEM Engineering Challenge - Oh no! Someone cut down the bird's tree and destroyed the nest. This "Living Things" activity challenge is to stay on budget and build a nest for the bird using the supplied materials or use building materials found outside. The students will make a plan, choose materials, and build a nest with eggs.
This STEM challenge is perfect to accompany a Living Things unit. It covers NGSS Standards.
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K - 5th
Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Sun Safety STEM
Summer STEM - Building a Shade - This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards and encourages critical thinking, budgeting, and engineering skills. Oh no! The children want to play in the sandbox, but the sun is making it too hot! The sand is too hot to play in and the children will get a sunburn. they need a shade built over the sandbox. What will your students come up with to solve the problem? This Sun Safety STEM will get your students using their critical thinking skills to solve th
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1st - 5th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Ecosystems & Environmental Concerns PBL | Science Project Based Learning
Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach about different ecosystems and their environmental concerns? Interested in student driven learning?This Project Based Learning unit allows students to learn about ecosystems by examining an environmental issue within an ecosystem. Students act as environmentalists as they research the causes and effects as well as problems and solutions of an environmental issue by examining the different factors that make up an ecosystem. This is a student-centered wa
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4th - 8th
Also included in: Science PBL | Project and Problem Based Learning Bundle
January Brain Teasers & Challenge Puzzles | Boom Cards | Digital &Print
Are you looking to engage and differentiate for your:early finishers?gifted and talented students?students who just love a challenge?Then this product is perfect for you! It includes 20 fun and challenging brain teaser puzzles of all types. My students have LOVED solving these puzzles as a reward for completing their other work. I LOVE that they are self-checking which frees me up to help the students who need it.★★★★ Preview this deck in action here ★★★★It includes 20 varied January-themed Bo
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3rd - 8th
Science PBL | Project and Problem Based Learning Bundle
Project/problem based learning is a great way to teach science and have your students learn through discovery. This bundle includes PBLs that teach force and motion, ecosystems, and meteorology. In the force and motion PBL, students design a roller coaster to illustrate different key content vocabulary. While doing the meteorology PBL, students research different locations in the world and create a weather report script. In the ecosystem project they will research the causes and effects as well
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4th - 6th
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NGSS:
5-ESS2-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-ESS2-1
, 3-LS4-3
, 5-ESS3-1
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Earth Day STEM Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Earth Day Activity - This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards and encourages critical thinking, budgeting, and engineering skills. Oh no! People are throwing away too much trash! Your students need to reuse some things from the trash to make something new and useful. What will they come up with? This Earth Day STEM will get your students using their critical thinking skills to solve this challenge! Students must stick to a budget and use the available supplies.
Suggested Plan of
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
STEM STEAM Challenge: Martin Luther King Jr. Edition "I Have a Dream" Challenge
With young students, a balance scale is a great way to physically demonstrate what equality looks like. Using one to balance two different colored cubes can be a great discussion starter for sharing Dr. King's famous dream. In this challenge, students will design, construct, and test their own balance scales using some simple, every day objects.
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-ch
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1st - 4th
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Saltwater vs. Freshwater Lab exploration activity
In this lab activity, students will be exploring and discovering the difference between saltwater and freshwater. They act as "detectives" to try to determine which container contains the saltwater and which container contains the freshwater. The activity goes through the scientific process with students, while having them record data based on their discoveries. The activity was used for an after school program with Primary students (1st-3rd grades), therefore it can be used for 1st through t
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1st - 3rd
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Zombie Apocalypse STEM
This Ultimate Zombie Apocalypse Survival Pack includes everything your students need to engineer survival tools for a zombie apocalypse.
Students use the engineering design process to create a fence/gate, water filter, solar oven, mobile greenhouse and a mobile cooler.
Most materials are everyday repurposed items. Perfect for after school clubs or enrichment activities,
Happy Engineering!
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4th - 8th
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Human Impact on the Environment: Learn about Dams and Human Adaptation
Human adaptation of the environment is a critical standard, but it's not always the most exciting. Learning about dams and their impact on the environment can be fun and engaging! If you're looking for a powerful geography activity your students will remember all year, this is the one. This resource will guide your students through an understanding of how dams work, and also the effects of human adaptation of the environment. Using the GATE creativity tool of SCAMPER, task cards, and an explorat
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Geography Lessons and Activities | Critical and Creative Thinking BUNDLE
Black History Leap Year Valentines Groundhog Day Chinese New Year Logic Puzzle
Celebrate Black History Month, Leap Year 2024, Valentine's Day, Chinese New Year, and Groundhog Day with this Logic Puzzle Bundle for February! This bundle includes logic puzzles and solutions for all of February's holidays. Combine the excitement of the February celebrations with the challenge of critical thinking and logical reasoning! Perfect for students in upper elementary or middle school, these puzzles are designed to enhance critical thinking skills while celebrating the traditions of V
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4th - 8th
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CAMOUFLAGE: How Do I Hide Myself?
This PowerPoint presentation shows 33 slides in which the animals are camouflaged. After the class has guessed where the animal is, you click to display a line around the animal. The photographs are awesome, very descriptive, provoke questions and encourage some great discussions.The 40 photographs are very descriptive, provoke questions and encourage some great discussions.By using this PowerPoint you will enjoy no prep and no printing.After the presentation you can do the following activities:
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K - 4th
Landforms, Bodies of Water, Natural Resources and How People Use Them
EXPLORING PLACES!! This PowerPoint presentation shows 42 slides with very descriptive pictures of Landforms: canyon, volcano, mountains, cave, desert, plateau, valley, plain, hill, and island. Bodies of Water: River, Lake, pond, ocean, coast, waterfall, and glacierNatural Resources: Oil, water, trees, mines, wind, and soil. Uses of natural resources: to build highways, buildings, airports, stadiums, bridges, amusement parks, swimming pools, gardens, etc.At the end of the presentation, the pict
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K - 4th
Also included in: BODIES OF WATER, LANDFORMS, AND, NATURAL RESOURCES BUNDLE
Choice Boards and Rubrics: the next level -- plus bonus rainforest unit
Trying to push all students into deeper thinking? Need to differentiate for highly capable students? Looking for ways to pull that small guided group?
Recently, I have been frustrated by the choice boards available that seem to focus mostly on “activities” (see my blog on activities at sarahsteachingpointblog.blogspot.com) or various multiple intelligences, but not deeper levels of thinking. Most Choice Boards seem to ask for Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Level 1 Recall/ Reproduce or 2 Application /
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3rd - 5th
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Global Warming and Wind Power - Analyzing Charts and Graphs
17 printable or digital pages for students to analyze charts and graphs on global warming and wind power: Wind farms, Residential wind turbines, Which states are investing money into this renewable resource, How the cost has gone down, The top nations of the world in this industry, Noise pollution from turbines, Injuries to birds, Reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, Offshore wind farms, and more... PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students
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4th - 10th
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MS-ESS3-2
, MS-ESS3-5
Also included in: Wind Power BUNDLE (Global Warming and Climate Change)
Wetlands Ecosystem Simulation
Welcome, young ecologists, to an immersive exploration into the intricate web of life within various ecosystems! In this engaging activity, students will assume the roles of key organisms within diverse habitats, unraveling the complexities of their interactions and dependencies. Through hands-on simulations and critical thinking scenarios, participants will not only play the part of different ecosystem inhabitants but also ponder the profound impacts that the absence of each species could have
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3rd - 6th
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When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree Picture Book Companion and Activities
50% off 48 hrs! When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree is the perfect picture book to teach your kids about Gratitude, lemon trees, and giving back to the community. This Print and Go Book Companion promotes critical and creative thinking. It teaches students to analyze and interpret literature and develops comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills. HOW YOU CAN USE THIS RESOURCE:✅ During Book Clubs or Literature Circles✅ In a classroom center✅ As activities for Early Finishers✅ Great for a Su
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1st - 4th
Oceanography Unit-Exploration, Pollution, Technology,Benefits/Disadvantage,Floor
This complete 5 lesson unit covers the basics of oceanography. Included are handouts, photos of final products, QR codes, and foldable. Students will create a large booklet using a folder or large construction paper. After each lesson, they will place their product in the folder. At the end of the unit, students will have a folder full of information about oceanography. Students will use technology and QR codes to research information and perform experiments.
Lesson 1- The Benefits and Disadvant
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3rd - 6th
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Martin Luther King Jr Middle School Logic Puzzles MLK Activities January, GATE
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School Logic Puzzles - the perfect MLK January Activities for Upper Elementary or GATE! Engage your students with two sets of thought-provoking puzzles that not only entertain but also educate about the inspiring lives of civil rights leaders such as Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., President Kennedy, and John Lewis.Designed with both excitement and learning in mind, these logic puzzles are a fantastic addition to your classroom resourc
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5th - 8th
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Black History Month Choice Board Menus for Enrichment and Differentiation
Looking for no-prep, meaningful, and engaging activities to use during Black History Month, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Women's History Month, and throughout the school year? These choice boards are excellent for differentiating your instruction for ALL students, including intervention and enrichment students! Printable and digital versions are both included, and it's ready to be used!What Is Included in This Resource?Teaching TipsFolder Covers12 Choice Boards (Printable and Digital Versions)St
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3rd - 5th
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Change over Time: Madagascar Enrichment Unit for Gifted & Talented
Change over Time: MadagascarUpdated 2022! In this unit, students will learn about Madagascar and the unique animals that are endemic to the island. They will learn about the changes that have occurred over time in Madagascar, the changes that isolated the island millions of years ago and the changes to the environment that are putting the animals in danger. This product includes:1. Lesson Plans including objectives and suggested resources Bibliography of books – including Kindle version
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2nd - 4th
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