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Back to School pdfs for GATE
Back to School STEM Activities Team Builders and Icebreakers Elementary & Up
Team building activities and icebreakers are perfect for the first week of school in STEM! Not only will your students instantly engage in these hands-on challenges, they will begin to build your classroom community. Your students will need to work in teams throughout the year, and the best way to set the foundation for that is with fun, engaging, and brain-stretching STEM challenges.✅ What You'll Get ✅This resource includes ice breaker challenges / activities: ✨✨✨ 3 STEM team building activitie
Grades:
2nd - 7th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Activities and Challenges for K-2 - Whole Year Bundle
Partner Pairing Cards and Grouping Cards Pick a Partner
Pick a partner or do small group pairing with these fun cards!With a variety of fun ways to pair or group students, students each choose (or receive) one card and then seek out their pair or group. Forming groups for projects or STEM challenges can elicit groans from students, but by making it fun and engaging for students, this will become your go-to way for no-argue partnerships.Pick a Partner Cards may be printed at full size or at 2 pages per sheet to save paper.✅ What You'll Get ✅✅ Partneri
Grades:
K - 12th
Types:
Also included in: STEM Teacher ❤️ Favorites ❤️ Bundle Best Sellers in One Place
Gifted and Talented Activities - Third Grade
100 printable pages for third-grade students. This Gifted and Talented workbook helps kids to think outside the box as they decipher word puzzles, decode license plates, identify the number of rectangles in a design, explore symmetry, unscramble words, recognize collective nouns, compare and contrast. Kids will explore US and foreign postage stamps, coins, numbers, nouns, quotations, fractions, flowers, clocks, multiplication, shapes, colors, and so many brainteasers for the inquisitive and curi
Grades:
3rd
Also included in: Primary Grades BUNDLE
All About Me Activities - Learning Styles, Multiple Intelligences+ Quizzes
Do you want to get to know your students and help them work on their Growth Mindset? Use the All About Me Flipbook with a Learning Styles Inventory, Personality Test (Introvert vs. Extrovert), & Multiple Intelligences Survey! These quizzes are perfect for Back to School, Open House, or metacognition unit.These completed flipbook activities are a perfect resource to use when discussing metacognition to help students analyze and reflect on their thinking. Students take the quizzes and mark the
Grades:
4th - 8th
Types:
Fall STEM Activities - Apple STEM Challenges
These Back to School STEM challenge activities are a great way to build community, establish procedures, and get to know how your kids tick! Plus, they’re a great intro to forces and interactions and Newton’s three laws of motion.You want to start the school year with something that's fun, but not fluff......something different...something that fires up creativity & critical thinking...something that gets kids collaborating and communicating...something that allows you to learn a ton about y
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
...
Back to School Depth and Complexity Activities for Gifted or Regular Classrooms
This Depth and Complexity Back to School low-prep set of activities will make back to school a time of learning and connection. You'll get 7 activities that are all ready to print and go! The activities actively teach Depth & Complexity thinking prompts while providing engaging learning experiences. If you teach gifted (or even if you don't), this is a must-have back-to-school resource.If you don't know the framework very well or have been wanting to use Depth & Complexity but weren't su
Grades:
4th - 10th
Types:
Chess Reference Cards
Reference cards for how the different chess pieces move: king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, and pawn.
You can cut them apart, or leave them as a full page reference.
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Grades:
Not Grade Specific
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Math All About Me Challenge - Back to School Get to You Know Enrichment Activity
All About Me Beginning of the School Year Math Activity to learn about each other while problem solving- Use this as a cooperative learning activity and/or a pre-assessment for problem solving skills, measurement conversions, and some fraction skills. Now available a digital version is also included made with Google Slides™.There are three different versions you can use to differentiate for your students. Based on the version you choose, students will determine things like how many months, days
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 8th
Types:
All About Me - D&C Icons Pennant Banner! {GATE Back to School!}
Color your own “All About Me” Depth and Complexity Pennants! This is a fun and creative way to apply Depth and Complexity Icons and a student-centered approach to decorating your classroom for Back to School Night, Open House, or all year long!
A unique approach to your Student of the Week projects! Students enjoy completing this creative and fun project as a wonderful “Get to know you” activity in the beginning of the year (or any time of the year)! Perfect for decorating your GATE classro
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 6th
Following Directions and Listening Back To School Edition
Listening and Following Directions – Back to School 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 map. During the activity the directions can be read to the students by the teacher or the students can read the directions to themselves
Grades:
4th - 10th
Types:
CCSS:
Also included in: Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
A to Z STEM Posters or Back to School Bulletin Board
Create a stunning STEM visual display appropriate for any grade! Use one letter from the alphabet, or create a crossword-style display with your favorite inspirational words. There are multiple posters included for most letters. Many of the words also tie nicely into growth mindset - failure in STEM is not only okay, it's expected and it's how we learn.Blank templates are also provided if you would like to create additional posters. Words IncludedA – analyze, askB – brainstorm, budget, buildC –
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Also included in: NEW STEM Teacher Bundle
2nd Grade Early Finishers September | Fast Finishers BAT Book for 2nd Graders
The words every teacher dreads…"I’m done! Now what?” Are you looking for September learning tasks for your 2nd grade fast finishers?! This Language Arts and Math Early Finisher resource has 20 activities aligned to the Common Core Standards for September!This printable pack will allow your students to continue to work on important skills with monthly themes for September! Tasks that they can do independently and track their own progress! Students love the fun and engaging learning activities.
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Grades:
2nd
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Early Finisher Fast Finisher Task Cards Puzzle Activities Centers
These Brainteaser Boxes feature 16 grab and go, higher-level thinking, engaging task card sets. Each Brainteaser Box has 20 task cards (except the Mystery State boxes which have 25 task cards each)...that's 330 task cards in all! These cards encourage students to expand upon their thinking!Best of all, these task cards are low prep for you, and only need pencils, dry erase markers, recording sheets, and toothpicks to complete the activities. Directions and answer cards are included!Brainteaser B
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Types:
All About Posters with D&C Icons - {Me, Family, Class, and Book}
Complete your own “All About Me,” “All About Our Classroom,” “All About My Family,” and “All About This Book,” Depth and Complexity Posters! This is a fun and creative way to teach and apply Depth and Complexity Icons as students share about themselves, their classrooms, their families, and any of the non-fiction books they’ve read. An innovative and Common Core friendly approach to having students complete posters for Student of the Week, Beginning of the Year, Student Inventory, and Book Repo
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
Depth and Complexity for Beginners - Lesson Plans for Introducing D&C Icons
Are you new to Depth and Complexity Icons? Not sure how to begin teaching your students about the prompts of Depth and Complexity?
This product has a day-by-day lesson plan that shares the most simplest way I would teach Depth and Complexity Icons starting on the *first day of school by applying all 11 Icons to things around the classroom or school! It also includes one of Purposeful Teaching Tool’s most popular teaching tools: D&C Note-taking cards that can be reproduced and used ALL
Grades:
2nd - 6th, Staff
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Early Finishers Fast Finishers Activities No Prep Thinking Puzzles for September
What do your early finishers do? These critical thinking puzzles will keep your students engaged and allow them to work on meaningful activities. Included in this unit are math, ELA, spelling, logic puzzles, and more centered around an September back to school theme. Included in this unit are:How Much Is Your Lunch Worth?It Begins With...Finish the PictureRead and DoHow Did Each Person Get to School? (logic puzzle)Spin a StorySpot the DifferenceSchool Solve and SearchConnect FiveWord WheelsMyste
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Types:
Beginning of the Year Self-Portrait Glyph and Pre-Assessment Activity
Pre-Assess your students learning preferences, start building a positive classroom community AND have fun at the same time? Yep. It's possible! You can use this glyph with your 3rd through 5th-grade students to achieve all of those goals.
Students reflect on personal preferences at school (favorite subject, least favorite subject, homework preference, classwork preference, multiple intelligence strengths {optional}, and more. Each decision they make results in the selection of the style or col
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
SEL Morning Messages
THIS RESOURCE IS ADDED TO OFTEN! IT WILL JUST GET BIGGER AND BETTER!! Engage your kids, take SEL to the next level, and grow through the power of exSELence with my collection SEL Morning Messages! This collection currently includes 79 of my favorite SEL Messages, and it WILL CONTINUE TO GROW as I create new messages for my students! These messages focus on the five building blocks of social emotional learning.They will get your kids thinking deeply, self reflecting, and engaging in conversation
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Classroom Escape Room
Oh no! Your class is locked in! This problem solving Classroom Break Out Kit ready to print and use with your students. This "Escape Room" type activity is designed to use on a low classroom budget. No expensive locks, containers, or kits are required. Everything you need (except for a marker, notecard and some envelopes) are all included in this printable Break out kit. Your students will use their critical thinking and problem solving skills while learning to cooperate in a group to solv
Grades:
2nd - 6th
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Pom Pom Popper STEM Challenge - Back to School STEM Activity
***SAVE BIG WITH THE BACK TO SCHOOL STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, Back to School themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in August and September! With a focus on force and motion, this activity is always a fun way to begin the school year.Includes the following components for POM POM POPPER STEM ACTIVITY:Detailed Lesson Plan with Standards, Supply Checklist, and Suggested Read AloudsDigital Google Slides Notebook for Paperless Recording and Interactive DisplaysK
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
SCAMPER the Playground
SCAMPER is a creative thinking tool developed by Bob Eberle.
The included pages are a collection of things typically found at a park
or playground. You can have all students SCAMPER the same item,
or have different students SCAMPER different items.
As an alternative, students can use the pages for brainstorming purposes, then create three-dimensional models of their new ideas.
If students SCAMPER different items, these models can be combined
in a collaborative, original park or playgr
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
Instructional Strategies Poster Set {Marzano's 9 "High Yield" Strategies}
New teacher? Veteran teacher? Instructional Coach? These high yield strategies are perfect for all situations that involve instructing students and teachers :) Many current evaluations for teacher effectiveness measure an instructor's ability to select strategies based on a foundational evidence, in other words strategies that have been tested and researched, and why not? With as hard as we work, we should strive to use what has been proven effective. Marzano's nine high yield strategies have a
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
What to Do with a Box Back to School READ ALOUD STEM™ Challenge
Integrate STEM, Writing, and Literacy get back to hands-on learning in your classroom at the Beginning of the School Year!Explore what you can do with a cardboard box. Students imagine, design, test, and write about a unique invention of their own. After they have built it, they write a newspaper ad selling their new invention that will change the world!Connect to a Read Aloud: What to Do with a Box by Jane YolenThis STEM Project is a companion activity to What to do with a Box by Jane Yolen. Th
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Morning Work Bundle Bell Ringer Bellringer Early Finishers Fast Finishers
Get those brains up and moving first thing in the morning! These critical thinking activities will rev up your learners. Use this morning work to keep your students engaged and learning and their brains razor-sharp!Each page has four higher-level thinking activities. There are seven different pages for each week. This provides your students with 20 different activities for the week. Check out the preview for a sample of the first week. *Thank you so much to everyone who was patient while I took
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Types:
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