8th grade syllabi for GATE

Critical Thinking, Engineering, Gifted and Talented

**BEST SELLER!** Winter STEM / Snowflake STEM activities! Create a variety of snowflakes with these 3 STEM engaging challenges. For these challenges, the only material that is necessary is plain paper. This is a great companion activity if you are reading about Snowflake Bentley (Wilson Bentley).✅ What You'll Get ✅Teacher Instructions and sample imagesWarm up activities: How snowflakes form in nature (1 page informational text)Cutting practice page (if your students need it, recommended!)Which f

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 8th

Types:

CCSS:

4.G.A.3

NGSS:

MS-ETS1-2

, 3-5-ETS1-3

, 3-PS2-2

, 3-5-ETS1-1

, MS-ETS1-1

...

Also included in: FLASH SALE ⭐ Low Prep STEM Activities and Challenges Engineering Design Process

Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Literature Circles Book Clubs

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Critical Thinking, Literature, Reading

Add some depth and complexity to traditional Literature Circles with this complete and ready-to-use resource!You will be amazed by the level of discussion and critical thinking that will take place among your students. Each Literature Circle role (listed below) is directly connected to 11 elements of critical thinking: Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives). Ju

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 9th, Adult Education

Types:

GATE, Literature Circles

Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle

Greek and Latin Roots Activity Pennant ✏️ 4th Grade 5th Grade Creative

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Gifted and Talented, Reading, Vocabulary

Enhance your students' vocabulary with a creative and engaging Greek and Latin Roots Pennant Activity! In this hands-on morphology activity, students become active participants in their learning process. Students add words, definitions, or visuals to create their own unique representation of these 60 roots. Why learn root words?Root words are useful for strengthening vocabulary.They can help understand language (including when learning many foreign languages) and build reading skills.Roots are i

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 12th, Adult Education

Types:

Teach With all Your Heart

CCSS:

L.3.4c

, L.4.4b

, L.5.4b

, L.6.4b

, L.7.4b

...

Also included in: Greek and Latin Roots Pennant Activity Games BUNDLE Display Vocabulary Test Prep

Team Building Escape Room with Logic Puzzles Critical Thinking Escape Room

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Engage your students with this Team Building Escape Room! This is great as a back to school escape room! This escape room is perfect for both the end of the year and beginning of the year. Students will be engaged and challenged with logic puzzles, codes to decipher, and more. There is both a full easy prep printable version as well as a Google(TM) form digital version for virtual or distance learning.This resource includes everything you need to implement a challenging and fun escape room fo

Subjects:

Classroom Community, Critical Thinking, End of Year

Grades:

4th - 9th

Types:

Activities, GATE, Games

Also included in: Team Building Escape Room with Logic Puzzles BUNDLE - Critical Thinking Escape

Halloween STEM Activities | Fall STEM Activities for October | Halloween Science

Created by

Kerry Tracy Feel-Good Teaching

Halloween STEM Activities will keep your kids engaged in brain-busting work disguised as fun!This bundle includes the following 6 Halloween STEM activities:⭐ Bone Bridge® STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Creature Catcher STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Ghosts in the Graveyard STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Treat Toss STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Wings Wanted STEM Challenge Activity⭐ Halloween STEM Improv Activity (336 possible combinations!)The basic idea: In the 5 Halloween STEM Challenge Activities, students

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Engineering, Halloween

Grades:

2nd - 8th

Types:

Activities, GATE, Centers

NGSS:

K-2-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-3

, MS-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-1

, 3-5-ETS1-3

...

Halloween STEM Activity - Bone Bridge® - Halloween STEM Challenge

Created by

Kerry Tracy Feel-Good Teaching

The Bone Bridge® Halloween STEM activity is collaborative, brain-busting work disguised as fun! This STEM challenge goes beyond Halloween. Connect it to your science lessons on skeletal system, bridges/transportation, and/or forces (specific ideas provided in the resource). The basic idea: Students work in partners or groups against a list of criteria and constraints to build a bridge for length, strength, or capacity using simple materials. This is the first resource from Bone Bridge® STEM Ch

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Engineering, Halloween

Grades:

2nd - 8th

Types:

Activities, GATE, Centers

NGSS:

K-2-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-3

, MS-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-1

, 3-5-ETS1-3

...

Also included in: Halloween STEM Activities - 6 STEM Challenges - Print & Paperless

Abandoned Places - Creative Writing Activity from Nonfiction (print + digital)

Created by

Nouvelle ELA

In this creative writing activity, students draw inspiration from a nonfiction article about ten real-world abandoned places! Students choose one as a setting for a piece of Flash Fiction. This is a great reading comprehension and creative writing activity for even the most reluctant readers! ✅ Nonfiction reading comprehension✅ Vocabulary in context✅ Differentiated creative writing activitiesYour Creative Writing from Nonfiction resource includes:Nonfiction reading about ten abandoned places (in

Subjects:

Close Reading, Creative Writing, English Language Arts

Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

Back to School, English Language Arts, For All Subjects

CCSS:

CCRA.R.4

, CCRA.W.3

Also included in: High School Reading Comprehension Passages - High Interest Nonfiction Bundle

Visual Syllabus Templates #2 - Editable - Creative - Aesthetic

Created by

Hello Teacher Lady

Take your syllabus to the next level with this editable visual syllabus template pack. This product includes four front and back page templates to choose from, so you can mix and match to fit your needs. The variations are also helpful if you teach multiple subjects or grade levels and want to maintain a cohesive look across your syllabi. All titles, headings, subheadings, body text and lines are fully customizable; however, the icons are not movable to comply with the clip artist's licensing a

Subjects:

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Syllabi, Handouts, Printables

Also included in: Visual Syllabus Templates BUNDLE - Editable Creative Syllabus

Partner Pairing Cards and Grouping Cards Pick a Partner

Created by

Back to School, Classroom Management, Engineering

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

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 12th

Types:

Projects, Activities, GATE

Also included in: STEM Teacher ❤️ Favorites ❤️ Bundle Best Sellers in One Place

Syllabus Template - Editable Syllabus Infographic Templates for Back to School

Created by

Presto Plans

Syllabus Template - Editable Infographic Syllabus Templates: Throw out your boring syllabus and replace it with one of these eye-catching editable template designs. Included are six different front-page syllabus template designs, and three back-page options where you can go into more detail on your classroom policies and procedures. Use this during back to school season or for a new semester to get your students' attention. These infographic syllabus templates are in Powerpoint format, so pleas

Subjects:

Back to School, Classroom Management, For All Subject Areas

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Syllabi, Classroom Forms

Depth and Complexity Novel Study for The Giver

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Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, Gifted and Talented

Reading and Responding to The Giver and Complexity!Bring your students’ thinking and discussion to a whole new level while reading Lois Lowry’s The Giver. This critical thinking companion resource is designed to “dig deeper” when compared to traditional novel worksheets available. Each chapter has a unique graphic organizer that contains 4 critical thinking questions questions and 1 related "Core Question". All questions within the graphic organizers are open-ended, can be answered in multiple

Subjects:

Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

GATE, Graphic Organizers

Coding with ROBOTS ⭐ Mazes Tracks STEM Robotics Hour of Code Dash Sphero Finch

Created by

Engineering, Gifted and Talented, Robotics

"This is my absolute favorite robot resource. Students loved to make their own maze and try to get their Sphero through it. It was wonderful for kids to work on teamwork and problem-solving skills.""In one word, "WOW!" My students are obsessed with this product!"Tired of taping mazes all over your floors? Not sure what to do with your class set of robots? Save the tape for STEM challenges and use these coding maze cards instead. Use your robots like Dash, Cue, Sphero, BeeBot, Finch, and Code and

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 8th

Types:

Activities, GATE

Also included in: STEM Teacher ❤️ Favorites ❤️ Bundle Best Sellers in One Place

All About Me Activities - Learning Styles, Multiple Intelligences+ Quizzes

Created by

Amy Mezni - Teaching Ideas 4u

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

Subjects:

Back to School, Gifted and Talented, Study Skills

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

STEM Activities and Challenges Low Prep Engineering Design Process and Careers

Created by

Engineering, Gifted and Talented, Science

The best variety of low prep STEM activities you'll find! These 20 STEM and STEAM activities can be completed with readily available materials and minimal prep - you can even use these for sub plans! Students will get hands-on exploring different STEM careers with these activities. Each activity is designed to take about one class period however the activity can span across two class periods to give ample time for redesigns and re-testing, or for a repeat challenge using different materials.Thes

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 8th

Types:

Projects, GATE

NGSS:

MS-ETS1-2

, 3-5-ETS1-3

, MS-ETS1-4

, 3-5-ETS1-1

, MS-ETS1-1

...

Back to School Bundle | Middle School Science

Created by

Sunrise Science

Start off the school year right and SAVE 20% with this bundle of resources for back to school in your science class!Included is: - a four-page, editable doodle style science syllabus (now also included as a Google digital version in both color and black and white!)- a first week of school science/icebreaker Gab Lab stations activity- 20 unique nature themed Bellwork or Do Now daily board templates for Google™ Slides- 7 nature-themed scientist quotes headers for Google Classroom- a full year of s

Subjects:

General Science, Physical Science, Science

Grades:

7th - 8th

Types:

Syllabi, Laboratory, Classroom Forms

Depth and Complexity Teaching Critical Thinking Using Fairytales

Created by

Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Literature

Teach your students how to explore content with depth and complexity.Here it is, a complete and ready-to-use resource for teaching all 11 elements (Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives) of critical thinking.! Your students will explore of these elements by applying them to familiar stories, such as “Cinderella”, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, “Goldilocks and the

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 10th

Types:

Unit Plans, GATE, Printables

Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle

Syllabus Template

Created by

Cult of Pedagogy

A well-designed course syllabus is an essential tool for effectively managing a course. It gives students a good understanding of your expectations and a clear road map for how the course will be conducted. When done right, a good syllabus can prevent a lot of misunderstandings as the semester progresses.This product includes everything you need to create a complete, well-organized syllabus:• Syllabus Template (docx) Includes contact information, meeting times, course description & objective

Subjects:

For All Subject Areas, For All Subjects

Grades:

6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

Types:

Syllabi, Handouts, Classroom Forms

Halloween STEM Activity - Bat Wings Wanted Halloween STEM Challenge

Created by

Kerry Tracy Feel-Good Teaching

This Halloween STEM activity will keep your kids engaged & learning! Not doing Halloween activities this year? No problem! Just add this to a science unit on bats, life science, the physics of flight, or as a supplement to Stellaluna.Basic Premise:In this Halloween STEM challenge activity, students design and engineer a new set of bat wings, with the goal being to achieve maximum flight distance and/or accuracy. You can even throw in style points, if you like! It's a paper airplane challenge

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Engineering, Halloween

Grades:

2nd - 8th

Types:

Activities, GATE, Centers

NGSS:

K-2-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-3

, MS-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-1

, 3-5-ETS1-3

...

Also included in: Halloween STEM Activities - 6 STEM Challenges - Print & Paperless

Editable Syllabus Template

Created by

The Engaging Station

You will receive a two-page visual syllabus template with a filled-in version (a model/guide) and a blank canvas. If you have not heard of a visual syllabus, it is a standard syllabus organized in a more appealing format with some (or lots) of clip art and design elements. This style is a basic visual syllabus but a great first syllabus for you to try and customize!WHAT'S INCLUDED:I have created two templates within one:1.One that requires no font download. You have the format and clipart embedd

Subjects:

Back to School, Holidays/Seasonal, Specialty

Grades:

6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff

Types:

Syllabi, Handouts, Outlines

Also included in: Editable Syllabus BUNDLE

PI DAY Activities 5th 6th 7th 8th ⭕ Middle School Math STEAM Art ⭕

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Gifted and Talented, Holidays/Seasonal, Word Problems

If Pi Day isn't your FAVORITE holiday...yet, it might be after completing these hands-on circle math activities with your students! This download is packed with Pi Day math activities and STEAM art projects that are the perfect way to celebrate National Pi Day, which is March 14th (3/14). Start off by introducing pi and then dive in into all things pi. These activities are suitable for students in grade 5 and up.✅ What You'll Get ✅What is Pi? (2 pages)Pi Day Fun Facts (1 page)Get creative with c

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, GATE, Task Cards

CCSS:

5.NBT.B.7

, 7.G.B.4

, 6.EE.B.7

, 7.EE.B.3

Also included in: PI DAY Activities BUNDLE ⭕ Math Fun & More for Pi Day March 14th! ⭕

Depth and Complexity Novel Study for Tuck Everlasting

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