World languages simulations for Gifted and Talented

Critical Thinking, Economics , Gifted and Talented

Gifted and Talented - Living on Your Own: Lessons in Financial Responsibility

Created by

Learning Highway

Challenge your gifted and talented to play the “game of life” and survive financially during their first year in college. This concept-based unit allows students to “earn” an inheritance from a distant relative by repurposing items from a barn. With this “money,” students find affordable housing, transportation, furnishings, and other essentials. Then the “game of life begins with monthly reoccurring expenses, opportunities to buy additional necessities and/or wants, as well as challenges or o

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Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, GATE, Simulations

Gifted Crime Scene Investigation Activity The Case of the Missing Cash

Created by

KJS Creative Curriculum

This highly engaging crime scene investigation activity will have your students using their critical thinking skills as they critically read and analyze witness testimonies, view and evaluate evidence, and draw inferences to determine the motive and identity of the person guilty of robbing a bank. Higher-level thinking skills will be practiced while investigating the crime scene, as students form a hypothesis about who committed the crime, establish a motive, and then justify their hypothesis b

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Forensics, Gifted and Talented

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Activities, GATE, Simulations

Frida Kahlo y La Casa Azul Virutal Field Trip SPANISH

Created by

Arts & Music, Spanish, World Language

Take your students to visit Frida Kahlo y La Casa Azul with this Virtual Field Trip for Spanish Class. Your students will visit Frida's museum in Mexico. You can use the interactive trip for distance learning, socially-distant learning in the classroom, or in-person project-based learning. Spanish students will navigate through the 360 tour of various rooms in the museum. Students will also use the website to learn about Frida's life, paintings, and house. They will take pictures and write

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Grades:

8th - 11th

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Also included in: Hispanic Artist Spanish Lessons Bundle Pack - 5 Units

Virtual Field Trip Peru and Machu Picchu in SPANISH

Created by

Foreign Languages, Spanish, World Language

This Virtual Field Trip to Peru and Machu Picchu for Spanish Class is an interactive Google Slides & Tour. You can use it for distance learning, socially-distant learning in the classroom, or in-person project-based learning. Spanish students will navigate through 7 stops on a virtual field trip to Peru and Machu Picchu with Google Tour Builder map, which provides a 360 tour of the stops. Pictures and intermediate level Spanish descriptions are provided. Students will take screenshots and

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Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

en Français, French, World Language

Also included in: Spanish Virtual Field Trip Bundle

French Food Unit - Café and Restaurant Roleplay Project - Nourriture et boissons

Created by

World Language Resources

This EDITABLE Café and Restaurant Roleplay Skit is an amazing tool to gauge how well your students have learned target vocabulary (la nourriture, les boissons, le couvert, etc.) as well as grammar structures (prendre, boire, vouloir, le partitif, etc.) from your French Food Unit. Students will work in small groups and create a skit taking place at a French-speaking café or restaurant that that they will perform in front of their peers. Students LOVE this activity because it allows them to showc

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Grades:

6th - 10th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Simulations

Also included in: French 1 Projects BUNDLE - Projects, Presentations, Skits for Beginners

Clothing Shopping Spanish Unit

Created by

SpanishPlans

This is a great activity to have students practice clothing and shopping vocabulary in a practical real-life scenario. A proficiency and task based activity. Gets students up and moving around, while conversing with classmates about clothing items. Includes 6 PDF files.: -4 Roles – Practice the roles of the Salesclerk, Customer, and Friend of Customer. Also included is an additional Customer card when talking to friend about the clothing. Each pages features 4 cards per page and come in bot

Subjects:

Spanish

Grades:

7th - 11th

Types:

Activities, Simulations, Task Cards

Create your own civilization based off of 'Weslandia'

Created by

Travel Chick

Create your own civilization based off of the book 'Weslandia'. Students will use their social studies knowledge to create their own utopian society. Your students will have a blast taking knowledge that they have previously learned about and applying it to their new civilization! Their creativity will amaze you!!!! ***UPDATED!!!!*** More creatively designed! More rubric options! Teacher information page included Curriculum: CCSS Writing: W.2, W.4, W.5, W.6, W.8, W.10 Social Studies: geog

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Social Studies - History

Grades:

4th - 12th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Simulations

Spanish Murder Mystery Party Kit Activity Game Engaging Spanish Conversation

Created by

The Teacher Emporium

This wonderful, editable "who dunit" activity was designed for my Spanish 3 + 4 classes. During the “party” a mysterious murder will occur and it is students’ jobs to talk to each other in the target language to gather and infer information to make an accusation at the end of the game. My students love this game and talk more in Spanish than in any other oral activity that we do. All students receive character cards days before the game starts to tell them how to act, what info they know and wha

Subjects:

Spanish

Grades:

10th - 12th

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For All Subject Areas, Gifted and Talented, Problem Solving

Class Escape Problem Solving Game

Created by

Erin Smith ELA

Modeled after the popular "Escape" games in many cities around the country, this classroom version prompts students to work together as a class to solve puzzles, connect the clues, and crack the code! This is a great activity for the first week of school to encourage teamwork and help students get to know each other and the classroom. Your students will be totally engaged in this hands-on challenge! You will need the following tools: - tape - color printer - scissors or paper cutter - white c

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Grades:

7th - 12th

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Art Museum Virtual Hispanic Art Gallery in Spanish

Created by

Spanish, Visual Arts, World Language

An art museum virtual Hispanic art gallery filled with over 20 images of Hispanic art! Virtual Spanish Art Gallery for Spanish classes - This interactive, virtual art gallery tour of 6 Hispanic artists is perfect for Spanish students of Novice-Intermediate levels. You can use it for distance learning, socially-distant learning in the classroom, or in-person project-based learning. During the art museum virtual gallery, they will navigate through the various rooms in the art gallery. They wil

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Not Grade Specific

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Lisa Van Gemert - Gifted Guru

Also included in: Hispanic Artist Spanish Lessons Bundle Pack - 5 Units

Goods and Services Producers and Consumers Economics Activity Second Grade

Created by

Looking for an engaging early elementary economics lesson? Your students will gain a deep understanding of buyers and sellers (producers and consumers) in a community with this fun simulation activity. Your second or third grade social studies students will love creating their own good or service. This resource is suprisingly low-prep for how interactive it is. Simply print, cut, and go! You'll get teacher instructions, classroom procedures, printable student sheets, a student reflection sheet,

Subjects:

Classroom Community, Economics , Gifted and Talented

Grades:

2nd - 3rd

Types:

Activities, GATE, Simulations

Class Escape: Halloween Edition

Created by

Erin Smith ELA

My students loved my original Class Escape, so I created the HALLOWEEN EDITION when they begged me to make another! Modeled after the popular "Escape" games in many cities around the country, this classroom version prompts students to work together as a class to solve puzzles, connect the clues, and crack the code! Your students will be totally engaged in this hands-on, Halloween-themed challenge! You will need the following tools: - tape - color printer (preferred) or regular printer - scisso

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Halloween

Grades:

6th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff

Types:

Games, Simulations

Intro to WWI Simulation Game English & Spanish Bundle

Created by

Maestra Novoa

The MAIN game is a great introduction to World War I that goes over the MAIN causes of WWI! This bundle includes the SPANISH and ENGLISH versions. The MAIN causes students will experience during this game are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism. Students will be in groups and create their own country. They will then try to take over the world!Countries will take turns trying to take over the world by conquering territories, building industries, and military, and creating alliance

Subjects:

European History, Social Studies - History, Spanish

Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

Foreign Languages, Spanish

Ordering Food in Spanish; a Mexican Restaurant Simulator for your Classroom!

Created by

PicantePractices

To see a demo of this product, go to minute 1:13 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7DlM3WFxG4 Imagine a real menu and waiter in your classroom. The waiter asks questions at your command, and your student answers each one, for both herself and a friend. You grade the student's performance on an easy-to-use rubric. Most Spanish teachers practice talking about food and ordering it several times during levels one, two, and three. This file transports the Mexican restaurant (it's actually IN M

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Grades:

6th - 12th, Higher Education

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Simulations, Rubrics

Choose Your Adventure: Dystopia

Created by

Reading with Rachel

Immerse your students in the world of Dystopian literature with this "Choose Your Adventure" activity! Students are inserted into the story as the protagonist and are given a series of choices that will determine their fate. There are 74 choices and 28 possible endings! They must navigate through social classes, a rebellion, totalitarian rule, and a dubious government. Use as a hook activity for a novel, a genre study, or to accompany another dystopian text!

Subjects:

English Language Arts, For All Subjects, Gifted and Talented

Grades:

6th - 10th

Types:

en Français, French, World Language

FRENCH Virtual Field Trip to Les CATACOMBES de Paris! Excursion Virtuelle!

Created by

French with Elise

Enjoy this French Virtual Field Trip to les CATACOMBES de Paris! This is a great tool during distance learning. It can be used on ZOOM, just "share screen", or in the classroom (great with a projector). This 27 page PowerPoint Presentation IN FRENCH is a fun introduction to les CATACOMBES de Paris. It includes:- Teacher directions- Anticipatory set & questions- Facts about les Catacombes de Paris- Link to a video of les Catacombes- Link to a short video of the movie Le Bossu de Notre Dame (M

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Grades:

5th - 7th

Types:

Back to School, International Baccalaureate, Spanish

Also included in: French Virtual Field Trip MEGA BUNDLE - Excursions Virtuelles Francophonie

Pre and AP Spanish Speed Dating | Citas Rápidas | ¡SOY YO! | Interpersonal Speak

Created by

Granabana

CLICK HERE TO SEE A VIDEO PREVIEW!THE PERSPECTIVE: Are you looking for a strategy to engage your intermediate and mid intermediate students, break the ice AND practice Interpersonal Speaking by expressing and elaborating ideas in 20 seconds? ¡Para Aquí! THE PRACTICE: Citas Rápidas: ¡SOY YO! is a proven strategy for incorporating interpersonal speaking into your curriculum. Allow students to feel comfortable by starting slowly, allowing previous practice in pairs and small groups. As an entir

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Grades:

10th - 12th, Adult Education

Types:

Scripts, Simulations

Also included in: ¡Paketón! AP Spanish Tips for Temas | Resources, Practices and PBL Complete Kit

Immigration Simulation Game in Spanish / Juego de inmigración

Created by

Growing Global Citizens

This product is a fun, hands-on way for students to learn about push and pull immigration factors. Colored candies (not included) represent different groups of people. This game is set up to be played in groups of six but can be modified for smaller groups. Each student represents an imaginary country and as students go through the event cards their population is affected by events listed and they lose or gain their candy population. Students record their population at the beginning of the g

Subjects:

EFL - ESL - ELD, Geography, Spanish

Grades:

5th - 12th, Higher Education

Types:

Economics , Gifted and Talented

Stock Market Game - Interactive Activity to Purchase, Trade and Track Stocks

Created by

TheGiftedPerspective

Economics by itself? Boring. Economics with a competition and prize involved? Now we're talking!I created this activity to enrich my Sixth Grade Social Studies unit on Economics. I begin by teaching about the stock market, going over vocab and practicing calculating stocks/broker's commision. If your students have a basic understanding of the stock market, then this is the perfect next step. The object is to have your students purchase stocks (while paying you - their broker - a 5% commiss

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Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Simulations

Defining Leadership & Creating Tomorrow's Leaders Today

Created by

Margo Nauert EdD and Power of Learning Press

In a democratic society, choosing effected leaders is an essential criterion for citizens. In this activity, students will explore leadership qualities that are essential for a strong leader, not only in the government, but also in all facets of life. Through understanding what makes a leader, students are then able to model those traits and become leaders themselves. Students will explore leadership through analyzing ambiguous information about major leaders throughout history. Using that limit

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Social Studies - History

Grades:

6th - 12th

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Frida Kahlo The Blue House Virtual Field Trip

Created by

Spanish, Visual Arts, World Language

This Frida Kahlo The Blue House virtual field trip takes students to Frida's museum in Mexico. This is the ENGLISH version of the field trip. You can use the interactive trip for distance learning, socially-distant learning in the classroom, or in-person project-based learning. Students will navigate through the 360 tour of various rooms in the museum. Students will also use the website to learn about Frida's life, paintings, and house. They will take pictures and write descriptions of thei

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Grades:

8th - 11th

Types:

Character Education, Gifted and Talented, School Counseling

Also included in: Virtual Field Trip Bundle ENGLISH

Learning Disabilities Simulations- Social Emotional Learning for Students

Created by

Orton Gillingham Mama

Every classroom in the world is comprised of students who learn differently. Our students are surrounded by peers who have learning disabilities, speech disorders, attention deficits, and more! Are we teaching our kids about these differences? Are we equipping them to help their peers and show empathy towards them? Have we empowered those who learn differently?In this 4-part simulation, students will gain an understanding of how some kids learn, struggle, and feel during parts of their learni

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Grades:

1st - 12th, Staff

Types:

European History, Italian, Social Studies - History

Italy Virtual Field Trip - Europe, Venice, Sicily, Rome, Florence, Milan, Pisa

Created by

TheOneRadTeacher

Incredibly detailed and exciting virtual field trip to Italy! On the trip, you will explore:Rome (Roma)Venice (Venezia)Florence (Firenze)Milan (Milano)PisaSardinia (Sardegna)Sicily (Sicilia)Naples (Napoli)There is also a supplemental handout to accompany the virtual field trip. No prep!* Be sure to check out the video preview. NOTE: music clips are not available via the preview, but are available on the virtual field trip once purchased.*Check out my other Italy trip!Siena, ItalyThe trip is on G

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Not Grade Specific

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