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Independent work packets for Easel Activities and for Gifted and Talented
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Following Directions Puzzles Beginning or End of Year Activity with Easel
Following directions puzzles are a fun way to teach critical thinking. Great for back to school at the beginning of the year or at the end of the year as standardized test preparation. Five challenging puzzles that gifted and talented students enjoy, too! In the first puzzle, cross words off a table according to the directions provided to reveal an inspirational quote about life. In the next puzzle, follow directions to travel the world to catch a thief. In the third puzzle, rearrange letters to
Grades:
6th - 8th
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PLAN A PARTY 4th Grade Math Enrichment Project Decimals Area Elapsed Time
With this Plan A Party real-world math project, your students will become expert event planners as they design the ultimate birthday celebration for Mr. and Mrs. Moneybags! They will apply a range of important math skills like elapsed time, multi-step problem solving, and estimating to pull off the party of the century. Perfect to use for 4th grade math enrichment of 5th grade review.Math Skills Students Will Use:estimatingmulti-digit addition and subtraction (whole numbers and decimals)area and
Grades:
4th - 5th
Also included in: 4th Grade Math Projects The End of the Year Plan A Cruise & Plan A Party
Rebus Puzzles 1 Brain Teasers Printable and Digital Easel Activity
Rebus Puzzles are a fun critical thinking activity. Students have to problem solve to figure out the word puzzles. Great logical reasoning puzzles to do with partners or use as a warm-up or bell ringer. Print or use the Easel Activity online. Works well for gifted and talented students who enjoy challenges, but these work with other student populations as well. Includes five 2-page worksheets with 20 puzzles each, so you get 100 brain teasers in total! Also includes a blank page for students to
Grades:
5th - 8th
PLAN A CRUISE Vacation Country Research Project 4th Grade Addition Elapsed Time
This Plan A Cruise learning experience lets students become travel agents and design a fun-filled vacation for their classmates. They will use important skills like research, planning, time management, budgeting, and organization to create their one-of-a-kind trip. Each page in their cruise plan book requires students to use academic skills to plan their trip of a lifetime.To complete this project, students will work through the following activities:WORDS TO KNOWThis page includes important word
Grades:
3rd - 4th
Also included in: 4th Grade Math Projects The End of the Year Plan A Cruise & Plan A Party
Geometric Brainteasers for the Gifted and Talented
20 printable or digital pages of geometric brainteasers to challenge your Gifted and Talented students. On each page, students identify how many circles, squares, triangles or cubes are in a design. Each page also has two secret messages on license plates, like: HURU (who are you), KWY IT (quiet), BRNSTRM (brainstorm), UAMZME (you amaze me), IMGRTFL (I am grateful), and more. PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at ho
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
Also included in: Distance Learning for Curious Kids BUNDLE (Print + Digital Activities)
End of Year Problem Solving - Brainteasers, Patterns, Sequence, Word Puzzles
40 printable or digital pages of brainteasers to use at the end of the year:Patterns,Sequences, Word Puzzles, Toothpick (or Matchstick) Problems, How Many Squares, Number Analogies, and more... Take a look at the Preview to view a few of the pages in this packet. And if you would like more END OF YEAR challenges, here are the others in this series:End of Year Division, Squares & World RecordsEnd of Year Writing, Words & WhalesEnd of Year Money, Measuring & MultiplicationEnd of Year
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Frequently Misspelled Words (6th grade - 8th grade)
40 printable or digital pages to help your students with 400 Frequently Misspelled Words: amateur, leisure, brilliance, fictitious, foreign, twelfth, courageous, tyranny, embarrass, hierarchy, niece, restaurant, courteous, maneuver, achieve, height, rhyme, whether, and many more. Twenty weeks of spelling activities:Write a question,Write a quotation, Write an exclamation,What is the shortest word?What is the longest word?Which seven words are most interesting?Which two words are easiest?Which
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Middle School BUNDLE
Logic Puzzle Worksheets for the Year No Prep Print or Digital Bundle
Find logic puzzles for the year or brain teasers in an interesting and helpful print and digital worksheets! When holidays come around, I love giving my students challenges with a theme; however, it's often difficult and time-consuming to search for a logic puzzle each month. Plus, your kids will love it! #JoyceLogicClick HERE to save 25% off with the bundle.Engage your students with these critical thinking activities or logic puzzles. Included in this bundle are 12 multi-grid critical thinking
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Also included in: Logic Puzzles Brain Teaser Activities Print Digital Resources Worksheets
Halloween Logic Puzzles and Math Brainteasers Print or Digital Worksheets
Your kids will love these fun and challenging Halloween brain teaser activities and logic puzzles. This set includes logic puzzles, vocabulary building, research, creative activities, and a math activity for building creativity with Halloween worksheets. These Halloween activities are sure to keep your kids engaged whether they are gifted and talented students or just plain bright! Click HERE to save 25% off the price of individual resources with the bundle.Save 30% off the price of individual r
Grades:
4th - 6th
Rebus Puzzles 2 Brain Teasers Printable and Digital Easel Activity
Rebus Puzzles - Set 2. Brain Teasers are a fun critical thinking activity. Students problem solve to figure out the word puzzles. Great logical reasoning puzzles for partners or use as a warm-up or bell ringer. These are also known as Plexers, Netbats, Wordies, Brainbats, Frame Games, and Punzzels. Print and go. Works well for gifted and talented and regular ed classes. Includes five 2-page worksheets with 20 puzzles each, so you get 100 brain teasers in total! Has a blank page for students to
Grades:
6th - 9th
October Independent Work Packet - Halloween Early or Fast Finisher or Sub Plans
Eight no-prep Halloween activities provide hours of independent work. It's great for early or fast finishers, including gifted and talented students. You can even use it for your October sub plans! An 11-page packet supports a corresponding webpage. Fourth or fifth grade students interact with content online and respond in their packets. Open the preview to take a closer look at the Halloween Independent Learning Module, or ILM.What’s Included in the Website & Packet:Informational Text - Ans
Grades:
4th - 5th
License Plates - Problem Solving - Word Puzzles
180 words or phrases hidden on license plates, like URA QTPI (you are a cutie-pie), BRBDL (Barbie doll), IMB4U (I am before you), DNTJJME (don’t judge me), WTSUP (what’s up), NTVMRKN (Native American), ME1ST (me first), RN4URLF (run for your life), NVRENUF (never enough), and many more. Nine challenges per page. Students decode the nine on the page, identify which one was the easiest and hardest and funniest, and make up three of their own personalized license plates. This activity can be us
Grades:
4th - 10th
Also included in: Thanksgiving BUNDLE - 20 packets of Math and Language Arts
January Independent Work Packet - Winter Early or Fast Finisher, Sub Plans
Eight no-prep January activities provide hours of independent work for fourth or fifth grade students. They're great for fast or early finishers, including gifted and talented students. You can even use them for your winter sub plans! An 11-page booklet supports an interactive website. Fourth or fifth grade students engage in meaningful online learning experiences and respond in their packets, which may be printed, accessed as forced Google Slides, or shared as Easel Activities.What’s Included i
Grades:
4th - 5th
Frequently Misspelled Words (4th grade - 5th grade)
40 printable or digital pages to help your students with 300 Frequently Misspelled Words: marriage, shriek, disease, reign, chief, neighbor, guess, jewelry, weird, grateful, column, millionaire, pneumonia, because, sincerely, Wednesday, February, jealous, awesome, lightning, rhythm, government, honest and many more.Twenty weeks of spelling activities:Write a question,Write a quotation, Write an exclamation,What is the shortest word?What is the longest word?Which five words are most interesting?
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Grades:
4th - 5th
Also included in: Intermediate Grades BUNDLE
Back to School Brain Teasers for Teens or Logic Puzzle Worksheets High School
Challenge and entertain your teens with this rigorous Back to School multi-grid logic puzzle in printable, Google slides, or Easel format. Use this fun activity in your middle or high school class to further develop critical thinking skills and writing in teenagers. Kids love this great back to school activity for teens! ⭐ Click here to save 20% off the price of individual resources with the High School Logic Puzzles Bundle.Your students will love class time with engaging activities to discover
Grades:
8th - 11th
Geometric Activities for the Gifted and Talented
20 printable or digital pages of geometric activities to challenge your Gifted and Talented students. On each page, students identify how many circles, squares, triangles or cubes are in a design. Some are tough and others are very tough, but I have provided solutions for every problem for you. And, each page has two secret messages on license plates, like: 2HT2HDL (too hot to handle), JST4FN (just for fun), ME1ST (me first), BN THR (been there), RN4URLF (run for your life), and more. PRINT
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
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Frequently Misspelled Words (2nd grade - 3rd grade)
40 printable pages to help your students with 300 Frequently Misspelled Words: forty, restaurant, cousin, tomorrow, twice, nation, caterpillar, Wednesday, familiar, believe, alligator, probably, parallel, obedience, Thursday, exclamation, paragraph, friendship, quotient, noisy, thousand, imagination and many more. Twenty weeks of spelling activities:Write a question,Write a quotation, Write an exclamation,What is the shortest word?What is the longest word?Which five words are most interesting?W
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Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Also included in: Primary Grades BUNDLE
May Independent Work Packet - Spring Early or Fast Finishers, Sub Plans
Eight no-prep spring activities provide hours of engaging independent work. They're great for early or fast finishers, including gifted and talented students. You can even use them as your May sub plans! Fourth or fifth grade students engage in content on a themed website and respond in their packets, which may be printed, accessed as forced Google Slides, or shared as Easel Activities. What’s Included in the Website & Packet:This month's theme is plants and growing things.Informational Text
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Grades:
4th - 5th
December Independent Work Packet - Christmas Early Finisher, Sub Plans
Eight no-prep Christmas learning activities provide hours of independent work. They're great for early or fast finishers, including gifted and talented students. You can even use them for December sub plans! A 10-page student booklet supports an interactive website. Fourth or fifth grade students engage in meaningful online learning experiences and respond in their packets, which can be accessed as forced Google Slides, or shared as Easel Activities. The webpage includes directions, links to vid
Grades:
4th - 5th
BrainTeasers to challenge your mind - Patterns
20 printable or digital pages for students to identify and generate patterns: Sequence: which number or shape comes next?Geometry: how many squares, how many triangles, how many circlesNumbers: which one doesn’t belong (odd/even, multiples, single-digit or double-digit). Analogies: complete the analogy3rd Grade: identify and explain patterns, 4th Grade: generate and analyze patterns, 5th Grade: analyze patterns and relationships, Take a look at my Preview to see the lesson plans, poste
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Thinking Outside the Box BUNDLE
Chanukah Logic Puzzles or Hannukah Brain Teaser Activities
Whether you spell it Chanukah, Hanukah, Channuka, Hannukah, or Chanukkah, your kids will love these high quality December logic puzzles or brain teasers to improve critical thinking skills. This set includes four challenging multi-grid logic puzzles, with writing prompts on each puzzle, and a complete answer key.Use puzzles for whole or small group instruction, centers, work for early finishers, home school or a fun activity for parents to enrich their bright students. Awesome activity for gifte
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Jewish Holiday Logic Puzzle Activities Bundle
March Independent Work Packet - St. Patrick's Day Fast Finishers, Sub Plans
Eight no-prep activities provide hours of engaging independent work. They're great for early or fast finishers, including g/t students. You can even use them for your March sub plans! Fourth or fifth grade students interact with content on a themed website. They respond in printable or paperless packets, which may be printed, accessed as forced Google Slides, or shared as interactive Easel Activities.The March module features gold, rainbows, and leprechauns - to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.What’
Grades:
4th - 5th
Winter Logic Puzzle or Winter Brain Teaser for High School
Challenge your teenage students with a winter logic puzzle or winter brain teaser activity to strengthen critical thinking skills. Find this challenging logic puzzle for the cold weather, with multiple grids and an answer key, that is sure to make your kids sweat as they answer questions about teenage drivers whose cars have stalled in the cold. Plus, puzzles may be printed or assigned through Google or Easel documents.Click here to save 20% off the price of individual resources with the bundle.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
November Independent Work Packet - Thanksgiving Fast Finisher, Sub Plans
Eight no-prep Thanksgiving learning activities provide hours of independent work. It's great for early or fast finishers, including gifted and talented students. You can even use it for your November sub plans! Open the preview to take a closer look.Fourth or fifth grade students engage in meaningful online learning and respond in printable or digital packets. They can be printed, accessed as Google Slides, or shared as Easel Activities. The resource includes the link to an interactive webpage,
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Grades:
4th - 5th
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