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Primary GATE Gifted and Talented Program for the Year -- 410 Pages, 50%+ off!
You will be a rock star! This collection is highly interactive, creative, and rich in age-appropriate critical thinking.
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This collection takes me through an entire year of lessons with my advanced groups of kindergarteners, 1st, and 2nd graders . . . but many of these lessons can also be used for middle and upper elementary kids, especially if you come into the regular classroom to teach whole-class enrichment lessons.
19 units and 419 pages of lessons!
Grades:
K - 3rd
Table-top Mini Golf: STEAM Engineering and Design for Elementary GATE
In From Putt-putt to Pebble Beach--Table-top Mini Golf, students will design and construct a playable table-top sized miniature golf course using the engineering design process. With these lessons, the teacher defines the problem, helps students gather background research, and specifies the requirements. The students do the rest: creating alternative solutions, choosing the best solution, doing development work, building a prototype, and testing and redesigning. The result is a classroom filled
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
The Arrival by Shaun Tan -- 100+ Page Unit and Teacher's Guide GATE
Yes, we can teach reading, writing, speaking and listening, and critical thinking skills using this amazing graphic novel which has no “words!” It’s a journey about who we are, where we have come from, and the humanity we share. It’s about hope and love and understanding. At times powerful, at times breathtakingly beautiful . . . Shaun Tan’s The Arrival should be on every bookshelf in every classroom.This 100+ page teaching guide and unit has been developed over the past three years in my adv
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Integer Project Bundle
Integer Projects Bundle
Need an integer project idea? This bundle includes 5 Integer Projects that you can use in your classroom. This is great for grades 6-8. I have used these in the past for an alternative to a written integer test. These projects are 21st century and provide real-world application. Great part about this – completely editable.
Projects Included:
-Budgeting Your Money with Integers (with rubric)
-Integer Timeline (with rubric)
-Integer Rules Comic Strip
-I am an Integer
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Math Project-Create Own Dream Home-Blueprints and Floor Plan (perimeter & area)
Create blueprints and/or floor plans for your own dream home!!
Your little architects will love dreaming big with this project. Using their imaginations and graph paper, they will create their own blueprints.They will be learning area, measurement and perfecting those problem solving and critical thinking skills. The bonus is they won't even know it because they will be having fun.
This project is very "real life" oriented.
For the younger grades this would be better for the GT students. Or
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
ECERS-3 Cheat Sheet
This is a breakdown of what you need to know to get the highest score possible on your ECERS-3 evaluation. It is broken down by area and is to be used as a quick resource, instead of flipping through the book. It states what centers are not able to be next to each other, explains ECERS-3 best teaching practices , what materials are needed, etc.. ******In order to make this one page you need to make your margins narrow. Hit "enable editing", "layout", "margins", "narrow***********
Grades:
PreK - K
Monthly Newsletter Templates EDITABLE, Parent Letters with Calendar
Nine templates with fun seasonal themes! All text is editable with ready-made text boxes. Customize size, font, headings, and calendar events EASILY with these Microsoft Word newsletter templates.You receive:Editable Word document 9 full color newsletters Permission to print OR email your newsletter to familiesIncludes the following sections:TitleSubtitle4 week calendar Coming up... with room for paragraph or bullet pointsRemember! section for important remindersNote: This listing includes a 4 w
Grades:
PreK - 7th
Show and Tell Parent Letter
Here's a simple letter home to let your student's parents know your class is having Show & Tell! Simple rules and guidelines are listed for you, but feel free to adjust and add! The letter is completely editable.
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Not Grade Specific
Classroom Jobs for Middle School Students
Middle school students enjoy helping in the classroom. Simulate a real-world experience by having students apply for and perform jobs in your middle school classroom. Rather than have tasks assigned to them (like in elementary school), students are asked to consider their qualifications for a job and will be matched to jobs that they are suited for and are interested in doing.
This product includes job descriptions for 17 different tasks as well as a simple (half-sheet) job application. It
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Gifted and Talented COMPLETE 3rd 4th Grade Introductory Program - 45+ Hours
Every other teacher in your building probably has a handy curriculum to follow, a set of textbooks as resources . . . so why not you, the Gifted and Talented Teacher?Here is a complete first year GATE program adaptable to 3rd or 4th grades--all tried and tested, Common Core Standards based, and successfully implemented using best practices in gifted education.SEE THE BIG PREVIEW FOR MORE -- 33% off Individual Purchase PricesYou get 263 pages of materials guaranteed to produce 45+ hours of contac
Grades:
3rd - 4th
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Small Group Reader's Theater Twisted Fairy Tales - Book Two
In this second book of Reader's Theaters for small groups, I have placed 7 scripts. They are: Sleeping Homely, The Princess and the Pizza for 3 people, The Princess and the Pizza for 4, Peter Pants and Captain Looks, Beauty & the Beets (and the Turnips and the Onions), Romeo and Juliet, Hansel and Pretzel. I realize that Peter Pants and Captain Looks as well as Romeo and Juliet are not strictly fairy tales but they are very well known and fun for the students. You can buy each of these indiv
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Grades:
4th - 8th, Adult Education
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SPIES! A GATE Adventure 18+ Contact Hours - Challenging and Engaging!
Your students will ask to stay in from recess for this. It is the most popular unit I've taught in 32 years, and it is packed with challenging critical thinking.We imagine students are training at the school for spies: mini survivor challenges, mini crossbows, a jewel heist, footprint mysteries, memory games, cipher disks, case files, messages hidden in gel caps. This unit is STEM and critical thinking at its coolest and finest, and we’ve thrown in reading, speaking and listening, and a social-
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
Preschool Center Signs with Real Pictures EDITABLE
Best practices suggests that center sign visuals include real pictures. It also suggests that there be a picture of the number of children you allow in the center. (Math center allows 3 children, so there is a picture of three of your students represented on the sign)You will notice that the top portion of the sign states the center name and 3 visuals of items found in the center. The bottom half of the sign is blank. This is for your to insert pictures of your students to represent the numb
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Thank you notes from Teacher to student and parents
Use for any occasion to thank a student or a student's family. It has blanks so you can add a personal touch to the notes!
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Not Grade Specific
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Primary GATE with Caldecott -- "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!" Mo Willems
Let’s have some fun along with the Pigeon and expand DOK along the way! This lesson will lead your primary GATE students through four challenging activities, culminating in an artistic response showing why they “never get to do anything!” either.
Gifted and talented learners carry similar characteristics throughout their lives—even as kindergarten and first graders. One common characteristic of gifted learners is a strong sense of justice. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus gives us a good o
Grades:
K - 3rd
Creative Curriculum-Beginning of Year lesson plans weeks 1 - 6
This product are lesson plans for Creative Curriculum - Beginning of the year . The lesson plans includes question of the day, interest areas, story, group discussion information. Most objectives are included in each area. The information is written out to follow. Additional areas on lesson plans includes an area for notes, literacy activities, and some additional ideas that could be used to add more rigor.The lessons are editable so you can adjust as necessary to fit your needs.These are pla
Grades:
PreK
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Terrible Things - An Allegory of the Holocaust
Questions for Eve Bunting's "Terrible Things - An Allegory of the Holocaust". The last questions ask students to compare theme with the poem "First They Came for the Jews", and to rewrite poem using modern situations.
Grades:
7th - 10th
STEAM DaVinci Renaissance Style: A Unit for Elementary GATE
In STEM Renaissance Style, students will follow the engineering process as they return to the 16th Century. With these lessons, the teacher defines the problem, helps students gather background research, and specifies the requirements. The students do the rest: creating alternative solutions, choosing the best solution, doing development work, building a prototype, and testing and redesigning.
Students construct a prototype of Da Vinci’s parachute while learning about falling objects, gravity,
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
SHARK TANK Economics Pitches Prototypes PROJECT BASED PBL GATE
Welcome to the shark tank project-based learning unit. Let’s begin our entrepreneurial careers today!
Build critical thinking skills, public speaking success, and bring creativity, language arts, and economics into your classroom in a purposeful and authentic way.
Students will work in collaborative teams to solve a complex, ongoing, inquiry-based problem with a physical product for an authentic audience:
• Brainstorm a product, citing a need that will be fulfilled.
• Construct a prototyp
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
Moonshot by Brian Floca Apollo 11 PRIMARY GATE Lessons -- Rocket Model
Astronauts, space ships, and the moon . . . what kid doesn’t like that kind of stuff, huh? We should build a space ship!
Here’s another collection of lessons and activities for your primary gifted and talented groups. It’s full of hands-on activities across the curriculum, critical thinking questions, participatory reading, and age-appropriate primary source lessons. As always, you’ll get ready-to-print activity sheets, explanations, pictures to lead you through, and Common Core State Standa
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Editable 25 Piece Blank Jigsaw Puzzle Template
Blank jigsaw puzzle template with 25 pieces for a multitude of activities. print and get students to decorate, add photos and create a effective classroom display or fun activity.
Editable in Microsoft Word, you can add student names, photos etc.
Approx 85 x 85 cms when printed A4 and constructed (34" x 34") or make it bigger / smaller by adjusting the print settings or printing A3.
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
STEAM Kid Engineering -- The Playable Golf Course Design Unit for GATE
In this unit, students will build a contraption to hit a small, wooden golf ball through a scaled version of a golf course which they and their classmates have designed. They’ll make a trundle wheel for measuring and marking the course, write down their scores on a scorecard, design putters, and learn background in physics through their work in the engineering and design process.
The Playable Golf Course is not just fun. It’s a challenging engineering, design, and construction unit including
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
Meet the Teacher Editable Template | All About Me Worksheet
Meet the teacher free editable template for back to school night, parents night, welcome letter or teacher introduction letter to parents or All About Me printable worksheet for getting to know you back to school activities or bulletin board letters for first day of school or first week of school ice breaker activities. This product is a three page editable word document (.docx) that you can edit and print or display to show students or parents on the first week of school. You can also upload th
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in: Back to School Activities | First Day and Week of School Lessons
The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan - Teacher's Guide and Activities GATE
The beauty in The Lost Thing is that it settles into one’s soul in a casual and poetic way. What starts as a sort of amusing but sad story finds its way deeper into your heart. You begin to wonder, to ask questions. Soon you find yourself wanting to stand up and defend all the lost things in the world—including that lost part of yourself.
Are you somehow guilty too, you wonder? Quite unexpectedly, you begin to really feel the world Shaun Tan creates. It is a wonderful experience in mindf
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Grades:
4th - 12th
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Also included in: 2019-2020 Gifted and Talented GATE Program for the Year - Elementary
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