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Elementary homeschool curricula for Gifted and Talented
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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
Math Themed Logic Puzzles for GT/ and Early Finishers - 2nd or 3rd Grade
Logic puzzles are a great challenge for your G/T students or early finishers!
These math themed puzzles use odd, even, addition, subtraction and attributes of polygons to solve puzzles. Which student has which number? Which student has which shape?
A sample puzzle with step by directions on how to solve logic puzzles are included to introduce your students to the world of logic!
5 Puzzles with answer keys included.
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
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
Gifted and Talented - An Independent Pursuit of Passion: The 20% Project
This was my students' favorite learning unit this year and the goals they reached or products they produced were amazing! Many brought tears to my eyes. Students can do astounding things with a little time, structured planning, and a passion.
Using the Google Corporation's idea of using 20% of company time to pursue a passion, this unit brings this concept into the classroom. Students choose a topic they are passionate about, develop a project with it that will attain a goal or produce a pro
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Realistic Fiction Genre Book Report Suitcase Project & Rubric
Realistic Fiction Genre Suitcase Book Report ProjectAfter reading a realistic fiction book, students pack a "suitcase" for the main character. The students' suitcases will include information on the:Main CharacterSettingConflictResolutionStudent's Choice - an item related to the characterBook ReviewInside this ResourceThis resource includes all student pages for the project, including an explanation of the project:Suggested Lesson PlanProject Introduction & Lesson Student HandoutsSuitcase Su
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in:Â Nonfiction and Fiction Genre Book Report BUNDLE - 9 Different Projects
COMPLETE PROGRAM Bundle Gifted and Talented GATE 2016-2017 School Year 50% off!
All of it fresh and new and tried and kid-tested during the past school year—you are ready to rock and roll for 2016-17!Here you have over 350 pages and 75 hours of material—all with best practices in gifted and talented education.One stop. Huge discount over individual purchases: you save 47%. See the reviews of my other GATE programs!It’s a little bit of everything, and all of it strong in critical thinking skills, challenge, creativity, and hands-on learning.You get STEM units, math units,
Grades:
2nd - 6th
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Historical Fiction Genre Minibook Book Report Project & Rubric
Historical Fiction Minibook Book ReportYour students take a trip in time by selecting a historical fiction book to read, then creating a minibook that showcases the novel. The students' minibooks will include information on the:Main CharacterSupporting CharacterSettingConflictExposition/BeginningClimaxResolutionBook ReviewInside this ResourceThis resource includes all student pages for the project, including an explanation of the project:Suggested Lesson PlanProject Introduction & Lesson Stu
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in:Â Nonfiction and Fiction Genre Book Report BUNDLE - 9 Different Projects
Christmas Symmetry Reflection Drawings for GT and Early Finishers
These challenging symmetry reflection drawings will keep your gifted and talented students and early finishers busy through the weeks leading up to Christmas. What a great way to challenge their visual and spacial abilities! May also be used for a math center. Common Core aligned.
Grades:
4th - 7th
CCSS:
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord/CCSS Novel Study
This is a close reading guide to the book In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. In Bette Bao Lord's beautiful story of immigration and assimilation, Shirley Temple Wong must learn to make friends and find her way in a country that, at first, does not make much sense to her. Once she finds the perfect role model, life gets a little easier.As close reading is such an important part of the Common Core, students need to be taught to be analytic as they read texts. This unit includes close rea
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Biography & Autobiography Genre Fiction Book Report Project & Rubric
Biography & Autobiography Genre Memory Book ProjectAfter reading a book of their choice, students create a memory book for their selected person. The finished projects can be displayed to inspire students to read about other people. The memory books will include the following information on the person:Interesting FactChildhoodEducationAdult LifeAchievementBook ReviewInside this ResourceThis resource includes all student pages for the project, including an explanation of the project:Suggested
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in:Â Nonfiction and Fiction Genre Book Report BUNDLE - 9 Different Projects
Math Brain Teasers and Logic Puzzle Games Worksheets in Print or Digital
Here's how to keep your gifted and talented sports fanatic engaged with logic puzzles and math brainteasers. These 10 challenging sports puzzles provide great math brain teasers with fun for kids! Quick and easy setup provides no prep ease for teachers, too. Click here to save 30% off the price of individual resources with the Middle School Math bundle.Students will love solving these printable or digital worksheets and will ask for more. These worksheets will engage students with whole or small
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in:Â Logic Puzzles and Brain Teasers in Print or Digital Worksheets
STEM Units 2nd Grade: Science COMPLETE YEAR Grade 2 Activities & STEM Challenges
STEM Units of Study Bundle Using the 5E model includes FOUR STEM Units of Study with 90 activities, lesson plans, challenges, inquiries, science, engineering, technology, math, and literature integration, as well as a complete curriculum to teach each unit. These units are aligned to NGSS (The Next Generation Science Standards.)Each unit is four-six weeks of STEM for your second graders. Each day focuses on the 5E model and provides you with the exact tools to illustrate the concepts. All of the
Grades:
2nd
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 2-PS1-4
, 2-LS4-1
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Charlotte's Web Character Anaylsis Exploding Box Foldable Project
Have you started a novel study on Charlotte's Web and are you looking for a different approach to book reports that will engage all of your students in your class? Then this interactive foldable project is the perfect culminating project for your students. In this resource you will find a lesson that will explain how to identify character traits and provide students with a list of traits that would describe the characters in the story. Students will then be able to create an independent project
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
DIGITAL STEM Project - Build a Pet Home - Seesaw - Google Slides
Are you looking for a STEM activity that you can do with BOTH your face to face students AND your remote learners?!?! Look no further!! This activity is both DIGITAL & HANDS-ON!! This activity is planned out to last you one week!!Day 1: Your students will go on a virtual field tip to the animal shelter. They will learn that the animal shelter has too many pets and that they need to create a pet home. They will then learn about what a pet needs to survive. Then, each student or group will the
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
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Doodle Write - Literacy Centers or Morning Bell Work for 30 Days!
For use for 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th Grade
Great Literacy Center! May also be used for morning bell work or GT students.
Students complete the doodle and then write a short story about their completed picture.
Download includes: 30 pages for students, example page for students, suggestions for use.
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Easter Egg Spring Coloring Page
This is a fun coloring page to use across grade levels and homeschool. Perfect for an Art Project as well as to give in Easter Baskets, as Mother's Day Gifts and framed finished products. Detailed coloring pages provide practice for fine motor skills as well as Artistic abilities. This is the perfect "calm down" activity for children AND adults.
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Grades:
2nd - 12th
Fact and Opinion PowerPoint Lesson Plan for Teacher Evaluation
Teach fact and opinion to your young students with this engaging, no prep PowerPoint lesson plan which will challenge your students and is perfect for your teacher evaluation! With this standards based PowerPoint your kids will distinguish fact vs. opinion. Like many of my products, it is evaluation ready and uses the gradual release method Use this lesson for a directed lesson to teach fact and opinion either initially or as a review with primary students. May be used in whole or small group le
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Superhero Hideout Lair-Perimeter, Area and Volume Project
Looking for a fun way to teach perimeter, area and volume? This activity is a great hands-on 7-10 to days project that will really motivate your students and make learning about math fun!!Students will love getting the chance to custom design their own lair. They have several options of furniture or equipment they may want to put inside their lair. Except for the rug, each piece is 3-dimensional and easy to assemble. Short walls allow the students to keep everything inside their room/lair as
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Math Project- Create your own vacation
This math project has the students plan a vacation for their family or friends. They budget gas, food, entertainment, etc.
* You do need to plan ahead and collect restaurant "to go" menus, maps, and travel brochures. (Teacher directions are given with the lesson along with a rubric).
I used with my 3rd grade gifted and talented students. Other years I used it for a long term fast finisher project. Great for an end of the year activity...plan a vacation.
It covers: map skills, mileage, estimat
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Five Minute Phonics - How to spell the 1/2 the English Dictionary
Improve your student’s spelling and reading fluency with this fast, easy, and fun new curriculum. This program has THREE major components which all add immeasurably to a child’s literacy in spelling and decoding.
This curriculum has now been updated with a script to make it easy to print a week's lesson and go with very little planning.
A: BASIC SPELLING
Most children at the age of emerging literacy (i.e. second graders) struggle to spell basic words. Each year there are the same ex
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Interactive Foldable Research Project Bundle: Book Report, 50 States & Planets
This foldable bundle has been put together for those teachers looking for a new and engaging approach to research projects.These 3D Pop-Up Picture Book Reports come with everything your students will need to create the foldable project. Even the not-so crafty teacher will love making this project! You will only need: plain white paper scissorsglue coloring That’s all! Each resource contains:Step by step instructions that will be easy enough for your students to understand on their own. Detail
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Nonfiction Genre Book Report Layered Flap Book Project & Rubric
Nonfiction Genre Layered Flipbook Book Report ProjectAllow your student to study a topic of their choice by reading a nonfiction book. After reading their book, students create a flipbook on their chosen topic. The students' flipbooks will include information on the:Summary of Topic2 Important Facts2 Interesting FactsAuthor’s PurposeBook ReviewInside this ResourceThis resource includes all student pages for the project, including an explanation of the project:Suggested Lesson PlanProject Introdu
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Also included in:Â Nonfiction and Fiction Genre Book Report BUNDLE - 9 Different Projects
4th 5th +more COMPLETE PROGRAM Bundle Gifted and Talented GATE 400 pages 46% off
Proven to be among my most popular products, these Programs for the Year cover Gifted and Talented topics from primary to social-emotional, from STEAM to math challenges, and from literature to engineering.They are edited, kid-tested, and ready for success. I taught each of them in my classroom this past school year.PLEASE SEE INDIVIDUAL PREVIEWS FOR MORE DETAILS.These lessons and units are hands-on, very challenging, and full of critical thinking as well as engineering and literacy. They soar
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Grades:
1st - 7th
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Show Don't Tell in PowerPoint for Descriptive Writing Lesson
Teach kids to show don't tell in descriptive writing with this engaging PowerPoint lesson to learn writing techniques and up writing skills! This engaging PowerPoint includes writing prompts to help kids understand the value of using description to show in narrative writing. This standards-based lesson gives the students plenty of practice in descriptive writing of show don't tell. Click HERE to save 30% off the price of individual resources with the bundle.Use this strong writing resource in
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in:Â Writing Lessons PowerPoint and Worksheets Bundle
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