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7th grade basic principles unit plans for Gifted and Talented
Depth and Complexity Teaching Critical Thinking Using Fairytales
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
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle
Science Fair Unit Bundle
This unit includes resources to help students create a science fair project. You could also give these mini lessons to review each portion of the scientific method without doing a full science fair project.
Included are a student planning packet and 10 lessons with answer keys that cover the following topics:
1. Testable Question
2. Complete Research
3. Identify Variables
4. Generate Hypotheses
5. Write Procedures
6. Generate Materials List
7. Create Data Table
8. Graph Your Data
9. Write Co
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3rd - 8th
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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
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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
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5th - 12th
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Classification Basics BUNDLE - Taxonomy, Scientific Names, and Dichotomous Keys
This bundle of classification powerpoints, activities and demonstrations will be all you need to introduce taxonomy, scientific names, and dichotomous keys to your students. It's a unique set of engaging resources. You won't find a similar set anywhere. You’ll receive at a 20% discount over the price of the products separately, these four individual products: "Classification Illustrated" , a 144-slide presentation in graphic novel style to introduce the development and design of the scientif
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7th - 10th
Science & Scientific Method - FULL UNIT
Is lesson planning just too much on top of teaching on top of grading on top of classroom management on top of *ahem* living your life? Get all the guidance you need to teach a comprehensive, no-prep inquiry unit either in person, hybrid, or virtual with my all inclusive unit bundle! This unit will save you time, engage your students, and wow your administrators! Included Materials:Presentations:What is Science? Google Slides PresentationScientific Method Google Slides PresentationAsking Quest
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6th - 8th
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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
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6th - 8th
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Theatre Lesson Set Design Lesson Rendering For Fairy Tales Grades 6 to 8 Fantasy
Part of a Bundle Do your students lesson need concrete ideas and not abstract? Let’s begin there then and use fairy tales as our focus. OVER 350 SOLD! This two-day lesson on set design acquaints your students with the art form. Students learn a little bit about set design and draw a rendering of a fairy tale setting thus becoming set designers themselves. Lastly, they write a detailed description of it. Note: This is part of my fairy set design unit, too. If you purchase the set design unit,
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6th - 8th
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Science Lab Safety Unit Bundle in English and Spanish
This bundle has everything you need to teach and assess an upper elementary or middle school science laboratory safety unit. It contains a PowerPoint with notes and INB sheets for students, a set of four warmups/bell ringers, a list of safety rules, a safety activity, a safety bookmark that has multiple purposes, a safety contract, posters, and a safety quiz. All of the resources in this package are in English and Spanish. Get this bundle and check your lab safety unit prep off of your to-do lis
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5th - 8th
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STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
115+ hours of class time, 374 pages. This collection is big and includes big savings--42% off individual purchases of some. Pretty much everything in the Portable Gifted and Talented store is rated 4.0, but take a couple minutes to peruse the comments for these individual units. I think you’ll like what you see.Designed for two purposes:A curriculum for Middle School STEAM classes with an engineering focus. Or . . .Upper Elementary GATE – Very Challenging!These units are big, fairly comprehe
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4th - 8th
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Stage Makeup Design Drama Fantasy Zombie Circus Application Design Character
SAVE! This bundle contains 4 different lessons on stage makeup (Old age, neutral, circus, zombie and fantasy) and gives your students a chance to be makeup artists. They'll view, study, take notes on concepts, apply the knowledge, design and apply their own ideas. These are great for an upper middle school (a little challenging) or through high school drama class. Each Stage Makeup Lesson includes:Warm-Up GamesThe History of Stage Makeup (separate file of PowerPoint slides & teacher's le
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7th - 10th
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Gifted and Talented Six-Word Digital Memoir Project Based Unit
How do you capture a moment from your life in just 6 words? In this project based unit, students will do just that. They will learn about the power of simplicity in writing and the strength a visual adds to words. Your students will be captivated by their own creativity and as a teacher you will learn more than you ever have about your students.
I hope you find this unit enlightening.
This product includes:
>Complete unit in plans
>List of online resources to accompany the unit
>PDF P
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4th - 8th
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Flight - a complete science unit
Flight is a complete science unit for middle school students that requires very little prep by the teacher. It is completely laid out with teacher notes and a sequence of activities. Students will learn about all the forces that affect flight. They will also experience many hands-on activities to reinforce the concepts. The culminating activity is to design and construct their own aircraft that can fly to a target area.This resource includes:Teacher NotesStudent NotesInvestigating Air PressureFl
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5th - 7th
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Drama Class Theater Curriculum Middle School Vol. 1 Acting Improvisation Plays
30% Discount This drama curriculum bundle is perfect for the new theater teacher or those looking for unique and innovative resources. This bundle with 13 products (280 pages) has everything you need to teach a drama class for a semester, quarter or month (depending upon how many times you see your students.) I created these lessons for my own classes and used them for many years. I've included a scope and sequence to this bundle for FREE!Included in each product:List of ContentsLetter to Tea
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6th - 9th
Fractured Fairy Tales - COMPLETE UNIT with rubrics, handouts and powerpoints
One of my favorite units to do with my 6th grade gifted language arts class is my month-long Fractured Fairy Tale unit. The reason I love it so much is because of how much it has blossomed over the years. It went from a simple unit to something much more complex, including a brief study of the psychology that goes into creating fairy tales. This unit is aligned to Bloom's Taxonomy. I included an overview showing the correlation for each activity.How I Use the Products:I begin the unit with s
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6th - 8th
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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4th - 7th
Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
COMPLETE Biology Curriculum
This 2200+ page MEGA biology bundle includes all PowerPoints, labs, activities, notes, projects, tests, and quizzes for a full year of engaging science instruction! This biology bundle includes ten units and 37 unit specific NO PREP Sub lesson science articles with text-dependent questions OR use as homework OR align your lessons with Common Core informational text!This bundle has study guides and word walls for each unit. There are also Twitter and Facebook Exit tickets.- Lab Safety- Science
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6th - 12th
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Experimental Design & Scientific Method Bundle
This resource contains FIVE WEEKS of high quality, engaging content to teach experimental design and tune up SEP skills with your middle school students. Each resource walks students through each one of the SEPs with unique scenarios. Students will learn: How to differentiate between and find qualitative and quantitative data. How to determine independent, dependent, and control variablesHow to write a well thought out, clear hypothesis The purpose of trials in experimental design How to write a
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6th - 8th
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Gifted and Talented - Everyone Needs a Hero Unit
WHAT is a hero? WHO is your hero?
In this concept based unit, students will learn about the men and women whose achievements have made a direct or indirect influence in the lives of others. Students will explore the distinction between a hero and a celebrity. They will develop a personal definition of heroism and characteristics of heroes. Students will then select, research, and develop a product on a hero and compare them to a hero from a book they have read. As a follow-up, students will re
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4th - 8th
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Drama Set Design Drawing Construction Fairy Tale Theater Arts Grades 6 to 8
PART OF A BUNDLE Got reluctant middle school students in your class who don't understand theater's power of imagination? Try set design. Anyone can teach set design with the right resources--I promise! During this five to eight-day unit on set design students learn about the history of set design, famous set designers, develop a critical eye about what makes up an award- winning set design, create a ground plan for a fairy tale story of their choosing and draw a rendering. In addition, the stude
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6th - 9th
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Science Fair Project Step-by-Step Teacher/Student/Parent Handbook
This is a complete step-by-step Science Fair Project Handbook.
I have attached 2 parts:
1. Guidelines/Rules/Information Handbook- This is a step-by-step explanation for a guided approach to creating a science fair project. I have included a timeline template, parent letter, examples of each step, topic ideas that are hyper-linked, additional websites and even the oral presentation guidelines.
(This is great if printed like a booklet on computer printer)
2. Student handbook is the student te
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3rd - 8th
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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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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
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,
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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
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
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