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8th grade 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
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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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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Technical Theatre Units Costume Stage Properties Set Sound Design Producer
30% OFF! Here is EVERYTHING you need: 5 TO 6 WEEK'S worth of engaging, unique and creative units about technical theater (and then some) -costume, set, stage properties, sound design, the producer and set designer Ming Cho Lee biography. Wow! Purchasing this bundle you virtually receive a unit for free and a bonus: Influential People Posters and Pendants! The teacher will need access to YouTube.com. HOW DO I USE THESE IN MY CLASSROOM: Students could study each unit as a group or select one of
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8th - 11th
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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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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 30%! 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
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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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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
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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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
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
Pick Your Passion - Independent Research Unit
ALL YOU NEED to outline and facilitate independent topic investigations, both teacher & student resources!
**Flexible Unit Timeline for Conferencing & Project Deadlines
**Performance Task Learning Contract
**Performance Task Plan
**Multiple Intelligence Survey & Scoring
**Revised Blooms Information Page
**Observations & Student Conferences Log
**Performance Event Rubric & Task Assessment
**Research categories with topics and possible Real World **Challenge questions to get
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5th - 9th
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Middle School Gifted and Talented STEAM Bundle -Hands-on GATE Extension Projects
I am fortunate to have taught 7 of my 32 years as a full time gifted resource teacher in middle school, and my kids did (or would have) loved these interactive, creative, projects and units.Also a bonus social-emotional lesson: Leadership and Cultural IdentityPlease see the individual descriptions for details.
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6th - 8th
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Theater Arts Set Design| Drama| Fairy Tale Setting |Set Templates Grades 6 to 8
Looking for an 8 day unit? Trying to reach your reluctant students? Teach set design to them! This Set Design unit bundle, is suitable for gifted middle through ninth grade students. Set Design Unit ProductThis eight-day unit on set design was created for upper elementary gifted and middle grade students through ninth grade. Students learn about the history of set design, study famous set designers and develop a critical eye about what makes up an award winning set design. Using fairy tales as
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6th - 9th
SEL | 5 Mini Units for each core SEL Skill | Middle School and High School
The Social Emotional Learning, 5 Core Skills are: 1- Self-Awareness2- Social Awareness3- Self Management4- Responsible decision making 5- Relationship SkillsThis bundle includes a mini unit for EACH of the skills. Tons of activities, high interest reading, projects, reflections and group work geared to the real life situations facing teens today. Each unit has a very detailed description of what is included, check them out!__________________________________________________________**UPDATE** Two
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7th - 12th
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Road Trip Adventure PROJECT BASED LEARNING for GATE and 3rd - 8th Grades
Come along on a fun project-based adventure as students practice different forms of writing, geography skills, computer and internet technology skills, engineering and design skills, math skills, public speaking, creativity, and art.
Here is your Gold Medal Standard project based learning unit ready to go. Because this project-based unit relies heavily on student creativity and invention, the key knowledge, understanding, and success skills can be scaffolded across many grade levels. This un
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
The Ear, the Eye, & the Arm Unit Guide
The unit guide includes all resources needed for a 15-day unit on the novel by Nancy Farmer. A lesson chart provides a summary of each section in the book, key vocabulary, lesson plans, and homework suggestions. Additional resources are student activity pages with short response comprehension questions and vocabulary terms, project guidelines, rubrics, writing guidelines, and assessments.The unit combines novel study with informational texts, vocabulary development, and performance-based activ
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5th - 9th
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Mr. Harper's Public Speaking and Reading Textbook Thingee
Dear Teachers,I’ve entitled my first book, Mr. Harper’s Public Speaking and Reading Textbook Thingee (where he keeps trine to make us talk good) not simply out of whimsy but as a means to point out the declining gifts of articulation amongst our students. This book was developed for two purposes. The first is to provide schools with the materials needed to create two new elective courses for their students devoted to public speaking, reading and acting. The second purpose is to give our beleague
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Drama Lesson Set Design School Setting Conceptualization Sketching Rendering
This two-day lesson on set design was created for gifted upper elementary or middle-grade students or a beginning drama class. Students learn about the history of set design, the responsibilities of a set designer, famous set designers and develop a critical eye about what makes up an award-winning set design. Finally, they draw a rendering of their choosing becoming set designers themselves. Note: This product is part of the school setting set design unit in case you are considering purchasin
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6th - 9th
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T-Shirt Entrepreneurs PROJECT BASED LEARNING Math Economics GATE 4-8th
Your students will be excited for this “gold medal standard” project-based math, design, and economics activity. It’s appropriate and adaptable for 4th – 8th grade. It has been a staple for my 4th grade gifted and talented math group since 2013.You won’t be the sage on the stage. Students will problem-solve their way through the project working in collaborative teams, and the teacher will guide, be a resource, spur discussion, play devil’s advocate, and provide mini lessons when necessary.In
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class BUNDLE - Math Focus Hours of Hands-on Projects GATE Gifted
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