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Common Core RI.3.7 resources for GATE
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
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1st - 3rd
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CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES BUNDLE Literature Extensions Critical Thinking GATE
Story Sleuths I, II, and III Bundle delivers 3 products at 20% savings. You will receive 12 weeks of clues for the Story Sleuth challenge; an enrichment unit using Caldecott Award winning books to cultivate critical thinking. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is
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K - 4th
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Rube Goldberg Machines - 11 day Cross-Curricular Unit
Rube Goldberg was an engineer-turned-cartoonist who is best known for his comics with ridiculous inventions. This action-packed, engaging, and rigorous unit includes 11 days worth of lessons where students learn about Rube Goldberg, create a comic, design and build a machine, and then create a video summary of their learning. These lessons are great for gifted/talented students!This download includes: 11 detailed lessonsDifferentiated student worksheetsDesign Brief TemplateAn video alternative f
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2nd - 5th
Who Was/Is...? Editable Reading Response Packet
I love using the Who Was/Is…? books in small reading groups and I wanted a way to hold students accountable for their reading, so I created this reading response packet to go with any book in the series. This resource contains six graphic organizers made to go with the book series Who Was...? or Who Is...? You decide how you want to break up the chapters in the book by either editing the Google Slides provided or by printing out the pdf of the student packet and writing the chapters you choose.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Bonding with Friends: H2O & Helium (Two Rhyming STEM Nonfiction Stories, NGSS)
A perfect STEM book for kids in the classroom or at home! This covers reading, science, and poetry in one lesson that will keep students entertained while learning whether they are physically at school or remotely. This rhyming picture book has two stories in one! "Bonding with Friends: H2O & Helium" has a story about the water molecule and another story about helium. NGSS and Common Core standards identified. Virtual author reading with activity available too, visit www.STEMistryBooks.com.T
Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey (Rhyming STEM Nonfiction Story, NGSS, Tools, Safety)
A STEM book that will teach kids life lessons when it comes to building or fixing things. Tips that everyone of all ages should know explained in a fun way through rhyme and colorful characters that will keep kids entertained while learning important lessons like "righty tighty, lefty loosey" when it comes to most screws and bolts, "safety first," and "measure twice, cut once." This subject matter will appeal to both academic students, and the students that find school to be challenging who coul
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PreK - 3rd
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Bonding with Friends: Carbon (Rhyming STEM Nonfiction Story & Facts, NGSS/CCSS)
Rhyming STEM story about the Carbon atom and how it bonds by "holding hands" to form molecules. Informational science text that covers NGSS and CCSS standards in a fun way through poetry with an educational appendix of fun facts and examples of carbon in everyday life. Kindergarten students will enjoy the colorful illustrations and short story while 6th graders can learn about chemical reactions and conservation of mass with illustrations showing these atoms holding hands to make it simple to un
A Home for Humphrey MEA (Model Eliciting Activity)
Set includes lesson plan and guidelines for implementation, 2 data sets, 2 reading passages, 2 letter templates, and rubric for grading.
Summary: This model eliciting activity is based on the book The World According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney. In the story, Mrs. Brisbane's class spends a fun filled school year with their class pet, a hamster named Humphrey. In this MEA, Mrs. Brisbane needs the students' help getting Humphrey ready for the summer. First, the students need to design a cage
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2nd - 3rd
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All Access Class Enrichment - Summary Writing w Primary Sources + GATE Metaphors
Success in summary writing can come with a bit more fun, visual challenge, and a bit of mystery in primary sources.
All good students—from 1st grade to graduate school--must master summary writing. Let’s add critical thinking skills, creativity, and a bit of history mystery to this whole class enrichment opportunity! A metaphor-building summary and 3D design lesson for advanced and gifted learners (or everyone!) is included in this bundle as well. A few other extension tasks are offered as w
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3rd - 6th
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Research Projects
This seven page document is one that walks students through complete step-by-step instructions of students doing research and presenting a topic. The topics that they can chose from involve topics that effect our world or them personally.
They also have various ways to present their information, including a poster, brochure, PowToon video, a skit, a mini book, or a recording of their voice.
This can be done with students independently or with your guidance, as it has all of the information i
Multiple Intelligences Challenge: Grow Your Word Power Smarts®
Power-Up your classroom with BYTES Power Smarts®! Challenge your students to strengthen their Word Power Smarts by choosing 5 or more activities to complete on the Grow Your Word Power Smarts activity sheet. BYTES Power Smarts® uses original art for its instructional materials – no clip art. We think your students will enjoy our unique characters. BYTES Power Smarts® instructional materials are designed by Kathy Hackett and Theresa Jackson who have over 55 years of combined teaching experien
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3rd - 6th
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Gifted and Talented Teacher Lesson Plans Cyber Safety Lesson
Gifted Education Lesson Plan Gifted and Talented Cyber Safety Lesson and ProjectThis exciting project allows students to take an in-depth look at cyber safety. This lesson includes a project idea to have students research and present a Power Point project. It involves approximately 4 class periods. It, however, could only be one class period without the project. A Rubric is included in this unit. Created By, Teresa LomasneyIf you liked this product, then you may like some others in my store.
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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