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Common Core W.4.8 resources for GATE
Inventors and Inventions Bundle of Research Projects Templates
Do you know where to start with biographical research? This activity walks students through the research process. It is laid out in an age-appropriate and accessible way that encourages independent pursuit of knowledge. They will research a notable scientist, inventor, or invention. Then, you can take it to the next level by having students create their own invention! TL;DR: Easy for you, appropriate for them!See the previews above for what is included in this bundle, or read about the contents
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3rd - 6th
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3rd, 4th, 5th Grade Early Finishers Activities - ELA Enrichment -Print & Digital
If you teach 3rd, 4th, or 5th-grade ELA, early finisher activities for your gifted and talented students will save your sanity! These print and digital enrichment activities will prevent frequent interruptions throughout the day. With these ready-to-use challenges, you'll no longer hear "What do I do now?" Ignite the minds of your 3rd, 4th, and 5th-grade students with these captivating ELA Early Finisher Enrichment Activities!Keep high-achieving students motivated and engaged in your ELA class w
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3rd - 5th
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May the Fourth Be With You Reading and GROWTH MINDSET
May the Force Nurture Your NeuronsWhat better way to teach a GROWTH Mindset or celebrate May the Fourth than with tips from favorite characters? This Easy Prep Workshop includes over 2 hours of activities that can be taught all at once or separately in sections. The activities in this unit are designed to inspire students to take responsibility for their own learning and success in a fun and meaningful way. Bulletin Board Banner Quotes and a blank student form are included as a bonus activity. E
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4th - 6th
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Project Based Learning: Plan A Party PBL
Project Based Learning: Plan A Party puts your students in the shoes of a party planner as they utilize their measurement and budgeting skills to plan a friend’s birthday party!
Plan A Party is a math project based learning activity (PBL) that results in creating a party for a friend, needing to budget, calculate area, calculate perimeter, convert U.S. customary measurements, and add decimals. Along the way, students will budget and make real-life decisions, all while practicing their vital mea
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3rd - 5th
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National Park Distance Learning Research Project: Report, PowerPoint, and Float
This project-based activity is designed to let students research, design a PowerPoint presentation, and parade a float representing a National Park for an audience of your choice. Easy to use because there are teacher tools to track assigned Parks and a rubric to score it all! Students LOVE this project and you will too! Inside You Will Find1 Parade of National Parks General Information Page1 How to Host the Parade Page1 Parent Information Page for Book Project1 Parent Information Page for Boo
DAY OF THE DEAD Reading Writing & Art Integration Unit | Hispanic Sugar Skulls
Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep,30-page Day of the Dead Sugar Skull Reading, Writing, Research, and Art Unit! It includes everything you need to celebrate and understand the tradition of Sugar Skulls as it relates to Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos). It also allows students to compare/contrast Halloween and Day of the Dead through online research.The following resources are included:•Sugar Skull nonfiction passage, CCSS-aligned
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3rd - 12th
Create-Your-Own Mars Colony - Science and Writing PBL
In this multi-disciplinary unit, students will plan out a Martian Colony. They will research, write, plan, design, and create as they work toward their final project.This unit is comprised of 20 activities. You can do all or some of the activities in your classroom. Some activities may take one class period and others can be combined to fit into one class period.Suggested time frames are included with each activity.See the preview for a list of the included lessons.
Women's History Month - Female Astronauts
30 investigations of female astronauts: Christina Koch, Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, Valentina Tereshkova, Stephanie Wilson, Eileen Collins, Joan Higginbotham, Kathryn Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, Judith Resnik, Anna Lee Fisher, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Peggy Whitson, Svetlana Savitskaya, Ellen Ochoa, Kalpana Ochoa, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Samantha Christoforetti, Christa McAuliffe, Catherine Coleman, Helen Sharman, Laurel Clark, Anousheh Ansari, Roberta Bondar, Anne McClain, Yi So-yeon, Liu Yang, Naoko Yama
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4th - 12th
Also included in: Space BUNDLE
Tardigrades: Science, Nonfiction Reading Passage with Questions and Extensions
Introducing "Tardigrades: A Science and Nonfiction Reading Exploration," a comprehensive, multidisciplinary learning package designed to captivate and inspire students on their journey through the captivating world of these resilient micro-animals. This well crafted resource comprises an immersive reading passage that delves deep into the remarkable life of tardigrades, stimulating students' curiosity and fostering a deeper understanding of this incredible creature. Gifted and Talented (GATE) st
Student Created Podcasts: Writing Workshop Publication Guide for Upper Grades
Want a highly motivating publication option for your upper grade writers? Enter STUDENT CREATED PODCASTS!!This set will help you guide your students through the writing process with the lens of podcast episode writing and publishing.Students will love having the ability to create for a unique format, share with a wider audience, and even create multiple episodes in a series or show. This activity guide includes the following steps, focusing on idea generation, brainstorming, and organizing their
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4th - 6th
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Multiple Intelligences: ARGUE IT! CHOICE CARDS® - SET 1
Power-Up your classroom with BYTES Power Smarts! These Choice Cards include 25 argumentative essay prompts that cover multiple standards for Common Core. See full packet contents listed below and click on Preview under the thumbnails above to see a sample of the packet contents.Choice Cards® are task cards, but we think the word CHOICE is more motivational. Students have lots of CHOICES with BYTES Power Smarts IT! Packs. Students can choose an IT! Pack and, within that pack, they can choose w
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4th - 6th
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Gifted and Talented GATE G/T Animal Research Project: Bird Adaptations & Climate
This animal research project was designed for gifted and talented (GATE, G/T, high ability) students. They gather evidence then use critical thinking to analyze bird adaptations in different climate zones. Two effective note-taking options encourage fourth or fifth grade students to gather more information and stay organized. A slideshow and print resources help them improve writing. Open the preview to take a closer look. In addition to conducting animal research, students compare adaptations o
Invention Convention! Google Slides and Printable Bundle!
Students will brainstorm and design a new invention that solves a problem! After, they will write a radio advertisement and answer interview question about their invention.Incorporates student choice, creativity, informational, and persuasive writing.Included:Example invention project from start to finishBrainstorming pageInvention planning pageSpace to draw and label their inventionAdvertisement planner and space to write their advertisementInterview questions students will answer from a judge
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3rd - 6th
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Multiple Intelligences: RESEARCH IT! CHOICE CARDS® - ANIMALS - SET 1
Power-Up your classroom with BYTES Power Smarts! This pack contains 27 animal research Choice Cards. See the full packet contents listed below and click on Preview under the thumbnails above to see a sample of the packet contents.Choice Cards® are task cards, but we think the word CHOICE is more motivational. Students have lots of CHOICES with BYTES Power Smarts IT! Packs. Students can choose an IT! Pack and, within that pack, they can choose which of the Choice Card activities they would en
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2nd - 4th
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Your Life in 1775 - Opinion Writing Assignment
My 4th graders were studying the Revolutionary War, and I knew I also needed to work with them on opinion writing. I thought about doing something basic, like choosing which side they would support. But I also knew I wanted to get them more engaged.Enter character cards.This project begins with students "travelling" back to 1775. They will choose a role card, and will adopt that persona for the rest of the project. Next, they do basic research to fill out a character profile for their perso
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4th
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Designing Projects with Inquiry-Based Questions
Use these two great critical thinking materials to help your students learn how to write open-ended questions to encourage broad research and in-depth thinking that results in high-quality products. The first activity pack, "Writing Inquiry-Based Questions," takes students step by step through the process of writing strong questions to drive their research, including examples of inquiry and non-inquiry questions along with practice writing their own questions. Finally, the second activity invol
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3rd - 6th
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Back to School Internet Research Projects (Grades 5-8)
This packet has 101 different internet research projects for middle school students. Students search for interesting facts about China, Egypt, Germany, Israel, Mexico, Puerto Rico, North Korea, Madagascar, and Russia. Students locate postage stamps from foreign countries and illustrate them. Students investigate athletes, writers, civil rights leaders, scientists and politicians. Students identify the countries on the continents: Africa, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas. Stud
Grades:
4th - 9th
Biography Research Project Extension Questions for Advanced/Gifted Learners
Biography Research Extension TasksYour students have completed their research about an important figure. They are about to write their report or show their information in some format or another. BUT…what type of thinking have they done? Have they analyzed the facts they have collected? Have they looked at the root cause of why or how their famous figure turned into the person who they became? Have they looked at the ethical aspects of their person’s choices? Probably not to the level that we wo
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4th - 5th
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Genius Hour Student Notebook Printable NO PREP Student Packet Guide
Running Genius Hour in your classroom but looking for a handout for students? I have used both electronic and printable genius hour notebooks and I definitely love the hands-on application of research/engagement using a printable notebook! This resource has:14 pages to guide you through Genius Hour!Pages Include:-Finding Your Passions-Listing Topics of Interest-Identifying What They Already Know About the Topic-Developing Inch, Foot, and Yard Questions to Get DEEP Into the Topic-Research/Notes P
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Black History Month BUNDLE - Gifted and Talented
This bundle has 151 pages for students to explore Black History Month. Students write about things that cause us to fear, learn how being different is okay, search online for information about Civil Rights leaders, investigate African American singers and politicians, fingerspell words related to Black History Month, and so much more. Seven different packets to challenge gifted and talented students in February. Take a look at the Preview to see sample pages. And if you want more, then take a l
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3rd - 7th
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Multiple Intelligences: EXPLORE IT! CHOICE CARDS®-RESEARCH-ANIMAL KINGDOM-SET 1
Power-Up your classroom with BYTES Power Smarts! This pack contains 26 Research Choice Cards about animals. See the full packet contents listed below and click on Preview under the thumbnails above to see a sample of the packet contents.Choice Cards® are task cards, but we think the word CHOICE is more motivational. Students have lots of CHOICES with BYTES Power Smarts IT! Packs. Students can choose an IT! Pack and, within that pack, they can choose which of the 25 activities they would enjo
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3rd - 6th
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Multiple Intelligences: WRITE IT! CHOICE CARDS® - SET 1
Power-Up your classroom with BYTES Power Smarts! These 25 Choice Cards are designed for Common Core and include Narratives (Science Fiction Short Story, Historical Fiction Short Story, Fantasy Short Story, Mini-Biography, Script), News Articles, Argumentative Essays, Opinion Pieces/Editorials, Speeches, Monologues, Research Papers, Persuasive Letters writing prompts that cover multiple standards for Common Core. See the full packet contents listed below and click on Preview under the thumbnail
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4th - 6th
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CALIFORNIA MISSION, PRESIDIO AND PUEBLO RESEARCH REPORT
Question: How were early California settlers self-sufficient and interdependent? Students will research about a pueblo, presidio or mission. They will answer the following underlying questions related to the pueblo, presidio or mission in paragraphs using theQuestion, Underlying Question, Elements, Standards, and Timeframe format. This is primarily an Internet research project. Students may work alone or in groups. If in groups, groups of three are preferable, where one is researching a pueblo,
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Multiple Intelligences: DO IT! CHOICE CARDS® - SOCIAL CONCERNS - SET 1
Power-Up your classroom with BYTES Power Smarts! Activate your students' empathy for social causes with the Do It! Choice Cards. Students will choose a project to raise awareness, raise empathy, and raise resources for the social concern they choose while also working to meet Common Core Standards. See the full packet contents listed below and click on Preview under the thumbnails above to see a sample of the packet contents.Choice Cards® are task cards, but we think the word CHOICE is more mo
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4th - 8th
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