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Earth Day school counseling resources for GATE
Gifted and Talented Selfie Sculptures
This “Selfie Sculptures” activity was designed to help elementary teachers of gifted children facilitate meaningful conversations about their social and emotional learning and needs. With guidance and support, students will be able to recognize social and emotional characteristics and needs within themselves and represent them in a “Selfie Sculpture.” These final sculptures will include color-coded shapes that represent each student as an individual while encouraging creativity and a sense of
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1st - 6th
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Save The Bees Clipart Set - EARTH DAY {Educlips Clipart}
This is a set of images that show ways to help protect the bees:Images included are: bees, child putting out basin of water for bees, beehive box, beehive house, beekeeper kids, kids with 'buy organic' bags, examples of bee friendly flowers and weeds (clematis, daisies, dandelion, delphinium, poppy, sunflower, thyme) kids with hive drawer, hive, organic honey jar, weedkiller with separate red cross (to show no use of weedkiller), save the bees word art sign.48 images (28 in color and the same 28
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Care For The Earth Clip Art Bundle - EARTH DAY {Educlips Clipart}
April STEM STEAM Challenge: Earth Day Edition
Earth Day is the perfect day for reducing, reusing, recycling, and STEAM! The challenge? Build a "litter bug" out of litter. The bug must balance on 6 legs, and all legs must come from the thorax. All your students will need is a little litter and a lot of creativity!
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-chart for student record keeping
-- Self-assessment/Reflection page (differenti
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K - 5th
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SEL Morning Messages
THIS RESOURCE IS ADDED TO OFTEN! IT WILL JUST GET BIGGER AND BETTER!! Engage your kids, take SEL to the next level, and grow through the power of exSELence with my collection SEL Morning Messages! This collection currently includes 79 of my favorite SEL Messages, and it WILL CONTINUE TO GROW as I create new messages for my students! These messages focus on the five building blocks of social emotional learning.They will get your kids thinking deeply, self reflecting, and engaging in conversation
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3rd - 12th
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GATE Students Counseling Group Mega Minds Gifted Group
Mega Minds is a 10 week school counseling small group designed to help GATE and gifted students share their challenges and connect with their strengths. The group focuses on helping gifted and talented students cope with high expectations, perfectionism, labels, bullying, friendships, and more.*Can be used in conjunction with “The Gifted Kids Survival Guide” by Judy Galbraith or alone.Group OutlineWeek 1: What It Means to Be a GATE KidWeek 2: Life as a GATE KidWeek 3: Why am I GATE Kid?Week 4: G
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4th - 7th
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3rd, 4th, 5th Grade Executive Functioning Curriculum/Social Emotional Activities
Teach 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students social-emotional skills with this executive functioning curriculum. These morning meeting slides will boost your students’ executive functioning skills through class discussions, role-plays, real-life scenarios, and printable activities. The PowerPoint slides will help you teach 5 mini-lessons on character-building topics and organization. The lesson introduction explains why students should learn about this social-emotional skill and includes a self-assess
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3rd - 5th
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Gifted and Talented SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL CURRICULUM 1st-8th GATE
This bundle is a variation on my popular social-emotional curriculum which is going live and in print in the spring of 2021.These social-emotional units span the curriculum with creative, hands-on activities . . . because we need to make excellent use of our time in gifted and talented talent pools with best practices in gifted education.Lessons and units correspond to NAGC affective standards, the 8 Great Gripes of Gifted Kids, or common issues for gifted learners.7 fantastic and engaging units
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2nd - 8th
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Earth Day STEM Challenge Activity - New Earth City
This is the perfect Earth Day STEM activity!The basic idea: It is Earth Day, and the year 2035. Earth has become overcrowded. The students are part of a pioneering crew tasked with setting up the first city (New Earth City) on Planetopia, a fictional name for a recently discovered Earth-like planet in a distant solar system. Part of the mission is to set up the city to prevent or address the problems we are having on Earth so we don’t repeat our errors on our new home planet. This challenge is b
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2nd - 8th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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The Conversation Bundle
This bundle includes 225 conversation starters/journal prompts in two formats (in list form, and as 59 printable cards), divided evenly (25 each) into the following categories:1. Icebreakers2. Getting Acquainted3. Wellness Checks4.Exploring Values5. Community Building6. Taking Responsibility7. Curriculum Connections8. Hopes & Dreams9. Discussion & DebateThese questions were designed with children and adults in mind, and are perfect for individual and whole class activities, talking circl
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Not Grade Specific
Perfectionism Activities + Self-Assessment - Class Morning Meeting/SEL Lessons
Help gifted students cope with perfectionism and improve their social-emotional learning with these activities. Students will self-assess their ability to manage perfectionism and learn new strategies. These morning meeting slides will help boost your students’ SEL skills through class discussions, role-plays, real-life scenarios, and printable activities. The PowerPoint slides help you teach 5 mini-lessons on how to cope with perfectionism. The lesson introduction explains why students should l
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3rd - 5th
Ecosystems & Environmental Concerns PBL | Science Project Based Learning
Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach about different ecosystems and their environmental concerns? Interested in student driven learning?This Project Based Learning unit allows students to learn about ecosystems by examining an environmental issue within an ecosystem. Students act as environmentalists as they research the causes and effects as well as problems and solutions of an environmental issue by examining the different factors that make up an ecosystem. This is a student-centered wa
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4th - 8th
Also included in: Science PBL | Project and Problem Based Learning Bundle
April STEM Activities with Earth Day STEM Challenges and Close Reading Passages
STEM challenge activities are so much fun. But, finding the time to incorporate design challenges into your curriculum can be difficult. The APRIL STEM Design Challenge COLLECTION is part of the STEM with CLOSE READING series. It gives you FOUR OF MY BEST SELLING STEM CHALLENGES that will seamlessly allow you to tie together the curriculum by giving you rigorous text dependent questions that go with a high interest reading passages IN ADDITION to the fun STEM activities! Watch your kids fac
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3rd - 6th
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What Problem Will You Solve: A Critical Thinking and Writing Activity
So often, we ask students what they want to be when they grow up but let's shift the mindset. Instead, pose the question of, "What problem will you solve?" This project encourages students to think both critically and globally to help solve issues in our world today. Included in this product are multiple ways for students to brainstorm problems, vocabulary, and processes. There is also draft and final publishing paper that can be used to write a culminating essay.This is a great beginning OR
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Bundle: Monthly Writing Projects for Upper Elementary
Earth Day Shoebox Solar Oven STEM Activity & April Challenge | Renewable Energy
Earth Day is here and your teacher life just got a little busier with Earth Day activities you need to plan. Use Earth Day STEM activities to cover standards and give your students super fun Earth Day activities they will love. This ready to go Earth Day Shoebox Solar Oven STEM Activity and April STEM Challenge or Renewable Energy Project is just what you need to keep your 2nd through 5th grade students engaged and excited for learning during the month of April. Challenge your students to design
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: April and Earth Day STEM Activities & Challenges BUNDLE for Elementary
Earth Day STEM Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Earth Day Activity - This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards and encourages critical thinking, budgeting, and engineering skills. Oh no! People are throwing away too much trash! Your students need to reuse some things from the trash to make something new and useful. What will they come up with? This Earth Day STEM will get your students using their critical thinking skills to solve this challenge! Students must stick to a budget and use the available supplies.
Suggested Plan of
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Gifted and Talented editable forms, presentations & PD
This comprehensive bundle includes the following resources:1- Editable GATE Forms: Parent Appeal, HOPE Scale, Characteristic Behavior ScaleHOPE ScaleThe HOPE Scale is designed to measure two very broad categories: Social and Academic components of giftedness and talent. It is meant to serve as a tool with which to focus a classroom teacher's nomination and perceptions of his/her students onto behaviors that are often observable by a classroom teacher.GATE PARENT APPEAL FORMThis is form is used i
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K - 12th, Staff
April Early Finishers Choice Board
An excellent resource for early finishers or for independent work time that requires higher level thinking with SCAMPER terms (Substitute, Combine, Add Something, Magnify/Minify, Put to Other Uses, Eliminate, Rearrange) and words from Bloom's Taxonomy: Create and Evaluate.
You will find a color version which you can laminate for durability. A black line version is also included to make individual student copies.
Try a FREE Sample: August
This is part of a bundled package:
Monthly Choice
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3rd - 5th
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Bird Beak STEM Activities and Pollination STEM Challenge
Learn about bird beaks and pollination while reading a story! Get ready for a STEM adventure with Beth the budding ornithologist. Students will choose which challenges Beth should try as she watches birds. Students will learn about pollination, bird beaks and feeding behaviors, and other fun facts about various birds. Based on their choices, they will encounter different STEM challenges. Materials Needed: In addition to containers of water, you can use any materials you have, but I recommend ind
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2nd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 2-LS4-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Activities and Challenges for the Whole Year - Upper Elementary 3-5
Seeds of Change Earth Day READ ALOUD SCIENCE™ Activity
Includes Easel Activity for Google Classroom Distance Learning.Integrate Real World STEM on Earth Day and engage kids by learning about plants and seeds!Teach about the importance of plants with this Earth Day Science Activity! Students learn about the importance of plants. Then, they create their own seed bomb to plant and observe over time.Connect to a Read Aloud: Seeds of ChangeThis STEM Project is a companion activity to Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace by Jen Cullerton Johnson. The
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2nd - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 4-PS3-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Summer STEM Activities for Building Bricks: STEM Mats
Easy STEM activities for summer! These STEM projects use mats that are SO easy to set up in your classroom. If you were thinking of trying STEM Fridays or Maker Mondays, or you need something more engaging for your early finishers than worksheets or reading, this is the resource for you. Not only will your students be working creatively to solve problems, they will be reading, writing, and using math skills. CONTENTSInstructions and sample imagesLetter you can send home to parents, caregivers,
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K - 4th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
Also included in: STEM Activities and Makerspace Tasks for the Whole Year
Recycled Robots STEAM Project| Earth Day Project | Editable
This STEAM project includes directions for students to create a recycled robot to help celebrate Earth Day! Or you can decide when to give this project to your students and change up the directions as it is editable!It also includes a robot commercial planning sheet for students to be able to share about their robot. Students could then decide how to produce their commercial whether just getting up in front of the class and reading it or recording it using apps such as imovie, shadow puppet edu,
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3rd - 5th
Free Growth Mindset: Turning Mistakes into Opportunities
If you are teaching Growth Mindset to your class, you need this Freebie. Flip That Flop is a fun activity that teaches students mistakes are a good thing and how to learn from mistakes and turn them into learning opportunities. There are three adaptations of the activity in this freebie – two versions of the flip flop book, and one version for a bulletin board display.I have included 4 scenarios of common mistakes kids make to use as practice to get your kiddos thinking about mistakes and how
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2nd - 5th
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Paying for College Project
This project helps teach and reinforce an understanding of methods of paying for college. It focuses on federal aid (as determined using the FAFSA calculator), scholarships available at specific colleges, and private scholarships available through other resources. I made this for my 6th-8th graders but I think it could be beneficial for older students who are unfamiliar with the methods of paying for college.
Grades:
6th - 10th
April and Earth Day STEM Activities & Challenges BUNDLE for Elementary
Earth Day is here and your teacher life just got a little busier with Earth Day activities you need to plan. Use Earth Day STEM activities to cover standards and give your students super fun Earth Day activities they will love. This ready to go Earth Day STEM Activities and Challenges Bundle for Elementary Kids is just what you need to keep your 2nd through 5th grade students engaged and excited for learning during the month of April.Challenge your students with exciting Earth Day STEM challenge
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2nd - 5th
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