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Common Core W.2.1 resources for Gifted and Talented
Paul Klee Abstract Art Lesson: Portrait Dice Games Art Project - Nsw Visual Arts
Are you teaching an abstract art lesson on Paul Klee? Are they going to create an abstract portrait? Here's a fun lesson to brighten up your lesson plans! This is the perfect addition to your elementary art curriculum! Engaging abstract portrait art lesson with language (writing) activities. These no-prep abstract portrait art projects are perfect for your art sub tub. Super easy to implement for substitute teachers. Plus, the engagement will help with behavior! Perfect to start your art integra
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K - 12th
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Also included in:Â Art History Lesson - Famous Artists - Art Activities and Sub Plans
Project Based Learning Activity: Ancient Greece Social Studies PBL
These ancient civilization activities put your students in the shoes of a travel agent preparing to send their clients back in time to Ancient Greece!Time Travel to Ancient Greece is a social studies project based learning activity (PBL) that results in a sales pitch to potential clients. Along the way, students will research, make real-life decisions, all while learning more about this ancient civilization, developing 21st-century skills, communicating, designing, and working on financial skill
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Project Based Learning Activities: Social Studies PBL BUNDLE
Project Based Learning Activity: Ancient Egypt Social Studies PBL
This interactive PBL activity puts your students in the shoes of a museum curator designing an authentic Ancient Egyptian museum experience!Ancient Egyptian Museum is a social studies project based learning activity (PBL) that results in a commercial to entice potential guests. Along the way, students will research, make real-life decisions, all while learning more about this ancient civilization, developing 21st-century skills, communicating, and designing. This PBL is self-differentiating, mea
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Project Based Learning Activities: Social Studies PBL BUNDLE
Project Based Learning Activities: Social Studies PBL BUNDLE
Save 20% with this ancient civilizations bundle, which includes an Ancient Greece PBL, Ancient Egypt PBL, Ancient China PBL, and Ancient Rome PBL. These PBLS are a social studies project based learning activity (PBL) that results in a research and making real-life decisions, all while learning more about this ancient civilization, developing 21st-century skills, communicating, and designing. These PBLs are self-differentiating, meaning that students have the ability to work at their own pace and
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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The Smart Cookie Read Aloud Book Companion | Multiple Intelligences | Activities
The Smart Cookie by Jory John is a great book to teach students that everyone is smart in different ways and the importance of perseverance. It is also the perfect segue into a study of multiple intelligences. This The Smart Cookie Book Companion requires students to delve into analyzing and interpreting literature. This book companion is jam-packed with resources that provide opportunities for your students in grades 2-4 to think critically and creatively, analyze the author's craft, and make c
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Project Based Learning Activity: Ancient China Social Studies PBL
This PBL puts your students in the shoes of an Ancient Chinese newspaper creator!This Ancient China newspaper PBL is a social studies project based learning activity (PBL) that results in a newspaper that is engaging and intriguing to readers. Along the way, students will research, make real-life decisions, all while learning more about this ancient civilization, developing 21st-century skills, communicating, and designing. This PBL is self-differentiating, meaning that students have the ability
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Project Based Learning Activities: Social Studies PBL BUNDLE
Depth & Complexity Primary Math Word Problems Bundle
This Depth and Complexity Primary Math Word Problem Bundle includes problems about counting money, addition and subtraction, and the foundations for multiplication. ***Now includes a digital layer! Students get the opportunity to solve real world math problems using the depth and complexity icons and content imperatives to help break down each word problem while also speaking, listening, and writing!Can Anyone Use Depth & Complexity Frames?Although these lessons are designed for GATE studen
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
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Writing Choice Boards FREEBIE
These FREE writing choice boards (menus) for second grade are perfect for distance learning, early finishers, homework, or enrichment. These choice boards cover opinion, narrative, informative, writing about literature, writing about non-fiction, letter writing, and finishing a topic starter.This is part of a ultimate second grade bundle that you can find here.You can find November choice boards here. Click to find funny animal story choice boards here.In this unit you will find 7 choice boards.
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Seasons and Daylight – Graphing Project
This multi-day project will have students researching the hours of daylight in three locations and drawing conclusions about how the amount of daylight affects the seasons. Students will apply their knowledge in a culminating opinion writing piece where they decide where they would choose to take a July vacation between the three locations they have analyzed. The three locations included are:* Anchorage, Alaska * * Atlanta, Georgia * * Sydney, Australia *Students will be analyzing data to
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in:Â BUNDLE: Patterns of the Sun and Moon
Green Mean One Holiday Literacy Unit Common Core FIRST GRADE SECOND GRADE!
The Green Mean One is at it Again!
This is super fun Unit that I LOVE doing with my class each year. It allows them to do some creative thinking and meet those common core standards. I teach first grade gifted, but have used this with second grade as well!
There are 15 activities in this unit. It includes writing activities, reading responses, reader's theater, and ideas on how to implement a "Green Mean One on the Shelf" in your classroom. I love having my stuffed "Green Mean One" play tri
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Opinion Writing Powerpoint
Are you looking for an interesting way to teach students how to write opinion pieces? Before asking students to form an opinion piece, here's a colorful PowerPoint to get them started. This PowerPoint defines an opinion piece while asking for reasons why one might write one. It is also great for screen sharing at a distance.Click HERE to save 30% off the price of individual resources with a bundle.Click HERE to save 25% off the price of individual resources with the purchase of the primary bundl
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Also included in:Â Writing Lessons for the Year in PowerPoint and Worksheets Bundle
Who Would Win on Land? (Reading Response)
Do you struggle to get your boys interested in reading? The "Who Would Win?" book series by Jerry Pallotta is perfect for them. Students read engaging and informative facts about the two different animals and respond to their reading with this organizer. Students must read the facts and determine who is the winner in multiple categories. There are also writing opportunities for students to determine the advantages one animal has over the other. Students may write to change the ending based on wh
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2nd - 3rd
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Creek and Cherokee - Writing in Social Studies
This product includes 2 writing projects and 10 writing mini-lessons:Opinion Writing TaskStudents will be crafting an opinion paragraph as a culminating activity of their comparison of their lives with the lives of the Creek and the Cherokee Native Americans.Creative Letter Writing TaskStudents will be completing a collection of 5 letters from the point of view of a Creek or Cherokee Native American to share their knowledge in a creative way. Also included are 10 accompanying lessons on writer’s
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Grades:
2nd
Adventures With Jules Verne
This curriculum is designed as a companion to the Jules Verne classics, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days. Each Unit will have assignments for all three subjects: Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science. You can help your student by adapting the assignments to meet their abilities. If you follow the Recommended Timeline, you should have five Learning Periods (5 months) worth of work in Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies!This curriculum was designed to be fu
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Simile Practice for Promethean Board
If you need a fun and easy way to introduce similes to your students, while teaching them how to write these, too, look no further. Students learn what a simile is and then go through a gradual release teaching method so that they may write one. I used this to teach about similes and then I pulled reading groups while other students wrote their responses to prompts.Lesson includes:I can statementListing of standardsConnection to previous learningClear explanations and examplesWhole group, small
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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Similes Activities
If you need a fun and easy way to introduce similes to your students, while teaching them how to write these, too, look no further. Students learn what a simile is and then go through a gradual release teaching method so that they may write one. I used this to teach about similes and then I pulled reading groups while other students wrote their responses to prompts.Lesson includes:I can statementListing of standardsConnection to previous learningClear explanations and examplesWhole group, small
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Brain Growers Cycles in Nature: Aligned with CKLA Grade 2 Domain 6
Brain Growers are designed to get your students thinking critically, ethically, and creatively. This download includes 14 engaging printable activities that can be used many ways in your classroom, such as:early finisher activitiesindependent work during small group rotationshomework projectswhole class assignmentssmall group assignmentssubstitute workenrichment for gifted and talented studentsand more!All of the printable activities in this download are aligned to Cycles in Nature, CKLA Grade 2
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2nd
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Brain Growers War of 1812: Aligned to CKLA Grade 2 Domain 5
Brain Growers are designed to get your students thinking critically, ethically, and creatively. This download includes 8 engaging printable activities that can be used many ways in your classroom, such as:early finisher activitiesindependent work during small group rotationshomework projectswhole class assignmentssmall group assignmentssubstitute workenrichment for gifted and talented studentsand more!All of the printable activities in this download are aligned to War of 1812, CKLA Grade 2 Domai
Grades:
2nd
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Depth & Complexity Money Word Problem Frame
Get your students to think like mathematicians! In this money word problem, students will need to count two different amounts of dollar bills and coins (adding up to over two dollars each) involving quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies. They will need to then add these two amounts together to see if they have enough money to buy a $5.00 Minecraft toy. Additionally, children are asked if they'll have any change left over in the end. Students will also be asked to find the important details ne
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2nd - 4th
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Brain Growers Insects: No-Prep Critical, Creative, and Ethical Thinking
Brain Growers are designed to get your students thinking critically, ethically, and creatively. This download includes 23 engaging printable activities that can be used many ways in your classroom, such as:early finisher activitiesindependent work during small group rotationshomework projectswhole class assignmentssmall group assignmentssubstitute workenrichment for gifted and talented studentsand more!All of the printable activities in this download are aligned to Insects, CKLA Grade 2 Domain 8
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1st - 4th
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Brain Growers- Human Body: No-Prep Critical, Creative, and Ethical Thinking
Brain Growers are designed to get your students thinking critically, ethically, and creatively. This download includes 20 engaging printable activities that can be used many ways in your classroom, such as:early finisher activitiesindependent work during small group rotationshomework projectswhole class assignmentssmall group assignmentssubstitute workenrichment for gifted and talented studentsand more!All of the printable activities in this download are aligned to Human Body, CKLA Grade 2 Domai
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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Back to School Writing Activity FRIENDS
How can you be a good friend? Create a class tessellation quilt and write about ways to be kind and welcoming to your new classmates.Pair this product with favorite texts:"The Invisible Boy" by Trudy Ludwig"A Sick Day for Amos McGee" by Philip Stead"We Don't Eat Our Classmates" by Ryan Higgins"Can I Play Too" by Mo WillemsThis product provides concrete scaffolds for the writing process to ensure that all students have the opportunity to build a beautiful and creative art and writing project. You
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K - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Back to School Writing Activity BUNDLE
Brain Growers- Fighting for a Cause: Aligned to CKLA Grade 2 Domain 12
Brain Growers are designed to get your students thinking critically, ethically, and creatively. This download includes 17 engaging printable activities that can be used many ways in your classroom, such as:early finisher activitiesindependent work during small group rotationshomework projectswhole class assignmentssmall group assignmentssubstitute workenrichment for gifted and talented studentsand more!All of the printable activities in this download are aligned to Fighting for a Cause, CKLA Gra
Grades:
2nd
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Writing Opinion Activities in ActivInspire Software for Promethean Board Use
Are you looking for an interesting way to teach students how to write opinion pieces? Before asking students to form an opinion piece, here's a colorful flipchart to get them started. This flipchart defines an opinion piece while asking for reasons why one might write one. Click here to save 30% off the price of individual resources with the writing skills bundle for Promethean Boards.Inside this easy to use resource, you will find:I can statementListed Core StandardsBrainstorm ideas to support
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Also included in:Â Writing Lesson Plans Bundle PROMETHEAN BOARD Version
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