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School counseling tools for common cores 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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Social Media, Digital Citizenship, & the Internet Depth & Complexity Bundle
Teach your students how to be digital citizens using the prompts of Depth and Complexity and Content Imperatives! This bundle offers Depth & Complexity frames, thought provoking games, and engaging activities all about social media, digital citizenship, and the internet! Students will have the chance to write, collaborate with others, share opinions, create a website and blog about it (on paper), and participate in many other activities.
Never used Depth and Complexity icons or frames in
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2nd - 8th
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Compare & Contrast 2 Stories - 10 Paired Passages - 4th & 5th Grade Folktales
Compare and contrast literature with ten paired passages. This set emphasizes identification and use of story elements to construct responses. Students read two folktales, organize elements in tables, transfer them to Venn diagrams, and explain in paragraphs. Open the preview to take a closer look.Five sets of folktales from around the world were carefully selected and adapted for fourth and fifth grade students.“Mani and Sol” (Norway) and “The Fire Dog” (Korea)“The Goose and the Golden Egg” (S
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4th - 5th
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Depth of Knowledge and Learning Icons - Digging Deep - Critical Thinking Skills
These focus wall resources are designed to be engaging and meaningful. Help your kiddos reach for deep knowledge and content mastery using a variety of critical, complex thinking skills.Digging Deep Learning Practices assist students in engaging in critical thinking and developing meaningful understanding of concepts.This resource contains both large and small posters as well as “quick cards” that can be displayed on focus walls, resource walls, or simply during specific lessons.Encourage your s
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K - 6th
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4th Grade Math Leveled Assessment for Differentiation Marzano Proficiency Scale
Learning Goals and Scales are the ultimate Standards Based Grading tool! They don't just motivate a Growth Mindset, they define how students can demonstrate mastery. Every learning standard is broken down into 4 levels of Differentiation. Also known as a scaffolding for learning. These Assessments lead students up a progressive learning path that mirrors the way they develop concepts. Aligned to Bloom’s or Marzano’s Taxonomy of cognitive skills. From easiest-hardest: (Recall/Retrieval, Comprehen
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4th
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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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Essay Template aligned with Lucy Calkins Boxes and Bullets
Students can use this template to plan and organize their essays for Informative, Persuasive, and Expository essays.
It includes Sentence Starters and Language Frames and lined paper to start their essays on.
The C_ O_ P_ S_ S_ is a checklist for students to check their writing for Capitalization, Organization, Punctuation, Spelling, and Sentence structure.
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4th - 8th
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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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A Literature Unit for Patricia Polacco's Junkyard Wonders
This unit was made to go Patricia Polacco's book The Junkyard Wonders. Included are 18 pages of activities to challenges your students to think more deeply about the story. The unit was created with the 4th and 5th grade Common Core Standards in mind. Topics explored are theme, setting, character traits, visualizing, and many more. Writing assignments and a project idea are also included. The themes in this book would also be perfect to explore with a gifted class. Email me at ideabackpack@
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3rd - 6th
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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
Biography Activities - Task Cards & Choice Boards for Any Book
Dozens of biography activities come in two formats: task cards or choice boards. Each focuses on one informational text standard, as well as a higher order thinking skill (applying, analyzing, evaluating, or creating).Open the preview to take a closer look.They can be used with any biography: picture or chapter book, read-aloud or independently. You may pick and choose, ask students to specific tasks, or allow them to choose their own activities using the tic-tac-toe menus.All materials come in
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4th - 5th
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Also included in: Biography Unit - Genre Study for Fourth and Fifth Grade Students
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
Differentiated Instruction CCSS STEM Choice Boards & Extension Menus K-8
Teachers, meeting the needs of all learners through differentiated instruction is more important now than it ever was. With the transition to the Common Core, more English language learners, and differing learning styles and abilities makes it pertinent for teachers to offer activities that appeal to each and every student. This is a collection of choice boards, extension menus, and Think-Tac-Toe boards for all grade levels and content areas. These will allow you to reach all students, ensure th
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K - 8th
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The Yellow Wallpaper: Close Reading with Text Dependent Questions
This common core aligned unit is an introduction to the essential question: Why do we marginalize people? It is a reading and writing unit that asks students to do close reading by reading and responding to text dependent questions.
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Litteacher
This unit includes:
Teacher lessons
Text Dependent Questions
Student questions pages
Culminating writing task
Extended Activity tasks
Answer keys
2-3 week duration
18 pages
*Free Download of text:
Grades:
10th - 12th
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A Literature Unit for Drew Daywalt's The Day The Crayons Quit
This unit was made to go with Drew Daywalt's The Day The Crayons Quit. Included are 17 pages of activities to challenge your students to think more deeply about the story. The unit was created with the 4th and 5th grade Common Core Standards in mind. Topics explored are point of view, theme, character traits, visualizing, text structure, plot, letter writing, comparing/contrasting, responding to quotes, and more. Writing assignments are also included. Email me at ideabackpack@gmail.com with
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3rd - 5th
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Error Analysis: Multiplication
Higher Order Thinking Task Cards
Newly update with new graphics: This is a set of critical thinking task cards. Students are required to analyze a traditional algorithm multiplication problem to find the single error. Students are then required to use their math knowledge and vocabulary to describe the problem. Then students write an extended response to help fix the error.
The task cards in this packet can be used in a variety of ways in the classroom: individual work stations, partner/ gro
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4th - 7th
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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
Multiple Intelligence (MI) PowerPoint (Secondary Version) by Jennifer A. Gates
Teaching gifted, talent development or preparing students for Common Core by teaching them to identify their strengths?
This is the perfect way to introduce Multiple Intelligence: 8 characteristics that students can use to best identify ways in which they can make positive growth. They are: nature smart, logic smart, self smart, people smart, word smart, picture smart, body smart, and music smart.
Introduce and explore Multiple Intelligence in depth with students the elementary or primary and
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Assessment Compare and Contrast Informational Text
This is the Common Core Assessment addressing the standard 2.RI.9 Compare and Contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic. A science piece on ladybugs (two articles) and two articles on Jackie Robinson (a timeline and narrative). Two different compare and contrast graphic organizers are used as well as multiple choice and short and essay answers.
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Common Core Text-Dependent Writing Prompt Explanatory Grade 6
The new common core standards will require students to relate their story and essay writing to two-three passages of text. The text may be nonfiction, fiction, quotes, environmental print, or poetry.
This writing prompt contains three texts for the student to read (very short) and specific writing prompt directions. The type of writing the students will be composing will fall under the category "explanatory" because the student will be forced to respond to a question by making a definitive answ
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5th - 7th
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