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IB PYP Exhibition Journal
IB Exhibition Journal takes students step by step through a PYP Exhibition, including choosing a topic, writing a central idea and key concept based lines of inquiry, learner profile checklist, research, and group presentation. Also includes planning calendar, student rubrics and teacher rubrics. General enough to work with an IB unit of inquiry, but delivered as a word document for editing and revising.
4th - 6th
200 No-Prep | Poetry | Poetry Starters | K-12
Title: Poetry | 200 No-Prep Poetry Starters | K-12Product Description: 🎭 Overview: Spark creativity instantly with these 200 universal poetry starters! Students get engaging first lines, unfinished verses, or thought-provoking ideas they can complete in their own unique voice. ✨ Includes:200 flexible poetry beginningsStarters suitable for haiku, free verse, narrative, or slam poemsDesigned for all grade levels K–12📚 How It Can Be Used:✏️ Daily bell ringers📝 Quick
K - 12th, Higher Education
ELA Test Prep, Other (ELA), Poetry
Also included in: Poetry | 2050 No-Prep Poetry Resources Mega-Bundle | K-12
Biomes Inquiry Unit x - Science - Environmental Studies - Animals - IB
This 6-7 week Sharing the Planet (PYP) inquiry unit explores the relationships between living things and their environment in different biomes. Easily adapted to suit your own class/school, it includes: transdisciplinary theme, central idea, lines of inquiry, key concepts and questionsapproaches to learning (ATLs) and learner profile focusagency and action ideasassessment - before views, formative, summative, self-assessment and peer.detailed learning experiences and provocationsresources and
3rd - 8th
Environment, Science
Halloween | Poetry | Witch’s Spell Collaborative Poem | TEKS
🧙♀️ Halloween | Poetry | Witch’s Spell Collaborative PoemStudents collaborate to write and perform a spooky witch’s spell poem. ✅ Includes: TEKS alignment (5–12)Learning Intention: I am learning how to collaborate with others to write a witch’s spell poem using imagery, repetition, and performance.Success Criteria: I can contribute lines with imagery. I can collaborate respectfully. I can perform with dramatic rhythm.Collaborative charts and group stanzas.YouTube
K - 12th
Poetry, Reading, Writing
Halloween | Social Studies | The Black Death Fear and Change | TEKS | K-12
📘 Halloween | Social Studies | The Black Death Disease Fear and Social ChangeStudents investigate the Black Death and connect its civic and cultural impacts to modern public health. ✅ Includes: TEKS alignment (Grades 4–12).Learning Intention: I am learning how the Black Death reshaped society and civic life.Success Criteria: I can describe spread, analyze civic responses, and connect to modern parallels.DBQs, charts, role-plays, rubrics, and campaigns.🎃 Classroom
K - 12th
Other (Social Studies), U.S. History, World History
Math Project-Create Own Dream Home-Blueprints and Floor Plan (perimeter & area)
Create blueprints and/or floor plans for your own dream home!!
Your little architects will love dreaming big with this project. Using their imaginations and graph paper, they will create their own blueprints.They will be learning area, measurement and perfecting those problem solving and critical thinking skills. The bonus is they won't even know it because they will be having fun.
This project is very "real life" oriented.
For the younger grades this would be better for the GT students. Or
3rd - 9th
Math
CCSS
3.MD.B.4
, 3.MD.C.5a
, 3.MD.C.6
+4
SHARK TANK Economics Pitches Prototypes PROJECT BASED PBL GATE
Welcome to the shark tank project-based learning unit. Let’s begin our entrepreneurial careers today!
Build critical thinking skills, public speaking success, and bring creativity, language arts, and economics into your classroom in a purposeful and authentic way.
Students will work in collaborative teams to solve a complex, ongoing, inquiry-based problem with a physical product for an authentic audience:
• Brainstorm a product, citing a need that will be fulfilled.
• Construct a prototyp
4th - 8th
Economics , English Language Arts
CCSS
SL.4.1
, SL.4.4
, SL.4.5
+3
Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
Road Trip Adventure PROJECT BASED LEARNING Writing for GATE and 3rd - 8th
Come along on a fun project-based adventure as students practice different forms of writing, geography skills, computer and internet technology skills, engineering and design skills, math skills, public speaking, creativity, and art. Here is your Gold Medal Standard project based learning unit ready to go. Because this project-based unit relies heavily on student creativity and invention, the key knowledge, understanding, and success skills can be scaffolded across many grade levels. This unit
3rd - 8th
English Language Arts, Geography
CCSS
5.NBT.B.7
, 4.NF.B.4
, 5.NF.A.2
+5
Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
Carnival Game Economics PBL Project-Based Learning GATE
Smaller tasks add up to big, big learning with this gold medal standard project-based learning activity! What a sneaky cool way to learn math, economics, and functional design! (Insert evil teacher laugh.) It’s a hands-on approach to Common Core Standards.
In Carnival Game Economics, students design a carnival skill game and gather data as junior market researchers during the test phase. They’ll use this data to help make decisions. After making calculations for probability, students will
4th - 7th
Economics , Math
CCSS
4.MD.A.2
, 5.MD.B.2
, 4.OA.A.2
+10
Also included in: Gifted and Talented SURVIVAL KIT Bundle -- 235 pages, big discount!
Project Based Learning Nearpod—Budgeting for Elementary/ Middle School Students
This Project Based Learning Nearpod lesson transforms budgeting from a worksheet into a real life challenge students actually care about. Instead of passively listening, students step into the role of decision makers as they build a personal budget based on a realistic income scenario. Through interactive Nearpod activities, students categorize expenses, weigh needs versus wants, and make meaningful trade offs when money runs tight. Every choice has consequences, pushing students to think critic
4th - 8th
Decimals, Financial Literacy, Money Math
Desktop Zip Lines -- GATE STEM for Upper Elementary
Students not only study physical science, they design with it, build with it, they write about it, calculate with it, and they live it.
It’s the engineering process in miniature as our engineering teams design and then build desktop ziplines from scratch. Students will draft plans, build zipline towers, choose the best zippy materials, and assemble their ziplines. Hey, it’s incredible fun . . . but it’s not just fun and games here! Students will use their ziplines to collaborate on a physica
3rd - 7th
Engineering, Geometry
Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
Business Plan and Entrepreneurship Project for Elementary School
Overview: Students will develop and operate a business. Students will conduct market research, analyze the results, develop a business plan, and implement the business. After each day of operation, students will determine profits and losses based on their expenditures and sales. Students will graph and analyze the results to make decisions for their business.
The business described below was a “movie theater” my students ran during the last weeks of school. Students who earned the privi
3rd - 5th
Economics
T-Shirt Entrepreneurs PROJECT BASED LEARNING Math Economics GATE 4-8th
Your students will be excited for this “gold medal standard” project-based math, design, and economics activity. It’s appropriate and adaptable for 4th – 8th grade. It has been a staple for my 4th grade gifted and talented math group since 2013. You won’t be the sage on the stage. Students will problem-solve their way through the project working in collaborative teams, and the teacher will guide, be a resource, spur discussion, play devil’s advocate, and provide mini lessons when necessary. I
4th - 8th
Applied Math, Economics
Also included in: STEAM Class BUNDLE - Math Focus Hours of Hands-on Projects GATE Gifted
The Inventions of Hugo Cabret GATE Gifted Hands-on Literacy Unit with Projects
Welcome to the wonderful world of Brian Selznick’s The Inventions of Hugo Cabret, and welcome to my portable gifted and talented classroom! These 16 lessons and 3 end-of-unit activities are designed to encourage active participation and critical thinking. Critical thinking questions on both the text and drawings will help students think deeper about the characters, events, and situations of the novel. Vocabulary development—a key component to the science of reading—is encouraged through conte
4th - 7th
English Language Arts, Reading
Halloween Art Bundle | 10 Creative & Spooky Projects for Grades K–12 | TEKS
📚 Product Description Get your students excited about art this spooky season with the Halloween Art Lessons Bundle! 🎃👻 This comprehensive collection includes 10 fully built-out, TEKS-aligned projects that blend essential art skills with festive Halloween fun. Each lesson comes with step-by-step instructions, graphic organizers, model examples, and assessment rubrics to save teachers time while keeping students engaged. Inside this bundle, you’ll find: Pumpkin Still Life – Students practi
K - 12th
Art History, Graphic Arts, Visual Arts
CCSS Volcano Project with Report, Model and Presentation
This performance task (PT) can serve as a unit and will assess students ability to write an informational report. It engages students by including a model and presentation component. The PT is Common Core aligned and includes rubrics for W.4.2 and SL.4.4. A rubric is also included for the model.
The research report asks students to research one of the following volcanoes:Mount Fuji, Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, Kilauea, Santa Maria, Mayon Volcano, Osorno, Stromboli, Yellowstone Caldera, Popocat
3rd - 6th
Earth Sciences, Informational Text
Halloween Poetry Bundle | 10 Spooky Creative Writing Projects for K-12 | TEKS
Halloween Poetry Bundle | 10 Spooky Creative Writing Projects for Grades 3–12 | TEKS-Aligned 📚 Product Description Turn your classroom into a cauldron of creativity with the Halloween Poetry Lessons Bundle! 🎃✍️ This collection of 10 TEKS-aligned poetry lessons blends classic forms, creative writing, performance, and spooky fun. Each lesson includes step-by-step teacher instructions, differentiated graphic organizers, original reading passages, model examples, and 100-point rubrics, making
K - 12th
Poetry, Reading, Writing
Back to School Canva Choice Board | All About Me Project for Gifted & Talented
Looking for a creative and engaging way to start the school year? This Canva-based “Getting to Know You” Choice Board is perfect for building classroom community while tapping into the creative strengths of gifted and talented students.With 9 unique project options, students use Canva to design meaningful, personal visual products that express who they are. Whether they choose to design a futuristic invention, map their life, or create a visual playlist of their personality, each project invit
3rd - 6th
Creative Writing, Social Emotional Learning, Visual Arts
Menu of Independent Reading Projects FREE Enrichment and GATE
Just say YES to the five C’s for gifted learners with CHALLENGES, CHOICES, COMPLEXITY, CONTROL over what and how they learn, and teachers who authentically CARE. Energize all readers with this project choice menu – FREE! Come back for over 200 lessons and units specifically designed for gifted learners.
3rd - 10th
English Language Arts, Literature
STEM Project - Create a Board Game
A complete STEM project package for upper primary to lower secondary school students. Included items:1. Assessment sheet detailing the project requirements 2. Detailed rubric on for assessing 3. Individual design process booklet for students to complete 4. Self assessment and peer evaluation Can be completed in groups or individually. Can easily be linked to any theme or topic you are studying! Alternatively, this could be set as long term homework project.Comes as a fully editable word docum
4th - 9th
For All Subjects
Billion Oyster Project CER | New York Ecology | GATE Middle School
📘 Full Length Standard Aligned DBQ CER Style Worksheet - Claim Evidence Reasoning | Billion Oyster Project Case Study Worksheet | Evidence-Based Reading Engage your students in high-level critical thinking and evidence-based analysis on the subject of New York Wildlife & Forestry, with this Full Length DBQ CER Style Worksheet. This resource is designed to help students analyze real-world topics, interpret informational texts, and support answers with evidence—all while staying accessible fo
3rd - 6th
Biology, Environment, Informational Text
Project Icebreaker Wind Energy CER | Ohio Ecology | GATE Middle School
📘 Full Length Standard Aligned DBQ CER Style Worksheet - Claim Evidence Reasoning | Project Icebreaker Wind Energy Case Study Worksheet | Evidence-Based Reading Engage your students in high-level critical thinking and evidence-based analysis on the subject of Ohio Wildlife & Forestry, with this Full Length DBQ CER Style Worksheet. This resource is designed to help students analyze real-world topics, interpret informational texts, and support answers with evidence—all while staying accessibl
3rd - 6th
Biology, Environment, Informational Text
Project Puffin Restoration CER | Maine Ecology | GATE Middle School
📘 Full Length Standard Aligned DBQ CER Style Worksheet - Claim Evidence Reasoning | Project Puffin Restoration Case Study Worksheet | Evidence-Based Reading Engage your students in high-level critical thinking and evidence-based analysis on the subject of Maine Wildlife & Forestry, with this Full Length DBQ CER Style Worksheet. This resource is designed to help students analyze real-world topics, interpret informational texts, and support answers with evidence—all while staying accessible f
3rd - 6th
Biology, Environment, Informational Text
"Party Through the Decades" Research Project
This is a great cooperative group or even independent research project for Social Studies! What a great way to wrap up the school year or just challenge some Gifted and Talented Students throughout the year. All the while learning about history, pop culture, economics, and trends of our history. They end with a fun party incorporating historical events and people of the decade, as well as, trends in fashion, music, foods, and the entire culture of the decade!
4th - 12th
Social Studies, U.S. History
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