Basic Math Reference Sheet

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The Art of the Animal Farm: Math in Design Study Guide

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This checklist and study guide supports students in preparing for the math and design concepts used in The Art of the Animal Farm Unit. Students review key vocabulary such as acre, area, perimeter, scale, and blueprint, and practice dividing farm land logically between animals and structures using simple scenarios.

5th - 9th

Basic Operations, Graphic Arts, Visual Arts

Also included in: The Art of the Animal Farm - Project-Based Learning Unit

Brave Irene - Classic Picture Books for Primary GATE - Dress Design Metaphors

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Mark Hess & Portable Gifted and Talented

Full of hands-on activities and critical thinking, your students will deliver physical metaphors to brighten the day for someone special. They’ll measure, design, and style clothing using miniature dress-making dummies just like Irene’s mother, and they’ll perform and share in an active vocabulary in context activity. Of course, this bundle contains plenty of critical thinking questions to keep those minds humming while the hands are not busy. This unit is right on target for middle elementar

2nd - 5th

English Language Arts, Graphic Arts

Primary GATE with Caldecott -- The House in the Night

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Mark Hess & Portable Gifted and Talented

The House in the Night gives us a wonderful opportunity to challenge primary level gifted learners—in language and poetry, critical and metaphorical thinking, visually, and artistically. In this lesson, students will: a.) discover the pattern of the poem and discuss critical thinking questions about the book, b.) think critically about symbols, metaphors and language using a graphic organizer and class discussion, c.) construct a personalized cumulative pattern poem, d.) And thoughtfully i

1st - 3rd

Poetry, Visual Arts

CCSS

RL.1.4

, RL.2.4

, RL.2.7