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SPIES! A GATE Adventure 18+ Contact Hours - Challenging and Engaging!

Created by

Mark Hess & Portable Gifted and Talented

Your students will ask to stay in from recess for this. It is the most popular unit I've taught in 32 years, and it is packed with challenging critical thinking. We imagine students are training at the school for spies: mini survivor challenges, mini crossbows, a jewel heist, footprint mysteries, memory games, cipher disks, case files, messages hidden in gel caps. This unit is STEM and critical thinking at its coolest and finest, and we’ve thrown in reading, speaking and listening, and a social

4th - 7th

Applied Math, Engineering

Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted

STEM Kid Engineering for GATE -- FERRIS WHEELS plus Primary Sources

Created by

Mark Hess & Portable Gifted and Talented

In this GATE engineering journey, students will each construct a very cool Ferris wheel prototype as a final product. Along the way, they will examine primary source images, read primary source history, and integrate math, engineering, and economics in a learning process which incorporates best practices in gifted and talented education for 21st Century Learners. This is a challenging engineering project—teacher guided. I used it for GATE 4th grade; however, my kids are experienced builders.

4th - 8th

Applied Math, Engineering, Social Studies

CCSS

5.NBT.B.7

, RI.4.1

, RI.4.3

Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE