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Preview of Table-top Mini Golf:  STEAM Engineering and Design for Elementary GATE

Table-top Mini Golf: STEAM Engineering and Design for Elementary GATE

In From Putt-putt to Pebble Beach--Table-top Mini Golf, students will design and construct a playable table-top sized miniature golf course using the engineering design process. With these lessons, the teacher defines the problem, helps students gather background research, and specifies the requirements. The students do the rest: creating alternative solutions, choosing the best solution, doing development work, building a prototype, and testing and redesigning. The result is a classroom filled
Preview of SPIES!  A GATE Adventure 18+ Contact Hours - Challenging and Engaging!

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

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
Preview of Biotechnology in Agriculture GATE Differentiated Reading Worksheet & Organizer

Biotechnology in Agriculture GATE Differentiated Reading Worksheet & Organizer

Reading Passage focused on the Biotechnology in Agriculture Lesson written at a 7th grade level for Gifted & Talented Elementary or Middle School Environmental & Agricultural Science. See Thumbnails for more details. Simply purchase, download and copy! 10x multiple choice questions based on the readingGraphic Organizer to help students pick out the main idea and supporting detailsDifferentiation for elementary students at a higher reading level.Great for close reading and review!Unlike other tea
Preview of Life Support Systems in Space GATE Differentiated Worksheet & Organizer

Life Support Systems in Space GATE Differentiated Worksheet & Organizer

Reading Passage focused on the Life Support Systems in Space Lesson written at a 7th grade level for Gifted & Talented Elementary or Middle School Aerospace & Physical Science. See Thumbnails for more details. Simply purchase, download and copy! 10x multiple choice questions based on the readingGraphic Organizer to help students pick out the main idea and supporting detailsDifferentiation for elementary students at a higher reading level.Great for close reading and review!Unlike other teacher's
Preview of Soil Health and Management GATE Differentiated Reading Worksheet & Organizer

Soil Health and Management GATE Differentiated Reading Worksheet & Organizer

Reading Passage focused on the Soil Health and Management Lesson written at a 7th grade level for Gifted & Talented Elementary or Middle School Environmental & Agricultural Science. See Thumbnails for more details. Simply purchase, download and copy! 10x multiple choice questions based on the readingGraphic Organizer to help students pick out the main idea and supporting detailsDifferentiation for elementary students at a higher reading level.Great for close reading and review!Unlike other teach
Preview of Da Vinci Parachute Prototypes -- Hands-on STEM

Da Vinci Parachute Prototypes -- Hands-on STEM

In this lesson, students solve geometry problems and learn background physics concepts as they build a working model of Leonardo Da Vinci’s parachute. Logic, critical thinking, a bit of Renaissance history, writing and supporting conclusions with details from a source—it’s all here too! Make this extended lesson a cross-curricular, standards-based mini-unit, or just make it a cool building activity. Pick and choose the level of commitment right for you and your students. With the suggested e
Preview of AIR -- An Incredibly Cool STEAM Unit for Upper Elementary!

AIR -- An Incredibly Cool STEAM Unit for Upper Elementary!

Balloon cars, hovercrafts, gliders, prototypes, zip-lines and air rockets, helicopters and more . . . Here is a full unit with more than 20 hours of critical thinking and hands-on activities designed specifically for all 21st Century Learners and nonverbally gifted learners. STEM teachers: this unit guides students through the engineering process time and time again—elementary style! Not only is this unit packed with critical thinking opportunities and rich in deeper understanding of physica
Preview of WWII Airplane Fighter Gliders - GATE STEM + Reading 3rd-7th Grades

WWII Airplane Fighter Gliders - GATE STEM + Reading 3rd-7th Grades

Yes, we get to throw little gliders around the classroom. This is the sneakiest, most evil sort of teacher trick: learning standards and being challenged academically while having fun! This unit is perfect for a Friday or the day before a vacation. Start it in the morning, and run across the entire curriculum throughout the school day. Or take pieces out of the unit here and there over the course of days and weeks . . . as the components can work as “stand alone” or as a cohesive trip acr
Preview of STEAM Kid Engineering -- The Playable Golf Course Design Unit for GATE

STEAM Kid Engineering -- The Playable Golf Course Design Unit for GATE

In this unit, students will build a contraption to hit a small, wooden golf ball through a scaled version of a golf course which they and their classmates have designed. They’ll make a trundle wheel for measuring and marking the course, write down their scores on a scorecard, design putters, and learn background in physics through their work in the engineering and design process. The Playable Golf Course is not just fun. It’s a challenging engineering, design, and construction unit including
Preview of STEM Kid Engineering for GATE -- FERRIS WHEELS plus Primary Sources

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

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.
Preview of Arctic Dogsled Racing Design Challenge - STEAM for Upper Elementary

Arctic Dogsled Racing Design Challenge - STEAM for Upper Elementary

Here’s an applied engineering challenge in which—just like in the real world of engineering—a poor design means limited success or even failure. In the Iditarod Sled Challenge, students apply their background knowledge of physical science and use logic and imagination to construct a miniature sled that will deliver “serum” to Nome, Alaska, just like Balto once did. Use this challenge in conjunction with your study of the arctic or the Iditarod--or as a stand-alone engineering challenge for the
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