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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
My Strengths Reflection | K–1 | SEL Activity, Writing, Templates & Certificate
Grades K–1Title: My Strengths Reflection – Grades K–1 | SEL Activity, Writing, Templates & Certificate Description: Help your youngest learners explore their strengths in a fun, visual, and confidence-building way! This My Strengths Reflection project for Grades K–1 promotes self-awareness, emotional growth, and early writing skills through a blend of guided prompts and creative design. What’s Included:✍️ Editable Writing Reflection Page (DOCX) – With sentence starters and wide line
PreK - 1st
For All Subjects
PBL: Mapping Your School on a Coordinate Grid: CORE (Geometry and Number Sense)
For an in-depth preview go here: http://pblparadise.blogspot.com/
CORE Standards
6.G.3 Draw polygons in the coordinate plane given coordinates for the vertices; use coordinates to find the length of a side joining points with the same first coordinate or the same second coordinate. Apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.
6.NS.6.b Understand signs of numbers in ordered pairs as indicating locations in quadrants of the coordinate plane; recognize th
5th - 8th
Math
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
End of Year Science Activities Summer STEM and STEAM Challenges Projects Lessons
Tired of feeling like you’re dragging students across the finish line after testing? I get it. Those last few weeks are tough—kids are antsy, attention spans are short, and you’re running on empty. That’s why I created this hands-on, low-prep science bundle: to help you keep the learning fun, meaningful, and manageable— right up to the last bell. Here’s what’s inside (and why you’ll love it):✅ Oil Spill STEM Challenge: Watch your kids get fired up about environmental science while they problem
2nd - 4th
English Language Arts, Science
CCSS
3.NF.A.1
, RI.2.3
, RI.3.3
+3
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
Geometry Tessellations All Around Us: Math Inquiry Project
Geometry is all around us. Tessellations are the art of maths. Make maths interactive and hands on. This 3 day math workshop includes trans disciplinary skills of observations, inferring and critical thinking, where the children have to identify polygons and create their own tessellations. This IB PYP aligned geometry presentation includes a slide show that demonstrates how patterns repeat and occur in nature. Take a walk outside and allow the children to explore and inquire for themselves! Th
3rd - 5th
Applied Math, Geometry, Math
Also included in: Geometry & Measurement Bundle | Grades 4–5 | Inquiry-Based Math Projects
Time Management Back to school Project life skills Pie Chart Math Activity AVID
⭐3 versions: Print and go⭐ Time Management Pie Chart Math Art Project perfect to review student goals, math concepts, and reflect. Instructions, templates, drafts, brainstorming, rubrics, and differentiation included. Great for sub days, in-class, and as a take-home project. Different options for multiple grade levels to learn about math and work toward their goals. Looks amazing on a bulletin board, open house, back to school, and more. All 59 organized pages and 3 options print on standard
4th - 12th
For All Subjects, Fractions, Visual Arts
PRODUCERS, CONSUMERS AND DECOMPOSERS READING PASSAGE AND CARD SORT PROJECT
Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers: Reading Passage and Card Sorting Project This lesson plan uses very high-quality pictures of producers, consumers and decomposers, including a selection of interesting plants and animals to engage and teach students how to classify plants and animals according to their roles in food chains. The lesson also includes a reading passage which introduces the students to how energy is transferred through food chains, This interesting and engaging reading passage
4th - 8th
Biology, General Science, Science
CCSS, NGSS
RI.5.7
, 5-PS3-1
Ned Kelly - Australian Bushranger | Lesson + Art Project + No Prep Mini Craft
Ned Kelly – Australia’s Most Infamous Bushranger introduces students, Grades 3 - 6, to the “naughty boy of Australian history” with an engaging lesson and includes an art project based on Australian artist Sidney Nolan’s famous Ned Kelly series. The lesson tells the history of Kelly and contemplates the evolution of Kelly as a folk hero and integral character in Australian history. From his early troubles with the law to his iconic homemade armor and eventual capture, Ned Kelly’s story is an u
3rd - 6th
Australian History, Visual Arts
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!
The Precedents of the Early Presidents - US History - Project Based Learning
This 1 - 2 week Project Based Learning Unit will organize your classroom study of our first three presidents perfectly. It ends with a presentation and a presentation rubric for the teacher. George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson were foundational in setting up the role of president for all future presidents and your class will have to prove it. Optional Start: Students will be started with a fun, online game requiring 1:1 or 1:2 technology called Executive Command that can be fo
5th - 12th
Speaking & Listening, U.S. History
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
Civilization GRAPES Independent Study Project
This project can be used to examine any civilization using the organizer GRAPES (geography, religion, achievements, politics, economics, social structure.)
Students research each area and then have a choice of creative follow-up tasks for each one (lots of art, creative writing, etc. To culminate their work, students will create a slideshow presentation about each area of GRAPES.
File includes overviews of GRAPES, project description/planner, follow-up choices, rubric, and note taking sheets.
5th - 9th
Ancient History, World History
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
Discovering Mysteries in History Mini-Unit Research Project: Gifted and Talented
This is the perfect mini-unit for Gifted and Talented. Turn your students into history detectives with this engaging research-based mystery unit! Students begin with a guided research project where the teacher models and supports essential research skills through mini lessons. Then, students apply what they have learned by completing an independent research project focused on a mystery from history of their choice. This resource is designed to help students build confidence as researchers while
4th - 6th
Reading, World History, Writing
CCSS
CCRA.W.7
, CCRA.W.8
, CCRA.W.9
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
Roller Coasters: The Science Behind the Thrill STEM Project
🎢 Roller Coasters: The Science Behind the Thrill | Reading Comprehension + STEM Lab ChallengeLooking for an engaging, meaningful, and low-prep end-of-year science activity? This roller coaster-themed resource combines science literacy with hands-on engineering to create an unforgettable learning experience for your students!Students will begin by exploring the science behind roller coasters through an engaging nonfiction reading passage that introduces key concepts such as gravitational potenti
5th - 8th
Engineering, Other (Science), Physical Science
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
Shoe Sculpture Challenge - Beginning of Year Group Project - PPT + Instructions
The best beginning of Year/Semester project! Everyone raves over this assignment and it is such a joy watching students collaborate and problem solve with just cardboard, masking tape, and glue. This Shoe Sculpture Challenge allows students to work in a group to build a shoe of any style with basic materials. They must figure it out together and the shoe must fit a group "Cinderella"! Finished shoes are voted on for Most Creative and Best Craftsmanship. This is sure to be a hit in your classro
4th - 12th
Classroom Community, Engineering, Visual Arts
Typography - Lettering Art Project - Middle School Font Lesson Guide
This lettering project was a huge success with my middle school students! It can be used in a face-to-face, hybrid, or a virtual learning setting!This product includes:25+ slides detailing each step of this process. Basic pacing I used for my 40 minute class periods. It is totally editable as I uploaded it as the original PowerPoint file! If you want the fonts I used, I have included a PDF copy of the project! Example work Rough Drafting/Planning Worksheet PDF
5th - 12th
Art, Graphic Arts, Visual Arts
Also included in: Art Bundle - Middle School Art Lessons
Literary Diorama Project | ELA & Art Integration | Symbolism, Conflict, & Theme
3D Book Project | Literary Diorama Project | ELA & Art Integration | Symbolism, Conflict, & Theme Engage students with this hands-on literary analysis project that brings literature to life! This ELA and Art Integration activity guides students in grades 5-8 through an in-depth exploration of symbolism, conflict, and theme by designing a 3D book diorama. This standards-aligned project fosters creativity, critical thinking, and speaking skills through a visually engaging presentation. ✅
5th - 8th
Close Reading, English Language Arts, Literature
CCSS
RL.5.1
, RL.5.2
, RL.6.1
+15
Research & Project Lessons with activities BUNDLE
This is a 109 slide PowerPoint that can be used to guide your students through the research process. Each subtopic of teaching about research includes activities for the students to perform to help ingrain the concepts. All slides have clipart to make for a visually appealing PowerPoint. This bundle includes the following topics:
What is Research-7slides
Choosing a Topic- 8 slides
Formulating Questions-8 slides
Using Resources-7 slides
Finding Information on the interent-9 slides
Reliability
3rd - 10th
For All Subjects, Other (ELA)
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