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This is a compilation of all of the different Hink Pinks, Hinky Pinkies and Hinkity Pinkities I've found over the years. Answer key included. My gifted kiddos can't get enough of these!

Great for GATE! Students will choose between two projects to complete over the course of November. Could be used in class or for an at home project. Make sure to check out the rubrics that correspond!

Comprehensive list of all of the Thanksgiving-themed hink pinks, hinky pinkies and hinkity pinkities I've came across over the years.

Comprehensive list of all of the Halloween-themed hink pinks, hinky pinkies, and hinkity pinkities I've come across over the years.

After completing a novel, use this fun and modern choice board for students to create quick, but meaningful products!

Great extension activity to your tessellation unit or project! Students create their own tessellation, and early finishers, GT students, or all students can complete this activity to push them in their learning!

Comprehensive list of all of the St. Patrick's Day-themed hink pinks, hinky pinkies and hinkity pinkities I've come across over the years.

Rubric for "Board Game Project" also found in my store.

Attached are the rubrics for my other product, Thanksgiving Project for High Achievers. Great for GATE or critical thinkers!

Using the SCAMPER model, I've created this activity specifically about butterflies. You simply choose ANY type of craft butterfly activity and complete. Once finished, give these topics to students to activate higher level thinking skills!

This was created as part of a monthly project for my gifted and talented students. Feel free to modify it with your due dates!

This project was designed to incorporate all that I have taught my GATE students about geography. They are responsible for creating their own continent, countries, states and capital cities, as well as everything that goes into planning those.

A fun take home project for high achieving students.

This story is a story I created using the following SAT vocabulary words: Adhere Brittle capacious Deceive Erratic Baleful Incredulous Jubilant Legacy Malleable Novelty Obscure Potent Fabricate Ghastly Humiliate Irritable Knickknack Laudable Muddle Memento Quadruple Radiance Salutation Scribe Teem Simplify Tranquil Verify Whimsical Yearling zephyr I have students highlight the words, define it in that sentence, and then create a new sentence based on what they think it means.

Students will have a choice of 3 products in order to create a biography presentation on a teacher of their choice.

This is a basic geography skills pre-test I came up with to see what my students knew before I began the unit.

Compare and contrast creating a real snowflake to a man made snow crystal from borax using this handy Venn Diagram! Included are some of the answers we came up with as a class!

Students find the exchange rates from monetary units from around the globe.

Students create their own activity book.

I created this so that students have a guideline for researching on the internet. When given free range, they struggled to come up with a topic or know where to look. I created this chart for them to document what they know and what to learn, as well as 'starter topics' for them to research. Once they've found things that interest them, they write them on the topic sides and document their research.