Middle School Gifted and Talented Resources

Engage the leaders in your classroom by empowering them to make change! Elevate your students' leadership skills with this comprehensive 8-day unit designed for grades 7, 8, and 9. Each 75-minute lesson is meticulously crafted to engage and inspire, providing a robust framework for developing essential leadership qualities. Perfect for middle and early high school students, this unit integrates a variety of interactive and thought-provoking activities.

What’s Included:

✔️ 8-Day Unit of 75-Minute Lessons: Structured and detailed, covering all essential aspects of leadership including communication and team building.

✔️ Comprehensive Lesson Plans: Step-by-step instructions for each day, ensuring smooth and effective delivery.

✔️ Engaging Slides: Visually appealing and informative slides for each lesson to enhance learning and retention using Canva.

Engaging Strategies:

✔️ Discourse: Foster meaningful conversations and critical thinking through structured discussions.

✔️ Writing: Develop students’ reflective and analytical writing skills with targeted prompts and activities.

✔️ Reading & Annotating: Enhance comprehension and critical thinking with guided reading and annotation exercises.

✔️ Research: Teach students how to gather, analyze, and interpret data effectively. ✔️ Data Collection & Analysis: Practical exercises to help students understand and apply data-driven decision-making.

✔️ Presentation Building: Step-by-step guidance on creating impactful presentations using Google Slides or Canva.

✔️ Peer Feedback: Encourage constructive criticism and collaborative improvement with structured feedback sessions.

Perfect For:

• Grades 7, 8, and 9: Tailored to meet the developmental and educational needs of middle and early high school students.
• Project-Based Learning: Integrates seamlessly into PBL frameworks, promoting hands-on and experiential learning.
• Leadership Development: Ideal for leadership courses, advisory periods, or any class focused on personal growth and community involvement.

Bring leadership to life in your classroom with this dynamic and interactive unit. Prepare your students to guide, influence, and inspire others with confidence and integrity. Purchase now and transform your students into the leaders of tomorrow!

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This Writer's Bill of Rights was created by a group of teachers of 5th-grade highly-gifted students but can be used for middle school and high school students at all levels. A poster that can be used in language arts or other classrooms.

This is a jpg file. The file size is 2.4 megabytes at 300 dpi.

It can be enlarged to a poster size for the classroom.

Disclaimer:

One purchase is good for one teacher. If additional teachers would like to use this, please purchase additional licenses.

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Interactive individual or group activity that uses symbols and inferencing to answer the Top Ten Kids' Movies. Colorful images with answer sheet. Movies included: Bambi Cars Ice Age Monsters, Inc. Pinocchio Princess Bride Shrek Tinkerbell Toy Story Wall-E

Celebrate the magic of the Winter Solstice with this beautifully designed printable art piece! Perfect as a thoughtful gift for teachers or anyone who cherishes the warmth and light of the season. Featuring inspiring words and elegant winter-themed artwork, this digital download is a heartfelt way to mark the season of new beginnings.

This versatile piece is ideal for decorating a winter bulletin board, incorporating into winter activities, or simply adding a seasonal touch to any space. Celebrate the beauty of the solstice and the themes of renewal and light that define the winter solstice, making it a meaningful addition to your winter décor.

Whether you're looking for a special seasonal gift or a way to embrace the essence of winter, this printable is the perfect choice for anyone who appreciates the magic of this time of year.

This pdf + PNG files thanksgiving themed cut and paste Activity pages,

• 8 pages

Celebrate Your halloween with your kids (students) and these Printables scissor skills worksheets.

Pump up and motivate your strong math students with this engaging, hands-on project-based learning which will have them discovering the history of constellations, measuring constellations, working on challenging math problems and creating their own constellations.

Do you teach a math enrichment class, or do you have students in your grades 5 and 6 classrooms who are on enrichment programs? Particularly when it comes to multi-levelled classrooms, the focus tends to be on the students with academic struggles, but our strong students need opportunities to push themselves and to stay engaged.

In this document, you'll discover 32 pages of activities, projects, research and artistic activities in line with geometry and angles which will have your students keeping busy while your grade-level and below-grade level students can have you in other ways.

You'll find:

- 60 Constellation cards and a guide on how to use them.

- A second set of 60 constellation cards with "lettered" corners (i.e. ∠ABC).

- A set of response pages to measure all corners in the 60 given constellations.

- A reading comprehension piece on the history of constellations and astronomy.

- 2 pages of questions and an answer key for the reading comprehension piece.

- "Les symboles du Zodiac" - An activity sheet on naming the different constellations of the zodiac.

- A research project on a constellation:

• success criteria + detailed explanation of components;
• worksheets for research information.

- "Des calculs célestes" - 3 pages of challenging word problems with an answer key.

- "Crée ta propre constellation" - A following directions activity on creating constellations with specific angles and shapes within them.

- "Crée ta propre constellation" - An activity on creating a unique constellation.

- "Art de constellation" - An art project suitable for your enriched students and your entire group as a final activity.

This is the first of (hopefully) many enrichment projects for math. Stay tuned!

For goodness sakes, don't forget to have fun.

Kaitlyn.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

Included you'll find 4 pages of simple division problems that correlate to letters of the alphabet via the solutions. Each page turns into a secret message!

Answer key included. Page count includes answer key and contact page.

This might be best as a review, and I had "gifted" students in mind who might need a challenge, or for any students who finish early on other activities.

Only whole positive integers were used.

OTHER RESOURCES YOU MIGHT LIKE:

• The addition one
• The subtraction one
• The multiplication one
• The BUNDLE of all 4!
• Count the Shapes activity
• Consumer Math activity

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Learn about the country of Qatar. Great for a Friday activity or substitute day.

This DAILY WRITING ANALYSIS LESSON uses powerful quotations to develop students' analytical skills. 20 famous quotes are provided in these Google Slides for a month of daily pondering and analyzing. They are skillfully guided by pre-designed tempates to create cohesive written response.

Goal: This month long collection of higher level thinking quotes will provide a catalyst for summarizing, paraphrasing, using of synonyms, antonyms and thesaurus words in a organized sequence of complete sentences using the templates provided.

Audience: Whole class, small group, regular education, special education, ELL, virtual/home school.

PRODUCT CONTAINS:

PDF: daily directions, teacher suggestions, hints and tips to improve written responses, printable writing templates, example responses

Google Slides: twenty soothing and aesthetic quotation slides to be used daily

“What a wonderful and relaxing way to start each morning! I love the quotes!! This resources set my kids up for success and gave me a very specific method to improve their writing.“

This lesson is also available in PowerPoint!

Make reviewing plant cells fun with this engaging hands-on 3D diorama science craft project! Students learn about plant cells and then decorate a shoe box based on what they learned! Students are responsible for decorating the box and putting a creative scene inside that represents an plant cell. Students love it when they get to do projects and make their learning come to life!

Here’s what you’ll get:

• pre-colored pages for a quick cut and prep
• black and white pages for students to color their own background and pieces
• rubric for easy grading
• research page for students to record their learning
• planning page for students to map out how they want their diorama to look

What is a diorama?

A diorama is a three-dimensional scene built to illustrate a topic. Dioramas are small scenes created with layers of materials. A diorama can be made out of a shoe box or similar box that includes a variety of information and pictures about a topic.

Students create a diorama by cutting, coloring, painting, and gluing pieces inside the box to create a model that shows a situation, such as a historical event or animals in their natural environment. Students can be encouraged to add real features such as grass, sand, sticks, etc.

The dioramas do not come with specific assembly instructions. Students should learn about the plant cell first, and use the pieces within this resource to creatively build their own unique diorama! This is a fun way for students to learn and get hands-on with the lesson/topic.

Prep is quick and easy... print the pieces on cardstock for durability and let your students explore the water as an enrichment activity to your lesson plan.

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Looking for an engaging activity to challenge your gifted students? Do you struggle to find activities focusing on lateral thinking? Then download Gifted and Talented Activity Can you make a connection? This interactive game encourages lateral thinking and creativity. Students will make a connection between two objects that seem completely unrelated. Watch and be amazed as students draw connections, practice brainstorming, and collaborate.

Students can make plays on words, create stories, and make connections that you may have never thought of! Perfect for your gifted/advanced and creative students!

Example:

• What do CORN and INSTRUMENTS have in common?

✔ Actual student response: “What does corn have in common with an instrument? Corn sounds like horn. And horns are instruments!

• What do TOES and RUBY have in common?

✔ Actual student response: “I was at the beach. I dug my toes in the sand. I felt something. I pulled it up and it was an old toy. I looked at the toy and saw that someone had written their name on it. It was a girl’s name, Ruby.”

• What do WRESTLING and RAIN have in common?

✔ Actual student response: “Wrestling. Wrestler. Mr. T was a famous wrestler. And do you know what else starts with the letter “T”? Tornado! Tornados start with the letter T. And do you know what tornadoes bring? Lots of wind and rain. Rain! Wrestling leads to rain!!

This product comes with the following:

• Directions for 7 different ways to play
• 60 fun word pairs
• 100% digital/online game

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Color By Number - Order of Operations - Level 1

This product includes 16 problems of solving expressions following the rules for order of operations. This assignment is self checking in that students will answer the question and find their answers on the coloring page. Once they have locate their answers they will color in that section until all questions have been answered.

• Colors Needed: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple

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This resource is a part of my 7th grade skills based curriculum that I am building, this is a work in progress and I will be focusing on 7th grade TEKS this year with hopes to expand to 6th and 8th grade. While I am based in Texas and most of the resources will be aligned with the TEKS, everything I am creating is skill based meaning they are not specific to Texas and can be used by anyone! Take a look through the Resource List linked below to see all that is available, it is a live document and will be updated as I go.

7th Grade Math Resource List

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You will love our Fraction Mobile Math Puzzles, the perfect blend of fun and learning for your early finishers and talented and gifted students! These hanger diagram algebra puzzles are a challenging way for high achievers and early finishers to practice comparing, reducing, adding and dividing fractions while thinking critically. Simply balance the sides, and you'll solve equations like a pro while having a blast. Dive into the world of math with these engaging fraction mobile puzzles today!

Focus:

• Math
• Equations
• Fractions
• Reducing fractions
• Comparing fractions
• Adding fractions
• Dividing fractions
• Mixed numbers
• Critical Thinking
• Problem Solving

Includes:

• Directions
• 12 Challenging Puzzles
• 3 Condensed Puzzle Pages
• Answer Recording Sheet
• Full Answer Key

Also See:

• Numbers up to 20 Mobile Math Puzzles
• Numbers up to 100 Mobile Math Puzzles
• Challenging Mobile Math Puzzles
• Decimal Mobile Math Puzzles
• Mobile Math Puzzle Bundle

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Note this is a PowerPoint Presentation & Activity, all in one.

Double Bubble Car Wash: Intro. to Problem Solving through Depth and Complexity

The beginning of the year problem-solving activity is designed to engage your students with mathematical reasoning and critical thinking.

Part1:

Open-ended problem with no correct answer as long as students are able to prove their solution with mathematical evidence.

Part II:

Four unique extensions of the original problem using depth and complexity icons.

Can be used with multiple grade levels depending on their multiplication readiness. Originally designed for gifted 5th-grade students.

Solution: While it is likely not possible for a single-lane, single-franchise car wash to produce millions of satisfied customers each year, multiple-lane, multiple-franchise car washes could certainly support their claim.

Disclaimer:

One purchase is for the use of one teacher. If additional teachers would like to use this product, please purchase additional licenses.

Everything you need to for students to make their own game boards based on concepts from unit lesson plans:

Student examples

Templates for squares, objects, and more...

Images for game pieces (male/female of different ages, modes of transportation)

Images for pitfalls and rewards (bridges, buildings, desert, mountains trees, etc...)

Directions

Suggestions for using/playing

Scoring Rubrics

Many items for students to make their own game boards! A great assessment tool for project based classrooms! Use as chapter/novel comprehension, reinforcing skills, main ideas/supporting details, historical events, and more... Fun for students and teachers! Be sure to have a game day to play the board games!

Looking for a thoughtful and creative gift for your teacher? This Fingerprint Art Keepsake Printable is the perfect way to show your gratitude! Easy to use and filled with sentimental value, this keepsake makes a wonderful gift for Teacher Appreciation Week, end-of-year celebrations, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, or any occasion throughout the school year.

What’s Included:

• A beautifully designed printable template (ready to download and print).
• Space to add children’s fingerprints to create a unique and personalized gift.
• Optional: Add the students’ names and the teacher’s name to make it even more special!

Why Teachers Will Love It:

This keepsake captures the love and appreciation of the entire class. The fingerprints symbolize the lasting impact a teacher has on their students, making it a cherished memento they’ll treasure for years.

How to Use:

1. Download the template after purchase.
2. Print it on high-quality paper or cardstock.
3. Have each student add their fingerprint with non-toxic ink.
4. Add names (optional), frame it, or gift it as is!

This simple yet heartfelt gift is ideal for students, parents, or room moms looking to give something memorable and meaningful to their teacher.

Perfect for:

• Teacher Appreciation Week
• Christmas or holiday gifts
• End-of-year gifts
• Valentine’s Day surprises

Fun Cutting And Pasting | Scissor Skills Activity Pages For Kids And Toddler, Preschool, Kindergarten, Girls, Boys Kids. This paint dauber coloring Pages is perfect for younger to practice by cutting and Gluening skills and have fun at the same time. Makes a fun and educational gift!

WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE

• 30 Cut And Paste Worksheets

• pages ( PDF + PNG)

• Large 8.5'' x 11'' designs that can easily be printed on regular sized paper

• High-resolution images

• Unlimited prints

• Great for kids, boys and girls

JUST DOWNLOAD, PRINT AND GET STARTED

• This item comes as a high-resolution PDF + PNG files that you can download straight after purchasing.

• You can print as many copies as you want.

NOTE

• This is a digital item.

• No physical product or printed material will be shipped.

• No refunds as this is a digital product.

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Unlock a full year of teaching excellence with our comprehensive bundle! Perfect for both new and seasoned teachers, this collection of 68 documents provides an entire year's worth of math games, activities, worksheets, assessments and teachables. Designed for practicality, it caters to diverse teaching needs, offering a valuable resource that saves time and money. Elevate your classroom experience with easy-to-navigate, no-prep materials, ensuring dynamic and engaging lessons throughout the year. Transform your teaching game with this economical and extensive toolkit!

This bundle includes absolutely every (68!) math document you would find in my store!

Why you need this?

• These activities are built for grade six students and their all-over-the-place attitudes and personalities!
• Whether you need documents to teach content, have students show their understanding, get them up and moving, to leave with a substitute teacher or as centre-based activities, this bundle has you COVERED!
• I teach with a Workshop format and use mini-lessons. Revolutionize your teaching with our paperless resources, ideal for classrooms embracing a textbook-free approach! Streamline lessons seamlessly, fostering an interactive and digital learning environment. Upgrade your classroom experience effortlessly!
• As I build new content, games and activities, I'll add them here and update you! This is an ever-growing bundle (20 were added in 2024, alone!) (Get it sooner rather than later!)

WHAT'S INCLUDED

Included you'll find 4 pages of simple multiplication problems that correlate to letters of the alphabet via the solutions. Each page turns into a secret message!

Answer key included. Page count includes answer key and contact page.

This might be best as a review, and I had "gifted" students in mind who might need a challenge, or for any students who finish early on other activities.

Only whole positive integers were used.

OTHER RESOURCES YOU MIGHT LIKE:

• The addition one
• The subtraction one
• The division one
• The BUNDLE of all 4!
• Count the Shapes activity
• Consumer Math activity

Copyright © Early Childhood Essentials

Purchase of this product is for use in *one* home or classroom, virtual or in-person. Thank you in advance!

Want a fun activity to review vocabulary terms for a unit on ancient Egypt? Looking for an enrichment activity in history? Try my Ancient Egyptian Secret Message activity. The activity involves students working individually or in groups to review vocabulary terms on Egypt. Then,a following direction activity is next where students place letters from the different terms into boxes found at the end of the activity page. Once all the boxes are filled, a "secret message" about Egypt is revealed! The teacher page includes additional information to share about the "secret message".

If you are looking for additional resources on Egypt, perhaps, you may find these of interest:

1. Play on King Tut(Lots of information on mummies and the most famous mummy of all!) King Tut, A Reader's Theater Script

2. Learn about a WOMAN that was Pharaoh of ancient Egypt:

Hatshepsut, A Reader's Theater Script

3. Review activity: Mystery Message solved using key vocabulary words about Egypt: Ancient Egyptian Secret Message Review Activity

4. Mummies aren't just found in ancient Egyptian culture. Mummies have been found all over the world! In fact, the oldest man-made mummies are found in the country of Chile! Mummies can be naturally created or man-made. This web quest includes the different types of mummies and has 12 web questions including information on Bog Mummies such as Tollund Man, the Inca Mummies,the Taklamakan Desert Mummies of China, Otzi, the frozen mummy, the Chinchorro Mummies of Chile, the Egyptian mummies... and more. There are comprehension questions, a Did You Know? section, a teacher section with extension activities, additional links and the key. Great for a Friday activity, at Halloween time, or if you are studying ancient Egypt. Mummies! A Webquest