In this activity, students hold a digital seminar using Flipgrid to a. develop empathy for characters who are in some way considered outsiders within the context of their stories b. enrich their understanding of culture (both the term itself in addition to dominant and marginalized) through analysis of literature.

In this activity, students hold a digital seminar using Flipgrid to develop empathy for characters who are in some way considered outsiders within the context of their stories.

In this activity, students hold a digital seminar using Flipgrid to develop empathy for characters who are in some way considered outsiders within the context of their stories.

Each group will build a different building 2-level wing of the team's school in one day but can only use the materials provided to the team. Each wing must include several classrooms for drones to survey and land.

Students will be completing a tic-tac-toe summary assignment as a formal assessment on the ecosystems found in North Carolina and how water quality effects those ecosystems.

This resource is designed to assist students in understanding of the Eruopean explorers, who they were, what they did, and what impact they have on the modern world.  Students will watch brief biographgical videos from Bio.com and History.com about each explorer to complete the questions on the graphic organizer.

This is a lesson that engages students in critical analysis of text and affords them an opportunity to demonstrate their learning creatively by creating an acrostic poem, short essay or other creative piece of work that is approved by the teacher.

Explore point of view beyond 1st/2nd/3rd person; give your students a chance to explore perspective of characters to the theme and action of the plot.  Students will consider several questions and themes, discuss their ideas with others, and create a  written response.

 In this activity, students will select a person, place, or object that is meaningful to them and create a thirty-second story that explains the importance of this place or object. This is a great activity for the first week or two of school to help students learn to get to know each other and work on their presentation skills. As we well know, public speaking among many people’s greatest fears, so in this assignment, students will create video presentations that allow for editing and revision which will hopefully lower the stakes of the presentation. 

Students will discuss and create a scratch jr animation about the phases of the moon.

Utilize these questions with literature recommended for bibliotherapy use with gifted students. Students can also use pictures and Instagram/Snapchat style posts to answer the questions.

In this lesson students work in collaborative groups to collect, represent, and interpret numerical data that they generate by using Sphero robots to knock down bowling pins!

In this graph project students will create a statistical question, gather, analyze, and graph data either by hand or using technology.

In this graph project students will create a statistical question, gather, analyze, and graph data either by hand or using technology. The project includes a rubric to help students understand how the project will be assessed more clearly.

After studying elements of the Industrial Revolution, students will conduct a collaborative research assignment related to the Industrial Revolution.

Students will show their knowledge of algorithms by creating different patterns that they find in the classroom.

In this lesson, students will use a bot (Beebot/Shero Indi, etc) to show their understanding of decoding and sight words.

In this lesson, students will model processes with algorithms by showing their favorite day in a storyboard.

In this lesson, students will collect/interpret data and then create a graph to present.