Less than $5 12th Grade Gifted and Talented Activities (by date, latest first)

A fun and engaging March Madness, end-of-year, or anytime project for your history class!

Students work together to find the Historical "Signif-Events" of 100 major events in human history and then narrow it down to one final champion through debate, presentations, writing, and a tournament bracket!

Students will create presentations to argue why their event is the most significant, debate and vote as a class in each tournament matchup, and write about the world if their event had never happened!

Project includes:

- Overview and instructions to 4 main parts of the project

- List of 100 Significant Events from human history

- A 100 team bracket to be used during the project

- Teacher's Notes

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

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!