About Me

Unit
Gifted and Talented
Curriculum
Grades 3-5

Selfie me Binder Covers

Grades 3-5

Materials Needed: Binder cover sheet, pencils, crayons

Process: Students will decorate the face to look like
themselves and will write their name at the bottom and
decorate it. Then students will stand up and move around
the room one chair at a time to write a positive affirmation
on each persons picture. This is a great way to build
classroom rapport. If students begin the year building each
other up, they will likely continue that pattern. Additionally,
if they need a pick-me-up during the day, they can read
some of the things that others have written about them.
We used these as binder covers for our journals. Make it
VERY CLEAR when doing this activity that negative
comments are absolutely unacceptable. Walk the room
while students are commenting to monitor whats being
written and adjust your feedback as necessary.
G/T Standards Addressed: Affective Development

3rd Grade Common Core Standards Addressed: SL.3.3

4th Grade Common Core Standards Addressed: SL.4.3
5th Grade Common Core Standards Addressed: CCRA.SL.2

Name __________________

Name __________________

Simile Journaling
Grades 3-5
Materials Needed: Journaling sheet, pencils

Process: Students will complete each simile to describe

themselves, then draw a picture of how they see themselves.
G/T Standards Addressed: Affective Development
3rd Grade Common Core Standards Addressed: W.3.2, L.3.5
4th Grade Common Core Standards Addressed: W.4.2, L.4.5
5th Grade Common Core Standards Addressed: W.5.2, L.5.5

Name __________________

Simile Journaling

Razzle Dazzle Words

Grades 3-5
Materials Needed: Vocabulary sheets, Teacher notes, pencils
Process: Explain to students that part of being well rounded and being able to
speak intelligently is having a broad vocabulary. Each week, we will add five
words to our Razzle Dazzle Vocabulary Folder. I let the students decorate a 3
prong folder for this and we add sheets every week. Students will write the
word, write the definition, draw a picture of the word, use the word in a
sentence, and tell the part of speech for each word. Our new Razzle Dazzle
words this week:
1 Collaborate: when people come together to create something
2 Concentrate: to think carefully about something
3 Innovation: something new and unlike anything else
4 Principles: a basic and important part of what you believe
5 Prolific: to make a lot of something
G/T Standards Addressed: Vocabulary, Creativity
3rd Grade Common Core Standards Addressed: L.3.1, L.3.6
4th Grade Common Core Standards Addressed: L.4.1, L.4.6
5th Grade Common Core Standards Addressed: L.5.1, L.5.6

Name __________________

Razzle Dazzle Words

Word

Definition

Picture

Sentence

Part of Speech

My Multiple Intelligences
Grades 3-5
Materials Needed: Lab handouts, teacher guide, materials for
tables
Process: Before students come to class, set up six tables using
the instructions on the next page. Explain to students what
Multiple Intelligence means and that today we will be discovering
how each one of us is programmed to learn best. Break students
up into groups of at least three. They will rotate from table to
table and will read the directions posted there to complete the
activity. Then theyll need to answer the questions on their
student guide from that section. Upon completion, give each
student a multiple intelligences test (easily found on Google) to see
what the results are. Students will then compare their OWN self
assessment to the official test assessment results and determine
if they feel the test is valid.
G/T Standards Addressed: Affective Development
3rd Grade Common Core Standards Addressed: SL.3.3
4th Grade Common Core Standards Addressed: SL.4.3
5th Grade Common Core Standards Addressed: CCRA.SL.2

Teacher Guide
Print a student guide for each student and hand them out to
the students. Post instructions on each table and use the
following materials to set each table up:
1. Visual Table Lay out blank paper and pens or pencils.
2. Kinesthetic Table Lay out strips of paper and a roll of
tape.
3. Mathematic Table Lay out copies of the Sudoku card
(enough for each student to have one).
4. Interpersonal Table Put the cut out strips of sentences in
a bowl. Wad each one up into a ball.
5. Musical Table Have a song playing on an iPad, computer, or
CD player. (We played River Flows in You by Yiruma, it tends to
bring out very different emotions from different people.)
6. Linguistic Table Print the Linguistic game and tape it down
to the table. You might want to print a few copies so that
students dont have to share.

Create copies of an MI test and Learning Style test for each

student to take after completing the activities.

Name _________________

Student Guide

Visual/Spatial Table: Do you think you could have identified more states if you had a
map with the outline of the U.S. and the borders of the states? __________________
Kinesthetic Table: Was this activity frustrating for you? _______________ Why or
why not? ________________________________________________________________
Logical/Mathematical Table: Do you think this wouldve been easier if it was a
crossword puzzle instead of a number puzzle? _________________ Why or why not?
_________________________________________________________________________
Interpersonal Table: What could have made this easier for you? _________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
Were most of your group members able to spread the secret correctly or did it
come out totally different? _________________________________________________
Intrapersonal Table: What do you want to be when you grow up? _________________
Where do you hope to be in twenty years? ___________________________________
If you could put one thing in a time capsule of your life right now to open in fifty

years, what would that item be? _____________________________________________

What do you enjoy doing most when you are all alone? __________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________

Student Guide
Musical Table: My seven words are: ___________________
___________________

___________________

___________________

___________________

___________________

___________________

Was it difficult to hum the music to your friend? _______________________________

Do you play a musical instrument? __________________ If you dont, have you ever
wanted to? _____________________ What instrument do/would you play? __________
_________________________________________________________________________
Did you find it difficult or easy to describe your feelings while listening? ____________
Linguistic Table:
1.

_____________________________________________________________________

2.

_____________________________________________________________________

3.

_____________________________________________________________________

4.

_____________________________________________________________________

5.

_____________________________________________________________________

6.

_____________________________________________________________________

7.

_____________________________________________________________________

8.

_____________________________________________________________________

9.

_____________________________________________________________________

10. _____________________________________________________________________
How many did you get right? _______________________ How does that compare
with other people in your group? ___________________________________________

Was this hard for you or easy? ____________________________________________

Visual/Spatial Learners
On a blank sheet of paper, draw a picture of the
United States from memory. Try and label as
many states as you can. Every person needs to
make their own and dont let others see your
work. Dont peek at anyones paper!

Kinesthetic Learners
Make a paper chain as a team out of strips of
paper. You are only allowed to use one hand for
this activity and you cannot make a sound.

Logical/Mathematical
Learners
Complete a Sudoku card. Use the numbers 1-9
on each row, column, and in each box. Each
number can be used only once in each row,
column, and in each box. If you use any number
twice in the same row, column, or box, you need
to try it again!

Interpersonal Learners
One at a time, draw a sentence out of the bowl.
Dont tell anyone what it says!! Whisper the line
into the ear of the person next to you and pass
the secret around the group. At the end, let
the last person say the secret out loud and see
how close they got to what it was supposed to
say!

Intrapersonal Learners
Do not say a single word. Answer the questions
on your sheet without talking at all.

Musical Learners
Listen to the song on the CD player. WHILE
YOU ARE LISTENING, write seven words about
how the music makes you FEEL. When the
music is over, pair up in groups of two within
your own group and try to hum back part of the
music.

Linguistic Learners
Look at the list taped to the table. On your own
paper, write what you think the sentence is
supposed to say next to the correct number.
You might need to read it aloud to yourself, but
try to do your own. Dont listen to your friends
reading. For example: Phil Matt Eel Heaven
would be Film at eleven.

Sudoku
7
9
3
4
2 3
9
5
2 7
3
6 4 8 5
8 3 4
6
2
5 6
6 4
1 3 2
3 5
9

8 3
6
5 4 7
2
3

1
5
4

5
6 7 2

Interpersonal Table
Sentences
Glue the paper to the
dark blue background.
These days, a chicken
leg is a rare dish.
The source of the huge
river is the clear spring.
The girl at the booth
sold fifty bonds.
The hogs were fed
chopped corn and garbage.

Linguistic Game
1.

Plea Sleeve Amass Itch

2. Pie Rate Softy Car Hip Been

3. Beak Hall Size Heads Hoe
4. Dare Saw Weight Such Ants
5. Baby Beef Ace
6. Tie Dull Waif
7. Vine Ding Knee Moe
8. Mack Her Owe Knee Inch Hes
9. Haystack Up Hank Aches
10. Thigh Sing Gone Thick Ache

key

key

1.

Linguistic Game

Please leave a message

2.

Pirates of the Caribbean

3.

Because I said so

4.

Theres always a chance

5.

Baby face

6.

Tidal wave

7.

Finding Nemo

8.

Macaroni and cheese

9.

A stack of pancakes

10. The icing on the cake

Tri-hexa-flexagon about me
Grades 3-5
Materials Needed: Template, pencils, colored pencils or light
colored crayons, scissors, glue sticks
Process: Students will create a tri-hexa-flexagon with facts
about them, their family, and things they love about school using
instructions.
G/T Standards Addressed: Affective Development,
Differentiation
3rd Grade Common Core Standards Addressed: MP1, MP2,
W.3.2
4th Grade Common Core Standards Addressed: MP1, MP2,
W.4.2
5th Grade Common Core Standards Addressed: MP1, MP2,
W.5.2

Look at the template.

The
number is at the TOP of each box.
Turn it for each number so that
you are writing in the correct
direction. On all boxes with a
number one, write a fact about
you that we might not know. On
all boxes with a number two, write
a fact about your family that we
might not know. On all boxes with
a number three, write something
that you love about school. Then
color each box lightly using the
same color for all boxes with the
same number. For example, you
might color all of the number ones
light orange, all of the number
twos light yellow, and all of the
number
threes
light
pink.
Remember to color lightly so we
can still read it!

Tri-hexaflexagon
About me

Name _________________

Tri-hexaflexagon
Folding
instructions

1. After cutting it out, fold on

all dark lines to create
creases, folding both ways.
2. Glue the short side down to
the long side (glue the sides
with no numbers).

3. Fold between the 6th and 7th triangles.

4. Your foldable should look something like
this. In this picture, ones are orange, twos
are yellow, and threes are pink. Next fold
under where you see the dotted lines.
5. Your foldable should look like this. If
you look on the other side, youll see
another flap with no color. You need to
pull that flap through and glue the two
colorless sides together. Your foldable is
complete! Now you can pull each color
out through the middle. Just be careful!
The more you fold your shape, the easier
it will be to pull it in and out.

Researching Myself
Grades 3-5
Materials Needed: Choice boards, computers

Process: Students will choose activities from the choice board

to research and create presentations for the class. You can
choose as the teacher to assign one activity, several, or even
all of them. We like to go through the choice boards together
and let students choose their activities. Students will use
computers to complete some work in class and can do
research on their own outside of the classroom.
G/T Standards Addressed: Affective Development, Research,
Presentation Skills
3rd Grade Common Core Standards Addressed: W.3.2
4th Grade Common Core Standards Addressed: W.4.2
5th Grade Common Core Standards Addressed: W.5.2

Name _________________

Researching Myself
This is Me:

Interview the family

member of your
choice and write a true
story about their
best day ever.

Family Tree Poster

Researching
Myself
Rubrics

Followed directions ___/___

Poster is thorough ___/___
Neat, colorful, attractive ___/___
Total Points ____/____

Childhood Interview

First Date Painting

Followed directions ___/___

Followed directions ___/___

Questions are thorough ___/___

Place/people are clear ___/___

Prepared for interview ___/___

Neat, Colorful, Attractive ___/___

Total Points ____/____

Total Points ____/____

Best Day Ever Story

3D Elder House

Followed directions ___/___

Followed directions ___/___

Well planned out ___/___

Well planned out, thorough ___/___

Neatly done, thorough ___/___

Neat, Colorful, Attractive ___/___

Total Points ____/____

Total Points ____/____

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