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GATE Activities

Digital Extension and Enrichment Resources

GATE ActivitiesDigital Extension and Enrichment Resources

Blended and Remote Learning Reinforcement Opportunities

Whether your students are back in the classroom for in-person instruction or learning from home, this newsletter offers a variety of activities to engage and extend learning for all of our students across any instructional platform.
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Comic Strips

Canva, Pixton, and StoryboardThat are web based platforms that allow students to create their own comic strips to tell a story, recount events, or simply share new learning in a unique and creative way.

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Digital Trading Cards

ReadWriteThink has so many interactive and creative templates to choose from. This trading card creator is easy to use and offers the ability to capture people, places, events and even has a "create your own" option.
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Newspaper Article

Whether it's highlighting different characters in a novel, mathematic processes, historical events in time, scientific discoveries, or simply collaborating on "Quarantine Times", creating a newspaper makes a great group project for any subject. Here is a copy of a "Newspaper" template in Google docs to make things easy to collaboratively assign in Canvas.

(Note: template opens with Latin text to be replaced by student work.)

Activities That Promote Creativity

Creating Digital Games
Digital game design is a complex learning activity for developing the 4Cs: Communication, Collaboration, Creativity and Critical Thinking. Students can create games at any level covering a variety of subjects.

Need help?

Is your team or department looking for new ideas to engage students in your curriculum? Would you like to add creative and critical thinking activities to your lessons? Do your GATE and high achieving students need more? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, click the bookings button below and schedule a time for me to assist you.
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Stefanie Caswell - GATE TOSA

Conejo Valley Unified School Distirct

Student Support Services

GATE Department

Email: scaswell@conejousd.org
Website: http://www.conejousd.org/Departments/Student-Services/Student-Support-Services/Gifted-and-Talented-Education-GATE
Location: 1400 East Janss Road, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
Phone: (805)497-9511
Twitter: @CVUSD_GATE