WHAT IS GATE?

GATE Overview PowerPoint
Not sure what GATE is? Watch a PowerPoint for an overview of Gifted and Talented Education.

The ABCs of GATE PowerPoint
Here are answers to some common questions about GATE at Beatty Elementary.

Bright Child or Gifted Learner? PDF
What's the difference between a bright child a gifted learner?

GATE Scope and Sequence PDF
The curriculum units we explore in the GATE classroom support the Scope and Sequence of the Clark County School District.

UNIVERSAL CONCEPT FOR THE YEAR

In GATE, all of the projects and assignments we do are connected to a universal concept. This year, we are working with the concept of PERCEPTION. Some generalizations that we are exploring include:

• Perception has limitations that are related to the perceiver.
  
  
• Perception is our primary souce of knowledge.
  
  
• Perception is influenced by change.
  
  
• Perception can be affected by different factors.
  
  
• Perception leads to assumptions.

SCOPE AND SEQUENCE

Clark County School District has a Scope and Sequence for GATE students to follow. It's up to each GATE specialist to plan activities that correlate to the Scope and Sequence. The first couple of projects we will be doing are listed below. Check back again to see what we are working on this year as we learn about perception and pop culuture!

MAPPING LIFE'S JOURNEY

Objectives:

• Students will use metaphors to represent their life experiences as geographic features.
  
  
• Students will design and create a unique map whose landforms, roads, cities, and bodies of water represent stages and milestones in their lives.
  
  
• Students will write a description of their life experiences using metaphors.

GATE Scope and Sequence:

• Students will refine peer & group relationships, demonstrate independence, practice decision making, and demonstrate time management. 
  
  
• Students will demonstrate brainstorming, fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration, and visual thinking. 
  
  
• Students will create figurative language, analogies, and utilize imagination. 
  
  
• Students will demonstrate critical thinking through compare/contrast and order/sequence.

Curriculum Essential Framework Connections:

• History Standards
  1.0 - People, Cultures, and Civilizations

• Geography Standards
  5.0 - World in Spatial Terms

• English Language Arts Standards
  2.0 - Reading Strategies
  4.0 - Expository Text
  5.0 - Effective Writing
  6.0 - Types of Writing
  7.0 - Listening
  8.0 - Speaking

BLOOMERS

• Students will brainstorm and discuss what makes GATE students special.
  
  
• Students will be introduced to Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy.
  
  
• Students will demonstrate their understanding of Bloom’s six levels of thinking through class discussions and role playing.

• Students will refine peer & group relationships, demonstrate independence, practice decision making, and demonstrate time management. 
  
  
• Students will demonstrate brainstorming, fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration, and visual thinking. 
  
  
• Students will utilize imagination. 
  
  
• Students will demonstrate critical thinking through compare/contrast and order/sequence.

Curriculum Essential Framework Connections:

• History Standards
  1.0- People, Cultures & Civilizations
  3.0- Social Responsibility and Change

• Civics Standards
  13.0- Citizenship & Law

• English Language Arts Standards
  2.0 Reading Strategies
  4.0 Expository Text
  7.0 Listening
  8.0 Speaking

WEB QUEST : VIP Living Museum

Link to VIP Living Museum WebQuest

Assignment Details

Objectives:

• By conducting a WebQuest, students will learn about different thinking & learning styles. 
  
  
• Students will be introduced to Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences (thinking and learning styles).
  
  
• Students will explore how different learning styles work together to make our world the wonderfully diverse place that it is today.
  
  
• Students will host a living museum to showcase their understanding of Multiple Intelligences by taking on the persona of a famous person for a day.

• Students will refine peer & group relationships, demonstrate independence, practice decision making, and demonstrate time management. 
  
  
• Students will demonstrate brainstorming, fluency, flexible thinking, originality, elaboration, and visual thinking. 
  
  
• Students will utilize imagination. 
  
  
• Students will demonstrate critical thinking through compare/contrast and order/sequence.

Curriculum Essential Framework Connections:

• Technololgy
  2.0 Productivity Tools
  3.0 Research Tools
  4.0 Tools and Processes

• Library Skills/Information Literacy
  1.0 Information Access
  2.0 Information and Evaluation
  3.0 Information Use
  4.0 Information Pursuit
  6.0 Information Seeking
  8.0 Ethical Behavior Regarding Information and Information Technology
  9.0 Group Participation

• Social Studies: History
  1.0 People, Cultures, and Civilizations
  2.0 Nation Building and Development
  3.0 Social Responsibility & Change

• English Language Arts
  2.0 Reading Strategies
  4.0 Expository Text
  5.0 Effective Writing
  6.0 Types of Writing
  7.0 Listening
  8.0 Speaking