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3rd grade Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa science centers
STEM Bins® / STEAM Bins® Elementary STEM Activities: Morning Work,Fast Finishers
The original STEM Bins® and STEAM Bins®STEM Bins® and STEAM Bins for K-5th Grade are the ideal hands-on, play-based solution for:Early Finishers / Fast FinishersMorning Work / Soft StartsCentersWriting ExtensionsFine Motor PracticeMakerspaceIncentivesCalm Down Corner***TOP 5 ALL TIME BEST-SELLING RESOURCE ON TPT!***INCLUDES A FULL STEAM VERSION, SPANISH VERSION, AND FRENCH VERSION!!!★SUPPLY LIST FOR STEM BINSWant to see my STEM Bins® up close and personal?! Watch my STEM Bins 101 video series o
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PreK - 6th
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Life Cycle of Plants Unit, Investigations & Plant Life Cycle PowerPoint NGSS
This complete, hands-on science unit for teaching about the life cycle of plants centers around an engaging 9-lesson teaching Power Point using “real life” pictures your students will love. Ideal for first, second and third grade, students learning the stages of the life cycle, plant needs, parts of a plant and seed, germination, chlorophyll, photosynthesis, pollination, plant adaptations, and seed dispersal. Content-rich, this unit is loaded with over 20 activities and science experiments, writ
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1st - 3rd
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K-2-ETS1-2
, 2-LS4-1
, 2-LS2-1
, 2-LS2-2
Butterfly Life Cycle Complete Science Unit
Make learning about the butterfly life cycle even more fun with butterfly activities that combine science, reading and writing with hands on experiments. Students learn the stages of the butterfly life cycle, explore pollination, the compound eye, metamorphosis, adaptations, and so much more! Whether or not you raise live butterflies, this quality science resource is the perfect addition to your life cycle of butterflies activities. This complete science unit is packed with over 25 highly engagi
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1st - 3rd
Water Cycle Experiments Activities Craft Project Worksheets Vocabulary Cards
Save time planning for your water cycle unit with these hands-on experiments, craft project, vocabulary cards, and activities.You receive:• step by step instructions for 3 water cycle experiments• coordinating pages for each experiment that test students' understanding• links to digital Seesaw recording pages for easy tech integration• 2 sets of vocabulary cards (hand-drawn pictures & real photographs) for the following water cycle words - evaporation, collection, precipitation, condensation
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K - 3rd
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December NO PREP Math and Literacy (2nd Grade) Christmas | Winter | Gingerbread
This December NO PREP Packet for 2nd Grade is FILLED with hands-on, engaging and FUN resources that cover core skills for 2nd Grade! The activities in this packet can be use for group work , centers, small groups, homework and more! The BEST part is that there is NO PREP! NO costly colored ink, NO laminating, NO cutting …. just PRINT!SAVE BIG WITH OUR BUNDLES⭐:Preschool No Prep BundleKindergarten No Prep Bundle1st Grade No Prep Bundle2nd Grade No Prep Bundle3rd Grade No Prep Bundle⭐️ 2nd Grade
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: 2nd Grade Monthly NO PREP Packets THE BUNDLE
STEM Bins® MEGA BUNDLE: Elementary STEM Activities: Morning Work,Early Finishers
Save over 20% with this DISCOUNTED Bundle that contains ALL TEN of my STEM Bins® resources and activities! STEM Bins® and STEAM Bins for K-5th Grade are the perfect hands-on, play-based STEM Activities for:Early Finishers / Fast FinishersMorning Work / Soft StartsCentersWriting ExtensionsFine Motor PracticeMakerspaceIncentivesCalm Down CornerThis STEM Bins®MEGA Bundle includes ALL TEN of my best-selling STEM Bins resources and supplements:STEM Bins® / STEAM Bins®STEM Bins Seasonal Task CardsSTEM
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K - 5th
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Christmas Math Activity: Christmas CSI Math- Who Stole Santa's Sleigh?
Christmas Math Activity: Christmas CSI Math - Who Stole Santa's Sleigh? Students have to use their math skills to eliminate suspects so they can find out who stole Santa's sleigh!Four clues are given to the students and each clue (worksheet) allows them to eliminate 1-3 suspects.Clue 1/ Hidden multiplication messageClue 2/ Magic to fly the sleighClue 3/ Fractions - fuel in the suspects snowmobileClue 4/ Bribing the guard - adding money (including cents/decimals) Pack also includes an extension w
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: End of Year Math Activities Bundle! CSI Math Mysteries, Math Mazes&Games
Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
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K - 5th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Reindeer Math Crafts Christmas Winter Bulletin Board Activities Rudolph Craft
This differentiated reindeer craft allows students to review addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division skills in a fun and engaging way! Perfect for a Christmas or winter holiday bulletin board, this reindeer math craft is great for sub plans and work for a variety of grade levels. With 18 differentiation levels, teachers can offer simple in-class differentiation while all students complete the same project!**Be sure to check out the PREVIEW for a detailed look inside this resource.Do y
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1st - 4th
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December Math Crafts | Winter Activities Bulletin Board | Christmas tree wreath
These winter holiday math crafts allow students to review addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division skills in a fun & engaging way! Perfect for a Christmas or winter academic bulletin board, these math crafts are great for sub plans and work for a variety of grade levels. With 18 differentiation levels, teachers can offer simple in-class differentiation while all students complete the same project!**Be sure to check out the PREVIEW for a detailed look inside this resource.Do you &am
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1st - 4th
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Christmas and Holidays Around the World - Digital Resources and Teaching Slides
18 individual printable readers and corresponding activities for holiday celebrations for Christmas / Holidays Around the World! Now includes digital and printable versions.This unit comes with resources for traveling to 18 CountriesMini-Books Packed with Information about Each Country! Crafts for Each Country!Comprehension Questions for Each Mini-Book5W + How to Graphic OrganizerJournal Pages and Journal Cover in Color and Black and WhitePassport Stamps and Passport "holder" foldable in Color a
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1st - 3rd
STEM Index Card Tower Challenge - Easy Prep Project- 2 Versions
This easy prep STEM Activity is surprisingly challenging! Students will have a fantastic engineering opportunity through problem-solving. Index Card Towers show your students how to persevere and redesign based on their initial thinking and planning (plus the towers are fun to build!) The best part is that your prep includes one basic material and the students take over from there. Just stand back and watch them brainstorm and build incredibly tall towers. They will groan when the tower falls, d
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Science Centers Bundle | 3rd & 4th Grade Science Review | Plants Matter Weather
Ready for easy prep science centers? Transform your science centers with Science Weekly 5. You'll find quick centers for matter, energy, ecosystems, life cycles, earth science, and space.Science Weekly Five™ stations are versatile, easy to use, and aid in student learning. Teachers all over the country are using these centers and love them. There are 17 units with 5 stations in each unit for a total of 85 center activities.5 Quick and Simple Centers Per Unit1. Read2. Explore3. Organize4. Extend
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3rd - 4th
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2024 Solar Eclipse Sequencing Craft and Solar Eclipse Posters
2024 Solar Eclipse* Meet your science standards with this solar eclipse sequencing craft and solar eclipse posters. This set will help you teach your students and children about solar eclipses. This solar eclipse resource contains 5 printable solar eclipse posters that illustrate First Contact, Second Contact, Totality, Third Contact, and Fourth Contact. There is also a safety poster for the eclipse viewing that tells students not to look directly into the sun. These are the same posters in my e
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2nd - 5th
Christmas Math Craft Color by Number Santa, Elf & Gingerbread Man Activities
Practice number matching, adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing with these fun Christmas Math color by number pictures that turn into 3D paper toys! This activity is perfect for math centers, morning work, early finishers, substitutes or homework. Each picture has 33 worksheets for the following skills: matching numbers to 20, number words, addition to 20, subtraction within 20, doubles addition, doubles + 1 addition, multiplication from 1 to 12 and division from 1 to 12. You can choose t
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Color by Number, Addition & Subtraction 3D Characters Math Craft Bundle
Christmas Worksheets No Prep Math and Literacy Activities Fun 1st 2nd Grade
Christmas Worksheets - Looking for 1st and 2nd grade Christmas math and literacy activities for the month of December? This fun, no-prep Christmas packet is perfect for seatwork, homework, math stations, ELA stations, fast/early finishers. Students are sure to love these fun worksheets. 78 PAGES of Christmas Math and Literacy Worksheets and Activities Cut and PasteThe pages that are included in this packet are listed below: ►Making words►Which Elf? (Probability)►Help Santa find his bags (noun
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1st - 3rd
Christmas Multiplication Color By Number Bundle-FUN!
This is a set of six unique Christmas Color By Number Multiplication fact practice pages. To use, students solve the problems and color the picture according to the color key. My students LOVE these and beg to use them during Math Centers. If you like this set, please check my store! I have MANY other themed sets.
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2nd - 5th
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Back to School STEM Activities with Fred the Worm
Back to School STEM is a perfect way to build community through team building! These four STEM activities are based around Fred the Worm and his misadventures. Students must help Fred out of some tricky situations as he travels around the United States.Included**Teacher Instructions: objective, materials, background info, tired+ true helpful hints.**Materials List**Pictures**Fred's backstory**journal cover sheet**four STEM recording sheetsSTEM ActivitiesSave Fred: Students work together to put
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: Back to School Activity Bundle
STEM I Can Build®️ Cards, Books, and Anchor Charts
I Can Build books and anchor charts are a fun way to get students thinking of all the things they can build and engineer! It is an easy and manageable way to add STEM to your classroom with real photographs!Blocks and manipulatives give students the opportunity to be creative, problem-solve, develop math concepts, develop eye-hand coordination, develop fine motor (if the blocks are small), and develop inquiry skills (STEM & STEAM). Add a literacy component and have students draw and write ab
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PreK - 5th
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Also included in: STEM I Can Build®️ Cards, Books, and Anchor Charts BUNDLE
Landforms Activities, Map Skills, and Writing Project
Make your science lessons come alive with these landforms activities that include a landforms building and narrative writing project! Students explore 20 different landforms, build landform islands, practice map skills, and much more! Combining science, writing, and literacy activities, this highly engaging, hands-on unit includes ready-to-use lesson plans, mini-lessons, 20 full-page landforms posters, and a variety of printable landforms activities and assessments. Your students will love the
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1st - 3rd
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Habitat Pop-Up Craft 2nd Grade Science Activities - 7 Diorama Animal Habitats
Learning about biomes and animal diversity for the Second Grade Next Generation Science Standards™? Let your students design one or all 7 animal habitat diorama projects. They will love getting to illustrate/draw their very own habitat scenes for: arctic, forest, savanna, ocean, desert, pond, and rainforest. Click on the green "VIEW PREVIEW" button above to see what is included in this resource.Your prep for the pop ups is so easy. Just copy the blank pop-up pattern onto tag or cardboard. Pr
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2nd - 3rd
One Plastic Bag Upcycled Bracelet Read Aloud STEM Challenge Earth Day STEM/STEAM
Integrate STEAM in your classroom and teach students about recycling! Learn about recycling, reducing, and reusing! Students design and build their very own Upcycled Plastic Bag Bracelet! After making their bracelets, students use the STEAM process to think of another way plastic bags can be repurposed. Finally, students write about ways they can recycle, reduce, and reuse in their own school and community.Excellent activity for Earth Day!Connect to a Read Aloud: One Plastic BagThis STEAM Projec
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2nd - 5th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Parts of a Plant, Plant Life Cycle, Plant Needs, Photosynthesis Lesson Plan Unit
Do you need to teach all about plants, but aren’t sure where to begin? This comprehensive plant unit has got you covered! From exploring the parts of plants and their functions to unraveling the mysteries of the basic needs of plants, this unit has it all! Watch your students blossom as they explore hands-on labs, engaging plant activities, cooperative learning, and so much more! Try Before you Buy:Free Pollination Demonstration. It's a free lesson from this unit! Save at least 20% off when you
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2nd - 4th
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NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, 3-LS1-1
, 5-LS1-1
Christmas & Holiday Math Fact Coloring Pages | Fun Winter Activity!
Use this winter holiday set, including designs for Christmas and Hanukkah, to review math facts for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. Combine math with art for a win-win lesson! Art integration is one of the most effective ways to engage students. I have created this product using my popular "pop art" images, so students can't easily "guess" the colors. You will find that I have filled each image with patterns and then added math problems into the various shapes and patterns. Ther
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1st - 5th
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