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Biology Common Core W.5.2 resources
Animal Research Project (for Google Slides™)
This Animal Research Project (for Google Classroom™) is a great way to expose your students to different animals around the world and can be used for distance learning. Boost 21st century skills by having students apply & develop research skills, use expository writing to report their findings, and increase technology skills to record an oral presentation of their project for a virtual audience! ⭐️⭐️WATCH my VIDEO PREVIEW to see this digital project in action! The image preview attached show
Grades:
3rd - 5th
NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, 3-LS4-2
Middle School Research Project - Animals - Printable and Digital
Planning your middle school research project doesn't have to be overwhelming! Introduce your beginning researchers to sources, citations, note-taking, and more with this user-friendly research packet. Choose animal topics and use this research format to guide your students through their first full-fledged research project.This resource is part of my Research Skills Project Bundle, which prepares students to research effectively with lessons on plagiarism, paraphrasing, and more. If your students
Grow a Bean in a Bag: Science & How-To Writing
Students will love growing lima beans in bags. Simply place a lima bean in a plastic bag with wet cotton balls, attach the cutouts from this product, tape in the window, and watch the bean plants grow! Have students record their daily observations and follow the steps of the scientific method to explore how their beans are growing-- best conditions, locations, etc. Then, have them write a how-to book on planting bean plants, and use the book to have them write a how-to essay on fun writing paper
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2nd - 5th
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Human Body Systems Unit | Reading Passages and Questions
Engage your students with this fun and comprehensive, 145 page Human Body Systems Unit. It contains 7 original, nonfiction passages for the Respiratory System, the Circulatory System, the Digestive System, the Nervous System, the Skeletal System, and the Muscular System. It is fantastic for READING COMPREHENSION! This Human Body Systems Unit includes text dependent questions, research reports, vocabulary cards, essential questions and more!This unit was created to use the CLOSE READING comprehen
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Human Body Systems Unit | Passages & Questions | Research Reports
Animal Research: Animal, Ecology, Biome & Habitat Activity for Big Kids
Animal Research Activities for big kids tied to life science/ecology units! Includes 70 pages of guided notes to help support student understanding of ecology concepts through an animal of interest! Meets NGSS standards and ELA CCSS! This document includes the following:- Comprehensive Animal Research Note Sheets- Circle Schema Builder- KWL Chart- Can/Have/Are/Eat/Live Graphic Organizer- Informational Fact Graphic Organizers (Flower, Web, List)- Basic Biome Vocabulary (Words/Definitions)- Empty
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Grades:
4th - 9th
Photosynthesis Project Booklets Creative Activity Elementary or Middle School!
NEW PRODUCT!! Are you looking for a FUN and CREATIVE way for students to demonstrate their knowledge of photosynthesis? Then this booklet project is for you whether you teach upper elementary or middle school!! Use the included grading rubric that's easy to assess student content knowledge as you work towards meeting the NGSS LS1 Performance Expectations in your life science/biology unit! Activity overview. Students create a booklet with:title page and picturelarge, labeled drawing of the proces
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: NGSS Middle School Science Activities and Lessons Growing MEGA Bundle
Golden Eagle vs. Bald Eagle Close Reading with Writing and Science
Informational text, close reading about two birds. The golden eagle and the bald eagle. Students will read, highlight with crayons and answer questions after reading these two short texts.
Students will then compare the two birds with a Venn diagram. After filling in the Venn Diagram they will write their findings into a scripted worksheet to organize their information into a short essay.
Included in this activity is a page of each birds life cycle. Students will enjoy coloring this.
This
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Georgia Animal Habitat Project
This animal project will allow students the opportunity to explore various animals in their habitats. Students will complete research on a specific animal and its habitat as well as create a diorama displaying the animal in its habitat. This product includes instructions, a rubric, a parent note, and writing paper.
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3rd - 5th
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Hydroponics: What Plants Need Activities and STEM - NGSS 5-LS1-1
In this set of hydroponics activities, kids explore what plants need. They germinate seeds in baggies, learn about photosynthesis, review the engineering design process, participate in a STEM challenge, and write to support a claim that plants get what they need mainly from air and water. Open the preview to take a closer look. First, kids find out what plants need to grow. Using baggie gardens, they germinate grow bean (dicot) and corn (monocot) seeds.Additionally, they explore the process of p
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5th
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CCSS:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
, 5-LS1-1
Animal Research Project and Informational Essay Unit
This amazing packet consists of Articles and video links for research about the different animal classifications and their traits, habitats, diets, behavioral and physical adaptationsReading comprehension questions with ANSWER KEYSAn outline for researching and organizing a 7 paragraph essay with an introduction, body paragraphs about the animal's description, habitat, diet, reproduction, and adaptations, and then wraps up with a conclusion. STUDENTS WILL NEED TO RESEARCH THEIR OWN ANIMAL with o
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3rd - 6th
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Animal Adaptations Project: Creative Creatures: Biomes, Adaptations, Research
This animal adaptations project is a great way for students to apply their scientific knowledge of biomes and structural and behavioral adaptations in a fun and creative way!Each student researches an animal, the biome it currently lives in, and the structural and behavioural adaptations it currently has. Then they use their imagination and logic to imagine what new adaptations the animal would develop if it moved to a different biome. How would an arctic fox change if it lived in the desert? Wh
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4th - 7th
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Zoology - Watch YouTube Videos and Share Interesting Facts (Crash Course by PBS)
15 internet activities for students to explore zoology. Students watch a ten-minute video and answer questions about animals in this Crash Course series sponsored by PBS: What is an animal?What’s the Most “Animal” Animal?Diversity of Bodies & SizesHow & What Animals EatBrainy & Brainless AnimalsHow Animals SeeHow Animals HearAncestral & Weird SensesReproductionAnimals Working TogetherParasitesPhylogenetic MysteriesWhat is a Species?Frontiers in Zoology Each video has amazing phot
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5th - 10th
Gifted and Talented GATE G/T Animal Research Project: Bird Adaptations & Climate
This animal research project was designed for gifted and talented (GATE, G/T, high ability) students. They gather evidence then use critical thinking to analyze bird adaptations in different climate zones. Two effective note-taking options encourage fourth or fifth grade students to gather more information and stay organized. A slideshow and print resources help them improve writing. Open the preview to take a closer look. In addition to conducting animal research, students compare adaptations o
Butterfly Writing Project - Using Informational Text Structures
Kids love learning about butterflies - - - and you’ll love the way they write using five different informational text structures. The project fortifies your students’ understanding of purpose, organization, and key words.Open the preview to take a closer look.This activity provides a dynamic connection between reading, writing, and science. Students are given an authentic task: write five articles about butterflies for a magazine, each using a different text structure. Here are the steps they’ll
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3rd - 5th
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What's Wrong With Monarchs? An Ecological Approach to Problem Solving
In this complete science unit for Grades 4 and 5, we start with an environmental problem, decreasing Monarch populations, and look at seven key ecological concepts to discover possible solutions.All things are connected. Without a doubt, what humans do to one part of an ecosystem will ultimately affect another. Understanding these 7 ecological concepts is critical to conceptualizing the big picture of ecological success. Without this understanding, hasty solutions sometimes create even more envi
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Grades:
4th - 5th
NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, 5-LS2-1
, 5-ESS3-1
, 5-PS3-1
, 5-LS1-1
Investigating Cells and Microorganisms
Cells and Microorganisms are fun to research, explore, and investigate. This unit combines research, writing, vocabulary, web references, and projects to learn in depth about cells and microorganisms. Students will write in different points of view, from a scientist perspective, and create a children's book and a brochure. Students will utilize technology to define unit words and illustrate. The research paper used to write the children's book has brainstorming, rough draft, and editing reso
Cause and Effect Reading Skills Passage - Strange Allergy: Tick Bites and Meat
Maximize your instruction time by covering a lot with a little! Your students will love this article about how those creepy arachnids, ticks, can cause a red meat allergy. This is the perfect passage for teaching cause and effect, an introduction to allergies, arachnids, and many other topics. Students can interact with the text in several ways; you choose how and how much. Here is what's included:482-word reading cause and effect passage that explores how a tick bite can cause a red meat allerg
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3rd - 6th
Antarctica Informational Text Planners and Rubrics
Antarctica Informational Text - This pack provides some information and templates about Antarctica. This information will assist in the writing of your own Informational Text, guided by a rubric. KWHL - for Antarctica. There are color, plus black/white versions and a one page version. This will assist in assessing what your grade knows and will help when writing the Informational Text - This is what we know about… - This is what we want to know … - This is how we will find out what we want to k
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3rd - 5th
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Diabetes Research Report | Diabetes Project
Engage your students with this fun and comprehensive Diabetes Research Report resource. It helps has make report writing easy! It contains Diabetes questions, organizers, tools and forms to use for your students to create, develop, write, edit, illustrate, present, and assess your students’ Diabetes Research ReportThis report (or performance task) is also designed to not only to learn and explain the new information, but answer some higher level thinking questions (Common Core Essential Question
Evolution Project | Evolution Research Report | Google Slides
Engage your students with this fun and comprehensive Evolution Research Report resource. It helps make report writing easy! It contains questions, organizers, tools and forms to use for your students to create, develop, write, edit, illustrate, present, and assess your students’ Evolution Research Report.This resource is also designed to not only to learn and explain the new information, but also answer some higher-level thinking questions (Common Core Essential Questions) to apply the knowledge
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Grades:
5th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-LS1-5
, HS-LS3-3
, MS-LS1-4
, HS-LS3-2
Also included in: Evolution Report Printable and Google Slides Bundle
All About Fireflies(Ligthing Bug) Notebooking
This is a set of fun notebooking pages with nice graphic and structured design, effective at helping students to learn and do more research on the topic. All of the relevant topics to the title of Fireflies are covered in this set of notebooking. Students/ kids can study the topic and complete all the pages, this is to encourage self learning and develop their skill of doing research and be able to compiling & organise information.Topic that covered in this notebooking pages:What is a firefl
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Name That Creature WebQuest
In this WebQuest, students will explore the characteristics of the 5 classes of vertebrates. Then they will create an animal that has characteristics of all 5 classes! This is a fun project that teaches students about scientific characteristics of animals while giving opportunities for imagination and creativity.
When you purchase this product, you will receive a link and password to a website that includes all the resources you will need to complete this project! The project website includes:
Dangerous Reptile Report (Guided Genius Hour)
One of my FAVORITE ways to link science with language arts is through this expository essay. This project builds on curiosity and student-choice, as they explore the background and physical characteristics of a dangerous reptile.
This product comes complete with:
*Teacher Guide
*Student Handout & Rubric
*Student Note Templates
*List of 20 dangerous reptile choices
This product could be used in the following ways:
*Genius Hour/Project Hour self-guided learning
*Small group writing project
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Animal Senses: Classroom and On-Site Lessons (Ages 3-12, NGSS & CC)
This product from Explore Science and the Santa Barbara Zoo offers 5 lessons, specifically designed for teachers seeking curriculum that integrates the classroom and a field trip. In addition to flexible on-site activities, Animal Senses also contains interactive pre- and post- field trip lessons for classroom use.
All activities are aligned to NGSS* and CC standards, spanning from ages 3-12. Download includes a master materials list, activity-specific standards, procedures, and curriculum int
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PreK - 6th
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