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Science Common Core CCRA.SL.4 resources
Earth Day Human Impact on the Environment Project
Need a fun project to teach students about the human impact on the environment that's also perfect for Earth Day? This print and digital project will help students think about solutions to problems that are affecting Earth. First, your students will use the provided links to research one of 5 major environmental problems our planet faces. Then, working independently or collaboratively, students will use their findings to create a solution. Finally, students will choose one of 6 ways to present
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS3-3
, 4-ESS3-2
Human Body Systems - A Science Project & Research Report Template for Grades 1-2
SYSTEMS OF THE HUMAN BODYTHIS TEACHING RESOURCE INCLUDES:a Smart Art science projecta research template for a Body Part Reporta set of related Poems and Songs about the human bodyThe Smart Art activity contains directions, photos, and templates for a creative, hands-on science & art project focusing on six major systems of the human body. Samples can be viewed in the PREVIEW above.The Nervous SystemThe Circulatory SystemThe Respiratory SystemThe Muscular SystemThe Skeletal SystemThe Digestiv
End of the Year Science Activity or Summer Project Biodiversity MS-LS2-5
Looking for a fun end of the year or summer science activity, this is the one for you! This fun and engaging NGSS middle school activity and lesson challenges students to be park rangers and develop and present solutions to various real problems facing Yellowstone's ecosystem while teaching them the importance of maintaining its BIODIVERSITY! This low prep activity has student worksheets that take about five days to complete and addresses the Next Generation Science Standard's Performance Expect
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Grades:
5th - 10th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-LS2-5
, MS-ETS1-1
Also included in: NGSS Middle School Science Activities and Lessons Growing MEGA Bundle
SBAC and PARCC Test Prep 5th Grade Bundle
SBAC Test. Test Prep. Smarter Balanced Practice Tests (SBAC and PARCC) for 5th Grade. 275 PAGES!!! INCLUDES Math, Science, and ELA! Common Core Aligned!This package of pre-tests will help your students be well prepared for Smarter Balanced (SBAC) and Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) testing. Summative end-of-year testing is all-to-often a taxing and nerve-wracking experience for students and teachers, especially when they don’t know what to expect! Don’t
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4th - 6th
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Objects in the Sky Day and Night Sky Activities Kindergarten and First Grade
Practice finding objects in the day and night sky and explore the sun, moon, stars, and other objects in the daytime and nighttime sky with these hands-on science activities. This Objects in the Sky Day and Night packet includes science center activities, sorting worksheets, writing activities, graphic organizers, and real projectable photos for students to learn features of the daytime and nighttime sky. Everything you need is included for your kindergarten, first grade, and special education
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
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NGSS:
1-ESS1-1
Animal Habitats First Grade Projects & Kindergarten Animal Habitat Sorts
Make learning about animals and habitats engaging with these project based learning teaching and practice activities! These NO PREP Design an Animal Habitat PBL activities focus on student’s learning by using creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving skills. Students will use graphic organizers, worksheets, centers, whole group shared research writing activities, and STEM projects to learn about animals and habitats, design the perfect animal habitats and ecosystems, and add in plants a
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Types:
NGSS:
K-ESS3-1
, 3-LS4-3
, 2-LS4-1
The Martian -Problem Based Learning Novel Unit (Common Core Aligned)
This comprehensive PBL novel unit for Andy Weir's, "The Martian," places your students on Mars with the main task of survival. It is sure to engage your students in a rigorous, research-based, meaningful learning experience! The unit contains the following assignments and resources:-Pacing Guide for teaching the novel-Problem Based Learning guide (includes 20+ problems for students to research and solve)-Supplemental Tasks/group assignments-NASA Webquest!-Reading assessments-Discussion questi
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Grades:
8th - 12th
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Natural Disasters Research Project: Written Report with 5 Presentation Choices
This Natural Disaster Research Project allows students to CHOOSE their own way of sharing their knowledge about a disaster they have researched. Students become agents for the Federal Natural Disaster Relief Agency and are appointed by the President to research natural disasters. Their mission involves briefing the President and his advisors about their research. Students are able to select their disaster to research, write an informative report, and then choose between 5 different types of pres
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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End of Year or Summer Activity on Electromagnetic Waves Spectrum NGSS HS-PS4-5
Newly updated as a digital PDF for in person, home or distance learning, this OPEN-ENDED and ENGAGING NGSS middle or high school research project challenges students to investigate the behavior and interactions of one of the electromagnetic waves and devices to fulfill the NGSS Performance Expectation HS-PS4-5. Communicate technical information about how some technological devices use the principles of wave behavior and wave interactions with matter to transmit and capture information and energy
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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CCSS:
NGSS:
HS-PS4-5
Also included in: NGSS Middle School Science Activities and Lessons Growing MEGA Bundle
NGSS 3rd Grade Weather and Climate Resources!
The resources start with weather activities, then climate activities and finishes with hazardous weather activities. The weather section has worksheets and a quiz. The climate sections has worksheets and a poster project. Then there is an summative assessment on comparing and contrasting weather and climate. Hazardous weather is the last unit, there are worksheets and a poster project. The project describes the weather and students will come up with a creative solution on how to help people that
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
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Animal Adaptations Activities for Structure and Function of Inherited Traits
Combine science and writing with this activity about animal external body parts. Introduce your first grade students to the Next Generation Science Standard* regarding inherited traits, animal adaptations, and structures and functions that help animals survive. Your students will observe, think, predict, and write. Just share the photos of real animals. Students will discuss the body parts and hypothesize why the animals have them. How does that help the animal survive? Brainstorm ideas. The
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
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Early Reader Nonfiction Animal Articles | Animal Research and Reports | Animals
Your student can study and read these early reader animal articles as reading material, homework, or research for writing animal reports. They are written at a simplified reading level for your new readers. Each article includes information about the habitats, species, diet, physical characteristics, and adaptations of the animal. Each article also has a beautiful color photo of the animal. Some include fun clipart of the footprint or another special part or characteristic of their body. Also in
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Grades:
PreK - 3rd
Types:
NGSS:
1-LS1-2
, 2-LS4-1
Also included in: BUNDLE: Nonfiction Animal Early Reader Articles
Talking Sticks Discussion Strategy with Editable Discussion Cards
Talking Sticks is a management strategy that encourages all students to participate equally in a discussion. The ready-to-use discussion cards in this packet will help facilitate the discussion and keep it focused on a particular topic. Editable discussion cards are also included to make it easy to customize the wording on the task cards.The Talking Sticks strategy can be used in any subject area, and works especially well in reading, science, and social studies. Talking Sticks can be used with
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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Also included in: Literature Circles Made Easy | Classroom Book Clubs Discussion Bundle
Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy Activity
Your middle school students will love making real life data driven decisions about energy sources for a fictional city. After they analyze the renewable and nonrenewable energy sources they'll create a presentation to persuade a panel why their choices are right for the city. Sharpen your student’s critical thinking, persuasive writing, and presentation skills this with project on energy sources! This project will give your middle school students the chance to analyze the energy needs of a ci
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ESS3-1
, MS-ESS3-4
, MS-ESS3-3
Also included in: Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy Sources Project Bundle
Dental Health Month Activities Lessons Tooth Craft & Worksheets PreK-1st Grade
Teach your preschool, prek, kindergarten, and 1st grade students all about caring for their teeth with these fun dental health month crafts and activities! Students will learn how to care for their teeth, about a dentist, and the importance of caring for their teeth and tongue using this dental hygiene low-prep packet. Includes an interactive emergent reader, mouth and tongue model, teeth crafts, songs, and worksheets, and dental jokes to help students learn all about oral hygiene. Your studen
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
Erosion Activity and Project STEM Conservation NGSS Middle School MS-ESS3-1
This PDF resource is a fun, creative, and engaging NGSS middle school research and engineering project incorporating STEM that challenges students in 6 different erosion and soil conservation scenarios to save their house/land! In this PBL (problem-based learning) resource with worksheets, students research the type of erosion and brainstorm, design, build, and present a product to prevent or stop it. It teaches students about the effects of erosion on various places and how the uneven distribut
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 10th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ESS3-1
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
Also included in: NGSS Middle School Science Activities and Lessons Growing MEGA Bundle
Introduction to 3D Printing – STEAM PROJECT – GRADES 3-6 - Distance Learning
Have you purcahsed or are considering purchasing a 3D printer and don’t know where to start? This resource is perfect for classrooms just starting out in the world of 3D imaging and provides you with everything you need to teach the fundamentals of 3D printing. This STEAM project is broken up into two parts: BUILDING BACKGROUNDYour kiddos will begin by doing a research project of the history, current uses, benefits, and future innovcations of 3D printing. Graphic organizers are provided to assi
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
2nd Grade NGSS Earth Science STEM Unit Complete Curriculum! (2-ESS2)
This integrated 2nd grade STEM curriculum not only covers all of the NGSS earth science and engineering for 2nd grade but also has built in technology integration options, math application opportunities, and an integrated literacy component in EVERY lesson. Throughout this unit students will be actively engaged in fun, interactive, hands-on, inquiry based learning through student led activities. These lessons were created and compiled through a backwards design format where the NGSS and CCSS lit
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Grades:
2nd
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 2-ESS1-1
, 2-ESS2-3
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1st Grade Science Curriculum NGSS Earth Science STEM UNIT w/ Engineering 1-ESS-1
This integrated 1st grade STEM curriculum unit is perfect for exploring all of the Next Generation Science and Engineering Standards (NGSS) for Earth science.! This fun and engaging unit is full of science investigations, engineering challenges, integrated ELA and math activities (CCSS), technology components, and a number of other useful STEM resources! With easy-to-follow lesson plans this unit provides a fluid scope and sequence to guide teachers through the 1st grade Next Generation Earth sc
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Grades:
1st
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, 1-ESS1-1
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 1-ESS1-2
Plant Unit | Parts of Plants Activities | Project Based Learning Plants
This Project Based Learning Unit, PBL, all about Plants for 1st grade students will be your complete guide to teaching your students all about the parts, genetics and functions of plants. The unit was built using Project Based Learning Guidelines and 1st grade NGSS Science Standards. Looking for the 2nd Grade Version? CLICK HERETHIS UNIT IS DIGITAL AND PRITABLEOVERVIEWTeaching students through Project Based Learning can be overwhelming, but it is also fun, interactive and rewarding. I have spent
Habitat / Ecosystem Research Project-NGSS-(2-LS4-1) (Life Science STEM Activity)
Do you want your students to investigate some of Earth's Habitats? Do you want activities, instructions and resources to get them engaged with learning about the habitat characteristics, plant, and animal life?Would you like a quick and easy way to assess their understanding while giving them OPTIONS and tools to present in ways that are in sync with their presentation style?-------------> Then this product is for you!!In this complete habitat research project you'll get step-by-step instruct
Endangered Species Report Google Slides: Distance Learning
Mini Lesson, Endangered Animals Slideshow, and editable student report slides included!✧ The Endangered Species Report Google Slides are a perfect independent activity to give your students the opportunity to research, read, and write about endangered animals.✧ These slides encourage creativity, reflection, and collaboration between peers. ✧ Each slide is scaffolded with sentence starters, visuals, and organizers to meet the needs of all students.✧ Google slides provide students the opportunity
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Biomes Project for Google Slides.
This biome project is designed to have students work in groups to create a cohesive presentation using Google Slides about a biome of the world. I used it as a way to have students work on the speaking and listening standards. Instructions are general as to allow for individual differentiation among the projects. It can be interesting to see what students can create with only a small amount of structure & the freedom to conduct their own research. Although it is not necessary, it is help
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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Biomes -- 5E Unit Plan (NGSS MS-LS2-1)
This complete 5E instructional sequence introduces Earth’s biomes and uses these as a vehicle through which to teach biotic and abiotic factors and address the Next Generation Science Standard MS-LS2-1. It is the first unit in my NGSS-aligned Middle School Life Science Curriculum (coming soon), but it can easily be incorporated into any curriculum. Activities expect students to read, discuss, use technology, analyze data, and conduct research. Five days of complete lesson plans are included in
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Grades:
5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-LS2-1
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