Each lesson includes PowerPoint slides, scaffolded notes and modified notes. These resources are 100% EDITABLE in Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Word.

INB LESSON

Each lesson includes one INB lesson. The INB lesson consists of an overview with a photo of the completed INB activity, one page of input notes (differentiated when necessary), at least one INB activity, a 4-5 question mini assessment and a two-part reflection exercise. Each lesson includes a digital INB lesson with EDITABLE notes, a digital INB activity, digital reflection exercise and Google Form quiz. Key included.

BELL RINGER

Each lesson includes one tiered 3-part activity designed to "warmup" students at the beginning of a lesson. It can also be used as an exit slip at the end of a lesson. Full and half page printing options and key included. Fillable slide that can be used with Google classrooms and Microsoft Teams included.

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

Each lesson includes one tiered 3-part homework assignment that probes low, mid and high order thinking. The assignment is designed to be completed in 15-20 minutes and can be used as a formative or summative assessment. Key included. Fillable slide that can be used with Google classrooms and Microsoft Teams included.

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READING PASSAGE

Each lesson includes a one-page reading passage with text-dependent reading comprehension questions that probe low, mid and high order thinking. Key included. Fillable slide that can be used with Google classrooms and Microsoft Teams included. Immersive Reader compatible passage included.

IMMERSIVE READER

This resource includes a version of the reading passage that can be read to a student with Microsoft’s Immersive Reader. The Immersive-Reader compatible passage is a read-only word document accessed in a web browser. Internet access required. Students are provided a link to the Immersive Reader compatible passage in the printable and digital versions of the passage.

Immersive reader is a FREE Microsoft educational tool. You do NOT need a Microsoft account to access this tool in a web browser. Learn more about Immersive Reader HERE.

Immersive Reader can:

• Read the entire passage to a student

• Help pronounce individual words in a passage as a student reads

• Translate the entire passage or individual words in the passage for ESL students

• Change the font, text color and background color for students with visual impairments

Additional Notes

• Written and video instructions for students are included: http://safesha.re/ppk

• Download a FREE unit of Immersive Reader compatible reading passages HERE.

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About SNAPs Lab Stations Activities

SNAPs Lab Stations require students to use science, math, literacy, problem-solving and engineering skills. They are designed to enhance students' understanding of scientific concepts and help students apply scientific ideas. Each station activity promotes skills so to develop students into proficient and competent scientific thinkers.

SNAPs lab activities have five components:

• Science Skills Station to develop science skill proficiency

• Narrative Station to build science literacy

• Assessment Station to evaluate learning and understanding

• Problem-Solving Station to foster engineering design

• Synthesis Station and Project to inspire higher-order learning

DIGITAL LABORATORIES – DISTANCE LEARNING & DIGITAL CLASSROOMS

• The labs are offered in a digital format to support digital classrooms & distance learning.

• Each digital lab activity is designed to work with Google Slides and Microsoft PowerPoint

• Each digital lab activity CANNOT be edited. However:

- Students can manipulate text boxes

- Students can create tables, graphs and diagrams

- Students can insert images and drawings

GOOGLE FORM ASSESSMENT STATION

• Each assessment station is offered as a self-grading Google Form.

• Questions are all short answer and are 100% editable.

• Suggestions for use are included in the download.

DISTANCE LEARNING COMPATIBILITY

SNAPs lab activities are rated for their ease with distance – independent learning. Refer to the preview for each individual lab for more information about how well each laboratory works in a fully digital classroom and with distance learning.

EDITABLE DOCUMENTS

This download includes an editable word document (docx file) of all lab components:

• Pre-Lab and Post-Lab Activities

• The Lab Overview

• Lab Station Activities and Questions

• Directed Synthesis Project (when applicable)

Important Notes:

• Diagrams, illustrations, tables and graphs essential to lab activities are included

• Illustrative clipart is NOT included

• Editable documents and rubrics are included with the FREE SNAPs Setup Guide

Editable files allow you to:

• Edit the scope of the activities so to suit your students’ needs

• Edit the materials required based on resource availability

• Create single-period “mini-labs” using activities at the individual skills stations

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Looking for a more economical purchase?

• Consider the Middle School Earth Science NGSS Google Classroom Lesson Bundle

• This bundle is made specifically for classrooms that use G Suite applications.

• This bundle does NOT include labs, making it a more economical purchase.

• Lessons are automatically added to your Google Drive by TpT.

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PAYMENT PLAN & CUSTOM BUNDLES

• NGSS Bundles offer a GREAT value but are sold at a high price point.

• I offer a 12-month interest-free payment plan to OWN NGSS bundles.

• CLICK HERE or visit www.stephanieelkowitz.com to learn more about the payment plan.

• Create a custom bundle of lessons/labs and SAVE up to 50%.

• CLICK HERE or visit www.stephanieelkowitz.com to learn more about custom bundles.

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SHARING FILES for Distance Learning, Homeschooling or At-Home Tutoring

Teachers can share all files in this download with students via email, password-protected websites (ex. Google Classrooms or Microsoft Teams) or secure file sharing platforms (ex. Google Drive, OneDrive or DropBox). You CAN share this digital resource with your students as long as the general public cannot access the files.

TERMS OF USE

• This product is to be used by the original purchaser only.

• Intended for classroom and personal use only.

• Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited.

• This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view.

• Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Total Pages

57 Lessons & 30 Labs

Answer Key

Included

Teaching Duration

1 Year

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Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).

NGSSMS-ESS1-4

Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata for how the geologic time scale is used to organize Earth’s 4.6-billion-year-old history. Emphasis is on how analyses of rock formations and the fossils they contain are used to establish relative ages of major events in Earth’s history. Examples of Earth’s major events could range from being very recent (such as the last Ice Age or the earliest fossils of homo sapiens) to very old (such as the formation of Earth or the earliest evidence of life). Examples can include the formation of mountain chains and ocean basins, the evolution or extinction of particular living organisms, or significant volcanic eruptions. Assessment does not include recalling the names of specific periods or epochs and events within them.

NGSSMS-ESS2-3

Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions. Examples of data include similarities of rock and fossil types on different continents, the shapes of the continents (including continental shelves), and the locations of ocean structures (such as ridges, fracture zones, and trenches). Paleomagnetic anomalies in oceanic and continental crust are not assessed.

NGSSMS-ESS3-2

Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects. Emphasis is on how some natural hazards, such as volcanic eruptions and severe weather, are preceded by phenomena that allow for reliable predictions, but others, such as earthquakes, occur suddenly and with no notice, and thus are not yet predictable. Examples of natural hazards can be taken from interior processes (such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions), surface processes (such as mass wasting and tsunamis), or severe weather events (such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods). Examples of data can include the locations, magnitudes, and frequencies of the natural hazards. Examples of technologies can be global (such as satellite systems to monitor hurricanes or forest fires) or local (such as building basements in tornado-prone regions or reservoirs to mitigate droughts).

NGSSMS-ESS3-1

Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes. Emphasis is on how these resources are limited and typically non-renewable, and how their distributions are significantly changing as a result of removal by humans. Examples of uneven distributions of resources as a result of past processes include but are not limited to petroleum (locations of the burial of organic marine sediments and subsequent geologic traps), metal ores (locations of past volcanic and hydrothermal activity associated with subduction zones), and soil (locations of active weathering and/or deposition of rock).

NGSSMS-ESS2-2

Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales. Emphasis is on how processes change Earth’s surface at time and spatial scales that can be large (such as slow plate motions or the uplift of large mountain ranges) or small (such as rapid landslides or microscopic geochemical reactions), and how many geoscience processes (such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and meteor impacts) usually behave gradually but are punctuated by catastrophic events. Examples of geoscience processes include surface weathering and deposition by the movements of water, ice, and wind. Emphasis is on geoscience processes that shape local geographic features, where appropriate.

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