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Elementary environment laboratory pdfs
NGSS 5th Grade Energy in Ecosystems BUNDLE
Covers NGSS Standards 5-PS3-1, 5-LS1-1, and 5-LS2-1. Save $$$ when you buy the bundle! This is a FULL UNIT for the 5th grade NGSS standards in "Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems". The resources includes 10 lessons cover at least 18 class periods! This bundle includes three ready to print NGSS-Aligned Performance Expectations AND 7 additional lessons that give students the information they need to complete the performance expectations. Each Performance Task includes teacher guides, st
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5th
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NGSS:
5-LS2-1
, 5-PS3-1
, 5-LS1-1
Solar Oven: Light & Heat Absorption Experiment PLUS S'more Cooker STEM- DIGITAL!
This product contains 2 activities: An experiment to determine which materials will absorb the most heat AND a STEM challenge to build a solar oven to cook a S'More!*Light and Heat Absorption Experiment: Follow the steps of the Scientific Method to determine which materials will absorb the MOST heat! Perfect to get students outside, making predictions, testing them and DOING SCIENCE! A list of materials is given, and space is left free to encourage students to come up with their own. *What's Co
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4th - 8th
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Cookie Mining Natural Resource Activity MS-ESS3-1
This NGSS aligned activity uses chocolate chip cookies to model the effect of mining on the environment. Great to show human impact! The activity requires little prep work and it is a lot of fun! This is a perfect addition to your natural resources unit. My students go wild for cookies and it really makes an impact.MS-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 cur
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Rock Cycle Bundle for Middle School
Opposable Thumb Adaptation & Natural Selection activity, application, experiment
Challenge your students to do common tasks WITHOUT THEIR THUMBS! Details: In this activity and experiment- students will see the benefit of the adaptation of the opposable thumb. The students are asked to perform various tasks as quickly as possible with simple materials. Students can compete against a partner or you can run this as a whole class activity. Application questions are included to guide students understanding of Adaptations and Natural Selection. There are 2 versions of the activit
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4th - 8th
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Outdoor Science & STEM | Ecosystems, Plants, & Earth | 3rd 4th 5th Grade Summer
Head outside to explore the science in the world around you for scavenger hunts, guided walks, and explorations! Learn about matter, soil, erosion, landforms, the water cycle, natural resources, shadows, ecosystems, plants, seeds, and animals. Out the Door to Explore: Full STEAM Ahead contains 35 science activities that can be done outside or by using natural materials inside.What is Included?35 science activities2 bonus scavenger huntsTEKS alignment informationNGSS alignment informationmaterial
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3rd - 5th
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Water Cycle Model - STEM Activity & Assessment
Bring the water cycle to life right in your classroom! In this engaging STEM activity, students apply their knowledge to design and build a working model of the processes that happen during the water cycle. Students follow the engineering design cycle to plan, build, test, and improve their models. After completing the activity, students complete a quick assessment. Designed for middle school students but can be used with upper elementary with teacher support. This is definitely a student fav
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5th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS2-4
, 5-ESS2-1
, 5-PS1-1
Also included in: Weather and Atmosphere Bundle for Middle School
Windmill Building STEM Activity
Get your students engaged with this hands on STEM Activity! Your students will be creative thinkers as they build windmills to harness the wind and investigate alternative energy sources. These activity is PERFECT for use in your classroom or a STEM open house!❤️ You will LOVE using this Windmill STEM activity because it is so SIMPLE! The bases are reusable from class to class and the students focus on building the blades. Students follow the engineering design process to design, build, and
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4th - 8th
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Coriolis Effect and Global Wind Patterns Lab Hands On Stations Activity
Looking for a fun way to teach kids about WIND PATTERNS? This engaging hands-on activity is perfect! You can display each information card at stations where students will read and answer questions about the Coriolis effect, jet stream, wind patterns, and air pressure. Students record facts, answer questions, and apply the information about global and local wind patterns! Students can work in cooperative groups or with a partner to complete each learning station. The 7 stations are quick to set
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5th - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS2-6
Also included in: Global and Local Wind Patterns Hands On Activities and Worksheet Bundle
Build Forest Food Web and Energy Pyramid Performance Task -28 organism cards
Help your students understand the feeding relationships in an ecosystem with this build a forest food web activity that is also perfect as a performance task!20 organisms (including decomposers) are included with what they eat and what eats them so students can demonstrate energy flow through the ecosystem correctly. Students first manipulate the cards to create the food web with tons of arrows, then students place the organisms into the energy pyramid (Producers, Primary Consumers, secondary co
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4th - 9th
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Plant Needs & Photosynthesis Unit | 5th Grade NGSS Plants Experiment
Do plants need air, water, and soil? This phenomenon-based unit helps students investigate the needs of plants and photosynthesis with hands-on investigations, vocabulary support, a reading passage, and modeling. NGSS:NGSS 5-LS1-1 Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.9 DAYS OF LESSONSEngage: Phenomenon Intro Video, start Class CER, annual flowers observation (air vs. no air)Explore: Green Onion InvestigationsExplain: Text and video cl
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4th - 5th
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NGSS:
5-LS1-1
What is a Watershed? Hands-on Activity
This hands-on activity with digital lab sheet option will teach students about the importance of watersheds. Students will learn what one is, create the watershed using newspaper, and be able to describe how it is important to humans. Students will also manipulate and explain how pollutants can affect our drinking water. This lesson is aligned with NGSS 5-ESS2-1 : Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.Students will: Fo
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Full Year Science Curriculum
Modeling Tectonic Plates with Graham Crackers Science Experiment PRINT & DIGITAL
In this hands on science lab experiment, students will use graham crackers, rice cakes, and cake frosting to model different types of tectonic plate boundaries including: 2 types of convergent boundaries (with and without subduction), divergent boundaries, and transform boundaries. This resource includes: teacher directions with suggested extension activities background information about tectonic plates and the different types of plate boundaries with illustrationsstudent directions with photos
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3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS2-3
, MS-ESS2-1
, 4-ESS2-2
, 4-ESS2-1
Types of Clouds, Weather, & Water Cycle | Worksheet, Activity, Reading Passage
Can looking at clouds help you predict the weather? This science unit helps students investigate types of clouds, weather, and processes in the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, and precipitation).Phenomena-based Learning:This lesson will help you anchor student learning about weather predictions and changing water in explaining how observing clouds can help us predict the weather. Rather than learning about weather and clouds, students figure out how clouds give us hints to future weather
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3rd - 5th
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Winter Weather STEM Challenge Lab Design a Paper Snowflake PRINT and DIGITAL
This STEM challenge explains how snowflakes form as a type of weather (precipitation). It walks students through the steps to create beautiful snowflake shapes out of paper. This resource includes: teacher suggestions, discussion questions, and extension activitiesbackground information on what snowflakes are and how they formstep by step instructions to create paper snowflakes with photos a student response worksheeta scoring rubrica force copy link to a digital Google Slides versionGet my grow
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4th - 7th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Weather Vs. Climate M&M Activity
Students compare and contrast weather and climate using a fun, hands-on approach with M&M's.
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3rd - 6th
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2nd Grade Fast and Slow Changes {Quick Pack: Next Generation Science Standards}
Are you teaching the new "Next Generation Science Standards?" This Fast and Slow Changes Unit is jam packed with hands on learning opportunities that are quick and easy to set up. This includes 9 experiments and one opportunity for your students to engineer their own experiment for weathering and erosion!
The following Next Generation Science Standards* will be covered in this unit:
2-ESS1-1 Some events happen very quickly; others occur very slowly, over a time period much longer than one can
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2nd
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FOSS- Trees and Weather: A Kid Friendly Science Journal
I created a kid friendly science journal to follow the FOSS kit for Trees and Weather. Each investigation has an easy to use recording sheet/s for students to record their observations. Over 95 picture supported vocabulary cards are included.All ready for the Next Gen Edition!This pack contains:1. Colorful and bright pieces to be use whole group or blown up!2. Both color and black and white cover pages3. Table of Contents4. Multiple recording pages for each observations (with focus questions)5.
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K - 1st
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Also included in: FOSS Kindergarten: Journal Bundle
Determing Relative Age of Rock Layers: An Investigative Approach
In this activity students get a chance to apply their knowledge and understanding of paleontology to determine the relative age of rock layers and what types of conditions existed to produce them, as well as conceptualizing the use of index fossils to gleam information about Earth's geologic history.
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5th - 10th
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Fungi Unit | 5th Grade NGSS Decomposers & Movement of Matter Worksheets Activity
Why do some fungi live in animal waste? This decomposers unit helps students investigate the question while learning about the movement of matter in an ecosystem. This is perfect for NGSS 5-LS2-1.NGSS:5-LS2-1 Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.Included: 9 days of lessonsEngage: Pick a Meal, wonderings, and phenomenon intro videoExplore: Mushroom DissectionVocab: Vocabulary posters and student pageExplain: Text, video, and gr
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4th - 5th
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NGSS:
5-LS2-1
Pond Water Microscope Lab Activity
This product was designed to be used with a microscope for students to manipulate and learn about the pieces and what they do. Students will cut and glue interactive notebook sheets into their notebook (or just use them as worksheets)IN THIS PRODUCT YOU WILL FIND:1. Review "steps of how to use a microscope” printable poster2. Review “parts of a microscope” coloring or just printable poster3. Interactive notebook insert as well as printable key for pond organisms chart4. Interactive notebook inse
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4th - 12th
Build a food web ecosystem lab 6th 7th 8th junior high
This lab activity, teacher key, and hands on high level thinking lab was created for 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade students and is great practice to help students build a food web and observe and describe how plants and animals interact within ecosystems. Also students will learn to describe how biodiversity contributes to the sustainability of an ecosystem and its food web. Concepts covered include food webs, ecosystems, biodiversity, sustainability, and biotic factors. Hands on laboratory and g
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5th - 8th
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Barn Owl Food Web & Energy Pyramid- works with Owl Pellets
Have students create a food web using organisms that could be found either in an owl pellet or in the ecosystem the pellet came from. This uses resources from the pellet project, but takes them one step further to creating the web AND placing the organisms correctly in the energy pyramid.
Hands on and requires critical thinking!
I have included a 'cheat sheet' of who eats what in this forest ecosystm!
This is part of the following bundle: Barn Owl Pellet Unit: Data sheet, food web, analysis
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5th - 8th
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Life cycle of a plant Fold & Learn
This is a science lapbook that can be used in different grades.
This craft has been adapted for two levels (one with some writing).
It includes the cycle from the seed to the whole plant.
I have also included the Spanish version: Ciclo vital de la planta.
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: All about plants mini-bundle
Layers of the Earth / Plate Tectonics Activity with a milky way!
AN EDIBLE INTRODUCTION TO PLATE TECTONICS !
Even though we haven’t dug a hole to China or Journeyed to the Center of the Earth, we still have a pretty good idea about what the inside of the Earth is like. When the Earth formed billions of years ago, the matter came together.
THIS ACTIVITY IS A DEMONSTRATION OF HOW THE PLATES CAN INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER AS THEY MOVE USING MILKY WAY CANDY
The activity focuses on divergent, convergent and transform plate boundaries. Review and thinking further
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5th - 9th
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