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8th grade Back to School astronomy projects
EDITABLE Math About Me Project - Back to School Printable Digital
Starting out a new school year can always be daunting but providing your students with a fun and engaging way to get to know one another can always help lighten the anxiety, especially in a math classroom. This project is great for a Back to School, Open House, or just about any time during the school year. This activity easily allows students to demonstrate prior math knowledge while letting you (and their classmates) know a little bit about themselves.Included in this download are:Teacher Dire
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5th - 8th
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Emergency Science Sub Plan or Activity | Root Monster Project
This is a fun and engaging activity that will teach students how to use root words to decipher the meaning of science terms. Students will complete multiple root skill sections including a section where they will make a fun root monster drawing. Their root monster must match the characteristics of 5 science root words. There is also a creative writing section where students will write a story about their monster that must include at least 7 science root words.Included:★ Activity Directions★ Root
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5th - 8th
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Partner Pairing Cards and Grouping Cards Pick a Partner
Pick a partner or do small group pairing with these fun cards!With a variety of fun ways to pair or group students, students each choose (or receive) one card and then seek out their pair or group. Forming groups for projects or STEM challenges can elicit groans from students, but by making it fun and engaging for students, this will become your go-to way for no-argue partnerships.Pick a Partner Cards may be printed at full size or at 2 pages per sheet to save paper.✅ What You'll Get ✅✅ Partneri
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K - 12th
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Also included in: STEM Teacher ❤️ Favorites ❤️ Bundle Best Sellers in One Place
All About Me Google Slides Activity + Class Slideshow/Ebook - Back to School
Build class community and get to know your new students with this engaging back-to-school activity that's distance-learning approved! During this Google Slides activity, students will create an “About Me” slide with the provided editable templates. When finished, students will turn in their slides and you will compile them in a collaborative class slideshow/ebook that can be posted on your LMS or class website (or even emailed to parents/guardians). Building relationships is SO important, especi
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Math All About Me for Middle School - Activity and Bulletin Board
Are you looking for an engaging math about me worksheet? This is the perfect first day activity for math class. You can use the task cards as a tool to help you teach your students transitions and rotations. The unique final picture that the students create makes a great bulletin board for back to school night!Download includes a PDF file with the following: - Teacher's directions and example- Bulletin Board Title- Student Bunting Banner to complete- 8 task cards with directions for the banner-
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4th - 8th
Student Council Advisor Notebook - Application Election Meeting Forms
Build a solid Student Council Government program with this sample constitution, candidate application, election and meeting minute templates, plus a calendar of events and idea sheets.The Student Council Advisor How-To Guide handbook is 45 pages, chock full of the best tried-and-true systems, step-by-step checklists, and insider advice for starting a program from scratch or revitalizing one. All 30+ forms and templates are fully editable Google Docs and Slides files.Whether you are a wide-eyed
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: Leadership Student Council Full Course for Middle High School Advisors
Intro to Leadership or Student Council Middle High School Unit
Start your Leadership class or Student Council off on a successful year with this introductory unit filled with enough student-centered, get-them-thinking activities to use for 2-3 years before any repeats- great if students are in student government year after year! Then, culminate student learning and growth with a campus-wide Kindness Project to kick off a positive year.This unit kit comes in both print PDF and digital for Google Slides!Greatness is maximizing all group members' strengths to
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Leadership Student Council Full Course for Middle High School Advisors
Back To School Activity - Soundtrack of My Life / Playlist of My Summer
Looking for something to engage your students at the start of school? Why not get your students writing about the music that best represents them and their unique lives by creating a list of their favorite and most meaningful songs? This engaging activity can either be used as "Soundtrack of My Life" or "Soundtrack of My Summer" - the full download includes options for both. Easily adaptable to different ages and abilities! This is a fun activity for the beginning of the year and will allow yo
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Back to School / First Week of School - "Get to Know You" Activities
Mission to Mars Semester STEM Unit + Mars Colony Project!
Need a semester-long STEM unit? This Mission to Mars bundle includes engineering design challenges building up to a capstone project of building a habitat on Mars! Lesson Overview Transform your classroom into a team of astronauts on a Mission to Mars! This STEM curriculum begins with Stage 1 team challenges that build teamwork and communication skills. Mission Control then guides your class through Stage 2 engineering design challenges with each unit a progressively more complex design challeng
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6th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ESS1-3
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Back to School Icebreaker STEM Bundle! Need back to school icebreakers or games that get students moving, communicating, working in teams, and building relationships? Here are 50+ of our favorite basic activities that are low-cost and low-prep for any classroom or subject!Working as a team, they will learn lessons in communication, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity that are central to the engineering process. Use as a warm-up, icebreaker, team building activity, or basic STEM and en
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Newton's Laws of Motion Foldable - Great for Science Interactive Notebooks
Students will create a Frayer model foldable which will help them understand Newton's three laws of motion. The Frayer model foldable will require students to define the target vocabulary word, draw a picture, and apply the information by generating examples and non-examples for each vocabulary term. The foldable is designed to fit on a standard 8.5 x 11 paper and requires printing two pages (double-sided). The foldable makes a great interactive notebook entry or classroom wall display. Complete
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5th - 8th
Camping Theme Activities STEM Challenges | STEAM Task | Summer School Curriculum
Once you introduce these Camping Theme STEM activities you will be able to increase team building and student collaboration. These FUN Stem and steam themed task cards require no prep, and are great for both in class and home school students, using only everyday materials. Elementary and primary school students will enjoy these steam and stem activities that have been bundled by theme: CAMPING THEME. Now suitable for home and distance learning with both printable and Google slides. ~~ Are you lo
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3rd - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, K-ESS3-1
, K-ESS3-2
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Life Cycle of a Star Project - Comic Strip Activity - Fun Assessment
Students of all ages love comics. In this project, students will create a comic strip that showcases the life cycle of a star. The students may choose to create a comic following the lifecycle of either a high mass star or an average mass star. This astronomy project blends art and science to help students gain a deeper understanding of the concept. The comics will look great on a bulletin board or inside a binder or science interactive notebook.What is included?★ Student direction page (PDF + E
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: Earth and Space Science Activities - Mega Bundle
Linking In Back to School Community Building Activity - Connections & Creativity
Build class community, facilitate creative thinking & connections, and get to know your students with this engaging back-to-school activity!This unique “Linking In” activity is designed to build relationships by helping students make connections with their classmates. During this activity, students will write/draw things they love and parts of their identity on strips of paper. Then, students will work together to find connections between what they’ve recorded on the strips of paper. When th
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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All About Me Poster One Pager All About Me Worksheet Middle School High School
This "All About Me" one pager poster project is the perfect getting to know you activity for the first day of school or first week of school with your middle school and high school students. This EDITABLE, NO PREP, GOOGLE SLIDES 1 pager is a fun, creative, and engaging back to school activity that builds classroom community and encourages students to reflect on the people, experiences, and accomplishments that make them the unique person they are. This activity is editable so you can meet the un
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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What is a Scientist? Back to School Science Activity
Students will use root words to decipher the meaning of 15 types of scientists. They will then choose the type of scientist that they would most like to be and draw themselves in that role. The drawing must include at least 7 science tools that match the equipment used by the scientist. Included:Student Directions & Root Word Reference SheetRoot Word Skills Worksheet & Answer KeyDrawing Templates - Three Options IncludedDrawing Template (General Scientist) - Students draw themselves as a
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5th - 8th
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Back to School Science | Intro to Science Bundle of Activities | Middle School
Engaging Back to School Science Activities for Teens and TweensThis is a massive bundle of my most popular intro to science resources. This package contains a mix of science icebreakers, foldables, doodle notes, color-by-numbers, worksheets, review games, and projects at a BIG SAVINGS!Currently Included:All About Me Activities All About Me Atom All About Me FlaskAll About Me RocketAll About Me Worksheet - Color By Number MandalaScience ProjectsInstasummer of ScienceI am a Scientist ActivityScien
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6th - 8th
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Create Your Own Caricature - A Self Portrait Drawing Template
Students can now create their own caricatures with these templates! This is a fun self-portrait drawing activity for the beginning of the year or end of the year. I have been using these caricatures for years with my fourth and fifth-grade students, and it is one of our favorite activities from the school year! Students draw themselves as a cartoon and then I use them as an all about me self-portrait for our back-to-school bulletin board display or place them in end-of-the-year memory books. The
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3rd - 12th
STEM Space Moon Crater Design Challenge (Engineering Design Process)
Can your team of astronauts work together to land a rover in the center of a crater on the Moon? This engaging STEM challenge is a fun way to incorporate the engineering design process into your classroom or afterschool program! Students use the engineering design process and explore the forces of motion to place a ball in a cup at the center of a 6 foot diameter circle without entering the circle. This challenge represents placing a NASA rover into the middle of the Apollo lunar crater for expl
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4th - 9th, Adult Education
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Middle School
STEM Team Building Challenges Bundle | Back to School STEM
Ignite Creativity and Collaboration with Five Engaging Team Building STEM Challenges for Elementary TeachersLooking for exciting activities to enhance teamwork and creativity in your elementary classroom this back to school season? Look no further! Our packet of team building STEM challenges is perfect for back-to-school, community building, and end-of-year fun. These challenges provide a fantastic opportunity to observe your students' collaborative skills and put their creativity to the test.I
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3rd - 8th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Interactive This or That - Back to School Icebreaker Game
Do you need a fun, interactive game to start the year? This interactive take on This or That is a crowd pleaser! Students answer this or that questions by coloring patterns that match their answers on the provided answer page. Students get to visually see what they have in common with their classmates for this fun ice breaker game. When the game is over, student answer pages make a great bulletin board to start the year! There is no prep for you. Just print the answer page and show the slide sho
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6th - 11th
Planets of the Solar System - Research Project with Rubric
Planets of the Solar System - Research Project with Rubric - 5 page research project on all planets of our solar system with rubric and research organizer. This project will engage your students as they learn about each of the planets of the solar system. It includes a research organizer to focus student research, web links for possible research, a rubric for ease of marking, a student handout to explain the project and a teacher guide for ease of use!
Your students will love learning about t
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4th - 9th
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Planet Research Project Write a Children's Book | Solar System | Middle School
Your students will love writing a fun children's book for this Planet Research Project! Their children’s book will tell and illustrate a fictional story taking place on a planet. You can choose to keep the planet choices those within our solar system (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto?) and/or you can allow your students to choose other planets outside of our solar system that have been discovered. Some of my students LOVE that they can choose ‘the Diamond Planet’ or
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Grades:
6th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ESS1-3
Design a Mars Colony: STEM / STEAM Project Guide (STEM Competition)
Mars Colony STEM Project GuideDesign a colony on Mars! Take your STEM or STEAM classroom or program to the next level with this in-depth engineering design STEM challenge. Students will apply scientific concepts, math skills, critical thinking, research, and engineering design to plan a long term habitat on Mars. This creative and in-depth project is a great activity for your classroom or afterschool program! Part of a Mars Colony Project Bundle: This product is part of a larger bundle of activi
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: Mission to Mars Semester STEM Unit + Mars Colony Project!
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