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FREE Zoo Animals Research Report - Tiger Reports - Nonfiction Read and Writing
This nonfiction unit about tigers will guide your students through reading, taking notes, writing and even making a book and craft! Whether you are having students write animal reports, or your class is getting ready for a trip to the zoo, this FREE animal report kit will have them excited to learn all about tigers.This easy to use format is predictable for students and has them focus on the keywords: are, have, can, eat, live and like. The coordinating note-taking and writing forms are geared
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K - 2nd, Adult Education
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Maze Run Escape Room Logic Puzzle Game Challenge Activities Freebie Pack No Prep
Maze Run Escape Room Puzzles provide a fun brain boosting challenge for students. Great for School Party Activities, Puzzle Competitions, Extra Credit, Individual or Team Building Activities! These escape room games are designed to help exercise problem-solving, critical thinking, and focusing skills. It is a great way to keep the students busy and help build/improve essential skills. There are 4 Fun Unique Levels of the Maze Run to choose from. Each level is different and as the levels increase
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Word Search Mini Escape Room Puzzle Game Pack - No Prep Easel Activity Freebie
This fun mini-word search escape room activity is great for individual skill building or team building. This quality word search escape room puzzle is designed to be as one escape room activity or can be combined with other escape room activities that may work with this type of puzzle.A great way to expand your escape room adventure! It is a 3 in 1 Puzzle Escape Room. A fun way to help exercise students’ problem-solving, critical thinking, and focusing skills. Great to help keep students busy wh
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Marshmallow Challenge Handout
This FREEBIE includes a color and black and white handout to provide to teams of students engaging in the Marshmallow Challenge activity. This activity is great to use as an icebreaker or to engage students in critical thinking, cooperative learning, and innovative thinking. It can also be used to reinforce basic principles of physics or as a fun math activity involving measurement.
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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SMART Goals Worksheet, Smart Goal Template, Setting Goals, SMART Goals
*Note: You will be taken to our site, ClassCrown.com, for full download of this product.*Follow us on TpT for more great FREE resources: Click HereDownload FREE without TpT account here: https://www.classcrown.com/products/free-worksheets-setting-smart-goals/This SMART goal worksheet will help your students set goals that are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-bound. To learn more about helping your students set SMART goals, read our blog post here: https://www.classcrown.co
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Free: Periodic Table of Elements Color by Category | print and digital
This no-prep Periodic Table chemistry activity, in print and digital, engages students with labeling the categories of the periodic table. These easy-to-read Periodic Tables are current with a full 7th period and groups labels 1-18. Choose between a Google Slides version or printable PDF that can be used as an assessment tool a group assignment, a homework assignment, or for early finishers. Blank periodic table references full and half-size are also included!✦ Save 20% with this and easy, engag
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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NGSS:
HS-PS1-1
, HS-PS1-2
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Planets Clip Art FREE
⇒Realistic Planets Clip Art⇐
Included are 9 color images of The Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune as well as 9 black and white images.
All images are in png formats.
Clever Teacher Clipart is created by Joseph and Rebecca Cowan. All free and paid graphics may be used for personal and commercial use. Please read our Terms of Use regarding how to give credit and link back to our TpT store! :) Thank you!
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PreK - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
FREE Moon Phases Cycle Real Photos Clipart {Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Designs}
FREE Moon Phases Cycle Real Photos Clipart {Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Designs}
You will receive 16 clip art graphics that were hand drawn by myself – 8 Colored Graphics and 8 Black and White Graphics. These are real life photos of the moon I took myself. The images are 2in x 2in and might not expand well (that's why I'm offering as a freebie.) The graphics include all the following: First Quarter Moon, Waxing Gibbous Moon, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous Moon, Last Quarter Moon, Waning Crescent Moon, New Moo
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
FREE SOLAR ECLIPSE FREEBIE! blanks and keys Printable
2024 is the year of the Great American Solar Eclipse and another won't come to the contiguous United States until 2045!Help your students understand this amazing event with this FREE detailed foldable. Blanks and Keys.Enjoy!Melanie
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
FREE Dinosaur Posters Set | Classroom Displays | Science | Decor
☀️ Jumpstart discussions and get your young learners’ attention with our high-resolution dinosaur poster set. Kids universally love dinosaurs, making this one of the easiest topics you’ll ever teach in your classroom.***************************************************************************This collection includes 13 posters designed to enhance any learning space at home or school while helping your students better understand dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. We professionally designed
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PreK - 12th, Adult Education
Graphic Organizer - Brainstorming Web
This is a simple brainstorming web.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Periodic Table of Elements Coloring Book (Sample)
A coloring book to familiarize the user with the Primary elements in the Periodic Table. The Periodic Table Coloring Book (PTCB) was received worldwide with acclaim. It is based on solid, proven concepts. By creating a foundation that is applicable to all science (“Oh yes, Hydrogen, I remember coloring it, part of water, it is also used as a fuel; I wonder how I could apply this to the vehicle engine I am studying…”) and creating enjoyable memories associated with the elements science becomes ac
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
OREO COOKIE PHASES OF THE MOON FOOD LAB
A popular lab, with a competitive twist! Educators, your students will have tons of fun learning/reviewing the phases of the moon with this engaging activity. Instead of simply cutting the cream out of each cookie, students will be tasked with a challenge (against their peers) for each of the 8 phases of the moon. I've also included a student version of the slides so that they can insert a photo of each phase they create. Why? Well, we all know that those cookies will not last very long at the e
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
MS-ESS1-1
Space Themed Bookmarks : Color Your Own Bookmark
This is a free download. In this download you will receive four space themed bookmarks for your students to color themselves. I hope you and your students enjoy this fun freebie!
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK STARTER KIT (LABELS FREEBIE)
Use these LABELS for your:
*SCIENCE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK
*MATH INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK
*READING RESPONSE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK
*MAKING INFERENCES INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK
Instructions are in the FREE download! ENJOY!
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Cute Clipart of Sea Creatures, Under the Sea
FREE for a limited time! All I ask in return is your review. Can I get 1000 reviews on one of my listings? I hope so, and you can help! Thank you in advance! Creatively yours,Claudia HarrisFun and cheerful, colorful and black and white clip art of sea creatures come to you in png format, with transparent backgrounds. Each is 300 dpi, high quality, and about 7 inches tall or wide. Educational use is encouraged.You get 20 clipart sea animals in color and in black and white. They are sharp and can
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Easy Sudoku Puzzle Freebie Starter Bundle No Prep Worksheet
This starter bundle introduces students to the world of Sudoku with fun and easy to learn 4 by 4 grid puzzles arranged in single or double per worksheet. Grayscale and Colored puzzles are included. This ready to print no prep free beginner's puzzle packet provides how-to-play instructions, fun easy-level puzzles to help spark up and exercise brain strengthening math, critical thinking, and problem solving skills. Instructions are included along with an answer key.This 4x4 Easy Sudoku Starter Bun
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Sketch Notes
This page is meant to serve as a summary of the big-scale relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Students are encouraged to color, annotate, and highlight key ideas, either as an introduction or a review of the unit.
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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HS-LS1-5
, HS-LS1-7
, HS-LS2-5
Also included in: Photosynthesis and Respiration Bundle
JEOPARDY! - Powerpoint customizable game template
After several attempts of searching for a good working Jeopardy template with no success, I decided to do one that complied with all my expectations.
This is a simple and well-designed template that lets you create personalized questions and answers.
Works great for classrooms, colleagues (training purposes) and friends (for fun).
Features:
- 25 questions and answers divided in 5 categories + final jeopardy question
- Points change color after being clicked, to avoid repeating
- Main topic in
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Water and Carbon Cycle Diagram Activity - Bring out their creativity!
This package is broken into a water cycle and a carbon cycle assignment. Usually, what I do is use the water cycle as a practice run (more formative assessment), then the carbon cycle as graded work but the tasks can be used however you like. Your students will use their varied learning styles to complete this assignment. Those who love art will enjoy the chance to really get creative and design something fantastic. Others will enjoy the way the task is set out step-wise with easy to follow i
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
NGSS:
MS-ESS3-1
, MS-LS2-3
, MS-LS2-4
, MS-ESS2-1
Critical Thinking Mystery Activity: The Break-In
In this fun mystery activity, students have to follow the clues to figure out why criminals broke into a store, but took nothing! Why did this happen? What's the real crime? This is a great way to teach and practice critical thinking skills as your students practice their reading skills and use their logic skills.Also available as a PowerPoint presentation or Google Slides.What is a Clue by Clue Mystery?It's a great warm-up, filler, or time killer for early finishers. Students are given a myster
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
Speak Think Understand - KWL Chart
This KWL chart can be used for any age of student that can read and write. I have used it as young as first grade, but also with college students. It is designed to get students thinking about how the things we know, want to know, and have learned are connected. Coming out of the mouth, you will find a space for students to write what they already know, or can tell you about. In a thought bubble above the head, is a space for what a student might want to know, or be thinking about, but not sure
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Solar System: Totally Tourist Tour of Our Solar System Online Research Activity
Solar system tour...online of course! With the internet as their resource, students explore current information about our Solar System and discover some fun and interesting information about the planets along the way.Answers not included.Click here to follow my store and receive the latest updates.Original Artwork (©AwesomeScience). For Personal Use Only. Uneditable.Page count does not include Terms of Use and links to supplementary activities. Copyright ©AwesomeScience 2013 – The Present.All R
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5th - 11th, Adult Education
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Brain Benders - Riddles and Brain Teasers 2
Brain Benders - Riddles and Brain Teasers 2
If you LOVED Brain Benders 1, Brain Benders 2, Brain Benders 3,and Brain Benders 4 - you must download Brain Benders 5!!!
{10 NEW RIDDLES AND BRAIN TEASERS FOR YOUR CLASSROOM!}
It's fun to solve brain teasers and I've heard your brain is like a muscle. If you exercise it (by teasing it) you'll have a fit brain. Even if that's not true, it's still fun to solve them!
Have your students improve their problem solving abilities with these 10 brain tea
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Importance of learning science
Learning science is particularly important for students as it equips them with the essential knowledge and skills to make sense of the world around them. Science education is not just about memorizing facts. It fosters critical thinking, inquiry, and problem-solving abilities. These skills are not only useful in school but also in everyday life beyond the classroom.
Benefits of learning science
Learning science offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. In fact, it helps students:
- Question the world around them and seek evidence-based explanations
- Cultivate their ability to observe, experiment, and analyze data
- Nurture a sense of curiosity, awe, and wonder about the natural world
- Understand natural phenomena and the laws that govern the universe
With a solid foundation in science, teachers can help empower students to think critically, solve problems, make informed decisions, and engage with the world around them in meaningful ways.
Teaching with science resources
One of the best parts about science class is all of the possibilities for hands-on, collaborative learning! Think: labs, experiments, inquiry-based activities, and design challenges. These activities encourage students to explore scientific concepts by observing, asking questions, and conducting investigations. Additionally, with small group centers, students can engage in group experiments, discussions, and projects that require them to collaborate, share ideas, and solve problems together.
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If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable or digital science resources, TPT has an extensive array of instructional materials for every learning need, topic, or grade level. Whether you're learning about plant parts or butterfly life cycles, or exploring advanced topics like the anatomy of a cell or Newton’s laws of motion, we've got you covered.
On TPT, science resources come in various forms: from labs and worksheets to craftivities and doodle notes. They can be used to enhance learning, assess a student’s mastery of science concepts, or to reteach a tricky topic. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, teaching and learning science will be so much easier. Plus, you can expand students’ knowledge even further by exploring TPT math resources, which are frequently paired with science lessons.
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Students learn best when they're engaged! Sprinkle a little fun into your science lessons and make them feel like real scientists by investigating everyday objects, exploring the world outside the classroom, and doing hands-on and collaborative experiments and design challenges.
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