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8th grade study skills earth sciences resources for Microsoft OneDrive
Symbiosis - Symbiotic Relationships PowerPoint
Symbiosis - Symbiotic Relationships PowerPoint. Colorful graphics and animated slides explain the differences between the three types of symbiotic relationships that exist in ecosystems: commensalism, mutualism, and parasitism. This digital resource is a nice addition to your ecology unit with an expository writing prompt to assess understanding. Easy to understand terms help students understand species interactions. Includes a slide to review the scientific vocabulary, and a print or digital ac
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5th - 8th
ELA STEM Challenge Activity: Explanatory Essay, Hatchet Writing Activities +More
This hands-on, zero prep, zero supply cost STEM lesson is a fun way to incorporate STEM in ELA! Additionally, it pairs nicely with any wilderness survival story including examples like Lord of the Flies - Hatchet - My Side of the Mountain - Island of the Blue Dolphins - Sign of the Beaver - Touching Spirit Bear +MoreYou will get:⭐ An editable preplanning worksheet⭐ An editable exemplary procedural text⭐ An editable breakdown of what makes a good explanatory text⭐ An editable rubricYou will love
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5th - 9th
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Biogeochemical Cycles Overview and Diagram Labeling Water Carbon Nitrogen Cycle
2023 UPDATE! Included with the cycle diagrams is now a ONE-PAGE overview of the water cycle, carbon cycle, nitrogen, cycle, and phosphorus cycle. A separate page for each information sheet with student comprehension questions is included for each cycle. These are included with the printable diagrams ONLY (they are not currently part of the Google Slides file). The information on each cycle includes NGSS-aligned content: discussing human impacts to each cycle and their reservoirs.This is a Google
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7th - 10th
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HS-LS2-3
, HS-LS2-7
, HS-LS2-5
, HS-LS2-4
, HS-ESS3-1
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Plate Tectonics & Plate Boundary Activities | Digital Resource
Students will explore topics related to Plate Tectonics in this engaging and interactive digital resource! This resource covers the following concepts:- Plate tectonics and plate movement- Types of Plate Boundaries (two different activities - pick the level that works for you)- Relating earthquakes and volcanoes to plate boundaries using real-time data - Drag and drop plate boundary activity- Review questions- Review activities17 Google Slides included - pick and choose the ones that will work b
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8th - 12th
Rain Shadow Effect PowerPoint
This PowerPoint explains the rain shadow effect where moist air gets blocked by mountains. Includes photos and diagrams of how rain shadow affects the windward and leeward side of a mountain range, examples of rain shadow around the world, and a five-question review quiz at the end. Great addition to your Earth Science unit. Please see full preview. Note: animation does not show in preview. Did you know that you can use PowerPoints like this in video conferencing or Zoom for remote learning? You
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5th - 8th
A Geologic Time Scale Earth History PowerPoint and Printable Activities
Earth History: Geologic Time Scale PowerPoint. A summary of the eras in Earth's geologic history with slides on the various time periods of planet Earth. Precambrian Eon: Azoic (Hadean and Archean), Proterozoic Eras; and the Phanerozoic Eon: Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic, and Neozoic Eras.Each era is also divided into periods and epochs: Paleozoic: Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, and Permian Mesozoic: Triassic, Jurassic, and CretaceousCenozoic: Paleocene,
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5th - 8th
Intro to Landforms and Locations in Africa 5-E Geography Lesson | Microsoft
This geography lesson explores landforms & locations on the continent of Africa. The activities are engaging for students & the guided, 5-E format is easy for you to use! Begin with a fun “The Amazing Race” warm-up activity. Then, “Plot It…” challenges students to locate African nations on a political map using latitude & longitude coordinates. Next, follow relative location clues to “Find It…” and locate geographic features on a physical map of the continent. Finally, a “Think About
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5th - 12th
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The Great Rift Valley in Africa 5-E Lesson | Causes and Effects | Microsoft
This lesson explores how the Great Rift Valley was formed and its effects on the land & people in Africa. The activities are engaging for students & the guided, 5-E format is easy for you to use! Begin with a “Memory Game - Kenya” warm-up, then discuss plate tectonics using a clip from “Ice Age 4: Continental Drift”. Present key vocabulary terms while completing fill-in notes. Next, students answer questions while viewing a 15-minute, Discovery Channel video that examines the physical ge
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5th - 12th
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Metric Measurements and Density Digital Lesson Notes Slides & Activity Digital
This Google Slides, digital AND printable scientific investigation lesson on Metric Measurements allows students to type directly into text boxes, add images, and access slide presentations embedded in each lesson all ready to go! This digital and also printable lesson includes:two warm-ups (Slide 1)Cornell notes (Slide 2)activity with directions and differentiated student slides (Slide 3 and 6)a slide presentation to follow along with the notesan evaluation sheet for students and/or teachers t
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4th - 10th
Desertification Causes Effects Solutions 6-E Lesson | Sahara & Sahel | Microsoft
This lesson explores the causes of desertification and its effects on the land and people in Africa’s Sahel region south of the Sahara. The activities are engaging for students & the guided, 6-E format is easy for you to use! Begin with a “Say Something…” warm-up, then test their knowledge of the Sahara with a “Fact or Fiction” activity. Fill-in notes accompany the lesson. Challenge students to complete a cause/effect/solution chart after reading a desertification passage. A “Big Ideas” acti
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6th - 12th
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Interdependence of Living Things and Food Chains PowerPoint & Easel Assessment
Earth Science and Life Science Lesson: Interdependence of Living Things PowerPoint is a digital resource that is helpful for introducing the food chain. Supplemental studies of species interactions with the vocabulary and terminology students should know about the food chain and the connections between living things. Includes the biology terms: producers, consumers, decomposers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, detritivores, food chains, abiotic and biotic factors. 25 slides. Learning how anim
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5th - 8th
Weather Mapping, Analysis, and Prediction Digital Activity
This READY TO USE interactive digital activity asks students to analyze a real weather map, to look for certain weather patterns and features on the weather map. Then they use that same map to predict the weather for the new few upcoming days, based on the data on the map. This is similar to a synoptic weather map activity but available in a digital format that can be used with Google Drive, PowerPoint, or on paper. It is a great summary for the end of a weather unit, as a final assessment,
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Earth Science: Buy The Store Lifetime Money-Saving Bundle
Sun - Graphic Organizer - DIGITAL ACTIVITY
The Sun - Digital Graphic Organizer to help students with their notes and information about the sun. Includes layers of the sun, layers of the sun's atmosphere, sunspots, solar flares, solar prominences and more!Includes 3 digital slides for students to type their responses directly onto the graphic organizer!! Great for 1:1 classrooms! Use with Google Classroom, Microsoft OneDrive, and Office 365! Also includes a full answer key and PDF versions of the graphic organizers!For a more traditiona
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5th - 9th
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Summarizing Nonfiction Text Writing an Abstract Reading Comprehension PowerPoint
How to write a 25-word summary PowerPoint lesson. Students demonstrate their reading comprehension using a 25-Word Abstract Summarizing Activity to find the main idea in expository text and summarize it! Use close reading and cooperative group evaluation to write a terrific summary of expository text. This PowerPoint will help teachers scaffold the process of summarization. Notes to the teacher for lesson guidance are in the note section below each slide. With this lesson, students will learn mo
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Nonfiction Vocabulary and Structure Bundle - Grades 4 - 8
The Truth about Fidget Toys: Guided Notes & Sensory Survey
Have your students joined the fidget toy craze?! Use this set of guided notes to present your students with the evidence behind fidget toys - sensory learning! Via guided notes, provide students with the benefits of multi-sensory learning and its connection to fidget toys. Follow up your notes with a sensory survey - a chance for students to see the sense they favor most! In this lesson students will continue to understand that fidget toys are not toys at all, and instead are helpful tools inten
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4th - 12th
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Lab Materials & Measurement Digital Lesson - Scientific Investigation Google Sli
Want your students to learn scientific lab material vocabulary? Mass, grams, liters, volume, meters and more? Oh my! This Google Slides, digital AND printable science lesson on lab materials and measurements allows students to type directly into text boxes, add images, and access slide presentations embedded in each lesson all ready to go! Students will use Google Slides to complete their digital work with the option to print. Student lessons are ready to link and "make a copy" to start on their
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4th - 10th
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Earth Science | Earth as a System | Google Classroom | Google Slides
Engage your students with these colorful Google slides as students study Earth Science and Earth as a System. This Google Classroom digital resource contains paperless vocabulary and writing activities perfect Chromebooks, HP Streams, and other devices in a classroom using technology. "Earth as a System"- Students will use their devices to review, practice, apply or assess vocabulary words in your Earth Science class. They will take vocabulary and concepts and apply what they've learned, or "sho
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6th - 12th
Middle School Transition Back to School Study Skills PowerPoint and Printables
Back to School Study Skills PowerPoint. Great study tips for middle school transition for back to school! Animated slides on basic study skills, such as setting up a study center, organizing papers, prioritizing assignments, and managing time, with ideas and photos to inspire organization! Use on the first day of school or at the beginning of the year to get students off to a good start. The slides can be printed as posters as well. Includes an inspirational quote from Nelson Mandela, a printa
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5th - 8th
Solar System Digital Space Lesson- Notes Slides and Activity
Get this Google Slides space digital lesson, which is printer-friendly too! Students will explore Geocentric and Heliocentric Models, Nicolas Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Brahe!Students can work independently, in pairs, or whole class! Students will start out with a set of warm-ups to find out what they know and will learn, followed by a set of notes where they follow along a slide-presentation to highlight with embedded links and tools. An activity is included to reinforce the material in a
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: Solar System & Planets Google Slides & Printable - Space Unit Bundle
The Truth about Fidget Toys: Guided Notes & Experiment
Have your students joined the fidget toy craze?! Use this set of guided notes to teach your kids what a fidget toy really is! Have them experiment through hands-on learning to determine what is the most helpful/harmful fidget toy. In this lesson students will begin to understand that fidget toys are not toys at all, and instead are helpful tools intended to help us as learners! This activity is accessible in both printable and digital formats. My students preferred completing it on Microsoft One
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4th - 12th
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The Truth about Fidget Toys: Design & Feasibility
Have your students joined the fidget toy craze?! Use this guided experience to have your students generate brilliant ideas that produce "true" fidget toys! Encourage the class to create ideas using unique perspectives and styles. Demonstrate the rationale and importance of looking at the big picture, and have major fun along the way!This activity is accessible in both printable and digital formats. My students preferred completing it on Microsoft OneNote and made their notes/marks with Microsoft
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6th - 12th
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STEM - Sustainable Building Bundle (Unit of Work + Inquiry Design Journal)
Our comprehensive Unit of Work and Inquiry Journal will take your students on a learning journey using Project Based Learning and Inquiry Design to explore Sustainable Building practices and methods. Both items can be downloaded separately - save $ when purchased as a bundle.
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3rd - 8th
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Earth Science | Google Classroom | Google Slides
Engage your students as they study Earth Science and models of the Earth. These colorful Google slides are a paperless vocabulary and writing resource perfect for Google Classroom. "Models of the Earth"- Students will use their devices to review, practice, apply or assess vocabulary words in your Earth Science class. They will take vocabulary and concepts and apply what they've learned, or "show what they know".Here are the terms covered in this product:parallel - lateral - meridian - longitude
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6th - 12th
Earth Science Vocabulary | Google Classroom Activities | Google Slides
Engage your students with these colorful Google slides as they study an Introduction to Earth Science. This Google Classroom resource contains paperless vocabulary and writing activities perfect Chromebooks, HP Streams, and other devices in classrooms using technology. "Introduction to Earth Science"- Students will use their devices to review, practice, apply or assess vocabulary words in your Earth Science class. They will take vocabulary and concepts and apply what they've learned, or "show wh
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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