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8th grade environment Common Core W.3.2 resources
Descriptive Writing - Earth Day
12 printable or digital pages to give your students ideas for describing a wildlife scene or setting surrounding a honeybee, butterfly, lizard, rabbit, duck, dragonfly, ladybug, turtle, squirrel, and more. Each page has a wildlife photo (taken by me) and ten additional clues about what might be nearby (a slithering snail, a nearby bird, marching ants, buzzing bees, drifting clouds, shadows, rocks, drifting leaves, and more). Your students will like these writing prompts (and you can use these
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2nd - 8th
Also included in: New Teacher Activities - April (First Year Teacher) BUNDLE
Descriptive Writing - Animals and Nature
20 pages exploring animals and nature (printable and digital activity). Students write a paragraph describing what they see, noticing the details of each photo and the surrounding plants. PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and download your copy. DIGITAL ACTIVITY: I created a digital version with text boxes so students can type in the answers using a computer or tablet (for Distance L
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3rd - 8th
Also included in: Spring Break - Distance Learning for Bored Kids BUNDLE
Patterns in Nature - Observing & Describing
13 printable pages for students to observe and describe flowers, leaves, trees, fruit, vegetables, grass, bushes, and more. No prep! Just print and go. Take a look at the Preview to see sample pages.
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3rd - 8th
Descriptive Writing - Flowers and Plants
20 pages exploring flowers and plants (printable and digital activity). Students write a paragraph describing a photo: a flower and the surrounding plants. PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and download your copy. DIGITAL ACTIVITY: I created a digital version with text boxes so students can type in the answers using a computer or tablet (for Distance Learning). Click on "Create Di
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3rd - 8th
Insects BUNDLE
This bundle contains 163 printable pages or digital activities to explore insects: butterflies, caterpillars, ants, wasps, flies, honeybees, bumblebees, grasshoppers, katydids, dragonflies, damselflies, moths, beetles, ladybugs, cicadas, and other insects... PRINT: I created PDF versions that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and download your copy. DIGITAL ACTIVITY: I created digital versions with text boxes so studen
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3rd - 8th
Idaho National Parks Webquest
Idaho is home to some of our country's largest National Parks, Recreation Areas, and Historic Sites.This Web quest is a great tool for introducing students to research practices, note taking skills, and reading expository text. In addition, it's a great tool for introducing students to the wide array of diverse environments available in Idaho's natural beauty. Easily adjusted for multiple grade levels, this resource was originally developed for using with 4th graders. This is a great way to get
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3rd - 9th
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Earth Day - Writing Prompts
30 printable or digital pages to engage your students in thinking and writing on Earth Day: How do engines harm the Earth? How can we make the Earth safe for animals? How do we pollute the air? How can a child protect the Earth? How is Earth threatened by humans? And more. PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and download your copy. DIGITAL ACTIVITY: I created a digital version w
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: New Teacher Activities - April (First Year Teacher) BUNDLE
Descriptive Writing - Insects and Wildlife
20 pages exploring insects and wildlife photos (printable and digital activity). Students write a paragraph describing what they see, noticing the details of each photo and the surrounding plants. Use as an Independent Work Packet or as homework. PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and download your copy. DIGITAL ACTIVITY: I created a digital version with text boxes so students can typ
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3rd - 8th
Descriptive Writing - Beetles and Bugs
24 descriptive writing prompts about the BUGS:firefly, Japanese beetle, ladybug, red-eyed fly, cicada, darkling beetle, assassin bug, soldier beetle, horsefly, cucumber beetle, leatherwing beetle, bark beetle, harvestman, six-spotted tiger beetle, slug, carpenter ant, grasshopper, wheel bug, tent caterpillar, and more. Students describe the body, where the bug is and what it is doing. Plus, 10 free pages of materials from my Gifted and Talented series to explore the California state flag, a cha
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3rd - 8th
Also included in: Insects BUNDLE
Descriptive Writing - Dragonflies and Damselflies
23 descriptive writing printable or digital pages of dragonflies and damselflies: the eyes, mouth, head, body and wings. Notice that the dragonfly keeps its wings out to the side when at rest while the damselfly folds its wings behind its back. Notice the claspers at the end of a dragonfly’s body, and the segments that stretch from one end to the other. Notice the enormous eyes on their head, and the hairs that poke out between them. Notice the bulging chest and over-sized mouth. Notice the four
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Insects BUNDLE
Descriptive Writing - Spiders
30 descriptive writing prompts about spiders. Students describe the body, legs, spinnerets, eyes and mouth of the spider, as well as the environment (on a tree, in a web, on a flower, on the ground, standing on the water, etc.):orb-weavers, jumping spiders, hunting spiders, crab spiders, orchard spiders, green lynx spiders, long-jawed orb-weavers, ant-mimic spiders, six-spotted fishing spiders, wolf spiders, yellow garden spiders, harvestmen, and more. Plus, 10 free pages of materials from my G
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3rd - 8th
Also included in: Insects and Spiders BUNDLE
Descriptive Writing - Ants and Flies
35 descriptive writing pages (printable and digital) of ants and flies: the carpenter ant, yellow deer fly, long-legged fly, horsefly, housefly, hover fly, flesh fly, a velvet ant (wasp), and more. On each page, students describe how an ant moves, what it means to be tired, why your body needs to rest, how exercise makes you feel, people don’t like flies, we use water, an ant stays alive, how a fly can fly, and many more thinking prompts. Plus, 10 free pages of materials from my Gifted and Talen
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3rd - 8th
Also included in: Insects BUNDLE
Descriptive Writing - Birds and Bees
29 descriptive writing pages of birds and bees: the great blue heron, honeybee, American robin, bumblebee, mallard, wasp, pigeon, hawk, hoverfly, seagull, goose, blue jay, and more... Students describe where each bird or bee is and what it is doing. Plus, 10 free pages of materials from my Gifted and Talented series to explore the California state flag, a challenging A to Z Word Puzzle, decoding secret License Plates, analyzing a State Quarter, Hidden Nouns (Boggle), writing about Discriminatio
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3rd - 8th
Also included in: Insects BUNDLE
Spring - Hypothetical Situations (Seasons)
20 printable or digital pages for students to explore hypothetical situations. Students imagine and write about how life would be different...as a roly-polyas a lizardas a duckas a butterflyas an elephantas a mushroomas a cloudas a spideras a ladybugas a dogand many more...Use these writing prompts during the Spring season to promote divergent thinking and creativity. Take a look at the Preview to see a few pages from this packet. If you would like more of this activity, here are the FOUR SEAS
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3rd - 8th
Also included in: Back to School Writing BUNDLE
Writing and Thinking about Nature in January (Use Your Senses)
20 printable pages for students to describe what they see, hear, and feel when in nature. Each page has a nature photos that I took while at a botanical gardens, a wildlife refuge, state parks, and on local trails. Students write a paragraph (a thirty-minute activity), and then read aloud to partner or the class. Take a look at the Preview to see sample pages from this packet.
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3rd - 8th
Lizards and Iguanas - Writing Prompts
This packet has 10 pages of writing prompts about lizards and iguanas for students of compare and contrast, descriptive writing, narrative writing, hypothetical situation, opinion vs facts, internet research, and more. Use in class or as homework. All photos were taken by me while wandering around Puerto Rico on vacation. Enjoy!
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3rd - 8th
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Wildlife Prompts (Fall)
11 printable or digital pages of writing prompts to use in the Fall Season: How is a bridge that takes you across a stream similar to school?What is it like to walk in a forest?Are spiders scary?Does a leaf have a birth and a death?How does a tree keep from falling over?How does a moth know to hide on a tree that it looks like?Are bugs dangerous?Why are flowers blue and yellow and red and pink?Do bugs deserve the same respect that we show elephants and eagles?Does a tree feel pain when a branch
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
Also included in: October BUNDLE
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