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Middle school basic principles thematic unit plans for parents
Science Fair - Everything you need to Sponsor Science Fair Projects
Science Fair Guide, Contracts, and Rubrics - I have sponsored over a thousand science fair projects and taken middle school students as far as the National Level in Science Fair (Broadcom Masters, Lemelson Award, 2019). THIS is the guide I give my students and their parents. Directions on how to complete a science fair project - accurate and to the point, written at a middle school level. What to expect, things to think about, tips, hints, and pep talks.Rather than answering a bagillion question
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Life Science Bundle
Heredity, Reproduction and Life Cycles Unit - 5 Lessons, PPT, Printables & Test
This 5 lesson bundled unit will fill your classroom with all the information you want your students to know about heredity, reproduction and plant and animal life cycles. It includes 5 individual lessons with the lesson plans included. It also includes a 120 slide animated power point with excellent animations. Your students will love the visuals in this power point! There are also 25 printable student pages that include activities, worksheets, diagrams and a unit assessment plus answer keys for
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4th - 6th
NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, MS-LS1-4
, 4-LS1-2
, 5-LS1-1
Also included in: Year Long (Growing) Science Bundle Grades 4-5 - Mega Bundle
Weather Super Bundle
This bundle includes 3 awesome units to support the study of weather. These units are aligned to NGSS standards, and also include many opportunity for students to integrade language arts with reading, writing, and presenting. These units are available separately, but you will save by purchasing all 3 in this bundle. Here's what's included in each unit:Weather:Activity 1: Making a Class Weather Station: Students make their own weather station then use it to keep a weather log.Activity 2: C
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3rd - 6th
NGSS:
3-ESS3-1
, 3-ESS2-1
, 3-ESS2-2
Invention Convention - Scientific Investigation - Incredible Project! {Editable}
If you are looking for one of the most incredible projects ever, look no further! Students will plan, design, and build a life-size prototype that solves a real-world problem! This Invention Convention project comes complete with rubric, judging sheet, parent consent/agreement form, and detailed instructions (all of which are editable!). This project usually takes the students about two to four months to work on, so it will be an adventure that will not soon be forgotten! (If time is a fact
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4th - 10th
Electricity & Magnetism | Editable Digital Science Mini-Unit
Students learn about potential and kinetic energy, electricity and it's inventors and innovators, how electricity gets to your home, power sources, other types of energy such as mechanical, gravitational, heat and chemical and more. This one page (front and back) Electricity and Energy Science webquest helps students develop their internet search skills while advancing their reading and understanding of informational text. This is a great introductory lesson to help students develop beginning o
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6th - 9th
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Medical Mysteries: Readings & Resources on the Fight against Disease
Medical Mysteries is a one or 1 1/2-week lesson unit with readings and associated comprehension questions, a webquest, video links, optional writing assignments, and other resources on the impact of diseases on history and people’s efforts to understand and control them.It's now a zip file, including an editable Word document so you can make changes in the lessons to better meet your students' needs.It's an introduction to the diseases that made scientific research both urgent and difficult, and
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7th - 10th, Adult Education
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Comprehensive 11 Day Characteristics of Life and Introduction to Cells Packet
***Sequencing error in I Have/Who Has cards corrected and answer key added 11-16-15. Please re-download the fixed version or email thescienceshoppe@gmail.com with your TPT name and we will send you an updated version. We're sorry for any problems this may have created.***
Thank you for your interest and purchase in this 5th-8th grade comprehensive Introduction to the Characteristics of Life and Cells. Your packet includes 11 days worth of PowerPoint slides, corresponding printable notes worksh
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6th - 8th
Changes in States of Matter Lab Experiemnt
This is an experiment I found on the internet from www.sciencebob.com. I have just added the scientific method process to help the children walk through the experiment. I have also included pages for them to fill out and glue in their journal.
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1st - 6th
The Complete Science Fair Planner | Workbooks | Projects | Judging | Awards
Everything you need to get your students on the right track for the science fair and award them at the end. Students will create original experiments at their level. The perfect guide for science fair coordinators from start to finish.You will need Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides, and Microsoft Publisher to open and edit some of the programs. Please make sure you have these before purchasing. If you do not have Publisher, you may use the included Google Slide link.You will get all 3-grad
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K - 6th
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Weather Reporter Unit for Upper Grades (Digital Version)
A weather unit where kids learn about the weather by becoming meteorologists! In this unit, students will learn about the weather and its conditions by becoming meteorologists! Students will review what the weather is, what a meteorologist does, and weather vocabulary. Then, they will keep a Meteorologist Journal for 2 weeks. No printing required with this digital Google Slides edition! You can also purchase the digital Google Slides + printable together and save 30%!Each daily journal entry has
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Weather Reporter Unit for Upper Grades (Digital & Print Versions)
Comprehensive 15 Day Introduction to Science Packet with Test
Thank you for your interest and purchase in this comprehensive introduction to science curriculum. Your packet includes 15 days worth of PowerPoint slides, corresponding worksheets for your students, review sheets, labs, demonstrations, calendar cards, bell questions sheets, exit question cards, manipulative card sets, a set of task cards, I Have/Who Has vocabulary game cards, and a test with key. (It includes EVERY item for sale through The Science Shoppe regarding Introduction to Science.)
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5th - 8th
Science Fair Parent Letter & At Home Project Checklist
Here is all of the information that you will need to provide to parents to help them in completing their child's science fair project at home. All guidelines adhere to national science fair standards and parents are provided with a link to the national website on their letter. Also included is an explicit check-off to help parents with this process, a diagram showing how to set up the display board, and a mid-point check form for the teacher. See my store "The Dimond Ranch" for complete scien
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4th - 8th
Mythbusters - Scientific Investigation - Incredible Project! {Editable}
Get ready to take your students on a wild and unforgettable Myth-Busting ride! This project is geared to help students apply the scientific method to myths that have been around for ages! Many of my students enjoy the hit television series “MythBusters,” and I wanted to find a way to incorporate science into practical real-world scenarios. I allow students to choose any realistic myth that can be tested (including movie myths!). Students will submit a proposal (template included), bust or co
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6th - 10th
BC Science 8 FULL COURSE (print and digital)
©Alternate Courses creates simplified curriculum including outlines, progress charts, notes, worksheets, and inquiry projects that can be used in a traditional inclusive classroom as well as for asynchronous and remote learning. Our course work meets all the learning outcomes of the new British Columbia curriculum in a simplified form for independent, self-paced work without the need for a textbook. Our student-centred projects give your students voice and choice in their learning. The PROJECTS
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8th
Amazing Sun Fun:Solar Energy Facts & Experiments Gr 6-8 w/ 2 flapper solar oven
Specifically written with the middle school child in mind, this book will lead both the enthusiastic and the reluctant science student to a deeper understanding of the principles of solar energy. Loaded with intriguing facts and do-able, inexpensive experiments, including my signature project from At Home With the Sun, a pizza box solar oven for cooking smokeless s'mores.
SUN FACT – On average 1000 watts of solar energy fall on a 3' by 3' patch of ground – about the size of a sidewalk square.
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5th - 8th
Patterns of Movement (Force and Motion) Lesson Plan
This is a complete very detailed 5E lesson plan over patterns of movement. Provided in this lesson are the standards, ELPS, objectives, and accommodations. This lesson could be taught in one day or slowed down into 3-5. In this lesson plan there are three different formative assessments in place to ensure the effectiveness of the lesson. From the Engage to the Evaluate this lesson will ensure that the students are receiving the most in order to meet the standards while being engaged througho
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K - 7th
Science Fair Teacher Forms BUNDLE
Here is every form you will need to organize your science fair. Included are eleven editable forms to help your students succeed:
-Parent Letter
-Teacher Grading Rubric (Can also be used for judging form)
-Student Check-off Form
-Display Board Template
-Peer Judging Forms
-Science Fair Submission Form
-Forms for home and for projects completed at school
-Science Fair Script Planning Page
-Team Planning Pages
These are forms to help you keep your students organized. Separately these forms woul
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4th - 8th
7 Day Introduction to Science and Identifying Parts of an Experiment
Your packet includes 7 days worth of PowerPoint slides, corresponding worksheets for your students, review sheets, labs, demonstrations, and a quiz with a key.
The files are PowerPoint 2007 and PDFs in a zip file. The PowerPoint slides are compatible with Windows 7/Power Point 2007 or later. Please read the unit overview first (PDF file included). The PowerPoint slides and worksheets are broken down by subject/day to help with flexibility in teaching. Packet is appropriate for 5th grade, 6t
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5th - 8th
Science Safety Rules & Contract
This Science Safety Contract includes:
1. Student contract (to be signed by each student and his/her parent or guardian)
2. Print-out of the Science Safety Rules that can be copied and inserted into each student’s notebook for easy reference.
3. Tips and background information to help you utilize this important tool in your classroom.
A Note from Teresa
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Science Safety is the first priority of every good science
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4th - 12th
Science Safety Contract - Upper Elementary
This beginning-of-the-year science safety contract is a good lesson / handout to go over with students in the first few days of school. It sets expectations for the year and gets them excited about all of the labs and activities that you will be doing together!
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4th - 6th
Science Lab Safety Packet (JAM-PACKED!)
This packet contains TONS of fabulous items to teach and/or enrich your science lab safety unit. From activities and vocabulary, handouts and posters, to worksheets and assessments, and MORE!
There are SOOOO MANY things to do that you can pretty much just sort through them and pick-and-choose what you want to do/use based upon the individual needs of your specific class and/or group of students.
*Don't let the price scare you! This packet is 121 PAGES and includes MANY ready-to-use items tha
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PreK - 6th
5-Day Mini-Unit Characteristics of Life
Your packet includes 5 days' worth of information regarding the characteristics of life, needs of living things, and levels of organization within organisms. PowerPoint slides, corresponding worksheets for notes, review sheets, a lab, manipulative cards cards, and a set of task cards are included in this download.
**This product is included in the following larger unit: “Characteristics of Life and Introduction to Cells Comprehensive Packet.” It also includes the following separately sold p
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5th - 7th
Painted Lady Butterfly Anatomy
This is an Anatomy poster that highlights different parts of a butterfly. I used the painted lady butterfly since that is the type of butterfly most commonly sent when you order caterpillars to observe metamorphosis in class or at home.
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PreK - 6th
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Middle School Lab Safety Contract
This PDF has a list of 11 lab safety rules with explanations and a contract for parents and students to sign. I find it's very clear for students to understand exactly what is expected of them in my science lab after we review this safety contract.
Topics covered:
-Table and materials organization
-Roughhousing in the lab
-Food & drink
-Lab procedures
-Accidents
-Safely handling lab equipment
-Glassware safety
-Microscope usage
-Burner safety
-Personal safety equipment
-Cleaning up after l
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5th - 8th
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