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Middle school Earth Day physical education resources for GATE
Earth Day STEM Challenge Activity - New Earth City
This is the perfect Earth Day STEM activity!The basic idea: It is Earth Day, and the year 2035. Earth has become overcrowded. The students are part of a pioneering crew tasked with setting up the first city (New Earth City) on Planetopia, a fictional name for a recently discovered Earth-like planet in a distant solar system. Part of the mission is to set up the city to prevent or address the problems we are having on Earth so we don’t repeat our errors on our new home planet. This challenge is b
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2nd - 8th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Ecosystems & Environmental Concerns PBL | Science Project Based Learning
Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach about different ecosystems and their environmental concerns? Interested in student driven learning?This Project Based Learning unit allows students to learn about ecosystems by examining an environmental issue within an ecosystem. Students act as environmentalists as they research the causes and effects as well as problems and solutions of an environmental issue by examining the different factors that make up an ecosystem. This is a student-centered wa
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4th - 8th
Also included in:Â Science PBL | Project and Problem Based Learning Bundle
April STEM Activities with Earth Day STEM Challenges and Close Reading Passages
STEM challenge activities are so much fun. But, finding the time to incorporate design challenges into your curriculum can be difficult. The APRIL STEM Design Challenge COLLECTION is part of the STEM with CLOSE READING series. It gives you FOUR OF MY BEST SELLING STEM CHALLENGES that will seamlessly allow you to tie together the curriculum by giving you rigorous text dependent questions that go with a high interest reading passages IN ADDITION to the fun STEM activities! Watch your kids fac
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in:Â STEM Activities Projects Bundle with April Spring and Easter STEM Challenges
What Problem Will You Solve: A Critical Thinking and Writing Activity
So often, we ask students what they want to be when they grow up but let's shift the mindset. Instead, pose the question of, "What problem will you solve?" This project encourages students to think both critically and globally to help solve issues in our world today. Included in this product are multiple ways for students to brainstorm problems, vocabulary, and processes. There is also draft and final publishing paper that can be used to write a culminating essay.This is a great beginning OR
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5th - 8th
Also included in:Â Bundle: Monthly Writing Projects for Upper Elementary
Earth Day STEM Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Earth Day Activity - This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards and encourages critical thinking, budgeting, and engineering skills. Oh no! People are throwing away too much trash! Your students need to reuse some things from the trash to make something new and useful. What will they come up with? This Earth Day STEM will get your students using their critical thinking skills to solve this challenge! Students must stick to a budget and use the available supplies.
Suggested Plan of
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in:Â STEM Activities Bundle
Brain Injuries, Diseases, & Disabilities Research Project
Are you teaching your students about the brain, whether it be through psychology, development, anatomy, or health? If so, this project is for you!
In this research project, students will seek to answer the question, "How do injuries and development impact the brain?" They will be assigned specific health conditions related to the brain (through my included paper strips) and will follow the research log to learn more about their topics. Once they have researched their topics, they will brainstor
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3rd - 9th
Earth Day Coding "Unplugged"
Earth Day Binary Coding Do you want to introduce your students to coding? This is a easy way to get your students using and understanding binary code.
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Design and write an Earth Day Code Bracelet using Binary Code. Students will pick a word to code. They will string the beads and then tie the ends for their bracelet.
Earth Day Code-Do the Math Worksheet
Students will use math skills to determine the number of digits in each word.
Earth Day Code- Read the Code Worksheet
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in:Â Coding "Unplugged" Bundle for the Entire Year
Football Logic Puzzles - Critical Thinking - Fast Finishers- Gifted & Talented
Football! Looking for a way to bring football into your classroom and still involve critical thinking fun? These challenging logic puzzles are made for YOU! This NO prep four pack is an enriching supplement to your critical reading lessons. Set includes four critical thinking activities. One of them is personalized for every single student! Perfect for early finishers, challenge board, after testing, and more! Have a look! Set includes 4 Logic Puzzles All the Matrix Grid Puzzles come i
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6th - 9th
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3D initials Art Project
Perfect lesson for 6th-12th grade students. It is an intensely fun project that your intense art students will love.The lesson uses recycled materials and beautiful collage of scraps of decorative paper.
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8th - 12th
Also included in:Â 28 lessons and activities: Beginning HS Art (9th to 12th grade)
Turtle Logic Puzzle
Turtles in Trouble is a Matrix Grid Logic Puzzle. In this fun brain teaser students use critical reading and deduction to discover which of the 8 students did or is doing which of the 8 acts to help save the turtles. It's a deal at only $1.50. Great for early finishers or centers. Critical reading, elimination and problem solving are the heart of this activity which can be used for early finishers or as a support resource for your environmental lessons, perfect for Earth Day activities! Ans
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5th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Earth Day Activities - Logic Puzzles
**THREE DAY** Earth's Spheres WebQuest
All you need to do is print and hand this out to students, or post on your Google Classroom. NO PREP REQUIRED. This is a set of three WebQuests (meant for 3 40-60 minute class periods) where students will analyze graphs, articles, and videos to answer questions about science. They will be focused on the concepts of the different spheres of earth (atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere), the amounts of fresh and salt water, climate vs. weather, and the concept of seasons. This is perfe
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in:Â NO PREP! WEBQUEST BUNDLE
TRASH TO TREASURE Trash & Recycling STEAM Unit
This 16-page, 6-hour (more or less...easily adjustable) STEAM unit includes lesson plans, hand outs, parent notes, criteria sheets, and examples for 4 hands-on activities related to trash and recycling!Activities include:Collect trash from outside or around the school to create a Trash Ball. Hypothesize how big the ball will be. Then compare/contrast the balls from different classrooms, grades, areas, etc.Make paper from paper scraps!Design Recycling Posters to put around the schoolCreate Tras
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2nd - 6th
Math Field Day or Math Olympics **Full Event**
FULL FILES for setting up and running your own UPPER ELEMENTARY Math Field Day or Math Olympics Event.A great way to review all Upper Elementary concepts through active stations and outdoor activities!Stations Included: Place Value Puzzlers, Soccer Shapes, Fraction Ball, Bean Bag Graphing, Making Connections, Shape Hunt,  Silly Station, Mental Math Marathoners, Frequency Fitness Extras Included: Volunteer Forms, Ideas for Expectations, Forming Student Groups, STUDENT WORKSHEETS for each Station
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3rd - 6th
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Human Impact of Ecosystem - Ecosystem Project - Earth Day - Middle School
Do you teach students about the human impact of ecosystem and are looking for an engaging and low-prep ecosystem project? The Protecting Ecosystems Project is an engaging way to get kids researching, writing, and creating a project about an ecosystem, how humans impact it, and the benefits of protecting the ecosystem!Scenario: Your student is the director of the EOE (Ecosystems of Earth Committee) and will present their argument to the Earth Day Board of Directors to protect their ecosystem. S
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6th - 8th
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MS-LS2-4
Landforms STEM Challenge
If you’re looking to apply learning in landforms, weathering & erosion, plate tectonics & more, this STEM / STEAM challenge is a perfectly engaging way to get the job done joyfully! The basic premise: Students work individually or in partners/groups against a list of criteria and constraints to create the nonliving surface (geosphere & hydrosphere) of the fictional planet, Planetopia. Note: This is the printable version. If you are in a 1:1 / paperless classroom, you will want to
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2nd - 8th
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Sports & Leisure Trivia Middle School Teambuilding Academic Team Quiz Bowl
✅ 20 Mind-Boggling Questions: This trivia worksheet features 20 unique and intriguing questions about sports and leisure activities that will challenge and inspire students in grades 6 and beyond.✅ Answer Key Included: You'll find a comprehensive answer key to effortlessly check the answers and provide quick feedback.✅ Versatile and Educational: Use this worksheet for classroom activities, as part of a quiz bowl or academic team, or to foster team-building skills with an advisory or club. The po
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6th - 8th
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Personality Type Quiz-Sports | Get to Know You Inventory Test | Back to School
Boost student relationships with this no-prep, easy-to-use Sports Personality Inventory! This personality survey, based on the long-standing four temperaments, turns this abstract concept into a lesson that is high-interest, easy to understand, and memorable! TWO LEVELS of the personality test are included, making it applicable for 3rd-12th grade students...and beyond! This personality quiz theme can be used in any school subject as a Get to Know You Activity at Back to School Time, or any other
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in:Â PERSONALITY TYPES MEGA BUNDLE | 45 Themed Personality Inventories
Logic Puzzle and Claims Evidence Reasoning Writing Prompt
This brain teaser is an engaging way for students to develop critical thinking skills. Great as an extension, warm-up, transition activity or as a part of emergency sub plans, this logic puzzle also asks students to use the C-E-R structure to answer two writing prompts once they have solved the puzzle.The "Easel Activity" has been created for you - NO PREP - just assign because all of the answer boxes have been created for you and your students! If you find that your students would rather do the
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6th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Logic Puzzle Bundle Sports Theme for Critical Thinking
Earth Day Activities - Logic Puzzles
This mini bundle includes 2 matrix grid puzzles, 3 Venn diagram Puzzles and 1 Decoder Activity.
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4th - 6th
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April and Earth Day Connections with Researchable Trivia
Challenge your students with this five-part April activity packet. Begin with APRIL CONNECTIONS, forty sets of three words that can be connected with a common term to form a familiar word or phrase. All the mystery words are related to the month of April. Follow up with EARTH DAY CONNECTIONS, another group of thirty-five word trios, connectable with a single term related to the April 22nd celebration of Earth Day. Allow your students to sharpen their internet research skills with APRIL TRIVI
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4th - 8th
Science & Engineering Activity: Making Designs - Inventions - STEM Challenge
No prep needed! In this activity, students will create a new design of an existing object. They will also think of ways to make it better, more efficient, or helpful.
The second worksheet can be used as an extension or be provided to challenge students.
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K - 12th
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Spring and Earth Day Creativity Challenges and Activities
Use these creativity resources to foster creative thinking and have your students thinking outside of the box for Earth Day and Spring! Need a quick, no prep, April challenge to get your students thinking outside the box?!Creativity belongs everywhere, especially the classroom! Creativity motivates students to learn, promotes risk taking and problem solving, lights up the brain, assists with emotional development, and gives students an opportunity to learn with FUN!These creativity challenges ar
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1st - 6th
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Also included in:Â April Spring and Earth Day Early Finisher Upper Elementary BUNDLE
Research Earth Day and the EPA
Informative Research and Writing:Researching Environmental Protection Agency Students research and write an informative composition on the Environmental Protection Agency! An informative reading passage, note taking outline, and blank writing page is included in this purchase. Multiple Common Core Standards and TEKS for 5th Grade Writing are supported. Included:* 1 Reading Passage * 2 Outlines / Graphic Organizer for Note-taking~ 1 outline provides topics~ 1 outline is blank / students provide t
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4th - 8th
Save The Bees Logic Puzzle
Save the Bees is an engaging and fun Matrix Grid Logic Puzzle. Recommended for Grade Levels 3 - 6. Deductive reasoning will be evident as your students use the skill of elimination to converge on the answer. Answer Key is given as a Grid and also in List Form for quick checking. Students can work alone or in partners to deduce which person did which thing to help save the bee population in their town. There is a one to one match, each person did one thing. Students use critical reading and
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in:Â Earth Day Activities - Logic Puzzles
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