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Science Common Core RI.2.4 thematic unit plans
Fall Season Science Unit - Reading & Writing Activities - Pumpkins Leaves Apples
Do you need lesson ideas and activities for your fall unit? Make learning all about fall fun with these engaging hands-on non-fiction ELA and science mini-lessons and activities! This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading comprehension, and learn interesting facts about pumpkins, apples, and leaves this fall season. ⭐ Create anchor charts to lead your lessons and use the low-prep activitie
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1st - 3rd
Owl Bird Science Unit - Reading & Writing Activities - Fall Fact Project & Craft
Do you need engaging lesson ideas and activities to teach your students all about owls? Make learning about owls fun with these hands-on non-fiction ELA and science mini-lessons and activities! This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text, and build reading comprehension while they learn interesting facts about barn owls and true owls. ⭐ Create anchor charts to lead your lessons and use the low-prep activiti
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1st - 3rd
Differentiated Nonfiction Unit: Gorillas
The text in this set is designed for higher first graders through third graders. Two levels of the text are included. This unit includes:- gorillas text in two levels, both are included in color and black & white- short-answer comprehension questions- compare and contrast gorillas with other animal- gorillas can, have, are (with and without handwriting lines)- gorillas web- KWL chart- create your own questions- main idea and details- fact and opinion- four facts (write four facts about goril
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in: Differentiated Nonfiction Animal Units- Bundle #2
Butterfly Life Cycle Craft Spring Science Unit - Reading & Writing Activities
Teaching students all about butterflies this spring? This engaging nonfiction and spring science unit makes learning about the caterpillar to butterfly transformation, the life cycle of a butterfly, and the parts of a butterfly fun. It includes a butterfly life cycle craft, activities, observation journal, writing, and more! This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text, and build reading comprehension while th
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Penguin Activities Winter Craft, Writing, Drawing, Bulletin Board, Science Unit
Make learning all about penguins and the penguin life cycle engaging with this non-fiction ELA and science unit of mini-lessons and activities! This low-prep resource includes fun penguin writing, a hands-on penguin craft, directed drawing, and more activities for a classroom penguin theme. These activities will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading comprehension while they learn interesting facts abou
Grades:
1st - 3rd
NGSS:
2-LS4-1
, 3-LS4-2
, 1-LS3-1
Whale Life Science Unit Lessons, Activities, Craft, Project - Orca & Beluga
Engage and excite kids as they learn all about whales with life science, reading, and writing activities! This nonfiction and spring or summer science unit makes learning about baleen whales and toothed whales fun. It includes a whale craft, reading comprehension passages, vocabulary, directed drawing, and more! This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text, and improve their reading comprehension while they le
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Winter Seasonal Science Unit - Reading & Writing Activities - Snowflakes Snowman
Do you need lesson ideas and activities for your winter unit? Make learning about winter fun with these engaging non-fiction ELA and science mini-lessons and activities about snowmen, snowflakes, and evergreen trees! This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading comprehension, and learn interesting facts about important winter themes and concepts this winter season. ⭐ Create anchor charts to
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
NGSS:
2-LS4-1
, 1-ESS1-2
Polar Bear Science Unit - Reading & Writing Activities - Winter Project & Craft
Do you need engaging lesson ideas and activities to teach your students about polar bears? These non-fiction ELA and science mini-lessons and activities are a fun way for your learners to discover more about the polar bear and the polar bear life cycle. This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text, and build reading comprehension while they learn interesting facts about how and where polar bears live. ⭐ Cre
Grades:
1st - 3rd
NGSS:
3-ESS3-1
, 1-LS1-2
, 2-LS4-1
, 3-LS3-1
, 1-LS3-1
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Animal Life Cycle Research Projects, Non-Fiction Reading, & Science Experiments
Teach seasons, animal life cycles, and science all year with this massive bundle of 17 units for fall, winter, spring, and summer. Make learning about animals, seasons, and Earth Day fun with these engaging lessons, nonfiction reading comprehension and writing activities, animal research projects, science experiments, and more. This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading comprehension, and l
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Butterfly, Chicken, Frog, Flower Life Cycle Crafts & Spring Science Activities
This spring, engage and excite students as they learn all about and the parts of butterflies, frogs, flowers, and chickens with life cycle crafts, science activities, and reading comprehension passages! This nonfiction and spring science bundle includes four units filled with spring writing, vocabulary, directed drawing, and more! This bundle of resources will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading compre
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
All About Sharks | Shark Activities Writing Craft | Shark Week Science
Do your students or children want to learn all about sharks? Looking for a fun and engaging way to connect important science and language arts skills? Look no further than this jam-packed All About Sharks Unit. This shark unit will take your students on an underwater journey to the world of sharks. They will work on key reading skills while learning about sharks, their habitat, characteristics, and important facts. They will love tackling life science standards as they learn about the shark
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
Chicken Life Cycle Craft & Worksheets Science Unit, Reading & Writing Activities
Engage and excite kids as they learn all about chickens with this life cycle of a chicken craft, science, reading, and writing activities! This nonfiction and spring science unit makes learning about hens, roosters, and chickens hatching fun. It includes chicken reading comprehension passages, vocabulary, directed drawing, and more! This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading comprehension w
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Plant Life Cycle Craft, Spring Flower Science Unit Activities & Reading Passages
This spring, keep students engaged and excited to learn with exciting plant life cycle activities! Make learning about plants and how seeds grow into flowers fun with engaging lessons, a craft, nonfiction reading comprehension and writing activities, a research project, a science experiment, and more.This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text, and build reading comprehension while they learn interesting fact
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Spring, Summer, Fall, & Winter Science Units - Experiments, Worksheets, Projects
Do you need life science lessons and activities to teach your 1st-grade, 2nd-grade, and 3rd-grade students in summer, winter, spring, and fall? Make learning about the seasons enjoyable with 4 engaging non-fiction ELA and life science units filled with fun, interactive activities, such as science experiments, bulletin boards, life cycles, projects, worksheets, reading passages, and more! This bundle of resources will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skil
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Spring Science Unit Activities, Craft, Vocabulary, Project, & Reading Passages
Keep students engaged and excited to learn this spring with crafts, activities, and bulletin board ideas! This engaging nonfiction and spring science unit makes learning about plants, ladybugs, birds, and rainbows fun. It includes spring reading comprehension passages, writing, science experiments, vocabulary, and more! This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading comprehension, and learn int
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Arctic Animals Research Project & Lesson Plans Walrus Polar Animals Writing
Looking for easy and unique lesson plans for arctic animals? This K-2 unit will teach students about the arctic habitat of the polar bear, arctic fox, walrus & reindeer with nonfiction google slides, printable worksheets, writing templates, and more! Your students will love becoming Arctic explorers as they read and learn about this icy land and the animals that live there. Combine your science and writing standards with activities that include lesson plans, printable worksheets, anchor char
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Bubbles! An Inquiry Based Science Unit CCSS Aligned Reading & Writing
***UPDATED JULY 2014***
Bubbles! is an inquiry based science unit for first grade covering the "Practice of Science" focused around hands on experiments, informational/non-fiction reading and writing (aligned to Common Core standard).
My students adored these lessons! They constantly asked if we were doing "bubble stuff". The experiments, reading and writing are wonderfully engaging through inquiry, questioning, observations and discussions.
The Practice of Science teaches students to que
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Grades:
K - 2nd
All About Frogs Life Cycle Craft, Spring Science, Reading, & Writing Activities
Keep students engaged and excited to learn all about frogs with a life cycle of a frog craft, science, reading and writing activities, and bulletin board ideas! This engaging nonfiction and spring science unit makes learning about frogs, tadpoles, and amphibians fun. It includes frog reading comprehension passages, vocabulary, and more!This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text, and build reading comprehensi
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Differentiated Nonfiction Unit: Gray Wolves
The text in this set is designed for higher first graders through third graders. Two levels of the text are included.
This unit includes:
- Gray wolves text in two levels, both are included in color and black & white
- short-answer comprehension questions
- compare and contrast wolves with other animal
- wolves can, have, are (with and without handwriting lines)
- wolves web
- KWL chart
- main idea and details
- create your own questions
- fact and opinion
- four facts (write four facts ab
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in: Differentiated Nonfiction Animal Units- Bundle #1
What Do Plants Need to Grow? 2-LS2-1. and 2-LS2-2
What do plants need to grow? This second-grade plant unit will cover life science for NGSS. Students will learn that plants need sunlight and water to grow, and they will learn about seed dispersal. This huge unit addresses ALL of the 2nd-grade Life Science Standards for NGSS.♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️This resource includes:hands-on Lesson Plansfour pages of informational textthree lessonsresponse pagesinteractive notebook flaps and f
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2nd
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, 2-LS4-1
, 2-LS2-1
, 2-LS2-2
Differentiated Nonfiction Unit: Bald Eagles
The text in this set is designed for higher first graders through third graders. Two levels of the text are included. This unit includes:- bald eagle text in two levels, both are included in color and black & white- short-answer comprehension questions- compare and contrast bald eagles with other animal- bald eagles can, have, are (with and without handwriting lines)- bald eagle web- KWL chart- create your own questions- main idea and details- fact and opinion- four facts (write four facts a
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in: Differentiated Nonfiction Animal Units- Bundle #2
Differentiated Nonfiction Unit: Red Pandas
The text in this set is designed for higher first graders through third graders. Two levels of the text are included. This unit includes:- red panda text in two levels, both are included in color and black & white- short-answer comprehension questions- compare and contrast red panda with other animal- red pandas can, have, are (with and without handwriting lines)- red panda web- KWL chart- create your own questions- main idea and details- fact and opinion- four facts (write four facts about
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in: Differentiated Nonfiction Animal Units- Bundle #2
Summer School Science, Nonfiction, Writing Activities Sunflowers, Starfish, Bees
Do you need lesson ideas and activities for your summer school curriculum, science unit, and lesson plans? Make learning about summer exciting with engaging lessons, create a summer bulletin board, build nonfiction reading comprehension, complete writing activities, and more about honeybees, starfish, and sunflowers! This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading comprehension, and learn inter
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Animals in Winter | Hibernation, Migration, Adaptation
Animals in Winter (A Non-Fiction Unit)
Hibernation, Migration, and Staying active
This is the ultimate unit to teach your students about what happens to animals in the winter. This unit includes a variety of different activities that are aligned to the Common Core standards. Teach your students about hibernation, migration, and animals that stay active and adapt.
In this unit you will find an informational Animals in Winter mini-book for students, vocabulary activities, fact and opinion,
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Grades:
K - 2nd
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