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Middle school biology tools for common cores for Microsoft Publisher
Homework Expectations Letter
With the new standards and Engage NY/Eureka Math curriculum I have had many concerned/angry parent emails. Math teachers get all the complaints! This Expectations letter helps parents and students understand their role when doing homework. It also has a whole page of online resources that I use with my families. I left it as a publisher file to be fully editable.
Directions for use: I send this home the first days of school. Parents and Students sign acknowledging their roles during homework. T
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Grades:
1st - 6th
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Math Stations Accountability and Reflection Sheet
January 2015 UPDATE - I have updated this product to fit more what I need in my classroom. It gives more daily feedback and work area for the students to use. This gives me a better idea of where all my students are in the content. It also makes them more accountable to the work requirements each day.
Updated 7/30/2016 as an editable Publisher Doc
Rational:
I love guided math and using stations with my 4th graders. This time allows me to genuinely know where each student is with the content a
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Horticulture/Greenhouse Lab Job Sheets
This is a class set of weekly greenhouse jobs and lab sheets, allowing for all greenhouse tasks to be taken care of and developing responsibility and employability in students. These can be customized to fit your needs and your class!
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Feather Physics
This assignment introduces students to how feathers support the success of birds by providing flight, insulation and/or camouflage. This is the first assignment in a unit (available in a bundle) that considers feathers and their functions for birds from several disciplines in an integrated science class.
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-LS2-2
Also included in:Â Feather Unit
RNA Research and Building Activity
Students will be asked to label RNA and DNA diagrams, identify similarities and differences, build models of RNA molecules, color the different parts of the RNA molecules, and then finally answer some questions based upon their work. This really helps students visualize and analyze the different molecules.
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Grades:
8th - 10th
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Modified Life Science Cut & Paste; Plant or Animal; Boardmaker
This is modified from the middle school life science curriculum. It aligns with Alternate Maryland State Content Standard:
1.D.2.a: Given words/picture symbols/words with pictures from a modified grade-level unit, student will sort the words into categories.
This is modified for students who are in an inclusive setting but cannot complete grade level requirements. It would also be helpful as a refresher for students, homework, or classwork in a self-contained setting.
There are ten words with
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Grades:
4th - 12th
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Plant and Animal Life Cycle Graphic Organizer
With this graphic organizer your students will be able to visually organize the life cycle of plants and animals.
This is a standard that is taught throughout elementary and middle school science.
For example, birth, growth, reproduction, and death for both plant and animal.
Students will be able to explain what each cycle is like and draw a picture.
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Grades:
K - 7th
Academic Discussion Placemat
Create a placemat for each student in your class to use during Socratic Seminars, formal and informal discussions. Teach sentence frames to students and watch them appear in discussion and writing,.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Meet the Teacher Letter
I created this letter to send home the first day to give parent's a great first impression of their child's new teacher. If you don't require the cut-off at the bottom, simply change the page size to a regular 8.5"x11" sheet. Completely editable! (Click Hyperlink of Word Cloud to go directly to website to create your own!)
NOTE: Editable file is in a .pub format so please ensure you have access to Microsoft Publisher before purchasing this item!
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Habitat Mini Booklet Science Unit Answer Booklet MS 2002Publisher File
This mini booklet is a landscape 8 1/2 by 11 inch page booklet for the Habitat Science unit. It is the answer booklet to the student workbooklet Habitat Mini Booklet in MS Publisher Format. It includes answers to the following:
a) A Habitat Cover Page
b) List Nine Different Biomes
c) Create Various Food Chains
d) Identify Carnivores, Omnivores, Herbivores, Insectivores,
e) Define - Community, Producer, Decomposer, Carnivore, Omnivore, Insectivore, Herbivores, Adaptation, Food Chain, Population,
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in:Â Science Habitat Bundle - PDF, PPT, Smartboard File,
Google Earth Biome Scavenger Hunt Publisher Document with Answers
This is a Publisher document you can alter as needed.This Biome Scavenger Hunt uses Google Earth (stand-alone or web version) to investigate some common biomes. The screenshots on the instruction page are from Google Earth Pro, but you could substitute shots of the web version if you wish.There are data spaces which include the biome name, elevation, latitude, characteristics, and limiting factors. There are also a couple of discussion questions that go along with most of the sites.Each of th
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Grades:
7th - 12th
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Taxonomy Video Phylogeny AP Biology Project: Invertebrates & Chordate Taxonomy
Taxonomy Video Phylogeny AP Biology Project: Invertebrates & Chordate Taxonomy: This taxonomic classification project is an activity that requires students to combine video clips of animals from the invertebrate phyla and from the chordates and to create one video which describes the evolutionary advances that define each clade.
This project is designed to be used alongside a field trip to an aquarium as a final project. However, students can utilize videos downloaded from the internet to
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Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Heredity: Why Do We Look the Way That We Do?
Upon completion, students will be able to explain how heredity passes characteristics from parent to offspring, complete Punnett squares, determine the probability of an offspring inheriting a specific trait, effectively use the vocabulary: alleles, dominant, recessive, genotype, and phenotype.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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{EDITABLE} Evolution Escape Room Lesson/Breakout Lesson
Darwin, his journey, evidence for evolution, cladograms--it's all in here. Use actual locks and boxes, OR use this fun lesson with a simple envelope system! Enough problems for 6 groups of students, or more if you use the problems in duplicate. I actually made different codes and problems for each group. With locks: utilizes 3, 3-digit locks, one MasterLock combination lock, four boxes, some paper, and a lot of fun!!
I got the locks and toolboxes at Dollar Tree, or I also bought inexpensive unf
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Grades:
5th - 12th
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Ecosystems Roles Posters Producer Consumer Decomposer
Bulletin board posters, definitions of each role in the food chain (decomposer, producer, consumer) - Great visual!
Grades:
2nd - 10th
Seed Dispersal Foldable
This foldable helps provide a quick introduction to (or summary of) seed dispersal. The trifold brochure features outlined letters for students to color and fill in the blank notes. Students cut flaps to reveal information about seed dispersal via water, air, animals, mechanical means, and humans. There are three pages to choose from to provide choices of either a blank back panel to glue into a notebook, a back panel with three short answer questions, or a category sort.
Grades:
5th - 8th
ELA CCSS Book Studies: Argument Writing, Text Complexity, Subjects Matter
Are you looking for resources to have teachers think deeply about next steps for instruction in regards to the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts?
This resource is an advertisement for three book studies and the moderating questions to facilitate discussions amongst participants. The file is a publisher file that can be edited to fit your needs. The titles addressed in this are: Teaching Argument Writing, Text Complexity, and Subjects Matter.
Subjects Matter is a great book if
Grades:
6th - 12th
DNA Biology BINGO! EDITABLE VERSION!
This is a great review game for basic or advanced biology classes! Students fill in a blank BINGO card with terms from a word bank. The teacher then uses the provided sheets to give clues for each term. Students not only have to recognize the clue for a given term, they also have to have chosen a term for their game board.
This game helps students review 36 vocabulary words/terms from a DNA & Protein Synthesis unit!
This also includes instructions on how to play, and lists several differen
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Grades:
8th - 11th
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{EDITABLE} Heredity Escape Room Lesson/Breakout Lesson
YOU MUST HAVE MS PUBLISHER to be able to access and edit this file. If not, buy the PDF. THIS IS NUMBERED FOR GROUPS 1,4.5.7. TO MAKE ADDITIONAL GROUPS YOU MUST COPY THE CODES/CREATE CODES FOR YOUR LOCKS.
Genetics, Protein Synthesis, Punnett Square, Phenotype Data--it's all in here. Use actual locks and boxes, OR use this fun lesson with a simple envelope system! Enough problems for FOUR groups of students, or more if you use the problems in duplicate. I actually made different codes and probl
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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Interactive Notebook Entries for Lab Safety
This product includes three activities for students to do in their science interactive notebook. The entries include a Lab Safety Windowpane. (Pages 1-3 should be printed individually as one sided). When complete, students draw pictures on the front flap which are shown on page 4 (Key).
The second and third activities require not key and help students learn lab safety symbols and lab equipment. Pages 5 & 6, 7 & 8, 9 & 10 should be printed as front and back.
Just for fun, I adde
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Grades:
6th - 10th
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Symbiotic relationship want ad example
Students used publisher on the computer to create an advertisement of a symbiotic relationship between two organisms and here is the example I gave them to use as a guide.
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Life Science Middle Grades End of Year Study Brochure
This is the first of two brochures which contain all of the information necessary for a student to prepare for end of year testing. It was specifically made for Georgia Milestones Assessment for 7th grade students. This product could be used throughout the year as an interactive brochure. It is best used on cardstock, as it lasts longer and looks more professional.
BE SURE TO GET PART TWO OF THIS PRODUCT!!! This is for the first half of the information.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Cell Task Cards
20 full-color flashcards with answer key cards, all numbered for your convenience.
Created for a 7th grade Florida Life Science class
Content: cell organelles, cell theory, homeostasis, prokaryotes, eukaryotes, plant cells, animals cells, developing theories.
Tasks include creating analogies, completing venn diagrams, labeling drawings, and short answer questions.
I tried to allow for differentiation by making the last question on each card the most difficult, so ESOL or ESE students may o
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Grades:
6th - 10th
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CCSS:
Human Body Organ Systems Cut-up and Sort (editable)
This is a sort that covers 8 body systems with their functions and parts. It is set up to be scaffolded and difficulty can be increased, thus differentiation is very easy to accomplish. The systems included are:
skeletal muscular integumentary nervous endocrine
respiratory circulatory digestive excretory
Page 1 of this document contains the completed answer key, page 2 is the sorting mat and page 3 has the pieces that get cut apart and placed on the sorting m
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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