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Free science centers
FREE Seasons Cut & Paste Activity (Science Centers)
Students identify objects, holidays, weather and activities by season; cut and paste graphics into appropriate seasons box.
SAMPLE FILE INCLUDES:
1) Sorting Worksheet: (Cut & Paste) Includes rainbow, ice cream, robin, leaves, hat, scarf, pumpkin, skating, beach, cornucopia, snowman, sailing, flowers
2) Graphic Organizer: (5 Senses) Students pick a season and *DRAW* what they like to feel, hear, smell, taste, and see during that season.
3) B&W version
4) "My Favorite Season" picture
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PreK - 1st
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Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Animal Adaptations Freebie
A combo of science and language arts in one unit! Test your students reading comprehension and learn about the wild tiger at the same time! They will understand how the behavioral and physical features of a tiger helps it to survive. You can use these pages as review, homework, group work, and even include them in science centers!Answer key is included.If you like this unit, you might also love:Animal Adaptation Pack Weather Unit PackWater Cycle PackSolar System Pack Human Body Systems Pack Forc
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3rd - 6th
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FREE STEM Activity: Paper Chain STEM Challenge
Integrate STEM in your classroom with this FREE STEM Challenge! Begin building community in your classroom while introducing STEM. This activity helps students develop critical thinking and engineering skills. Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't.Aligns with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).Includes:Instructions for The Paper Chain ChallengePlanning and Reflection PagesSTE
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K - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Team Building STEM Challenges Bundle
Free Reading Comprehension Passage 4th grade, 3rd grade, 5th grade
This is FREE Reading Passage written on two levels, with questions. Questions require text dependent answers and are great for state test prep, small group instruction, or remediation.⭐This is part of an All-Year Close Reading Comprehension Passages Bundle with 72 nonfiction, literary and poetry texts themed for nine months, plus 36 poems. It also includes reading centers activities for your learning stations.⭐Contents Each Month★ Four Differentiated Informational Passages - written on two level
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3rd - 5th
Spring Science Writing Activities - Caterpillar, Butterfly, Frog Life Cycle
This FREE Spring Science Pack Sampler is perfect for your spring life science study on chickens, butterflies, frogs, and flowers. It has 8-pages of sample activities from the Spring Life Science Bundle!Teach students about spring topics with flower, chicken, frog, and butterfly posters and activities. Discuss what you know and want to know about flowers before doing your research. Students can complete the ‘are, can, have’ sort about chickens, label the parts of a caterpillar, and complete a fro
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1st - 4th
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Alphabet Nature Walk (Freebie) Scavenger Hunt / Outdoor ABC's
Get your learners outside for some outdoor education with an Alphabet ABC's Nature Walk Scavenger Hunt!A “nature walk” is essentially a scavenger hunt outside in nature, where your children/students will go outside, walk through nature, and look for these ABC items on a walk! These NO PREP pdf file Alphabet Nature Walk sheets are a great way to get young learners introduced to different animals, plants, and aspects of nature, and also reinforcing science and nature terms in older learners. This
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PreK - 5th
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Also included in: Nature Walk BUNDLE / Four Seasons + ABC + Nature Scavenger Hunt
FREE Valentine's Day Science: Candy Heart Experiment
Your students will fall in LOVE with this science freebie! All you need to add is a box or bag of candy {conversation} hearts, and you're all set!!!Included in this product:1. List of materials and directions to set up the experiment2. Behind the Science (explaining the science behind this experiment)3. Candy Heart Predictions printable {sink or float?}4. Candy Heart Observations printable {testing the results of candy hearts dropped in different liquids} *Includes 2 differentiated options*Ple
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K - 1st
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Arctic Animals Emergent Reader | Winter Activity | January | Kindergarten | FREE
This free Who Lives in the Arctic? emergent reader is a great addition to a unit on Arctic animals (Polar animals). Ideal for beginning readers, the text uses repeating sentences with picture clues which develops a child's confidence with reading. This arctic animals activity can also be used for January and Winter literacy centers.••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••You might also be interested in:Arctic Animals No Prep WorksheetsWinter Math Works
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PreK - 1st
FREE Living and Non-Living Things Sort (Cut and Paste Worksheets)
Enjoy this Free Living and Non-Living Things cut and paste activity. This sorting activity will make a perfect fit to your science unit on Living and Non-Living Things. Students will practice their identification, and classification skills of living and non- living things. There four black and white worksheets included where students can color, cut, and paste the objects into the correct groups.Check out these other activities for Living and Non-Things available in my TPT store:Kaboom! - Living
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K - 2nd
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Blocks Center STEM Posters with a Pet Theme
Post pet blocks center posters to provide opportunities for students to build MANY math concepts and skills including spatial reasoning, counting, symmetry, and patterns. Included are tips and posters to support students building pet homes in the blocks center/area in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom! This was updated in September 2023.Want to take the pet theme all over your classroom? You will LOVE:Pets: Math and Literacy Centers for Preschool, Pre-K, and KindergartenChange yo
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PreK - K
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Also included in: STEM I Can Build®️ Cards, Books, and Anchor Charts BUNDLE
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FREE Life Cycle of a Pumpkin Adapted Book [Level 1 and 2] | Pumpkin Life Cycle
FREE DIGITAL + PRINTABLE | Autumn is the time of year we teach about pumpkins and the pumpkin life cycle. Teach your students all about the life cycle of a pumpkin with this set of adapted, leveled readers.Looking for an adapted book with real pictures about the pumpkin life cycle? Here you go!Looking for an adapted book about the history of the Teal Pumpkin? Here you go!What is included?• Level 1 - 6 page book with 3 comprehension questions (12 total Velcro answer pieces)• Level 2 - 8 page book
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K - 3rd
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Scientific Method Foldable {Freebie}
Over the years I have realized that although my students LOVE taking part in science experiments, they struggle to complete each of the steps involved in the scientific method and don’t understand its importance. As a result, whenever the time came to conduct experiments and record their findings and conclusions, much of their work had errors, was vague, or lacked a sense of greater understanding. Nonetheless, in an effort to combat this dilemma I created a unit centered around helpin
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2nd - 4th
FREE Science Sorting Activities: Science Tools
Have students learn the basics of science tools with this freebie!
Includes:
- Table Tent Prediction Cards
- Picture Card Sort (guided practice)
- KWL Chart
- Can-Have-Are Chart
-ABC Order: Key Terms
- Vocabulary Graphic Organizers
- Science Safety Tools Writing Activity
- Assessment
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PreK - 2nd
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My Four Seasons Book- A Science FREEBIE!
You students will love sharing what they have learned about the four seasons with these adorable books! Students will create one page for each of the seasons to tell about the weather, trees, and clothes we wear during each season. You can choose to have students write to tell about each season, or let them use the cut and paste pictures! This is a great way to differentiate books to meet the needs of different learners.
A four seasons poster is also included as a reference for students!
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K - 2nd
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FREEBIE! Solar System Coloring Page
It's a Freebie!Solar System Coloring Pageby Tiny Space AdventuresA happy and fun solar system for the little ones to color!Solar system includes the Sun, all 8 planets.This is a PDF non-editable resource.If you like this, check out: these other fun activities from Tiny Space Adventures! The Solar System Planet Worksheets: perfectly simple, yet educational for elementary aged students. My Solar System: several activities PreK-K for counting, writing, sequencing and coloring the planets.Solar Syst
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PreK - 8th
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{Freebie!} Butterfly Life Cycle (cut & paste)
Here's a cute freebie to use with your butterfly life cycle unit! There's no reading involved, so it's suitable for a variety of grades/abilities. Simply cut the pictures and paste in order to sequence the butterfly's life cycle.
This will be part of a larger butterfly life cycle packet. Check it out!
Butterfly Life Cycle Packet
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K - 3rd
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Living and Nonliving Things Sorting Activity and Poster
This free living and non-living things packet is a simple but wonderful tool for sorting practice, creative expression, community learning, or a science center! Simply cut out the labels and pictures and allow students to sort the cards. The included poster is a convenient reference guide for students who are not as familiar with the concept of "living" and "nonliving."
One "Living Things" poster, two "Living" and "Nonliving" labels, and 18 picture cards are included in this free packet.
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PreK - K
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EDITABLE STEM Labels with Real Photographs
Organize your STEM, STEAM, blocks, or science center with these free labels! And yes the labels have real photographs. Don’t see a label for something you have in your center? No worries! I included an editable file so you can create your own too!
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PreK - K
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Also included in: STEM I Can Build®️ Cards, Books, and Anchor Charts BUNDLE
Animal Classification and Animal Characteristics Sorts FREEBIE!
These are two FREEBIE cut, sort, and paste activities for the 5 vertebrate classes: mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians.
**This is a Revised/Improved version of a older product in my store titled: "Cut, Sort, Paste, & Graph! Animal Classification FREE Activities To go With..." This is a sample of the NEW and IMPROVED version of "Animal Characteristics and Fact Organizer Flip Books..." with the title: "Interactive {Animal} Journal- Vertebrate Animal Characteristics and Fac
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1st - 3rd
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FREE Ocean Animals Activities | Ocean Animals Kindergarten | Ocean Animal Unit
Freebie ~ Ocean Animals! This is a sea turtle sample taken from my Ocean Unit. If you like this, the entire unit can be found at the green link below:Ocean Animals Unit!This freebie includes:* A sea turtle addition game* Sea turtle dot to dot* Sea turtle journal page* Sea turtle factsThe entire unit includes:Ocean Animals Word Wall Cards p. 2-6 * definitions ~ reptile, mammal, invertebrate, fish* ocean animal pictures ~ jellyfish, octopus, sea turtle, dolphin, whale, shark* Key as to which categ
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K - 2nd
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Life Cycle of a Ladybug: {Freebie}
This is a little freebie to use in the Spring or while you are teaching the life cycles! It includes a cut and paste sheet, ordering the 4 stages of the ladybug life cycle and an emergent reader. If you like what you see you can also check out these full units of:Life Cycle of the FrogLife Cycle of the ChickBe sure to visit my blog:Apples and ABC'sAnd if you could be so kind as to leave feedback if you pick up this freebie! Thanks!
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PreK - 1st
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FREE Pumpkin Life Cycle Picture Cards - How to Grow Pumpkins - Poster Activities
Students love to learn about the life cycle of the pumpkin plant with these beautiful picture cards. These printable pictures are perfect to use in a center during the month of October or before you visit the pumpkin patch for a class field trip. Students can practice putting the cards in order. A poster is also included showing students what pumpkins need in order to grow - oxygen, soil, water and sunlight.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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PreK - 1st
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STEM Activity Challenge Hoop Glider Competition 3rd-5th grade
STEM Project for Third, fourth and Fifth grades.This activity challenges students to build a glider that will glide as far as possible. Working in groups, students will cut and tape various hoops to their straw. They will experiment with hoops of different sizes, positioning, and throwing styles. ***If you are interested in a differentiated version of this resource for grades K-8, please click here.This STEM Activity Challenge includes teacher instructions, student instructions (worksheet), grad
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: STEM Activity Challenges 16 Pack #1 (Upper Elementary)
Five Senses Emergent Reader | Minibook
This FREE easy to assemble book makes it fun for your Kindergarteners to learn about the five senses! They can use their beginning writing skills to trace & complete the simple sentence on each page. For additional Five Senses worksheets, posters, & practice click here.We also have Five Senses Boom Cards.Thanks for stopping by our store!Check out our Facebook page for Teaching Tips, Ideas and FREEBIES!Two Creative Co-workers
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PreK - 1st
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Importance of learning science
Learning science is particularly important for students as it equips them with the essential knowledge and skills to make sense of the world around them. Science education is not just about memorizing facts. It fosters critical thinking, inquiry, and problem-solving abilities. These skills are not only useful in school but also in everyday life beyond the classroom.
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Learning science offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. In fact, it helps students:
- Question the world around them and seek evidence-based explanations
- Cultivate their ability to observe, experiment, and analyze data
- Nurture a sense of curiosity, awe, and wonder about the natural world
- Understand natural phenomena and the laws that govern the universe
With a solid foundation in science, teachers can help empower students to think critically, solve problems, make informed decisions, and engage with the world around them in meaningful ways.
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