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5th grade science games for Microsoft Word
Giving instructions GREAT FIRST DAY ACTIVITY TEAMWORK LEADERSHIP
This activity demonstrates the difficulties that arise when a medical professional or other professional must give instructions verbally without the assistance of anything in writing. This is an essential ability in the medical field or any field that requires relaying of instructions or orders. health science, medical, anatomy, communication disorders, speech therapy, homeschool, high school, middle school, medical terminology, pharmacology, leadership, teamwork, first day, icebreakers, intro
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Pokemon Go - Game Template with optional QR Codes
Teacher Directions
Now is your chance to take advantage of the latest craze: Pokemon Go! You can treat your students to a fun, creative, active learning challenge, with your very own version of Pokemon Go in the classroom!
Just like with the popular mobile game, your students will be moving around the classroom, trying to “catch” all the Pokemon. They accomplish this by correctly answering each question. Each answer will match one of the signs that you will have posted around the classroom, at
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3rd - 12th
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Carrying Capacity and Limiting Factors Game
Very fun and engaging game/activity to help teach your students about Carrying Capacity and Limiting Factors. Students will compete for "food" in this activity in order to determine the carrying capacity of the class. The worksheet comes with a pre-activity question and 3 post activity questions. Includes "food" cards and guidelines for teacher to use. Your students will enjoy this activity, while learning. Item is completely editable.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Ecology Bundle
Friend or Foe Garden Game: Pests and Pollinators
This is an original game I invented and used at school gardens in California and Texas - HUGE HIT! It's fun to challenge students' knowledge and INTUITION about creatures that might be found in nature and around the garden. All photos are original!
Students learn by playing the game. Find out which insects are beneficial and why. Instead of instantly swatting at all insects, students will respect the role they play, e.g., predator, member of the food web, pollinator, etc.
To play, two groups
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3rd - 6th
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SC.5.L.14.1 The Human Body Organs and Their Functions Matching Game
Students will have fun playing this engaging matching game about the organs in the human body and their functions! This resource works great as a review or center. It is aligned with the Florida standard SC.5.L.14.1 (Identify the organs in the human body and describe their functions, including the skin, brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, intestines, pancreas, muscles and skeleton, reproductive organs, kidneys, bladder, and sensory organs.) It is a Word document so you will be able to modify it
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5th - 7th
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Save Fred! Community and Teamwork Builder
Save Fred! is a great community builder and review of the Scientific Method. I've used this activity at the beginning of the year for 2 years with my 5th graders. They LOVE saving Fred and talk about it for the rest of the year!
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This goes along with the Save Fred! lesson on my blog.
Save Fred! Blog Post
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The Following Directions Test is another fun Back to School activity!
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3rd - 8th
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Plant Sort: Flowering & Non-Flowering
1. Laminate and cut the cards above (first 10 are non-flowering, second 10 are flowering)2. Glue sorting mat onto front of envelope/file folder3. Decide which way to play! a. Whole Group: give each student a card and spread out around room, then say ‘go’ and have students find pairs (2 students both having flowering OR both having non-flowering plant) b. Partners: Matching Gam-: flip cards upside down, take turns selecting 2,
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2nd - 12th
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Reduce Reuse Recycle Sort
This product includes 12 cards to be sorted into 3 categories - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. The headers for each category are also included. This can be used as an individual activity at a center, in pairs, or in small groups. It is a great way to engage your tactile learners.
Please note that this activity is included in "Reduce Reuse Recycle Bundle Lesson & Activities".
Perfect for Earth Day or any day!
Reduce Reuse Recycle Sort by Lynette Shaw is licensed under a Creative Commons Attrib
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2nd - 5th
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MITOSIS Game
MITOSIS, MITOSIS, and more MITOSIS: Get the students up and moving with a game about mitosis!
NO PREP WORK!
This activity could serve as a great introduction to the life cycle of a cell, and it gets students acting out each phase from interphase, mitosis (prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase), and cytokinesis. Students will not realize that they are learning!
You need a class size of at least twelve students to play this game.
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5th - 10th, Adult Education
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Food Chain Game- Food chains, Food webs, Ecosystems, outdoors
This is one of the favorites of the year for my class. We go outside and play a sophisticated game of tag. Students are assigned different goals based on these instructions. As a teacher you can simulate different conditions by changing how many students are playing which role. For example, to simulate a forest fire have only a few plants left and see what happens to the ecosystem. To simulate overhunting we have too few wolves and too many deer. Give this a try it is a lot of fun!
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5th - 8th
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Vocabulary Dominoes - Geology, Rocks, & Minerals Unit
This set of 18 dominoe tiles includes words from a unit about geology, rocks, and minerals. Students put the tiles in order by matching words with definitions. This is great for individual student practice, pairs of students, small groups, or centers.
Keep one copy of the pages as they are to use as an answer key.
This set includes the following words: core, mantel, crust, color, hardness, luster, streak, mineral, rock, sediment, rock cycle, erosion, weathering, deposit, plate, fault, soil.
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4th - 7th
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Ecosystem, Food Chain and Web BOARD GAME Review
This is an all-inclusive board game activity that can be used to reinforce concepts learned in a life science or animal science unit. Matches perfectly with the Ecosystem PowerPoint presentation. All materials are included in this purchase and be set-up ready to play with minimal prep time. Simply cut question cards apart and you are ready to go. The concepts included are as follows:
* Ecosystem
* Environment
* Habitat
* Biome
* Food Chain
* Food Web
* Energy Pyramid
* Producer
* Herbivore
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3rd - 6th
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Thanksgiving Turkey Color by Number Newton's Laws
Color the Turkey by gobbling up a few Newton's Laws questions such is what is inertia?What is Newton's first law? What force opposes motion? This is appropriate for both Physical Science and Physics and possibly 6th grade. There is no math involved, just concepts and definitions
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5th - 12th
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Plate Tectonics Review Game - "2 Truths & a Lie"
Use this review game to help students prepare for upcoming assessments, or as an informal review, ticket out the door or warm-up activity.
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5th - 8th
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Online Scavenger Hunt: Smithsonian Museum
This is a super fun and easy activity for students of a wide variety of ages! Many students won’t have the opportunity to go in person to this museum, so using their online tour system is a great way to engage students in ‘real-world’ science. It is centered in some basic science knowledge of the classification of living things, but other than that is very accessible to most grades. It is a great independent or group task, so can be used for: - An extension activity for quick-working students -
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3rd - 12th
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Charles Darwin Natural Selection Activity -- Student Choice Adventure Game
Students will play an Evolution through Natural Selection choice game (via google forms) to see if they have what it takes to be a naturalist and explorer just like Charles Darwin. They will encounter many tough decisions on their journey to the Galapagos Islands, with their choices changing how the rest of the game will play out. The better their choices, the more likely they will be successful. As they play the game, students will come across scenarios that will allow them to come up with the
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5th - 12th
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Differentiation Strategies
Activities that can be used at any age level and in any subject area. They focus on differentiation. Each strategy card includes instructions on how to use the strategy, high and low modifications, intelligence styles, and content application ideas.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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What does an animal need/get from its habitat? TAG GAME!
This game is a great way to introduce the idea that organisms need to get food, water and shelter from their habitats in order to survive…and they need to do it while avoiding predators! A fun tag game so a large-ish in or outdoor space is needed. Students try to survive by collecting food water and shelter pieces...all while avoiding a predator. Reflection piece included.
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PreK - 5th
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9 Square Vocabulary Puzzle Template
*** Disclaimer***
No, I did not come up with this idea on my own. I did, however, take my time to create the template for your use.
Use this vocabulary puzzle for reinforce terms and definitions, play matching games, and allow students to practice their logic and reasoning skills. Can be adapted for any subject, any level.
Once you replace the template with your matching terms/dates/definitions/pictures, print on card stock, laminate, and cut out the squares. Put them in a baggie with the to
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PreK - 12th
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Science-Opoly Review game
I made this game on the template for a review for Science state testing and the kids really enjoyed it. The download is on Word so you can change the title to whichever subject you prefer as well as the picture for the railroad companies to reflect the subject.
I didn't attach the Question or Vocabulary cards because I change them each time to the questions/vocabulary the students struggle with the most for them to get practice. As a teacher you know what your students need help on and can var
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3rd - 12th
Cell Organelle Vocabulary Cards: Activity
Help your students understand and memorize cell organelle functions with a vocabulary matching game. Students will match the organelle name with the organelle function and a similar object to help spark understanding. This is a basic activity that will serve as an introduction to cells or a simple review.
Two possible methods for this activity:
(1) Put your students in groups each with a set of cards. When all of the groups are done, match the cards under your document camera to check for
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5th - 9th
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Science truth and misconceptions icebreaker
The page includes 26 strips you can cut out, each strip has 3 science statements on it.
Two of the statements are true and one is false. I have the students read the 3 statements and let them select people to guess which one is false.
Another way to do this is go around the room in order asking students.
Another possible way would be to have the students think of another unbelievable fact and say it instead of the provided one.
Worked great in my 6th grade science class, one way to bring in
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4th - 10th
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Animal Coverings - What do I have?
It is a matching or sorting activity. It has seven different mats showing the coverings of the animals such as fur, scale, etc. with 60 pictures of different animals. Students need to sort the animals according to their cover. Teacher could use the mats to introduce the lesson as well.
Animal Coverings - What do I have? by Maria Elena Morales is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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PreK - 5th
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Thanksgiving Color-By-Number Biology on Cells
Sample questions are 1) What kind of cells are complex and have a nucleus? 2) Where is the DNA stored in a cell? 3) What is messenger DNA? 4) What creates energy for the cells? ....
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4th - 12th
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