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Free 5th grade science literature circles
Your Fantastic Elastic Brain Activities- Pennants
This growth mindset activity pairs with the growth mindset book and is a cute classroom decoration!
Your Fantastic Elastic Brain is written by JoAnn Deak, Ph.D. This book teaches the reader about how our brains work. Also, this book teaches the reader about how to have a growth mindset. By going into the science behind how the brain works and processes new information, the reader is able to see that goals are attainable if you train your brain!
Activities include:
1. Your brain controls what
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3rd - 5th
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Cooperative Group Role Cards
The individual group role cards help students remember their specific task when working in Cooperative Groups. There are 8 cards to choose from. You can choose to leave some out, or use them all depending on what you want to see from your students!
- Conversation Captain
- Time Keeper
- Materials Manager
- Presenter
- Checker
- Volume Manager
- Encourager
- Scribe
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3rd - 10th
Community - Road Signs!
GREAT activity for social studies/community unit, safety, reasoning, reading, verbal expression, & vocabulary development! Signs presented are ones that the students can commonly see in their environment.4 Slides. Students move the phrases to the box beside the associated sign. Each slide has one answer that is not a match.
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2nd - 6th, Staff
Skeleton Talk Poem: Rhyming Poem About Bones
This poem is a freebie and positive feedback is greatly appreciated! Thank you so much!
This poem is a rhyming poem designed to provide short facts about bones while building fluency. Kids love poetry and learning about new things using a variety of tools. I use poems during our literacy and apple academic centers. I also made a large one on chart paper for students to read and practice. I hope you enjoy this fun poem, perfect to use during the fall or nutrition/bones unit.
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K - 5th
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WEATHER FORECASTING - FREE INFORMATION, MAPS, REPORTS, RESOURCES & PRINTABLES
WEATHER FORECASTING - FREE RESOURCES (VOL 3-6) includes excerpts from the four weather forecasting booklets described below.
WEATHER FORECASTING – INFORMATION VOLUME 3 by Jeanette Vuuren explains how meteorologists use their knowledge and skills - focusing on aspects in nature, as well as information provided by weather instruments - to help them predict the weather. It also explains how different industries are affected by weather and why they heavily rely on weather forecasts for their safet
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2nd - 5th
Native American Star Myths
My Native American unit is usually a long one, and in it, I like to incorporate the study of legends. Two hit two birds with one stone; I also add constellations when we study the sky in science, and voila – this Native American Star Legends Unit! It can be completed in one to two weeks, depending on what else you want to add. This file includes:An intro to constellations PowerPoint3 different Native American myths about the Big DipperA constellation creation sheetA Venn diagramI begin by introd
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3rd - 5th
FREE Sample DAZE / MAZE / CLOZE Passage with a Science Emphasis
This sample passage is designed to enhance fluency and comprehension skills in students. This is the first passage in a collection that features 25 engaging DAZE / MAZE/ CLOZE passages covering a range of topics aligned with the Common Core standards for science. The passages encompass a mix of nonfiction and narrative content, ensuring students' exposure to various genres. To facilitate assessment and progress tracking, an answer key is included, offering educators a valuable resource for effec
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3rd - 6th
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Weather/Natural Disaster Auditory or Reading Comprehension!
INTRIGUING facts about natural disasters/weather related events! 4 stories for auditory or reading comprehension focusing on recall of detailed information, definitions, and inferencing. Enjoy!
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3rd - 5th
IT'S ALIIIIIVE - Living vs. Non-living Free Engaging Reading
Great for Elementary and Middle School as an intro to new material. How to we decide what is alive? Some of the criteria we have is that they must develop, reproduce and use energy. Each of the living things we've found on earth is made of cells and we can call an organism.
Vocab words covered: living, non-living, organism, cell
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4th - 9th
Cross Curricular Activites with the novel City of Ember
Are you a self-contained teacher and need to find a way to bring reading, science, and math together? Do you enjoy reading novels to your students? Do you want a quick reading novel with a few activities to complete? Then this is the resource for you! City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau is an amazing novel, and now a movie has been made. I highly recommend the book, however it would be fun to complete a compare and contrast over the book and movie. This novel allows self-contained teachers to meet
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4th - 6th
Solar System Reader's Theatre- two reading levels
This Reader's Theater is about the Solar System with 10 parts- Narrator and each of the planets. Students will learn the basic information about each planet while expanding their vocabulary and oral language skills.Example text: " Jupiter: Greetings, stargazers! I am Jupiter, the mighty gas giant, the largest of all planets. My swirling storms and enormous size make me a true king of the cosmos. Far beyond me, there's a realm of icy giants - Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune." Simpler version: "Jupit
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3rd - 7th
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MS-ESS1-3
Solar System ADAPTED BOOK Level 1, level 2 and level 3 with matching activity
Thank you for viewing this adapted book sentence building for special needs students. This is on our Solar System and identifying the planets. Please note that according to NASA, Pluto is no longer our ninth planet since 2006. So there are now 8 planets in our Solar System not 9 planets.*Now with Assessment Recording Sheet* - Just hi-light or circle each of the vocab that your student got correctly on the recording sheet, you can also write comments such as type of support, behaviours/behaviors
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PreK - 12th
Structure of DNA Close Read and Questions in English and Spanish
Word doc. English and Spanish versions. This article reviews the structure of DNA, nitrogen base pairs, and enzymes of DNA replication. Close reads help students dissect and break down informational text.
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5th - 11th
Intro to Multicellular Organisms - Free Engaging Science Reading
Great for Elementary and Middle School as an intro to new material. Living things come in many different shapes and sizes. Some (like you) are made of many cells, but other are just one single cell. You may not be able to see each of these organisms, or the small parts that you're composed of without a microscope.
Vocab words covered: unicellular, multicellular, composed, microscopic
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4th - 8th
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Small Group Roles / Bookmarks
Use these small group roles to help students become familiar and accountable for their designated role within a small group. Six (6) total roles include Materials ManagerGroup SpeakerReporterTime KeeperGroup LeaderEncourager
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5th - 12th
Introduction Activities for Jake Drake Know It All Chapter Book
Use the prediction and word highlight activities included in this activity packet before reading Jake Drake Know It All by Andrew Clements. Students connect with, and gain interest in, the story through the prediction activity. They can then become familiar with words from each chapter that they may not know how to pronounce, as well as their meanings, through the diction activities.
This introductory activity is a wonderful complement to the printable literature guide that can also be found at
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3rd - 5th
Guided Team Reading -- Instructional 1 pager
This free 1-page overview is comprised of the roles and responsibilities at every stage of the literacy strategy, Guided Team Reading.The mission of Guided Team Reading is to promote good reading habits by methodically guiding heterogenous groups to find meaning in expository texts in science and social studies. This method creates an opportunity within social and life sciences classrooms to support student progress toward ELA standards.Other related materials will be sold separately.
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5th - 10th
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Living or Non-living ADAPTED BOOK including matching cards and assessment
Thank you for viewing this adapted book sentence building for special needs students. There are three books of 3 different levels that students use to identify living and non-living things. This can be used by special needs students as well as mainstream students throughout Biology Science lessons or used as homework.*Now with Assessment Recording Sheet* - Just hi-light or circle each of the vocab that your student got correctly on the recording sheet, you can also write comments such as type of
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PreK - 12th
Digital Fiction/ Nonfiction Book Reports in Google Slides
Go paperless with this series of book reports in Google Slides. Included are: Fiction Book Reports Non-Fiction Books Reports Chart for students to list the number of books they have read throughout the semester/trimester.
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4th - 6th
High Interest, Intro to Evolution Reading - We're All Different
High interest and student friendly reading to introduce students to the idea that most of our traits are inherited, or passed down, from our parents. Some of them can be the result of mutations, which is an important of the genetic variation that makes different organisms unique and more likely to survive in a changing environment.
Vocab words covered: inherit, mutation, genetic variation
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4th - 8th
Nonfiction Reader Response Task Cards
Included in this FREE product, you will find 12 task cards to assist students in presenting their comprehension of any passage they are assigned to read.
Suggestion: Print front and back then laminate for sturdy usage over time.
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It's in the Passage!
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3rd - 12th
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Astronaut & Alien Masks for Sci Fi Readers Theater. Kid Astronaut Prop, Mask
Have fun with this literacy prop for Reader's Theater! Based on the book "Kid Astronaut" by Laura Knight. Great for read aloud activities, STEM events, Space Week classroom decorations, or science fiction writing exercises... even Halloween.Includes mask graphics of Astronaut and Alien, and DETAILED instructions. Adult Assembly Required. Have kids add their own artistic touches to the masks with glitter, markers, etc. Hope you enjoy.
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2nd - 5th
Books for Every Makerspace List
Looking to start or add to your classroom library? Utilize this book list to kick-off a STEM based lesson or start a discussion about the Engineering Design Process. This list can also be utilized for a Read Across America Week event.
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K - 6th
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