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Types of Volcanoes Activity
Students will erupt with excitement when they work on this fun and flashy circlebook activity that examines three types of volcanoes! Fifteen mix-n-match templates feature ready-to-color illustrations of a Cinder Cone, a Composite Cone, and a Shield Volcano, complete with keys. For longer circle books, students can fill in additional templates with vocabulary words, create pages of volcano facts, research types of lava or the formation of volcanoes, or write a creative story about exploring a vo
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3rd - 8th
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Sea Turtle Animal Research Reading Passage & Comprehension Activities Life Cycle
This Sea Turtle Informational Article and Comprehension Activities includes a reading passage about sea turtles in two formats (two-page color photos & one-page text), website resources for online articles and videos about the sea turtle, a fact sort sheet where students can sort facts about the sea turtle, a variety of note-taking sheets, comprehension activities, and mini-report pages.Use these articles as a resource when researching and writing about animals. Read the article, look at a v
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2nd - 3rd
Animal Research Project Template | Animal Report Flip Book Informational Writing
Engage your elementary students in learning important research and writing skills with this fun Animal Research and Flip Book Report Project. Using the provided animal research flip book template, students are guided through research and writing about the animal habitat, food, appearance and other interesting facts. Your students won't realize just how many great research skills they are learning! This Animal Research and Report Flip Book Project is a great way to connect science and language
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2nd - 5th
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Animal Research Project Templates | Research Reports Writing Animal Adaptations
Create the EXACT animal research project you want for your students with these customizable animal report templates. Choose from 25 digitally designed (EDITABLE) templates in Google Slides for your end of the year research projects or anytime throughout the year. Students will use the slides to share all about an animal they researched while working with all sorts of text features (headings, table of contents, photos, captions, fun facts, bold words, glossary, and more).Want more report template
Rocks and Minerals Activity - (Rock Cycle, Types of Rocks, etc) Foldable Project
Rock your classroom and save a ton of time with these ready-to-go circlebook projects! Students will love creating circlebooks as they learn about rocks and minerals. 22 Mix-and-Match templates make it easy to customize the projects to meet your students' needs. The templates include plenty of writing space for students to respond to their research findings.Check out the PREVIEW for a movie of what the finished product looks like. Related Products from GravoisFareRocks and Minerals Circlebook: 2
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2nd - 6th
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ANIMAL REPORT RESEARCH PROJECT TEMPLATE Graphic Organizer 2nd 3rd Grade WRITING
Explore endangered animals with our Animal Research report templates! This project provides graphic organizers & reading passages to help students learn about 30 endangered or threatened animals. Also included is a K-W-L Template, Important Questions Chart, "What Do I Do Now?", and a "Write Down Your Sources" page. This project can be easily differentiated for students of all levels. Not only do students learn facts about each animal, but the project also encourages students to answer questi
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1st - 3rd
Endangered Animal Research Writing Project - Common Core Aligned
This is a fun and exciting way to get your students writing! They will love that they have their own endangered animal to research and learn about. There is a graphic organizer that will guide them through the research process. There is a sheet with approved websites for research and themed final draft paper. Your students will love taking all the information they have gathered and putting it into a trifold brochure. This makes a super cute classroom display. Set aside a day for the students
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: Writing Research Projects & Activities - BUNDLE
Research Project: Ocean Animal Information
It can be challenging to find informational text that is appropriate for elementary kids! Making sure that all students are set up for success during these first experiences with research projects is so important.
This pack was created and used with my 3rd grade class. It includes research information for 30 different ocean animals. Each animal includes a description, eating habits, predators and defense mechanisms, life cycle and interesting facts. Pictures and fun facts break up the text and
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3rd - 5th
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Severe Weather Research Project | Nonfiction Reading, Google Slides & 3D Project
Students will research severe weather using these non-fiction articles and will answer text-based questions with this digital and printable resource. This research is perfect for in class or at home! My students absolutely love to research, so I wanted to share a class favorite with you!Before you buy: This research journal is included in a bundle! The bundle includes two options - my Severe Weather Research Project & Mammal Research Project (or) my growing bundle which includes ALL of my cu
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2nd - 5th
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Animal Research Report Project Writing Templates
Here you will find animal research templates that will support your primary students as they research and investigate information on their favorite animal, no matter their level! These templates can be used for any animal of your students' choosing. This product helps make research easy with this simple, student driven project!Student printables for animal booklet will cover:*Brainstorming and choosing their animal.*What they know and would like to learn.*Describing their animal.*Their animal's
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1st - 4th
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Also included in: Animal Research Project Spanish & English BUNDLE
Pollution Reading Passage & Earth Day Comprehension Activities - Water, Air
Students can learn about pollution and its effect on the environment through an easy-to-read and fun passage. Also included are QR codes for additional research and comprehension activities that support main idea and details and cause and effect. And there's much more!The pollution article and comprehension activities are perfect for Earth Day! The article outlines the three types of pollution (water, land, and air) and their effects on the environment. This reading passage and comprehension
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2nd - 4th
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Solar Eclipse 2024 Space Writing Activities Planet Reports & Crafts Solar System
Now includes craftivities for the Solar Eclipse!Is your class learning about the Solar System? Are you doing a Space theme day? These Space Craftivities are perfect to display your little writers work. This set is perfect for planet reports and comes with coordinating toppers for each planet. There are also some fun creative writing prompts with adorable astronaut toppers.This set comes with the following prompts:If I Were an Astronaut (4 different astronaut kid picture options)If I Lived in
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K - 3rd
All about Fish and Ocean Animals Nonfiction Unit Sea Life Research Reports
This is the perfect bundle of goodies to teacher your primary students about fish and ocean life. It is over a weeks worth of materials that is sure to engage your little learners and make them reptile experts. There are two paper mini books that are Included. One is all about fish and their characteristics and the other is about different ocean life. There are 5 research projects included for whales, octopus, jellyfish, seahorses and sharks. I use this packet to integrate reading as well as the
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Animal Group Bundle Insects Reptiles Amphibians Fish Birds and Mammals
Ecosystems Research Project | Ecosystems Activity | 3rd Grade | 4th Grade
Ecosystems: This pack includes 13 different ecosystem posters for students to do a research project. I have marked these posters for grades 2-4. Please use your best judgment after you click on the PREVIEW button above. This will give you a better idea as to what you are purchasing. Some teachers in first grade and even fifth grade may also find these suitable. Once again, look closely and you can decide. :-)Grab your media specialist, get some books on topic (maybe even your science textbook),
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2nd - 4th
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Dinosaurs Nonfiction Unit Reading Passages Comprehension Writing Science
This Dinosaur Activities Unit includes 8 nonfiction reading comprehension passages and questions, multiple report writing templates, hands-on activities, prehistoric crafts, math activities and other fun opportunities to ignite learning of dinosaurs.This easy-to-implement unit includes: LiteracyDinosaur academic vocabulary Invent your own dinosaur reportDinosaur report wheelMultiple report templates Multiple Graphic Organizers - Information writing and opinion writing My dinosaur report Dinosaur
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1st - 3rd
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NATURAL DISASTERS - 13 Agamographs (Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Floods, and more)
Natural disasters are naturally exciting for students. Compound that excitement with these intriguing agamograph activities that will have students rocking back-and-forth to watch the images morph from one to the other.13 sets of templates focus on a variety of natural disasters—avalanche, blizzard, drought, earthquake, flood, hurricane, landslide, meteor, pestilence, tornado, tsunami, volcano, and wildfire. Plus there are two BONUS agamographs that depict Cyclones and Bush Fires (which is what
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3rd - 8th
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46 Nonfiction Animal Reading Passages & Comprehension Activities - 5 Habitats
46 Animal Articles with a reading passage and comprehension activities, including website research, fact-sorting activity, graphic organizers, vocabulary cards, and more! This is a set of animal nonfiction informational articles all about wild animals in five different habitats. These animal articles are full of interesting facts and details that students can use during reading and writing activities in the classroom.Includes an article about each animal in two formats (two-page color photos &
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2nd - 3rd
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Animal Fact Sheet Bundle, 60 Information Pages about Diet, Habitat, Features etc
Get great value with this bundle of SIXTY animal information texts about a range of different fish, birds, reptiles, mammals, invertebrates, and amphibians. They contain information about diet, habitat, physical characteristics, behavior and more. The texts will help your students research and learn about animals without the overwhelm that can come from reading multiple, long, text-heavy passages. The pages also include pictures to break up the text and support understanding. Perfect for 1st -
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1st - 3rd
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How Penguins Achieve Flight April Fools Prank
This fun assignment goes along with the BBC video prank that penguins can fly. This full article includes context clues, vocab and some fun made up science to fool your kids. What is better than learning with a bit of fun! Be sure to show BBC's penguin video before using this sheet. It includes 4 pages of an article with reasoning as to why penguins can fly and reading comprehension questions. Enjoy! Be sure to check out our new Goat Poop Chocolate Prank as well that as a YouTube Video as well a
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2nd - 7th
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Weather Reading Passages
This 57 page pack includes 12 reading passages, 12 comprehension questions, 12 vocabulary cards, and a variety of follow-up activities. Take a look at the types of weather we focused on:TORNADOLIGHTNINGRAINBOWSNOWBLIZZARDHAILRAINSUNNYHURRICANETHUNDERSTORMTSUNAMIEARTHQUAKEInterested in this pack? Grab a freebie here!Weather Freebie: Drought
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2nd - 5th
Planets of the Solar System Space Trifold Travel Brochure Research Activity
This is a set of brochures templates about each of the planets in our solar system (except Earth). They give students a structure to follow when doing research. Each tri-fold brochure covers:location (order, distance)characteristics (size, color, type, rings, moons, etc.)environment (atmosphere, length of day/year, temperature, wind, etc.)missionname originThe student will also calculate what their age and weight would be on the planet using calculators found online (with links provided).Include
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3rd - 5th
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Human Body Lapbook - Body Systems Report - Informational Writing
This human body resource provides materials for students to create a Human Body Systems Lapbook. Designed with second through fifth graders in mind, this human body systems resource includes materials for students to use while conducting research about the human body's major systems, as well as materials for the presentation of their final writing piece, in a Human Body Lapbook. To complete this project, students:• read nonfiction text resources to research human body systems,• complete a cut-
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2nd - 5th
Compare and Contrast Frogs and Toads Worksheets & Activity Sheets
Make learning fun for your students while teaching them how to compare and contrast frogs and toads! These comparing and contrasting activities are perfect for 1st grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade students. Engaging activities are included to practice reading and writing. Children will enjoy exploring and learning all about frogs and toads. These activities are perfect for whole group instruction, independent work, and center time. Easy-to-use activity sheets with clear directions and answer key
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1st - 3rd
Also included in: Compare and Contrast Activities and Worksheets Bundle
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: FAMOUS SCIENTISTS RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Celebrate Black History Month in your SCIENCE classroom by having your students research the work and accomplishments of 8 influential black scientists. Have your students choose a scientist to research and provide them with the printable (or digital) banner that features their scientist of choice. Allow your students to decorate the banner and hang for a fun bulletin board that celebrates Black History Month. This NO-PREP activity is perfect for teachers that need a ready-to-go resource. Need
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3rd - 6th
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