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8th grade science research pdfs
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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Kinetic and Potential Energy Webquest Activity
Put learning into your students' hands with this KINETIC AND POTENTIAL ENERGY WebQuest Activity! Just PRINT and GO....that's it! This highly engaging activity allows your students to research, manipulate, illustrate, explore and assess themselves as they create their own understanding of Mechanical Energy. Need a digital option? No problem! I am including a digital version of this activity. Please note: the digital version is delivered as a link to a Google Slides document that you can assign y
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6th - 9th
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MS-PS3-1
Space Exploration History Timeline Activity | NASA | Space Race Lesson | Reading
This is an informational text timeline activity to help your students to learn about the biggest events in space exploration history. There are 29 events included, each represented on a timeline card with a relevant photo and caption (from NASA’s public galleries). I have included two sizes for the timeline cards (large and smaller). There is a student timeline worksheet which contains a box for each major event on the timeline in which students will fill in information and answer questions whil
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6th - 9th
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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
Scaffolded Natural Disasters Research Project Extreme Weather
Students will research specific facts about a natural disaster and create a brochure (either on paper or digital) about it. Are your students curious about natural disasters like volcanoes and earthquakes? This project will help students learn about different natural disasters around the world. This is great for helping all students access grade level content! Students will love learning about extreme weather and natural disasters in this scaffolded research project.This Natural Disaster Brochur
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8th - 10th
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Infectious Diseases Research Project & Wanted Poster Activity for Microorganisms
Students will explore infectious diseases that affect us through research and a creative project by creating a wanted poster. The disease is the culprit that is wanted for causing sickness to its victims. This activity is perfect for your microorganisms unit.THIS RESOURCE INCLUDESTeacher informationGoogle Slides file for creating posters digitallyList of 39 infectious diseases to choose from – appropriate for upper elementary and middle school studentsWanted Poster templatesGuided research quest
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5th - 8th
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Planets of the Solar System - Research Project with Rubric
Planets of the Solar System - Research Project with Rubric - 5 page research project on all planets of our solar system with rubric and research organizer. This project will engage your students as they learn about each of the planets of the solar system. It includes a research organizer to focus student research, web links for possible research, a rubric for ease of marking, a student handout to explain the project and a teacher guide for ease of use!
Your students will love learning about t
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4th - 9th
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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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Planet Research Project Write a Children's Book | Solar System | Middle School
Your students will love writing a fun children's book for this Planet Research Project! Their children’s book will tell and illustrate a fictional story taking place on a planet. You can choose to keep the planet choices those within our solar system (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto?) and/or you can allow your students to choose other planets outside of our solar system that have been discovered. Some of my students LOVE that they can choose ‘the Diamond Planet’ or
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6th - 8th
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MS-ESS1-3
Volcano Research Journal / Volcano Project - PRINT & DIGITAL
Volcano Project - Students pretend to be a scientist studying an active volcano anywhere in the world - luckily during their research the volcano erupts. They must write a first person account of their volcano research. Includes a print (PDF) and digital (Google Slides™) version of the project for distance learning / online learning platforms. My students love the opportunity to learn and write about a volcanic eruption - I love to see what they come up with! Easy to differentiate for a varie
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7th - 12th
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Intro to STEM: Think Like a Scientist & Engineer!
A great way to introduce STEM into your classroom! Updated to include editable versions of all student handouts! How does a scientist explore the world? How can you think like an engineer? Students will explore these questions and more through a series of critical thinking STEM exercises. The packet includes 4 critical thinking challenges centered on STEM learning (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). These activities expose students to the real world of science and engineering with chal
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3rd - 10th
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Also included in: Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Let's Research: An Ecosystem Project
A independent research project all about ecosystems!
Great for middle school. It also works well with upper elementary (fourth and fifth graders) but a little more guidance may be necessary.
This project requires students to research. I allow mine to use their own device or any internet enabled technology in my classroom. This project can also be completed in the library using hard copy resources or in a computer lab.
Complete student instructions have been included. Each step is clearly
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5th - 8th
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Infectious Disease Project
This activity is a research project for students to learn about an infectious disease and the virus or bacteria that causes it. Students are given a list of diseases to choose from. Students will complete the research portion first and then use the information they have obtained to create a poster, Google slide presentation, brochure, etc. A rubric is provided to students to show them the points designated to the information that needs to be on their project presentation.Love this resource? Foll
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Science Mega Bundle - Middle School Science Resources
Biography Project Research Bundle: 7 Activities Famous Person or History Report
Choices, choices, choices!!! In this inquiry-based learning project, students can choose between 7 formats, but grades are based on the same rubric criteria. This research project is Common Core writing and literacy aligned, and was recently completely updated.This works as a biography or teacher-assigned topic project. Students write a focus question, gather primary source quotes, write an informational text paragraph with evidence, create timelines, create five class questions, and provide vis
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4th - 12th
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Science Career Research Project STEM End of the Year Activity T-shirt
This Science Career Research and T Shirt Design Project is a great way to get your students thinking about potential careers in the sciences, or just to help them to understand why their science studies are relevant and important! This project works for grade 6 and up, so if you are teaching a middle or high school science course, you can assign this project at the beginning of the year to get everyone thinking about the application of the course/unit objectives in the real world, in the middle
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6th - 9th
Human Body Systems Research Project + Rubric (Science)
Human Body Research Project with rubricThis human body project contains the following:-student handout for project requirements-checklist for students to use when completing their project-criteria checklist to be used when students believe they are done their project-rubric to be used to assess student projects
Natural Disasters News Report Project
This project was created to help students cultivate their researching skills, literacy skills, and science skills. Make research fun with this Natural Disaster News Report Project! Materials Include: -Initial task and "big idea" questions -Research packet with guiding questions to help with research -Scaffolded script pages with sentence stems that directly fit with the research packet-Unscaffolded script pages -Research and Presentation Checklists-Rubric
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4th - 8th
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4-ESS3-2
Inventions Research Project - Collaborative Tessellation Project
Research inventions from A to Z! This resource includes a list of 50+ inventions that students can research and report on in a fun way. Choose from print and go option (with invention graphics already on them) or use the template provided to research inventions not included. A digital version is also included if you use Google Classroom. When projects are complete they can be combined to create a tessellation! This makes a great wall display or bulletin board collaborative art piece.Please note
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2nd - 8th
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Also included in: Inventors and Inventions Bundle of Research Projects Templates
Animal Research Project Report
This Animal Lapbook will turn even your most reluctant reporter into an expert!!!.Your students will have so much fun researching their favorite animal with our Animal LapBook. This is the perfect alternative or complement to any Report of Information.Students will easily create their Animal LapBooks by using our simple instructions and handouts.The interactive templates and foldables contained in this product can be used with any researched animal. Each template has been created in black and w
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3rd - 8th
Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy Sources Project Bundle
Two dynamic renewable and nonrenewable energy sources projects. Student will apply research skills to learn about renewable and nonrenewable energy sources and then apply their knowledge to help a fictional community decide which two energy sources are best for their town. These projects put students in charge of their learning and keep them motivated with real life scenarios while improving their critical thinking, persuasive writing, and public speaking skills, and research skills. Minimal p
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5th - 8th
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MS-ESS3-1
, MS-ESS3-4
, MS-ESS3-3
Physical Science Career Research Project STEM End of the Year Activity T-shirt
This Physical Science Career Research and T Shirt Design Project is a great way to get your students thinking about potential careers in the sciences, or just to help them to understand why their studies in chemistry, physics, and the physical sciences are relevant and important! This project works for grade 6 and up, so if you are teaching a middle school Physical Science course or unit or a high school Chemistry, Physics, or Physical Science course, you can assign this project at the beginning
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6th - 9th
Solar System Project - Create a Planet Alien
This is a project designed to coincide with any Solar System unit. Students create an alien that would survive on one of the specific seven planets. They must create ten physical features to help the alien survive on that planet.
Organizers, assignment sheets, and assessment sheet included!
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4th - 8th
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Genetic Disorder & Karyotype Research Project
Make genetics fun!!! In this dry lab students will complete a “normal” karyotype as well as an "abnormal" karyotype. Upon completing the karyotype and studying the chromosomes they will determine gender and diagnose a genetic disorder. Students will then research their genetic disorder and create an informational brochure. This dry lab can take anywhere from 2-3 days to a week depending on how much time is devoted to in class vs. out of class work.
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2 "Normal" Smears
6 "Abnor
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6th - 10th
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Element Superhero Project - Periodic Table of Elements Research (Editable)
This resource includes printable worksheets and Google Slides editable templates.This activity is a student favorite. Start off your chemistry unit right with this fun and creative assignment! Each student will research an element on the periodic table and create a poster that contains essential information about the element. In addition, students can then flex their creative muscles by developing a superhero (or supervillain) based on the properties of their assigned element. The best part
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6th - 8th
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MS-PS1-2
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