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Free 5th grade science scripts
Animal Skit: unique body parts, adaptation, hibernation, migration, and more!
This is a fun short animal skit you can use in your classroom. It can be used for a quick unique science lesson or a production for your students' parents!It is designed for grades 2-4 but can be used for ya fun review for 5th grade too.The skit includes 3 characters: Wanda Wonderer, Chris Inquirer, and Lam Ina the Zoo Keeper. You can easily change the characters to be more than 3 though to include more students in your class.This Animal Skit has 7 scenes:Scene 1: Animals and Their Unique Body
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1st - 5th
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Skit, Reader's Theater
This is a 2 page script about the importance of Recycling. There are 4 individual speaking parts. Others can participate as trees with choral lines and physical expressions of the story. You may also be interested in:Animal Environmental Adaptations: Script & Creative Project
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2nd - 5th
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Ladybug Lifecycle Readers' Theater Freebie
Looking for a way to work on fluency and expression while also meeting science standards?
Working on life cycles? Tired of worksheets? Work on science skills with a science readers’ theater!
This FREE packet includes:
*Script
*Character Cards
*Follows the lifecycle of ladybugs
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Check out my other science readers’ theaters!
Salmon Life Cycle Readers’ Theater
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2nd - 12th
Severe Weather Report Script
This script is used during a unit on severe weather. After learning about the weather, how it forms, and ways to stay safe, students complete a weather report. Each student has a job, camera operator, anchor, director, or producer. The students choose their weather event, write their script, design their background, and film their report using tablets. The videos are later played for the class.
If you class doesn't have tablets to film the report, this would be great to use as a live presentati
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1st - 6th
FREE 1st SCENE from Readers Theater Script: Natural Resources and Conservation
Reading and Science Integration: USE AND CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES
Free First Scene from: “TRASH ME NOT”
Scripts with Content for Intermediate Readers
This Readers’ Theater is a great resource to use in your classroom in many ways: literature circles, small groups, centers, or teacher table.
TRASH ME NOT will be divided into 5 scenes. Each scene will have a reading response activity!
For example:
Scene1:
First: Read and Re Read (Fluency)
Next: Making Predictions, Answering & A
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3rd - 5th
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Growth Mindset Reader's Theater #1 of 4- Science Edition
Easy as 1-2-3!1. print out reader’s theater script2. hole punch the script3. put in a three-prong folder for students to grab-and-go during Daily 5 or any small group instructional timeThis is one of our Two.Teach.Wildly.Free-bies. This Reader’s Theater is one of four in a series about growth mindset in different academic subjects. We chose to make our science-relatedreader’s theater our freebie version because we find that both young girls and boys need more exposure to important women in STEM.
The Great Kapok Tree - Performance Script
The Great Kapok Tree is a wonderful book by Lynne Cherry. It can be used as an assembly script or as an additional resource for covering The Amazon Rainforest. It highlights the problem of deforestation in Brazil, but also explores the animals who call the rainforest their home.
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1st - 5th
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Also included in: Brazil - A-Z of Brazil, The World Cup and The Great Kapok Tree
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
Science Talk and Discussion Starters
This resource helps students to engage in meaningful discussion about science. It can be used with any science lesson, and is great for small group or whole group. In the past, I've had my students engage in Socratic seminars, and this resource is a way to involve all students and lower the stress for some learners. I print these, laminate them, and then cut them into individual bookmarks for my students.
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3rd - 8th
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Bloodmobile Song (TMBG) lyrics for student performance!
The Bloodmobile song lays out the basic functions of the circulatory system: to carry oxygen, nutrients, immune cells, hormones, and waste. https://youtu.be/Futnu_6NmQo?feature=sharedI always thought it would make a great performance by kids, so I laid it out with 5 solo parts and the main chorus to be sung by all.They Might Be Giants: Here Comes Science is an amazing album with lots of great songs for kids to sing or perform and learn about key scientific ideas!
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2nd - 5th
Introduction to Cell Structures and Organelles
This is a fun way to introduce eukaryotic organelles to your students. Assign students reading parts in the talk show host interview with organelles and then help students review new knowledge with the provided questions.
Scripts: Interviews with Biblical Birds
Interview with Birds include 5 scripts about the ostrich, rooster, quail, sparrow, dove, eagle and raven. Each describes how God cares for people and birds, adaptations for survival and each creature’s role in different Bible stories. (i.e. the raven's role from Creation to Noah's Ark to the feeding of Elijah and Jesus' shout out in Luke.) Run times vary but are between 2-5 minutes.
Check out other free reader's theater scripts about animals and their adaptations.
Skits about Bible camels
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A Green Play for Earth Day!
Earth Day is coming, but don't worry! Here's a fun skit to help your Intermediate students prepare for the school assembly, whether you plan to film beforehand or perform live.Set in a news station, this small cast play portrays recycling and conservation in a hilarious and informative new way.
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4th - 7th
Reader's Theater - Tripp's Cloudy Memories
Tripp the Tumbleweed is on an adventure to visit every U.S. National Park - all 63 of them. Oftentimes, he is thrown from one park to the next park begging the question - what happens when Tripp is in the air? This reader's theater provides the answer! It's geared towards third graders as it teaches about all of the different types of clouds in a fun, engaging, and funny way! (At least Tripp thinks so). If you'd like a basic script to print and share with the students participating in the reader
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2nd - 5th
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The Space Family Vacation -- Reader's Theater
Reader's Theater is an educational tool that combines performance and learning to captivate students of all ages. With our specially curated script, "The Space Family Vacation" young minds embark on a journey through the wonders of the solar system.In this script, students will learn about the solar system including interesting facts about Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Benefits of "The Space Family Vacation"Enhances reading skills, boosting fluency and
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4th - 6th
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Elementary Morning Meeting - Frog Theme
A frog themed "Morning Meeting" that my colleagues and I created for an elementary classroom. Enjoy!
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2nd - 5th
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Weird Weather - Ball Lightning, Dust Storms, Rainbows, ANSWER KEY
Excellent plans for a sub! This is a full lesson on weird weather for science or general studies. It's more focused on the elementary grades but it's got some fun science in there too. The answer key is included. 1: Download the entire document: “The notes” 2: Keep a copy of “the notes” for yourself. 3: Delete the areas that have the bold text and save a copy. The bold text in (parenthesis) are notes for you and you can delete those too. 4: Give the sheet with the deleted parts to your stude
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2nd - 5th
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3-ESS2-1
, 3-ESS2-2
, 4-ESS2-1
STEM: A Volcano Readers' Theater from 1943
This is a TRUE STORY! A farmer and his family see a volcano erupt in their own backyard! This exciting FREE Readers' Theater script is meant for families who are dealing with a crisis to role-play the characters of the father, mother, son & daughter. This Readers' Theater is a single-page script that involves "sound effects"!!!!!You can print copies of the script and know that all kids and families love this script!Remember to read the page first together, practicing words that may be new fo
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PreK - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-1
, K-ESS3-1
, 2-ESS1-1
, 4-ESS3-2
Electrical Currents Script
A sample script that can be made into a movie.
"Ring around the roses" - Microbiology Skit!
It's show time!! This project allows students to research a communicable disease and create an applause worthy performance based on their findings. This project would typically take about 2 weeks to complete. The first week the students/groups would be preparing/drafting/creating and the second each group would be performing.
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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FREE 1st SCENE from SPANISH Readers Theater: Natural Resources and Conservation
SPANISH Reading and Science Integration: USE AND CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCESFree First Scene from: “TRASH ME NOT”Scripts with Content for Intermediate ReadersThis Readers’ Theater is a great resource to use in your classroom in many ways: literature circles, small groups, centers, or teacher table.TRASH ME NOT will be divided into 5 scenes. Each scene will have a reading response activity!For example:Scene1:First: Read and Re Read (Fluency)Next: Making Predictions, Answering & Asking Q
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3rd - 5th
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The Tree Museum: An Original Conservation Play
Imagine a world where trees are endangered and the only way to save all the varieties is to place them in a museum. In this 16-page original script, the trees take center stage. The mighty oaks, apple trees, willows, maples, the African Baobab and even Poet trees, fret that the great outdoors is no longer safe and each tree must seek10. refuge in the museum. Teddy Roosevelt, Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed and George Washington all make appearances in this celebration of Earth Day or Arbor Day. Th
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3rd - 6th
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Summer Solstice - June - Grades 2 to 5
Summer Solstice Assembly/Presentation21st June 2021Grades 2 to 5Have you ever wondered why the days are so long in the summer and so short in the winter? The length changes throughout the year. Around June 20th or 21st, we experience what’s known as ‘The Summer Solstice’, which is the longest day of the year.People from many cultures have held summer solstice celebrations for thousands of years. Summer is a time to celebrate renewal, life, fertility and the potential for a good harvest. It’s bee
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2nd - 5th
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