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6th grade science scripts $5-10
Reader's Theater Science Bundle Rocks & Minerals, Solar System, & Weather Play
Looking for a way to incorporate reading and science? How about adding fluency practice for the whole class? This Reader's Theater Science Bundle includes three original plays: I Wanna Be a Rock Star (Rocks and Minerals), Weather, and the Solar System. Each script has enough parts (30) for the whole class and is great to use as part of a science unit, for fluency practice, or to add variety to your reading program. The best part about these plays is that besides being full of scientific informat
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3rd - 6th
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As The Cell Turns - The Drama of Life -Science Reader's Theater Script
This is an original Reader's Theater script, based on the organelles of the animal cell and their function. Your students will enjoy playing the parts of the living cell as they argue about who is the most important and learn how all the parts of the cell work together. This cross-curricular science script can be used in reading class as a non-fiction work, or in science while studying the cell.
Along with the script, name tags for each organelle are included with an icon chosen to help stu
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5th - 7th
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Circulatory System Reader's Theatre
Heart, blood vessels, blood cells, spleen, and platelets oh my! Are you studying the circulatory system and need a quick review? Have your students practice this reader's theatre. Packed with 11 characters including a funny virus and a white blood cell who hopes to gobble up every germ in their path, this reader's theatre will help your students become more fluent readers and learn about this important body system at the same time.
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3rd - 8th
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Respiratory System Reader's Theatre
Do you need a way to help student's better understand the respiratory system? Are words like alveoli and pharynx difficult to explain? After studying the respiratory system, why not review its functions and parts using a reader's theatre? This 11 part reader's theatre easily explain what happens when Oxygen enters a person's nose, travels through the trachea, pharynx, bronchial tubes, and into the lungs. Add the character diaphragm and you have a fun filled way to learn more about this important
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3rd - 8th
Reader's Theater Science Bundle 2 | Adaptations, Physics, Weathering & Erosion
Love to save time by incorporating reading and science? How about adding fluency practice for the whole class? This Reader's Theater Science Bundle includes three original plays, Adaptations Around the World, Force and Motion at the Amusement Park (introductory physics), and Dude, Where's My Rock? (about weathering, erosion, and deposition).Each script has enough parts (30) for the whole class but can be modified for a smaller group. You'll love having these to introduce or review science units,
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3rd - 6th
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Bundle: Super Cell Mega pack
Save 66%!!! Looking for ways to differentiate? Tier lessons? Appeal to multiple intelligences? Need anchor activities? Super cell package is a time and energy saver that lets you do all of the above. Products are sold separately for $18. You get them all for 1/3 of the regular prices. Entire package includes:
Cell organelle and process card game
Mitosis card game
3 germ fighting card games
1 Cell bingo (clues and 25 unique cards)
5 reader’s theater scripts (with directions and rubric)
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SCRIPT funny science play about light cavemen and chicken nuggets
An entertaining script about light. Students learn about the parts of the eye, lenses, reflection, the light spectrum and an experiment to bend light. Script is suitable for grades 3-5 and can fit around 20 students.
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3rd - 6th
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The Scientific Method Reader's Theater
In this four page reader's theater script written for 5 readers, the class learns the steps of the scientific method and how we can use them in our daily life to discover things that are hidden all around us!
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3rd - 6th
ExC-ELL Aligned Vocabulary Introduction & Word Wall: Force, Motion, and Energy
Highly effective for emerging Bilingual/Multilingual students (truly, all students). Introduce the vocabulary essential to engaging with the content. These slides give you all of the resources to align your introduction with the ExC-ELL routine including:- the word hyperlinked to a dictionary definition, - the word in context, - a relevant photograph, - and sentence starters and frames for oral discoursePrint the word word wall pages to make the words visible for students to support their disco
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Heredity Crime Scene Lab
Crime Scene Lab based on basic Genetics/HeredityIncluded: PowerPoint that goes along with the lab3 pages of student worksheets where they answer questions about basic genetics. Punnett Squares are also on the worksheet for students to complete.Picture of how my classroom was set upScript for the teacher and a student to follow to engage class. Fact sheet that has answers to the lab for teacherCertificates for each student after they become a 'Detective'
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6th - 9th
NGSS:
MS-LS3-1
Reader's Theater WILSON BENTLEY: THE SNOWFLAKE MAN Great Historical Non-Fiction!
If you are searching for a way to get your students to enjoy reading, become more expressive, read aloud with confidence, become more fluent…then let the magic begin!!
I have found using Reader’s Theater with large and small groups really helps my students strengthen their reading and language arts skills! My class CHEERS every time I tell them we are going to do Reader’s Theater!! This technique makes reading come alive for your students and can really develop classroom full of confident rea
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2nd - 7th
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Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System Reader's Theater Script & Name Tags
This is a readers theater script for the 1990 book The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. It is written to include 22 students along with non-speaking roles to make the soundscape with percussion instruments. The front page has a link to my slideshow that accompanies this script. The script also contains name tags for each character: print and cut them out, hole punch them at the top, tie some string and have each student wear their name tag (the script fo
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2nd - 6th
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Teacher Notes for IQWST PS1 Types of Light Rays with Learning Targets
Interested in more tips and strategies for implementing this curriculum in your Science 6 classroom? Check out my complete set of teacher notes for PS1!Just started implementing Activate Learning’s IQWST in your middle school classroom and need some help facilitating inquiry-based learning? Sounds like you need my notes for the Types of Light Rays learning progression a part of IQWST Sci 6 PS1 Can I Believe My Eyes? From someone with 4+ years of experience teaching this curriculum, this 8-pag
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Grades:
6th
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NGSS:
MS-PS4-1
Also included in: BUNDLE Teacher Notes for IQWST PS1 Complete Set with Learning Targets
Teacher Notes for IQWST PS1 Light Ray Behaviors with Learning Targets
Interested in more tips and strategies for implementing this curriculum in your Science 6 classroom? Check out my complete set of teacher notes for PS1!Just started implementing Activate Learning’s IQWST in your middle school classroom and need some help facilitating inquiry-based learning? Sounds like you need my notes for the Light Ray Behaviors learning progression a part of IQWST Sci 6 PS1 Can I Believe My Eyes? From someone with 4+ years of experience teaching this curriculum, this 11-pa
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Grades:
6th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS4-2
Also included in: BUNDLE Teacher Notes for IQWST PS1 Complete Set with Learning Targets
Teacher Notes for IQWST PS1 Brightness + Shadows with Learning Targets
Interested in more tips and strategies for implementing this curriculum in your Science 6 classroom? Check out my complete set of teacher notes for PS1!Just started implementing Activate Learning’s IQWST in your middle school classroom and need some help facilitating inquiry-based learning? Sounds like you need my notes for the Brightness + Shadows learning progression a part of IQWST Sci 6 PS1 Can I Believe My Eyes? From someone with 4+ years of experience teaching this curriculum, this 8-pa
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Grades:
6th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS4-1
Also included in: BUNDLE Teacher Notes for IQWST PS1 Complete Set with Learning Targets
Teacher Notes for IQWST PS1 The Sight Model with Learning Targets
Interested in more tips and strategies for implementing this curriculum in your Science 6 classroom? Check out my complete set of teacher notes for PS1!Just started implementing Activate Learning’s IQWST in your middle school classroom and need some help facilitating inquiry-based learning? Sounds like you need my notes for The Sight Model learning progression a part of IQWST Sci 6 PS1 Can I Believe My Eyes? From someone with 4+ years of experience teaching this curriculum, this 8-page comple
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Grades:
6th
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NGSS:
MS-PS4-1
Also included in: BUNDLE Teacher Notes for IQWST PS1 Complete Set with Learning Targets
Reader's Theater: Frog's Life Cycle
Merging Science and Reading with this fun Reader's Theater passage. This story can be used to recreate the frog's life cycle from egg to adult while also entertaining the audience with a Sneaky Snake villain!This story is 6 pages long with large font for easy reading. There are 5 characters in the story- great for a small group activity!
Teacher Notes for IQWST LS1 Energy, Structures, Functions with Learning Targets
Interested in more tips and strategies for implementing this curriculum in your Science 6 classroom? Check out my complete set of teacher notes for LS1!Just started implementing Activate Learning’s IQWST in your middle school classroom and need some help facilitating inquiry-based learning? Sounds like you need my notes for Energy, Structures, and Functions learning progression a part of IQWST Sci 6 LS1 Where Have All The Creatures Gone? This 15-page complete set has everyone you need to be le
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Grades:
6th
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NGSS:
MS-LS2-3
Also included in: BUNDLE Teacher Notes for IQWST LS1 Complete Set with Learning Targets
Teacher Notes for IQWST LS1 Stable Ecosystems with Learning Targets
Interested in more tips and strategies for implementing this curriculum in your Science 6 classroom? Check out my complete set of teacher notes for LS1!Just started implementing Activate Learning’s IQWST in your middle school classroom and need some help facilitating inquiry-based learning? Sounds like you need my notes for the Stable Ecosystems learning progression a part of IQWST Sci 6 LS1 Where Have All The Creatures Gone? This 9-page complete set has everyone you need to be leading inquiry
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Grades:
6th
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NGSS:
MS-LS2-2
, MS-LS2-4
, MS-LS2-1
Also included in: BUNDLE Teacher Notes for IQWST LS1 Complete Set with Learning Targets
Teacher Notes for IQWST LS1 Organism Relationships with Learning Targets
Interested in more tips and strategies for implementing this curriculum in your Science 6 classroom? Check out my complete set of teacher notes for LS1!Just started implementing Activate Learning’s IQWST in your middle school classroom and need some help facilitating inquiry-based learning? Sounds like you need my notes for the Organism Relationships learning progression a part of IQWST Sci 6 LS1 Where Have All The Creatures Gone? This 13-page complete set has everyone you need to be leading i
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Grades:
6th
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NGSS:
MS-LS2-2
, MS-LS2-3
Also included in: BUNDLE Teacher Notes for IQWST LS1 Complete Set with Learning Targets
Teacher Notes for IQWST LS1 Populations + Interactions with Learning Targets
Interested in more tips and strategies for implementing this curriculum in your Science 6 classroom? Check out my complete set of teacher notes for LS1!Just started implementing Activate Learning’s IQWST in your middle school classroom and need some help facilitating inquiry-based learning? Sounds like you need my notes for Populations + Interactions learning progression a part of IQWST Sci 6 LS1 Where Have All The Creatures Gone? This 8-page complete set has everyone you need to be leading in
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Grades:
6th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-LS2-1
Also included in: BUNDLE Teacher Notes for IQWST LS1 Complete Set with Learning Targets
Teacher Notes for IQWST IC1 States of Matter with Learning Targets
Interested in more tips and strategies for implementing this curriculum in your Science 6 classroom? Check out my complete set of teacher notes for IC1!Just started implementing Activate Learning’s IQWST in your middle school classroom and need some help facilitating inquiry-based learning? Sounds like you need my notes for the States of Matter learning progression a part of IQWST Sci 6 IC1 How Can I Smell Things from a Distance? From someone with 4+ years of experience teaching this curriculu
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Grades:
6th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS1-4
Also included in: BUNDLE Teacher Notes for IQWST IC1 Complete Set with Learning Targets
Teacher Notes for IQWST IC1 Matter Changing States with Learning Targets
Interested in more tips and strategies for implementing this curriculum in your Science 6 classroom? Check out my complete set of teacher notes for IC1!Just started implementing Activate Learning’s IQWST in your middle school classroom and need some help facilitating inquiry-based learning? Sounds like you need my notes for the Matter Changing States learning progression a part of IQWST Sci 6 IC1 How Can I Smell Things from a Distance? From someone with 4+ years of experience teaching this cur
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Grades:
6th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS1-4
Also included in: BUNDLE Teacher Notes for IQWST IC1 Complete Set with Learning Targets
Teacher Notes for IQWST IC1 The Odors Model with Learning Targets
Interested in more tips and strategies for implementing this curriculum in your Science 6 classroom? Check out my complete set of teacher notes for IC1!Just started implementing Activate Learning’s IQWST in your middle school classroom and need some help facilitating inquiry-based learning? Sounds like you need my notes for The Odors Model learning progression a part of IQWST Sci 6 IC1 How Can I Smell Things from a Distance? From someone with 4+ years of experience teaching this curriculum, th
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Grades:
6th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS1-2
Also included in: BUNDLE Teacher Notes for IQWST IC1 Complete Set with Learning Targets
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