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3rd grade science webquests for Microsoft Word
Robotics WebQuest
This is a great way to engage your students in exploring the benefits robotics has on our world. This lesson includes all the resources needed for students to complete the WebQuest challenge on their own with no guidance required by the teacher. This resource connects with robotics classes, clubs, and competitions. This will work perfect as a substitute plan, Schoology assignment, or lesson facilitated by any teacher. Great for VEX, FIRST, PLTW, and STEM classes. EDITABLE! Includes ANSWER KEY
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
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Volcanoes & Earthquakes Webquest
This is a guide to an online, interactive WebQuest dealing with volcanoes and earthquakes. Students visit different websites, explore, and record their findings.
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3rd - 4th
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Non-Flowering Plants Webquest
Looking to introduce your students to non-flowering plants or want them to review non-flowering plants? This Internet webquest is for you!
Includes:
- scavenger hunt
- answer key
Meets the following Common Core standards:
SC.3.L.15.2: Classify flowering and nonflowering plants into major groups such as those that produce seeds, or those like ferns and mosses that produce spores, according to their physical characteristics.
Also, check out Plant Structure Webquest
I hope your students ha
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3rd - 5th
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DNA and Forensic Science for the Elementary Student
Looking for a really fun way to teach DNA? This packet contains everything you need, along with great websites, to teach genetics and connect it to forensic science. Your students will love making candy DNA strands, learning why some people can roll their tongues and others can't, completing webquests and more.
You can find how to make candy DNA without this packet. However, I have organized it to make it student friendly. I included lesson plans with objectives, procedures, and teacher informa
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3rd - 6th
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Ecosystem Study Jam Notes
Study jams is a great resources for students to use to be in charge of their own learning while using technology. I have created guided notes that go with the "Ecosystem" study jams video focused mainly on abiotic and biotic factors. Students can use this sheet to follow along with the video on their website, and to teach themselves. At the end there are "Test Yourself" questions students can do for a mini assessment and check for understanding.
Introduction to Solar System Webquest
This webquest explores the heliocentric vs geocentric models of the universe, the relative size of the universe, what astronomy is, and the relative size and distance from the planets in our solar system.
This is a great introduction activity and can lead easily into a size/distance project or lesson on the planets in the solar system.
My students love the diversity of sources within the webquest and exploring their "size" throughout this activity!
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3rd - 12th
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Food Chains vs. Food Webs
Study Jams is a great resource for students to use to be in charge of their own learning while using technology. I have created and bundled guided notes for 2 of their videos. The first one goes with the Food Chains video on their website where they can follow along and fill in the notes as they go. The second one is focused on Food Webs. At the end of each section they can do a test yourself section for a quick mini assessment
**THREE DAY** Earth's Spheres WebQuest
All you need to do is print and hand this out to students, or post on your Google Classroom. NO PREP REQUIRED. This is a set of three WebQuests (meant for 3 40-60 minute class periods) where students will analyze graphs, articles, and videos to answer questions about science. They will be focused on the concepts of the different spheres of earth (atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere), the amounts of fresh and salt water, climate vs. weather, and the concept of seasons. This is perfe
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in: NO PREP! WEBQUEST BUNDLE
Photosynthesis Study Jams
Study jams is a great resources for students to use to be in charge of their own learning while using technology. I have created notes that go with the "Photosynthesis" study jams video that students can use to follow along with the video on their website. At the end there are "Test Yourself" questions students can do for a mini assessment and check for understanding.
Body Systems WebQuest
Using the designated website, your students will explore the various Body Systems and answer multiple choice and open-ended questions. Students will have to watch various videos on body parts in order to find the answers to the questions.
At the end of the WebQuest, students will complete an illustration of their body and label the various body parts/systems included in the WebQuest.
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3rd - 5th
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Newton's Laws Study Jams
Study jams is great way for students to be in charge of their own learning while using technology. I have created a guided notes with the video for each of Newton's Laws on study jams that students can follow along with and also complete the "test yourself" section for a mini assessment after each law. Covers laws 1-3.
Landforms Webquest
Jamboard Example*** This activity has been updated to accommodate distance learning and new technology. The new activity asks them to create a Google Jamboard defining and showing examples of eight landforms in the Eastern Hemisphere. The instructions and example are linked. Make a copy to edit.This web quest asks students to define 16 different landforms and find examples of them in the Eastern Hemisphere. The students are then asked to postulate how people may have adapted to living in or near
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3rd - 12th
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NASA Solar System Webquest
This is a 20 questions scavenger hunt for students to learn about the solar system. They will visit the NASA Space site given at the top of the page and then explore and read about the sun, moon, planets and solar system to answer the 20 questions. I had students work in pairs and turned it into a scavenger hunt competition.
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3rd - 7th
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Weather Webquest for Kids
Use this document to guide students along learning about weather. Students will use the website: https://www.ducksters.com/science/weather.php
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3rd - 8th
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Sound Webquest
Engaging sound webquest in which students are directed to sites and asked to interact with the site then answer questions. Topics include pitch, reflection, absorption, energy, speed of sound, and how temperature affects sound. Totally self directed and easy to follow. I try to use as little paper as possible so there's no fancy clip art at top, just valuable and concise learning
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3rd - 7th
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Interactive Science Notebook Expectations
This product is meant to be used to introduce interactive science notebooks and their expectations. Two pages per sheet to save copies! This would look great printed on colored sheets, and will easily fit in a spiral notebook or composition notebook.
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2nd - 12th
THREE DAY NO PREP! Help Our Planet WebQuest
This is a three day WebQuest for elementary and middle school students. It involves analyzing charts, watching videos, and reading articles and answering questions. Topics it covers include: global warming, recycling, plastic in our oceans, Flint's water crisis and what kids can do to change the world!
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2nd - 9th
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Also included in: NO PREP! WEBQUEST BUNDLE
Things We Recycle PebbleGo Research Brochure
Use this brochure to go along with the "Things we Recycle" PebbleGo article.
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1st - 3rd
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Gravitational Fields: Nearpod, Notes sheet, Video, Form (bonus Fields unit quiz)
This is 1 part of my week long unit to teach and check your students' understanding of fields in magnetism, electricity, and gravity. It concludes with a 20 multiple choice quiz and is self grading (my favorite part)!You can have them fill it out notes as they complete the nearpods on their own devices so they can pause and go at their own pace using split screen. OR they can watch with you as a class and do this as an exit ticket/quiz. It is great for review too!I have included the nearpods, v
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3rd - 12th
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3 LS4-1 Fossils Data: Webquest
3-LS4-1. Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago. [Clarification Statement: Examples of data could include type, size, and distributions of fossil organisms. Examples of fossils and environments could include marine fossils found on dry land, tropical plant fossils found in Arctic areas, and fossils of extinct organisms.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include identification of specific fossils or p
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3rd
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Tsunami Webquest
Looking for a fun integration of technology during a natural disasters unit? Have students investigate tsunami facts, organize their information on the graphic organizer, then use that to create an online poster (named a one pager in the instructions for those that use AVID strategies) that can be easily shared with the class.
This is a one page word doc. that is fully editable :)
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3rd - 5th
Solar System WebQuest
This six-page WebQuest allows students to explore our Solar System through research. Students will use the two provided websites to research the Sun and 8 planets that make up our Solar System.
This WebQuest includes fill-in the blanks and full-sentence answers. This assignment concludes with a short open-response question as well as a student drawn illustration of his/her favorite planet.
*Suggestion: In order to save time, link the websites to your teacher page. This will allow students to
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3rd - 5th
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Moon & Sun PebbleGo.com Webquest
**You must have access to PebbleGo.com to use this webquest.**I created this webquest to go along with our study of the Moon and Sun, Stars, the Planets, the Solar System, and Space. The log-in directions are at the top of the page (you may want to edit it to include your username and password). Students read the information and fill in the blanks from the webquest.This is a great tool to teach note-taking and to provide scaffolding to students for reading comprehension. The students LOVE gettin
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1st - 3rd
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Earth's Oceans Webquest
This webquest will give students an opportunity to learn fun and interesting facts about Earth's 5 major oceans. Students will visit two websites to explore facts, photos, and information for each of our oceans. They will record responses to questions about each website. The recording sheet is organized in a way that shows students which site is to be used when answering each question. For example, questions 1-11 direct students to use the Science Kidz website to answer each question. Before que
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3rd - 5th
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