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2nd grade science Common Core W.4.4 resources
One Plastic Bag Upcycled Bracelet Read Aloud STEM Challenge Earth Day STEM/STEAM
Integrate STEAM in your classroom and teach students about recycling! Learn about recycling, reducing, and reusing! Students design and build their very own Upcycled Plastic Bag Bracelet! After making their bracelets, students use the STEAM process to think of another way plastic bags can be repurposed. Finally, students write about ways they can recycle, reduce, and reuse in their own school and community.Excellent activity for Earth Day!Connect to a Read Aloud: One Plastic BagThis STEAM Projec
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2nd - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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If I Built a House READ ALOUD STEM™ Challenge End of the Year Activity 3D Shapes
Integrate STEM, Writing, and Literacy in your classroom at the End of the School Year!Teach students everything they need to build a house using 2D Shapes and 3D Shapes! Your students will love designing, building, testing, and writing about their very own house!Connect to a Read Aloud: If I Built a House by Chris Van DusenThis STEM Project is a companion activity to If I Built A House by Chris Van Dusen. The book explores all the elements needed for an amazing house!Take students through the ST
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Grades:
1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Animal Report Templates Writing Research Project Graphic Organizers, Lapbook
Do your students need help organizing and writing their animal reports? Look no further than our Animal Report Research Templates, Graphic Organizers, and Report Writing options! This informational writing unit is designed with nonfiction research and report writing in mind. It is a fun, engaging way to get your students to research an animal of their choice, and it works for science, reading, and writing.ANIMAL RESEARCH REPORT WRITING RESOURCES INCLUDEgraphic organizers for researchgenre poster
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Owls Unit - Owl Activities - Pellet Dissection - Owl Reading Passages - Projects
This 158 page Owl unit provides upper elementary students with all of the owl activities they need to complete a rigorous owl unit. These no prep owl activities include owl reading passages, owl pellet dissection activity, owl research activities, and more.COMMON CORE ALIGNED!!!✅Be sure to check out the thumbnails and preview for detailed images and information about some of the engaging activities included in this resource.This engaging resource contains the following:⭐Vocabulary Resources!-Owl
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Grades:
1st - 4th
Animal Research Report Templates Project
Need to assign your students an animal research report project? These print and digital (google slides) animal research report templates will scaffold the research writing process. This pack features both U.S. Spellings and British English in Flipbook Templates, Rubrics, Checklists, and Vocabulary Flashcards included. Resource OverviewScaffold the writing of an Informational Report on an animal of choice or one from 10 animal groups with this bundled pack both in print and digital format (google
The Big Orange Splot Back to School READ ALOUD STEAM™ Activity
It's time to get back to hands-on learning. Integrate STEAM, Writing, and Literacy in your classroom during the first week of school or on the First Day of School!Help students get to know each other better with STEAM! Your students will love designing, building, and writing in their unique and personalized Big Orange Splot House!This activity is super easy to implement. Just print the house templates and let students begin designing and building their houses! Put them all together for an All Ab
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Grades:
1st - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
First Day Jitters Back to School READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Integrate STEM, Writing, and Literacy in your classroom during the first week of school or on the First Day of School!Help students process "First Day Jitters" with STEM! Your students will love designing and building their unique and personalized Back to School Lunch Box!The Engineering Design Process:In the First Day Jitters STEM activity, students follow the six step Engineering Design Process: Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Experiment, Improve. Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas
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Grades:
1st - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Forms of Energy Science and Writing Project {Christmas Theme}
Santa has a magical sleigh with a team of reindeer, but what about Mrs. Claus? This differentiated science and writing project is a fun way to assess understanding of the different forms of energy. Students will design a vehicle for Santa to give to Mrs. Claus for Christmas. This resource includes:Lesson plansSmall group activity to review forms of energyProject Assignment to engage studentsTwo versions of the planning pagesFour versions of the final project pagesGrading rubricsExample of a co
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Physical Science Project Bundle {Christmas Theme}
All About Koalas
Are you learning all about Koalas? This 103 page non-fiction information pack is perfect for your Pre-K - Grade 4 students. Included in the pack are a variety of non-fiction information texts, real photographs, graphic organisers, differentiated comprehensions, activities and worksheets. Included in All About Koalas:· Koala Introduction· Where Do Koalas Live· Habitats· What Do Koalas Eat?· What Do Koalas Look Like· Lazy Koalas· Adaptions· Joeys· Life Cycle · Arboreal Animals· Interesting FactsRe
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Grades:
PreK - 5th
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NGSS:
K-ESS3-1
, 3-LS4-3
, 2-LS4-1
If I Built A Car Back to School READ ALOUD STEM™ Challenge
Integrate STEM lessons, Writing, and Literacy in your 1st Grade through 5th Grade classroom at the Beginning of the School Year! Perfect for STEM Club, Liberians, and Makerspaces!Teach students everything they need to build a car. Your students will love designing, building, testing, and writing about their very own car. Will it fly? Will it float? Will it have a robot driving it? The only limit is your own imagination!Connect to a Read Aloud: If I Built a Car by Chris Van DusenThis STEM Project
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Grades:
1st - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Last Day Blues Last Day of School READ ALOUD STEAM Book Activity
Integrate STEAM, Writing, and Literacy in your classroom during the last week of school or on the last day of school!Help students reflect on their amazing school year and process through some of their "last day blues!" Your students will love designing, building, and writing in their unique and personalized Cereal Box Memory Book!Connect to a Read Aloud: Last Day Blues by Julie DannebergThis STEAM Project is a companion activity to Last Day Blues by Julie Danneberg. The book explores the emotio
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Grades:
1st - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
ANIMAL RESEARCH 2: ANIMAL GROUPS: EDITABLE FLIPBOOKS BUNDLE
ANIMAL RESEARCH 2: ANIMAL GROUPSThis mega Animal Research Bundle features flipbook-style Informational Report templates on 142 animals from 10 animal groups. The individual packs in this mega bundle amount to $49. Get 50% off with the purchase of this bundle! Separate sheets featuring British English Spellings in Rubrics and Checklists. ***********************************************************************The flipbooks in this bundle scaffold the structural components of an Informational Repor
What to Do with a Box Back to School READ ALOUD STEM™ Challenge
Integrate STEM, Writing, and Literacy get back to hands-on learning in your classroom at the Beginning of the School Year!Explore what you can do with a cardboard box. Students imagine, design, test, and write about a unique invention of their own. After they have built it, they write a newspaper ad selling their new invention that will change the world!Connect to a Read Aloud: What to Do with a Box by Jane YolenThis STEM Project is a companion activity to What to do with a Box by Jane Yolen. Th
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Grades:
1st - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
DESERT ANIMALS REPORT: INFORMATIVE WRITING: RESEARCH TEMPLATES PRINT & DIGITAL
⭐ 22 Boom Cards now included: Identifying desert animals (pre-research)⭐⭐Print and Digital Desert Animal Report File (Google Slides) included. Link in Pdf.⭐⭐⭐Separate sheets featuring U.S. Spellings and British English in Flipbook Templates, Rubrics, Checklists, and Vocabulary Flashcards included.***********************************************************************Scaffold the writing of an Informational Report on 30 desert animals with this bundled pack of templates both in print and digital
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: Animal Research Templates Animal Reports Bundle Print & Digital
Animal Research Report | Animals Report | primary grades
Engage your students with this fun, 49 page Animal Report. Students LOVE learning about animals, and this report helps students communicate all of the new facts and information that they've learned. It makes report writing easy for primary students!We have developed this report template and additional worksheets, organizers, tools and forms to use for your students to create, develop, write, edit, illustrate, present, and assess their animal report. This template can be for their formal report o
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Animals and Insects | Research Report Bundle
Animal Research Project Writing Report Activity Template Google Slides Resource
Let students present their animal research projects in a polished presentation with this fun digital resource that includes both Google Slides and PowerPoint formats. This includes both slides for when they are gathering information and for presenting their published work. I will list the slide types below or you can view the preview. There are many slides to choose, and simply delete the ones not wanted.Students will add text and insert images in the slides. If students are not familiar with i
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2nd - 6th
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Weather Project- Observe and Record {Science and Writing}
This differentiated science and writing project is a meaningful addition to your weather unit, with an added exposure to geography (map skills), and land forms (national parks). Students will track weather data from national parks and use the data to predict the weather for the following day. In this project, student plan a trip to three National Parks, each in different areas of the United States. Students track the weather for four days and then predict the weather they will experience durin
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Earth and Life Science Project Bundle
Insects | Insect and Bug Research Report
Engage your students with this fun and comprehensive, 34 page Insects Research Report resource. It helps make report writing easy! It contains worksheets, questions, organizers, tools, forms, and academic vocabulary for your students to create, develop, write, edit, illustrate, present, and assess your students’ Insects Research Report.This report (or performance task) is also designed to not only to learn and explain the new information, but answer some higher level thinking questions (Common C
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Also included in: Animals and Insects | Research Report Bundle
Earth Day Virtual Field Trip - 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade
Join me on a virtual field trip! On this field trip, students will use their critical thinking, reading, writing, and listening skills to explore and learn about our incredible Earth. Students will learn about recycling, climate change, composting, national parks, wildlife, and more! They will also get to explore the world using Google Maps and other websites with virtual tour capabilities! ⭐Check out the quick preview video for a taste of what this field trip has to offer. This resource includ
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2nd - 5th
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Plant Interactive Lapbook | Research Project | Differentiated | Project-Based
Your students will love Researching a plant of their Choice and creating this Interactive Lapbook! The Project-Based Learning approach will engage your students! They will be able to Collaborate with their Peers, yet create their own little treasure!>> Take a Look at the PREVIEW <<There are many ways to Differentiate this packet to Scaffold for your students. Multiple pages have a Differentiated Version! There are components that you can add for Deeper Learning, or take out if you on
Animal Research Project with EDITABLE PowerPoint Templates and Timers
This product is a great way to get students engaged in an Animal Research Project! In this Product:➔Animal Research Booklet Cover Page, Table of Contents, Classification, Diagram, Habitat, Map, Diet, Fun Facts, Glossary, and Bibliography➔Research and Notes Pages 17 pages of Notes and Research Pages templates to allow students to collect notes for their projects➔Rubric ➔EDITABLE PowerPoint Templates with Editable Timers - These PowerPoints are a great way to inform stu
Dinosaurs | Dinosaur Research Report
Engage your students with this fun, comprehensive, 33 page Earthquakes Research Report resource. It helps make report writing easy! It contains worksheets, questions, organizers, tools, forms, and academic vocabulary for your students to create, develop, write, edit, illustrate, present, and assess your students’ Dinosaur Research Report.This report (or performance task) is also designed to not only to learn and explain the new information, but answer some higher level thinking questions (Common
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Also included in: Dinosaur and Ocean Animals | Research Report Bundle
Animal Research Project | Tropical Rainforest Report
This animal research project is all about tropical rainforest animals. It makes animal reports in grade 2, grade 3, and grade 4 a breeze. It has an animal research graphic organizer to use with the easy to read informational text fact sheets. Differentiation for the needs of your students is built in to the writing pages. This 55 page packet includes information on these animals that live in the tropical rainforest habitat: ChameleonsGreen anacondasHowler monkeysJaguarsMacaws and parrotsRed eyed
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2nd - 4th
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How to Catch a Loveosaurus Trap Valentine's Day READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Can your students catch a Loveosaurus? Learn how to catch a Loveosaurus with this super fun and engaging Valentine's Day STEM Activity!Students design and build a Loveosaurus trap! After they have completed their STEM project, there is a writing activity for students to write a kind letter to someone special.An excellent companion activity to the Valentine's day read aloud book How to Catch a Loveosaurus by Alice Walstead and Andy Elkerton.Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. Afte
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Grades:
1st - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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