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8th grade science flash cards for Microsoft Word
Plant Animal Cell Foldables
This is a template with directions to create two foldables: plant cell foldable and an animal cell foldable
Teachers can lecture on plant and animal cells and then have students create these two foldables to practice quizzing themselves on the structure name and function of the different parts in the plant and animal cells. These foldables are great visual tools to use in a science interactive notebook or just for your EL learners students to practice with. Did I mention that you can also cha
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6th - 12th
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Earth Science Praxis Exam Study Guide
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I made this study guide based on the PDF from the Praxis site: https://www.ets.org/s/praxis/pdf/5571.pdf
Includes all test specifications and sections needed to know for the exam!
> I passed for my state standards from studying this study guide I made! Good luck, studying one page a day helps!
MY STUDY TIPS:
• Study every day.
• Study a page a day, and also go back to old material to refresh.
• Pick a time of
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7th - 12th
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Speed, Velocity and Acceleration Card Activity
What is the difference between speed, velocity and acceleration? This is a hands-on activity that can be done with a group of students, an individual student, teacher demo or turned into a foldable. Students will classify pictures and sentences based on the characteristics of speed, velocity and acceleration. A detailed answer key is included. This activity is an upper level thinking activity that will encourage your students to argue for their answers and reasoning.
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5th - 10th
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Pupil Booklet Microorganisms Unit
Booklet includes: Learning intensions checklist Interactive notebook pages Plenary tasks Experiment instructions Experiment diagrams Notes with blanks to fill in during lesson Extension Tasks Booklet Corresponds to powerpoint
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6th - 9th
Also included in: BGE/General Microorganisms FULL Unit
Kinematics Motion Graph Matching Card Game
Motion Graph Matching Card GameMake a game of reviewing motion graphs, and challenge students to find all four matching sets of position-, velocity-, and acceleration-time graph cards and data descriptions. The product contains 28 cards – seven sets of four different card types. Each set covers a motion example and the associated motion graph for an object moving along a straight line in one dimension with its basic shape and slopes. HOW TO PLAY: Cards are placed face down. Students randomly sel
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: StayGiant Physics Bundle: Kinematics
Vocabulary Card Template
This Word document is a template that can be copied for student use, or it can be given as an example for students to create their own vocabulary cards on whatever medium they want. This strategy works really well with English Language Learners, as pictures help them grasp more abstract concepts, and it's easier for you, the teacher, to tell if they really "get it."
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6th - 12th
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Weathering and Erosion Vocabulary Matching Cards
Weathering and Erosion vocabulary can be difficult for students to master. Help your students by providing them with vocabulary matching cards. Students can work independently or together to match the term with the definition AND an illustrated example. Give your students a black and white copy OR print them in color and laminate for long term use. Instead of writing definitions, let them play a "matching", "go fish" or "memory" game for engaged learning!!
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7th - 8th
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Biology Mitosis Matching Activity Task Cards (Key, Fully Editable, & No Prep)
- Fully Editable!
-Teacher Key Included!
- No Teacher Prep, Just Copy. Students Cut Out!
-I have students match color illustrated Phase Cards to the Phase Name and the Description of what occurs in each phase.
-You could make these a laminated class set, or copy them for students to cut out individually and paste the picture, phase name, and description together in the correct order; then fill out the answer chart as well.
-Have fast working students label the structures in each phase as a m
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8th - 12th
Lab Periodic Table Activity Simulation: Alien Element Organization
This is a comprehensive Periodic Table Lab Activity Simulation for students. There are 3 documents:
1) Lab Introduction Document with Questions and setting the context to examine unknown elements from the Planet Pumpernickel
2) 9 page flash cards of unknown alien elements that have element properties of atomic radius, electronegativity, ionization energy, conductivity, electron configuration, etc.
3) Answer Key for the most consistent element arrangement
I found this to be most successful when
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6th - 11th
Cell Organelle Vocabulary Cards: Activity
Help your students understand and memorize cell organelle functions with a vocabulary matching game. Students will match the organelle name with the organelle function and a similar object to help spark understanding. This is a basic activity that will serve as an introduction to cells or a simple review.
Two possible methods for this activity:
(1) Put your students in groups each with a set of cards. When all of the groups are done, match the cards under your document camera to check for
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5th - 9th
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Fluency Builder: Acids and Bases
This Fluency Builder includes the pH and pictures of products and substances student come into contact with on a regular basis. Student must determine if the substances are Acidic, Basic, or Neutral.
Fluency Builders are fun, quick, and most importantly, motivate students to set and achieve personal goals.
Often used for math, I utilize Fluency Builders to develop fluency in the academic language of science as a quick starter or closer in class. In this fast paced review activity, students
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7th - 12th
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Animal and Plant cell organelle structure and function
Power point of animal and plant organelle structure and function.
plasma membrane Barrier between outside and inside of cell
Semi-permeable - made of phospholipids and proteins
cell wall Rigid structure outside the cell membrane
Provides structure/support for plants, fungi & bacteria - made of cellulose, porous, not selective
Nucleus Leader - control center of cell
Contains instructions for making proteins
houses chromatin (blue prints) or strands of DNA
Assembles ribosomes from subunits
Fo
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4th - 12th
Affixes with visual support
Attached are common English affixes. The images were created with ChatGPT/Dall-E. These are meant to be used as flash cards, images for a powerpoint presentation, etc. You can use these for language therapy, ELA class, or science/biology. The affixes included are:anti, ast, auto, aqua, aud, chlor, contra, cyto, dent, term, dict, dis, end, tract, gastro, hemo, herb, hetero, homo, hypo, inter, intra, logy, mit, lum, mal, mis, mort, neo, over, paleo, photo, plasm, port, post, re, rupt, scribe, sect
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4th - 12th
Greek and Latin Roots in Science
The Language of Science--give students a list of greek and latin roots related to science to study. Then students must use their knowledge of roots to figure out definitions of science terms on a quiz. Good activity for the beginning of the year!
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7th - 12th
Balanced vs. Unbalanced Forces
This is a hands-on, manipulative activity that will help your students understand the difference between balanced and unbalanced forces. Print them in color and laminate for long term use. Put the cards under the document camera or pull the file up onto the smart board for a class discussion or a teacher demo. Students can also work in pairs to calculate the net force of the object. I have also included a detailed answer key.
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5th - 9th
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Heat Transfer Card Sort
Set of 21 cards with numbered color pictures to reinforce convection, conduction and radiation.Also includes answer sheet for students to write the numbers of the cards in each category.Editable Word file.
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6th - 8th
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Plant Vocabulary Review Flash Cards
This 36 matching card set of plant review cards covers the following topics: classification system, vascular & nonvascular plants, monocots & dicots, plant structures, plant reproduction,and tropisms. Each "vocabulary term" card has a match with a "defintion" card. These cards are printer friendly and can be laminated and used one per table group or run off for each student. These are a fun and effective study tool for students!
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5th - 10th
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Organic Compounds vs. Non-Organic Compounds
This activity is for 7th grade science and could be used for 8th grade review. This activity utilizes 16 different cards (8 chemical compounds and 8 real life pictures taken by me). Students are to catagorize the cards according to "organic" or "non-organic" based on the concept of CHONPS. Most organic molecules would be considered "living" at one time and would contain carbon for sure, and then most likely Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Sulfur. I realize not ALLLL living things
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7th - 8th
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Ionic Bonding Puzzle Pieces
This 3-page worksheet can be copied and laminated to allow students the ability to explore how ions bond based on charge. For example, a calcium puzzle piece has two notches to represent +2 charge. A fluorine ion has one notch that can fit with calcium to represent a +1 charge. Two fluorine pieces will fit one calcium piece. This can be used to teach monatomic and polyatomic ionic bonding.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Editable Kagan Quiz-Quiz-Trade Cards
If you're like me and tired of spending so much of your own $$$ on index cards for Quiz-Quiz-Trade, only to then spend too much time filling them out by hand only to later throw them away (or lose them, or have them destroyed by students) I have a solution for you!For the price of one deck of index cards, this file includes 27 reusable, editable Quiz-Quiz-Trade cards. The file is a Word file that you can easily personalize with your own definitions/vocabulary words.Another issue this product sol
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K - 12th
Fluency Builder: Mitosis Meiosis
This Fluency Builder includes diagrams, definitions and pictures of Mitosis and Meiosis vocabulary terms, including: Mitosis, Meiosis, Female, Male, Somatic, Gametes, Diploid, Crossing Over, Autosome, Karyotype, Zygote, 47, and 23.
Fluency Builders are fun, quick, and most importantly, motivate students to set and achieve personal goals for themselves.
Often used for math, I utilize Fluency Builders to develop fluency in the academic language of science as a quick starter or closer in class.
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7th - 12th
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Card Sort: Comparing Asexual and Sexual Reproduction
This is a basic card sort to help students compare sexual and asexual reproduction. They can use it to differentiate between the two basic types of reproduction. They can also use the completed card sort to complete a Venn Diagram that forces them to interpret similarities (i.e. both produce offspring) between the two types of reproduction.
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6th - 8th
Ecology: Food Web Food Chain Matching Activity Task Cards (Fully Editable, Key)
- Variety of ways this product can be used!!
- Fully Editable!
- No Prep, Just Copy and have Students Cut!
- I use this product to help students visualize and review the terminology surrounding the Ecology, Food Web, and Food Chain Unit.
- I use this product as an individual student activity where they cut out the terms, images, and definitions and match them together. I then have them write down the information on the included answer sheet so that they can keep a condensed version of the infor
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6th - 12th
Weather Vocabulary Review Card Game
This 48 matching card set of weather review cards covers the following topics: water cycle, weather fronts, types of precipitation, weather tools, and layers of the atmosphere. Each "sun" card has a match with a "cloud" card. These cards are printer friendly and can be laminated and used one per table group or run off for each student. These are a fun and effective study tool for students!
flash cards, review cards, review activity
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4th - 12th
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