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Free elementary basic principles handouts
Changes in States of Matter Foldable
This foldable is designed to help students understand what changes in states of matter are, to recognize why changes occur and to identify four common changes (i.e. freezing, evaporation, melting and condensation). I recommend having students fill in the foldable following a lesson on this topic to consolidate their learning. The foldable can then be glued into the students' science notebooks to be used for future reference.
In this file you will find three versions of the foldable.
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4th - 8th
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What Causes Day and Night? Earth's Rotation
Designed for students in Kindergarten or First Grade. Teach them that the Earth's rotation around the Sun causes us to experience day and night.
There are four sheets in this download. Three of them are basically the same thing--I created multiple versions for differentiation purposes (i.e. color blindness)
Visual: Use lamp and globe to demonstrate this for visual learners.
Audio: Use a YouTube video explaining Earth's rotation, or what causes day and night, etc.
Kinesthetic: Have students
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K - 2nd
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Pumpkin Volcano Experiment
This Pumpkin Volcano Experiment is engaging, cheap, and fun! Grab this freebie to enjoy with your kids during these Fall Months!
Check out my blog post below to see pictures and a video of it in action!
Pumpkin Volcano Blog Post
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1st - 5th
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Collecting & Graphing Data
This super simple worksheet is great to assess prior graphing knowledge (for middle school) or introduce graphing skills to younger students. Students must collect data from each other by asking three engaging questions, create a data table, and create a bar graph from that information.Looking for a digital version of this activity? Find it here!
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Back to School Science Activities for Middle School
What Is An Insect? Book on insect characteristics
Fun book about cute bugs to help children learn the common characteristics of an insect.
number of legs
number of body segments
antennae
wings
This little book has been downloaded over 3000 times on tpt - wow!
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PreK - 2nd
Photosynthesis Cheat Sheet/Printable *FREEBIE*
Here is another science cheat sheet for your students! This one breaks down the concept of photosynthesis.
My students love these cheat sheet printables. We put them in our science interactive content notebooks, hang them on our bulletin boards and post them on our word walls. There are lots of ways you can use them!
This product includes:
1 Cheat Sheet with Labels/Detailed Explanations
1 Cheat Sheet with Blanks-for the Students to Fill in
1 Cheat Sheet with Blanks-Black and White Copy
Thanks
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3rd - 6th
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Water Cycle Worksheet
Students cut vocabulary words, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation and glue them into the correct box on the worksheet.
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1st - 3rd
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Photosynthesis handouts
Twelve handouts showing aspects of photosynthesis, including picture identification, crossword puzzle, true or false, fill-in-blanks, steps in process, etc. Words and pictures include oxygen, carbon dioxide, O2, CO2, green plants, animals, sunlight, breathe in, breathe out, respiration, sugar, photosynthesis, energy.
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3rd - 5th
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Five Senses Cut and Sort Worksheet
This cut and sort worksheet is perfect for student to practice and apply their knowledge of the five senses! It is a perfect assessment tool for the end of your Five Senses unit. Check out my TPT store for more Five Senses resources for Preschool, Kindergarten, and 1st Grade!
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K - 2nd
Also included in: Five Senses Bundle
"Save Fred" A fun edible lesson on Variables and Writing Lab Reports
In this fun edible lesson, students work in teams to save their gummy worm from drowning. After completing the challenge they must then identify the Independant and Dependant variables. They will also be able to complete a basic lab report using the information from their experience.
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4th - 9th
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Simple Machines Around School
This is a simple worksheet for students to search for types of simple machines while on a scavenger hunt around the school.
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1st - 3rd
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Gravity Worksheet : Your Weight on Other Planets
What's the correlation between your weight on a planet and it's size? It all comes down to gravity! Give students a chance to figure out the relationship themselves by typing their weights into an online generator.
Students who figure out:
Bigger Planet= More Gravity= Heavier Weight
can move on to the word search on the back! Perfect activity to wrap up your unit on the Solar System or Forces in Motion!
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3rd - 6th
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States of Matter Foldables
These foldables have been designed to help students understand what states and properties of matter are and to identify common examples of the different states of matter in their everyday lives!
In this file you will find five versions of the foldable.
Version 1 (page 4-5) provides a diagram of what the particles look like in each state of matter, properties of each state of matter and common examples of each state of matter.
Version 2 (page 6-7) provides a diagram of what the particles lo
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2nd - 8th
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Root Beer Float Solid, Liquid, Gas Experiment FREEBIE
This one page worksheet is for use with a teacher-led states of matter experiment where students start with cups of vanilla ice cream and root beer. They should begin by determining if each treat is a solid, liquid, or gas before predicting what will happen when they pour the soda over the ice cream.
The activity can be done whole group or in small groups and works as either an exciting way to introduce the states of matter or a fun way to conclude a matter unit with students and celebrate thei
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K - 1st
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Science Safety Rules & Contract
This Science Safety Contract includes:
1. Student contract (to be signed by each student and his/her parent or guardian)
2. Print-out of the Science Safety Rules that can be copied and inserted into each student’s notebook for easy reference.
3. Tips and background information to help you utilize this important tool in your classroom.
A Note from Teresa
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Science Safety is the first priority of every good science
Grades:
4th - 12th
Understanding Energy: Energy Explained: Types, Forms, Sources and Vocabulary
Help your students make sense of Energy!
Includes:
Forms of Energy and Examples
Types of Energy:Potential and Kinetic
Major U.S. Sources of Energy Renewable/Nonrenewable
Fast Facts
Vocabulary: 16 terms including energy, chemical, electrical, gravitational, heat, kinetic, light, mechanical, nuclear, potential, sound, thermal, transformation, motion, renewable, nonrenewable
Can be used as part of a science interactive notebook, as a study guide, as a teacher reference sheet, introduction or gene
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3rd - 7th
FREEBIE Mixtures and Solutions Experiment Notes (Science)
Enjoy this freebie! It is a set of notes to send to your parents prior to doing an experiment about mixtures and solutions.
Prior to doing your experiment in class, send the first note out to your parents. It tells parents you will be doing the experiment and that you need donations! I suggest at least a week or week and a half in advance, and it’s even better if there is a weekend included because that gives parents time to get to the grocery store.
Then, collect the returned notes to
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3rd - 5th
Phases of Matter Differentiated Reading - Liquid, Solid, Gas and Plasma
In this article, students will read about the four stages of matter, basic information on how matter changes between those stages and basic characteristics of each phase.
This reading consists of one article written at 4 different reading levels. Each level contains the same essential concepts and vocabulary words, but as the levels go up, articles become slightly longer and more linguistically complex. Article all look the same and students do not know what reading level they have, since w
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3rd - 9th, Adult Education
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What is Science? FREE - Full lesson, handout, and presentation!
What is science? What does a scientist look like?
In this free bundle, you will receive a handout, Prezi presentation (linked), and lesson plan for the "What is Science" activity. Many teachers, including me, have used this activity to kick the year off and facilitate an ongoing discussion that defines science while establishing a classroom atmosphere centered around inquiry and the idea that we all need to challenge misconceptions. I have students revisit their definition at the middle and end
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Weather Log, One Week
UPDATE: This freebie now includes two logs. One using metric units and the other imperial units. Enjoy!This weather log contains spaces for students to record a weeks worth of weather data. Use this for multiple weeks and ask students to identify patterns. Or for a single week to practice taking measurements. The weather log has space for the date, time of measurement, temperature, relative humidity, dew point, barometric pressure trend, wind direction, wind speed, cloud types, cloud cover, prec
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5th - 10th
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Baby Chick Handling Permission Form and Certificate
Use these freebies with your chicken hatching unit! Students take home the permission form to gain access to hold the baby chicks and afterward take home a 'Chick Holding Champ' certificate. These documents are easy to use and come with blank spaces for adding the number of chicks hatched in the classroom, as well as a space for informing parents what day the chicks hatched. Simply photocopy the pages on bright paper and send them home. Your return rate on these permission slips with be swift an
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Understanding Force and Motion
A single page worksheet that I used to reinforce understanding with our study of Newton's 3 laws of Motion, gravity and friction. Simple descriptions and summaries of each law, gravity and friction with 5 review questions about application.
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1st - 2nd
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How to do an elementary science fair project
A 3-page handout for students, parents, and faculty trainings on the basics of grades K-5 science fair projects. Each section of the project is described and has an example (including Purpose, Hypothesis, Materials, Variables, Directions, Data Chart, Graphs, and Conclusions). The third page has large font titles that can be cut out and glued to the science board.
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Sound and Light Word Search
Word search connected to the NGSS first grade waves standards
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1st
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