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7th grade Earth Day astronomy independent work packets
Solar System and Planets Reading Passages | The Solar System Worksheets
This Solar System and Planets Close Reading Packet has everything you need for a complete reading and science unit in your classroom. Differentiated reading passages, writing activities, no prep worksheets, and coloring pages are at the heart of this one-stop resource for learning about each planet!Please click the PREVIEW above for an idea of everything included in this loaded resource!If you have never used Close Reading or even if you are already a pro, this 110+ page packet truly is for you!
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Solar System and Planets Activities Bundle | Solar System Project
Mars Virtual Field Trip Explore the Mars Rover
Take a virtual field trip to space and to Mars and explore the Mars Rover. Perfect activities, worksheets, and tasks for middle and high schoolers for Mars and Space Science. This PRINT and Go resource is perfect for distance learning or classroom use to help students explore and take a field trip without ever having to leave the classroom. All questions and activities can be answered from exploring the virtual field trip site. Rather than just look around using the 360 view, these tasks give
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4th - 12th
Astronomy Moon Phases Oreo Lab NGSS MS-ESS1-1 Digital Resource Eclipse
Students love this lab!!! It's inquiry based, student centered, rigorous and easy prep! It covers NGSS DCI-ESS1.B: Earth and the Solar System. The orbits of Earth around the sun and of the moon around Earth, cause observable patterns.What students do:I have the students bring in the Oreos and spoons/knives to class. Or you can spend about $25 on Oreos, which for my class size is 8 cookies per group, with 8 groups per class. Students model what they think the pattern of moon phases are for one
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6th - 10th
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MS-ESS1-2
, MS-ESS1-1
April Early/Fast Finishers | Fun Activity Packet | Earth Day | Spring
Do you need some fun activities to keep your early finishers engaged during the winter month of April to help celebrate all the fun days during the month? There are activities included for April Fool's Day, Easter, Earth Day and beyond! Perfect for fillers and brain breaks! This monthly packet features 20 fun pages of independent work like puzzles, games, and SEL-centered drawing and coloring activities.This April-themed Early Finishers Packet will keep elementary and middle school students bus
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3rd - 9th
Seasons PowerPoint Earth Moon Sun Tides Guided Notes MS-ESS1-2 3 Digital Print
This isn’t your ordinary PowerPoint! I include 65 slides with over 20 different concepts and many images, links to YouTube, Guided Notes with room to draw abstract astronomy concepts and I also provide questions with a key. ALL EDITABLE! You can use this for direct instruction or use it to flip the classroom. It’s great for SPED and ELL students. AND, it's Google ready!Click here and save over 40% by buying my Astronomy and Waves Bundle that has all my astronomy resources.THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES
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6th - 11th
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MS-ESS1-2
, MS-ESS1-1
Synthetic Materials Come From Natural Materials and Impact Society NGSS MS PS1-3
Synthetic Materials Unit for Middle School Science: Students will read three pages of informational text on synthetic resources, natural resources, and single-use plastics. There are also a variety of response pages and a quiz in this unit. This is great for environmental reading or Earth Day. Students will learn that synthetic materials come from natural resources that have been altered through a chemical process.This resource includes:Three pages of informational textResponse Pagesa quizAligne
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6th - 8th
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MS-PS1-3
Leap Day Year 2024 Science Sub Plan or Independent Work Middle School 5th 6th 7
Leap Day Year 2024 Science Sub Plans or Independent Work for Middle School Science 5th 6th 7th GradesThis comprehensive 18-page PDF resource provides a complete solution for substitute teachers, pre-holiday days, district testing days, or teacher catch-up days.Want to Celebrate Reading Across America? Get this Engaging and Interactive 16 Print-and-Go activity for a very low price and let your students discover practical strategies to enhance their reading skills and become more efficient readers
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5th - 8th
Big Bang Theory Evidence NGSS MS-ESS1-2 MS-ESS1-2 Includes Spanish
This resource is engaging, low maintenance, no prep, NGSS aligned, hard copies or virtual! By the end of this activity your students will have a much deeper understanding of The Big Bang Theory. AND! It includes a Spanish version for your ESL/ELL/Newcomer students!This activity can be completely student centered with zero direct instruction from you which takes students 50-90 minutes depending on ability level. Or, you can do the expanding universe balloon model yourself as a demo and embed lots
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6th - 12th
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MS-ESS1-2
, HS-ESS1-3
, MS-PS4-1
, HS-ESS1-1
, HS-ESS1-2
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*Space Project: Create an Alien and Planet
This is a FUN, NO-PREP project, with a CHECKLIST and RUBRIC. The students can apply their learning of space in a creative and imaginative way. They will need to explain the seasons, other celestial bodies in their solar systems, the effect of these bodies on their planet and much more.This package includes:10 worksheets1 checklist1 rubricThis project can be done right on these sheets and/or you may choose to get the students to make 3D versions of their alien and planets (depending on the time)
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5th - 8th
World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky Marine Science Earth Day Lesson
World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky Marine Science Earth Day Lesson is one of the most popular middle school science books that brings awareness to overfishing, biodiversity and ecosystems, toxins in food chains, human ocean pollution, evolution, adaptation, and extinction of the species. Concepts covered: The theory of natural selectionBiologically and commercially extinct fishBiodiversity & ecosystemOver-fishingHuman ocean pollution Effects of toxins in food chainOcean salinity and temper
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6th - 9th
Solar & Lunar Eclipses 2024 Science Sub Plan or Independent Work Middle School 6
Solar & Lunar Eclipses 2024 Science Sub Plan or Independent Work Packet for Middle School & High School 6th 7th 8th Grades: The Great North American Solar Eclipse Day 2024 Activities Reading Comprehension This comprehensive 22-page PDF resource provides a complete solution for substitute teachers, pre-holiday days, district testing days, or teacher catch-up days.Key Features:Print-and-Go Convenience: Easily implement these activities without any prior preparation.Engaging Content: Captur
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5th - 8th
The Water Scarcity Crisis Challenge | Investigate Solutions Activity | Google
The United Nations needs help combatting the world’s water crisis! This thought-provoking activity challenges students to examine innovative solutions to ease scarcity in the Middle East. They analyze various ideas, determine the pros & cons of each, and create their own unique solutions. Then, students write innovative proposals recommending the most promising proposal in a final report to the UN Council. A fill-in rubric is included for easy grading. Your purchase has print & interacti
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5th - 12th
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Types of Galaxies in Space Universe Astronomy Science Worksheet Handout
An infographic worksheet designed to grab your astronomy students attention about galaxies! The details include: 1. Details about the shape and make up of spiral, elliptical and irregular galaxies2. Facts about our knowledge about galaxies 3. Information about our home galaxy, the Milky Way!Differentiated worksheets included for different reading levels and a notes taking worksheet with fill in the blanks. Practice worksheets included to allow for students to take notes and analyze important fac
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6th - 8th
Endangered Species Webquest
Students use the internet to learn about:1) Endangered animals, different conservation statuses, and threats2) Endangered plants3) Endangered species comebacks4) Newly discovered speciesThis product has been updated with the EASEL feature, perfect to use with distance or virtual learning! It can be assigned to students in a Google Classroom. You can either use the digital overlay already created, or create your own! For more information, read here!This webquest can also be found in our Earth
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Six Science Webquests Bundle
April Language and Vocabulary Printables for Middle School Speech Therapy
Are you looking for a middle school vocabulary program that is age appropriate and instantly applicable? This program addresses synonyms, antonyms, multiple meanings, past tense, pronouns, analogies and noun-verb agreement through theme based seasonal vocabulary. Many of our students did not master seasonal vocabulary when it was introduced in younger grades. These terms are often not taught again but consistently show up on standardized testing measures. If they aren't re-introduced to our stud
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Middle School Speech Therapy Language Skills Spring Bundle
Earth Tilt Sun Patterns Seasons Project Based Assessment NGSS MS-ESS1-1
Don't be intimidated by "Stop Motion"! I've never made one, but students use the free app and they figure out how to make amazing movies every year! Students will be engaged, excited and students will have a deep understanding of why we have seasons on earth! There’s no better way to hit the NGSS Science and Engineering Practice of Developing and Using Models than making a movie! This NGSS three dimensional resource covers the Performance Expectation “Develop and use a model of the Earth-sun sys
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6th - 12th
NGSS:
HS-ESS1-4
, MS-ESS1-2
, MS-ESS1-1
The Role of Gravity in the Universe Reading Articles and Worksheets MS-ESS1-2
Four separate lessons teach students about the role of gravity in the motions within galaxies and the solar system. Students will learn about the effects of gravity in the universe and our solar system and how gravity and inertia balance to create the orbit of planets and moons. Plus, a lesson about the gravity in black holes!⭐ Get this set at a HUGE discount in our done-for-you Gravity Unit!Includes both print and Google Slides options to assign!Each lesson includes a 1-page reading with its o
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Grades:
7th - 10th
NGSS:
HS-ESS1-4
, MS-PS2-4
, MS-ESS1-2
, HS-ESS1-2
, HS-PS2-4
Also included in: Earth Science Reading Comprehension Articles Bundle with Space
Earth Day Activities Puzzle Packet Middle & High School Sub Plan 6th 7th 8th 9th
These ready-to-use, no prep sub plan activities are perfect when you need an independent work packet for your middle or high school students to celebrate Earth Day. Your 6th, 7th, 8th, or 9th grade students will love the variety of fun and engaging worksheets which include crossword puzzles, word search, crack the codes, and reading comprehension passages about environmental issues affecting our planet Earth. The activities are simple to follow and easy for you or substitute teachers to implemen
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6th - 9th
Constellations Night Sky Coordinate Graphing Activity - Mystery Picture
Integrate Math and Science with this Graphing the Constellations Activity! Students learn about coordinate graphing and when certain constellations are found in the sky (and WHY)! The constellations are accurately placed for the Summer and Winter sky so that their positions match that of their actual positions in the sky -so it can even be used as a constellations star map!Included:Informational text reading (3 pages) covering the following topics...What are Constellations?History of Finding P
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4th - 9th
Planets of the Solar System Gallery Walk Activity NGSS MS ESS1 1 Worksheet
This activity is great for a nice quite day in class or a sub plan, the kids get really into it and there’s no prep! Jigsaw activities are a cooperative learning strategy that empowers students to specialize in one aspect of a topic that they eventually use to teach their peers. What Students Do:Students research and compile key facts about their assigned planets to create vibrant flyers.Afterwards, they display their flyers on the classroom walls for a gallery walk. During this session, fellow
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6th - 12th
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MS-ESS1-2
, MS-ESS1-3
Climate Change Reading Detective Mystery and Comprehension Worksheet Questions
This Reading Detective Mystery includes a text on Climate Change and its effect on planet Earth with 15 reading comprehension worksheet questions where students need to use their detective skills to narrow the suspects and solve the crime.Reading Detective Mysteries are a fun and engaging way for your students to complete reading comprehension passages, annotate text, and practice critical thinking. Perfect for reduce, reuse, and recycle activities to save the planet. Simply print and go.This re
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3rd - 8th
Also included in: Climate Change, Zones and Human Impact Reading Detective Mystery Bundle
Virtual Field Trip to the Solar System Activities for Middle and High School
Explore out of this World with your middle or high school students in this Space Virtual Field Trip to explore the Solar System! Perfect for any science class, these lessons are ready to go with interactive activities, 360 videos and tours, and lots of ready to go activities and tasks! This resource is perfect for distance learning or classroom use to help students explore and take a field trip without ever having to leave the classroom. All questions and activities can be answered from explorin
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Northern Lights Activity Electromagnetic Forces Auroras Solar Storms Sunspots
This engaging, Google Ready, NO PREP resource will wow your students! This resource is great as an introduction, a scaffold, review or sub plan. If you are teaching the NGSS standard PS2.B: Types of Interactions: Electric and magnetic (electromagnetic) forces, this resource is perfect for you! What Students Do:First I show an amazing video about the Northern Lights as the engage to get the student’s attention. Students are asked, “What causes the Northern Lights, also known as the Aurora Boreal
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6th - 12th
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MS-PS2-3
, HS-ESS1-1
, MS-ESS1-1
Environmental Issues Online Research Project (Earth Day)
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." This is an online research project inspired by the wisdom of Dr. Seuss' Lorax! >> Students will first watch the 25-minute original Lorax (1972) online while answering comprehension/analysis questions. Then, they will pick their favorite, relevant environmental topics (all themes explored by The Lorax) from a menu with 14 options to complete an online research project (an 8-slide presentation wit
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Grades:
7th - 9th
NGSS:
HS-LS2-7
Also included in: Environmental Science Projects for High School | Lessons & Activities
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