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Free 2nd grade science task cards
Forces and Motion Would you Rather Questions Free
Students love "would you rather" questions, so why not use that format to have them show their science knowledge? Check out this freebie with 12 force and motion questions. Students answer the would you rather question and justify their answer with force and motion knowledge. This is a great way to combine science concepts and writing skills together.This activity includes: ➙12 would you rather questioned based on forces and motion➙One edible page for you to add your own would you rather forces
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2nd - 4th
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*FREE* LEGO Stem Challenge Cards School Edition
12 Total Lego Challenges School ThemedTask card format:For most challenges, students won't need more than a handful of legos.There are easier challenges, and some challenges that will really push your students to think "outside the box".I use these as an early finisher activity or as a reward. They are a hit in any class.Tip: Store Task Cards in photo boxes and have a few tupperware bins full of Legos so multiple students may work at a time. Dollar Spot bags of "Legos" are great too.****As alway
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K - 5th
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Force, Motion, and Simple Machines Task Cards
These task cards are a great way to review basic force, motion, and simple machine concepts. I like to set these task cards up around the room and students travel around answering the different questions. I've also included a recording sheet and answer sheet.
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2nd - 5th
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Free Money Management & Budgeting Bank Account Task Cards for Special Education
This sample task card set work on determining if you have enough money in your bank account on your phone to purchase items. These task cards can be used during direct instruction, individual work, and in task boxes. Appropriate for early learners of any age in special education! This resource includes one set of print task cards for a variety of levels. Print, laminate and cut to fit in a photo storage container!Print Task Card Benefits:Customize the resource by printing the level that is most
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K - 3rd
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STEM Activities Desert Survival STEAM Challenge for Elementary Kids FREE
Kids will LOVE this FREE SAMPLE of the silly Desert Survival STEM / STEAM activity based on a loose storyline where they will need to survive in the desert with their dog, Pickles! Pair these problem solving task cards with the no-prep STEAM / STEM printable worksheet for a great back to school resource. Include them in your Makerspace, STEM bins, morning tubs, centers, as a reward, or as an activity for early finishers. Perfect for classrooms, homeschool, and even parents looking for fun, adven
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
FREE Measurement Task Cards Reading a Thermometer Fahrenheit Celsius Temperature
DIGITAL PDF AND PRINTABLES: You will download six FREE (try before you buy) measurement task cards for your 2nd or 3rd grade students to practice reading a thermometer in Fahrenheit and Celsius.You may use the printable task cards in math centers or stations for fun review games and activities, such as a scavenger hunt or SCOOT. They also work well for transition activities, as exit tickets and for morning work, quick formative assessments. Game ideas, a student response form and answer key are
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2nd - 3rd
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13 Colonies Task Cards With Bonus Vocabulary Cards
13 Colonies Task Cards are a fun and engaging way to reinforce learning and review at the end of a unit. They are so versatile with so many different ways to use them in the classroom! FRIDAYFREEBIE3Here are a few fabulous ways to use them: ✔as scoot cards --get the kiddos moving around the room✔as desk rotations or all around the room games✔for science centers✔as a closure activity at the end of a lesson✔as a review game✔as a quiet activity for fast finishers✔for indoor recess✔to study for an u
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2nd - 5th
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Your 5 Senses BOOM CARDS™ Science Digital Learning
This set of Boom Cards™ features 21 different digital task cards over the concept of the 5 senses. These would be great for your students to do when learning about hearing, seeing, tasting, touching, and smelling! This would be a perfect activity for kindergarten or first grade students. On these five senses digital task cards, students will select a picture of the sense or senses you would use when observing an object.This digital game would be a great science station or to review concepts b
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: 1st and 2nd Grade SCIENCE Boom Cards™ BUNDLE for Distance Learning
FREEBIE October Unique Learning System Physical Science- Force & Motion Sorting
Need extra independent tasks to pair with Unique Learning System (ULS) lessons? I’ve got you covered! These interactive independent task boxes & work stations use Symbolstix images to coordinate with the Unique Learning System (ULS) October Unit 2--Physical Science--Force & Motion. This file includes 8 vocabulary sorting mats. Gear your students up for success with hands-on practice using manipulatives and task cards!*SAVE* SAVE* SAVE* by checking out the OCTOBER UNIQUE BUNDLE
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PreK - 8th
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Free Valentine's Day Math 1:1 Correspondence Counting Numbers 0-10 Boom™ Cards
Boom™ Cards are a great way for teachers to save time and energy! No longer need to prep printed materials with the new digital task cards! The best part is that these digital task cards are self-correcting! The student will get immediate feedback and you can also track student progress and take data!This product includes two sets - counting 0-10 for 1:1 correspondence to use on Boom™ Learning. Take your Boom™ Learning to the next level! See a preview of one of these decks HEREBoom™ Cards:Boom™
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Counting Numbers 0-10 Math Boom™ Cards Activity BUNDLE
Depth of Knowledge Guiding Questions
This is one FREEBIE you don't want to pass up!
Dr. Norman Webb developed a process and criteria for analyzing the alignment between standards and standardized assessments. Through this process, a body of work titled Depth of Knowledge (DOK) was offered. This model analyzes the cognitive expectation demanded by standards, activities, and assessment tasks. Webb grouped tasks to reflect a different level of cognitive expectation or DOK. He introduced four levels of DOK:
1. Recall
2. Skills and Con
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K - 12th
Night and Day | Science Task Cards | Boom Cards
Want to be sure your students understand the difference between night and day? These printable and digital task cards ask students to identify night and day with real photos of different places during those times of the day. Use these to accompany your science lessons! They are perfect for hands-on learning! These can be best used as morning work, science center work, early finisher, independent work station materials, and more! Want to save up to 20%? BUY THE SCIENCE TASK CARD BUNDLE and get 2
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PreK - 12th
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1-ESS1-1
, K-ESS2-1
, 1-ESS1-2
Also included in: Science Task Cards Bundle | Printable and Digital
STEM Building Task Card | Open-Ended Activity
These 24 open-ended STEM task cards are designed to be used with ANY building materials. Students can use the prompts on the open-ended cards to create and make the suggested ideas out of almost ANY building material. It's time to get creative! The building ideas on these STEM task cards have been left purposefully vague to allow students to use their imaginations and create/design with whatever materials you have available. Here are some materials that could work:Clean recycling and adhesive
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1st - 5th
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Non-Standard Measurement Sorting by Size Boom Cards™ Distance Learning
Practice nonstandard measurement with this sorting and ordering items in space with these digital Math task cards. This deck features 20 paperless task cards where students have to order the items by size - big, bigger, biggest. This resource is for use on Boom Learning.>>>>>> CLICK HERE FOR A PREVIEW! <<<<<<Resources you may also like:Nonstandard Measurement Spring Boom Cards™ Distance LearningNonstandard Measurement Monsters Boom Cards™ Distance LearningMeas
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PreK - 2nd
Pumpkin Life Cycle Boom Cards Free Life Cycle of a Pumpkin Distance Learning
These free pumpkin life cycle Boom Cards are perfect for reviewing or assessing students' knowledge of the stages of a pumpkin. They can be used as a fun culminating activity to your pumpkin unit.Prefer Google Classroom? A Google Slides version is available here.It contains real, full-color photographs so students can make the connection to the real world.The first card is a learning card that has brief audio explanations as well as photographs of the 6 stages of the pumpkin life cycle. Students
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K - 3rd
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Plant sorting and classifying cards - science activity.
Classify and sort plants with these cards and descriptions. Encourages classification skills and understandings of the various features of plants.
Classifications can include:
- seed/flower producing
- location
- edible/non edible
- vascular/non-vascular
..... classifications are endless!
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2nd - 8th
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Science Tools Trading Cards and Word Wall Posters
Science Tools Trading Cards! This is a set of 8 science tools trading cards that you can use with your students when teaching science. I created them to look like trading cards and my students LOVE using them.
*Note: This product is also available in Spanish. Find it here!
This science tools set includes:
• 8 science tools trading cards with the word and picture on the front. The back has the word’s definition and a sample sentence.
• The same 8 science tools cards with the words on them bu
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Science Vocabulary Bundle
All About Honeybees Listening & Reading Comprehension Task Cards- FREE LESSON
Thanks for downloading this FREE BONUS LESSON!!
Included in this lesson:
Non-fiction fact sheet and comprehension questions task cards (Page 3)
Fact sheet worksheet to record facts from the reading passage (Page 4).
This lesson is an extension of my All About Insects Task Cards Set which includes 12 non-fiction passages, comprehension task cards and a booklet to work on language and writing.
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2nd - 4th
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Building Block STEM Task Cards
This independent work task is a great hands-on STEM activity! Students duplicate the image on the task card using building blocks. The blocks pictured are from the Target Dollar Spot. *****************************************************************************Also available: ▶Punch It! Seasonal Fine Motor Cards▶Clean the House Functional Task Cards▶Fry's 1st 100 Trace & Write Cards*****************************************************************************Earn FREE or Discounted Products:
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K - 3rd
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Boom Cards Living and Non-Living Things Sort Game Activity
This deck of living things BOOM Cards is a great way to reinforce and teach THE CONCEPT OF LIVING AND NON-LIVING during center time, whole group time using your whiteboard, morning work, and much more depending on the needs of your class.SEE WHAT OTHER TEACHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS RESOURCE"Great Interactive tool. My students are engaged each time we use this activity." "My students love Boom Cards! These were great to help us cover a science standard."****What is Included****✅10 LIVING NON-LI
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PreK - 2nd
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Matter Task Cards / Scoot Review (3 states, changes, particles, & properties)
This is a set of 24 task cards that ask questions about the 3 states of matter, properties of matter, how the particles look inside the 3 states, & reversible / irreversible changes. This fits perfectly with the second grade Georgia science standard: S2P1. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the properties of matter and changes that occur in objects. I use it as a scoot review after finishing the Georgia second grade science unit: "What Is Matter and How Does It Change?"Als
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1st - 5th
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Maker Space Task Cards Freebie
STEM SparksOur STEM task card packet is a sample of our STEM Sparks enrichment cards that can be used in a Maker Space or STEM classroom center, as a discussion launcher, or as a homework assignment. Teachers are saying:What a great resource to have at your fingertips! Thank you for sharing!Students can write about their solution, draw their ideas, and even perhaps build a prototype. Each challenge lends itself to thinking “out of the box”, creative analysis, and unique problem solving. The stu
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2nd - 7th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
*FREE* BOOM CARDS WATER CYCLE Digital Task Cards
Use BOOM Cards WATER CYCLE to teach the water cycle with this FREE, digital and paperless set of 12 interactive BOOM Cards. Students just need an iPad or computer and they can complete these task cards online. You can even use Boom Cards through your interactive whiteboard. These cards are self-checking and no prep- that means no printing, cutting or laminating! Boom Cards offer an easy way for teachers to assess important skills. (12 BOOM Cards) ©Teacher FeaturesWhat's a BOOM CARD?Boom Task Ca
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1st - 3rd
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FREE Mammals Scavenger Hunt
Get your students up and moving as they learn important information and fun facts about mammals with this engaging scavenger hunt. To use, simply hide the 16 informational cards around your classroom and have students search the room to answer questions on their recording sheet. This activity includes information about mammal's habitat, endangered mammals, hibernation, mammal characteristics, carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, and so much more. Your students will love the opportunity to move abo
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2nd - 4th
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NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, 3-LS4-3
, 2-LS4-1
, 3-LS4-2
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- Understand natural phenomena and the laws that govern the universe
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