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Earth Day general science resources for GATE
Create-ure Spring STEM Challenge Activity with Life Science Extensions
If you’re looking to apply learning in adaptations, habitats, food chains and food webs, life cycles, genetics & heredity, evolution, and/or human body systems, this STEM or STEAM challenge is a perfectly engaging way to get the job done joyfully! It’s the perfect Halloween or spring STEM activity, but it works any time of the year to connect to your life science standards! The basic idea: Students work in individually or in partners or groups against a list of criteria and constraints to c
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2nd - 8th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 4-LS1-1
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Fun Early Finishers - Science 3rd, 4th, 5th grade
Science Activities: Science Activities for Early Finishers can be cut and pasted into a spiral notebook or journal. Students may skip around from task to task and even revisit a task to generate more ideas. Finding meaningful work for all students is one of the biggest challenges teachers face. This assortment of creative and critical thinking tasks, created by Dazzle on a Dime, will keep those hands, minds, and bodies busy in the short moments of time which occur regularly throughout the day o
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3rd - 5th
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Forces and Motion Unit | Newton's Cradle Science And STEM | Grade 6 7 8
Discover the Law of Conservation Energy and the Law of Conservation of Momentum with a fun marble collision science investigation. Simple supplies and EASY PREP. Expands to introduce The Laws of Motion. Explore further with an added exploration. Engage students in a STEM Challenge to create a Newton's Cradle. Includes extensive background information to guide the teacher and students to success. This is a printable PDF. Please read more about Easel below.Students will expand their knowledge
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6th - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-PS2-2
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-PS3-5
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STEM Bell Ringers Discussion Questions Warm-Ups Middle School High School
Science bell ringer discussion questions, technology bell ringers, as well as some engineering and math topics. This resource includes 70 editable slides with questions to get your students thinking about STEM topics. Display these at the start of class one day a week so that as students walk into your classroom they can begin forming opinions and ideas about these thought-provoking questions! CONTENTS70 Slides (each with a main question and some with a follow-up question) Questions range in top
Grades:
5th - 12th
Save The Bees Clipart Set - EARTH DAY {Educlips Clipart}
This is a set of images that show ways to help protect the bees:Images included are: bees, child putting out basin of water for bees, beehive box, beehive house, beekeeper kids, kids with 'buy organic' bags, examples of bee friendly flowers and weeds (clematis, daisies, dandelion, delphinium, poppy, sunflower, thyme) kids with hive drawer, hive, organic honey jar, weedkiller with separate red cross (to show no use of weedkiller), save the bees word art sign.48 images (28 in color and the same 28
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Care For The Earth Clip Art Bundle - EARTH DAY {Educlips Clipart}
Plants STEM Challenge Activity
Looking for a plant activity to apply learning in plant needs, parts/functions, adaptations, life cycles, cells, photosynthesis, and/or genetics & heredity? This STEM challenge / STEAM challenge is a perfectly engaging way to get the job done joyfully! The challenge is great any time of the year, but works especially well as a spring activity! The completed designs and extension projects make beautiful displays for Back to School Night or Open House as well!The basic premise: Students work
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2nd - 8th
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April STEM STEAM Challenge: Earth Day Edition
Earth Day is the perfect day for reducing, reusing, recycling, and STEAM! The challenge? Build a "litter bug" out of litter. The bug must balance on 6 legs, and all legs must come from the thorax. All your students will need is a little litter and a lot of creativity!
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-chart for student record keeping
-- Self-assessment/Reflection page (differenti
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K - 5th
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Brain Activities Thinking Activities Brain Health
Learn about your most important school tool...your brain. Learn how the brain functions, ways to help your brain, and all about neurons.These lessons are taught using vocabulary cards, My Great Big Beautiful Brain booklet, interactive notebook activities, games, hands on crafts, and through the text Your Fantastic Elastic Brain. #summersalebrationIncluded in this unit are the following:28 Vocabulary CardsNeurosurgeon "Costume"My Great Big Beautiful Brain BookletInteractive Notebook ActivitiesYou
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1st - 3rd
30 Minute Science Labs | Bundle of Hands-On Experiments with Reading Passages
Enjoy performing hands-on lab activities designed to be conducted in 30 minutes. Save time and money with simple supplies and low prep set-up. Included reading passages tie it all together after the lab. Bundle and Save and get all new additions at no extra cost. Each Lab IncludesBackground Information and VocabularyHands-on Experiment PageReading Passage with QuestionsAnswer KeyStudents will engage in a hands-on exploration where they conduct the lab 2 different ways. This helps them bet
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3rd - 6th
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Earth Day STEM Challenge Activity - New Earth City
This is the perfect Earth Day STEM activity!The basic idea: It is Earth Day, and the year 2035. Earth has become overcrowded. The students are part of a pioneering crew tasked with setting up the first city (New Earth City) on Planetopia, a fictional name for a recently discovered Earth-like planet in a distant solar system. Part of the mission is to set up the city to prevent or address the problems we are having on Earth so we don’t repeat our errors on our new home planet. This challenge is b
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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What Problem Will You Solve: A Critical Thinking and Writing Activity
So often, we ask students what they want to be when they grow up but let's shift the mindset. Instead, pose the question of, "What problem will you solve?" This project encourages students to think both critically and globally to help solve issues in our world today. Included in this product are multiple ways for students to brainstorm problems, vocabulary, and processes. There is also draft and final publishing paper that can be used to write a culminating essay.This is a great beginning OR
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Bundle: Monthly Writing Projects for Upper Elementary
Inertia And Gravity Experiment | The Laws Of Motion | Grade 4 5 Print or Digital
Investigate inertia and gravity in this hands-on experiment for 4th and 5th grade. Aligned with *Next Generation Science Standards. Teachers will love its' ease of use, simple materials, and meeting the science and engineering practices. Students will love uncovering the magic of the laws of motion. The science journal will help students learn to use their evidence to write conclusions.Digital and Distance Learning Approved. This is a great way to get students to use the scientific method at ho
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4th - 6th
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NGSS:
5-PS2-1
, 4-PS3-2
Bundled! Science Project Choice Board: 26 Earth Science Topics
Get ready for student engagement!
Project choice boards put learning into students’ hands with a customized learning path based on a student’s strengths and interests.
This project choice board is a collection of 26 choice boards over earth science topics. Each choice board contains 10 project choices- each based on one of the following learning paths:
-Verbal/Linguistic Writing
-Verbal/Linguistic Reading
-Spatial/Visual
-Musical/Naturalist
-Kinesthetic
-Technological
-Logical/Mathem
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4th - 6th
Ecosystems & Environmental Concerns PBL | Science Project Based Learning
Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach about different ecosystems and their environmental concerns? Interested in student driven learning?This Project Based Learning unit allows students to learn about ecosystems by examining an environmental issue within an ecosystem. Students act as environmentalists as they research the causes and effects as well as problems and solutions of an environmental issue by examining the different factors that make up an ecosystem. This is a student-centered wa
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4th - 8th
Also included in: Science PBL | Project and Problem Based Learning Bundle
MAP SKILLS BUNDLE - CLASSROOM, BEDROOM, HOUSE, ZOO, TEST, AND CENTER
These are engaging and fun projects to teach basic mapping skills. The students learn how to use a compass, place objects using the four cardinal directions, and follow multi-step directions. Describe the location of objects relative to other locations in the classroom. (Over, near, far, left, right, north, south, east, west).- Students create an interactive house map placing pictures of the house furniture on the assigned spots. Or/and they create their own house!- Blank map for your own additi
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1st - 4th
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April STEM Activities with Earth Day STEM Challenges and Close Reading Passages
STEM challenge activities are so much fun. But, finding the time to incorporate design challenges into your curriculum can be difficult. The APRIL STEM Design Challenge COLLECTION is part of the STEM with CLOSE READING series. It gives you FOUR OF MY BEST SELLING STEM CHALLENGES that will seamlessly allow you to tie together the curriculum by giving you rigorous text dependent questions that go with a high interest reading passages IN ADDITION to the fun STEM activities! Watch your kids fac
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3rd - 6th
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Planetopia Project STEM Challenge Bundle - PAPERLESS VERSION
Planetopia Project STEM Challenges engage your students in brain-busting work disguised as fun! The basic premise: Students work in partners or groups against criteria & constraints lists to design and build various items for the fictional planet, Planetopia. Challenges include extension opportunities on topics including: landforms, plate tectonics, the water cycle, weather, natural disasters, plant parts, plant cells, animal cells, life cycles, heredity, genetics and more!Modification sugg
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
Earth Day Shoebox Solar Oven STEM Activity & April Challenge | Renewable Energy
Earth Day is here and your teacher life just got a little busier with Earth Day activities you need to plan. Use Earth Day STEM activities to cover standards and give your students super fun Earth Day activities they will love. This ready to go Earth Day Shoebox Solar Oven STEM Activity and April STEM Challenge or Renewable Energy Project is just what you need to keep your 2nd through 5th grade students engaged and excited for learning during the month of April. Challenge your students to design
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: April and Earth Day STEM Activities & Challenges BUNDLE for Elementary
Science Choice Boards Choice Menus Fast Finishers Early Finishers Activities
Having choice is something our students crave, especially during times when they are learning at home, independently or through distance learning. If you're looking for low prep and easy to implement resources to offer your students choice, try choice boards. If you already own my other science choice menus, these offer more choices and some new topics. These choice boards cover fifteen science topics:-Insects-Sharks-Candy-Plants-Weather-Matter-Dinosaurs-Simple Machines-Butterflies-Rocks-Force
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1st - 3rd
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Solar System Planets Activity Menu Choice Board
Looking for engaging solar system activities that also allow for student choice? This solar system menu choice board activity lets students choose how they will extend their learning and present their learning.What students are doing:➡️ Investigating big idea questions and reporting their knowledge using the CER format➡️ Demonstrating their knowledge using a variety of ways like comic strips, journals, presentations, and more➡️ Taking ownership of their learning as they decide what they would li
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6th - 8th
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Digital Research Project Seven Natural Wonders of the World
Looking for a distance learning or 100% digital project? This is an independent digital research project in Google Slides that is perfect for distance learning.Students will independently research and present information about the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. You can easily assign one, some, or all of the natural wonders for this project. Simply delete any unwanted slides prior to sharing or assigning the project. You can also make this project appropriate for multiple grade levels by s
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Earth Day STEM Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Earth Day Activity - This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards and encourages critical thinking, budgeting, and engineering skills. Oh no! People are throwing away too much trash! Your students need to reuse some things from the trash to make something new and useful. What will they come up with? This Earth Day STEM will get your students using their critical thinking skills to solve this challenge! Students must stick to a budget and use the available supplies.
Suggested Plan of
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Christmas Science Activity | Borax Crystal Growth Experiment | GR 6 7 8
Discover the properties of mixtures and solutions by growing borax crystals. You'll get a comprehensive teacher guide, a hands-on investigation gear for middle school, and a borax ornament STEAM challenge. This unit uses inexpensive materials and gives results in 24 hours, a wonderful way to reinforce the scientific method and journal writing. This hands-on Investigation and Teacher Guide IncludesTeacher Guide and Background Information and TipsAlignment to Standards6 Page Student Investigatio
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6th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-PS1-4
, MS-PS1-2
, MS-ETS1-3
Also included in: Borax Crystal STEAM Experiment | Multi Grade Bundle | Christmas Activity
April Early Finishers Choice Board
An excellent resource for early finishers or for independent work time that requires higher level thinking with SCAMPER terms (Substitute, Combine, Add Something, Magnify/Minify, Put to Other Uses, Eliminate, Rearrange) and words from Bloom's Taxonomy: Create and Evaluate.
You will find a color version which you can laminate for durability. A black line version is also included to make individual student copies.
Try a FREE Sample: August
This is part of a bundled package:
Monthly Choice
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3rd - 5th
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