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5th grade biology resources for Microsoft Word and for Gifted and Talented
Life Science Notes, PowerPoint & Chapter Tests Bundle
Life Science EDITABLE NOTES, POWERPOINTS and CHAPTER TESTS for an entire YEAR **UPDATE: Paperless Digital Versions have been added for use in Google Drive, Google Classroom, and/or Microsoft OneDrive. Please note, digital versions of PowerPoint and Chapter Test are not editable, only printable copies. **UPDATE: All PowerPoints have been upgraded with hi-res images and better layout design. $$$ SAVE OVER 25% ON THIS BUNDLE $$$ **********************************************************************
Grades:
5th - 10th
Table-top Mini Golf: STEAM Engineering and Design for Elementary GATE
In From Putt-putt to Pebble Beach--Table-top Mini Golf, students will design and construct a playable table-top sized miniature golf course using the engineering design process. With these lessons, the teacher defines the problem, helps students gather background research, and specifies the requirements. The students do the rest: creating alternative solutions, choosing the best solution, doing development work, building a prototype, and testing and redesigning. The result is a classroom filled
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
The Arrival by Shaun Tan -- 100+ Page Unit and Teacher's Guide GATE
Yes, we can teach reading, writing, speaking and listening, and critical thinking skills using this amazing graphic novel which has no “words!” It’s a journey about who we are, where we have come from, and the humanity we share. It’s about hope and love and understanding. At times powerful, at times breathtakingly beautiful . . . Shaun Tan’s The Arrival should be on every bookshelf in every classroom.This 100+ page teaching guide and unit has been developed over the past three years in my adv
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5th - 12th
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Microscope Lab Intro - Letter 'e' and Colored Threads w/ Key
This is the lab that I use to introduce the light microscope. The first part of the lab focuses on the proper procedures of using a microscope. Each student has to fill out the procedures section before they can start working on the field of view drawings. Once they are done then each pair of students gets a letter 'e' slide and a colored threads slide. This activity supports Grade Seven California State Science Standard 7A - Select and use appropriate tools and technology (including calculators
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4th - 10th
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Planet Earth: The Complete Series Videos Questions
All of the BBC Planet Earth Videos: From Pole to Pole, Mountains, Freshwater, Caves, Deserts, Ice Worlds, Great Plains, Jungles, Shallow Seas, Seasonal Forests, Ocean Deep, Saving Species, Into the Wilderness, and Living Together are included in this packet of video questions. These video questions are meant to guide students through the films while emphasizing the interesting scientific facts found in the series. These video questions are appropriate for general middle science classes as well a
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5th - 12th
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Bill Nye Plants
This 14 question worksheet provides a way for students to follow along with the Bill Nye Plants video. The questions are all fill-in-the-blank. The video and worksheet cover the following concepts: photosynthesis, carbon dioxide, oxygen, importance of plants, energy, chlorophyll, plant adaptations, medicinal use.
The worksheet goes in order of the video so students don't lose their place while filling in the guide sheet. There is plenty of line space for students to fill in their answers. This
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4th - 8th
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Math Project-Create Own Dream Home-Blueprints and Floor Plan (perimeter & area)
Create blueprints and/or floor plans for your own dream home!!
Your little architects will love dreaming big with this project. Using their imaginations and graph paper, they will create their own blueprints.They will be learning area, measurement and perfecting those problem solving and critical thinking skills. The bonus is they won't even know it because they will be having fun.
This project is very "real life" oriented.
For the younger grades this would be better for the GT students. Or
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3rd - 9th
Human Body Organ Systems- PowerPoint, Guided Notes/Activities, Quizzes, & CLOZEs
Why spend hours creating PowerPoints, handouts, assignments, and quizzes? This bundle provides all of that, plus more! Here's what's included in this FOUR WEEK unit:SIX POWERPOINTSIntroduction to the Human Body - focuses on the levels of organization in the human body (cells build tissues, tissues build organs, and that organs build organ systems). Each level is also described/detailed. Examples and roles of cells are provided (nerve, blood, bone), types of tissues are discussed (epithelial,
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5th - 10th
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Bill Nye Food Web Video Guide Sheet
This 11 question worksheet provides a way for students to follow along with the Bill Nye Food Web video. The questions are all fill-in-the-blank. The video and worksheet cover the following concepts: plants, animals, decomposers, living things, food, scavengers, energy, photosynthesis. The worksheet goes in order of the video so students don't lose their place while filling in the guide sheet. There is plenty of line space for students to fill in their answers. This worksheet is intended to keep
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5th - 8th
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Bill Nye Life Cycles Video Guide Sheet
This 14 question worksheet provides a way for students to follow along with the Bill Nye Life Cycles video. The questions are all fill-in-the-blank. The video and worksheet cover the following concepts: living things, birth, growth, reproduction, death, life span, offspring, adult, spontaneous generation, Louis Pasteur.
The worksheet goes in order of the video so students don't lose their place while filling in the guide sheet. There is plenty of line space for students to fill in their answer
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5th - 8th
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Create-A-Fish Marine Biology Activity
I use this activity as an introduction activity for our Fish Chapter in my high school Marine Biology Class. We are are one-semester general level science elective, with a mixture of students from all sorts of backgrounds. I like this activity because it allows the students to bring their background knowledge to the activity, and combine it with a creative flair. Plus, it gets my students working together in small groups. The activity itself can be made as simple or complex as needed, so is prob
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5th - 12th
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Small Group Reader's Theater Twisted Fairy Tales - Book Two
In this second book of Reader's Theaters for small groups, I have placed 7 scripts. They are: Sleeping Homely, The Princess and the Pizza for 3 people, The Princess and the Pizza for 4, Peter Pants and Captain Looks, Beauty & the Beets (and the Turnips and the Onions), Romeo and Juliet, Hansel and Pretzel. I realize that Peter Pants and Captain Looks as well as Romeo and Juliet are not strictly fairy tales but they are very well known and fun for the students. You can buy each of these indiv
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4th - 8th, Adult Education
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SPIES! A GATE Adventure 18+ Contact Hours - Challenging and Engaging!
Your students will ask to stay in from recess for this. It is the most popular unit I've taught in 32 years, and it is packed with challenging critical thinking.We imagine students are training at the school for spies: mini survivor challenges, mini crossbows, a jewel heist, footprint mysteries, memory games, cipher disks, case files, messages hidden in gel caps. This unit is STEM and critical thinking at its coolest and finest, and we’ve thrown in reading, speaking and listening, and a social-
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4th - 7th
Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
White Rat Dissection
The white rat dissection is the most anticipated activity in the science classroom. With its anatomy so closely resembling that of a human body, this lab allows students to identify key structures in the mammalian and vertebrate body. This editable document includes procedures along with guiding information for functions of specific organs. The checkpoints allow for students to verbally identify structures, as well as their functions.
This is an editable document includes: procedures, guidi
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5th - 12th
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Endocrine System Reading Comprehension
**Distance Learning and Remote Learning AppropriateThis article is a great overview, introduction, review or reinforcer about the Endocrine System. The article is written in friendly and engaging language and includes a diagram. The article is a little more than a page long and includes standards-aligned comprehension and analyses questions. I use the article in my body systems unit (7th-grade essential standards). The article can be used for literacy groups, individual DEAR or homework reinforc
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5th - 9th
NGSS:
MS-LS1-3
Bill Nye: S2E14 The brain and nervous system (with answer key)
Bill Nye: S2E14 The brain and nervous system
Very easy to follow (first 9 questions go in order with the video)
12 total questions.
Multiple choice for questions 1-9.
10-12 are short response questions.
Topics covered include.
the brain
the central nervous system
reaction time
brain cells
short-term memory
long-term memory
ancestral memory
eidetic memory
brain activity
optical illusions
This is also good so students can focus on watching the video, and not spend a bunch of time missing t
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5th - 7th
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Carrying Capacity and Limiting Factors Game
Very fun and engaging game/activity to help teach your students about Carrying Capacity and Limiting Factors. Students will compete for "food" in this activity in order to determine the carrying capacity of the class. The worksheet comes with a pre-activity question and 3 post activity questions. Includes "food" cards and guidelines for teacher to use. Your students will enjoy this activity, while learning. Item is completely editable.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Ecology Bundle
The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan - Teacher's Guide and Activities GATE
The beauty in The Lost Thing is that it settles into one’s soul in a casual and poetic way. What starts as a sort of amusing but sad story finds its way deeper into your heart. You begin to wonder, to ask questions. Soon you find yourself wanting to stand up and defend all the lost things in the world—including that lost part of yourself.
Are you somehow guilty too, you wonder? Quite unexpectedly, you begin to really feel the world Shaun Tan creates. It is a wonderful experience in mindf
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: 2019-2020 Gifted and Talented GATE Program for the Year - Elementary
Microscope Lab #4 Pond Water
This is my favorite microscope lab because the students really get to see organisms swimming around in the water. I ask the students to bring in water samples from water sources around their neighborhood. Make sure to tell them that you don't want a water sample from the gutter. I have a digital microscope that I use to project the images on my overhead screen. There is nothing better than seeing a 3 foot long mosquito larva projected on the overhead screen!!! This activity supports Grade Seven
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5th - 10th
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STEAM DaVinci Renaissance Style: A Unit for Elementary GATE
In STEM Renaissance Style, students will follow the engineering process as they return to the 16th Century. With these lessons, the teacher defines the problem, helps students gather background research, and specifies the requirements. The students do the rest: creating alternative solutions, choosing the best solution, doing development work, building a prototype, and testing and redesigning.
Students construct a prototype of Da Vinci’s parachute while learning about falling objects, gravity,
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
Plant Cell Organelle Cut and Paste
Students will create their own plant cell. This activity is AWESOME to include in a science interactive notebook. MOST OF THIS IS EDITABLE, except the pictures, in case you want to add or delete an organelle, or modify a cell's function (change the wording to make it simpler or more complex, or add more detail) depending on your grade level.USE IT FOR AN INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK – Have your students color, cut out, and glue the plant cell into the interactive notebook or on a blank piece of paper
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5th - 12th
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Genes, DNA, Chromosomes Article
**Distance Learning and Remote Learning AppropriateThis article is a great introduction, review or reinforcer about the basics of genes, DNA, and chromosomes - their structures functions within the cell and within the body. The article is written in friendly and engaging language. The article is a little more than a page long and includes standards-aligned comprehension and analyses questions. The article can be used for literacy groups, individual DEAR or homework reinforcement.
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Grades:
5th - 9th
NGSS:
MS-LS3-1
, MS-LS3-2
SHARK TANK Economics Pitches Prototypes PROJECT BASED PBL GATE
Welcome to the shark tank project-based learning unit. Let’s begin our entrepreneurial careers today!
Build critical thinking skills, public speaking success, and bring creativity, language arts, and economics into your classroom in a purposeful and authentic way.
Students will work in collaborative teams to solve a complex, ongoing, inquiry-based problem with a physical product for an authentic audience:
• Brainstorm a product, citing a need that will be fulfilled.
• Construct a prototyp
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
Protist Reading Comprehensions and Questions
This packet of protist readings includes readings and reading comprehension and analyses questions about the 4 main protists: Amoebas, Paramecium, Volvox, Euglena. Each Reading is about a page, with about a page of questions. The readings and questions are based on 7th-grade essential standards. The readings are information, interesting, engaging, adn include visual diagrams. They can be used for literacy groups, individual DEAR, station activities, etc. Students will enjoy diving into the riv
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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