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Science Common Core W.6.5 resources
Biome Ecosystem Research Project for Google Slides | Science Activity
Students will love this biome research project using Google Slides™! Get your students collaborating to research an assigned biome or ecosystem. They will teach their classmates what they've learned through a presentation at the project's end.A favorite project of my own 5th grade students each year, this project is engaging and allows students to creatively collaborate. The presentation template and research worksheets are editable, so you can change the content to fit your needs.THIS RESOURCE
Text Dependent Opinion Writing Text Based Opinion Writing Graphic Organizer Mars
Get your students ready for state writing tests with these differentiated paired passages, mentor texts, and writing prompts that are perfect for opinion, persuasive, or argumentative essays. Both articles have been updated for 2024. One article is a first-person reflection on space flight by an author who grew up in Florida during the Space Shuttle era. The second article is informational, explaining what NASA is doing to get ready for a Mars mission. During close reading, your students pick
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5th - 7th
Also included in: Opinion or Persuasive Writing Bundle, Text Dependent Writing, Easel
Animal Research Report Templates Project
Need to assign your students an animal research report project? These print and digital (google slides) animal research report templates will scaffold the research writing process. This pack features both U.S. Spellings and British English in Flipbook Templates, Rubrics, Checklists, and Vocabulary Flashcards included. Resource OverviewScaffold the writing of an Informational Report on an animal of choice or one from 10 animal groups with this bundled pack both in print and digital format (google
Animal Research Templates Animal Reports Bundle Print & Digital
⭐NEW UPDATE: Digital versions (GOOGLE SLIDES; BOOM CARDS) added to all packs in this bundle. ⭐⭐Separate sheets featuring U.S. and British English Spellings in Flipbook Templates, Rubrics, Checklists, and Vocabulary Flashcards included.⭐⭐⭐Text in all flipbook templates (including cover) editable (images secured).⭐⭐⭐⭐Packs recently updated with digital versions (blackline and color templates) in Google Slides and Digital Boom Cards. ✅ Australian Animals✅ Desert Animals✅ Endangered Animals ✅ Ocean
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2nd - 6th
Introduction to 3D Printing – STEAM PROJECT – GRADES 3-6 - Distance Learning
Have you purcahsed or are considering purchasing a 3D printer and don’t know where to start? This resource is perfect for classrooms just starting out in the world of 3D imaging and provides you with everything you need to teach the fundamentals of 3D printing. This STEAM project is broken up into two parts: BUILDING BACKGROUNDYour kiddos will begin by doing a research project of the history, current uses, benefits, and future innovcations of 3D printing. Graphic organizers are provided to assi
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3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Weather and Climate: The Major World Climate Zones
Recently updated! A mapping and text based evidence learning activity that supports the Common Core State Standards..This product is classroom ready. Your students will learn the major climate zones and the three themes that scientists use in categorizing climate zones. Students will work with annotation of informational text, close/critical reading strategies, mapping, answering of questions that require text based evidence, Author's Purpose (PIE), writing that requires using text based evidenc
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5th - 8th
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ANIMAL RESEARCH 2: ANIMAL GROUPS: EDITABLE FLIPBOOKS BUNDLE
ANIMAL RESEARCH 2: ANIMAL GROUPSThis mega Animal Research Bundle features flipbook-style Informational Report templates on 142 animals from 10 animal groups. The individual packs in this mega bundle amount to $49. Get 50% off with the purchase of this bundle! Separate sheets featuring British English Spellings in Rubrics and Checklists. ***********************************************************************The flipbooks in this bundle scaffold the structural components of an Informational Repor
DESERT ANIMALS REPORT: INFORMATIVE WRITING: RESEARCH TEMPLATES PRINT & DIGITAL
⭐ 22 Boom Cards now included: Identifying desert animals (pre-research)⭐⭐Print and Digital Desert Animal Report File (Google Slides) included. Link in Pdf.⭐⭐⭐Separate sheets featuring U.S. Spellings and British English in Flipbook Templates, Rubrics, Checklists, and Vocabulary Flashcards included.***********************************************************************Scaffold the writing of an Informational Report on 30 desert animals with this bundled pack of templates both in print and digital
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: Animal Research Templates Animal Reports Bundle Print & Digital
Dream Vacation - Travel Projects & PBL
Driving Question:How can you plan the perfect dream vacation?Description:Using a budget of $15,000, students create their dream vacation in this real world cross-curricular project. This project will require them to do internet research, allocate resources, calculate the cost of the trip, convert currencies, and learn the geography and climate of a new area. Core areas of reading, writing, and speaking and listening are covered, as well as calculations and presenting information in graphs and ma
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: PBL Bundle (Grade 5) - In Collaboration with A.J. Juliani - 26 Projects!
Recycling Project Based Learning | Earth Day
If you're looking for a project based learning unit for recycling, check this one out. Students participate in fun and engaging activities that teach them how to reduce, reuse, and recycle to protect the planet Earth. As educators, we have the opportunity to teach children how to be an environmentally responsible human early in life which will hopefully become a way of life for them.Given all of this, what better way to practice real-life reading, writing, science and math standards and 21st Cen
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3rd - 6th
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Deserted Island Survival STEM Challenges
Are you looking for a fun and engaging activity for your students? Deserted Island Survival STEM Challenge is a unit centered around a fictional story of Suzanna Airfly who's plane crashed on a deserted island. Your students will complete five different challenges to help Suzanna survive. Each challenge encourages students to define the problem, plan a design, build, test, and reflect. I have included a rubric for each challenge. I have also added a narrative writing extension where students
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3rd - 8th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Research and Writing Animal Reports Zoology Upper Elementary
Leverage students' love of animals to get them excited to research and write! The lesson is made up of three activities that will lead students through the research process. Two things set this lesson plan apart: first, to get kids excited to research, they'll play a game. Next, there are three different animal report templates to choose from, so students feel some autonomy in their reports. If you're a Language Arts teacher, adding in the science component is powerful. If you're a science teac
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4th - 6th
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Science Calendar Making Project (also good for Chemistry, Biology and more)
This is a fun and simple research project that is appropriate for science, chemistry, biology, physics or tech classes. This project is a great way to hit many of the COMMON CORE STANDARDS for Writing and Language for Grades 6-11. Download the preview to see the entire list of common core connections.
OVERVIEW OF THE PROJECT:
Students make a science (or chemistry, physics, biology, anatomy, technology or astronomy) themed calendar for the school year (September to August).
OUTLINE OF THE
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6th - 10th
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Science & Language Arts: Predator & Prey Game
In this fun lesson that integrates literacy and science, students read, play tag, and engage in the writing process. It's an excellent activity for the end of the year, outdoor education, Earth Day, or summer camp! Students start by reading and discussing the fairy tale “Cat and Mouse in Partnership” or another selected text. Next, they participate in a tag game that simulates the food chain. Afterwards, they reflect on their learning and write in various modes, choosing from nine activities,
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5th - 9th
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PROOFREADING PRACTICE: NATURAL DISASTERS • GRADES 4-6
Natural DisastersCross-Curriculum ActivitiesGreat Review for Back-to-School Proofreading has never been more FUN! Students help Detective Super Proofer find mistakes in high-interest passages about natural disasters. Students not only sharpen their proofreading skills but learn facts covering the following natural disaster cases (passages): • Avalanches • Blizzards • Droughts • Earthquakes • Floods • Hurricanes • Landslides • Sinkholes • Tornadoes • Tsunamis • Volcanic Eruptions • Wi
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4th - 6th
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Earthquakes Unit | Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
Engage your students with this fun, comprehensive, 90 page Earthquakes Unit. It contains passages, questions, and a wide variety of resources needed to teach a rigorous unit on earthquakes. It includes CLOSE Reading nonfiction passages to help teach your students about earthquakes (not familiar with CLOSE reading? It’s okay, we have instructions and anchor charts to help you incorporate it into your teaching). There are text dependent questions aligned with each passage, a set of vocabulary card
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Earthquake Unit | Passages & Questions | Research Report Bundle
Energy, Life & What You Eat
Welcome to Energy, Life, and What You Eat! This book has 18 readings with standards-aligned reading questions and writing scaffolds/supports. This book integrates reading and writing practice with science content, so students master content while honing writing skills. Designed for upper elementary students, readers move through 18 chapters of standards-based science readings. After each chapter, there is a question set and writing exercise. These practice pages are organized in ascending diffic
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4th - 6th
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MS-LS2-3
, MS-LS2-5
, MS-LS4-1
, 5-LS2-1
, 5-ESS3-1
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Platypus PowerPoint with Activity and Study Guide
Get ready to explore the world of the Duck-billed platypus, one of the most bizarre and mysterious mammals in the world from eastern Australia and Tasmania. Platypus facts include that they sport a tail like a beaver, bill and feet like a duck, and lay eggs like a bird! Platypuses give birth to furless babies called puggles. What's Included:One Quick Start GuideOne 23-slide animated PowerPoint (both PPTX and PDF file types)One 20-page fillable student activity and study guideOne 26-page EDITABLE
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3rd - 8th
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4-LS1-1
, MS-LS1-4
, 4-LS1-2
Salmon School - Class Book Project - Animal Science Research and Report Writing
Salmon School - Class Book Project - Animal Science Research and Report Writing* Includes a zip file with 2 documents: a PDF version and an editable Microsoft Word doc version *This printable packet includes 29 topics/questions to engage your 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th grade, or homeschool students in the exploration of salmon. Students can work together to each complete 1 page to complete a class book or each student could work on completing this project individually for a larger-scale assignment. Each
PROOFREADING BUNDLE #3 • INSECTS • HUMAN BODY • PLANTS
UNITS: INSECTS • HUMAN BODY • PLANTSPROOFREADING PRACTICE PRINTABLES for Grades 4–6SAVE! $3.00! 3 Proofreading Practice units are combined in this teacher timer-saver bundle – Buy the BUNDLE valued at $15.00. You pay only $12.00 Proofreading has never been more FUN! Students help Detective Super Proofer find mistakes in high-interest science passages. The three units that are combined in PROOFREADING BUNDLE #3 include:• PROOFREADING PRACTICE: INSECTS• PROOFREADING PRACTICE: HUMAN BODY• PRO
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4th - 6th
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Science Experiment Lab Report Template Differentiated
The perfect scientific method lab report template for children of all ages and levels! Great resource to encourage critical thinking and evidence based writing at ALL levels within the scientific method framework. This product provides scaffolded support for English language learners or students with special needs. This product is separated for children at three different educational levels. The first set is ink and printer friendly and can easily print double sided to function as a full lab rep
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K - 9th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, MS-LS1-5
, MS-ESS1-4
, K-PS3-1
, 5-ESS2-2
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Build A Time Machine - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:How can we learn from people in the past?Description:Sixth and seventh-grade students immediately travel back in time to the beginning of human history as they embark on their study of world history. From Mesopotamia to the Age of Enlightenment, they meet the people and learn about events that define us. Clearly, they need a comfy time machine! Their challenge: using only recycled, reusable, or renewable materials found around the house, students build a time machine, document
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6th - 7th
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Also included in: PBL Bundle (Grade 6) - In Collaboration with A.J. Juliani - 31 Projects!
PROOFREADING FREEBIE • GRADES 4–6
Proofreading Freebie • Grades 4–6 Welcome to Pizzazz Learning, and thanks for visiting my store! As a way of introduction, I am offering this FREEBIE sampler of activities from four of the units in my proofreading series.Proofreading has never been more FUN! Students help Detective Super Proofer find mistakes in high-interest, science- and social studies-based passages. Students not only sharpen their proofreading skills but learn facts covering the following topics:• Giraffes• Jaguars• Anim
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4th - 6th
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Articles - 1: Goblin Sharks - MAGNIFICENT or MONSTROUS? - Fact & Opinion
READING & WRITING - ANALYZING - COMPREHENSION - TEST PREP ................................................................... FOCUS: FACT & OPINIONTEXT"MAGNIFICENT OR MONSTROUS" is a nonfiction ARTICLE ABOUT goblin sharks. These are rare deep-sea sharks called living fossils. Goblin sharks have a perfect blend of incredibly cool ADAPTATIONS and hideous APPEARANCE traits, making this an ideal article for FACT & OPINION......................................................TOPICS APPROP
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: Articles - 12: POEMS, ARTICLES & NARRATIVES - BUNDLE II - PDF & ONLINE
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- Question the world around them and seek evidence-based explanations
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- Understand natural phenomena and the laws that govern the universe
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