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Science Common Core W.8.8 resources
Inventions Unit - Create Your Own Invention Project - Activities Questions STEM
Invention Convention: Learn about Inventors and Create Your Own Invention! This package includes engaging resources to complete an invention unit. Students learn about inventors and inventions and create their own invention project. Their "Invention to Change the World" is then displayed at a class Invention Convention. Everything needed is included - just print and teach!✅All activities are classroom tested and include creative handouts, information sheets, and detailed instructions.✅This work
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4th - 8th
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Internet Activities - Rockets, Space Shuttles, Satellites and Rovers
28 printable or digital internet investigations on space exploration. Students use a laptop, tablet or smart phone to search online for information about... NASA, space suits, accidents in space, animals in space (dog, monkey, rabbits, mice, spiders, flies…), people in space, rockets, the Apollo space program, space shuttles, SpaceX, going to the Moon, going to Mars, Luna 1, Sputnik 1, Explorer 1, Voyager 1, Messenger, the lunar rover, Sojourner, Chang’e 4, Hubble telescope, Chandra, satellites
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3rd - 10th
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Also included in: Space BUNDLE
Disease & Pathogens Report | 1 Day Mini-Research Project Google Slides™ Activity
Teach research skills with a smaller, manageable topic. Encourage curiosity with your students and allow them to explore the disease of their choice. This product is great for a non-fiction study in ELA or a science-based assignment. This digital product includes 15 slides:1 example slide11 Google Slides templates ( 3 for virus, 3 for bacteria, 2 for fungus, 2 for parasite, 1 "blank")1 How to mask an image slide1 editable rubric1 slide for sourcesThe Google Slides templates can be edited in View
The CRAAP Test - A lesson to help identify quality sources for research
If you are sick of seeing Wikipedia or Google as a source on a paper, check this out! My students find it hilarious and it's very effective. We go over what the different letters in CRAAP mean and how to score a source based on the information provided by the source. What's Included in The CRAAP Test?Editable Google Slides PresentationEditable Google Doc Worksheet Looking for more writing activities? Check out my other resources here: • Formal & Informal Writing Lesson with Guided Notes &a
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6th - 12th
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Group Research Project Templates BUNDLE
If want your students to exercise their research skills, collaboration skills, and creativity all in one place, these resources give you everything you need for ANY topic! Don’t put all that extra work on yourself to come up with a project from scratch. Just fill these templates with the topic your class is studying and you’ll have everything you need—from start to end—to watch your students learn and create together!This is the FULL SET of everything needed for a general collaborative creative
Animal Adaptations Project - Digital Research Project, Reading Passage
This is a self-contained 100% Digital Lesson that includes two parts.Part 1: Fennec Fox Reading PassageThe project begins with an engaging reading that explains how fennec foxes have adapted to the harsh Saharan desert. After the reading, students will answer seven analysis questions. Teacher key included.Part 2: Animal Adaptations InfographicStudents will choose one animal from the signup sheet and answer research questions. A slide with recommended websites will help guide student research. On
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5th - 8th
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Science Through Magic Systems -- Project Based Science
Need a project-based science unit that challenges and excites your students? Science through Magic Systems is the best of creative thinking, research, and science. This product can be used as an independent research assignment, a full class project, a way to push high fliers or even a way to engage struggling students who love fantasy. This product is great for common core research standards 6-12 W.7 and W.8. And is easily applicable to the Next Generation Science Standards.
Black History Month - African-American Inventors
22 investigations of African-American inventors and entrepreneurs. Students search online for information about each inventor's year of birth and death, gender, schools or college attended, jobs, inventions, and other interesting things from their life:Gladys West, George Washington Carver, Henry Sampson, Lewis Howard Latimer, Elijah McCoy, Garrett Morgan, Madame C. J. Walker, Benjamin Banneker, Otis Boykin, Frederick McKinley Jones, Granville Woods, Thomas L. Jennings, Marie Van Brittan Brown,
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Black History Month BUNDLE - High School
The Eye and Vision - One-hour Internet Research Projects (Google and YouTube)
21 printable or digital projects for students to search online for information about the eyes and vision: color-blindness, how blind people read and write, why eyes are different colors, how our brain decodes optical illusions, why we wear sunglasses, which animals see long distance, how aging affects vision, and more, how word order affects how we read, how the brain sees things, how your eyes work, what causes blindness, what blind people see in their dreams, staring, why selfies are so popu
Grades:
4th - 12th
Also included in: The Senses BUNDLE
Science Morning Work Prompts
This set includes 10 weeks of daily thought-provoking science journal prompts. These prompts are a great way to integrate science, math, research skills, and writing. Your download will include a PowerPoint presentation of prompts and an answer key. Try out 1 week free! The preview includes all of week #1!I like using these prompts as "welcome work" when students first come in to class, but there are many other ways you could incorporate these prompts: science centers, homework, early finishers,
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4th - 8th
Astronomy, Planets, Solar System, & Space Objects 1 Day Mini-Research Project
Teach research skills with a smaller, manageable topic. This product is great for a non-fiction study in ELA or a science-based assignment. Encourage curiosity with your students and allow them to explore the planet, solar system, space, or astronomical object of their choice. Great for distance learning!This product includes 7 slides:5 Google Slides templatesExample slideLink to Sign-Up Google SheetHow To: Mask an ImageThe Google Slides templates can be edited in View > Master.Similar Produc
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5th - 10th
Bacteria - Internet Research Projects
10 printable or digital pages for students to investigate bacteria: Escherichia Coli (E. Coli), Streptococcus Pyogenes (Strep Throat), Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), Neisseria Gonorrhoeae (Gonorrhea), Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (Tuberculosis), Acinetobacter Baumannii, Klebsiella Pneumoniae (Pneumonia), Clostridium Difficile (C. diff), Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, and Burkholderia Cepacia: PREVENTION: Is there a way of preventing it?SYMPTOMS: What are the symptoms that let you know you’re infected?TR
Grades:
6th - 12th
Internet Research on Scientists
21 printable or digital pages for students to search the INTERNET for information on Scientists: Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Charles Darwin, Niehls Bohr, Nicolaus Copernicus, Stephen Hawking, Louis Pasteur, Johannes Kepler, Alexander Graham Bell, Erwin Schrodinger, Gregor Mendel, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Hooke, Leonardo da Vinci, George Washington Carver, Richard Feynman, Mary Leakey, Antonie von Leeuwenhoek, Richard Dawkins. Students research websites to find
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4th - 12th
Internet Research on Reptiles and Amphibians
15 printable or digital pages to engage your students in Internet Research on Reptiles and Amphibians. Students use a phone, tablet or laptop to search online about the alligator, tree frog, sea turtle, Komodo dragon, chameleon, rat snake, crocodile, bullfrog, desert tortoise, iguana, rattlesnake, anaconda, box turtle, cobra, and more. PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and downlo
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4th - 10th
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Health, Disease, & Disorders Research Paper Middle and High School Writing Unit
Use this (fully editable) unit to help your students explore a disease or disorder of their choice and synthesize information from multiple sources. This product helps to guide your students through a research paper methodically and step-by-step.**If you're looking for a short, more concise option, check out my 1 Day Mini-Research Project | Disease & Pathogens | Google Slides™ Templates**This product is an editable Google Document. The document is 16 pages (15 ready-to-print/ready-to-share +
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7th - 10th
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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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Research Paper Project: Researching an Inventor (Middle School)
This research project resource is a comprehensive packet designed for middle school students to conduct a research project on a famous inventor. It includes 21 pages of instructions, guided questions, research paper graphic organizers, and a checklist for writing essays. It also includes citation examples (both MLA and APA). Students research three aspects of an inventor’s life while citing sources used. This resource can be used to integrate language arts with social studies or science curricul
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Growing Bundle of Writing Resources for Middle School Language Arts
Pets - Internet Activity - Search online for information about each type of pet
21 print or digital pages investigating pets: bird, cat, dog, duck, ferret, fish, frog, gecko, gerbil, guinea pig, hamster, horse, lizard, pig, praying mantis, rabbit, rat, scorpion, snake, tarantula, and turtle. Students visit websites to learn more about: the food that the pet eats (plant or meat); whether it has hair, scales, feathers, or a hard exoskeleton; where it lives (in a bowl, cage, or back yard); the dangers it faces and how it protects itself; where it came from in the wild; its
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3rd - 12th
Also included in: Cats and Dogs BUNDLE
STEM Design for Learning: Solar Cars, Boats, Planes, and Rovers Webquest Project
A Webquest for Real World Project-Based Learning Students become solar designers in this interactive STEM webquest that guides critical thinking and collaboration within the topics of solar energy and engineering. Working in teams, students choose to learn about either solar planes, cars, boats, or rovers and use what they have learned to design their own model of a solar powered vehicle. WebQuest project-based learning teaches children how to use essential skills for obtaining information and a
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5th - 9th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-PS3-3
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-PS3-5
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Black History Month - African-American Astronauts
16 investigations of African-American astronauts: Mae Jemison, Stephanie Wilson, Bernard Harris, Guion Bluford, Victor Glover, Ronald McNair, Robert Henry Lawrence, Michael P. Anderson, Frederick Gregory, Charles Bolden, Winston Scott, Joan Higginbotham, Alvin Drew, Leland Melvin, Robert Satcher, Ed Dwight. Your students will search online for information about each astronaut: where and when they were born, things they are famous for, places they visited in space, accomplishments at NASA, etc. P
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Space BUNDLE
Worst Natural Disasters in History | 1 Day Mini-Research Project Google Slides™
Encourage curiosity with your students and allow them to explore an unsolved mystery of their choice. Teach research skills with a smaller, manageable topic. The perfect activity for an extra day or early finishers! Engaging, organized, and succinct. Use as a standalone lesson or incorporate into a larger unit.This product includes 11 editable Google Slides™:1 example slide1 slide with editable directions1 slide with a list of 40 topic options1 slide with a link to a sign-up sheet1 slide with an
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5th - 10th
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Women's History Month - Female Astronauts
30 investigations of female astronauts: Christina Koch, Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, Valentina Tereshkova, Stephanie Wilson, Eileen Collins, Joan Higginbotham, Kathryn Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, Judith Resnik, Anna Lee Fisher, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Peggy Whitson, Svetlana Savitskaya, Ellen Ochoa, Kalpana Ochoa, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Samantha Christoforetti, Christa McAuliffe, Catherine Coleman, Helen Sharman, Laurel Clark, Anousheh Ansari, Roberta Bondar, Anne McClain, Yi So-yeon, Liu Yang, Naoko Yama
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4th - 12th
Also included in: Space BUNDLE
Investigating Global Pandemics
24 printable and digital pages for students to search online for facts about the Prevention, Symptoms, Transmission and Treatment of viruses and bacteria: Covid-19 virus (Coronavirus), Influenza virus, Zika virus, H1N1 virus (Spanish Flu and Swine Flu), Ebola virus, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Variola Virus (Smallpox), Rabies virus, Marburg virus, Hantavirus, Dengue virus, Rotavirus, SARS-CoV virus, SARS-CoV-2 virus, MERS-CoV virus, Measles virus, Yellow Fever virus, H5N1 (Avian Flu vir
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6th - 12th
The Ear and Hearing - One-hour Internet Research Projects (Google and YouTube)
30 printable or digital projects for students to search online for information about the ears and hearing: how sound travels, why some people can’t hear, some of the languages of the world, how people communicate without speaking,how deaf people communicate and what it is like to be deaf, Ludwig van Beethoven, Helen Keller Nancy Rourke, American Sign Language (ASL), oralism, audism, interpreters, how bats use sound to locate insects, how aging affects what we hear, how people damage their hear
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4th - 12th
Also included in: The Senses BUNDLE
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