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3rd grade science resources for special education $10 and up
Morning Adapted Work Binder® (for Special Needs) | Adapted Morning Work
NUMBER 1 BEST SELLER ON TPT * Functional, differentiated skill work that is the perfect addition to your morning routine and calendar time. This adapted binder will help your students start their day off right, and once mastered, can be a set of skills they complete successfully and independently. Please watch the video preview for a look at some of the workpages included in this resource.Watch a video preview here.See it in action here and here. What is included?• 8 editable covers (add student
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PreK - 4th
Also included in: BUNDLE Morning Adapted Work Binder® ( English and Spanish )
Life Cycle of Plants Unit, Investigations & Plant Life Cycle PowerPoint NGSS
This complete, hands-on science unit for teaching about the life cycle of plants centers around an engaging 9-lesson teaching Power Point using “real life” pictures your students will love. Ideal for first, second and third grade, students learning the stages of the life cycle, plant needs, parts of a plant and seed, germination, chlorophyll, photosynthesis, pollination, plant adaptations, and seed dispersal. Content-rich, this unit is loaded with over 20 activities and science experiments, writ
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1st - 3rd
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K-2-ETS1-2
, 2-LS4-1
, 2-LS2-1
, 2-LS2-2
Planets of the Solar System Worksheets and Activities Unit with Craft Project
This massive BEST-SELLING Solar System Activities Pack gives you a wealth of fun, informational and engaging materials to help you study our corner of the universe with your students! Use these reading passages, hands on activities, graphic organizers, interactive notebook activities, task cards, writing activities posters and projects and more to build excitement about space science and our amazing solar system! Included in this MASSIVE solar system unit: Teacher Suggested Lesson Plans4 pages o
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3rd - 6th
Science Interactive Notebook | 3rd 4th 5th Grade 6th Grade TEKS NGSS Templates
Let's journal! The Science Interactive Notebook All in One Bundle is perfect for teachers who are looking to incorporate Interactive Science Notebooks in 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, or 6th grade.There are SO many topics: safety and science practices, matter, mixtures, ecosystems, adaptations, life cycles, energy, light, force and motion, human body, earth, space, and MUCH more!Take a closer look! Check out the preview!This file includes 260 foldable activities, cut and paste, sorts, and gra
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3rd - 6th
STEM CHALLENGES for ENTIRE YEAR: Spring, End of the Year, Summer STEM Activities
***SAVE BIG WHEN YOU PURCHASE THIS DISCOUNTED ALL YEAR BUNDLE!***This best-selling bundle contains 9 months of engaging STEM & STEAM Activities for your little engineers, with 3 STEM Challenges and 1 Bonus Brainbuilder per month for a total of 36 NGSS Aligned STEM Activities!*INCLUDES BACK TO SCHOOL, FALL, HALLOWEEN, THANKSGIVING, CHRISTMAS, WINTER, VALENTINE'S DAY, ST.PATRICK'S DAY, EASTER, SPRING, END OF THE YEAR, and SUMMER STEM ACTIVITIES AND CHALLENGES!***TOP 20 ALL TIME BEST SELLING PR
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K - 5th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Butterfly Life Cycle Complete Science Unit
Make learning about the butterfly life cycle even more fun with butterfly activities that combine science, reading and writing with hands on experiments. Students learn the stages of the butterfly life cycle, explore pollination, the compound eye, metamorphosis, adaptations, and so much more! Whether or not you raise live butterflies, this quality science resource is the perfect addition to your life cycle of butterflies activities. This complete science unit is packed with over 25 highly engagi
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1st - 3rd
The Life-Changing Special Education Bundle (visual schedules, handouts, visuals)
Before you download please note that this download includes:Visual SchedulesHelpful HandoutsVisuals & Positive Behavior SupportsData SheetsAlong with the stress of teaching, Special Educators often spend countless hours making icons, visuals, schedules, positive behavior supports, data sheets, etc. Make your school year a bit easier with this Life-Changing Special Education Bundle:- token board templates- positive behavior supports- first/then charts- reinforcement icons- visual schedules- s
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PreK - 4th
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Inferencing and Predicting Using Real Pictures | Speech Language Therapy
Target perspective taking and making inferences and predictions using real pictures with this resource! This resource includes 100 real life picture cards that allow you to provide effective, direct teaching on how to make inferences from picture scenes.Each card includes a visual across the top outlining the "Look", "Think", "Infer", "Predict" strategy (along with sentence starters for students to provide increased support). Next to the photo, there are four questions that require your students
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K - 6th
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Calm Down Kit- Social Emotional Learning Strategies and Visual Supports
Calm Down Strategies for your classroom! This huge pack is filled of different supports for students with behavioral needs. All of the products can be printed, assembled and placed in a "Calm Down Kit" box for students to pull out when feeling overwhelmed or anxious. This calm down kit is full of visuals to help non-readers and emerging readers learn to cope with their emotions on their own!These visuals can be sent home to families on your caseload to help with distance learning and virtual
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Classroom Starter Kit- Discounted Bundle
2-Digit Multiplication and Long Division Practice Worksheets and Organizers Set
These 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication and long division practice pages are easier with graphic organizers and templates that use colors and shapes as visual cues. Differentiation is easy using this scaffolded strategy. All problems use the traditional standard algorithm.Ideal for 4th grade, 5th grade, special education, guided math, and intervention.WHAT TYPES OF PROBLEMS ARE INCLUDED?Multiplication - 2-digit x 2-digit standard algorithmLong division - 2-digits ÷ 1-digit standard algorithmLong
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3rd - 5th
Decodable Passages for Orton-Gillingham Lessons BUNDLE
Quality decodable passages to support the Science of Reading are invaluable. When seeking materials to support your Orton-Gillingham lesson plans, The Literacy Nest has the decodable passages to support your students with a systematic, sequential progression. The Let's Read Decodable Bundle includes over 160 decodable passages that your students will love reading with success.Using a structured literacy approach, these decodable passages provide support for oral reading fluency and decoding prac
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K - 8th
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Grab N' Go Basic Concepts | Temporal,Spatial,Qualitative,Quantitative
This GRAB N' GO PACK is perfect for students working on BASIC CONCEPTS and FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS with embedded basic concepts including: TEMPORAL, SPATIAL, QUALITATIVE, & QUANTITATIVE.Each set of cards can be used for on-the-go therapy, RTI, centers, and in-class therapy sessions. Students can use magnetic chips, bingo daubers, play-doh, or dry-erase markers to choose the correct answers.Each basic concept card set is color-coded and clearly labeled for easy assembly.Basic concepts posters (4
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PreK - 3rd
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I Can Say the R Sound: Articulation Workbook
This systematic, step-by-step approach to R therapy is all you need for teaching the most menacing of sounds! See why it's earned over 1,300 5-star reviews! This workbook is a MUST-HAVE for every speech-language pathologist! Professional illustrations teach students the anatomy of the mouth and detailed step-by-step visuals guide the clinician and student through a variety of techniques to elicit accurate productions. Engaging activities are included for practice in isolation, syllables, words,
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1st - 6th
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Also included in: I Can Say... Articulation Workbook Bundle by Peachie Speechie
Human Body Systems Project & Lift-the-Flap Model w/ Human Body Reading Passages
This unit has always been one of my very FAVORITE units to teach! Kids love to learn about the amazing, surprising, and sometimes downright icky things that happen in their bodies, and this life-size model has the hands-on component to make their learning engaging, meaningful, and memorable.This resource includes leveled reading passages for each organ and “lift-the-flap” pieces that provide a place for kids to record information directly on their models. Your kids will take learning beyond th
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3rd - 5th
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The Special Educator's Everything Binder (SPED Teacher Lesson Planner)
**Dated calendars updated through 2024!**This resource provides you with EVERYTHING you need to stay on top of organization and stay away from the stress that comes along with being a special educator.The 250 binder pages can be applied to 40 different themes shown in the preview and a printer friendly black/white version. All pages are editable powerpoint files, in which you can change the text, charts, etc. Included in the ZIP are two different forms of directions on how to BUILD YOUR OWN BIND
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PreK - 12th
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Learning Identifying Story Grammar Parts in Narratives, Stories | Speech Therapy
Story grammar is an evidence-based strategy to help your students better comprehend narratives AND write their own! This packet includes three levels to guide your students through learning each story grammar part, better understanding story organization, using transition words as keywords, and identifying story grammar parts in narratives and their own stories.This packet is FULL of visuals, posters, checklists, and even a self-rating rubric. Below are the contents by level:LEVEL ONE Story gram
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2nd - 6th
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Guided Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions with Digital Google Slides
These Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions for Kindergarten through Third Grade (Guided Reading Levels C through P and DRA Levels 3 through 38) are designed to help students learn to read carefully and to find evidence to support their answers to text-based questions. Make differentiation easy and effective! Please scroll through the preview to see a sample passage from each level and to view the incremental increase in text complexity throughout the pack. The first two reading compreh
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K - 3rd
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STEM Bins® MEGA BUNDLE: Elementary STEM Activities: Morning Work,Early Finishers
Save over 20% with this DISCOUNTED Bundle that contains ALL TEN of my STEM Bins® resources and activities! STEM Bins® and STEAM Bins for K-5th Grade are the perfect hands-on, play-based STEM Activities for:Early Finishers / Fast FinishersMorning Work / Soft StartsCentersWriting ExtensionsFine Motor PracticeMakerspaceIncentivesCalm Down CornerThis STEM Bins®MEGA Bundle includes ALL TEN of my best-selling STEM Bins resources and supplements:STEM Bins® / STEAM Bins®STEM Bins Seasonal Task CardsSTEM
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K - 5th
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Decoding Drills | Real and Nonsense Word Fluency Practice and Decodable Passages
These No Prep I CAN READ phonics based decoding activities are aligned with Science of Reading and perfect for students who are learning to read and write various phonics patterns. Each decodable reader worksheet includes decodable words, nonsense words, sentences, and a short story. These phonics decodables are designed to move students from slowly blending words to a level where decoding is habitual and automatic. Science of Reading AlignedThe ResearchI created these decodable sheets to improv
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1st - 3rd
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Life Skills Task Boxes - set 1 & 2
Life Skills Task Boxes: Set 2Are you tired of boring worksheets! Looking for something new? Here are 16 Primary task boxes that are all related to life skills that are needed, that can be used in small groups, independent centers, one on one instruction, and take-home boxes for homework for that extra needed practice!! These tasks boxes, or task cards, help promote independent learning skills for early learners, gifted students, ELL students, and Special needs or SPED teachers.This resource can
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PreK - 8th
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Scientists & The Scientific Method, Scientific Processes | 2nd 3rd Grade Science
This resource is a complete science unit with engaging lessons and experiments to introduce second, third, and even fourth grade students to science, the scientific method, and other processes scientists use. Students learn the different areas of science, types of scientists and the jobs they do, science tools, science safety, and planning and conducting experiments using the scientific method. Your students will enjoy ten high engagement lessons in a detailed teaching Power Point, science journ
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2nd - 4th
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K-2-ETS1-3
, 2-PS1-1
Also included in: Scientists & The Scientific Method Print & Digital NGSS BUNDLE
Writing Center: Build-A-Story with Creative Writing Picture Prompts
Use this writing center to help your students develop their creative writing skills! Students build a story by picking out a setting, character and event card and placing them on the writing center. Then they write a story about the cards using a vis-a-vis marker (or black dry erase marker) on the wipe off mat (extra writing pages are included for longer stories). Two versions of the center are included. One with dotted lines and one with plain lines. A reference page is also included with over
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Writing Centers Bundle #1
Articulation Activities Speech Therapy Say and Find
Make articulation practice fun with these engaging, hands-on seek and find activities to work on all of your student's speech sounds! This set includes 24 different sounds with three pages of search and find activities for each articulation target. Quick and easy print and go make these articulation activities perfect for work during speech therapy sessions or to send home with students for extra practice!Students will love practicing their articulation words using these fun seek and find colori
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PreK - 3rd
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Simply Special Visual Recipes: Cooking Through the Year
"I have purchased visual recipes from other sellers and these are by FAR the best I've used. There are not so many steps that the recipe is overcomplicated--there are just enough. I love the comprehension piece of cooking in the classroom for my self-contained students and my resource groups. This resource has been amazing!"- Amber R.Visual Recipes for the classroom for the WHOLE YEAR in your self-contained classroom! These recipes are perfect for cooking with your special education class all ye
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PreK - 12th
Also included in: Visual Recipes Bundle
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Importance of learning science
Learning science is particularly important for students as it equips them with the essential knowledge and skills to make sense of the world around them. Science education is not just about memorizing facts. It fosters critical thinking, inquiry, and problem-solving abilities. These skills are not only useful in school but also in everyday life beyond the classroom.
Benefits of learning science
Learning science offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. In fact, it helps students:
- Question the world around them and seek evidence-based explanations
- Cultivate their ability to observe, experiment, and analyze data
- Nurture a sense of curiosity, awe, and wonder about the natural world
- Understand natural phenomena and the laws that govern the universe
With a solid foundation in science, teachers can help empower students to think critically, solve problems, make informed decisions, and engage with the world around them in meaningful ways.
Teaching with science resources
One of the best parts about science class is all of the possibilities for hands-on, collaborative learning! Think: labs, experiments, inquiry-based activities, and design challenges. These activities encourage students to explore scientific concepts by observing, asking questions, and conducting investigations. Additionally, with small group centers, students can engage in group experiments, discussions, and projects that require them to collaborate, share ideas, and solve problems together.
Discover printable and digital science resources
If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable or digital science resources, TPT has an extensive array of instructional materials for every learning need, topic, or grade level. Whether you're learning about plant parts or butterfly life cycles, or exploring advanced topics like the anatomy of a cell or Newton’s laws of motion, we've got you covered.
On TPT, science resources come in various forms: from labs and worksheets to craftivities and doodle notes. They can be used to enhance learning, assess a student’s mastery of science concepts, or to reteach a tricky topic. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, teaching and learning science will be so much easier. Plus, you can expand students’ knowledge even further by exploring TPT math resources, which are frequently paired with science lessons.
Frequently asked questions about teaching science
What types of science lessons are available on TPT?
There are many different types of science resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular science lessons include biology, earth sciences, chemistry, environment, engineering, and anatomy.
How do I find science lessons on TPT?
Educators can save time preparing science lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for science resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of science lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
How can I make my science lessons fun and engaging?
Students learn best when they're engaged! Sprinkle a little fun into your science lessons and make them feel like real scientists by investigating everyday objects, exploring the world outside the classroom, and doing hands-on and collaborative experiments and design challenges.
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