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5th grade science scripts for staff and administrators
Reader's Theater Solar System Science Class Play Fluency Practice Solar System
Looking for a way to fit more into the school day? Save time by incorporating reading and science. This Solar System science play is an original script I wrote for my class as an end of the year performance for parents and students, but it may also be used as a high-interest space introduction or review! It's filled with lots of scientific information about the sun, moons, planets, and other space objects, but even better, it's full of humor and fun! Your 3rd - 6th grade students will LOVE this
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3rd - 6th
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Honor Roll Certificates **Now Editable**
Honor Roll Certificates**Now in color and black and white!!**Include:A Honor RollA/B Honor RollPerfect Attendance AwardExemplary Attendance AwardCitizenship AwardIstation Math/Reading AwardsAR AwardResourcesFont - Amy GroesbeckClipart - P4 Clips
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K - 5th
NSW Public Term Timetable with FREE Weekly Planner
The TERM TIMETABLE will help you:✅ automatically calculate your subject hours for accurate state complianceKey Features:ready-made template - say goodbye to creating tables, adding rows, colour filling, adjusting cell sizeeasily plan out your term schedule - log-in your times, write in the activity and choose your subject from the drop-down menu:o Englisho Mathematicso Science and Technologyo PDHPEo HSIEo Creative Arts o Additional Activities (*Due to built-in formulas editing subject names will
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K - 6th, Staff
Also included in: NSW Teacher Bundle
The Rock Cycle Reader's Theater
A fun way to act out the rock cycle! This reader's theater contains 20 speaking parts that explain the process that a rock goes through in the rock cycle. Students will not only be able to define sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks but they will also learn science vocabulary such as weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, cementation, sediment, intrusive, extrusive, mantle, magma, and lava. Each word is defined in the script. Students will also review examples of each type of rock i
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3rd - 6th
Rocks and Minerals Reader's Theater Science Class Play Fluency Practice Erosion
Looking for a way to save time by incorporating reading and science? How about adding fluency practice for the whole class? This "I Wanna Be a Rock Star" Play is all about rocks and minerals. It is an original science script I wrote for my class as an end of the year performance for parents and students, but it may also be used as a great activity to reinforce a rocks and minerals science unit. The play is filled with lots of scientific information about rocks and minerals, including sedimentary
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3rd - 6th
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DOK (Depth of Knowledge) Question Stems for Science
Increase the rigor in your science class with these DOK question stem cards. The Depth of Knowledge chart categorizes tasks according to their cognitive complexity. Use these charts and question cards as a way of gauging the complexity of the activities in your classroom. Print the cards and place them on a ring for easy access. Place the question stem page in your lesson plans as a quick reference sheet.This resource Includes:4 DOK posters60 colorful DOK question stem cards that can be placed
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3rd - 6th
Earth's Rotation and Revolution Reader's Theater
This script allows students to perform and act out the rotation and revolution of Earth. The reader's theater explains the day and night cycle, the difference between rotate and revolve, and the causes of the seasons.
Some ideas are to have your students form small groups to perform for other students. Have them create props, a background, add silly voices... anything to help them comprehend! Kids love acting!
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3rd - 6th
Reader's Theater Weather Class Play - Weather Science Activity Fluency Practice
Save time by incorporating reading and science! This Weather Play is an original science script I wrote for my class as an end of the year performance for parents and students, but it may also be used as part of a weather unit in science. Not only does it contain excellent scientific information about the water cycle, and weather phenomena like rain, snow, hail, thunder, lightning, and cloud types, but it's also funny and is one your students will love!Specifically, it includes:15 page Original
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3rd - 6th
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K-8 Standards Checklists
K-8 Standards Checklists include parent and student-friendly checklists for each standard in Kindergarten through eighth grade.We have taken ALL of the updated English Language Arts (CCSS), Math (CCSS), California Social Studies, and Science (NGSS) standards for and turned them into "I Can" checklists so that you can easily track your student's progress throughout the year. This easy-to-understand format is perfect for communicating with parents about student progress. Send home as a progress re
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K - 8th
Reader's Theater for Oral Reading Fluency Practice 6 Science Themed Class Plays
Looking for a way to save time by incorporating reading and science? Want to give your students meaningful and fun fluency practice? This Reader's Theater Science Bundle can help you accomplish all those goals! It includes six original plays: I Wanna Be a Rock Star (Rocks and Minerals), Weather, the Solar System, Adaptations Around the World, Dude, Where's My Rock (weathering, erosion, and deposition), and Force and Motion at the Amusement Park (introductory physics).Each script has enough parts
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3rd - 6th
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A-E Scale Automatic Grading
The A-E SCALE AUTOMATIC GRADING will help you:✅ Determine student grades with automatic grading✅ Group students for targeted instruction✅ Identify topics for revision or extensionKey Features:automatic grade calculation - assign grades to students on a scale of 1-5. The template will automatically calculate and provide the corresponding grade from the options below:Limited, Basic, Sound, High and OutstandingEmerging, Beginning, Developing, Applying and ExtendingLimited, Below Level, At Level, Ab
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PreK - 12th, Staff
Also included in: VIC Teacher Bundle
Animal Classification Readers Theatre
Looking for an interesting way to teach basic animal classification? This folder contains readers theatre scripts for teaching about the five groups of vertebrates--reptiles, amphibians, fish, mammals, and birds. Each script is two pages and includes parts for 4-5 students. All together, you will have parts for 23 students. The scripts are--well, a little silly! In Molly's Mammals, a pet shop owner who wants to sell only mammals deals with customers who want other kinds of pets. Other scripts in
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3rd - 5th
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The Water Cycle Reader's Theater
This reader's theater allows students to act out and perform the water cycle! Includes 14 speaking parts with vocabulary words such as evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transpiration, groundwater, and runoff.
Some ideas are to have your students form small groups to perform for other students. Have them create props, a background, add silly voices... anything to help them comprehend! Kids love acting!
Check out my Science Reader's Theater Bundle and other Science Reader's Theaters:
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3rd - 6th
Reader's Theater Science Bundle Rocks & Minerals, Solar System, & Weather Play
Looking for a way to incorporate reading and science? How about adding fluency practice for the whole class? This Reader's Theater Science Bundle includes three original plays: I Wanna Be a Rock Star (Rocks and Minerals), Weather, and the Solar System. Each script has enough parts (30) for the whole class and is great to use as part of a science unit, for fluency practice, or to add variety to your reading program. The best part about these plays is that besides being full of scientific informat
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3rd - 6th
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Science MEGA Bundle Grades K-5 Entire Year Science (NGSS Aligned)
I decided to put this MEGA BUNDLE together because I have noticed that several buyers purchase multiple SCIENCE ENTIRE YEAR Super Bundles for different grade levels. I’m guessing these buyers are science teachers at the elementary level, homeschool parents with multiple levels of kids, or principals purchasing for the school. This bundle includes all of my grade level super bundles for grades K-5 aligned to NGSS standards. Each grade level includes the activities bundles and the presentations
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K - 5th
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-PS3-1
, 5-ESS2-2
, 1-ESS1-1
, 4-PS4-2
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Animal Adaptations Reader's Theater
This reader's theater provides a fun way to dive into animal adaptations! The story analyzes the difference between structural and behavioral adaptations and how these help animals to survive. Many animal examples are provided as well as an explanation of inherited traits and learned behaviors. Students will see how without adapting, animals will go extinct.
Science vocabulary defined and discussed in this reader's theater include: extinction, structural adaptation, behavioral adaptation, insti
Science Reader's Theater Bundle
This bundle includes SEVEN science based reader's theaters to connect reading, science, and drama! Included readings are "The Cause of Autumn," "Animal Adaptations," "Energy Pyramids and Food Chains," "The Water Cycle," "The Rock Cycle," "Earth's Rotation and Revolution," and "Renewable vs Nonrenewable Resources." This 40 page product allows students to have fun while learning science and practicing reading skills. Some ideas are to have your students form small groups to perform for other stude
Energy Pyramid and Food Chain Reader's Theater
This reader's theater provides a fun way to dive into food chains and energy pyramids! The story analyzes how energy is passed from one organism to the next and how a break in the food chain affects an entire ecosystem. Science vocabulary defined and discussed in this reader's theater include producer, photosynthesis, consumer, herbivore, omnivore, carnivore, decomposer and scavenger.
10 speaking parts as well as a vocabulary note taking sheet are included.
Some ideas are to have your student
Readers Theater scripts: African American scientists & inventors
Nine African-American scientists/inventors (Benjamin Banneker, Mae Jemison, Patricia Bath, George Washington Carver, Dr. Mary Chinn, Lewis Latimer, Yvonne Cagle and Elijah McCoy, Patricia Bath) are featured in this collection of reader's theaters. They may be used in language arts, science or history class, adapted for a school wide program or even memorized and done, royalty free, as a stage play or video.Each interview is self-contained so students can be divided into groups to read and rehea
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Black History Month bundle (in person and remote)
NSW Teacher Bundle
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K - 6th
Scripts: Space science reader's theaters (3 scripts, 13 writing prompts)
Space science package 1 includes 3 scripts and 13 writing prompts. This is part of the Earth and space science bundle.
Reader’s theater is an excellent way to teach science content while improving fluency, comprehension and giving students an opportunity to shine. While providing authentic reasons to read and reread, students can analyze characters, plots and other story elements in an interdisciplinary study of these topics.
President of the Solar System club -If the sun resigned, who woul
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4th - 8th
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Homework Tracker
The HOMEWORK TRACKER will help you:✅ monitor work submission and automate the calculation of student grades.Key Features:automated grade calculation - grading options:Rarely, Sometimes, Usually, and ConsistentlyEmerging, Beginning, Developing, Applying, and Extending(*You can contact us for customised wording to meet your specific requirements)easy tracking of homework submission - utilise checkboxes for effortless monitoring and tracking of homework submissionsinformation per term - the templat
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PreK - 12th, Staff
Also included in: VIC Teacher Bundle
Solar System & Planets Reader's Theater
This product includes a reader's theater script called "The Planets' First Day of School." It includes a script for 9 roles (the sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune). I have also included necklaces to identify the roles. There is a brief worksheet for students to write down what they learned about the planets and the sun. I have used this in my class, and my students loved it! I mounted the cover sheet and scripts to file folders for each reader. I laminat
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2nd - 5th
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Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources Reader's Theater and Debate
This product includes several activities to help your students gain understanding about the different between renewable and nonrenewable resources.
The reader's theater is a fun way to bring science, reading, and drama together. Students will learn the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources and how they power our homes and schools. Students will also hear the benefits and downsides to both resources, learn about alternative energy, and discover ways to conserve energy.
This p
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4th - 6th
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