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Kindergarten science lessons for Easel Activities
Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
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Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Crankenstein Read Aloud - Halloween STEM Activities - Reading Comprehension
These Crankenstein read aloud activities are perfect for teaching reading comprehension skills to young learners. These Crankenstein read aloud activities are print and go, FUN, cover tons of standards and include a STEM activity with a fun challenge. Students love Crankenstein's humorous experiences and these fun book companion activities will keep them super engaged.Our interactive read-aloud lesson plan is designed to be taught over multiple lessons. This allows students an opportunity to div
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Grades:
K - 2nd
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Amelia Earhart Build an Airplane READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Integrate STEM and Social Studies in your classroom during Women's History Month with this Amelia Earhart STEM Challenge! Travel through the skies with Amelia Earhart! Build an Airplane STEM Challenge is a fun and unique way to engage your students during Women's History Month. Teach students that anyone can be a successful pioneer in industry regardless of gender. Students begin the activity by reading about Amelia Earhart and learning vocabulary on different aspects of flight (thrust, lift, dr
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Also included in: Women's History Month READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities BUNDLE #1
Push and Pull Worksheets | Activities KINDERGARTEN FIRST GRADE
Are you looking for some engaging activities and plans for your Push and Pull unit?This is a week unit focusing on Push and Pull Forces. It has a journal, rubric, lesson plans, inquiry lessons, printables to reinforce concepts, a home connection project, songs, video links, and 4 posters to display in the classroom. What’s in this unit:Pg. 1 CoverPg. 2 Table of ContentsPg.3 A Note To TeachersPg.4 Lesson Plans Introduction Pg 5 Standards Met Pg. 6 Home Connections Project Letter for ParentsPg. 7
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-1
, K-PS2-2
, K-PS2-1
Habitats
This extensive resource on habitats covers grasslands, deserts, rainforests, woodlands, ocean, and the arctic.
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Included in this habitat resource:
-Colorful posters describing each type of habitat.
-Thinking maps/webs for each habitat for students to brainstorm and record their thoughts.
-Characteristics of each habitat, animals that reside there, and more.
-Habitat riddles
-Animal sorts in which students identify and s
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K - 2nd
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All About Earthworms Booklet
Do you have kids who love worms? I do! I created this little booklet for my science-loving little people! This booklet answers the basic questions I was getting about worms, such as where they live, what they eat, if they have babies and can we keep them as a pet?Purchase Includes 1 All About Earthworms Booklet:6 booklet pages about earthworms2 booklet pages of drawing/writing prompts about earthworms1 page Teacher Use Tips*Check out the preview for a closer look at some of the pages.*Other teac
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Grades:
PreK - 3rd
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Also included in: All About Animals Booklets GROWING Bundle
Force and Motion Science Unit for Early Elementary
This is a complete five/six week unit full of experiments and activities to teach about the basic concepts of force and motion - particularly push, pull, friction, and gravity.
In this unit you will receive an introduction to teaching force and motion, material lists, procedures, and data recording forms for NINE experiments, and photos to guide your work all the way. Each section is so comprehensive, that you could even hand it to a substitute teacher, and they would have everything they need
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Grades:
K - 1st
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Also included in: Science Units Bundle for Early Elementary
Margaret Hamilton and the Moon READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Integrate STEM and Social Studies in your classroom during Women's History Month with this Margaret Hamilton Space STEM Challenge! Help Apollo astronauts land safely on the moon with Margaret Hamilton! Build a Lunar Lander STEM Challenge is a fun and unique way to engage your students during Women's History Month. Teach students that anyone can be successful in STEM regardless of gender. Students begin the activity by reading about Margaret Hamilton and learning vocabulary about Lunar Landers. Y
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Also included in: Women's History Month READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities BUNDLE #1
Fresh Water Vs. Salt Water Experiment
This is a simple but very effective experiment to help children to see one of the differences between fresh and salt water. With a few materials they will understand why objects are more buoyant in salt water. You will receive complete instructions with complementary photos, as well as a response page for students.
This is part of a larger Sea Creatures unit that you can access here:
Sea Creatures Integrated Unit
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Types:
Emily Roebling Secret Engineer Women's History Month READ ALOUD STEM™ Challenge
Can your students design a model of the Brooklyn Bridge? Celebrate Women in STEM by learning about Emily Roebling, the secret engineer behind the Brooklyn Bridge. This Brooklyn Bridge STEM Challenge is a fun and unique way to engage your students during Women's History Month and teach them that anyone can be a successful positive influence regardless of gender.Literacy Integration:Students begin the activity by reading about Emily Roebling and learning about bridges. It's a perfect Read Aloud co
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Kindergarten Science and Engineering Not a Stick Read Aloud STEM Challenge
Integrate STEM in Kindergarten!Connect STEM and Literacy with this amazing Read Aloud STEM Activity as a companion to Not a Stick by Antoinette Portis.Being an engineer takes a lot of work! Engineers are curious about things and ask a lot of questions. They observe the things around them, take notes and draw things that they see.In this lesson, students will activate their imagination as they observe all the things that the pig imagines his stick to be.This STEM Challenges aligns to NGSS Enginee
Subjects:
Grades:
K
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-1
Also included in: Getting Started with Kindergarten Science and STEM Activities Bundle
Ada Lovelace Unplugged Coding Activity
Integrate coding in your classroom with an Unplugged Coding Women's History Month STEM Activity!Ada Lovelace and The Thinking Machine Coding Challenge is a fun and unique way to engage your students during Women's History Month. Teach students that anyone can be a scientist regardless of gender. Ada Lovelace created a system that influenced modern day coding!Students begin the activity by reading about Ada Lovelace. We included our own mini reading passage, and you can also use Ada Lovelace and
Grades:
K - 4th
Types:
Also included in: Women's History Month READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities BUNDLE #1
Intro to Kindergarten Science Lesson What is Science? STEM Challenge
Integrate STEM in Kindergarten at the beginning of the school year!Connect STEM and Literacy with this amazing NGSS Aligned back to school Read Aloud STEM Activity as a companion for What is Science? by Rebecca Dotlich.The will introduce students to different science topics as kids explore space, fossils, oceans, and weather that they will explore throughout the school year.This STEM Challenge is for Kindergarten, but can be used in Kindergarten, First Grade, or Second Grade.Material List:What i
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Grades:
K - 1st
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Also included in: Getting Started with Kindergarten Science and STEM Activities Bundle
WATER a Life Science Unit
I'm totally excited to share with you my latest unit. This is part of my 3 unit set of properties of AIR, WATER and SOIL. This is a comprehensive Science unit on Water aimed at Grade 2 students but also good for Grades 1 to 3.This unit is designed to teach -properties of Water-how and why Water is important to people-nonfiction reading skillsThis unit includes-word wall words-language arts lessons-levelled reading passages-comprehension questions and answer key-levelled guided reading books-clas
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Grades:
K - 2nd
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Also included in: Air Water Soil - The Bundle
Cupid's Scavenger Hunt Valentine's Day Coding STEM Activity
Integrate coding in your classroom with an Unplugged Valentine's Day Coding STEM Activity!Cupid's Scavenger Hunt Coding Activity is a fun and unique way to engage your students during Valentine's Day. No robots required. Just print and go with the easy to implement Valentine's Day Coding Challenge.Students work together to create different codes to help Cupid collect items on his list. Every activity and solution is unique as students create their own board and code by moving the start point, it
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Grades:
K - 4th
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Pinwheels and The Force of Wind
This is a simple activity that allows students to see that wind is a force. They begin to understand that wind can push and pull, and they can experience first hand how increasing the strength of the force increases the resulting motion.
In this product you will receive:
- a list of materials
- step by step instructions for how to make the pinwheels
- real photos accompanying the instructions to provide clarity
- printable pinwheel template
- science writing paper for student reflections after
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Grades:
K - 1st
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Solar Eclipse Kindergarten, First & Second Grade Activities and Worksheets
Gear up for the 2024 solar eclipse! Kindergarten through second grade will LOVE learning about solar eclipses with this comic-style science cartoon and follow-up activities. This is more than just an eclipse worksheet. This product is crafted to help even your most reluctant readers engage in reading science! Are you seeking a solar eclipse resource for upper elementary or middle school? CLICK HERE!I will continue to add lower elementary science resources in the coming months. Pleasefollow me to
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Types:
NGSS:
1-ESS1-1
Rocks and Soil Unit for K to 2nd Grade
The study of rocks and soil is no longer boring—not with these tasks! This rock and soil unit is jam-packed with tasks and activities for you and your students—anchor charts, vocabulary, photos, investigations, links, and much more! It’s ideal for the K-2 learner (and their teacher!) It, also, includes some tasks on water uses. You get great pictures to enhance your lessons and there are ideas for presenting those as well. It's easy to integrate with the book suggestions, writing tasks, and incl
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 2nd
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, 2-ESS1-1
, 2-PS1-1
, 2-PS1-2
, 2-ESS2-3
Little Tree & A Tree Grows Up Read Aloud Activities - Reading Comprehension
This "A Tree Grows Up" & "Little Tree" printable or digital interactive read-aloud lesson plan pack includes rigorous text dependent questions, differentiated graphic organizers, response to text writing activities, a craftivity, and detailed lesson plans. These "A Tree Grows Up" & "Little Tree" activities will help you meet several core standards while maintaining your tradition of reading aloud for pleasure. You will guide students to use evidence from the text to deepen their understa
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Grades:
K - 1st
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Plants and Animals: A NGSS Science Unit
This Plants and Animals Science Unit that I have created aligns with NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards) and with Mystery Science Kindergarten Unit 3: Plants and Animal Secrets (this product can also be used without pairing it with Mystery Science). Save over 20% on the Kindergarten Science BundleWhat is included in Plants and Animals Science Unit:- 11 teacher lesson plans- vocabulary cards- Printable / projectable books- Plants and Animals science journal (22 activity pages)- STEM activi
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Grades:
PreK - K
Types:
NGSS:
K-ESS3-1
, K-ESS2-2
, K-LS1-1
, K-ESS3-3
Also included in: Kindergarten Science Bundle
Weather and Seasons: A NGSS Science Unit
This Weather and Seasons Science Unit that I have created aligns with NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards) and with Mystery Science Kindergarten Unit 2: Weather Watching (this product can also be used without pairing it with Mystery Science)Save over 20% on the Kindergarten Science BundleWhat is included in Weather and Seasons Science Unit:- 8 teacher lesson plans- vocabulary cards-4 printable/projectable books-daily weather checking pages - Weather and Seasons science journal (13 activity p
Subjects:
Grades:
K
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-PS3-1
, K-2-ETS1-1
, K-ESS2-1
, K-ESS3-2
...
Also included in: Kindergarten Science Bundle
STEM Science- Making Playdough
⭐Do your students love playing with Play dough? Would they like to be able to make their own?✅Are you looking for a fun, hands on activity for your students.✅This activity ties in beautifully with any unit of work on States of Matter.✅The Science of making play-dough is one that students of all ages enjoy. To watch the bonding of the dry and wet ingredients to make a pliable and fun to use resource using household objects.⭐What will you get in this pack??⭐✅Strong visual images to support the ste
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Grades:
K - 6th
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Also included in: STEM Bundle
Kindergarten Science Lesson Dreaming Up Read Aloud STEM Challenge NGSS Aligned
Integrate STEM in Kindergarten!Connect STEM and Literacy with this amazing NGSS Aligned Read Aloud STEM Activity as a companion for Dreaming Up by Christy Hale.In the story, there are lots of examples of how we can build with simple materials. The things we build can be modeled after larger structures around the world. Some of them have interesting shapes. Others are built strong. Think about the different buildings in the story.In this lesson, students build models of real world buildings using
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 1st
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-3
Also included in: Getting Started with Kindergarten Science and STEM Activities Bundle
Weather Unit Elementary Level Lesson Plans
This weather unit contains 33 pages of ideas, songs, poems, crafts, links, book suggestions and blackline masters to assist you in your teaching. These lessons use different modalities to reach all youngsters - music, cooking, crafting, writing,videos and weblinks.
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Grades:
PreK - 3rd
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