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2nd grade science thematic unit plans for Easel Activities
Ocean Exploration Unit: All About Ocean Life and Animals
Dive right into this ocean life exploration unit! Your students will have the opportunity to explore this topic using: arts and crafts, non-fiction ocean animal readers, science explorations and so much more! This unit includes:1. Recommended Book List2. Ocean Life Reading Comprehension pages for: fish, Puffer Fish, starfish, seahorse, jellyfish, mollusks, dolphin, whale, shark, sea turtle, crustaceans3. Ocean Zones Wheel craft/reader with Templates (sunlit, twilight, midnight and abyssal)4. Oce
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K - 2nd
Second Grade Science-Common Core Aligned Life Cycles Unit
This unit is a student book that covers Second Grade Common Core Science Standard 2.L. 1 and 2. This is a two week unit. There are lesson plans and a student book with classwork for each day.
There is a study guide and a test for the end of the unit. This unit covers the life cycles of: mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians and insects. The lessons are designed to be simple and short so they can be fit into a busy schedule. Copy, staple, teach! It couldn't be easier!
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2nd
Earth Day Mini Unit: Activities and Printables!
Get your students excited about Earth Day with this fun and interactive unit! You will find supplemental activities to engage your students as you explore environmental awareness, such as: hands on activities, crafts, science explorations, math and language arts printables, a mini book and so much more! 1. Recommended Book List2. Earth Day Word Wall (2 Pages)3. "Earth Day" Mini Book4. "Gifts from Our Planet" Natural Resources printable5. "My Earth Day Pledge" craftivity with directions and templ
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K - 2nd
Weather & The Water Cycle
Explore the world of weather as your students engage in various science activities that explore forecasting, clouds, storms and the water cycle! This thematic weather unit includes:1. Recommeded Book List2. Weekly Weather Forecast Printable (boy & girl meteorologist versions) 3. Clouds Outdoor Observation4. Cotton Clouds (Interactive Flip Project) 5. Let's Label Clouds (cut and paste)6. Let's Draw Precipitation (Rain, Snow, Sleet and Hail)7. Thunderstorm Reading Comprehension 8. Tornado Read
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1st - 3rd
Animal Classifications Unit Sort Mammals Reptiles Amphibians Groups Worksheets
Discover the Wonders of Nature with our Animal Classification Unit. This incredible unit includes everything you need to teach about mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians. With kid-friendly reading passages, comprehension questions, and hands-on activities, this unit encourages students to explore the amazing diversity of living creatures. A fun animal card sorting game and vibrant tri-fold booklets are sure to keep students engaged!The following animal groups are highlighted in this un
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2nd - 4th
Force and Motion Pushes and Pulls
Fun, hands-on activities for force and motion is LOADED in this packet! Created with the Next Generation Science pushes and pulls standards in mind, if you are looking for thinking maps, lesson plans, science stations, and foldables for force and motion interactive notebooks, this is what you are looking for! All with the objective of Force and Motion. **UPDATED** As of summer 2020, I have added a 20 side PowerPoint to help teach your students about force & motion as well as an emergent read
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K - 3rd
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Force and Motion Worksheets | Kindergarten 1st Grade Activities
Students LOVE to learn about force and motion! I have you covered with this engaging 3-week unit! It has everything you need including a journal, inquiry lessons, rubrics, ideas, printables, and more! Be the COOL teacher who knows how to engage students!What’s in this unit:• Pg. 1 Cover• Pg. 2 Table of Contents• Pg.3 A Note To Teachers• Pg.4 Week 1 Lesson Plans Introduction on How Things Move• Pg 5 Week 2 Lesson Plans Motion and Magnets• Pg. 6 Week 3 Lesson Plans Focusing on Push and Pull• Pg
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K - 2nd
Pollution Activities ~ Air, Water, and Land
Teach your students about air, water, and land pollution with these information sheets, note pages, and book. Perfect for Earth Day!This packet includes information sheets on air, water and land pollution, including a definition of the pollution, how the pollution affects you, and what you can do to help prevent it.The note pages/worksheets can be used to write notes about each pollution (what the pollution is, how it affects them, and what they can do to help).The mini book summarizes each type
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1st - 3rd
Second Grade Science-CommonCore Aligned Weather Unit
This unit is a student book that covers Second Grade Common Core Science Standard 2.E.1. It also includes activities that integrate Common Core Math 2.MD.9 and 10 and ELA Writing/Literacy W2.3. This is a printable student booklet with activities to cover all of the Essential Standard. This unit is 28 pages and includes:
-vocabulary pages
-decorative writing paper
-information page on The Water Cycle
-review page on The Water Cycle
-Weather Riddle page to review vocabulary words
-Two week we
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2nd
Rocks and Minerals
This is a HUGE unit to help teach rocks and minerals. Please look at the preview to see the variety of activities.
Table of Contents
Introduction………………………….3
Helpful Websites…………………..4
Rock Posters…………………….…..7
Rock Story…………………………..17
Vocabulary Activities……….….36
Rock Stations……………………..57
My Pet Rock…………………………98
Worksheets & Assessments...123
Edible Activities…………….….131
Literacy Activities…………...…136
Math Activities……………...…..184
Rocks in Real Life……….…….216
Terms of Use…………………..…228
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1st - 4th
Ocean Animals | Differentiated Texts | Nonfiction Close Reading
This is a huge unit on ocean animals. It is closely aligned to the Common Core State Standards for Informational Text. It is packed full of informational text articles, text dependent questions, graphic organizers, writing prompts, and vocabulary cards.
Every article is offered in three levels of text and vocabulary complexity. The differentiation is done for you! Perfect for increasing exposure to rigorous texts, whole group instruction, small group instruction, homework, individual reading a
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1st - 3rd
Also included in: Habitats Differentiated Nonfiction Close Reading BUNDLE
Hygiene & Healthy Habits: Hand Washing & Brushing Teeth-Dental Health {1st&2nd}
Teach how proper hand washing and brushing your teeth keeps bodies happy and healthy! This unit is filled with supplemental activities to engage your students as you explore various hygiene and dental health related topics. In this unit, you will find hands on activities, experiments, reading passages, printables and so much more! Here's what is included:1. Recommended Book List2. Reading Comprehension Passages (with answer keys)What Are Germs?Bacteria & VirusesWhat Germs DoStaying Healthy3.
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1st - 2nd
Desert Animals Nonfiction Close Reading with Differentiated Texts
This is a huge, differentiated desert unit. It is closely aligned to the Common Core State Standards for Informational Text. It is packed full of informational text articles, text dependent questions, graphic organizers, writing prompts, and vocabulary cards.
Every article is offered in three levels of text and vocabulary complexity. The differentiation is done for you! Perfect for increasing exposure to rigorous texts, whole group instruction, small group instruction, homework, individual rea
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Habitats Differentiated Nonfiction Close Reading BUNDLE
All About Ants Life Bugs and Insects Printable Theme Study Camping Activities
You will download a printable all about ants activities packet to supplement your camping day theme activities or bugs and insects study. It is a perfect addition to your fun spring or summer school science activities.This ants activity packet contains the following:all about ants nonfiction reading comprehension passagesall about ants comprehension questionsgraphic organizers ant life cycle diagramant body parts diagramall about ants accordion bookall about ants task cardsall about ants scaven
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1st - 3rd
Animal Babies Life Cycles: Writing Prompts, Printables, and More Google & PDFs
Celebrate with 95 Pages of Animal Babies, Their Moms and Lifecycles. To demonstrate confidence all pages are laid out in the preview. Foldables (Great for Lapbooks) Butterfly Life Cycle, Animal Types (Fish, Bird, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians), Bird/ Chicken Life Cycle, Frog Life Cycle, Jungle Animals, and Ocean AnimalsTo include Text Dependent Questions for students to cite textual evidence.Blackline Masters Included Animal Investigation Journal or Kit {Black line and Color}Cut and Paste "Are Y
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1st - 3rd
Also included in: Plant and Animal Life Cycles BUNDLE Google Slides™ and PDF
The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System Science Read Aloud Book Companion
The Magic School Bus Lost in Solar System Book Study Companion Reading Comprehension Literacy Unit : A Literacy Book Companion Unit with Comprehension & Fun Activities, based on the book The Magic School Bus : Lost in Solar System . (Book not included). Reading Level 3.1.This 47-page packet provides a variety of levels to reach each individual student. Please see preview pages and descriptions below . Worksheets include lined paper for easy handwriting practice: 48 Pages Total Include:1. TA
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2nd - 4th
Moon Phases Story Unit and Activities plus Easel for 2nd and 3rd grade
Learning about phases of the moon has never been so much fun for your 2nd or 3rd grade students! This story unit, followed by activities, presents information in a fun and appealing way for students. These letters written by Zog, the alien, back to his people on Zipton. explains all about the phases of the moon. You see, Zipton doesn't have a moon, so this is all very new to Zog! Oh! And ice cream, he learns about ice cream too! Special Features about this Phases of the Moon Resource:Using lett
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2nd - 3rd
Popcorn Five Senses Mini-Unit
This one day Popcorn mini-unit is a perfect way to end your study of the Five Senses. It contains a great graphic organizer, an original poem to teach your students about popcorn, and a "Three Reasons Why" writing prompt. I also included a word sort for your pocket chart with adjectives about popcorn.
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K - 2nd
Animal Groups Unit with Mammals Insect Fish Reptiles Amphibians Birds
This unit contains plans to help you teach lessons on the different animal groups including mammals, insects, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. I have included a science journal with a page on each animal, homework activity, interenet links, report graphic organizers for each animal group, art ideas and a sponge animal activity. This unit corresponds to a actiview flipchart also available on TpT.
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K - 3rd
Arctic and Antarctica Unit
Updated 9/2018 to include photographs for the nonfiction books. STEM activities, art projects, and experiments are now included to keep kids actively engaged in this unit.This unit includes a variety of projects to keep your kids engaged and learning. *Original nonfiction book on Antarctica (pages 1-10) *Why is there six months of daylight/darkness demonstration and writing prompt (page 12-13)*How do animals stay warm? Science experiment (page 14)*Penguin graph activity (page 15)*Ripped Paper
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2nd - 3rd
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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PreK - 3rd
ANIMAL HABITATS A Study of Their Characteristics & Activities
If you are looking for a resource to enable you to differentiate while studying animal habitats, this resource might be helpful. This 38 PAGE animal habitat resource has 80 word wall cards with picture support, 10 cut/paste sorts, 8 biome title cards plus farms and pets, 10 fact cards to coordinate with the titles, and a biome quiz page. There is also a writing page template. NEWLY ADDED: AUDIO TEXT IN THE EASEL PORTION OF THIS RESOURCE! GREAT FOR ENGLISH LEARNERSThe eight represented animal
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1st - 5th
BOOK ACTIVITIES & EXTENSIONS Hanging Out with Stellaluna Activities
BOOK ACTIVITIES & EXTENSIONS: Hanging Out with Stellaluna Extending the learning for J. Cannon's book, Stellaluna, has never been more fun! This thematic unit includes activities for literacy centers, math centers, writing, poetry, & word work. Also provided are math journal prompts, lots of printable worksheets, and more!CONTENTSBEFORE reading the bookAttitude graphKWL chartWHILE reading the bookPredictionsIllustrations + point of viewAFTER reading the bookStory map printablePoint of v
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: BATS BUNDLE to Accompany STELLALUNA
Ocean Animals Unit | Invertebrate & Vertebrate {worksheets, activities, posters}
Ocean Animals Worksheets / Invertebrate & Vertebrate Ocean Animals is a great addition to your ocean life, sea creature units. This ocean animals worksheet set includes opportunities for lessons on invertebrates, vertebrates, ocean zones, and reinforcement activities on what lives in the ocean. Strictly science activities!includes:Posters of ocean vocab: invertebrates, vertebrates, each ocean zone, ocean zones overview (8 posters total, color and b/w)Ocean Life mini book Invertebrate/Verteb
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PreK - 2nd
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K-ESS3-1
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