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Free 2nd grade science thematic unit plans
The Water Cycle Kindergarten Chart and Activity
This is a water cycle smartboard document to share whole group as well as two different worksheets to complete. Students can label the diagram with words OR cut and paste the pictures into the diagram.
Mrs. Kimbrell's Kindergarten
Meaghan Kimbrell
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PreK - 2nd
Free Sample Life Cycle Units - Butterfly, Chicken, Plant, Frog, & Insect
This is a free sample of the compare and contrast reading passages with Venn Diagrams from my life cycle units. The complete units include a KWL, reading passages for all life cycle stages with REAL pictures and an opportunity to engage students with a turn and talk, interactive notebook foldables for vocabulary and life cycle, labeling the parts of each item, coloring, sequencing, unit assessment, and more!Find the individual units or for in a discounted bundle here:Frog Life Cycle Unit and In
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2nd - 6th
Plant Life Cycle {freebie}
Teaching plants is so cool! I love teaching kids how we just can't live with out them. I created this little freebie to provide my students with additional resources to understand plants from seed to full growth.
Included you will find
1. seed observation printable
2. plant life cycle journal
3. number, order, match & glue with answer key
4. "all about the plant life cycle" sequence writing
Any and all questions please email me at deirdre.eldredge@gmail.com
I'd love for you to visit my b
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Grades:
K - 2nd
FREE Great White Shark Unit Study | Lesson Plan, Activities | Ocean Animals
A 1-day LOW PREP ocean animal unit study of the great white shark. This resource includes a lesson plan, videos, worksheets and activities, interactive notebook pieces, and more.It makes a great addition to your great white shark or ocean animals unit study; writing lessons or centers; or science class. Perfect for first grade, second grade, and third grade classrooms, homeschool families, and cooperatives.Try before you buy! This is a free, abridged version of day 1 of my Great White Shark Unit
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1st - 3rd
FREE Spiders Science, Fact Reading, & Writing Activities - Fall Science & ELA
This FREE All About Spiders Science Pack is perfect for your fall life science study on spiders. It has 5 pages of sample activities from the All About Spiders Science & ELA unit!The activities align with the Common Core standards for ELA and Science for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades. There are many activities and opportunities for differentiation to meet all your student's needs.Included upon instant download:Spider anchor chart piecesKWL about spiders sheetFinding facts about spiders sheetAskin
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1st - 3rd
Butterfly Life Cycle {FREE Sequencing Activities}
This butterfly-themed FREEBIE is the perfect science resource to help teach your littlest learners about life cycles! You will receive the following butterfly life cycle sequencing activities:
*1 Butterfly Life Cycle Poster
*4 Butterfly Life Cycle Sequencing Cards (perfect for a science center or pocket chart activity)
*1 Butterfly Life Cycle Cut and Paste Sequencing Worksheet
*1 Butterfly Pasta Craft Template
Directions for Butterfly Pasta Craft:
You will need to purchase the following types o
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PreK - 2nd
The Groundhog Book
Here is a fun little book about groundhogs to use with your kiddos on or before February 2nd! Enjoy!
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PreK - 3rd
Animals in Winter: Hibernate, Migrate and Adapt Sorting Activity
Enjoy this freebie!
Included in this packet are picture cards for sorting animals into three categories: hibernation, migration, and adaptation.
The mats are color coordinate with the picture cards to help with sorting.
This activity can be use as an independent activity for students to cut and sort or place this item item in a everyday center, where it can be used daily. (i.e Science Center)
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PreK - 2nd
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
Dinosaur Craft | Art | Cutting Practice
A fun little FREE pop-up dinosaur craft to incorporate into your thematic study of dinosaurs!If you like this resource, you might also like...- No Prep Digital Sight Word Activities (First 100 Fry Words)- No Prep Digital Sight Word Activities (Second 100 Fry Words)- Year Long ELA + Math Digital Kindergarten Bundle- Digital Word Work Bundle- Digital End of the Year Review for Kindergarten- Back to School Digital Kindergarten Readiness Bundle★Don't forget to follow me on TpT!★ This is a great way
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PreK - 2nd
Animals & Their Habitats, Picture Files
Kids love animals! Here are pictures of over 140 different animals from habitats all around the world. Use these photos for many different science or writing activities. They are great for writing observation notes, sorting according to common characteristics, or just for looking and learning.
Explore the seven major biomes (animal habitats) of the world. Desert, Grassland, Ocean, Wetland, Forest, Rainforest, and The Polar Regions.
This file contains title cards for each of the 7 biomes,
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2nd - 4th
Chicken Life Cycle Booklet FREE
Chicken Life Cycle Booklet is a four page booklet that includes transition words, labels, and a picture on each page. Students describe the sequence of events from a hen laying an egg to the chick hatching.p. 1: First, eggp. 2: Next, roostingp. 3: Then, hatchingp. 4: Last, chickThe booklet can be used as a writing activity as part of a thematic unit on spring, farm animals, chickens, and life cycles. This booklet is also included in Spring Literacy and Math.You may also like these SPRING activit
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1st - 2nd
FREE Reindeer Unit Study | Lesson Plan, Videos, Activities | Arctic Animals
A 1-day NO PREP arctic (polar) animal unit study of the reindeer. This comprehensive resource includes a lesson plan, videos, worksheets and activities, interactive notebook pieces, and more.It makes a great addition to your winter or arctic animals unit study, writing lessons or centers, or science class. Perfect for first grade, second grade, and third grade classrooms, homeschool families, and cooperatives.Try before you buy! This is a free, abridged version of day 1 of my Reindeer Unit Study
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1st - 3rd
Also included in:Â Arctic Unit Study (Lesson Plans, Flipbooks, Research Reports) GROWING BUNDLE
Free Solar Eclipse 2017 Printable
I am so, SO excited to plan all of my special Solar Eclipse activities for my little learners this year!!! The Solar Eclipse happening on our first Monday Back to School...what a super FUN way to start our new school year!
I created this Solar Eclipse Writing Frame printable as a follow up for after we have watched the Solar Eclipse. I will have my firsties keep this writing frame in their Science Journals:)
Fun activities to do before completing this writing frame:
*Watch educational youtube
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
Weather Vocabulary Word Search Seek & Find Puzzle
****This puzzle is a part of my WEATHER ACTIVITY SET
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K - 2nd
FREE Killer Whale (Orca) Unit Study | Research, Activities | Endangered Animals
A 1-day LOW PREP unit study of the endangered killer whale (Orca). This comprehensive resource includes a lesson plan, videos, worksheets and activities, interactive notebook pieces, and more.It makes a great addition to your endangered, ocean, or arctic animals unit study; writing lessons or centers; or science class. Perfect for first grade, second grade, and third grade classrooms, homeschool families, and cooperatives.Try before you buy! This is a free, abridged version of day 1 of my Killer
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1st - 3rd
Jellyfish Freebie | Differentiated Texts | Nonfiction Close Reading Mini Unit
This differentiated reading passage was designed to introduce primary students to jellyfish! Your students will learn new vocabulary, along with many interesting facts about jellyfish through this informational text article. The best part is that the differentiation has been done for you!
This article is offered on three levels of text and vocabulary complexity. The exact same factual information (including new vocabulary words) is included in all 3 versions of the article. You can provid
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1st - 3rd
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Plant Unit (7 Lesson Plans)
This is a unit focused on plants. It's great for Kindergarten - second grade. It includes booklets for student observations, lesson plans for each day, activities for planting and observing certain plants, and visuals for types of plants, plant parts, and what plants need.
Have fun!
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K - 2nd
Living and Non-Living Things (PDF)
This is a PDF file meant to support my SMART Board unit "Living and Non-Living Fun." You may use this packet independently from the SMART Board lesson as well. This packet contains a living and non-living sort, directions for making binoculars and a scavenger hunt for living and non-living things.
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K - 2nd
Force FREEBIE - Magnet Experiment
This Force FREEBIE contains a magnet experiment that your students will LOVE! This experiment is a part of the complete unit that can be found at:
Force: Push, Pull, and Magnets
Concepts covered in the complete unit are:
Force
Motion
Push and Pull
Magnets
The complete unit contains:
Pictures of Interactive Notebook Activities
Force and Motion Activity
Push and Pull Sorting Activities - Now Includes 2 Sets (Large and Small)
Force and Motion Racecar Experiment #1 (Friction)
Force and Motion
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1st - 4th
Weather Thematic Unit
Weather is a great unit describing rain, snow, clouds, hail, humidity, thunder, lightning temperature, barometer, thermometer, evaporation, wind, tornadoes, hurricanes, and others. It describes meteorologists and their important job. The unit includes the following activity worksheets; fill in the blank, criss cross, and word find, spelling, and word unscramble.
We off 200+ Thematic Units. They can be purchased individually for $2.00 each or they can be purchased in bundles. The bundle price of
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
*Free* Apple and Pumpkin Investigation | Science STEM Activities
This fun and interactive activity is a great way to bring the excitement of the season into your classroom without losing academic focus. Your apple and pumpkin science unit is sure to be the highlight of the year with these activities!Students will use their skills as a scientist to observe and investigate apples and pumpkins. They will make predications using a variety of science and math tools during their investigations and record observations. The Investigation Includes:The Appearance of t
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PreK - 3rd
Insects Coloring pages
8 different insect coloring pages. -Ant-Bee-Dragonfly-Beetle-Butterfly-Ladybug-Fly-GrasshopperPrint in A4.For personal use only.
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PreK - 3rd, Staff
Moon and Space Unit Writing Prompts
This package includes 12 original creative writing prompts and graphic organizers that would go wonderfully with a Moon and/or Space unit! The prompts are all on fun, exciting coloring sheets that students enjoy and will look great on display in hallways and classrooms!
Examples of some of the prompts are:
*If I could go to the moon, I would bring...
*I wouldn't want to go to the moon because...
*Phases of the moon graphic organizer
...and more!
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Grades:
K - 3rd
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