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2nd grade science thematic unit plans for Google Apps
Bubble Day Fun!
This is a fun and engaging pack for your Bubble day! This can be used any time of the year but is especially fun going into the final days of school. Here's what is included in the pack.I have updated this product to include a digital version that can be used in Google Classroom. *Book Suggestions*2 page informational reading about Bubbles (in color & black and white)*Comprehension check sheet *Blowing a Bubble Diagram (in color & black and white) *5 page mini-book to use along with y
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K - 2nd
Animals in Winter - Non-Fiction Unit on Winter Animals
Do bears hibernate in the winter? Not really! With many interesting facts and fun activities about animals in winter, this unit is sure to blow your socks away! Jam-packed with everything you need for a unit on animal adaptation! ⭐️⭐⭐️⭐️⭐️ “My students loved everything about this unit! They enjoyed learning about all of the different animals! They particularly loved the pocket chart poem/activity, the reading comprehension (text evidence), and the riddles! Thank you so much for such a great unit
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K - 2nd
Also included in: Animals in Winter | Winter Read Alouds and Activities Bundle
Rock and Roll Activities | Rock Your School Day | End of Year Themed Day
Rock & Roll activities for an entire day of engaging lessons are all planned out for you with this fun product! Students will take a 10 city tour through the U.S. completing activities for reading, writing, language, social studies, science, and math along the way. Your students will LOVE all the hands-on activities. You will love having meaningful, standards-based activities AND an entire day of instruction planned out for you! This product is perfect to use at the end of the school year, i
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2nd - 4th
Also included in: Themed Day BUNDLE | Rock Your School Day Activities
The Five Oceans: Facts & Features Slide Show, Flip Book, Activities, Assessment
Building an understanding of Earth is important, and this geography resource is perfect for covering the 5 oceans of our world. This resource includes a slide show with key facts and features, a flip book to record information, pocket chart cards, activities, and assessment. This resource includes digital options as well!Please click the preview to view more!WHAT'S INCLUDED:- Facts and Features Slide Show (PPT, PDF, and Google Slides options included)- Flip Book (3 versions)- Pocket Chart Cards-
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1st - 5th
All About Plants | Life Cycle Of A Plant | Thematic Unit For 1st Grade 2nd Grade
Wondering how to teach K-2 students all about plants? This unit will save you time with integrated lesson plans including science, writing, and math activities for plants and beans. Students love this project-based learning unit! Your students are guaranteed to love learning about plants as they search for different plants in nature, make observations, do research, and write reports. This hands-on unit will have your students engaged from start to finish! CLICK THE PREVIEW TO SEE EVERYTHING INC
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K - 2nd
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Bugs And Insects All About Butterflies Bees Ladybugs First Grade Kindergarten
Wondering how to teach K-2 students all about insects? This unit will save you time with integrated lesson plans including science, writing, and math activities for ladybugs, butterflies & bees. Students love this project-based learning unit! Your students are guaranteed to love learning about insects as they search for different insects in nature, make observations, do research, and write reports. This unit will have your students engaged from start to finish! CLICK THE PREVIEW TO SEE EVER
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: BUGS AND INSECTS ACTIVITY - DISTANCE LEARNING PACKETS FIRST GRADE
Growth Mindset Mentor Sentences & Interactive Activities Mini-Unit (grades 2-5)
Mentor sentences are the perfect way to teach grammar and author's craft through examples of excellent sentences from your favorite read-aloud books! This unit will be a great way to integrate your favorite texts about growth mindset with your mentor sentences routine! It does not include explicit directions of how to implement mentor sentences in your room- these directions are in these resources:Second Grade, FIRST Ten Weeks: Mentor Sentence UnitVolume 1, FIRST Ten Weeks: Mentor Sentence Unit
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2nd - 5th
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All About Spiders Activities | Label a Spider Life Cycle
This spider research unit integrates science, reading, and writing through standards-based lessons and activities, which cover topics ranging from parts of a spider to facts about its life cycle. The All About Spiders packet includes differentiated materials to make modifying simple and enables you to use it with a variety of grade levels and abilities. It is completely Common Core aligned and ideal for 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th grade. The best part is that it’s now both printable AND digita
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2nd - 4th
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Groundhog Day Science Writing And Craft Activity Kindergarten 1st Grade 2nd
How can you make groundhogs day memorable, fun and educational? This K-2 unit has everything you need with Google slides, worksheets, writing templates, graphic organizers, vocabulary cards, science experiments & a groundhog craft. Combine your science and writing standards with activities that include lesson plans, printable worksheets, and digital google slides. Elementary students will have fun celebrating groundhog day while learning about real groundhogs in this complete unit. Make Pu
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1st - 2nd
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
End of the Year Activities | 5 full days of Reading & Math Engaging Activities
Make the end of the year engaging and fun with 5 themed days full of activities for upper elementary. Celebrate a STEM day, a Summer Vacation Day, a Game Day, a Party Day, and a Goodbye Friend Day. Each day is full of activities to keep your kiddos thinking, engaging, and ending the year on a high note! Why will these lessons help your students grow?Engagement- Your students will LOVE all of these activities. Everything in One- This has EVERYTHING you need for the end of the year. From a yearboo
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2nd - 4th
Also included in: End of the Year BUNDLE Activities, Awards, Writing, Camping, and more
Dinosaurs in Google Slides
Make learning all about dinosaurs fun and engaging in your classroom or in a virtual setting this summer!You will receive a folder in Google slides with the following:1. Dinosaurs fun facts and a choice board (11 slides)2. Drag and drop activities in Google slides - Build a dinosaur (8 slides)3. Body parts of a dinosaur (2 slides)*** Each of the dinosaurs below includes fun facts6 Dinosaurs includes:Tyrannosaurus RexStegosaurusBrachiosaurusIguanodonTriceratopsDiplodocusDrag and drop activities i
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PreK - 2nd
Life Cycle Of A Bee | All About Bees Honeybees Thematic Unit 1st Grade 2nd Grade
Save time searching for the perfect spring science and writing activities! Integrate both as you teach your K-2 students about the bee life cycle with this hands-on unit. Engage kids with nonfiction slides, writing, & insect investigation. CLICK ON THE PREVIEW TO SEE EVERYTHING INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE Are you looking for a great activity for your teacher evaluation? This unit has everything you need to rock your evaluation and get that top score!Combine your science and writing standards w
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K - 2nd
Grades 1-3 Ontario Science Bundle
This bundle has been fully updated to cover all the expectations in the 2022 Grade 1, 2 & 3 Science curriculum with STEM expectations including coding opportunities. It also spotlights Canadian scientists. Full year, full units with complete presentations, learning goals, detailed teacher's guides, student workbooks (paper and fully digital), quizzes, assessment checkbrics, video links and read aloud suggestions. Wish you had complete science unit plans for your grades ones, twos and threes?
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1st - 3rd
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Calabazas | Pumpkins in Spanish
La unidad temática de las calabazas es una excelente forma de incorporar ciencias, lectura y escritura en tu salón de una forma divertida. En este producto encontrarás:Actividades para imprimir y digitalesInformación de las calabazas*Tarjetas de vocabulario*KWL*Ciclo de vida*Describe*Diagrama*Pay de calabaza - 5 sentidos*Datos sobre calabazas*Volver a contar*Problema y solución*Comparar y contrastar*¿Qué prefieres?*PoemaEscribe un poema acróstico*Oraciones*Si yo fuera una calabaza*Las calabazas*
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K - 2nd
Life Cycle Research for Butterfly, Frog, Plants for Distance Learning
Conduct printable or digital (Google Slides) research on the life cycle of a butterfly, frog, chicken, ant or flower with this resource! These life cycle resources have everything you need to conduct research on these life cycles. I’ve also included blank templates for any other life cycles you might want to research!This resource comes in both printable and digital (Google Slides) formats, so whether you're in the classroom or teaching remotely, I've got you covered!Here's what's included:Resea
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K - 3rd
Polar Bear Unit of Study Digital
This Polar Bear Nonfiction Unit of Study is perfect for your Arctic animal lesson plans. You will love how easy it is for students to learn about polar bear with an original video that is perfect for kindergarten or first grade students. Then students can response in Seesaw or Google Classroom. Learn all about polar bears with these fun, interactive activities. Here are the lessons you will find in this polar bear unit.VocabularyMammalsAdaptations: pawsMovement in waterWhat Polar Bears EatAd
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K - 2nd
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The Solar System and the Planets Google Slides
Make learning all about the Solar system and the planets fun and engaging in your classroom or in a virtual setting this summer!You will receive a folder in Google slides with the following:1. The Solar System (the sun, comets, asteroids, the planets)- 7 slides2. The Planets choice board - 9 slides3. Daytime and Nighttime - 4 slides4. The Moon - choice board (phases of the moon) - 12 slides5. Drag and drop activities - 3 slides*** Words can be edited except for the labels and titles. You may edi
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PreK - 2nd
Hibernation Winter Google Slides
Teach your class all about the 15 animals that hibernate.This fun and engaging Hibernation resource in Google Slides provides the perfect introduction to this fascinating topic. Learn all about the whys and hows of hibernation and meet the animals that hibernate in photo form with this lovely presentation.This resource includes: a definition and explanation of what hibernation meanshow they prepare for hibernation;photos of the animals that hibernate;some interesting facts about each of the anim
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PreK - 3rd
Planets Suite by Gustav Holst | Digital & Printable Listening Unit
Oh how I love Gustav Holst's Planet Suite! It's programmatic, beautiful, and engaging. Want a tie into Social Studies / History? Study these Roman gods. Want to connect to Science and the planets? Here ya go! Connection to art? There are coloring Listening glyphs included. How about connecting to math? Identify these time signatures or the rhythmic chant in Jupiter's 5/4 ostinato. Relating each movement on the exit slip to an emoji is a nice Social-Emotional Learning component!This is
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PreK - 9th
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Also included in: Year Long Music Lessons & Curriculum for 4th Grade Bundle 30% off
NGSS Science First Grade - Year Long STEM Curriculum - Science Sleuths
First Grade NGSS Science curriculum for the entire year!Use Science Sleuths to teach NGSS Space, Animal Traits, and Light and Sound for first grade. Includes a complete integrated unit with teacher standard practices in the disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts. Other subject connections to ELA, Math, and Art are also included. Science Sleuths for NGSS Science STEM curriculum is unique and gamified for your students to earth Science Sleuths Badges
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1st - 2nd
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K-2-ETS1-2
, 1-ESS1-1
, K-2-ETS1-3
, 1-LS1-1
, K-2-ETS1-1
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Distance Learning | Virtual Field Trip to Space with Holst's Planet Suite
Oh how I love Gustav Holst's Planet Suite! It's programmatic, beautiful, and engaging. Want a tie into Social Studies / History? Study these Roman gods. Want to connect to Science and the planets? Here ya go! Connection to art? There are coloring Listening glyphs included. How about connecting to math? Identify these time signatures or the rhythmic chant in Jupiter's 5/4 ostinato. Relating each movement on the exit slip to an emoji is a nice Social-Emotional Learning component!This Virtual Field
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1st - 9th
Animal Research Rooms
For Animal Research Writing-students may use these "rooms" with links to videos and facts to create informational writing about the animal they choose. Remember to make a copy after you purchase & download!
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1st - 4th
Transportation Air, Land, Water Google Slides
*Interactive drag and drop google slides*Students sort different types of transportation into air, land or water*Great to use during a unit on transportation or a follow up to a read aloud*Assign in google classrooms (make a copy for each student to interact with)
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PreK - 2nd
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