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8th grade science thematic unit plans $5-10
Titanic Activities Bundle | Passenger Research | Comprehension | Titanic Math
HUGE Titanic bundle of Titanic reading comprehension resources, activities, PowerPoint, and SO much more! Your students will love the Titanic even more after diving into their study of the ship using these resources! Cover the basics and the more unique aspects of the Titanic with these literacy, math, and social studies connections.These Titanic activities cover everything from the construction of the Titanic to the discovery of the ship on the bottom of the Atlantic. Unique aspects, such as
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4th - 8th
Zombie Apocalypse Unit - End of the Year Project or Emergency Sub Lesson Plans
This week-long, self-guided zombie apocalypse project is the PERFECT end of the year unit! It is so versatile and can be used for many different grades and subjects; appropriate for middle school or high school, science or language arts, accelerated or remediation, even upper elementary. It could also be used for a Halloween unit or emergency sub lesson plans. Directions on each page are self explanatory and will keep your students engaged from start to finish.I originally created this activity
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4th - 12th
Also included in: Biology Lessons and Curriculum for the ENTIRE YEAR
Amusement Park Design Project
Design your own Amusement Park! This fun unit consists of 16 worksheets that will challenge students in their creative thinking, research skills, design and engineering abilities.Digital option available! Please note, some worksheets transfer nicely into a digital version but many are designed to be completed on paper or as a hands on STEM/STEAM activity.The package includes:1. Unit title page2. Student title page3. Park research worksheet (internet access for students recommended)4. Art activ
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3rd - 8th
Also included in: STEAM Project Bundle
Special Education and Autism Science Unit - Water Cycle Unit and Vocabulary
This water cycle unit is specifically designed for students in special education and autism classrooms. This unit will help you easily provide standards-based science content on a level appropriate for your students. Use this unit for ready-to-go activities for the classroom in addition to homework that easily aligns with what you are doing in class. Datasheets are included to make your life easier, they will help you keep a measurable record of student progress and understanding of vocabulary
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5th - 12th
Biomes -- 5E Unit Plan (NGSS MS-LS2-1)
This complete 5E instructional sequence introduces Earth’s biomes and uses these as a vehicle through which to teach biotic and abiotic factors and address the Next Generation Science Standard MS-LS2-1. It is the first unit in my NGSS-aligned Middle School Life Science Curriculum (coming soon), but it can easily be incorporated into any curriculum. Activities expect students to read, discuss, use technology, analyze data, and conduct research. Five days of complete lesson plans are included in
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5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-LS2-1
STEM "Career Fair" Project Based Learning Now with a Lapbook!
Now including a STEM Careers Lapbook!!!This pack will help introduce students to STEM careers! This project based learning activity includes teacher suggestions and resources, student research sheets, project/writing planning worksheets, and materials to conduct a mock "career fair". This project can easily incorporate Reading/ELA standards and skills.
Students will have a blast researching high interest careers in the STEM disciplines and will have the opportunity to role play in their chosen
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3rd - 10th
Particle Motion and Phases of Matter Unit Worksheets Activities Assessment
COMPLETE UNIT to cover particle motion, states of matter, and phase changes! Includes informational texts, interactive worksheets, a hands-on activity, exit tickets, and a brief summative assessment. Students will learn about how matter behaves in a solid, liquid, and gas phase and the relationship between phases, temperature, and heat energy. They'll also learn how a thermometer works!Please click VIEW PREVIEW (above) to see each included lesson in more detail!This resource is broken down in
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6th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-PS1-4
Innovation Celebration PBL, Design Your Own Invention, Project-based Learning
Project-based learning allows for students to engage in solving a real-world problem or answering a complex question. They demonstrate their knowledge and skills by creating a public product or presentation for a real audience. Students have choice throughout the course of the project, including how to show mastery. Students reflect on progress and engage in the feedback process. PRINT AND GO!!!Throughout is project, students will complete the design thinking process to create an invention that
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4th - 8th
Space Exploration Unit - ELA Paired Reading Activities, Writing Prompts
Do you want to be the best teacher? Would you like to introduce a space exploration unit in your class with a meaningful unit packed with paired reading activities, bell ringers and writing prompts? Is one of your goals to teach interesting facts about space with interdisciplinary matching activities and reading passages? Would you be interested in giving your students complex standards aligned activities (PRINT&DIGITAL) with space exploration paired texts (article, poem, short story) and in
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6th - 8th
Roller Coaster STEM Model Building Contest Project for Engineering and Physics
This project includes 6 sections including research, exploration, design, build, showcase, and reflection. It takes students step by step through designing a functioning marble roller coaster with a theme and building it. It comes with multiple rubrics to grade each section and a set of reflection questions at the end. This project can be lengthened or shortened by requiring more detailed projects. When my students did this project, it took about 10 days to make detailed, functioning rollercoast
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3rd - 12th
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Hispanic Scientists Hispanic Heritage Month Science Activity & Reading Comp
Discover the amazing contributions of Hispanic scientists and inventors with this engaging and collaborative hexagonal thinking activity! Take a deeper look into the lives, contributions, and character traits of diverse scientists and inventors. This is the perfect Hispanic Heritage Month project for secondary science classes! Also... great for Hispanic Heritage Month Bulletin Boards and Science Sub Plans. Product Highlights:Hexagonal Worksheet Templates: Students extract information about their
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Grades:
6th - 10th
Solar Eclipse Unit - Middle School ELA Paired Reading Activities, Writing Prompt
Do you want to be the best teacher? Would you like to introduce your students to the Solar Eclipse with meaningful texts, bell ringers and writing prompts? Is one of your goals to offer a solid unit that explores the themes of Solar Eclipse? Would you be interested in giving your students complex standards aligned activities (PRINT&DIGITAL) with fun paired texts (article, poem, short story) and inspiring writing prompts and bell ringers?If you found something that gave you all these benefits
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6th - 8th
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Design A Video Game on Scratch
Children will begin by playing different video games online to evaluate what makes them fun and engaging for their audience. They will then analyse the mechanics of the games and then plan a game of their own remixing a game on Scratch based on their criteria. Children will then use conditionals, operators, and variables on Scratch to make their own game.Lesson plans, editable rubrics, and classroom examples from Year 6 are provided, as well as links to additional support on the Scratch website.
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5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
Also included in: STEAM BUNDLE for Years 3 and 4
Black History Month Science & Reading Comprehension - Scientists & Inventors
Celebrate Black History Month! Discover the amazing contributions of African American scientists and inventors with this engaging and collaborative hexagonal thinking activity! Take a deeper look into the lives, contributions, and character traits of diverse scientists and inventors. This is the perfect Black History Month project for secondary science classes! Also... great for Black History Month Bulletin Boards and Science Sub Plans. Product Highlights:Hexagonal Worksheet Templates: Students
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8th - 12th
Racing Cars - A Unit About Force and Motion
This unit is designed to be project based, and teach students how forces affect the motion of car as it moves down a ramp. Students will gain deeper understanding of mass, air resistance, gravity, friction, inertia, and acceleration. Students will explore forces through inquiry-based learning where they will design a ramp to carry a car the farthest distance.
This unit plan features a lesson plan/unit overview, and 16 pages of student workbook pages with brainstorming, challenge questions, bra
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Psychoactive Drugs and Their Affect on the Body
This set of 10 worksheets is a re-make of worksheets I had on my site before. With more research and more understandable information, I think you will find them interesting and informative. They cover the most common psychoactive abused drugs (cocaine, amphetamines, heroin, marijuana, ecstasy, PCP, LSD, ) and also includes tobacco (nicotine), caffeine and alcohol. These worksheets can be used as students homework or can be used as a lecture aid. Students label the main organs, write how eac
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
Spring Peeps Activity Pack - April ELA, Math & Science
This Peeps pack will give you plenty of fun and rigorous Peep themed activities to do with your students this Spring. With ELA, Math and Science activities, students will be engaged in a variety of Peep themed learning. Each Science activity comes with a teacher FAQ page to help you get started. PRODUCT INCLUDES- History of Peeps Text (1 page)- Peeps Vocabulary Match (1 page)- History of Peeps Cloze (1 page)- History of Peeps Comprehension Questions (2 pages)- Peeps Taste Test ELA Packet (2 page
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Weather Instructional Packet - 55 pgs. - VA SOL 4.6
This is 55 page instructional packet designed for teaching the 4th grade Virginia SOL Weather Science Unit (SOL 4.6). It includes worksheets, activities, study guides, quizzes, and a unit test. I use it in conjunction with my instructional Weather SMARTboard and my Weather interactive notebook, both also featured on tpt. Included in this packet:
*Worksheet—”Name that Cloud or Precipitation” (2 pages), plus 2 pg. answer key
*Worksheet—”Name that Front or Pressure System” (2 pages), plus 2 pg
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3rd - 9th
Differentiation Chart
This 13 page pdf contains charts and graphs designed to help teachers differentiate their lessons and units for students with ADHD, Dyslexia, and Asperger's. It also suggests activities and projects to use with students of each of Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, VAK, and Felder/ Solomon's Index of Learning Styles. Additionally, it contains charts for Bloom's Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain, Moffet's Universe of Discourse, Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, VAK, Felder and Solomon's Index of Le
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Special Education & Autism Science Unit: Plants Unit
View full video preview here: https://youtu.be/qymkXP990moThis Plants Unit is designed to help you as a SPED teacher provide developmentally appropriate AND age-appropriate science instruction. This unit provides ready-to-print activities for the classroom (and homework) that easily aligns with extended content standards. Includes instructional guides, ideas for extending activities, symbol-supported activities, and more.Datasheets are included to make your life easier, helping you keep a mea
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4th - 12th
Weather SMARTboard Instructional Lesson - 26 Pages-Clips & Interactive
This SMARTboard lesson is a 26 page instructional lesson for my 4th grade Virginia Science SOL Weather Unit. It covers all of the Virginia 4th grade Science SOLs for Weather. It contains tons of video clips & interactive activities! (Twenty web links in all!) Topics included are: The Water Cycle, Types of Clouds (Cumulus, Cirrus, Stratus, & Cumulonimbus), Types of Precipitation (Rain, Snow, Sleet, Freezing Rain, & Hail),
Weather Instruments (Thermometers & Temperature, Anemo
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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
Special Education & Autism Science Unit- Recycling and Conservation
This recycling and conservation science unit is specifically designed for students in special education and autism classrooms. This unit will help you easily provide standards-based science content on a level appropriate for your students. This unit provides ready-to-go activities for the classroom in addition to homework that easily aligns with what you are doing in class.Datasheets are included to make your life easier, they will help you keep a measurable record of student progress and unders
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Grades:
4th - 12th
NGSS:
5-ESS3-1
, HS-ESS3-2
, MS-ESS3-4
, MS-ESS3-3
, K-ESS3-3
Endangered Species Project - Teacher's Guide, Handouts, Posters and More!
Get ready...ENDANGERED SPECIES DAY:Annually on the 3rd Friday in May!Endangered Species Day is the perfect day to begin discussing with your students the importance of protecting Earth’s diverse animals!Endangered Species Project!Includes:18 Different Species Posters and Trading CardsThreatened Species Diagram based on IUCN Red List With Explanation (Posters and Trading Cards)What to Do: Step-by-Step Teacher’s GuideWhat to Look For: Step-by-Step Student’s Research Questions GuideThreats Pin-Up:
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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Importance of learning science
Learning science is particularly important for students as it equips them with the essential knowledge and skills to make sense of the world around them. Science education is not just about memorizing facts. It fosters critical thinking, inquiry, and problem-solving abilities. These skills are not only useful in school but also in everyday life beyond the classroom.
Benefits of learning science
Learning science offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. In fact, it helps students:
- Question the world around them and seek evidence-based explanations
- Cultivate their ability to observe, experiment, and analyze data
- Nurture a sense of curiosity, awe, and wonder about the natural world
- Understand natural phenomena and the laws that govern the universe
With a solid foundation in science, teachers can help empower students to think critically, solve problems, make informed decisions, and engage with the world around them in meaningful ways.
Teaching with science resources
One of the best parts about science class is all of the possibilities for hands-on, collaborative learning! Think: labs, experiments, inquiry-based activities, and design challenges. These activities encourage students to explore scientific concepts by observing, asking questions, and conducting investigations. Additionally, with small group centers, students can engage in group experiments, discussions, and projects that require them to collaborate, share ideas, and solve problems together.
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If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable or digital science resources, TPT has an extensive array of instructional materials for every learning need, topic, or grade level. Whether you're learning about plant parts or butterfly life cycles, or exploring advanced topics like the anatomy of a cell or Newton’s laws of motion, we've got you covered.
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