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5th grade science unit plans under $5
Scientific Method Activity - Easy Gummy Worm Science Experiment Lab 4th and 5th
This scientific method activity using gummy worms candy will have your students engaged and having fun as they learn about the steps of the scientific method. Hands-on, easy to use, budget friendly and loved by thousands of students!Click the PREVIEW button to see more details of what is included.CLICK HERE to save almost 30% with the Scientific Method BUNDLE!⭐ What's Included:table of contentssupply/materials listdaily plan/outline of the activitiesteacher instructionsfull page student lab shee
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4th - 6th
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Back-to-School Science: Lab Safety, Tools, Scientific Method What is a Scientist
This back-to-school science unit covers lab safety, tools, what is a scientist, and the scientific method. Lesson plans help your students answer questions like, "What is a scientist?" and "How can I stay safe in the lab?" with hands-on activities and interactive notebook pages. Start the new school year off right in your science classroom without spending hours prepping your lesson plans. Engaging and informative, this mini-unit includes everything you need to teach lab safety and introduce stu
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2nd - 5th
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K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
Genetics & The Study of Heredity Interactive Notebook
The Life Science Interactive Notebook: Genetics: The Science of Heredity chapter showcase student’s ability to:Explain how scientists use the principles of probabilityConstruct and understand Punnett squaresDescribe the principle of independent assortmentIdentify and explain steps of meiosisDifferentiate meiosis from mitosisDescribe the work of Gregor Mendel the Father of Genetics and his use of pea plants in geneticsEach activity enables students to process the information given by the teacher
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5th - 9th
Also included in: Life Science Interactive Notebook - Complete Bundle
Great Pacific Garbage Patch | Ocean Pollution | Earth Day unit
Are you looking for interesting and unusual ways to learn about human impacts on the environment? Planning for Earth Day, Clean Up Australia Day, Oceans Week, World Environment Day or World Water Day. If your students don't quite understand the importance of recycling, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch will alert them to the real impacts that just one plastic bottle can have.While many people are unaware of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, it is a major issue affecting global environmental health
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5th - 8th
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A Day with the Iditarod | No Prep Sub Plans | Digital and Print
Did you know that the Iditarod is unofficially known as the "Last Great Race on Earth?"Your students can learn all about it when they spend a day with this high-interest, informational mini-unit designed for in-person AND distance learners. The “A Day With” series of mini-units is designed to keep your students engaged in a historical topic all day with standards-aligned work and activities they’ll love. It’s fun for students, NO PREP for teachers, and comes in two differentiated versions!You'll
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
The Aquatic Biome Reading Passages (3 levels), Vocabulary & Comprehension
"The Aquatic Biome" includes everything you need to work on vocabulary and comprehension skills with your students! Differentiated reading passages (3 levels) allow you to meet the needs of all students and to ensure complete understanding of the content! Take a look at the product preview for a closer look. All follow-up activities are thoughtfully aligned to the ELA Common Core for Grades 2-6. Reading levels on the passages range from Grade Level Equivalents of 3-5.5.WHAT'S INCLUDED:• “All Abo
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3rd - 6th
Cells Vocabulary Search Activity | Seek and Find Science Doodle
Students will enjoy learning about Cells with Seek & Find Science Doodles. Cell key terms include Prokaryotic, Eukaryotic, Nucleus, Cell Membrane, Cell wall, Cytoplasm, Mitochondria, Chloroplast, and Vacuole. Great for student engagement and retention. Your students will love searching for science and will have a fun coloring sheet when they are done! This is a No Prep Activity! Perfect to use in interactive notebooks- just print and go! Includes- Cells Doodle/Color Sheet with key terms- Stu
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5th - 9th
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Midwest Region of the United States Lapbook or Interactive Notebook
Midwest Region of the United States Lapbook includes ten foldable pieces that students can either use to create a lapbook or use in an interactive notebook. The lapbook and notebook pieces are great to use as a formative assessment as you progress through your study of the Midwest Region.The foldable pieces will help your students record their learning about the land, water, climate, landmarks, products and natural resources, and culture of the Midwest Region. There is also a foldable to help st
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Regions of the United States Lapbook or Interactive Notebook Bundle
Terrarium Unit Plan (Mini-Garden in a bottle) - A Design and Technology Unit
Have a look at this fun and engaging design and technology unit plan. My students did this unit last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. Using the elements of 'design and technology', the students will investigate, design, make, evaluate and reflect on their terrariums. Terrariums can be made in any glass or plastic container. Within this product, there are step by step photos of how students can make one using an empty 2L coke bottle.
This Terrarium Unit, you will find:
- A unit overview
- teachin
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3rd - 7th
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Summer Reading Passages The Formation of the Colorado Plateau Informational Text
Are you looking for summer reading passages with comprehension questions? The Earth changes constantly. In this informational text unit, students will learn how the Colorado Plateau was formed and how geoscience processes like weathering and erosion formed mesas, buttes, spires, and arches. Students will also learn how Earth's changes are connected to the formation of new sedimentary rock. Students will see that the Earth’s surface is always changing. Great for Reading Comprehension. Great for
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5th - 7th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS2-2
Also included in: Earth Science Summer Reading Passages for Middle School Science
Northeast Region of the United States Lapbook or Interactive Notebook
Northeast Region of the United States Lapbook includes ten foldable pieces that students can either use to create a lapbook or use in an interactive notebook. The lapbook and notebook pieces are great to use as a formative assessment as you progress through your study of the Northeast Region.The foldable pieces will help your students record their learning about the land, water, climate, landmarks, products and natural resources, and culture of the Northeast Region. There is also a foldable to h
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Regions of the United States Lapbook or Interactive Notebook Bundle
Introduction to 3D Printing – STEAM PROJECT – GRADES 3-6 - Distance Learning
Have you purcahsed or are considering purchasing a 3D printer and don’t know where to start? This resource is perfect for classrooms just starting out in the world of 3D imaging and provides you with everything you need to teach the fundamentals of 3D printing. This STEAM project is broken up into two parts: BUILDING BACKGROUNDYour kiddos will begin by doing a research project of the history, current uses, benefits, and future innovcations of 3D printing. Graphic organizers are provided to assi
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3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
3D Printing Unit - Food Truck Frenzy
This cohesive STEM unit utilizes digital tools such as Google Slides, Adobe Spark, and Tinkercad to provide students with an authentic project based learning experience.Students will create a marketing plan for their food truck business to go along with their CAD design of their truck. The unit includes the following: SLIDE DECK (FOR YOU AND STUDENTS)SCOPE AND SEQUENCE (DAILY & WEEKLY SCHEDULES INCLUDED)PROFICIENCY SCALE OF 3D PRINTSPICTURES OF STUDENT CREATED SAMPLE TRUCKSProduct will downl
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3rd - 8th
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CHICKEN AND EGG: LIFE CYCLE UNIT (EGG INCUBATION ACTIVITIES)
Description:Do you bring eggs into your classroom to hatch? Some of the most exciting days in a classroom are when children watch the hatching of eggs! Even if you don't actually bring the eggs into the classroom, use these materials to learn all about eggs and chickens.Product Information:•Parts of a Chicken•How a Chick Hatches• Who Lays Eggs•Parts of a Fertilized Egg•How do roosters and hen produce a fertilized egg?•Pick a fertilized egg?•How to check for a fertilized egg?•How do living things
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K - 5th
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Creative Curriculum Trees Study Visuals
28 Pages of Visuals for the Creative Curriculum "Trees" study. It starts with Large images of trees, parts of trees, things made out of trees, etc.. to print out for around the room. Then the rest of the document is smaller pictures for you to show on a SMARTboard as question of the day or print out.Visuals range from types trees, images to help identify different kinds of trees, parts of a tree, things made out of wood, and then questions of the day about things that come from trees and animal
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PreK - 6th
All About Plants (Parts of Plants, Life Cycle, Assessment)
This is the perfect bundle to use when teaching your students about the different parts of plants, the life cycle of plants, and the needs of plants. Your students will also enjoy making a "Parts of a Plant" Craftivity.
Included in this bundle (in color and b&w):
-Parts of a Plant Craftivity
-"I Can" Statements
-Essential Questions Poster
-Parts of a Plant Poster
-The Life Cycle of a Plant Poster/Printable (two different types)
-Seeds Poster/Printable
-Roots Po
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1st - 5th
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Science Doodle - Fossils - What Lived Before - Interactive Notebook Foldable -
This foldable is also sold in the Fossils $6 BUNDLE.
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This foldable helps students understand that all fossils give us evidence of what happened in that environment on the earth many years ago. I encouraged the students to be creative and draw a variety of fossils. They shared with the class and it was so much fun. They decorated their layers and we talked about oldest and youngest layers.
This was a fun foldable that let the student show the
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3rd - 5th
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Pancake Day Activities - Cooking Math Project - Physical and Chemical Changes
Celebrate Pancake Day with this real world math project, science and writing activities! The pancake lesson includes recipes and response pages where students practice their writing, reading, math, and science skills. Cooking pancakes is a sure way to engage your students by making real world connections while learning and practicing skills from all of the core subjects! Recipes for PancakesPancakes from scratchChocolate chip pancakesBlueberry pancakesPancake Day Special: Create your own recipe
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
5-PS1-4
, 4-PS3-2
All About Jellyfish, Star Fish, Coral, & Anemone Lesson
Did you know that sea stars can make a clone of themselves with only a foot to start with? How about that most of the coral reef is made up of dead shells of once living coral? We have lots of fun and interesting facts about echinoderms and cnidarians in this lesson for kids from K-8th grade. The engaging lesson will teach kids how in the ocean, sand dollars are vibrant colors and tend to live in groups or that the Portuguese Man of War is a actually a colony of many jelly like animals functioni
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Grades:
K - 8th
Also included in: Ocean Animals BUNDLE (250 pages!!)
Southwest Region of the United States Lapbook or Interactive Notebook
Southwest Region of the United States Lapbook includes ten foldable pieces that students can either use to create a lapbook or use in an interactive notebook. The lapbook and notebook pieces are great to use as a formative assessment as you progress through your study of the Southwest Region.The foldable pieces will help your students record their learning about the land, water, climate, landmarks, products and natural resources, and culture of the Southwest Region. There is also a foldable to h
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Regions of the United States Lapbook or Interactive Notebook Bundle
Emergency Sub Plans for 4th & 5th Grade - All About Sharks - 5 Days of No Prep!
Let your students dive into the fascinating world of sharks while covering essential skills in math, reading, and science with these no prep emergency lesson plans! These shark week activities are perfect for no prep, emergency sub plans for 4th and 5th graders OR transform your classroom to an underwater adventure for the week! Here's what's inside of the Shark Week Activities: 5 Reading Activities: Dive into the world of sharks with fun to read informational texts, a poem, and interactive acti
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4th - 5th
Southeast Region of the United States Lapbook or Interactive Notebook
Southeast Region of the United States Lapbook includes ten foldable pieces that students can either use to create a lapbook or use in an interactive notebook. The lapbook and notebook pieces are great to use as a formative assessment as you progress through your study of the Southeast Region.The foldable pieces will help your students record their learning about the land, water, climate, landmarks, products and natural resources, and culture of the Southeast Region. There is also a foldable to h
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Regions of the United States Lapbook or Interactive Notebook Bundle
All About Crustaceans, Mollusks & Cephalopods
This interesting and engaging lesson will help your student learn all about Crustaceans, Mollusks, and Cephalopods. You will learn about various aquatic animals that fit in this classification including: crabs, lobsters, barnacles, bivalves, clams, octopus, squid, and more. Learn which of them can go a whole year without eating in cold water, which grow their own shells, what beautiful seashells come from which ocean animals, how some can change colors within seconds, who produced die, and so mu
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K - 8th
Also included in: Ocean Animals BUNDLE (250 pages!!)
NGSS Standards Cheat Sheet
This is a cheat sheet for the NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards) standards. It provides every standard for each grade, grades K-5. Great resource for planning units to look at the standards.
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K - 5th
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