Physical Change and Chemical Change Sort (Changes in Matter) A google slides link is now included in the pdf file. Go to page 2 and click on the image, make a copy of the file. There is now the drag and drop option. This pdf file includes the following: - 2 sorts (differentiated) - anchor sheet - answer keys - recording sheets Learners of the World [email protected]
Before I started teaching high school, I taught middle school science for 14 years and my absolute favorite topic to teach students is genetics. The “a-ha” moments when they learn abou…
Learning the levels of organization, that is! My students are working hard on our living systems unit. Our newest anchor chart is all about the organization of living things. I am a huge fan of anchor charts because it helps my students organize the content into bite sized pieces. In our living systems unit we discuss the levels of organization, plant and animal cells, classification and cell theory. I like to make an anchor chart for each of the different topics and hang them around the room as we complete them. Even more than that, I like the students to have their own copies of each anchor chart. So while I'm building a big one, they are making a smaller version at their desks. The levels of organization student version has all the boxes, but they're all mixed up. The students first figure out which boxes go together and then color those boxes to match. Once colored they are cut and pasted to the empty boxes on the final page. I love that my students end a unit with a set of anchor charts all their own. By the end of the year they have a nice science collection, highlighting the content they learned in a way that's easy to reference and, hopefully, easy to remember! The Let's Build: Levels of Organization Anchor Chart can be found here. The Let's Build: Levels of Organization student version can be found here.
Body Systems Card Sort. Challenge your students to learn the structure and function of the Human Body Systems. This interactive card sort activity contains 10 pages of cards (4 per page) for a total of 40 different cards. These cards are great for review, rotations, partner work, or independent study for your tactile/kinesthetic learners. Save Money! Check out our store for our Body Systems Task Card and Card Sort Set. Included in this set is the following: -10 Body System Cards -10 Body System Pictures Cards -10 Body System Functions Cards -10 Body System Structures Cards (3 structures per body system) -2 different student recording sheets (Full size format and Interactive notebook format) -Answer key -All student sheets and answer keys come with borders and without borders (to conserve printer ink) Other products you may like: Interactive Science Bundle Science Card Sort MEGA Bundle Science Task Card Bundle Around the Room-Science Circuit Bundle Science Warm-Up Bundle Terms of Use: Copyright © The Science Duo. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. Intended for classroom and personal use only.
How I use this Interactive Science Notebook: Teaching the Structure and Properties of Matter - NGSS 2nd grade
This download includes 18 different words related to genetics and heredity. What makes this word wall different is the definitions and the images. Having the definitions available makes a good way to refer back to the word quickly during a lecture/lesson. That way when a student asks what a word means, they can easily refer back to it. The images also help provide visual cues and examples of what the words mean. There are two different frames for you to display the words around the classroom. There is a multicolored bracket style frame for those who like that pop of color, and there is a more practical rectangular frame around the word for those of you who wan to cut and go. Also to help integrate those words into their vocabulary there is a two-page worksheet (answer key provided) of different question on how to use those words. The word list includes: Genetics Heredity DNA Gene Chromosome Dominant Trait Recessive Trait Genotype Phenotype Allele Punnet Square Heterozygous Homozygous Sexual Reproduction Asexual Reproduction Variation Natural Selection Selective Breeding *Note: Genetics, Heredity, and Sexual Reproduction do NOT have images*
Push and Pull Sort (Force and Motion) This resource has the following: Two Anchor charts: Pull and Push 1 sorting sheet with pictures 1 answer key 1 recording sheet (It's only in color) Great for review, test prep, science center, homework or group work. Learners of the World
Get every student in you class fully engaged with this fun card game. This ‘I Have, Who Has?’ game is a fantastic way to review the key terms and symbols for your electricity unit. I have used it very successfully as a quick starter activity to refresh their minds! This pack includes 28 game cards so should be plenty for a whole class, however children can double up or have two cards depending on your class size. Vocabulary Included: - conductor - circuit - insulator - symbol - electricity - component - voltage - amps - battery - wire - switch - series circuit - parallel circuit - circuit diagram - fuse - voltmeter - current Symbols Included: - bulb - open switch - battery - wire - motor - buzzer - closed switch - voltmeter - resistor - fuse - ammeter How to play: Distribute the cards to your students. Some students may get more than one card. Select a student to begin by reading their card aloud. (example: I have the bulb symbol. Who has who has the symbol for a buzzer?) The student who has the card with the correct answer to the previous student’s “Who Has...” question reads their card aloud. And so on. Students must listen for their turn and try not to break the chain. When the chain circles around to the first student, the game is over. If playing individually or in small groups, these cards can also be used as dominoes. If you like this resource please check out my Electricity Circuit Building Activity for a fun and practical way to teach your students about circuits. ------------------------ Please don’t forget to rate this product and provide feedback to earn credits that you can use toward future purchases on TpT. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!
This product offers an excellent way to give your students practice in reading for information. You place the 12 fact cards around the room and your students hunt,read,write,and learn all about solids, liquids and gases The cards can also be used as a word wall. Included: 12 Fact Cards student worksheets answer key optional writing assignment Aligned with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.1-7.1 Please e-mail me with any questions about this resource or suggestions for future resources at: [email protected]. If you are dissatisfied in any way, please contact me right away by email or in my “Ask a Question” section, and I will do my best to resolve any issues! If you would like to get updates on my monthly sales, follow me by pressing the star located just under my name. For a preview of my WebQuests, click on the following link Mrs. Mc's WebQuests For more read and write the room click below Read and Write the Room For more products that reinforce reading and language skills, check the link below: ELA K-8
Want a fun way to change up how you assess your students? While there is value in giving multiple choice assessments (students need to have these test taking skills to pass the ACT and SAT), I also like to change it up. Not all students do well with multiple choice or written tests, and offering ... Read more
When we ask students to review each other’s work and give feedback, we often hear…“Why did you do that?” or“It’s just wrong.” or“It’s good” (even when it’s not). Teaching students to give effective feedback is hard and takes a lot of student practice. And then more practice. If you are using project based learning in ... Read more
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Teaching and learning vocabulary and content concepts in science is especially difficult for ELLs and SPED students. Use this worksheet to help make learning more accessible! ENJOY! :)
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After having finished a unit over the body systems and with the kids itching for something fun to do, I put together this body system QR sort. We are all familiar with word sorts, you can have a word with a definition or a word with a category and you try to match up the correct one. For this, you have the body system on top and are asked to find what the body system does at the bottom. With a simple cut and some shuffling you have at your hands a body system word sort! I have used QR codes in the classroom many times and I have found that students are very engaged using the technology, and having a puzzle/sort like this will only get them more engaged.This download contains 12 different QR codes so it works great as a warm up or an exit ticket and in small groups it is a great way to review the body systems. Also included is a student worksheet for students to record the new information from the QR code. The following body systems are included: circulatory / cardiovascular, respiratory, skeletal, muscular, nervous, integumentary, excretory, digestive, immune, reproductive, and endocrine. Homeostasis is also included as all of these body systems will work together to produce homeostasis. Check out the preview for a sample question.
This activity introduces the basics of the menstrual cycle and describes each of the four stages of the cycle: menstruation, the egg matures in a ovary, ovulation, and the egg travels to the uterus. Includes a student notes printable, graphic organizers (teacher and student copies), and a diagram illustrating the stages of the menstrual cycle. You can also view a full preview of this handout :) ****************************************************************************************************************************************** If you like this product, you may also be interested in these additional Human Growth and Development Resources! CLICK HERE: Human Growth and Development Resources BUNDLE AND SAVE: Over 30% discount! NINE of my most popular Human Growth and Development Resources! CLICK HERE: Human Growth and Development Bundle ****************************************************************************************************************************************** Thanks for visiting, Lori Maldonado
Check out these fun invertebrates activities for kids. Students in 4th grade will love this hands on project to help them with animal classification. You'll love seeing them learning the types of invertebrates with and without exoskeletons. Click to read about my science lesson on Shut the Door and Teach.
Natural selection is one of my favorite topics to teach. Students enter the classroom with prior misconceptions and it’s fun to have students figure out what natural selection and evolution really mean. Here is a list of my favorite natural selection and evolution activities: 1. Battle of the Beaks– This lab is always a hit! ... Read more
Teach students about push and pull forces with this push or pull sorting activity that includes push and pull examples on each card
Okay, so you can tell by the title of this blog post I’m a biologist and not a chemist. (Chemistry teachers, please don’t send me hate mail!) Honestly, I don’t love chemistry and I don’t love teaching it. BUT, I realize how important it is for students to understand biochemistry before I dive into a ... Read more
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Who else wants to be organized and prepared for your next parent/teacher/student conference? This conference form is a huge time saver because it is easy to read and simple to fill out! Includes ten categories: Class Participation, Classwork Quality, Academic Effort, General Behavior, Classwork Effort, Class Readiness, Homework Effort, Assignment/Test Grades for Marking Period, Areas of Strength, and Areas Needing Improvement. Also includes an area to complete a plan of action for the teacher, the parent, and the student. This will insure that all three parties are considered accountable, not just the teacher. You can also view a full preview of this conference form :) ****************************************************************************************************************************************** If you like this product, you may also be interested in these additional Classroom Management Resources! CLICK HERE: Classroom Management Resources BUNDLE AND SAVE: Over 30% discount! SEVEN of my most popular Classroom Management Resources! CLICK HERE: Classroom Management Resources Bundle ****************************************************************************************************************************************** Thanks for visiting, Lori Maldonado
Practice, review and / or asses renewable and non renewable resources with this quick cut and paste activity! 2 different options given for easy differentiating. Students identify a definition and several examples of each type of resource and sort them under the correct category. NEWLY included: A vocabulary review application project where students use the sort words in a diagram, story or comic strip. Tips for Digital and Distance Learning: Cut and Paste sorting activities are great for interactive learning and application of concepts, but can be tricky to do in distance learning. Here are some ideas on how to use these in this crazy time we are experiencing. If your students have a printer and can get access to the sort documents: •This product comes as one large PDF file. To use it digitally and not have to give all the pages online (with the answers) follow these directions: 1.Open document (PDF) 2.Click Print 3.In Destination (where it typically has your printer listed) choose save as PDF 4.Select the pages you want to share with your class 5.Click SAVE- this will direct you to save the document –name it and save it whatever makes sense for you and Click SAVE 6.Share digitally! •Have students print and then cut out the sections and place them in what they think is the correct spot. •Then either have them send a picture to you on Google classroom, review the sort in a Zoom session or post an answer key for them to check their answers (this works as a formative assignment). If your students do not have access to the documents or a printer try this: •In a Zoom session- give students the categories you are sorting into. •Read each example and have students decide which category it belongs to. Then review the answers. This is another formative assignment. Enjoy! Check out these other natural resource products! Tips for Digital and Distance Learning: Cut and Paste sorting activities are great for interactive learning and application of concepts, but can be tricky to do in distance learning. Here are some ideas on how to use these in this crazy time we are experiencing. If your students have a printer and can get access to the sort documents: •This product comes as one large PDF file. To use it digitally and not have to give all the pages online (with the answers) follow these directions: 1.Open document (PDF) 2.Click Print 3.In Destination (where it typically has your printer listed) choose save as PDF 4.Select the pages you want to share with your class 5.Click SAVE- this will direct you to save the document –name it and save it whatever makes sense for you and Click SAVE 6.Share digitally! •Have students print and then cut out the sections and place them in what they think is the correct spot. •Then either have them send a picture to you on Google classroom, review the sort in a Zoom session or post an answer key for them to check their answers (this works as a formative assignment). If your students do not have access to the documents or a printer try this: •In a Zoom session- give students the categories you are sorting into. •Read each example and have students decide which category it belongs to. Then review the answers. This is another formative assignment. Man Made Resources vs Natural Resources (renewable/ nonrenewable) Sort How are Natural Resources used? (renewable & non-renewable) Sort, Center
Communication is key. We've all heard it a thousand times. What does communication look like though? In this lesson, participants use engaging activities to practice effective communication, and then explore their practice through debrief questions. Why Leadership: Leaders must develop key skills that will benefit them in school, jobs, and life. Skills such as communication, collaboration, follow-through, and ethics are best learned at an early age, so they may be practiced before entering the workforce. These skills benefit every person, not just leaders, so by teaching leadership to teens, you are facilitating their growth as successful human beings, employees, friends, and family members. What Does the Lesson Plan Include? Clearly Stated Learning Objective Terms of Use How to Use/Teacher's Notes Check In Question Ice Breaker Engaging Activity Thought-Provoking Discussion For You, the Teacher: Each PDF lesson plan is ready to read in print or digital format with thorough instructions, step by step activity guides, facilitation tips, and suggested next steps. The lesson plan is activity and discussion based, so minimal preparation or displays are needed, and activity supplies are limited to materials already found around the home or classroom. The lesson plan can be facilitated online via video chat or in-person. The Leadership Series Growing Bundle Includes: What is Leadership? Who Am I As A Leader? Leadership Values Communication Follow Through Creativity & Collaboration Evaluation & Growth What Are My Ethics? Knowing My Audience Growing My Community Other relevant lesson plans: Safe Space & Group Agreements (SEL) Service Project Planning Worksheet Bundle Part One Teamwork Please don't forget to follow me and to leave a review to receive credit through TpT.
Are you taking the leap into the wild and wonderful world of teaching elementary science? Congratulations! 🎉 From making science notebooks your best friend to transforming your classroom into a curiosity-filled lab (minus the lab rats), we’ve got tips and tricks that even Albert Einstein would high five us for! Ready to become the next superhero ... Read more
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Body Systems Card Sort. Challenge your students to learn the structure and function of the Human Body Systems. This interactive card sort activity contains 10 pages of cards (4 per page) for a total of 40 different cards. These cards are great for review, rotations, partner work, or independent study for your tactile/kinesthetic learners. Save Money! Check out our store for our Body Systems Task Card and Card Sort Set. Included in this set is the following: -10 Body System Cards -10 Body System Pictures Cards -10 Body System Functions Cards -10 Body System Structures Cards (3 structures per body system) -2 different student recording sheets (Full size format and Interactive notebook format) -Answer key -All student sheets and answer keys come with borders and without borders (to conserve printer ink) Other products you may like: Interactive Science Bundle Science Card Sort MEGA Bundle Science Task Card Bundle Around the Room-Science Circuit Bundle Science Warm-Up Bundle Terms of Use: Copyright © The Science Duo. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. Intended for classroom and personal use only.
Check out these fun and easy science experiments for kids! These EGGcellent EGGsperiments are a great way to teach your kids the scientific method.
Discover hands-on beginning of the year science activities that will excite your students and build the foundation for future science lessons!
Free back-to-school science activities for grades 3-5, including free posters, simple experiments, and science activities to start the year.
This download includes 18 different words related to genetics and heredity. What makes this word wall different is the definitions and the images. Having the definitions available makes a good way to refer back to the word quickly during a lecture/lesson. That way when a student asks what a word means, they can easily refer back to it. The images also help provide visual cues and examples of what the words mean. There are two different frames for you to display the words around the classroom. There is a multicolored bracket style frame for those who like that pop of color, and there is a more practical rectangular frame around the word for those of you who wan to cut and go. Also to help integrate those words into their vocabulary there is a two-page worksheet (answer key provided) of different question on how to use those words. The word list includes: Genetics Heredity DNA Gene Chromosome Dominant Trait Recessive Trait Genotype Phenotype Allele Punnet Square Heterozygous Homozygous Sexual Reproduction Asexual Reproduction Variation Natural Selection Selective Breeding *Note: Genetics, Heredity, and Sexual Reproduction do NOT have images*
Discover hands-on beginning of the year science activities that will excite your students and build the foundation for future science lessons!
This versatile new line of science resources for 4th and 5th grade teachers was created to help solve common issues. What can I do if a student was absent during a lab or activity? How can I meet students’ 504 and IEP accommodations? How can I provide support to new students and have missed material I previously taught? What ... Read more
Do you teach science in Texas and wonder how to successfully teach science lessons that are aligned with the next generation science standards? We created an NGSS and TEKS alignment tool for second, third and fourth grade teachers in Texas who want to use our science stations and 5E units.
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This versatile new line of science resources for 4th and 5th grade teachers was created to help solve common issues. What can I do if a student was absent during a lab or activity? How can I meet students’ 504 and IEP accommodations? How can I provide support to new students and have missed material I previously taught? What ... Read more
Discover hands-on beginning of the year science activities that will excite your students and build the foundation for future science lessons!
How I use this Interactive Science Notebook: Teaching the Structure and Properties of Matter - NGSS 2nd grade
Learn how to prepare and host a super-fun and engaging Trashketball Review Game in your classroom! Grab my editable game template and create your own game.
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These tips will serve you well your entire teaching career! Learning is a life-long experience. We are never too young or too old to learn new things. After teaching for 31 years, I am still learning how to be a better teacher. Along the way I had wonderful mentors and colleagues who helped me develop my teaching skills, and I discovered a few things for myself as well. The tips and tricks below will serve you well. Remember them. Incorporate them into your daily teaching routine. Refine them and make them your own. Never this. Please, never this! 1. Safety first. Safety always. Develop a lab safety unit and teach it the first week of school. Stress laboratory safety every single day of the year. 2. Before students arrive for back-to-school, do an analysis of your lab and classroom. Check all equipment and furniture. Remove unusable items. CLEAN everything! 3. Check your safety equipment often. Have you flushed your eyewash station? When was the last time you checked the safety shower? Is your fire extinguisher fully charged? Is the first aid kit fully stocked? 4. Stay on top of repairs. Turn in work orders for those leaky faucets, stopped up gas jets, and burned out lights. Follow up on work orders once they have been submitted. Be relentless in getting things fixed. 5. The custodians and plant managers are your best friends. Treat them well and with respect. They will save you many, many times during the school year. 6. Never do a lab with students until you have tried the lab yourself. You can never predict what will happen or how things will work until you carry out the experiment yourself. If you are seeing a lab unfold for the first time while students are doing the lab, this is a recipe for EPIC FAIL. 7. Make out your lab order all year long. Keep a lab notebook handy, and constantly make notes in it. Record supplies that are running low and need to be ordered for the next school year. At the end of the year, grab the catalogs and make out your lab order before you go home for the summer. 8. Don't go home at the end of the day until everything is ready for tomorrow. This is a hard one because we are exhausted at the end of the day! Before you leave in the afternoon, your lab should be set up, all handouts should be copied, all phone calls should be returned, and you put your desk in order. If you wait until the next morning, Murphy's Law will set in. "Things" always happen when you get to school. The copier will break, your principal will ask for a meeting, students come in to ask questions, the teacher next door will not quit talking, etc. Be sure everything is ready before you get to school! 9. Make sure the classroom is neat and orderly. This is actually a great science experiment! A wise teacher once told me to straighten the desks after each class period before the next class enters. Student behavior is affected by the environment. The class is much more productive and well behaved if there is order in the room as they enter. If the rows are crooked, the desks are scattered around, papers are all over the floor, and the pencil sharpener is overflowing, student behavior will be different. Sounds crazy, but this is true. Try it and see for yourself. 10. Study. Study. Study. Study some more! Never teach a lesson that you are not prepared to teach. Science is complex stuff, and it is always changing! You will embarrass yourself if you stumble around with the content and are unable to explain concepts to the students. Our students are brilliant at picking up on the fact that we are unprepared, and they will be relentless to point this out during your class. 11. Make it fun, but please make it educational! Science classes are so much fun! We get to use all sorts of neat equipment and cool gadgets! Our students are depending on us to give them a great science education. Let's use all of our fun "science toys" to further their education. If you want to make silly putty or glue in the lab, make sure the students learn something from it. 12. Go as deep into the subject matter content as your students can handle. There is a fine line between "too easy" and "too hard." Neither should be happening in your class. Determine the ability level and knowledge base of your students, and push them to the next level. Know that the students you have next year will be different. 13. Don't be afraid to say "I don't know." All of us, even the best prepared of us, will be asked questions that we do not know the answer to. How you handle these questions makes all the difference. Sometimes you just have to say "I don't know." But you need to have an answer the next day when the students arrive. They will appreciate that you went the extra mile to answer their questions. 14. Know your limitations. Work as hard as you can every single day. Do all you can do for your students. But know that you can't do everything. Don't take on more than you can handle, and don't be afraid to say "no." 15. Find a mentor. Find an amazing teacher that you trust and respect. Talk with him/her often! Someone on the faculty has already had the problem you are facing, and they can help you through it. A good mentor has a wealth of valuable knowledge and experience, and the support they can give is invaluable! 16. They're your students, not your friends! Cultivate a great relationship with your students. Know your students likes and dislikes. Attend their sports events, band concerts and theater productions. Make sure they know that you care for them, and that you are willing to help them. But remember that you are the teacher and they are the students, and a certainly boundary must be maintained. 17. Respect must be earned. Always treat your students with respect and dignity. The lessons we teach in citizenship and tolerance of others are as important as the science lessons we teach. Be the role model for the behaviors you want to see in your students. 18. Call the parents before they call you. If you initiate the contact, then you are in control of the direction and flow of the conversation. If the parent is calling you, they are probably already upset or mad, and it will be more difficult to get them back on your side. 19. Take home the work, but not the problems. Working at home is a given for teachers. We know we are going to be grading papers and preparing lessons on our personal time. But try to leave the problems and stresses of the day at work. If you have a problem with a student, colleague or administrator, solve it before you leave for the day. If you don't, you will worry about it all day (or week end) long. Better to get the stress and worry out of your head before you leave for the day. 20. Excitement in the classroom is contagious. You have to love your subject and let it show to your students how much you love your subject. If you are excited about what you are teaching, the students will be too. It is my sincere hope that some of these tips will help you through the long days of the school year. Good luck with your teaching, and have a great school year. And remember ..... Have fun teaching! SaveSave
Grade 3 science lessons and ideas for teachers... especially in BC! These lessons, ideas, projects, experiments, and inquiry, cover all topics and will have you ready to teach science to students in third grade.
