3rd Grade Earth Sciences Task Cards

Engage your students with these Water Cycle Reading Comprehension Boom Learning Cards/Decks. These no-prep and self-grading task cards are designed for students in grades 1, 2, and 3 to provide them with a comprehensive understanding of the water cycle's key processes, making learning both fun and educational.

Topics Covered

• Evaporation: Discover how water transforms from liquid to gas and rises into the atmosphere.
• Condensation: Learn about the process that forms clouds as water vapor cools and changes back into liquid droplets.
• Precipitation: Understand how water falls from the sky in various forms like rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
• Collection/Accumulation: Follow the journey of water as it gathers in rivers, lakes, oceans, and other bodies of water.

Interactive Questions

• Multiple Choice Questions: Test comprehension with carefully crafted questions that challenge students to recall key details.
• Matching: Strengthen connections between terms and their definitions or processes with interactive matching activities.
• Drag and Drop: Enhance understanding through engaging drag-and-drop exercises that visualize the water cycle.
• True or False: Assess knowledge and clarify misconceptions with true or false questions.

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Space and Solar System task cards! Consists of 80 task cards, answer key and student recording sheet. These task cards can be used to reinforce concepts taught during class or can be used a simple take home activity for the student to complete. All of the questions are MCQ except for 5 of the questions.

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This packet is designed to offer an engaging and FUN way to explore space and help guide students to learn about space. It was designed to be used in conjunction with the All About Space Booklet. The booklet provides all the answers to the questions and is a good reference guide for the students as well.

Personally, I used this with my kinder learner, but it is applicable for elementary grades as well.

What is included?

• 80 task cards
• Student recording sheets
• Answer key

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Terms included:

• energy transfer
• interact
• food chain
• food web
• carbon-oxygen cycle
• photosynthesis
• overpopulation
• environmental
• disturbance
• cell respiration

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• trait
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• inherited trait
• learned behavior
• genetic material
• structure
• function
• offspring
• habitat

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• axis
• rotation
• sunrise
• sunset
• horizon
• day/night cycle
• cardinal directions
• noon
• illuminate

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• freezing point
• boiling point
• Celsius scale
• ingredients
• phase change
• observe
• heating
• cooling
• predict

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Terms included:

• scientific method
• hypothesis
• identify
• investigate
• record
• data
• interpret
• infer
• conclusion

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• states of matter
• solid
• liquid
• gas
• matter
• chemical property
• physical property
• classify
• mass

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• atmosphere
• meteorologist
• rain gauge
• anemometer
• weather front
• barometer
• wind / weathervane
• weather forecast
• Fahrenheit

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Terms included:

• weathering
• soil
• erosion
• sedimentary rocks
• sediment
• fossils
• evidence
• fossil fuels
• geologic time

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• float
• density
• solution
• compare
• magnetism
• sink
• conductor
• insulator
• mixture

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• force
• motion
• work
• gravity
• friction
• spring scale
• simple machine
• pulley
• lever

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• metamorphosis
• insect
• complete metamorphosis
• incomplete metamorphosis
• egg
• larva
• pupa
• nymph
• life cycle

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• alternative energy
• wind energy
• solar energy
• hydroelectric energy
• geothermal energy
• ethanol
• recycle
• non-renewable energy
• renewable energy

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• tilt
• revolve
• seasons
• elliptical
• tides
• high tide
• low tide
• direct sunlight
• indirect sunlight

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• landform
• delta
• canyon
• sand dune
• natural disaster
• landslide
• earthquake
• mountain
• volcanic eruption

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• energy
• mechanical energy
• light energy
• electrical energy
• sound energy
• thermal energy
• reflected light
• refracted light
• closed circuit

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