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Explore the World of Matter with Our State of Matter Webquest! This interactive journey through solids, liquids, and gases is tailored for Grade 5 students. Integrating STEM principles, it encourages young learners to explore, experiment, and reflect on the fascinating world of matter. Perfect for in-class learning or homeschooling, this webquest transforms abstract concepts into tangible learning experiences, fostering scientific curiosity and understanding.

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• Hands-on Activities: Engage students with practical, interactive experiments.
• Comprehensive Activity Booklet: Includes all necessary resources for a thorough understanding of matter.
• STEM Integration: Encourages critical thinking and application of scientific principles.

What’s Included:

• Interactive Webquest: A dynamic journey through the states of matter.
• Activity Booklet: Comprehensive and easy-to-follow.
• Engaging Resources: Videos, experiments, and reflection activities.
• Curriculum Alignment: Meets Grade 5 Ontario Science Curriculum standards under "Understanding Matter and Energy: Properties of and Changes in Matter."

Curriculum Alignment: This webquest aligns with the Grade 5 Ontario Science Curriculum, addressing expectations related to identifying properties of solids, liquids, and gases, and understanding the changes of state through heat or cooling. It supports hands-on investigations and the development of scientific inquiry skills, enhancing students' understanding of matter and its interactions in the physical world.

Why You Need It: Transform abstract science concepts into engaging and tangible learning experiences. This webquest is designed to foster scientific curiosity and deepen understanding, making it an invaluable resource for any Grade 5 classroom.

These worksheets help learners identify different types of energy sources and classify them into renewable and non-renewable energy. This handy resource is a great supplement to the curriculum on energy. It requires no prep – just print and go! Simple yet effective for both teachers and students to use. Ideal for independent work and fast finishers.

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• Identify and classify energy sources- includes cut and paste activity
• Color and black/white version
• Answer key

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This Scientific Method anchor chart will be sure to help your science students! Print, laminate, and hang up! It's that simple! Or even give each students their own copy to reference!

Swing into prehistoric times with this "Gigantopithecus Spooky Science & ELA Packet" for grades 4-6! This "ape-solutely massive" resource blends STEM and ELA to create an engaging, educational experience for your students. Perfect for spooky season or a deep dive into the fascinating world of ancient creatures, your class will go bananas for this resource!

Explore the world of Gigantopithecus, the largest ape to ever walk the Earth, while building key skills like reading comprehension, vocabulary, and cause-and-effect analysis.

What’s Included:

• Gigantopithecus Informational Text – Students will learn all about the towering ape, its diet, and its spooky connection to modern myths like Bigfoot and the Yeti!
• Frayer Models Vocabulary – New terms like "herbivore," "endangered species," "habitat," and "adapt" help students dig into the text and expand their knowledge.
• 5 CCSS-Aligned Comprehension Questions – Keep students engaged as they explore cause and effect, the legend of Bigfoot, and the extinction of Gigantopithecus.
• Cause and Effect Chart – Analyze how changes in the environment led to Gigantopithecus’s extinction while practicing critical thinking skills.
• Draw and Label Gigantopithecus – Students will flex their creative muscles by drawing the giant ape and labeling its powerful features.
• Main Idea & Supporting Details Worksheet – Students will find the main idea and supporting details in this text to boost comprehension and synthesis.

Why You’ll Love This Resource:

• Perfect for Spooky Season – Gigantopithecus’s eerie connection to legends like Bigfoot will have your students hooked!
• Great for Year-Round Study – Use this resource to teach about prehistoric life, evolution, or fossils at any time.
• Cross-Curricular Learning – Mix STEM and ELA for a full lesson plan that covers science content while boosting literacy skills.
• Easy to Implement – Print and go! Perfect for whole class, small groups, or independent work.

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This black and white mini booklet was made to go with our Forces and Motion Posters. This makes a good supplement for many Next Generation Science lessons. Each page has a short definition of a type of force along with a graphic to aid in student understanding.

Pages for the following are included:

What is a Force?

What is Motion?

Balanced Forces

Unbalanced Forces

Applied Forces

Natural Forces

Gravity

Elastic Force

Friction

Magnetism

Pressure

Electrostatic Force

Air Resistance

Buoyancy

Isaac Newton's Three Laws of Motion

There are also two worksheets for students to complete to show what they have learned.

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We hope you enjoy our FREE Autumn Mindfulness Hunt. Get outside and connect with nature! Download our FREE Autumn Mindfulness Hunt now!

Ask the children to use this worksheet to to record what they SEE, HEAR, SMELL and FEEL as they walk outside on a nice Autumn day.

Recommended sequence

1. Review the 5 senses.

2. Take a moment to tune in, breathe, and just be.

3. Give instructions for how to quietly be in the outside world, using keen observation and a relaxed mind to fill in this chart.

4. Give plenty of time for students to draw or write their findings.

5. Come together as a group and find out what people observed and any impact it had on them.

Tips for your mindfulness nature walk

1. Walk at a natural, slow pace. Take your time to take in the beauty of nature around you. Look around you. Notice the trees around you. Are they starting to change colors? Are they losing their leaves?
2. Take in deep breaths through your nose. Shift your awareness to your smell. What do you smell? Does it smell earthy? Do you smell the leaves around you?
3. Listen. What do you hear? Are there animals bustling around? Do you hear the leaves crunching underneath your feet?
4. Pick up a few leaves. How do they feel? Are they starting to decompose? Are they crunchy? What color are they?
5. Shift your attention back to walking. Feel the physical sensation of walking. One foot up, one foot down. Notice your feet touching the ground. How do you feel?
6. At the end of your walk, pause and take a moment. Stand still and take in a deep breath. Take a look around and notice your feelings.

A fast an easy way to introduce vocabulary to your students! Print and hand out, and an answer key is included.

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Unlock the mysteries of ocean currents with a unique and engaging classroom lesson that brings science to life! This lesson uses adorable rubber ducks to illustrate how ocean currents function and impact the planet. Great for visual and kinesthetic learners.

Looking for a inquiry based investigation ready to go lesson for teaching ocean currents? This activity includes...

• Google slides to go through with students.
• Student handout link
• Tips in the Speaker notes on the Slides
• Exit ticket to assess learning
• Rubber ducks!

Tennessee State Standards

• 6.ESS2.1 - Gather evidence to justify that oceanic convection currents are caused by the sun’s transfer of heat energy and differences in salt concentration leading to global water movement. 

NGSS - Middle School

• MS-ESS2-6 - Develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates.

Very fun and interactive activity for students learning about ocean currents and density.

Teaching CER to your students can be tricky! But, it doesn't need to be! Catch your kiddo's attention and LAUGH your way into science CER- Claim, Evidence and Reasoning learning with this super fun CER Commercials & Videos Activity. This unique and thought provoking assignment is guaranteed to get your students giggling as they learn how to think like a scientist.

What's Included in this funny video assignment?

★ Clear and easy to follow editable student worksheets- digital and printable.

★ Live links to funny commercials and other science related videos.

★ Quick Prep Info and Instructor Directions

How To Use This Activity:

★ 1-2 standard class periods are needed to complete this activity.

★ Complete these video CERs as an introduction to the process or a fun review before a summative CER lab.

★ Kids work as individuals and in discussion groups. These videos encourage lots of student discourse!

Science Topics Covered by this assignment:

★ Discovering what "claims" are made in an argument.

★ Deciphering which "evidence" is used to support these claims.

★ Determining how that evidence is used to support claims in an argument's "reasoning".

*Do your students need an entertaining introduction to Claim, Evidence and Reasoning that is as silly and quirky as they are?

With this editable and printable product, students engage in the CER process by learning how to determine claims being made, locate evidence that supports those claims and build strong scientific reasoning to show how evidence is used to supports claims**.** This activity allows for practice of important science process skills and higher order thinking.

This assignment is aligned with the MYP and Next Generation Science Standards- SEPs.

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Help students with their science writing skills with this quick reference for the CER strategy. Each tab tells about the parts of a CER and gives examples of each part in practice.

Give out to each individual student for their own reference, or keep on hand as a class set when students need some guidance about the process.

Includes

• PDF with the flip book pages
• Instructions on how to make the flip book

Webquest includes a vocabulary with a link to find a definition and a function.

Included vocabulary:

Sure! Here's a list of the vocabulary words included in this webquest:

1. Cell Membrane

2. Cytoplasm

3. Nucleus

4. Nuclear Envelope

5. Nucleolus

6. Mitochondria

7. Ribosomes

8. Endoplasmic Reticulum (Rough)

9. Endoplasmic Reticulum (Smooth)

10. Golgi Apparatus

11. Lysosomes

12. Peroxisomes

13. Cytoskeleton

14. Microfilaments

15. Microtubules

16. Intermediate Filaments

17. Cell Wall (Plant Cells)

18. Chloroplasts (Plant Cells)

19. Central Vacuole (Plant Cells)

20. Nucleoid (Prokaryotic Cells)

21. Flagella (Prokaryotic Cells)

22. Pili (Prokaryotic Cells)

I've been asked by many to create a document that encompasses lots of comprehension texts and questions, specifically related to science. Interdisciplinary approaches are becoming more popular, but it's not always easy to find texts that meet the needs of our curriculum!

This 73-page document includes 22 different texts directly linked to grade 6 science units; including biodiversity and protecting our planet, space and the solar system, air and flight, as well as grade 5 concepts including forces and structures and matter.

All except two texts come with comprehension questions.

These will allow you to explore texts in your LA reading blocks, and will allow your students to improve their comprehension. These texts are informational, or hybrid texts that will give your students rich, meaningful readings. They're printer-friendly, with no foolish fonts or babyish images.

In this collection, you'll find the following titles:

1. Les espèces menacées
2. Les niveaux de risque et l’UICN
3. Des animaux fascinants
4. Une deuxième vie
5. Le gaspillage alimentaire
6. Des choix réfléchis
7. L’air et la troposphère
8. L’ornithoptère
9. La montgolfière de Blanchard
10. Un bref historique - les frères Wright
11. Les changements de la matière
12. Les changements
13. Les forces
14. Les phénomènes naturelles et la force
15. Les machines simples
16. Les systèmes mécaniques
17. L’avantage mécanique
18. Le Titanic
19. Un pas de géant: Neil Armstrong
20. La station spatiale internationale
21. Notre système solaire
22. Terre: une combinaison parfaite

Hopefully this helps you find common ground in your language block, so you can move quicker through the science units you're expected to cover before year's end.

Guide d'étude complet de la révision des sciences de la 6e année en Colombie-Britannique

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Préparez vos élèves à réussir en sciences avec cette révision complète et ce guide d'étude aligné sur le programme scientifique de 6e année de la Colombie-Britannique !

Cette ressource de plus de 20 pages couvre tous les concepts et compétences clés, notamment :

• Organismes multicellulaires et processus vitaux
• Matériaux et mélanges du quotidien
• Forces et lois du mouvement de Newton
• Production et circuits d'électricité
• Le système solaire et l'univers.

Le guide d'étude comprend:

Notes détaillées et explications pour chaque sujet

100 questions de révision pour vérifier la compréhension

Suggestions d’activités pratiques et de recherches complémentaires

Un corrigé complet

Aidez à consolider les connaissances scientifiques de vos élèves de 6e année et donnez-leur une pratique précieuse avec les types de questions qu'ils rencontreront lors des tests et des examens. Ce guide d'étude est idéal pour les révisions en classe, les devoirs ou les études indépendantes. Les nombreuses applications du monde réel rendent le contenu attrayant et pertinent.

La ressource est fournie au format PDF pour faciliter l’impression et la distribution.

This document contains the course outline for each unit in the Science 7 course powered by Edgenuity. This is aligned to Virginia Standards of Learning.

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Teaching Science/Weather/Water Cycle through fun activities. Students will have a great time searching for the 29 hidden words.

Components:

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“Word Search: Water Cycle” Word List:

ATMOSPHERE, CLOUDS, COOL, CONDENSATION, CONSTANT, DROPLET, EARTH, EVAPORATION, FALL, FLOW, FORM, GRAVITY, GROUNDWATER, LAND, LIQUID, MOISTURE, MOVEMENT, OCEAN, PARTICLE, PRECIPITATION, RAINDROPS, RISE, RUNOFF, SINK, SKY, SUN, VAPOR, WARM, WATER CYCLE

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Explore the captivating world of amphibians and reptiles with this comprehensive combo bundle!  This bundle includes detailed reading passages, lesson plans, scope and sequences, assessments, activities, writing prompts, and PowerPoint presentations on amphibians and reptiles.  Delve into these fascinating creatures’ unique characteristics, habitats, survival strategies, and reproductive processes.  This all-in-one bundle is designed to provide a complete and engaging science curriculum, equipping students with a deep understanding of these two important animal groups.

Using the News in the Classroom. A Flamingo which escaped from a zoo in Kansas was recently spotted in Texas, 13 years ago! Use this news story to introduce kids to the flamingo. Possible Interactive Notebook Activity.

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CHEMISTRY Writing Chemical Formulas Practice Worksheets is a great resource for reviewing how to write chemical formulas in class. Students need to write the chemical formulas by combining the anions and cations given, either in form of simple ions or polyatomic ions. This resource includes 2 pages of worksheets, [BONUS] a quick test, and answer keys.

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3 Physical Science Chemistry connect the dots puzzles covering ionic compound names and formulas.

2 versions of each:

- only formulas that are connected

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"Design a Catapult for Cupid's Valentine's Day Delivery Challenge: The Ultimate STEM Project"

Breaking News: Cupid's bow and arrow are out of commission and he needs your help to deliver valentines to the right people on Valentine's Day.

Student Worksheet: This worksheet will spark your students imaginations, helping them create a catapult to deliver Cupid's valentines.

Extensions: Take the project to the next level by graphing the distances the catapult can reach. Plot your data and see how you can improve your design for maximum impact.

With this exciting STEM Challenge, you can bring the magic of Valentine's Day to life and help Cupid make the day extra special for everyone.

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