Middle school literature laboratories for special education

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4th - 6th

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STEM Engineering Challenge Pack ~ Simple Machines

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What teacher doesn't love to use themes in the classroom? As a STEM coordinator, I am always looking for creative ways for teachers to integrate STEM engineering and design challenges into their classroom activities. I decided to work on creating STEM Engineering Challenge Packs for some themes. This STEM Challenge Pack is focused on Simple Machines! There are six challenges included in this pack: Inclined Plane Bean Bags Challenge Lever Launcher Challenge Archimedes Screw Challenge Pencil

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Grades:

4th - 6th

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STEM Engineering Challenge Novel Pack ~ The One and Only Ivan, by K. Applegate

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What teacher doesn't love to use novels in the classroom? As a STEM coordinator, I am always looking for creative ways for teachers to integrate STEM engineering and design challenges into their classroom activities. I decided to work on creating STEM Engineering Challenge Packs for some beloved novels. This STEM Challenge Pack is based on the book, "The One and Only Ivan", by Katherine Applegate. There are five challenges included in this pack: Ivan’s Wooden Crate Challenge Elephant Trunk

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Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

Science, Special Education

Potential and Kinetic Energy Phet Skate Park Simulation Digital UDL Lesson

Created by

Kimberly Odenthal

Lesson on potential and kinetic energy using google slides and the phet energy skate park simulation. Interactive lesson with NGSS science standards made accessible for all students with UDL principals. Includes multiple slides of questions on the relationship of kinetic and potential energy and the affect of mass and height on kinetic and potential energy. Product also includes an extension activity.

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Grades:

6th - 8th

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Laboratory

NGSS:

MS-PS3-2

, MS-PS3-5

, MS-PS3-1

STEM Engineering Challenge Novel Pack ~ The Sign of the Beaver, by E. Speare

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What teacher doesn't love to use novels in the classroom? As a STEM coordinator, I am always looking for creative ways for teachers to integrate STEM engineering and design challenges into their classroom activities. I decided to work on creating STEM Engineering Challenge Packs for some beloved novels. This STEM Challenge Pack is based on the book, "The Sign of teh Beaver", by Elizabeth George Speare. There are five challenges included in this pack: Log Cabin Challenge Beaver Dam Challenge

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Grades:

4th - 6th

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Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion: ELLIPSE LAB - Loaded with FUN!

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Astronomy, Earth Sciences, Special Education

PROCEEDS BENEFIT CHARITY: "REACH INC."-EMPOWERING ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES http://www.reachinc.org Come explore a beautiful marriage of both math and science. Experience Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion like you never have before. In this dynamic ellipse lab, content and inquiry go hand in hand. This special creation is applicable to many ability and grade levels. This is lab is LOADED starting with Kepler’s 3 Laws. First, the law of ellipses. Second, the law of equal areas. Third, th

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Grades:

6th - 12th

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Plate Tectonics LAB: Yummy! Eat Your Boundaries (Graham Crackers and Fluff)

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EAT YOUR PLATES AND YOUR ASTHENOSPHERE! Graham cracker based plate tectonic boundaries lab. A dynamic tutorial on plate boundaries and model manipulation that kids LOVE! You can eat it too! Loaded with COLOR and IMAGES! This is a can’t miss lab! You can use the images provided OR use actual lab materials to mimic the lab procedure provided! This lab includes the following: -Terminology-asthenosphere, lithosphere, plate boundaries, convergent, divergent, transform, oceanic crust, contin

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Grades:

4th - 9th, Adult Education

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Newspaper Shoes - STEM Engineering Challenge

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What teacher doesn't love to use simple materials, like newspapers, in the classroom?As a STEM coordinator, I am always looking for creative ways for teachers to integrate STEM engineering and design challenges into their classroom activities. I decided to work on creating STEM Engineering Challenge Packs using cheap and easy to find materials.Are you ready to make some Newspaper Shoes? Can your team build a pair of newspaper shoes for one of your team members that they can put on and take off

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Grades:

4th - 8th

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Also included in: Personalized STEM Pack #21 - 10 Challenges

STEM Engineering Challenge Pack ~ Mount Everest

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What teacher doesn't love to use themes in the classroom? As a STEM coordinator, I am always looking for creative ways for teachers to integrate STEM engineering and design challenges into their classroom activities. I decided to work on creating STEM Engineering Challenge Packs for some themes. This STEM Challenge Pack is based on the incredible Mount Everest! There are five challenges included in this pack: Base Camp Tent Challenge Ice Fall Ladders Challenge Mountain Climbers Challenge We

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Grades:

4th - 6th

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Plate Tectonics, Pangaea, and Continental Drift LAB (Lots of FUN!!!)

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Meet the ULTIMATE Super Continent! PANGAEA! Come experience an in depth tutorial and analysis of Pangaea, its before, and its after. A variety of fun and engaging pedagogical strategies (some you have probably never seen before) including: -Puzzle construction: colorful with differentiated symbols to denote: cynognathus fossils, mesosaurus fossils, glossopteris fossils, lystrosaurus fossils, young rock formations, and old rock formations. Using a color/symbol coded key students assemble a

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Grades:

5th - 9th, Adult Education

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Moon Phases and OREO COOKIE LAB. A TRUE HIT! (Yummy for ALL Ages!)

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Astronomy, Earth Sciences, Special Education

PROCEEDS BENEFIT CHARITY: "REACH INC."-EMPOWERING ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES http://www.reachinc.org Understanding moon phases can be difficult for a student or adult of any age. According to the NSF (National Science Foundation), the conceptual process of the moon phases is "misunderstood by adults just as much as children." Well, it's time to fix that! And you can use OREO cookies to help you. This is a comprehensive activity and mini-lab in which students investigate the dynamic yet pr

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Grades:

3rd - 8th

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STEM Engineering Challenge Pack ~ The 100th Day of School Challenges

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What teacher doesn't love the 100th Day of School? As a STEM coordinator, I am always looking for creative ways for teachers to integrate STEM engineering and design challenges into their classroom activities. I decided to work on creating STEM Engineering Challenge Packs for some special school days and events. This STEM Challenge Pack is based on the 100th day of school There are five challenges included in this pack: 100 Cup Stacking Challenge 100 Pennies Foil Boat Challenge 100 Toothpic

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Grades:

1st - 6th

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Creatively Adapted - Ginger Joyce

Also included in: Holiday/Monthly Bundle Collection ~ 8 Holiday Packs ~ 18 Monthly Challenges!

Scientific Method Sequence Display Cards

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Scientific Method Display Cards are a great resource to reinforce the steps to the scientific method as well a supporting science fair project work. This product includes two levels of differentiation, one with picture supported text and the second level using sight word sentences. It is recommended that the two levels are attached to the front and back of sentence strips to create an instructional activity that can be used to address diverse literacy skills within the same activity.Scientific

Subjects:

Informational Text, Other (Science), Special Education

Grades:

K - 12th

Types:

Laboratory, Word Walls, Centers

LAB - Sugar Cube Weathering

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NYS Earth Science and Living Environment Regents

This is a lab activity about physical weathering (abrasion) and chemical weathering (affect of temperature and surface area). Students will model abrasion by shaking sugar cubes in plastic bottles. Then, they will model the affect of temperature on weathering and the affect of surface area on weathering using sugar cubes. This is a fun lab for students and is very cost-effective. I have students bring in empty gatorade bottles (they are hard plastic and will last for years). Sugar cubes can be

Subjects:

Earth Sciences, Special Education

Grades:

8th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Laboratory

Scientific Method: SAVING SAM THE GUMMY WORM! Kids say, "So much FUN!"

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General Science, Science, Special Education

PROCEEDS BENEFIT "REACH INC."-EMPOWERING ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES http://www.reachinc.org -Southern Science Specialists - Chapel Hill, North Carolina- SAVING SAM (GUMMY WORM) is a VERY POPULAR lab introducing the scientific method commonly found anywhere between 4th and 8th grade. Check out the preview! This lab is also used in pedagogy classes for science education in undergraduate and graduate school. This is a modified lab geared towards lower ability levels and/or students that do not ha

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Grades:

3rd - 8th

Types:

Basic Principles, Physical Science, Special Education

Mixtures and Solutions using trail mix and kool aid- great for ESE

Created by

ESE One Day at a Time

Students will create their own trail mix and kool-aid to demonstrate the difference between mixtures and special types of mixtures called solutions. I teach in a special-ed classroom and utilizing their measuring skills, and involving their taste buds make it easier for them to make a connection to the content. You will need (per student, makes 1 cup. They could split with a partner or take home.) ¼ cup goldfish ¼ cup pretzels ¼ cup dried cranberries ¼ cup cereal individual kool-aid packets M

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Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

Projects, Laboratory

Measurement: VOLUME LAB (Water Displacement Method / Irregular Objects)

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Measurement, Science, Special Education

PROCEEDS BENEFIT "REACH INC."-EMPOWERING ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES http://www.reachinc.org -Southern Science Specialists - Chapel Hill, North Carolina- Volume - WATER DISPLACEMENT METHOD LAB (Irregular Objects) Great scientific method and physical science lab! Volume measurement of irregular objects. A dynamic 3-part lab/activity that DOES NOT require lab materials. Using the water displacement method students will calculate the volume of the following objects: ring, aluminum cylinder, glas

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Grades:

3rd - 8th

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Special Needs for Special Kids

12 Science Experiments to use in Special Education

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These 12 different experiments allow students with autism and special learning needs to conduct real experiments with as much independence as possible while still following the scientific method. They are structured to allow students to make the necessary connections to the content while working through the 6 steps of the Scientific Method.✩✩✩ PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE ARE THE SAME EXPERIMENTS INCLUDED IN THE SCIENCE UNITS LISTED BELOW. YOU DO NOT NEED TO HAVE THE UNITS TO BE ABLE TO DO THE EXPER

Subjects:

General Science, Physics, Special Education

Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

Worksheets, Laboratory, Printables

Also included in: 57 Adapted Science Units Special Education High/Middle School Science Curriculum

Life Skills Scrambled Eggs | Cooking Competition Cooking Lab | FCS

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The Family and Consumer Science Classroom

Grab your aprons and chef’s hats for this fun and eggciting scrambled egg cooking lab to teach life skills. Students will turn eggs into a delicious masterpiece in this eggcellent cooking activity. In this lesson, students will come up with their own scrambled egg recipe and have it be presented to judges! They will practice creativity, time management skills, and use teamwork to put their best eggs forward. Students will be placed into groups of three or four for this scrambled egg competition

Subjects:

Cooking, Family Consumer Sciences, Special Education

Grades:

8th - 11th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Laboratory

Also included in: Life Skills Cooking Competition Bundle Part 2

STEM Engineering Challenge Picture Book Pack ~ Monsters Under Bridges

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What teacher doesn't love picture books? As a STEM coordinator, I am always looking for creative ways for teachers to integrate STEM engineering and design challenges into their classroom activities. I decided to work on creating STEM Engineering Challenge Packs for some beloved picture books. This STEM Challenge Pack is based on the book, "Monsters Under Bridges", by Rachel Roellke Coddington. There are six challenges included in this pack: Index Card Bridge Challenge Popsicle Stick Bridge

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Grades:

1st - 6th

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Also included in: Social Studies Bundle Collection ~ 12 STEM Engineering Packs ~ 62 Challenges!

Olive the Other Reindeer - Picture Book STEM Design Challenge

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Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Engineering, Literature

This Engineering Design Challenge is based on the picture book, Olive the Other Reindeer, by Vivian Walsh and J. Otto Seibold. Can your group create the tallest gum drop tree using toothpicks and gum drops? Materials: (per group) One box of toothpicks One bag of gum drops (Christmas ones work well!) Ruler This packet contains all the information you need to make this a great engineering activity in your classroom! Lab sheets, student and teacher instructions, and challenge signs are all incl

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Grades:

1st - 6th

Types:

Activities, Laboratory

Force, Motion and Work Unit

Created by

Illuminate with Iris

In this download you will find:- Introduction Power Point for terminology (can be printed as a word wall)- Introduction Power Point for Newton's Laws- Note sheet to go with the two power points- Force practice Sheet - Force do now - Work guided practice sheet- Work independent practice sheet- Work homework- Force and work quiz- how does this ball move lab*** for the set up of the lab, you need two pencils and rubber band between them and a ball that you can flick with the rubber band. Set up a r

Subjects:

General Science, Physical Science, Special Education

Grades:

4th - 10th

Types:

Unit Plans, Activities, Laboratory

Also included in: BUNDLE: FORCE, MOTION & WORK - Digital and Printable

Rock Cycle CRAYON LAB (A MUST HAVE! Unique and So Much Fun!)

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PROCEEDS BENEFIT "REACH INC."-EMPOWERING ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES http://www.reachinc.org -Southern Science Specialists - Chapel Hill, North Carolina- CRAYON LAB! So much fun!!! Kids LOVE THIS LAB! Instead of using crayons to color, use crayons to demonstrate the rock cycle! 2 separate activities for differentiated levels. Pairs great with the DICE GAME found at the link below: ROCK CYCLE DICE GAME -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Grades:

3rd - 10th

Types:

Plate Tectonics: Make Your Own VOLCANO LAB! (Extended Version; EASY TO DO; FUN)

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This is the extended version complete with actual procedural photographs. MAKE YOU OWN VOLCANO! IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND! This version provides pictures in case one does not actually have the materials below. If materials are available to you, see below for must haves and optional materials. Material MUST HAVES: Flask, stopper or cork, baking soda, and vinegar. Optional materials to enhance the experience: paper towels, tape, ruler, beaker, goggles, and scissors. This kid and adult frie

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Grades:

3rd - 9th

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