Fifth Grade Science Partner Plays Bundle - TEKS Aligned!
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This bundle includes 28 two-page partner plays about science topics from the fifth grade science TEKS. Physical science, life science, and earth science plays included, along with vocabulary handouts for each play!
These plays are each two pages long, written for two readers in fifth grade. There is a TEKS alignment included for Fifth Grade Science TEKS. Each play includes a vocabulary sheet to pre-teach vocabulary and a space for students to sketch the meaning of the words as they read. (Answer key with definitions included) Download the preview to see the alignment and vocabulary.
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These are the twelve plays included:
20 Questions: A brother and a sister play 20 questions to guess what's inside a paper bag, referring to properties of matter. (5.5A) Vocabulary: matter, relative density, magnetic, texture, physical properties, substance, solid, liquid, states of matter, gas
The Science Challenge: Two students participate in a science challenge at school by building a lava lamp to represent relative density (5.5A) Vocabulary words: relative density, sinks, floats, substance, beaker, graduated cylinder
Coffee Cup Catastrophe: A coffee bean and a coffee shop owner test different types of cups to decide which will be the best insulator of thermal energy for their shop (5.5A) Vocabulary words: temperature, conductor, insulator, thermal energy, transfer, observe
Lights Out!: Two particles of energy discuss how energy flows through a circuit while inside a wire in the wall (5.5A) Vocabulary words: electric energy, current, conducting/conductor, transfer, insulator, circuit, switch, source
Mad Scientist's Lab: A brother and a sister play a game in which they have to separate different types of mixtures (5.5B) Vocabulary words: separate, strainer, ingredients, mixture, solution, water soluble, dissolve, mixture, physical property
When Life Gives You Lemons: Two lemons observe the changes that happen when different ingredients are mixed into solutions (5.5C) Vocabulary words: solution, ingredients, separate, dissolve, observe, solvent, solute, physical properties
At the WonderPark: Two kids identify the different uses of energy at an amusement park (5.6A) Vocabulary words: energy, electrical energy, source, mechanical energy, potential energy, kinetic energy, produce, sound energy, light energy, thermal energy
Tracking Down the Problem: Two kids figure out the reason why elements on an electronic train table don't work by figuring out what's wrong with the circuit (5.6B) Vocabulary words: circuit, current, power source, switch, diode, LED, series circuit, parallel circuit
Light Land: Two kids visit an interactive museum about light and describe the way light is traveling at each exhibit. (5.6C) Vocabulary words: light, absorb, shadow, emit, refraction, medium, magnifies, prism, reflection
The Science Squad: Two television show hosts test viewers' questions about pushes, pulls, and gravity with experiments. (5.6D) Vocabulary words: force, push, pull, gravity, magnetism, friction, variable, constant, trial
A Slippery Slope: Two television show hosts test viewers' questions about friction with an experiment. (5.6D) Vocabulary words: force, push, pull, gravity, friction, variable, conclusion/conclude, trial, control/constant, data, magnetism, experiment
A Magnetic Personality: Two television show hosts test viewers' questions about magnetism. (5.6D) Vocabulary words: magnetism, hypothesis, pole, attract, repel, procedure, magnetic field
Each play includes a one-page vocabulary sheet and an answer key, and a teacher tips page for using partner plays in your classroom!
The resources includes a TEKS alignment included for Fifth Grade Science TEKS. Each play also a vocabulary sheet to pre-teach vocabulary and a space for students to sketch the meaning of the words as they read. (Answer key with definitions included)
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These are the nine plays included:
The Junior Ranger Badge: An aspiring Junior Ranger identifies living and nonliving things and their interactions to earn her badge. (5.9A) Vocabulary: living, nonliving, environment, interact, organism, survive, thrive, observe, interdependence, needs, symbiotic relationship
The Wetlands Web: A hawk and a fungi discuss their roles in the food web and identify the sun as the source of energy (5.9B) Vocabulary words: ecosystem, consumer (primary/secondary/tertiary/quaternary), population, role, food web, decomposer, niche, producer, energy transfer
Interstate Invasion: A nutria (invasive species) and a human discuss the effects of their actions on the environment (5.9C) Vocabulary words: ecosystem, native species, overpopulated, compete, invasive species, natural predators
Mayhem at the Museum: A museum curator uses clues from fossils to figure out which display they belong in (5.9D) Vocabulary words: fossils, sediment, mold, cast, imprints, models
Life on the Prairie: A groundhog and a bison share the adaptations that help them survive on the prairie (5.10A) Vocabulary words: colony, herbivore, burrow, adaptations, predators, mammal
Are You An Anemone or a Friend: A sea anemone and a yellow tang learn about each other's adaptations to survive in the coral reef (5.10A) Vocabulary words: sea anemone, tentacles, adaptation, survive, predator, fins
It's a Bit Prickly: A cactus and a cactus wren discuss inherited traits and learned behaviors (5.10B) Vocabulary words: inherited trait, spines, beak, learned behavior, adapt, taproot, drought
Bonus Plays:
Metamorphosis!: A butterfly and a grasshopper recall their experiences through complete and incomplete metamorphosis. (4.9C) Vocabulary words: nymph, adult, molt, exoskeleton, chrysalis, larva, complete metamorphosis, incomplete metamorphosis
The Carbon Cycle: A plant and a climatologist discuss the carbon cycle. Vocabulary words: respiration, oxygen, carbon dioxide, transferred, fossil fuels, climate change, carbon cycle
Each play includes a one-page vocabulary sheet and an answer key, and a teacher tips page for using partner plays in your classroom!
These plays are each two pages long, written for two readers in grades 4-5.
They include a TEKS alignment included for Fifth Grade Science TEKS. Each play also has a vocabulary sheet to pre-teach vocabulary and a space for students to sketch the meaning of the words as they read. (Answer key with definitions included)
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These are the eight plays included:
It's a Hard Rock Life: A sedimentary rock and a metamorphic rock have a discussion about their "life stories" through the rock cycle. (5.7A) Vocabulary words: sedimentary, igneous, metamorphic, weathering, erosion, deposition, sediment, compaction, cementation, decomposition
The Project: A brother and sister build a model to represent how fossil fuels are formed. (5.7A)
Vocabulary words: fossil fuels, model, decay, organism, buried, sediment, compaction, nonrenewable resource, renewable resource, biofuel, conservation
The Landform Challenge: Wind and Water compete against each other to make the most landforms. (5.7B)
Vocabulary words: landform, canyon, weathering, erosion, deposition, sand dunes, caves, glacier, valley, delta
The Canyon Conference: A park ranger teaches a junior ranger about how the Grand Canyon was formed and what you can find there. (5.7B)
Vocabulary words: canyon, model, weathering, erosion, deposition, geologist, compacted, cemented, sedimentary, fossil
Weather or Not: Two contestants play a game where they have to identify whether statements are referring to weather or climate. (5.8A)
Vocabulary: weather, climate, temperature, average, conditions, atmosphere, humid, wind direction, wind speed
Water, Water Everywhere: Two water droplets describe their experiences moving through the water cycle. (5.8B)
Vocabulary words: water cycle, accumulation, evaporation, solar energy, condensation, cumulous/stratus/cirrus cloud, front, precipitation, runoff, groundwater
Turn, Turn, Turn:
The Earth and the sun have a conversation about why it appears the sun moves through the sky and how the Earth rotates and revolves in space. (5.8C)
Vocabulary words: solar system, orbit, sunrise, sunset, rotate, axis, tilt, revolution, shadow
A Chip Off the Old Block: The Earth and the moon have a conversation about the characteristics of the Earth, moon, and sun. (5.8D)
Vocabulary words: solar system, temperature, physical characteristics, surface, craters, atmosphere, solar flares, sunspots, lunar, satellite
Each play includes a one- or two-page vocabulary sheet and an answer key, and a teacher tips page for using partner plays in your classroom!
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This product, once purchased, is licensed to be used in one classroom. Additional classrooms must purchase additional licenses. You may also be interested in:
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