November Activities for Science

Look for science activities to integrate into your November curriculum? These science activities will help you incorporate science while recognizing holidays such as the Great American Smoke Out, Veterans Day, and Thanksgiving. In addition, activities will have students learn about ecosystems and ecology, the harmful effects of vaping, and design and engineering skills.

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Students will learn:

• ecosystems
• habitats
• energy roles: producer, consumer, and decomposer
• food chains and webs
• vaping and its harmful effects
• design and engineering skills
• what a veteran is
• the history behind Veterans Day

Monthly themes in science activities:

• Veterans Day
• Great American Smoke Out (third Thursday in November)
• Thanksgiving

Science Activities included in November:

• Sneak peek into my classroom: Tips and ideas on how I use these activities with my own students.
• Digital tips: Google Slides links and instructions to use in minutes.
• Veterans Day activity: (print and digital versions)
  • 3 page reading article with comprehension questions
  • 5 tab review flipbook activity
  • STEM flagpole building activity with rubric

• Great American Smoke Out activity:
  • 4 page reading text with comprehension questions
  • Vaping CER response
  • Opinion writing response
  • Poster project with model and student instruction sheet
  • Rubric and answer key

• Thanksgiving activity: Can you save Tim the turkey?
  • Student materials sheet
  • 4 page resource for students to design their turkey trap, record observations, and answer comprehension questions
  • Rubric

• Turkey Ecosystem activity:
  • 3 page science text with comprehension questions on the life of a turkey
  • 3 page science text with comprehension questions on a turkey's ecosystem, including energy roles such as producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, scavenger, and decomposer
  • 2 page science text on turkey food chains and food webs
  • 2 graphic organizers to review science concepts
  • Answer key

• Scientist in the News, Albert Einstein
• NEW: Thanksgiving crossword puzzle
• NEW: Thanksgiving word search

How to use these fall science activities in your science classroom:

Science texts:

These reading passages allow you to anchor student understanding of the topic. In addition, each text includes checkpoint questions to help students chunk information and overall comprehension questions to demonstrate knowledge of concepts.

Graphic organizers and flipbook:

Help students summarize essential information. These materials can be used as a review of the learned topic.

STEM activities:

Allow students to get hands-on as they improve their design and engineering skills by creating different things using simple household materials.

• Sub plans
• Fun Friday science activities
• Before Thanksgiving break
• Integrate into your science curriculum

Crossword and Wordsearch:

• Build critical thinking skills
• Increase vocabulary recognition
• Perfect for use before holidays or as a classroom time filler

Feedback from teachers:

Veterans Day Activity:

• I needed a quick text to go over Veterans day, and this did exactly that. It even made my students curious to do some of their own independent research....especially about the tomb. They thought that was really interesting.
• My students found this very interesting, and it allowed them to learn more about Veteran's Day and what it means to them.

Thanksgiving STEM Activity:

• My students enjoyed this project as an extension project during our benchmark testing. It was the perfect amount of fun, STEM, and cooperative learning. Many of them thought their original designs would work but were surprised to find that they all had to make modifications or start over entirely. It was a good learning experience. I would say 6th graders is about the max age, they originally thought it was cheesy, but once they got into constructing the traps, they had a LOT of fun!
• My students had a lot of fun designing a Way to save Tom turkey. My students worked together and weren't afraid to try a design and then change or modify it if needed. Perfect project for the day before break.

Vaping Activity:

• My students were very interested in vaping. They have seen older siblings and cousins who vape. This was a great project to use during Red Ribbon Week to raise awareness and educate students about the harmful effects of vaping.
• Even though I had to tweak it to fit the needs of my students, I liked it because some of my students have older siblings, and they are vaping. So I wanted to give them information on the topic, but also, it was pretty easy to use, and the graphics were great.

November Science Activities:

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These November science activities align to:

• NGSS 5-LS2-1: Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
• NGSS Engineering Design 3-5 ETS 1-1: Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
• NGSS Engineering Design 3-5 ETS 1-3: Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled, and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

Read more about how I use these activities here!

Other science activities you might be interested in:

• Scientists and Inventors Classroom Decor and Articles
• Ecology and ecosystems activities
• Red Ribbon Week activity
• Veterans Day activity
• Thanksgiving Activity

Monthly science activities you may be interested in:

• January Science Activities
• February Monthly Activities
• March Science Activities
• Science Activities for April
• Science Activities for May
• June Science Activities
• Free summer science activities
• Summer science August activities
• Back to School Science Activities
• Fall and Halloween Science
• December science activities

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