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Alternative Energy: Solar, Wind, Hydro-, Geothermal, Biofuel Unit

By Hill Country Creations

This unit includes all of what you need to teach alternative energy forms. The unit includes an informational sheet on each of the five energies. There are activities, or demonstrations, to go with all five forms. Activities include making a wind

Subjects:

Earth Sciences, Environment, General Science

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Unit Plans, Centers

$4.00

Digital Download PDF (1.55 MB)

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Melting, Freezing, Evaporating...Identify/ Predict Changes. TEKS/NGSS

By Hill Country Creations

This 35 page unit gives detailed lessons on the physical properties that change when heating or cooling is added to matter. The unit follows TEKS and NGSS. It is specific to TEKS, 1.5b, but works for other grades, too. This is also good for NGSS

Subjects:

Basic Principles, General Science, Physical Science

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Laboratory, Centers

$2.50

Digital Download PDF (1.67 MB)

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Motion: Sliding, Rolling, Spinning: Compare Patterns of Movement

By Hill Country Creations

This set of ten cards and four definition cards can be used as a whole group activity or can be placed in a Science Center. These cards give students practice and reinforcement with the concepts of motion, including sliding, rolling, and spinning.

Subjects:

Basic Principles, General Science, Physical Science

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, Homeschool

Types:

Word Walls, Printables, Centers

$1.50

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Melting, Freezing, Evaporating Cards...Meets NGSS and Texas TEKS 1.5b and 2.5b

By Hill Country Creations

These 18 cards give age appropriate examples for the concepts of MELTING, FREEZING, and EVAPORATING. You can use these cards in a variety of ways. They can be placed in a science center for independent sorting, but they can also be used as a class

Subjects:

Basic Principles, General Science, Physical Science

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Centers

$2.50

Digital Download PDF (1.50 MB)

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Weather Versus Climate --STAAR Grade 5 and NGSS

By Hill Country Creations

This quick activity can be used as a direct teach, a warm-up activity, a SCOOT, or it can be placed in a classroom science center. It includes 12 cards with statements, charts, and maps that allow students to differentiate between the terms:

Subjects:

Earth Sciences, Environment, General Science

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Word Walls, Task Cards

$2.00

Digital Download PDF (0.75 MB)

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Heat, Light, and Sound.....Waves of Energy

By Hill Country Creations

This product enhances and allows direct teach and practice for the early concepts of HEAT, LIGHT, and SOUND. There are 12 task cards with pictures and text that allow students to practice differentiating between the three different types of

Subjects:

Special Education, General Science, Physical Science

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, Homeschool

Types:

Word Walls, Lesson, Centers

$1.75

Digital Download PDF (1.28 MB)

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Weather, Seasons, Objects in the Sky Word Wall ...Primary, Grade 1 and 2

By Hill Country Creations

This word wall includes words from the TEXAS TEKS Resource System for the fourth six weeks in grades 1, but also works for grade 2. The words are included in units for the NGSS as well. These 29 vocabulary words describe weather, seasons, and

Subjects:

Astronomy, Earth Sciences, General Science

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, Homeschool

Types:

Word Walls, Bulletin Board Ideas, Posters

$2.00

Digital Download PDF (0.45 MB)

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Producer, Consumer, Decomposer Scoot and Sort

By Hill Country Creations

This activity is great review for state mandated tests. There are twelve cards that give hints that students should be able to use to decide whether the organism described is a consumer, a producer, or a decomposer. The clues all relate back to

Subjects:

Biology, Environment, General Science

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Task Cards, Centers

$2.00

Digital Download PDF (0.81 MB)

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Atlas Activity: What Country am I? (Riddles)

By Hill Country Creations

This activity allows students to use the world atlas or a world map to discover answers to geography riddles. Students must know directional words, the locations of the four hemispheres, and must also know locations of oceans and other landforms.

Subjects:

Social Studies - History, Geography, Gifted and Talented

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Research, Worksheets

$1.00

Digital Download PDF (0.39 MB)

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Food Webs: Recognize, Analyze, and Build a Web

By Hill Country Creations

This comprehensive set of activities builds awareness and knowledge of how organisms interact in a food web. These activities meet requirements for Texas TEKS 4.9a, 4.9b, and 5.9b. The activities also meet requirements for Common Core 5L.2.1.

Subjects:

Basic Principles, Biology, General Science

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Task Cards, Centers

$4.75

Digital Download PDF (2.98 MB)

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Earth, Moon, and Sun Comparisons....Text Pages, Comparison Cards, Questions

By Hill Country Creations

This collection about the Earth, Moon, and Sun contains informational text pages about the three heavenly bodies. The pages give much detail about each body of the solar system and its physical characteristics and relationship to the other two.

Subjects:

Astronomy, Earth Sciences, General Science

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Task Cards, Centers

$2.50

Digital Download PDF (1.90 MB)

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STAAR Review-Earth's Forces: Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition/Landforms

By Hill Country Creations

This 53 page unit has it all... textbook type informational pages on weathering, erosion, and deposition. At least five experiments on weathering and erosion are available, along with journal pages to write experiment and activity results. Two

Subjects:

Basic Principles, Earth Sciences, General Science

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Assessment

$4.75

Digital Download PDF (3.82 MB)

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STAAR REVIEW Physical Properties, Matter, Tools, Gr. 4-5

By Hill Country Creations

GREAT FOR STAAR PRACTICE. This activity reviews physical science terms in a critical thinking format and fits Blooms Taxonomy, Level 4 on Analysis. Students are given four terms, three fit one physical science term and one does not. Students

Subjects:

Basic Principles, General Science, Physical Science

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Centers

$2.50

Digital Download PDF (2.17 MB)

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Metamorphosis: Complete vs Incomplete:..Great for NGSS and TEXAS TEKS

By Hill Country Creations

This lesson includes three text pages with good diagrams and information about metamorphosis, complete and incomplete. There are also eight cards that give information or diagrams about one form of metamorphosis. Students must decide whether the

Subjects:

Basic Principles, Biology, General Science

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Assessment, Centers

$2.25

Digital Download PDF (0.79 MB)

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STAAR SCIENCE REVIEW, Grade 5. Odd One OUT. Science terms and concepts

By Hill Country Creations

Twenty-eight cards that highlight vocabulary and science standards that are key to the fifth grade STAAR science test, however, it definitely works for NGSS also. Copy, cut out the cards, or simply copy them and use them from your document camers.

Subjects:

Biology, Earth Sciences, Physical Science

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

GATE, Games, Centers

$2.25

Digital Download PDF (0.31 MB)

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STAAR Science Review for Gr. 5: Texas TEKS , also works for NGSS

By Hill Country Creations

This SCOOT activity can be used as just that or it can be used in a science center. You can also use it as direct instruction; it would be great as warm ups. This set of 25 cards has test formatted questions. The questions include a lot of

Subjects:

Earth Sciences, General Science, Physical Science

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Lesson, Centers

$2.75

Digital Download PDF (1.03 MB)

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Atlas and Map Riddles: What Country Am I? Part 2

By Hill Country Creations

These ten riddles direct students to the correct country using directional hints. Cardinal and intermediate directions are used. Students will need to use a world map or atlas and be able to distinguish between hemispheres and continents. Great

Subjects:

Geography

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, Homeschool

Types:

Research, Activities

$1.00

Digital Download PDF (0.21 MB)

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$Light Lab: Reflection and Refraction: A Lab, with vocabula$

Light Lab: Reflection and Refraction: A Lab, with vocabulary cards and posttest

By Hill Country Creations

Meets Common Core Standard 4.P.3.2 and Texas TEK 5.8c. This lab contains three activities demonstrating refraction and two activities demonstrating reflection. Both processes happen when light hits a surface and changes speed. Students have a lab

Subjects:

Basic Principles, General Science, Physical Science

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Laboratory, Lesson

$2.50

Digital Download PDF (1.31 MB)

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STAAR Review Energy: Energy Forms Task Cards/Scoot Cards..TEKS and NGSS

By Hill Country Creations

These 20 task cards can be used in science centers, as whole group warm up, or as a SCOOT activity. Each card relates to energy forms...electric, thermal, mechanical, sound, and light. Electric circuits, both series and parallel are reviewed.

Subjects:

Physics, General Science, Physical Science

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Task Cards, Centers

$2.00

Digital Download PDF (0.53 MB)

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REFLECTION / REFRACTION: Light Energy Common Core 4.P.3. 2 & Texas TEKS 5.6c

By Hill Country Creations

Students often get the terms REFLECTION and REFRACTION confused. This exercise will help them with the simple differences of BOUNCING and BENDING of light. Definitions are given. Key differnces are noted. Students look at slides/cards that give

Subjects:

Physics, General Science, Physical Science

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Task Cards

$1.50

Digital Download PDF (0.46 MB)

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Being named Teacher of the Year at my school and also being name a Wal-Mart Teacher of the Year were great honors for me. I was also a semifinalist for HEB Teacher of the Year. However, the greatest honors come when full grown former students come to me and tell me how much they enjoyed my class. That is the best of the best.

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I have taught in our elementary school for many years, andi have also taught Math Methods for Elementary Teachers at the university level.

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