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Science Common Core RF.4.4 activities
Owls Unit - Owl Activities - Pellet Dissection - Owl Reading Passages - Projects
This 158 page Owl unit provides upper elementary students with all of the owl activities they need to complete a rigorous owl unit. These no prep owl activities include owl reading passages, owl pellet dissection activity, owl research activities, and more.COMMON CORE ALIGNED!!!✅Be sure to check out the thumbnails and preview for detailed images and information about some of the engaging activities included in this resource.This engaging resource contains the following:⭐Vocabulary Resources!-Owl
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1st - 4th
Esperanza Rising Novel Study Supplement - Nonfiction Close Reading Passages
Increase the rigor of any Esperanza Rising Novel Study Unit with this Close Reading Supplement!The Close Reading Passages let students dive deep into a close read, make annotations, and practice comprehension skills like using text evidence, identifying main idea and details, developing inferences, and using context clues to determine the meaning of vocabulary. Plus, students practice citing evidence from multiple sources while making text-to-text connections with the Literature Connection essa
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4th - 6th
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Force and Motion: 5 Science Partner Play Scripts with a Comprehension Worksheet
These five force and motion partner plays are intended to be used as fluency-building activities that 4th and 5th grade students can do with a partner. Plus, since I received requests for more scripts that focus on scientific concepts, this set of scripts targets force and motion concepts, including Newton's laws, inertia, friction, gravity, potential energy, and kinetic energy. It also includes a BONUS comprehension worksheet. After reading each script, students answer two or three comprehensio
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4th - 5th
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Outer Space: 5 Science Partner Play Scripts with a Comprehension Check Worksheet
These five partner plays are intended to be used as fluency-building activities that students can read with a partner. This set of scripts focuses mainly on the solar system, including the sun, the moon, the planets, comets, asteroids, and meteorites. It also includes a BONUS question/answer worksheet. After reading each script, students answer the questions that accompany that particular script. This resource is available in multiple formats. Each teacher gets to choose the format that best mee
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4th - 5th
Light Energy: 5 Science Partner Play Scripts with a Comprehension Worksheet
These six light energy partner plays are intended to be used as fluency-building activities that 4th and 5th grade students can read and complete with a partner. Plus, since I received requests for more scripts that focus on scientific concepts, this set of scripts targets light energy concepts, including light sources, reflection, refraction, concave and convex lenses, colors, and prisms.It also includes a BONUS comprehension worksheet. After reading each script, students answer two or three co
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4th - 5th
Endangered Species Unit: Primate Lesson Plan
HUGE endangered species unit with science, readings, math, geography, masks, power points, take action posters, info chart, and more!
Through extensive interdisciplinary activities, students raise their awareness of environmental issues and what they can do to spread awareness about endangered species. Using science, balanced literacy, math, geography, art, oral and written communication skills, students learn about real world problems involving endangered species—and how to find creative solut
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3rd - 6th
Reader's Theater Script: Natural Resources, Conservation, Waste Management
Reading and Science Integration: USE AND CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES “TRASH ME NOT”Scripts with Content for Intermediate Readers. FULL PACKThis Readers’ Theater is a great resource to use in your classroom in many ways: literature circles, small groups, centers, or teacher table.TRASH ME NOT will be divided into 5 scenes. Each scene will have a reading response activity!For example:Scene1:First: Read and Re Read (Fluency)Next: Making Predictions, Answering & Asking Questions (Comprehen
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3rd - 5th
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Sound Energy: 5 Science Partner Play Scripts with a Comprehension Worksheet
These five sound energy partner plays are intended to be used as fluency-building activities that 4th and 5th grade students can read and complete with a partner. Plus, since I received requests for more scripts that focus on scientific concepts, this set of scripts targets sound energy concepts, including sound waves, pitch, volume, and how sounds travel through solids, liquids, and gases. It also includes a BONUS comprehension worksheet. After reading each script, students answer two or three
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4th - 5th
POETRY UNIT Animal Poetry Activities Poetry Elements Writing Science
POETRY POSSIBILITIES for ANIMAL POEMS is a unit incorporating multiple subjects through poetry. This collection of animal poems provides teaching points, skill lessons, and activities custom designed for each poem. It masterfully combines language arts with science. The range of reading levels in these poems makes them appropriate to both primary and intermediate classrooms. This should allow the teacher to accommodate students reading above or below grade level. The skill lessons and activ
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Also included in: POETRY UNITS MEGA BUNDLE Poems Teaching Points Writing Differentiation
Electricity: 5 Science Partner Play Scripts with a Comprehension Check Worksheet
These five electricity partner plays are intended to be used as fluency-building activities that 4th and 5th grade students can do with a partner. Plus, since I received requests for more scripts that focus on scientific concepts, this set of scripts targets electricity concepts, including electrons, open and closed circuits, series and parallel circuits, conductors, insulators, positive charges, and negative charges. It also includes a BONUS comprehension worksheet. After reading each script, s
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4th - 5th
Types of Energy Causation Cards
These causation cards will prove to be a useful and engaging tool in your classroom! Your students will rave about how fun class was on the day you use these cards as an introduction or as review (or however you choose to use them)! The cards review many different types of energy for a thorough overview!Check out the preview for details!This Product Includes:✓ 28 causation cards✓ Work✓ Gravitational energy✓ Potential (stored) energy✓ Kinetic (moving) energy✓ Mechanical energy✓ Sound energy✓ Ligh
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Science Oral Reading Fluency Cards Bundle
Life Science Partner Plays about organisms and environments
Stop using boring passages and have some science fun with these nine different partner plays reinforcing scientific concepts of living and nonliving things, interactions between species, ecosystems, food webs, adaptations, inherited traits and more! Fifth grade students love learning science with these reader's theater scripts!These plays are each two pages long, written for two readers in grades 4-5. The resources includes a TEKS alignment included for Fifth Grade Science TEKS. Each play also a
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4th - 5th
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Also included in: Fifth Grade Science Partner Plays Bundle - TEKS Aligned!
Reader's Theater Script: Landforms, Reading and Science Activities/Centers
Reading and Science Integration: Landforms, Reading/Science Integration: Activities to Be Used in Small Groups, Centers, Or Teacher Table.
4 Characters (Intermediate Readers)
This package has 7 scripts:
Landforms (Geologist/Geology)
Valleys
Hills
Mountains
Mesas (Buttes/Mesas/Plateaus)
Plains (Grasslands/Steppes/Prairies)
Islands
Full Package includes:
Cover
Introduction
Common Core Standards (Reading, Listening, Science)
7 Scripts For 4 Characters Each
Comprehension Questions for Each Scri
Magnetism: 5 Science Partner Play Scripts with a Comprehension Check Worksheet
These five magnetism partner plays are intended to be used as fluency-building activities that 4th and 5th grade students can do with a partner. Plus, since I received requests for more scripts that focus on scientific concepts, this set of scripts targets the science of magnetism. Topics include magnetic fields, attracting and repelling, alloys, compasses, and temporary vs. permanent magnets. It also includes a BONUS comprehension worksheet. After reading each script, students answer two or thr
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4th - 5th
Number the Stars Novel Study Supplement - Nonfiction Close Reading Passages
Increase the rigor of any Number the Stars Novel Study Unit with this Close Reading Supplement!The Close Reading Passages let students dive deep into a close read, make annotations, and practice comprehension skills like using text evidence, identifying main idea and details, developing inferences, and using context clues to determine the meaning of vocabulary. Plus, students practice citing evidence from multiple sources while making text-to-text connections with the Literature Connection essa
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4th - 6th
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Follow the Moon Home {A Book Study Set}
This multidisciplinary book study set, based on the title: Follow the Moon Home, by Philippe Cousteau, will help your students to grasp the concept of sea turtle conservation and preservation while completing several hands-on STEAM activities, games, and lessons, plus a fully comprehensive review and reflection pack to go alongside the pages within this book! Get your class excited to learn with the following included lessons (SEE THE PREVIEW FOR A MORE IN DEPTH LOOK AT ALL THAT THIS SET INCLUDE
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3rd - 5th
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Earth Science Partner Plays about Earth's surface, weather, and more
Have fun teaching fifth grade science with these eight different partner plays reinforcing scientific concepts of the TEKS including formation of sedimentary rock and fossil fuels, landforms, weather, climate the sun, Earth, and moon, and more! 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 o
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4th - 5th
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Also included in: Fifth Grade Science Partner Plays Bundle - TEKS Aligned!
Our Solar System, Science Script And Lots Of Activities, Planets One By One
Reading And Science Integration: Our Solar System
(The Sun, The Planets, Pluto, and The Big Bang Theory)
Reading/Science Integration: Activities To Be Used In Small Groups, Centers, Or Teacher Table.
10 Characters/ Intermediate To Advance Readers
This script will talk about:
The Big Bang Theory (The universe origin)
The Milky Way
Our Solar System
The Sun And Planets Order & Characteristics
Full Package includes:
Cover
Introduction
Common Core Standards (Reading, Listening, Science)
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Reader's Theater Script, Lab Safety Rules, Scientific Method Booklet, Activities
Reading And Science Integration: First Time Lab Time
(Lab Safety Rules)
Reader’s Theater
Scripts with Content for Intermediate Readers
by The RT Shop
This Reader’s Theater Package it’s a great resource to use in your classroom in many ways: literature circles, small group activities, partner’s activities, centers, or teacher table.
Reader’s Theater is one of the best tools in the classroom to have students gain fluency, accuracy and c
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2nd - 4th
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Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle {A Book Study Set}
This multidisciplinary book study set, based on the title: Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle, by Claire Nivola, will help your students to grasp saltwater density, how ocean waves work, freshwater and marine habitats, the life and career of Sylvia Earle, and MORE through several hands-on STEAM activities, games, and lessons, plus a fully comprehensive review and reflection pack to go alongside the pages within this book! Get your class excited about women in STEAM, encou
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3rd - 5th
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POETRY UNIT Water Poems Activities, Poetry Elements Writing
Water in all its forms is the focus for this collections of 16 poems. Each poem in POETRY POSSIBILITIES for WATER POEMS has a teaching point about poetic elements and forms, as well as skill lessons and activities in multiple subjects.CONTENTS16 poems17 pages of teaching possibilities1 anchor chart1 Venn diagram masterlist of rain idiomsumbrella and raindrops templateLESSONS INCLUDEElements of poetry rhymefigurative languagefree verseimagery themeassonancerhythm and temposensory detailPoetic fo
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: POETRY UNITS MEGA BUNDLE Poems Teaching Points Writing Differentiation
Willodeen by Applegate novel study comprehension composition enrichment STEAM
This resource includes more than 242 comprehension questions with composition prompts and 15 enrichment/project activities (including STEAM activities) for the book Willodeen by award-winning author, Katherine Applegate. The resource is provided as a printable PDF and as Google Slides™ for use in Google Classroom™. This is an inspiring, heartwarming, magical, and timely, cross-curricular story full of life lessons. It is beautifully written and inspires appreciation for community, friendship, fa
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-LS2-1
, 3-LS4-3
, 5-ESS3-1
, 3-LS4-2
, 3-LS4-4
States of Matter Causation Cards
Solids, liquids, and gases--oh my! Jazz up your unit on the states of matter with these engaging causation cards! Your kiddos will have a blast reviewing states of matter content with these cards, and it will really encourage them to put themselves out there for the sake of their own learning!Check out the preview for details!This Product Includes:✓ Matter✓ Solids✓ Liquids✓ Gases✓ Boiling point✓ Freezing point✓ Melting point✓ Evaporation✓ Condensation✓ Expansion✓ ContractionWith This Product You
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Science Oral Reading Fluency Cards Bundle
Solar System Oral Reading Fluency Cards
Your students will go out of this world (pun intended) for these solar system causation cards! Not only will your kiddos learn and review a wealth of information about the solar system, planets, moons, suns, and more, but they'll also practice interdisciplinary skills, such as reading, speaking, and listening!Check out the preview for details!This Product Includes:✓ Solar system✓ Axis✓ Rotation✓ Revolution✓ Earth✓ Planets✓ Orbit✓ Sun✓ Moon✓ Moon phases✓ Lunar eclipse✓ Solar eclipse✓ Craters✓ Ast
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Science Oral Reading Fluency Cards Bundle
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