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General science Common Core 3.MD.B.3 activities
Natural Selection and Adaptations: Complete Unit with Reading Passages
A highly engaging NGSS aligned unit covering natural selection and adaptations. Students will enjoy the interesting reading passages based on scientific phenomena that are given as a central theme to each lesson. Reading comprehension questions are aligned with ELA standards. Also included are several fun, engaging activities that students will enjoy while gaining a deeper understanding of the content. Students sharpen their math skills by graphing data and analyzing results. Students also u
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
3-LS4-3
, 3-LS4-2
, 3-LS4-4
Also included in: 3rd and 4th Grade Science Bundle (NGSS Aligned)
3rd Grade Science: Structures, Processes, and Interactions of Organisms
This unit engages students in inquiry-based activities to help them gain a conceptual understanding of life cycles, animals benefits from living in groups, adaptations and natural selection. Many opportunities for data collection and analysis are embedded in the mini unit allowing teachers to integrate math standards. This Unit was designed to address these NGSS Science Standards for 3rd grade:3-LS1-1. Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles, but all have
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-LS2-1
, 3-LS4-3
, 3-LS4-2
, 3-LS1-1
Also included in: Custom Bundle for Jessica (Tennessee 5th Grade Science)
Pumpkin Day Activities | Pumpkin Math Language Arts Science
This Pumpkin Day event is something your upper elementary students will remember for years to come! It's an all-day educational event with the exception of specials classes, but it can also be modified for just a morning or an afternoon. It all depends on you, your grade level and your administrator. My entire grade level has gotten involved every year!★ Included are teacher instructions/preparation and a student instruction sheet. A total of 5 stations are included, with an option of a Station
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Construct Solar Oven S'Mores-Measure Heat Energy with Thermometers
Want a lesson that is laid out for you step by step on the smartboard and can be used in Google Classroom? Everything is laid out for you to say & do every step of the lesson! This is a guided lesson that will take you from start to finish as you teach your students all about using heat energy from the sun to cook yummy s'mores! Each slide takes you and your students step by step in engineering a solar oven. The slides include detailed pictures and photographs of the solar oven as your stude
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
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CCSS:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
Eye Color: The Magic of Genetics Reading Passage and Graphing Worksheet
This is a worksheet and practice in collecting data and representing it in bar graph form, and is designed to help students understand the fascinating role of genetics in determining eye color.In this activity, students will explore the concept of genetics as a special code that influences our physical appearance, including eye color. They will learn that genes act as tiny instructions within our bodies, inherited from our parents at birth. This hands-on activity and reading passage will help s
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Types:
NGSS:
3-LS3-1
Temperature and Wind Chill: An Integrated Weather Activity
This engaging cooperative activity includes simulating a real life scenario to investigate the impact of wind and water on temperature. Math activities such as thermometer reading practice and making bar graphs are integrated within this activity.
Aligned to Next Generation and Common Core Standards.
Appropriate for grades 3-6.
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Photosynthesis
Atomic Struc
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Weather Super Bundle
Cookie Science and Math Madness
My students really struggle with creating their own graphs as well as communicating in written form the data presented in a graph. This activity was actually inspired by a TV show about people sharing secrets over cookies and milk while discussing the various ways people eat Oreos. The activity is cross-curricular and involves students in the full writing process, as well as speaking, data collection, graphing, and drawing conclusions. My students really seem to enjoy this graphing activity more
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Leap Year STEM Challenge
The Leap Year STEM Challenge is a huge hit with my students. Their eyes light up when they see a STEM challenge on our agenda and your students will too! There is just something special about planning and building your own work and testing it to. It is so much fun to watch the concentration on their faces as they work out what they want to do and how they are going to do it, and their joy when they succeed. This challenge is one you must try!STEM activities provide the perfect opportunity for ha
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2nd - 7th
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Also included in: Leap Year STEM Bundle
Weather for 3rd Graders | STEAM Choice Board
Have a one-stop location for various STEAM resources for third grade students to explore weather & climate further. Students can choose out of the 8 resources and activities provided to deepen their learning.While not designed to be the core lesson for teaching, this is a standards-based, extension resource that can be used alongside existing units. ---------------------------------------------Digital & Printable choice board with clickable links, QR codes and shortened-links to be acces
Grades:
3rd
Types:
NGSS:
3-ESS3-1
, 3-ESS2-1
, 3-ESS2-2
Also included in: 3rd Grade STEAM Choice Board Bundle
Living and Nonliving Things Science Vocabulary Bingo Activity
This is a Science Activity Lesson based on the Science Standard about Living and Nonliving Things. It also ties in with Math Standards regarding creating and reading bar graphs and number lines. While that standard pertains to 3rd grade many other grades need to review and reteach it to help students. This activity helps ESL students and others to master the vocabulary for the science standard as well. This activity is a DOK level 2 and 4 but is not complicated. It will take 3 days and all paper
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Grades:
3rd - 11th, Adult Education
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CCSS:
The Insect Pitfall Trap Science Investigation - Livings Things - Data Handling
The insect trap investigation gets students looking closely at all the amazing creepy crawlies that can be found in your outdoor space by creating small traps. It’s great if you’re looking at living things, habitats, or data handling as well as developing key investigation skills.Ages 4 - 6: Students will set the traps and observe what they collect. At this age it’s great for them to explore the wildlife, talking about their looks, how they move, key features, and other general observations. Onc
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Grades:
K - 5th
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Me and My Shadow: Nature of Science Activity
This activity promotes scientific inquiry and encourages students to formulate and investigate questions about the world around them.
Students will use their knowledge of shadows to formulate testable questions. Students will then investigate if a shadow really does change height throughout the day and if so, when is the shadow the longest and when is it the shortest.
This activity allows utilizes measurement and bar graphing skills.
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
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Graphing BUNDLE
Starting a graphing unit and don't know where to begin? Need review resources for an upper level class?This bundle has everything you need from start to finish. Students learn graph types, the parts of a graph, and graph analysis with almost no prep for you!This Bundle includes:Graph Type Cards - Great for introducing students to the bar, line, and scatter plot graphsGraphs & Tables Notebook Notes/Reference Page - Perfect for teaching about the parts of graphs and tables, students can refer
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Grades:
5th - 10th
Life Cycles 3rd Grade | STEAM Choice Board
Have a one-stop location for various STEAM resources for third grade students to explore life cycles & traits further. Students can choose out of the 8 resources and activities provided to deepen their learning.While not designed to be the core lesson for teaching, this is a standards-based, extension resource that can be used alongside existing units. ---------------------------------------------Digital & Printable choice board with clickable links, QR codes and shortened-links to be ac
Grades:
3rd
Types:
NGSS:
3-ESS3-1
, 3-ESS2-1
, 3-ESS2-2
Also included in: 3rd Grade STEAM Choice Board Bundle
Climates: Research Booklet
This Printable Science Booklet: Climates Around The World includes informational text and pages for students to compile researched information that they obtain from the internet. It is intended to be put used in conjunction with a corresponding lesson on climate. By having a printable booklet that specifically covers what you are teaching you are able to demonstrate to administrators, students and others what common core standards are being covered that day/week/month. It is aligned to the Next
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
3-ESS2-2
Weather Journal
A weather journal that allows a student to track and graph the temperature and weather conditions for a given period of time. The student can then reflect on patterns and make predictions.
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Amphibians of Connecticut - Habitat (activities and presentation combined)
Students read informative text about the amphibians of Connecticut and then use those facts to make a table and then a graph representing the different habitats in which they can be found. They then ask specific mathematical and scientific questions and make specific observations.
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Grades:
3rd
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Amphibians of Connecticut - Habitat Table and Graph
Students use real world information about the habitats in which Connecticut's amphibian species are found to fill in a table and complete a double bar graph. They will ask specific mathematical and scientific questions based on this data as well as making specific scientific and mathematical observations.
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Grades:
3rd
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CCSS:
Weather Graphing Worksheet
This worksheet can be used to graph various weather patterns. There is a page to graph high and low temperatures using a bar graph. Another page is included to graph weather and cloud type using picture graphs. There are also analyzing questions for each graph.
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
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CCSS:
Weather Observations Packet
This packet allows students to gather, record, and evaluate the weather data that they collect themselves. The students are able to record their data in a daily chart (five days a week), and then can evaluate their data by seeing the weather patterns over the course of four weeks. They can also figure out the average temperatures and precipitations over a week and transfer them to bar graph and line graph forms. At the end of the packet, there is a key that the teacher can go over at the start o
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 4th
NGSS:
3-ESS2-1
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