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3rd grade critical thinking science centers
STEM Bins® / STEAM Bins® Elementary STEM Activities: Morning Work,Fast Finishers
The original STEM Bins® and STEAM Bins®STEM Bins® and STEAM Bins for K-5th Grade are the ideal hands-on, play-based solution for:Early Finishers / Fast FinishersMorning Work / Soft StartsCentersWriting ExtensionsFine Motor PracticeMakerspaceIncentivesCalm Down Corner***TOP 5 ALL TIME BEST-SELLING RESOURCE ON TPT!***INCLUDES A FULL STEAM VERSION, SPANISH VERSION, AND FRENCH VERSION!!!★SUPPLY LIST FOR STEM BINSWant to see my STEM Bins® up close and personal?! Watch my STEM Bins 101 video series o
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PreK - 6th
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36 Main Idea & Details ELA Reading Skills Practice Worksheets
Give your students the skills they need to find/tackle any main idea or supporting detail question with these 36 ELA reading drills! Each worksheet includes tips that reinforce effective reading strategies, and can be used to drive home the fundamentals or prep for test day! Bundle this item & save: Core ELA Value Bundle | READING! Grade 3 | READING! Grade 4 & 5THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES: 36 ELA comprehension drills (24 informational texts / 12 fiction passages) 135+ simulat
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3rd - 5th
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Life Cycle of Plants Unit, Investigations & Plant Life Cycle PowerPoint NGSS
This complete, hands-on science unit for teaching about the life cycle of plants centers around an engaging 9-lesson teaching Power Point using “real life” pictures your students will love. Ideal for first, second and third grade, students learning the stages of the life cycle, plant needs, parts of a plant and seed, germination, chlorophyll, photosynthesis, pollination, plant adaptations, and seed dispersal. Content-rich, this unit is loaded with over 20 activities and science experiments, writ
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1st - 3rd
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K-2-ETS1-2
, 2-LS4-1
, 2-LS2-1
, 2-LS2-2
Butterfly Life Cycle Complete Science Unit
Make learning about the butterfly life cycle even more fun with butterfly activities that combine science, reading and writing with hands on experiments. Students learn the stages of the butterfly life cycle, explore pollination, the compound eye, metamorphosis, adaptations, and so much more! Whether or not you raise live butterflies, this quality science resource is the perfect addition to your life cycle of butterflies activities. This complete science unit is packed with over 25 highly engagi
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1st - 3rd
4th Grade Fractions Review - Math Mystery Fractions Equivalent, reducing + more
4th grade Fractions review wrapped up in a fun Math Mystery! Students must use their fraction math skills to discover where the Forgetful Pharaoh left his Scepter in Ancient Egypt! They will be required to reduce fractions to the lowest terms, compare fractions, create equivalent fractions, add and subtract fractions with LIKE denominators, and convert improper fractions to mixed number fractions. Easy prep! Just Print & Solve! Or go paperless with the new Google Slides option provided with
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Math Mystery Games COMPLETE Bundle 4th Grade Fun Math Review Activities
Water Cycle Experiments Activities Craft Project Worksheets Vocabulary Cards
Save time planning for your water cycle unit with these hands-on experiments, craft project, vocabulary cards, and activities.You receive:• step by step instructions for 3 water cycle experiments• coordinating pages for each experiment that test students' understanding• links to digital Seesaw recording pages for easy tech integration• 2 sets of vocabulary cards (hand-drawn pictures & real photographs) for the following water cycle words - evaporation, collection, precipitation, condensation
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K - 3rd
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STEM Bins® MEGA BUNDLE: Elementary STEM Activities: Morning Work,Early Finishers
Save over 20% with this DISCOUNTED Bundle that contains ALL TEN of my STEM Bins® resources and activities! STEM Bins® and STEAM Bins for K-5th Grade are the perfect hands-on, play-based STEM Activities for:Early Finishers / Fast FinishersMorning Work / Soft StartsCentersWriting ExtensionsFine Motor PracticeMakerspaceIncentivesCalm Down CornerThis STEM Bins®MEGA Bundle includes ALL TEN of my best-selling STEM Bins resources and supplements:STEM Bins® / STEAM Bins®STEM Bins Seasonal Task CardsSTEM
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K - 5th
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Fact and Opinion Activities Sort 2nd 3rd Grade Fun Reading Centers Comprehension
Are you looking for a fun, highly engaging, and EFFECTIVE way to teach fact and opinion? This set of activities will teach your students how to distinguish between fact and opinion by becoming observant text detectives. You can even use it as the basis for a room transformation!This resource includes:Fact Detectives Reading CentersFact vs Opinion SortAssessmentDigital ActivitiesSOLVE THE CRIME FACT DETECTIVESThis activity is super engaging for students! They will read each storyline along with t
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Fact and Opinion Activities BUNDLE Text Detective Reading Comprehension
Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
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K - 5th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
STEM Index Card Tower Challenge - Easy Prep Project- 2 Versions
This easy prep STEM Activity is surprisingly challenging! Students will have a fantastic engineering opportunity through problem-solving. Index Card Towers show your students how to persevere and redesign based on their initial thinking and planning (plus the towers are fun to build!) The best part is that your prep includes one basic material and the students take over from there. Just stand back and watch them brainstorm and build incredibly tall towers. They will groan when the tower falls, d
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3rd - 5th
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3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Area and Perimeter Project Based Learning Math Activity
Step into the world of engaging and hands-on math exploration with this resource. This project-based learning activity takes students on a thrilling journey as they design their own dream house, while simultaneously mastering the concepts of area and perimeter.Through the use of a house layout grid, students will estimate area by strategically placing furniture and counting squares and partial squares. This real-world, open-ended task prompts critical thinking as they tackle questions related to
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Project Based Math Activities BUNDLE
2024 Solar Eclipse Sequencing Craft and Solar Eclipse Posters
2024 Solar Eclipse* Meet your science standards with this solar eclipse sequencing craft and solar eclipse posters. This set will help you teach your students and children about solar eclipses. This solar eclipse resource contains 5 printable solar eclipse posters that illustrate First Contact, Second Contact, Totality, Third Contact, and Fourth Contact. There is also a safety poster for the eclipse viewing that tells students not to look directly into the sun. These are the same posters in my e
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2nd - 5th
Science Centers Bundle | 3rd & 4th Grade Science Review | Plants Matter Weather
Ready for easy prep science centers? Transform your science centers with Science Weekly 5. You'll find quick centers for matter, energy, ecosystems, life cycles, earth science, and space.Science Weekly Five™ stations are versatile, easy to use, and aid in student learning. Teachers all over the country are using these centers and love them. There are 17 units with 5 stations in each unit for a total of 85 center activities.5 Quick and Simple Centers Per Unit1. Read2. Explore3. Organize4. Extend
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3rd - 4th
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Habitat Pop-Up Craft 2nd Grade Science Activities - 7 Diorama Animal Habitats
Learning about biomes and animal diversity for the Second Grade Next Generation Science Standards™? Let your students design one or all 7 animal habitat diorama projects. They will love getting to illustrate/draw their very own habitat scenes for: arctic, forest, savanna, ocean, desert, pond, and rainforest. Click on the green "VIEW PREVIEW" button above to see what is included in this resource.Your prep for the pop ups is so easy. Just copy the blank pop-up pattern onto tag or cardboard. Pr
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2nd - 3rd
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Math Logic Puzzles: 3rd grade Enrichment - [Digital and Printable PDF]
Math Logic Puzzles for 3rd grade includes 15 higher-order thinking puzzles designed to challenge and engage your high flyers and fast finishers. Your students will utilize critical thinking and problem-solving skills while building a solid understanding of essential math concepts and skills. These puzzles are available as a printable PDF and a paperless version made with Google Slides™ for virtual learning.Every activity is directly aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Math.--------
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: Math Logic Puzzles: 3-5 BUNDLE - [Digital & Printable PDF]
Landforms Activities, Map Skills, and Writing Project
Make your science lessons come alive with these landforms activities that include a landforms building and narrative writing project! Students explore 20 different landforms, build landform islands, practice map skills, and much more! Combining science, writing, and literacy activities, this highly engaging, hands-on unit includes ready-to-use lesson plans, mini-lessons, 20 full-page landforms posters, and a variety of printable landforms activities and assessments. Your students will love the
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1st - 3rd
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Water Cycle Activity Circle Book Weather Activity Worksheets
Dive into the wonders of the water cycle with this water cycle circle book! This interactive resource transforms learning as you explore precipitation, condensation, evaporation, and more. With customizable content, you can tailor the experience to match your curriculum’s water cycle vocabulary, enjoy the flexibility with print or digital versions, and foster excitement with this comprehensive water cycle activity!What Concepts & Skills are Covered?The water cycle (being open-ended so no mat
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Science Circle Books BUNDLE
Parts of a Plant, Plant Life Cycle, Plant Needs, Photosynthesis Lesson Plan Unit
Do you need to teach all about plants, but aren’t sure where to begin? This comprehensive plant unit has got you covered! From exploring the parts of plants and their functions to unraveling the mysteries of the basic needs of plants, this unit has it all! Watch your students blossom as they explore hands-on labs, engaging plant activities, cooperative learning, and so much more! Try Before you Buy:Free Pollination Demonstration. It's a free lesson from this unit! Save at least 20% off when you
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2nd - 4th
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4-LS1-1
, 3-LS1-1
, 5-LS1-1
Parts of a Plant Structure and Function Flower Craft Fun Science Activities
Parts of a Plant Flower Craft: Are you looking for fun science activities? You will download a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grade science interactive notebook for your students to research, practice, and review the parts of a plant structure and function.This fun science activity also works well as a stand alone parts of a plant and flower craft activity, as a plant structure and function bulletin board display, or in your spring or summer school science sub plans.This parts of a plant interactive notebook
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2nd - 4th
Organisms in Ecosystem: Producer, Consumer, Decomposer Text, Review, Sort
This interactive and hands-on sort activity will allow your upper elementary students to show their knowledge of organisms in an ecosystems food chain in a kinesthetic way! It allows you to challenge your students to think critically when completing this cut and paste to show you what they know. Students can read about producers, consumers and decomposers then apply their knowledge in the sorting activity. This resource is great for teaching, practice or assessment of knowledge. Included in this
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3rd - 6th
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Solar System Create, Facts, and Fill Ins on a String Interactive Science Fun!
Solar System: On A String Interactive {Create, Facts, and Fill Ins}The entire solar system is included in this pack.Once assembled your students will love that it will actually look like the solar system in the order in which the planets appear. There are dashed guidelines for cutting and on the back of each planet is a fill ins page. Requires 8.5 by 11 paper total of 14 pages – one set of full color art and one set of black line art for your students to color.The back of each planet asks – how
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K - 8th
2D Shape Pattern Block STEM Challenge Cards
The perfect addition to your morning STEM tubs, these challenge cards ask students to make a variety of different 2D shapes from pattern blocks. Ideal for building visual discrimination skills as children have to rotate and flip smaller shapes to create the new shape.Focus shapes included - triangle, square, rectangle, rhombus/diamond, hexagon, trapezoid. Perfect to use as an invitation to play in the Early Years, as math centers or even as a cross-curriculum literacy center for early readers to
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K - 3rd
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All About Bees
Are your kids buzzing to learn about bees? This 160 pages resource pack includes many engaging and exciting activities for your students. This resource will captivate your kids. Written in kid friendly language the information pages and activities will deepen your students understanding. Your kiddo's will be buzzing with new knowledge in no time.Want to go DIGITAL? Check out my ALL ABOUT BEES DIGITAL EDITION HEREIncluded in this printable pack are the following resources:Posters:•Entomologist•Be
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: All About Insects Printable Bundle
Back to School STEM Activities with Fred the Worm
Back to School STEM is a perfect way to build community through team building! These four STEM activities are based around Fred the Worm and his misadventures. Students must help Fred out of some tricky situations as he travels around the United States.Included**Teacher Instructions: objective, materials, background info, tired+ true helpful hints.**Materials List**Pictures**Fred's backstory**journal cover sheet**four STEM recording sheetsSTEM ActivitiesSave Fred: Students work together to put
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: Back to School Activity Bundle
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