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4th grade astronomy centers
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
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
Eclipses Close Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
A total solar eclipse is happening on April 8, 2024. This close reading activity would be a perfect way to learn all about different kinds of eclipses. If you are looking for an online version of this product, click {here}.I have used these close reading passages with my own fifth graders to promote more meaningful interactions with text. I purposefully wrote these texts to be high-interest and short so that the students would be motivated to read the text multiple times. The follow-up activitie
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4th - 6th
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Space Science Stations | Sun, Earth, Moon Phases, Solar System | 4th 5th grade
Get ready to facilitate learning with informative, easy prep centers! Space Science Stations includes 9 station activities that focus on the Sun, Earth, our moon, moon phases, our solar system, and day and night.Includes guided student sheets, an answer key, quicker prep, and improved activities for your class!9 StationsRead It: Read about the characteristics of the Sun, Earth, and Moon and record information about their sizes, compositions, and gravity.Create It: Use materials to build a model
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4th - 6th
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Space STEM Challenges and Activities
Engineering~Math~Art~Science
These 8 STEM/STEAM Space activities and challenges are a perfect way to integrate more STEM strategies into a space unit. These activities can be used throughout a unit as each topic is covered (moon phases, planets, orbits, asteroids, constellations, etc.) or at the end of the unit as culminating activities.
Each activity includes a student direction page with all materials listed, a sign to label the centers, reflection/follow-up pages for students to complete, a
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Solar System and Planets Reading Passages | The Solar System Worksheets
This Solar System and Planets Close Reading Packet has everything you need for a complete reading and science unit in your classroom. Differentiated reading passages, writing activities, no prep worksheets, and coloring pages are at the heart of this one-stop resource for learning about each planet!Please click the PREVIEW above for an idea of everything included in this loaded resource!If you have never used Close Reading or even if you are already a pro, this 110+ page packet truly is for you!
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Solar System and Planets Activities Bundle | Solar System Project
Phases of the moon foldable sequencing activity Northern Hempishere lunar cycle
Help your students recall the phases of the moon in a hands-on way with this set of differentiated foldouts. The finished foldouts look great in an interactive science notebook and can be used to support learning about space, the solar system, the Earth's moon/lunar phases, or World Space Week. Plus it's a little different to a standard cut-and-paste worksheet!This printable activity has 4 options for you to choose from so that you can best match the needs of your students. All are for the North
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1st - 4th
Phases of the Moon Cut and Paste, Moon Calendar, Experiment, Moon Facts Book
Are you looking for an easy way to explain facts about the moon and the moon phases? Students are naturally curious about the moon. These high-interest, low prep activities will explain the moon and the moon phases in a way in which students can easily make connections and understand. You can also use this as a digital resource for your students in Google Classroom for remote learning. As students learn about the phases of the moon they can follow up with this wide variety of differentiated act
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1st - 4th
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NGSS:
1-ESS1-1
, 2-ESS1-1
, 3-ESS2-2
Solar System Science Centers | Sun Earth Moon System & Space Activities
Solar System Science Weekly Five™ Stations help introduce students to the Sun-Earth-Moon system. 5 Quick and Simple Centers1. Read: How Do Objects in our Solar System Move?2. Explore: Make a diagram of the Sun, Earth, Moon system3. Organize: Classify characteristics of the Sun, Earth, and Moon4. Extend: Create a model of the Sun-Earth-Moon system5. Vocab: Revolve, mass, moon, orbitPlusKWL: Students fill in what they know and want to know before they begin. They fill in what they learned after.Ke
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3rd - 4th
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Design a Constellation! Writing and Drawing Activity - Grades 3 to 5
Design a Constellation
This is a writing and drawing activity for grades 3 to 5.
Students plan, draw and write about a constellation that is a symbol of something important to them.
It can be used as a stand-alone creative writing, About Me activity, or as a Language Arts activity to support science units: planets and stars; astronomy; space; constellations.
Super for Back to School - About Me activity!
I use this activity with grade 3 classes when they are studying planets and stars in the
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3rd - 5th
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Solar System Craft | Planet Science, Solar System Activity, Solar System Project
Getting hands-on is the best way to learn science!This Solar System on a String Craft makes the perfect culminating activity for any space or solar system unit. In this low-prep science project, students will record important facts about each planet — before coloring, cutting, and stringing them up in the correct order. Let your students take their creations home, or hang these solar system mobiles from the ceiling for some stunning science class decor!-------------------------------------------
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1st - 6th
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Earth's Place in the Universe: Solar System and Astronomy
This thematic unit is choc-full of activities designed to promote conceptual understanding of science concepts related to our solar system. This product is aligned to 5th grade NGSS:5-PS2-1. Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down5-ESS1-1. Support an argument that differences in the apparent brightness of the sun compared to other stars is due to their relative distances from Earth.5-ESS1-2: Represent data in graphical displays to reveal pat
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3rd - 6th
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5-ESS1-2
, 5-ESS1-1
, 5-PS2-1
Also included in: Custom Bundle for Jessica (Tennessee 5th Grade Science)
Solar Systems and Planets | Circle Book Craftivity Printable & Digital | Google
Engage students with this planet and solar system circle book. This fun foldable covers the eight planets, the solar system and so much more! It makes a great visual and makes science interactive!Check out the preview for details!This Product Covers:✓ The eight planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune✓ The rocky planets versus the gassy planets✓ The sun and moon, along with the role they play✓ Asteroids, meteors, stars, and comets... and so much more!With Thi
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Science Circle Books BUNDLE
Solar System and Planets Research Templates Outer Space Print Digital
Looking to have your students document their research on the planets of the solar system? These print and digital templates (google slides, digital PowerPoint files) will help you do just that.Items Included⭐ 1. Flipbook Templates (Print)Flipbook templates (style 1 and 2) in blackline to print.Flipbook templates in color (style 1 and 2) to print.Self-editing and Peer editing Checklist Teacher Marking RubricVocabulary Display CardsEditable PowerPoint templates in style 1 (blackline & color)
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3rd - 6th
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Moon Phases & Layers Science Centers | 3rd 4th Grade Reading Vocabulary Diagram
Moon Science Weekly Five™ Stations help students explore moon phases, layers of the moon, and landforms on the moon.5 Quick and Simple Centers1. Read: Why Does the Moon Seem to Change?2. Explore: Build a diagram of the moon's phases.3. Organize: Color and label the layers of the moon.4. Extend: Use clay to make a model of the moon.5. Vocab: Gravity, New Moon, Full Moon, waxing, waningPlusKWL: Students fill in what they know and want to know before they begin. They fill in what they learned after
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3rd - 4th
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Solar System Facts and Fill Ins Flip Book
Solar System: Interactive Layered Flip Book
Requires 8.5 by 11 paper
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★Once assembled your students will love that it will actually look like planets are lined up in the order from the sun. Lines up perfectly. Dashed guidelines for cutting, and engaging pages with activities.
★9 pages in each version (2 versions color and line art)
★Dotted lines to cut along that will guide you
★Facts and background each planet to fill in.
★Coloring activity using the line art version
★Short answe
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1st - 8th
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Sun and Moon Craft plus Writing Template (Solar System)
A great sun and moon craft to go along with any solar system unit. It is a wonderful tool to help explain the revolution of the earth and moon and their rotation on an axis. It is also good to explain phases of the moon. Also included are a worksheet and 2 writing prompt templates.
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1st - 4th
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Planet Research Brochure - Informational Writing and Astronomy!
This brochure activity can serve as a great mini-research activity for kids to do as part of a unit on astronomy, or as an enrichment activity. Students are asked to research a planet in our solar system, and illustrate and fill in various pieces of information on the brochure. This project can easily be adapted for kids in grades 2-5 by adjusting your expectations for the amount of writing and specific levels of detail given by the students.
Brochure template, an example of student work, and i
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3rd - 5th
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Constellation Flash Cards
These Flash Cards work great with a space themed unit! They are wonderful for constellation explanations, or for giving examples while the children make their own constellations! ! They can be used for morning work boxes, art centers, science centers, and independent and partner activities!
This download includes 24 constellation cards, 12 in square, and 12 in half sheet size!
Big Dipper
Andromeda
Canis Major
Little Dipper
Cassiopeia
Orion
Aries
Leo
Taurus
Gemini
Virgo
Cancer
Instructions: Jus
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PreK - 5th
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Solar System Unit {Digital & PDF Included}
Are you short on time and trying to put together engaging activities to teach the solar system? Look no further! This Solar System Unit provides everything you need! You will save valuable planning time and your students will have fun while completing the hands-on activities and experiments outlined within these lesson plans. To take a closer look at some of the things included in this unit, check out the preview! What will students investigate through these 8 detailed lesson plans? The differen
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3rd - 5th
Also included in: 4th Grade Science Bundle - Lesson Plans and Activities - ENTIRE YEAR!
Planets Solar System Matching Flash cards, notes, centers and cut & paste
Solar System Information cards:Information and Visuals on the following astronomical objects; Sun, Planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune), Earths Moon, Asteroid Belt, Ceres, Kuiper belt, Pluto, Eris, Meteorites, and Comets. Versions of the planet with black and white backgrounds included!Lots of different options with the resources included: 1. Cut out and use Solar System matching cards as a review (play like Memory) . You can use just the planets or include th
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3rd - 7th
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Sun, Earth, and Moon Interactive Notebook
This is a comprehensive sun, earth, and moon cycles interactive notebook. Inside you will find:
*Sun reading passage with notes foldable
*Rotation and Revolution foldable
*Rotation and Revolution model activity- Students will use a beach ball, golf ball, and marble to model the rotation and revolution of the sun, moon, and earth
*Sun, moon, and earth model- Students will create a model using pictures and brads that rotates and revolves
*Cycles vocabulary foldable- With the words rotate, orbit,
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Earth Science Interactive Notebook Bundle
Changes in Shadows, Time of Day, Position of the Sun, Lab Activity, Practice
Provide students with hands-on interactive experience with making shadows and changing the position of the sun in the sky. Students can interact with shadow lengths and the movement of the sun in the sky throughout the day. Students quickly get a visual of an abstract topic such as Earth's movements. This will help students learn and master the effects of the angle of the sun on shadow length. Instead of waiting a whole day, and marking shadows. Students recreate the actions of the sun with a f
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4th - 6th
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Solar System Flip Books Bundle Science Resource
Planet Shaped Flip Books Bundle -Once assembled your students will love that they will actually look like each planet! All ten are in this product, priced to ensure the TpT buyer saves money.
The flip books are proportional to each in size. Lines up perfectly with numbered pages, dashed guidelines for cutting, and engaging pages with activities.
requires 8.5 by 11 paper
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A cover page if you want your students to compile their flip books into a collection. Just print, color, label,
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1st - 8th
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