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8th grade science games for Microsoft Word
Giving instructions GREAT FIRST DAY ACTIVITY TEAMWORK LEADERSHIP
This activity demonstrates the difficulties that arise when a medical professional or other professional must give instructions verbally without the assistance of anything in writing. This is an essential ability in the medical field or any field that requires relaying of instructions or orders. health science, medical, anatomy, communication disorders, speech therapy, homeschool, high school, middle school, medical terminology, pharmacology, leadership, teamwork, first day, icebreakers, intro
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Chemistry Bingo - Calculating Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons
Your students will love practicing calculations of subatomic particles with this pre-made bingo game. The teacher draws a card with the name of an element and calls its name. Student then use a periodic table to find its atomic number, mass number, protons, neutrons, and electrons. When students find a corresponding number, they place a token.
File includes 30 different bingo boards with numbers already filled in, a sheet of element names that can be cut out for calling bingo, and a call she
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8th - 11th
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Pokemon Go - Game Template with optional QR Codes
Teacher Directions
Now is your chance to take advantage of the latest craze: Pokemon Go! You can treat your students to a fun, creative, active learning challenge, with your very own version of Pokemon Go in the classroom!
Just like with the popular mobile game, your students will be moving around the classroom, trying to “catch” all the Pokemon. They accomplish this by correctly answering each question. Each answer will match one of the signs that you will have posted around the classroom, at
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3rd - 12th
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Carrying Capacity and Limiting Factors Game
Very fun and engaging game/activity to help teach your students about Carrying Capacity and Limiting Factors. Students will compete for "food" in this activity in order to determine the carrying capacity of the class. The worksheet comes with a pre-activity question and 3 post activity questions. Includes "food" cards and guidelines for teacher to use. Your students will enjoy this activity, while learning. Item is completely editable.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Ecology Bundle
Make Your Own Chemistry Board Game
This is a project based learning assignment that is guaranteed to make all students engaged and excited about their new chemistry knowledge! Students will make their own chemistry board game over:1) Elements, compounds, and molecules2) Periodic Table: groups and periods, atomic number and atomic mass3) Metals, NonMetals, and Metalloids (location on PT and properties of each) 4) A=P=E M-A=N5) Atom Structure: nucleus and electron cloud6) Protons, neutrons, and electrons (location in the atom, elec
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6th - 12th
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Symbiosis Activity/ Simulation & Limiting Factors
This original activity may be used as an introduction or review of
Symbiotic Relationships and Limiting Factors.
In this activity, students will be paired together with a partner to simulate several types of symbiotic relationships. Organisms (students) will try to fulfill their requirements for life: food, water, living space, and shelter (limiting factors). The scoring system for each symbiotic relationship is different to simulate the benefits and deterrents of each relationship. Points
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7th - 10th
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Rocks & Rock Cycle Review Activity (Editable)
TYPES OF ROCKS and THE ROCK CYCLE - A fun and engaging activity to review the concepts related to the Rock Cycle and Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic Rocks. Although often used with elementary students, my middle school and high-school-aged students have just as much fun playing "I Have, Who Has"! Includes 32 game cards, instructions, and a template for you to add your own terms and concepts. Includes a full answer key. This document CAN be EDITED in MS WORD.**This item is also included
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Rocks and Minerals - Types of Rocks, Rock Cycle, Minerals and More!
Mitosis and Meiosis Cell Division Bundle
This bundle has everything you need to teach cellular division. It includes powerpoints with supplemental flip books and card sorts, a microscope analysis activity, posters, review game, and quiz. Click on each product above to preview. Be sure to follow my TpT store by clicking on the green "follow me" next to my seller picture to receive notifications of new products and upcoming sales. Don't forget to leave feedback to earn TpT credits that can be used for future purchases! ♻️ Check out my bl
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8th - 10th
Save Fred! Community and Teamwork Builder
Save Fred! is a great community builder and review of the Scientific Method. I've used this activity at the beginning of the year for 2 years with my 5th graders. They LOVE saving Fred and talk about it for the rest of the year!
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This goes along with the Save Fred! lesson on my blog.
Save Fred! Blog Post
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The Following Directions Test is another fun Back to School activity!
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3rd - 8th
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Full Biology STAAR EOC Review | Teacher & Student Certified Awesome!
Teaching at a school with large learning gaps, I always struggled when it came to review time... Not any longer. This resource contains over 40 activities to fully review all 16 readiness standards and almost all of the supporting standards.Don't worry, you don't need to use them all, some topics have more than one resource for review, so you have options!Resources are designed to be interactive and hands-on through various activities but can be easily modified to fit your needs!Using these reso
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8th - 12th
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Atom Bonding Activity/Game Based on Valence
In this activity/game, students cut and match atoms that would bond with each other based on their number of valence electrons. Students find a love interest for each atom and glue them next to each other. Great formative assessment. To make the activity more challenging, you can cover up the chemical symbol and have students identify each atom based on number of orbital and number of valence electrons before matching up the atoms. The two noble gas atoms will be left overs and students can just
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7th - 11th
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End-of-the-Year Online Brain Games Worksheet
This online brain game activity is a perfect end-of-the-year activity for any middle school classroom. Sign out the computer lab or check out the laptop cart for the day - no extra materials or classroom props needed. This lesson runs itself! Your students will be engaged and on task. This worksheet works in conjunction with the Neuroscience for Kids website. I have created an activity sheet that allows my students to play some fun brain games - Concentration, Simon Says, Memory, and many more
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6th - 9th
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Plant Sort: Flowering & Non-Flowering
1. Laminate and cut the cards above (first 10 are non-flowering, second 10 are flowering)2. Glue sorting mat onto front of envelope/file folder3. Decide which way to play! a. Whole Group: give each student a card and spread out around room, then say ‘go’ and have students find pairs (2 students both having flowering OR both having non-flowering plant) b. Partners: Matching Gam-: flip cards upside down, take turns selecting 2,
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2nd - 12th
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MITOSIS Game
MITOSIS, MITOSIS, and more MITOSIS: Get the students up and moving with a game about mitosis!
NO PREP WORK!
This activity could serve as a great introduction to the life cycle of a cell, and it gets students acting out each phase from interphase, mitosis (prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase), and cytokinesis. Students will not realize that they are learning!
You need a class size of at least twelve students to play this game.
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5th - 10th, Adult Education
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Genetic Diversity Game Biodiversity NGSS MS-LS4-4
This entire game lasted about one class period. However, you could easily make it longer or shorter. This activity is centered on the Next Generation Standard: MS –LS4-4 Construct an explanation based on evidence that describes how genetic variations of traits in a population increase some individuals’ probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment.Students will randomly pick certain animals that have specific genotypes. Using the gene/trait table, they will have to write dow
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6th - 8th
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Selective Breeding and Monster Farming
Want an engaging game where students selectively breed monsters? Look no further, I have two fun activities where monsters are farmed for their horns and fur. The first scenario is done in groups of 3-4 students. The second scenario is an added challenge to done independently or with partners. The second activity will allow you to work more one-on-one with students who need more time with the first activity. Both activities address the following NGSS standard:
MS-LS4-5: Gather and synthesize in
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7th - 9th
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Food Chain Game- Food chains, Food webs, Ecosystems, outdoors
This is one of the favorites of the year for my class. We go outside and play a sophisticated game of tag. Students are assigned different goals based on these instructions. As a teacher you can simulate different conditions by changing how many students are playing which role. For example, to simulate a forest fire have only a few plants left and see what happens to the ecosystem. To simulate overhunting we have too few wolves and too many deer. Give this a try it is a lot of fun!
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5th - 8th
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Matter Webquest
This is a Webquest introducing the topics relating to matter. Students complete 6 different tasks on 5 different websites and record information from each. A key is included on the final pages.Topics and activities include:1) Matter vocabulary matching game2) Matter Pre-Test3) States of Matter fill-in-the-blank notes and matching 4) Theories of Matter5) Properties of Solid, Liquid, and Gas Chart
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6th - 10th
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Word Search and Scramble Activity Bundle - 37 Word Search Science Topics
Word Search and Scramble - Growing Bundle. By purchasing this bundle, you will get access to all current as well as future Word Search and Scramble activities. Word Search and Scramble:Ensure your students are challenged by selecting the correct level of difficulty.What’s Inside: Designed for students in middle and high school, each activity is actually three-in-one. 1) Simple Word Search Using 25 common terms.2) Scramble Word Search - Students need to locate the 25 terms which are scrambled.3)
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6th - 12th
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Color by Numbers 8th Grade Science STAAR Review (Force, Motion, and Energy)
This is a color by numbers STAAR review for 8th grade science Reporting Category 2 (Force, Motion, and Energy).
It consists of 30 multiple choice questions that the students will then color code a grid based on their A,B,C,D choices to find a hidden message. It's a great way to practice test taking strategies on STAAR type questions and have fun coloring at the same time! Answer key is included and because they color a secret message this review will be super easy to grade!
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8th
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Middle and High School Science BINGO - GROWING BUNDLE
Middle and High School Science BINGO - Growing Bundle. By purchasing this bundle, you will get access to all current as well as future BINGO activities.Designed for science students in grades 7-12, these interactive bingo games turn science review into a lively and memorable classroom experiences, perfect for reinforcing key scientific concepts and theories. In this game, you will read out a description of a term or a question and your students will need to find the corresponding answer on their
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6th - 12th
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CHEMISTRY: Ionic OR Covalent Bond? Color-by-Number Puzzle
Here is a fun way to introduce Ionic and Covalent Bonds and still have a little fun. I hope it helps
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8th - 12th
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Thanksgiving Turkey Color by Number Newton's Laws
Color the Turkey by gobbling up a few Newton's Laws questions such is what is inertia?What is Newton's first law? What force opposes motion? This is appropriate for both Physical Science and Physics and possibly 6th grade. There is no math involved, just concepts and definitions
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5th - 12th
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Life Science review board game project- cells, classification, heredity, etc.
A fun way for students to review for the final (or end of year testing) is to create a board game. This attachment includes everything you'll need to set up and evaluate a board game over the 7th grade science Georgia Performance Standards (classification, cells, genetics/heredity, human body, ecology, biomes, evolution). It's easy to modify for your own standards, though.
The attachment includes:
- Instruction sheet with clear expectations
- Rubric for the board game
- List of topics groups ch
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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