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4th grade environment laboratories
Create a Food Chain, Web & Energy Pyramid for 5 Biomes Cut & Paste Application
Want an interactive activity to practice or assess your students understanding of Food Chains, Webs and Energy Pyramids? This activity is it! Students are given pictures of animals for 5 different habitats or biomes (tundra, ocean, forest, rainforest and desert). They cut out the organisms and use the pictures to make food chains. Then students draw in LOTS of arrows to show all the feeding relationships in the ecosystem. AND...OPTIONAL: Have students use the food web to fill in the energy py
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3rd - 7th
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Solar Oven: Light & Heat Absorption Experiment PLUS S'more Cooker STEM- DIGITAL!
This product contains 2 activities: An experiment to determine which materials will absorb the most heat AND a STEM challenge to build a solar oven to cook a S'More!*Light and Heat Absorption Experiment: Follow the steps of the Scientific Method to determine which materials will absorb the MOST heat! Perfect to get students outside, making predictions, testing them and DOING SCIENCE! A list of materials is given, and space is left free to encourage students to come up with their own. *What's Co
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4th - 8th
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Cookie Mining Natural Resource Activity MS-ESS3-1
This NGSS aligned activity uses chocolate chip cookies to model the effect of mining on the environment. Great to show human impact! The activity requires little prep work and it is a lot of fun! This is a perfect addition to your natural resources unit. My students go wild for cookies and it really makes an impact.MS-ESS3-1.Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth's mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and cur
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Rock Cycle Bundle for Middle School
Build an Interactive STUDENT FOOD WEB! FOREST Food chain Activity Energy Flow
Engage students with an exciting interactive food chain and food web activity. Using yarn, students create interconnected chains, enhancing their comprehension of producers and consumers. Suitable for multiple grade levels, this hands-on experience creates a deeper understanding of ecosystem interactions.Each student is assigned either a plant or an animal and they sit in a big circle and use yarn to interconnect food chains with the entire class. This set of pages can be used for several ac
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3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
MS-LS2-3
, 5-LS2-1
Opposable Thumb Adaptation & Natural Selection activity, application, experiment
Challenge your students to do common tasks WITHOUT THEIR THUMBS! Details: In this activity and experiment- students will see the benefit of the adaptation of the opposable thumb. The students are asked to perform various tasks as quickly as possible with simple materials. Students can compete against a partner or you can run this as a whole class activity. Application questions are included to guide students understanding of Adaptations and Natural Selection. There are 2 versions of the activit
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4th - 8th
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Outdoor Science & STEM | Ecosystems, Plants, & Earth | 3rd 4th 5th Grade Summer
Head outside to explore the science in the world around you for scavenger hunts, guided walks, and explorations! Learn about matter, soil, erosion, landforms, the water cycle, natural resources, shadows, ecosystems, plants, seeds, and animals. Out the Door to Explore: Full STEAM Ahead contains 35 science activities that can be done outside or by using natural materials inside.What is Included?35 science activities2 bonus scavenger huntsTEKS alignment informationNGSS alignment informationmaterial
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3rd - 5th
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Windmill Building STEM Activity
Get your students engaged with this hands on STEM Activity! Your students will be creative thinkers as they build windmills to harness the wind and investigate alternative energy sources. These activity is PERFECT for use in your classroom or a STEM open house!❤️ You will LOVE using this Windmill STEM activity because it is so SIMPLE! The bases are reusable from class to class and the students focus on building the blades. Students follow the engineering design process to design, build, and
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4th - 8th
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Build Forest Food Web and Energy Pyramid Performance Task -28 organism cards
Help your students understand the feeding relationships in an ecosystem with this build a forest food web activity that is also perfect as a performance task!20 organisms (including decomposers) are included with what they eat and what eats them so students can demonstrate energy flow through the ecosystem correctly. Students first manipulate the cards to create the food web with tons of arrows, then students place the organisms into the energy pyramid (Producers, Primary Consumers, secondary co
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4th - 9th
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Plant Needs & Photosynthesis Unit | 5th Grade NGSS Plants Experiment
Do plants need air, water, and soil? This phenomenon-based unit helps students investigate the needs of plants and photosynthesis with hands-on investigations, vocabulary support, a reading passage, and modeling. NGSS:NGSS 5-LS1-1 Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.9 DAYS OF LESSONSEngage: Phenomenon Intro Video, start Class CER, annual flowers observation (air vs. no air)Explore: Green Onion InvestigationsExplain: Text and video cl
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4th - 5th
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NGSS:
5-LS1-1
Modeling Tectonic Plates with Graham Crackers Science Experiment PRINT & DIGITAL
In this hands on science lab experiment, students will use graham crackers, rice cakes, and cake frosting to model different types of tectonic plate boundaries including: 2 types of convergent boundaries (with and without subduction), divergent boundaries, and transform boundaries. This resource includes: teacher directions with suggested extension activities background information about tectonic plates and the different types of plate boundaries with illustrationsstudent directions with photos
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3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS2-3
, MS-ESS2-1
, 4-ESS2-2
, 4-ESS2-1
Human Impact Unit Bundle | Printable, Digital & Editable Components
Save 40% by purchasing ALL my aligned Human Impact teaching materials!Important Notes:• Download a FREE Unit Bundle to learn more about all my products.• Save $$$ with the Earth Science Complete Curriculum• Save $$$$ with the Integrated Science Complete Curriculum• Consider Daily Lessons as an economical alternative to this unit bundle• This product includes FREE downloads of ALL future Human Impact products.****************************************************************************************
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4th - 9th
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NGSS:
5-ESS3-1
, MS-ESS3-5
, MS-ESS3-4
, MS-ESS3-3
Types of Clouds, Weather, & Water Cycle | Worksheet, Activity, Reading Passage
Can looking at clouds help you predict the weather? This science unit helps students investigate types of clouds, weather, and processes in the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, and precipitation).Phenomena-based Learning:This lesson will help you anchor student learning about weather predictions and changing water in explaining how observing clouds can help us predict the weather. Rather than learning about weather and clouds, students figure out how clouds give us hints to future weather
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3rd - 5th
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Earth's Systems Unit Bundle | Printable, Digital & Editable Components
Save 40% by purchasing ALL my Earth's Systems teaching materials!Important Notes:• Download a FREE Unit Bundle to learn more about all my products.• Save $$$ with the Earth Science Complete Curriculum• Save $$$$ with the Integrated Science Complete Curriculum• Consider Daily Lessons as an economical alternative to this unit bundle (see below)• This product includes FREE downloads of ALL future Earth's Systems products.******************************************************************************
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Grades:
4th - 9th
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NGSS:
5-ESS2-2
, MS-ESS2-4
, 5-ESS2-1
Ecology and Ecosystems Unit Bundle | Printable, Digital & Editable Components
Save 40% by purchasing ALL my NGSS aligned Ecology teaching materials!Important Notes:• Download a FREE Unit Bundle to learn more about all my products.• Save $$$ with the Life Science Complete Curriculum• Save $$$$ with the Integrated Science Complete Curriculum• Consider Daily Lessons as an economical alternative to this unit bundle (see below)• This product includes FREE downloads of ALL future Ecology products.**********************************************************************************
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-LS2-2
, MS-LS2-3
, MS-LS2-5
, 5-LS2-1
, MS-LS2-4
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Winter Weather STEM Challenge Lab Design a Paper Snowflake PRINT and DIGITAL
This STEM challenge explains how snowflakes form as a type of weather (precipitation). It walks students through the steps to create beautiful snowflake shapes out of paper. This resource includes: teacher suggestions, discussion questions, and extension activitiesbackground information on what snowflakes are and how they formstep by step instructions to create paper snowflakes with photos a student response worksheeta scoring rubrica force copy link to a digital Google Slides versionGet my grow
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Grades:
4th - 7th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
MS-ESS2-4 The Water Cycle Lab Stations Activity | Printable, Digital & Editable
About SNAPs Lab Stations ActivitiesSNAPs Lab Stations Activities require students to use science, math, literacy, problem-solving and engineering skills. They are designed to enhance students' understanding of scientific concepts and help students apply scientific ideas to the real world. Each station activity promotes skills so to develop students into proficient and competent scientific thinkers.SNAPs lab activities have five components:• Science Skills Station to develop science skill profici
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Grades:
4th - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS2-4
Also included in: Earth Science Lab Stations Bundle | Printable, Digital & Editable
Weather Vs. Climate M&M Activity
Students compare and contrast weather and climate using a fun, hands-on approach with M&M's.
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3rd - 6th
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Fungi Unit | 5th Grade NGSS Decomposers & Movement of Matter Worksheets Activity
Why do some fungi live in animal waste? This decomposers unit helps students investigate the question while learning about the movement of matter in an ecosystem. This is perfect for NGSS 5-LS2-1.NGSS:5-LS2-1 Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.Included: 9 days of lessonsEngage: Pick a Meal, wonderings, and phenomenon intro videoExplore: Mushroom DissectionVocab: Vocabulary posters and student pageExplain: Text, video, and gr
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Grades:
4th - 5th
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NGSS:
5-LS2-1
5-ESS2-1 Earth's Spheres Interactions Lab Activity | Printable & Digital
About SNAPs Lab Stations ActivitiesSNAPs Lab Stations Activities require students to use science, math, literacy, problem-solving and engineering skills. They are designed to enhance students' understanding of scientific concepts and help students apply scientific ideas to the real world. Each station activity promotes skills so to develop students into proficient and competent scientific thinkers.SNAPs lab activities have five components:• Science Skills Station to develop science skill profici
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
5-ESS2-1
Also included in: Earth Science Lab Stations Bundle | Printable, Digital & Editable
5-LS2-1 & MS-LS2-3 Food Chains and Webs Lab | Printable, Digital & Editable
About SNAPs Lab Stations ActivitiesSNAPs Lab Stations Activities require students to use science, math, literacy, problem-solving and engineering skills. They are designed to enhance students' understanding of scientific concepts and help students apply scientific ideas to the real world. Each station activity promotes skills so to develop students into proficient and competent scientific thinkers.SNAPs lab activities have five components:• Science Skills Station to develop science skill profici
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-LS2-3
, 5-LS2-1
Also included in: Life Science Biology Lab Bundle | Printable, Digital & Editable
Skittles & Erosion Labs BUNDLE/ Differentiated / Scientific Method
Helping students to understand the difference between weathering and erosion can be challenging. Both resources are very engaging erosion labs allowing students to get hands on experience with weathering and erosion. This lab utilizes the scientific method to discover if erosion can be prevented.************BUNDLE*************************This is a BUNDLE of my two best sellers: Skittles Weathering & Erosion Lab and Erosion Lab. Each of the TWO resources include:*Detailed Lesson Plan that inc
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS2-2
, 2-ESS2-1
, 4-ESS2-1
4-ESS2-1 Weathering, Erosion and Deposition Lab | Printable, Digital & Editable
About SNAPs Lab Stations ActivitiesSNAPs Lab Stations Activities require students to use science, math, literacy, problem-solving and engineering skills. They are designed to enhance students' understanding of scientific concepts and help students apply scientific ideas to the real world. Each station activity promotes skills so to develop students into proficient and competent scientific thinkers.SNAPs lab activities have five components:• Science Skills Station to develop science skill profici
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
4-ESS2-1
Also included in: Earth Science Lab Stations Bundle | Printable, Digital & Editable
Build an Interactive STUDENT & Yarn FOOD WEB! Food Chain Activity OCEAN Marine
Here is an Ocean Marine student interactive food chain and food web activity to interpret interactions between producers and consumers. Using 18 images of plants and animals, the students use yarn to interconnect food chains with the entire class in this exciting activity! This set of pages can be used for several activities that include concepts about food chains, food webs, consumers vs. producers, the different levels of consumers, herbivores vs. carnivores vs. omnivores and autotrophs vs. h
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
MS-LS2-3
, 5-LS2-1
Pond Water Microscope Lab Activity
This product was designed to be used with a microscope for students to manipulate and learn about the pieces and what they do. Students will cut and glue interactive notebook sheets into their notebook (or just use them as worksheets)IN THIS PRODUCT YOU WILL FIND:1. Review "steps of how to use a microscope” printable poster2. Review “parts of a microscope” coloring or just printable poster3. Interactive notebook insert as well as printable key for pond organisms chart4. Interactive notebook inse
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Grades:
4th - 12th
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