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High school english language arts laboratories for Microsoft Word
Middle School/Upper Elementary Scientific Method and STEM Fair Unit
This unit was designed as a way to incorporate STEM into a more traditional Science Fair model with connections to STEM careers. Students are encouraged to choose a topic that they are deeply interested in and they learn how to connect scientific thinking to concepts outside of science class. They are also introduced to future STEM careers and community resources. The unit is directly aligned to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the Common Core.
In order to help students achieve t
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4th - 11th
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Accuracy vs. Precision Lab
*** All you need is a penny and a copy of this sheet for each student ***
Students practice identifying scenarios as accurate and/or/nor precise by repeatedly dropping pennies onto a target. Very easy to conduct and many possible extensions can be done with it- vary the height, change the person dropping the penny, etc. Who was most accurate? Who was most precise? Who was both? Who was neither? Create a classroom discussion of student results and attempt to identify how/why some students
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5th - 10th
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Cooking Utensils Vocabulary
Cooking Utensils Vocabulary contains a vocabulary list and definitions along with vocabulary matching and answer worksheets. If teaching Life Skills or Cooking classes, this lesson is a great complement to your lesson plan. If you're looking to delve into the world of cooking and Recipes, please check out my Reading FoLife: Cooking and Recipes lesson plan at: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reading-For-Life-Cooking-and-Recipes-701915
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5th - 9th
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Ornithology Student Bird Walk Observation Record
This is a 4 page booklet that I created to use with my high school Ornithology class. We take class field trip walks during our block periods. Student use binoculars and we walk to different places to look at what birds are around us.In this booklet , page one has a place for student name, date, where we walked, and weather conditions. On that page is a table of some of the more common birds that we see. On page 2 is a table with various codes. Students use these codes instead of tally mark
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9th - 12th
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Reading a Recipe (It's a trick :)
Tired of your students not reading their recipes for lab? This helps to teach them a lesson in how important it is to read before they start. If they don't read the directions, they will do a little extra work, which never killed anyone before.Spoiler: In the directions, they only have to answer questions two and nine, but they'll probably answer them all! bwahahaha!
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7th - 12th
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Gummy bear lab/ hypothesis, object volume, graph interpretation lab
This interactive lab for middle school and high school students teaches students how to create a correct hypothesis, prove or disprove the hypothesis using the scientific method, correct use of lab tools like graduated cylinders, triple beam balances, how to calculate density, and how to read and understand data charts. The lab uses the properties of gummy bears to teach these Key concepts. This lab can be used in its entirety over four class periods or can be broken into four separate smaller l
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6th - 9th
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End of Year Activities!
Keep your students learning with fun, engaging activities! Browse this amazing collection of simple, yet real world activities, worksheets, and labs. These are some of my favorite end of year activities. You are sure to find something in this bundle your students will love as the keep learning!Also available: Find other unit plans, unit bundles, and chemistry worksheets to make teaching easier here!For other great resources to make teaching easier follow me for updates! If you like my product
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Duck Decoy Lab - Learn how to use Binoculars
I made this booklet for my high school Ornithology class. We do a field experience to allow students to start learning about how to use the binoculars and start to focus on colors, patterns, and body markings to help in species identification.In this activity, students used the binoculars to look at 4 different duck decoys across a field. Students took notes and did sketches of colors and body markings. Then students went inside, away from the decoys, and used their field guides to identify e
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9th - 12th
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BUILD A BUG PROJECT
It's time to have fun in your science class. Administrators are on your case about doing more writing. You want to use technology, artistic and story creativity. You need to teach the concepts of insect identification, habitat, reproduction, and metabolism. This project does it all. Students design their own insect. They create a story telling how (as a great scientist) they discovered the new species. The story contains all of the facets of the insects physiology and lifestyle. It is organized,
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5th - 10th, Adult Education
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Law and Order: Better Writing Unit- Proofreading Unit
In the Miami-Dade School District, certain writing errors are considered especially heinous. In Ms. Cher’s classroom, the dedicated students who investigate and repair these insidious literary felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Better Writing Unit. These are their stories.This proofreading lesson kit includes project description, a list of common writing style errors ("Ms. Cher's Pet Peeves"), and 4 sample essays containing these errors and errors in formal voice, grammar and ho
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Inquiry Lab Report Writing Instructions and Rubric
I’ve used this assignment with students in grades 10-12, in elective sciences. The assignment prompt can be any number of inquiry topics that students are allowed to explore. The student worksheet gives instructions on how to write up a lab report to report findings of an inquiry experiment, where not all students will do the same steps or have the same results. The students will produce a typed paper, although you may modify the instructions to ask for students to create a presentation or po
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9th - 12th
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Simple Microscope Lab
Here is a quick, traditional introduction to microscope lab. I wrote this for a newcomer ELL class that was just starting to move into science content. These are high school students with a wide variety of backgrounds, some with no formal education in their past and some that had attended private schools in their home country.
This lab sheet has simple directions for students to draw what they see as they explored how to use a microscope. When I use this in my room we set out a selection of
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4th - 12th
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Scientific method, inquiry outline and example
This contains a scientific method, or scientific inquiry, outline of the steps. It includes: question, hypothesis, create/perform/record the experiment in a table, analyze and make a conclusion for the experiment using a graph, communicating results, an example of a graph, an example of a table, dependent variables, independent variables. It provides students with the steps, which they can fill in during a lab at school, or a lab students create. This includes an example of the outline for a lab
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2nd - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS3-2
, MS-ESS3-1
, MS-ESS3-5
, MS-ESS3-4
, MS-ESS3-3
Bird Excursion Booklet
I created this booklet for my high school Ornithology students. This was the booklets students used when they went out on an individual bird walk.The booklet has a page that gives details and ideas of what to look for when birding. There is a page that has the details of the walk - students name, date, place. There is a page for notes about what was seen. And there is a page for field sketches.This is a 4 page Word document, so you may edit as you need. I printed the booklet shrunk down to
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9th - 12th
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ESL Human Evolution Unit Guide and Vocabulary
This guide will help Science and/or ESL teachers base students in concepts of Human Evolution while teaching important vocabulary that is grounded in the concepts of the unit. It can be used in a science or ESL classroom, or both. It is from my past work at ELLIS Preparatory Academy and is a part of Teaching a World of Difference materials. It also contains some practice for the Finch Beak lab of NYS Regents.
Human Evolution Guide by Stephanie Grasso is licensed under a Creative Commons At
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6th - 10th
Distance and Displacement Lab
Created as an introduction to using distance and displacement both kinesthetically and manually with a graph, this lab was designed to cover two days. Use as you wish and leave me feedback!
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7th - 9th
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Rock Density Lab (Water displacement, using a balance, calculating density)
This lab was originally written for by beginning ELL students to practice measuring skills. Students need to make a hypothesis, then measure the mass and volume of 5 rocks. Students will calculate the density and make a conclusion.
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5th - 12th
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Physical Change: Making and Analyzing Ice Candles
This activity takes students through the process of making ice candles. It allows for analysis of the physical changes of ice and wax. It provides the students with the opportunity to write about their experience.
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4th - 12th
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"Eggsperiments- Science in a Shell!"
All students, no matter what the age, love science experiments!
Several years ago, while reading the story The Talking Eggs by Robert D. San Souci, I began doing some experiments using eggs. Since then, I have conducted these three simple experiments with many levels of students.
Included are the three "EGGSPERIMENTS" and a copy of the scientific process, in a kid-friendly format.
Eggsperiments by Scott T. Royce is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 In
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1st - 9th
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Writing a Science Lab Conclusion
Are your students confused about how to write a conclusion at the end of a science lab? I know during student teaching my students were! I designed this graphic organizer to help students understand what to include in their conclusion and where along with what they can leave out. Also included at the end is an outline that students can follow to see exactly how to write their final write up. Once students started using this outline, my cooperating teacher saw my students grades go up!
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7th - 10th
FAIR USE / ENRICHMENT / CROSS-CURRICULAR ACTIVITY
This activity is great for history, business, law, library, or art teachers -- or any other instructor who would like to enrich their student's knowledge of their rights and responsibilities in creating new work. In this 7 page open-ended activity you get:4 higher-level thinking questions in which students are asked to explain their reasoningA crossword puzzle using vocabulary from the lessonA prompt for students to create their own fair use work of art (with suggestions of various media)Example
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9th - 12th
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Claim Evidence Reasoning Lab Report Peer Review
This worksheet and rubric can be used for a peer review process after a lab report based on the claim evidence reasoning format has been written. The peer review process encourages communication, collaboration and critical thinking about science. The protocol can be used with any science class and is easily adapted to other claim evidence reasoning writing formats. Learning Targets: 1. I can apply the claim, evidence, reasoning format to my writing.2. I can assess the work of my peers using a r
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7th - 10th
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Lab: Spectroscopy
This is a spectroscopy lab where students will use spectroscopes to look at various gas tubes heated up by an electric current and draw what they see.
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6th - 10th
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Inquiry Egg Diffusion Lab
This is a great inquiry lab for students to do or to use as a class demonstration. This lab is inquiry based and will help students to see and understand the effects of osmosis and diffusion. This lab comes with a grading rubric for their final conclusion as well as guiding questions and multiple places for students to record observations and hypothesize.
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7th - 10th
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