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Middle school informational text laboratories under $5
Eclipse Solar and Lunar Eclipses Activities MS-ESS1-1 Sun Earth and Moon System
Solar and lunar eclipses are interesting to learn about. Students will understand the reason for eclipses and how and when eclipses occur. Students will make a model of an eclipse and read an informational text passage on lunar and solar eclipses. Students will understand that the relationship between the Sun, moon, and Earth is the reason for eclipses. Students will love these varied activities on eclipses. This unit should take about three days to complete. MS-ESS1-1This resource includes:•Sug
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Grades:
5th - 7th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS1-1
Chemical Reaction Activities with Pennies - Penny Science Lab - Oxidation
Are you looking for a really fun chemical reaction lab? You will love Chemical Reactions with Pennies! Chemical reactions are fun to study! These three labs using pennies for chemical reactions demonstrate many science concepts. An easy and exciting set of experiments that demonstrate chemical reactions and other science concepts! This resource includes three hands-on lessons aligned with NGSS for 5th grade and Middle School Chemistry. The three lessons use easy-to-find materials such as pennie
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Grades:
5th - 7th
NGSS:
MS-PS1-4
, 5-PS1-1
Weathering and Erosion Middle School Earth Science
This is an activity on weathering and erosion. It includes a lab, reading passages, and follow-up pages. Students will love the engaging lab on weathering! Students will see how the earth's processes like weathering and erosion have changed the surface of the Earth over time. This resource includes:informational text passages on weathering and erosiona lablab pagesFollow-up pagesanswer keysThis resource is designed to meet the standard for NGSS Earths Systems:MS-ESS2-2. Construct an explanation
Grades:
5th - 7th
NGSS:
MS-ESS2-2
Mineral Lesson Plans (5E lessons that teach mineral properties & Mohs Scale)
Mineral Lesson Plans: Are you looking for kid-friendly lesson plans that explain what minerals are and how to identify them in a fun way? These engaging and hands-on lesson plans use the 5E model to teach students the properties of minerals and how geologists identify unknown minerals. These lessons have been classroom tested by me many times and are definitely student approved!LESSON #1 ALL ABOUT MINERALSThis lesson begins with an ENGAGING story about a boy named Rocky who finds an unknown mine
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Density Column and Relative Density of Liquids and Solids - Stacked Layers
Students learn about density by making a density column! Students will be able to see that density is a property of matter. This resource includes a really fun, hands-on lesson, a close reading activity with a nonfiction passage, Interactive Notebook flaps and folds, and response pages. Density Column Includes:Lesson PlanLayered BookTwo pages of informational textResponse pagesInteractive Notebook InsertsThis lesson is aligned with NGSS for 5th grade and Middle School:NGSS 5-PS1-1.Develop a mod
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Grades:
5th - 7th
Also included in: NGSS Middle Chemical Reactions and Density Bundle
Make an Electromagnet STEM Challenge
Students will make an electromagnet using STEM engineering skills. They will design, test, and refine their electromagnet through investigation. Aligned with NGSS for third and fourth grade.This resource includes two lessons. One is a STEM Engineering lesson on making an electromagnet. The other is a reading informational text lesson that comes with a 3-page informational text article on magnets. This resource includes flaps and folds for interactive notebooks. This lesson is aligned with NGS
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
NGSS:
4-PS3-4
, 3-PS2-3
, 3-PS2-4
Also included in: 4th Grade Science NGSS PLUS Reading Informational Text Passages CCSS
Lava Lamp Density Lesson
This lesson teaches students about concepts like density and polarity through a fun activity of making a lava lamp. All you need is simple household materials. This lesson comes with an informational text article, science background information for teacher, flaps and folds for interactive notebook and a layered book. This lesson starts with phenomena.This lesson can be done with many different grades but the content seems most appropriate to 5th-8th grade. It is aligned with NGSS 5-PS1-1. Dev
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Grades:
5th - 7th
Also included in: NGSS Middle Chemical Reactions and Density Bundle
Density Integrated Science, Math and ELA Lessons NGSS Aligned.
Density is an interesting property of matter. This unit starts with phenomena. This resource integrates three subjects into two great lessons on density. The integrated math, ELA, and science lessons on density will help your students understand this concept. Students will learn about density in solids and how to calculate the volume of a rectangular solid.This Density Unit Includes:•Step By Step Directions•Two Lesson plans•Reading passage•Follow up pages•Interactive notebook insertsNGSS Alignme
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: NGSS Middle Chemical Reactions and Density Bundle
Scientific Method Sequence Display Cards
Scientific Method Display Cards are a great resource to reinforce the steps to the scientific method as well a supporting science fair project work. This product includes two levels of differentiation, one with picture supported text and the second level using sight word sentences. It is recommended that the two levels are attached to the front and back of sentence strips to create an instructional activity that can be used to address diverse literacy skills within the same activity.Scientific
Grades:
K - 12th
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Properties of Water - Adhesion and Cohesion - Drops of Water on a Penny
Students will love these fun experiments with water and they will learn about cohesion, adhesion, and surface tension. Students will learn about cohesion and adhesion in this unit. It includes reading passages and three labs. Students will love the drops of water on a penny lab!Properties of Water Adhesion and Cohesion Includes:Three Labs with 5 E lessonsTwo pages of Informational textResponse pagesNGSS Standards Addressed:5-PS1-1. Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Types:
NGSS:
5-PS1-3
Also included in: 5th Grade NGSS Science Curriculum Plus Reading Informational Text Units
Plant Life Experiment - Colorful Carnations Using Scientific Method (STEM)
Students will love this investigation and experiment exploring a plant's life cycle. Create a rainbow carnation garden from white carnations and food coloring. Meets Common Core Standards. This packet includes all the essentials plus optional expansion materials that are common core aligned. Student worksheets focus on a step by step approach to the scientific method. There are several opportunities for cooperative learning in small groups. The preview for this product is extensive, but this is
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Grades:
4th - 7th
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Ecosystem in a Jar with Nonfiction Passage and Flip Book
This resource includes directions for making an ecosystem in a jar, a nonfiction article, a reading response page, a flip book and a vocabulary page.This resource is aligned with NGSSMS-LS2-3.Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem. MS-LS2-5.Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem servicesThis resource is aligned with Utah SEEdUtah SEEd 6.3.1 Develop a model to describe how the
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Grades:
6th - 7th
Also included in: Ecosystems Activities & Interactions & Food Webs & Resource Availability
Play Doh Mountain - Topographic Maps -content reading, lab, and activities
Great resource for teaching topographic maps. Student-led lab…. constructing a playdough mountain and contour map. Reading content along with unscrambled words, a crossword puzzle and land feature/ contour map match for evaluation. Makes teaching topographic maps fun!
Vocabulary addressed:
Topography, contour map, topographic map, contour interval, elevation, depression, hachure line, v-shaped contour line, sea level.
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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How the Ear Works & Sense of Hearing STEM Activity and Worksheet (NGSS MS-LS1-8)
The ear contains some of the tiniest bones in our body and yet it can transform the movement of air molecules into electric impulses our brain understands as sound! How does it do that?I'm sure that like me, rather than telling our students how this works, we want them to discover this incredible phenomenon on their own!In this lesson, you begin by challenging your students to engineer a device capable of moving rice grains without ever coming in contact with the rice itself. Students will pract
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-LS1-8
Chemical and Physical Changes / Interactions of Matter/ Fun Science Labs 5.P.3
This product contains 6 self-directed labs on physical and chemical interactions of matter. This product is loaded with science vocabulary and informational text. The first three labs provide examples of physical interactions/changes of matter. The next three are examples of chemical interactions/changes of matter. The labs are designed to be performed in sequence over a period of roughly two weeks. Each lab explains the last and introduces/reviews science terminology. These labs were desig
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Grades:
5th - 12th
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Non-Fiction Text Features PowerPoint Review
This is a PowerPoint that reviews non-fiction text features. The PowerPoint is set up to ask "Who am I?" and the students guess before going to the next slide which reveals the answer. You can use this PowerPoint as a whole class review or set it up within a center for students to quiz themselves. I showed this review the day after my class took notes and it can be shown as a review before a test.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Nutrition Bundle
This Bundle includes my Nutrition Hands-On-Experiments and Nutrition Close Reading Passages.
Combined you will receive:
Science Experiment Step-by-Step directions for Fat Test and Real Food vs Processed Food.
Science Journals for each experiment
Fat Facts Close Read
Fat Facts Interactive Notebook page
Fat Facts Main Idea, Cause & Effect, & Summary page
Fat Facts Comprehension Questions
Sweet Sugary Statistics Close Read
Sweet Sugary Statistics Interactive Notebook page
Sweet Sugary Stat
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
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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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Grades:
5th - 9th
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Bread Mold Experiment
This activity was used to go along with a "Characteristics of Living Things" unit. This product contains directions for setting up an experiment that explores how moisture affects the rate of mold growth on bread. Students are required to identify the parts of the experiment, form a hypothesis, and collect data over the course of 1-2 weeks. This product also contains a graphing component, where students create a double line graph to show how moisture affected mold growth over the course of th
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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Predator vs Prey WebQuest and Virtual Inquiry Lab
Introduce your students to forensic analysis and help them understand what scientists and biologists are really looking for when they classify predators and prey! This WebQuest was developed through collaboration between the Slow Cheetah Skeletons museum Director of Education and me, an upper elementary teacher. This WebQuest will allow your students to observe real-life animal skulls and identify the key features that help the animal survive. Students will stay engaged while working on cross cu
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, MS-LS2-2
, 5-LS2-1
, MS-LS1-4
, 3-LS4-2
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Spheres of the Earth and Sphere Interaction | Activities | Reading
Are you looking for fun and engaging Spheres of the Earth and Sphere Interaction-related activities? This Spheres of the Earth and Sphere Interaction resource has everything you need for an interactive science unit in your classroom. It includes a poster, a nonfiction unit booklet, Spheres of the Earth and Sphere Interaction -related Facts the Spheres of the Earth and Sphere Interaction activities, a workbook, an answer key, graphic organizers, Opinion writing, and writing activities. Ideal for
Grades:
5th - 6th
NGSS:
5-ESS3-1
Scientific method, lab safety: Digital activity/worksheet/, informational text
Go online! Play and learn! This Digital interactive game will engage middle school students and provide a fun and educational experience. This interactive activity is designed to help students revise the apparatus used in science experiments and the importance of scientific testing. There are five interactive sections (25 questions) to complete. Each one will test for understanding of safety, apparatus and successful practical work in science. The questions include informational texts and an
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 7th
Types:
CCSS:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
Mass, Distance, and Gravity Inquiry and Phenomena Based Science Lesson
You will love how easy this experiment based lesson makes teaching science through inquiry and phenomena! Perfect for grades 3-5 science and STEM.An engaging way to learn about the relationship between mass, distance, and gravity.You get:•Teacher Planning Guide with ideas and examples•Sample Teacher Planning Guide for a model project•Project Week Lesson Plan•Mystery Challenges (Activate and Build Schema)•Mystery Challenge Think Sheet•Research Scavenger Hunt•Read All About It Informational Text•P
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: 5th Grade Science Full Year Tennessee Standards
History / Psychology: War Propaganda
This analysis of the mass use of propaganda during war is rich with interesting and insightful details that is certain to provoke energetic classroom discussions. Useful in both an American or World History class, and/ or in a Psychology class, this activity offers a wide-range of perspectives and pieces of evidence for students to closely inspect, evaluate, and discuss. Also included in this analysis are two short assessment pieces that measure reading and listening comprehension skills, as wel
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Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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CCSS:
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