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4th grade science scripts $10 and up
Reader's Theater for Oral Reading Fluency Practice 6 Science Themed Class Plays
Looking for a way to save time by incorporating reading and science? Want to give your students meaningful and fun fluency practice? This Reader's Theater Science Bundle can help you accomplish all those goals! It includes six original plays: I Wanna Be a Rock Star (Rocks and Minerals), Weather, the Solar System, Adaptations Around the World, Dude, Where's My Rock (weathering, erosion, and deposition), and Force and Motion at the Amusement Park (introductory physics).Each script has enough parts
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3rd - 6th
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Science Reader's Theater Bundle
This bundle includes SEVEN science based reader's theaters to connect reading, science, and drama! Included readings are "The Cause of Autumn," "Animal Adaptations," "Energy Pyramids and Food Chains," "The Water Cycle," "The Rock Cycle," "Earth's Rotation and Revolution," and "Renewable vs Nonrenewable Resources." This 40 page product allows students to have fun while learning science and practicing reading skills. Some ideas are to have your students form small groups to perform for other stude
Teach Culinary Nutrition Education at Your School (5-Class Sample Pack)
Introduce your students to the joys of cooking with fresh vegetables, and teach them about the importance of healthy eating in a fun and interactive way.With our Teach VegeCooking program, your students will learn valuable skills that will last a lifetime, all while having a great time in the kitchen. Order your five-class sample pack today and start transforming the way your students think about food!These classes can be run over a five week period, or for a week-long, five-day summer camp. Wha
Life Cycle Readers Theater Bundle
Are you studying animal life cycles your students? Why use a worksheet when you could work on fluency, comprehension, turn taking, and expression all while meeting science standards. This readers' theater bundle allows you to work on reading and science in a fun and engaging way.*****************************************************************************Check out my other readers’ theaters!• Chicken Life Cycle Readers' Theater• Earth Day Readers' Theater• Pumpkin Life Cycle Readers' Theater• Ra
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3rd - 5th
Reader's Theater MEGA Bundle for Grades 2-4
This MEGA Bundle includes EVERY Readers Theater published for grades 2-4!That's 27 sets of readers theaters, with 3 scripts in each set...for a total of 81 scripts!!!This is a super exciting resource that will help your students:Learn about growth mindset, science, social studies, and holidaysDevelop character education skillsBuild reading fluency by performing a reader's theaterGain confidence as readers and in front of an audienceLearn to work togetherReflect on their new thinkingIncluded in T
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2nd - 4th
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Readers' Theater: Lifecycles Non-Fiction MEGA pack
Help your students to improve fluency, infuse science AND have fun with these 8 Readers' Theater plays. Each play is 3-5 pages long with 2-6 characters.
Included with most plays:
-comprehension check
-draw & label
-writing activity (summarization)
Other goodies:
-close reading guidance
-fact finding worksheet
-word find
Subjects: apples, butterflies, flowers, frogs, pumpkin, salmon, snowman, water
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K - 4th
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Middle years- See, Think, Wonder thinking routine bundle.
Introducing our comprehensive "See, Think, Wonder" Teacher Resource Bundle – your all-in-one guide to effortlessly integrate this powerful thinking routine into your classroom! This thoughtfully curated bundle is designed to empower educators, whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting your teaching journey, with the tools and resources needed to nurture critical thinking skills in your students.What's Included:Teacher Notes: Navigate the world of the See, Think, Wonder routine with ease usi
Grades:
4th - 7th
Spring Life Cycle Play or Reader's Theater
This is a wonderful life cycle play that can be performed in the Spring. It can be used as a Reader's Theater or a full play. It includes 23 parts and can be modified. It also includes three songs for the class to sing. Such a wonderful way to practice fluency and learn the life cycles in Science. My first grades LOVE this!!
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K - 4th
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The Human Body Bundle -- Four Reader's Theater Scripts
Reader's Theater is an educational tool that combines performance and learning to captivate students of all ages. This bundle includes:In "The Neuron Academy" students learn about the roles of nerves, the brain, and the spinal cord in coordinating voluntary actions. They will explore how the five senses contribute to our understanding of the world and about the structure of neurons and how these building blocks of the nervous system facilitate communication and coordination throughout the body
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4th - 6th
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Environment Class Play or Assembly
Environment Class Play - what can we do to help?
Cast of 30 - easily adapted up or down.
Narrator plus 29 Protesters! And who would have thought our narrator would find himself ... a Protester?
Duration - around 15 minutes reading time (not including music suggestions). The length of the script can of course be easily extended by adding on more information about man's negative impact on the environment and what we can do to reduce our carbon footprints.
Sample text:
Protester 28: We can all do
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4th - 7th
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Space Class Play
Space Class Play for Key Stage I
This class play or assembly was written for 5 – 7 year olds *(version for older children also available)
Cast of 30 - easily adapted up or down
Duration - 15 - 20 minutes
Fun 'romp' through Space - with astronauts and, most importantly, rocket men - who would have thought an astronaut could forget his own rocket?! All 8 planets covered - before Narrator returns to Earth!
*Also available off this website and www.plays-r-ussell.com : Key Stage II version of this sc
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1st - 4th
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Water Cycle BUNDLE: The Life Cycle of a Snowflake Leveled Reader's Theatre
The Life Cycle of a Snowflake Reader's Theatre leveled scripts and Vocabulary Cards BUNDLEIncluded in this BUNDLE: Three scripts Levels 1, 2 and 3 plus matching Vocabulary Cards covering the science terminology underlined throughout the scripts.Make your science standards come alive with these engaging Reader's Theatre plays designed to help your students learn about the water cycle, as well as solids, liquids, and gasses as they follow the journey of a few snowflakes through their water cycle.
Our Planet Guided Reading Play Scripts
This set of 6 Guided Reading Play Scripts looks at man's impact on the environment - in the context of five different habitats: a pond, the rainforest, the poles, the desert and the ocean - and what we as the human race can do to undo the harm done.
Please note: Teaching time of 40 minutes is very approximate, depending on time spent on reading and answering quiz questions.
Play 1 Life in a Pond
Speakers
Frog Great Diving Beetle
Newt Snail
Stickleback Dragonfly
Play 2 Life in a Rainfor
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3rd - 9th
"Rock Concert!" an Original Music Program about Rocks and Earth Changes
Digital Downloadable Version: "Rock Concert!" by Sue Boettcher McTigue is a geologically themed music program, noted by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, Inc., with 50 or more narrative speaking parts appropriate for primary age students.
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Rock Concert! Preview Website
The script is interesting and humorous, and music is high quality, fully orchestrated and exciting! The subject and academic material is based on Natio
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2nd - 4th
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Rocks and Minerals Musical for Kids INSTANT DOWNLOAD
Rock Stars tells the story of three rocks from different feuding rock families (sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic), who must learn that they all are made up of minerals and aren't so different after all. This is fun, hard rock music with big guitars and great educational songs! Topics covered: the rock cycle and minerals. All our products include a downloadable script, MP3 music files, and a brief how-to guide for the teacher. Each play lasts about 30 minutes. The sound files include the
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2nd - 6th
Geology Unit Bundle
Geology BundleGet the best of my geology unit for less! Bundle up and save over 20% on creative and effective resources to help you teach geology standards.Check out the products that are included here: *Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift Theory Graphic Organizer*Reader's Theater: Comparing the Continental Drift and Plate Tectonic Theory*Visit a Volcano Virtual Field Trip*Earthquake Virtual Field Trip*Plate Tectonics (Convergent and Divergent Plates) Virtual Field Trip*Reader's Theater: Rocks*T
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3rd - 8th
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Brackish Water Biome Lesson Bundle (Presentation and Activities)
Save yourself time in preparation of teaching an introduction on the brackish water biome.You will be prepared to present answers to these questions:What is brackish water?What is an estuary?What is salinity?What is a sea verses an ocean?Why are brackish water areas called "nurseries of the sea?"What unique trees have adapted to survive in wetlands?What wildlife will you find in brackish waters?What are unique features of the Caspian Sea?Additional features include:Desalinization labGoogle Earth
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4th - 8th
Ignoramuses Elementary Script Environmental Science Play Readers Theater
When I formed the drama club for 3rd-5th graders at my school, I had no idea scripts cost hundreds to thousands of dollars! I found some online readers' theater scripts, but none that were for more than a small handful of children or took more than a few minutes to perform. Necessity being the mother of invention, I started writing my own. The Ignoramuses is a comedic look at a serious issue. Instead of leaving mainstream society to form a better way of life, they form an island community w
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3rd - 6th
The Life Cycle of a Seed BUNDLE; Leveled Scripts, Reading passage, & Vocab Cards
The Life Cycle of a Sunflower Seed Reader's Theatre leveled scripts, nonfiction reading passage with comprehension questions, and vocabulary cards BUNDLEIncluded in this BUNDLE: Scripts Levels 1 and 2 plus matching Vocabulary Cards covering the science terminology underlined throughout the scripts. A nonfiction reading passage with comprehension questions and vocabulary match.Cover your life cycle content in more depth with the nonfiction reading passage and then let students review what they l
Arthur the King, an Elementary Musical (Script and Lead Sheets)
This elementary-school musical is the story of King Arthur as it has never been told. As you will see from this script, all Arthur seeks is a little respect, but his life is one great adventure. You may reproduce the script for students in your class or group free of charge. Students and families alike will love this humourous and tuneful musical that not only teaches about the legend of King Arthur, but the science of weather! Perform it with a single classroom of students or any group, with or
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2nd - 5th
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That Funky Food Chain Musical For Kids INSTANT DOWNLOAD
That Funky Food Chain is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for the students to become the consumers, producers, and decomposers that make life on earth possible. They'll show how plants get energy from the sun, plant-eaters from the plants, meat-eaters from the plant-eaters, and decomposers from the well, decaying remains of them all, right? In this groovy story, the meat-eaters (second-level consumers AKA carnivores) decide they're sick of their violent reputation, and decide to stop eating meat! How
Butterfly Life Cycle Class Play
Butterfly Life Cycle Class Play
This was written for 5 – 7 year olds (Key Stage I in U.K) as Life Cycles are taught earlier in school - but if anyone wants a script for older children (7 – 11 year olds with a lot more technical information) please let me know. Always happy to write on request.
Cast: 7 eggs - 7 caterpillars - 7 pupae - 7 butterflies! Plus one very busy narrator!
This class play comes with a FREE set of photos taken at July 2016 Butterfly exhibition at the Natural History Museum
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1st - 4th
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Marvellous Minibeasts Assembly or Class Play
Marvellous Minibeasts AssemblyThis might be about minibeasts but let me assure you there is nothing mini about this assembly! It’s a little longer than my usual scripts – let’s just say, I found my cast members way too interesting! I will undoubtedly write some more scripts on them – either as class plays or shorter scripts (group readers) for use within the classroom. I can probably cram more information into these, with quizzes included!Marvellous Minibeasts has a cast of 30 (easily adaptable
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4th - 7th
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The Planets Class Play or Assembly
This class play or assembly covers all the planets in our solar system. It is based on the science curriculum for primary/elementary schools and is a fun way for children to learn 'astronomic' facts and become familiar with the great classical music of The Planets - Holst. (See music list below)
Music
1. Theme music to 2001 Space Odyssey/Star Trek/Lost in Space; or Rocket Man - Elton John.
2. Bohemian Rhapsody (Opening lines up to 'Look up to the skies and see' )- Queen
3. Ground Control to Maj
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3rd - 8th
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