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Common Core W.4.2 laboratories in English (UK)
Owl Pellet Lab With Nonfiction Text NGSS 4-LS1-1 and 5-LS2-1
Owl Pellet Lab: Students will be engaged with this hands-on Owl Pellet lab and an informational text article on owls. Students will learn about owl adaptations and behavior. They will learn about how owls fit into the ecosystem. This resource includes a 5 E Inquiry based hands-on lesson on owl pellets, a several day CLOSE reading lesson using informational text, a 3 page informational text article, folds for interactive notebooks and worksheets for both the pellet lesson and the Informational te
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 5th
NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, 5-LS2-1
Also included in:Â Utah SEEd Fourth Grade Bundle plus Reading Units - Utah Core ELA Integrated
The Rock Cycle Unit | Rock Cycle Activities | Rock Cycle Informational Text
Rock Cycle: This HUGE integrated unit on the rock cycle combines hands-on science activities with reading and writing informational text. Students will love these engaging rock cycle activities. Students will learn about the three types of rocks: sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic. Students will learn how these rocks are formed and reformed through the rock cycle. This unit is full of all kinds of engaging activities. It includes inserts for interactive notebooks or lap books that can also be
Subjects:
Grades:
4th
NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, 3-LS4-3
Also included in:Â Earth Science For Fourth Grade - Earthquakes, Fossil Fuels, and Volcanoes
Earth Science For Fourth Grade - Earthquakes, Fossil Fuels, and Volcanoes
This resource includes all my Earth Science Activities for 4th Grade. Students will learn about earthquakes, volcanoes, weathering, and erosion. They will read informational text and do fun labs for earth science. Save 20% by purchasing this bundle.4-ESS1-1. Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time. 4-ESS2-1. Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 5th
NGSS:
4-PS4-2
, 4-PS3-4
, 4-ESS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 4-PS3-3
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Advanced Animal Adaptations Project - Interdisciplinary Unit on Birds
Looking for a challenging interdisciplinary unit? Developed for high ability students in fourth or fifth grade, this advanced project uses science, reading, research, and critical thinking to explore the nature of animal adaptation and its role in survival of birds. Open the previews to get a closer look.Essential Question: How do birds' adaptations prepare them for survivalInterdisciplinary Activities:Opener – Students generate examples and non-examples of adaptation. They determine categories
Grades:
4th - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
4-LS1-1
STEM Challenge: Build Water Cycle Model
Looking for a hands-on activity to get your students to apply their understanding of the water cycle? Try this STEM Challenge! Using what they understand of the different stages of the water cycle, students work together to plan, build, and test their own working model of one or more stages of the cycle. They will then reflect in writing on their success and struggles. This editable Google Slides presentation allows you to customize the materials, stages, and investigation questions to suit your
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 7th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ESS2-2
, MS-ESS2-4
, 5-ESS2-1
, 4-ESS2-1
Colony Collapse Disorder - Persuasion Text
**Updated with new graphics
In this resource, children will learn about the importance of honey bees before being introduced to Colony Collapse Disorder. Children will then write a persuasive text using modal verbs and Point, Evidence, Explain either persuading their audience to end Colony Collapse Disorder.
In the past, I have introduced this outcome by teaching lessons on three consecutive days in the styles of Authoritarianism, Democracy, and Communism. The children then write their persuas
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 7th
Types:
Synonyms | Descriptive Sentence and Narrative Writing
Students will receive a variety of synonyms for 26 commonly used words with 5 synonyms and examples each!These synonym posters (hang on the wall, put into writing folders/journals, or place on a binder ring for portable student access) will increase depth and creativity in student word choice and writing! Students will quickly begin writing more descriptively by placing these interesting words right at their fingertips!It includes the following words:so, very sad, angry, old, because, if, child,
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Types:
Rock Cycle Unit
This rock cycle unit provides you with definitions, flipbooks, a fun and tasty lab, and a writing extension. I also have posters that go with this that are free. Go check them out. Please feel free to send me any suggestions!
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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The Scientific Method- A Digital Step by Step Guide for Experiments
Completing science projects and experiments can be daunting for both students and parents. However, with this step by step resource, students are guided through the scientific method.This resource has been recently updated. A new slide is included for teachers to add their specific instructions for labs or experiments. Click here to view the project in action.Included in this resource:This resource contains an embedded video that will explain the Scientific Method to your students. If students
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 9th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Procedural Writing Pack
This is a pack of lessons and resources to teach how-to writing. This pack includes:-Lesson Layout / Description-3 Posters / Anchor Charts-A model text-A sorting activity-6 Non-examples with mistakes to find-Brainstorming page-Full page of topics to write about-Scaffolded Planning page-Rough draft page-Writing checklist for kids to edit their own writing-Final Writing Page
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Valentine's Creative Thinking Pack UK
Students will fall madly in LOVE with these Valentine's Creative Thinking Activities! They will get all of your students thinking creatively, but are specially designed to inspire your gifted and talented students! These activities are perfect for early finishers, centres or guest teachers!
Vocabulary and spelling are for the UK. You can find the US version HERE
Included in this Valentine's Day Activity packet you will find:
Don’t Know What You've Got
Love is Grand?
World Without Love
The A
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
Paper Airplane Lab
Two versions of this document are included; one has blank answers, the other has sentence starters as an offered modification. Students will make paper airplanes and test them to see which flies the farthest.
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 8th
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Hamburger Paragraph Writing Organizer
UGH, I have to teach the writing process! I am going to pull my hair out! Did you ever felt this overwhelming burden? Check out this digital Hamburger Paragraph Writing Organizer!This product offers a digital organizer that visually outlines the key components of a paragraph. This product will help studentsto organize their thoughtsto type their ideas into a cohesive paragraphto show the organization or structure of concepts/ideasto demonstrates in a concrete way how information is relatedINCLUD
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
Christmas Activities Pack- UK English Version
This is a packet of 20 creative thinking Christmas Literacy activities for Christmas.
These language rich creative thinking Christmas Literacy activities may be used individually or stapled together to create a Christmas Literacy activity packet (black line cover included). This is the UK English version of my popular Christmas Activities Pack. Vocabulary and spelling have been adapted for UK English.
Fostering creative thinking has been shown to increase learning in all areas.
Included
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
Activity: The Opposable Thumb
Humans have adaptations too! This lab will help students consider why the opposable thumb is so important to survival of the human species. It includes a graph for them to complete and a CER (claim, evidence, reasoning).
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 9th
Types:
NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, HS-LS4-3
, 3-LS4-2
, HS-LS4-4
, MS-LS4-4
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Gravity vs. Superball Lab Investigation
Engage all your student with this contest between a superball and the force of gravity!
NGSS Lesson includes step by step directions with links to teach your elementary school students about gravity and Newton's 1st law of motion. Then they will use the Lab Sheet to design a simple experiment beginning with a question and hypothesis and ending with conclusions about the force of gravity, energy and motion.
Vocabulary sheet, mini-poster, discussion questions and student reflection sheet includ
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Types:
CCSS:
Biography Project - Inventors
This biography project was designed with fourth and fifth graders in mind, but since it's mostly student-led, it can work with higher grades as well. The templates assist students in conducting their own research on one of six historical figures, introduced in the packet materials:Margaret E. KnightCyrus McCormickNikola TeslaLouis BrailleAlexander Graham BellStephanie KwolekTo complete the biography projects, students must accomplish the following:Read biographiesUse outside sources to learn m
Grades:
4th - 5th
Writer's Notebook: A Year in Questions
Writing prompts - day by day, month by month - connecting to monthly themes and self-reflection, through a variety of fiction and non-fiction literacy concepts.
Grades:
4th - 6th
Scientific Method Lab: Hands-On Science Experiments
A project-based unit to teach third, fourth, fifth grade and homeschool students the Scientific Method through a variety of activities.Students learn the steps of the scientific method and scientific processes as they systematically work through guided experiments and present their findings in a worksheet form. Complete start to finish step-by-step instructions are included for two experiments.This unit includes:- Colored and blackline copies of scientific method posters- Step-by-step teacher
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Disperse Seeds in the Classroom!
Students read a short text about seed dispersal and create a model to show their understanding. Activity based on CCSS standards for reading and writing as well as the Next Generation Science Standards.
Engage your students with this fun and easy hands on investigation! Don't forget to give them a chance to share and present their models to others.
2.LS.2 Develop a simple model that mimics the function of an animal dispersing seeds.
http://www.nextgenscience.org/topic-arrangement/2interdep
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
'Pimp my Insect' Explanation Text FREEBIE!
*Updated with new graphics
In this resource, children will study different insects to see how they have adapted to their ecosystems.
Children will then design their own insect and write an explanation text about its adaptations and how they make it successful.
A digital copy of the resource is available to editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw by following link provided at download.
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Honeycomb and Honey Bee Printing
Colony Collapse Disorder - Persuas
Grades:
4th - 7th
Make me a Conquistador - CV Persuasive Writing FREEBIE!
*Updated with new graphicsChildren will practice their writing with changes in formality by writing a cover letter and CV as a Conquistador.In the past, I have used this pack at the end of a unit looking at the Conquistadors and their conquest of the New World so that the children are able to contextualise the CVs. Alternatively, the King of Spain might post a job advert and the same English standards can be met that way.This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support t
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in:Â Conquest Topic - Conquistadors and Mayans
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