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Science Common Core W.5.2 assessments
Rocks and Minerals, Types of Rocks, The Rock Cycle Worksheets & Reading Passages
Are you looking for rocks and minerals worksheets that cover igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks with no additional prep? This rock cycle introduction practice set of activities and non-fiction reading comprehension passages are easy to use and your students will love the variety. Learn the types of rocks and minerals through observations, writing prompts, non-fiction rocks and minerals reading comprehension passages (print & Google Forms options), and more. Including the rock cycle.
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Rocks and Minerals Unit
Weathering and Erosion Worksheets Activities Reading Passages and Assessments
Struggling to find age-appropriate weathering and erosion worksheets for upper elementary students? These reading comprehension passages and activities are perfect for your weathering and erosion unit. With these no-prep activities, just print, and use in class. What’s the difference between weathering and erosion? Your students will know by the time they complete this set of activities. Learn erosion vs weathering through compare and contrast, cut and paste activity, flip book, writing prompts
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Weathering and Erosion Worksheets Bundle
Grade 5_Giant Pandas_Informative/Explanatory_ACAP Writing Prompt _5I.4
This is a text-dependent writing prompt to prepare 5th grade students for the writing section of the ACAP (Alabama Comprehensive Assessment Program). This text dependent informative/explanatory prompt is from the text, “Pandas: Cuddliest of all Bears”. Includes the latest informative/explanatory rubric, released March 2023.***Rate this product to earn a credit for future purchases on TpT***
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5th
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Also included in: Grade 5_ ACAP Text Dependent Writing Practice- Six Prompts _(Bundle A)
Water Pollution Water Filter STEM
This environmental project challenges students to create a water filter to use with grey water to conserve water resources. The water filtration lab is a perfect Earth Day project. The engineering design process helps students investigate, plan, create, improve, and evaluate their filter. Students observe and collect data to write a report on findings. Leveled texts and writing prompts round out this jammed packed set! ☝ Click HERE to Save 25% on the Money Savings ALL STEM and STEAM BUNDLE! ☝ (
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
5-ESS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
Also included in: STEM Activities STEM Challenges
Redwood Forest~Paired Text with 3 Text Based Writing Prompts~No Prep~Earth Day
Do you need to meet the demands of the new Common Core writing while using a variety of sources? This set includes 2 paired reading passages and 3 writing prompts. This is ideal for preparing your third, fourth or fifth-grade students for state writing assessments and meeting new standards. The paired reading/writing packet provides activities that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts.
This set offers text-based writing practice prompts using the following essential writi
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3rd - 5th
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Science Quick Writes - 5th Grade TEKS Science Review with Photo Quick Writes
Science Quick Writes for Other Grade Levels3rd Grade Science Quick Writes4th Grade Science Quick Writes5th Grade Science Quick Writes6th Grade Science Quick WritesThis product is designed to integrate writing into science within a fifth grade classroom. There are four different ways to use the product included. -The first is individual papers with photographs and word banks. -The second is individual papers with just photographs-The third is a PowerPoint to display the photograph and word bank s
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5th
Also included in: Science Quick Writes Multi-Grade Bundle - Science Writing Connection
Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity Complete NGSS Unit
⭐⭐ Now in print OR Google Slides! This amazing two unit bundle covers the extensive 3-LS4 performance expectations! The first unit covers;3-LS4-1 - Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago. The print and go packet gives students everything they need and more for this performance expectation. Explore the world of fossils with your students with several interactive, engaging lessons. Your students will love the
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3rd - 5th
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3-LS4-1
, 3-LS4-3
, 3-LS4-2
, 3-LS4-4
Caine's Arcade Unit Plan (PBL and Design Thinking combined)
This is an epic unit created around the inspiring story of Caine and the cardboard arcade phenomenon he created that swept the country. This unit will get your kids thinking, creating, and building with household materials and nothing more! Everything and I mean everything is included in this unit to have your students create their own arcade games based around empathy and the design needs of others. In our case, it was 2nd graders. You can adjust for any grade level! Twelve different lessons wi
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4th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Dinosaur Mysteries~Paired Texts and 3 Writing Prompts~ No Prep~Back to School
Do you need to meet the demands of the new Common Core writing while using a variety of sources? This set includes 2 paired reading texts and 3 different writing prompts. This is ideal for preparing your 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade students for state writing assessments. The paired reading and writing set provides activities that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts.
This set offers text-based writing practice prompts using the following essential writing forms:
✓Narrative - U
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3rd - 5th
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Colonies STEM and STEAM Project
Are your students studying Early America? Check out this physical science STEM! Students apply understanding of density to create a colonial cargo ship. The design cycle is used as students investigate, plan, create, improve, and evaluate their ship. Students use observations and data to report findings. A leveled text and writing prompts round out this set! Next Generation Science Standard Alignment: K-2-ETS 1-3 and 3-5 ETS 1-1☝ Click HERE to Save over 25% on the Money Savings ALL STEM and ST
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2nd - 5th
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K-2-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
Also included in: 13 Colonies Unit Bundle
Water Erosion STEM and STEAM Challenge
Students develop a creek bank preservation solution in this Earth Science project. Using the engineering design cycle, students use their observations and collected data to write a report. Writing prompts and science leveled text round out this jammed packed set! ☝ Click HERE to Save over 25% on the Money Savings ALL STEM and STEAM BUNDLE! ☝ (Currently: 16 NGSS Aligned Projects) ❤ All STEM Projects are OPEN ENDED, allowing student flexibility to create and test unique designs. ❤Next Generation
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
2-ESS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 4-ESS2-1
Also included in: Weather Unit
Thermal and Heat Energy Insulator STEM and STEAM
This Thermal Energy STEM physical science project helps students apply understanding of heat energy to create an insulator to keep a can of soda cold. The engineering design cycle is use to investigate, plan, create, improve, and evaluate. A science leveled text and Venn-diagrams round out this set! ☝ Click HERE to Save over 25% on the Money Savings ALL STEM and STEAM BUNDLE! ☝ (Currently: 16 NGSS Aligned Projects) ❤ All STEM Projects are OPEN ENDED, allowing student flexibility to create and te
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2nd - 5th
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NGSS:
4-PS3-2
Also included in: STEM Activities STEM Challenges
Ocean Animals | Ocean Animal Research Report
Engage your students with this fun and comprehensive, 33 page Ocean Animals Research Report resource. It helps make report writing easy! It contains worksheets, questions, organizers, tools, forms, and academic vocabulary for your students to create, develop, write, edit, illustrate, present, and assess your students’ Ocean Animals Research Report.This report (or performance task) is also designed to not only to learn and explain the new information, but answer some higher level thinking questio
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Dinosaur and Ocean Animals | Research Report Bundle
Research Simulation Task- Science Related Task
Using CommonLit as a source, the two articles use evidence to support how the sun is responsible for the existence of life on Earth. Due to the fact that NJSLA uses 3 sources, one of which is a multi-media source for essay writing, students will review two texts and a short video which is linked onto the document to analyze and compose a 4 paragraph essay. In this purchase, you will receive: 1. Essay Prompt and deconstruction of that prompt2. Detailed outline as a scaffold for students3. Graphic
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4th - 7th
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"The Magic School Bus Chapter Book Series" Units
Ms. Frizzle loves science. So to help her students gain knowledge of whatever topic in science her class is covering, she takes them on lots of magical field trips via the Magic School Bus. These books are a great way to combine language arts and science together. This bundle includes all twenty of the Magic School Bus Chapter books and covers topics such as zoology, chemistry, geology, ecology, biology, botany, astronomy, archaeology, and more!
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3rd - 5th
Log Question: Daily Questions or Bell Ringer Worksheet Template
We always need to determine whether or not the students understand the material that we cover in class. You can put a question on the board either as a pre-assessment (about the lesson you are about to teach) or as an informal assessment about a previous lesson. For example, "List and describe the three major rock types."The students can fill out this worksheet every day as the bells rings or as they walk into your classroom. This allows them to have something to work on when they arrive and it'
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, HS-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-ESS2-2
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Also included in: Earth Science Large Bundle of 33 Activities, Labs and Worksheets
5th Grade Standards Based Gradebook with CCSS and NGSS
5th Grade standards based gradebook aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics as well as Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Includes enough room for a class or grade-level wide gradebook. Includes page for tracking school and home independent reading. Standards Based Grading format for scoring from 1 to 4. Cells change colors when scores are entered: 1 - red, 2 - yellow, 3 - green, 4 - blue.
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5th
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5-ESS2-2
, 5-PS1-3
, 5-PS1-4
, 5-ESS1-2
, 5-ESS1-1
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Articles - 1: Goblin Sharks - MAGNIFICENT or MONSTROUS? - Fact & Opinion
READING & WRITING - ANALYZING - COMPREHENSION - TEST PREP ................................................................... FOCUS: FACT & OPINIONTEXT"MAGNIFICENT OR MONSTROUS" is a nonfiction ARTICLE ABOUT goblin sharks. These are rare deep-sea sharks called living fossils. Goblin sharks have a perfect blend of incredibly cool ADAPTATIONS and hideous APPEARANCE traits, making this an ideal article for FACT & OPINION......................................................TOPICS APPROP
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: Articles - 12: POEMS, ARTICLES & NARRATIVES - BUNDLE II - PDF & ONLINE
Who Was Galileo?" by Patricia Brennan Demuth Unit
This book tells about the life of Galileo who is consider the father of modern science. It talks about his early life, his discoveries/inventions, and his clashes with the church during the Renaissance.This unit includes the following: vocabulary/spelling words and activities, discussion questions, vocabulary tests, modified vocabulary/spelling tests, writing prompts, activities/worksheets, reading comprehension test, and answer key.This unit would also be ideal for homeschool instruction, ind
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4th - 6th
Intermediate Science| Earth's Movement| Rotation/Revolution Interactive Notebook
This intermediate Science Interactive Notebook on Earth's Movements (Rotation and Revolution) is the perfect non prep science work for all intermediate students (3rd, 4th, 5th). This product contains 15 different pages of all kinds of activities and work for the students to learn about Earth's rotation and revolution. This product containsUnit of Study Cover page (can also be a coloring page for an opening activity)Table of contents labeled already for the studentsKWL chart2 pages of notes (one
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3rd - 5th
NGSS:
5-ESS1-2
Ecosystems Report Printable and Google Slides Bundle
This blended resource is great for distance learning and in person learning. It contains materials for your students to complete an Ecosystems Research Report. Combine resources to easily BLEND your classroom! This resource contains both a printable and digital - Google Slides Ecosystems research report.Engage your students with this fun and comprehensive Ecosystems Research Report resource. It helps has make report writing easy! It contains questions, organizers, tools and forms to use for your
5th Grade Weather Interdisciplinary Final Project
This is a final weather project that will give students the opportunity to demonstrate a deep understanding of weather concepts, analyzing multiple perspectives and excellence in persuasive writing. The project is interdisciplinary in that it meets fifth grade reading, writing, and science common core standards. The project spans a week and includes opportunities for students to collaborate and deepen their understanding of weather and persuasive techniques.
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5th - 6th
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Articles - 2: PAIRED - ABOUT EARTHQUAKES - Nonfiction Narrative: EARTHQUAKE!
READING & WRITING ANALYZING - COMPREHENSION - TEST PREP.....................................................2 PAIRED TEXTS TEXT #1 “EARTHQUAKE!” is a NONFICTION NARRATIVE describing the author's experience being in an earthquake.TEXT #2“ABOUT EARTHQUAKES” is a NONFICTION ARTICLE explaining how earthquakes work.TOPICS APPROPRIATE for students in 4th – 12th grades........................................................INCLUDESTWO TEXTS - PDF MULTIPLE CHOICE questions & KEYWRITING PROMPTSam
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4th - 12th
Biome Box Bundle
This resource will help to guide your students in researching one of the major biomes of Earth. Students begin with researching terrain, plants, and animals that natural exist within the major biome. After completing this research students create a Biome in a Box to demonstrate how the four major spheres of Earth interact and influence one another.
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5th
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NGSS:
5-ESS2-1
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- Question the world around them and seek evidence-based explanations
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