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3rd grade environment independent work packets for Easel
Amazon Tropical Rainforest NGSS Biodiversity and Interdependence Science Unit
Amazon Tropical Rainforest NGSS Biodiversity and Interdependence Science Unit and Earth Day Lesson is ideal for teaching about biodiversity, layers of rainforest, physical and structural adaptations, de-forestation, the role of rainforest in the water cycle and oxygen creation, conservation and MUCH MORE! This pack includes: ObjectivesKWL ChartNew Vocabulary/concepts Pre-Reading QuestionsWhat Is A Rainforest? ReadingLocations of World's RainforestsLayers of RainforestExtension ResourcesWater Cyc
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Physical and Structural Animal Adaptations NGSS Lesson
Animal Adaptations Lesson Plan on physical and behavioral adaptations, mimicry, camouflage, instinct, hibernation, migration, living in groups, arctic animals and biome, plus much more. This unit covers:Physical and Behavioral AdaptationsMimicry - defensive and aggressive,Camouflage InstinctHibernationMigration Living in Groups Post lesson questions Arctic Animal Study The Arctic background knowledgeThe Arctic Biome The Arctic Adaptations Animals: Arctic Wolf, Arctic Fox, Snowshoe Hare, Seals, C
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
NGSS:
3-LS2-1
, 3-LS4-3
, 3-LS4-4
Amazon Rain Forest Biodiversity, Characteristics, and Conservation NGSS Unit
Amazon Rain Forest Lesson on biodiversity, deforestation, tropical rain forest layers and importance of conservation. This unit includes: Geographical location of the Amazon Rain ForestBiodiversityTropical rain forest layers and its characteristicsImportance of conservationDeforestation causes and effectsTropical rain forest foodsVideo resources Fun factsMultiple choice assessment with answersVocabularyWord search KWL chartTropical Rain Forest Culmination ProjectThis resource is great for:Teachi
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Word Search - Desert Habitat - Grades 3-5 - Fun Science Activity!
This is a word search puzzle with words about the desert habitat. Kids practice reading and spelling skills while becoming familiar with desert words!This puzzle uses a 15 x 15 grid using desert words such as "wildflowers" and "scorpion".Words read from left to right and top to bottom, with a couple of diagonals reading from left to right. It should be challenging but not too difficult for most 3rd- through 5th-graders.Answer key is included.** This word search puzzle is part of 55 Word Search P
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Descriptive Writing - Earth Day
12 printable or digital pages to give your students ideas for describing a wildlife scene or setting surrounding a honeybee, butterfly, lizard, rabbit, duck, dragonfly, ladybug, turtle, squirrel, and more. Each page has a wildlife photo (taken by me) and ten additional clues about what might be nearby (a slithering snail, a nearby bird, marching ants, buzzing bees, drifting clouds, shadows, rocks, drifting leaves, and more). Your students will like these writing prompts (and you can use these
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
Also included in: New Teacher Activities - April (First Year Teacher) BUNDLE
Descriptive Writing - Animals and Nature
20 pages exploring animals and nature (printable and digital activity). Students write a paragraph describing what they see, noticing the details of each photo and the surrounding plants. PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and download your copy. DIGITAL ACTIVITY: I created a digital version with text boxes so students can type in the answers using a computer or tablet (for Distance L
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: Spring Break - Distance Learning for Bored Kids BUNDLE
Asking Questions about Wildlife
50 printable or digital handouts to help your students write questions about...the sun peeking through the petals of a flower, a hummingbird perched at the top of a tree, a rabbit on the ground, a mountain goat on the edge of a cliff, a green lynx spider on a leaf, a stream flowing through the woods, a painted lady butterfly on a yellow flower, a lizard on a log, a grasshopper on the ground, a dragonfly resting for a moment, a bird standing atop a boulder, a nest in a tree, a bird clinging to a
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
Also included in: Writing BUNDLE
Describing Bugs - Insects and Spiders
10 printable and digital pages to engage students in analyzing roly-polies, spiders, honeybees, ladybugs, butterflies, centipedes, dragonflies, and lots more. Each page has four bug images to describe, like: How many legs it has, If it has wings, How long its antennae are, If it has a tough shell, If it is long and thin or fat and short. PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Buy" and download your cop
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
Also included in: Insects and Spiders BUNDLE
Descriptive Writing - Flowers and Plants
20 pages exploring flowers and plants (printable and digital activity). Students write a paragraph describing a photo: a flower and the surrounding plants. PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and download your copy. DIGITAL ACTIVITY: I created a digital version with text boxes so students can type in the answers using a computer or tablet (for Distance Learning). Click on "Create Di
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Plants - Independent Work Packet
24 printable or digital pages exploring plants: Compare and Contrast, Acrostic Writing, Narrative Writing, Dialogue, Compound Words, Personal Letters, Facts vs Opinions, Word Searches, Similes, and more. PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and download your copy. DIGITAL ACTIVITY: I created a digital version with text boxes so students can type in the answers using a computer or tabl
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
Also included in: Summer Writing BUNDLE
Word Search - 6 Puzzles - Habitats - Grades 3-4 - Fun Science Activity!
These 6 habitat-themed word search puzzles are a fun science-focused activity, and a great addition to any study of the various habitats around the world! These engaging puzzles reinforce reading and spelling skills while students hunt for habitat words. These easy-to-use puzzles are great for morning work, early finishers, sub plans, or just for fun! Perfect for both classroom and homeschool!Habitats included are Tropical Rainforest, Deep Sea, Intertidal Zone, Tundra, Coral Reef and Desert.E
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
Descriptive Writing - Butterflies, Birds, Bees
21 printable writing prompts: a bird on the ground, a dammed pond, a fallen tree, a butterfly on a flower, a dragonfly on a leaf, a grasshopper on a stem, a honeybee on a flower, a duck on a rock, a butterfly on a flower, a ladybug on a leaf, a creek, a lizard on woody litter, a rabbit on a trail, a mountain goat on a rock, turtles on a fallen tree, two damselflies on a stem, a butterfly on a flower, a hummingbird on a twig, a bench off a trail, a squirrel eating a nut, a honeybee on a flower.
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Also included in: Writing BUNDLE
Animal Characteristics Task Cards
The following document contains 24 task cards ( with pictures and characteristics) of various animals as follows:Mammals - 6 cardsBirds- 5 cardsFish- 3 cards Reptiles - 5 cards Amphibians- 5 cardsEach card contains various characteristics.Students need to mark/ circle the appropriate characteristics which belong to that particular animal and based on this information, classify the animal into one of the animal groups out of five.These cards can be laminated and used at science centers, or can be
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Grades:
1st - 4th
NGSS:
3-LS4-3
, 3-LS4-2
Descriptive Writing - Wildlife Writing Prompts
50 printable or digital writing activities for your students to describe wildlife:list the nouns in a wildlife photo, list the adjectives in a wildlife photo, list the verbs in a wildlife photo, write sentences about a wildlife photo, write a paragraph about a wildlife photoPHOTOS OF WILDLIFE: grasshopper, squirrel, mouse, slug, beetle, wasp, crab spider, earwig (pincher bug), bee mimic fly, hummingbird, honeybee, cactus bug, aphids and their ant guardian, banana spider, damselfly, wolf spider
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
Also included in: Wildlife BUNDLE
Similes in Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences
20 printable or digital pages exploring similes in simple, compound and complex sentences: as noisy as a bumblebee, as safe as a roly-poly, as quick as a lizard, as thin as a feather, as pretty as a flower, and more.Students use wildlife photos to create similes on each page: a caterpillar crawling across a flower, a bumble bee searching for nectar, a roly-poly curled into a ball, a lizard wondering why I am so close, a discarded feather next to a leaf, a blue and white bird in a tree, a slug
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences BUNDLE
Descriptive Writing - Insects and Wildlife
20 pages exploring insects and wildlife photos (printable and digital activity). Students write a paragraph describing what they see, noticing the details of each photo and the surrounding plants. Use as an Independent Work Packet or as homework. PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and download your copy. DIGITAL ACTIVITY: I created a digital version with text boxes so students can typ
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Narrative Writing on Earth Day
12 printable or digital pages to give your students ideas for writing a story about ladybugs and birds and honeybees and flowers and camping and swinging from a tree and more. Each page has a picture and ten additional clues about what might be nearby (crawling ants, circling birds, the hot sunshine, a cold breeze, a hungry alligator, wiggling worms, and more). Your students will like these narrative writing prompts (and you can use these any time of the year). PRINT: I created a PDF version t
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
Also included in: New Teacher Activities - April (First Year Teacher) BUNDLE
Descriptive Writing - Beetles and Bugs
24 descriptive writing prompts about the BUGS:firefly, Japanese beetle, ladybug, red-eyed fly, cicada, darkling beetle, assassin bug, soldier beetle, horsefly, cucumber beetle, leatherwing beetle, bark beetle, harvestman, six-spotted tiger beetle, slug, carpenter ant, grasshopper, wheel bug, tent caterpillar, and more. Students describe the body, where the bug is and what it is doing. Plus, 10 free pages of materials from my Gifted and Talented series to explore the California state flag, a cha
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: Insects BUNDLE
Wildlife Vocabulary
40 printable or digital pages to help your students increase their wildlife vocabulary. Each page has a wildlife photo and nine vocabulary words and asks questions like: Which words could have an antonym? List three other beautiful things. List three parts of a butterfly. Which word is the longest? Which word is the shortest? Write the toughest word five times. Describe this wildlife photo in a sentence. Write a sentence using the word happiness. Write each word once.Students learn abou
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Descriptive Writing - Spiders
30 descriptive writing prompts about spiders. Students describe the body, legs, spinnerets, eyes and mouth of the spider, as well as the environment (on a tree, in a web, on a flower, on the ground, standing on the water, etc.):orb-weavers, jumping spiders, hunting spiders, crab spiders, orchard spiders, green lynx spiders, long-jawed orb-weavers, ant-mimic spiders, six-spotted fishing spiders, wolf spiders, yellow garden spiders, harvestmen, and more. Plus, 10 free pages of materials from my G
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: Insects and Spiders BUNDLE
Descriptive Writing - Ants and Flies
35 descriptive writing pages (printable and digital) of ants and flies: the carpenter ant, yellow deer fly, long-legged fly, horsefly, housefly, hover fly, flesh fly, a velvet ant (wasp), and more. On each page, students describe how an ant moves, what it means to be tired, why your body needs to rest, how exercise makes you feel, people don’t like flies, we use water, an ant stays alive, how a fly can fly, and many more thinking prompts. Plus, 10 free pages of materials from my Gifted and Talen
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: Insects BUNDLE
Descriptive Writing - Birds and Bees
29 descriptive writing pages of birds and bees: the great blue heron, honeybee, American robin, bumblebee, mallard, wasp, pigeon, hawk, hoverfly, seagull, goose, blue jay, and more... Students describe where each bird or bee is and what it is doing. Plus, 10 free pages of materials from my Gifted and Talented series to explore the California state flag, a challenging A to Z Word Puzzle, decoding secret License Plates, analyzing a State Quarter, Hidden Nouns (Boggle), writing about Discriminatio
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: Insects BUNDLE
Spring - Hypothetical Situations (Seasons)
20 printable or digital pages for students to explore hypothetical situations. Students imagine and write about how life would be different...as a roly-polyas a lizardas a duckas a butterflyas an elephantas a mushroomas a cloudas a spideras a ladybugas a dogand many more...Use these writing prompts during the Spring season to promote divergent thinking and creativity. Take a look at the Preview to see a few pages from this packet. If you would like more of this activity, here are the FOUR SEAS
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: Back to School Writing BUNDLE
Trees - Fun with Postage Stamps (Writing Prompts)
23 printable pages to explore TREE postage stamps from the US and around the world. Students Make their own tree stamp Compare and Contrast two different tree stamps Identify the words, numbers and pictures on a tree stamp Research online to find tree stamps Take a look at the Preview to see sample pages. And if you would like more POSTAGE STAMP activities, then look at these packets:Spiders: Fun with Postage StampsInsects: Fun with Postage StampsDinosaurs and Fossils: Fun with Postage St
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: Flowers, Sunshine and Growing BUNDLE
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