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Free 3rd grade science task cards
States of Matter Printable and Digital Task Cards
Looking for activities to supplement your science curriculum and review states of matter? These “States of Matter” printable and digital task cards will do just that!This document contains 20 task cards that ask the students questions about states of matter and how matter changes states. Some of the questions ask the students to think of a scenario and some have a picture with a question about the state of matter in the picture or the process required to create that state of matter.I have also i
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3rd - 5th
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Lego Club Disaster Cards
Build an island out of Legos. Then pull a disaster card. Then try to find a way to fix your problem without breaking apart what you already built. LOTS OF FUN!!My blog entry here describes the activity in more detail:https://legolibrarian.com/2017/03/11/lego-challenge-disaster-island/
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3rd - 5th
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Forces and Motion Would you Rather Questions Free
Students love "would you rather" questions, so why not use that format to have them show their science knowledge? Check out this freebie with 12 force and motion questions. Students answer the would you rather question and justify their answer with force and motion knowledge. This is a great way to combine science concepts and writing skills together.This activity includes: ➙12 would you rather questioned based on forces and motion➙One edible page for you to add your own would you rather forces
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2nd - 4th
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*FREE* LEGO Stem Challenge Cards School Edition
12 Total Lego Challenges School ThemedTask card format:For most challenges, students won't need more than a handful of legos.There are easier challenges, and some challenges that will really push your students to think "outside the box".I use these as an early finisher activity or as a reward. They are a hit in any class.Tip: Store Task Cards in photo boxes and have a few tupperware bins full of Legos so multiple students may work at a time. Dollar Spot bags of "Legos" are great too.****As alway
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K - 5th
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Force, Motion, and Simple Machines Task Cards
These task cards are a great way to review basic force, motion, and simple machine concepts. I like to set these task cards up around the room and students travel around answering the different questions. I've also included a recording sheet and answer sheet.
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2nd - 5th
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Free Money Management & Budgeting Bank Account Task Cards for Special Education
This sample task card set work on determining if you have enough money in your bank account on your phone to purchase items. These task cards can be used during direct instruction, individual work, and in task boxes. Appropriate for early learners of any age in special education! This resource includes one set of print task cards for a variety of levels. Print, laminate and cut to fit in a photo storage container!Print Task Card Benefits:Customize the resource by printing the level that is most
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K - 3rd
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Natural Resources Task Cards | Printable & Digital
About this Product• This product includes PRINTABLE AND DIGITAL task cards.• Task cards are tiered to Bloom's Taxonomy and probe low, mid and higher order thinking. • Quick Prep – two cuts produce printable task cards with a neat and even white border.• Digital task cards are made with Google Forms - Google Classrooms are not required. • Answer Key includedImportant Notes:• Save $$$ with the Earth Science Complete Curriculum• Save $$$$ with the Integrated Science Complete CurriculumTopics Covere
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3rd - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS3-1
, MS-PS1-3
Also included in: Earth Science Task Card Bundle | Printable & Digital
STEM Activities Desert Survival STEAM Challenge for Elementary Kids FREE
Kids will LOVE this FREE SAMPLE of the silly Desert Survival STEM / STEAM activity based on a loose storyline where they will need to survive in the desert with their dog, Pickles! Pair these problem solving task cards with the no-prep STEAM / STEM printable worksheet for a great back to school resource. Include them in your Makerspace, STEM bins, morning tubs, centers, as a reward, or as an activity for early finishers. Perfect for classrooms, homeschool, and even parents looking for fun, adven
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
FREE Measurement Task Cards Reading a Thermometer Fahrenheit Celsius Temperature
DIGITAL PDF AND PRINTABLES: You will download six FREE (try before you buy) measurement task cards for your 2nd or 3rd grade students to practice reading a thermometer in Fahrenheit and Celsius.You may use the printable task cards in math centers or stations for fun review games and activities, such as a scavenger hunt or SCOOT. They also work well for transition activities, as exit tickets and for morning work, quick formative assessments. Game ideas, a student response form and answer key are
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2nd - 3rd
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Water Cycle Task Cards Freebie (Colored & Black and White) + Recording Sheet
16 Water Cycle task cards in color or black and white. Freebie!
Questions to test student's knowledge of the water cycle. Answer Key and recording sheets are included.
Topics:
The Sun’s Energy
Evaporation
Transpiration
Condensation
Precipitation
Runoff
Collection
Infiltration
Sublimation
Hydrology
**Make sure to check out The Water Cycle Pack as well so that you can have everything you need to teach the unit and get your students engaged in learning. The pack includes an editable PowerPoin
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3rd - 6th
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13 Colonies Task Cards With Bonus Vocabulary Cards
13 Colonies Task Cards are a fun and engaging way to reinforce learning and review at the end of a unit. They are so versatile with so many different ways to use them in the classroom! FRIDAYFREEBIE3Here are a few fabulous ways to use them: ✔as scoot cards --get the kiddos moving around the room✔as desk rotations or all around the room games✔for science centers✔as a closure activity at the end of a lesson✔as a review game✔as a quiet activity for fast finishers✔for indoor recess✔to study for an u
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2nd - 5th
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100th Day of School STEM Activities - STEM Challenges - Printable Task Cards
Celebrate the 100th day of school with 100th Day FREEBIE!Make this 100th Day of School memorable and educational with 100th Day of School STEM Activities! STEM activities teach important skills that students need to think critically and solve problems in the real world. Students will start by learning to explore and examine, and then applying their knowledge to make improvements! What's included in this product:⭐ How-to-Use Direction Page⭐ 8 STEM Challenge Task Cards⭐ Engineering Design Process
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: STEM Activities - Classroom BUNDLE to Use Throughout the Year
Natural Resource Card Sort
This product contains 18 cards with definitions and pictures of renewable and nonrenewable resources. Students can sort cards as renewable and nonrenewable resources as well as match the definition. This product can be used as a simple assessment of student understanding of natural resources.
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3rd - 5th
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FREEBIE October Unique Learning System Physical Science- Force & Motion Sorting
Need extra independent tasks to pair with Unique Learning System (ULS) lessons? I’ve got you covered! These interactive independent task boxes & work stations use Symbolstix images to coordinate with the Unique Learning System (ULS) October Unit 2--Physical Science--Force & Motion. This file includes 8 vocabulary sorting mats. Gear your students up for success with hands-on practice using manipulatives and task cards!*SAVE* SAVE* SAVE* by checking out the OCTOBER UNIQUE BUNDLE
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PreK - 8th
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Depth of Knowledge Guiding Questions
This is one FREEBIE you don't want to pass up!
Dr. Norman Webb developed a process and criteria for analyzing the alignment between standards and standardized assessments. Through this process, a body of work titled Depth of Knowledge (DOK) was offered. This model analyzes the cognitive expectation demanded by standards, activities, and assessment tasks. Webb grouped tasks to reflect a different level of cognitive expectation or DOK. He introduced four levels of DOK:
1. Recall
2. Skills and Con
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K - 12th
Night and Day | Science Task Cards | Boom Cards
Want to be sure your students understand the difference between night and day? These printable and digital task cards ask students to identify night and day with real photos of different places during those times of the day. Use these to accompany your science lessons! They are perfect for hands-on learning! These can be best used as morning work, science center work, early finisher, independent work station materials, and more! Want to save up to 20%? BUY THE SCIENCE TASK CARD BUNDLE and get 2
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PreK - 12th
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NGSS:
1-ESS1-1
, K-ESS2-1
, 1-ESS1-2
Also included in: Science Task Cards Bundle | Printable and Digital
STEM Building Task Card | Open-Ended Activity
These 24 open-ended STEM task cards are designed to be used with ANY building materials. Students can use the prompts on the open-ended cards to create and make the suggested ideas out of almost ANY building material. It's time to get creative! The building ideas on these STEM task cards have been left purposefully vague to allow students to use their imaginations and create/design with whatever materials you have available. Here are some materials that could work:Clean recycling and adhesive
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1st - 5th
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Pumpkin Life Cycle Boom Cards Free Life Cycle of a Pumpkin Distance Learning
These free pumpkin life cycle Boom Cards are perfect for reviewing or assessing students' knowledge of the stages of a pumpkin. They can be used as a fun culminating activity to your pumpkin unit.Prefer Google Classroom? A Google Slides version is available here.It contains real, full-color photographs so students can make the connection to the real world.The first card is a learning card that has brief audio explanations as well as photographs of the 6 stages of the pumpkin life cycle. Students
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K - 3rd
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Plant sorting and classifying cards - science activity.
Classify and sort plants with these cards and descriptions. Encourages classification skills and understandings of the various features of plants.
Classifications can include:
- seed/flower producing
- location
- edible/non edible
- vascular/non-vascular
..... classifications are endless!
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2nd - 8th
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Science Tools Trading Cards and Word Wall Posters
Science Tools Trading Cards! This is a set of 8 science tools trading cards that you can use with your students when teaching science. I created them to look like trading cards and my students LOVE using them.
*Note: This product is also available in Spanish. Find it here!
This science tools set includes:
• 8 science tools trading cards with the word and picture on the front. The back has the word’s definition and a sample sentence.
• The same 8 science tools cards with the words on them bu
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Science Vocabulary Bundle
Polar Regions Nonfiction Task Cards Free Sample
Informational Text Features Sample: Exploring the Arctic and Antarctic!This Free Sample from a Polar Regions Task Card Set includes a sample reading passage designed to resemble a magazine or newspaper page and a sample set of 8 task cards. The reading passage is specifically about the Polar Regions. Sample task cards include identifying the nonfiction text feature, naming the purpose of the nonfiction text feature, and basic comprehension questions.This free sample package specifically includes
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3rd - 5th
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All About Honeybees Listening & Reading Comprehension Task Cards- FREE LESSON
Thanks for downloading this FREE BONUS LESSON!!
Included in this lesson:
Non-fiction fact sheet and comprehension questions task cards (Page 3)
Fact sheet worksheet to record facts from the reading passage (Page 4).
This lesson is an extension of my All About Insects Task Cards Set which includes 12 non-fiction passages, comprehension task cards and a booklet to work on language and writing.
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2nd - 4th
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Graphing Task Card Freebie
This is a set of 10 task cards with data tables asking students to construct a graph. Students seem to need all the graphing practice they can get, so these data tables are from science investigations, and they construct a graph using the instructions given on each card. It also includes a page of grid paper to use and a T.I.C.A.L.S. poster to help students remember the parts of a graph that are needed for effective communication.
I hope you enjoy this freebie!
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3rd - 9th
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Water Cycle Matching Task Cards
Spice up your weather or water cycle unit with these beautiful task cards showing the parts of the water cycle. Your students will learn about accumulation, condensation, evaporation, infiltration, precipitation, runoff, and transpiration. This set includes large, full page cards as well as smaller task cards. Each of the vocabulary words is represented by a clip art version and two different photographs. Plus, you there is a full page diagram showing the sequence of the water cycle. This set in
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3rd - 5th
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