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Free 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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MS-ESS3-1
, MS-PS1-3
Also included in: Earth Science Task Card Bundle | Printable & Digital
Speed, Velocity & Acceleration Whodunnit Activity - Printable & Digital Game
Nothing like a good criminal investigation to liven up speed, velocity, and acceleration! Based off my popular CSI projects, I have created Whodunnits? The Whodunnits plan to focus on single content topics as opposed to units and will focus more on skill building than application. Every day can't be a project day, so Whodunnits can be an engaging out-of-their-seat activity to practice important skills. In a Whodunnit, students will work in teams to solve 10 practice problems that increase in dif
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: Position & Motion -- Physics Curriculum Unit Bundle
FREE Water Cycle Task Cards 4th 5th Grade Science Center Activities Games
You will download 10 free water cycle task cards for your 4th grade, 5th grade, and special education environmental science students to practice water cycle vocabulary words. You will receive 10 definition cards and 10 word cards. You may use the word cards for a matching game or word wall. You may use the printable task cards in your science or weather centers or stations for fun practice or review games and activities, such as a scavenger hunt or SCOOT. They also work well for transition activ
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4th - 6th
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FREE - Moon Phases Card Sort or Lab Station Activity
Moon Phases - This is a card sort activity that can be used when teaching moon phases in your class. Want the Complete Lesson?5E Lesson on the Lunar Cycle - Includes Everything you Need to Teach a Comprehensive Lesson on this topic (includes this product)The product includes:-8 moon phase photos cards with moon phase name on them-8 blank moon phase photo cards- 1 Sun with name on it- 1 Sun that is blank- 1 Earth with name on it- 1 Earth that is blankThere are two manipulatives in this one prod
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6th - 8th
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Forms of Energy Discussion Questions - Open Response Task Cards FREEBIE
Students work collaboratively in this forms of energy activity to discuss ways that we use energy in our everyday lives. Includes 24 open-ended review questions designed to help develop critical thinking skills and deepen understanding of the different forms of energy and how they can be used in a variety ways. This is a fantastic resource to facilitate a collaborative learning environment where students support the learning of their peers. Need these review questions in a digital format? Includ
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4th - 5th
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Also included in: 5th Grade Science STAAR Review - Discussion Question Task Card BUNDLE
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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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Activity Cell Energy Sorting Worksheet
GET KIDS THINKING with this quick yet effective cell energy activity!⭐ Our CELL ENERGY UNIT has everything you need to cover this topic! ⭐In this activity, students will sort and categorize 24 phrases that are associated with either photosynthesis or cellular respiration. Phrases review the reactants and products of each process, where they occur, how energy is involved, etc. This gets kids thinking beyond memorized definitions!Compliments the Following NGSS Standards:MS-LS1-6: Construct a scien
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7th - 10th
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MS-LS2-3
, MS-LS1-6
Also included in: Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Complete Cell Energy Unit
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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Adaptations and Natural Selection Task Cards
This engaging, hands-on science task card set challenges your students to learn the basics of adaptations and natural selection including animal behaviors, Charles Darwin, and much more. This resource contains 32 different cards. These cards are great for review, rotations, partner work, or independent study. Included in this set is the following:-Charles Darwin and Natural Selection-Instinct vs. Learned Behaviors-Camouflage and Mimicry with examples-Structural, Behavioral, and Physiological Ad
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Science Task Card Bundle
Evolution - Task Cards
These open-ended and inquiry-based cards will get your kids thinking about evolution! Engage your students with 20 evolution and natural selection task cards, perfect for warm-ups, exit tickets, project starters, stations, differentiation, review, enrichment, and so much more! Use these activities as stand-alone lessons or as a supplement to our Evolution Bundle. WHAT'S INCLUDED in this UNIT-LONG PRODUCT:• TWENTY NON-EDITABLE think ticket cards in two sizes: → Darwin's theory of evolution by na
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5th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-LS4-3
, MS-LS4-1
, MS-LS4-2
, MS-LS4-5
, MS-LS4-4
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Also included in: Life Science Task Card Bundle
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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LIFE CYCLE OF A BUTTERFLY ADAPTED BOOK, BUTTERFLY LIFE CYCLE ADAPTIVE BOOK, SPED
Do you need a free life cycle of the butterfly adaptive book / adapted book for your prek, kindergarten, grade 1, special education or autism classroom? This free butterfly life cycle adapted book is a hands-on activity and nonfiction interactive book that is perfect for insect units, life cycle units, and spring activities. Prep it once and it can be reused every day, month, or year! This adapted book using high quality real photographs as visuals, simple language, appropriate vocabulary (egg,
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PreK - 1st
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FREE SAMPLE of Human Body Systems - Notes, Task Cards, Worksheets, Etc. 4th-7th
This FREE SAMPLE is a small exerpt of the Mega Bundle titled “Human Body Systems- Notes, Task cards, worksheets Etc,- 4-7 EDITABLE BUNDLE” available at https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Human-Body-Systems-Notes-Task-Cards-Worksheets-Etc-4th-7th-EDITABLE-BUNDLE-6020643 , by The Science Arena. This FREE SAMPLE is provided to offer teachers / educators / parents / homeschoolers / users a basic idea of type of resources covered in the actual bundle. Detailed and more content is available
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Science Teaching Resources for Grades 3 To 7 Year Round Mega Bundle
FREE The Scientific Method Activity Vocabulary Task Cards 4th 5th Grade Science
You will download six free scientific method task cards for your 4th grade, 5th grade, and special education students to practice and review science vocabulary words and steps. They work well in your scientific method stations and centers for fun games and activities, such as a scavenger hunt or SCOOT.You will download both TPT digital EASEL and printable PDF formats for your convenience.Please click on the PREVIEW.Please click HERE to see 30 more scientific method vocabulary task cards.You may
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4th - 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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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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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
Your 5 Senses BOOM CARDS™ Science Digital Learning
This set of Boom Cards™ features 21 different digital task cards over the concept of the 5 senses. These would be great for your students to do when learning about hearing, seeing, tasting, touching, and smelling! This would be a perfect activity for kindergarten or first grade students. On these five senses digital task cards, students will select a picture of the sense or senses you would use when observing an object.This digital game would be a great science station or to review concepts b
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: 1st and 2nd Grade SCIENCE Boom Cards™ BUNDLE for Distance Learning
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Importance of learning science
Learning science is particularly important for students as it equips them with the essential knowledge and skills to make sense of the world around them. Science education is not just about memorizing facts. It fosters critical thinking, inquiry, and problem-solving abilities. These skills are not only useful in school but also in everyday life beyond the classroom.
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Learning science offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. In fact, it helps students:
- Question the world around them and seek evidence-based explanations
- Cultivate their ability to observe, experiment, and analyze data
- Nurture a sense of curiosity, awe, and wonder about the natural world
- Understand natural phenomena and the laws that govern the universe
With a solid foundation in science, teachers can help empower students to think critically, solve problems, make informed decisions, and engage with the world around them in meaningful ways.
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One of the best parts about science class is all of the possibilities for hands-on, collaborative learning! Think: labs, experiments, inquiry-based activities, and design challenges. These activities encourage students to explore scientific concepts by observing, asking questions, and conducting investigations. Additionally, with small group centers, students can engage in group experiments, discussions, and projects that require them to collaborate, share ideas, and solve problems together.
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