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3rd grade critical thinking science resources for parents
Literacy Night Open House Make and Take - Parent Involvement 3rd, 4th, 5th
Involve your upper elementary students and their parents with fun and simple projects they can use at home at your next Open House, Curriculum Evening, or Literacy Night! A Make-and-Take night gives them an immediate tool they can use at home to support essential literacy skills. Perfect for a diverse class in upper elementary, as it can be tailored to suit your school. In this packet, I walk you through the planning of a literacy event at your school, whether you are inviting just your class, o
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3rd - 5th, Staff
3-D Geometric Shape INDOOR Scavenger Hunt
Grab a clipboard and start exploring your home while hunting for 3D Geometric real-world shapes! This activity is perfect for distant learning! Students/children can work individually, pairs or groups to find different items within their home. Some sheets list items to find and others have students make lists of things they see.There are FIVE versions to allow for differentiation. Suitable for preschool all the way through fifth grade! The OUTDOOR 3-D GEOMETRIC shape scavenger hunt and be found
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PreK - 5th
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End of Year Gift - Editable Memory Gift for Teacher - Fun End of the Year Craft
Are you looking for a special end of the year craft project or memory gift for teachers or a Mother’s Day gift? Use this editable and printable fingerprint memory tree to create a special keepsake gift or add it to your kids’ end of the year memory book or preschool journals.✅ SAVE TIME! - This special end of the year craft project is easy to prep.✅ VERSATILE! Create a keepsake gift for teachers, student teachers, or Mother’s Day.Use the tree printables to study trees and the four seasons.Use a
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PreK - 5th
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Basic Shape OUTDOOR Scavenger Hunt Neighborhood Exploration
Grab a clipboard and get out and explore the neighborhood while hunting for basic real-world shapes! This activity is perfect for distant learning! Students/children can work individually, pairs or groups to find different items within their neighborhood. Some sheets list items to find and others have students make lists of things they see.There are FIVE versions to allow for differentiation. Suitable for preschool all the way through fifth grade! The INDOOR Basic Shape Scavenger Hunt can be fo
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PreK - 5th
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Send Home Family Project STEM Activities - Take Home STEM Challenges in a Baggie
Looking for a fun way to engage families at home? Send home these STEM challenges in a baggie to keep your students entertained with their families. Each challenge starts with a cleverly written riddle that doubles as the directions for the STEM challenge. Simply copy the poem and add the easy-to-find supplies into a small baggie. You can send home one baggie a month OR use these activities in your classroom, too! With easy-to-find supplies like toothpicks, marshmallows, sticky notes, alumin
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K - 5th
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Reading Level Guide for Parents - Bundle of Levels A - Z
Encourage reading every night by sending this guide home to parents throughout the school year. Parents want to help their students, but many don't know the things to say and ask their child throughout reading time! This handout serves as an outline of what some effective, higher - order prompts might look like. All of the prompts are based off my experience teaching reading skills and behaviors to students (and explaining these expectations to parents) and the Fountas & Pinnell Continuum of
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K - 5th
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Space Meet the Teacher EDITABLE templates - Open House - Meet the Teacher Night
Your Meet the Teacher Night will be out of this world with these Meet the Teacher editable templates! You’ll find Space Meet the Teacher station signs, teacher letters, parent forms, wish list cards, and more to make your Open House run smoothly. Set up parent stations with the station signs or use the slides as a PowerPoint presentation! Customize your Meet the Teacher with the EDITABLE files -OR- use the ready-to-use posters provided with the EDITABLE files.Perfect for Meet the Teacher, Open H
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PreK - 5th
Science Fair Project Labels Pink Chevron --- with EDITABLE Title Labels
These labels are perfect for creating an eye catching Science Fair Project. These label's design features a bright pink chevron background with blue cloud header.
Labels included:
1. Variables
2. Materials
3. Acknowledgements
4. Observations
5. Hypothesis
6. Procedure
7. Research
8. Data
9. Application
10. Graph
11. Introduction
12. Abstract
13. Problem
14. Results
15. Conclusion
16. Purpose
17. Question
18. Analysis
19. Data Tables
And More!
These labels feature multicolore
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PreK - 12th
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Stranger Danger Story - Social skills Narrative
Stranger Danger StoryThis Social skill support is a small book highlighting the danger of strangers and what not to do.A Stranger Danger work sheet is part of this unit.These small books can be laminate for durability and read to or with your pupils.Be first to see new products I upload by clicking the green star next to my store to becoming a follower…. This will enable you to be updated on some great new products!Thank you so much for looking!The Picture Communication Symbols ©1981–2011 by Dyn
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PreK - 5th
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Also included in:Â Social Skills Narratives, A BUNDLE OF STORIES for Autism/Special Needs
STEM Home Challenges for Every Month - Vol. 1 ~ 14 Project Sheets for the Year!
We send these S.T.E.M. Home Challenges home with all of the students in our school building once a month. I created them with easy to find items in order to encourage the highest amount of family participation. We display each of the projects every month in a display case near our front office. The kids (and their parents) love watching the displays each month as new items are added! For any students that choose to participate, we give a small treat each month! These treats include STEM pen
Grades:
K - 8th
3-D Geometric Shape OUTDOOR Scavenger Hunt
Grab a clipboard and start exploring OUTSIDE while hunting for 3D Geometric real-world shapes! This activity is perfect for distant learning! Students/children can work individually, pairs or groups to find different items within their neighborhood. Some sheets list items to find and others have students make lists of things they see.There are FIVE versions to allow for differentiation. Suitable for preschool all the way through fifth grade! The INDOOR 3-D Geometric Shape Scavenger Hunt and be
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PreK - 5th
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Behavior Reflection Sheet
We use this in our first grade class to help students understand the consequences of their actions. They "Stop and Reflect" in order to make a better choice the next time.
*I have recently updated the document to include a middle grade version for 3-5 with more grade appropriate wording and formatting!
After it is completed, fold in half to keep private. The student signs it, the teacher signs it, then it goes home for the parent to sign.
It has helped our parent communication immensely to
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PreK - 5th
Bar Modeling Posters
Do you need a way to help your students understand the complex concept of bar modeling?
This product provides teachers with tools to guide students through solving math problems with bar models. The first set of posters includes one example bar model problem from each grade level. The purpose of these posters is to remind/review the concepts of bar models that was taught in previous grades. The second group of posters demonstrate four main types of bar models that students can apply to a story
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2nd - 5th
Year-Round STEM Activity Calendar Bundle
Keep students engaged all year long with this bundle of STEM activities for every school break or during school closings! This bundle includes 22 weeks of unique daily STEM activities that can be completed at home. Perfect for summer holidays, spring break, or winter break to keep students learning. Spanish version included for the editable 6-week activity chart! Click here for an editable STEM journal to use with distance learning, including digital and printable versions.Each STEM calendar inc
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PreK - 12th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, HS-ETS1-2
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STEM Challenges for School and Home - Monthly!
Start thinking S.T.E.M. !
Send these sheets home with your students once every month so that parents can also get involved in STEM learning! These have been created with easy to find and inexpensive items to encourage participation. We display the projects that students bring in the school. Students also get a small prize for participating..such as pencils, highlighters, etc.
You get 18 sheets to choose from with an empty line to write in the month you are using it before copying.
If you w
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K - 8th
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Lunchbox Notes Daily Jokes for Students
304 daily brain breaks, joke of the day, or lunchbox jokes combine humor, language review, and critical thinking practice. Jokes are grouped by their topics, which include school, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, animals, Valentine's Day, science, careers, math, sports, and summer. Parents can choose a daily joke to place with a child's lunch. Teachers can draw one out of a basket each day for morning meetings, brain breaks, or class discussions. The cards could also be projected for cursive
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3rd - 5th
Groundhog Day Activities | Puppet Craft, Fun Facts, and Worksheets
Children will LOVE having their groundhog puppets quiz parents, friends and/or teachers with their cool groundhog fact cards that are attached to the back of their puppet. Watch these adorable puppets come to life before your eyes! Hope your students or children enjoy these puppets and other fun and educational projects about groundhogs and Groundhog Day as much as mine did!Product Includes:* Paper Bag Groundhog Puppet Template * 18 Fun Facts About Groundhogs * Design a Burrow Worksheet* Word
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PreK - 4th
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STEAM Home Challenges for Every Month ~ 18 Project Sheets for the Year!
Ready to add the ARTS to your STEM program and make it STEAM with excitement???
We send these S.T.E.A.M. Home Challenges home with all of the students in our school building once a month. I created theses with holidays in mind and using found materials in order to encourage the highest amount of family participation. We display each of the projects every month in a display case near our front office. The kids (and their parents) love watching the displays each month as new items are added!
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K - 8th
Rainbow Science Fair Project Headings
This is an extensive set of science fair headings/labels to make a colorful and presentable science fair project board! I have tried to include every heading you could possibly need!Included headings:HypothesisProcedureApplicationAnalysisResearchSummaryProject TitleAbstractVariablesObservationsExperimentPurposeFuture StudiesConclusionMaterialsKey Words & ResearchBibliographyAcknowledgementsBackground InformationRecommendationsResultsDataQuestionProblemTrialsTrials 1-4GraphsEach heading is a
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K - 12th
Basic Shape INDOOR Scavenger Hunt
Grab a clipboard and start exploring your home while hunting for basic real-world shapes! This activity is perfect for distant learning! Students/children can work individually, pairs or groups to find different items within their home. Some sheets list items to find and others have students make lists of things they see.There are FIVE versions to allow for differentiation. Suitable for preschool all the way through fifth grade! The OUTDOOR basic shape scavenger hunt and be found HERE!SOLD SEPA
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PreK - 5th
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Growth Mindset Information Letters for Parents: Send Home Notes
Growth Mindset Letters for Parents: 33 Weekly Informational NotesGrowth Mindset Information for Parents: This growth mindset notes for parents pack is perfect for teachers who want to help parents understand growth mindset concepts. In addition to 33 half-page notes that can be sent home throughout the year, you will find two pages of information to send home right at the beginning of the year (or the beginning of your growth mindset instruction). These pages give parents a firm foundation fo
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2nd - 10th
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Also included in:Â Growth Mindset Activities: Writing, Sorting, Parent Notes, and MORE BUNDLE
Back to School Open House Meet the Teacher Outer Space PowerPoint Editable
Click here to see this product bundled with over 125 pages of Outer Space themed decorations and resources!
Looking for a unique way to introduce yourself to your students and parents at Open House or Meet the Teacher Night? This editable Space-themed PowerPoint template gives you everything you need to quickly and easily create your own PowerPoint presentation for back to school Open House or Meet the Teacher night.
This 25-slide product allows you to mix and match, add, or delete slides as n
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PreK - 6th
Teacher Note Home - Brag Card - Good Behavior - Reward Chart - Reward System
This download has 2 5x7 teacher mail notes formated per standard 8.5x11 page. Perfect for sending home a positive praise!
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PreK - 8th
STEM Activity Resource Guide & Handouts
Introduction and resource guide to STEM activities for K - 12th grades! This resource guide is perfect for STEM nights, classroom resources, and parent handouts. Includes recommendations for websites, apps, and toys or gadgets divided by grade. Included in this product:Introduction to STEM: What it is and why is it important Pre-K through Kindergarten (Ages 3 - 5) resource guide Elementary (Ages 5 - 10) resource guide Middle School (Ages 11 - 13) resource guide High School (Ages 14 - 18) resour
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PreK - 12th, Staff
Also included in:Â Bundle: STEM Family Night Planning Guide, Activity Instructions
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Importance of learning science
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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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