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9th grade Winter general science resources for GATE
STEM Bell Ringers Discussion Questions Warm-Ups Middle School High School
Science bell ringer discussion questions, technology bell ringers, as well as some engineering and math topics. This resource includes 70 editable slides with questions to get your students thinking about STEM topics. Display these at the start of class one day a week so that as students walk into your classroom they can begin forming opinions and ideas about these thought-provoking questions! CONTENTS70 Slides (each with a main question and some with a follow-up question) Questions range in top
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5th - 12th
Forces and Motion Unit | Newton's Cradle Science And STEM | Grade 6 7 8
Discover the Law of Conservation Energy and the Law of Conservation of Momentum with a fun marble collision science investigation. Simple supplies and EASY PREP. Expands to introduce The Laws of Motion. Explore further with an added exploration. Engage students in a STEM Challenge to create a Newton's Cradle. Includes extensive background information to guide the teacher and students to success. This is a printable PDF. Please read more about Easel below.Students will expand their knowledge
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6th - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-PS2-2
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-PS3-5
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Winter Math Logic Puzzles for Winter Math
Challenge your students with this set of 6 logic problems for winter. Great for bell-ringers, time-fillers, and earl-finishers. Keep even your brightest students challenged. Included in this resource:- 6 Winter-themed logic problems of medium level- Answer Key- Great for math centers, time fillers, or bell-ringers.- Note: the logic puzzles may require more than one review of the clues. More seasonally-themed logic problems: Fall and SpringAlso available in a money saving seasonal logic probl
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Logic Puzzles Bundle of seasonal logic puzzles for middle school math
Logic Puzzles bundle for middle school math
Do you love logic puzzles? SAVE with this big bundle of 40 logic puzzles are excellent for bell-ringers, time fillers and challenge. This bundle includes 10 sets of logic problems, 4 for each month of the school year. Great for your middle school math and secondary math students. Keep even your brightest students challenged. Included in this bundle (4 problems per month):- September Logic Puzzles- October Logic- November Logic- December Logic- January Logic - February Logic - March Logic - Apr
Winter Logic Puzzles - Snow Day Brain Breaks - Critical Thinking
These fun brain busters are perfect for your early finishers and rainy/snowy day recess. Set includes 2 Logic Puzzles. The first puzzle is a traditional 2 tier matrix grid puzzle. Your students will match each person with one cupcake and also one cocoa using process of elimination, critical reading and deductive reasoning. The second puzzle requires convergent and divergent thinking as they use the clues, and the locations of the cupcakes to determine what color each cup cake liner is.
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5th - 9th
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3D Smart Phone Holographic Viewer - Physics of Light and Reflection
This lab is super inexpensive and so much fun! Students construct a four sided plastic prism from transparency film to view hologram videos found on Youtube. This quick and easy activity is related to light and reflection and is a great follow up to the physics of mirrors. It’s also a great filler for one of those odd days where one glass is longer than the others or if you need to wow your supervisor.You can make four viewers per sheet of transparency. I simply gave a call out for them at m
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4th - 12th
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Walking Water & Scientific Method STEM or STEAM Lesson Plan & Activity
This lesson is great for any age to teach the steps of the Scientific Method. I prefer to do this the day after we go over what the Scientific Method is.The students will be able to construct an understanding of the scientific method by going through each step. There is a student handout that the students use as the class goes through each process of the scientific method, engaging them in all that they need to be the scientist.This lesson requires approximately one hour of wait time after begin
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1st - 9th
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Also included in: FUN St. Patrick's Day BUNDLE- Math, English, Puzzle & STEM activities!
December Logic Puzzles for Winter Math
Logic puzzles are excellent for bell-ringers, time fillers and challenge. This set of 4 December-themed logic problems is great for your middle school math and secondary math students. Keep even your brightest students challenged. I often give these out before Winter Break.Included in this guide- 4 December-themed logic problems of medium level- Answer Key- Great for math centers, time fillers, or bell-ringers.- Note: the logic puzzles may require more than one review of the clues. Love Logic
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Logic Puzzles bundle for middle school math
Winter Word Puzzles - Snow Day Activities for Fast Finishers - Critical Thinking
This might be your favorite Winter puzzle pack ever! My students have nicknamed these "The Harder Than It Looks Puzzle". Do not be fooled by the easy words, the puzzles are challenging and require some perseverance and critical thinking. My son and I write these together. :)This fun, very challenging logic puzzle collection challenges students to use deductive reasoning and clues to arrange the clue words in the appropriate rows and columns. Convergent thinking is a must! :). There is
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6th - 12th
Ape or Pig Blood for Human Transfusion? Reading and Questions
This awesome article from Genetic Literacy Project poses the idea of getting blood transfusions from apes or pigs. A great follow up activity after a mini unit on blood typing or ABO Blood Genetics/Punnett Squares. Also great for enrichment when entering the genetic/genetic engineering units. My students enjoy reading this article and the questions I wrote as comprehension questions serve as a great way to hold them accountable to complete the reading.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Halloween Creature Adaptation STEAM Activity
In this engaging STEM lesson, students will explore the fascinating world of animal adaptations by creating their own fictional Halloween creatures. They will design unique creatures, place them in Halloween environments with specific challenges, and develop adaptations to help their creatures survive. This project will encourage critical thinking, creativity, and a deeper understanding of how animals adapt to their surroundings. To make this activity even more festive, included is a fictional s
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6th - 12th
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February Logic Puzzles for Valentine's math
Logic puzzles are excellent for bell-ringers, time fillers and challenge. This set of 4 February-themed logic problems is great for your middle school math and secondary math students. Keep even your brightest students challenged. Included in this guide- 4 February-themed logic problems of medium level- Answer Key- Great for math centers, time fillers, or bell-ringers.- Note: the logic puzzles may require more than one review of the clues. Love Logic Puzzles? MUST have logic puzzles sets inc
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Logic Puzzles bundle for middle school math
January Logic Puzzles for winter math
Logic puzzles are excellent for bell-ringers, time fillers and challenge. This set of 4 January-themed logic problems is great for your middle school math and secondary math students. Keep even your brightest students challenged. I often give these out near final exam week.Included in this guide- 4 January-themed logic problems of medium level- Answer Key- Great for math centers, time fillers, or bell-ringers.- Note: the logic puzzles may require more than one review of the clues. Love Logic
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Logic Puzzles bundle for middle school math
Germs Everywhere Petri Dish Sampling Lab & Hand-washing Germs Simulant
Students learn how to conduct a good experiment using petri dishes, and real lab techniques such as sterile sampling and consideration of sample sizes. Also contains a hand-washing activity I have done using GloGerm available online- shows students how well they wash their hands (or don't!). They love this part!Student worksheets available for this lab with pre-lab questions, data collect, analysis, and post-lab questions in English and Spanish within the powerpoints via Google Drive links.
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5th - 10th
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STEM Career Bingo for Middle and High School Students
Great for End of the Year fun!STEM BINGO Pack - Engage, Learn, and Explore STEM Careers!INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE-STEM BINGO Blank Card with career list of 75 STEM careers30 Randomized Bingo Cards75 STEM Career Call CardsSTEM Career extra info for all listed careers (definition, salary & education needed)5 Back Designs for Call Cards5 Back Designs for Bingo CardsDiscover the World of STEM Careers with Exciting BINGO:Unleash the potential of STEM education with our dynamic STEM BINGO Pack.Lo
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8th - 12th
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Genetics and Heredity Unit Exam
This is a summative assessment covering topics in a Genetics and Heredity unit. The test contains 35 multiple choice questions and 3 free response questions.
Exam covers the following topics:
DNA structure and replication, heredity vocabulary, punnett squares, pedigrees' protein synthesis and meiosis.
The document is editable for you to adjust questions, diagrams, and answers to fit your classroom needs.
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9th - 11th
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Cell Processes and Energy Summative Assessment (chapter test) with Answer Key
This Summative Assessment (test) supports Grade Seven California State Science Standard 7.1 D - F AND California State 7th Grade Science Standard 7.2 E. This assessment also includes Honors Questions at the end of the document. This summative covers photosynthesis, cellular respiration, mitotic cell division, and differentiation.
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7th - 10th
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Snow Day Logic Puzzles - Winter Activities for Fast Finishers- GATE
This is engaging, critical thinking fun will have your students begging for more! This NO prep puzzle three pack has two challenging matrix grid puzzles and one brain teasing location logic puzzle. Problem Solving fun for early finishers, after testing, and more! Set includes 3 Logic Puzzles. Game Time ! is a personalized puzzle. The student and their friends are the stars of this fun personalized puzzle which requires convergent and divergent thinking as they use the clues to find out
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6th - 9th
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Engage in Citizen Science (Gifted Science)
Citizen Science is an ideal way for gifted science students to engage in the practice of science. I've created a guide to help learners choose a citizen science project that is right for them, then process that project through the lens of their gifted goals.Want to replace a traditional science fair project with an opportunity to engage in current research, but teach students who aren't identified as gifted learners? Simply have them select two goals that they'd like to focus on as they procee
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4th - 9th
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Winter Depth and Complexity Frame | GATE Depth and Complexity Questions
Depth and Complexity is a framework for teaching and learning developed by Sandra Kaplan. It is designed to help students develop critical thinking skills by encouraging them to explore the deeper meaning and how seemingly different ideas are actually related. The framework includes a set of "icons" that represent different ways of thinking about a topic. This resource utilizes 5 elements of the depth and complexity framework for students to think in more deep and complex ways about winter.
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4th - 9th
Winter Math Puzzles for Bell-ringers, enrichment and more
40 winter themed math problems great for bell-ringers, time-fillers, and early finishers. The problems do not require a given set of prior knowledge but Algebra equations can be used to solve. Great for your middle school math, pre-Algebra and Algebra students. Keep even your brightest students challenged! Included in this guide- 40 word problems on cards for printing and placement of math centers- 40 of the same word problems in presentation format to be projected or printed and placed on Pro
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Math Puzzles Bundle for Secondary Math
Quick Lab Sheet Balloon Rockets - Newton's Third Law
Great activity for Newton's Third Law. Just a quick and easy lab sheet for the classic balloon rocket lab for 8th grade physical science but also appropriate for high school physics and conceptual physics or for 5th-7th graders that have more than one class period. Includes materials needed, procedure and some questions for students to answer. I put two of these to a page so that paper can be saved. Just a simple lab - but one of the year's favorites!!
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5th - 12th
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Find Someone Who...Winter Break Edition
Use this activity as an ice breaker for students coming back from winter break! A fun way to get students up and moving and allowing them to get to know one another! Simple and quick! Just set a timer and let them go! 30 questions regarding things one might do over winter break! Be sure to make enough copies for each student to have one and include one for yourself!
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5th - 12th
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STEM Water Drop Race a Science and Engineering Challenge
This STEM science and engineering challenge will challenge students about water tension. Students will conduct science experiments to introduce themselves to the concept of water tension and how water can move on different surfaces. Recording sheets are provided for students to write their observations and conclusions on. For the advanced students, extension questions are provided to extend their knowledge. Also included is a technology challenge in building their own Water Drop Racetrack. This
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4th - 9th
Also included in: STEM 3x Water Tension Bundle a Science and Engineering Challenge
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