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The New Year earth sciences resources for GATE
Lunar New Year 2024 | Year of the DRAGON Reading Comprehension | Spring Festival
Chinese New Year in 2024 starts on Saturday, February 10th!It’s the Year of the DRAGON!Did you know that the Chinese believe that people born in the Year of the DRAGON are strong, tenacious, and ambitious? Do you know what the lucky colors and numbers are for people born during the Year of the DRAGON?Find out more by close-reading interesting text all about the Year of the DRAGON.Create a Cool DRAGON Collage, perfect for a 2024 Year of the DRAGON Bulletin Board!*** This resource has been updated
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4th - 7th
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Early Finishers Fast Finishers Activities No Prep Thinking Puzzles for January
What do your early finishers do? These critical thinking puzzles will keep your students engaged and allow them to work on meaningful activities. decadedollardeals Included in this unit are math, ELA, spelling, logic puzzles, and more centered around an January new year theme.Included in this unit are:How Much is Each Party Hat Worth?It Begins With...Read and DoWho Did What on New Year's Eve? (logic puzzle)Spin a StorySpot the DifferencesMystery WordTo the PartyFirst Letter FunFollowing Directio
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2nd - 3rd
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Weather STEM Activity | Spring STEM | Natural Disasters STEM Challenge Activity
If you’re looking to apply learning in weather, climate, natural disasters, natural resources & more, this STEM / STEAM challenge is a perfectly engaging way to get the job done joyfully!The basic idea: Students work individually or in partners/groups against a list of criteria and constraints to create a shelter to defend against 3+ types of weather and/or disasters.This challenge was developed as part of the Planetopia Project, but it can be used as a stand-alone challenge as well.Note: Th
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2nd - 8th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Weather Hazard STEM
Natural Disaster STEM - Oh no! The weather is forecasting high winds! The family needs a safe place to stay. Build a shelter for the family that will withstand the wind. It will be tested with a hairdryer, so make it strong! Students must stick to a budget and use the available materials to build a shelter. The family must fit inside.
This STEM focuses on lessening the impact of natural disasters on humans with engineering. It meets NGSS Standards.
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: Natural Disasters STEM
Cloud Types Worksheets with STEM / STEAM Activities Weather Science
Are you learning about weather systems and types of clouds? Explore cirrus, cumulus, and stratus clouds, then create a cumulus zoo with a fun STEM or STEAM project.Materials needed for the STEM challenge:Cotton balls and pipe cleaners✅ What You'll Get ✅Informational text (The Water Cycle, Introduction to Clouds, Types of Clouds)Follow up activity (3 options)STEM activity (Cumulus Zoo) - includes samples, recording page, and display pageInstructions on using the digital resource, with examples (1
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: STEM Activities and Challenges for K-2 - Whole Year Bundle
STEM STEAM Challenge: January New Year's Ball Edition
Watching the ball drop was easy. Getting it to balance up high...now that's tough! Help your students to start the new year right with this January STEM challenge!
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-chart for student record keeping
-- Self-assessment/Reflection page (differentiated for grades K-1 or 2-5)
-- Open-ended writing page for follow-up or related activities (differentiate
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2nd - 6th
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Complete Oceanography VA SOL 4,7 Unit - PPT, Plans, Activities, Games, WS
This bundle is my entire 3-week Oceanography Unit! It is literally everything you need to teach Oceanography (VA SOL 4.7)! Included:-Lesson Plans for 3 weeks (14 instructional days): each day has the sol objective, materials needed, procedure (including labels for anticipatory set, PPT slides that correlate, teacher input, guided practice, independent practice, and enrichment), closure questions, and any assigned homework-PowerPoint - OVER 100 slides! This walks you through each day on the
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4th - 7th
Renewable Energy Design a City Project | Digital Project Based Learning (PBL)
An engaging and meaningful project-based learning (PBL) approach to learning about different types of renewable energy! This Digital Google Slides formatted project takes basic understanding up a notch, requiring students to apply their knowledge of renewable energy sources to create a city that runs solely on one source of renewable energy such as wind energy, solar power, water energy, and geothermal energy. It requires higher-level critical thinking and problem solving to design the map of th
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4th - 7th
Also included in: GT Enrichment BUNDLE! - All my enrichment resources aligned with TPSP
Chinese New Years 2024 STEM Activities | Chinese Dragon STEM Challenge
The year of the dragon is here and your teacher life just got a little busier with Chinese New Year activities you need to plan. Use Chinese New Year STEM activities to cover standards and give your students super fun Chinese New Year activities they will love. This ready to go Chinese New Years 2024 STEM Activities Chinese Dragon STEM Challenge is just what you need to keep your 2nd through 5th grade students engaged and excited for learning during the month of February.Challenge your students
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Holiday STEM Challenges BUNDLE
A Whole Lot of Shaking Going On! STEM Engineering Earthquake Lab (Marshmallows)
Dear Educator,
It’s time to bring some fun to your classroom during your unit on earthquakes! Your students will love this STEM project where they have to build an earthquake resistant building. There are many ways you can use this project – group lab, individual projects, or a culminating unit activity.
This product contains the student lab manual and teacher materials to conduct this experiment in your classroom. Students must design a structure, test their design, note their observations of
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3rd - 8th
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Weather Hazard STEM: Flooding
Flood Barrier STEM - Oh no! The weather forecast is for heavy flooding in the area. You need to build a flood barrier or flood resistant shelter to keep the family safe! This STEM challenge is designed to encourage creative problem solving. Students must design a shelter with the available supplies that is resistant to flooding while sticking to a budget. The shelter will be tested with water in a pan to see if the design was effective as a flood barrier. This STEM is perfect for areas aff
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1st - 5th
Also included in: Natural Disasters STEM
January Writing Journal and Task Cards
This printable journal with 30 seasonal topics is a perfect addition to your writing curriculum or work on writing center. Looking at a big blank piece of paper can be really intimidating to a young writer. These pages are perfectly sized and designed to be inviting and interesting for your first, second, and third graders.
Print as few or as many pages as you'd like then staple together and you're set for the month! You can also print one topic at a time instead of using as a journal. Also inc
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1st - 5th
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Create Your Own Planet Project
Students research and create their own planet. Students choose or are assigned two planets and their planet is in between the two planets. Students will draw on information of their two surrounding planets to create their planet. This project also requires an essay and 3-D model. The essay draws on Write From the Beginning strategies.
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5th - 8th
Bundled! Science Project Choice Board: 26 Earth Science Topics
Get ready for student engagement!
Project choice boards put learning into students’ hands with a customized learning path based on a student’s strengths and interests.
This project choice board is a collection of 26 choice boards over earth science topics. Each choice board contains 10 project choices- each based on one of the following learning paths:
-Verbal/Linguistic Writing
-Verbal/Linguistic Reading
-Spatial/Visual
-Musical/Naturalist
-Kinesthetic
-Technological
-Logical/Mathem
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4th - 6th
January Brain Teasers & Challenge Puzzles | Boom Cards | Digital &Print
Are you looking to engage and differentiate for your:early finishers?gifted and talented students?students who just love a challenge?Then this product is perfect for you! It includes 20 fun and challenging brain teaser puzzles of all types. My students have LOVED solving these puzzles as a reward for completing their other work. I LOVE that they are self-checking which frees me up to help the students who need it.★★★★ Preview this deck in action here ★★★★It includes 20 varied January-themed Bo
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3rd - 8th
The Three Questions - A Literacy Study
Tired of beginning the New Year with the same assignment? "The
Three Questions" by John Muth (based on a story by Leo Tolstoy) is your answer. In this thoughtful story a boy seeks to find the answer to three simple questions on his journey to discover how to become a good person. This 3rd -6th grade Common Core aligned literacy unit includes: story elements, grammar, language arts, sequencing, writing both opinion and personal narratives, character studies, character development, comprehension,
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3rd - 6th
Bird Feeder STEM
This engineering STEM challenge will encourage creative problem solving while developing math skills and teaching students about the needs of birds in the environment. It would be perfect for a winter STEM, Earth Day STEM, Animals in Winter STEM, or a Recycling STEM. This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards.
Oh no! The birds in the area have lost some plants and trees due to development. They need help with their food supply! Your student engineers need to design a bird feeder fro
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K - 6th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Science Menu Choice Boards and Menus for Enrichment and Early Finishers - Easel
Looking for engaging science choice boards? These no-prep and differentiated science tic-tac-toe menu boards include activities that are perfect for early finishers, gifted students, and enrichment. Choice board menus are great for reviewing and extending what you've taught in class, making this bundle an excellent resource during the back to school season or at the end of the school year.Everything you need is included! Your students will love completing the meaningful activities in these scien
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3rd - 5th
NGSS:
5-PS1-3
, 4-LS1-1
, 5-ESS1-2
, 5-ESS1-1
, 3-LS4-1
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Science PBL | Project and Problem Based Learning Bundle
Project/problem based learning is a great way to teach science and have your students learn through discovery. This bundle includes PBLs that teach force and motion, ecosystems, and meteorology. In the force and motion PBL, students design a roller coaster to illustrate different key content vocabulary. While doing the meteorology PBL, students research different locations in the world and create a weather report script. In the ecosystem project they will research the causes and effects as well
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4th - 6th
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NGSS:
5-ESS2-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-ESS2-1
, 3-LS4-3
, 5-ESS3-1
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Solar System Planets Activity Menu Choice Board
Looking for engaging solar system activities that also allow for student choice? This solar system menu choice board activity lets students choose how they will extend their learning and present their learning.What students are doing:➡️ Investigating big idea questions and reporting their knowledge using the CER format➡️ Demonstrating their knowledge using a variety of ways like comic strips, journals, presentations, and more➡️ Taking ownership of their learning as they decide what they would li
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6th - 8th
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Geography Lessons and Activities | Critical and Creative Thinking BUNDLE
If you're looking for fabulous lesson plans about many aspects of geography, this bundle is for you! They're the perfect way to build geography skills, critical thinking skills, and creativity skills, all at once! You'll love the super high quality graphics, original articles, and the super clear teacher instructions for every single lesson.Ten different lessons/activities are included, and all of them align with National Geography Standards. Every resource has more than one activity, so this is
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2nd - 9th
New Years Menus - Choice Boards and Activities- 3rd - 5th Grade
Are you looking for your enrichment or exemplary tasks to be done for the year? These New Years choice boards are perfect for your early finishers or students that need a challenge.You can use this by telling students to complete 3 boxes or as a tic-tac-toe challenge. Each box comes with a matching work page.Print at the beginning of the unit and give to each student so they can work on it throughout the unit.Holidays Choice Boards Includes:Topic: New YearsAcrostic PoemSetting GoalsWord SearchPi
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Holiday BUNDLE Choice Boards and Activities- 3rd - 5th Grade
Bottle Ecosystem Design Project
Engage your students with this step-by-step Bottle Ecosystem Design Project.
Teach it!
Lesson plans will guide you through scaffolding students with classroom friendly fact sheets that will motivate students to infer as they decide what type of habitat will meet the needs of the insect they select.
Plan it!
Students will now begin the design process and draft samples of their bottle ecosystem. Collaboration with peers will ensure students are familiar with giving and receiving feedback to re
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2nd - 5th
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Fossils STEM Challenge | Earth and Space Science STEM Activities
Engage your students like never before with this Fossils STEM Challenge! Your students will use real-life math, reading, and writing skills in this earth and space science STEM activity. Your students will plan and perform a fossil dig while following the steps of the Engineering Design Process. PLEASE CLICK ON THE PREVIEW TO SEE WHAT IS INCLUDED!The work is done for you. Simply print the NO PREP pages and let your students’ imaginations run wild! This resource includes:STEM Challenge Guide for
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Challenges | Earth and Space Science STEM Activities Bundle
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