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Astronomy Common Core RI.2.7 resources for Gifted and Talented
Phases of the Moon Cut and Paste, Moon Calendar, Experiment, Moon Facts Book
Are you looking for an easy way to explain facts about the moon and the moon phases? Students are naturally curious about the moon. These high-interest, low prep activities will explain the moon and the moon phases in a way in which students can easily make connections and understand. You can also use this as a digital resource for your students in Google Classroom for remote learning. As students learn about the phases of the moon they can follow up with this wide variety of differentiated act
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1st - 4th
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NGSS:
1-ESS1-1
, 2-ESS1-1
, 3-ESS2-2
Solar System Activities Reading Passages Worksheets Project Phases of the Moon
This complete unit about the Solar System is designed to help kids learn about the planets, phases of the moon, and two famous astronauts: Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride. With our kid-friendly reading passages and activities, your students will have hours of astronomical fun!It has leveled reading passages, comprehension questions, hands-on activities, a pacing guide, video links, a flip book, fact flaps, vocabulary posters, character studies on Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride, a unit test, answer
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2nd - 4th
The Solar System: The Sun, Moon and Earth Research Unit BUNDLE with PowerPoints
Integrate Science and ELA and get your students engaged with informational text by teaching 3 units on the Sun, Moon and the Earth! The materials in this unit are interactive and utilize multimodal strategies to increase student engagement and outcomes. Each of the 3 week-long units integrate technology, vocabulary, writing, art, reading strategies and more! Students will respond to informational text by answering questions in a student booklet in a variety of formats. Students will learn vocabu
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1st - 3rd
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Discovering the Solar System & Planets Research Unit with 10 PowerPoints BUNDLE
***SAVE OVER 40% OFF WITH THE SOLAR SYSTEM BUNDLE!*** {10 weeks of solar system and planet lesson plans} This comprehensive mega unit on the Solar System and Planets provides students with multiple opportunities to demonstrate their knowledge of all 8 planets plus the Sun and the Moon across 10 separate unit plans. It provides all the materials students will need for a systematic, organized method to produce an interactive pocket book , with a separate pocket for each of the 10 elements of t
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1st - 3rd
Space Passages Reading Comprehension Escape Room
Are you looking for space nonfiction reading comprehension passages and questions? A Comprehension Quest® is a FUN escape room style activity and is a unique way to get students excited about practicing reading comprehension! ☄️Here's how it works:☄️Starting off with the hook video, students learn they have a quest to complete. In this edition, students must find an astronaut who is lost in space. Students will read 6 passages and complete standards-aligned reader response activities. Afte
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2nd - 5th
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CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES BUNDLE Literature Extensions Critical Thinking GATE
Story Sleuths I, II, and III Bundle delivers 3 products at 20% savings. You will receive 12 weeks of clues for the Story Sleuth challenge; an enrichment unit using Caldecott Award winning books to cultivate critical thinking. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is
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K - 4th
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Solar System and Planets PowerPoint Presentations
Use this bundle of PowerPoint presentations of all 8 planets plus the sun and moon to teach the key facts and features about our fascinating solar system. There are 80 slides altogether and they can be easily presented on a Smart Board or tablet. Planet, Sun and Moon Categories on the PowerPoints include:*Distance from the sun and order from the sun*Length of orbit*Special characteristics of the planet*Vocabulary words in bold letters and defined*Fun FactsPlease Note: This Resource is ONLY Power
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K - 3rd
STEM Units 2nd Grade: Science COMPLETE YEAR Grade 2 Activities & STEM Challenges
STEM Units of Study Bundle Using the 5E model includes FOUR STEM Units of Study with 90 activities, lesson plans, challenges, inquiries, science, engineering, technology, math, and literature integration, as well as a complete curriculum to teach each unit. These units are aligned to NGSS (The Next Generation Science Standards.)Each unit is four-six weeks of STEM for your second graders. Each day focuses on the 5E model and provides you with the exact tools to illustrate the concepts. All of the
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2nd
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 2-PS1-4
, 2-LS4-1
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National Geographic Kids Planets {Nonfiction Comprehension Guide}
The nonfiction lesson activities provided throughout this comprehension guide along with the text, will provide students with a range of meaningful and deliberate practices to improve learning. Each of these lessons can be given as classroom work, homework, or can work great as center activities. The nonfiction text will engage the student and the lessons are created so scaffolding can be addressed as needed.
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Every student enjoys reading these Nat
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2nd - 4th
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CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES Story Sleuths I Literature Extention Critical Thinking
STORY SLEUTHS I is a 4 week, critical thinking project based on Caldecott Award winning books. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which Caldecott Award winning book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is CCSS aligned. Students also enjoy great literature, learn about artistic media, and participate in col
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K - 4th
Rube Goldberg Machines - 11 day Cross-Curricular Unit
Rube Goldberg was an engineer-turned-cartoonist who is best known for his comics with ridiculous inventions. This action-packed, engaging, and rigorous unit includes 11 days worth of lessons where students learn about Rube Goldberg, create a comic, design and build a machine, and then create a video summary of their learning. These lessons are great for gifted/talented students!This download includes: 11 detailed lessonsDifferentiated student worksheetsDesign Brief TemplateAn video alternative f
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2nd - 5th
Informational Text Second Grade Choice Menus Choice Boards
These choice boards cover all of the second grade informational text standards. These boards provide easy differentiation for your students, as well as provide enrichment activities for your early finishers.In this unit you will find 13 choice boards. These boards have 10 mini choice boards, one for each second grade literature standard and 3 choice boards sorted by the different domains.On each mini choice board, you will find 8 activities for your students to use with their independent inform
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1st - 3rd
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Primary GATE -- AIR! Active, Creative, Academic, and Hands-on!
I am always trying to figure out what to do with my little primary groups, and this unit was a definite hit with my kindergartners. It would work well with 1st grade too or the regular 2nd grade classroom. The full unit contains more than 2 hours of contact time.
It’s active, fun, and challenging for these little ones and seemed to have the right combination of “get up and move,” imagination, creativity, and “making” along with academic tasks.
We learn about four important properties of air
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K - 2nd
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Moon Unit With Non Fiction Text Features
I designed this as a thematic unit on the moon that also included second grade common core standards in literacy, math and language. The unit aligns with standards 2.RI.5, 2.RI.7, 2.L.1e, 2.NBT.5, 2.NBT.7
The packet includes...
1. Moon Book
2. Moon Read the Room
3. Moon Observation Journal
4. Adverb and Adjective Worksheets
5. Adverb and Adjective Sort Game
6. Moon Math and Alien Math Addition with Regrouping and Addition with Four Two Digit Numbers
7. Space Addition with Four Two Digit Number
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Bonding with Friends: H2O (STEM Rhyming Story + Activity Book w/ Answers, NGSS)
A rhyming STEM story and activity book about the water molecule. This has the science story explaining chemistry, is a coloring book with activity pages including an answer key all in one! A perfect STEM or STEAM activity for kids! This covers science, reading comprehension, art, and poetry all in one lesson that will keep students entertained while learning whether they are physically at school or doing distance learning. Meets NGSS and CCSS standards. Kids will enjoy "Bonding with Friends: H2O
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PreK - 3rd
NGSS:
K-LS1-1
CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES Set II Literature Extension Critical Thinking GATE
Continue the fun from STORY SLEUTHS I with 4 more weeks of critical thinking fun. STORY SLEUTHS II is a 1 month, critical thinking project based on Caldecott Award winning books. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which Caldecott Award winning book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is CCSS aligned. Students
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K - 4th
What is an Eclipse? 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Shared Reader Booklet - No Prep
"What is an Eclipse?" is a fact-packed shared reading/decodable reading resource for 2nd and 3rd grade Earth and Space Science. Students will learn interesting facts about solar and lunar eclipses, including what causes them and facts about recent and upcoming solar eclipse events.The printable booklet includes:A map of the United States featuring the path of the totality.Interesting facts about eclipses, including what you might expect to see and how rare these events are.An explanation of the
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2nd - 4th
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1-ESS1-1
, 2-ESS1-1
Solar System Reading Comprehension Worksheets and Astronomy Vocabulary Cards
Unleash your students' inner astronomer with our SOLAR SYSTEM READING COMPREHENSION WORKSHEETS. These passages will teach your students about our Solar System and the Planets, while the text-dependent questions also allow students to practice important INFORMATIONAL standards like...Identifying the main idea and supporting details, using text features to locate information, using information gained from illustrations and words to demonstrate understanding of the text, and comparing and contrasti
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Solar System Reading Comprehension Passages Worksheets & Google Slides
Total Solar Eclipse 2024 READING ACTIVITIES Game PROJECT
This 40-page Total Solar Eclipse 2024 READING ACTIVITIES Game PROJECT packet is a great way for 2nd-4th graders to learn about the April 8th solar eclipse in North America. Reading Passages Include:⭐️Solar Eclipse ⭐️Total Eclipse vs. Annular Eclipse ⭐️Eclipse: How it Affects Our Eyes ⭐️Greek Myth: Sun god HeliosNon-fiction Reading Skills Include:⭐️Key Ideas and details⭐️Context Clues⭐️Cause and Effect ⭐️Compare and Contrast Eclipses ⭐️Author’s Purpose ⭐️Determining the Central MessageFUN THINGS
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Moon Phases Reading Comprehension Passages | Background Knowledge Activity
Get your students excited about the Moon and the Moon Phases with this engaging activity. Your students will develop background knowledge and increase reading comprehension while learning about the phases of the moon. These MOON PHASES Reading Comprehension Passages PRINT AND DIGITAL BUNDLE will teach your students everything they need to know about the moon while also covering INFORMATIONAL standards like... Identifying the main idea and supporting details Using text features to locate informat
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2nd - 4th
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Who Would Win on Land? (Reading Response)
Do you struggle to get your boys interested in reading? The "Who Would Win?" book series by Jerry Pallotta is perfect for them. Students read engaging and informative facts about the two different animals and respond to their reading with this organizer. Students must read the facts and determine who is the winner in multiple categories. There are also writing opportunities for students to determine the advantages one animal has over the other. Students may write to change the ending based on wh
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2nd - 3rd
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Planet Report & Research Guide
This is a great resource for early researchers! I use it in my 2nd grade class as our 4th quarter project. They use books and safe internet searching to find the answers to the prompts. As an extension for higher learners, I let them use Google DOCS to type out their information, print it out, and make it into a fun poster. They add pictures to personalize their posters. They present them to their parents at the end of the year.
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1st - 4th
Magic Tree House Activities Pirates Past Noon
Are you looking for help in teaching Pirates Past Noon from The Magic Tree House series? This comprehensive bundle will make teaching the book easy for you and fun for your students. Don't travel a swashbuckling adventure without this colorful literary unit to guide you with questions and activities to go along with Mary Pope Osborne's The Magic Treehouse adventure, Pirates Past Noon. I've even included enough fun transitions to keep attention without losing class time with too much splash. So c
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K - 2nd
Bonding with Friends: H2O & Helium (Two Rhyming STEM Nonfiction Stories, NGSS)
A perfect STEM book for kids in the classroom or at home! This covers reading, science, and poetry in one lesson that will keep students entertained while learning whether they are physically at school or remotely. This rhyming picture book has two stories in one! "Bonding with Friends: H2O & Helium" has a story about the water molecule and another story about helium. NGSS and Common Core standards identified. Virtual author reading with activity available too, visit www.STEMistryBooks.com.T
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