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Science Common Core RI.4.9 resources
Leap Year 2024 Reading Passages Leap Year Day Activities Worksheets
Leap Year activities for upper elementary made simple this 2024! Are you getting ready to learn about Leap Year in your classroom? Your students will read, learn, and think critically about why there is the concept of leap years while practicing close reading strategies with these informational passages. Completely updated for 2024 with new revisions, activities, and answer keys included! This set also includes two versions of each text: One with the scientific and historical information about t
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3rd - 6th
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Paired Passages with Writing Prompts Paired Text Animal Adaptations Worksheets
Do your students need help comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic? These paired passages and reading comprehension activities on animal adaptations include nonfiction texts to help your students compare and contrast two texts with a similar theme and topic. This PRINT & DIGITAL mini-unit on animal adaptations integrates science with reading and includes 12 fun and engaging pages of reading comprehension activities perfect for 3rd and 4th grade. It will increase engagement whil
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3rd - 4th
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Rocks and Minerals: Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions
Looking for reading passages about rocks and minerals? Look no further! A useful set of five differentiated passages with open-ended questions for students to explain their thinking OR multiple choice questions to practice their test-taking skills. Each passage also includes a writing prompt and a grading rubric. As a bonus, there are also 10 vocabulary cards, 10 true/false questions, and 8 matching questions! Perfect for informal or formal assessment of your elementary students’ ability to read
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2nd - 4th
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4-ESS1-1
Also included in: Rocks and Minerals: Science and Literacy Bundle
Virtual Field Trip Disney World's Magic Kingdom Google Slides Digital Resource
✈️ Are you ready for a magical adventure filled with learning and fun? Explore the wonders of Disney World's Magic Kingdom with this exciting Virtual Field Trip to Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom!⭐ This immersive learning experience is designed to integrate cross-curricular skills and engage students in an interactive and educational way. With a focus on critical thinking, this virtual field trip to Disney offers interactive activities and learning opportunities that will challenge and inspire stude
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2nd - 5th
Solar System and Planets Reading Passages | The Solar System Worksheets
This Solar System and Planets Close Reading Packet has everything you need for a complete reading and science unit in your classroom. Differentiated reading passages, writing activities, no prep worksheets, and coloring pages are at the heart of this one-stop resource for learning about each planet!Please click the PREVIEW above for an idea of everything included in this loaded resource!If you have never used Close Reading or even if you are already a pro, this 110+ page packet truly is for you!
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Solar System and Planets Activities Bundle | Solar System Project
Food Chains and Food Webs Worksheets Reading Passages Nonfiction Close Read
Looking for close reading materials to help your students understand food webs and food chains? With this print-and-go set, your students will learn and think critically about how ecosystems and food chains, and webs are related, along with learning about the ins and outs of a pond ecosystem and desert habitat.Included are 3, two-page articles to help your students understand food chains.Your students will practice gathering important information as they read science content in informational tex
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3rd - 5th
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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
Paired Text Passages - Volcanos Informational Writing - Print & Digital
Students write stronger informational (explanatory) essays using these printable or digital fact-based paired passages, or paired texts, about volcanoes. First, students read these perfectly paired passages to gather information about the topic. Students search the texts for facts, reasons, definitions, details, and quotes, then organize their information on the graphic organizer. The organizer supports students as they write their final informative essays, complete with all components necessary
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Paired Text Passages - Geology Informational Writing - Print & Digital
National Parks Virtual Field Trip & Web Scavenger Hunt Conservation End of Year
Looking for an activity about National Parks? Let your students take a Virtual Field Trip using technology! It's a great way to expose your students to the natural beauty and wonder of the United States National Parks. Your students will "travel" and explore Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon and other amazing National Parks. They'll learn about the importance of the National Park Service, take virtual tours and hikes, "meet" the park rangers, and learn about important conservation efforts
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3rd - 7th
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Owls Unit - Owl Activities - Pellet Dissection - Owl Reading Passages - Projects
This 158 page Owl unit provides upper elementary students with all of the owl activities they need to complete a rigorous owl unit. These no prep owl activities include owl reading passages, owl pellet dissection activity, owl research activities, and more.COMMON CORE ALIGNED!!!✅Be sure to check out the thumbnails and preview for detailed images and information about some of the engaging activities included in this resource.This engaging resource contains the following:⭐Vocabulary Resources!-Owl
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1st - 4th
Famous Inventors Scientists Biography Reading Passages Comprehension Activities
Are you looking for famous inventors nonfiction reading passages to engage your students during science or reading? This pack is just what you need to enrich students' reading experiences and provide meaningful reading tasks that align with informational reading passages about famous scientists.Grab the Inventor Bundle HERE.These close reading articles about famous inventors will have your students critically thinking about how famous inventions came to be and learn more about the important peop
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Famous Person Biography Reading Comprehension Passages Scientists
The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Primary Sources Research Activity
This engaging Social Studies lesson about the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke mixes history and forensic science for a hands on approach to learning about the first English colony in the New World. Students examine and analyze primary sources as evidence and use critical thinking skills to come up with 4 of their own theories to explain the disappearance of the Roanoke Colony in 1587. This download includes 3 versions of the activity: Stations - Cut out the evidence (primary sources) and place in manil
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4th - 7th
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Honey Bee Research Project Based Learning Science - Bee Activities With STEM
Honey Bees are an important part of our ecosystem. Our bee population is in crisis. In this SAVE THE BEES PROJECT BASED LEARNING SCIENCE unit, students will research honey bees, interview beekeepers, and come up with ideas for saving the population. They can even host a "Bee Sweet Tasting Party." STEM can be incorporated into the Save the Bees unit when students build their Bee Hotel. (Digital Version Now Included) WHY PURCHASE THIS PBL UNIT?This student-centered PBL unit incorporates collaborat
Weather Unit and Reading Passages | Print and Digital
Looking for hands-on activities to teach your students about weather? This cross curricular unit will keep your students ENGAGED while teaching them all they need to know about weather. There are multiple interactive activities that allow you to make lapbooks or to use in interactive notebooks. Along with reading passages, there are also graphing activities, chart activities, and even a map activity. NOTE: This resource now has Google Classroom activities, making it ideal for digital distance l
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1st - 4th
Growth Mindset Activities Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
Welcome the back to school season with growth mindset activities that kids love! Your students will love reading and reflecting on the information in three different passages that will help them understand how the brain works, what a growth mindset is, and how to be mindful.Go beyond the worksheet with these engaging close reading materials to help your 3rd, 4th or 5th grade students understand the difference between growth and fixed mindset while learning strategies that they can put into actio
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Growth Mindset Reading Activities Posters to Display Bulletin Board
Build a Bridge STEM Challenge | Google Classroom
STEM Bridge Challenge is an engaging activity that your students will love while learning and researching bridges. Students research, design, and create bridges going through the Engineering Design Process. Children's Literature such as: Iggy Peck Architect, Twenty-One Elephants and Still Standing, Secret Engineer, and Where Is the Brooklyn Bridge? can be used to launch the STEM challenge and to integrate literature into your STEM. Researching famous bridges such as: The Brooklyn Bridge and th
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2nd - 5th
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3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Landmarks & Celebrations Around the World Activities
2024 SOLAR ECLIPSE: Integrate Information from Two Texts 4.RI.6
Are you looking for a fun way to have students practice integrating information from two texts? This product is for the April 8, 2024 Great American Total Solar Eclipse! This resource can also be accommodated for anytime!Includes: LESSON PLAN, RIGOROUS LITERACY activities, and a POWERPOINT! This lesson is for that literacy teacher wanting to INTEGRATE SCIENCE or that science teacher wanting to INTEGRATE LITERACY in a student-directed fashion!!!My lesson plan provides differentiation ideas too! I
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3rd - 8th
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Distance Learning, Shark Research Project, Shark Week, Sharks Google Classroom
Distance Learning - This Google Classroom resource is all you need to cover sharks. It can be used during shark week or as shark research project. Each slide contains a formative task that the student must complete. Once they have completed the task they may move on to the next task or slide. This shark project can be completed as a student paced, group, or whole class activity.Each slide contains instructions on what the students are to complete and accomplish before moving forward. Also,
Food and Nutrition Reading Passages Healthy Eating Project - Food Groups
Ready for National Nutrition Month this March? Help students understand food groups, healthy eating habits, and how to live an active lifestyle with engaging activities that they love to complete!Combine science concepts with important close reading strategies and nonfiction articles to save class time and present real-world reading opportunities for your students.Students will learn and think critically about the different food groups, how to get active and live healthily, and the latest inform
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Passages Nonfiction 3rd 4th 5th Science
Life Cycle of a Butterfly Chicken Reading Passages Worksheets for Spring
Looking for butterfly, caterpillar, bee, chick, and tulip life cycle reading passages and activities this spring or anytime? These high-interest informative nonfiction close reading passages and activities will help you engage your students and tie important science concepts and reading work together!Included are 4 nonfiction articles to help your students understand the phenomena of life cycles of chickens, butterflies, bees, and tulips, all while they gather important information as they read.
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3rd - 5th
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3-LS4-2
STEM Landmarks & Celebrations Around the World Activities
Connect STEM to history and geography! STEM Around the World: Famous Landmarks and Celebrations Bundle includes 13 different famous landmarks or celebrations to research and design structures resembling the landmark or the event. ⭐These activities can also be used for STEAM Activities, STEM After School Programs, Summer Programs, Clubs, Maker Spaces, or at home. You will save money, time, and your students will be engaged in STEM Activities. Students will learn about famous landmarks, integra
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3rd - 5th
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3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Wind Car STEM Activity: Can be used with If I Built a Car
Are you looking for a fun STEM activity that connects to the book If I Built a Car by Chris Van Dusen? Designing a Wind Car STEM Challenge gives students the opportunity to design and create a wind car. Google Slides are included. It is a fun team building activity that gets students thinking critically as they design and build a car after reading the book. STEM Wind Car Lab is an activity that engages students in thinking through the Engineering Next Generation Science Standards. It can be us
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3rd - 5th
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3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
4th Grade Science-Based Reading Comprehension Passages, Lessons, & Activities
Are you a 4th Grade Reading teacher looking to INTEGRATE science standards into your guided reading block? Look no further! These HIGH-QUALITY informational and fiction science-based texts and activities are for you! Reading Through Science™ allows you to SAVE TIME by having LOW-PREP science-based reading lessons & activities at your fingertips!! All nonfiction AND fiction texts were professionally written and are HIGH-INTEREST!! Plus, you'll get tons of research-based TEACHING STRATEGIES t
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4th - 5th
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4-PS4-2
, 4-LS1-1
, 4-PS3-4
, 4-ESS1-1
, 4-PS3-3
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Plant Life Cycle Structure Plant Adaptations Reading Passages Worksheet Activity
Looking for plant life cycle reading passages and activities this spring or anytime? These high-interest informative nonfiction close reading passages and activities will help you engage your students and tie important science concepts and reading work together!Close reading anchor charts are included to help your students understand the text more deeply, building comprehension skills as they read!Your students will practice gathering important information as they read science content in informa
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-LS1-1
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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.
Benefits of learning science
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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