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Science Common Core W.6.3b resources
Snow Day Packet for Upper Grades (Digital & Print Versions)
The Upper-Grade Snow Day Digital & Print Packet is the answer to your prayers on an unexpected snow day! Everything your students will need to have an education-filled day from the comfort of their own home all assigned digitally or physically!You will get:3 different Language Arts lesson plans with accompanying worksheets tailored to each grade level (prefixes & suffixes, similes, and parts of speech)3 expertly leveled reading passages with comprehension questions to get your students w
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3rd - 6th
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Snow Day Packet for Upper Grades (Print Version)
The Upper-Grade Snow Day Packet is the answer to your prayers on an unexpected snow day! Everything your students will need to have an education-filled day from the comfort of their own home!You will get:3 different Language Arts lesson plans with accompanying worksheets tailored to each grade level (prefixes & suffixes, similes, and parts of speech)3 expertly leveled reading passages with comprehension questions to get your students working on their reading skillsHands-on science experiment
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Snow Day Packet for Upper Grades (Digital & Print Versions)
Deserted Island Survival STEM Challenges
Are you looking for a fun and engaging activity for your students? Deserted Island Survival STEM Challenge is a unit centered around a fictional story of Suzanna Airfly who's plane crashed on a deserted island. Your students will complete five different challenges to help Suzanna survive. Each challenge encourages students to define the problem, plan a design, build, test, and reflect. I have included a rubric for each challenge. I have also added a narrative writing extension where students
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Research and Writing Animal Reports Zoology Upper Elementary
Leverage students' love of animals to get them excited to research and write! The lesson is made up of three activities that will lead students through the research process. Two things set this lesson plan apart: first, to get kids excited to research, they'll play a game. Next, there are three different animal report templates to choose from, so students feel some autonomy in their reports. If you're a Language Arts teacher, adding in the science component is powerful. If you're a science teac
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4th - 6th
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![Preview of "I Survived: [Natural Disaster]" Narrative Writing Unit - Lauren Tarshis](https://ecdn.teacherspayteachers.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=avif,quality=70,width=525,height=525,onerror=redirect/thumbitem/-I-Survived-Natural-Disaster-Narrative-Writing-Unit-Lauren-Tarshis-7700546-1662761528/750f-7700546-1.jpg)
"I Survived: [Natural Disaster]" Narrative Writing Unit - Lauren Tarshis
Looking for a way to incorporate writing and science into one project-based unit? Look no further - The "I Survived: [Natural Disaster]" Narrative Writing Unit based on the bestselling series by Lauren Tarshis allows your mid-elementary students to author their own versions of these hit books while also researching a natural disaster. The best part- it's low prep. Just copy and go!Included in this file is:1. Ideas for Group Roles to keep all learners engaged and accountable for work.2. Ideas for
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3rd - 6th
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Trampoline Park Field Trip Lesson Plan 6th-8th [reading, writing, math &science]
Field trip time! This is a narrative writing lesson plan for a trip to a trampoline park. It includes standards, learning targets, essential questions, plans, and narrative writing paper. UPDATED! Now includes more standards, learning targets, essential questions, plans, planning sheet, and narrative writing paper.
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6th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-PS3-5
Earth Day Activity | Narrative Writing Connections to Real World
This Earth Day activity asks students to approach Earth Day in several ways. They will research pollution, Earth Day, and similar ideas; complete a pre-writing activity; write a narrative from the point of view of litter or pollution; and close with a writing prompt that relates to their lives. This Earth Day activity takes me 5-6 days for completion with students.Overall included in this Earth Day activity:√ Task cards allow students to reflect about the environment in their lives and their inf
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Narrative Writing Bundle Middle School Narrative Writing Activities
Solar Eclipse Roll a Story | Creative Narrative Writing Activity | Editable
Students roll the dice to unravel a magical and exciting tapestry of settings, protagonists, antagonists, conflicts, and solar eclipse-themed elements, igniting creativity and narrative fluency! Perfect for narrative writing units, centers, daily writing, public speaking practice, Fun Friday, and more!✨Seasons & Holidays Roll a Story Bundle✨✨Holidays Roll a Story Bundle✨✨Solar Eclipse Bundle✨What's IncludedA PowerPoint with 1 unique board1 editable Roll a Story BoardA QR code on the story bo
Grades:
4th - 8th
Energy Project Based Learning | Earth Day
In this project based learning unit on energy, students learn about the essential elements of energy conservation and practice real-life reading, writing, science and math standards and 21st Century competencies. As students complete various activities and grow in their energy knowledge, they work to become an earth superhero for energy. Once they've learned all the basics, students will try to persuade others to conserve energy to save planet Earth.This resource is organized into five sections
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3rd - 6th
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Articles - 1: Goblin Sharks - MAGNIFICENT or MONSTROUS? - Fact & Opinion
READING & WRITING - ANALYZING - COMPREHENSION - TEST PREP ................................................................... FOCUS: FACT & OPINIONTEXT"MAGNIFICENT OR MONSTROUS" is a nonfiction ARTICLE ABOUT goblin sharks. These are rare deep-sea sharks called living fossils. Goblin sharks have a perfect blend of incredibly cool ADAPTATIONS and hideous APPEARANCE traits, making this an ideal article for FACT & OPINION......................................................TOPICS APPROP
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: Articles - 12: POEMS, ARTICLES & NARRATIVES - BUNDLE II - PDF & ONLINE
Snow Day Packet for Upper Grades (Digital Version)
The Upper-Grade Snow Day Digital Packet is the answer to your prayers on an unexpected snow day! Everything your students will need to have an education-filled day from the comfort of their own home all assigned digitally!You will get:3 different Language Arts lesson plans with accompanying worksheets tailored to each grade level (prefixes & suffixes, similes, and parts of speech)3 expertly leveled reading passages with comprehension questions to get your students working on their reading sk
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Snow Day Packet for Upper Grades (Digital & Print Versions)
Biome Unit Projects
These highly engaging projects can run alongside your lesson, notes, videos, and in-class reading assignments about biomes. Whether you chose to do the biome world lesson or have students create a diorama, they will have the tools to brainstorm and plan a large project without losing track of time.
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3rd - 7th
NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, MS-LS2-2
, MS-LS2-3
, 5-LS2-1
, 4-LS1-2
Design a New Planet! Printable and Google Slides Bundle!
In this project, students will design a new planet. They will create plans for the atmosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere of the planet and end with a short story or journal entry from the point of view of an astronaut exploring the planet for the first time.Students will love creating their own planet and presenting their creation to their classmates and family!This product includes:Writing promptExample of a new planet design and story from start to finishTable of contents linked to each slide
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Out of This World Space Unit for Upper Grades (Print Version)
Ready to engage your students with an out-of-this-world activity pack? Look no further! We have created an entire printable packet of space-themed activities that your students will love!In this unit, you will get:Lesson Plans to teach each activity in an easy and fun wayPlanet, Moon, and Important Vocabulary Posters to help introduce important elements and vocabulary words to your studentsGravity Worksheets to help your students understand the importance of gravity and how it affects each of us
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS1-2
, MS-ESS1-3
Also included in: Outer Space Activities | Out of This World Space Unit for Upper Grades
ANIMAL KINGDOM - Carnivore, Herbivore, Omnivore - Distance Learning Activiies
With this informational reading, quiz, and activities, students review and reinforce their understanding of the three types of eating habits. Very popular - a simple two page explanatory essay matrix that has students choosing and imagining being an animal from each of the three groups is included. This works similar to PBL. Kids have fun out-grossing each other in their writing. Aligns with Common Core State Standards ELA 6,7,8 Writing 2 and 4.Also included -- A one page reading about the thr
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5th - 9th
36 Guided Writing Tasks: The Environment
We offer you a complete set of 36 guided writing tasks focused on the topic of the environment. There are a wide variety of writing tasks covering persuasive, informational, explanatory, and narrative writing. This includes tasks for writing essays, reports, opinion pieces, short stories, personal narratives, and poems. It also includes tasks for creating timelines, flyers, and posters. Some of the topics covered include recycling, reusing, conservation, pollution, waste, deforestation, nationa
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3rd - 6th
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36 Guided Writing Tasks: Space and Astronomy
We offer you a complete set of 36 guided writing tasks focused on the topic of the space and astronomy. It covers planets, stars, comets, moons, the SolarSystem, and more. There are a wide variety of writing tasks covering persuasive, informational, explanatory, and narrative writing. This includes tasks for writing essays, reports, opinion pieces, short stories, personal narratives, and poems. It also includes tasks for creating timelines, flyers, and posters. Each writing task begins with a w
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3rd - 6th
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Emergency Lesson/Sub Plan: Rainmakers: Close Read, Research, + Narrative Prompt
The pages provided here can easily be printed and provided to students as independent work packets, and are especially useful as Emergency Sub Plans for a leave of absence that would take you away from your classroom for 5+ consecutive days. The content is engaging, standards based, and incorporates a variety of activities and subjects - although I originally created this for a 6th grade English Fundamentals classroom. This lesson incorporates reading comprehension skills of informational text,
Grades:
5th - 7th
Also included in: English 8 - Entire Year: Activities, Projects, Rubrics, Exams, Homework
The Ultimate Animal Project
Welcome to The Ultimate Animal Project!This packet is a self-contained unit that combines Science standards with Writing, Literacy and vital study skills in a way that includes STEAM-based objectives. Students will not only learn the content provided to them, but will also build important foundational skills that they can use well into their post-secondary education like:Taking ownership of one's workWorking collaboratively in a way that shatters traditional group work pain points.Setting perso
Design a New Planet! Printable Version
In this project, students will design a new planet. They will create plans for the atmosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere of the planet and end with a short story or journal entry from the point of view of an astronaut exploring the planet for the first time.Students will love creating their own planet and presenting their creation to their classmates and family!This product includes:Writing promptExample of a new planet design and story from start to finishTable of contents Planning page to des
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Design a New Planet! Printable and Google Slides Bundle!
Out of This World Space Unit for Upper Grades (Digital Version)
Ready to engage your students with an out-of-this-world activity pack? Look no further! We have created an entire digital packet of space-themed activities that your students will love!In this unit, you will get:Lesson Plans to teach each activity in an easy and fun wayPlanet, Moon, and Important Vocabulary Posters to help introduce important elements and vocabulary words to your studentsGravity Worksheets to help your students understand the importance of gravity and how it affects each of usSc
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Outer Space Activities | Out of This World Space Unit for Upper Grades
Creative Writing! Design a New Planet! For Google Slides
In this project, students will design a new planet. They will create plans for the atmosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere of the planet and end with a short story or journal entry from the point of view of an astronaut exploring the planet for the first time. Students will love creating their own planet and presenting their creation to their classmates and family! This product includes: Writing prompt Example of a new planet design and story from start to finish Table of contents linked to each
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Design a New Planet! Printable and Google Slides Bundle!
ElemMates©® Element Characters & Stories
These are the main ElemMate®characters. They are also the basic elements used to make the simplest molecules, basic organic molecules, and ones found in nature. Included are a few large radioactive ones. Their looks and personalities mirror their actual chemical "behaviors" and properties. More informations is found on the website, ElemMates.com. Printables can be cut out whether as individuals figures or as cards to create stickers, atomic molecules, games, tokens and crafts.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th, Staff
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NGSS:
5-PS1-3
, 5-PS1-4
, MS-PS1-4
, MS-PS1-2
, MS-PS1-3
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Bundle of 7 Student Writing Assignments! Informational and Narrative Writing!
This is a bundle of 7 narrative and informational student writing assignments! Perfect addition to your writing unit lesson. Included: Extreme Weather Informational Essay Student Packet: This product is a great addition to your informational writing lessons and science connection to extreme weather. It includes everything the student will need throughout the unit. It can be used as a whole class project or for a small group. NO prep needed!This product includes:-Writing prompt -Choice of extreme
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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