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Science Common Core W.9-10.8 resources
Disease & Pathogens Report | 1 Day Mini-Research Project Google Slides™ Activity
Teach research skills with a smaller, manageable topic. Encourage curiosity with your students and allow them to explore the disease of their choice. This product is great for a non-fiction study in ELA or a science-based assignment. This digital product includes 15 slides:1 example slide11 Google Slides templates ( 3 for virus, 3 for bacteria, 2 for fungus, 2 for parasite, 1 "blank")1 How to mask an image slide1 editable rubric1 slide for sourcesThe Google Slides templates can be edited in View
Internet Activities - Rockets, Space Shuttles, Satellites and Rovers
28 printable or digital internet investigations on space exploration. Students use a laptop, tablet or smart phone to search online for information about... NASA, space suits, accidents in space, animals in space (dog, monkey, rabbits, mice, spiders, flies…), people in space, rockets, the Apollo space program, space shuttles, SpaceX, going to the Moon, going to Mars, Luna 1, Sputnik 1, Explorer 1, Voyager 1, Messenger, the lunar rover, Sojourner, Chang’e 4, Hubble telescope, Chandra, satellites
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3rd - 10th
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Also included in: Space BUNDLE
The CRAAP Test - A lesson to help identify quality sources for research
If you are sick of seeing Wikipedia or Google as a source on a paper, check this out! My students find it hilarious and it's very effective. We go over what the different letters in CRAAP mean and how to score a source based on the information provided by the source. What's Included in The CRAAP Test?Editable Google Slides PresentationEditable Google Doc Worksheet Looking for more writing activities? Check out my other resources here: • Formal & Informal Writing Lesson with Guided Notes &a
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6th - 12th
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Group Research Project Templates BUNDLE
If want your students to exercise their research skills, collaboration skills, and creativity all in one place, these resources give you everything you need for ANY topic! Don’t put all that extra work on yourself to come up with a project from scratch. Just fill these templates with the topic your class is studying and you’ll have everything you need—from start to end—to watch your students learn and create together!This is the FULL SET of everything needed for a general collaborative creative
Science Through Magic Systems -- Project Based Science
Need a project-based science unit that challenges and excites your students? Science through Magic Systems is the best of creative thinking, research, and science. This product can be used as an independent research assignment, a full class project, a way to push high fliers or even a way to engage struggling students who love fantasy. This product is great for common core research standards 6-12 W.7 and W.8. And is easily applicable to the Next Generation Science Standards.
Black History Month - African-American Inventors
22 investigations of African-American inventors and entrepreneurs. Students search online for information about each inventor's year of birth and death, gender, schools or college attended, jobs, inventions, and other interesting things from their life:Gladys West, George Washington Carver, Henry Sampson, Lewis Howard Latimer, Elijah McCoy, Garrett Morgan, Madame C. J. Walker, Benjamin Banneker, Otis Boykin, Frederick McKinley Jones, Granville Woods, Thomas L. Jennings, Marie Van Brittan Brown,
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Black History Month BUNDLE - High School
The Eye and Vision - One-hour Internet Research Projects (Google and YouTube)
21 printable or digital projects for students to search online for information about the eyes and vision: color-blindness, how blind people read and write, why eyes are different colors, how our brain decodes optical illusions, why we wear sunglasses, which animals see long distance, how aging affects vision, and more, how word order affects how we read, how the brain sees things, how your eyes work, what causes blindness, what blind people see in their dreams, staring, why selfies are so popu
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4th - 12th
Also included in: The Senses BUNDLE
Research Essay Project Bundle: Evaluating Credible Sources, Essay Outline
SAVE 20% OFF every resource in this bundle intended for middle or high school teachers who want to teach a research essay to their students, and could use a little help with all the steps that go into teaching the research writing process. How this research essay bundle differs from others is that it provides you with ALL of the teaching activities necessary to make sure your students learn the research skills they need to be able to successfully craft a 5 paragraph research essay. This bundle w
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6th - 12th
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Bacteria - Internet Research Projects
10 printable or digital pages for students to investigate bacteria: Escherichia Coli (E. Coli), Streptococcus Pyogenes (Strep Throat), Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), Neisseria Gonorrhoeae (Gonorrhea), Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (Tuberculosis), Acinetobacter Baumannii, Klebsiella Pneumoniae (Pneumonia), Clostridium Difficile (C. diff), Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, and Burkholderia Cepacia: PREVENTION: Is there a way of preventing it?SYMPTOMS: What are the symptoms that let you know you’re infected?TR
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6th - 12th
Internet Research on Scientists
21 printable or digital pages for students to search the INTERNET for information on Scientists: Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Charles Darwin, Niehls Bohr, Nicolaus Copernicus, Stephen Hawking, Louis Pasteur, Johannes Kepler, Alexander Graham Bell, Erwin Schrodinger, Gregor Mendel, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Hooke, Leonardo da Vinci, George Washington Carver, Richard Feynman, Mary Leakey, Antonie von Leeuwenhoek, Richard Dawkins. Students research websites to find
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4th - 12th
Internet Research on Reptiles and Amphibians
15 printable or digital pages to engage your students in Internet Research on Reptiles and Amphibians. Students use a phone, tablet or laptop to search online about the alligator, tree frog, sea turtle, Komodo dragon, chameleon, rat snake, crocodile, bullfrog, desert tortoise, iguana, rattlesnake, anaconda, box turtle, cobra, and more. PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and downlo
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4th - 10th
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Earth Day 2024 WebQuest Environmental Awareness Research Project Search & Study
This inquiry-based research activity for Earth Day 2024 will get your students excited to learn about how they can solve the most pressing environmental issues of our time. This Earth Day Research WebQuest/ Search and Study activity provides students the opportunity to explore their interests by choosing a topic from a list of 55 intentionally curated environmental issues that are currently impacting our planet. After students choose a topic, they complete an inquiry-based research activity to l
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7th - 12th
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Health, Disease, & Disorders Research Paper Middle and High School Writing Unit
Use this (fully editable) unit to help your students explore a disease or disorder of their choice and synthesize information from multiple sources. This product helps to guide your students through a research paper methodically and step-by-step.**If you're looking for a short, more concise option, check out my 1 Day Mini-Research Project | Disease & Pathogens | Google Slides™ Templates**This product is an editable Google Document. The document is 16 pages (15 ready-to-print/ready-to-share +
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7th - 10th
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Science Calendar Making Project (also good for Chemistry, Biology and more)
This is a fun and simple research project that is appropriate for science, chemistry, biology, physics or tech classes. This project is a great way to hit many of the COMMON CORE STANDARDS for Writing and Language for Grades 6-11. Download the preview to see the entire list of common core connections.
OVERVIEW OF THE PROJECT:
Students make a science (or chemistry, physics, biology, anatomy, technology or astronomy) themed calendar for the school year (September to August).
OUTLINE OF THE
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6th - 10th
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Pets - Internet Activity - Search online for information about each type of pet
21 print or digital pages investigating pets: bird, cat, dog, duck, ferret, fish, frog, gecko, gerbil, guinea pig, hamster, horse, lizard, pig, praying mantis, rabbit, rat, scorpion, snake, tarantula, and turtle. Students visit websites to learn more about: the food that the pet eats (plant or meat); whether it has hair, scales, feathers, or a hard exoskeleton; where it lives (in a bowl, cage, or back yard); the dangers it faces and how it protects itself; where it came from in the wild; its
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3rd - 12th
Also included in: Cats and Dogs BUNDLE
Women's History Month - Female Astronauts
30 investigations of female astronauts: Christina Koch, Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, Valentina Tereshkova, Stephanie Wilson, Eileen Collins, Joan Higginbotham, Kathryn Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, Judith Resnik, Anna Lee Fisher, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Peggy Whitson, Svetlana Savitskaya, Ellen Ochoa, Kalpana Ochoa, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Samantha Christoforetti, Christa McAuliffe, Catherine Coleman, Helen Sharman, Laurel Clark, Anousheh Ansari, Roberta Bondar, Anne McClain, Yi So-yeon, Liu Yang, Naoko Yama
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Grades:
4th - 12th
Also included in: Space BUNDLE
Black History Month - African-American Astronauts
16 investigations of African-American astronauts: Mae Jemison, Stephanie Wilson, Bernard Harris, Guion Bluford, Victor Glover, Ronald McNair, Robert Henry Lawrence, Michael P. Anderson, Frederick Gregory, Charles Bolden, Winston Scott, Joan Higginbotham, Alvin Drew, Leland Melvin, Robert Satcher, Ed Dwight. Your students will search online for information about each astronaut: where and when they were born, things they are famous for, places they visited in space, accomplishments at NASA, etc. P
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Space BUNDLE
Worst Natural Disasters in History | 1 Day Mini-Research Project Google Slides™
Encourage curiosity with your students and allow them to explore an unsolved mystery of their choice. Teach research skills with a smaller, manageable topic. The perfect activity for an extra day or early finishers! Engaging, organized, and succinct. Use as a standalone lesson or incorporate into a larger unit.This product includes 11 editable Google Slides™:1 example slide1 slide with editable directions1 slide with a list of 40 topic options1 slide with a link to a sign-up sheet1 slide with an
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5th - 10th
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Investigating Global Pandemics
24 printable and digital pages for students to search online for facts about the Prevention, Symptoms, Transmission and Treatment of viruses and bacteria: Covid-19 virus (Coronavirus), Influenza virus, Zika virus, H1N1 virus (Spanish Flu and Swine Flu), Ebola virus, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Variola Virus (Smallpox), Rabies virus, Marburg virus, Hantavirus, Dengue virus, Rotavirus, SARS-CoV virus, SARS-CoV-2 virus, MERS-CoV virus, Measles virus, Yellow Fever virus, H5N1 (Avian Flu vir
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6th - 12th
The Ear and Hearing - One-hour Internet Research Projects (Google and YouTube)
30 printable or digital projects for students to search online for information about the ears and hearing: how sound travels, why some people can’t hear, some of the languages of the world, how people communicate without speaking,how deaf people communicate and what it is like to be deaf, Ludwig van Beethoven, Helen Keller Nancy Rourke, American Sign Language (ASL), oralism, audism, interpreters, how bats use sound to locate insects, how aging affects what we hear, how people damage their hear
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4th - 12th
Also included in: The Senses BUNDLE
Isaac Newton: The Laws of Motion and Gravitation - A Study Guide for gardes 8-12
Discover the genius of Isaac Newton with this in-depth study guide, crafted for students aged 13-17 (Grades 8-12). This guide takes learners on an exploratory journey through Newton's life, his groundbreaking discoveries in gravity and motion, and the development of calculus. Featuring engaging timelines, insightful explanations of the laws of motion and gravitation, and Newton's most famous quotes, this product makes complex concepts accessible and fascinating. It's an essential resource for ed
Global Warming BUNDLE
158 printable or digital pages for students to explore global warming. Students learn about:the food we eat and where it comes from, how we produce electricity, the effects of buildings on the climate, the increasing magnitude and frequency of storms, how changing weather harms plants and the animals that consume them,questions and writing prompts inspired by Greta Thunberg, and more.PRINT: I created PDF versions that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or a
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4th - 10th
Women's History Month BUNDLE
304 printable pages for students to learn about female scientists, authors, musicians, singers, actresses, politicians, athletes, astronauts, and artists. Students search online for information about each woman and their year of birth and death, place of birth, schools attended, family life, professional accomplishments and awards, and more. Use during March for Women's History Month or any time of the year. Take a look at the Preview to see sample pages from this bundle.
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5th - 12th
Scientific Journal Article Project
Students learn to research, read, write, think, and speak like a scientist in this six-part project by Hoop There It Is.
Students select possible topics based on the ISEF (International Science and Engineering Fair) categories and develop a list of search terms. Then they use databases to find an academic journal article about a peer-reviewed scientific study. Students work closely with the teacher to read and annotate the article; define technical vocabulary in their own words; and summariz
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