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Earth sciences Common Core W.4.7 resources
Biome Ecosystem Research Project for Google Slides | Science Activity
Students will love this biome research project using Google Slides™! Get your students collaborating to research an assigned biome or ecosystem. They will teach their classmates what they've learned through a presentation at the project's end.A favorite project of my own 5th grade students each year, this project is engaging and allows students to creatively collaborate. The presentation template and research worksheets are editable, so you can change the content to fit your needs.THIS RESOURCE
Invasive Species Animal Project - Ecosystems & Biomes Research Writing Activity
This ecosystems project will engage your students as they choose from ten invasive species to research! Keep your upper elementary writing students organized with printable graphic organizers that guide them to write detailed paragraphs describing how invasive species impact the ecosystems they invade. Both digital and printable versions are included. This Project Includes:↠ Teacher guide with a suggested lesson plan, teacher tips, and website links↠ Research graphic organizer with specific ques
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3rd - 6th
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Grade 3 Science Lessons BUNDLE, Digital and Printable
This is a BUNDLE of 5 hands-on science units that are perfect for Grade 3. All grade 3 science lessons are aligned to the British Columbia Grade 3 BC Big Ideas and NGSS. Each science unit includes detailed lesson plans so you don't have to create them! This bundle covers all of the Grade 3 BC Big Ideas for Science. In other provinces/territories/states the curriculum and content may be more appropriate for other grade levels.(See "Preview" for a specific breakdown of the curriculum covered).
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2nd - 4th
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Water Pollution Water Filter STEM
This environmental project challenges students to create a water filter to use with grey water to conserve water resources. The water filtration lab is a perfect Earth Day project. The engineering design process helps students investigate, plan, create, improve, and evaluate their filter. Students observe and collect data to write a report on findings. Leveled texts and writing prompts round out this jammed packed set! ☝ Click HERE to Save 25% on the Money Savings ALL STEM and STEAM BUNDLE! ☝ (
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
5-ESS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
Also included in: STEM Activities STEM Challenges
Planets Research Report: Multi-Draft Informative Writing for Grades 3-5 (CCSS)
“I have done planet research writing for several years. This was a helpful resource to have everything ready to go.”“This made research so much easier for my students! Everything was scaffolded and easy to follow. Their reports came out great!”“I used this with ELL students as a research project. It was well laid out and I could adapt it easily to my students' needs. It did a good job walking students through the writing process.”Instead of doing several Informative Essays, I like to focus on j
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3rd - 5th
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Landforms Science Unit
Learn all about landforms, how they change, and how to recognize them in your own local landscape! This is a hands-on landforms science unit featuring directed lessons, project-based learning, and inquiry projects, a word wall, vocabulary, and complete assessments along the way. Each lesson in this unit includes a complete teaching guide with detailed set-up instructions and thorough lesson plans. Take back your nights and weekends and let us do the planning for you!What's included in this hands
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2nd - 4th
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NGSS:
2-ESS1-1
, 2-ESS2-1
, 2-ESS2-2
Also included in: Grade 3 Science Lessons BUNDLE, Digital and Printable
Biodiversity Science Unit
Biodiversity is all around is! In this hands-on complete biodiversity science unit students will explore local plants, animals, ecosystems, and food chains to discover the biodiversity in their area. Featuring directed lessons, project-based learning, and inquiry projects, a word wall, vocabulary, and complete assessments along the way. Each lesson in this unit includes a complete teaching guide with detailed set-up instructions and thorough lesson plans. Take back your nights and weekends and
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2nd - 4th
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NGSS:
2-LS4-1
Also included in: Grade 3 Science Lessons BUNDLE, Digital and Printable
Facts About the Great Lakes Research Project, Graphs, and Maps
This short research project results in a polished final product. Kids collect facts about the Great Lakes on specially designed maps to create their own infographics. Individual pages can be bound into a booklet or displayed. The activity works well with collaborative groups or for independent study. Additional pages ask students to compare, graph depths and volumes, and label a map. Open the preview to take a closer look.First, students research the Great Lakes to create infographics. They can
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4th - 6th
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Solar System Lapbook and Interactive Notebook Activities
The Solar System Lapbook will make a great interactive learning tool and study guide for your students as they learn about the sun, moon, planets, and more! The following is included with this resource:1. A lapbook title page (3 boy and 3 girl choices)2. “Composition of the Solar System” spinner. This spinner features the makeup of the solar system, including pictures that represent planets, the sun, the moon, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.3. Solar System Vocabulary Pocket (24 cards with d
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2nd - 5th
Changes in Ecosystems and Biomes Activity - Natural Disaster Research Project
This environmental changes science writing project will engage your students as they choose from five natural disasters to research! Keep your upper elementary writing students organized with printable graphic organizers that guide them to write detailed paragraphs describing environmental changes caused by a disaster. Students will illustrate the ecosystem before and after the natural disaster occurred using the printable final project pages. This no-prep, Common Core Aligned, cross-curricular
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3rd - 6th
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Natural Disaster Research and Poster Project
Students will love the chance to research natural disasters and then creatively display what they learned with this Natural Disaster Poster Project! Included are unique research packets that will help students organize information they gather from books or online resources on 10 natural disasters. Packets will contain questions that ask disaster definitions, cause/effects, locations, ways to measure, safety precautions, interesting facts, and a famous disaster. Packets are divided into 4 section
Solar Energy - Energy Transformation – How We Use Energy From The Sun
This Solar Energy package shows how solar energy is transformed to heat and electricity. The package includes an editable, interactive PowerPoint presentation, a solar energy lab, Solar energy reading comprehension articles, and an Illustrated solar energy vocabulary and crossword puzzle. This package covers what solar energy is, how solar energy is used, and its environmental benefits and challenges. These materials are aligned with Common Core, and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) a
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4th - 6th
NGSS:
4-PS3-4
, MS-PS3-3
, 4-PS3-2
Also included in: NGSS Renewable Energy Bundle Grades 4 - 6
Shadow Length Direction STEM and STEAM
Learning about Earth's rotation, light and shadows? In this Earth Science Shadow STEM, students create a shadow catcher to see how Earth's rotation effects shadows. Students use the engineering design process in this shadow activity to investigate, plan, create, improve, and evaluate their catcher. Observations and collected data is used to write a report on their findings. Leveled texts and writing prompts round out this jammed packed set! Next Generation Science Standards: NGSS 5-ESS1-2, 1-ESS
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
1-ESS1-1
, 5-ESS1-2
Also included in: STEM Activities STEM Challenges
Extreme Weather & Natural Disasters Brochure - 5 Ws and H Research-Based Project
Have you been looking for the perfect research-based project on extreme weather and/or natural disasters for your upper elementary students? Look no further! This brochure is for you! This resource will have your students exercising their research skills meanwhile improving their informational writing. Using the 5 Ws and H framework to answer pertinent information, students will demonstrate what they've learned in Earth Science in regards to extreme weather, landforms, cause and effects of human
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4th - 6th
Also included in: 3 Science Brochures/Pamphlets - Research Projects for Grades 3 to 6
Light Reflection STEAM and STEM Challenge
Are your students studying reflection and light? This Physical Science STEAM and STEM challenge provides a hands-on learning approach to understanding how reflection impacts human sight! This project requires students to develop a model which describes how light reflecting from objects enters the eyes, causing sight. The activity incorporates the engineering design cycle and includes a leveled text. Students use their observations to write a learning report before a classroom showcase. Writ
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
4-PS4-2
Also included in: STEM Activities STEM Challenges
Magnet STEM & STEAM Force and Motion
Are your students learning about magnetic repel and attraction? This hands-on magnetic station helps students understand magnetism! Students use the engineering design process to modify a product using magnets to help make a task easier in this invention magnet lab. Also included: a leveled text, submission report, a classroom showcase, and writing prompts! ☝ Click HERE to Save over 25% on the Money Savings ALL STEM and STEAM BUNDLE! ☝(Currently: 16 NGSS Aligned Projects) ❤ All STEM Projects are
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2nd - 4th
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NGSS:
3-PS2-3
, 3-PS2-4
Also included in: STEM Activities STEM Challenges
Animal Brochure - Informational Writing Research Project for Grade 3 & 4
Have you been looking for the perfect research-based project on animals and biomes for your elementary students? Look no further! This brochure is for you! This resource will have your students exercising their research skills meanwhile improving their informational writing. Get to know your students better as they research their favorite animals, meanwhile demonstrating what they've learned in class in regards to animal classification (species), animal adaptations, food chains, biomes, and so m
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3rd - 5th
Also included in: 3 Science Brochures/Pamphlets - Research Projects for Grades 3 to 6
Energy: Hydroelectric Power with STEM Project
This Hydroelectric Energy package shows how hydroelectric energy is produced and the energy transformations that happen to turn power from water into electricity. The package includes an interactive PowerPoint presentation which shows how hydroelectric power is produced and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of hydro power.The presentation makes liberal use of diagrams and pictures to illustrate the points simply and clearly. This presentation is suitable for multiple grade levels. Th
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4th - 8th
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4-PS3-4
, MS-PS3-3
, 4-PS3-2
Also included in: NGSS Renewable Energy Bundle Grades 4 - 6
NATURAL DISASTERS Research Project plus Information report writing guide 3rd-6th
Natural Disasters and Forces inquiry research project guide, with support resource for writing information reports. Teach students how to inquire into a range of natural forces causing disasters across our world. Learn about their causes and characteristics, and what makes a natural force become a natural disaster. PRAISE FOR NATURAL DISASTERS / FORCES (already enjoyed by over 140 educators prior to the massive update in April 2023 from 36 pgs. to 180 pgs.)⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ "I absolutely love this
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3rd - 6th
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Water Erosion STEM and STEAM Challenge
Students develop a creek bank preservation solution in this Earth Science project. Using the engineering design cycle, students use their observations and collected data to write a report. Writing prompts and science leveled text round out this jammed packed set! ☝ Click HERE to Save over 25% on the Money Savings ALL STEM and STEAM BUNDLE! ☝ (Currently: 16 NGSS Aligned Projects) ❤ All STEM Projects are OPEN ENDED, allowing student flexibility to create and test unique designs. ❤Next Generation
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3rd - 5th
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2-ESS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 4-ESS2-1
Also included in: Weather Unit
Earth Day Virtual Field Trip - 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade
Join me on a virtual field trip! On this field trip, students will use their critical thinking, reading, writing, and listening skills to explore and learn about our incredible Earth. Students will learn about recycling, climate change, composting, national parks, wildlife, and more! They will also get to explore the world using Google Maps and other websites with virtual tour capabilities! ⭐Check out the quick preview video for a taste of what this field trip has to offer. This resource includ
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2nd - 5th
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NASA Apollo Program Research Project & Website - United States History
Learn about the moon, explore the Apollo 11 mission, and complete an astronaut research project with this fabulous bundle. Kids navigate a student website to learn all about NASA's first manned mission to land on the moon. Then they research astronauts of the Apollo missions. As a bonus, you'll also receive two one-page information sheets about the moon and its phases.It’s a great way to study this important piece of United States history.Apollo 11 WebsiteThis site offers hours of multimedia exp
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4th - 6th
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Severe Weather Research Project
Encourage your students to take ownership of their own learning with this exciting Severe Weather Research Project! These task cards include all of the directions and rubrics you need to get students learning about different types of severe weather and presenting their learning in interesting ways.Types of Weather:TORNADOSHURRICANEEARTHQUAKEVOLCANOBLIZZARDDROUGHTWILDFIRETSUNAMIEach type of weather has its own set of research questions to guide students through their learning.Types of Project Pr
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-ESS3-1
, 3-ESS2-2
, 4-ESS2-1
Astronaut Space Research Project Gifted Students Enrichment PBL
Are you looking for a student-driven project for your gifted (AIG) students? In this resource, students will research 6 prominent astronauts. They will then create a project demonstrating what they learned. This resource includes ideas for online resources students can use but you can easily use your own resources for students to use.This resource is perfect for your AIG and/or gifted students as it includes broad ideas, openness, and student choice. What is included?Teacher & Student Instru
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4th - 6th
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