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Camping Themed End of the Year Activities for 3rd & 4th grade - All Subjects
Do you want an engaging end of the year unit? Relate camping to science, social studies, math, and reading in 3rd or 4th grade!! All activities are rigorous, engaging, and upper elementary focused!You can transform your classroom into a campground or just work through a theme, either way these high level activities will keep your students engaged!How will this help the teacher and student?Engagement- Students will be engaged the ENTIRE time you are learning about camping and working with the the
Grades:
3rd - 4th
Also included in: End of the Year BUNDLE Activities, Awards, Writing, Camping, and more
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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Research Templates Google Classroom Digital Projects Elementary Activities Comic
Need some engaging digital projects templates for your classroom? This Google Classroom Digital Projects Bundle is a perfect go to for easy to use and ready to use elementary Google Classroom activities that your students will love! Your students will be engaged with these digital project templates as they create comic strips, social media posts, biography reports and SO MUCH MORE! Since these are digital projects they are great for saving paper and can be used across multiple subject areas. ⭐SA
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3rd - 6th
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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
Genius Hour Passion Projects For Elementary Students
This Genius Hour project-based learning pack will help you and your students begin passion projects with ease! This set will help your students develop a growth mindset as they go through a series of self-awareness activities to create a project that interests them all while learning important skills as they go along. Step-by-step students are taken through the process as they plan and prepare their passion projects or project-based learning projects.This is a great end-of-the-year way for stude
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Solar Oven Investigation: Make S'mores with a Pizza Box Solar Oven
Investigate the energy from the sun with this fun Common Core related unit. Students will work through the scientific process while responding in writing. This digital download contains:
Detailed Instructions on how to assemble a pizza box solar oven with photographs
Donation request sheet
Note pages for the scientific investigation
Data collection sheet
Graph for a bar or line plot
Graphic organizer for procedural writing
S'more themed writing paper
Standards addressed: RI.5, RI. 6, RI
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2nd - 5th
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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
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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Second Grade Natural Disasters Research Project
Looking for a primary note taking lesson on natural disasters? This lesson focuses on the basic facts and characteristics of extreme weather events and natural disasters. Students must identify the important words and phrases to include on these note taking sheets.Natural Disaster note taking sheets include:AvalanchesBlizzardsDroughtsDust StormsEarthquakesFloodsHurricanesLandslidesSinkholesThunderstormsTornadoesTsunamisVolcanoesWaterspoutsWildfiresA blank note taking page for customizationResear
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1st - 3rd
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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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Genius Hour Digital Activity
Are you looking to use Genius Hour in a digital format with your upper elementary and middle school students in the classroom? Your students will be engaged in an exciting journey to become an expert on a topic they are passionate about. Genius Hour is intended to engage even your most difficult students because it allows them a choice in their learning. Genius Hour is designed to engage all to become passionate learners. Students will type directly on the documents themselves.Download our previ
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Upper Elementary Digital Activity Bundle for Google
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
Sun, Moon, Earth Solar System Digital Distance Learning Units BUNDLE for Google
SUN, MOON, EARTH Solar System GOOGLE Classroom Digital Unit captivates attention, promotes higher learning and leads to independent exploration about the world around us. This bundle includes 3 separate digital units listed at 20% off: The Sun, The Moon, and Earth. 51 Interactive pages for GOOGLE classroom AND 43 GOOGLE slide presentations for research.Utilize Google Classroom and open the entire resource in Google Slides to present information about tornadoes in an interactive, digital format t
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Grades:
2nd - 3rd
RACE Writing Strategy for Extended Response + RAP Writing Strategy TEST PREP
These differentiated extended response rubrics list exactly what students need to include in their writing to have complete answers for state test questions. RACE and RAP Posters / Anchor charts are included for a visual reference. ✅ File Includes:4-point rubric (topic sentence, 2 details, closing sentence): Anchor Chart, 2-per-page and 4-per-page for ink saving5-point rubric (topic sentence, 3 details, closing sentence): Anchor Chart, 2-per-page and 4-per-page for ink savingParagraph writing ru
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2nd - 5th
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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
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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NGSS:
3-PS2-3
, 3-PS2-4
Also included in: STEM Activities STEM Challenges
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
UPDATED Women's History Month Biography Research Project- Exploding Box Project
Updated to now include Dr. Jill Biden and Vice President Kamala HarrisMarch is the time of year to celebrate all of the accomplishments women have made around the world. This Women's History Month project is sure to your engage students and assist them with the research process. Included in this resource:Step by step instructions explaining how to prepare and cut the pop-up box. A video tutorial is linked for assembling and creating your pop-up box.53 different Notable Women to choose from in co
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3rd - 6th
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NGSS Grade 3 Weather Hazards Engineer a Solution Performance Assessment EES3-1
3-EES3-1 Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard. [Clarification Statement: Examples of design solutions to weather-related hazards could include barriers to prevent flooding, wind resistant roofs, and lightning rods.)Description: of assessment: Students make a claim about the merits of a design solution that reduces the impact of two weather related hazards. Students begin with a review by using a template to build a house, placing
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-ESS3-1
Informational Writing Graphic Organizer and Videos for Research Project
A few years ago while doing distance learning I made a research paper project for my writing class. It included informational graphic organizers, writing templates and more. We did our informational writing for natural disasters so I included that and I also made blank templates for you to use with your students for any research topic.This product gives you everything you will need to teach research writing to your students. There is a printable version that you can print and your students can c
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2nd - 4th
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
Colonies STEM and STEAM Project
Are your students studying Early America? Check out this physical science STEM! Students apply understanding of density to create a colonial cargo ship. The design cycle is used as students investigate, plan, create, improve, and evaluate their ship. Students use observations and data to report findings. A leveled text and writing prompts round out this set! Next Generation Science Standard Alignment: K-2-ETS 1-3 and 3-5 ETS 1-1☝ Click HERE to Save over 25% on the Money Savings ALL STEM and ST
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
Also included in: 13 Colonies Unit Bundle
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
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
2-ESS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 4-ESS2-1
Also included in: Weather Unit
Ocean Animal Research: A Guided Research and Report Writing Pack
This ocean animal guided research and report writing is designed as a way for students to be able to organize their research on an ocean animal and put it together in a report format.
Included in this pack:
*A booklet designed for organizing information that is gathered. There are pages included for:
Questions
About the animal, including classification, zone and life cycle
Habitat
Predators
Behavior
Appearance
Diet
Interesting Facts
The researchers opinion
Sources
Also included in this pack
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1st - 3rd
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