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Free critical thinking earth sciences resources
Science Doodle FREE! The Water Cycle Interactive Notebook BUNDLE FREEBIE!
This bundle is all about the Water Cycle!This FREEBIE is a good example of what is in my BUNDLED units.Unit Bundle Includes:The Water Cycle Foldable for an interactive notebookThe Water Cycle Notes Foldable for an interactive notebookAll the Water in the Earth Foldable for an interactive notebookWater Cycle Vocabulary set for an interactive notebookWriting PromptThe Water Cycle LAB My Life as a Drop of WaterTask CardsWhat I will Learn this Year Glue-InWeekly warm-up about the water cyclePlus mov
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3rd - 6th
Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition Freebie! Combine science with language arts by using this freebie that includes reading comprehension passages and questions, and a cut and paste sorting activity. Answer keys are included. If you like this unit, you will also Love:Map Skills Printables and ActivitiesMap Skills and Types of Maps Editable PowerPoint and Review SheetsEarth’s Rotation and RevolutionNatural Resources PackElectricity UnitVolcanoes PackRocks and Minerals PackFossils PackBiomes Unit
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3rd - 6th
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Plant A Garden: Science and Writing
This freebie contains a cut and paste sheet for plant parts, a cut and paste for plant needs, two garden/plant picture dictionary pages and a writing page.
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PreK - 1st
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Christmas Would You Rather Questions to Print FREEBIE! Fun Holiday Activity!
Here are 20 Fun Would You Rather Questions to use with your students. These are great discussion starters for when you have a few extra minutes. They can also be used for classroom polls or journal prompts.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:1 Page with 20 Would You Rather QuestionsGreat for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade! NOTE: This resource uses American English and is not editable. Here’s what teachers are saying: ✏️ "My students loved this resource. I’m sure they weren’t even thinking
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1st - 8th
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Thanksgiving Would You Rather Questions with Poll FREEBIE
Here is a set of 20 Would you Rather Questions about Thanksgiving. Great for discussion starters, class polls and journal prompts.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:List of all 20 Would You Rather ChoicesDIGITAL:Classroom PollGreat for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade! NOTE: This resource uses American English and is not editable. Here’s what teachers are saying: ✏️ "My students love this activity and shared with some others at home! with all the stressful things going on at this point in t
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1st - 8th
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Space: Model of Earth & Moon's orbit
One of the biggest misconceptions that students have is that they believe that the Sun travels around the Earth. My students were no exception...That is why I created this model that allows students to manipulate the Earth and the moon in order to gain a better understanding. With this activity, your students will be able to orbit the Earth around the Sun as well as move the moon around the Earth. After this craftivity your students will no longer have the same misconception.If you like this act
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1st - 5th
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FREE Halloween Would You Rather Questions Print, Easel, and Google Slides
Here is a set of 20 FREE Would you Rather Questions about Halloween. Great for discussion starters, class polls and journal prompts. What's Included:Print copy Easel Assessment (great for a class poll!)Easel Activity - digital activity that requires students write about why it's there favoriteGoogle Slides digital activity - more challenging for advanced technology users! The students move move around a flashlight to try and read the questions.Great for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th,6th, 7th, or 8th g
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1st - 8th
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Executive Functioning Escape Room Activity
This free escape room activity is a puzzle challenge related to executive functioning skills. Students can work together or independently to solve a puzzle and discover the secret phrase to unlock the door and win the challenge in a specified amount of time. This escape room activity is ideal for small groups, advisory periods, morning work, resource rooms, or just for fun!Note that this is a free sample puzzle that includes only one challenge. If you are interested in more similar challenges pu
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4th - 8th
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Alphabet Nature Walk (Freebie) Scavenger Hunt / Outdoor ABC's
Get your learners outside for some outdoor education with an Alphabet ABC's Nature Walk Scavenger Hunt!A “nature walk” is essentially a scavenger hunt outside in nature, where your children/students will go outside, walk through nature, and look for these ABC items on a walk! These NO PREP pdf file Alphabet Nature Walk sheets are a great way to get young learners introduced to different animals, plants, and aspects of nature, and also reinforcing science and nature terms in older learners. This
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PreK - 5th
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Also included in: Nature Walk BUNDLE / Four Seasons + ABC + Nature Scavenger Hunt
Pumpkin Mini-Unit FREEBIE!
This mini-unit includes lots of fun and educational activities related to pumpkins! Templates, printables, instructions, and book suggestions are provided for each activity.
Activities Included:
-Inside & Outside Pumpkin Lesson & Craft
-Pumpkin Investigations Activity
-Pumpkin Life Cycle
-Planting Pumpkins
-Pumpkin Jack Experiment
-Pumpkin Seed Estimation
-Pumpkin Craft
Enjoy! Please leave feedback if you use this product in your classroom! Thank you!
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PreK - 1st
The Water Cycle-Cut and Paste
This fun cut and paste activity will really help you assess your child's knowledge on The Water Cycle! I have designed it to be on larger paper for easier labeling and coloring. The page size is legal landscape or 14 x 8.5 so please make sure you have that paper size before printing!
I have included the following stages in the activity:
evaporation
condensation
precipitation
accumulation/collection
surface run off
transpiration
You can see from the preview that the cycle starts on the far ri
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1st - 3rd
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FREE Perspective Taking Scenarios! Social Skills for Middle & High School
This is a FREE, shortened sampler version of one of my most popular sellers!Your students will get perspective practice with these 9 task cards! Each card features a situation relatable to teens, where the student must identify 3x different perspectives of both characters. Regular education teachers, special education teachers, SLPs, or other support professionals could all benefit from using these task cards with their students. These cards are specifically designed for middle and high school
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8th - 12th
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Moon Phases and Eclipses Notes Activity Lesson | Space Science Notebook
This space lesson focuses on identifying the different moon phases and describing the types of eclipses. This product is included in my 3 week, all-in-one Earth, Moon & Sun Space Bundle! This all inclusive astronomy printable includes two warm-ups with answers, a set of differentiated Cornell notes, a foldable-interactive activity, a slide presentation to lead the whole class, and an answer key! This product is included in my Earth, Moon & Sun Space Bundle, which includes:Table of Conten
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4th - 10th
Habitats of the World - What's a Habitat? Little Book
Habitats of the World - "What's a Habitat?" Little Book introduces the concept of plants and animals living and surviving in their habitats.We read the story several times with our class, highlight for key details and illustrate each page according to the text to demonstrate our reading comprehension. This little book is a perfect, quick introduction to our Desert, Polar Regions, Rainforest, Savanna, Pond and Ocean Habitats of the World units available in our TpT Shop. Click any unit below to se
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Habitats of the World for the Common Core Classroom - THE BUNDLE
Earth Day Activities | Free Earth Day Printables
Are you hoping to help students understand realistic ways that they can help care for Earth? These free Earth Day Activities are the perfect way to get your students talking about concepts such as reduce, reuse, and recycle. The activities are ready to print and go so it's easy prep for you! Earth Day Activities include:Short reading selection about Earth Day (Lexile-700)Comprehension question sheet to accompany reading passageEarth Day poster for students to completeYou can also find other scie
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1st - 4th
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Plant Life Cycle In Order
This is a worksheet where children will put the life cycle of a plant in order. Color and black & white version.
This was based on a worksheet found at http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GXuoZgJqPTw/T-FOyorbE2I/AAAAAAAABfY/0HJpobCEGU0/s1600/Plant+in+order.jpg. I recreated it to correct a typo. Some images are from said Web site and some are from Google Images.
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PreK - 2nd
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FREE Solar Eclipse 2024 Activities, Solar Eclipse Hat, Solar Eclipse Writing
Be set for the Solar Eclipse 2024 with these solar eclipse activities! These activities are perfect for following up a class discussion on this special day! Students will record the special day's event and illustrate what is happening. Perfect for little learners!Inside, you will find:Solar Eclipse Teaching PosterSolar Eclipse WritingSolar Eclipse images to reenact the eventSolar Eclipse 2024 hatIf you are looking for more activities to extend your students' learning, check out my Sun, Moon, and
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K - 2nd
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FREE Plant Life Cycle Reading Passage with Comprehension Questions
This file is a short reading passage about the life cycle of a plant, complete with graphics of a seed going through the steps in the life cycle. There is a short five question true or false quiz at the bottom of the passage.
This product goes along well with my plants unit plan:
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Plants-Unit-Plan-for-Primary-Grades
Learn what's going on in my classroom:
http://thefirstgradescoop.blogspot.com/
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K - 2nd
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Weather and Water Cycle FREEBIE | Print and Digital
Looking for a starting place to teach your students about the water cycle? This FREEBIE is a sample of the Weather No-Prep Unit. The cross curricular unit will keep your students ENGAGED while teaching them all they need to know about weather. There are multiple interactive options 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. Your students will love being able to sh
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2nd - 5th
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3-ESS2-1
, 2-ESS2-3
Maze Run Escape Room Logic Puzzle Game Challenge Activities Freebie Pack No Prep
Maze Run Escape Room Puzzles provide a fun brain boosting challenge for students. Great for School Party Activities, Puzzle Competitions, Extra Credit, Individual or Team Building Activities! These escape room games are designed to help exercise problem-solving, critical thinking, and focusing skills. It is a great way to keep the students busy and help build/improve essential skills. There are 4 Fun Unique Levels of the Maze Run to choose from. Each level is different and as the levels increase
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Logic Puzzle FREEBIE
If you are wondering what a logic puzzle is, it is a puzzle where you use clues, a grid, and some deductive reasoning to figure out who matches with what, or what items go together. It is a great way to exercise your students' brains!Here is my blog post about the benefits of logic puzzles!Bringing Logic Back by Carrie Whitlock These would also be great early finisher work, early work, or even for a classroom center.If you want an even harder challenge, try my free "triple matrix" logic puzzle
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2nd - 5th
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FREE Treasure Map: Landforms & Map Skills Activity
Let's go on a treasure hunt! Here is a super fun treasure hunt map skills activity that focuses on using maps while exploring landforms at the same time! This activity will allow your students to create their own treasure map using various landforms. Then, they will give clues to help anyone exploring their map find a hidden treasure chest. Students can share their map with a partner, group or class, and these also make for an awesome interactive bulletin board display!Enjoy this freebie!~Curric
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1st - 3rd
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St. Patrick's Day Would You Rather Questions
Here are 20 Fun St. Patrick's Day themed Would You Rather Questions to use with your students. You can use them digitally with the Google Slides Version or you can print them to pass out to the students. These are great discussion starters for when you have a few extra minutes. Teacher Tip: Share the digital version as a collaborative file with editing rights and your students can drag a gold coin to mark their choice.Use for discussion, classroom polls or journal prompts.You can get 200 Would
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1st - 8th
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Crack the Codes - A Murder Mystery
A crime has been committed an it is up to your class to solve it!
This activity is themed as a murder case where students need to use their problem solving skills and code breaking abilities to reduce the suspects and determine who committed the crime.
What is included:
- Five Clue Cards
- A suspect list card
- Student worksheet (2 pages)
- Teacher instructions
- Answers
If you liked this activity check out the second in the Crack the Codes series by clicking the link below.
Crack the Codes 2
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3rd - 6th
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