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Environment Common Core RI.3.1 resources $10 and up
Ecosystems and Biomes Reading Passages Activities Photosynthesis Food Chains Web
Make teaching about ecosystems and biomes fun with this complete unit! With this BEST SELLER, your students will learn all about the different types of ecosystems, biomes, food chains, photosynthesis, herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores, and how they interact with each other. This engaging unit includes information about different types of ecosystems and biomes, as well as hands-on activities that bring the topics to life. Help your students understand ecosystems and biomes in a meaningful wa
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
NGSS:
5-LS2-1
, 3-LS2-1
, 2-LS4-1
Endangered Species Expert - Project Based Learning
This project is designed to help students build their research, analysis and synthesis skills while learning about an endangered species that interests them. As students become the class expert for their species, they will exercise reading, writing, grammar, science and art skills as well as build experience with long-term planning and the organization required to complete a multi-step project by a deadline.
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
Biomes Unit Differentiated Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Bundle
Explore the world’s 5 major biomes with these biomes reading passages that include everything you need to work on vocabulary and comprehension skills with your students! These printables work great to send home for at home learning or distance learning for both Science or ELA. Differentiated reading passages (3 levels) allow you to meet the needs of all students to ensure complete understanding of the content! Take a look at the product preview for a closer look at each biome. All follow-up ac
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Science Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Bundle
Looking for reading passages about life science? Look no further! EIGHT useful sets of five differentiated passages with open-ended questions for students to explain their thinking OR multiple choice questions to practice their test-taking skills. Each passage also includes a writing prompt and a grading rubric.Perfect for informal or formal assessment of your elementary students’ ability to read and write about science! Answer keys included! This product aligns to NGSS 3-LS2-1, 3-LS4-1, 3-LS4-
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
4-ESS1-1
, 3-LS4-1
, 3-PS2-3
, 3-LS2-1
, 3-LS4-3
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Plant Unit with Lapbook and Informational Text
Your students will learn about plant structures and their functions, how plants make food, classifying plants, how plants respond to their environment, and more. This is a complete unit for teaching about plants, including a 14-page informational text. The unit includes teaching notes for 21 lesson plans, pieces for the lapbook, a unit test, three quizzes, and a 136-slide PowerPoint! The unit includes four hands-on explorations with data sheets.
This Plants Unit 14-page informational text inclu
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Also included in: Science Units and Lapbooks Bundle
Ecosystems Unit Arctic Tundra, Deserts, Oceans, Temperate Forest, and Wetlands
This is a complete unit for ecosystems for kids! It was designed with the third-grade NGSS in mind. Each component of this comprehensive, interactive unit has been researched and tried! You will save yourself hours and hours of time and students will be actively engaged throughout the unit! Besides step by step suggestions and tips thisIncludes the following:1. Ecosystems -video suggestions/link for basic introduction -vocabulary cards for: habitat, ecosystem, and biome -a
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-LS3-2
, 3-LS3-1
Plant and Animal Adaptations Reading Comprehension Passages BUNDLE!
This bundle contains two of our best-selling resources! Plant Adaptations and Informational Reading Passages and Animal Adaptation Informational Readings and Activities. There are ten informational reading passages about plant adaptations and ten informational passages about animal adaptations. There are follow-up activities for each. This is a great activity to do jigsaw style.It also contains both our plant and animal adaptations poster sets. There are photographs of each ecosystem within t
Grades:
2nd - 5th
NGSS:
3-LS4-3
, 3-LS4-2
, 3-LS3-2
, 3-LS3-1
, 3-LS4-4
STEM: Plants and Food Waste
In this HUGE project based learning unit, you will receive lessons on composting, plants, gardening, food waste, pollution, and community service. The first unit is on the effects of food waste, the largest contributor to our landfills, then your students will grow their own garden using food scraps for the second unit. If you'd like to see these activities in action, check us out on Instagram @thebrainybee. With this bundle you will receive the following activities and more!
Unit Plans
Links
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Ecosystems Reading & Writing Bundle
Use this bundle to help your students combine their science and literacy learning! This bundle covers the NGSS topic Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems. It includes 3-LS2-1, 3-LS4-1, 3-LS4-3, and 3-LS4-4. This set is perfect for informal or formal assessment of your elementary students’ ability to write about science! I love using them for both writing and science grades too!3-LS2-1: Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.3-LS4-1: Analyze and interp
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
3-LS4-1
, 3-LS2-1
, 3-LS4-3
, 3-LS4-4
Life and Earth Science: Reading Comprehension Paired Passages BUNDLE
Help your students master NGSS Science Standards, plus Common Core reading and writing standards at the same time with these paired passages! These paired texts are useful to help students with fiction and non-fiction comprehension. And they are a great way to integrate science and language arts! These informational/non-fiction paired texts also align with NGSS Standard 3-LS4-3 about Habitats, so they are a great way to integrate science and language arts! This set is perfect for informal or for
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
4-ESS1-1
, 3-LS4-1
, 3-LS2-1
, 3-LS4-3
, 3-LS4-4
Science: Reading Comprehension Paired Passages BUNDLE
Help your students master NGSS Science Standards, plus Common Core reading and writing standards at the same time with these paired passages! These paired texts are useful to help students with fiction and non-fiction comprehension. And they are a great way to integrate science and language arts! Topics included: Animal Groups, Fossils, Habitats, Environmental Changes, Rocks, Life Cycles, Inherited Traits, Magnets, Germs, Fall Leaves PRODUCT DETAILS for each topic:★ 2 passages on 3 differentiate
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
4-ESS1-1
, 3-LS4-1
, 3-LS2-1
, 3-LS4-3
, 3-LS4-4
Ecosystems, Food Chains and Food Webs Science Project (PBL)
This product is a Project Based Learning resource on ecosystems, food chains and food webs. Descriptions of forest, grassland, savanna, tundra, desert, freshwater and marine ecosystems are included, along with an example of one food chain and one food web for each ecosystem. There are 10 options for student recording sheets, 2 versions of student directions and 5 project cover options. All ecosystem information comes in color versions and black and white versions for printing. This project can a
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS3-4
, 3-ESS3-1
, 4-ESS1-1
, MS-LS2-2
, MS-LS2-3
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Fall Garden Lesson Plans and Activities - Third and Fourth Grade - Ten Weeks
Kids will love these FALL Garden-based Science, Nature, and Nutrition Lessons written for Third and Fourth Grade children (activities are also appropriate to use with older kids as well). The Third and Fourth Grade Fall Lessons explore planting and harvesting what is seasonally appropriate, and children explore the history of growing food worldwide. Life Science is also a key theme in examining how all components work together to create a healthy garden ecosystem. Resource Highlights:10 scaffol
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 6th
NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, 3-LS2-1
, 3-LS4-3
, 3-ESS2-2
, 3-LS4-2
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Savanna Safari: Maps, Mural, and Mini-Museum (COMPLETE Bundle)
Build a savanna—right in your own classroom—using butcher paper, construction paper, cutouts (included) and silk plants. Then stock your “savanna” with reading materials, games, and manipulatives that your students can use to explore this amazing biome. Classroom volunteers can help you create artifacts with which your students can interact, independently, in small groups, or with a parent volunteer, now and for years to come. There is a lot of preparation required at first, but once it’s don
Subjects:
Grades:
PreK - 5th
NGSS:
K-ESS3-1
, 5-LS2-1
, 3-LS2-1
, 2-LS4-1
, 4-ESS2-2
Coral Reefs Lesson Plan
PROJECT DESCRIPTIONStudents learn how climate change and pollution are affecting the world’s coral reefs, and what scientsts are doing to help save these diverse ecosystems. Students learn the body parts of a coral and build their own candy coral reef. Students also learn about marine biologist Ken Nedimyer, who is globally recognized as a father of reef restoration, and has been creating strategies and techniques to rebuild coral reefs around the world. 60 min | Ages 5-10 PROJECTSMake Candy Cor
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-ESS3-1
, 2-LS4-1
, 3-LS4-4
, K-ESS3-3
2nd Grade Life Science Unit on Plants and Seeds
This is a Unit designed on the Next Generation Science Performance Standards for 2nd grade Life Science. The lessons are literature-based and provide hands-on activities/ experiments for the students to engage in. Lessons can easily be adapted to use with 1st and 3rd grade students. There are 6 lessons that include the name of a non-fiction text (easily found in libraries) to read aloud, vocabulary cards with pictures to describe concepts, experiments/ activities for students to do, and follow-u
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Geography of the US Bundle
Geography of the US bundle is a set including six lessons and six scoot task card games to review the state capitals, landmarks, bodies of water, regions, landforms, and biomes. Engage learners because the Geography of the US lesson sets is interactive. Reinforce learning kinesthetically, as you get students up and moving while they practice their geography of US states skills. Geography of the USA is a perfect year-long set for upper elementary students. It is also a tremendous beginning-of-
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Rainforest Destruction & Conservation Bundle w Lessons, Activities, Photos Gr2-3
OVERVIEW AND COMPONENTSStudents in grades 2 and 3 read text and view authentic media (photos, graphic organizers, brief video clips) as they explore rainforest destruction, conservation efforts, and habitat basics. A mix of learning types in this unit (lessons, activities, graphic organizers, scientist interviews) encourages engagement on the topic. The themed bundle contains 8 products: 2 rainforest destruction-and-protection-themed lessons 1 graphics pack (includes 2 graphic organizers and 1 p
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
NGSS:
2-LS4-1
, 3-LS4-4
Ecosystem Energy Flows, Food Chains, Humans & Rainforest Destruction Unit PDF
TITLEEcosystem Energy Flows, Food Chains, Humans & Rainforest Destruction Unit PDFOVERVIEWStudents learn through reading passages, engaging media (photos, graphic organizers, video and audio clips), and a hands-on activity about energy flows in the rainforest ecosystem, food chains, decomposition, and humans’ impact on the ecosystem. Assessments, answer keys, Easel Activities, and teacher support are included. The high-interest rainforest theme is used to teach this NGSS-aligned life scienc
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
NGSS:
3-LS4-3
, 5-ESS3-1
, 3-LS4-4
, 4-ESS3-2
, 4-ESS2-1
Investigative Self-Learning Unit on the Monarch Life Cycle
This is an investigative unit on the Monarch Bufferfly Life Cycle. It is intended for students to complete with minimal assistance from adults, whether that be teachers or parents. Online resources are suggested in the unit as to where to go to gather the information. A self-assessment for students is included as well as some higher-level thinking questions that could be used as a summative assessment if used in a more formal setting such as a classroom or club. The life cycle photographs are
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Energy Flow in Rainforest Ecosystems and Why Humans Need Rainforests Unit eBook
TITLEEnergy Flow in Rainforest Ecosystems and Why Humans Need Rainforests Unit eBookOVERVIEWStudents learn through reading passages, engaging media (photos, graphic organizers, video and audio clips), and a hands-on activity about ecosystems, food chains, products from the rainforest, and how humans can destroy or protect rainforests. Assessments, answer keys, Easel Activities, and teacher support are included. The high-interest rainforest theme is used to teach this NGSS-aligned life science u
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 3rd
NGSS:
3-LS4-3
, 2-LS4-1
Endangered Animals on Parade
Children enjoy learning about animals. They love reading about, watching them, and acquiring knowledge about their habits: what they eat, where they live, their size, their babies and their survival strategies. Add an animal’s conservation status, and children become intrigued with humanity’s role in both endangering and improving that status.Connecting the topic of Endangered Animals with your Language Arts program, you will be able to instruct, provide learning experiences, and assess the s
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Diary of a Rainforest Journey - Virtual Field Trip Distance Learning PDF
Diary of a Rainforest Journey - Virtual Field Trip Distance Learning PDFOVERVIEWEach grade-unique EdTechLens Trip Journal contains 33 entries. The high-interest rainforest theme is used to present NGSS-aligned life science content including plant and animal life, ecosystems, human impact on the rainforest, and adaptations for survival. All concepts are covered within the context of an actual trip to the rainforest. Rainforest Journey Trip Journals present a rare opportunity to use primary source
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
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5 Science Bundles for Grade 3 NGSS
Get all 5 - Grade 3 Science Bundles ($50 value) for $29.95.This bundle includes 77 age-appropriate resources including: Reading, Color Diagrams, Activities, Performance Tasks and Assessment (155 pages total).Resources included in this Next Generation Science Standards Bundle include:• Primer for Educators, Next Generation Science Standards and Rubric Building Resource for each BundleLife Cycles - Growth and Development of Organisms1) Life Cycle Reading2) Life Cycle Vocabulary Quiz and Answer Ke
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
3-LS2-1
, 3-LS4-3
, 3-LS4-2
, 3-LS3-2
, 3-LS3-1
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Also included in: BIG Bundle of 20 Science Units for K-5 (NGSS)
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