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Landforms & Map Skills Unit BUNDLE
Make learning about geography come to life with this landforms and map skills bundle unit for young learners! Your students will have the opportunity to explore the landforms that shape our Earth, as well as beginning map skills. This bundle contains a variety of printables, projects, crafts, and much more. Also available in...Landforms and Map Skills DIGITAL BundleLandforms and Map Skills PRINT & DIGITAL Mega BundleLANDFORMS pack includes:Recommended book list Landforms posters (landform, b
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Plant Investigation Unit: All About Plants, Life Cycle and Needs
Come explore the world of plants with this investigative science unit! Your students will have the opportunity to explore this topic using: arts and crafts, printables, mini books, science explorations and so much more! This non-fiction pack includes:1. Recommended Book List2. Life Cycle of a Plant Poster3. Life Cycle Cards (clipart set and real photo set)4. Plant Life Cycle Mini Flip Book5. Finish the Plant Life Cycle Student Worksheet6. KWL Chart7. "Can, Have, Are" Graphic Organizer 8. Venn D
Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Plants: Plant Life Cycle Print & Digital Activities BUNDLE
Solar System: Space Unit for Grades 1-3!
Take your students on a space adventure they will never forget! This solar system packet contains printables, crafts, hands-on activities and so much more! Included in this unit you will find:1. Recommended book list2. Word wall (3 pages)3. "Our Solar System" class book (in color; full pages) 4. "Our Solar System" mini book in black & white for students (Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune)5. KWL Chart 6. "Describe a Planet" poster7. Fascinating Facts (Sun, Ear
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in: Solar System: Space Print & Digital Activities BUNDLE
Ocean - Ocean Animal Research Unit - Ocean Journal and Crafts
Splash into learning with this Ocean animal unit! This 115 page unit includes fact pages for ocean animals, full color images of ocean animals, blackline masters for interactive crafts, and an adorable scuba kid craft. This unit will be great and engaging for kindergarten, first, and second grade students.These ocean animals are included in this unit:StarfishSea turtlesDolphinsWhalesOctopusSeahorseSharksOrca WhalesJellyfishStingraysCrabsAnimal Crafts:Starfish flipbook, Sea turtle craft, dolphin
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PreK - 3rd
Pumpkin Investigation Unit: All About Pumpkins and Life Cycle
Celebrate the Fall season with this investigative non-fiction pumpkin unit! Your students will learn all about the pumpkin life cycle and their characteristics through hands-on experiments and activities.This non-fiction pack includes:1. Recommended Book List2. Life Cycle Poster3. Life Cycle Cards (clipart set and non-fiction photos set)4. Pumpkin Mini Book Craftivity with Templates (includes fun pumpkin facts!)5. Pumpkin Life Cycle Printable6. KWL Chart7. "Can, Have, Are" Graphic Organizer8. Pu
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Pumpkins: Pumpkin Life Cycle Print & Digital Activities BUNDLE
Ocean Exploration Unit: All About Ocean Life and Animals
Dive right into this ocean life exploration unit! Your students will have the opportunity to explore this topic using: arts and crafts, non-fiction ocean animal readers, science explorations and so much more! This unit includes:1. Recommended Book List2. Ocean Life Reading Comprehension pages for: fish, Puffer Fish, starfish, seahorse, jellyfish, mollusks, dolphin, whale, shark, sea turtle, crustaceans3. Ocean Zones Wheel craft/reader with Templates (sunlit, twilight, midnight and abyssal)4. Oce
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Bubble Day Fun!
This is a fun and engaging pack for your Bubble day! This can be used any time of the year but is especially fun going into the final days of school. Here's what is included in the pack.I have updated this product to include a digital version that can be used in Google Classroom. *Book Suggestions*2 page informational reading about Bubbles (in color & black and white)*Comprehension check sheet *Blowing a Bubble Diagram (in color & black and white) *5 page mini-book to use along with y
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Natural Resources
Complete natural resource unit! Anchor charts with pictures and definitions, thinking maps, folables, interactive notebook pieces, and a mini reader! Included in this set:-Anchor charts and posters-Circle maps-Tree map picture sort-Interactive notebook piece-Man-made or nature made foldable-A mini book for students to create from what they have learned!Updated and added summer of 2022- - 20 slide instructional PowerPoint AND an emergent reader!This unit will make a great addition to your Science
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Grades:
K - 3rd
All About Bats- A bat unit for kindergarten and first grade students
NEWLY UPDATED July 2017
This packet will help your kindergarten and first grade students learn, understand, and practice using the science terms used when talking about a bat. It also will provide you with resources to make your unit come to life. By integrating science and non-fiction into your language lessons, you not only create an enthusiasm in your students, but you can create the "hook" you need to engage even the most reluctant learners.
This packet includes many resources including:
Grades:
K - 2nd
Planet Earth - Earth Day Activities - Using Maps and Globes - Science - Reading
This comprehensive, standards-based unit teaches your kindergarten and first grade students all about planet Earth. Children love learning about our place in the solar system, an overview of our planet, how to use a map and a globe, where we live in the world (address, city/town, country and continent), how to take care of the Earth, how to reduce, reuse, recycle and compost.... plus so much more!Students are incredibly engaged:watching and learning through a slideshowmaking an Earth Day craft
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Ocean Unit: Ocean Animals Research Project, Ocean Animal Craft, Ocean Habitat
Explore the ocean habitat and ocean animals with this engaging and easy to use ocean unit! It is filled with engaging ocean activities for your students--ocean animals graphic organizers, an interactive reader, ocean animal research fact charts, and much more--to learn all about the ocean and ocean animals! **SAVE BIG WITH THIS MAY SCIENCE BUNDLE!**This ocean unit is filled with activities that are interactive for the K-2 learner. Inside you will find:Science Unit ResourcesUnit Teaching Plan Int
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Dinosaur Coloring Pages
This pack is a great addition to your dinosaur unit! These fun coloring pages are great to put at a station. I had my students water color them and they came out amazing! This coloring pack includes:** = TWO versions- ** Dinosaurs (all in one)- ** Stegosaurus- ** Pterodactyl & Triceratops- ** Parasaurolophus & Brachiosaurus- ** Tyrannosaurus Rex- Dinosaur Fossils- Stegosaurus Bones- Pterodactyl Bones- Triceratops Bones- Brachiosaurus Bones- Pterodactyl Bones- T-Rex Bones
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Dinosaur BUNDLE
Weather & The Water Cycle
Explore the world of weather as your students engage in various science activities that explore forecasting, clouds, storms and the water cycle! This thematic weather unit includes:1. Recommeded Book List2. Weekly Weather Forecast Printable (boy & girl meteorologist versions) 3. Clouds Outdoor Observation4. Cotton Clouds (Interactive Flip Project) 5. Let's Label Clouds (cut and paste)6. Let's Draw Precipitation (Rain, Snow, Sleet and Hail)7. Thunderstorm Reading Comprehension 8. Tornado Read
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Storybook STEM {September} - Back to School STEM Activities - The Recess Queen
***Save BIG with the All Year Bundle!★STORYBOOK STEM ALL YEAR BUNDLECreated by Brooke Brown and Katie King, Storybook STEM provides early childhood teachers with weekly all-in-one units to cover essential skills in reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, math, science, and engineering.Four units are included to accompany favorite seasonal children’s books, with supplemental STEM challenges for each and differentiated literacy and math options for Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade.*
Grades:
K - 2nd
All About Apples Craft, Apple Investigation Science Activities, Apple Life Cycle
Learn all about apples with these 20 interactive apple activities and adorable apple craft! You can easily integrate science, math, literacy and social studies into your nonfiction apple research, as your students learn about the life cycle of an apple, parts of an apple, uses of an apple, seasons of an apple tree and where to grow an apple tree. They will also taste test each color apple and graph their classmates' favorites, as well as use their five senses to describe an apple.Apple Investig
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Dinosaur Activities End Of The Year Theme Day Room Transformation 1st Grade
These dinosaur activities will bring the past to life with engaging, hands-on science lesson plans. K-2 students will go on a dinosaur dig, create fossils, a giant dinosaur bones skeleton craft, and research and write about dinosaurs.CLICK ON THE PREVIEW TO SEE EVERYTHING INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE Your class will love becoming paleontologists with the fun activities included in this resource. Students will have the opportunity to search for bones and other artifacts, make observations of their d
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: SEASONAL ACTIVITIES BUNDLE
All About Rainbows: A Rainbow Science Unit
This nonfiction rainbows unit is the perfect way to engage your students in learning about how rainbows are made, how light works to make rainbows, and the colors of rainbows! They'll LOVE the hands on activities included! You can also find this unit in my K-1 Science for the Year Bundle!What's Included?Vocabulary Vocabulary Booklet (2 levels)All About Rainbows Nonfiction BookAll About Rainbows Paper Reader (2 levels)Rainbows Cut Up Sentences BookRainbows Research Writing BookRainbow Facts Ancho
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Science and Nonfiction Units for the Year Bundle
SPIDERS Reading, Writing, Science, Nonfiction Activities | Halloween
This spider unit is FULL of Creepy Crawly FUN and perfect for October and the weeks leading up to Halloween! It is print and go and includes EVERYTHING you need to to engage your students in a hands-on learning experience. The unit includes science, literacy, art, math, and writing connections. Inside you will find reading response sheets, interactive notebook pages, informative writing, science activities (structures and functions, defenses, life cycle, habitat, offspring), google slide informa
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
NGSS:
1-LS1-1
, 1-LS1-2
, 2-LS4-1
Australian Animals Unit - Australian Curriculum | Distance Learning
If you're teaching Living Things or Non-Fiction texts this term, then you are going to love using this differentiated Australian Animals inquiry unit with your early years students!Aligned with the Australian curriculum, the resources included in this unit of work have been carefully deigned to cater for the varying abilities in your classroom with resources and activities to suit levels K-2.CHECK OUT WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS PACK IN THE PREVIEW SECTION ABOVE OR TAKE A LOOK HER
Grades:
K - 4th
Bee Unit | All About Bees
Your students will love to learn all about bees, how they help us, and their life cycle with this nonfiction bee unit! An original nonfiction reader featuring real photographs and fun facts is included to help your little learners learn all about these helpful insects. Multiple writing opportunities and crafts are also included to get your students thinking about bees!Included is:-Suggested Book List-Bee Vocabulary & Vocabulary Book-Original Nonfiction Text-Labeling Bees-Bees Can, Have, Are-
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Science and Nonfiction Units for the Year Bundle
All About Turkeys: Nonfiction Turkeys Unit and the Turkey Life Cycle
This turkey unit is the perfect way to engage your students in nonfiction research about turkeys! They'll love the real pictures and the hands-on crafts, writing, and science. You'll love how everything you need for an engaging science or nonfiction literacy unit is in one place!You can also find this unit in my K-1 Science for the Year Bundle!What's Included?An Original Nonfiction TextAll About Turkeys Paper Reader (2 Levels)Turkey Vocabulary and Vocab Writing Booklet (2 Levels)All About Turkey
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Science and Nonfiction Units for the Year Bundle
Butterfly and Frog Life Cycle Investigation BUNDLE
Step into the world of life cycles with this butterfly and frog investigative bundle! Your students will have the opportunity to explore this topic using: arts and crafts, printables, mini books, Math/ELA activities and so much more! BUTTERFLY INVESTIGATION:1. Recommended Book List2. Butterfly Life Cycle Poster3. Butterfly Life Cycle Cards (clipart set and real photo set)4. Butterfly Life Cycle Mini Book Craftivity5. Complete the Butterfly Life Cycle Printable6. KWL Chart Printable7. "Can, Have
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Popcorn Day Fun!
This is a fun and engaging pack for your popcorn day! This can be used anytime of the year, but is especially fun going into the final days of school. Here's what is included in the pack.*Book Suggestions*2 page newsletter/fact sheet about popcorn*Comprehension check sheet*Popcorn Lifecycle Poster (in color) as well as student copy*Parts of a kernel Poster (in color) student copy as well*7 page mini-book to use along with your popcorn tasting -this includes prediction pages, graphing pages,
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Animal Classifications Unit Sort Mammals Reptiles Amphibians Groups Worksheets
Discover the Wonders of Nature with our Animal Classification Unit. This incredible unit includes everything you need to teach about mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians. With kid-friendly reading passages, comprehension questions, and hands-on activities, this unit encourages students to explore the amazing diversity of living creatures. A fun animal card sorting game and vibrant tri-fold booklets are sure to keep students engaged!The following animal groups are highlighted in this un
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
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