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7th grade critical thinking general science thematic unit plans
Shark Tank Elementary Economics Project for Inventors and Entrepreneurs
Loosely based on the show, Shark Tank.... this is a great unit to use for late elementary and middle school students to learn economic terms while working through the planning process of designing a good or service as an entrepreneur. Includes planners for all steps of the process and links to Shark Tank snippets on YouTube as examples too! Thank you and enjoy! ⭐ CHECK OUT THE FULL PREVIEW ABOVE! ⭐ * Each section of the project below includes teacher directions * Links to Shark T
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2nd - 7th
Gifted and Talented - Living on Your Own: Lessons in Financial Responsibility
Challenge your gifted and talented to play the “game of life” and survive financially during their first year in college. This concept-based unit allows students to “earn” an inheritance from a distant relative by repurposing items from a barn. With this “money,” students find affordable housing, transportation, furnishings, and other essentials. Then the “game of life begins with monthly reoccurring expenses, opportunities to buy additional necessities and/or wants, as well as challenges or o
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5th - 8th
Back to School Science Activities for Middle School
If the first day and couple weeks of school stress you out, these back to school science activities for middle school are for you!“Don’t smile until Thanksgiving.”“Spend the first day of school doing something engaging.”“Work on procedures before you work on content.” “Build relationships, but also be firm.” Trying to figure out what advice is right for your classroom is challenging enough. Let planning all of your back to school science activities for middle school students be a breeze! This aw
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6th - 8th
Special Education and Autism Science Unit - Water Cycle Unit and Vocabulary
This water cycle unit is specifically designed for students in special education and autism classrooms. This unit will help you easily provide standards-based science content on a level appropriate for your students. Use this unit for ready-to-go activities for the classroom in addition to homework that easily aligns with what you are doing in class. Datasheets are included to make your life easier, they will help you keep a measurable record of student progress and understanding of vocabulary
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5th - 12th
Fantastic Food Trucks: Flexible No-Prep Project-Based Learning (PBL)
Welcome to the Fantastic Food Trucks PBL project! This project will lead your students through an amazing and in-depth journey as they design all aspects of their very own food truck business. With the provided grade-appropriate support, your students will design their menu, plan the layout of their truck, consider startup costs as well as how to market their business. There is a wealth of information in this packet to guide you and your students through this incredible learning experience. Whet
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4th - 9th
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Full Year Biology Lesson Plans PowerPoint Presentations Note Outlines
Full Year Biology Life Science Bundle - 379 FilesEach Unit contains PowerPoint Presentations, Notes Outlines, Vocabulary Review, Homework Assignments, Quizzes, Test Prep and an Exam. Additional Biology Projects and Laboratory Assignments have been included with the Unit Bundles. In total, there are 379 files included in this full-year Biology (Life Science) Bundle.Intro to Biology and Characteristics of Living Things Unit Bundle Cell Unit BundleBiochemistry Unit (Chemistry of Life) BundleEvolu
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Aesop for High School! 2-Week Fables Unit
Aesop's fables are for kids, right? Wrong! Always intended for an adult audience (and performed at the royal courts of ancient Greek city states), Aesop's original fables are a GREAT way to teach literary interpretation in your high school and upper middle school classrooms. Plus, the fables are perfectly bite-sized for discussion and activities.Included in this 28-page packet are the following: -- a 2-page introduction to interpreting fables and a 1-page Aesop biography-- 40 hand-selected fa
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7th - 12th
Biomes -- 5E Unit Plan (NGSS MS-LS2-1)
This complete 5E instructional sequence introduces Earth’s biomes and uses these as a vehicle through which to teach biotic and abiotic factors and address the Next Generation Science Standard MS-LS2-1. It is the first unit in my NGSS-aligned Middle School Life Science Curriculum (coming soon), but it can easily be incorporated into any curriculum. Activities expect students to read, discuss, use technology, analyze data, and conduct research. Five days of complete lesson plans are included in
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5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-LS2-1
Fossils, Fossil Fuels, Alternative Energy Bundle | DIGITAL + PRINTABLE
{UPDATE - DIGITAL VERSION INCLUDED + UPDATED MATERIALS} This discounted bundle of units is a comprehensive curriculum for teaching intermediate students about fossils, fossil fuels, and alternative energy. It is 100 pages of interactive and informative materials, including engaging and scaffolded activities that are compatible with interactive science notebooks AND digital learning. Check out the product description below for details about each resource, including the most recent updates! All m
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3rd - 7th
Social Pragmatic Language Group Bundle 4 large products
I'm excited to offer you this huge money-saving pragmatic/social group bundle (95 pages) of four of my top selling products:
Taking Perspective
Safebook
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Ice Cream Emotions
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Grades:
4th - 10th
Ancient India & Indus River Valley Teaching Unit PowerPoint Presentation Bundle
This unit on the civilizations of Ancient India is aligned to middle school common core Language Arts History standards. It covers Geography, Religion, Achievements, Politics, Economics, and Social Structure. Built into each lesson are: -academic vocabulary-time for reflection and discussion-short academic writing activities-standards based questions with answers This is an excellent resource to use either on its own or to supplement the text book. To better facilitate a multi-day presentatio
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6th - 9th
STEM "Career Fair" Project Based Learning Now with a Lapbook!
Now including a STEM Careers Lapbook!!!This pack will help introduce students to STEM careers! This project based learning activity includes teacher suggestions and resources, student research sheets, project/writing planning worksheets, and materials to conduct a mock "career fair". This project can easily incorporate Reading/ELA standards and skills.
Students will have a blast researching high interest careers in the STEM disciplines and will have the opportunity to role play in their chosen
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Grades:
3rd - 10th
Summer / Outdoors Language Passages for Vocabulary, Idioms, and Inferencing
This collection of EIGHT higher-level language and critical thinking flip books is perfect for students from upper elementary through middle school. Each of the 8 books in this set contains an original short story around which the following language activities are centered:Emotions & Problem Solving Answer questions about characters in the story to practice labeling and describing emotions as well as perspective taking. Use problem solving skills to answer questions about alternative soluti
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2nd - 7th
EDITABLE Science Webquest Bundle - Matter | Elements | Space | Cells | Motion
18 awesome and engaging webquests from Biomes & Circuits, Climate & Energy, Force & Motion, to Cells & Atoms! Files open in Microsoft Word and can be edited by you as needed. Bundle also includes:Human Body Systems Labeling WorksheetsPeriodic Table SlideshowPeriodic Table Worksheet3 Crossword puzzle activities3 Vocabulary QuizzesAll resources in bundle comes with answer keys, copies of each resources as PDFs as well as copies for printing. Some lessons may need to be edited by
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5th - 8th
Classroom Chemistry Unit Bundle - Science Elementary
This bundle includes vocabulary, notes about how to teach the unit, 8 great, interactive labs, test and review! It covers all nine outcomes of the Alberta Chemistry Curriculum for Grade 5 Science. If you were to purchase everything separately it would cost over $20.00Buy bundled to save!Products included in this bundle are:1. Chemistry Vocabulary2. Chemistry Unit Notes3. Mixtures Labs4. Separating Lab5. Saturation Lab6. Crystal Lab7. Chemical Changes Lab8. Acids and Bases Lab9. Surface Tension
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4th - 7th
Editable Thematic Unit Planning Template
This is an editable template pdf that allows teachers to plan for thematic units. It includes options for teaching a chosen topic for either 10 days or 10 weeks. This planner features various prompts to support teacher planning including key concepts to be taught, vocabulary, student outcomes and activity planners. There is space to record lists of books/websites needed during the unit as well as an assessment rubric and student evaluation.
This 18 page pdf includes everything you will nee
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K - 8th
Five Kingdoms Worksheets
A complete mini unit study on the five kingdoms of life (with a brief explanation of an optional sixth). Includes information and discussion sheets, several activities, species cards, and even a simple spreadsheet project. Makes a great classification or taxonomy introduction, even for mixed grades! -- 13 pages including 4 answer key sheets --
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3rd - 9th
CSI Science Lesson - Use the Scientific Method to Solve a Crime!
Hello! Thank you for considering my product. I run an after-school science club for the fifth-graders and after telling the students about a murder mystery dinner I had recently attended, they were BEGGING for me to set something up that was similar. So, I did! This lesson is very PG and does not include anything gruesome or inappropriate for intermediate elementary children.In this lesson, which is designed to span 3 days, students use the scientific method to solve a crime:First, they make obs
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4th - 12th
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NGSS:
MS-PS2-2
, MS-PS2-1
Social Activism and Justice: Upper Elementary, Middle School ELA Unit
Teach your students about social activism. This unit includes definitions, examples of causes and activists, books to read and discussion questions, written response prompts, and quotes.
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3rd - 8th
Catastrophic Cycles - Geoscience Processes & Plate Tectonics Storyline Bundle
Engage students in learning about Earth's structure, geoscience processes, and plate tectonic theory by investigating the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is 79AD. This bundle of resources is designed to spark and guide student learning into Earth’s geology, specifically matter and energy in its interior, the geoscience processes that shape Earth’s surface, how Earth’s surface has changed over time (plate tectonics), and the interaction between society and these processes. Specifically, the anchor exp
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6th - 8th
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MS-ESS2-3
, MS-ESS2-2
, MS-ESS2-1
Forms of Energy BOOM™ Cards | Special Education | Digital
Students will practice identifying three different forms of energy: heat, light, and sound with these digital Boom science cards™ . This boom deck features 30 self-grading cards asking students to look at an image and determine whether it is heat energy, light energy, or sound energy. Get instant data collection for your special education science students when they complete your boom decks!⭐ Test this resource out! CLICK HERE for a free playable preview. This product includes:A link to access 30
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PreK - 12th
Water & Human Impacts - Water Pollution, Water Cycle, & Aquatic Ecosystems
Launch student learning into the water cycle and our impact on Earth’s water resources (like non-point source and microplastic pollution) with this student-driven storyline bundle. Your storyline will unfold differently depending upon the Anchor Experience(s) you choose to utilize and/or lead with! Resources in this bundle are designed to develop student understanding of the ideas thatEarth’s water resources are limited (and therefore should be conserved)water cycles through Earth’s systems; the
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6th - 8th
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MS-ESS3-1
, MS-LS2-3
, MS-LS2-4
, MS-LS2-1
, MS-ESS2-4
Signs of Survival a memoir and oral history by Hartman for ELA and history
This product includes over 100 comprehension, literary instruction, reflection, critical thinking, discussion, and composition prompts on cards for studying the memoir, Signs of Survival, by Renee Hartman with Joshua M. Greene. This book is an inspiring narrative account of Renee and Herta Hartman's experiences as children in Czechoslovakia during WWII. This novel opens the door to many important discussion opportunities for students within the classroom and beyond.Book Themes: Family, Courage,
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6th - 8th
Plants & Pollinators - Human Impacts & Changes In Ecosystems Storyline Bundle
Teach ecosystems, the interactions within them, and the consequences of disruptions to their delicate balance by exploring invasive species - specifically, the arrival of "murder hornets" in the U.S. in 2020. This storyline sets students up to dig into concepts like ecosystem roles, ecosystem services, plant reproduction, pollinators and ecosystem interactions, human population growth and changes in ecosystems. The unit opens the door to examine environmental issues like invasive species, land u
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Grades:
6th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-LS1-5
, MS-LS2-2
, MS-LS2-5
, MS-LS2-4
, MS-LS1-4
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