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6th grade science unit plans under $5
Scientific Method Activity - Easy Gummy Worm Science Experiment Lab 4th and 5th
This scientific method activity using gummy worms candy will have your students engaged and having fun as they learn about the steps of the scientific method. Hands-on, easy to use, budget friendly and loved by thousands of students!Click the PREVIEW button to see more details of what is included.CLICK HERE to save almost 30% with the Scientific Method BUNDLE!⭐ What's Included:table of contentssupply/materials listdaily plan/outline of the activitiesteacher instructionsfull page student lab shee
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4th - 6th
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Planning Templates- Yearly, Quarterly, & Daily
Description:Do you need an easy and effective way to plan and map out what you are teaching during a school year? If so, this resource has been very helpful for me! The templates will help you plan out a yearly, quarterly, and daily overview of units and lessons. These are very similar to a scope and sequence. What's Included:Word files of a Yearly, 1st Quarter, 2nd Quarter, 3rd Quarter, 4th Quarter, and Daily Planning Templates (editable)Google Doc files of a Yearly, 1st Quarter, 2nd Quarter,
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6th - 12th
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch | Ocean Pollution | Earth Day unit
Are you looking for interesting and unusual ways to learn about human impacts on the environment? Planning for Earth Day, Clean Up Australia Day, Oceans Week, World Environment Day or World Water Day. If your students don't quite understand the importance of recycling, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch will alert them to the real impacts that just one plastic bottle can have.While many people are unaware of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, it is a major issue affecting global environmental health
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5th - 8th
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The Aquatic Biome Reading Passages (3 levels), Vocabulary & Comprehension
"The Aquatic Biome" includes everything you need to work on vocabulary and comprehension skills with your students! Differentiated reading passages (3 levels) allow you to meet the needs of all students and to ensure complete understanding of the content! Take a look at the product preview for a closer look. All follow-up activities are thoughtfully aligned to the ELA Common Core for Grades 2-6. Reading levels on the passages range from Grade Level Equivalents of 3-5.5.WHAT'S INCLUDED:• “All Abo
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3rd - 6th
Cells Vocabulary Search Activity | Seek and Find Science Doodle
Students will enjoy learning about Cells with Seek & Find Science Doodles. Cell key terms include Prokaryotic, Eukaryotic, Nucleus, Cell Membrane, Cell wall, Cytoplasm, Mitochondria, Chloroplast, and Vacuole. Great for student engagement and retention. Your students will love searching for science and will have a fun coloring sheet when they are done! This is a No Prep Activity! Perfect to use in interactive notebooks- just print and go! Includes- Cells Doodle/Color Sheet with key terms- Stu
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5th - 9th
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Terrarium Unit Plan (Mini-Garden in a bottle) - A Design and Technology Unit
Have a look at this fun and engaging design and technology unit plan. My students did this unit last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. Using the elements of 'design and technology', the students will investigate, design, make, evaluate and reflect on their terrariums. Terrariums can be made in any glass or plastic container. Within this product, there are step by step photos of how students can make one using an empty 2L coke bottle.
This Terrarium Unit, you will find:
- A unit overview
- teachin
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3rd - 7th
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Rocks and Minerals Interactive Notebook Pages - Paper INB
Rocks and Minerals Interactive Notebooks will capture your middle-school students’ attention in a creative and hands-on way. Use these manipulatives to increase chunking and reflection while you reinforce your students’ learning about different qualities of minerals, gain understanding of Moh’s scale of mineral hardness, identify different types of rocks, and learn about the rock cycle. Each activity includes photos of example pages. The INB templates also come in a Spanish version for ELL/ESOL
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6th - 8th
STEM Ancient Egypt Pyramid Build, Mummification, and Pharaoh Research Project
In this STEM project students will:
Research online an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh (Technology)
Build a pyramid for the Pharaoh (Engineering)
Measure the volume and surface area of the pyramid (Math)
Mummify a doll to better understand the mummification process (Science)
Build a Sarcophagus for your Pharaoh (Engineering)
Design an Amulet for your Pharaoh (Art and Engineering)
Write an excavation report about the Pharaoh and what you would find in the pyramid.
Website links provided for online r
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6th - 7th
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Plant & Animal Cells Interactive Notebook Pages - Paper INB
These Cells Interactive Notebook Pages will capture your middle-school students’ attention in a creative and hands-on way. Use these manipulatives to increase chunking and reflection while you reinforce your students’ learning the differences between animal and plant cells. Each activity includes photos of example pages. The INB templates also come in a Spanish version for ELL/ESOL learners. What’s included?a set of blank interactive notebook templates and instructionspre-filled INB templates fo
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6th - 8th
Summer Reading Passages The Formation of the Colorado Plateau Informational Text
Are you looking for summer reading passages with comprehension questions? The Earth changes constantly. In this informational text unit, students will learn how the Colorado Plateau was formed and how geoscience processes like weathering and erosion formed mesas, buttes, spires, and arches. Students will also learn how Earth's changes are connected to the formation of new sedimentary rock. Students will see that the Earth’s surface is always changing. Great for Reading Comprehension. Great for
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5th - 7th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS2-2
Also included in: Earth Science Summer Reading Passages for Middle School Science
Introduction to 3D Printing – STEAM PROJECT – GRADES 3-6 - Distance Learning
Have you purcahsed or are considering purchasing a 3D printer and don’t know where to start? This resource is perfect for classrooms just starting out in the world of 3D imaging and provides you with everything you need to teach the fundamentals of 3D printing. This STEAM project is broken up into two parts: BUILDING BACKGROUNDYour kiddos will begin by doing a research project of the history, current uses, benefits, and future innovcations of 3D printing. Graphic organizers are provided to assi
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3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
3D Printing Unit - Food Truck Frenzy
This cohesive STEM unit utilizes digital tools such as Google Slides, Adobe Spark, and Tinkercad to provide students with an authentic project based learning experience.Students will create a marketing plan for their food truck business to go along with their CAD design of their truck. The unit includes the following: SLIDE DECK (FOR YOU AND STUDENTS)SCOPE AND SEQUENCE (DAILY & WEEKLY SCHEDULES INCLUDED)PROFICIENCY SCALE OF 3D PRINTSPICTURES OF STUDENT CREATED SAMPLE TRUCKSProduct will downl
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3rd - 8th
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Creative Curriculum Trees Study Visuals
28 Pages of Visuals for the Creative Curriculum "Trees" study. It starts with Large images of trees, parts of trees, things made out of trees, etc.. to print out for around the room. Then the rest of the document is smaller pictures for you to show on a SMARTboard as question of the day or print out.Visuals range from types trees, images to help identify different kinds of trees, parts of a tree, things made out of wood, and then questions of the day about things that come from trees and animal
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PreK - 6th
Australian Curriculum - Year 7 Geography: Water in the world resource pack
Resource pack to assist in teaching Year 7 Geography: Unit 1 - Water in the World.This pack includes:*Vocabulary activities*Worksheets*Group assessment and rubric*Suggested hands on activities*Water cycle foldable*Instagram water images exit tickets (12)Geography - Australian Curriculum content descriptors:Year 7:(ACHGK037)(ACHGK038) (ACHGK039) (ACHGK040) (ACHGK041)(ACHGK042) ***Please make sure you download my FREE Australian Curriculum - Water in the world vocabulary worksheet (answers includ
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6th - 9th
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All About Jellyfish, Star Fish, Coral, & Anemone Lesson
Did you know that sea stars can make a clone of themselves with only a foot to start with? How about that most of the coral reef is made up of dead shells of once living coral? We have lots of fun and interesting facts about echinoderms and cnidarians in this lesson for kids from K-8th grade. The engaging lesson will teach kids how in the ocean, sand dollars are vibrant colors and tend to live in groups or that the Portuguese Man of War is a actually a colony of many jelly like animals functioni
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K - 8th
Also included in: Ocean Animals BUNDLE (250 pages!!)
All About Crustaceans, Mollusks & Cephalopods
This interesting and engaging lesson will help your student learn all about Crustaceans, Mollusks, and Cephalopods. You will learn about various aquatic animals that fit in this classification including: crabs, lobsters, barnacles, bivalves, clams, octopus, squid, and more. Learn which of them can go a whole year without eating in cold water, which grow their own shells, what beautiful seashells come from which ocean animals, how some can change colors within seconds, who produced die, and so mu
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K - 8th
Also included in: Ocean Animals BUNDLE (250 pages!!)
Solar System and Planets Interactive Notebook Pages - Paper INB
Solar Systems and Planets Interactive Notebooks will capture your middle-school students’ attention in a creative and hands-on way. Use these manipulatives to increase chunking and reflection while you reinforce your students’ learning about examine the different types of planets. Each activity includes photos of example pages. The INB templates also come in a Spanish version for ELL/ESOL learners. What’s included?a set of blank interactive notebook templates and instructionspre-filled INB templ
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Topographic Maps Interactive Notebook Pages - Paper INB
Topographic Maps Interactive Notebooks will capture your middle-school students’ attention in a creative and hands-on way. Use these manipulatives to increase chunking and reflection while you reinforce your students’ learning about topographic maps and erosion. Each activity includes photos of example pages. The INB templates also come in a Spanish version for ELL/ESOL learners. What’s included?a set of blank interactive notebook templates and instructionspre-filled INB templates for students w
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Moon Phases Interactive Notebook Pages - Paper INB
Moon Phases Interactive Notebooks will capture your middle-school students’ attention in a creative and hands-on way. Use these manipulatives to increase chunking and reflection while you reinforce your students’ learning about moon phases and lunar cycles. Each activity includes photos of example pages. The INB templates also come in a Spanish version for ELL/ESOL learners. What’s included?a set of blank interactive notebook templates and instructionspre-filled INB templates for students with m
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Wacky Animals Informative Writing Mini-Unit
One thing that I love about the new Common Core Standards is that they ask for students to writing regular short pieces of writing throughout the year in the three main writing disciplines: narrative, argument/opinion and informative.
The mini-unit I have created here asks for students to write an in-depth profile or report about a wacky animal. Kids love animals and bring some great background knowledge about them. This allows them to focus on the research and the writing, rather than deciph
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4th - 7th
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Layers of the Earth Interactive Notebook Pages - Paper INB
Layers of the Earth Interactive Notebooks will capture your middle-school students’ attention in a creative and hands-on way. Use these manipulatives to increase chunking and reflection while you reinforce your students’ learning about the Earth’s layers. Each activity includes photos of example pages. The INB templates also come in a Spanish version for ELL/ESOL learners. What’s included?a set of blank interactive notebook templates and instructionspre-filled INB templates for students with mod
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Lesson Plan Template- Science (Editable)
This item is a multi-color Science lesson plan template that includes a number of text boxes with headings and subheadings that correspond to Science planning and structural procedures. The plan incorporates a wide variety of critical lesson plan components which includes the following:* Lesson/Unit Title* Grade level(s)* Unit Focus * Overview and purpose * Standards addressed* Learning Outcomes * Modification/Differentiation * Materials/Resources* Enrichment/Extensions * Essential questions * I
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Plant Life Cycle: Unit With Worksheets: |Printable and Digital Distance Learning
Plant Life Cycle: Unit With Worksheets: |Printable and Digital Distance Learning:This unit is prepared on 'Plant life cycle' as Editable Google Slides along with Google worksheets”. As we all know very well that life could not exist without the plants on earth. Plants produce food as well as oxygen for all of us.My units have been made to be both informative and visually stimulating for all students. (It has also digital access via Google Slides for worksheets also.)You will receive the ZIP file
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Plant Unit Bundle - Lessons / Worksheets / Activities
Spooky Halloween Science Mini-Unit
Have some fun this October (or really anytime!) with your students and this Spooky Halloween Science Mini-Unit. This unit includes 5 different experiments that can be used sequentially OR you can pick and choose the ones you want to use with your students. They include:
-Haunted Raisins (raisins and 7-Up)
-"Body Parts" observation
-Bleeding Paper
-Slime (glue-based)
-Ghostly Goo (cornstarch and water)
These experiments can be done with mostly household materials. Explicit teacher notes, ins
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3rd - 6th
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