Elementary School Earth Sciences Activities

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The Grade 2 Science Living Systems educational resource packet, is designed to engage young learners in exploring the fascinating relationship between plants, animals, and the land! **Aligned with the Alberta's curriculum shifts of 2023

This packet includes:

• A workbook
• Cutouts
• Assessment
• Answer Keys
• Teacher Notes

Topics explored:

1. How Human Behaviors Affect the Environment: Understand the impact of human actions on the natural world, including pollution, habitat destruction, and climate change.
2. Positive Behaviors: Explore positive actions individuals and communities can take to reduce their environmental footprint, such as the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle), repurposing materials, supporting conservation efforts, and protecting natural spaces like national parks and community gardens.
3. Negative Behaviors: Identify and examine detrimental actions that harm the environment, including littering, pollution of air, water, and soil, overexploitation of natural resources, and the introduction of invasive species.
4. First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Peoples' Relationship to Land, Plants, and Animals: Learn about the traditional ecological knowledge and stewardship practices of Indigenous peoples in Canada, including their deep connections to the land, sustainable resource management techniques, and cultural significance of plants and animals.

Engage your students with this comprehensive Lunar Eclipse Activity Set, designed to help them have a basic understanding of the Lunar Eclipse. This set includes a variety of activities suitable for students in grades 2, 3, 4, 5, and even 6.

This activity set includes four different activities that challenge students to learn new vocabulary, facts, and perspectives related to Lunar eclipses.

The activities are:

• Word Search Puzzle: Find 30 hidden words related to the Lunar Eclipse in a grid of letters. The words can be horizontal, vertical, diagonal, or backward.
• Crossword Puzzle: Solve 15 clues to fill in the crossword puzzle with words related to the Lunar eclipse.
• Word Scramble: Unscramble 11 words related to the Lunar eclipse and write them in the correct spaces.
• Vocabulary Passage: Read a short passage about the Lunar Eclipse and fill in the blank spaces with the correct words from the vocabulary list. The passage introduces some important terms and concepts related to this celestial event.

You can use this product as a whole-class activity, homework assignment, small group, or independent activity.

Each activity comes with an answer key for teachers and allows students to check their work independently.

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❤️Looking for a fun and engaging way to celebrate Earth Day or teach about recycling? These colorful, differentiated trash & recycle sorting play mats are the perfect way to help your students understand the importance of taking care of our Earth, while practicing their literacy and fine motor skills!

✏️Students will love sorting waste items (newspaper, can etc.) by recyclable categories (metal, paper, glass etc.) and sorting actions (turning off the lights, composting etc. ) by whether or not they are helpful or hurtful to our Earth.

✏️Cards are differentiated and come with text or no text.

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♻️Ways to Use:

☑ You can use the pictures/cards as labels by attaching them to containers. Then, students can sort by placing the cards into the containers.

☑ Use the large pictures to decorate your bulletin board, door, or hallway!

☑ Students can use large pictures, medium size cards or mini cards to read, identify, match, and sort environmental concepts.

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⭐️ Great for whole group, individual work, centers, sub tub, partner work, early finishers, an enrichment activity, word wall, write the room, or extra practice at home!

⭐️Perfect for kindergarten, first or second grade students!

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☑ Rubber large bin and mini cards (3 pages)

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☑ Trash large bin and mini cards (3 pages)

☑ Happy Earth picture and mini cards (9 pages)

☑ Sad Earth picture and mini cards (5 pages)

✅ Bonus: (63 pages)

☑ Table of contents (3 pages)

☑ How to use (3 pages)

☑ Black and white set (57 pages)

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Spare some time in your class? How about this FUN & DIVERSE TASK CARDS BUNDLE!

How to Use This Resource?

• Whole Class Game: Scoot! Get your students moving with a fun game of Scoot. Place the task cards around the classroom and have students rotate, answering the question at each station before moving on.
• Fast Finishers' Challenge: Challenge early finishers to tackle these task cards as an enriching activity to solidify their understanding.
• Scientific Scavenger Hunt: Turn your classroom or schoolyard into a scientific scavenger hunt! Hide the task cards around the designated area and have students hunt for them, answering the questions they find.
• Science Jenga! Add a scientific twist to the classic game of Jenga! Number the Jenga blocks and assign each number to a specific task card. When a player pulls a block, another player reads the corresponding card and the first player answers the question.
• Formative Assessments: Use these task cards as quick quizzes or formative assessments to gauge student understanding of various science concepts.
• Interactive Whiteboard Fun: Project the task cards on your interactive whiteboard and have students brainstorm answers together as a class.

Are you ready to bring the magic of a solar eclipse into your classroom or home? Say hello to our Solar Eclipse Spinner Wheel Coloring Craft, the perfect hands-on activity for curious kids in grades 1-3!

WHAT YOU'LL GET:

• A fun-to-color spinner wheel craft that shows the phases of a solar eclipse.
• A bonus reading passage designed to teach kids about solar eclipses in a kid-friendly way.
• A drawing activity to spark creativity and help reinforce their learning.

WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT FOR YOUR CLASSROOM OR HOMESCHOOL:

• Minimal prep! Just print, cut, assemble, and color. All you need is a brad pin to put it together.
• Engages kids in STEM learning while letting them explore their creative side.
• Perfect for science lessons, eclipse day prep, or just sparking curiosity about the universe.
• Designed to be both fun and educational—your kids won’t even realize how much they’re learning!

PERFECT FOR:

• Classroom science centers
• Homeschool lessons at the kitchen table
• Hands-on fun during eclipse season

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This is a digital download. You will not receive anything in the mail.

Please use a computer to download and not your phone.

This file is for personal use only and may not be reproduced or sold commercially.

I don't accept returns, exchanges, or cancellations. But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.

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Headbands

2 French designs and 2 English designs for the K-3 classroom

Making these fun and simple headbands are always a HIT with the littles. A quick no prep activity is just what every teacher needs. Copy, cut and paste. Students can wear these all day on the day of the Solar Eclipse or on the day after. A little sweet tongue in cheek headband!

How to use this:

Set it out as a self-guided activity with materials, pencils, glue sticks, and scissors for students to use.

Create the headbands as a whole class activity and watch as students help each other measure the headbands together.

Teacher assisted for the littles, and you can easily cut and glue (or staple if that is easier).

What's included in this resource:

-1 head band design with 'J'ai survecu l'eclipse solaire 2024"

-1 head band design with 'Je suis sain et sauf apres l'eclipse solaire 2024'

-1 head band design with 'I survived the Solar Eclipse 2024"

-1 head band design with 'I mark myself safe from Solar Eclipse 2024'

Directions:

-Colour the sun rays yellow or leave them white

-Simply cut along the dotted line around the sun rays, then cut the strips for attaching around the child’s head.

-glue each strip to either side of the sun/eclipse shape

What grade level is appropriate?

I personally feel that this resource is ideal for any students from K-2 although those in Grade 3 may love these headbands too!

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What grade level:

I personally use these texts with Grade 1 and Grade 2 students in French Immersion. I feel confident that students from K-3 will find these most useful and teachers can come back to the texts with any students who may be experiencing challenges in their French reading skills. Core French teachers will be sure to add the resource to their repertoire for Grades 4 to 6 as they learn to read and write at the Junior level.

If you love this resource:

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***7. French Pyramid Reading

Some of the Benefits of this resource:

1. Students use hands on materials
2. Boost confidence in French language acquisition with whole group, small group, independent work, and one-to-one instruction using the same resource
3. Fun headband that they can wear around school and at home
4. Students grow in independence at their own pace
5. Reinforce the fun and excitement of this once in a lifetime opportunity
6. Social wellness and personal autonomy in using French in the classroom
7. Scaffold and support language acquisition, oral communication, and writing skills
8. Headbands are a 100% successful activity at this age group!

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Save 20% on 15 books from the What Is? and What Was? book series. Each one includes a book report flipbook template and a comprehensive reading comprehension digital lesson (with a built-in reward system).

The books in the series include:

1. What Was the Age of Exploration?
2. What Was the Children's Blizzard of 1888?
3. What Was the Wild West?
4. What Was the Donner Party?
5. What Was the Ice Age?
6. What Was the Boston Tea Party?
7. What Was Ellis Island?
8. What Was the Great Depression?
9. What Was the Plague?
10. What Was the Titanic
11. What Were the Salem Witch Trials?
12. What is Climate Change?
13. What is the Constitution?
14. What is the Coronavirus Disease COVID-19?
15. What is the Women's Rights Movement?

This product is easy to use:

1. Print the template (same template for every book in this series), cut along the dotted line on each page, then staple the top to create the flipbooks (students can do this on their own).
2. Read the book (independently or as a class/group)
3. Click through the Google reading comprehension digital lesson (no-prep required!)
4. Students fill out the template independently/homework or as a class or group. In my class, we work on the book report template together through each section of the lesson.

The sections of the reading comprehension digital lesson and 9-page book report template include (along with the built-in reward system):

• book title info
• rating & review
• vocabulary
• facts
• text ideas
• series of events
• making life connections
• what I learned
• questions I have
• setting/subject
• interesting event
• important event

This is a bundle designed for Alice.

Includes 8 Lessons:

Geography: Ten Worst Natural Disaster of the 20th Century

Geography & Science "Shake, Rattle, and Roll": Plate Tectonics Task Cards

Geography & World History: World Map Quizzes / Quiz Bundle

Geography: Halloween Around The World

Geography: Road Trip_Learning To Use A Map Scale

Monster Mash: A Study of Mystical Monsters of The World (Geography Halloween)

Geography: Push and Pull Factors on Human Migration (Includes lesson, PP & Game)

Geography Game: Around The World (Countries and Continents)

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Want to explore the great outdoors with your learners? This project is filled with interactive ways to connect with nature. You will learn more about plants and animals that live in your backyard.

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This fun Pet Rock writing activity is perfect for kids! Student's will create or bring a pet rock. They will then fill out a certificate of adoption for their pet rock and finally fill out a page telling all about their pet rock!

Adopting a pet rock has never been more fun!

This includes:

- a Certificate of Adoption/ Birth Certificate

- a All About My Pet Rock page

Is this editable?

Some of it. You can type in your student's names, the name of their pet rock and the date.

You cannot edit any part of the actual product.

**Pet Rocks not included

I also love to use this activity at the end of the year countdown on day R!

This is a growing bundle of all my Science Puzzles. These puzzles can be reusable by laminating and preparing them!

These puzzles currently cover Grade 6 Earth Science, but will cover all Grade 5 and Grade 6 science.

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This printable contains a set of Earth Day Readers about Pollution. These Earth Day readers are perfect to teach your learners about pollution and its effects on Earth. Learners will also be exposed to real-life images of pollution and its damage to the environment as well as ways that can help to conserve and protect our Earth from damage.

The printable contains real-life photos (except for 3 clipart images)

This packs contains:

- 5 Easy Readers

Topics Included:

- Pollution (10 pages)

- Air Pollution (14 pages)

- Water Pollution (21 pages)

- Land Pollution (25 pages)

- Reducing Pollution (22 pages)

Content of the books:

- Pollution: General overview of pollution

- Air Pollution: Mentions about what it is and what are the main causes.

- Water Pollution: Mentions about what it is and what are the main causes.

- Land Pollution: Mentions about what it is and what are the main causes.

- Reducing Pollution: Mentions several ways that pollution can be reduced.

These easy readers are in a simple print, cut, and staple format! Also, you can choose to print the easy readers in color OR choose to print in grayscale in your printer settings.

Check out this Earth Day - Sorting Recycling Activity.

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Looking for a ready to go made lesson for ocean density and salinity? This activity include:

• slides presentation to present to students.
• lab/demonstration directions for students and teachers
• handout for student lab worksheet

Great for homeschool or school setting! Videos are included!

Tennessee State Standards

• 6.PS3.4 - Conduct an investigation to demonstrate the way that heat (thermal energy) moves among objects through radiation, conduction, or convection.
• 6.ESS2.1 - Gather evidence to justify that oceanic convection currents are caused by the sun’s transfer of heat energy and differences in salt concentration leading to global water movement.
• 6.ESS2.3 - Construct an explanation for how atmospheric flow, geographic features, and ocean currents affect the climate of a region through heat transfer.

NGSS - Middle School

• MS-ESS2-6 - Develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates.

Earth Layers Worksheet and Craft - Explore the fascinating structure of our planet with this engaging activity. Label the Earth's layers and bring your creation to life with colorful details. Learn and remember the Earth's composition in a fun and interactive way!

How Students Will Benefit:

• Visual Learning: The worksheet and craft provide a hands-on approach to understanding the Earth's layers, making it easier to remember and comprehend.
• Enhanced Memory: Coloring and labeling the layers reinforce the information, aiding in long-term retention.
• Critical Thinking: Students will develop critical thinking skills as they analyze and understand the relationship between the different layers.
• Creativity: The craft component encourages students to express their creativity and personalize their understanding of the Earth's structure.
• Foundation for Future Learning: This activity lays a solid foundation for future studies in Earth science and geology.

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Elevate your Earth Day celebrations with this set of 15 no-prep art prompts designed specifically for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Graders! Engage learners in creativity and environmental awareness with these thoughtfully crafted prompts.

Each prompt is carefully tailored to Earth Day themes, encouraging students to explore topics like recycling, conservation, nature, and sustainability through art. With no prep needed for teachers, you can seamlessly integrate these prompts into your lesson plans and activities.

These prompts inspire imagination and foster a deeper understanding of our planet's importance. Spark meaningful discussions and showcase students' artistic talents with these art prompts.

Red Fox Anatomy Unit Study: Printable Worksheets for Nature and Science Learning
Explore the fascinating world of fox anatomy with this comprehensive digital download! Perfect for homeschoolers and nature enthusiasts, this anatomy worksheet and study guide combines elementary science with hands-on learning. Ideal for fox unit studies, nature study, or as part of your nature curriculum, these homeschool printables offer engaging activities to learn about the red fox. Includes detailed anatomy printables, science worksheets, and a fun approach to anatomy unit studies. Start your educational journey today!

What’s Inside:

• Label a Fox: Below is a list of body parts to label on the picture of a fox.
• Fun Fact Quiz: Test your knowledge about foxes with fun and engaging questions!
• Coloring Activity: Let’s color a fox and bring it to life with your favorite shades.
• Dot-to-Dot Fox: Let’s create a fox using dots and reveal the hidden image.
• Creative Drawing: Draw your own fox and let your imagination run wild!

Color By Number features cute and adorable coloring page of Back to school . These fun coloring pages will help children master their numbers and improve their manual dexterity through coloring. Little ones will enjoy learning the numbers and coloring the pictures. It also helps in developing fine motor skills, counting, number recognition, eye-hand coordination and improves pen controls.

WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE

• 2 Pages

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• square 11'' x ''8.5 designs that can easily be printed on regular sized paper

• High-resolution images

• Unlimited prints

• Great for kids, boys, girls, and teens

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This is an activity to do during or after watching the Lorax! This is to go along with a science lesson about the process of photosynthesis, the parts of a plant, and the connection the movie has to photosynthesis.

Students will be putting together and labeling the process of photosynthesis and the parts of a plant. Then they will also describe how The Lorax Movie connects to the process of photosynthesis.

You can pace these activities in multiple ways but I would recommend having the students do the photosynthesis and parts of a plant activity before watching the movie. Then after they have watched the movie, have them complete the connect activity. But you can do it in many different ways.

This activity takes very little prep. Each student will need a copy of each sheet (they are labeled) and scissors, glue sticks/tape, colored pencils, and normal pencils. You could even have students work in groups!

This would be a great product to introduce and/or review photosynthesis and the parts of a plant. You could even use it as an assessment!

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