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Kindergarten Science NGSS Weather and How it Affects Us
By Science and STEAM Team
Do you need a science curriculum that is aligned to the NGSS?
This kindergarten earth science unit fits the bill!. We have researched each standard, so nothing goes untaught.
It comes with:
- 8 detailed lessons, so you can reclaim your nights and weekends.
Lesson #1 What is Weather?
Lesson #2 Looking at Patterns in Weather
Lesson #3 Rain in a Bottle Experiment
Lesson #4 What is a Forecast?
Lesson #5 How Does a Forecast Help People?
Lesson #6 Severe Weather Including Storm Safety
Lesson #7 Seasons and How they Affect the Weather
Lesson # 8 How Do Plants and Animals Change Their Environment to Meet Their
Needs?
Check out It's Kindergarten Science Student Worksheets and Resources In Spanish: Weather
Included within the unit are:
-The Standards and Materials needed page (all inexpensive, practical suggestions)
-Essential Vocabulary Cards (29 words)
-9 Weather Posters (Photos)
- Seasons Posters
- Meteorologist Poster
- Storm Safety Poster and a letter home to families
- 10 photos of animals and plants changing their environment
-Student Friendly Activities and Rain in a Bottle Experiment
-Suggestions for Books to Read
-Suggestions for YouTube Videos
-Student Recording Sheets
-Severe Weather Mini Book
If you teach in a bilingual class, we have the student resources available in Spanish.
Check out: It's Kindergarten Science Student Worksheets and Resources In Spanish: Weather
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Ecosystems Unit Arctic Tundra, Deserts, Oceans, Temperate Forest, and Wetlands
By Science and STEAM Team
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 this
Includes the following:
1. Ecosystems
-video suggestions/link for basic introduction
-vocabulary cards for: habitat, ecosystem, and biome
-an introductory sheet for each of the following biomes: arctic
tundra, deserts, oceans, temperate forests, and wetlands
Each sheet has a short description, acolorful photo, and
suggested student friendly site for students to read more about
the habitat
-3 graphic organizers for students to record their findings on
-at least 12 photographs of plants and animals from each habitat
with labels
-headers for each ecosystem that can be cut out and colored for
presentation boards
2. Food Chains/Energy Flow Within Each Ecosystem
-video suggestion/link about food chains
-vocabulary cards for food chain, sun, decomposer, producer,
consumer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, predator, and prey
-poster of sample human food chain
-2 graphic organizers for students including explicit models for
teachers to use to guide students
3. Plant and Animal Interactions Within Ecosystems
-suggestion videos/links for animal and plant adaptations
-graphic organizers to guide follow-up video discussions
-vocabulary cards for adaptations, camouflage, hibernation, and
mimicry
-worksheets for students to show what they know by creating
their own plant or animal that can survive in their ecosystem
4. Suggestions for a final STEAM project
5. Engineering and Design Process Recording Sheet
6. Rubric for self-assessment, group-assessment, and teacher
comments
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YOU MIGHT LIKE THESE TO GO ALONG WITH THIS UNIT:
⭐Plant and Animal Adaptations Bundle
⭐Plant Adaptations Reading Passages
⭐Plant Adaptations Posters
⭐Animal Adaptations Reading Passages
⭐Land Biomes of the United States - Colored
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2nd Grade Science Ecosystems and Biological Evolution
By Science and STEAM Team
Do you need a science curriculum that is aligned to the NGSS?
This 2nd-grade life science unit fits the bill!. We have researched each standard, so nothing goes untaught.
It comes with:
- 7 detailed lessons, so you can reclaim your nights and weekends.
Lesson 1 - What are the Needs of All Living Things?
Lesson 2 - Do Plants Need to Have Water and Sunlight to Grow?
Lesson 3 - What is a Habitat?
Lesson 4 - Observing Plants and Animals in Different Habitats to Compare Their
Diversity
Lesson 5 - What is Seed Dispersal and How are Seeds Dispersed?
Lesson 6 - What is Pollination and What Animals Help with Pollination?
Lesson 7 - STEM Challenge: Create a Model the Mimics the Function of an Animal
Dispersing Seeds or Pollinating Plants
- the standards
- suggested YouTube Videos and Books
- Biologist Poster
- KLEWS Chart (KWL for Science)
- student worksheets for collecting data and recording observations
- Living Things Poster
- Plant reinforcement readings and worksheets
- Habitat Posters with real pictures
- "My Habitats" Booklet
- "Mini Habitats" Posters (tree, rotting log, stream, and pond)
- Task cards for reading about 4 different plants and 4 different animals in each of
6 different habitats
- Habitat compare/contrast activity
- Plant Life Cycle sheet
- Seed Experiment
- Seed Dispersal Experiment
- Seed picture cards
- Meet Some Plant Pollinators reading passages and questions
- Engineering and design process posters
- Instructions for a STEM Challenge
- 15 colorful essential vocabulary cards with graphics and definitions
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2nd Grade Science Earth's Place in the Universe and Earth's Systems
By Science and STEAM Team
Do you need a science curriculum that is aligned to the NGSS?
This 2nd-grade earth science unit fits the bill!. We have researched each standard, so nothing goes untaught.
It comes with:
- 7 detailed lessons, so you can reclaim your nights and weekends.
Lesson 1 - Natural Events that Change the Earth Quickly
Lesson 2 - Natural Events that Change the Earth Slowly
Lesson 3 - Review of Quick and Slow Changes
Lesson 4 - What are Landforms?
Lesson 5 - Where is Water on Earth?
Lesson 6 - Develop a Model to Represent the Shapes and Kinds of Land and Bodies
of Water in Your State
Lesson 7 - STEM Challenge: Design a Solution to Prevent Water from Changing the
Shape of the Land
- the standards
- suggested YouTube Videos and Books
- Geologist Poster
- KLEWS Chart (KWL for Science)
- student worksheets for collecting data and recording observations
- Natural Disasters Poster
- Natural Disasters Flipbook
- Elephant Toothpaste Experiment
- Weathering Reading Passage
- Weathering Activity and Questions
- Erosion Reading Passage and Questions
- Erosion Activities
- Weather/Erosion Venn Diagram
- 14 Photographs of Weathering and Erosion
- Task Cards with Information about Natural Events that Change the Surface of the
Earth
- Landforms Booklet
- Landforms Matching Task Cards
- Flipbook- Earth's Water in Three States of Matter and Posters
- Rain in a Bottle Experiment
- engineering and design process posters
- 20 colorful essential vocabulary cards with graphics and definitions
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5th Grade Science NGSS Aligned Unit About Earth's Place in the Universe
By Science and STEAM Team
Do you need a science curriculum that is aligned to the NGSS?
- 8 detailed lessons, so you can reclaim your nights and weekends.
Included within this resource are:
Check our preview to make sure this is a good fit for you and your students.
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