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Are you a teacher looking for a comprehensive resource to teach your students about instruction design? This digital product is specifically tailored to meet the needs of elementary classrooms.

This engaging and interactive resource contains 65 pages of valuable content, including:

• a workbook for students,
• assessment
• teacher's notes,
• cut-outs and,
• answer keys for all documents.

With this comprehensive booklet, you'll have everything you need to effectively teach the topic of instruction designing in an engaging and informative way.

The "Designing Instructions" booklet covers various topics, ensuring that your students develop a thorough understanding of the main components of instruction design.

Through carefully crafted exercises, students will explore creativity and collaboration in the context of designing instructions. They will learn about the language that must be used in instructions and how it impacts the clarity and effectiveness of communication.

One of the highlights of this resource is the scaffolded worksheets provided for a group project. These worksheets guide students through the process of designing instructions step by step, ensuring that they develop a strong foundation in this essential skill. A Google Slides template is included, allowing students to showcase their projects digitally and further enhance their learning experience.

With this product, you'll be equipping your students with valuable skills that extend beyond the classroom. They will develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills while engaging in hands-on activities that foster creativity and collaboration.

This comprehensive resource focuses on natural and processed materials, exploring their properties and how they relate to different purposes. All concepts are broken down for easy understanding, focusing and key vocabulary and main ideas. With a total of 163 pages, this product offers 44 pages of engaging reading materials, multiple hands-on activities, 8 lab experiments, and a Google slides show.

Additionally, it includes 8 lab worksheets for conducting experiments, teacher notes for guidance and formal assessment worksheets. All products come with their corresponding answer key.

I am confident that this booklet will provide your students with a rich and interactive learning experience.

Properties of Materials explored:

•Size and Texture

•Transparency

•Absorbency

•Hardness

•Flexibility

•Malleability

•Buoyancy

•Reflection

•Durability

Activities included:

•Crack the Code

•Matching

•Cutting and Pasting

•Tracing

•Comparing and Contrasting

•Graphing

•Word searching

•Planning

Experiments:

•The Cracker Lab

•The Transparency Lab

•The Absorbency Lab

•The Rainbow Lab

•Keeping Teddy Dry Lab

•The Flexibility Lab

•The Cookie Dunk Lab

•The Reflection Lab

***This product aligns with Alberta's curriculum shifts for 2023.

All these products align with Alberta's curriculum shifts of 2023.

1. Use of Materials

2. Writing Instructions

3. Sound and Light

4. Earth Systems: Earth's Relationship with the Sun, Landforms, and Bodies of Water

5. Living Systems: Life Cycles and Relationships between Plants, Animals and Land.

This comprehensive resource focuses on natural and processed materials, exploring their properties and how they relate to different purposes. It also includes the a workbook with information about the uses of natural materials by FIRST NATIONS, MÉTIS, and INUIT PEOPLES.

All concepts are broken down for easy understanding, focusing and key vocabulary and main ideas. With over 200 pages, this product offers engaging reading materials, multiple hands-on activities, 8 lab experiments, and a Google slides show.

Additionally, it includes 8 lab worksheets for conducting experiments, teacher notes for guidance and formal assessment worksheets. A step-by-step how to build your own TREVOIS.

All products come with their corresponding answer key.

I am confident that this booklet will provide your students with a rich and interactive learning experience.

Properties of Materials explored:

•Size and Texture

•Transparency

•Absorbency

•Hardness

•Flexibility

•Malleability

•Buoyancy

•Reflection

•Durability

First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples:

• Traditional Knowledge
• Sustainable Practices
• Availability of materials
• Use of birch bark
• Trevois
• Ulu

Activities included:

•Crack the Code

•Matching

•Cutting and Pasting

•Tracing

•Comparing and Contrasting

•Graphing

•Word searching

•Planning

Experiments:

•The Cracker Lab

•The Transparency Lab

•The Absorbency Lab

•The Rainbow Lab

•Keeping Teddy Dry Lab

•The Flexibility Lab

•The Cookie Dunk Lab

•The Reflection Lab

***This product aligns with Alberta's curriculum shifts for 2023.

Help your students organize their information in this virtual science fair presentation. All parts of the scientific process are included in this layout!

Check out the preview for images of sample slides.

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Teach your students all about sink or float with this fun STEM Challenge. This lesson includes vocabulary words, educational videos, high order thinking questions, and instructions to a STEAM challenge. Students are challenged to make a boat out of tinfoil. Their boat must hold 100 pennies for the 100th day of school!

You will need

• 100 pennies (per group)
• Tin Foil
• Water
• Large container or kiddie pool
• Ruler

Teach your students about different kinds of bridges and engineering with this fun STEM Challenge. It includes videos, a virtual field trip, questions, and descriptions of bridges.

You will need:

Legos (for bridges)

Recyclable materials (to make bridges)

Rulers

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Teach your students Plants life cycle and parts of a pumpkin with this fun and interactive Science Lab. Students will watch, educational videos, go through detailed slides with vocabulary words and definitions, complete lab questions, go on a virtual field trip to a Pumpkin Patch, complete a digital Label-the-Pumpkin and Pumpkin Life Cycle activity, and finish with a fun and engaging Pumpkin Dissection activity.

You will need:

1. 1 medium/large pumpkin
2. Pumpkin carving knife
3. Spoon 
4. Paper Towels
5. Bowl
6. Measuring Tape
7. Scale
8. Gloves (Optional)

Teach your students about why leaves change color in the fall with this digital activity and hands-on lab. This digital activity includes, vocabulary words and definitions, detailed slides, videos, a parts of a plant song, lab questions and observations, and an interactive lab activity!

You will need:

• Green leaves 
• Bowl or plate
• Paper
• Colored pencils, markers, or crayons
• Spoon

Teach your students all about heat and energy transfer with this fun and interactive Science Experiment. Students will watch educational videos, go through detailed slides with vocabulary words and definitions, learn about the history of hot chocolate, complete science worksheets, and finish with a fun and engaging Hot Chocolate Experiment.

You will need:

• Hot Chocolate Packets
• Spoons
• Cups
• Water
• Measuring Cups
• Food Thermometer
• Timer

Teach your students all about Phases of the Moon with this yummy and interactive lesson! Students will watch, educational videos, go through detailed slides with vocabulary words and definitions, complete an digital, interactive activity: Label the Moon Phases, and finish with a fun and engaging Oreo activity. For this activity, you will be creating the moon phases using Oreo's! Differentiated Worksheets included!

You will need:

• Plates
• 7-8 Oreo's (per student)
• Print to Oreo Worksheet (included)
• Spoon (1 per student)

Teach your students all about energy, gravity, and Newton's Laws of Motion with this fun STEAM Challenge! Students will watch educational videos, go through detailed slides with vocabulary words and definitions, complete comprehension questions, and finish with a fun and engaging STEAM Egg Drop Challenge!

You may need a ladder, as students are tasked to drop their egg 10 FEET!

You will need:

• Straws 
• Tape
• Popsicle sticks
• Cotton balls
• Rubber bands
• Cups
• Paper towel rolls/ toilet paper rolls
• Measuring Tape
• Paper

Teach your students about the the plant life cycle with a digital activity and hands-on lab. This digital activity includes, videos, lab questions and observations, and an interactive label-the-plant life activity! Vocabulary words and definitions included.

You will need:

Lima Beans (1 per student)

Water

Magnifying glasses (1 per student)

paper towel (1 per student)

Clear Ziplock (1 per student)

Teach your students all about the Scientific Method with this fun and interactive science lab. Students will watch an educational video, go through detailed slides and learn about the scientific method, and finish with an engaging and delicious science lab!

You will need:

• 24 pack of Cookies (of your choice)

• Half Gallon of:

• Whole Milk

• Almond Milk

• 2%

• Lactose Free

• Chocolate Milk

• Measuring Cup

• Clear Plastic Cups

• Spoon

• Forceps

• Timer

• Sharpie or Marker

Teach your students all about chemical and physical changes with this fun and interactive science lab! Students will watch educational videos, go through detailed slides with vocabulary, complete lab questions, and finish the lesson by making their own Elephant Toothpaste!

You will need:

• Empty Water Bottle, cylinder, or beaker
• 1/2 cup of hydrogen peroxide 
• 1 Tablespoon (one packet) of dry yeast
• 3 Tablespoons of warm water
• Liquid dish soap
• Food coloring
• Measuring cup
• Spoon 
• Baking sheet/ container
• Small cup or bowl
• Optional: Safety goggles

Teach your student all about the importance of bees with this fun and interactive STEAM lesson and activity. Students will watch educational videos, go through detailed slides with vocabulary words and definitions, learn about the bees and their adaptations, use VIRTUAL REALITY to fly around like a bee, go on a virtual field trip to a Honey Bee Hive, and finish with a fun and engaging STEAM Bee Hive activity.

You will need:

• Paper (construction, blank, or lined paper)
• Cylinder Container (mason jar, tin can, cup, or small Pringles can)
• Glue
• Tape
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Toilet Paper Rolls
• String

Teach your students all about heat and energy transfer with this fun and interactive Science Experiment. Students will watch educational videos, go through detailed slides with vocabulary words and definitions, and finish with a fun and engaging Heat Changing Slime Experiment

You will need:

• White Elmer's Glue
• Warm water
• Thermochromic Pigment
• Borax
• 2 cups or bowls
• Spoon 
• Measuring Cup
• Teaspoon

Teach your students all about Kinetic and Potential energy with this fun and interactive STEAM lesson. Students will watch educational videos, go through detailed slides with vocabulary words and definitions, complete lab questions, and finish with a fun and engaging STEAM Snowball Launcher Activity!

Included is two ways to make snowball Launchers!

You may need the following items below:

• Cup, pool noodle, or toilet paper/paper towel roll
• Balloon
• Scissors
• Rubber Bands
• Tape
• Mini Marshmallows or cotton balls
• Ruler or Measuring Tape

Teach your students physical and chemical changes with this fun and interactive Science Lab. Students will watch, educational videos, go through detailed slides with vocabulary words and definitions, complete lab questions, go on a virtual field trip to a Pumpkin Patch, complete a digital cut and paste Physical and Chemical Changes activity, and finish with a fun and engaging Pumpkin Volcano.

You will need:

1. 1 hallow pumpkin
2. Measuring Cups
3. Baking Soda
4. Vinegar
5. Dish Soap
6. Food Coloring (optional)
7. Spoon
8. Cup
9. Tin baking sheet

Teach your students all about Bats with this fun and interactive STEAM lesson. Students will watch educational videos, go through detailed slides with vocabulary words and definitions, Listen and watch a read aloud of the Stellaluna, go on a virtual field trip to a Bat Cave, Fly like a bat and learn about Echolocation, see a live bat cam, complete a digital Label the Bat activity, and finish with a fun and engaging STEAM Flapping Bat activity.

You will need:

1. Metal Slinky
2. Tape
3. String
4. Straws (two different sizes)
5. Bat Cut out
6. Crayons, colored pencils, or markers