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Get your students buzzing about solar eclipses with five-word search puzzles and two fun true or false activities. Each puzzle comes with its own answer key, making grading a breeze.

Key Features:

• Five-word search puzzles packed with eclipse-related vocabulary to stimulate curiosity and vocabulary retention.
• Two true or false puzzles that test students' understanding of solar eclipse facts, encouraging critical thinking and comprehension skills.
• Seven student pages, each accompanied by detailed answer keys for easy grading and assessment.

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Vocabulary for the word search

alignment - astronomy - binoculars - celestial - corona - crescent - eclipse - glasses - lunar - moon - observation - occultation - partial - path - penumbra - phases - shadow - solar - sun - telescope - totality - umbra

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Enhance Your Classroom Experience: Whether you're

• planning captivating lessons on solar eclipses
• creating engaging center activities
• providing enrichment opportunities
• sparking classroom trivia challenges
• conducting pre-assessments
• offering extra credit incentives,
• assigning homework that inspires independent exploration

This puzzle set is the perfect addition to your educational toolkit!

Looking for an eclipse activity that includes coloring pages? Check out April 8, 2024 Solar Eclipse Coloring and Activity Pages!

This pack includes all three topics of the Earth System Unit for grade 2 science aligned with the Alberta curriculum shifts of 2023.

• Earth's Relationship with the Sun
• Landforms
• Bodies of Water

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 five different activities that challenge students to learn new vocabulary, facts, and perspectives related to the Lunar Eclipse.

The activities are:

• 3 Lunar Eclipse Reading Comprehension Passages and Fun Facts: The passages include multiple-choice questions, written response questions, and answer keys
• 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 eclipse.

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

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

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Dive into the fascinating world of plate tectonics with this comprehensive guide to plate boundaries!

What's Included?
Part 1: Notes

• The type of plate boundary.
• The movement of the plates at the boundary.
• The effect on the Earth's crust.

Part 2: Guided Notes

• Interactive Learning
• Fill-in-the-Blank Prompts

Part 3: Puzzle Game

• Engaging Review: A jigsaw puzzle featuring the three plate boundary types and their corresponding effects on the Earth's crust.
• Active Learning: Students work collaboratively to assemble the puzzle, reinforcing their understanding of the different boundaries.
• Kinesthetic Reinforcement: The hands-on activity keeps students engaged and promotes critical thinking as they match the puzzle pieces.

How to Use This Resource?

1. Posters: Display the informative posters in your classroom.
2. Interactive Learning: Distribute the guided notes sheets to students. As you introduce each plate boundary type, have them fill in the blanks.
3. The Jigsaw Challenge: Divide students into small groups and distribute the jigsaw puzzle pieces. Challenge them to work together to complete the puzzle, matching the plate boundary types with their descriptions and corresponding effects on the Earth's crust.

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Earth layers notes + Cut and paste activity

⭐Check the Journey to the Center of the Earth writing resource⭐

Journey to the Center of the Earth - Narrative/Descriptive Writing

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If you are looking to explore non-fiction text structures, this What is Climate Change? Book Report Project digital product for 4th-grade students is perfect. It's designed to enhance non-fiction reading comprehension and book report writing skills!

This resource includes:

• Comprehensive Google Slides digital lesson
• 9-page printable PDF book report flip book template

Please see the product preview for more visual details.

NOTE: You need a (free) Google account to access the digital lesson, and you will need access to the book "What is Climate Change" in the What is? book series to complete the digital and printable activities.

Students will dive into the historical context of climate change, gaining a deeper understanding of this relevant topic. The digital lesson guides students through key facts, timelines, and the impact of these events.

How to use this resource:

• Have students read the book, "What is Climate Change?"
• Print the book report flip book template
• Open and present the Google Slides digital lesson
• Follow the intuitive prompts, which will take you through each step of the book report. For example, if it's time to work on the "facts" page, there is a series of multiple-choice questions on specific facts detailed in the text that will help refresh the students' memories and comprehension. Then students can fill in the facts they found most interesting.
• Have fun guessing the mystery puzzle between each section of the book report!

The printable PDF book report flip book template provides creative book report ideas, such as summarizing the events, using critical thinking skills, and creating a timeline. It can be used with any non-fiction book. Students will also use a book review template to evaluate the topic's significance and relevance today. Overall, this project offers an engaging way for students to explore non-fiction text structures while learning about a crucial topic.

The non-fiction book report flip book pages include:

   ✏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

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Need a fun introduction activity or wrap-up activity to a plate tectonic lesson? Task cards are a great way to engage students in the learning process.

This set includes 24 task cards addressing the Pangaea Theory, moving boundaries, major U.S. faults, Mount St. Helen's eruption, Tsunamis, continental drift, layers of the earth and more.

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24 task cards

Instructions

Answers

Student answer sheet

Get you students moving around the room. They often learn better when they are moving, collaborating and having fun.

These educational science posters and activities will help your students to understand the concepts of weathering, erosion, and deposition!

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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.

This packet includes:

- Bird Bingo

- Bird Journal

- Plant Journal

- Bird Matching Game

- Nature Coloring Book

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Turkey - themed Life Cycle & Traits set for Thanksgiving / Fall / Autumn . Great NO PREP substitute plans, etc. Includes venn diagram, life cycle sequencing, and traits.

6 pages include:

1. Turkey Traits : Cut out the traits & paste the correct traits

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6. Compare & Contrast Venn Diagram: TURKEY VS ROBIN

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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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park a love for our planet with "Earth Craft: I Can Help the Earth!"

Engage students in eco-friendly fun with this interactive craft activity!

Packed with vibrant coloring, cutting, and pasting exercises, "Earth Craft" makes learning about sustainability a blast! Kids will:

• Grasp essential environmental concepts: Through engaging crafts, they'll discover the power of recycling, reusing, and reducing waste.
• Become empowered changemakers: Foster a love for the planet and inspire them to take action towards a greener future, one creative project at a time!
• Solidify key learnings: Craft activities reinforce valuable sustainability lessons, making them fun and memorable.

Perfect for classrooms and homeschooling environments, "Earth Craft" offers:

• A variety of Earth Day-themed crafts: Keep young minds captivated with an exciting selection of projects designed to spark their creativity.
• Meaningful learning experiences: Go beyond traditional lessons! Craft activities transform learning into a hands-on adventure.
• A passion for environmental stewardship: Nurture a love for our planet within every child.

"Earth Craft" is the ideal resource for:

• Teachers: Inject excitement and engagement into your Earth Day curriculum.
• Parents: Create a fun and educational activity for your child at home.
• Anyone passionate about eco-consciousness: Empower the next generation to become responsible stewards of the environment.

Get your copy of "Earth Craft" today and embark on a journey towards a greener tomorrow!

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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.

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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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Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• energy
• mechanical energy
• light energy
• electrical energy
• sound energy
• thermal energy
• reflected light
• refracted light
• closed circuit

Celebrate Earth Day with this Find Someone Who printable game! This activity makes a great icebreaker, morning meeting activity or brain break activity in your kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, fourth grade and fifth grade classes. Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various Earth Day themed categories, such as "find someone who has planted a tree before."

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What's included:

• 1 Find Someone Who worksheet with 16 boxes for students to fill in
• Editable Google Slides file (option with and without clipart)

Some examples included:

• Find someone who turns off the water when brushing their teeth.
• Find someone who uses a reusable cup at school.
• Find someone who has created something with recycled materials.

More Earth Day Resources:

Earth Day Would You Rather

Earth Day Symmetry Drawings

Earth Day Activity Packet

More Spring Resources:

Spring Zoomed In

Spring Would You Rather

Spring Guess the Emoji Phrase

Spring Mega Game Bundle

*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool

Curious about how to teach your students about clouds in an engaging way? Our Cloud Activity Set is the perfect tool to make learning about weather and clouds fun and educational! This set is designed to help children understand different cloud types and weather patterns through interactive activities.

• Cloud Types Poster: Learn about cirrus, stratus, and other cloud types.
• Multiple Choice Questions: Test knowledge with cloud-themed questions.
• "What Are Clouds?" Worksheet: A fill-in-the-word activity to reinforce learning.
• How Clouds Form Poster: Visual guide to understanding cloud formation.
• Cloud and Weather Observation Sheet: Track and record daily weather and cloud changes.

This activity set is ideal for home, classroom, or homeschool settings, making it easy to explore the fascinating world of clouds and weather with your students!

IN ADDITION, this resource includes a helpful tip sheet about "Child Development and Play Activities." Through this resource, parents will gain practical insights into how different types of play contribute to their child's overall development. The information sheet provides simple and engaging ideas for fostering cognitive, physical, social, and emotional growth through play. By incorporating these activities, young learners can develop essential skills while enjoying the fun and creativity that play brings to their everyday lives.

With the help of these Solar System Worksheets, kids will enjoy learning about space! Children can learn about the solar system, planets, asteroids, and more with the help of this planets worksheet. For teaching kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth, and fifth students about space, these solar system printables are ideal. You may play and learn about astronomy for kids by simply printing the solar system worksheets in pdf format.

You will love these no prep solar system worksheets if you are a teacher, homeschooler, or parent. They will help students learn about the world we live in and develop their science skills. Kindergarteners, first-graders, second-graders, third-graders, fourth-graders, and fifth-graders will love these solar system printables. Use them for extra practice, in science centers, at home or at school, or as a component of a study on the planets or solar system. Children will learn about the 8 planets in our solar system, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, among other things, with this set.

These simple, solar system worksheets come with little distraction which helps little ones to concentrate on their learning. This enables the parent or teacher to easily teach about space, the solar system and more. Answers are provided!!

There are lots of activities in this pack:

• Write the names of the planets
• Cut and paste the names of the planets
• Unscramble the names of the planets
• Answer the questions about the planets
• Cut and paste in the correct columns – rocky planets and gas planets
• Answer questions about the asteroid belt
• What is an asteroid? What is a meteoroid?
• Describe three different galaxies
• Describe the different between revolution and rotation
• Solar System Word Search
• Solar System Flip Book

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