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By Danielle Mortimore
Bellwork template for middle school science.
Each day is a different theme, learning target, and success criteria space. Monday-Wednesday includes spaces for upcoming important dates. Each day features a funny meme.
Monday: Spiral review
Tuesday: Experimental design
Wednesday: Word wall (vocabulary)
Thursday: Graph and data analysis
Friday: TNReady question and article
I usually keep a running file for each quarter and just copy each week's slides. Then I hide the slides I'm not using.
Solar Eclipse Roll a Story | Creative Narrative Writing Activity | Editable
By Teach Savvy Store
Students roll the dice to unravel a magical and exciting tapestry of settings, protagonists, antagonists, conflicts, and solar eclipse-themed elements, igniting creativity and narrative fluency! Perfect for narrative writing units, centers, daily writing, public speaking practice, Fun Friday, and more!
✨Seasons & Holidays Roll a Story Bundle✨
✨Holidays Roll a Story Bundle✨
✨Solar Eclipse Bundle✨
What's Included
Story Elements
Setting (examples: an alien invasion, a time machine, cosmic space cruise)
Protagonists (examples: an alien translator, a lost astronaut, a charming space robot)
Conflict (examples: is captured by, is hypnotized by, is tricked by)
Antagonists (examples: a nervous space pirate, a chatty alien, a talking space cat)
Space Elements (examples: magic star dust, solar eclipse glasses that show the future, a newly discovered planet)
Easter Roll a Story
Spring Roll a Story
Summer Roll a Story
ELA Resources
Writing Resources
*AVID Nerds resources are available for use in virtual systems like Outschool without the need to purchase extra licenses
"He Counts the Stars" Space | Christian Bulletin Board | Editable Name Stars
By Michellecurtis
Enhance your classroom with this "He Counts the Stars" Christian Bulletin Board Set, featuring the powerful verse from Psalms: "He counts the stars and knows them by name" (Psalm 147:4). Perfect for Christian educators, this display not only adds a faith-filled message but also allows you to personalize it with editable name stars.
The set is fully editable in PowerPoint, giving you the flexibility to easily customize the student name stars and any other elements to suit your needs. The vibrant space-themed decor includes stars, planets, and more, making it an engaging addition to your classroom while reminding students of their unique value in God's eyes.
What’s Included:
This bulletin board set is ideal for Christian schools, Sunday school classrooms, or homeschool settings. Easily create a welcoming and inspirational environment where students can see their names displayed, reinforcing the message that they are known and loved by God.
Heredity and Genetics Digital Review Game | Self-Checking | LS.5.3 | No Prep
By Fifth Grade Mathematicians
Are you looking for an easy, no-prep assignment to review Heredity and Genetics? Look no further! This engaging digital self-checking game in PowerPoint will have your students complete 25 different word problems of varying difficulty. This is perfect for whole class review, small groups, or independent work! This resource aligns with North Carolina Standard Course of Study Science Standard LS.5.3
Please note that PowerPoint is REQUIRED on the computer you plan to use in order to open and play the game.
Don't have PowerPoint? Check out this Heredity and Genetics Jeopardy Game that uses Google Slides.
Categories for Heredity & Genetics Game include:
Are you looking for more LS.5.3 resources? Check out what I have below!
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Calculating Distance, Time and Speed Google Slides Presentation - PS.5.2.2
By Fifth Grade Mathematicians
Are you looking for a fun, interactive way to introduce and teach Calculating Distance, Time, and Speed? Look no further! This interactive presentation in Google Slides it the perfect whole group activity! It begins with formulas and example problems, then has practice problems at the end for students to attempt on their own . This resource was created for 5th grade, but I think it could work well in other grades too!
Looking for more practice with Calculating Distance, Time, and Speed? Check out these Word Problem Practice Pages.
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Calculating Distance Time and Speed Presentation & Practice Worksheets- PS.5.2.2
By Fifth Grade Mathematicians
Are you looking for a fun way to teach Calculating Distance, Time, and Speed? Look no further! This bundle has everything you need to help your students master this topic. Begin with the interactive Google Slides presentation-- perfect for whole group teaching and discussion. Then have students practice with the word problem worksheets or Google Form version for a digital option.
This resource was created for 5th grade, but I think it could work well in other grades too!
What's included:
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Cells - Plants & Animals | PowerPoint Lesson Slides Upper Elementary Science
By Building Bright Brains
Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Plant and Animal Cells? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.
What is included?
✦ 27 total slides for notes and examples.
Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Unicellular Organisms
✦ Multicellular Organisms
✦ Cells Under the Microscope
✦ Animal Cell vs. Plant Cell
✦ Plant & Animal Cell Parts
✦ Organelles
✦ Cell Membrane
✦ Cytoplasm
✦ Nucleus
✦ Mitochondria
✦ Vacuole
✦ Cell Wall
✦ Chloroplast
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Fighting Disease | PowerPoint Lesson Slides Upper Elementary Science | Defense
By Building Bright Brains
Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Fighting Disease? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.
What is included?
✦ 37 total slides for notes and examples.
Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ What do people do with rotten fruits?
✦ Fighting Disease
✦ How many defenses does our body have?
✦ First Line of Defense
✦ What do the eyelashes, mucus, and earwax do?
✦ What do tears, saliva, and acid do?
✦ Why does inflammation make the area red, swollen, warm, and painful?
✦ physical and chemical barriers
✦ Second Line of Defense
✦ Inflammation & Phagocytosis
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Skeletal System part 2 | PowerPoint Lesson Slides Upper Elementary Science
By Building Bright Brains
Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Skeletal System part 2? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.
What is included?
✦ 27 total slides for notes and examples.
Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Types of Joints
✦ Movable and Immovable Joints
✦ Joints on a skeleton
✦ Deformations of the Skeleton
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Animal Classification | PowerPoint Lesson Slides Upper Elementary Science
By Building Bright Brains
Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Animal Classification? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.
What is included?
✦ 37 total slides for notes and examples.
Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Animal Kingdom
✦ Classifying Animals
✦ Characteristics of Animals
✦ Symmetry (Radial, Bilateral, Asymmetry)
✦ Levels of Classification (Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species)
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Acids and Bases | PowerPoint Lesson Slides Upper Elementary Science
By Building Bright Brains
Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Acids and Bases? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.
What is included?
✦ 28 total slides for notes and examples.
Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ List the characteristics of acids and bases
✦ Uses of acids
✦ Uses of bases
✦ Defining litmus paper
✦ Listing natural indicators
✦ Artificial indicators
✦ Define the concept of pH
✦ Define the pH scale
✦ Measure the pH using different ways
✦ Define neutralization reaction
✦ Acid rain
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Chemical Change (Part 2) | PowerPoint Lesson Slides Upper Elementary Science
By Building Bright Brains
Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Chemical Change (Part 2)? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.
What is included?
✦ 26 total slides for notes and examples.
Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Define chemical equation
✦ Define reactants and products
✦ Write a word equation
✦ Write a chemical equation
✦ What is a coefficient?
✦ Types of chemical Reactions
✦ Synthesis
✦ Combustion & Decomposition
✦ Conservation of Matter
✦ Balancing Chemical Equations
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Vertebrates | PowerPoint Lesson Slides Upper Elementary Science
By Building Bright Brains
Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Vertebrates? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.
What is included?
✦ 29 total slides for notes and examples.
Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Vertebrates definition
✦ Classes of vertebrates (Cold-blooded, Warm-blooded)
✦ Cold-blooded vertebrates definition and examples
✦ Warm-blooded vertebrates definition and examples
✦ Mammals Reproduction (Monotremes, Marsupials, Placentals)
✦ Vertebrates Warm-Blooded (Carnivores, Herbivores, Omnivores)
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Immune System | PowerPoint Lesson Slides Upper Elementary Science
By Building Bright Brains
Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Immune System? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.
What is included?
✦ 30 total slides for notes and examples.
Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Fighting Disease Review
✦ What if the first and second lines of defense fail in preventing a pathogen from entering our body?
✦ What is the immune system?
✦ How does the immune system work?
✦ The immune system follows a three-step attack in its fight:
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Weather | PowerPoint Lesson Slides Upper Elementary Science
By Building Bright Brains
Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Weather? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.
What is included?
✦ 31 total slides for notes and examples.
Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ What are the conditions of weather?
✦ What is a temperature?
✦ What is a humidity?
✦ What is a wind?
✦ What is air pressure?
✦ What is precipitation?
✦ What is wind?
✦ How low and high pressures are formed?
✦ When does weather change?
✦ When does a cold and warm front form?
✦ What is the climate?
✦ What are the factors that affect climate?
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Line graphs | PowerPoint Lesson Slides Upper Elementary Science
By Building Bright Brains
Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Line graph? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.
What is included?
✦ 17 total slides for notes and examples.
Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ What is a line graph
✦ What are the variables
✦ How to draw a line graph
✦ Steps to analyze the line graph
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Writing a Hypothesis Science | PowerPoint Lesson Slides Upper Elementary Science
By Building Bright Brains
Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Writing a Hypothesis in a Scientific Method? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.
What is included?
✦ 39 total slides for notes and examples.
Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Writing a Hypothesis in a Scientific Method
✦ practice writing a hypothesis
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Compare and Conclude | PowerPoint Lesson Slides Upper Elementary Science
By Building Bright Brains
Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Compare and Conclude? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.
What is included?
✦ 22 total slides for notes and examples.
Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Indicating the similarities and differences
✦ Characteristics or properties
✦ comparing visually
✦ Transitions or signal words
✦ Apply Examples on Compare and conclude
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Mirrors and Reflection | PowerPoint Lesson Slides Upper Elementary Science
By Building Bright Brains
Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Mirrors and Reflection? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.
What is included?
✦ 14 total slides for notes and examples.
Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Interaction of light
✦ Types of matter
✦ Definition of reflection
✦ Types of reflection
✦ Angle of reflection
✦ Types of mirrors
✦ Properties of the image formed by mirrors
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Protists | PowerPoint Lesson Slides Upper Elementary Science
By Building Bright Brains
Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Protists - Kingdoms of Living Things? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.
What is included?
✦ 23 total slides for notes and examples.
Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Protists definition
✦ Kingdom of Protists:
✦ Protozoa Environment
✦ Examples of Protozoa
✦ Diatoms
✦ Examples of Fungus-like Protists
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