Less than $5 5th Grade Earth Sciences Activities (by date, oldest first)

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

Terms included:

• states of matter
• solid
• liquid
• gas
• matter
• chemical property
• physical property
• classify
• mass

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

Terms included:

• weathering
• soil
• erosion
• sedimentary rocks
• sediment
• fossils
• evidence
• fossil fuels
• geologic time

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

Terms included:

• force
• motion
• work
• gravity
• friction
• spring scale
• simple machine
• pulley
• lever

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

Terms included:

• trait
• adaptation
• inherited trait
• learned behavior
• genetic material
• structure
• function
• offspring
• habitat

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

Terms included:

• energy transfer
• interact
• food chain
• food web
• carbon-oxygen cycle
• photosynthesis
• overpopulation
• environmental
• disturbance
• cell respiration

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

Terms included:

• scientific method
• hypothesis
• identify
• investigate
• record
• data
• interpret
• infer
• conclusion

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

Terms included:

• metamorphosis
• insect
• complete metamorphosis
• incomplete metamorphosis
• egg
• larva
• pupa
• nymph
• life cycle

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

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

Terms included:

• axis
• rotation
• sunrise
• sunset
• horizon
• day/night cycle
• cardinal directions
• noon
• illuminate

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

Terms included:

• freezing point
• boiling point
• Celsius scale
• ingredients
• phase change
• observe
• heating
• cooling
• predict

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

Terms included:

• atmosphere
• meteorologist
• rain gauge
• anemometer
• weather front
• barometer
• wind / weathervane
• weather forecast
• Fahrenheit

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

Terms included:

• float
• density
• solution
• compare
• magnetism
• sink
• conductor
• insulator
• mixture

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

Terms included:

• alternative energy
• wind energy
• solar energy
• hydroelectric energy
• geothermal energy
• ethanol
• recycle
• non-renewable energy
• renewable energy

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

Terms included:

• tilt
• revolve
• seasons
• elliptical
• tides
• high tide
• low tide
• direct sunlight
• indirect sunlight

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

Terms included:

• landform
• delta
• canyon
• sand dune
• natural disaster
• landslide
• earthquake
• mountain
• volcanic eruption

Are you searching for a unique and engaging way to teach kids about the water cycle? Our Water Cycle Flexagon Craft offers a dynamic and hands-on approach to learning this essential environmental process. This printable flexagon activity allows children to cut, print, and fold their own flexagon, a fun, interactive tool that visually demonstrates the stages of the water cycle—evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. By manipulating the flexagon, kids can explore how water moves through its continuous cycle in a creative and memorable way.

Perfect for science lessons, environmental education, homeschooling, or at-home learning, this flexagon craft makes understanding the water cycle both enjoyable and interactive. Kids will love the tactile experience of crafting and using their flexagon, enhancing their grasp of how water circulates through the environment.

What’s Included in the Water Cycle Flexagon Pack:

• Printable Flexagon Templates: Detailed templates for each stage of the water cycle, ready to print and assemble.
• Instructional Guide: Easy-to-follow instructions for cutting, folding, and constructing the flexagon.
• Illustrative Graphics: Visuals for evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection stages to aid understanding.
• Educational Content: Brief descriptions of each water cycle stage included on the flexagon.

Dive into the dynamic process of the water cycle with our Water Cycle Flexagon Craft, and let your kids discover the continuous journey of water through a creative and interactive activity!

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.

Are you looking for a captivating way to teach kids about the incredible life cycle of stars? Our Star Life Cycle Foldouts offer a hands-on, educational craft that takes children through the fascinating stages of stellar evolution. From the birth of a star in a nebula to its final stages as a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole, these foldouts provide a visual and descriptive journey through each phase of a star's life.

Perfect for science lessons, astronomy units, or at-home learning, this craft activity makes complex astronomical concepts accessible and engaging for children. By assembling each foldout, kids will gain a deeper understanding of how stars evolve over time, making it an ideal resource for sparking interest in the wonders of space.

Illuminate the life cycle of stars with our Star Life Cycle Foldouts, and help your kids explore the birth, growth, and dramatic endings of stars in a creative and educational way!

IN ADDITION, this resource also includes an information handout about Life Cycles. This handout is designed to enhance students' comprehension by providing detailed explanations of the various stages of life cycles found in nature. Through this resource, students will develop a more profound understanding of how living organisms grow, change, and adapt over time, fostering a deeper connection with the natural world and promoting critical thinking about biological processes.

Wild weather! Teach about what people do to prepare for storms, hurricanes, and wild winter weather! (Safety and emergency preparation). Includes: Crossword Puzzle and Word Search Puzzle (that reinforces vocabulary words used in the Crossword).

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Topics explored: weather | storms | storm | weather preparations | autumn | fall | winter

Two fall gravity word puzzles and Sir Isaac Newton introduction: Things That Fall Puzzle page, which explores the concept of gravity through a fun word search and “secret code” fill-in puzzle.

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Vocabulary Words Included:

acorns apples comets empires grades hail Humpty Dumpty leaves London Bridge meteors night olives parachutes peaches pears pecans people rain snowflakes stars sweat tears temperatures water balloons

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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.