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Producers, Consumers and Decomposers Oversized Graphic Organizer
By Brittany Henderson
Enhance student understanding of producers, consumers and decomposers with this oversized graphic organizer, designed to facilitate communication of their learning. The unique layout of this graphic organizer provides ample space for writing and drawing, making it an ideal tool for various educational tasks and objectives.
This unique oversized graphic organizer features:
Once completed, these graphic organizers make a striking display, adding a unique touch to your classroom or hallways. The versatile design is perfect for a range of learning activities.
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This oversized graphic organizer is an excellent resource for reinforcing how ecosystems interact and engaging students in their learning process!
Scientific Method Oversized Graphic Organizer
By Brittany Henderson
Enhance student comprehension of the scientific method with this large, specialized graphic organizer. Designed to support and communicate learning effectively, this graphic organizer offers an innovative layout that provides plenty of room for both writing and drawing. It's the perfect tool for a range of activities and objectives related to mastering the scientific method.
This unique oversized graphic organizer features:
Once completed, these graphic organizers make a fun display, adding a unique touch to your classroom or hallways. The versatile design is perfect for a range of learning activities.
This oversized graphic organizer is perfect for:
Includes:
This oversized graphic organizer is an excellent resource for reinforcing the scientific method and engaging students in their learning process!
Earth's Layers Oversized Graphic Organizer
By Brittany Henderson
Enhance student comprehension of the Earth's layers with this large, specialized graphic organizer. Designed to support and communicate learning effectively, this graphic organizer offers an innovative layout that provides plenty of room for both writing and drawing. It's the perfect tool for a range of educational activities and objectives related to the layers of the Earth.
This oversized graphic organizer features:
Once completed, these graphic organizers make a striking display, adding a unique touch to your classroom or hallways. The versatile design is perfect for a range of learning activities.
This oversized graphic organizer is perfect for:
Includes:
This oversized graphic organizer is an excellent resource for reinforcing the layers of the Earth and engaging students in their learning process!
Simple Machines Vocabulary Activity/Graphic Organizer
By Brittany Henderson
Printable PDF and a digital version are included in this distance learning ready activity. Vocabulary activity/graphic organizer helps students see side by side the similarities and differences between the 6 simple machines. Use as a supplement to resources/information you have given or a start for students to do their own research. Print version has a simple tinyurl link for students to see more information about the topic. The resource is included with the digital link for online/digital learners!
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Producers, Consumers and Decomposers Vocabulary Activity/Graphic Organizer
By Brittany Henderson
Printable PDF and a digital version are included in this distance learning ready activity. Vocabulary activity/graphic organizer helps students see side by side the similarities and differences between producers, consumers and decomposers. Use as a supplement to resources/information you have given or a start for students to do their own research. Both versions have a simple tinyurl link for students to see more information about the topic
Next Generation Science Standard: MS-LS2-3.
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Science Olympiad Coach's Guide - Division B and C
By Danielle Mortimore
About to start a science olympiad team at your school? Are you taking over for an already established science olympiad team? This guide will help you stay organized and sane while sponsoring one of the best science school competitions out there! It includes the following sections...
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Coaching Science Olympiad is one of the most exhausting but rewarding academic extracurricular activities. You will see students grow and learn so much and see their love of science and STEM expand! This guide is for new coaches, either those starting their own Science Olympiad program or for those taking over existing programs. I was a Science Olympiad coach for 6 years and am sharing how I was able to stay organized and help students try their best and succeed!
Celebrating Diversity In Nature
By Caramel Bear Classroom
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In our increasingly diverse and multicultural society, it’s more important than ever for teachers to foster inclusion and awareness in the classroom. The increase in diversity doesn’t only relate to race and ethnicity; it can include students of different religions, economic statuses, gender identities, and students with disabilities. Teachers can encourage acceptance and help students to thrive in our diverse world.
This product is designed to make comparisons of diversity in nature and how people can be very diverse. There is beauty in both. It is what makes us unique.
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Cause & Effect Tongue Twister Writing Activities
By Beth Hammett
STEM/STEAM are lots of fun with this tangled tongue twister story that teaches tornado facts and cause and effect! Each slide includes a fun tongue twister that provides information along with a Tornado Fact box with additional info. Includes great safety acronyms for saving lives! This packet is focused on cause and effect and expository writing that addresses STEM/STEAM topics.
The packet also includes:
Cause & Effect Chart
Crossword Puzzle with Answers
Expository Writings (Argument, Compare/Contrast, Persuasive)
Hands-on Extension Activities
Fact Based Information and Writings
Maze
Test Questions & Answers for Assessment
Real Tornado Images
2 Safety Acronyms for Saving Lives
Working with Chronological/Sequential Order
Word Play Tongue Twisters
Word Search with Answers
Great for across curriculum connections between English and Science! Uses critical thinking and problem solving skills. Can be used for AP, GT, homeschooling. Meets CCSS and state writing standards. Fun, engaging, and educational learning packet.
Plant Adaptations Informational Reading Comprehension Passages NGSS 3-LS2
By Science and STEAM Team
This resource contains five non-fiction texts about plant adaptations. It was created
for NGSS 3-LS2 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics. It is also available for use in Google Classroom ™.
Are you having a hard time finding grade-appropriate reading passages about plant
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Cactus
Seaweed
Bearberry
Water Lily
Maple Tree
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Severe Weather and Natural Disasters Nonfiction Texts for Reading Comprehension
By Science and STEAM Team
This resource is an introduction to natural disasters. It contains five informational reading passages about natural disasters. It was made for the NGSS 3-ESS3-1 and 4-ESS3-2 Earth and Human Activity Standards. It covers the following
natural disasters:
Earthquakes
Floods
Hurricanes
Tornadoes
Volcanoes
The passages were written with third graders in mind, but the information is very interesting and complex and would be useful for upper grades as well.
There is a tips sheet for teachers and two recording sheetsfor students. One recording sheet is a graphic organizer for students to fill in as they read. The other one asks them to draw and label the natural disaster they have studied.
These are great to use with the whole class, in small groups, with partners, and even at centers!
There is a bonus mini-poster on natural disasters as well.
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Animal Adaptations Informational Reading Comprehension Passages
By Science and STEAM Team
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Collared Lizard - desert
Clownfish - ocean
Arctic Fox - arctic tundra
Blue Heron - wetlands
Yellow Jacket - temperate forest
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Animal Defenses Nonfiction Texts for Reading Comprehension
By Science and STEAM Team
This resource contains eight non-fiction texts about animal defenses.
There are two passages about animals that use camouflage, two about animals that use chemicals, two about animals that use mimicry, and two about animals that use another method of defense. The passages are written on different levels and are of different length making it easy to differentiate. There are corresponding recording sheets to help students show what they have read about.
The passages were written with fourth graders in mind, but the information is very interesting and complex and would be useful for upper grades as well.
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Severe Weather and Natural Disasters: Five Informational Reading Passages in B&W
By Science and STEAM Team
This resource is an introduction to natural disasters. It contains five informational reading passages. It was made for the NGSS 3-ESS3-1 and 4-ESS3-2 Earth and Human Activity Standards.
It covers the following natural disasters:
Earthquakes
Floods
Hurricanes
Tornadoes
Volcanoes
The passages were written with third graders in mind, but the information is very interesting and complex and would be useful for upper grades as well.
There is a tips sheet for teachers and two recording sheets for students. One recording sheet is a graphic organizer for students to fill in as they read. The other one asks them to draw and label the natural disaster they have studied.
These are great to use whole group, in small groups, with partners, and even at centers!
There is a bonus mini poster on natural disasters as well.
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Land Biomes of the United States Reading Comprehension Passages
By Science and STEAM Team
This resource contains six non-fiction texts about biomes of the United States. It was made for the NGSS 3-LS2 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics.
It covers the following biomes:
desert
grasslands
tropical rainforest
temperate forest
taiga
tundra
The passages were written with third graders in mind, but the information is very interesting and would be useful for upper grades as well. Some passages are shorter than others and have less complex language so that you can easily differentiate for students.
There is a tips sheet for teachers and a recording sheet for students on which they can note where the biome is found, the average annual precipitation, the average temperature, and plants and animals of the biome. Students respond to a question asking if they would like to live and that biome and tell why or why not.
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Animals that Live in Groups Reading Comprehension Articles
By Science and STEAM Team
This resource contains six non-fiction texts about animals that live in groups and the reasons why this is advantageous to them!
There is a complete lesson plan and a graphic organizer for students to fill out while they read.
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Animal Adaptations #2 Informational Reading Comprehension Passages
By Science and STEAM Team
This resource contains six informational reading passages about animal adaptations. There is an engaging animal adaptations worksheet for students to fill out as they read. It was made for the NGSS 3-LS2 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics.
It covers the following animals in the following ecosystems:
Jackrabbit - desert
Great White Shark - ocean
Rock Ptarmigan - arctic tundra
Dragonfly - wetlands
Box Turtle - temperate forest
Armadillo - southern regions (this is an extra because I took these great pics)
The passages were written with third graders in mind, but the information is very interesting and complex and would be useful for upper grades as well. Even I learned things while researching the adaptations! There is a tips sheet for teachers and two recording sheets (differentiated) for students on which they can note the adaptations that their given animal has in order to survive in its ecosystem.
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The Impact of Agriculture and Industry on the Environment Reading Comprehension
By Science and STEAM Team
This resource contains two non-fiction texts. One about the history of agriculture and the problems of agriculture is having on the environment. The second passage is about the history and impact of industries on the environment
There is a lesson plan to follow and worksheets to go along with this.
The passages were written with fifth graders in mind, but the information is very interesting and would be useful for upper grades as well.
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Desert Plant Adaptations Informational Reading Passages and Research NGSS 3-LS2
By Science and STEAM Team
This resource contains an informational reading passage about adaptations that a cactus makes to survive in the desert. There is also a brief passage about deserts. These articles are in color and black and white. There are also four posters of desert plants in bloom, graphic organizers for students to fill out as they read and do research. Suggestions are offered for the teacher as well as for student-appropriate websites to use for research
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Plant Adaptations Reading Comprehension Passages and Activities 2 NGSS 3-LS2
By Science and STEAM Team
- This resource contains six non-fiction texts about plant adaptations. It was created
for NGSS 3-LS2 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics.
- Are you having a hard time finding grade-appropriate reading passages about plant
adaptations? Don't spend any more of your valuable time looking! There are
passages about
Desert Mule's Ear - desert
Mangrove Tree - ocean
Arctic Moss - arctic tundra
Cattails - wetlands
Ferns - temperate forest
Kapok Tree - Rainforest
- A tips sheet provides you with ways to use these passages most effectively.
- Differentiated recording sheets keep students actively engaged and thinking
throughout the reading process.
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Engineering and Design Process Recording Sheets
By Science and STEAM Team
These engineering and design recording sheets are made to go the Next Generation Science Standards**.** There is one sheet for lower elementary and one for upper elementary grades.
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