Middle School Science Handouts

Bring excitement and independent exploration into your science classroom with these 52 editable Science Enrichment Prompts! Perfect for fostering critical thinking, curiosity, and research skills, this resource allows students to dive into fascinating science topics like the Solar System, Marie Curie, Black Holes, and Paleontology. Each prompt is fully customizable, making it easy to tailor to your specific needs and grade level.

Why Teachers Love This Resource:

• Editable & Flexible: Adjust each prompt to fit your classroom’s unique learning goals.
• Year-Long Enrichment: With 52 weeks of projects, this resource offers continuous learning opportunities.
• Easy to Implement: No prep required—just print, glue into journals, and let students explore!
• Engages Students: Prompts are designed to spark curiosity in students, encouraging independent research on diverse topics.
• Develops Key Skills: Students will build their research, writing, and critical thinking skills, making this an ideal addition to any enrichment program.

Whether you are looking to challenge advanced learners or provide extra support for students needing more engagement, these science prompts make it easy to bring differentiated instruction to your classroom.

Science | Math notebook cover

Enhance your classroom organization with our versatile set of notebook covers! This product includes beautifully designed covers for 10 subjects, plus an editable version that allows you to customize and create additional covers for any subject you need. Perfect for portfolios, binders, folders, or interactive notebooks, these covers will keep your students' materials organized and visually appealing. Whether you're looking to streamline your classroom management or add a personal touch to each subject, these editable notebook covers offer the flexibility and style you need.

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This Scientific Method anchor chart will be sure to help your science students! Print, laminate, and hang up! It's that simple! Or even give each students their own copy to reference!

Looking for a fun, engaging, and educational resource that brings spooky science to life? Look no further! This Arthropleura Spooky Science Packet is perfect for grades 4-6 and offers an interdisciplinary experience by blending STEM and humanities. Whether you're teaching about creepy creatures during the spooky season or exploring ancient life all year long, this packet is a hit with students!

This resource is CCSS-aligned and covers essential skills such as:

• Main Idea and Supporting Details
• Evidence-Based Answers
• Text-Dependent Questions
• Cause and Effect

With reading comprehension activities and opportunities for students to draw, write, and analyze, this resource not only taps into science but also strengthens ELA skills. Students will learn about the giant, prehistoric Arthropleura, a creature from millions of years ago, while practicing critical thinking and creativity.

What’s Included:

• Engaging informational text about Arthropleura
• Vocabulary practice for key terms like invertebrate, herbivore, and exoskeleton
• Comprehension questions aligned to CCSS standards
• Main Idea and Supporting Details worksheet
• Cause and Effect chart
• Visual activity for drawing and labeling Arthropleura

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• Easy to integrate into your current units on prehistoric life, ecosystems, or spooky creatures

This ready-to-go packet will captivate your students with spooky, scientific fun while building key academic skills. Whether you’re in it for Halloween or curious creatures from the past, this interdisciplinary resource is the perfect addition to your classroom!

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We hope you enjoy our FREE Autumn Mindfulness Hunt. Get outside and connect with nature! Download our FREE Autumn Mindfulness Hunt now!

Ask the children to use this worksheet to to record what they SEE, HEAR, SMELL and FEEL as they walk outside on a nice Autumn day.

Recommended sequence

1. Review the 5 senses.

2. Take a moment to tune in, breathe, and just be.

3. Give instructions for how to quietly be in the outside world, using keen observation and a relaxed mind to fill in this chart.

4. Give plenty of time for students to draw or write their findings.

5. Come together as a group and find out what people observed and any impact it had on them.

Tips for your mindfulness nature walk

1. Walk at a natural, slow pace. Take your time to take in the beauty of nature around you. Look around you. Notice the trees around you. Are they starting to change colors? Are they losing their leaves?
2. Take in deep breaths through your nose. Shift your awareness to your smell. What do you smell? Does it smell earthy? Do you smell the leaves around you?
3. Listen. What do you hear? Are there animals bustling around? Do you hear the leaves crunching underneath your feet?
4. Pick up a few leaves. How do they feel? Are they starting to decompose? Are they crunchy? What color are they?
5. Shift your attention back to walking. Feel the physical sensation of walking. One foot up, one foot down. Notice your feet touching the ground. How do you feel?
6. At the end of your walk, pause and take a moment. Stand still and take in a deep breath. Take a look around and notice your feelings.

Explore the Key Figures and Discoveries of the Scientific Revolution through Interactive Stations!

Engage your students with this stations-based activity that dives into the major breakthroughs and key figures of the Scientific Revolution. This activity is perfect for middle and high school world history classes, encouraging students to collaborate, think critically, and explore historical developments in science.

What's Included:

• Multiple stations featuring key scientists such as Galileo, Newton, Kepler, and Copernicus
• Reading passages at each station to guide students through the major inventions, discoveries, and concepts of the Scientific Revolution
• Comprehension questions and reflection prompts to deepen understanding of how these ideas changed the world
• Perfect for group work, independent study, or engaging whole-class discussions
• Easily adaptable to different class sizes and learning styles

Make history come alive with this interactive Scientific Revolution Stations Activity that fosters engagement, critical thinking, and a deeper understanding of this pivotal era in history.

A fast an easy way to introduce vocabulary to your students! Print and hand out, and an answer key is included.

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Unlock the mysteries of ocean currents with a unique and engaging classroom lesson that brings science to life! This lesson uses adorable rubber ducks to illustrate how ocean currents function and impact the planet. Great for visual and kinesthetic learners.

Looking for a inquiry based investigation ready to go lesson for teaching ocean currents? This activity includes...

• Google slides to go through with students.
• Student handout link
• Tips in the Speaker notes on the Slides
• Exit ticket to assess learning
• Rubber ducks!

Tennessee State Standards

• 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. 

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.

Very fun and interactive activity for students learning about ocean currents and density.

Help students with their science writing skills with this quick reference for the CER strategy. Each tab tells about the parts of a CER and gives examples of each part in practice.

Give out to each individual student for their own reference, or keep on hand as a class set when students need some guidance about the process.

Includes

• PDF with the flip book pages
• Instructions on how to make the flip book

Webquest includes a vocabulary with a link to find a definition and a function.

Included vocabulary:

Sure! Here's a list of the vocabulary words included in this webquest:

1. Cell Membrane

2. Cytoplasm

3. Nucleus

4. Nuclear Envelope

5. Nucleolus

6. Mitochondria

7. Ribosomes

8. Endoplasmic Reticulum (Rough)

9. Endoplasmic Reticulum (Smooth)

10. Golgi Apparatus

11. Lysosomes

12. Peroxisomes

13. Cytoskeleton

14. Microfilaments

15. Microtubules

16. Intermediate Filaments

17. Cell Wall (Plant Cells)

18. Chloroplasts (Plant Cells)

19. Central Vacuole (Plant Cells)

20. Nucleoid (Prokaryotic Cells)

21. Flagella (Prokaryotic Cells)

22. Pili (Prokaryotic Cells)

I've been asked by many to create a document that encompasses lots of comprehension texts and questions, specifically related to science. Interdisciplinary approaches are becoming more popular, but it's not always easy to find texts that meet the needs of our curriculum!

This 73-page document includes 22 different texts directly linked to grade 6 science units; including biodiversity and protecting our planet, space and the solar system, air and flight, as well as grade 5 concepts including forces and structures and matter.

All except two texts come with comprehension questions.

These will allow you to explore texts in your LA reading blocks, and will allow your students to improve their comprehension. These texts are informational, or hybrid texts that will give your students rich, meaningful readings. They're printer-friendly, with no foolish fonts or babyish images.

In this collection, you'll find the following titles:

1. Les espèces menacées
2. Les niveaux de risque et l’UICN
3. Des animaux fascinants
4. Une deuxième vie
5. Le gaspillage alimentaire
6. Des choix réfléchis
7. L’air et la troposphère
8. L’ornithoptère
9. La montgolfière de Blanchard
10. Un bref historique - les frères Wright
11. Les changements de la matière
12. Les changements
13. Les forces
14. Les phénomènes naturelles et la force
15. Les machines simples
16. Les systèmes mécaniques
17. L’avantage mécanique
18. Le Titanic
19. Un pas de géant: Neil Armstrong
20. La station spatiale internationale
21. Notre système solaire
22. Terre: une combinaison parfaite

Hopefully this helps you find common ground in your language block, so you can move quicker through the science units you're expected to cover before year's end.

Sunrise/Sunset/Earth’s Axis/Seasons/Shadows/Tilt  Scavenger Hunt 

Hi fellow teachers

I often do scavenger hunts in grade 4 to 7  classrooms. I find them particularly useful when I’m feeling tired or lacking energy (hey, we’ve all been there).

Why do I like them?

1. They are easy to set up, 
2. The students get to move around
3. The students are focussed & engaged
4. The students enjoy it 
5. The teacher is free to take notes, observe and give guidance, if necessary. 

It can look chaotic, but if observed you can see students really trying, really reading the information, and really collaborating and cooperating.

How it works:

There are two components:

1. A two page worksheet (print double-sided, one per student)
2. 12 informational panels that contain the answers to the questions (these need to be printed on one side, cut in half and pinned in various locations around your room).
3. Hand out the worksheet and off they go!

My students are currently doing this very activity as I write!

The whole activity takes about 40 minutes and I might suggest watching a couple of Youtube videos on the topic to ‘get them in the mood.

Good luck!

Unlock Student Success with Our Comprehensive Science 7 Progress Tracker Log Sheets!

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Teaching Science/Weather/Water Cycle through fun activities. Students will have a great time searching for the 29 hidden words.

Components:

- 1 Word Search in ink

- 1 Word Search in color

- 1 Word Search Solution in ink

- 1 Word Search Solution in color

“Word Search: Water Cycle” Word List:

ATMOSPHERE, CLOUDS, COOL, CONDENSATION, CONSTANT, DROPLET, EARTH, EVAPORATION, FALL, FLOW, FORM, GRAVITY, GROUNDWATER, LAND, LIQUID, MOISTURE, MOVEMENT, OCEAN, PARTICLE, PRECIPITATION, RAINDROPS, RISE, RUNOFF, SINK, SKY, SUN, VAPOR, WARM, WATER CYCLE

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Holiday Word Search: Ramadan

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Back to School Word Search: 4 in 1 Bundle

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Dive into the intriguing world of fungi with our detailed writing prompts and note-taking sheets on the fungi life cycle. Perfect for students of all ages, these educational resources offer engaging activities and structured note-taking templates to enhance understanding of fungi development. From spore formation to fruiting bodies, each stage of the fungi life cycle is meticulously covered, fostering curiosity and scientific exploration. Ideal for classroom use or individual study, these sheets support a hands-on learning approach, making the study of fungi both fun and informative.

These writing prompts would be perfectly paired with the Fungi Life Cycle Full Unit Study:
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CHEMISTRY Writing Chemical Formulas Practice Worksheets is a great resource for reviewing how to write chemical formulas in class. Students need to write the chemical formulas by combining the anions and cations given, either in form of simple ions or polyatomic ions. This resource includes 2 pages of worksheets, [BONUS] a quick test, and answer keys.

This resource includes BOTH a digital version and a PDF version. After purchase, click the white “Open in Easel" button on this page. This will give you access to a digital overlay where students can type in their answers or you can even assign it in Google Classroom!

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"Design a Catapult for Cupid's Valentine's Day Delivery Challenge: The Ultimate STEM Project"

Breaking News: Cupid's bow and arrow are out of commission and he needs your help to deliver valentines to the right people on Valentine's Day.

Student Worksheet: This worksheet will spark your students imaginations, helping them create a catapult to deliver Cupid's valentines.

Extensions: Take the project to the next level by graphing the distances the catapult can reach. Plot your data and see how you can improve your design for maximum impact.

With this exciting STEM Challenge, you can bring the magic of Valentine's Day to life and help Cupid make the day extra special for everyone.

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Do you need an engaging mindfulness activity for Pi Day? Do your students struggle to calm down? Then download this zentangle Pi Day Mindfulness Coloring Sheets Activity! These relaxing coloring pages can be used as calm down strategies or for self care. A simpler version is included to support differentiating instruction!

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As time moves on, many great Americans who have shaped the arts, sciences, sports, and history of our nation and culture get lost in time. The Great Americans Series of Biographies and Worksheets is an easy-to-read 200-word biography of just the highlights of each subject's life designed to keep young readers engaged. The questions worksheet ensures student reading comprehension and grasp of key points. The vocabulary page introduces and explains new words, phrases, and/or institutions students may not have been familiar with. The Quotes page challenges students to write what the quote means to them. The Great Americans Series is available individually or in bundles, making great bell work. An Answer Key is provided with each worksheet.