Jennifer Ruppert

A fun bird beak lab -- using spoons, tweezers, clothespins and coffee stirrers as your beaks -- and water, marshmallows, sunflower seeds, gummy worms and fruity cheerios. First make a prediction for each beak and each food to see if it will be a good combination in order for that bird to eat. Once your predictions are written down, try it out! The second page shows pictures of actual birds and their beaks and asks which of our objects best describe it's beak. Then you must predict what food

To view two of the files as examples, see Adaptations and Animal Growth which are now FREE! This is a set of 35 files of Scientific Vocabulary based on 5th Grade TEKS in Texas. Each vocabulary word has a definition and most also include an image. These are made for the student to copy into their Interactive Science Notebooks and allow them to draw their own picture. For those students who may need accommodations, extra copies can be made for them to cut and glue into their notebooks. It wor

If you draw each number to the first ten amendments, you can create a mnemonic device -- such as the first amendment is a pencil (number 1) writing on a SCRAP of paper (Speech, Complain, Religion, Assembly, Press) ... draw a 2 to look like a swan holding a rifle - the right to bare arms. I created this comic to help my students remember the first 10 amendments.

Practice Activity reading measurements on a Graduated Cylinder.

A graphic illustrating the difference between Qualitative and Quantitative.

Grades 4-7 Research Project for World Countries

After watching Disney's adaption of "The Miracle Worker" I created this to give my students an opportunity to show their comprehension of the movie. You can stream the movie for free at www.dcmp.org if you are eligible (see below statement from DCMP). "The purpose of the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) library is to provide free-loan captioned and described educational media to benefit K–12 students who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired, or deaf-blind. Teachers/i

Page 1 includes a digram and then page 2 a worksheet for the student to label Complete or Incomplete.

Science Vocabulary with definition and picture. Vocabulary included: adaptation, survive, reproduce, unique niche,

How many quarts are in a gallon? Pints? Cups? Using the BIG G visual you can show your kids how to draw it out and easily remember. I also included images of typical milk packaging so they can compare quantities. It's nothing fancy, but it works!

Given 9 images; happy boy, happy baby, happy girl, sad boy, sad baby, sad girl, sleeping boy, sleeping baby, sleeping girl -- student will listen and point to the picture they heard. Great for newly implanted students working on auditory training!

Science Vocabulary with definition and pictures. Included Vocabulary: Inherited Trait, Learned Characteristic, Offspring, Metamorphosis, Life Cycle

Based on the Frayer method, I created this Vocabulary Word Chart for my kids to use in my classroom. The digital file you are purchasing is a pdf and does not have a watermark. The preview is a jpg at a low resolution.

What is a vehicle? This gives a simple definition and many examples.

Have you seen stunning Tagxedo word shapes and tried to make your own without the same result? This is a quick guide that will show you some of the basics of making a Tagxedo word shape (www.tagxedo.com) and share a few tips on how to get that awesome image!

Clip art for six pairs of vocabulary. Objective: discriminates between vowels differing in first formant information.