One of our favorite STEM challenges! The combination of marshmallows (or ping pong balls) and aliens makes this a winning STEM challenge! With the Space Lander Challenge, student teams build a lander using the Engineering Design Process to keep two marshmallow "aliens" or "astronauts" inside a cup as it is dropped from various heights. Using straws, index cards, and mini marshmallows or cotton balls, students apply concepts of shock-absorption, drag forces, and stability, to create and test desi

Cell Structure and Function Science and Literacy Lesson Set - DISTANCE LEARNING- Common Core and STAAR (TEKS) alignedAll new graphics!! Just updated with DIGITAL Google Slides version!!⭐️ Easy to follow!⭐️ Fun for the students!These activities are created to incorporate reading and writing into the Science curriculum. The informational text in this set is written to best fit the 5th and 6th grade reading levels. This lesson set is designed to be on level for 5th grade and covers standards from 5

Interactive Reading Notebook Fiction and Nonfiction Mega Bundle (Grades 5-12) A YEAR'S WORTH of activities: over 220 Common-Core aligned interactive reading foldable activities for secondary students. You do not have to use the Common Core State Standards to utilize this bundle! This download includes the following products:Interactive Notebook Reading Literature Bundle for ANY Novel or StoryInteractive Reading Notebook for Nonfiction Informational TextsInteractive Notebook Mini Books: Bundle of

Get your students engaged with this "A Closer Look at: Photosynthesis" reading passage and activities while meeting their reading level needs! This is perfect for at home learning or distance learning in both ELA and Science as well as part of a plants unit, reading nonfiction texts, and for guided reading groups. This passage has been differentiated for 3 reading levels (Grade Level Equivalents of 2.5-4.5). Please take a look at the preview for a closer look! WHAT'S INCLUDED:• Vocabulary Cha

Updated to Include Distance Learning Options. Each article sub plan comes in two versions with full answer keys: 1) Easily printable PDFs, as well as 2) Google Slides. Students can type in their answers directly in the Google Slides for paperless classrooms / distance learning. Don't fear, get your emergency secondary science sub plans right here! This bundle contains 52 SCIENCE ARTICLES with questions and full answer keys at 44% OFF the price of them separately. A whole year's worth of s

Weather vs. Climate Science and Literacy Lesson Set (STAAR & Common Core) - Common Core and 5th grade STAAR (TEKS) aligned Easy to follow! Fun for the students!These activities are created to incorporate reading and writing into the Science curriculum. This lesson is designed to fit the typical 45-50 minute Science class time, while leaving time for other learning activities such as using an interactive science notebook, word wall activities, and writing in planners.These activities are crea

Reinforce learning of graphing and graph interpretation with this fun zombie themed activity! This worksheet is perfect as a review prior to an exam or standardized test. Check out the PREVIEW for an idea of everything included in this engaging lesson!I created this lesson for my middle school students, but several teachers on my campus have used it with their upper elementary students. Perfect for math and science classrooms! I always feel the need to review graphing with my students, especiall

This resource is a set of 34 Warm-Ups, Bell-Ringers, Exit Slips, and/or Interactive Notebook Pages for your Introduction to Biology unit. These activities are perfect for the first few minutes of your class. Both printable and digital versions are included. The 34 student pages cover the topics covered at the beginning of a biology or life science class: Scientific Method, Graphing, Early Ideas About Science, Levels of Cellular Organization, Metric System, Scientific Notation, The Microscope,

This is a FREE 26 slide PowerPoint presentation on the nature of science and the scientific method. Choose to use the traditional printable version, or the paperless, digital Google Apps version. The slides are colorful and visually appealing. Steps of the scientific method are covered, but more importantly, the lesson provides examples and practice problems illustrating the application of the scientific method. Analysis questions and answers are included.What is included in this resource?A 2

This 30 slide PowerPoint and notes bundle (printable and digital) covers the skills of graphing, creating data tables, and analyzing data. This resource will provide your science students with a solid foundation and/or review of these most important science skills. Students will interpret graphs, use graphs to make predictions, learn to organize data in data tables, and learn to construct line graphs, bar graphs, and pie graphs. Many graphing practice problems are included in the notes that

Need back to school icebreakers or games that get students moving, communicating, working in teams, and building relationships? Here are 50+ of our favorite basic activities that are low-cost and low-prep for any classroom or subject!Working as a team, they will learn lessons in communication, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity that are central to the engineering process. Use as a warm-up, icebreaker, team building activity, or basic STEM and engineering design challenge! Also includ

Teach, review, and reinforce these very important science skills: Graphing, Scientific Method, Analyzing data, Experimental design, and Scientific Writing. Teaching the science skills is of the utmost importance. If the skills are taught properly at the beginning of the school year, your students will be equipped with the tools they need to be successful for the rest of the year. Choose to use the traditional printable version, or the paperless, digital Google Apps version.This resource is

This complete teaching unit on classification and taxonomy includes everything you need to teach this unit to your life science or biology students. Many of the resources are available in BOTH printable and digital formats. Resources include a 71-slide PowerPoint presentation packed with colorful and interesting photographs, teacher notes, printable and digital student notes, labs, dichotomous classification keys, classification task cards, kingdoms card sort game, homework assignments, review

This printable or digital problem solving activity teaches students how to build a cladogram and reinforces the important concepts of cladistics to your biology or life science students in grades 8-12. I use this activity when teaching my unit on classification and taxonomy, but it would also be appropriate to use during your lessons on evolution and natural selection. Both printable and digital versions of this resource are included. The student handouts can be printed or used in the paperless

This interactive physical science lab with full teacher key, teaching tips, and even a student permission slip reinforces the concepts of physical and chemical changes.This lab works perfectly for classes that utilize interactive notebooks. The lab is sized (no shrinking or enlarging when copying!) and has dotted lines to guide students when cutting (to avoid wasting class time). Other versions of the lab are included for classrooms that do not utilize interactive notebooks. Students will be ful

Moon Phases Science and Literacy Lesson Set - Common Core and 5th grade STAAR (TEKS) aligned Easy to follow! Fun for the students! These activities are created to incorporate reading and writing into the Science curriculum. This lesson is designed to fit the typical 45-50 minute Science class time, while leaving time for other learning activities such as using an interactive science notebook, word wall activities, and writing in planners. These activities are created to incorporate reading

HIGH-INTEREST 1-page reading comprehension passages middle school kids love! How can they possibly love them, you ask? Easy! These passages are far more interesting and relevant to their everyday lives than most other passages are. Kids in grades 6, 7, and 8 keep reporting they LOVE the texts! And they get the chance to practice skills aligned to ALL 10 Reading Informational Text Standards. Win-win! NO PREP! READY TO GO! MAJOR TIME SAVER!Easily interchangeable formats for any learning situation,

Need an activity to illustrate experimental design? This one is AWESOME!Explore the fundamentals of setting up a scientific study: independent variable, dependent variable, control variables, and articulating the question that will guide your study.Students arrange variables on their “shuffleboard” and, based on their arrangement, formulate a question to investigate the relationship between the independent and dependent variables. Designed to encourage thought about variables, how they relate t

Included:graphic organizer (1 page) for student notes (matter, pure substances, mixtures, elements, compounds, homogeneous & heterogeneous mixtures);graphic organizer (2 pages) for student notes (all of the above plus: metals, nonmetals, metalloids, inorganic, organic, solutions, colloids, suspensions);3 worksheets with images to help students visualize the difference between elements, compounds, and mixtures ***Updated September 2019***;collaborative activity where students sort through ima

In this 9-page activity, students will explore food chains, food webs, energy pyramids, and all the vocabulary terms associated with these concepts. I have included this activity in a traditional printable format as well as a paperless digital format for use in Google Drive, Google Classroom, and/or Microsoft OneDrive.This resource includes:Editable and Printable 9-Page Student Handout (50 Questions)Colorful diagrams and illustrations.3-Pages of pictures to use in cut and paste activitiesCritica

Photosynthesis & Carbon Dioxide Oxygen Cycle Science and Literacy Lesson Set - Common Core, NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards) and STAAR (TEKS) aligned Easy to follow! Fun for the students! These activities are created to incorporate reading and writing into the Science curriculum. . The informational text in this set is written to best fit the 5th and 6th grade reading levels. This lesson set is designed to be on level for 5th grade and covers standards from 5th, 7th, and 8th g

You can use this set of 75 common core science task cards with ANY Science Informational Text Readings. Simply choose the cards you want to use with any article, reading, or passage from the text. These task cards are aligned with the common core science and technical standards, and will help your students learn how to read scientific reading passages.This set of 75 informational science task cards is suitable for all science students in grades 6-12.Task cards are a fantastic way to reinforce

This resource is a set of 59 Warm-Ups, Bell-Ringers, Exit Slips, and/or Interactive Notebook Pages for your units on cell structure, cell division, cellular respiration, and photosynthesis. These activities are perfect for the first few minutes of your class. Both printable and digital versions are included. The 59 student pages cover the topics found in the cell structure and physiology chapters of a traditional high school biology textbook.Both printable and digital versions are included. Th

Ecosystems Science and Literacy Lesson Set - Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and 5th grade STAAR (TEKS) aligned Easy to follow! Fun for the students! These activities are created to incorporate reading and writing into the Science curriculum. This lesson is designed to fit the typical 45-50 minute Science class time, while leaving time for other learning activities such as using an interactive science notebook, word wall activities, and writing in planners. These acti