Updated for distance learning with student handout versions for Google Slides, Seasaw, and Flipgrid! 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

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 Scienc

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 includ

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

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 stude

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

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 co

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,

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 student

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!**Updated to include distance learning icebreaker games and activit

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

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!)

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 ap

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 t

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 i

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”

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, suspe

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. .

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 you

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

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

Plate Tectonics 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 cla

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

Science Skills Mega Bundle: Graphing, Concept Mapping, Scientific Method, Metric System, Scientific Measurement, Lab Safety, Significant Digits, Analyzing Data, Graphic Organizers, Scientific Notation, Scientific Writing, and More!After many years of teaching, I have come to realize that what my st