About this Product

• This product included bell ringers designed to be completed as warmups or exit slips.

• A single activity usually can be completed in five minutes.

• Students do NOT need prior knowledge to complete a bell ringer.

• Students DO need a dictionary or glossary to complete a bell ringer.

• Bell ringers align with my interactive notebook chapters.

• Half and full page printing options. Full page format is optimized for three-ring-binders.

• Fillable Slides for electronic distribution and collection included.

• Answer key included.

Important Notes:

• Download a FREE Bell Ringer Unit to learn more about my bell ringers

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DISTANCE LEARNING - DIGITAL ASSIGNMENTS

This resource includes modified files that facilitate distance learning:

• Fillable slides designed to work with Google Slides and Microsoft PowerPoint

Important Notes about Digital Assignments:

• Digital bell ringers CANNOT be edited. Only the text boxes or forms can be manipulated.

• Each bell ringer is saved as an individual file with the key removed for easy distribution.

Digital Bell Ringers can be shared via platforms that are password-protected or accessible only to students.

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Topics Covered:

Bell Ringer #1: Growth and Development

Bell Ringer #2: Patterns of Development

Bell Ringer #3: Animal Life Cycle

Bell Ringer #4: Plant Life Cycle

Bell Ringer #5: Metamorphosis

Bell Ringer #6: Frog Life Cycle

Bell Ringer #7: Butterfly Life Cycle

Bell Ringer #8: Chicken Life Cycle

Bell Ringer #9: Flowering Plant Life Cycle

Bell Ringer #10: Parent vs. Offspring

Differentiation and Tiering

A colored shape code is denoted to help you differentiate concepts:

• Bell ringers with a green circle cover basic ideas and understandings.

• Bell ringers with a blue square cover intermediate ideas and understandings.

• Bell ringers with a black diamond cover advanced ideas and understandings.

Questions are assigned a "signal strength" and probe lower, mid and higher order thinking:

• Part A questions with a “low” signal assess the ability to remember, recall and understand

• Part B questions with a “medium” signal assess the ability to apply, analyze or explain

• Part C questions with a “high” signal assess the ability to evaluate, judge or interpret

NGSS Alignment

• This resource supports NGSS 3-LS1-1 and 3-LS3-1.

TERMS OF USE

• All rights reserved by Stephanie Elkowitz.

• This product is to be used by the original purchaser only.

• Intended for classroom and personal use only.

• Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited.

• This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view.

• Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).