Do you want to start the science year off right? Do you want to engage and interest kids in their learning with cool investigations? Do you want to give them the science skills they need to set them up for success? OF COURSE!

This unit is PERFECT to kick off the year with. I love it because it engages and interests the students, provides them a good foundation about the building blocks of science AND can be used totally on its own. You can just grab this unit and go - everything you need is in the unit!

This 36-page unit on scientific inquiry, method and process skills includes:
-Essential questions
-I Can statements
-a list of unit vocabulary
-Ohio-based standards (can easily be adapted to your own state's standards)
-4 assessments (both formative and summative)
-a materials list
-a suggested schedule outlining what you need to do on each day of the unit (I have outlined it for three weeks but normally it takes me four)
-all of the handouts, rubrics, and lab activities you need
-student examples for some handouts

NOTE: This product INCLUDES the Scientist Wanted Poster project which is also listed as a separate item. Hooray!!

I have attached a preview file to this listing. Please let me know if you have any questions and I would be happy to answer them.

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