Elementary Programs Basic Principles Student Assessment PDFs
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Social Studies Leveled Daily Curriculum {LEVEL 0.5}
This year-long social studies curriculum focuses on teaching social studies skills and concepts. This resource is designed for special education students and autistic learners as it is visual-based and features a step-by-step progression of skills. It includes a non-writer version (requires only pre-writing skills) for seamlessly differentiated instruction. This curriculum includes embedded assessments allowing for data-based decision making and accurate progress monitoring. Simplify your social
PreK - 5th
Basic Principles
Science Leveled Daily Curriculum {LEVEL 0.5}
This year-long science curriculum focuses on teaching science skills and concepts. This resource is designed for special education students and autistic learners as it is visual-based and features a step-by-step progression of skills. This curriculum includes embedded assessments allowing for data-based decision making and accurate progress monitoring. Simplify your science instruction and planning with this daily activity-based curriculum, utilizing over 180 engaging activities that promote s
PreK - 5th
Basic Principles
Scientific Method Variables Shuffleboard Game Interactive Print & Digital Gr.5-9
Teach experimental design and scientific method variables with this hands-on interactive STEM activity for grades 5-9. Includes 13 scenarios in print & digital formats to engage students in learning independent, dependent, and control variables. No prep.Engaging Scientific Method Variables Game for Interactive LearningTransform your science lessons with this innovative shuffleboard game that makes learning about experimental design fun and interactive. This engaging scientific method lesson use
5th - 9th
Basic Principles, Physical Science, Science
CCSS, NGSS
RI.3.4
, RI.4.4
, RI.5.4
+20
Parts of the Brain Nervous System Activity Teamwork The Human Body Systems
🧠 Spark curiosity and teamwork with this Brain & Nervous System STEM Challenge! Perfect for grades 4–6, this resource blends science content with team-building activities to create a fun and engaging classroom competition. Students work in teams to complete hands-on builder challenges and creative talker challenges, all themed around the brain and nervous system. What’s Inside ✅ Teacher Quick-Start Guide + Script ✅ Student handouts for TALKER & BUILDER challenges ✅ BARFS strategy poster
4th - 6th
Anatomy, Basic Principles, Engineering
CCSS, NGSS
CCRA.SL.1
, MP1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
+2
Push and Pull STEM
This Pushes and Pulls engineering STEM activity engages students' problem solving skills, engineering thinking, and math skills for Force and Motion. They will love creating a way to successfully move the rocks! This STEM activity targets the NGSS Standards for Force and Motion.
In this Pushes and Pulls Engineering challenge the truck broke down, but the rocks still need moved! Students will build a way to move the rocks using the available supplies, but be sure to stay on budget!
Please
K - 3rd
Basic Principles, Engineering
Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
First Grade Readiness Assessment Life Skills Special PreK Checklist Data Sheets
Assessing life skills is an important part of creating individualized education plans (IEPs) for students with special needs. This comprehensive baseline assessment is perfect for special education teachers looking to get a baseline of their students' abilities across a wide range of life skills. This assessment covers key areas of daily living, such as hygiene, cooking, cleaning, money management, and more. With over 50 assessment items, this resource will help you accurately assess your studen
PreK - 2nd
Basic Principles
Marble Maze STEM
Balls and Ramps STEM - The toy company wants to sell a marble maze. They need designers to come up creative ideas for a new marble maze. Your students need to design a marble maze on a cardboard box lid using the available supplies while sticking to a budget. They will use their creative thinking, engineering design and math skills for the STEM challenge. This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards.
Suggested Plan of Implementation:
Prior Week: Send home the parent letter requesting
K - 5th
Basic Principles, Engineering
Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
CER Practice Earth Science CER Activities 5th Grade Science Graph Analysis
Help your students master Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (CER) while analyzing real-world Earth Science data! This resource includes 20 ready-to-use graph activities that make scientific reasoning engaging and accessible for 5th graders. Students will practice interpreting data, writing CERs, and connecting science concepts to visual evidence — all aligned to NGSS 5-ESS standards and state science standards. What’s Included: ✅ 20 Earth Science Graphs (topics include water distribution, moon p
5th
Basic Principles, Earth Sciences, General Science
NGSS
5-ESS2-2
, 5-ESS1-2
, 5-ESS1-1
+1
Back to School STEM Challenge - Apple Wrecking Ball - Team Building Paperless
This back-to-school STEM / STEAM Challenge brings the joy back to your classroom with collaborative, hands-on, brain-busting work (disguised as fun)! This is a great intro to Newton’s Third Law of Motion, which is part of 3rd and middle school NGSS standards! (3PS2-1, MS-PS2-1, and MS-PS2-2) The basic premise: Individually or in partners/groups, students will design and build an apple wrecking ball built for annihilation! • Students will set up marker “bowling pins” and try to knock down as many
2nd - 8th
Basic Principles, Engineering, Social Emotional Learning
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
+7
First Week of School Science STEM Activity First Day of School Team Building
This Apple Wrecking Ball Back to School STEM Challenge is the perfect hands-on experience to launch your first week of school science activities while introducing or reinforcing Newton’s Third Law of Motion in a highly engaging way. Whether you're teaching upper elementary or middle school, this engineering challenge promotes team building, creative problem-solving, and critical thinking, ideal for the first day of school STEM activities or any beginning of the year science activities focuse
2nd - 8th
Basic Principles, Engineering, Social Emotional Learning
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
+7
Groundhog Day STEM - Groundhog Day Science - Groundhog Day Shadows Art & Science
This Groundhog Day STEM challenge engages students in exploring light, shadows, and design through hands-on experimentation and creative shadow art. Bring Groundhog Day to life in your classroom with this versatile STEM and science activity combining both printable and digital Google Slides™ resources. Perfect for grades 2–8, this resource is packed with NGSS-aligned lessons, editable templates, and extensions for a variety of classroom settings. How It Works:Students work individually or i
2nd - 8th
Basic Principles, Engineering, Visual Arts
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
+7
Heavy vs Light Cut and Paste Activity
Use this cut and paste activity as morning work, in small groups, or as an assessment to see how your students are mastering the skill! Thank you for visiting my sweet little TPT store. Please leave feedback if you download. Enjoy!!
PreK - 1st
Basic Principles, Science
Scientific Method Unit
Kick off your science year with two weeks of ready-to-use Scientific Method lesson plans and activities that will have your students thinking, questioning, and experimenting like real scientists! This engaging Scientific Method unit is packed with hands-on experiments, interactive science stations, and easy-to-use student notes that make inquiry-based learning simple to implement. This resource is perfect for 4th, 5th, 6th, and middle school science classrooms looking to make the Scientific
3rd - 5th
Basic Principles, Physical Science, Science
NGSS
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Newton's Laws of Motion Task Cards: Force and Motion, Physics, Science Center
Are you struggling to find engaging, hands-on activities to help your students truly understand Newton's Laws of Motion and apply Force and Motion concepts to real-world situations? These interactive task cards are the perfect solution to reinforce Inertia, Acceleration (F=ma), and Action-Reaction in your Physical Science classroom, transforming abstract physics theories into easy-to-grasp scenarios. What is included:24 Task Cards in Full Color: Vibrant illustrations to engage visual learn
5th - 9th
Basic Principles, Informational Text, Physical Science
Science Fair Project: A complete guide to completing a project. Science Inquiry
Whether you are wanting to enter your students in a science fair, or you desire to add completing a science project to your curriculum, use these documents to lead your students to success in the inquiry process. I created documents using over 30 years of experience in leading students to compete in science fairs. Included are an overview of how to do a science fair project, and seperate docuements for each step. Teacher pages and student pages are included.
4th - 9th
Basic Principles, Engineering, General Science
NGSS
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
+1
Design Thinking Notebook | Introduction to Engineering Interactive notebooks
Introduce your students to the EDC in an interactive and comprehensive way! This print-and-go interactive notebook is perfect for 5th - 7th grade STEM, science, engineering, or design-thinking. Aligned with NGSS and designed for middle school engagement, this resource helps students connect real-world problem solving with hands-on learning—while building academic vocabulary and critical thinking. ✨ What’s Included: ✅ Engineering Design Cycle Overview Wheel✂️ Cut-and-Paste Sequencing Activitie
5th - 8th
Basic Principles, Engineering
NGSS
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
+4
Building Blocks Speed Lab: Heavy vs. Light Cars
Grade Levels: Kindergarten - 8th Grade Duration: 60 minutes Building Blocks Speed Lab: Heavy vs. Light Cars (Lesson Plan + Student Worksheet) Engage your students in a fun, hands-on investigation of motion, weight, and engineering design with this interactive STEM lesson! In this project, students design, build, and test Building Blocks cars to explore how weight affects the distance a car travels down a ramp. Through repeated trials, measurement, sketching, and data collection, students practic
K - 8th
Basic Principles, Measurement, Physics
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
+5
Communicable Diseases Unit Bundle | Health & Life Science Grades 4–8 Review
🔬 You planned a disease unit. Now you need it to actually work. One activity isn't enough — and building it all yourself takes hours. This bundle does it for you. Start Monday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ → Communicable Diseases Unit Bundle → Health & Life Science | Grades 4–8 → 29 Pages + 7-Page Answer Key | Ready to Print ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This complete communicable diseases bundle gives grades 4–8 teachers everything needed to launch, teach, and assess a full health scien
4th - 8th
Basic Principles, Health, Vocabulary
Little Explorers Learning Path - Play. Discover. Grow.
This is a 6-month, fully planned homeschool curriculum for ages 3–5 that’s designed to be simple, fun, and completely stress-free for parents. Everything is already done for you. It includes 24 weeks of themed learning—like fall, forest, animals, weather, art, and music—and each week has daily lesson plans (Monday–Friday) that tell you exactly what to do. Every day follows an easy routine: Circle time (songs, discussion)Learning activity (early reading or math)Hands-on craft or projectMovemen
PreK
Alphabet, Basic Principles, Numbers
Winter Sports Science Reading with Questions Inspired by Winter Olympics 2026
Are you searching for a dynamic and engaging way to fuse critical science concepts with compelling reading practice, all while capturing the excitement of the upcoming Winter Games? Introducing Winter Sports Science Reading Passages Questions| Inspired by Winter Olympics 2026 – your all-in-one solution for igniting student curiosity and reinforcing essential science literacy. This meticulously crafted resource seamlessly blends high-interest reading with in-depth scientific exploration, offerin
3rd - 7th
Basic Principles, Writing
Summer Toddler Activities | Insects Unit | Early English & Science CLIL
This "The Secret Life of Grass" unit is a teacher-tested, low-prep printable pack designed for children aged 2-3. It’s perfect for both native English speakers and ESL/ELL learners, combining early science, language development, and fine motor practice. What’s Inside? (Engaging Activities):Insect Discovery Cards: Visual recognition and vocabulary building (Ant, Bee, Snail, Grasshopper).The Crumb Carrier Pathway: Sensory tracing to develop pincer grasp and pre-writing skills.Who Lives Where? Log
PreK
Basic Principles, Other (Arts), Speaking & Listening
Also included in: Summer Toddler Learning Bundle: 4 Complete Units for Ages 2–3
Hot vs Cold Sorting with Real Pictures (PK–2 SPED)
Hot vs Cold Sorting with Real Pictures (PK–2 SPED) Help your students stop guessing and start making safe choices with this hands-on, real-life learning system. This isn’t just a sorting activity — it’s a complete life skills routine that teaches students how to look, think, and decide in everyday situations. 🧠 WHY TEACHERS LOVE THIS ✔ Real photos = no confusion, no guessing ✔ Built for special education + life skills ✔ Clear, structured routine students actually follow ✔ Works for ce
PreK - 2nd
Basic Principles, Environment, General Science
Chemical Reactions Science and STEM Unit | Acids and Bases | Experiment in a Bag
Spark Curiosity with an engaging chemical change investigation, exploration & a secret message STEM project! We have taken the classic "reaction in a bag" lab up a notch by applying the scientific method and engineering design process. Students will investigate evidence of a chemical change, acid-base reactions, and the pH scale using red cabbage juice. We organized this project-based unit so you can bring chemistry to life with Grades 4–8. ✅ What’s Included: Teacher Background and Tips – A c
4th - 8th
Basic Principles, Chemistry, Physical Science
NGSS
MS-ETS1-2
, 5-PS1-3
, 5-PS1-4
+7
File Folder Sorting Games: Foundational Skills for Special Education and Autism
Transform your special education classroom with 10 foundational file folder sorting games that work TWO ways - as reusable hands-on centers OR quick-prep cut & paste worksheets!🎯 DUAL-USE FORMAT = MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY!Buy once, use TWO ways! Each sorting activity can be prepared as: ✅ Durable file folder games (laminate, add velcro, use for years) ✅ Consumable worksheets (print and go for homework or assessment) YOU choose the format that fits your time, budget, and students' needs. Many teach
PreK - 2nd
Basic Principles, Graphing, Numbers
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