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Science Logic Puzzles for Middle School
This Science Logic Puzzles for Middle School product has 10 logic puzzles of varying difficulty and factual scientific information. They are great for Back to School days, and can be used for team building, fast finishers, after tests, for close reading or critical thinking exercises, for extra credit, or to fill in those odd schedule days like half days, sub plans, or when you need a fun break. Famous Women InventorsFamous Africa-American InventorsThe Mammals of AustraliaThe Highest Volcanoes
6th - 9th
Basic Principles, General Science, Science
Biology Bell Ringers Graph and Data Analysis 5 Minute Daily Graphs High School
Give your students daily practice analyzing biology data with these ready-to-use, 5-minute bell ringers. Each activity features a high-quality, NGSS-aligned graph and four multiple-choice questions, including one inference or prediction.Aligned to HS-LS1, HS-LS2, HS-LS3, and HS-LS4, these bell ringers cover key biology concepts while building graph reading, trend analysis, and data interpretation skills, which are essential for NGSS success.Why teachers love them:No prep, no grading (Google™ For
8th - 10th
Basic Principles, Biology, General Science
NGSS
HS-LS1-5
, HS-LS2-3
, HS-LS3-1
+6
Human Body Systems Worksheet Bundle | 10 Systems | Anatomy Activity Grades 6-10
😩 Planning a unit on body systems — but your class has THREE different readiness levels? One worksheet never fits all. You prep three versions. You grade three keys. You're exhausted before Friday. → There's a better way. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Human Body Systems Worksheet Bundle 10 Systems · Anatomy Activity · Grades 6–10 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ One purchase. Every learner covered. This complete human body systems unit gives you three ready-to-print tiers for ALL 10 body systems — s
6th - 10th
Anatomy, Basic Principles, Biology
Lab Safety Activity: Use as Stations, Group Work or Independent Work
Do you need a way to review Lab Safety with your students? In this activity your students will read about a lab experience and answer questions related to the safety practices that were demonstrated (or lack their of) in each scenario. This is an easy to implement, print and go activity. This activity can be implemented in a variety of ways: STATIONS: Hang up the Lab Safety Scenario Cards around the room, students walk around and answer the questions. GROUPS: In groups, students can go read
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Basic Principles, Biology, General Science
Ocean Currents and Climate Worksheet - Global Winds Graphs CER Data Analysis
Strengthen your students’ understanding of ocean currents, global winds, and climate systems with this engaging, NGSS-aligned resource. Students will look at climate graphs to find the evidence. Students will: Analyze real-world graphs showing ocean and wind circulation patterns Practice Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) writing using data as evidence. Explore how unequal heating and Earth’s rotation drive global climate patterns. Perfect for bell ringers, practice, or assessment preparation, thi
6th - 8th
Basic Principles, Earth Sciences, General Science
NGSS
MS-ESS2-6
Speciation Activity: Use as Stations, Group Work or Independent Work
Do you need a way to review different types of speciation with your students? In this activity your students will read case studies that cover different types of speciation and answer questions about them. This is an easy to implement, print and go activity that will have your students apply there knowledge of genetics and apply it to real world scenarios. The depth of application makes this assignment best fit for an advanced or AP Biology class. The different case studies in the activity r
8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Basic Principles, Biology, General Science
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
Which Graph Should I Use? | Biology Graphing Skills Worksheet
Students can often read graphs but struggle when asked to choose and create the correct graph from lab data. This resource was designed to explicitly teach students how to select the appropriate graph type before graphing, reducing common errors and building confidence in data analysis. In this activity, students practice identifying independent and dependent variables, determining which graph type best fits the data, and constructing graphs using proper scientific conventions. Visual examples,
7th - 12th
Basic Principles, Biology, General Science
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
Specialized Cells: Think-Pair Share Activity OR Independent Packet
Do you need a way to teach or review Cell Specialization with your students? In this activity your students will read about a specific specialized cell and answer questions based on the passage. The questions focus on the relationship between the structure/organelle composition of the cell and its function. This is an easy to implement, print and go activity that is perfect for biomedical sciences, advanced biology or AP Biology. Specialized Cells Included: Red Blood Cells, Muscle Cells, Ne
8th - 12th
Anatomy, Basic Principles, Biology
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
TEACCH Pets – File Folder Tasks for Special Education 24 Differentiated Activity
TEACCH Pets – File Folder Tasks for Special Education | 24 Differentiated ActivitiesThis resource offers a full set of 24 structured file folder tasks designed specifically for students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and related learning needs. Rooted in the TEACCH framework, these tasks focus on predictable routines, visual structure, and independent work systems that support learners with cognitive, communication, or sensory processing challenges. The theme “Pets” provides highly e
PreK - 6th
Basic Principles, Biology, For All Subjects
Urinary System Worksheets | Human Body Science Anatomy Review Grades 6–10
😩 Sub plans fell apart again. No one touched the worksheet. Sound familiar? → These Urinary System Worksheets are built different. → Differentiated. Rigorous. Actually engaging. → Ready to teach the second you download. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Designed for Grades 6–10, this 16-page human body science pack covers the urinary system from vocabulary to clinical thinking — so every learner, from struggling readers to advanced students, gets exactly what they need. No prep. No differentiation h
6th - 10th
Anatomy, Basic Principles, Biology
Digestive System Worksheets Human Body Science Anatomy Review Grades 6–10
😩 Planning a human body unit and drowning in prep? Your students need more than a textbook diagram. → This does the heavy lifting — in 17 ready-to-print pages. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DIGESTIVE SYSTEM WORKSHEETS | HUMAN BODY SCIENCE | GRADES 6–10 This anatomy review resource gives middle and high school science teachers a complete, differentiated worksheet set covering the entire digestive system — from mouth to large intestine. Whether you're teaching body systems for the first time
6th - 10th
Anatomy, Basic Principles, Biology
STEM & Critical Thinking | Think Like an Inventor (TRIZ Method) | GATE
Are your students tired of the same old STEM building challenges? Do you need a zero-prepactivity that actually teaches them howto think, not just whatto build? Welcome to the "Think Like an Inventor" Series!This comprehensive bundle uses TRIZ(The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving)—the exact same innovation framework used by engineers at NASA, Samsung, and Boeing—adapted perfectly for middle-grade students (Ages 8-14). Instead of messy supplies and glue sticks, these engineering challenge
3rd - 8th
Basic Principles, Engineering
Also included in: STEM & Critical Thinking BUNDLE | Think Like an Inventor | STEM | GATE
Immune System Worksheets | Human Body Science Anatomy Review Grades 6–10
😩 Tired of immune system lessons that put your students to sleep? This NO-PREP worksheet pack does the heavy lifting for you. → 16 pages. Fully scaffolded. Answer key included. → Built for Grades 6–10 — science, anatomy, health, or biology. → Three differentiation tiers — one resource, every learner. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Your students will explore how the human body defends itself — from identifying key immune system structures to analyzing real clinical case studies. This immune system wor
6th - 10th
Anatomy, Basic Principles, Biology
TEACCH Forest – File Folder Tasks for Special Education | 30 Activities
TEACCH Forest – File Folder Tasks for Special Education | 30 Structured ActivitiesThis resource includes 30 structured file folder tasks designed for students who benefit from visual structure, predictable routines, and independent work systems. All activities are based on the TEACCH approach and support learners with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and related learning needs. The forest theme introduces familiar woodland animals in a calm, structured format while targeting essential pre-ac
PreK - 6th
Basic Principles, Biology, For All Subjects
Middle School Science Genetics/Inheritance/Probability SUB Lesson *Print-and-GO*
Got a Sub? Save time and make lesson planning stress-free with this Print-and-GO Genetics, Inheritance, and Probability lesson! Engaging activities keep students focused in your absence while learning science content. Whether introducing new content or reinforcing what students have already been learning in class, this independent work lesson has everything you need to keep students on track. Fun, engaging, and easy to use, this resource includes: Science Vocabulary GlossaryInformational Texts
6th - 8th
Basic Principles, Biology, Informational Text
Also included in: Middle School Science Genetics BUNDLE - SUB Lessons *Print-and-GO*
TEACCH Farm – File Folder Tasks for Special Education | 29 Activies
TEACCH Farm – File Folder Tasks for Special Education | 29 Differentiated ActivitiesThis resource includes 29 structured file folder tasks designed for students who benefit from visual structure, predictable routines, and independent work systems. All activities are based on the TEACCH approach and support learners with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and related learning needs Teacch_velcro_folder_farm . The “Farm” theme offers familiar, engaging content while targeting essential pre-acad
PreK - 6th
Basic Principles, Biology, For All Subjects
TEACCH Zoo – File Folder Tasks for Special Education | 28 Differentiated Activit
TEACCH Zoo – File Folder Tasks for Special Education | 28 Differentiated ActivitiesThis resource includes 28 structured file folder tasks designed specifically for students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and related learning needs. Based on the TEACCH approach, the activities focus on predictable routines, clear visual structure, and independent work systems that support learners with cognitive, communication, and sensory processing challenges. The “Zoo” theme provides motivating, visu
PreK - 6th
Basic Principles, Biology, For All Subjects
25 Real-World STEM Design Warm Up Slides | Grade 5 - 8 | Engineering Warm Ups
Bring real-world problem-solving into your classroom with these 25 Writing & Engineering Bell Ringers! Designed for grades 5-8, these daily warm-ups engage students in applying design thinking to authentic science-based challenges—without needing extra materials. Each bell ringer prompt asks students to: ✅ Tackle a real-world science or engineering problem ✅ Complete design-thinking tasks like analyzing products, designing tests, creating specs, or planning research ✅ Practice critical thinki
6th - 8th
Basic Principles, Creative Writing, Engineering
NGSS
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
+1
Macromolecules Interactive Reading and Annotation Activity
Macromolecules can turn into a vocabulary chart fast.Carbohydrates. Lipids. Proteins. Nucleic acids. Monomers. Polymers. Dehydration synthesis. Hydrolysis. There is a lot for biology students to keep straight — and if they do not know what to look for, a macromolecules reading can quickly become passive highlighting, answer-hunting, or another chart students copy and forget. This Macromolecules Reading Activity gives students a clear way to slow down, annotate with purpose, and turn the reading
8th - 12th
Basic Principles, Biology, General Science
NGSS
HS-LS1-1
, HS-LS1-6
Changing States of Matter Sort - Phase Changes in Matter Cut & Paste Worksheet
This changing states of matter sort involves sorting examples of different phase changes along with their diagrams. The changing states of matter cut and paste activity is differentiated to include both a solid liquid gas sort & a plasma, solid, liquid, gas sort. This changing states of matter worksheet is a great way to review the topic, add in recall practice & check for understanding about. Photos of different phase changes have been used as examples in this changing matter workshee
5th - 10th
Basic Principles, Chemistry, General Science
Science Lab: How does mass affect the swing of a pendulum. Middle School Science
Students will observe how mass affects the swing of a pendulum. They will identify the variables in the experiment. They will conduct three trials and analyze the data by finding the mean average. They will then graph the data and state a conclusion.
6th - 8th
Basic Principles, Physical Science, Physics
NGSS
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-PS2-2
+1
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