ABC Simplicity

After guided practice with dry erase boards and playing games (repetitive practice with writing numbers in different ways), students will complete this worksheet. *I used this as a formative assessment in order to gauge whether or not to move on or allow students more time to practice this skill.

Students will use this page (which could be cut around the edges to fit into a science composition notebook) to work through the scientific method. In the process they will also learn about nutrition labels and density. Note: I had the students weigh each soda on a small food scale or balance prior to dunking the soda in the water.

Students will use this document to organize their topic sentence, main idea, and "facts/details" related to the main idea before they begin writing their first drafts.