Brain Powered Science

This activity is designed to help your students not only learn examples of adaptations, but to learn how they help with survival. Students will match an "adaptation" card to a "reason" card to demonstrate their understanding of how a particular adaptation helps that organism to survive in its particular environment. Extension ideas and instructions are provided in teacher notes. There are twenty matches, so forty cards total. Matches appear in the correct order as is. Cut and shuffle pri

This activity asks students to categorize 18 different organisms into their respective categories. Categories include: producers, decomposers, scavengers, herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores. Background information about each category is provided at the beginning of the resource. Students can cut out the organism cards (pictures included), or you can have them rewrite the names for a faster activity. This would be a great resource to put in a science journal or interactive notebook. Answe

This is a simple worksheet that asks students to match the scientific tool with the investigation. Answer key included. Great homework for end of the year review. The worksheet corresponds to Tennessee standard 507.Inq.2