Brain Powered Science

This PowerPoint resource explains in basic terms the three types of heat transfer. Helpful images and diagrams are used and examples are given in simple terms. Additionally, there is a series of questions at the end to assess how well your students can distinguish between the three types of heat transfer. You can do as a whole class activity or use as a formative assessment. Answers follow each question. Great images included! Corresponds to Tennessee standard 507.10.3

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 resource includes background info re Newton's 3 Laws. There are 10 questions for students to determine which law is being described. Then there are 5 fill in the blank questions. Answer key included! Would be great for homework.

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

This is a PowerPoint presentation that reviews the basic concepts of Newton's 3 Laws of Motion. It was created for use with whiteboards as a formative assessment, but could also be used as a whole class or as a paper/pencil quiz. There are 9 questions and 3 "bonus round" questions. Terms used include: force, acceleration, mass, balanced and unbalanced forces, gravity, and friction.

This is a notes page where your students can organize what they have learned about measuring physical properties. The list of physical properties is given for them, and there are spaces to the right for your students to describe how they are observed or measured. This would be a good formative assessment after a unit on measuring physical properties.