Brain Powered Science

This is a fun activity in a puzzle format. Your students will enjoy reading the clues to work backward to create the pedigree chart. Concepts such as inheritance, dominant, and recessive traits are included. This is a great enrichment activity for students who are already on track for learning during a unit on heredity.

What I wish I had when I taught this topic to fifth graders! This resource includes a worksheet with diagrams for sea breeze and land breeze, 5 questions for each diagram, and a T chart to compare the two. Resource also includes teacher notes with activity ideas for pre-teaching. Answer key included! This would make great classwork or homework.

This worksheet includes 10 unique animal relationships. Students must use the clues and their knowledge of symbiosis to decide what is being described: mutualism, commensalism, or parasitism. Answer key included!

This worksheet includes 20 different scenarios of heat transfer. Students are asked to decide if it is describing convection, conduction, or radiation. Answer key is included! This would be great to use as a quiz or as an informal assessment with whiteboards.

This simple handout provides students with straightforward examples of physical and chemical changes. Their job is to evaluate each example and decide whether it is describing a physical or a chemical change. Answer key is included!

This resource presents students with clues related to a real life scenario. Students must organize the clues and graph data to determine what species is endangered. Follow up questions enhance critical thinking skills and provide opportunities for classroom discussion and extension. This activity helps students begin to think about how ecosystems change. Answer key is included! Content correlates with Tennessee State standards 507.Inq.3 and 507.2.3

This worksheet provides students with 10 descriptions of symbiosis. The student must then determine which type of symbiosis is being described: Mutualism, Commensalism, or Parasitism. This is a great review and could also be used with whiteboards or for a homework assignment. Answer Key included!

This is a great "cheat sheet" or notes page as your students are learning to tell the difference between physical and chemical changes. Words and pictures for common types of physical and chemical changes are used to target all learners. This would be a great resource to use in conjunction with a practice quiz or whiteboards.

This is a straightforward handout that covers basic Punnett squares. There are five Punnett squares to fill out, each with a follow up question. The Punnett squares are scaffolded for beginners, but this can be modified as needed. Answer key is included!

This concept map/flow chart will help your students identify and distinguish between learned behaviors, inherited traits, instincts, and acquired traits. By following the arrows and answering the questions, the map will lead them to the correct answer! This is a great tool to use for practice in the class as well as a homework aid.

This is a quick assessment that determines how well a student understands the differences between potential and kinetic energy. It could be given prior to teaching, during teaching, or at the end of a unit. Answer key included!

This is a great activity that reinforces the concepts of using fossils as clues to the past as well as determining which fossils are oldest based on layers. Students cut out "fossils" and then use the three clues to glue them into the appropriate layer of earth. There are three follow up questions.

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 fifteen question handout that was designed to be used as review for a quiz or test covering the basics of photosynthesis. Most questions have one word answers. Answer key included!

This activity requires students to sort images of organisms into two categories: asexually reproducing or sexually reproducing. The activity is designed to have the students cut and paste the images of the organisms, but could be modified. Answer key is included!

This activity allows students to discover how food chains show energy flow in an ecosystem. Resource includes five different food chains with cut out cards, answer pages, and teacher key. Food chains increase in complexity. Would also be great for group work or homework!

This worksheet contains five basic problems centered around calculating the density of a substance. Answer key is included!

This resource is designed as a practice page to help your students practice telling the difference between physical and behavioral adaptations. Brief background information is given about adaptations. There are 25 statements describing unique adaptations of plants and animals. Students must decide if the adaptation that is described is either physical or behavioral. Answer key included! This would make a great homework assignment.

An easy teaching tool! This simple handout is designed to be used during a unit on plant parts and/or photosynthesis. It provides a "magnified" view of a leaf and has arrows pointing to the stoma, guard cell, and epidermis. Students must correctly label these items and identify the reactants and products of photosynthesis.