Coopers Science Resources

Card sorts are a great formative assessments to see what kids know about nonliving and living things. Students can sort these cards based on characteristics or into groups, living, nonliving, and once living. This lesson makes a great introduction to life science.

I can statements: Define force is a way that energy can be transferred (push/pull) State that energy is not created nor destroyed. Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide. Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object. Predict changes in energy that will occur as a result of objects colliding. Description of unit: Students will be exploring collisions through various types of technolog

NGSS aligned to standard ESS3-2 and ESS2-2. Students investigate earthquakes by looking at maps and learn about the causes of earthquakes. Students are then given the STEM challenge to design an earthquake resistant building. Once students have planned designed, tested, and improved their design they are asked to create an earthquake action plan. This STEM challenge goes through the engineering design process- (Ask, imagine, plan, create, improve). All of these documents are student friendly.

To be used as a formative assessment for students understanding of the lifecycle of a frog. They can cut and paste the images and fill in the blanks. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

This is an activity that can be used along side teaching the life cycle of a plant or seed. Included are the rubrics. This fits with the NGSS for 4th grade but can be adapted up or down. NGSS 4-LS1-1. To use have student fill in the correct stage and illustrate it in the blank circles. Answer key included. Can also be used as a formative assessment. Key words: plant, flower, fruit, seeds, seedling, life cycle a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/deed.en_US

This resource has resources to use when teaching about plant reproduction, plant parts, photosynthesis, life cycle of a plant, seeds. All the resources can be used in students science notebooks or as a formative assessment.

Needs of Seeds Plant or not? These worksheets can be used as a formative assessment or to get the students thinking about what a seed needs in order to germinate, or what makes something a plant. Students are asked to create a rule as to what makes a living thing a plant, and what a seed ‘Needs” to germinate. This is great for the students to do in talking buddies, or to put in their science notebook. Germination, seeds, plants, rule, self assessment, pre-assessment, formative assessment

This is a compiled list of KWL’s to be used in students science notebooks at the beginning and end of each unit. So they can demonstrate what they know, what they want to know, and what they have learned. Adaptations, plant life cycle, reproduction, ecosystems, food chain

This page can be used to teach students the vocabulary behind electricity. This can be reduced, cut and pasted, or hole punched to go into students science notebook. Electricity, Resistor, circuit, series circuit, parallel circuit

Can be combined with the seed observations resource. During the lesson have the students observe and plant a mystery seed. This packet is to be used with the students as they record their plant growth over a period of time. Editable so you can set your own dates. Key Words: Germination, plants, seeds, project Mystery Seed Project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.