Creative Learning Ideas

Need a fun, hands-on activity to introduce the Scientific Method? This activity is just what you need. Kids will love learning what happens to different types of gummy candy that are left in water over 24 hours! Use this experiment to meaningfully go through the steps of the scientific method. This pack includes step by step instructions for the experiment, recording pages for students, pre/post test, extension activity ideas, and word wall cards. Great way to integrate science and math as stude

This packet includes activities and templates to teach students about the classification of vertebrates. Activities include anchor chart ideas, word walls, link to downloadable song, charade/pictionary cards, vertebrate matrix to classify animals into mammals, reptiles, amphibians, bird, and fish, short quiz, research templates for learning about unusual animals, suggested animal topics, template for students to create their own animal, plus planning pages and model writing samples, and a templa

These three problems allow for students to construct their own answer and then justify the solution. The questions are based off facts about the human body system: respiratory, digestive, and circulatory. The math word problems require students to round to the nearest ten, repeated addition or multiplication, and subtraction.

This packet includes scaffolded notes for learning about the human body systems, a quiz where students must diagnose the "patient" and identify which system is injured, experiments for digestive and respiratory systems, review game, links to videos and websites, and a printable "webquest" which students can do at home or at school by using information from 2 websites to fill in the missing answers. Students then use the answers to unscramble a secret message. The six systems targeted with these

• Weather tools: definition page, vocab cards, Review Game, quiz • Readers Theater script & quiz • Weather journal, graphs, and quiz. • Tornado and Hurricane scaffolded notes. • Writing assignment where students research a type of weather or natural disaster and use that information to complete 4 writing prompts. Resources created by Jaclyn Seiders, NBCT.