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Your students are going to love this hands-on activity over genetics, heredity, and traits!! Perfect for upper elementary and middle school students! Fun activity to introduce or reinforce concepts! Perfect to use for open house presentation or class display of taught standards. Instructions to start: ** Teacher reviews anchor chart terms and meanings with the class. Part 1: Students flip 2 coins to determine traits inherited (one coin represents mom and one coin represents dad). They circle t

Engage your students with SCOOT. Get rid of the boring worksheets!! SCOOT gets your students out of their seats and stimulates body-brain movement. I have created an editable template in PowerPoint that allows the teacher to add any questions to the task cards. Students will be able to practice, review, and reinforce skills and concepts using "any subject" and "any topic". You decide which questions OR directions are most important to the topic, tap the word “Enter”, and type in your own cont

Print, Copy, and Use with ANY Science Experiment!! This lab report comes in 2 lab report versions and an "EDITABLE" rubric to go with the lab report. The first lab report includes explanations, on the lab report. Including: problem (question), hypothesis, materials, procedures, observations/results, and conclusion. The second version has the same headings, but doesn't have explanations. This copy is great if you have your own anchor charts! The rubric has editable content to match the l

Independent ... or...Group Activity. Great way to help students take ownership of their learning! They write a sentence from their understanding of the definition and they create a picture to help them remember the meaning of the word. Directions: Teacher fills in the Vocabulary or Key Term words and gives one sheet to each student or group. The puzzle pieces are filled in and cut out. Students can work on putting the pieces back together independently or with a group. Remember to follo

Use the "Practice Sheets" for an independent activity, group activity or assessment. Print, copy, and cut the "Flow Chart" sheet. I use colored card stock for durability. The "Flow Chart" will be the students favorite activity, if you make it FUN:) Use the "Flow Chart" for independent, partner, or whole group (race and make it a game) practice. To make it a game: Have students practice on their own. Then, have them turn the cards upside down and shuffle them around on the table. The teacher