Dancing Scientist

This Landforms poster is designed to aide students in understanding that landforms are created through the processes of weathering, erosion, and deposition. The three main types of landforms that students are tested on in 5th grade are the creation of sand dunes, river deltas, and canyons. The Texas TEK (5.7B) is listed within the poster inlcuding if the TEK is a Readiness or Supporting Standard. The verb and nouns are highlighted in a color other than black. Students should be read the TEK

This Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition poster is designed to aide students in understanding that weathering, erosion, and deposition lead to the formation of new landforms. Weathering BREAKS down the rock into sediment, erosion MOVES the sediment to new places, and deposition DROPS the rock in a new place. The Texas TEK (4.7B) is listed within the poster. The verb and nouns are highlighted in a color other then black. Students should be read the TEK before the lesson begins. The teacher and

This Forms of Energy poster is designed to aide students in understanding that there are many forms of energy that can be used in various ways. Energy can also be transformed from one form to another. The Texas TEK (5.6A) is listed within the poster inlcuding if the TEK is a Readiness or Supporting Standard. The verb and nouns are highlighted in a color other than black. Students should be read the TEK before the lesson begins. The teacher and the students should discuss the TEK; the student

This Properties of Light poster is designed to aide students in understanding that light travels in a straight path until it strikes an object. From there, light is either reflected (bounced) off the object or refracted (bent) as it passes through the object. Convex and Concave lenses bend light. Light is refracted because it changes speed as it enters a new medium; Light travels through air (gas) and enters a glass of water (solid and liquid) which causes light to slow down as it passes through

This Physical Properties of Matter poster is designed to aide students in understanding that matter has various properties; if a substance is unknown, it can be identified using physical properties. The Texas TEK (5.5A) is listed within the poster inlcuding if the TEK is a Readiness or Supporting Standard. The verb is in red and the nouns are in blue. Key vocabulary is in green. Students should be read the TEK aloud before the lesson begins. The teacher and the students should discuss the TE

This Phases of the Moon poster is designed to aide students in understanding that the Moon revolves around the Earth. The Sun's light is reflected off the surface of the Moon which causes the Moon to appear lit even though the Moon does not create its own light. As the Moon revolves around the Earth and reflects the Sun's light, we see different phases every 28-30 days. The Texas TEK (4.8C) is listed within the poster inlcuding if the TEK is a Readiness or Supporting Standard. The verb and nou

This Solutions poster is designed to aide students in understanding that solutions are special mixtures. Once substances are combined, they cannot be separated. Students should also understand that when a substance is dissolved, the substance does not disappear. The substance is there and students can tell by the taste of the solution. The Texas TEK (5.5D) is listed within the poster inlcuding if the TEK is a Readiness or Supporting Standard. The verb is in red and the nouns are in blue. Key

This Carbon Dioxide Oxygen Cycle poster is designed to aide students in understanding that life is full of cycles. We breath in oxygen and release carbon dioxide. Plants take in the carbon dioxide and release oxygen. we cannot have one without the other. The Texas TEK (5.9D) is listed within the poster inlcuding if the TEK is a Readiness or Supporting Standard. The verb and nouns are highlighted in a color other than black. Students should be read the TEK before the lesson begins. The teache

This Circuits poster is designed to aide students in understanding that electricity can flow in two different paths; series circuit and parallel circuit. Each part of the circuit is labeled as energy source (battery), output device (lightbulb), and wires. Students should understand that these three components make up any basic circuit. There are variations on circuits; they can contain a motor, buzzer, bell, fan, etc. as the output device instead of a lightbulb. The Texas TEK (5.6B) is listed

This Food Chain poster is designed to aide students in understanding that energy is transferred from one thing to another in a food chain. All energy comes from the Sun, to the producers (plants), then to different levels of consumers. Once the animals die, they are decomposed and the nutrients that are in their bodies are returned to the soil. The process begins all over again. The Texas TEK (5.9B) is listed within the poster inlcuding if the TEK is a Readiness or Supporting Standard. The ve

This Earth poster is designed to aide students in understanding that Earth rotates on it axis once every 24 hours and revolves around the sun once every 365 days. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. The Texas TEK (5.8 C) is listed within the poster inlcuding if the TEK is a Readiness or Supporting Standard. The verb is in red and the nouns are in blue. The vocabulary is in green. Students should be read the TEK before the lesson begins. The teacher and the students should discuss

This Mixtures poster is designed to aide students in understanding that mixtures maintain their physical properties even after they have been combined. Certain tools such as a sieve/filter, magnet, or evaporation can be used to separate the mixtures. The Texas TEK (5.5C) is listed within the poster inlcuding if the TEK is a Readiness or Supporting Standard. The verb is in red and the nouns are in blue. Key vocabulary is in green. Students should be read the TEK before the lesson begins. The t

This Earth, Sun, and Moon poster is designed to aide students in understanding that the Earth, Sun, and Moon have many similarities and also many differences. There are many facts stated within this poster. I had students research each one and come up with facts. As a class we created a triple Venn Diagram to compare and contrast them. It was EXTREMELY effective! The Texas TEK (5.8D) is listed within the poster inlcuding if the TEK is a Readiness or Supporting Standard. The verb and nouns are

This Fossil Fuels poster is designed to aide students in understanding that this process takes millions of years for a fossil fuels to be created and that we use fossil fuels in our every day life. You can also discuss conservation of fossil fuels because it takes millions of years for them to be created; once we run out of what is there, it will take millions of years before there are more fossil fuels. The Texas TEK (5.7A) is listed within the poster inlcuding if the TEK is a Readiness or Su

This Conductors and Insulators poster is designed to aide students in understanding that conductors allow energy to flow easily and insulators do not allow energy to flow easily or at all. The Texas TEK (4.6B) is listed within the poster. The verb and nouns are highlighted in a color other than black. Students should be read the TEK before the lesson begins. The teacher and the students should discuss the TEK; the students need to understand that the verb is what they have to do once the tea

This Force poster is designed to aide students in understanding that a force is a push or pull that changes the direction of an object or causes it to slow down or stop. This Force poster is also designed for a student to see how to set up an experiment to test force on an object. The Texas TEK (4.6D) is listed within the poster. The verb and nouns are highlighted in a color other than black. Students should be read the TEK before the lesson begins. The teacher and the students should discu

This Traits and Behaviors poster is designed to aide students in understanding that offspring inherit certain traits from their parent. Animals can also be taught certain skills. These skills tat are taught to the animal are NOT inherited from the parent. Behaviors are learned to aide in survival in the wild. The Texas TEK (5.10B) is listed within the poster inlcuding if the TEK is a Readiness or Supporting Standard. The verb and nouns are highlighted in a color other than black. Students sho

This Physical Properties poster is designed to aide students in understanding that matter has various properties and can be distinguished by those properties. The Texas TEK (4.5A) is listed within the poster. The verb and nouns are highlighted in a color other than black. Students should be read the TEK before the lesson begins. The teacher and the students should discuss the TEK; the students need to understand that the verb is what they have to do once the teacher is finished with the less

This Properties of Water poster is designed to aide students in understanding that water has various properties; the boiling point and freezing point of water is one of the main properties used to identify if a substance is water. The Texas TEK (5.5B) is listed within the poster inlcuding if the TEK is a Readiness or Supporting Standard. The verb is in red and the nouns are in blue. Key vocabulary is in green. Students should be read the TEK before the lesson begins. The teacher and the stude

This Living and Non-Living elements poster is designed to aide students in understanding that there are many things that make up an ecosystem, both alive and not. They have to understand that just because something is dead, it still contributes to the ecosystem. The Texas TEK (5.9A) is listed within the poster inlcuding if the TEK is a Readiness or Supporting Standard. The verb and nouns are highlighted in a color other than black. Students should be read the TEK before the lesson begins. Th