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These doodle notes cover 4 non contact forces: Gravity, Magnetism, Electrical, and Electrostatic. This is a Google Slides so it is fully editable for your needs. There are items for students to color throughout the notes. An answer key is included.

This is an article that has students consider the amount of trash most homes produce and inspire them on ways to reuse things before throwing them away.Students read the article which you can choose to read to them, whole group read, or independently read. Students then complete a get the gist organizer to show their comprehension of what they just read.This is meant to fit with 7th grade integrated science but would be perfect for a sub day for any middle and high school grade.

This is a lab for students to complete in stations to help go over the unique principles of water.It covers solubility, surface tension, capillary action, polarity, and cohesion.Materials needed: cups, oil, water, saltteacher demo- paper towels, food coloring, waterballoon, sink where students can turn water onpaper clipspenniesdroppers or pipettes This lab takes very little supplies but gives a big wow factor! Students answer questions/ write results for each station of the lab.

This activity allows students to choose a geologic time period that interests them and research about that time period. Students will research the era that time period is in, the atmosphere, the climate, if there was a mass extinction in the period, as well draw what the continents looked like. They will choose two animals and two plants to draw and name from that period.

This is an activity for students to complete after watching the play Hamilton. Students choose a character from the play and create a social media profile for that character. Students will create hashtags, a social media handle, a bio, and two captions for that character. This activity allows students to be creative while still critically thinking about the play that they just watched and diving a little deeper into the characters.

This is a reading that is broken up into chunks and has students answer comprehension questions as they go.The reading takes students through the three states of matter. It also talks about boiling point, melting point, and physical properties.Students could complete this independently, in groups, whole class, or jigsaw style.Students could also annotate the reading.

This is an activity to have students complete after you have finished the play with your students. These are 4 discussion questions where students are able to respond on how they enjoyed the play, as well as thinking about the themes of the play and considering different view points.

This activity is for students to sort different items and determine whether they are a solid, liquid, or gas.This could be printed and you could have students write in the organizer.This could also be printed and you could have students cut and paste the items into each category.There are 12 different items that students have to organize.

These doodle notes allow students to fill in while following along with your lesson. Students fill in blanks for the 3 laws and can color in the title and pictures on the document. This includes an answer key as well to make for an easy teaching day! These can be done as a single paper assignment or taped into interactive notebooks.

This is a great activity to have students practice applying their knowledge of Newton's Laws. There are 9 examples where students will have to determine which law is acting in the example. This is also great as reinforcement for students after you have gone over Newton's laws to assess how well students are understanding the concept. Answer key is included in the PDF. Ready to print!

This is a great activity to use during a sub day or to give students an opportunity to practice their research skills. This activity has students look into different aspects of their chosen scientist's life. This is a PDF and is ready to print!

This project is great to give students an opportunity to research a career and share details with classmates. This is a great introductory activity for public speaking in the class and a way to add in creativity with a poster.

This is a document that you can edit to fit your needs but allows you to monitor daily behavior for students and require a parent signature. You are able to write comments and "grade" the student. Each grade has a description that explains what that grade means.

This activity gives your students an engaging opportunity to compare and contrast potential and kinetic energy. Students are given statements that they need to determine whether they fit within potential, kinetic, or both. Students also need to analyze a roller coaster diagram to determine where the different amounts of kinetic and potential energy are located.

This listing is for a GMO graphic organizer. This listing comes with slides that pair with the worksheet. Students are given choice to choose their own type of GMO organism. They will answer various questions and illustrate their chosen GMO. Sentence stems are included in the slides. This is a ready to go lesson!

This project was made for middle school AVID students. Students practice their writing skills as well as giving them an opportunity to be creative with their quilt square. There is a presentation, writing, and quilt square rubric on the document. The document also details ideas to help students get started. Students can include things from the local community as well as their own personal interests.

Students will start off completing a probe where they will read different scenarios by "students" and choose a student they think is correct and why. Students will look at 3 different pieces of evidence to help them understand the reason why we have seasons. Pieces of evidence: axial tilt, distance of sun and earth at different times of year, and the angle of the sun in the sky vs amount of sunlight in a day. Students will then write a modified CER (Claim and evidence) to show their understandin

This listing is for the Mystery boxes worksheet and Google Slides. This is a hands on activity to use with your students to help them understand the power of observation. Google Slides has a teacher guide with tips on what to put in the boxes. I suggest using office supplies or other small, random items you have around the classroom. I use small boxes from Michaels that fit in your hand. Students need to understand the difference between observation and inference. For an more in depth activity,

This activity gives students an introduction to the differences between mass and weight. The reading is short, approximately 2.5 paragraphs, and students answer comprehension questions to gauge their understanding of the reading. There is also a section for students to practice calculating their weight on different celestial bodies in our solar system, to help them see the weight difference with the size of the planet/sun. Students can do annotation with this text since it is short, underlining

This a stations lab to have hands on experience with all 3 Newton's laws as well as an additional station on collisions. This is a full class period, if not 2 to complete this lab. Lab has data tables for easy data collection and reflection built into each station. Students can visually see each law first hand and how it is affected.