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Students model the plate movements using Oreo cookies. Minimal materials, maximum gain! Vocabulary addressed: Convergent BoundaryDivergent BoundaryTransform BoundaryReverse FaultNormal FaultStrike-Slip FaultEarthquakeVolcanoSubductionMountainsMagma

This is the perfect movie companion for Zootopia! It is NOT just a movie walkthrough, it requires students to think and apply their understanding of ecology. The concepts addressed are: Food Webs/ChainsSymbiosisMutualismPredationParasitismCommensalismPredatorPreyEnergy FlowEcosystemAbiotic BioticInvasive SpeciesCompetiton

Need a fun way to help your students practice with their ecology vocabulary? This game helps students construct sentences, draw connections between the concepts, and apply their understanding. Simply print and laminate the cards, cut them up, put them in baggies and then go! Easy, low prep. Use for practice, downtime, or remediation. Words covered: Population EcosystemProducerConsumerDecomposerBiotic FactorsAbiotic FactorsPredationCommensalismMutualismParasitismLimiting FactorsFood WebMain En

This is the perfect movie companion for Finding Nemo! It is NOT just a movie walkthrough, it requires students to think and apply their understanding of natural selection. The concepts addressed are: Natural SelectionEvolutionAdaptation VariationFitnessEnvironmental ChangeMutationOverproduction

Have students solve a Clue-style crime while reviewing their knowledge of Earth's layers! Utilize this low prep, and adaptable activity to get your students up, out of their seats and practicing with deductive reasoning. Activity can be done independently, as partners or in small groups. It can be done at desks or as a gallery walk around the room. Concepts covered: CrustMantleOuter CoreInner CorePressureTemperatureTectonic PlatesConvection Currents

Help your students practice with the electromagnetic spectrum. In this activity, they will match the waves of the electromagnetic spectrum to the correct description and wave picture. Vocabulary covered: Electromagnetic SpectrumRadio WavesMicrowavesInfraredVisible LightUltravioletX-RaysGamma RaysIncludes student sheet and answer key.

Need a sweet way to demonstrate pedigrees to your genetics students? Try using gummy bears to show how traits pass between family members. Please note that this does not take dominant or recessive traits into consideration, it is just a fun way to demonstrate how we can inherit traits from our grandparents (or even further!). Vocab: PedigreeGeneticsHeredityTraits

This rock cycle maze is perfect for a quick review, extra practice, or early finisher assignment. Includes student sheet and answer key. Vocab Covered: Rock CycleSedimentWeathering and ErosionSedimentaryCompaction and CementationMetamorphicHeat and PressureCrystallizingMeltingMagmaLavaIgneous

Students can match the energy transformations to the pictures of the item or object that uses that transformation. Just print, cut, laminate and go! Forms of energy covered:Electrical Energy Light Energy (Electromagnetic) Chemical Energy Thermal Energy Potential Energy Kinetic Energy Sound Energy

Students cut and sort the examples for the following science process skills: ObservationInferencePredictionMaking ModelsQuantitative ObservationQualitative ObservationThis works well for remediation, vocabulary practice, struggling learners, etc.

Students can match forms of energy to different pictures of items/actions that use them. Just print, cut, laminate and go! Forms of energy covered:Electrical Energy Light Energy (Electromagnetic) Chemical Energy Thermal Energy Potential Energy Kinetic Energy Sound Energy

Students complete this hands on lab to practice with variables and basic steps of the scientific method. Concepts covered: ProblemHypothesisIndependent VariableTest GroupDataConclusion