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Looking for a good way to incorporate the engineering standards of the NGSS? Here is a colorful booklet to help students go through the engineering design process to design, build and test their bridge. This ready-to-go booklet is organized to print double sided, but if you would prefer it single-sided, please email me and I would be happy to provide you the single-sided version. Also, if you'd like this adapted to meet the needs of older or younger students, please contact me and I'd be ha

Here is a great way to teach students about renewable and nonrenewable resources. These games can be played in small groups with a gameboard, or as a whole class. Students receive instant feedback for quick learning and review.

I use this sorting mat when talking about different animal coverings. I show a picture (or just call out) a different animal, and kids have to point to the type of covering that animal has.

This is an awesome interactive way for students to develop a scale model of the size and distances of the planet. Instructions and answer key included!

This is a wonderful project in which students create their own animal, identifying unique features and adaptations that would help the animal survive in its environment. I have the students write about their animal, and either draw or use an animal magazine to cut out and design their creation.

This is a colorful and engaging worksheet reviewing the main concepts about ecosystems. It uses pictures and simple vocabulary to support ELL and special education students.

This colorful and engaging test assesses student's basic understanding of weather. It is in appropriate for early elementary and has pictures to support ELL and special education students.

This colorful and exciting packet provides inquiry-based labs to help young scientists learn more about basic forces. This includes lab to explore friction, gravity, magnetism, and much more! Please contact me if you'd like the complete lesson/unit guide.

This is a fun and creative way for students to practice their observation skills using their 5 senses.

This is a great way for students to summarize and make connections in their learning about earthquakes. This can be done after a reading or powerpoint on earthquakes, or as a stand-alone review.

This is a great organizer for a pollution research project. Students can input their research and create an attractive poster using publisher.

This colorful and engaging test assesses student's basic understanding of weather. It is in appropriate for early elementary and has pictures to support ELL and special education students.

This is an assessment of the structure of the Earth, and how it can create earthquakes, volcanoes, and new landforms.

This is a simple worksheet that helps students learn what causes wind.

This is a graphic organizer to help students organize their understanding of how the rotation and revolution of the Earth and Moon cause day and night, seasons, and the moon's phases.

This fun and engaging worksheet introduces students to agriculture, and all the everyday items we get from plants and animals from a farm.

This is a great tool for students to explore the garden, finding living and nonliving things. This would work well in any ecosystem unit.

I use this poster to wrap-up our 5 senses. To complete the poster we add: 1. Googly eyes--to show we use our eyes to see 2. Mini-bells on our ears-- we use our ears to hear 3. cotton ball with a scent (i.e. mint) on the nose 4. Twizzler pull and peel on the mouth 5. Different textures on the fingers (i.e. sandpaper, sticker, piece of a popsicle stick, tin foil, etc).

Travel to Oak Valley Plantation in Louisiana, and tour the house and slave quarters. This slideshow gives pictures of the house and the grounds, and insight into the plantation era of history.

This is a graphic organizer to organize notes on the scientific method. It has space for a definition and an example.