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Students work through the scientific method to practice observations, research statements, hypotheses, variables, and conclusions.They analyze the fascinating scene unfolding in front of them to learn about bonds and equilibrium. You can even relate this to their own lives and why we use soap to wash our clothes/dishes!

How many drops of water will the head of a penny hold? This lab is great for any time of the year to introduce or practice the scientific method. Make observations, a hypothesis, and analyze the surprising results!

Use this interactive calendar time with your students both in the classroom and at home! I found that I needed to create a calendar time that I could project for all students to see. Best part? It's interactive! You can move all of the pictures to build you calendar and students can take turns interacting with the days of the week, weather graph, and calendar.

Here is a power point that I have perfected over the years. It includes information on abiotic vs. biotic factors, characteristics of living things, classification systems, autotrophs vs. heterotrophs, and the 6 kingdoms! You will love this information-packet power point.

Attached are two documents. The first is a spreadsheet of 6 different cities followed by columns for the date, sunrise time, sunset time, high temperature, low temperature and 2-3 websites where information can be found. (This wouldn't load as a preview.) The second is the sheet you see below with questions encouraging students to analyze their data for patterns to learn more about how the globe is affected by Earth's revolution around the Sun.

Use this presentation to review polygons: quadrilaterals, and triangles with individual students, parterns, small group, or your whole class. There are ten questions with answers and a bonus.

This power point is great for Smart boards etc. Its slides are linked to the first one so that students can take turns matching vocabulary terms to their definitions. Just like in the game "Memory", students must remember what they have seen so they can make each correct match.

Here are some ideas and printouts for classroom rewards that don't cost you money! Simply print them as posters for students to point to, or smaller handouts for students to choose as part of your classroom management system.

Test that assesses students' knowledge of the characteristics and types of protists. This includes the organelles of a protist and their functions.

This interactive jeopardy review game covers the following topics: solar radiation, thermal energy, winds, air masses, fronts, and vocabulary.

Set these up around the room and students can rotate through them to review lab safety.

This is an interactive Jeopardy game meant to review the hydrological cycle and water filtration systems.

Here is a great lab to determine whether eggs are hard-boiled or raw. It follows the scientific method and allows students to practice these steps.

This assessment covers the first three steps of the scientific method and specifically targets, variables, qualitative/quantitative observations, and inferences.

This studyguide reviews the first 3 steps of the scientific method and offers practice questions.

Use this presentation to review angles with individual students, parterns, small group, or your whole class. There are ten questions with answers and a bonus.

Use this presentation to review standard and metric measurements with individual students, parterns, small group, or your whole class. There are ten questions with answers and a bonus.

Use this presentation to review area and perimeter with individual students, small groups, or your whole class! There is a bonus question included.

Use this Presentation to review place value with individual students, small groups, or your whole class. All answers are given and there is a bonus question.

Use this Presentation to review different methods of division with individual students, small groups, or your whole class. All answers are given and there is a bonus question.