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These twenty, self-grading, Google Forms quizzes on scientific method skills provide great formative assessment. These quizzes can easily be assigned for warm-ups or exit tickets. Each quiz has three questions about a specific skill. There are two unique quizzes of each type, including the following topics: - Scientific Method Vocabulary- Scientific Observations - Qualitative vs. Quantitative Observations- Observation, Inference, or Prediction- Testable Hypothesis- Independent vs. Dependent Vari

Build your student's scientific vocabulary and empower their comprehension through this visual display. The following 30 terms are included: - problem - phenomena - scientific method - inference - prediction - hypothesis - investigation - scientific question - observation - qualitative observation - quanitative observation - data - control - variable - manipulated variable - responding variable - independent variable - dependent variable - experiment - procedure - conclusion - verify - falsify

Build your students claim, evidence, and reasoning writing skills through this simple checklist. Students can use the checklist for self and peer evaluation. In this free resource, you will be provided with checklist for both print and digital (Google Drive PDF) form. The print form has both color and black and white options, as well as, an option to print 4 checklists to one page. To support your students CER writing skills, Make Them Think provides many more CER resources. Check these out

This concept map allows students to create connections between types of tectonic plate movements and the geographical features that result. It can be used to reinforceme the NGSS Disciplinary Core Idea ESS2.B, which is taught at Grade 4, Middle School, and High School levels. Grade 4- "Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions- The locations of mountain ranges, deep ocean trenches, ocean floor structures, earthquakes, and volcanoes occur in patterns. Most earthquakes and volcanoes

These ten, self-grading, Google Forms quizzes on the engineering design process provide great formative assessment for any STEM, science or math class. These quizzes can easily be assigned for warm-ups or exit tickets. Each quiz can be assigned through email, a shared link, or Google Classroom and will provide instant, specific feedback for the student. For the teacher, Google Forms provide instant data to inform teaching. Each quiz has three questions about a step in the engineering design

Sketch notes are designed to provide visual clues to engage students and help them retain learning about the engineering design process. There will be 5 different topics covered: - Engineering Design Process (an overview) - Before the Design- Problem Definition - Design Testing - Design Optimization - After the Design Each topic includes a 2-page note sheet. There are three different forms- blank, fill-in-the-blank, and complete- to allow for differentiati

Are your students always asking what they need for today's class? This bulletin board kit provides for a visual classroom procedure that saves time and stress. The kit includes a banner and 36 materials squares that you can change based on the today's materials needs. Materials included are: pencil, lined paper, laptop, tablet, correction fluid, protractor, compass, calculator, ink pen, red pen, colored pencils, markers, textbook, notebook, binder, glue, glue stick, crayons, composition book,

Help your students gain an appreciation for the diversity of organisms in the Animal Kingdom. Students will create a trifold museum display, including pictures, diagram, artifacts, and information about their given phylum/class of animals. Two rubrics are provided- one for collaboration and one for individual work. Add to the collaborative learning by having students learn from one another's displays. The displays can be exhibited for other students and parents. Looking for more project ru

Challenge your students to some active review of the transitions between the states of matter. Build their vocabulary skills and assess their learning through these five puzzles. This resource can be used in two ways.: 1)As only a puzzle, to review the vocabulary terms. 2)As a writing activity, which has the students place the puzzle pieces together and then write about what happens to the particles during the process. There are two versions of the puzzle pieces, one using the term boiling, a