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As a science teacher, you want students to be able to do hands-on inquiry activities that allow them to learn meaningfully in an open-ended way... but how the heck do you grade that? This observation checklist is your answer. The checklist allows you to establish rules and expectations for lab work, and then assess students on those expectations as they complete the activity. Benefits include: 1) Students will take the lab seriously as they see you walking around assigning a grade. 2) This fl

Connect your study of astronomy to real-life science with this online activity. This worksheet has links for students to visit with interactives for learning more about Mars and the Mars Rover program from NASA, followed by questions for them to answer that will allow them to stay on-task during computer time, and summarize their knowledge. Depending on your school's level of computer access, this activity can be completed 1) as a homework assignment, 2) as a group lab activity in the media ce

This worksheet is a great quick homework assignment or quiz for helping students make a connection between what they've learned about forces of weather and an actual weather forecast. They will demonstrate understanding of what causes the weather phenomena we observe in every day life.

This is a study guide for a unit test on astronomy, designed for use with grades 4-7. If you're teaching astronomy for the first time and don't know what to cover, use this study guide as an outline for creating your own test or unit.