Ms. Evans Classroom

In this activity, students rotate through 15 multiple-choice task cards focused on plant needs, energy, and growth. At each card, students read a short scenario or question and select the correct answer, recording their responses on a separate sheet. This activity helps students apply their understanding of how plants use sunlight, water, air, and nutrients to survive and grow, while also using evidence from simple investigations to support scientific thinking aligned to standards 5-LS1-1 and 5-

Students will complete a virtual task card activity using Google Slides to practice writing and evaluating numerical expressions. This activity focuses on the 5th grade math standards 5.OA.A.1 and 5.OA.A.2 and gives students opportunities to apply the order of operations using parentheses, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction. The 22 task cards gradually increase in difficulty and include both writing expressions from word phrases and evaluating expressions with grouping symbols.

This quick Life Science review worksheet allows students to share what they know about plants, animals, and food webs. Students identify what plants and animals need to survive, answer questions about plant parts and animal types, and demonstrate their understanding of producers, consumers, and omnivores. This activity serves as a simple pre-assessment or review to check students’ prior knowledge and reinforce key life science concepts.

In the Cookie Mining Challenge, students simulate real-world mining by extracting chocolate chips from a cookie using limited tools and following specific rules. The activity helps students understand how natural resources are removed from Earth and how this process can impact land and ecosystems. Students collect data on the amount mined, the costs involved, and the environmental damage caused during extraction. After mining, teams develop a plan to reduce environmental impact and restore the l

In this hands-on science lesson, students will investigate how the Sun’s energy can be captured and used by designing and building a solar oven to melt s’mores. Using a guided set of steps, students will construct a simple oven from materials such as a pizza box, aluminum foil, plastic wrap, and black construction paper. Once assembled, they will place s’mores inside and position the oven in direct sunlight, adjusting it to maximize heat absorption and retention. As the investigation progresses,

In this project, students will work in small groups to research a nonrenewable resource such as coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear energy, or minerals. Each student will be responsible for creating specific slides in a shared Google Slides presentation and must include their name on the slides they complete. Students will learn how their resource is formed, how it is used, its benefits, and its environmental impacts. On the final day, groups will present their findings to the class, and each stude

SWBAT identify ways in which human activities affect the vegetation  Students can do individually or in groups/partners