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This activity goes along with the book "If You Decide to Go to the Moon" by Faith Mcnulty . (http://www.amazon.com/Decide-Booklist-Editors-Choice-Awards/dp/0590483595) This book gives lots of information and the attached sheet helps students to organize information about the moon from the book.

Sort facts and opinions about bats and birds. Facts and opinion sheet provided. Use a piece of construction paper or a colored piece of paper. Fold paper in half and label fact and opinion. There are 8 facts and 7 opinions provided.

There are lots of fun activities in this unit! 7 activities in all!! Simple mixing different states of matter together using items like salt, pepper, water, oil, vinegar, and macaroni. Changing matter physically experiment recording sheet. Change paper and modeling dough, and record observations. Evidence of chemical change information sheet Properties of matter scavenger hunt States of matter scavenger hunt Great Melting Race activity for physical changes

In this season pack you will find 4 graphic organizers for each season. Each for the organizers students can identify what they can and can't do during the season, and what they wear. Use this information and other information learned students can compare and contrast seasons with chart. They can write about it using given frame. Comparing and contrasting charts for fall/winter and spring/summer, and a blank one is also available. The last piece of this pack is where students can write about

Two lessons included! Read all about different types of dinosaurs (one flying reptile) to determine the main idea and key details. Simple way for students to practice finding main idea. Students can then choose a dinosaur to then summarize. Use T-MID to summarize (topic, main idea, and details).

Graphic organizer to fill in with characteristic for 5 vertebrate animal classes. Classification activity - identify name of animal on picture card (10) choose the animal class and evidence.

Our second grade participates in "beach day". This is help on a cold winter day. Here you will find 5 of the stations. There is a craft, writing, and measuring stations. It is a fun and exciting way to learn!

Mixing matter experiment - record predictions and observations for before mixing and after mixing; sugar and water, oil and water, and salt and pepper. Also make goo/slime, directions included, and record predictions and observations.

Organize all the information students learn throughout a non-fiction unit about bats. Use this graphic organizer that records what bats can do, have, are, and need. Also included is a template for writing about everything that has been learned about bats.

Over ten activities and experiments to use during any matter unit. Some examples are Mixing Matter Activity: Making Goo/Slime Changing Matter Physically Chemical Change Notes Sheet Properties of Matter Scavenger Hunt Properties of Matter Organizers: PDF and Smart Notebook File States of Matter Scavenger Hunt Great Melting Race Matter Scavenger Hunt Homework: Find different states of matter around the house and look for how the states of matter are mixed together.

Fun science homework assignment! Have students find different states of matter around the house. They can also look for how the states of matter are mixed together.

Take notes and organize information about 4 types of dinosaurs.

Use the book, by Scholastic, Smart Words Reader: Sharks to answer non-fiction questions from each chapter. Each chapter has 6 questions that are based on the information in the chapter.