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DESCRIPTION Create this fun and informative accordion book to teach about the Respiratory System and its connection to the Circulatory System! There are 8 pictures of the respiratory process to color. Each picture of the process has an informative blurb providing the students with a great deal of knowledge. Did you know it takes about 20,000 breaths a day to continually provide our bodies with enough oxygen to survive? Kids will learn about how the diaphragm helps us inhale and exhale, how alveo

DESCRIPTION Here is a colorful and informative graphic organizer for the 4 layers of a rainforest. For each of the four layers (Forest Floor, Understory, Canopy, and Emergent Layer) there is a vegetation section telling what grows in the layer, an animal section telling what inhabits in the layer, and a general description of the layer. Create this flipbook all in one day, or complete it over a span of days or weeks. For my unit with my own kids, we did a week on rainforest animals, a week on ra

DESCRIPTION Here is a great pair of activities to help learn about the human digestive system! The first activity is a simple, yet informative, coloring page, which has the students use one color for each part of the digestive tract. Students will become familiar with and color the mouth, esophagus, gallbladder, stomach, liver, pancreas, small intestine and large intestine. The second resource is a cut-and-paste activity with 6 of the main organs of the human digestive system. Both of these acti

DESCRIPTION Here is a great pair of activities to help learn about five parts of a flower (petal, stamen, pistil, sepal, and stalk). The first activity is a simple, yet informative, coloring page, which has the students use one color for each flower part. The second activity is a flower dissection sheet. My own kids LOVED the flower dissection and are still able to look at a flower and recite its parts! DIRECTIONS 1.“Color the Parts of a Flower” Activity: You will need the following colors: yell

Here is a great bundle which covers 6 of the main systems in the human body (Digestive, Circulatory, Respiratory, Muscular, Skeletal, and Nervous Systems). Each book is easy-to-create and highly informational. This bundle is perfect for any Human Body Unit! Here is what is included: Digestion Accordion Book: Learn all about how you digest your food. Includes some information on the urinary system as well!Lung Accordion Book: Learn all about the connection between your respiratory and circulatory

DESCRIPTION Here is a great set of fun and informative activities to teach the parts of plant and animal cells in a hands-on way! Both the plant and animal cells have coloring pages and cut-and-paste activities. Each coloring page has 10 organelles to color. The plant cell coloring page has students color the chloroplasts, endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, central vacuole, cell membrane, nucleus, nucleolus, cytoplasm, golgi body, and cell wall. The animal cell coloring page has students color

Here is a wonderful bundle to create a memorable and educational unit about the Arctic and Antarctic Regions! Each resource is hands-on and includes informational blurbs. Many of the activities are easily differentiated and can be used with elementary to middle or even high school-aged kids! WHAT'S INCLUDED: "Antarctic Food Chain": A fun flipbook to learn about ecosystem interconnections in Antarctica."Arctic vs. Antarctic": A graphic organizer to learn about the weather, seasons, geography, lan

DESCRIPTION Here is a great group of coloring sheets to learn about the anatomy of bugs! In this simple coloring activity, kids will easily see the differences between the body parts of insects and spiders. Kids will notice that insects have 6 legs, a head, thorax, abdomen, and antennae, while spiders have 8 legs, a head, cephalothorax, pedipalps (feelers) and chelicerae (where the fangs are located). Additionally, kids will be able to compare different insects to see the similarities and diffe

Here is a wonderful bundle to create a memorable and educational winter unit! Each activity is hands-on and includes informational blurbs. Many of the activities are easily differentiated and can be used with elementary to middle school-aged kids! WHAT'S INCLUDED: "The Story of Groundhog's Day": A Sequence story to learn about the traditions and history of Groundhog's Day."Hibernation Flipbook": Learn facts about specific animals that hibernate in the winter."Hibernation Book": An easy-to-creat

Here is a bundle with 5 fun and hands-on activities which investigate the Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio. "Fibonacci Numbers" helps students derive the sequence with arithmetic. "Fibonacci Spiral" shows the geometry behind the sequence. It has kids use squares to create a golden rectangle and then uses the golden rectangle to replicate the famous spiral! "Fibonacci in Food" has kids investigate fruits and vegetables to see where these famous numbers show up in nature. Kids will collect

DESCRIPTION Teach kids the famous Gospel story about the story of Easter with this hands-on accordion book. Kids will learn about the Last Supper, the betrayal of Judas, Jesus’s crucifixion, Jesus’s resurrection, and how we remember Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross for our sins with wine and bread. This activity gives young students practice in coloring, cutting, pasting, and placing pictures in the correct order, while teaching students the true reason for Easter. Each part of the story also incl

Here is a bundle perfect for any Human Body Unit. It includes 13 fun, hands-on, and informational activities to teach about the anatomy & function of your organs, systems, and cells! This bundle would be best suited for 3rd grade through high school. Each of the activities can easily be differentiated to work with a variety of ability levels. WHAT'S INCLUDED: Lung Accordion Book: Learn all about the connection between your respiratory and circulatory systems.Arteries & Veins Game: Create a

DESCRIPTION Here is a fun, hands-on, and ready-to-go activity to see who would beat who in a race on the African savanna! There are 10 animals pictured (hippopotamus, cheetah, rhinoceros, African buffalo, zebra, elephant, lion, ostrich, impala, and giraffe) with their top running speeds included. Students will color and cut out each animal, and then glue them in order from slowest to fastest. This would be a great activity for any Safari or African Animal Unit. It would also be a wonderful math

DESCRIPTION Do you know what makes an animal a bird?? Here is a wonderful book to learn about the 7 main characteristics of all birds! In the book, kids will learn that all birds are vertebrates, breathe air, are warm-blooded, hatch from shelled eggs, have wings, feathers, and bills with no teeth . Each page has an easy-to-read sentence so that beginning readers can read their books to others. Each sentence makes a connection to other types of animals so that kids can compare similarities and di

DESCRIPTION Here is a complete unit to introduce fractions to an elementary class. It includes 10 lessons, hands-on activities, interactive worksheets, warm-ups, review, a unit test, a cover page, and answer keys. The lessons increase in difficulty, starting with only 1/2’s and 1/3’s, and working up to 1/12’s. Kids will learn to write fractions, color shapes to match written fractions, and become familiar with equivalent fractions through several different hands-on activities. The activities are

Here is a wonderful bundle for your elementary class! It includes 5 units on evergreen topics such as time, money, 2D/3D shapes, equations, and fractions. The units all include 10-12 unique and engaging lessons in a workbook format. Each workbook includes interactive worksheets, hands-on activities, review, a unit assessment, and a cover page. Answer keys are provided in a separate document, making these lessons easy to leave for sub plans! Additionally, each unit has numbered pages, so that st

DESCRIPTION Here is a complete unit to teach how to tell time on an analog clock to an elementary class. It includes 12 lessons, hands-on activities, interactive worksheets, warm-ups, review, a unit test, a cover page, and answer keys. The lessons increase in difficulty, starting with whole hours, then 5-minute increments, half hours, quarter hours, and finally 1-minute increments. Students review counting by 5’s to learn how to tell time for 5-minute increments and then apply a variation of thi

DESCRIPTION Create an adorable paper plate elephant with 7 included fun-facts! Did you know that baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort, just like human babies suck their thumbs? Did you know that an elephant can drink over 200 pounds of water at one time? This craft is easy to make and geared toward elementary aged kids. Simply paint a regular sized (9in diameter) paper plate, cut out the elephant ears, trunk, tusks, and fun facts, and then glue together. This activity is a perfect additi

DESCRIPTION Create an adorable accordion book to teach kids the life cycle of a Monarch butterfly! This activity gives young students practice in coloring, cutting, pasting, and placing pictures in the correct order. Each part of the life cycle has an informative blurb so that this book is not only cute, but educational! My kindergarten and Pre-K girls LOVED this craft! MATERIALS NEEDED: Light green cardstock paper (optional), scissors, colored pencils or markers, glue stick, Elmer’s glue, glit

Here is a bundle perfect for any elementary Human Body Unit. It includes 17 fun, hands-on, and informational activities to teach about your 5 senses and the anatomy & function of your amazing body! This bundle would be best suited for kindergarten to 5th grade. Each of the activities can easily be differentiated to work with a variety of ability levels. Each resource is unique and different from the other resources, so students will be excited and engaged to learn throughout the entire