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OverviewLooking for an engaging and interactive notes page to teach or review complete and incomplete metamorphosis? This interactive folding notes page is designed to teach students to differentiate between incomplete and complete metamorphosis. It also helps student compare and contrast various types of life cycles including: insects, frogs, birds, and plants. It is important that students understand that all living things have life cycles with distinct forms. The note portion under each t

Overview: This activity includes both animal and plant cell foldables. These foldables are used to teach students the structure and functions of plant and animal cell organelles. The students are required to identify and color the organelles on each tab of the foldable using a color key provided. Fill-in-the-blank notes for each organelle are included under each tab for students to complete as well. After the foldable is complete, each tab has a specific organelle colored. When the student

Concept Taught: Types of Energy Purpose: This activity is designed to help student form a deeper understanding of the different types of energy. In this activity, I have included the following types of energy: light/solar, thermal (heat), mechanical, electrical, sound, and chemical. Students must analyze various examples of objects (or actions) and determine which types of energy are associated with that object (or action). For example, a picture of wood burning would be associated with hea

This is a fill-in-the-blank notes page that highlights the similarities and differences between prokaryoteic and eukaryotic cells. It also provides students with visual representations of each type of cell. A teacher key is included. This notes page could be trimmed down or folded in half to fit in a science notebook. When notes need to be given, this fill-in-the-blank note taking strategy saves tons of time and tends to be more engaging for the students.

This hands-on manipulative requires students recognize and identify the components of photosynthesis. Students must be able to identify the reactant and products of the chemical process as well as explain where reactants and products are coming from and where they going. This game is a great for learning the basics of photosynthesis. In addition to the game board manipulative, an assessment handout is included that requires students to identify where the reactants of the process come from and

Overview: This States of Matter Interactive Diagram Game is an interactive, learner-centered way to learn the states of matter and what causes matter to cycle through the states. Students are given a game board, and a set of cards, and they must correctly play the cards in the correct boxes on their game board and verbally explain the process taking place in that step. It is a great formative assessment activity to see just how much your students know about the states of matter. This activity

This match game exposes students to a wide range of traits in plants and animals and requires them to distinguish whether they are inherited or acquired. Understanding the difference between inherited and acquired (learned) traits is a fundamental genetic concept. In the 5th grade (varies among states), students are expected to differentiate between traits or characteristics that are inherited and ones that are learned or acquired during an organism’s lifetime. This highly engaging, student-c

Overview: This is a foldable designed to help students identify the planets within the Solar System as well as the Asteroid Belt and Kuiper Belt. As shown in the picture below, students identify the planets/belts under each tab of the foldable and record important ideas, definitions, and attributes about each. This is a great activity/handout for interactive notebooking. Depending on how you utilize the foldable, it could serve as a nice formative assessment. Materials prep: o Print folda

Needing a quick product to review basic, fundamental genetics vocabulary? This folding tab page is designed to review students on the basic vocabulary needed to understand more complex genetics and heredity concepts. It is formatted so that it can be printed to fit into science notebooks or journal. It is includes the following vocabulary terms: gene vs. allele, homozygous dominant, heterozygous, homozygous recessive, phenotype, genotype, and monohybrid cross. It's quick, easy, and effective

Overview: The Rock Cycle Game is an interactive way to learn the rock cycle and the processes that drive it. Students are given a game board, a set of cards and sentence stems and they must correctly play the cards in the correct boxes on their game board and verbally explain the process taking place in that step using an ESL friendly sentence stem. It is a great formative assessment activity to see just how much your students know about the cycle. This activity would also make for a wonderfu

You are purchasing a template (along with instructions/pictures) for an interactive Insect Body Structure foldable. It also includes fill in the blank notes. See preview file for more details. Materials: o Print/copy 1 foldable per student o Colored pencils or crayons o Scissors Instructions: 1. Fold along horizontal dotted-line. 2. Complete the fill-in-the-blank notes. See key for answers. 3. Color the picture according to the colors mentioned in the notes. 4. Cut along the dashed lines. 5

These are large, medium and small chromosome templates. The large to medium sized ones are designed to be printed on card stock, laminated, and a magnet clued on the back. The small ones can be printed for each individual student or pair of students to use. I use them in my classroom to demonstrate on the board the Law of Segregation, Law of Independent Assortment, meiosis, mitosis, monohybrid and dihybrid crosses and Punnett squares. They help students conceptually understand the meaning of

Overview: This Choose Your Corner formative assessment activity is designed to help students recognize and identify the characteristics of atomic particles as well as the structure of an atom. It is a great way to review and assess your students’ knowledge of atomic structure. It could be used as a filler activity, exit activity or as an opening activity to review content previously covered. However you use this activity, it is a great way to formatively assess what your students know about

This match game is designed to help student recognize and identify weather symbols. This is a basic skill student must have before they can complete more advanced tasks related to weather patters such as reading and analyzing weather maps or recording weather conditions using meteorological symbols. Weather symbols covered in this activity include: fronts, pressure systems, cloud coverage, shower types, and weather conditions including thunderstorms and precipitation as well as other common sy

Connection Card Strategy: This learning strategy requires students make connections between various topics/vocabulary. Students truly begin to understand, comprehend, and remember vocabulary when they make connections to other words, content, and situations. This higher order thinking strategy also requires students to speak using academic vocabulary, which is a key component in helping English Language Learners comprehend science content as well as learn the English language. This strategy i