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Science Fair time means lot of questions from parents and students! These tools I've created will help to put you, your students, and your parents at ease by showing how to organize a successful science fair project! You will be able to use these handouts year after year!! You will get a four page handout to give your students/parents that gives detailed page by page directions on how to organize the project notebook. The project notebook explains how to set up the report which includes the

This is a hands on activity that helps students understand how the body parts of animals are adaptations that help them survive in their particular habitat. Seven stations are designed that each have a mini poster with the picture of a bird and its food, various kitchen gadgets that simulate birds' beaks, and "food". Students test the different gadget beaks to see which one works best at picking up the designated food item for each bird. The gadgets and food can easily be found in your kitc

Fun and rigorous way for upper elementary students to prove and showcase what they have learned at the end of a weather unit. Students will video themselves completing a weather forecast that they have created. In order to complete the project, students will use this packet that guides them through planning their forecast. The guide includes a form for students to write their notes for the forecasts for 5 cities across the United States including the capital city of their home state. There

Mirror, Mirror is a two page hands on activity that helps students understand how a plane mirror reflects light. Students will need aluminum foil, a plane mirror, and a flashlight to complete the activity. Students have to answer questions and complete drawings as part of the activity sheet. There is an answer key included. Rose Loves Science & History!

This is a great way to have students understand light refraction through three hands on experiments that are easy to set up in your classroom. You will need pencils, cups that are clear and opaque, water, index cards, and pennies. You will receive four sheets. You will receive instructions to cut out and place at the stations, explanations to cut out and place into folders at each station that students can look at when they finish each activity, and the worksheet for students to follow. I ha

This is a great end of the year activity that is a week long art/writing project in science. The kids love it! The tunnel book is a creative way for the students to showcase something that they have learned in science over the year. What you get: -A step by step, 7 page student directions/guide packet with illustrations that will help students to work independently or with partners on creating both art and written work showcasing something they have learned from any of your science units. -

Great graphic organizer visually teaches vocabulary such as: individual, populations, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere in a pyramid shape to showcase how you start small with the individual and branch out to the largest ecosystem of them all, the biosphere. There are areas to draw pictures to represent the terms as well as a section to record the written definitions. After drawing the pictures and recording the definitions, the students can practice what they've learned with the matchi

You will recieve a 6 page project handout which details the purpose of the project, the choices, and an outline for students to fill in order to complete four paragraphs of information on any Native American tribe they need to research. The outline provides questions for students to answer with space to write their answers for each paragraph. It also comes with a guide for citing web sites (sample sites that are great for research are part of the examples) and an explanation/visual for creating

This is an activity to help students understand pitch and frequency by using rulers and straws. This activity includes the following: 1) A brainstorming section 2) Two hands on pitch activities (one with straws and one with rulers) with step by step instructions. 3) Tables to record information 4) Questions to help students understand their learning 5) Vocabulary: pitch and frequency 6) A R.A.C.E. review question to assess the learning. A key is included for all parts of the activity.

This is a rubric created on a four point scale for any RAFT writing project. It includes a row to assess each of the following: the role, the audience, the format, the topic, and the mechanics.

Incorporate writing into your light and sound science unit with this activity after teaching your unit. There are five choices for students to choose from. This is a great alternative way to assess your students' understanding of light and sound. They will explain through their writing: how sound is produced and how it travels, what pitch is and what causes it to vary, what transparent, translucent, and opaque objects are, and how light is reflected and refracted.