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Engage your students with this week-long derby car building project. This PowerPoint presentation will walk you and your students through the process and background knowledge needed to plan, design, and construct a sturdy vehicle ready to enter the pit. This project serves to reach engineering standards, but also can be used to touch on other topics, like energy transfers and calculating speed. This could be an independent project but is also great for group work and collaboration. I like to end

Easy Scholastic News answer template that works with any magazine. This one-page worksheet has students chose two articles to read from any Scholastic News magazine and reflect by answering three questions. Typically fills a 45-minute class period and makes a perfect sub assignment. Word format and completely editable. Also easy to differentiate if needed.

Make learning about structural and behavioral adaptations, natural selection, and mutations a creative and engaging experience, with some friendly student competition sprinkled on top. Students will love this project as they design, construct, and defend their new species against various biomes around the world. A step-by-step teacher direction page is included, as well as all the needed worksheets to complete it. This project includes the construction of a 3-D clay model of their new species bu

Perfect for those looking for a simple metric system slideshow project that will help your students learn and remember what these unfamiliar measurements look like in their daily lives. This WS provides directions of how to build a 14-slide presentation with real examples of metric system measurements, including mass, length, and volume measurements. Students can use photos they scavenge from the internet or take themselves as examples. This project took my students two, 45-minute class periods.

Get out of the books, off the laptops, and get moving in the fresh air for the day! This activity serves as great practice using simple observation skills and descriptions, as students hunt and describe items they find on their checklist. This worksheet is completely editable if items can't be found in your area or if you'd like to add more! This is a great introduction lesson to ecosystems, as it works with abiotic and biotic things that can spark a discussion or introduce these vocabulary word

Add-on PowerPoint for the Adaptation/Natural Selection Clay Creature Battles resource found in my store.

Worksheet that goes along with "Engineering Project: Constructing a Derby Car." Used to track student project data.