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Foldable to introduce/review vocabulary for 'Changes to Earth's Surface'. Foldable includes visuals reminders to help students remember the definitions. Two foldables per page for efficient printing. :) (TEK 5.7B)

This is a quick & easy NO PREP mini-assessment or assignment that you can use to help your students practice that tricky 5.8C TEK. (Earth's rotation and the sun's apparent movement across the sky) This product gives you two options: • VERSION A gives students specific times and asks students to draw the sun’s position and how the shadow would appear. • VERSION B: Shows the sun’s position in the sky and asks that students estimate the time of day (with a given time bank) and draw shadows as

When we started our unit on Landforms and changes to Earth’s surface, I realized that a lot of my students were not familiar with the different landforms. In order to familiarize my students I decided to do this activity with them. I formatted it as a ‘game’. This proved to be really successful and my kiddos are now very comfortable using the landforms vocabulary. The landforms I chose were the ones that were most commonly used on the STAAR test. Landforms included: sea arch, land/desert arch,

If you need a HIGHLY ENGAGING game to review Earth's Rotation SPOONS IS THE GAME FOR YOU! This is a new take on the old game of of Spoons that makes learning and practicing truly fun. You can use this in centers, whole group or for a group of early finishers. This product is to review the concept of Earth's Rotation, specifically the sun's position in our sky and shadows on earth.Your students will have to match four cards:Time of dayPicture/Location of a tree's shadowThe sun's position in ou

If you need a HIGHLY ENGAGING game to review The Water Cycle then SPOONS IS THE GAME FOR YOU! This is a new take on the old game of of Spoons that makes learning and practicing truly fun. You can use this in centers, whole group or for a group of early finishers. This product is to review the following vocabulary for The Water Cycle: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, run-off and transpiration. Your students will have to match FOUR cards:Vocab Word (evaporation, condensation, prec

If you need a HIGHLY ENGAGING game to review The Formation of Sedimentary Rocks then SPOONS IS THE GAME FOR YOU! This is a new take on the old game of of Spoons that makes learning and practicing truly fun. Especially with a tough concept like this! You can use this in centers, whole group or for a group of early finishers. This product is to review the following words for The Formation of Sedimentary Rocks: weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction and cementation Your students will hav

Foldables to use in interactive science notebooks! Perfect for Texas TEK 5.8 but can be used in other grades and states. Includes TWO version...one with the normal "rotation and revolution," and one with "RoDAYtion" which I used to help my students remember the difference between the two.

Perfect for students to take notes in their interactive notebook. These have fill in the blanks to make it easy for your students to take notes! Teacher key is included for you to see how to fill in the blanks and the key words. Perfect for TEK 5.8A, but can be modified for different grades/states. NOTE: The foldable comes in two pages, it should be printed front to back. The picture with the key gives you an idea on how it should look in your students' journal. The part that should be glued i

Need a fun way for your students to demonstrate their knowledge of earth's changing surface? This project is PERFECT for that! ****This was created for to meet the 5th Grade Texas TEK 5.7B, but can definitely used to meet standards in other grades/states. **** For this project, students are given 6 landforms (u-shaped valley, v-shaped valley, canyons, sand dunes, deltas, arches--The most mentioned landforms on the STAAR) and are asked to come up with an 'Instagram' post for each. Some of the

Do you want a way to celebrate Earth Day while still reviewing TEKS in preparation for the 5th grade STAAR Test? Then this is the perfect product for you! Almost every task card has a question covering a TEK that is somehow related to earth (Earth's rotation, formation of landforms on earth, weather and climate, renewable and nonrenewable resources, etc). Sprinkled throughout the task cards are also questions relating to Earth Day (conserving energy, pollution clean up, importance of observin

These are perfect to study vocabulary in a fun way! I used them to review Texas TEK 5.7B Words included are: v-shaped valley erosion sediment deposition glacier delta sanddunes canyon weathering There are two versions included: one with a word bank and one without. (Which makes it perfect to differentiate)

A foldable for 5 terms: solar energy, wind energy, biofuels, geothermal, and hydroelectric energy. This foldable does NOT include any instructions on notes or how to fill these out. I know that different teachers like to give specific definitions so they are blank, and meant for you to fill in with your definitions. Foldable includes visuals to help students remember the terms. Product is just one page, and has two foldables per page for efficient printing. I used this for my 5th graders to r

I had students complete this project after we studied weather and weather maps/symbols. Students are given different cities that they must find/place on the map. (Maps are not included in this download--but you can find plenty of blank US maps online!) Students are also given descriptions of the weather going on in those cities, but they have to practice using the correct weather map symbols. You can have GT/GATE students come up with their own weather. :)

Want a way to keep your students accountable for watching videos? This is a great way to keep students on task whether they are watching the video on their own or with a sub. Quick, easy, and no prep! Just print! Answer key is included!

If you need a HIGHLY ENGAGING game to review Landforms and how they are created SPOONS IS THE GAME FOR YOU! This is a new take on the old game of of Spoons that makes learning and practicing truly fun. You can use this in centers, whole group or for a group of early finishers. This product is to review the following Landforms: deltas, u-shaped valleys, canyons and sand dunes. Your students will have to match four cards:Name of landformpicturedetailed description on how the landforms were cre

Need an easy and low-prep way to introduce weather and climate to your kiddos? (TEK 5.8A) This product includes an easy to follow Powerpoint presentation (PDF version is included as well) that gives students definitions, key words, embedded writing activities and explanations on why it is important to know what weather and climate are. There is a hand out you can give to students as a note guide to follow along with the PowerPoint. There is also a 2-page Frayer model included so that your stude

A sheet for students to create their own mnemonic device for remembering the planets in our solar system (does not include pluto!) I had my students study the old/known mnemonic device and put in in the "input" part of their journal, and their mnemonic device on the "student output" (left side).

Need a fun way to introduce/review vocabulary for weathering, erosion, deposition? What better way than food? (Most specifically CANDY!) I had students eat a piece of candy at a time, and focus one each part (chewing=weathering, swallowing=erosion, pieces settling in stomach=deposition). Very simple and quick activity!

Students will get practice going through the process of the formation of sedimentary rocks by creating a 'comic' in which they describe the changes that occur in order to form sedimentary rocks. This product includes a student description, rubric, and the comic paper for them to work on, or you may choose to have them do it on plain white paper or construction paper so that they could have more creativity. :) I used this to review Texas TEK 5.7A, but it can be used for other grades and states.

ODD ONE OUT: Weather and Space With this product your students will have to look at four items and figure out which one is NOT like the others; which one is the odd one out?This product includes 12 task cards, an answer sheet with open-ended prompts and an answer key. See the thumbnails for some examples! These task cards are perfect for STAAR TEST PREP or at the end of your physical properties unit; they cover TEKS 5.8A, 5.8B, 5.8C, 5.8D, 3.8D!