SimpleScience Resources

This is a tool that I keep readily available for when I am planning. It lists a variety of structures and strategies that you can implement in the classroom. Keeping it handy allows for me to easily pick a variety of learning experiences for my students throughout the week. Keep a laminated copy on your desk and a three-ring punched copy in your lesson-planner!

This is a great activity for 4th-6th graders that highlights the relationship between area and perimeter. Students should be comfortable with calculating area and perimeter on their own and have some practice with this skill before implementing this lesson. Centimeter dot paper is not included, but can be printed online for free!

I created this tool based off of an article from the NSTA magazine. The checklist acts as a reading guide as they make their way through non-fiction text that may be more difficult to understand. This is excellent for prepping students for a classroom discussion on an article, or for use in a flipped-classroom setting (how I use it). Rather than taking notes on a chapter, I assign this reading guide the night prior to my lesson on the topic. It is then easy to do a pair-share to refresh from the

Basic guidelines and rubric for an alternative energy research project. Students choose a renewable energy source to research and come up with a persuasive presentation for their classmates. PDF and editable document included.

Introduction to physical changes. YouTube video on this lesson can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Pz-0XDehI

Students will find this open-ended task of designing a swimming pool interesting and engaging. They must meet certain area specifications and figure out how much fencing they will need to use. Student answers will vary.

Here is a positive behavior referral specifically designed for Christian schools. It includes a spot to mark off a corresponding fruit of the spirit and for the teacher and administrator to leave comments. After everything is filled out, it would be a great idea to mail them home to parents! These fonts were created by Hello Literacy, and were purchased through tpt.

This is a tool to show students the expectations for working either individually, in partners, or in small groups. The first two pages are the spinner. The spinner allows the teacher to show whether or not the task is individual, partners, etc. You are meant to cut out and attach the two circles with a brad, allowing the blank piece to spin freely over the icons below. Cut out ONE of the third-sized sections to allow an icon to peek through. The last page is to be posted next to the spinner as

Rubric that can be used to grade narrative writing.