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Have your students use tools on the tool bar to illustrate diagrams including rotation, revolution, day/night, and shadows. This is a great activity for Substitute plans, review, demonstrating understanding, or even homework.

In this activity students will complete a tree map deciphering advantages and disadvantages and examples of renewable and nonrenewable resources. This activity could be used as at home practice, centers, bell ringers, and small group work.

Incorporating writing in your Science classroom is so very important! I am creating writing activities that you can adapt to Claim-Evidence-Reasoning writing or RACE writing for your students. You can keep the tabs you want, delete the ones you don't, and make changes as you need! I have also included a planning page you can keep for everyone or use as an accommodation as needed. This activity also has an accommodated notes form to use with all students getting started writing in Science or with

Incorporating writing in your Science classroom is so very important! I am creating writing activities that you can adapt to Claim-Evidence-Reasoning writing or RACE writing for your students. You can keep the tabs you want, delete the ones you don't, and make changes as you need! I have also included a planning page you can keep for everyone or use as an accommodation as needed. This activity also has an accommodated notes form to use with all students getting started writing in Science or with

Incorporating writing in your Science classroom is so very important! I am creating writing activities that you can adapt to Claim-Evidence-Reasoning writing or RACE writing for your students. You can keep the tabs you want, delete the ones you don't, and make changes as you need! I have also included a planning page you can keep for everyone or use as an accommodation as needed. This activity also has an accommodated notes form to use with all students getting started writing in Science or with

Print them, laminate them, mix them up, and place them in a baggie! The original printed copy is the key. This activity is put together is such a way that it could be 3 in 1. Each TEKS is grouped and can be used separately for a mini review or all the cards in one large review. This card sort set reviews all of the 5th grade TEKS 5.10 ABC. Students can play a matching game by taking turns, use as an end of unit review, as a group activity in the classroom, or even a practice assignment at home.

Print them, laminate them, mix them up, and place them in a baggie! The original printed copy is the key. This card sort set reviews all of the 5th grade TEKS 5.11. Students can play a matching game by taking turns, use as an end of unit review, as a group activity in the classroom, or even a practice assignment at home.

Print them, laminate them, mix them up, and place them in a baggie! The original printed copy is the key. This card sort set reviews all of the 5th grade TEKS 5.12 ABC. Students can play a matching game by taking turns, use as an end of unit review, as a group activity in the classroom, or even a practice assignment at home.

Get your students thinking and talking! Assign to pairs or groups of students to discuss and answer questions. Make each student or group one copy of the student questions for them to document their discussions. Mix groups and compare discussions and thoughts.

Students can practice and review TEKS 5.11 in this activity that will let them know if they are correct instantly! There are 21 items on this activity. This Google Sheet is set up so that the answer boxes change color to show answers as correct or incorrect. This activity can be used for review and reteach activities, or provided as homework, or as a center activity while the teacher is meeting with small groups. To see the Key you will need to go to conditional formatting in the Format tab of t

Students can practice and review TEKS 5.10 ABC in this activity that will let them know if they are correct instantly! There are 27 items on this activity. This Google Sheet is set up so that the answer boxes change color to show answers as correct or incorrect. This activity can be used for review and reteach activities, or provided as homework, or as a center activity while the teacher is meeting with small groups. To see the Key you will need to go to conditional formatting in the Format tab

Give your students an opportunity to read to learn and answer questions pertaining to the Earth's natural resources. Students will also click and drag ideas of recycling, conservation, and impact on Earth to the main topic titles. This activity can be used to check understanding after teaching the lesson, review prior to a quiz or test, homework, or extra practice.

Give your students an opportunity to click and drag to label a diagram of weathering, erosion, and deposition, plus use vocabulary terms to complete an explanation of the formation of sedimentary rocks, lastly an opportunity to design an investigation to demonstrate the cycle to a younger student. This activity can be used to check understanding after teaching the lesson, review prior to a quiz or test, homework, or extra practice. Once students make it to designing an experiment they could part

Dirt Road..Neighborhood Street...Simple Highway...Complex Freeway (New to me       know some              I know it                 I know it all) BEFORE beginning a new unit see where your students are at.  1-Post the 4 roads posters in the 4 corners of your classroom…. 2-Project and read questions one at a time and allow students to choose their comfort level with that content and whether or not they want to answer the question… 3-Allow confident students to answer and have introductory discus

Dirt Road..Neighborhood Street...Multi Lane Highway...Multi-interchange Freeway (New to me                know some              I know it                     I know it all) BEFORE beginning a new unit see where your students are at.  1-Post the 4 roads posters in the 4 corners of your classroom…. 2-Project and read questions one at a time and allow students to choose their comfort level with that content and whether or not they want to answer the question… 3-Allow confident students to answer

Dirt Road..Neighborhood Street...Multi Lane Highway...Multi-interchange Freeway (New to me                know some              I know it                     I know it all) BEFORE beginning a new unit see where your students are at.  1-Post the 4 roads posters in the 4 corners of your classroom…. 2-Project and read questions one at a time and allow students to choose their comfort level with that content and whether or not they want to answer the question… 3-Allow confident students to answer

My students LOVED these activities…. I would have students work in pairs or small groups to analyze each picture to discuss and decide which vocabulary word they believed the picture was depicting. They would also practice writing complete sentences and explaining their reasoning. I have provided 3 different student worksheets for varying levels of ability.