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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

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.

Incorporating writing in your Science classroom is so very important! Have your students think and write as if they are planning to conduct scientific investigations. I am creating writing activities that you can use as a "when you are finished" activity, substitute activity, or science practices review activity.

In this slide show you will find a short clip explaining the nuclear reactor in a nuclear military submarine. There are also several questions posed for students to discuss and answer in partners or small groups. This is great to get student's started thinking and talking.

6th grade Science TEKS 6.12 C Hierarchical organization Students read background information, have an example from the human body, then research an organism to create a diagram of hierarchical organization based on a living organism of their choice.

Great tool for documenting, tracking, and teaching proper laboratory behavior.

Practice the use of and understanding of vocabulary using this crossword puzzle. Words included are: advantageous variation, biosphere, community, disadvantageous variation, environment, human impact, natural disasters, natural selection, survival, and variation.

In this activity you will find a short video clip and several questions to get your students thinking and talking.

Teaching Cell Theory? This activity allows students to discuss and think critically as they match the scientists to thier contribution to cell theory. Once they have correctly matched the cards they will complete a timeline and answer some questions pertaining to cell theory.

In this document you will find the academic and content-specific vocabulary listed by TEKS and separated into grade levels 6, 7 , and 8.

Google Form over lab safety in Science ready to be used as a quiz, test, review prior to testing, or update as the new semester begins.

Give your students an opportunity to demonstrate understanding of their knowledge of atoms, elements, compounds, and molecules. This 16 question quiz will examine students' mastery on TEKS 7.6 A and B.  This Google Form is set-up for students to complete the form 1 time, to see the questions they missed, each question's point value, to verify the student's email address and send the responder a copy of the assignment to their email. The first 3 questions ask for the student’s first name, last na

In this activity students will differentiate between inherited and acquired traits using a T-chart. This activity can be used as an at home practice, a small group activity, a bell ringer activity, or a center activity in the classroom.

In this activity students will be placing facts about the patterns and effects of seasonal changes on the diagram of Earths labeled as April, June, September, and December. This can be used as a small group activity for high achieving regular and gifted classes, it may be difficult for some classes or students. If the diagram was printed poster size I think it could be used in any regular classroom as a whole group discussion activity.

In this activity students will label and explain hoe electrical energy moves through a closed circuit. This can be used as an at home activity, small group activity, centers activity or a bell ringer activity.

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.

In this activity students will label the parts of a plant and also label the function of each structure. This activity can be used as an at home practice, in class small group activity, centers activity, or even a bell ringer.

In this activity students will separate pictures of conductors and insulators into a T-chart. Great for discussion in small groups, homework, review, or assessing student understanding.

In this activity students will match a vocabulary term to its definition and a picture example. There is a total of 15 cards or 5 sets of 3.

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