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A tool to get students talking about important information that can help make it a great year!

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.

This has been the easiest way for me to keep up with being sure all students receive the work they had missed when absent. Under the sign I have a file folder labeled for each class period. In the folder I place the work with the student's name on it after I have handed the work out to the class.

Welcome your students back to school with a fun ice breaker activity. You will receive a set of 6 questions to go with the 6 numbers on the dice patterns also provided. You will also get a documentation sheet students can fill out while they play and learn new things about their classmates!

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.

Looking Back At My __th Grade Year Poster Print on 8.5 x 11 paper and have kids complete the sentence stems and make it bright and colorful!

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

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.

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