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I created this activity so my students could have practice reading food web charts. This comes up in testing situations often, and my students struggle! I wanted them to become more adept at reading carefully and being able to analyze a chart, web, or table. -Easy lesson for substitute or last minute! -Use as a station or center. -Print the two pages of the food web charts. I place them in plastic pages and allow kids to use them as resources. Saves paper! -Print the three practice pag

I have always loved Project Wild's Oh Deer game - so do my students. I have created a pre-reading for building background knowledge. While studying the deer's role in the ecosystem, so many of our concepts can be addressed! Students will be able to reflect on the reading, honing their life science.concepts AND vocabulary. The Oh Deer game is included with options to extend. The game does not need any supplies and kids love it. After playing it in class, my students started playing it at

You will love the discussions and academic connections students will make as they organize the concepts of renewable and non-renewable energy. Students will analyze how fossil fuels are formed, how alternative energy works, and how these concepts relate to each other. You will need to laminate three pages and cut out labels/diagrams. I included the graphic organizers that my class put together. Concepts: Renewable - Non-Renewable Alternative Energy Fossil Fuels You will LOVE it!

Animania I created this for my students as a review of our life science concepts. I purposely used vocabulary that I wanted my students to know and I kept the readings short. After reading about three, obscure animals, students complete the table of information. I use this as an individual assignment then have students compare with partners. It is a great review and kids LOVE reading about these animals. The information in the reading will take some inference, but ALL the information is i

Students work in teams to gather carbon dioxide and water molecules (poker chips) to slide through a plant (put the pant leg(roots) and through the sleeves(leaves)). After they pass through the plant, they molecules are given to the sun (sun is necessary, right?) and the plant places the molecules on the GLUCOSE GAME CARD. Includes: Directions for the game GLUCOSE game card A reflection sheet *You supply the costumes for' the plants and sun' and the poker chips