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Complete fossil unit aligned with NGSS with best-selling FOSSIL STATIONS! Explore the world of fossils with your students in a fun and engaging way with All About Fossils! Students will enjoy learning about fossils with several interactive, engaging lessons. Your students will love the hands-on activities such as; making secret fossils in either clay or Play-doh before the class takes a guess as to what it is, making mold fossils out of bread and Swedish fish and comparing maps of T. rex fos

A highly engaging NGSS aligned unit covering natural selection and adaptations. Students will enjoy the interesting reading passages based on scientific phenomena that are given as a central theme to each lesson. Reading comprehension questions are aligned with ELA standards. Also included are several fun, engaging activities that students will enjoy while gaining a deeper understanding of the content. Students sharpen their math skills by graphing data and analyzing results. Students also u

Engaging informational text about animals' amazing senses! Students begin by sketching each of the five senses and how humans use these senses to survive. Next, students read an informational text before identifying a familiar animal with an amazing sense or senses. Next, answer comprehension questions and complete a model drawing of echolocation paths from a bat to different objects in nature. Students also have some fun by matching animal senses to the animal. Students then draw a map usin

⭐⭐ Now in print or Google Slides! Introduce your students to the amazing scientific phenomena of the peppered moths in England during the 19th and 20th centuries as the Industrial Revolution drastically changed their environment! Students are first introduced to what natural selection is and what it is not using a diagram and explanation. Next, students read an informational text about the story of the peppered moths and how natural selection changed the population over the course of 100 years

Complete unit focusing on claim, evidence, and reasoning for elementary students! This unit has EVERYTHING you need to teach CERs in a way that students will understand and enjoy. Common Core ELA standards of writing are covered in this unit as well as NGSS standards which requires students to construct an argument as part of science learning. This unit will teach and prepare students for this valuable skill! Unit includes: ✔️ 12 days of lesson plans with clickable links to videos ✔️ Colorful

Ahoy, adventurous educators! Prepare to set sail for an unforgettable evening of learning and fun with our Pirates Family STEM Night! This super-fun resource provides everything you need to host an engaging STEM night for a large crowd. With five thrilling STEM challenge stations, station posters, participant instructions, and printouts to enhance the excitement, your students will be immersed in hands-on learning from start to finish. Designed to be completed in about 90 minutes! Editable famil

Four amazing units in one resource! ⭐⭐Now with FREE bonus unit - Introduction to Claim, Evidence, Reasoning! Highly engaging units cover natural selection and adaptations, fossils, plant and animal life cycles and animal groupings. Students will enjoy the interesting reading passages based on scientific phenomena which are included in each unit. Reading comprehension questions are aligned with ELA standards. Also included are several fun, engaging activities that students will enjoy while gain

Introduce students to waves in a fun and engaging way with no prep! This mini-unit gives you and your students everything needed to learn about waves! Three lessons with a google slide presentation complete with video links is all you need! Lessons - What is a wave? How do waves move? Parts of a wave Next, students will engage in a super fun activity of making and labeling their own waves using clay or play-doh. Huge hit! Rubric included for easy grading. Finally - Show what you know! Student

Explore the fascinating world of plants and animals with this interactive and comprehensive 3rd-grade unit! Delve into the life cycles of plants and animals, from Molecules to Organisms, through the NGSS 3-LS1-aligned curriculum. This fun and engaging unit requires minimal preparation and materials - simply print and get started! Throughout the unit, students will immerse themselves in captivating lessons, activities, and projects, employing a variety of classroom strategies to enhance their lea

Students dive into the engaging informational text about Charles Darwin's journey to the Galapagos Islands where he found evidence of adaptation and evolution! Reading passage gives students background information about Darwin and the creatures he encountered on the islands that provided sound evidence of adaptation and evolution. Students complete comprehension questions after reading the text. Next, students construct a claim, evidence, reasoning (CER) based on Darwin's findings. Students a

Now comes in print or digital (Google Slides) Natural Selection and Adaptation text passages provide enriching information and thought provoking comprehension questions! Your students will enjoy each of the six reading passages based on scientific phenomena. Each of the six passages comes with informational text comprehension questions aligned to 3rd and 4th-grade common core standards in ELA and NGSS standards. Full answer key included for each set of comprehension questions and a rubric. T

Looking for a fun, full week of engineering design challenges for your students? Look no further - Tom the Turkey's Great Escape is the perfect plan for your holiday season! Tom the Turkey wants to escape the barnyard so he's not served on the dinner table this year and he needs your students help! Resource also comes with an engineering design process classroom poster, a flipbook for students to plan and record data, and a fun award if they save Tom! Check out the five challenges below wh

Where would we be without bees? This engaging informational text explains the importance of bees in our world by continuing the cycle of pollination. Students first read the informational text before conducting a fun activity where they pollinate their own worksheets! Next, students answer comprehension questions about the text. Finally, students show their creative side by completing a graphic organizer with sketches of each step of the pollination process. This resource is part of the co

⭐⭐NOW IN GOOGLE SLIDES!!!! ⭐⭐ Engage your students in six fun and engaging activity stations that are designed to give students an enriching experience in supporting NGSS standards. Each station provides students with an interesting look at fossils and what they tell us about the past! These stations are part of the unit; All About Fossils, a complete NGSS unit. Station topics include: 1. Glossopteris Trees, Proof of an Ancient World - Students analyze two different maps in earth's history

This engaging and fun unit introduces students to the four layers of earth and plate tectonics! Your class will use the 24 slide presentation as a guide which uses bold, colorful pictures and diagrams to teach students about each layer inside the earth and the forces that drive plate tectonics! Three short videos are included to illustrate concepts learned. Included in this unit: ⭐ Complete 10-day lesson plans with clickable links ⭐ KWL chart to begin the unit ⭐ Guided notes using presentation ⭐

⭐⭐ Now in print OR Google Slides! This amazing two unit bundle covers the extensive 3-LS4 performance expectations! The first unit covers; 3-LS4-1 - Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago. The print and go packet gives students everything they need and more for this performance expectation. Explore the world of fossils with your students with several interactive, engaging lessons. Your students will love t

The Incredible Cactus is a story of survival in some of the world's hottest environments! Students follow the close reading guide to dive into the text as they read, highlight, and model the unique features that cactuses have adapted over time and how each one is suited for an extreme climate. Attractive student-created cactus posters that model adaptations and survival features are great to hang in the classroom or hallway to show off student work! Easy grade rubric and complete answer keys ma

Your students will have a blast while learning about the planets within our solar system! First, students complete a graphic organizer outlining several facts for each of the eight planets and the asteroid belt. A beautiful PowerPoint presentation gives students all the information they need about each of the planets and the asteroid belt! Next, students become solar system detectives as they search for a missing little alien in our solar system. The only trace of the alien is his travel jo

Great for distance learning use! This HUGE bundle contains EIGHT high-interest informational texts to support NGSS life and earth science units! Each resource begins with an engaging informational text before students APPLY what they learn with comprehension questions and an activity. Activities vary for each resource including; graphing data, analyzing maps, designing solutions, creating a poster, writing a presentation, matching concepts and sketching ideas. Great to use as classwork, homew

Complete unit now in print or digital formats! Collaborative and engaging, this resource has absolutely everything you need to teach a two week unit on earth's events! Students begin the unit by relating time to different events and processes in their own lives using a quick or slow chart before learning about the earth's processes. Several lessons, activities, informational texts, and create art projects allows you to use the entire unit or choose what your students need! Students rotate t