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⭐⭐ 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

This interactive resource is designed to introduce elementary students to the fascinating world of patterns found in nature. The journey begins with an introduction to common patterns in found nature like symmetry, spirals, waves, and tessellations, paired with student practice to solidify understanding. A video link guides students through a creative tessellation project, combining art with learning. Students then step outside to explore and identify real-life examples of patterns in their surr

Engineering Design includes three different stories which end in a dilemma for your little engineers to solve! Each story requires students to use the engineering design process to create and build a basic design to help the characters achieve their goals. This is a fun and engaging way to introduce students to the engineering design process as they build out of blocks, cups, craft sticks and more. Very easy classroom materials are required for each design. Each story comes with step by step

Want a super fun resource to review fractions? All you need is a couple of bags of Gummy Bears to bring smiles into your classroom while reviewing fractions! Students use Gummy Bears to apply all they have learned. This resource is a great visual way for students to review for an assessment AND standardized tests! Students work with their own bag of Gummy Bears, however much of the review is whole-class collaboration in finding fractions! Also included is a teacher set-up page and answer key.

Give your students plenty of addition and subtraction practice this fall! Packet contains tons of printables for addition and subtraction practice and so much more! Included are two fun, engaging projects as well as challenges and assessments! Pages come in color and black and white to meet your needs. CCSS Math aligned! Bonus! Patterns and missing addends Thanksgiving printables included! Included in this resource: Addition - Going to the Pumpkin Patch Counting to 20 Addition Stories Ad

Brighten up your classroom with this informative STEAM Poster Set! Each branch of STEAM is defined and colorful! Easy to cut banner comes in coordinating colors or black and white for you to use your own colored printer paper. Set also comes with stars to add more fun!

Give your students a treat this Halloween season with this cute Halloween Math resource! Plenty of fun math practice, puzzles, games, and coloring! Unleash the fun of learning with this 2nd Grade Halloween Math collection, a festive fusion of addition, subtraction, patterns, and missing addends! Solve spooky riddles, challenging math games, and bewitching word problems. Discover if numbers are ghostly odd or eerily even! Adorable trick-or-treaters on Spooky Street will delight your little on

Students explore and apply the principles of mathematical patterns in nature in a fun and engaging way! First, students identify and describe patterns in the natural world before heading outside to find patterns on their own. Next, students begin to explore number patterns in nature using the Fibonacci sequence. Fin fingerprint activity keeps students interested and engaged! Next, explore cycles in nature by creating a model on paper using 3-dimensional objects. Rubric included. Students are

Want to give a fun treat this Valentine's Day? Students are introduced to Little Gnome who lost his way while delivering his Valentine cards. Students are asked to help Little Gnome get home with the help of his gnome friends. Students work through a series of 5 worksheets with addition and subtraction problems. Each worksheet also has LIttle Gnome's friends giving him encouragement and directions home! Students self-check their work before beginning the next worksheet with complete answer k

Fun activity for students by making a line graph of bean plant growth using two different variables before answering comprehension questions. This resource supports NGSS scientific practices by analyzing and interpreting data and well as support for life science units. Also, this resource supports math CCCS standards for elementary. Clean, colorful pages make this resource appealing to students and teachers! Complete comprehensive student instructions allows students to work independently

Little Gnome needs some help! After picking sugar berries in the forest, he can't seem to find his way back home! Students complete 5 worksheets, each with a different gnome giving Little Gnome directions home! After each worksheet is completed, students received the next worksheet, getting closer and closer to Little Gnome's home! After all five worksheets are completed, students are given a beautiful coloring page of Little Gnome and all his friends in the forest home! Worksheets are as f

Spin to win: one of four pumpkins! Students use the spinner to create addition problems to solve. The total for each of the four categories determines what they receive! Which pumpkin will they get? Which pair of eyes and mouth? Will they get a hat or bat wings for their pumpkin? This resource is a super fun way for students to practice addition while being creative! Hang in the hallway or classroom to show off student work! CCSS aligned!

Happy Thanksgiving! Your students will love these large, fall-themed decks filled with owls to celebrate Thanksgiving while practicing addition and subtraction within 20! Cute pictures of apple pie, pumpkins, and of course lots of adorable owls help your students practice! ❤❤ BONUS - after students complete each deck they are in for a fun surprise! Students use digital Legos to create their own turkey and owl in a tree! Your students will beg for more!!!!! ❤❤ This resource is aligned with

Student's become little weathermen/women is this engaging NGSS unit! Students are introduced to the basic concepts of weather before describing what they see out their own window. Next, students record weather conditions each day in their Little Book of Weather for ten days Booklet comes in color and in black and white. Once observations are complete, students count up the number of sunny, cloudy and rainy days before making a colorful weather chart from their data. Finally, students compare

Get into the spirit with your students this year with the Thanksgiving-themed Patterns deck! Students start the deck by reading a cute joke about a turkey. Once students complete the deck, the punchline is revealed! This large 25 card deck gives students plenty of practice with patterns in a variety of different questions such as; multiple-choice, word problems, drag & drop, and more! This super fun and festive deck is aligned with CCSS math standard 5.OA.B.3. To Use Boom Cards -To use Boom

Give your students a Thanksgiving treat with this amazing math bundle! In the first deck, students solve addition and subtraction problems and in the second deck, students count by 5's, 10's, and 100's! Pilgrims, pies, turkeys, and much more make these decks fun and festive for the Thanksgiving season! Plus, each deck has a fun Lego building block activity at the end! CCSS Math aligned! To Use Boom Cards -To use Boom Cards, you must be connected to the Internet. Boom Cards play on modern bro

Happy Halloween! Students grab and drag the number of candy corn for each addend to fill in the ten frame. Next, students count the candy corn and type the sum in the box. This cute Halloween inspired deck helps young students learn to add! Students are delighted to find a Lego building block activity at the end as they get to build their own candy creations! Students will beg for more! CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO TEST! To Use Boom Cards -To use Boom Cards, you must be connected to the Internet.

A fun, engaging and collaborative activity that allows student groups to act as a chocolate chip resource company! The purpose of this activity is for students to understand the difficulty of mining earth's resources without destroying the environment. Students must mine as many chocolate chips as they can while being mindful of preserving the environment that holds the resource. After the resource has been mined, students calculate their profit before deducting any fines if the environment i

Super fun ten frames give students the opportunity to visualize their counting! First, students catch the correct number of bats flying in the air to place in the ten frames. After the correct number of bats are placed in each frame, students count the number of bats and type the sum in the purple box. This cute Halloween inspired deck helps young students learn to add! Students are delighted to find a Lego building block activity at the end as they get to build their own creation! Students

Happy Halloween! Your students will LOVE sorting and counting the bats and spiders in this fun, festive deck! First, students sort the movable pieces; bats to their cave, and spiders to their web! After sorting is done, students count the number of each and enter in the box below each! Finally, at the end of the deck, students are given a picture of a beautiful full moon to create anything they would like with over 150 digital Lego building blocks! Check out the preview to try! To Use Boom