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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

⭐⭐ 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

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

Great for distance learning! Three amazing informational texts bundled into one! Each informational text comes with comprehension questions. Also included in the texts are activities for students to apply their knowledge; Graphic organizersGraphing dataFinding a solutionSketching picturesYour students will enjoy reading each of these high interest informational texts! Yellowstone Wolves - During the 1930's, people viewed wolves as dangerous and destructive animals and sought to remove them f

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

Two amazing units for your students covering NGSS K-PS3, Sun's Energy as well as K-ESS2-1, Today's Weather! Each unit provides students with engaging activities using cute little booklets to log all of their answers! Sun's EnergyStudents are delighted to learn about the sun and how it affects Earth's surface! Each student receives a booklet with easy to follow activities for each of the Power Point presentation slides that the teacher projects. After each page of the booklet is complete, st

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

How has the population of earth changed in the last three hundred years? Students analyze a graph of human populations on earth from 1750 to present before answering questions about the graph and making a prediction of earth's population by the year 2050. This versatile activity is great for science, social studies or math! This activity is the introduction to the unit Earth and Human Activity and is fully aligned with NGSS.

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!

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

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

This fun and festive resource includes a set of seven Halloween-themed worksheets where students practice addition and subtraction by solving the numbers in each square. After completing the math, students can color the cute Halloween character in the center of the page, making it perfect for displaying spooky season student work! As a special bonus, the set also includes the Candy Corn Troll Code activity! Students complete number patterns to crack the riddle of the mischievous candy corn trol