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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

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

Give your students a complete introduction to engineering and the engineering design process in a fun and engaging way! Students are introduced to engineering before choosing a branch of engineering to research. Guided research is provided with websites and questions for students to answer. Students then pair up to teach each other about their branch of engineering before completing an attractive engineering poster. Great to hang in the classroom or hallway to show student work and collaborat

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

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

Students 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 PowerPoint presentation slides that the teacher projects. After each page of the booklet is complete, students learn about engineers and the engineering design process. Beautiful pages show students the different steps in of the process which can also be printed out as a classroom poster set. Next, students are given a scenario in wh

Students discover the biological evolution between two species in this engaging resource that covers MS-LS4-2! Is Tyrannosaurus rex a distant relative of chickens? Students examine both T rex and chicken skeletons to find similarities and differences between the two in this engaging activity. After completing a graphic organizer, students write an explanation based on their findings. Next, students read an informational text citing evidence of Tyrannosuarus rex's stance and appearance befo

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

Two complete NGSS aligned units covering 5-ESS2 and 5-ESS3! Print and go packets for each unit includes everything you need with very little prep and materials! Save yourself time while engaging your students in NGSS! Units include everything from daily warm-ups to differentiated unit tests and everything in between! ⭐⭐ Now with bonus activity from my new ecosystems unit! ⭐⭐ Earth’s Systems and Interactions unit – Unit chapters include:• What is a system? • Earth’s systems • The atmosphere • Th

Two amazing station activities with six stations each! Informational text at each station sharpens students reading skills while engaging in scientific ideas and phenomena. Stations align with NGSS standards for Earth and Human Activities and Earth's Place in the Universe. Earth and Human Activity Evaluation StationsHighly engaging and collaborative! Students rotate through six stations to learn about amazing and diverse environmental efforts happening around the world. Each station has an

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

Take a musical journey into the History of Instruments with your students! This resource invites students to explore the history of musical instruments with an engaging introduction and a hands-on research project. Whether in print or digital formats, this no-prep resource is ready for an immersive and effortless learning experience – just click and go! Features:Introduction to the History of Musical Instruments: Embark on a melodious adventure with our captivating introduction to the history o

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

This resource includes EVERYTHING you need to cover NGSS 5-LS1! Students complete their booklet using a 23 slide presentation which comes as a PowerPoint as well as a Google slide presentation! The presentation provides students with all the information they need written in an understandable format with pictures, diagrams, and video links. The four main needs of plants are covered before students dive deeper into the content to complete a CER arguing what plants are made out of. CER is broke

A close read of two informational text passages regarding wind and coal energy. Students read both texts, underlining words that they are unfamiliar with. Next, students choose two words from each passage to find the definition for and write in the margins of the passages. Next students complete a graphic organizer comparing and contrasting the two energy sources before evaluating which source is more beneficial. This product is aligned is part of a full NGSS aligned unit Earth and Human Ac

Students will gain an understanding of what fuels convection currents in the Earth’s system and how convection currents drive natural processes. Students will break into groups of three to research one of the following spheres using guided research questions. The geosphere – plate tectonics The atmosphere - wind The hydrosphere - ocean currents Next, students will create a new group of three with one group member from each sphere group. Students will teach the other members about their sphere.

⭐ Now in digital as well! This resource is perfect to use with NGSS Earth's Systems! Students watch a super creative and fun 5 minute Ted Talk video about Pangaea and plate tectonics before completing two activity worksheets that go along with the video. Students will answer questions, label diagrams, and match terms to illustrations. If time, students may color in the high-quality diagrams and illustrations. This resource is perfect for one class period and can be completed with the teache

Students learn about Antarctica's food chain in a fun and engaging way! Students begin with reading an informational text about Antarctica's food chain throughout the seasons. Next, students answer comprehension questions before cutting out pictures of species to create a model of Antarctica's food chain. Finally, students write a presentation to explain their food chain model. This resource aligns with NGSS standard 5-LS2-1 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy and Dynamics and is included in t