Sunshine STEM

⭐⭐ 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

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

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

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.