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This is a worksheet that allows students to explore and explain the effects of greenhouse gasses that pair with the (free!) PHET Greenhouse Effect simulation. Students will analyze and examine the movements of waves and photons, as well as the effects of absorbant layers in the atmosphere. This assignment/activity ends with students using the data they collected to explain the consequences (positive and negative) of greenhouse gasses in a CER format. The PHET simulation is linked in the Google

This time card template will help you teach students how to fill out a time card. It includes targeted employment vocabulary such as employee, in, out, total hours, and signature. This is perfect for life skills or beginner vocational training.

This is a reflection tool to help when students receive a dention. This will help teachers have that 1:1 reflective conversation about behaviors within the classroom and how to make changes going forward. This can also be used for student behavior during class or for other behavioral reflection needs. The document is attached as a Word document and is editable. Reflections include: why the detention was given, what was the behavior/motive behind the behavior, why the classroom expectations are

This awesome scaffold packet helps teach the steps of calculating the tax on a receipt. Pair this with a menu so students can choose items to buy, calculate the tax, calculate the total, determine which costs more and determine if they have enough money!

Do your students struggle to include all of the pieces of CER writing? Have you noticed that your students rush through writing, and wish there was a way to slow them down and have them check their work? This CER checklist can be used as a writing scaffold or as a revising checklist! It is in an editable Google Doc format. The Google Doc includes a general checklist that you can put on the board and also smaller checklists that can be printed for students to have on the desk with them.

This is a 3 part project examining sustainability topics that has build in scaffolding, student differentiation and student choice. 1. Students choose a sustainability topic and do some background research. Students are given a Research Guide that provides scaffolded to help guide their research. 2. Students are given the Invention Planning Sheet to aid them in creating an invention to help solve problems in their chosen sustainability topic. 3. Students will present their invent

Take the first step to teaching perimeter by having students find the matching sides of various rectangles. Worksheet begins with visual prompting on all four sides of the rectangle with various shapes. Prompting then fades to one then no sides with symbols on them.

Here is a FREE quick and easy to use rubric to score HW assignments AND short response answers. This rubric is designed for science classes, but can easily be adapted to any subject! The rubric also includes CER outlining for short answer responses. Download in an editable Word Document format to make it your own! ENJOY!!!!

Track the growth of your plants from seeds to seedlings! This 8 week packet helps students collect observational data as well as chart plant growth! Also download the FREE growth chart to help track your plants growth!

This awesome scaffold packet helps teach the steps of calculating the tip on a receipt. Pair this with a menu so students can choose items to buy, calculate the tip, calculate the total, determine which costs more and determine if they have enough money!

Track the growth of your plants from seeds to seedlings! This 8 week visual packet helps students collect observational data as well as chart plant growth! Also download the FREE growth chart to help track your plants growth!

This activity can help students examine their strengths and weaknesses. This is a great introduction to talks about disabilities as well as an ongoing self-assessment for students to focus on increasing their strengths. This includes the strengths vs weaknesses chart, specific strengths and/or weaknesses to sort and a page defining each strength and weakness.

This assignment is a class debate where students will use their skills of making claims, finding evidence and using reasoning to answer the question, "Which type of cell is the best?". This version also includes that students look at the Gizmo (from explorelearning.com) "Cell Types" to collect data to strengthen their evidence bases. This is a word document, meaning you can edit it! Included: project overview, debate/research prep, a scaffold for how to make arguments in CER format, grading rub

This mini-lab provides students with a physical example of chemical weathering, by looking at how the soda coke (or a generic version) cleans a penny. Students will practice NGSS skills such as asking questions, planning and carrying out an investigation, and analyzing and interpreting data. This packet includes a direction list/timeline for the teacher, class observation form, 2 different CER responses (one with and one without a graphic organizer) AND an opportunity for students to graph and a

Are you teaching the enormous science topics of photosynthesis and/or cellular respiration? Well, here is a simplified and visual way to teach it! Use it as a modification for students in a general education science class, or for a functional science program!

Below are 2 ( YES 2!!!) different Life Cycle of Star quizzes! The first quiz examines a student's understanding of the base vocabulary of the different life cycle stages AND includes a graphing review component! The second quiz examines a student's understanding of how fusion propels a star through its life cycle stages. The second quiz set includes MULTIPLE scaffolded versions, perfect for students who need more writing support! Both quizzes are in a word doc format, so you can edit them a

Ever have that moment, when you use a corny commercial to teach a lesson? Well this assignment is a product of using the ShamWow commercial in one of my science classes! This assignment allows students to explore their knowledge of the scientific method by creating their own experiment that tests out the ShamWow. This download is in a word document format, so you can change up the material that will be available to students. The best part of this assignment is that it has the teacher sign off at

Looking for a new way to teach and assess students' knowledge of Newton's laws? How about making oobleck? Oobleck is a non-newtonian fluid that is fun (and easy) to make that does not follow any of Newton's laws! This Google Doc contains a recap of Newton's laws, materials, procedural steps, clean-up procedures, mini-experiments to test the oobleck, and post-lab questions. The best part --- it is editable for you to change as needed! This is a fun way to get students thinking and use their best

This is the next level of learning how to calculate the perimeter of a square/rectangle. The worksheet set walks students through how to add all of the sides together, while still maintaining the guided visuals to match sides.

This assignment pad scaffold can help high school or middle school students track their homework in different subjects. Perfect for Special Education case managers or individuals who tutor middle school or high school students. This sheet tracks the date, class grade, missing assignments, assigned homework, and if the student check the teachers website/google classroom. Enjoy!