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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

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

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!

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 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

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!

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

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

Students debate whether plant or animal cells are better using CER format. Students use the cells organelles and organelle functions to compete in 30 second "debates". The students keep score by tallying the number of pieces of evidence and reasoning that they hear from their "debate" partner. This assignment does not take into account counter claims, but could easily be modified to have students argue more. This assignment only looks at Eukaryotic cells, but could be modified for students to d

Do you ever wonder what students really remembered and learned from throughout the school year? This is a final exam designed to show what students learned and what they remembered from throughout the year. It is designed as an open note final exam, but the document can be edited. Students will choose words/topics that they learned about and (1) list the word/concept, (2) define the word/concept, (3) use the word/concept in a sentence, and (4) draw the word/concept. VERY student centered and d

Here is a review/study guide on protein synthesis. Students are asked to draw each process (including DNA replication), as well as to track how DNA, RNA and proteins are used in each step.

This is a CER writing assessment on the topic of protein synthesis. This download includes the prompt and graphic organizer.

This resource is an outline to help students read through a case study. This questioning could be used with any case study for any unit. In my classroom, I used this assignment to look at the usage of antibiotics with the case studies from the following website: https://www.testtargettreat.com/en/home/educational-resources/case-studies.html This resource ALSO includes a CER response asking students to determine if their patient needs antibiotics and why. This is in a word document format; eas

Are you tired of normal boring quizzes? Search no more, because here is the ULTIMATE Water Cycle, Rock Cycle, OR Carbon Cycle quiz! Students will create their own comic strip that tells the story of a carbon molecule, water molecule or rock going through its life cycle. This quiz/activity includes a planning sheet and a quick grading rubric. It is in a word document format for easy editing.