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Looking for an engaging, independent activity to help reinforce the concept of ocean tides? This ocean tides card sort activity will have your students relating the position of the moon in the lunar cycle to spring and neap tides. This activity can easily be completed in a science journal, interactive notebook, or handed in to be graded. This is a great, no prep activity for the busy teacher!! Check out these other resources for ocean tides: Ocean Tides One PagerEarth, Moon, Sun BINGO

Looking for an engaging, independent activity to help reinforce the concept of the competition for biotic and abiotic factors? This ecosystems card sort activity will have your students analyzing different examples of competition to determine if the organisms are competing for biotic or abiotic factors in their environment. This activity can easily be completed in a science journal, interactive notebook, or handed in to be graded. This is a great, no prep activity for the busy teacher!

This force and motion activity is a great independent activity that will have your students identifying how forces act on objects, including gravity, friction, magnetism, applied forces, and normal forces, using real-world applications. This force and motion card sort will have your students organizing cards into categories to identify the type of forces being described. This forces activity will give your students the practice they need to gain confidence with the content. Product Includes

This properties of water activity is a great independent practice that will have your students describing the properties of cohesion, adhesion, and surface tension in water. This science card sort will have your students organizing cards into categories to relate properties of water to observable phenomena such as the formation of droplets, transport in plants, and insects walking on water. This properties of water card sort will give your students the practice they need to gain confidence wi

Looking for an engaging, independent activity to help reinforce the concept of energy transfer? This energy transfer card sort activity will have your students analyzing different examples of motion to classify as potential energy or kinetic energy. This activity can easily be completed in a science journal, interactive notebook, or handed in to be graded. This is a great, no prep activity for the busy teacher! Other resources for potential and kinetic energy: Potential and Kinetic Energy D

Looking for an engaging, independent activity to help reinforce the concept of the Theory of Plate Tectonics? This plate tectonics card sort activity will have your students analyzing convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries and the landforms that they create. This activity can easily be completed in a science journal, interactive notebook, or handed in to be graded. Other resources for plate tectonics: Plate Tectonics Claim Evidence ReasoningPlate Tectonics Warm Ups and Exit TicketsP

Looking for a Moon Phase Calendar template for your students to track the moon phases? This simple calendar is the perfect way to observe the moon throughout a lunar cycle to visualize the progression of the moon phases. Students will be able to see how long each phase lasts which will help them to predict the sequence of events in the lunar cycle. Also included is a lunar cycle table and graph for students to track the moon's illumination percentage. These tracking pages are aligned with

This states of matter sorting activity will have your students comparing solids, liquids, and gases in terms of their shape, structure, volume, and kinetic energy. Students will classify examples and prompts as either solid, liquid, or gas and recognize the phase changes that occur when thermal energy is increased or decreased. This is a great practice activity for middle school students needing to recognize the properties of matter. Product Includes:8 page PDF: (this is not a digital/editab

Looking for an engaging, independent activity to help reinforce the concept of Stars and the Hertzsprung Russell Diagram? This stars card sort activity will have your students analyzing different characteristics of stars and identifying stars using an HR diagram. Students will categorize stars based on their properties and where they can be found on the HR diagram. This activity can easily be completed in a science journal, interactive notebook, or handed in to be graded. Related resources

Looking for an engaging, independent activity to help reinforce the concept of speed, velocity, and acceleration? This motion card sort activity will have your students analyzing different scenarios to differentiate between speed, velocity, and acceleration. This activity can easily be completed in a science journal, interactive notebook, or handed in to be graded. Other resources for speed, velocity, acceleration: Speed, Velocity, Acceleration Warm Ups and Exit TicketsSpeed, Velocity, Acce

This Levels of Organization activity will have your students recognizing the levels of organization within an environment. Students will read prompts to determine if the example is describing an organism, population, community, or ecosystem. This is a great way to provide an engaging practice opportunity to guide your students toward mastery. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Product Includes:7 page PDF: (this is not a digital/edit

This Prokaryotic & Eukaryotic Cells activity will have your students recognizing that the presence of a nucleus is a key factor used to determine whether a cell is prokaryotic or eukaryotic. Students will classify examples and prompts as prokaryotic or eukaryotic. This is a great way to provide an engaging practice opportunity to guide your students toward mastery. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Product Includes:7 page PDF: (thi

This Chemical Changes activity is a great independent practice that will have your students identifying the formation of a new substance by using the evidence of a possible chemical change, including production of a gas, change in thermal energy, production of a precipitate, and color change. This chemical and physical changes card sort will have your students organizing cards into categories to classify changes in matter as chemical or physical. Product Includes:9 page PDF file (this is not

Looking for an engaging, independent activity to help reinforce the concept of weathering, erosion, and deposition? This card sort activity will have your students reading scenarios of Earth's changing surface to classify each example as the process of weathering, erosion, or deposition. This activity can easily be completed in a science journal, interactive notebook, or handed in to be graded. This is a great, no prep activity for the busy teacher!! Other resources for stars and weatherin

This pure substances and mixtures activity will have your students comparing elements, compounds, and mixtures. Students will classify examples of the physical properties of matter to distinguish between pure substances, homogeneous mixtures (solutions), and heterogeneous mixtures. This is a great practice activity for middle school students needing to recognize the properties of matter. Product Includes:9 page PDF: (this is not a digital/editable activity) 3 TOU/credits pages, 1 student prom

Looking for a way for your students to practice using the Hertzsprung Russell HR Diagram? This stars handout will have your students reading statements about characteristics of of stars to compare stars and their properties including temperature, color, luminosity, and group. Students will cut and paste statement cards as either fact or fiction using the included HR Diagram Reference Page! This is a great activity to include in a science interactive notebook and NO PREP for you!!

This science card sort activity is a great independent practice that will have your students analyzing chemical equations to identify the atoms involved in chemical reactions. This science card sort will have your students organizing cards into categories to practice counting the number and type of atoms in chemical equations. This science card sort will give your students the practice they need to gain confidence with the content. Product Includes:9 page PDF file (this is not a digital or e

Looking for an engaging, independent activity to help reinforce the concept of Newton's Laws of Motion? This p hysics card sort activity will have your students analyzing different motion scenarios to categorize each as the Law of Inertia, Force & Acceleration, or Action-Reaction. This activity can easily be completed in a science journal, interactive notebook, or handed in to be graded.

This periodic table activity will have your students identifying examples of metals, nonmetals, and metalloids. This science interactive notebook activity will have your students classifying rigorous prompts and examples as they recognize physical properties of the three main groups on the periodic table: metals, nonmetals, and metalloids. This is a great way to provide an engaging practice opportunity to guide your students toward mastery. ____________________________________________________

This Plate Tectonics activity will have your students identifying the major tectonic plates that make up Earth's crust. Students will classify examples of landforms that are made at each type of plate boundary, convergent, divergent, and transform. This is a great way to provide an engaging practice opportunity to guide your students toward mastery. * This activity was designed specifically for 6th grade plate tectonics TEKS, if you are looking for 8th grade plate tectonics TEKS, check out