I taught science lab for three years (K-5), fourth grade for two years, was a math coach (K-5) for a year, a curriculum instructional specialist for three years, and now teach fourth grade!
This reflect, refract, and absorb cut and paste has students sorting through 12 different examples of reflections, refractions, and absorptions as well as their definitions.
This product can be differentiated in several ways:
1. Students can sort both the definitions and what is happening to the light on a recording sheet.
2. Students can use the recording sheet that already has the definitions and just sort what is happening to the light for less of a challenge.
3. Students can use the recordi
Here are 57 vocabulary cards for matter and its properties. Each card has the word, an illustration, and the definition. I like to laminate these and create a word wall with them. Words include: matter solid liquid gas physical change property weight buoyancy density boiling point condensation evaporation freezing point mass melting point chemical change dissolve soluble volume mixture solution filter size shape hardness texture solute solvent float capacity temperature sink convection sublimati
This weathering, erosion, and deposition cut and paste has students sorting through changes to the earth pictures and their definitions.
This product can be differentiated in several ways:
1. Students can sort both the characteristics and the different changes to the earth on a recording sheet.
2. Students can use the recording sheet that already has the definitions and just sort the changes to the earth pictures for less of a challenge.
3. Students can use the recording sheet that has all the
This is a comprehensive sun, earth, and moon cycles interactive notebook. Inside you will find:
*Sun reading passage with notes foldable
*Rotation and Revolution foldable
*Rotation and Revolution model activity- Students will use a beach ball, golf ball, and marble to model the rotation and revolution of the sun, moon, and earth
*Sun, moon, and earth model- Students will create a model using pictures and brads that rotates and revolves
*Cycles vocabulary foldable- With the words rotate, orbit,
This mixture and solution cut and paste has students sorting through 16 different mixtures and solutions and their definitions.
This product can be differentiated in several ways:
1. Students can sort both the definitions and the different types of mixtures and solutions on a recording sheet.
2. Students can use the recording sheet that already has the definitions and just sort the mixtures and solutions for less of a challenge.
3. Students can use the recording sheet that has all the blanks an
Here is a classifying animals poster set. This has the characteristics of the first six types and then examples of vertebrates and invertebrates.
Classifications included are:
Reptiles
Mammals
Amphibians
Fish
Birds
Insects
Vertebrates
Invertebrates
Use these to help build background knowledge or create an instant bulletin board!
This is a DIGITAL interactive Google Slides product for producers, consumers, and decomposers in a food chain. This product is great to place in Google Classroom for students to use to learn and review the producers, consumers, decomposers, herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores! Slides include: *Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers Passage and Questions: Short reading passage and questions students will answer with typing *Producer, Consumer, and Decomposer Sort: They will match eight
Here are 48 task cards dealing with measurement conversions.
This product can be used in a variety of ways:
The first set of cards (#1-24) is customary measurement conversions. The first 12 (#1-12) are straight conversions with #8-12 as a challenge. The second 12 (#13-24) are word problems with #17-20 as a challenge.
The second set of cards is set up the same way except they are metric conversions.
You can choose to do just customary conversions, metric conversions, or a mix of both using the
This is a inherited traits and learned behaviors mini book. The book has trait, behavior, and instinct reading passages for the students. Pages cover:
Inherited traits in human and animals with questions
Inherited traits in plants
Acquired traits and learned behaviors with questions
Instincts
Inherited or acquired match
Labeling inherited, learned, or instinct
Trait match up- drawing an offspring
All about me- drawing and labeling inherited traits
Review
The booklet has different activities th
This is a comprehensive changes to the Earth and landforms interactive notebook. Inside you will find:
*Landforms Foldable- definition of landform
*Landforms I know foldable
*Layers of the Earth model lab- Students will use playdoh to model the earth
*Layers of the Earth model foldable
*Layers of the Earth sort
*Layers of the Earth venn diagram
*Plate Tectonics reading passage
*Movement of the plates foldable- divergent, convergent, and transform boundaries
*Plate Tectonics Mini Lab- Students w
This complete and incomplete metamorphosis cut and paste has students sorting through 12 different characteristics and examples of metamorphosis as well as their definitions and sequence.
This product can be differentiated in several ways:
1. Students can sort all of the definitions, characteristics, sequence, and life cycle pictures on a recording sheet.
2. Students can use the recording sheet that already has the definitions and just sort the characteristics, sequence, and pictures for less o
This conductor and insulator cut and paste has students sorting through 16 different conductors and insulators and their definitions.
This product can be differentiated in several ways:
1. Students can sort both the definitions and the different types of conductors and insulators on a recording sheet.
2. Students can use the recording sheet that already has the definitions and just sort the conductors and insulators for less of a challenge.
3. Students can use the recording sheet that has all t
This fraction sort has students cutting and sorting and matching improper fractions, mixed numbers, and their picture models.
This product can be differentiated in several ways:
1. Students can sort all the different types of improper fractions and mixed numbers.
2. Students can use the recording sheet that already had the picture models and write in the improper fractions and mixed numbers for the hardest challenge.
3. Students can use the recording sheet that already has the picture models an
This is a DIGITAL interactive Google Slides product for animal adaptations. This product is great to place in Google Classroom for students to use to learn and review! Slides include: *Adaptations Reading Passage and Questions: Short reading passage and questions students will answer with typing *Physical Adaptations Video and Questions: An embedded Youtube video about the physical adaptations of animals and questions for students to type answers to *Structure and Function Definition and
This is a comprehensive plant and animal adaptations interactive notebook. Inside you will find:
*Structure and Function definition foldable
*Thumb Fun Lab- An exploration lab where students do activities with and without their thumbs to find out how the adaptation of thumbs helps us survive
*Adaptations Reading Passage and Notes Foldable- A short reading passage about structural and behavioral adaptations
*Bugging Out Lab- The students will experiment with different items used as beetle, butte
This is an activity to use with the book, "What do you do With a Tail Like This" by Steve Jenkins. The book is a picture book all about animal adaptations. This packet has all thirty animals discussed in the book separated into their adaptations (nose, ears, tail, eyes, feet, and mouth) put on color-coded cards. Students will pick one animal from each of the categories. They will record which they picked and create a new animal by putting all these adaptations together. Then, they will write abo
This is a DIGITAL interactive Google Slides product for inherited traits and learned behaviors. This product is great to place in Google Classroom for students to use to learn and review inherited traits and learned behaviors. Slides include: *Inherited Traits Cloze Passage: Students drag and drop words from a word bank to fill in the passage *Defining Inherited Traits and Learned Behaviors: Fill in the blank with a word bank for the two definitions *Monster Traits: Students will flip a coi
This is a DIGITAL interactive Google Slides product for electric circuits. This product is great to place in Google Classroom for students to use to learn and review electricity! Slides include: *Electricity Short Reading Passage *Simple Circuit Labeling: Students will match labels for parts and purpose of a simple circuit. *Electric Circuit Video and Questions: An embedded Youtube video about electric circuits and questions for students to type answers to *Complete or Incomplete Circuit Sort: S
This is a DIGITAL interactive Google Slides product for weathering, erosion, and deposition. This product is great to place in Google Classroom for students to use to learn and review weathering, erosion, and deposition. Slides include: *Defining Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition: Fill in the blank with a word bank for the three definitions *Weathering Reading Passage and Questions: A short passage on weathering with questions to answer by typing *Physical and Chemical Cloze Passage: Students
This is a DIGITAL interactive Google Slides product for food chains, food webs, and energy pyramids. This product is great to place in Google Classroom for students to use to learn and review food chains, food webs, predators, prey, energy pyramids, producers, consumers, herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores! Slides include: *Food Chain Video: Embedded YouTube video on food chains. Students will then have fill in the blank questions *Food Chain Passage and Questions: Short reading passa
I taught science lab for three years (K-5), fourth grade for two years, was a math coach (K-5) for a year, a curriculum instructional specialist for three years, and now teach fourth grade!
Teaching style
Hands-on and engaging. Learning by doing.
My own education history
Bachelor's Degree- Education
Master's Degree- Curriculum and Instruction
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