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2nd grade Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa science task cards
Cup Stacking Challenge Cards
Grab these Cup Stacking Challenge Cards for endless classroom fun and engagement.Indoor Recess? perfect!Relay Race in P.E.? you bet!S.T.E.M. Activity? for sure!Need to boost student problem solving? you know it!What's Included:• 50 Illustrated Challenge Cards• Interactive PDF Full Page CardsEXTRA: Valentine Heart Cup Stacking ChallengesHow To Use:These challenge cards can be used several different ways. Ultimately, use these cards in a way that works best in your classroom and for your students.
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K - 3rd
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LEGO Challenge Task Cards {Great for STEM or fun building!}
I am really excited to show you some cute, older-kid friendly LEGO Challenge Task Cards! These are bright, colorful, and can appeal to older students without looking too primary. Don’t’ have LEGOs? That’s okay! These can be used for any building materials you may have—unifix cubes, plastic Flake Discs (Amazon), Bunchems (Amazon or Target), Wiki Stix, pipe cleaners, play-dough, etc. Get those kids engineering and manipulating. They work great as an independent station for special education, a STE
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PreK - 8th
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STEM Activities - Student Passport around the World
Complete STEM activities based on a famous landmarks AROUND the WORLD! Students travel through Australia, France, Italy, Sweden, Russia, Egypt and America earning passport stamps as they complete their challenges. This is a fantastic resource for team building activities. Click HERE to SAVE over 20% with our Travel the World STEM Bundle.These task cards allow flexibility with the teacher to either grab and go or build further lessons around each challenge. They lend themselves to Geography, Sci
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2nd - 6th
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3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: WORLD CONTINENTS STEM Activities and Challenges Travel Passport
STEM Starters Task Cards Building Activities Morning Bins or Early Finishers
Bring the excitement of STEM to your classroom! These STEM Starter task cards are perfect for 1st grade, kindergarten, preschool, and 2nd grade classrooms. Students will be encouraged to think critically and creatively as they work hard to create the object from the "I can" statement included on each card. With the help of these STEM Starter cards, your students will be motivated to explore the world of STEM and have fun while doing it!These task cards are the simplest way to add more STEM activ
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K - 2nd
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Ecosystems Activity Bundle with Reading Passages Biomes of the World Project
The biomes and ecosystems of the world captivate the attention and awe of our students like few other topics in science. This MASSIVE Bundled Ecosystems Unit gives you a wealth of fun, informational and engaging materials to help you present the Biomes and Ecosystems of our beautiful world to your kids! Use these close reading passages, writing activities, graphic organizers, task cards and projects to build excitement about the biomes and ecosystems with your students!Ecosystems Resources Incl
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2nd - 5th
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Science Task Boxes - Set one
Science Task BoxesDownload Preview FilePlease make sure to download the preview file to ensure that it is appropriate for your grade level prior to purchasing.Description:Are you tired of boring worksheets! Looking for something new? Here are 16 Primary task boxes that are all related to some science standards, that can be used in small groups, independent centers, one on one instruction and take-home boxes for homework for that extra needed practice!! These tasks boxes, or task cards, help prom
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Academic Task Box Bundle
Gingerbread Theme Day Holiday Christmas Activities
Are you trying to find a way to keep your student's engaged and learning with all of the holiday excitement? Themed days may be just for you. During Gingerbread Day, you can read your choice of suggested Gingerbread stories and complete the reading comprehension activities included. There is a letter to send home, a banner, craft activities, stem challenge, and more. You could run centers for the day or complete the activities together. The choices are endless. There is a gingerbread house and
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Winter & Holiday Christmas Theme Day Activities 12 Days of Christmas
Reading a Thermometer & Measuring Temperature Worksheets Task Cards & Puzzles
Task cards, puzzles and worksheets, oh my! Are your students learning about measuring temperatures and reading a thermometer in both Celsius and Fahrenheit? Then this resource will help them master this skill as they practice reading thermometers with these engaging activities. Your students will love measuring temperature by reading a thermometer in Celcius and Fahrenheit with the task cards and puzzles. The temperature worksheets provide great practice and assessment for student learning. ✅
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2nd - 4th
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Food Chains and Food Webs Task Cards and Ecosystem Activities & Flow of Energy
Are you looking for an engaging way to learn about food webs? This resource includes 48 Food Web sorting cards with producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and decomposers. Animal and plant species are native to North America. Students will sort cards in 6 different Food Web and Food Chain tasks. Students will identify trophic levels, energy flow, producers and consumers, and more. This resource addresses the Disciplinary Core Ideas for NGSS Ecosystem: Interactions, Energy, and dynami
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2nd - 6th
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MS-LS2-2
, MS-LS2-3
, 5-LS2-1
Holiday Hashtag Blocks Challenge Cards / Christmas & Winter STEM / Student Gifts
The following holiday challenge cards and gift tags are perfect for student gifts and are designed to accompany “Hashtag” building blocks, found seasonally in Target Dollar Spot.Students may complete the challenge cards independently or with partners, or you may choose to make copies and give them as holiday gifts to your students.Includes smaller cards for individual student use and larger cards for classroom use.To complete the Hashtag Block challenge cards, students will only need about 30 bl
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PreK - 6th
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Maker Bins STEM Labels and 250 Task Cards for Morning Bins
These Maker Bins are just what you need to engage your students in STEM learning. You can use these fun Maker Bins for centers, morning bins / morning work, Fun Friday, indoor recess, early finisher activities, challenge activities, and more. Your students will love creating, designing, engineering, and practicing their fine motor skills using these Maker Bins! This resource includes Maker Bin material labels and over 250 "I can build..." everyday and seasonal task cards that students will enjo
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Maker Bins Building Activities Centers Bundle Morning Bins Bundle
Maker Space Task Card Bundle (Simple STEAM!)
Maker Space Task Card Bundle! (This used to be called Simple STEAM, same resource, different name!) This is a great pack for teachers just starting out with hands-on STEM & STEAM or Maker Space. These task cards are perfect for a mobile makerspace or media center. Place the cards in a tub with the materials and let students create!
You are purchasing 100 task cards that are simple enough that students can complete them independently, and they only require the most basic of materials. Don’t
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2nd - 4th
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Year of STEM Challenges
"This is BY FAR the most comprehensive, FUN low prep STEM bundle I’ve ever bought. Love it, and so do the kids!" - Nikki M.Looking for easy prep, fun to solve STEM challenges for kids?! This epic bundle combines ALL of my STEM challenges into one easy purchase - my best selling landmark cards, toothpick and playdough STEM structures, weight and length challenges... they're all here! And that means you'll get an entire year of STEM challenges in one easy download.Each activity pack includes easy
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PreK - 3rd
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Christmas Task Cards: 9 Ugly Sweater Presents
These Christmas activities will keep your kids engaged and working! Children read descriptive paragraphs that describe a Christmas ugly sweater. Children then color the Christmas ugly sweaters to match the adjective filled descriptions. Children can scan the QR codes to reveal the colored version to see how close they got! This resource now includes a "Digital Christmas UGLY SWEATER" read and self-check activity. You will still need to print the coloring pages that match from the PDF but I h
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2nd - 4th
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Maker Bins Building Activities Centers Bundle Morning Bins Bundle
These Maker Bins are just what you need to engage your students in creative building activities! You can use these fun Maker Bins for STEM centers, morning bins / morning work, Fun Friday, indoor recess, early finisher activities, challenge activities, and more. Your students will love creating with these Maker Bins. Each of the Build It and Write Maker Bins includes a bin label, direction card, and building pieces (paper pieces) that will allow your students to design creatively in their own un
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K - 2nd
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Place Value Elves | Christmas Math Activity and Christmas Bulletin Board Craft
Place value practice, Christmas Elf style! This Christmas math activity will engage your students in practice of counting base ten blocks to determine the total number. This Elf place value activity can be used as individual, small group and whole class work. Perfect for math centers or math morning work, too!This is the TENS & ONES version! Looking for our HUNDREDS, TENS & ONES version? CLICK HERE!Included in this resource:16 place value elf task cards (base ten blocks represented ar
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1st - 2nd
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Measuring with a Ruler in INCHES BOOM CARDS™ Length Digital Learning Game
This is a fun 31 slide review over measuring with a ruler. With this set of fun and colorful digital cards, students will measure items with a movable ruler or look at the item and type how long it is. Students will also compare the length of objects to see which one is shorter or longer. This is great for practicing standard units of measure in inches! This is a fun and interactive activity to do at a math station or to review measurement. Each slide also includes a sound file that the s
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1st - 2nd
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Zoo Animal Nonfiction Unit: Close Reading Passages & Activities
This 100 page zoo animal nonfiction unit pack features 12 common zoo animals along with close reading nonfiction passages, close reading task cards, posters, book templates, and more!Featured in this pack, you will learn about:-Tigers-Giraffes-Gorillas-Penguins-Zebras-Red Pandas-Polar Bears-Tortoises-Lions-Flamingos-Crocodiles-Sea LionsEach featured animal comes with a close reading passage, a multiple choice reading check, an open-ended response reading check, an "All About ________" student re
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1st - 4th
Measurement Ruler Length Centers Autism Work Math Task Cards Special Education
In your special education classroom, are you working on measurement units, long and short and using a ruler? Task cards are a great way for your students to work on their standard measuring skills!These 70+ Math task cards work on measuring length using a 12 inch ruler. There are 2 differentiated levels in this measurement task box set! Mix them up or work on questions leveled separately!These task cards can be used during direct instruction, individual work, and in task boxes. Appropriate for e
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K - 2nd
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Reindeer Day Holiday Christmas Activities
Are you trying to find a way to keep your student's engaged and learning with all of the holiday excitement? Themed days may be just for you. During Reindeer Day, you can read your choice of suggested reindeer stories and complete the reading comprehension activities included. There is a letter to send home, a special snack, a door banner and more. You could run centers for the day or complete the activities together. The choices are endless. There is a reindeer craft activity, writing activitie
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Winter & Holiday Christmas Theme Day Activities 12 Days of Christmas
Planets in the Solar System Space Lesson: BOOM CARDS + Printable Activities
Have fun learning about PLANETS of the solar system with these space BOOM Cards! These digital task cards are self-marking and have audio! Follow up with 6 no-prep engaging printable activities. Great for ESL and Kindergarten-Grade 3 for assessing prior knowledge, whole-class instruction, mini-lessons, and independent work.***CLICK HERE FOR A PLAYABLE PREVIEW***What is included:Boom Cards23 interactive BOOM Cards Audio instructions on every cardTopics: Solar system, all planets, sun, moonInforma
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PreK - 3rd
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Scientific Method Activities, Scientific Method Labs and BUNDLE
As your students start the year in science class, it's very important that they understand what they'll be doing and the expectations set up on them. That's why I've combined all of my products about the scientific method and process skills into this one bundle--all for your quick and easy use!With This Bundle You'll Get:✓ Two weeks of engaging lesson plans✓ Read alouds✓ Practice pages✓ A center activity✓ Vocabulary pages✓ Lab experiments - students explore and utilize the process skills and ste
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2nd - 5th
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STEM Activity for Sub Plans or Centers - Design Domino - Quick & Easy STEM
Looking for easy STEM activities to implement that aren't too easy for students? If you're struggling to get your STEM students to develop critical thinking and creativity skills or they always jump blindly into building activities without enough planning, this is the STEM activity you need!In STEM Design Domino or Dice, students think critically & creatively to plan customized designs for a specific animal. This activity gives students much-needed practice defining the criteria & constr
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2nd - 5th
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3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Christmas Social Skills
The Christmas Pragmatics Packet is 24 pages and includes activities for problem solving, judging social comments, initiating conversations, giving & receiving gifts, sustaining conversation and a set of conversation starters.Social Problem Solving (20 cards) Each card contains a social situation that could take place at Christmas. Determine what you should do. Naughty or Nice? (18 cards) Read the comments and determine if those comments would land you on the naughty or nice list!Social Narra
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Christmas MEGA Bundle: Elementary Materials for Speech Therapy
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