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Science Common Core RI.3.6 resources
Fall Season Science Unit - Reading & Writing Activities - Pumpkins Leaves Apples
Do you need lesson ideas and activities for your fall unit? Make learning all about fall fun with these engaging hands-on non-fiction ELA and science mini-lessons and activities! This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading comprehension, and learn interesting facts about pumpkins, apples, and leaves this fall season. ⭐ Create anchor charts to lead your lessons and use the low-prep activitie
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1st - 3rd
Endangered Species Expert - Project Based Learning
This project is designed to help students build their research, analysis and synthesis skills while learning about an endangered species that interests them. As students become the class expert for their species, they will exercise reading, writing, grammar, science and art skills as well as build experience with long-term planning and the organization required to complete a multi-step project by a deadline.
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
Earth Day Activities Unit - Craft, Writing, Bulletin Board, Project, Art, & Hat
Make learning about Earth Day this spring exciting with engaging earth day activities and mini-lessons about the Earth, pollution, and recycling. Kids will love the Earth Day craft crown, Earth Day Reading Comprehension, Earth Day poem and writing prompts, and so much more! This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading comprehension, while learning interesting facts about important Earth Day c
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1st - 3rd
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Butterfly Life Cycle Craft Spring Science Unit - Reading & Writing Activities
Teaching students all about butterflies this spring? This engaging nonfiction and spring science unit makes learning about the caterpillar to butterfly transformation, the life cycle of a butterfly, and the parts of a butterfly fun. It includes a butterfly life cycle craft, activities, observation journal, writing, and more! This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text, and build reading comprehension while th
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Owl Bird Science Unit - Reading & Writing Activities - Fall Fact Project & Craft
Do you need engaging lesson ideas and activities to teach your students all about owls? Make learning about owls fun with these hands-on non-fiction ELA and science mini-lessons and activities! This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text, and build reading comprehension while they learn interesting facts about barn owls and true owls. ⭐ Create anchor charts to lead your lessons and use the low-prep activiti
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1st - 3rd
Penguin Activities Winter Craft, Writing, Drawing, Bulletin Board, Science Unit
Make learning all about penguins and the penguin life cycle engaging with this non-fiction ELA and science unit of mini-lessons and activities! This low-prep resource includes fun penguin writing, a hands-on penguin craft, directed drawing, and more activities for a classroom penguin theme. These activities will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading comprehension while they learn interesting facts abou
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1st - 3rd
NGSS:
2-LS4-1
, 3-LS4-2
, 1-LS3-1
Whale Life Science Unit Lessons, Activities, Craft, Project - Orca & Beluga
Engage and excite kids as they learn all about whales with life science, reading, and writing activities! This nonfiction and spring or summer science unit makes learning about baleen whales and toothed whales fun. It includes a whale craft, reading comprehension passages, vocabulary, directed drawing, and more! This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text, and improve their reading comprehension while they le
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Grade 3 | Complete Mystery Science ENTIRE YEAR Bundle | Digital + Printable
When my school district began using the Mystery Science curriculum, I fell in love. However, I found that the video lessons and activities on their own did not provide me with enough material to turn these important lessons into a full week of teaching- I wanted to stay on one topic to really have the time for student discovery, incorporating literacy, and fun research.It is completely no-prep for you, and is ready for printed or digital practice right now!This is a complete YEAR bundle set that
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2nd - 4th
NGSS:
3-PS2-1
, 3-ESS3-1
, 3-LS4-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-ESS2-1
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All About Bats Unit - Bat Activities - Science, Reading, Writing & Craft - Fall
Make learning all about bats fun with these engaging, hands-on bat activities perfect for your first grade, second grade, and third grade students. This bat unit includes a variety of fun, low-prep bat activities to keep kids engaged & gives teachers differentiated options.This bats unit includes everything you’ll need to teach all about bats this fall:✅ Non-fiction bat facts book✅ Bat science mini-lessons that teach important bat facts✅ Bat writing activities✅ A fun bat craft✅ …and more!The
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1st - 3rd
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Weather Unit and Reading Passages | Print and Digital
Looking for hands-on activities to teach your students about weather? This cross curricular unit will keep your students ENGAGED while teaching them all they need to know about weather. There are multiple interactive activities that allow you to make lapbooks or to use in interactive notebooks. Along with reading passages, there are also graphing activities, chart activities, and even a map activity. NOTE: This resource now has Google Classroom activities, making it ideal for digital distance l
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Grades:
1st - 4th
Bats Informational Text Reading Passages - All About Bats - Animal Adaptations
Students will love learning all about bats! Bats have adaptations that help them to survive! This is high-interest nonfiction, six-page informational text reading passage with comprehension questions. Students will learn about bats, their adaptations, their contribution to the ecosystem, their behavior, their lifecycle, and more. Bats are fascinating animals. Great for Science Reading Comprehension. ✅This unit includes:reading passagestext-dependent comprehension questions✏️interactive notebook
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, 3-LS2-1
, 3-LS4-3
, 4-LS1-2
, 3-LS4-2
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Also included in: 4th Grade Science NGSS PLUS Reading Informational Text Passages CCSS
Sea Turtle Reptile Science Unit - Life Cycle Craft & Ocean Animal Activities
Engage and excite kids as they learn all about sea turtles with life science, reading, and writing activities! This nonfiction summer science unit makes learning about these ocean animal reptiles fun. It includes a sea turtle craft, reading comprehension passages, vocabulary, directed drawing, and more!This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text, and build reading comprehension while they learn interesting fa
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1st - 3rd
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Winter Seasonal Science Unit - Reading & Writing Activities - Snowflakes Snowman
Do you need lesson ideas and activities for your winter unit? Make learning about winter fun with these engaging non-fiction ELA and science mini-lessons and activities about snowmen, snowflakes, and evergreen trees! This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading comprehension, and learn interesting facts about important winter themes and concepts this winter season. ⭐ Create anchor charts to
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1st - 3rd
NGSS:
2-LS4-1
, 1-ESS1-2
Polar Bear Science Unit - Reading & Writing Activities - Winter Project & Craft
Do you need engaging lesson ideas and activities to teach your students about polar bears? These non-fiction ELA and science mini-lessons and activities are a fun way for your learners to discover more about the polar bear and the polar bear life cycle. This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text, and build reading comprehension while they learn interesting facts about how and where polar bears live. ⭐ Cre
Grades:
1st - 3rd
NGSS:
3-ESS3-1
, 1-LS1-2
, 2-LS4-1
, 3-LS3-1
, 1-LS3-1
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3rd Grade Science Reading Passages and STEM
Teaching 3rd grade? THIS is the bundle you need! Reading passages and STEM Activities for EVERY SINGLE 3rd GRADE NGSS STANDARD. Planning for 3rd grade science has never been this easy, fun, or engaging!Integrate READING and SCIENCE together in a way that's rigorous and fun! 'Reading into Science' carefully integrates science reading passages and hands-on STEM extensions in a way that makes it a breeze to cover both standards at the same time. Plus, it includes detailed (and scripted) lesson plan
Who Would Win? Graphic Organizers | Any WWW? Book | Printable & Digital Formats
Updated1/27/21: This file includes ready to use graphic organizers and writing prompts that are designed to be used with any or all of the Who Would Win? books by Jerry Palotta. The resource includes both printable and digital files. The digital files are made for Seesaw and Google Slides and can then be used in Google Classroom. These high interest books compare two animals or insects to determine who would win if they were to battle one another. Use these materials in small groups, for ind
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2nd - 5th
Butterfly, Chicken, Frog, Flower Life Cycle Crafts & Spring Science Activities
This spring, engage and excite students as they learn all about and the parts of butterflies, frogs, flowers, and chickens with life cycle crafts, science activities, and reading comprehension passages! This nonfiction and spring science bundle includes four units filled with spring writing, vocabulary, directed drawing, and more! This bundle of resources will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading compre
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1st - 3rd
The Sun, Planets, Solar System, & More 20 Space Passages PDFs &/Or Google
In this unit, you will find 20 original Space Themed Passages & Worksheets. Each passage has four activities. This includes two pages of text dependent questions, one graphic organizer, and one text based writing prompt. I also added homework supplements as weekly assignment/packet sheets. In addition to close reading, each text can serve as a full week of homework. ***Space Unit***1. What is an Orbit? 2. Day and Night 3. Our Atmosphere 4. Seasonal Patterns 5. Equinoxes and Solstices
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2nd - 4th
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3rd Grade Science-Based Reading Comprehension Passages, Lessons, & Activities
Are you a 3rd Grade Reading teacher looking to INTEGRATE science standards into your guided reading block? Look no further! These HIGH-QUALITY informational and fiction science-based texts and activities are for you! Reading Through Science™ allows you to SAVE TIME by having LOW-PREP science-based reading lessons & activities at your fingertips!! All nonfiction AND fiction texts were professionally written and are HIGH-INTEREST!! Plus, you'll get tons of research-based TEACHING STRATEGIES t
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3rd - 4th
NGSS:
3-PS2-1
, 3-ESS3-1
, 3-LS4-1
, 3-ESS2-1
, 3-PS2-3
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Salmon Life Cycle Spring Science Unit Lessons, Activities, Craft, Project
Engage and excite kids as they learn all about salmon and its life cycle with life science, reading, and writing activities! This nonfiction, spring science unit makes learning about salmon fun. It includes a salmon incubation journal, craft, reading comprehension passages, vocabulary, directed drawing, and more! This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading comprehension while they learn inte
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1st - 3rd
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60 Text Evidence Passages Bundle CC Aligned HW Assessments PDFs & Google Slides™
60 Passages with Text Dependent Questions Aligned to Common Core Standards for Third Grade. Use for Whole/small group, centers, close reading in areas such as science or social studies, tutoring, HW, Sub Plans, and more. Help your students become dependent on Text Evidence!Note: Save big with the bundle. :)Click here to buy this bundle in a bigger bundle of 100 passages.Click here to buy this bundle in a mega bundle of 136 passages. Click the Title to see the individual unit.*** Weather and Bi
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2nd - 4th
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Space Passages Reading Comprehension Escape Room
Are you looking for space nonfiction reading comprehension passages and questions? A Comprehension Quest® is a FUN escape room style activity and is a unique way to get students excited about practicing reading comprehension! ☄️Here's how it works:☄️Starting off with the hook video, students learn they have a quest to complete. In this edition, students must find an astronaut who is lost in space. Students will read 6 passages and complete standards-aligned reader response activities. Afte
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2nd - 5th
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Solar Oven Investigation: Make S'mores with a Pizza Box Solar Oven
Investigate the energy from the sun with this fun Common Core related unit. Students will work through the scientific process while responding in writing. This digital download contains:
Detailed Instructions on how to assemble a pizza box solar oven with photographs
Donation request sheet
Note pages for the scientific investigation
Data collection sheet
Graph for a bar or line plot
Graphic organizer for procedural writing
S'more themed writing paper
Standards addressed: RI.5, RI. 6, RI
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2nd - 5th
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Chicken Life Cycle Craft & Worksheets Science Unit, Reading & Writing Activities
Engage and excite kids as they learn all about chickens with this life cycle of a chicken craft, science, reading, and writing activities! This nonfiction and spring science unit makes learning about hens, roosters, and chickens hatching fun. It includes chicken reading comprehension passages, vocabulary, directed drawing, and more! This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading comprehension w
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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