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Environment Common Core W.4.2 resources
National Parks Virtual Field Trip & Web Scavenger Hunt Conservation End of Year
Looking for an activity about National Parks? Let your students take a Virtual Field Trip using technology! It's a great way to expose your students to the natural beauty and wonder of the United States National Parks. Your students will "travel" and explore Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon and other amazing National Parks. They'll learn about the importance of the National Park Service, take virtual tours and hikes, "meet" the park rangers, and learn about important conservation efforts
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3rd - 7th
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Making Sentences
30 printable or digital handouts to help your students write sentences. Each page has a wildlife photo, a word bank of nine words that relate to the photo, and numbered lines to write on: a hummingbird, a rabbit, a mountain goat, a dragonfly, a lynx spider, a painted lady butterfly, a feather, a pond, a lizard, a grasshopper, a wren, a bird’s nest, a squirrel, a water drop, a cactus, a leaf, and more. PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: Writing BUNDLE
Redwood Forest~Paired Text with 3 Text Based Writing Prompts~No Prep~Earth Day
Do you need to meet the demands of the new Common Core writing while using a variety of sources? This set includes 2 paired reading passages and 3 writing prompts. This is ideal for preparing your third, fourth or fifth-grade students for state writing assessments and meeting new standards. The paired reading/writing packet provides activities that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts.
This set offers text-based writing practice prompts using the following essential writi
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3rd - 5th
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Weather Hazard Flood STEM and STEAM Challenge
Studying natural hazards, weather or hurricanes? This Earth Science Weather STEM helps students design and create a model to prevent and reduce flooding during storms using the engineering design cycle. A Hurricane Maria leveled text and writing prompts round out this jammed packed set! Next Generation Science Standards: NGSS 3-ESS3-1, 4-ESS3-2 ☝ Click HERE to Save over 25% on the Money Savings ALL STEM and STEAM Challenges BUNDLE! ☝ (Currently: 16 NGSS Aligned Projects) ❤ All STEM Projects are
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-ESS3-1
, 4-ESS3-2
Also included in: Weather Unit
Food Chain Pyramid Life Science STEM Activity
Integrate STEM in your classroom with Life Science STEM Activities!Learn about the food chain! Design and Build a Food Chain Pyramid and a Food Chain Paper Chain! The STEM Process:Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't.Writing Integration:After completing the activity, students write about what they learned during their experiment.Includes:Teacher Instructions with photosStudent ST
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Grow a Bean in a Bag: Science & How-To Writing
Students will love growing lima beans in bags. Simply place a lima bean in a plastic bag with wet cotton balls, attach the cutouts from this product, tape in the window, and watch the bean plants grow! Have students record their daily observations and follow the steps of the scientific method to explore how their beans are growing-- best conditions, locations, etc. Then, have them write a how-to book on planting bean plants, and use the book to have them write a how-to essay on fun writing paper
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2nd - 5th
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Animal Habitat STEM STEAM
This Animal STEM challenge & research project guides students in engineering design process to create endangered animal habitats. Students write an animal report on survival needs and adaptations. A leveled text, writing prompts, and graphic organizers, round out this set! Next Generation Science Standard Alignment: 3-LS4-3 ☝ Click HERE to Save over 25% on the Money Savings ALL STEM and STEAM BUNDLE! ☝ (Currently: 16 NGSS Aligned Projects) ❤ All STEM Projects are OPEN ENDED, allowing student
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3rd - 5th
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3-LS4-3
Also included in: STEM Activities STEM Challenges
Environmental Science ~ Paired Text with 3 Text Based Writing Prompts ~ No Prep!
Do you need to meet the demands of the new Common Core writing while using a variety of sources? This set includes 3 paired reading passages and 3 writing prompts. This is ideal for preparing your third, fourth or fifth grade students for state writing assessments and meeting new standards. The paired reading/writing packet provides activities that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts.
This set offers text-based writing practice prompts using the following essential writi
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3rd - 5th
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Energy Island Book Companion Project
**No-Prep activities that integrate natural and alternative resources into math, reading, writing, and problem solving!Help your students go deeper into understanding how to help our planet by applying skills in multiple disciplines. These activities are a great companion to the book "Energy Island" by Allan Drummond!Skills assessed include:-addition and subtraction with regrouping-arrays-sequencing-problem-based thinking-informative writingIf you like this product, be sure to check out the Than
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2nd - 5th
Insects ~ 2 Paired Texts and 3 Text Dependent Writing Prompts~ No Prep~Test Prep
Do you need to meet the demands of the new Common Core writing while using a variety of sources? This set includes 2 paired reading passages and 3 text dependent writing prompts. This is ideal for preparing your third, fourth or fifth grade students for the state writing assessments and meeting new ELA standards. The paired reading/writing packet provides activities that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts.
This set offers text-based writing practice prompts using the fo
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3rd - 5th
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Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle {A Book Study Set}
This multidisciplinary book study set, based on the title: Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle, by Claire Nivola, will help your students to grasp saltwater density, how ocean waves work, freshwater and marine habitats, the life and career of Sylvia Earle, and MORE through several hands-on STEAM activities, games, and lessons, plus a fully comprehensive review and reflection pack to go alongside the pages within this book! Get your class excited about women in STEAM, encou
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3rd - 5th
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STEM: Plants and Food Waste
In this HUGE project based learning unit, you will receive lessons on composting, plants, gardening, food waste, pollution, and community service. The first unit is on the effects of food waste, the largest contributor to our landfills, then your students will grow their own garden using food scraps for the second unit. If you'd like to see these activities in action, check us out on Instagram @thebrainybee. With this bundle you will receive the following activities and more!
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2nd - 5th
Follow the Moon Home {A Book Study Set}
This multidisciplinary book study set, based on the title: Follow the Moon Home, by Philippe Cousteau, will help your students to grasp the concept of sea turtle conservation and preservation while completing several hands-on STEAM activities, games, and lessons, plus a fully comprehensive review and reflection pack to go alongside the pages within this book! Get your class excited to learn with the following included lessons (SEE THE PREVIEW FOR A MORE IN DEPTH LOOK AT ALL THAT THIS SET INCLUDE
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3rd - 5th
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Volcanoes and Earthquakes: A Complete Unit
A low-prep comprehensive science unit with ELA components.
Included you will find:
• 15 lesson plans
• Student notebook with interactive portions
• Several hands-on activities
• Research project
• STEM activity
• Answer keys and rubrics
• Exit tickets and other assessment ideas
• Posters
• Vocabulary quizzes (2)
• Geography link
• Art link
• Objectives with note-taking and summarizing
• Original nonfiction articles
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Layers of the Earth
Tectonic Plates
Pangea
Shield Volcanoes
Mt
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4th - 6th
There's an Owl in the Shower Novel Study
This integrated language arts and science unit plan includes; a unit overview, 15 step by step lesson plans, and 8 worksheets that get students involved with the book and learning. It requires very little lesson planning on your part. These worksheets and activities are fun and exciting and require higher level thinking. It will help your students to become more aware of their environment and the impact they have on it.
Some examples of some lessons or activities you will find in this unit:
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3rd - 6th
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Writing about Wildlife and Nature
50 printable or digital writing activities for your students to describe wildlife and nature: lynx spider, katydid, common blue damselfly, house fly, western fence lizard, painted lady butterfly, robber fly, garden snail, green darner dragonfly, stink bug, Japanese beetle, millipede, pill bug (roly-poly), millipede, black carpenter ant, yellow jacket wasp, orchard spider, blue jay, whiptail lizard, grasshopper, assassin bug, wolf spider, praying mantis, wren, tarantula, millipede, Johnson jumpi
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2nd - 8th
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When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree Picture Book Companion and Activities
50% off 48 hrs! When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree is the perfect picture book to teach your kids about Gratitude, lemon trees, and giving back to the community. This Print and Go Book Companion promotes critical and creative thinking. It teaches students to analyze and interpret literature and develops comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills. HOW YOU CAN USE THIS RESOURCE:✅ During Book Clubs or Literature Circles✅ In a classroom center✅ As activities for Early Finishers✅ Great for a Su
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1st - 4th
Puma Dreams {A Book Study Set}
This multidisciplinary book study set, based on the title: Puma Dreams, by Tony Johnston, will help your students to learn about deforestation, pumas, composting, planting trees, and biodiversity, all while participating in several hands-on STEAM lessons, reading comprehension and reflection activities, writing, and grammar lessons, all to help review and reflect upon the pages within this book! Get your class excited for science and reading with the following included lessons (SEE THE PREVIEW F
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3rd - 5th
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Global Warming BUNDLE
158 printable or digital pages for students to explore global warming. Students learn about:the food we eat and where it comes from, how we produce electricity, the effects of buildings on the climate, the increasing magnitude and frequency of storms, how changing weather harms plants and the animals that consume them,questions and writing prompts inspired by Greta Thunberg, and more.PRINT: I created PDF versions that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or a
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4th - 10th
Preserving Our Plant Research Project
Students will enjoy working collaboratively to research a current environmental issue that affects our world today. They will learn about various topics, such as, deforestation, non-renewable energy depletion, ozone layer depletion, pollution, and climate change. Students will use text in this product, as well other informaiton they find during their research from other sources, to compose an essay outlining the problem and their possible solution. Included in this product is:1 page text int
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3rd - 4th
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STEM Challenge: Build Water Cycle Model
Looking for a hands-on activity to get your students to apply their understanding of the water cycle? Try this STEM Challenge! Using what they understand of the different stages of the water cycle, students work together to plan, build, and test their own working model of one or more stages of the cycle. They will then reflect in writing on their success and struggles. This editable Google Slides presentation allows you to customize the materials, stages, and investigation questions to suit your
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4th - 7th
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MS-ESS2-2
, MS-ESS2-4
, 5-ESS2-1
, 4-ESS2-1
Sharks of the Ocean Digital Research Project
Are you looking for an interactive and engaging digital research project to help your students analyze informational text?Click here to see this project in actionThis resource contains embedded videos, interactive slides, and clickable research links. Students will use these links to research three shark species and then choose a shark from that interests them most to research. Students will also identify at least two reasons why sharks are important to our ocean ecosystems. Included in this res
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3rd - 5th
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World Ecosystems Research Report
In this informative writing research unit students review the world ecosystems and either choose, or are assigned 1 of 6 world ecosystems (tropical rainforests, grasslands, taiga, tundra, desert, or temperate deciduous forest.) Students will research, take notes, write an outlined rough draft, and publish! I also let my students make an ecosystem display (shoe box diorama, poster, write a song, etc.) to accompany their report! We held a "Discover the Ecosystems Fair" in our classroom where pare
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2nd - 5th
California National Parks Webquest
California is home to some of our country's most precious natural resources and beautiful outdoor spaces. This Web quest is a great tool for introducing students to research practices, note taking skills, and reading expository text. In addition, it's a great tool for introducing students to the wide array of diverse environments available in California's National Parks, Monuments, Seashores, Historic Sites, and Heritage Areas. Easily adjusted for multiple grade levels, this resource was origina
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3rd - 9th
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Also included in: National Parks Projects
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