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Environment Common Core W.5.2 resources
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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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
Earth Day | Earth Day Lesson | Earth Day Activities | Human Impact |
This is a no-prep digital lesson that teaches students about Earth Day. This lesson is an opportunity to advance students understanding of human impact, the environment, and important scientific terms aligned with standards. Students will engage in a vocabulary-rich lesson about the harmful impacts humans have on earth. They will also learn, discuss, and describe how to more efficiently protect our planet. More about this Product:40 slides and 1 lesson planTo increase student understanding of hu
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2nd - 5th
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K-ESS3-1
, 5-LS2-1
, 5-ESS3-1
, 4-ESS3-1
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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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
Podcast on Social Responsibility & Activism - STEAM Research Project + Checklist
A great introduction to podcasting (podcast creation), for both upper elementary and middle school students! This resource helps students (and their partners) create a podcast project, guiding them step-by-step through their research, creation, and reflection processes.What's included in this purchase:4-page teacher guide NEW! - digital & printable9-page Google Slides™ student document - digital & fillable1 printable version of the student document - printable pdfExtra evaluation rubrics
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4th - 9th
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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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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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Photosynthesis Project Booklets Creative Activity Elementary or Middle School!
NEW PRODUCT!! Are you looking for a FUN and CREATIVE way for students to demonstrate their knowledge of photosynthesis? Then this booklet project is for you whether you teach upper elementary or middle school!! Use the included grading rubric that's easy to assess student content knowledge as you work towards meeting the NGSS LS1 Performance Expectations in your life science/biology unit! Activity overview. Students create a booklet with:title page and picturelarge, labeled drawing of the proces
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: NGSS Middle School Science Activities and Lessons Growing MEGA Bundle
Sophie Scott Goes South (Antarctica Novel Study) by Alison Lester
NOVEL STUDY Focus: Antarctica, Aurora Australis, Life in the Arctic & Wildlife.English Concept: Point of ViewEnglish Skills: Reading, Writing, Comprehension & Language FeaturesRequires: reading, researching, interpreting, analysing, drawing and responding to the text Sophie Scott Goes South. Activities completed will form a beautiful work scrapbook in response to the events and information in this book.Students are asked different English questions for each ‘day’ in the book that are foc
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3rd - 9th, Staff
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5-ESS3-1
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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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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Podcast on Social Responsibility & Activism - STEAM Research Project
This resource is a great introduction to podcasting (podcast creation), for both upper elementary and middle school students! This resource helps students (and their partners) create a podcast project, guiding them step-by-step through their research, creation, and reflection processes. Have you ever thought about integrating STEAM projects into your classroom? Whether you teach language arts, science & technology, or the visual arts, STEAM allows you to bring together all the elements of ST
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5th - 9th
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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
Rachel Carson Research and Script Project for Environmental Science or History
Rachel Carson was one of the most well-known environmentalists of the twentieth century. She did a study of chemical pesticides, like DDT, and wrote a book about her findings called Silent Spring (1962). She challenged human use of chemicals for various purposes and redirected the study of modern science. She then became a leader of the environmental movement. I don't know about you, but my students LOVE talking about their favorite movies and TV shows. This product is designed for students to w
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6th - 12th
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Reading Skills Passage - Protecting Watersheds: We All Live Downstream
Maximize your instruction time by covering a lot with a little! Your students will love this article about watersheds and what they can do to protect them. The article explains the significance of the phrase we all live downstream, discusses the environmental impact of plastics, and why it's important to keep them out of our watersheds. The packet also includes a word-study sheet that explores the words watershed and biodegradable. It even introduces morphemes!Students can interact with the text
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4th - 7th
Animal Adaptations Project: Creative Creatures: Biomes, Adaptations, Research
This animal adaptations project is a great way for students to apply their scientific knowledge of biomes and structural and behavioral adaptations in a fun and creative way!Each student researches an animal, the biome it currently lives in, and the structural and behavioural adaptations it currently has. Then they use their imagination and logic to imagine what new adaptations the animal would develop if it moved to a different biome. How would an arctic fox change if it lived in the desert? Wh
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4th - 7th
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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
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
What's Wrong With Ocean Plastic: An Ecological Approach to Problem Solving
In this science Unit for Grades 4 and 5, we start with a current environmental problem, plastic pollution in the ocean, and look at seven key ecological concepts to discover possible solutions.All things are connected. Without a doubt, what humans do to one part of an ecosystem will ultimately affect another.Understanding these 7 ecological concepts is critical to conceptualizing the big picture of ecological success. Without this understanding, hasty solutions sometimes create even more environ
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4th - 5th
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5-ESS3-1
, 5-ESS2-1
, 4-ESS2-2
, 4-ESS3-1
Arctic Animals Digital Research Project for Earth Day
Make Earth Day Everyday! This research project is the perfect way to engage your students in identifying how climate change has affected the animals found in the Arctic. Click here to view the project in action.This resource contains embedded videos about the Arctic and clickable research links on every page. Students will use provided links to research four endangered or threatened animal species and then choose an animal from the Arctic that interests them most to research.Included in this res
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3rd - 5th
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Informational Text: Yellowstone Wolf Perspectives (COMMON CORE ALIGNED)
In this project, students use electronic newspaper articles to gather information, summary, identify facts and opinions, compare and contrast, and identify cause and effect relationships about the wolves in and around Yellowstone National Park. A Google search will provide you with over 2,000,000 results for "Yellowstone Wolf Articles 2013." This is a very hot topic that piques student interest and aligns to Common Core informational text standards.
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-Classroom Resources (Links to Vi
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5th - 8th
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What's Wrong With Monarchs? An Ecological Approach to Problem Solving
In this complete science unit for Grades 4 and 5, we start with an environmental problem, decreasing Monarch populations, and look at seven key ecological concepts to discover possible solutions.All things are connected. Without a doubt, what humans do to one part of an ecosystem will ultimately affect another. Understanding these 7 ecological concepts is critical to conceptualizing the big picture of ecological success. Without this understanding, hasty solutions sometimes create even more envi
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Grades:
4th - 5th
NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, 5-LS2-1
, 5-ESS3-1
, 5-PS3-1
, 5-LS1-1
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