Science Activities for Back to School and End of Year High School Science

All the activities you need for an easy back-to-school or end-of-year season! A huge supply of print-and-go back-to-school and end-of-year high and middle school science activities ready to use all year. Great for testing schedule days and sub plans to keep your students engaged and collaborating while saving you valuable time.

Bonus: score a discount when you purchase these resources as a bundle!

You and your students will LOVE using this back-to-school and end-of-year high and middle school science activities bundle of resources throughout the year! No more spending hours searching for lesson planning, syllabus resources, or icebreakers to start the year. Gone are the days of not having enough activities and scrambling to figure things out during the ups and downs of end-of-year testing or preparing for a sub.

Did I mention that these resources can be used in print in class AND digitally uploaded as PDFs for online learning?

This bundle includes everything you need to lesson plan and prepare for the start and end of the school year, activity and testing schedules, and even sub plans all year long!

❤️ You will LOVE the lesson planning and syllabus tools! How easy it is to prep, implement, and grade these science activities!

❤️ Students will LOVE the change of pace and creative license as they dig deeper into relevant science topics!

Back-to-School Bundle Includes:

• Parts of a 5E's Lesson Plan
• Unit Plan Template
• Accommodations Tracker
• Lesson Pacing Guide Template
• Monthly Calendars (blank, reusable for years)
• Syllabus Building Work-pages
• Syllabus Checklist
• EDITABLE Syllabus Outline
• Lab Safety Contract (for science courses)
• 5 Icebreaker Activities:
  • Dice to Meet You
  • STEM Challenge
  • Syllabus Stations
  • Graffiti Wall Activity
  • National Park Vacation Plan Activity
  • Round Robin Writing Activity
• Parent Night Steps for Success
• EDITABLE Parent Night Brochure
• EDITABLE PowerPoint: Meet the Teacher
• Parent Night Sign-in Sheet
• Prize Cards

End-of-Year Bundle Includes:

• Mind Maps, which are like concept maps but way cooler! This resource includes 4 templates and grading rubrics for each! Allow students to incorporate illustrations and text to support a main idea, lesson topic, writing prompt, or research question.
• CER activities, Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning are the cornerstones of scientific writing. Apply this to ANY scientific question and watch the kids learn to find valid evidence to support their claim. Grading is simple with the included grading rubric.
• Essential Questions Workshop is a great way to target standards taught. Students work together, creating a fully developed written response to essential learning topics from the course.
• Peer Review Activity, which is not specific to any assignment or subject, can be a powerful tool for students to edit and learn from one another.
• Summarizing and Exit Ticket Activities can be applied to any lesson throughout the year! These are great strategies to allow for student collaboration.

How else can you use these resources?

• Additional content to use when you're scrambling and need something meaningful
• Homework for the weekend or over school break
• Online or in class
• These make great sub-plans
• Student learning interventions to target specific concepts and lessons
• Midterm or Final Exam Review strategies
• You have a lot of options with all the resources included!

See what teachers like you are saying about these physics resources!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Great tool to reinforce the lesson using mind maps with my students to help them connect and remember!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "I teach my kids CER every year and this resource helped them to grasp the practice. They are able to practice claim evidence and reasoning this year with many subjects!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "One of my favorite activities that I do every year with on-level and advanced students really establishes strong writing that is utilized all year long. Also, the peer review component is also critical for feedback and to have students engage with each other and support each other's learning!"

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Permission to copy for single classroom use only. This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.

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