Topic: Science

  • Human Body Systems: Let’s Explore our Digestive System

    Human Body Systems: Let’s Explore our Digestive System

    Students will love learning about the Digestive System with this complete resource! This unit has it all! It includes informational articles, hands-on activities, vocabulary posters, organizers, cloze passage, comprehension questions, and a 5-page flip book all about digestion!

    This packet includes many interactive activities and learning opportunities for students with informational Articles on:

    ✔ Our Amazing Bodies

    ✔ What is a Cell?

    ✔ The Digestive System

    ✔ What is Digestion?

    ✔ Down it Goes!

    ✔ Three Helpers!

    ✔ All Done Now!

    Plus students will meet Florence Nightingale and Louis Pasteur and complete a fact booklet.

    Students can apply their knowledge and show what they know with these connection activities:

    ✔ Comprehension Questions

    ✔ Graphic Organizers

    ✔ Label a Cell Diagram

    ✔ Cut and Sort the Helpers of Digestion

    ✔ Cloze Passage

    ✔ Summarize the Digestion Process

    ✔ Name the Parts of Digestion

    ✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary

    ✔ Vocabulary Posters

    ✔ Vocabulary Flip Flaps

    ✔ PLUS a 5 Page Flip Book

    ⭐ SAVE BY BUYING THE BUNDLE!

    Vocabulary:

    Introduce the 6 vocabulary words with the real-life photo posters included. You could post these posters around the classroom and have students travel around to match up and define the words in their flip flaps or use as a center activity. These posters are excellent for a bulletin board display too.

    Reading:

    Have students read the informational articles about the human body, cells, and the digestive system. Then complete the organizers and comprehension questions. Have students read the character study where they will meet Florence Nightingale and Louis Pasteur.

    Interactive Activities:

    There are lots of hands-on activities in this pack depending on the age of your students and time allotted for this unit.

    ✔ Three Helpers of Digestion

    ✔ Fact or Fiction Activity

    ✔ Label the Cell Diagram

    ✔ Jobs of our Stomach

    ✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary

    ✔ Florence Nightingale Character Study

    ✔ Louis Pasteur Character Study

    ✔ 5-Page Flip Book

    Have students complete the Flipbook and build it page by page. I usually have them do one page at each center or learning station. They can use the articles as a reference source to help them complete the pages of the booklet. Lastly, they cut, color, and assemble the booklet. Flip-up books can be glued or stapled inside their interactive notebooks, file folder, or a 12×18 piece of construction paper folded like a book cover.

    ✔ Great tool for Core Knowledge

  • Grasshoppers: A Non-Fiction and Literacy Unit

    Grasshoppers: A Non-Fiction and Literacy Unit

    Grasshoppers are the great musicians of the insect world. In honor of grasshoppers everywhere, this fun and an educational product have been created just for your class full of budding scientists.

    This product includes everything and more to learn all about these incredible insects. There are three Informational articles:
    1. Incredible Insects
    2. Amazing Arthropods
    3. Hidden Musicians (all about grasshoppers)

    Then students create and complete a flip up book which includes diet, habitat, body parts, life cycle, three facts, and cute clip art. All the information needed to complete this beautifully artistic flip up book is included in the articles.

    Plus there’s, even more, insect and grasshopper activities for students to work on in science centers or individually including:
    ✔ One page “Amazing Insects” Poster Page
    ✔ Grasshopper Organizer
    ✔ Vocabulary Flip Flap book
    ✔ Vocabulary Activities:

    Vocabulary words include:
    ✔ Arthropods
    ✔ Invertebrates
    ✔ Exoskeleton
    ✔ Metamorphosis
    ✔ Nymphs
    ✔ Molt

    ✔ Life Cycle Diagram for a Grasshopper
    ✔ From a Grasshopper’s Perspective Writing Activity
    ✔ Directions, templates, organizers, and photos of student samples of a completed book are enclosed.
    ✔ For Elementary Grades – Second grade, Third grade, Fourth grade
    ✔ Great for Core Knowledge

  • Georgia Standards of Excellence Kindergarten Science Posters

    Georgia Standards of Excellence Kindergarten Science Posters

    This pack is a set of 16 Photo Wall Posters Set with the Science standards for the year. This meets the NEW Georgia Standards of Excellence for Kindergarten Science. These attractive posters will help students visualize and connect to the standards!

    Posters with real-life photographs helped my students make a better connection to the material. As a bonus, they make an attractive bulletin board display too. Under the posters, I like to display samples of student work.

    It comes with a checklist for you to use as you progress through the school year. This helped me stay organized and gave me a clear focus of the year-at-a-glance. Be sure to check out the Georgia Standards of Excellence for Kindergarten Social Studies too!

  • Georgia Standards of Excellence 6th Grade Science Posters

    Georgia Standards of Excellence 6th Grade Science Posters

    This pack is a set of 30 Photo Wall Posters with the Science Standards for the year. This meets the NEW Georgia Standards of Excellence for 6th Grade Science. These attractive posters will help students visualize and connect to the standards!

    In this pack, you will find photo posters for 6th grade Science. These posters have real-life photographs to help students connect to the material. As a bonus, they make an attractive bulletin board display too. Under the posters, I like to display samples of student work.

  • Georgia Standards of Excellence 5th Grade Science Posters

    Georgia Standards of Excellence 5th Grade Science Posters

    This pack is a set of 19 Photo Wall Posters with the Science standards for the year. This meets the NEW Georgia Standards of Excellence for 5th Grade Science. These attractive posters will help students visualize and connect to the standards!

    Posters with real-life photographs helped my students make a better connection to the material. As a bonus, they make an attractive bulletin board display too. Under the posters, I like to display samples of student work.

    It comes with a checklist for you to use as you progress through the school year. This helped me stay organized and gave me a clear focus of the year-at-a-glance. Be sure to check out the Georgia Standards of Excellence for 5th Grade Social Studies too!

  • Georgia Standards of Excellence 4th Grade Science Posters

    Georgia Standards of Excellence 4th Grade Science Posters

    This pack is a set of 22 Photo Wall Posters with the Science standards for the year. This meets the NEW Georgia Standards of Excellence for 4th Grade Science. These attractive posters will help students visualize and connect to the standards!

    Posters with real-life photographs helped my students make a better connection to the material. As a bonus, they make an attractive bulletin board display too. Under the posters, I like to display samples of student work.

    It comes with a checklist for you to use as you progress through the school year. This helped me stay organized and gave me a clear focus of the year-at-a-glance. Be sure to check out the Georgia Standards of Excellence for 4th Grade Social Studies too!

  • Georgia Standards of Excellence 3rd Grade Science Posters

    Georgia Standards of Excellence 3rd Grade Science Posters

    This pack is a set of 11 Photo Wall Posters Set with the Science standards for the year. This meets the NEW Georgia Standards of Excellence (2017) for 3rd Grade Science. These attractive posters will help students visualize and connect to the standards!

    Posters with real-life photographs helped my students make a better connection to the material. As a bonus, they make an attractive bulletin board display too. Under the posters, I like to display samples of student work.

    It comes with a checklist for you to use as you progress through the school year. This helped me stay organized and gave me a clear focus of the year-at-a-glance. Be sure to check out the Georgia Standards of Excellence for 3rd Grade Social Studies too!

  • Georgia Standards of Excellence 2nd Grade Science Posters

    Georgia Standards of Excellence 2nd Grade Science Posters

    This pack is a set of 20 Photo Wall Posters Set with the Science standards for the year. This meets the NEW Georgia Standards of Excellence for 2nd Grade Science. These attractive posters will help students visualize and connect to the standards!

    Posters with real-life photographs helped my students make a better connection to the material. As a bonus, they make an attractive bulletin board display too. Under the posters, I like to display samples of student work.

    Be sure to check out the Georgia Standards of Excellence for 2nd Grade Social Studies too!

  • Georgia Standard of Excellence 1st Grade Science Posters

    Georgia Standard of Excellence 1st Grade Science Posters

    This pack is a set of 16 Photo Wall Posters Set with the Science standards for the year. This meets the NEW Georgia Standards of Excellence (2017) for 1st Grade Science. These attractive posters will help students visualize and connect to the standards!

    Posters with real-life photographs helped my students make a better connection to the material. As a bonus, they make an attractive bulletin board display too. Under the posters, I like to display samples of student work.

    It comes with a checklist for you to use as you progress through the school year. This helped me stay organized and gave me a clear focus of the year-at-a-glance. Be sure to check out the Georgia Standards of Excellence for 1st Grade Social Studies too!

  • Force and Motion Mini-Unit & Flip Book

    Force and Motion Mini-Unit & Flip Book

    This mini-unit is the perfect addition to accompany your unit on Force and Motion.

    It includes the following activities:
    ⭐ A fact sheet that comes in full color and BW
    ⭐ A flip book (5-pages)
    ⭐ A Vocabulary Poster

    The 5-page flip book has pages about push or pulls, gravity, Newton’s Laws, and magnetism all related to the study of Force and Motion. Visual directions for making the flip books are included.

    Flipbooks are fun and valuable learning tools that can be used in:
    ✔ Centers
    ✔ Station Work
    ✔ Interactive Notebooks
    ✔ Group Work
    ✔ Fun Projects
    ✔ Homework Assignment
    ✔ Review Work

    Students flip for flipbooks!

  • Fall Activities: Pumpkin Activities for Science Centers

    Fall Activities: Pumpkin Activities for Science Centers

    Pumpkins come in all different shapes, colors, and sizes just perfect for students observation and exploration. In this unit, students will predict, explore, and estimate all about their chosen pumpkin(s).

    By combining a variety of reading, math skills, and scientific observation skills students will learn all about pumpkins. These activities are great for fall centers! Your students will love this fun hands-on activity pack!

    Students will learn all about pumpkins including:

    ✔ Life cycle of a Pumpkin

    ✔ Parts of a Pumpkin

    ✔ Fruit or Vegetable?

    ✔ Homemade Pumpkin Treats

    This unit includes many interactive activities including:

    ✔ Meet Alexander – a young botanist

    ✔ Summarize How to Grow a Gigantic Pumpkin

    ✔ Create a Pumpkin Facts Mini-booklet

    ✔ Math Task Cards

    ✔ Fruit & Veggie Pocket Sort

    ✔ All About Pumpkins—Fact, and Opinion

    ✔ Mystery Flaps

    ✔ Vocabulary Posters

    ✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary

    ✔ Vocabulary Flip Flaps

    ✔ PLUS 6 page Flip Booklet

    There are 3 main activities:

    Vocabulary:

    Introduce the vocabulary words with the real-life photo posters included. You could post these posters around the classroom and have students travel around to define the words in their flip flaps. These posters are excellent for a bulletin board display too.

    Reading:

    Next, have students read the passages and complete the different activities. You could have students work with a partner or in small groups. Putting one article and related activity at each center works well with intermediate students.

    Activities:

    There are lots of activities included in this pack including a 6-page flip book. Have students complete the flip booklet and build it page by page. I usually have them do one page at each center or station. They can use the articles as a reference source to help them complete the pages of the booklet. Lastly, cut, color, and assemble the booklet. Flip up books can be glued or stapled inside their interactive notebooks, file folder, or a 12×18 piece of construction paper folded like a book cover.