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5th grade Back to School science centers
STEM Bins® / STEAM Bins® Elementary STEM Activities: Morning Work,Fast Finishers
The original STEM Bins® and STEAM Bins®STEM Bins® and STEAM Bins for K-5th Grade are the ideal hands-on, play-based solution for:Early Finishers / Fast FinishersMorning Work / Soft StartsCentersWriting ExtensionsFine Motor PracticeMakerspaceIncentivesCalm Down Corner***TOP 5 ALL TIME BEST-SELLING RESOURCE ON TPT!***INCLUDES A FULL STEAM VERSION, SPANISH VERSION, AND FRENCH VERSION!!!★SUPPLY LIST FOR STEM BINSWant to see my STEM Bins® up close and personal?! Watch my STEM Bins 101 video series o
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PreK - 6th
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Back to School Activities for First Week of School Math Reading All About Me
Those first week back to school activities can be quite hectic! Make it easy on yourself with this First Week Back to School Survival Packet. It has EVERYTHING you need to help you through that first week with ease! Includes pennants, interest surveys, reward coupons, math worksheets, reading activities, color by code, and so much more!Click HERE to SAVE 25% by buying this resource as part of my Back to School Super Bundle!Click on the preview button to see everything included.This high-interest
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3rd - 6th
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Scientific Method Activity - Easy Paper Airplane Science Experiment Lab
This easy scientific method activity will get your kids excited about following the steps of the scientific method! This interdisciplinary unit incorporates paper airplane science experiments, math, STEM, & writing to provide a fun hands on science experience. Click on the PREVIEW button to see more of what is included! ⭐ What is Included:information and outline for instructionsupply/materials listsample schedule for the activitiesvocabulary list and definitionsword wall cardsstudent vocab
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4th - 6th
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STEM Bins® MEGA BUNDLE: Elementary STEM Activities: Morning Work,Early Finishers
Save over 20% with this DISCOUNTED Bundle that contains ALL TEN of my STEM Bins® resources and activities! STEM Bins® and STEAM Bins for K-5th Grade are the perfect hands-on, play-based STEM Activities for:Early Finishers / Fast FinishersMorning Work / Soft StartsCentersWriting ExtensionsFine Motor PracticeMakerspaceIncentivesCalm Down CornerThis STEM Bins®MEGA Bundle includes ALL TEN of my best-selling STEM Bins resources and supplements:STEM Bins® / STEAM Bins®STEM Bins Seasonal Task CardsSTEM
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K - 5th
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Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
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K - 5th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Ecosystems & Food Webs Science Stations | 4th Grade 5th Grade Activity TEKS NGSS
Get ready to facilitate learning with informative, easy prep centers! Ecosystems and Food Webs Science Stations includes 9 stations all about food webs and ecosystem interactions.Includes guided student sheets, an answer key, quicker prep, and improved activities for your class! 9 StationsRead It: Read about food webs and abiotic and biotic components of a koala’s ecosystem. Answer questions.Create It: Use a table with information to construct a food web.Watch It: Watch two short videos and answ
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4th - 6th
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5-PS3-1
Adaptations Science Stations | Animals & Plants Structures | 4th Grade TEKS NGSS
Ready for quick prep adaptations science centers for plant and animal structures and functions? These centers focus on identifying and comparing structures and functions.Includes guided student sheets, an answer key, quicker prep, and improved activities for your class!9 StationsRead It: Read about the structures of giraffes, Madagascar geckos, agave, and earthworms. Answer questions.Create It: Use information provided to design a camel that would be adapted to a tundra environment.Watch It: Wat
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4th - 6th
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4-LS1-1
STEM Index Card Tower Challenge - Easy Prep Project- 2 Versions
This easy prep STEM Activity is surprisingly challenging! Students will have a fantastic engineering opportunity through problem-solving. Index Card Towers show your students how to persevere and redesign based on their initial thinking and planning (plus the towers are fun to build!) The best part is that your prep includes one basic material and the students take over from there. Just stand back and watch them brainstorm and build incredibly tall towers. They will groan when the tower falls, d
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3rd - 5th
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3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
5 STEM Activities Desert Island STEM Challenge Bridge Catapult Raft Hut STEAM
If your students enjoy doing STEM or STEAM activities, they will LOVE this set of 5 fully-planned out challenges! All five themed STEM challenges center around the story of a shipwrecked traveler stranded on a deserted island. After watching an introductory “movie trailer” and hearing the story of the shipwreck, students will read five of the traveler's diary entries. Each entry will challenge them to design and build something to help him survive and get back to civilization!These STEM challeng
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4th - 7th
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3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Place Value Posters | Interactive Place Value Chart
Teach your students to read, record and understand numbers and how they work with this poster set. They have been designed as the perfect visual to keep displayed in your classroom all year round to support your teaching and student’s learning when it comes to place value and our number system.This resources comes in a $$$ saving Classroom Decor BUNDLE.Place value is a vital mathematical concept but can be a difficult one for students. It is the key to understanding our number system and so many
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Chalkboard Classroom Decor BUNDLE | Blackboard Classroom setup
2024 Solar Eclipse Sequencing Craft and Solar Eclipse Posters
2024 Solar Eclipse* Meet your science standards with this solar eclipse sequencing craft and solar eclipse posters. This set will help you teach your students and children about solar eclipses. This solar eclipse resource contains 5 printable solar eclipse posters that illustrate First Contact, Second Contact, Totality, Third Contact, and Fourth Contact. There is also a safety poster for the eclipse viewing that tells students not to look directly into the sun. These are the same posters in my e
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2nd - 5th
Classroom Expectations - Character Traits Posters
These posters are a great reminder to students on what it means to have positive character traits!Included are color and matching black/white student posters.The color posters are for hanging in your classroom, hallways, bulletin board, etc. They are bright and easy to read. The black and white versions are EMPTY. They do not have the descriptions on the pages. They include the headers and clip art. The black and white posters are for students to write in their own descriptions of how they c
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K - 5th
Sub Plans | Substitute Teacher Binder | Emergency Substitute Plans
These emergency sub plans include FIVE days of editable plans, plus dozens of extra activities that your students will love! This resource includes 190 pages of activities for use with substitute teachers or in your classroom! Whether you are making emergency sub plans and need PRINT AND GO or want to mix and match activities to make the perfect guest teacher plan, this is the ultimate sub plan resource!Please see the preview for a very detailed look at this resource. What Sets These Plans Apart
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3rd - 5th
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STEM I Can Build®️ Cards, Books, and Anchor Charts
I Can Build books and anchor charts are a fun way to get students thinking of all the things they can build and engineer! It is an easy and manageable way to add STEM to your classroom with real photographs!Blocks and manipulatives give students the opportunity to be creative, problem-solve, develop math concepts, develop eye-hand coordination, develop fine motor (if the blocks are small), and develop inquiry skills (STEM & STEAM). Add a literacy component and have students draw and write ab
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PreK - 5th
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Also included in: STEM I Can Build®️ Cards, Books, and Anchor Charts BUNDLE
Author's Purpose - It's All About PIE - Anchor Charts
****This kit is now available as part of a money-saving BUNDLE! Check it out here (Click on the title): Save With A Bundle: Author's Purpose - All About PIE and Reader's Tool Box Get ready for the first day and week of school!
Updated to include a fourth optional poster for Explain. See preview file!
A fun way to introduce Author's Purpose to any grade level! I used the P.I.E. acronym (Persuade, Inform, Entertain) but took it to the next level by actually using pie as the text examples. P
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K - 8th
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Solar System Create, Facts, and Fill Ins on a String Interactive Science Fun!
Solar System: On A String Interactive {Create, Facts, and Fill Ins}The entire solar system is included in this pack.Once assembled your students will love that it will actually look like the solar system in the order in which the planets appear. There are dashed guidelines for cutting and on the back of each planet is a fill ins page. Requires 8.5 by 11 paper total of 14 pages – one set of full color art and one set of black line art for your students to color.The back of each planet asks – how
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K - 8th
5th 6th Grade 1st Day of School Numbers Math About Me Poster Worksheet Activity
✨ Math About Me ✨ This editable Math All About Me Poster is perfect for the 1st Day or week of School in 5th, 6th grade or Middle School classrooms. Get to know you through numbers w/ these 1st day of School Math Activities! Use this All About Me Math worksheet in a Back to School Math Station or Math About Me workshop, as the First Day of Math Bellringer, or as a worksheet, or assign the PDF version in Easle. First Day of School All Math About Me Poster for Math Activities 5th 6th Grade *Digita
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5th - 8th
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Math About Me Get to Know You Activity & Bulletin Board for Back to School
Are you looking for an activity to start your math class? Here is a great way to start the year and decorate your classroom with student work! My Number Story has 8 stations where the students are asked questions with a number as an answer. The pictures on the bunting banner represent the students' answers! The bunting banner comes with a title and key to what the pictures represent. You can also use this activity as a way to introduce station procedures. Included is a Google Slides version of t
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Math Reference Bulletin Board Display Bundle
Organisms in Ecosystem: Producer, Consumer, Decomposer Text, Review, Sort
This interactive and hands-on sort activity will allow your upper elementary students to show their knowledge of organisms in an ecosystems food chain in a kinesthetic way! It allows you to challenge your students to think critically when completing this cut and paste to show you what they know. Students can read about producers, consumers and decomposers then apply their knowledge in the sorting activity. This resource is great for teaching, practice or assessment of knowledge. Included in this
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3rd - 6th
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Weather and Climate & Water Cycle Science Stations | 4th Grade 5th Grade Earth
Get ready to facilitate learning with informative, easy prep centers! Weather and Water Science Stations includes 9 station activities that focus on processes in the water cycle and the difference between weather and climate.Includes guided student sheets, an answer key, quicker prep, and improved activities for your class!StationsRead It: Read about weather and climate. Answer questions.Create It: Gather information about the weather conditions and give a weather report to a friend. Option: Hav
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4th - 6th
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Forms of Energy Science Stations | Light Sound Electrical Thermal Transformation
Forms of Energy Science Stations includes 9 station activities focused on mechanical, electrical, light, thermal, and sound energy.Includes guided student sheets, an answer key, quicker prep, and improved activities for your class!9 StationsRead It: Read about thermal, mechanical, sound, electrical, and light energy. Answer questions.Create It: Place the circuit cards in the correct locations on the diagram mat.Watch It: Watch a video and answer questions.Match It: Match the objects to the type
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4th - 6th
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STEM Space Lander Math & Engineering Activity
Space Lander STEM ChallengeThis STEM activity is one of our favorite engineering design challenges! The combination of marshmallows (or ping pong balls) and aliens makes this a winning STEM challenge! In the Space Lander Challenge, student teams build a lander using the engineering design process to keep two marshmallow "aliens" or "astronauts" inside a cup as it is dropped from various heights. Using straws, index cards, and mini marshmallows or cotton balls, students apply concepts of shock ab
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5th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Middle School
Space Science Stations | Sun, Earth, Moon Phases, Solar System | 4th 5th grade
Get ready to facilitate learning with informative, easy prep centers! Space Science Stations includes 9 station activities that focus on the Sun, Earth, our moon, moon phases, our solar system, and day and night.Includes guided student sheets, an answer key, quicker prep, and improved activities for your class!9 StationsRead It: Read about the characteristics of the Sun, Earth, and Moon and record information about their sizes, compositions, and gravity.Create It: Use materials to build a model
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4th - 6th
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Hurricane STEM Challenge Weather Activity
Your students will love this Hurricane STEM Activity!This activity is perfect to use to teach students about hurricanes and hurricane safety by engineering a building that will withstand a hurricane simulation. Aligns with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).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.Includes:Teacher and Student InstructionsStudent Planning PagesSt
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1st - 5th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-ESS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Also included in: Elementary STEM Activities and Challenges MEGA BUNDLE
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Learning science offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. In fact, it helps students:
- Question the world around them and seek evidence-based explanations
- Cultivate their ability to observe, experiment, and analyze data
- Nurture a sense of curiosity, awe, and wonder about the natural world
- Understand natural phenomena and the laws that govern the universe
With a solid foundation in science, teachers can help empower students to think critically, solve problems, make informed decisions, and engage with the world around them in meaningful ways.
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