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Science Common Core W.1.1 resources
Emergency First Grade Sub Plans for the Year BUNDLE | Substitute Plans for 1st
First Grade Emergency Substitute Lesson Plans! This substitute bundle includes 24 DETAILED first grade sub plans. These first grade sub plans are perfect for any emergency sub day or a day packed with engaging themed activities! These plans are no prep - just print and leave for your sub! Students and substitutes will love the activities included in each sub pack! These sub plans include reading, math, writing, social studies and science activities. These plans also include an editable PowerPoin
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K - 2nd
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Mr. Ferris and His Wheel End of the Year READ ALOUD STEM™ Challenge
Integrate STEM in your classroom at the End of the School Year!Learn about the World's Fair and how Mr. Ferris built the first Ferris Wheel! Your students will love designing, building, testing, and writing about their very own Ferris Wheel!Connect to a Read Aloud: Mr. Ferris and His WheelThis STEM Project is a companion activity to Mr. Ferris and His Wheel by Kathryn Davis. The book explores the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and how Ferris built his first wheel.Take students through the STEM Proces
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1st - 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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READ ALOUD STEM Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle #1 STEM Club, STEM Centers
Integrate STEM and Literacy in your classroom all year with READ ALOUD STEM Volume One! Everything you need to be the master STEM Teacher at your school! Awaken imagination and creativity all year. Students learn coding, engineering, explore real-world problems, learn about STEM role models, pioneers, inventors, and more!Amazing resource for STEM clubs, STEM Teachers, STEM Stations, STEM Centers, parents who love hands-on learning, and elementary teachers who want to create a hands-on educationa
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1st - 5th
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READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges #2 Real World Science Engineering
Bundle and get 50% off! Integrate STEM and Literacy in your classroom all year with READ ALOUD STEM Volume 2! Awaken imagination and creativity all year. Students learn coding, engineering, explore real world problems, learn about STEM role models, pioneers, inventors, and more! Perfect for librarians, STEM Club, K-5 Teachers, and any teach who loves to integrate hands-on learning activities with their students!This collection of STEM Projects focuses on connecting ELA and STEM. Each challenge c
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1st - 5th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-PS3-1
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 4-PS3-4
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The Water Princess Water Filter READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Integrate Real-World STEM in your classroom and engage kids in a real world problem. Learn about Water Filtration with this Earth Day STEM Activity! Students learn about the water crisis and water pollution affecting nearly 1 billion people around the world and explore how water filters and other solutions can help. Connect to a Read Aloud: The Water PrincessThis STEM Project is a companion activity to The Water Princess by Susan Verde. The book explores the reality of how people walk for water
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2nd - 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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Spider Science Unit - Fall Reading & Writing Activities - Facts, Project & Craft
Do you need engaging lesson ideas and activities to teach your students all about spiders? Make learning about spiders fun with these hands-on non-fiction ELA and science mini-lessons and activities! This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading comprehension while they learn interesting facts about different types of spiders. ⭐ Create anchor charts to lead your lessons and use the low-prep
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1st - 3rd
Dinosaurs Nonfiction Unit Reading Passages Comprehension Writing Science
This Dinosaur Activities Unit includes 8 nonfiction reading comprehension passages and questions, multiple report writing templates, hands-on activities, prehistoric crafts, math activities and other fun opportunities to ignite learning of dinosaurs.This easy-to-implement unit includes: LiteracyDinosaur academic vocabulary Invent your own dinosaur reportDinosaur report wheelMultiple report templates Multiple Graphic Organizers - Information writing and opinion writing My dinosaur report Dinosaur
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1st - 3rd
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Owls Unit - Owl Activities - Pellet Dissection - Owl Reading Passages - Projects
This 158 page Owl unit provides upper elementary students with all of the owl activities they need to complete a rigorous owl unit. These no prep owl activities include owl reading passages, owl pellet dissection activity, owl research activities, and more.COMMON CORE ALIGNED!!!✅Be sure to check out the thumbnails and preview for detailed images and information about some of the engaging activities included in this resource.This engaging resource contains the following:⭐Vocabulary Resources!-Owl
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1st - 4th
EASY STEM Activities and Challenges | STEM Center
"What do I do now?" This is the worst! It's like playing whack-a-mole with tied hands trying to keep the behaviors of early finishers from disrupting the rest of the class. That's why I love these Easy STEM Activities! Without engaging tasks for early birds, disruption creeps in. Easy STEM Activities are hard to find, and without an early finisher system, classroom management gets tough! Easy STEM Activities is the best system to fight against boredom, disruption, and every teacher's pet peeve q
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K - 2nd
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I Need My Monster Halloween READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Can your students create the perfect Monster?Connect STEM, Literacy, and writing with this Halloween STEM activity in which students engineer a Monster! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book I Need My Monster by Amanda Noll.The Engineering Design Process:In this STEM Challenge, students design and build a monster. They follow the six step Engineering Design Process: Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Experiment, Improve. Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After th
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2nd - 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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Also included in: Halloween Monster READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities BUNDLE
Wheel and Axle Simple Machine Activity - Race Car STEM Challenge Project
This Race Car STEM Challenge is my favorite way to teach students about the wheel and axle simple machine. My students love learning about the wheel and axle simple machine and then getting to put their learning into practice by building a race car. Several writing pieces are included to help your students increase their skills in narrative and opinion writing. There is also a parent letter included to request materials. This resource is part of my Simple Machines Bundle. Save 20% on my simple m
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1st - 3rd
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Halloween Monster READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities BUNDLE
Perfect Halloween Activity for your 1st Grade through 5th Grade STEM Classroom!This Halloween STEM Activities BUNDLE is full of Monster Activities that your students will love! It focuses on creating, trapping, containing, and calming down all kinds of scary monsters.Build a fence to contain "Creepy" CarrotsDesign and create your own MonsterConstruct a trap to catch a monsterEngineer a fidget to calm down CrankensteinConnect to Read Aloud Books!Perfect companion activities to the following books
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2nd - 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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Weather: A Research and Writing Project PLUS Centers!
Make learning about the weather fun with these engaging, language-building activities! This research project includes low-prep graphic organizers, science experiments, math and literacy centers, and writing activities to discuss and learn about the weather while meeting science standards!Lead your students to discuss the weather and the water cycle while meeting science standards with this science of reading-aligned resource.Here's what you'll get:Graphic organizersRecording sheetsWriting and d
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Research Project Bundle: SPRING Research and Writing Curriculum
Outer Space Activity Pack
Ready to geek out on outer space activities? Inspire kids to fall in love with the solar system with these 25 playful science, math and literacy activities. Just print and play!OUTER SPACE SCIENCE ACTIVITIES Solar System Hats Space Match Up Outer Space Bingo (class set!) Clip the Planet How Far are the Planets from the Sun? Planet Fact Sheets (Including ready to read summaries for each planet) Oreo Moon Phases More Water or Land?OUTER SPACE MATH ACTIVITIES Space Race
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Epic Science Bundle
Seasons & Weather Patterns First Grade Science Unit Activities on Cause & Effect
These first grade weather lesson plans and unit help kids explore and understand cause and effect through Earth's natural cycles. Find detailed plans, materials, STEM challenges, science labs, literacy and math connections and much more in this complete 6 week weather unit.Are you struggling to fit science in your busy first grade schedule? Look no further! This first grade weather unit integrates literacy and science to make your literacy block more impactful and help you use your precious ins
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K - 2nd
All About Sharks | Shark Activities Writing Craft | Shark Week Science
Do your students or children want to learn all about sharks? Looking for a fun and engaging way to connect important science and language arts skills? Look no further than this jam-packed All About Sharks Unit. This shark unit will take your students on an underwater journey to the world of sharks. They will work on key reading skills while learning about sharks, their habitat, characteristics, and important facts. They will love tackling life science standards as they learn about the shark
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1st - 2nd
Not Quite Narwhal Read Aloud - Reading Activities - Reading Comprehension
This "Not Quite Narwhal" printable or digital interactive read aloud lesson plan pack includes rigorous text dependent questions, differentiated graphic organizers, response to text writing activities including a craftivity, and detailed lesson plans to help you meet several core standards while maintaining your tradition of reading aloud for pleasure. You will guide students to use evidence from the text to deepen their understanding of the story and respond in meaningful ways. These lesson pla
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K - 1st
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Sub Plans - The Pigeon Needs a Bath
Sub Plans: Sub Plans Pack The Pigeon Needs a Bath! A Complete Sub Plan & Thematic Unit for Grades 1-2 CCSSLooking for sub plans that will keep your class actively engaged in learning all day long? How about a fun engaging unit for those days in between testing or before/after a break? Need a cross-curricular unit that uses one picture book for grades 1-2? Welcome to One Book Wonders! One Book Wonders is everything you need for a day (or a couple of days) for your classroom using one boo
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1st - 3rd
Butterflies: A Research and Writing Project
Make learning about butterflies fun and meaningful with these engaging, language-building activities! This research project includes low-prep graphic organizers, labeling, and writing activities to discuss and learn about butterflies while meeting science standards!Lead your students to discuss butterflies while meeting science standards with this science of reading-aligned resource.Here's what you'll get:7 days of suggested lesson plansGraphic organizersRecording sheetsWriting and drawing acti
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Research Project Bundle: SPRING Research and Writing Curriculum
Ada Twist, Scientist READ ALOUD STEM and SCIENCE Activity
Now includes Easel Activity Version for Distance Learning with Google Classroom!Integrate Real World STEM and Literacy!Teach about the importance of science and chemical reactions. Test out different elephant toothpaste recipes to find out which mixture makes the biggest reaction. Create Elephant Toothpaste!Connect to a Read Aloud: Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea BeatyThis STEM Project is a companion activity to Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty.Take students through the Scientific Method:Stud
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2nd - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 2-PS1-1
, 2-PS1-2
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Animal Adaptations Activities for Structure and Function of Inherited Traits
Combine science and writing with this activity about animal external body parts. Introduce your first grade students to the Next Generation Science Standard* regarding inherited traits, animal adaptations, and structures and functions that help animals survive. Your students will observe, think, predict, and write. Just share the photos of real animals. Students will discuss the body parts and hypothesize why the animals have them. How does that help the animal survive? Brainstorm ideas. The
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1st - 2nd
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6 Thematic Units First Grade Science & Social Studies Lesson Plans BUNDLE
Are you struggling to fit science and social studies in your busy first grade schedule? Look no further! These six science and social studies thematic units for 1st grade are planned in detail and ready to use. Each of the 6 first grade units begins with a content big idea and then integrates into reading and writing with many math and phonics connections as well!What is a first grade integrated thematic unit?An integrated thematic unit combines content and literacy into one common learning the
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1st
1st Grade Full Day Sub Plans - ELA, Math, Science, SS, Art, P.E. + more - Kit 2
ON SALE for $3 this week only! These full-day, cross-curricular sub plans offer everything your substitute will need to have a successful day of teaching and learning in first grade! Our favorite part? All activities and lessons are themed to be based on the book, "The Day the Crayons Quit."Teachers can breathe easy when they need to take a sick day with these no-stress, print and go lesson plans that are perfect to cover every subject with 1st graders! These sub plans are jam-packed to include
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1st
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Severe Weather Project | Weather Storms Report Writing Templates
Teaching informational report writing to kids can be a challenge ... but it doesn't have to be. Use these no-prep differentiated writing templates to help your students practice informative writing and write information books on weather storms.The materials in the weather storm report package help make the report writing process easy for your students and the planning process easy for you. Your kids will enjoy writing weather storm reports they can be proud of!✿ ✿ ✿ ✿ ✿ ✿ ✿ ✿ ✿ ✿ ✿ ✿
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- 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
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