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This was an activity I did with students where we discussed lab safety. I made flip safety symbols using the greeting card format in Microsoft Publisher. I had the students try and guess what the symbols meant and they wrote the correct thing underneath each tab. Below that I had students take notes regarding general lab safety rules (there were ten in all). Their right hand assignment was to create a lab safety poster focusing on one of the ten lab rules of their choice. They had to list…

Engage your students in exciting science lessons with this interactive science notebook.

Hello Everyone! Just a quick post tonight. I've got to get ready for our 4th of July celebration!! Among so many other things, I love teaching science to my sweeties! I have posted many things already that we have done in science, but I realized I hadn't posted about how we organize all of our recording sheets, observations, and explorations. We keep everything in our Science Notebook (just a brad pocket folder). At the very foundation of our teaching of science is establishing an…

Lesson plans, activities and ideas for kindergarten classrooms, including math problem-solving, reading workshop, writer's workshop, inquiry-based science journals, literacy centers and more!

Have students learn the basics of science tools with this freebie! Includes: - Table Tent Prediction Cards - Picture Card Sort (guided practice) - KWL Chart - Can-Have-Are Chart -ABC Order: Key Terms - Vocabulary Graphic Organizers - Science Safety Tools Writing Activity - Assessment

Lesson plans, activities and ideas for kindergarten classrooms, including math problem-solving, reading workshop, writer's workshop, inquiry-based science journals, literacy centers and more!

This post may contain Affiliate links. More information here. today is the continuation of the 5 senses series. in case you missed it, check our inspiration, The Black Book of Colors here. the 5 senses activities we’ve done can be found here: sense of smell sense of sight sense of taste sense of hearing here are …

Included in this FREE download is one passage about the life of Henri Matisse. It is CCSS Aligned to fit nicely with your curriculum. I used this passage with third graders but it could be used with other grades as well depending on the levels of the students. These passages are great to be used fo...

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As promised, I'm back tonight (past my bedtime) to share my "treat" - a quick anchor chart that I used for my science lesson this week. On Monday, we are officially kicking off our insects unit... there will be BUGS IN MY ROOM! {Ahhhhh!} I'm nervous as all get out. Creepy crawlies are just NOT my thing. Hopefully my sweet second graders love them to pieces and enjoy this unit. With each insect we bring into our classroom, most of our learning will be done through observations. We will get to…

A fun playdough color mixing activity with a free take-home printable! (Based on Leo Lionni's Little Blue and Little Yellow)~ BuggyandBuddy.com

Are you teaching your students about what scientists do and the tools they use? Then this freebie is perfect for you! In this download you will get a Scientists Can, Have, Are tree map to use whole group or individually. You will also get a cut and glue labeling activity for the tools a scientist ...

Lesson plans, activities and ideas for kindergarten classrooms, including math problem-solving, reading workshop, writer's workshop, inquiry-based science journals, literacy centers and more!

FREEBIE included! Use sorting worksheets to teach students the differences between concepts! Read the article to learn how to use sorting worksheets in the classroom.

A few weeks ago we learned all about the states of matter (solids, liquids and gases). I created a unit for TpT and Teacher's Notebook including all the activities you will see in this post. Please check out my stores if you are interested in this unit! :) We started out talking about the definitions of the states of matter and coming up with examples of each. My students recorded our ideas in their science journals using a chart: The next day we chose different examples of solids, liquids…