This is my "Testing Properties" experiment. Students will be shown 3 different types of materials: Plastic, stone, and wood. The students will do 3 tests on each materials to determine which one is the most useful in our day to day lives. They should test each material in flexibility, water resistance, and strength by having it support weight. Students will complete the first side of the activity together before the experiment, then do the experiment, and finally will write about their conclusions. The recording sheet follows the scientific method/process skills when conducting an experiment. Step One: Make Guesses Step Two: Determine if the test is fair Step Three: Experiment Step Four: Draw the experiment Step Five: Discuss findings Step Six: Suggest an alternative material

This is my "Testing Properties" experiment. Students will be shown 3 different types of materials: Plastic, stone, and wood. The students will do 3 tests on each materials to determine which one is the most useful in our day to day lives. They should test each material in flexibility, water resistance, and strength by having it support weight. Students will complete the first side of the activity together before the experiment, then do the experiment, and finally will write about their conclusions. The recording sheet follows the scientific method/process skills when conducting an experiment. Step One: Make Guesses Step Two: Determine if the test is fair Step Three: Experiment Step Four: Draw the experiment Step Five: Discuss findings Step Six: Suggest an alternative material

This is a great activity as a summative assessment for a space unit. The brochure should be folded into thirds, featuring "Space Travel Brochure" as the front. This brochure includes: What to bring in space? activity where students name 5 things astronauts need, and then will draw lines to match the words to the astronaut picture. What will we see in space? activity where students will write the names of the 8 planets. Some planets we will visit are? map where students shall draw the 8 planets and label them in their correct order from the Sun. There is a sample brochure included for reference. Please make sure to check out my blog and see ideas from my "Space Day". http://completelykindergarten.blogspot.com/2013/05/sublime-space-unit.html

This is Human Life Cycle sorting game. This game allows students to practice identifying different parts of the human life cycle. This pack includes: 5 stages of the human life cycle display cards 15 cards depicting descriptions of different stages of the human life cycle. (Each card gives a description, then asks "Who Am I?" so students must match the description to the correct display card.) Please make sure to rate and leave feedback!

This is a 4 page booklet designed around a lesson about keeping teeth clean. Students will make a statement about what will happen to teeth when we don't clean them, and will write a question about the experiment. Then students will each take an egg and coat it with a mixture of crushed cereal and milk or water. The mixture needs to be quite sticky so that it creates a coating on the egg shell. The crushed cereal mixture is to simulate "chewed food" while the egg represents a tooth. Once the egg is coated, students place the egg in a cup or bowl and leave it to dry. This may take about 3-5 days depending on the room temperature, so it is best to start this experiment at the beginning of the week. On the final day, students examine their eggs, and feel what happened to the food (it should have solidified). They then take a toothbrush and try to brush as much of the food off as possible. This should be quite challenging and may require excess force. If some students are too rough, the egg will break, which can simulate tooth decay in real life. Students then complete the rest of the experiment booklet.

This is a set of 5 vocabulary and description cards depicting the 5 different stages of human growth and development. Each card features the name of the stage, a clipart character in that stage, and 3 descriptions that fit the stage of development. Please make sure to rate and leave feedback!

This is a simple recording sheet for the standard "healthy teeth" eggs experiment. Please make sure to rate and leave feedback!

This is a pack of 12 cards featuring different Living and Non-Living things. Simply print, laminate, cut, and hide around the room. Students must walk around with their papers, and write the name of each thing they find, then determine if they are Living or Non-Living. This pack includes: 12 Living and Non-Living cards 1 recording sheet for lower-level students (they must just right either the name of the thing, OR if it is Living/Non-Living 1 recording sheet for on-level and above-level students (they must write the name of the thing, and circle if it is Living or Non-Living) Please make sure to rate and leave feedback!

These are templates for students to make their own paper circuits incorporated into a Valentine's Day card. There are three different cards that get copied back to back with the template for the light circuit. Great way to tie into your unit on Electricity, Energy, and Circuits. ***PLEASE NOTE: Additional materials are needed for these cards*** 5mm copper tape http://www.amazon.com/SparkFun-Copper-Tape-5mm-50ft/dp/B007R9UOBM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422679251&sr=8-1&keywords=5mm+copper+tape 3V LED Lights http://www.amazon.com/60Pcs-Round-Assorted-Color-Emitting/dp/B00977I4QY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1422679298&sr=8-2&keywords=3v+led+lights 3V coin cell batteries (from any store), binder clips, and cardstock (any color). This packet includes: Directions page 3 card and circuit templates Please make sure to rate and leave feedback!

This is a display banner for your classroom Makerspace. Makerspaces, areas for allowing students to create and build with everyday materials, and they are growing ever more popular in classrooms around the world. This is a fun and engaging banner to have in your classroom's Makerspace area.

This is a nice cut and paste activity that allows students to match types of materials/rocks. Great for assessing how we use different materials in everyday life.

This is a book I did as part of my Ocean Unit. My students read stories and watched videos about what people do at the beach. Then they used a Flow Map to come up with 3 different things they would do at the beach if they took a vacation. Check out my blog for sample book ideas: http://completelykindergarten.blogspot.com/2012/05/as-end-of-another-school-year-creeps.html This packet includes: 2 different covers (cut and paste photos of students in the camera lens) Blank Writing Page (make multiple copies if needed) Flow Map for story ideas 3 Writing Pages with sentence starters Please make sure to rate and leave feedback!

This is a great template for student made book about sea turtle. Students can either use the blank turtle pages to write their own facts, or use the pages with writing prompts for facts about sea turtles. This packet includes: Sea Turtle Fact Book cover Blank Sea Turtle template page Sea Turtle prompt pages (Habitat, Predators, Appearance, and Food) Please make sure to rate and leave feedback!

This is a simple and engaging way of helping your students get to know each other. The students will be given 10 strips with their names on it, which they will cut out. They will walk around the room and look at the posters, and if they identify with that poster, they will tape one of their name strips underneath. At the end of the activity, the students will walk back around the room, and survey the number of names underneath each poster to complete a graph. The idea behind this activity is not only getting to know more about each other and to see what one student might have in common with another, but also to break any pre-conceived ideas about others in the class. We as people are quick to judge a book by its cover, and this activity allows students to see each other differently. This packet includes: Cover page Explanation page 10 posters of "I like..." statements and photos Graphing page. Please make sure to rate and leave feedback!

This is a vibrant set of 10 color words in Spanish with real world photo connections. Please make sure to rate and leave feedback! Este es un set de diez palabras en colores vibrantes y en español con fotos reales como ejemplo visual. Por favor no se olviden de darnos su opinion!

This is a set of 3 activity sheets to use when comparing a Goldfish and a Goldfish Cracker. Typically teachers have taught Living and Non-Living using an earthworm and a gummy worm, but I found this was a better alternative for those not willing to bring live worms to school, with the added bonus of getting a class pet!

This is a set of question cards designed to get students used to giving answers and collecting data on a daily basis. Questions can be simple or require a more critical thinking approach, but all questions require a yes or no answer. Simply print out, laminate, and cut the cards, being sure to post a new question each day. Provide 3 containers beneath where the daily question is posted, (1 for yes, 1 for no, and 1 for holding counters such as pennies, marbles, cubes, etc...). When students enter class they read the question, select a counter, and place it in the container for yes or no dependent on their answer. Assign one student daily or weekly as the tallier who must go and total the counters for yes and no. being sure to record it as well. Please make sure to rate and leave feedback!

This is my "Testing Ramps" experiment, which allows students to test different surface materials for a ramp: Legos, paper, and sandpaper. We did this experiment to determine what was the best material to use for a surface for cars in our model of our community we made. Students will complete the first side of the activity together before the experiment, then do the experiment, and finally will write about their conclusions. The recording sheet follows the scientific method/process skills when conducting an experiment. Step One: Make Guesses Step Two: Determine if the test is fair Step Three: Experiment Step Four: Draw the experiment Step Five: Discuss findings Step Six: Suggest an alternative material for a surface

This is a set of 26 cards featuring a food item and the number of calories that item has. Students can search around the classroom on a scavenger hunt for the different food items and discover how many calories each has. Perfect for getting students to start to recognize that foods they eat on a daily basis have different amounts of calories inside them.

This is a brace map of the parts of a pumpkin. A simple cut and paste activity that goes great with a Fall, Halloween, or Pumpkin Life Cycle unit. Please make sure to rate and leave feedback!