These author's purpose task cards are a great way for students to have fun while identifying cause and effect relationships in text. This activity has two types of passage sets: 1. Given two statements, students identify which is the cause and which is the effect 2. Students identify cause and effect from a short passage

These pilgrims and native americans cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the Pilgrims, the first settlers at Plymouth, MA, and famous Native American's and tribes How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. These lessons sell individually for $5.50; as a bundle they are 20% off, for $4.40! Vocabulary Included: Pilgrims, Plymouth Rock, Samoset, Squanto, William Bradford, William Brewster, Mayflower Compact, Mayflower AND Tecumseh, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Sacajawea, Crazy Horse, Geronimo, Black Hawk, Chief Joseph Seminole, Apache, Sioux, Cherokee, Navajo, Iroquois, Chickasaw, Creek

These ratios and proportions cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while they practice their skills with ratios and proportions. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. These lessons sell individually for $3.90; as a bundle they are 20% off, for $3.12! There are 2 cootie catchers in this product, each one having 16 problems for a total of 32 problems. The ratio cootie catchers have problems which involve equivalence, word problems, reducing ratios, and determining ratios from patterns. The proportions cootie catchers have step-by-step answers to each problem.

These ratios and proportions task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they practice their skills with problems of ratios and solving proportions. This product includes an answer sheet and an answer key. These lessons sell individually for $5.10; as a bundle they are 20% off, for $3.95!

Homophones Word Search: This also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included. Vocabulary Terms Included: ♦ Berry ♦ Billed ♦ Build ♦ Bury ♦ One ♦ Sail ♦ Sale ♦ Tea ♦ Tee ♦ Won

Idioms Word Search: This also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included. Idioms Included: ♦ All Ears ♦ Apple Of My Eye ♦ Break A leg ♦ Cold Feet ♦ Lost My Head ♦ Money Talks ♦ On Cloud Nine ♦ Out On A Limb ♦ When Pigs Fly ♦ Zip Your Lips

Map Skills Word Search: This also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included. Vocabulary Terms Included: ♦ Compass Rose ♦ Hemisphere ♦ Latitude ♦ Legend ♦ Longitude ♦ Physical Map ♦ Political Map ♦ Tropics

These fact or opinion task cards are a great way for students to have fun while learning the difference between fact and opinion. This activity has students reading 26 statements to each other and then asked to either identify the statement as either fact or opinion or to identify the opinion when given two options. Explanations are also given for the more tricky statements. A recording sheet and an answer key are also included.

These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they practice their comparing and contrasting skills. This activity has students reading a descriptive sentence referring to either one object or both and then determining if it is a contrast or similarity. Students may record their answers on the provided answer sheet. An answer key is also included.

Drawing Conclusions: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while improving their skills with inference. This activity has students reading 16 short passages to each other and then asked to make an inference based off the passage. A Multiple choice version and open ended version is provided. A recording sheet and an answer key are also included.

These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while learning the different types of figurative language. This activity has students reading 26 statements to each other and then asked to identify the type of figurative language that was used. A recording sheet and an answer key are also included. Figurative Language Included: Alliteration Hyperbole Idiom Metaphor Onomatopoeia Personification Pun Simile

Fluency Passages: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while improving their their oral reading fluency. There are 20 short passages (fiction and non-fiction) for students to practice their fluency of phrases and sentences. These task cards can be used in the following ways: * Reading with Partners * Individual Reading * Small fluency Groups * Reading to the Class * Reading Circles * Warm Ups * SPED

These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while identifying and explaining valid and faulty generalizations. This activity has students reading 26 valid and faulty generalizations to each other. Students must then identify whether each statement is valid or faulty and explain their reasoning. A pre-made explanation is made for each one within the answer key. A recording sheet is also included.

Scientific Method: This scientific method lab experiment has students answering the question: "How does soap affect how many drops of water a penny can hold?" This lab incorporates the topics of cohesion and surface tension into the lab and post lab questions. This scientific method lab experiment is one of my students favorites as it has them compete to see who can get the most water droplets on a penny. Not to mention getting the students interested in science.

Science Fair: Bacteria Experiment for Science Fair or In Class: Turn your students into real scientists with this long term experiment which teaches scientific literacy through the writing of a real scientific paper. This product is an editable guided walk-through for the completion of a full scientific paper (Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Works Cited) based on the question: "Which antibacterial chemical: ethyl alcohol (hand sanitizer), isopropyl (rubbing alcohol), or Triclosan (Antibacterial soap) is the most effective at inhibiting bacterial growth? This product contains: 1. A teachers guide: Descriptions on how to set-up the experiment, materials needed, procedures, and helpful tips. 2. A lesson on Analyzing a Scientific paper utilizing a graphic organizer (Scientific Paper Included) 3. Student pages: a guided walk-through taking the students through the process of writing a full scientific paper. This long term project (which takes about 2-3 months to complete, spread out intermittently) guides students through the process of writing a scientific paper in the same way scientists write their scholarly papers. Students are taught how to write an Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and works cited section. This guided walk-through covers the following topics: Abstract: * Explanations of what goes in an introduction - What the study was about & the hypothesis - Summary of how the study was done - The results that were obtained - Significance of the results including the hypothesis being supported or not supported Introduction: * Explanations of what goes in an introduction - What bacteria colonies are and what they look like (color, size,shape texture, etc.) - What Fungal colonies are and what they look like - The Cellular processes by which ethyl alcohol, isopropyl, and triclosan work to kill bacteria Methods: * Teacher notes and tips for conducting the experiment Results: * Instructions for: - Calculating the average number of bacterial colonies - Graphing the data - Interpreting the data graph in words - Describing the appearance of bacterial and fungal colonies Discussion: * Instructions for: - Calculating the data to see if they are statistically significant - Interpreting the significance of the data - Calculating Percent effectiveness - Supporting or not supporting the hypothesis - Creating a theory to explain the results - Creating an additional experiment that could be done to test the theory - Discussing issues that occurred during in the experiment

Biology Tests Bundle: I have used these exams for both Middle and High School students; all questions are multiple choice and have answer keys. Even though course teachings and materials vary slightly from teacher to teacher, almost all of the questions apply to any course curriculum for the subject of Biology in Middle/ High School This is a fully editable document, of which there are 33 pages which include the following topics and number of questions: ♦ Scientific method - 12 questions ♦ Cohesion, Adhesion, Capillary Action & Chemistry - 19 Questions ♦ Carbon Compounds & Enzymes - 20 Questions ♦ Microscopes & Cells - 37 questions ♦ Cell Transport - 25 Questions ♦ DNA - 26 Questions ♦ Fossil Record & Evolution - 30 Questions ♦ Classification - 15 Questions

Planets: This planets PowerPoint is meant to introduce students to the planets of our solar system. Students complete a graphic organizer which follows the lesson and includes the following information for each planet: Planets Power Point Contents: ♦ How Large is each planet ♦ How Far away from the Sun is each Planet ♦ What the planet's surface is like ♦ Composition of the atmosphere ♦ Temperature range ♦ Can it be seen with the naked eyes and where? ♦ Facts about its moons ♦ Year and Day ♦ Possibility for life on the planet? ♦ Video about the Planet

Astronomy: This astronomy bundle covers all the essential topics for a full year of Astronomy and includes all of my astronomy lessons outlined below: Important: All these lessons sell individually for $125; as a bundle they are 37% OFF, for $79! PowerPoints: ♦ Dwarf Planets: PowerPoint ♦ Eclipses: Lunar and Solar ♦ Halloween and the Pleiades ♦ Life Cycle of Stars with Worksheets ♦ Locating Constellations, Stars, Galaxies, and Nebulae ♦ Meteoroids, Meteors, Meteorites, Comets, & Asteroids ♦ Moon Phases ♦ Mythology and History of the Days of the Week ♦ Planet Mythology with Trading Cards ♦ Reasons for the Seasons: Student Engaging PowerPoint ♦ Solar System Formation ♦ The Constellations of the Zodiac - History & Mythology ♦ The Planets: A Tour Through the Solar System ♦ The Structure of the Universe Activities: ♦ Comets, Meteors, Meteoroids, Meteorites and Asteroids Accordion Booklet ♦ Constellations of the Zodiac Accordion Booklet ♦ Constellations of the Zodiac Wheel Dial ♦ Eclipses Accordion Booklet ♦ Graphing the Constellations ♦ H-R Diagram (Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram) Graphing Lab ♦ Life Cycle of Stars Accordion Booklet ♦ Moon Phases Wheel Dial ♦ Oreo Moon Phases ♦ Seasons and Eclipses Wheel Dial ♦ Solar System (Planets) Accordion Notebook Fun Stuff: ♦ Comets, Meteors, Meteoroids, Meteorites, and Asteroids Cootie Catchers ♦ Constellations of the Zodiac Cootie Catchers ♦ Constellations of the Zodiac Word Search ♦ Eclipses Cootie Catchers ♦ Life Cycle of Stars Cootie Catchers ♦ Constellations of the Zodiac Word Search ♦ Moon Phases Cootie Catchers ♦ Moon Phases Flip Book Activity ♦ Planets Cootie Catchers ♦ Solar System and Space Word Search ♦ Solar System and Space Cootie Catchers Other: ♦ Constellations of the Zodiac Flash Cards/ Wall Display Cards ♦ Zodiac Constellations Clip Art

Planets: This Dwarf Planets PowerPoint is meant to introduce students to the dwarf planets of our solar system. This lesson also explains why Pluto was declassified from being a planet to being a dwarf planet. There are 5 dwarf planets and this PPT lesson has 54 slides which includes the following information: ♦ Where is it? ♦ What the planet's surface is like ♦ Composition of the atmosphere ♦ Temperature range ♦ Facts about its moons ♦ Year and Day ♦ Mythology behind the name

Moon Phases: This moon phases PowerPoint incorporates easy to understand explanations with interactive/ animations, and questions which keep students engaged while learning about what causes the moon's phases. Moon Phases Power Point Contents (46 slides): ♦ The Phases of the Moon (Title Slide) ♦ Two Types of Moon Shapes ♦ Crescent Moon ♦ Gibbous Moon ♦ Quarter Moon (3 slides) ♦ Full Moon ♦ New Moon ♦ Waxing & Waning ♦ Combining Shape & Appearance ♦ Guess the Moon Phase (Student Interactive Game - 15 slides) ♦ What Causes the Phases of the Moon? ♦ Waxing Crescent ♦ First Quarter ♦ Waxing Gibbous ♦ Full Moon ♦ Waning Gibbous ♦ Third Quarter ♦ Waning Crescent ♦ New Moon ♦ Animation of Whole Process (Slow) ♦ Animation of Whole Process (Fast) ♦ Question (Why is the moon not in Earth's Shadow?) ♦ Answer (The Moon is Inclined) ♦ When is the Moon in Earth's Shadow? ♦ Question (Time for the Moon to Orbit Earth?) ♦ Answer/ Question (Time to reach same Moon phase?) ♦ Answer (Moon Calendar) ♦ Question (What do you notice about the craters on the Moon?) ♦ Answer (All the same) Question: (why?) ♦ Answer: (Tidal Locking)