This explains the nature of light and has transparent, translucent and opaque material sorting activities, posters and worksheets (with answer keys). Definition posters are also included for light terms such as reflection, refraction, lens, concave, convex, and prism. The sorting mats are to be used by sticking the object pictures unto the correct mat. Each page is to be printed on 8.5” x 11” (letter) sized paper. Contents: Light Poster 4 Transparent Translucent Opaque Posters 5 – 9 Definition Posters of Light Terminology 10 - 13 Transparent Translucent Opaque Sorting Mats 14 – 16 Transparent Translucent Opaque Picture cards 17 – 19 for sorting mats Transparent Translucent Opaque Worksheets 20 – 23 For Grades 3-5. TeacherNyla Nyla's Crafty Teaching

These Food Chain Puzzles can be used to practice making food chains with organisms in a garden habitat. This is a Spring themed Food Chain puzzle. The cards are perfect for group work and stations. Each puzzle card has an organism name and picture on it. Each of the first five pages has three puzzles and each of these puzzles has a producer (plant or plant part), a primary consumer, and a secondary consumer. The sixth page has more consumer organisms that can be spliced in to make longer food chains. After the cards are cut apart for the students, the page six puzzle cards can be mixed and matched with them. 15 Puzzles. 6 Pages. Grades 2-4. The producers (plants or plant parts), in this set include: grass, leaf, bush, seeds, nectar from flowers, and fruit. The consumer organisms in this set are: caterpillar, bird, grasshopper, lizard, snake, bee, dragonfly, aphid, ladybug, rabbit, eagle, chicken, man, rat, owl, cow, fly, frog, rat, cat, sheep, toad, butterfly, and goat. Nyla's Crafty Teaching

This Food Web Building Kit first teaches the basics of making a food chain, then food webs. It's a tutorial and group activity. Food webs and food chains can be easily created using the six steps that are detailed in this package. It also has everything you need to make your own food chains and food webs. Here's a list of what's inside: A 10 page illustrated step by step tutorial Food chain-making worksheets with answer keys. Build-a-food-web bulletin board or activity sets for making a... *savannah food web*, *forest food web*, *garden food web*, *wetland food web*, *ocean food web*, and *Arctic food web* with suggested answer keys. Arrows and poster labels for each food web habitat. 56 Pages.

This illustrated word wall set is perfect for helping your students to remember the spelling and meanings of the key food chain and food web terms: habitat, organism, producer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, consumer, food chain, food web, scavenger, decomposer, predator, prey, energy, and photosynthesis. 6 Pages. For Grades 3-5. Three word wall cards per page.

Food chains and food web terms are referenced in this 'I Have... Who Has...?' game which is a great tool for memorizing the meaning of these terms. The terms here are producer, herbivore, photosynthesis, carnivore, consumer, predator, prey, organism, omnivore, decomposer, scavenger, micro-organism, fungus, habitat, energy, food chain and food web. This is recommended for small groups for reinforcement. 17 Cards. 5 Pages. For Grades 3-5.

This is a five-lesson unit plan for grade 3 - 5 students which re-introduces the concepts of force, effort and load and develops them into group activities which explore the world of simple machines. Students apply the use of these simple machines (gears, pulleys, levers)to their real world applications. Co-operative learning is emphasized in these lessons as many of the manipulatives to be used are inexpensive, easily available and are simple everyday items that can be found in the kitchen. Assessment methods to be used are both formative and summative. Worksheets and pictures of materials that I have used for these lessons are included. 40 pages. Grades 3-5.

Here are exciting ways to teach your students about the parts of a flower and the function of each part. It includes: -A D.I.Y. craft activity for assembling the flower parts together to make a complete flower. This can be printed on paper or card stock or traced onto coloured sheets of felt or foam sheets. Available in colour and in black and white. Pages 3 -8 -Parts of a flower diagram labeling activities with answer key. Pages 9 - 11 -A set of 15 colourful illustrated definition cards. Pages 12 - 15 -A 'Roll and Answer' worksheet with questions about the functions of each part of the flower. Includes an answer key. Pages 16 - 20 -18 large illustrated word wall cards of parts of the flower key terms. Pages 21 - 26 26 pages. Grades 3-5

Recycling Activities and posters for sorting pictures of different kids of trash into the following categories for recycling: compost, metal, glass, plastic, and paper. The sorting mats are to be used by sticking the trash items unto the correct mats (which are provided). Your students can also use large containers as recycling bins for sorting the pictures. I added bin labels for such an activity. The posters can be used to add to your classroom recycling unit or Earth Day theme. It contains: recycling posters, sorting bin labels, material poster sets, sorting mats, and picture cards for sorting bins and sorting mats. This zipped file contains the colourful version and the black and white version.

Body Systems Illustrated Word Wall: This is an illustrated word wall of the 12 body systems. Each word card has a matching picture to depict the word’s meaning. It can be used as headers for doing ‘word of the day’ focus walls or it can be used as a stand alone word wall. Each page has three word cards and they are to be printed on 8.5” x 11” (letter) sized paper. This is a digital downloadable PDF file of 5 printable pages. The twelve body systems listed here are: circulatory, respiratory, digestive, endocrine, skeletal, excretory, muscular, lymphatic, nervous, and reproductive. Word wall cards can be laminated and mounted in a clear standard pocket chart for easy access and display.

Simple Machines: Levers - Sorting Activities for the Three Classes of Levers. Everything you need to know about levers is presented in this activity booklet. When teaching about Simple Machines, levers are usually taught first because students can clearly use them to identify the effort, load and fulcrum. This booklet explores the the first class lever, second class lever and third class lever, and illustrates them in posters, diagrams, a sorting table and a labeling activity. Real world examples of tools which are levers are also included as labelled pictures, e.g. a pair of scissors is a first class lever, a wheel barrow is a second class lever, and a pair of tweezers is a third class lever. An answer key is included for the activities.

Food Chains and Food Webs illustrated definition cards are a handy reference for your students to memorize all of the terms associated with Food Chains and Food Webs. Each card is color coded in green, red and brown to match the theme of the words used. The green cards have pictures and definitions for the words producer, herbivore and photosynthesis. The red cards are presented in the same way but are for words such as carnivore, consumer, predator, prey, etc. There are also brown cards for organism, omnivore, decomposer, scavenger, micro-organism and fungus. The rest of the cards are mostly non-living things like habitat, energy, food chain and food web. Nyla's Crafty Teaching

This is an illustrated word wall of 30 Earth Day words and terms. Each word card has a matching picture to depict the word’s meaning. It can be used as headers for doing ‘word of the day’ focus walls or it can be used as a stand alone word wall. Contains eleven printable pages. For Grades 2-5. Thirty-six (30) of the most common Earth Day terms are used in these cards. The terms are: recycle, conserve, wind energy, solar energy, geothermal, hydro energy, tidal energy, global warming, pollution, plastic waste, glass waste, metal waste, paper waste, biodegradable, compost, reforestation, planting, reuse, reduce, clean up, car pool, renewable, April 22nd, Earth Day, environment, greenhouse effect, ozone layer, ecology, carbon footprint, and resource. Word wall cards can be laminated and mounted in a clear standard pocket chart for easy access and display. Each page has three word cards and they are to be printed on 8.5” x 11” (letter) sized paper. TeacherNyla Nyla's Crafty Teaching