This product is a color-by-number activity that allows students to complete statements related to energy flow in ecosystems. And YES- even secondary students love to color! Some terms/concepts included: population community ecosystem photosynthesis producer consumer herbivore carnivore omnivore decomposer food chain food web energy pyramid This could be used as a quick assessment, a homework assignment, extra credit, or for early finishers. Buy the Bundle and Save! By purchasing the bundle, you will save 15% on your total purchase! If you like this activity, © Science Teaching Junkie. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com

This product is a color-by-number activity that allows students to complete statements related to elements. And YES- even secondary students love to color! Some terms/concepts included: proton neutron electron locations, charges, and masses of the 3 subatomic particles nucleus electron cloud chemical properties atomic number (is the same at the number of protons) chemical symbol periodic table metals (basic properties of) nonmetals (basic properties of) metalloids (basic properties of) atom group period elements compounds where most of the atom's mass is located This could be used as a quick assessment, a homework assignment, extra credit, or for early finishers. © Science Teaching Junkie. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com

This PDF includes 36 full pages of various flippables, graphic organizers and activities for an Interactive Science Notebook to be used during a unit on Earth Science (8 pages are teacher answer keys). Most foldables and flippables are left blank on the inside. This will allow you to fully customize each one for whatever curriculum or grade you teach with the information you want your students to know. Some ideas would be to use definitions, pictures, and examples. These also make a great tool to use for science differentiation as well! Pages include information on: •Generic Admit & Exit Ticket •Layers of the Earth (2) •Composition of the Earth's Crust •Continental vs. Oceanic Crust •Earth's Major Plates •Plate Interactions •Theory of Continental Drift vs. Theory of Plate Tectonics •Alfred Wegener (who? what? where? when?) •Plate Boundaries Card Sort •Plates Jigsaw Puzzle •Earth's Atmosphere •Mohs Hardness Scale •Identifying Unknown Minerals •Properties of Minerals •Special Properties of Minerals •Rocks vs. Minerals •Types of Rocks •The Rock Cycle •Latitude/Longitude •Topographic Maps •Topographic Matching Activity (match landform to topo map) •Renewable/Non-renewable Vocabulary •Renewable/Non-renewable Energy Identification Looking for another earth science topic? If you don’t see something here that you would like added, please send me a message and I will do my best to get it added and update this product. Updates are always FREE for buyers. Note: This interactive notebook product is NOT part of the . To see more interactive notebook products, ©2016 Science Teaching Junkie, Inc. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. This product should NOT be posted on any website. Please email me with questions at ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com.

This PDF includes 36 task cards over atoms and the periodic table. Student answer sheets and teacher answer key are provided. Ideas on ways to use them in the science classroom are also included. For students to be successful with utilizing these cards, they should have prior knowledge of the following concepts and/or vocabulary: - atomic structure (location and charges of protons, neutrons, and electrons) - group/family names on the periodic table - identifying group/period numbers on the periodic table - reactivity patterns on the periodic table - that elements in the same group have similar chemical properties - elements in the same period have the same number of energy levels - elements in the same group have the same number of valence electrons - location of metals, nonmetals, and metalloids - protons determine the identify of the element - how to calculate the number of neutrons - why elements in the Noble Gas family are considered nonreactive or inert - identify an element by seeing a Bohr Model of the atom Buy the Bundle and Save! Buy the Bundle and receive all future task card set additions, revisions and updates at no additional cost to you! © Science Teaching Junkie, Inc. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. This product should NOT be posted on any website. ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com

This PDF includes 32 task cards that allow teachers to assess their students' knowledge of calculating work and recognizing that simple machines make work easier (please see the extensive list of content that is covered below). A student answer sheet and teacher answer key are provided. An editable task card is included so that you can add your own task card question or task. The following content/topics are included: •definition of work •recognizing that in order for work to be done, the object must move in the direction of the force applied •calculating work when given the work equation •simple machines make work easier, but they do not decrease the total amount of work •the effect of distance increasing and force decreasing •spring scale is the tool used to measure force •using data tables to determine people who are performing the same amount of work •examples of work being done •definitions for force, distance, work, Joule (or Newton-meter) •how a simple machine, such as an inclined plane (ramp on a moving truck), effects work and the amount of force needed to move a box into the truck © Science Teaching Junkie, Inc. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. This product should NOT be posted on any website. ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com

All young scientists need to practice making careful observations and evidence-based inferences. With this product, you will get a complete year of Picture of the Week activities for students to strengthen these skills. Students are shown an image and spend time making careful observations. After this, they make inferences based on these observations. This would be a great warm-up exercise or a great addition to your weekly classroom routine. You will begin to see your students become more careful observers and you will hear them correcting their classmates when they are including biases or previous experiences in their observations. Students will begin supporting all of their thoughts with evidence (the mark of a great scientist!) Detailed teacher instructions on best ways to implement this into your weekly routine are included as well as some teaching tips. You will also receive all of the student print-outs for the 38 weeks and slides for projecting the Picture of the Week for 38 weeks in both PDF and PowerPoint formats. This product will not only make your students better scientists, but better writers, readers, and speakers. The language arts teachers will love you!

This product includes over 40 different admit and exit tickets that were created to help formatively assess student learning in a more creative way. These are different from my "typical" exit and admit tickets because they give students a variety of ways to demonstrate mastery of content. Students will be given opportunities to draw, write, organize information, define, ask, reflect, and much more! All of these tickets can be used for any subject area and almost any grade level. Only 3 of the tickets are science-specific. Each ticket includes teacher instructions and a student printable that comes two-to-a-page, saving you paper and ink. Many of the tickets can be used at the end of a lesson (end of class) or at the beginning of the class (to review the previous lesson material). A few of the tickets provide an option to revisit the ticket the following day as an admit ticket. I typically collect the exit tickets as students leave my classroom or have students glue them into their Interactive Science Notebooks on the left (output) page. And because they only take 3-5 minutes to complete, this is a simple strategy to incorporate into your daily classroom routine to help your students begin reflecting on their learning. This document is an Editable PDF Form, which has a few boxes that you can type text into (if you choose). Or you can leave them blank and print. To edit the text you type into a box, select the text, then press Ctrl +e. You should see a pop-up box appear that will allow you to change the font, font size, alignment, etc... Admit and Exit Ticket Titles Included: -Ask the 8 Ball -What is in My Brain? -Brick by Brick -Web of Words -There's an App for That -On the Big Screen -I Can See Clearly Now -Make a List (Check it Twice) -Compare & Contrast -Graffiti -Favorite Thing -Design a T-shirt -Gimme Five -3-2-1 -And the Winner Is... -Sketch It -Iron Out the Details -Hot Diggity Dog! I've got it! -What Stuck With You? -Look Into My Crystal Ball -Report Card -Career Connection -Jot it Down -Guess Who -Wrap Up the Lesson -Organize It -Stop & Go -Recycle It -Brag Board -Graphically Speaking -Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down -Hated It -Totes Loved It -Real Science -Put it to Use -Safety First -Book Author -Extra! Extra! Read All About It! -Q&A -Words With Friends

This PDF includes 36 full pages of various flippables, graphic organizers and activities designed for an Interactive Science Notebook to be used during a unit on Ecosystems and Interdependence. (7 pages are teacher answer keys). Most foldables and flippables are left blank on the inside. This will allow you to fully customize each one for whatever curriculum or grade you teach with the information you want your students to know. Some ideas would be to use definitions, pictures, and examples. These also make a great tool to use for science differentiation as well! Pages include information on: •Interdependence in Ecosystems Vocabulary flippable •Organization levels •Factors that Affect Populations (food, water, light, living space) •Animals with the same habitat, but different niches •Relationships between populations (competition, predation, symbiosis) •Consumers graphic organizer (herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, decomposers) •Sample from my Easy as Pie Series - Producers & Consumers Pie •Biotic vs. Abiotic Factors card sort •Venn Diagrams (population/community/ecosystem, herbivore/omnivore/carnivore, food chain/food web, heterotroph/autotroph) •Simple food chain •Tracing the flow of energy and matter (trace your breakfast back to the Sun) •Energy pyramid •Food Web Story- Little Red Riding Hood •Desert Food Web Scenario •Earth's terrestrial biomes •Earth's aquatic biomes •Coastal sand dunes ecological succession (w/ lichens question) •a generic admit and exit tickets are included WANT TO GET ALL 6 OF MY INTERACTIVE SCIENCE NOTEBOOK PRODUCTS IN A BUNDLE AND SAVE 10%? ©2016 Science Teaching Junkie, Inc. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. This product should NOT be posted on any website. Please email me with questions at ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com.

GREAT FOR WARM-UPS, EXIT TICKETS, OR QUICK FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS! This product includes 28 different quick Science Starters to be used at the beginning or end of each class period. Each Science Starter student printable comes four to a page, saving you paper and ink. Each Starter also includes a teacher version that can be used to project the questions and/or answers for all students to see. The last page of both the student printable and the teacher version includes an extra page for you to add your own Science Starter (editable PDF form). Daily Science Starter TEKS Included: (8.6) Force, motion, and energy. The student knows that there is a relationship between force, motion, and energy.  (A) demonstrate and calculate how unbalanced forces change the speed or direction of an object's motion; (B) differentiate between speed, velocity, and acceleration;  (C) investigate and describe applications of Newton's law of inertia, law of force and acceleration, and law of action-reaction such as in vehicle restraints, sports   activities, amusement park rides, Earth's tectonic activities, and rocket launches. (7.7) Force, motion, and energy. The student knows that there is a relationship among force, motion, and energy.  (A) contrast situations where work is done with different amounts of force to situations where no work is done such as moving a box with a ramp and without a ramp, or standing still; (B) illustrate the transformation of energy within an organism such as the transfer from chemical energy to heat and thermal energy in digestion; (C) demonstrate and illustrate forces that affect motion in everyday life such as emergence of seedlings, turgor pressure, and geotropism (6.8) Force, motion, and energy. The student knows force and motion are related to potential and kinetic energy.  (A) compare and contrast potential and kinetic energy; (B) identify and describe the changes in position, direction, and speed of an object when acted upon by unbalanced forces; (C) calculate average speed using distance and time measurements; (D) measure and graph changes in motion;  (E)  investigate how inclined planes and pulleys can be used to change the amount of force to move an object. (6.9) Force, motion, & energy. The student knows that the Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it just changes form.  (A)  investigate methods of thermal energy transfer, including conduction, convection, and radiation; (B) verify through investigations that thermal energy moves in a predictable pattern from warmer to cooler until all the substances attain the same temperature such as an ice cube melting; (C) demonstrate energy transformations such as energy in a flashlight battery changes from chemical energy to electrical energy to light en

This PDF includes 32 task cards to help students demonstrate mastery on organisms and environments. Student answer sheets and teacher answer key are provided. Ideas on ways to use them in the science classroom are also included. For students to be successful with utilizing these cards, they should have prior knowledge of the following concepts and/or vocabulary: - food chains, food webs and energy pyramids - consumer (heterotroph) - producer (autotroph) - impact of introducing an organism to an existing ecosystem or removal of an organism - amount of energy available at each level of an energy pyramid - primary consumer, secondary consumer, carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, decomposers, parasite, host, predator, prey - photosynthesis - biotic and abiotic factors - symbiotic relationships (parasitism, mutualism, commensalism) - competition - limiting factors - how human activities, such as artificial reefs, have modified ocean systems - comparing a food web to a cycle - effects of short-term and long-term environmental changes © Science Teaching Junkie, Inc. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. This product should NOT be posted on any website. ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com

When a student is absent, I simply fill out this form and attach all assignments and handouts to it with a paperclip. It has a place for name, date absent, due date for work, homework assigned, daily agenda, parent signature, etc... I've also included a alternate form for each of the designs that has space for you to add your own personalized note to your students. When the student returns to school, all you have to do is assign/circle the due date and it's ready to go! This document is an editable PDF form, with boxes for you to type information in. I discovered that when I have a lot of absent students in a day, I get really tired of writing the same agenda and homework information over and over. This new editable version will allow you to type it in once and print as many as you'd like (or print one at a time and be able to type the information instead of handwriting it.)

GREAT FOR WARM-UPS, EXIT TICKETS, OR QUICK FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS! This product includes 55 different quick Science Starters to be used at the beginning or end of each class period. Each Science Starter student printable comes four to a page, saving you paper and ink. Each Starter also includes a teacher version that can be used to project the questions and/or answers for all students to see. The last page of both the student printable and the teacher version includes an extra page for you to add your own Science Starter (editable PDF form). To edit the text you type into a box, select the text, then press Ctrl +e. You should see a pop-up box appear that will allow you to change the font, font size, alignment, etc... Daily Science Starter TEKS Included: 6.10 Earth and space. The student understands the structure of Earth, the rock cycle, and plate tectonics. The student is expected to: (A) build a model to illustrate the structural layers of Earth, including the inner core, outer core, mantle, crust, asthenosphere, and lithosphere; (B) classify rocks as metamorphic, igneous, or sedimentary by the processes of their formation; (C) identify the major tectonic plates, including Eurasian, African, Indo-Australian, Pacific, North American, and South American; and (D) describe how plate tectonics causes major geological events such as ocean basins, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and mountain building. 6.11 Earth and space. The student understands the organization of our solar system and the relationships among the various bodies that comprise it. The student is expected to: (A) describe the physical properties, locations, and movements of the Sun, planets, Galilean moons, meteors, asteroids, and comets; (B) understand that gravity is the force that governs the motion of our solar system; and (C) describe the history and future of space exploration, including the types of equipment and transportation needed for space travel. 7.8 Earth and space. The student knows that natural events and human activity can impact Earth systems. The student is expected to: (A) predict and describe how different types of catastrophic events impact ecosystems such as floods, hurricanes, or tornadoes; (B) analyze the effects of weathering, erosion, and deposition on the environment in ecoregions of Texas; and (C) model the effects of human activity on groundwater and surface water in a watershed. 7.9 Earth and space. The student knows components of our solar system. The student is expected to: (A) analyze the characteristics of objects in our solar system that allow life to exist such as the proximity of the Sun, presence of

In this 40 page product, you will receive 112 mini posters in two different sizes (each poster comes in a 2" square and a 3.5" square). They are great for organizing your classroom and/or science storage room. The consistent, colorful design and clear text make finding supplies a breeze. Ideas for other uses: ★could be used to display the materials students will need for a particular lesson (works great with low-level readers and English Language Learners) ★word wall terms for science tools and lab equipment ★post all of the lab tools that your scientists will need to know so that they are always visible ★tape to the front of plastic tubs or milk crates to get a quick visual on the contents inside Poster Terms included: ◑Binder clips ◑Brads ◑Colored pencils ◑Composition notebooks ◑Calculators ◑Clipboards ◑Crayons ◑Dry erase markers ◑Glue ◑Headphones ◑Legos and Pop Cubes ◑Lined paper ◑Highlighters ◑Flair pens ◑Masking tape ◑Markers ◑Paper clips ◑Push pins ◑Scissors ◑Scotch tape ◑Pencils ◑Notebooks ◑Sharpeners and Erasers ◑Rulers ◑Discs ◑Sports balls ◑Bandaids ◑Movies ◑Washi tape ◑iPads ◑Goggles ◑Bulletin boards and banners ◑Dominoes ◑Dice ◑Envelopes ◑Puzzles ◑Glitter ◑Playing cards ◑Toy cars ◑Manila envelopes ◑Bubbloes ◑Balloons ◑Funnels ◑Forceps ◑Buttons ◑Tools ◑Bunsen burners ◑Spring scales ◑Styrofoam cups ◑Hair dryers ◑Springs ◑Chemicals ◑Straws ◑Yarn ◑Rocks ◑Prisms ◑Toothpicks ◑Droppers ◑Anemometers ◑Flashlights ◑Light bulbs ◑Wood blocks ◑Aluminum foil ◑Corks ◑Thermometers ◑Test tube racks ◑Test tubes ◑Tongs ◑Triple beam balances ◑Metersticks ◑Batteries ◑Tweezers ◑Craft sticks ◑Cups ◑Popsicle sticks ◑Rubber bands ◑String ◑Pie pans ◑Modeling clay ◑Pipe cleaner ◑Cardstock ◑Construction paper ◑Pens ◑Shower ◑Gloves ◑Flasks ◑Beakers ◑Graduated cylinders ◑Microscopes ◑Magnets ◑Magnifying glasses ◑Microscope slides ◑Petri dishes ◑Scales ◑Pipettes ◑Aprons ◑Mouse ◑Hot glue ◑Glue sticks ◑Charging cords ◑Hole punch ◑Scalpels ◑Grid paper ◑Sticky notes ◑Stopwatches ◑Ring stands ◑Index cards ◑Hot plates ◑Fire blanket ◑Hot mitts ◑Test tube clamps ◑Eye wash

This PDF includes 48 full pages of various flippables, graphic organizers and activities for an Interactive Science Notebook to be used during a unit on Space Science. Many of the pages include teacher answer keys, teaching tips, and common misconceptions to be looking for. Most foldables and flippables are left blank on the inside. This will allow you to fully customize each one for whatever curriculum or grade you teach with the information you want your students to know. Some ideas would be to use definitions, pictures, and examples. These also make a great tool to use for science differentiation as well! Pages include information on: •Reason for Night and Day & the Seasons •Motions of the Earth (and other basic facts) •Rotation vs. Revolution (Venn diagram) •Seasons Foldable with included inserts and links to great animations •What if? (...the Earth weren't tilted on its axis? ...the Earth stood still?) •Moon phases (multiple options and activities) •Tides •Eclipses •History of Astronomy ("The Who's Who of Astronomy") •Stars •Galaxies •Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors •Electromagnetic Spectrum •Nebulas •Constellations •Absolute vs. Apparent Magnitude •H-R Diagram •Life Cycle of Stars (Average and Massive) •a generic admit and exit tickets are included WANT TO GET ALL 6 OF MY INTERACTIVE SCIENCE NOTEBOOK PRODUCTS IN A BUNDLE AND SAVE 10%?

This PDF includes 33 full pages of various flippables, graphic organizers and activities for an Interactive Science Notebook to be used during a unit on Weather (12 pages are teacher answer keys). Most foldables and flippables are left blank on the inside. This will allow you to fully customize each one for whatever curriculum or grade you teach with the information you want your students to know. Some ideas would be to use definitions, pictures, and examples. These also make a great tool to use for science differentiation as well! Pages include information on: •Differences in Temperature (in the oceans, on the Earth, in air masses) •Jet Stream •Weather vs. Climate •Meteorologist for a Day (Forecasting the weather using a weather map) •Pressure Systems and Fronts •El Nino & La Nina (and normal conditions) •Land and Sea Breezes •Air Masses (3) •Global Winds (2) •Gyres •Fronts (warm, cold, stationary, occluded) •Air Pressure (Barometric Pressure) •Weather instruments •Reading Weather Maps •Ocean Currents •generic admit and exit tickets are included WANT TO GET ALL 6 OF MY INTERACTIVE SCIENCE NOTEBOOK PRODUCTS IN A BUNDLE AND SAVE 10%? ©2016 Science Teaching Junkie, Inc. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. This product should NOT be posted on any website. Please email me with questions at ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com.

Not sure how to start incorporating output ideas into your Interactive Notebook routine? Need a variety of output ideas for your established notebooking procedures? This is just what you've been looking for! With little to no prep (and no handouts to print), this product will have your students excited about processing, summarizing, and organizing the new information they learned on the input side of their notebook. Included: (please view the "Preview" above to get a closer look at what's included) •A How-To Guide for Teacher •A Fully EDITABLE PowerPoint that includes 42 different output (left side) activities for interactive notebooks •42 icon images for clean design, easy recognition, and time-saving navigation **Please note that this resource is a PowerPoint document. Editable pages allow you to enter additional text or images by inserting a text box or picture. Background images and preexisting text CANNOT be removed or edited.** ©Science Teaching Junkie, Inc. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com

GREAT FOR WARM-UPS, EXIT TICKETS, OR QUICK FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS! This product includes 32 different quick Science Starters to be used at the beginning or end of each class period. Each Science Starter student printable comes four to a page, saving you paper and ink. Each Starter also includes a teacher version that can be used to project the questions and/or answers for all students to see. The last page of both the student printable and the teacher version includes an extra page for you to add your own Science Starter (editable PDF form). To edit the text you type into a box, select the text, then press Ctrl +e. You should see a pop-up box appear that will allow you to change the font, font size, alignment, etc... Daily Science Starter TEKS Included: -6.5A: know that an element is a pure substance represented by chemical symbols -6.5C: differentiate between elements and compounds on the most basic level -6.5D: identify the formation of a new substance by using the evidence of a possible chemical change such as production of a gas, change in temperature, production of a precipitate, or color change -6.6A: compare metals, nonmetals, and metalloids using physical properties such as luster, conductivity, or malleability -6.6B: calculate density to identify an unknown substance -7.5A: recognize that radiant energy from the Sun is transformed into chemical energy through the process of photosynthesis -7.5C: diagram the flow of energy through living systems, including food chains, food webs, and energy pyramids -7.6A: identify that organic compounds contain carbon and other elements such as hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, nitrogen, or sulfur -7.6B: distinguish between physical and chemical changes in matter in the digestive system -8.5A: describe the structure of atoms, including the masses, electrical charges, and locations of protons and neutrons in the nucleus and electrons in the electron cloud -8.5B: identify that protons determine an element's identity and valence electrons determine its chemical properties, including reactivity -8.5C: interpret the arrangement of the Periodic Table, including groups and periods, to explain how properties are used to classify elements -8.5D: recognize that chemical formulas are used to identify substances and determine the number of atoms of each element in chemical formulas containing subscripts -8.5E: investigate how evidence of chemical reactions indicate that new substances with different properties are formed -8.5F: recognize whether a chemical equation containing coefficients is balanced or not and how that relates to the law of conservation of mass

This PDF includes 26 full pages of various flippables, graphic organizers and activities for an Interactive Science Notebook to be used during a unit on Life Science (9 pages are teacher answer keys). Most foldables and flippables are left blank on the inside. This will allow you to fully customize each one for whatever curriculum or grade you teach with the information you want your students to know. Some ideas would be to use definitions, pictures, and examples. These also make a great tool to use for science differentiation as well! Pages include information on: •Generic Admit and Exit Ticket •Structure and Function •Cells (Prokaryotic vs. Eukaryotic and Unicellular vs. Multicellular) •Cell theory (3 main ideas and important scientists - Hooke and Van Leeuwenhoek) •Compare and Contrast Plant and Animal Cells •Levels of Organization •Animal Cell to label (one version for middle school and one for upper grades) •Plant Cell to label (one version for middle school and one for upper grades) •Cell vocabulary (12 terms) •Cell Processes (diffusion, osmosis, facilitated diffusion, endo- and exocytosis, active transport) •Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis •Organic Molecules (nucleic acid, proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids) •Cell division (cut and paste mitosis sorting foldable activity) Looking for another life science topic? If you don’t see something here that you would like added, please send me a message and I will do my best to get it added and update this product. Updates are always FREE for buyers.

GREAT FOR WARM-UPS, EXIT TICKETS, OR QUICK FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS! This product includes 37 different quick Science Starters to be used at the beginning or end of each class period. Each Science Starter student printable comes four to a page, saving you paper and ink. Each Starter also includes a teacher version that can be used to project the questions and/or answers for all students to see. The last page of both the student printable and the teacher version includes an extra page for you to add your own Science Starter (editable PDF form). To edit the text you type into a box, select the text, then press Ctrl +e. You should see a pop-up box appear that will allow you to change the font, font size, alignment, etc... Daily Science Starter TEKS Included: 6.12 Organisms and environments. The student knows all organisms are classified into Domains and Kingdoms. Organisms within these taxonomic groups share similar characteristics which allow them to interact with the living and nonliving parts of their ecosystem. The student is expected to: (A) understand that all organisms are composed of one or more cells; (B) recognize that the presence of a nucleus determines whether a cell is prokaryotic or eukaryotic; (C) recognize that the broadest taxonomic classification of living organisms is divided into currently recognized Domains; (D) identify the basic characteristics of organisms, including prokaryotic or eukaryotic, unicellular or multicellular, autotrophic or heterotrophic, and mode of reproduction, that further classify them in the currently recognized Kingdoms; (E) describe biotic and abiotic parts of an ecosystem in which organisms interact; and (F) diagram the levels of organization within an ecosystem, including organism, population, community, and ecosystem. 7.10 Organisms and environments. The student knows that there is a relationship between organisms and the environment. The student is expected to: (A) observe and describe how different environments, including microhabitats in schoolyards and biomes, support different varieties of organisms; (B) describe how biodiversity contributes to the sustainability of an ecosystem; and (C) observe, record, and describe the role of ecological succession such as in a microhabitat of a garden with weeds. 7.11 Organisms and environments. The student knows that populations and species demonstrate variation and inherit many of their unique traits through gradual processes over many generations. The student is expected to: (A) examine organisms or their structures such as insects or leaves and use dichotomous keys for identification; (B) explain variation within a population or species by comparing external features, behaviors, or physiology of organisms that enhance their survival such as migration, hibernation, or storage of food in a bulb; and etc.......

This reciprocal learning activity gives students the opportunity to practice demonstrating and calculating how unbalanced forces cause the motion of an object to change, determining the net force in a force diagram, describing applications of Newton's three laws of motion, identifying the action and reaction force, and calculating force, mass, and acceleration. What is the Reciprocal Learning Strategy? Reciprocal Learning is a student-pairing strategy designed with the principles of effective coaching in mind. Each pair of students forms a learning partnership committed to helping each other reach a particular learning goal. Each student plays two roles: as the player, each student works to complete an activity or solve a problem while “thinking out loud”; as a coach, each student observes the player’s work and listens to the player’s thinking while providing praise, feedback, and clues that help the player complete the activity. Because of these dual-roles, the power of learning is effectively doubled. In this activity, each player is given 14 unique problems to solve as their coach guides, encourages, and provides support when needed. After these 14 problems are completed (and correct), the students switch roles and the second player solves 14 different problems as the other player coaches. To see a quick overview of this teaching strategy, ©2016 Science Teaching Junkie, Inc. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. This product should NOT be posted on any website. ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com