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80+ Free Science Activities to Entertain your Kids in the following areas:
BIOLOGY ACTIVITIES
EARTH SCIENCE AND ASTRONOMY ACTIVITIES
CHEMISTRY ACTIVITIES
PHYSICS ACTIVITIES
FREE SCIENCE GAME PACKETS
SCIENCE ACTIVITY ROUND-UPS
SCIENCE PLUS
Quality classroom assessment produces accurate information that is used effectively to maximize student learning. Accurate information comes from:
• clearly defining learning targets for students,
• clearly understanding the purpose(s) for which information about student learning is being gathered,
• using a variety of assessment methods as well, and
• designing assessments that cover important aspects of a learning target.
This is a very basic slideshow outlining the Elements of Art.
Visual Art Classroom Posters
Investigate and manipulate elements of music and principles of composition including repetition and variety.
Choose an idea, a storyline, or an object that you want to represent. Create a presentation that shows repetition and variety in at least three different elements of music, and explain how it represents your idea/story/object. The explanation can be verbal, visual, or written. This can be worked on individually or collaboratively as a group.
Elkonin boxes, or “sound boxes”, provide a visual representation of how words are segmented into individual letter-sounds. They help students see how a word is divided into its sound parts. This will help students with the alphabetic principle, decoding, spelling, and phoneme awareness.
Class Playground printables are free to share, download, and print. Here you'll find printable Elkonin boxes (2-5 letters).
Be sure to check out the other resources offered by Class Playground while you're there.
Elkonin boxes help kids build phonological awareness by helping them divide words into their individual phonemes.
They help students build phonological awareness by segmenting words into sounds or syllables.
They teach students how to count the number of phonemes in the word (not always the number of letters).
They help students better understand the alphabetic principle in decoding and spelling.
Plan for the Unexpected and Help Relieve Stress
Having to cover a class last minute? Need an emergency sub plan? Check out these easy, FREE activities from the CharacterStrong curriculum! Amidst this crazy time, the resources will help you pre-plan for the uncertainty of an educator absence or staff shortage.
Includes resources for:
- Prek-2
- 3-5
- 6-8
- 9-12
Resources & documents
Emily Hanford discusses the broken education system and what the problem is. She also discusses what is being done to fix it. This is a link to her three-part documentary and what opened the door to the science of reading movement.
These Kindergarten to Grade 12 resources include lesson plans, activities, videos and inspiring speakers designed to decreases bullying, improve student attitudes and perceptions of people with disabilities, and result in student initiatives to improve classrooms, schools and communities. The resources support Saskatchewan curriculum including literacy, Social Studies, Science and Health and Career Education, as well as key skills such as leadership, teamwork, communication and inquiry. The RHP newsletter can be accessed in English or French.
"Here's a sketch video about self-assessment and peer assessment. It includes an explanation of specific strategies you might use."
This video connects PBL, assessment, feedback and metacognition and how it can play a role in your classroom and help develop empowered learners!
Empowering Young Learners in a Warming World 3-6 was developed to support teachers in approaching climate change in an age-appropriate way with young students. This resource is a comprehensive guide to climate change education with five different chapters. Each chapter below consists of 3-4 guided inquiries to help bring climate change learning to your young learners.
Each inquiry theme below will begin by presenting background information for teachers about the specific subject matter concerning climate change and give an overview of the associated risks and trends. This guide provides educators with a blend of quality content (resources, videos, books, websites and ideas) and exemplary pedagogy to guide students through an inquiry-driven approach to climate change learning.
STEM is everywhere—from businesses and organizations to the products that power our daily lives. That’s why it’s important to build the first fully STEM literate generation. Endeavor is a first-of-its-kind interactive program designed for middle school students built to empower learners with the knowledge they’ll need to build their career pathways. Learners engage with interactive content that reinforces key STEM skills while discovering some of the exciting STEM opportunities that await.
This Course Covers
The Careers Powering STEM Industries
Big Data and the Internet of Things
The Future of Manufacturing and Design
The Algorithms Behind Recommendations
In which John Green teaches you about the Bronze Age civilization in what we today call the middle east, and how the vast, interconnected civilization that encompassed Egypt, The Levant, and Mesopotamia came to an end. What's that you say? There was no such civilization? Your word against ours. John will argue that through a complex network of trade and alliances, there was a loosely confederated and relatively continuous civilization in the region. Why it all fell apart was a mystery. Was it the invasion of the Sea People? An earthquake storm? Or just a general collapse, to which complex systems are prone? We'll look into a few of these possibilities. As usual with Crash Course, we may not come up with a definitive answer, but it sure is a lot of fun to think about.
Throughout the year I have used this as a review for the end of each unit. I create five or six critical thinking questions that apply what we have been learning about. I print them on color paper and spread them around the room. I pair the students up, and have they move about the room solving the questions. I only have ten students in my class so I’m fortunate to have only five pairs at a time. I usually pair them up as sort of a strong and weak combination. This is an attempt to have them collaborate on the problems while using critical thinking.
This unit consists of five lessons and is recommended for grades 5-8. The five lessons consist of:The Cat's Out of the Bag - students investigate the morphology, physical characteristics, and physical adaptations of four cat speciesMountain Mixer - students participate in a role playing, systems thinking activity to understand the relationships among species before constructing a food webIt Takes All Kinds of People - students participate in a town hall meeting in an effort to reach a concensus regarding conservation plansWhat's the Plan? - students explore the emerging issues through simulation activitiesTaking Action - students are led through a service-learning project of their choosing to raise money to donate*Planet earth videos referenced in the activities are available on YouTube.
This slideshow offers some great engineering activities that can be done at home using household items. Links included.