Multiple Choice Response Cards Freebie

Multiple choice is part of life nowadays.  We might as well spice it up.  Whether it's science, math, reading, or social studies, we can use these multiple choice response cards to see what our students know during review or after/during partner, group, or individual work!

In this freebie file, I included the traditional A,B,C, or D cards, but also created A/F, B/G, C/H, or D/J cards because sometimes that is how our questions are set up and 8 cards is just too many!  Keep the cards in a baggie or put them on a ring after laminating for easy use.

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Teach It: Ecosystems and Food Chains

Happy Sunday, y'all!  Today, I've got some of the best ideas and resources for teaching your students about ecosystems and food chains!

Technology

Games, Activities, and Information 

Bloggerland Ideas

4th Grade Frolics blogs about her students' Kagan group Food Chain.  This looks so fun and smart!

Third Grade Thinkers blogs about her students' Animal Project and Graphic Organizer.  This type of organizer will help kids out so much.  Her project is great.  Make sure you check it out.

Read Alouds

Science Penguin Resources

Click on the picture to see see the unit.

TpT Freebies

Habitats Snatch Game from One Room Schoolhouse

Food Chains and Food Webs PPT from Julie Rankin

Habitats Adventure Writing from 3rd Grade Gridiron

World Habitats Mobile from Fabulous 2&3

Vocabulary Activities for Ecosystems from Science Gal

Check out my other Teach It! posts and be sure to follow for more ideas!

A Witchy Sale

I'll get you...some pretty good DEALS!  (I love/hate commercials like that...okay, I ADORE them!  If the announcer is all "This store is a ghost town!  I need live bodies!", I giggle.  A lot.)

Come by my TpT Store or TN Store to take advantage of 10% off on October 27-28 only.

Food Chains and Ecosystems Task Cards

I've been loving task cards!  I've used some from Rachel Lynette, Ashleigh, 3rd Grade Gridiron, and Teaching with a Mountain View and want more, more, more!  I love how versatile they are and how you can change up your whole class or small group lessons easily by using these cards!

This is the third set of science task cards I have made and are available in my TpT Store.  The vocabulary associated with ecosystems and food chains can be difficult so these task cards will help reinforce those tough words!

Teaching Weather...

If there is any topic I have struggled with teaching in science, it's weather.  I've been asked a dozen times for a Science Weekly Five for weather and I put it off...for a long time.  But, I promised I would so I did a lot of research online, thought about the activities I've used in the past to teach weather, and put together a new Science Weekly Five for weather.  In these stations, students will work on reading weather maps and learn about the tools we use to get specific information on weather.

Find it at my TpT Store!

I'm also adding it to my Earth Science Bundle, which includes all of my Earth Science materials!

Using Task Cards and Energy Task Cards

Task cards are all over TpT and why wouldn't they be...they're great!  Lately, I've been using task cards for math and reading small group and centers.

Small Group
My kiddos that groan at a worksheet enjoy task cards.  Sometimes, they pass them around, which keeps them efficient and keeps those minds from wandering.  Other times, I make a big pile and have them each draw a card, read it and give me their answer to check, then they keep going through the pile.

Scavenger Hunt
"Hide" the cards in the room and have students find the cards and answer them solo or in pairs.

Around the Room
Tape the cards to the wall around the room (or outside!) and have students go around and answer.

In a Center
This one is kind of "duh".  I keep the cards in a baggie with recording sheets and directions in a folder and students can complete them.

Early Finishers
Every class has at least one...usually more!  Task cards keep them engaged while other students are still working.

Warm-Ups
Put a card on the document camera or print on a transparency to get students thinking!

3 Minutes Until Lunch
When you have beat the odds and have 2 or 3 spare minutes (!) you can use task cards to keep it educational!

How do you use task cards?  I'm always looking for new ideas!

People loved the Nature of Science Task Cards, so I made some new Energy Task Cards, available in my TpT Store.

Owls Science Unit! Yeah!

There are owl decorations everywhere...it would be fun to learn about them, too!  I created my first big unit and it's all about owls!  I love teaching my students about owls and doing owl pellet dissections, so I compiled all of my activities into this 40 page science unit.  Your students can learn about owls, food chains, adaptations, and life cycles.

Your class can make an adaptations bulletin board using the information they learned about how owls survive.

It also includes directions and student pages for an owl pellet dissection.  

There are a lot of student pages and activities included including vocabulary signs, posters, and chart, food chains printables, life cycle of owls, owl photo cards, and more!

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Electricity Vocabulary Freebie

Happy Sunday, y'all!  We will start our study of electricity in a couple of weeks, so I made a few vocabulary word wall signs and a student vocabulary page for the kiddos' science notebooks.  I hope you find it useful!

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Be sure to check out my posts on electricity!

Science Acrostics Freebie

After the popularity of my post on using acrostic poems to reinforce science vocabulary, I decided to create a little freebie with 12 ready-to-print acrostics and some tips and ideas for using acrostic poems in science.  

Ideas for Use:

~ Create a bulletin board with your acrostics.

~ Use along with a craft.

~ Use after a lab activity.

~ Use after reading the textbook or a read aloud trade book.

~ Use as partner work in a center.

~ Fold and include in science notebooks.

~ Use as review before a quiz.

Ideas for Success:

Step 1: When starting science acrostics with my class, I first model one and complete a simple one as a whole class on a topic everyone is familiar with.

Step 2: Split the class into groups and provide books or resources for them to complete an acrostic together.

Step 3: Have students complete one individually and share their ideas.  They (and you!) will be amazed at the creative ideas they come up with!

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Force and Motion Anchor Chart

Hey y'all!  I recently posted about making science anchor charts.  When I make science anchor charts, I have a basic poster that can be added to with little pieces that I make or print off or write on post-its.  While investigating force and motion, my students can reference this chart and it can serve as a visual review.  Post-its can include definitions, pictures, or both.  The cars are cut from notecards and you can use sticky tack to move the cars around.  They can start at the top when you first start the investigation. Then after learning what happens when the cars go down ramps with different heights or surfaces with different heights, you can move the cars to show what happened. 

I will be posting more science anchor charts here so check back!  :)