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The Nervous System
In this nervous system worksheet, students read a paragraph explaining how electrical signals travel throughout the nervous system. Students complete 2 short answer questions based on the reading and a labeled diagram.
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Everglades
In this wetlands instructional activity, students will research and answer 11 questions about the Florida Everglades. Students will create a report.
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Living things
In this living things worksheet, students color the pictures of living things. Students circle 3 pictures and have 5 to choose from.
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A Questionnaire: What Do You Like to Read?
What do your fifth graders know about types of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry? Find out as they fill out this questionnaire that requires them to list authors and texts that exemplify each genre. Not only will you be able to assess what...
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Magic Number Squares: School Related Vocabulary
What an innovative way to review Spanish vocabulary! Provided is a chart containing 16 Spanish vocabulary words; their English translations are listed at the bottom of the resource page. The learner matches each translation with its...
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Critical Thinking Problems
Young mathematicians practice their reasoning as well as adding and subtracting skills with this learning exercise that includes five simple word problems about birthdays. Learners are give pictures of birthday cakes and based on the...
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Penny Perfect Properties (Solid-Liquid Interations)
I can get more water to stay on a penny than you can! Collaborative pairs determine the volume of liquids that can be contained on the surface of copper pennies and plastic coins. The pairs analyze their results using graphs and go on to...
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Interest Survey
In this science and social studies worksheet, students complete a survey about their interests. Students check each subject that they are interested in, such as killer whales, Thomas Edison, and magnets.
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Mighty Minerals
In this mineral worksheet, students use encyclopedias, the Internet, science catalogs, or magazines to complete research questions about a mineral. Using their research information, they also create a cartoon for their mineral.
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Weather Widget
What's so difficult about predicting the weather? Scholars work collaboratively to build a device that models how meteorologists use computers to forecast weather. Team members collect and interpret data while working together to...
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Context Clues: The Meaning Is There!
Learning how to use context clues is helpful for both reading comprehension skills and to determine the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary words. As they read ten sentences with underlined words, learners choose the most...
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Backyard Weather Station
Challenge young meteorologists to apply their knowledge of weather to build their own weather stations. The resource provides the directions to build a weather station that contains a wind vane, barometer, thermometer, and rain...
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Breaking News English: Computers to Match Man by 2009
In this English instructional activity, students read "Computers to Match Man by 2009," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Green Space Mystery
In this environment activity, students read about how plants were removed from a hillside to allow for dirt bike use, and how they can help plants grow in the area again.
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Glasses
In this glasses worksheet, learners answer multiple choice questions about the science behind the eye and how glasses work. Students answer 4 questions.
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Motion on an Inclined Plane
In this physics learning exercise, students model the acceleration, velocity, and position of a cart moving up an inclined plane. They take data and determine a pattern in the data. Students also describe their findings and create an...
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Similar/Different: Nervous System
In this nervous system instructional activity, students identify 2 ways that a computer and brain, a telephone wire and the spinal cord and a camera and an eye are similar and different.
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Conversions
In this measurements worksheet, students review how metric conversions work and the prefixes associated with the conversions. Then students complete 27 problems, 1 short answer, 14 matching, and 7 fill in the blank questions.
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Organizing your Research
In this research worksheet, students read about how to organize themselves when doing research. They read about a student who had a topic to research but had difficulty coming up with books about his topic. Students suggest ways to...
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Agriculture Scavenger Hunt
In this science worksheet, learners find the words that are related to the finding of terms and information about agriculture for ten questions. The answers are on page 3.
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Earth's Layers Online Activity
In this Earth's layers worksheet, students click on the links in the questions about Earth's layers to find the answers to the questions and then come back and answer the questions. Students answer 12 questions total.
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Make a Crossword Puzzle - water vocabulary challenge
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, students follow directions and click on the links to make a crossword puzzle about water. Students follow 6 sets of directions.
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Weather Tracking
In this weather tracking worksheet, students track their local weather for 4 days. First, they track their local weather for a few days. Then, students record the forecast for a few days to see how close the actual weather conditions...
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Potato Lab
For this osmosis worksheet, students put a strip of potato in three different solutions and document the changes in the potato to determine is the solutions were hypotonic, hypertonic, or isotonic. This worksheet has 6 short answer...