Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Monday, April 4, 2022
Digital Earth Day Activities
It's April! The weather is warming up here and flowers are starting to come up. April reminds me that Earth Day is around the corner. Caring for our Earth is so important and there are so many easy things we can do as citizens to help it. Educating others about the Earth is one way to help!
I am super excited to post my NEW Earth Day Digital Mini Escapes on The Importance of Plants and The History of Earth Day, as well as some other resources for your classroom.
Here are some great websites for your students to learn more about Earth Day what they can do to help the Earth every day! I love that these digital Earth Day resources are easy to use.
- 52 Ways to Invest in Our Earth: This website gives you tips about the small ways you can help our Earth.
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- Kids Discover: Has some great content about Conservation broken up into different areas such as, Landfills, Recycling, Habitat Reconstruction, and Sustainability. You may need to sign up for a free account to view some of the content (not affiliated or sponsored).
- Animal Conservation: Animal Conservation has Disney and National Geographic Explorers in these short one minute videos showing work being done with different animals.
- National Geographic Kids: I like this website because it breaks up the information into different areas. You may want to review each section before students read to make sure there is not TOO much text to be overwhelming.
Earth Day Mini Digital Escapes
What makes a digital escape mini? In a mini escape, there is a focus on a shorter piece of text and only ONE lock to open. In these Earth Day-focused escapes, there is a non-fiction text, a short video, interesting facts, and a puzzle to solve with ONE lock.
Benefits of a Mini Escape:
- NO Prep: Just give students the link and then let them get to work!
- Shorter text: Students can focus on one topic of information
- Less time: Time is something you need, so these escapes can easily be completed in a class period or short amount of time.
- ONE lock: Having only one puzzle to solve also takes less time to complete.
Earth Day Digital Escape Room
If you have a longer class time or have time to break up this Escape Room, this one covers a lot of different topics. The Earth Day Digital Escape Room has FIVE different sections and locks. The non-fiction text covers the topics of:
- History of Earth Day
- Plants
- Water
- Recycling
- Animals
Each section will have a reading comprehension non-fiction text, video, fun things to explore, and the clue to solve. I like to use this escape during Earth Day week and do a section per day. Doing one section per day allows me to have time for reflection and other things during our Language Arts or Science time.
Here is a great preview of the Earth Day Digital Escape Room.
I love some good FREEBIES, so I have made these writing prompts to go along with these activities. I like to use these during our writing station time, just use the prompt for journals, partner writing, or even assigning students to do the writing at home. It's up to you how you want to use these!
I do have these as an Easel Activity so they are ready to go for Digital Writing!
Last, I also like this craft activity because it reaches all age levels! You can have younger students draw pictures with a word or two and older students write more content under the flaps.
Remember Earth Day is Every Day, so help our planet stay healthy!
Friday, August 27, 2021
Freebie FRI-YAY!
Wow! It's been two weeks since school started for me and time is flying by. I know I need a break so wanted to give you a break by making a post of some of my favorite Freebies!
First I want to tell you there are more things here on Pinterest or TPT than there is on this blog. Here is my Pinterest Link (also at the top of this Blog Page) and also my TPT Store to check out some of my stuff. Scroll down to get to FREEBIES!
Ok now let's get to the Freebies!
NEW Writing Prompts! Did you miss these?! Back to School Character Trait Prompts!
Check out the Escape Room I made for Character Traits too!
This one also has an Escape Room! Check it out HERE!
Let me know which one of these you are enjoying! Don't forget to sign-up to receive my newsletter- there's a FREEBIE if you do! A pop up on this blog should lead you there!
Happy Freebie FRI-YAY!!
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Our Science Journals Are Rockin'!
I'm so excited about how well our science journals are coming along. We are finishing up learning about the moon. Here is our phases of the moon calendar that we have been keeping.
Now, we have begun to learn about the weather...It is so much fun! I am so glad to be teaching topics that are 2nd grade appropriate. Yesterday, we thought of words to describe the day. Some of our descriptions were: chilly, cloudy, cool, warm, warmish cold, sunny but cold, and 64 degrees...(hmmm...I think we might have a little weather person in our classroom!) We then talked about the kind of clothes we should wear for different types of weather. The kids then got a sticky note and drew a picture of them in clothes that they would wear in their favorite type of weather. We made a bar graph with our sticky notes...14 of us like hot weather best, 3 like cold weather best, and 6 of us like cool/warm weather best. We recorded our data on graph paper in our science journals.
Today, we used our sticky note picture to describe our clothing and why it fit the weather we chose as our favorite type.
And since it was such a nice, rainy day...and since it is right before fall break...we decided we would go outside for a minute to experience the weather. We wrote about what we saw, what we heard, what we felt, and what we smelled...and we didn't MELT! We came back and wrote about what we experienced in our journals.
He told me he was using big words to expand his vocabulary! What a hoot!
We are also doing a great job using our table of contents and glossary too!
I am so happy with the way our science is going and how excited the kids are about their science journals. If you would like to use these with your little scientists, you can check it out here! Just click the pic!
Thanks!
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Science & Investigation Notebook
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| A cover for student science journals |
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| examples of some of the organizers |
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| A table of contents to keep organized |
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| Vocabulary is an important component of elementary science. |
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