Need a little help covering the cycling of matter and flow of energy in your middle school science class?

This resource provides great background information and reading passages on the nitrogen cycle, the carbon cycle and the oxygen cycle. Students will make a model to show the cycling of matter. This resource is designed to address both MS NGSS and a similar Utah SEEd standard.

NGSS LS2-3 Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

Utah SEEd 6.4.3

Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

This is a close reading resource on the Nitrogen Cycle, the Carbon Cycle and the Oxygen Cycle.  Students will read passages and answer comprehension questions. This resource includes interactive notebook inserts and a quiz in the format of end-of-year testing.  

This unit will save you tons of prep time and will keep your 6th, 7th, or 8th grade science students engaged!

If you use the suggested schedule that I’ve included, this unit will cover six days worth of lessons.

This resource provides great background information and reading passages on the nitrogen cycle, the carbon cycle and the oxygen cycle.

This resource includes reading passages with comprehension questions, interactive notebook inserts, a quiz, and activities to create models to show the cycling of matter.

This is a close reading resource on the Nitrogen Cycle, the Carbon Cycle and the Oxygen Cycle. Students will read passages and answer comprehension questions.

This is a standards-aligned resource designed to cover NGSS LS2-3 and Utah SEEd 6.4.3.

NGSS LS2-3 Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

Utah SEEd 6.4.3 Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

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Just love the way the author really ties to the standard and has it so well planned out. This is a rich standards based unit. Just what I have come to expect from this author.

Tina S.

I used this resource in my Forestry class to introduce energy cycles. I utilized it as a jigsaw where one student became an “expert” on a specific cycle and then taught the peers in their group about that energy cycle. It was fabulous and was the perfect level for all of my students.

Hannah W.

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