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Spring Resource Roundup

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Are you looking for a spring resource?

Teaching in the spring can be challenging. Students have spring fever and are so distracted. You need some great spring teaching resources to engage your students. In this blog post, I am recommending some of my favorite spring resources.

 

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Spring Teaching Resources

Check out this blended learning resource from Mentoring in the Middle with Marion Piersol-Miller

The best of blended learning, this project uses math, research, social studies, and critical thinking. Students will love this project as they explore baseball teams and their history, as well as foods served at baseball stadiums. What a great way to keep your students engaged in the spring!

You can check out this resource here!

This NO PREP resource from Mrs Proton Priest

Are you looking for an activity about human impact on the environment and global climate change? These NO PREP human impact notes help middle school science students learn about how human activities impact the environment.

Included in this resource:

  • Human Activities and Global Climate Change Sketch Notes and Answers
  • Human Impact CER options, Answer Keys, and Rubric
  • Printable Human Activities Quiz and Answer Key
  • Links to a Quiz on Google forms, Google Slides, Digital CERs, and a Kahoot

You can check out this resource here!

These awesome daily agendas from Mrs. B's Brainy Bunch

These Digital Agenda Templates include 54 Shiplap and Chalkboard Daily Agenda Templates. The daily agenda slides help your administrators see exactly what they are observing during your evaluations – all year long! Project your EDITABLE Google slides templates on your whiteboard or smart board, or upload to the Google Classroom or your class website so your students and parents can view from home. 

You can get these awesome digital agenda templates here!

From Looking to the Past with Mary Jenkins, you don't want to miss this awesome unit!

Why did civilization develop near the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers? Travel the paths of the Huang He (Yellow) and Chang Jiang (Yangtze) Rivers on their amazing journey through China to discover how they created the Cradle of Chinese Civilization. Students and teachers will love the reading passages in this unit!

Here’s what’s included:

  • Yellow and Yangtze Rivers – 6-page Reading discussing the significance of the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers to Chinese history, including the impact of the Three Gorges Dam.
  • Differentiated Comprehension Checks – Graphic Organizer and Full-Sentence formats with Differentiation for Vocabulary.
  • 18–Slide PPT/Word Wall which includes all vocabulary/definitions along with maps and key visuals from
  • Readings for projection and class discussion.
  • Complete Answer Keys
  • Links to high quality YouTube and DVD videos to support this curriculum

You can check out this amazing resource here!

These worksheets from A Math Mission by Lisa Yeip

These worksheets are great for homework, math centers, stations, substitute plans or extra practice or review of multiplication of fractions with whole numbers, including visual models and word problems. There are 3 different mazes to choose from increasing in difficulty which make these great for differentiation. They’re super easy to just print and use! No prep!

Included in this resource:

  • Teacher instructions
  • 3 mazes (1 uses models, 1 is basic problems, 1 is word problems)
  • Choose to use the mazes with fractions in simplest form or not in simplest form, both ways are included
  • Answer key
  • Grid to record work

You can check out these great worksheets here!

And finally, my resource from Teaching Science With Lynda R Williams

This resource is a set of 21 food web worksheets. Each worksheet has a food web diagram. They cover a variety of habitats and food webs. Students will analyze the food web diagram and answer the questions. The focus is on the flow of energy in the food web and patterns of interactions between organisms. These food web pages are great for homework, independent work, review, bell work, and more. Can be used as science sub plans in middle school or upper elementary. Students will think critically while analyzing these food webs.

This resource includes:

  • Twenty-one food web diagram pages
  • Background information for the teacher
  • Answer keys
  • A variety of habitats

You can check out my food web worksheets here!

Thank you for checking out these spring teaching resources!

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As always, Lynda provides perfect alignment with the standards.

 
Age of the Earth and Geologic Time Scale NGSS MS ESS1-4

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Sharon M

As always, Lynda provides perfect alignment with the standards.   Age of the Earth and Geologic Time Scale NGSS MS ESS1-4
Thank you so much for creating this resource! It is such a fun and engaging activity for my students, especially during distance learning.

 
Honey Bee Digital Escape Distance Learning

Expedition Fourth

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Expedition Fourth

Thank you so much for creating this resource! It is such a fun and engaging activity for my students, especially during distance learning.   Honey Bee Digital Escape Distance Learning
My students loved this unit. I was able to present different elements of it throughout the month. It is hard to find interesting non-fictional, age-appropriate text for my students that they will enjoy. This was a great unit that aligned well for my students who have very different goals within the same group.

 
Compare and Contrast Two Texts on Reindeer

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Heidi J

My students loved this unit. I was able to present different elements of it throughout the month. It is hard to find interesting non-fictional, age-appropriate text for my students that they will enjoy. This was a great unit that aligned well for my students who have very different goals within the same group.   Compare and Contrast Two Texts on Reindeer
I am so impressed with this unit which manages to be distance learning and hands-on at the same time.  Really well thought out and engaging activities that allow students to practice each of the eight Science and Engineering Practices.  Really no prep for me!

 
Science and Engineering Practices Distance Education Unit

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2016-05-03T18:05:39-06:00

Tina S

I am so impressed with this unit which manages to be distance learning and hands-on at the same time.  Really well thought out and engaging activities that allow students to practice each of the eight Science and Engineering Practices.  Really no prep for me!   Science and Engineering Practices Distance Education Unit
The elephant article was excellent but I also thought the lab on dissecting a flower was broken down so easily, even telling me where to get inexpensive flowers!  This resource helped me teach this challenging standard in an engaging way.  Worth every penny!

 
Structure and Function NGSS 4-LS1-1 and 4-LS1-2

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2016-05-03T18:07:52-06:00

Richard S

The elephant article was excellent but I also thought the lab on dissecting a flower was broken down so easily, even telling me where to get inexpensive flowers!  This resource helped me teach this challenging standard in an engaging way.  Worth every penny!   Structure and Function NGSS 4-LS1-1 and 4-LS1-2
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