There is a printable version, editable PowerPoint version and a Digital Google Slides version that will help you save on time and paper!

The 9 Winter and Christmas Science Stations included are:

1. Ice Insulation – Students will explore how quickly ice melts using various insulators.

2. Candy Cane Reactions – Students will explore the dissolving rate of candy canes with different temperatures of water.

3. Holiday Light Interactions – Students will explore refraction and reflection using holiday lights, mirrors and water.

4. Christmas Tree Life Cycle – Students will discuss how spruce trees contribute to ecology throughout their life cycle.

5. Reindeer Adaptations – Students will explain adaptations that reindeers have.

6. Tundra Food Web – Students will organize a tundra food web and identify producers and consumers.

7. Winter Weather – Students will observe a weather map and answer questions about winter weather.

8. Holiday Treat Layers of Earth – Students will identify types of holiday foods that could be used to represent different layers of Earth.

9. Snow in the Water Cycle – Students will answer questions about snow within the water cycle.

*Each station should take students between 8-10 minutes to complete.*

The RESOURCE includes:

• Digital Google Slides link to perform stations online.
• Printable version of stations in color and black/white
• Editable PowerPoint version of stations.

Content covered:

Heat transfer and insulation

Interactions of matter and heat induced changes

Light waves (reflection and refraction)

Life cycles, ecology

Weather and Earth’s systems

Food webs, producers, consumers

Weather and Earth’s Systems

Earth’s layers

The water cycle

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The PowerPoint Lesson and guided notes are broken up into 4 different parts:

Engage: This is a question that is used to get students thinking and engaged before the lesson begins. They answer the question in their guided notes.
Checkpoints: These are questions throughout the lesson that assess what students are learning as they go through. The student’s answer these questions in their guided notes. Answer key is included in the PowerPoint.
↵ Bringing it Back: This final question wraps up the lesson by tying student’s new knowledge with the engagement piece.

✐Summarize! Students can summarize their learning by writing, drawing or both.

All links for the Google Slides and Google Forms are included in the resource.

The PowerPoint is editable. The titles, images and clip art are not editable.

Guided Notes:

The Cornell style guided notes follow along with the lesson. This allows the students to go through the lesson with the class as the teacher goes through the slides or they can fill it out independently if they are using the PowerPoint digitally. All the text aside from the title and cover page are editable.

Includes two cover pages for interactive notebook booklets. One in color and one in black and white.

The Google Slides version of the notes includes text boxes for students to add in their own text. A Google Slides “toolbox” is included for students to reference to for changing fonts, adding images, drawings, etc. There are even drag and drop highlighter marks for students to make their notes more interactive.

*There is an included answer key for the guided notes to be easily printed and added to a teacher’s copy of an interactive science notebook.

Assessment:

The assessment contains 20 questions with a mix of vocabulary matching, short answer and multiple choice questions. An answer key is included. Everything is editable except for the title and any included clip art lip art.

A Google Slides version is included as well as a self-grading Google Forms version. The links are included in the resource.

Content covered:

Producers

Decomposers

Consumers

Food web

Energy Pyramid

Food chain

10% Rule

Carbon Cycle

*Each resource is in PDF and PowerPoint format for easy editing.

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There is a printable version, editable PowerPoint version and a Digital Google Slides version that will help you save on time and paper for EACH topic.

The 7 types of stations include:

1. Discover – Discover Stations require students to research how topics relate to real-world situations.

2. Observe – Observe stations include demonstrations or mini experiments for students to observe phenomena.

3. Experiment – Experiment stations involve mini experiments for students to complete and answer questions based on.

4. Write – The Write station requires students to write short responses to questions relating to the topic.

5. Create – Create stations typically require students to draw something like a comic, infographic, prototype or diagram.

6. Sort – Sort stations requires students to sort and match either scenarios or parts of diagrams.

7. Quiz – The Quiz station includes a short assessment for students to complete.

*Each station should take students between 8-10 minutes to complete.*

The RESOURCE includes:

• Digital Google Slides link to perform stations online.
• Printable version of stations in color and black/white
• Editable PowerPoint version of stations.

Topics Covered:

• •Atoms & The Atomic Theory
• •Periodic Table of Elements
• •Pure Substances & Mixtures
• •Changes in States of Matter
• •Mass, Volume & Density
• •Properties of Waves
• •Interactions of Light Waves
• •Electromagnetic Spectrum
• •Newton’s Laws of Motion
• •Energy Transformations
• •Thermal Energy & Heat

*Please note that the instructions for stations are editable but clip art, special fonts and formatting are not.*

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The 7 types of stations include:

1. Discover – Students will research real-world application of waves in regards to fermentation with bread making and chemical weathering.

2. Observe – Students will measure the mass before and after cracking/mixing glow sticks to understand conservation of mass.

3. Experiment – Students will perform a mini experiment using vinegar, baking soda and a balloon to observe conservation of mass.

4. Write – Students will explain their answers in 2-3 sentences.

5. Create – Students will create a comic strip that demonstrates a chemical change.

6. Sort – Students will sort scenarios to match whether they represent physical or chemical changes.

7. Quiz – Students will answer a mix of 8 true/false, multiple choice and short answer questions.

*Each station should take students between 8-10 minutes to complete.*

The RESOURCE includes:

• Digital Google Slides link to perform stations online.
• Printable version of stations in color and black/white
• Editable PowerPoint version of stations.

Content covered:

Physical changes

Chemical Changes

Law of Conservation of Mass

*Please note that the instructions for stations are editable but clip art, special fonts and formatting are not.*

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The 7 types of stations include:

1. Discover – Students will research information about elements, compounds and mixtures in Earth’s spheres. They will also research chromatography and distillation.

2. Observe – Students will create 2 mixtures (lemonade powder and water as well as sand and salt). They will identify them as homogeneous or heterogeneous mixtures and explain.

3. Experiment – Students will perform a mini experiment where they mix sand with iron fillings and then separate it with a magnet. They will also create a simple filter with a water bottle, coffee filter and muddy water.

4. Write – Students will explain their answers in 2-3 sentences.

5. Create – Students will create a comic strip that represents the difference between elements, compounds and mixtures.

6. Sort – Students will sort building bricks to create an example of an element, compound and a mixture. Then, they will draw their model.

7. Quiz – Students will answer a mix of 8 true/false, multiple choice and short answer questions.

*Each station should take students between 8-10 minutes to complete.*

The RESOURCE includes:

• Digital Google Slides link to perform stations online.
• Printable version of stations in color and black/white
• Editable PowerPoint version of stations.

Content covered:

Pure substances

Elements

Compounds

Mixtures (heterogeneous, homogeneous)

*Please note that the instructions for stations are editable but clip art, special fonts and formatting are not.*

Check out these Changes in States of Matter Stations – Editable and Google Slides if you’re looking for stations for your matter unit!

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These exit tickets are colorful, visually appealing and come 4 to a page do they’re easy to cut out and give to students at the end of a lesson. They can even be glued into interactive science notebooks!

What is included?

• 32 Editable Exit Tickets in PPT format & PDF for printing
• Editable Google Slides version for online learning (link included in the resource)
• Answer Key
• Teacher notes

Content covered:

Atomic structure

Homogenous and Heterogenous mixtures

Compounds and Elements

Periodic Table

Properties of Matter (Mass, Volume, Density, Malleability, Reactivity, Luster, Solubility,

Law of Conservation of Mass

Evidence of chemical reactions

Endothermic and exothermic reactions

Kinetic energy of molecules during state change

Calculating density

Reactants and products in chemical reactions

Metals, nonmetals, metalloids

Mass vs weight

*Please note that the questions are editable but special fonts, clip art and some formatting are not.*

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This resource contains a PowerPoint elements compounds mixtures lesson with Cornell notes style guided notes and an assessment that all tie together. This resource is excellent for traditional and digital interactive science notebooks. The PowerPoint and guided notes are also included in Google Slides which make this a perfect digital resource for online learning! There is also a self-grading Google Forms assessment. This is a no prep resource!

The PowerPoint Lesson and guided notes are broken up into 4 different parts:
Engage: This is a question that is used to get students thinking and engaged before the lesson begins. They answer the question in their guided notes.
Checkpoints: These are questions throughout the lesson that assess what students are learning as they go through. The student’s answer these questions in their guided notes. Answer key is included in the PowerPoint.
↵ Bringing it Back: This final question wraps up the lesson by tying student’s new knowledge with the engagement piece.

✐Summarize! Students can summarize their learning by writing, drawing or both.

All links for the Google Slides and Google Forms are included in the resource.

The PowerPoint is editable. The titles, images and clip art are not editable.

Guided Notes:
The Cornell style guided notes follow along with the lesson. This allows the students to go through the lesson with the class as the teacher goes through the slides or they can fill it out independently if they are using the PowerPoint digitally. All the text aside from the title and cover page are editable.

Includes two cover pages for interactive notebook booklets. One in color and one in black and white.

The Google Slides version of the notes includes text boxes for students to add in their own text. A Google Slides “toolbox” is included for students to reference to for changing fonts, adding images, drawings, etc. There are even drag and drop highlighter marks for students to make their notes more interactive.

*There is an included answer key for the guided notes to be easily printed and added to a teacher’s copy of an interactive science notebook.

Assessment:
The assessment contains 20 questions with a mix of vocabulary matching, short answer and multiple choice questions. An answer key is included. Everything is editable except for the title and any included clip art lip art.

A Google Slides version is included as well as a self-grading Google Forms version. The links are included in the resource.

Content covered:

Pure substances

Elements

Compounds

Mixtures (heterogeneous, homogeneous)

Solutions, colloids and suspensions

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The link for Google Forms is available in the resource as well as an answer key.

Task cards can be printed 1 per page or 4 per page. The answer sheet can be printed 1 per page or 2 per page to save paper. I typically print 2 per page so they’re perfect for gluing into interactive science notebooks.

The text is editable in each task card but the titles and clip art are not editable. The task cards are images in google forms so they are not editable if you are using the digital option.

Content covered:
Pure substances
Elements
Compounds
Mixtures (heterogeneous, homogeneous)
Solutions, colloids and suspensions

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Each question is in short or long response format so students explain the topic and their understanding.

There are 3 ways to use these editable warm ups:

1. Use them with slides as students fill out the answers on their own personal answer sheet.

2. Use the answer sheets with the questions on them without the slides. I personally have my students hole punch them each week to add into a pronged folder or binder to use as a study tool. You can even print them at 90% so students can glue them into their interactive science notebooks!

3. Use them for online learning or digitally with the Google Slides version. This is also perfect for digital interactive student notebooks.

A PowerPoint version is included for editing and a PDF version is included for easy printing.

*The questions are editable but the fonts and clip art are not due to copyright.*

Included in this resource:
2 weeks of warm ups (10 total).
3 editable templates to fit the needs of you and your students
PowerPoint Slides with the questions to project for your students
Answer key

Content covered:
Pure substances
Elements
Compounds
Mixtures (heterogeneous, homogeneous)
Solutions, colloids and suspensions

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Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, write a story and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop, fill in the blank or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides and PDF are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:
Pure substances
Elements
Compounds
Mixtures (heterogeneous, homogeneous)
Solutions, colloids and suspensions

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