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I have been a science teacher in an urban School District for 7 years. During this time I have had the opportunity to experience teaching within classrooms at all levels of performance abilities, including full inclusion, and highly advanced classes. I have taught middle school science (both the 7th and 8th grade) and at the high school level (9th to 12th grade science) including Anatomy, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, and Physical Science I have a PA Professional Certi

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I have been a science teacher in an urban School District for 7 years. During this time I have had the opportunity to experience teaching within classrooms at all levels of performance abilities, including full inclusion, and highly advanced classes. I have taught middle school science (both the 7th and 8th grade) and at the high school level (9th to 12th grade science) including Anatomy, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, and Physical Science I have a PA Professional Certi
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Weather: This weather word search also doubles as a coloring book!. The advantage to this is that students can actually see the concept behind the term they are attempting to find. The solution to the puzzle is included. Weather Word Search/ Coloring Book Vocabulary Terms: ♦ Anemometer ♦ Barometer ♦ Condensation ♦ Dew ♦ Evaporation ♦ Hail ♦ Hurricane ♦ Jet Stream ♦ Lightning ♦ Radar ♦ Rain ♦ Rain Gauge ♦ Rainbow ♦ Thermometer ♦ Thunderstorm ♦ Tornado ♦ Warm Front ♦ Weather Map ♦ Wind Thank you to Truthme who provided some images
Rock Cycle Word Search/ Coloring Book
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Rock Cycle Word Search/ Coloring Book

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Rock Cycle: This word search also doubles as a coloring book!. The advantage to this is that students can actually see the concept behind the term they are attempting to find. The solution to the puzzle is included. Rock Cycle Word Search/ Coloring Book Vocabulary Terms: ♦ Igneous Rock ♦ Lava ♦ Metamorphic Rock ♦ Mineral ♦ Sediment ♦ Sedimentary Rock ♦ Sediment Layers ♦ Subduction Zone ♦ Volcanic Fissure ♦ Volcano ♦ Water Erosion ♦ Wind Erosion Thank you to Monster Wrangler Mike, Teaching in the Tongass and The Painted Crow who provided the images
Rainforest Word Search/ Coloring Book
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Rainforest Word Search/ Coloring Book

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Rainforest: This rainforest animals word search also doubles as a coloring book!. The solution to the puzzle is included. Rainforest Animals Included: ♦ Anaconda ♦ Butterfly ♦ Caterpillar ♦ Chameleon ♦ Crocodile ♦ Dragonfly ♦ Frog ♦ Macaw ♦ Monkey ♦ Piranha ♦ Sloth ♦ Toucan
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Scientific Method: These scientific method skittles labs are a fun way to have students learn about the scientific method. Scientific Method Skittles Lab contents: 1. Skittle Colors Lab: A. Question: Which color skittle is most common in a package of skittles? B. Developing a hypothesis C. Procedure D. Data Tables E. Graphing F. Post-Lab Questions 2. Skittles Mass and Amount Lab A. Question: How accurate are Skittles packages to one another in terms of mass and total number of Skittles? B. Developing a hypothesis C. Procedure D. Data and Analysis E. Post-Lab Questions
Water Cycle
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Water Cycle: This water cycle crossword puzzle is a fun vocabulary review on the water cycle for students and contains the following: 1. Blank Version without word bank 2. Blank Version with word bank 3. Answer Key 4. Vocabulary Words: ♦ Aquifer ♦ Atmosphere ♦ Cloud ♦ Condensation ♦ Evaporation ♦ Groundwater ♦ Ocean ♦ Precipitation ♦ Runoff ♦ Sun ♦ Surface Water ♦ Transpiration ♦ Water Cycle ♦ Water Vapor
Animal Adaptations Lapbook
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Animal Adaptations Lapbook

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Animal Adaptations: This animal adaptations lapbook is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research different facts about each adaptation and write what they find on the provided blank lines. This lapbook also doubles as a coloring book, as students may color in the picture of each animal adaptation. A completed lapbook with answers is included. Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page) Animal Adaptations Lapbook Contents: 1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the animal adaptations lapbook 2. Animal Adaptations with completed facts: Hibernation, Migration, Predation defense, Estivation, Camouflage, Migration, Echolocation & ultrasound, Food Storage 3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each adaptation 4. Check out the preview for more details ***** Do a search for my other Lapbooks in the folllowing topics: ***** Space Science: ♦ The Solar System: The Planets ♦ Eclipses ♦ Comets, Meteors, Meteoroids, Meteorites and Asteroids Earth Science: ♦ Clouds ♦ Severe Weather ♦ Layers of the Atmosphere ♦ Volcanoes ♦ Fossils ♦ Plate Tectonics ♦ Natural Resources ♦ Layers of the Earth ♦ Rock Cycle ♦ Water Cycle ♦ Rocks and Minerals ♦ Landforms Life Science: ♦ Biomes ♦ Life Cycle of Plants ♦ Human Body Systems ♦ Habitats ♦ Butterfly Life Cycle ♦ Frog Life Cycle ♦ Dinosaurs ♦ Animal Adaptations ♦ Six Kingdoms of Life ♦ Pumpkin Life Cycle ♦ Cell Structures Physical Science: ♦ The Scientific Method ♦ Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures ♦ Forms of Energy ♦ Simple Machines
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Volcanoes: This volcanoes and lava lapbook is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research different facts about each volcano and lava type and write what they find on the provided blank lines. One version of this lapbook also doubles as a coloring book, as students may color in the picture of each type of volcano. A completed lapbook with answers is included. Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page) Volcanoes Lapbook Contents: 1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook 2. Volcanoes vocabulary with completed facts: Shield volcano, Cinder Cone volcano, Composite/ Stratovolcano, Pahoehoe lava, Aa lava, Blocky lava, Pillow lava 3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each type of volcano and lava type 4. Check out the preview for more details ***** Do a search for my other Lapbooks in the folllowing topics: ***** Space Science: ♦ The Solar System: The Planets ♦ Eclipses ♦ Comets, Meteors, Meteoroids, Meteorites and Asteroids Earth Science: ♦ Clouds ♦ Severe Weather ♦ Layers of the Atmosphere ♦ Volcanoes ♦ Fossils ♦ Plate Tectonics ♦ Natural Resources ♦ Layers of the Earth ♦ Rock Cycle ♦ Water Cycle ♦ Rocks and Minerals ♦ Landforms Life Science: ♦ Biomes ♦ Life Cycle of Plants ♦ Human Body Systems ♦ Habitats ♦ Butterfly Life Cycle ♦ Frog Life Cycle ♦ Dinosaurs ♦ Animal Adaptations ♦ Six Kingdoms of Life ♦ Pumpkin Life Cycle ♦ Cell Structures Physical Science: ♦ The Scientific Method ♦ Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures ♦ Forms of Energy ♦ Simple Machines
Layers of the Atmosphere Lapbook
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Layers of the Atmosphere Lapbook

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Layers of the Atmosphere Lapbook: This lapbook is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research different facts about each layer of the atmosphere and write what they find on the provided blank lines. This lapbook also doubles as a coloring book, as students may color in the picture of each object found in each layer. A completed lapbook with answers is included. Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page) This layers of the atmosphere lapbook contains the following: 1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook 2. Completed facts for each layer: Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere 3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each layer of the atmosphere 4. Check out the preview for more details ***** Do a search for my other Lapbooks in the folllowing topics: ***** Space Science: ♦ The Solar System: The Planets ♦ Eclipses ♦ Comets, Meteors, Meteoroids, Meteorites and Asteroids Earth Science: ♦ Clouds ♦ Severe Weather ♦ Layers of the Atmosphere ♦ Volcanoes ♦ Fossils ♦ Plate Tectonics ♦ Natural Resources ♦ Layers of the Earth ♦ Rock Cycle ♦ Water Cycle ♦ Rocks and Minerals ♦ Landforms Life Science: ♦ Biomes ♦ Life Cycle of Plants ♦ Human Body Systems ♦ Habitats ♦ Butterfly Life Cycle ♦ Frog Life Cycle ♦ Dinosaurs ♦ Animal Adaptations ♦ Six Kingdoms of Life ♦ Pumpkin Life Cycle ♦ Cell Structures Physical Science: ♦ The Scientific Method ♦ Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures ♦ Forms of Energy ♦ Simple Machines
Plant Life Cycle Lapbook
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Plant Life Cycle Lapbook

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Plants (life cycle of plants) Lapbook: This plants lapbook is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research different facts about the life cycle of plants and write what they find on the provided blank lines. Plants lapbook also doubles as a coloring book, as students may color in each stage of the plant life cycle. A completed lapbook with answers is included. Plants lapbook also fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page) Plants Lapbook Contents: 1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook 2. Plants life cycle stage: Completed Facts: Seed, Germination, Seedling, Plant, Flowers/ Pollination 3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each plant life cycle stage 4. Check out the preview for more details Thank you to Scrappin Doodles who provided some images ***** Do a search for my other Lapbooks in the folllowing topics: ***** Space Science: ♦ The Solar System: The Planets ♦ Eclipses ♦ Comets, Meteors, Meteoroids, Meteorites and Asteroids Earth Science: ♦ Clouds ♦ Severe Weather ♦ Layers of the Atmosphere ♦ Volcanoes ♦ Fossils ♦ Plate Tectonics ♦ Natural Resources ♦ Layers of the Earth ♦ Rock Cycle ♦ Water Cycle ♦ Rocks and Minerals ♦ Landforms Life Science: ♦ Biomes ♦ Life Cycle of Plants ♦ Human Body Systems ♦ Habitats ♦ Butterfly Life Cycle ♦ Frog Life Cycle ♦ Dinosaurs ♦ Animal Adaptations ♦ Six Kingdoms of Life ♦ Pumpkin Life Cycle ♦ Cell Structures Physical Science: ♦ The Scientific Method ♦ Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures ♦ Forms of Energy ♦ Simple Machines
Frog Life Cycle Lapbook
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Frog Life Cycle Lapbook

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Frog Life Cycle Lapbook: is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research different facts about the life cycle of frogs and write what they find on the provided blank lines. This lapbook also doubles as a coloring book, as students may color in each stage of the frog life cycle. A completed lapbook with answers is included. Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page) This frog life cycle lapbook contains the following: 1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook 2. Completed facts for each life cycle stage: Eggs, Tadpole, Tadpole with legs, Froglet, Frog 3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each frog life cycle stage 4. Check out the preview for more details ***** Do a search for my other Lapbooks in the folllowing topics: ***** Space Science: ♦ The Solar System: The Planets ♦ Eclipses ♦ Comets, Meteors, Meteoroids, Meteorites and Asteroids Earth Science: ♦ Clouds ♦ Severe Weather ♦ Layers of the Atmosphere ♦ Volcanoes ♦ Fossils ♦ Plate Tectonics ♦ Natural Resources ♦ Layers of the Earth ♦ Rock Cycle ♦ Water Cycle ♦ Rocks and Minerals ♦ Landforms Life Science: ♦ Biomes ♦ Life Cycle of Plants ♦ Human Body Systems ♦ Habitats ♦ Butterfly Life Cycle ♦ Frog Life Cycle ♦ Dinosaurs ♦ Animal Adaptations ♦ Six Kingdoms of Life ♦ Pumpkin Life Cycle ♦ Cell Structures Physical Science: ♦ The Scientific Method ♦ Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures ♦ Forms of Energy ♦ Simple Machines
Butterfly Life Cycle Lapbook
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Butterfly Life Cycle Lapbook

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Butterfly Life Cycle Lapbook: is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research different facts about the life cycle of butterflies and write what they find on the provided blank lines. This lapbook also doubles as a coloring book, as students may color in each stage of the butterfly life cycle. A completed lapbook with answers is included. Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page) This butterfly life cycle lapbook contains the following: 1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook 2. Completed facts for each life cycle stage: Eggs, Caterpillar, Pupa, Emerging Butterfly, Adult Butterfly 3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each butterfly life cycle stage 4. Check out the preview for more details Thank you to Kari Bolt Clip Art who provided the images ***** Do a search for my other Lapbooks in the folllowing topics: ***** Space Science: ♦ The Solar System: The Planets ♦ Eclipses ♦ Comets, Meteors, Meteoroids, Meteorites and Asteroids Earth Science: ♦ Clouds ♦ Severe Weather ♦ Layers of the Atmosphere ♦ Volcanoes ♦ Fossils ♦ Plate Tectonics ♦ Natural Resources ♦ Layers of the Earth ♦ Rock Cycle ♦ Water Cycle ♦ Rocks and Minerals ♦ Landforms Life Science: ♦ Biomes ♦ Life Cycle of Plants ♦ Human Body Systems ♦ Habitats ♦ Butterfly Life Cycle ♦ Frog Life Cycle ♦ Dinosaurs ♦ Animal Adaptations ♦ Six Kingdoms of Life ♦ Pumpkin Life Cycle ♦ Cell Structures Physical Science: ♦ The Scientific Method ♦ Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures ♦ Forms of Energy ♦ Simple Machines
Scientific Method
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Scientific Method

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Scientific Method: This bundle contains all of my activities on the scientific method. All these lessons sell individually for $24.50; as a bundle they are 35% off, for $14.95! 1. Scientific Method Fold and Learn: A. Fold and learn scientific method cover in color B. Fold and learn scientific method in black and white C. Blank version for students to explain each stage of the scientific method OR use with an actual experiment (example experiment included) D. Along with an experiment, students describe each stage of the scientific method. E. Example experiment: How does salt affect the boiling point of water. 2. Scientific Method Cootie Catchers: Vocabulary: Observation, Question, Purpose, Hypothesis, Materials, Procedure, Data, Conclusion 3. Task Cards: A. 20 Task Cards (Can be put onto a key chain) B. Student Answer Pages C. Teacher Answer Keys 4. Word Search: Vocabulary: Bar Graph, Classification, Conclusion, Data, Experiment, Hypothesis, Line Graph, Materials, Measure, Observation, Pie Chart, Prediction, Procedure, Question, Research, Variables 5. Scientific Method Skittles Labs: A. Skittle Colors Lab: A. Question: Which color skittle is most common in a package of skittles? B. Developing a hypothesis C. Procedure D. Data Tables E. Graphing F. Post-Lab Questions B. Skittles Mass and Amount Lab A. Question: How accurate are Skittles packages to one another in terms of mass and total number of Skittles? B. Developing a hypothesis C. Procedure D. Data and Analysis E. Post-Lab Questions 6. Scientific Method Gummy Bears Lab: A. Question: What will happen to gummy bears if they are placed into different solutions: Water, Vinegar, Water & Baking soda, Water & Salt? B. Developing a hypothesis C. Procedure D. Data Tables E. Graphing F. Post-Lab Questions 7. Scientific Method Lapbook AND Accordion Booklet Completed facts for each term: Question/ Problem/ Purpose, Hypothesis, Materials, Procedure, Data/ Results, Conclusion
Fossils Cootie Catchers
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Fossils Cootie Catchers

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Fossils: These fossils cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about terms related to fossils. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. Fossils Vocabulary Terms: ♦ Fossil, Body fossil, Trace fossil, Cast fossil, Mold fossil, Resin fossil/ amber, Paleontologist, Fossil record These fossils cootie catchers come in color and black & white, and also come with a version where students can add their own definitions. All of this totals 4 pages which has students identifying vocabulary terms about fossils (with pictures) based from the definition. ***** Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers in the folllowing topics: ***** Space Science: ♦ Comets, Meteors, & Asteroids ♦ Constellations ♦ Eclipses ♦ Life Cycles of Stars ♦ Moon Phases ♦ Planets ♦ Solar System and Space ♦ Clouds ♦ Earthquakes & Plate Tectonics ♦ Erosion ♦ Fossils ♦ Layers of the Atmosphere ♦ Layers of the Earth ♦ Landforms ♦ Natural Disasters ♦ Natural Resources ♦ Rock Cycle ♦ Rocks and Minerals ♦ Seasons ♦ Soil ♦ Volcanoes ♦ Water Cycle ♦ Weather Life Science: ♦ Animal Adaptations ♦ Biomes ♦ Cell Organelles ♦ Classification and Taxonomy ♦ Ecosystems ♦ Evolution ♦ Food Web ♦ Habitats ♦ Human Body ♦ Life Cycles ♦ Photosynthesis ♦ Plants ♦ Six Kingdoms of Life Physical Science: ♦ Atomic Structure ♦ Circuits ♦ Element Compound and Mixture ♦ Force and Motion ♦ Forms of Energy ♦ Light Energy ♦ Magnets ♦ Reflection and Refraction ♦ Scientific Method ♦ Simple Machines ♦ Sound Energy ♦ States of Matter ♦ Thermal Energy ♦ Waves
Clouds Cootie Catchers
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Clouds Cootie Catchers

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Clouds: These clouds cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the different types of clouds. These cootie catchers contain the following cloud types: ♦ Cumulus, Stratocumulus, Stratus, Nimbostratus, Cirrostratus, Cirrus, Cumulonimbus, Fog These Clouds cootie catchers come in color and black & white, and also come with a version where students can add their own definitions. All of this totals 6 pages which has students identifying vocabulary terms about Photosynthesis (with pictures) based from the definition. ***** Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers in the folllowing topics: ***** Space Science: ♦ Comets, Meteors, & Asteroids ♦ Constellations ♦ Eclipses ♦ Life Cycles of Stars ♦ Moon Phases ♦ Planets ♦ Solar System and Space ♦ Clouds ♦ Earthquakes & Plate Tectonics ♦ Erosion ♦ Fossils ♦ Layers of the Atmosphere ♦ Layers of the Earth ♦ Landforms ♦ Natural Disasters ♦ Natural Resources ♦ Rock Cycle ♦ Rocks and Minerals ♦ Seasons ♦ Soil ♦ Volcanoes ♦ Water Cycle ♦ Weather Life Science: ♦ Animal Adaptations ♦ Biomes ♦ Cell Organelles ♦ Classification and Taxonomy ♦ Ecosystems ♦ Evolution ♦ Food Web ♦ Habitats ♦ Human Body ♦ Life Cycles ♦ Photosynthesis ♦ Plants ♦ Six Kingdoms of Life Physical Science: ♦ Atomic Structure ♦ Circuits ♦ Element Compound and Mixture ♦ Force and Motion ♦ Forms of Energy ♦ Light Energy ♦ Magnets ♦ Reflection and Refraction ♦ Scientific Method ♦ Simple Machines ♦ Sound Energy ♦ States of Matter ♦ Thermal Energy ♦ Waves
Eastern Europe Task Cards
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Eastern Europe Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to practice identifying the different countries of Eastern Europe. This product includes the following 20 countries: Albania Belarus Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Estonia Hungary Latvia Lithuania Macedonia Moldova Montenegro Poland Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Ukraine
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Science: This is a bundle of all my earth science Accordion Booklets AND Lapbooks for interactive notebooks. Assembly instructions (with pictures) are Included. Important: All these booklets sell for $80; as a bundle they are 50% off, for $39.95! 1. This product contains the following 12 accordion notebooks: * Clouds * Severe Weather * Layers of the Atmosphere * Volcanoes * Fossils * Plate Tectonics * Natural Resources * Layers of the Earth * Rock Cycle * Water Cycle * Rocks and Minerals * Landforms 2. This product ALSO contains the following 12 Lapbooks: * Clouds * Severe Weather * Layers of the Atmosphere * Volcanoes * Fossils * Plate Tectonics * Natural Resources * Layers of the Earth * Rock Cycle * Water Cycle * Rocks and Minerals * Landforms
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This is a bundle of all my Geography Cootie Catchers/ Fortune Tellers. Playing directions and folding Directions (with pictures) are Included. Important: All these Cootie Catchers sell for $42; as a bundle they are 30% off, for $29! There are 24 different topics as outlined below: * Continents * Map Skills * Types of Maps * Oceans * Africa: Central and South * Africa: East * Africa: North * Africa West * Asia: East * Asia: South * Asia: Southeast * Asia: West * Central America * Europe: East * South America * States and Capitals: Midwest * States and Capitals: Northeast * States and Capitals: South and Southwest * States and Capitals: West * U.S. Regions: Midwest * U.S. Regions: Northeast * U.S. Regions: South and Southwest * U.S. Regions West
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This is a bundle of all my Earth Science cootie catchers/ fortune tellers. Playing directions and folding Directions (with pictures) are Included. Important: All these Cootie Catchers sell for $42.40; as a bundle they are 25% off, for $31.80! There are 16 different topics, each one having multiple versions in color and black and white: * Clouds * Earthquakes & Plate Tectonics * Erosion * Fossils * Layers of the Atmosphere * Layers of the Earth * Landforms * Natural Disasters * Natural Resources * Rock Cycle * Rocks and Minerals * Seasons * Soil * Volcanoes * Water Cycle * Weather
States and Capitals Task Cards Bundle
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States and Capitals Task Cards Bundle

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States and Capitals Task Cards Bundle: This Bundle includes all 50 states which are outlined below: All these lessons sell individually for $8; as a bundle they are 35% off, for $4.95!