These cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the structure and function of DNA. Terms Included: ♦ Chromosome, Hydrogen Bonds, Nucleotide, Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, Cytosine, Mutation, Deoxyribose, DNA, Gene These cootie catchers come in color and black & white, and also come with a version where students can add their own definitions.

These cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about chemical and physical changes. Changes Included: ♦ Explosion of fireworks - Chemical ♦ Ice melting - Physical ♦ Chopping wood - Physical ♦ Bread Molding - Chemical ♦ Sugar in water - Physical ♦ Glass breaking - Physical ♦ Burning wood - Chemical ♦ Rusting nail - Chemical

GCF and LCM: This bundle includes cootie catchers for both greatest common factor and least common multiple and is a great way for students to have fun while they improve their math skills. These cootie catchers sell individually for $3.9; as a bundle they are 20% off, for $3! There are 6 cootie catchers in this product, each one having 8 problems for a total of 48 problems. Answers are included for each problem.

Nouns and Verbs: This bundle includes task cards for Nouns and Verbs as outlined below: This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 52 in total, and then asked to identify the noun or verb through multiple choice answers. These lessons sell individually for $5.10; as a bundle they are 35% off, for $3.30!

GCF and LCM: This bundle includes task cards for both greatest common factor and least common multiple and is a great way for students to have fun while they improve their math skills. These task cards sell individually for $5; as a bundle they are 20% off, for $4!

American Symbols/ National Symbols Word Search: This also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included. Vocabulary Terms Included: ♦ Capitol ♦ Constitution ♦ Eagle ♦ Flag ♦ Liberty Bell ♦ Lincoln Memorial ♦ Mount Rushmore ♦ Statue of Liberty ♦ Turkey ♦ US Seal ♦ Washington Memorial ♦ White House

Irregular Verbs Word Search: This also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included. Vocabulary Terms Included: ♦ Dig ♦ Drank ♦ Drink ♦ Dug ♦ Fed ♦ Feed ♦ Held ♦ Hold ♦ Sat ♦ Sit Thank you to TeachersScrapbook who provided the images

These author's purpose task cards are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the concept of the Author's Purpose. This activity has students reading various passages to each other, 20 in total, and then asked to determine which of the following types of author's purpose is being described: Persuade, Inform or Entertain.

These author's purpose task cards are a great way for students to have fun while identifying cause and effect relationships in text. This activity has two types of passage sets: 1. Given two statements, students identify which is the cause and which is the effect 2. Students identify cause and effect from a short passage

These pilgrims and native americans cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the Pilgrims, the first settlers at Plymouth, MA, and famous Native American's and tribes How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. These lessons sell individually for $5.50; as a bundle they are 20% off, for $4.40! Vocabulary Included: Pilgrims, Plymouth Rock, Samoset, Squanto, William Bradford, William Brewster, Mayflower Compact, Mayflower AND Tecumseh, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Sacajawea, Crazy Horse, Geronimo, Black Hawk, Chief Joseph Seminole, Apache, Sioux, Cherokee, Navajo, Iroquois, Chickasaw, Creek

These ratios and proportions cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while they practice their skills with ratios and proportions. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. These lessons sell individually for $3.90; as a bundle they are 20% off, for $3.12! There are 2 cootie catchers in this product, each one having 16 problems for a total of 32 problems. The ratio cootie catchers have problems which involve equivalence, word problems, reducing ratios, and determining ratios from patterns. The proportions cootie catchers have step-by-step answers to each problem.

These ratios and proportions task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they practice their skills with problems of ratios and solving proportions. This product includes an answer sheet and an answer key. These lessons sell individually for $5.10; as a bundle they are 20% off, for $3.95!

Homophones Word Search: This also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included. Vocabulary Terms Included: ♦ Berry ♦ Billed ♦ Build ♦ Bury ♦ One ♦ Sail ♦ Sale ♦ Tea ♦ Tee ♦ Won

Idioms Word Search: This also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included. Idioms Included: ♦ All Ears ♦ Apple Of My Eye ♦ Break A leg ♦ Cold Feet ♦ Lost My Head ♦ Money Talks ♦ On Cloud Nine ♦ Out On A Limb ♦ When Pigs Fly ♦ Zip Your Lips

Map Skills Word Search: This also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included. Vocabulary Terms Included: ♦ Compass Rose ♦ Hemisphere ♦ Latitude ♦ Legend ♦ Longitude ♦ Physical Map ♦ Political Map ♦ Tropics

These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while improving their creative and critical thinking skills. There are 26 creative and critical thinking questions that will engage your students in a fun way. This product is great for fast finishers.

Drawing Conclusions: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while improving their skills with inference. This activity has students reading 16 short passages to each other and then asked to make an inference based off the passage. A Multiple choice version and open ended version is provided. A recording sheet and an answer key are also included.

These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while learning the different types of figurative language. This activity has students reading 26 statements to each other and then asked to identify the type of figurative language that was used. A recording sheet and an answer key are also included. Figurative Language Included: Alliteration Hyperbole Idiom Metaphor Onomatopoeia Personification Pun Simile

Scientific Method: This scientific method lab experiment has students answering the question: "How does soap affect how many drops of water a penny can hold?" This lab incorporates the topics of cohesion and surface tension into the lab and post lab questions. This scientific method lab experiment is one of my students favorites as it has them compete to see who can get the most water droplets on a penny. Not to mention getting the students interested in science.

Science Fair: Bacteria Experiment for Science Fair or In Class: Turn your students into real scientists with this long term experiment which teaches scientific literacy through the writing of a real scientific paper. This product is an editable guided walk-through for the completion of a full scientific paper (Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Works Cited) based on the question: "Which antibacterial chemical: ethyl alcohol (hand sanitizer), isopropyl (rubbing alcohol), or Triclosan (Antibacterial soap) is the most effective at inhibiting bacterial growth? This product contains: 1. A teachers guide: Descriptions on how to set-up the experiment, materials needed, procedures, and helpful tips. 2. A lesson on Analyzing a Scientific paper utilizing a graphic organizer (Scientific Paper Included) 3. Student pages: a guided walk-through taking the students through the process of writing a full scientific paper. This long term project (which takes about 2-3 months to complete, spread out intermittently) guides students through the process of writing a scientific paper in the same way scientists write their scholarly papers. Students are taught how to write an Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and works cited section. This guided walk-through covers the following topics: Abstract: * Explanations of what goes in an introduction - What the study was about & the hypothesis - Summary of how the study was done - The results that were obtained - Significance of the results including the hypothesis being supported or not supported Introduction: * Explanations of what goes in an introduction - What bacteria colonies are and what they look like (color, size,shape texture, etc.) - What Fungal colonies are and what they look like - The Cellular processes by which ethyl alcohol, isopropyl, and triclosan work to kill bacteria Methods: * Teacher notes and tips for conducting the experiment Results: * Instructions for: - Calculating the average number of bacterial colonies - Graphing the data - Interpreting the data graph in words - Describing the appearance of bacterial and fungal colonies Discussion: * Instructions for: - Calculating the data to see if they are statistically significant - Interpreting the significance of the data - Calculating Percent effectiveness - Supporting or not supporting the hypothesis - Creating a theory to explain the results - Creating an additional experiment that could be done to test the theory - Discussing issues that occurred during in the experiment