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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
Black History Month Word Search
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Black History Month Word Search

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Black History Month: This black history month word search celebrates the African American heroes throughout history. The solution to the puzzle is included. This Word Search contains the following people: ♦ Booker T. Washington ♦ Coretta Scott King ♦ Dorothy Height ♦ Elijah McCoy ♦ Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman ♦ Frederick Douglass ♦ Harriet Tubman ♦ Lewis Latimer ♦ Malcolm X ♦ Marcus Garvey ♦ Martin Luther King Jr. ♦ Mary Seacole ♦ Maya Angelou ♦ Muhammad Ali ♦ Nelson Mandela ♦ Rosa Parks ♦ Ruby Bridges ♦ Sarah E. Goode ♦ Sojourner Truth ♦ Thurgood Marshall Thank you to Teachers Resource Force who provided the images
Equivalent Fractions: Math Escape Room
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Equivalent Fractions: Math Escape Room

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with equivalent fractions. Contents: ♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ ♦ 3 Levels to decode: Maze Decoder, Tarsia Puzzle, and Message Decoder ♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
Addition and Subtraction Word Problems without Regrouping Game: Escape Room Math
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Addition and Subtraction Word Problems without Regrouping Game: Escape Room Math

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with addition and subtraction word problems without regrouping. Problems include 2-digit and 3-digit numbers. Contents: ♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ ♦ 3 Levels to decode: Multiple Choice, Message Decoder, and Maze ♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
Naming Ionic Compounds: Chemistry Escape Room - Science
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Naming Ionic Compounds: Chemistry Escape Room - Science

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with naming ionic compounds. A list of polyatomic ions is included for students. Contents: ♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ ♦ 4 Levels to decode: Multiple Choice, Message Decoder, Tarsia Puzzle, and Maze ♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
Body Tissues PowerPoint and Worksheet
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Body Tissues PowerPoint and Worksheet

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Body Tissues PowerPoint: This PowerPoint on Body Tissues is geared to any High School Biology or Anatomy class/grade. The purpose of this PowerPoint is to summarize the important information and concepts about the different types of body tissues found within the body. A worksheet is also included that allows students to identify and label each type of body tissue. There are 48 slides (excluding title slides) on this PowerPoint which contain the following titles: What is a Tissue? Epithelial Tissue Simple Squamous Simple Cuboidal Simple Columnar Stratified Squamous Connective Tissue Dense Connective Tissue Loose Connective Tissue Muscle Tissue Nervous Tissue Hyperplasia Hypertrophy & Atrophy Hypertrophy vs. Atrophy vs. Hyperplasia Neoplasm there are then 31 slides that are used for students to attempt to identify the different tissue types based on actual microscopic images
Properties of Water Task Cards
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Properties of Water Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to improve their skills and knowledge of the properties of water. This product contains 24 cards with multiple choice questions about the properties of water. A recording sheet and an answer key are included. Blank cards are also included for questions to be added, if wanted. The same 24 cards are also available as open ended questions.
Combinations and Permutations Activity: Escape Room Math
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Combinations and Permutations Activity: Escape Room Math

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their skills with solving combination and permutation problems. Contents: ♦ Teacher Instructions and FAQ ♦ 3 Levels to decode: Multiple Choice, Message Decoder, and Maze ♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
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Commas: These comma cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning how to properly use commas to punctuate sentences. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. This activity has students identifying the correct position for a comma within a sentence, and comes in two versions: 1. Students identify comma placement through multiple choice questions 2. Students identify comma placement without the use of any aids. ***** Enjoy this Lesson? Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers: ***** ♦ Reading Strategies: Authors Purpose Cause and Effect Character Traits Compare and Contrast with Pictures Compare and Contrast Creative and Critical Thinking Drawing Conclusions Fact or Opinion Figurative Language Fluency Generalizations Genre Identification Genre Types Idioms Inference Literary Devices Main Idea Metaphors Nonfiction Text Features Paraphrasing Parts of a Book Personification Point of View Predictions Reading Comprehension Reading Response Questions Restating the Question Sequencing Setting Similes Story Elements Summarizing Text Structures Text Structures: Informational Text Structures Theme Writing Prompts ♦ Vocabulary: Analogies (Grades 3-5) Analogies (Grades 6-8) Analogies (Grade 9) Antonyms Compound Words Context Clues Greek and Latin Roots Homophones Homonyms Multiple Meaning Words Prefixes Root Words Shades of Meaning Spelling Suffixes Synonyms Tone and Mood Transition Words ♦ Grammar: Adjective Identification Adjectives: Comparative and Superlative Adverbs Appositives Apostrophes Capitalization Clauses Commas Conjunctions Contractions Mentor Sentences Nouns: Common, Proper, and Plural Nouns: Collective Nouns: Common and Proper Nouns: Irregular Plural Nouns: Plural Nouns Nouns: Possessive Nouns Parts of Speech Prepositions Prepositional Phrases Pronouns: Identification Pronouns: Possessive Pronoun Antecedent Agreement Quotation Marks Sentence Types Sentences: Fragments and Run-Ons Sentences: Simple, Compound, and Complex Subject and Predicate: Complete and Compound Verb Identification Verb Tenses Verbs: Helping Verbs: Irregular Verbs: Subject Verb Agreement
Cell Organelles Task Cards
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Cell Organelles Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to practice their skills identifying the structures within cells and their functions. This product contains 24 cards with multiple choice questions about the different cell organelles and structures and their functions. A recording sheet and an answer key are included. Blank cards are also included for questions to be added, if wanted. The same 24 cards are also available as open ended questions.
DNA Replication Activity: AP Biology Escape Room Science
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DNA Replication Activity: AP Biology Escape Room Science

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This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to improve their skills and knowledge of DNA replication for AP Biology. Important: Please view the Video Preview (found within the thumbnails above) for an explanation on how to decode the levels. Contents: ♦ Teacher Instructions with Usage Guide and FAQ ♦ 20 Multiple Choice Questions ♦ 5 Decoders for each of the 5 Levels ♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key ♦ Large Sized Cards and Smaller ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room
Adding Decimals Task Cards
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Adding Decimals Task Cards

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Adding Decimals: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they practice their skills with adding decimals. There are 26 problems and includes an answer sheet for students as well as an answer key. Do a search for my other Math Task Cards: ♦ Ages 6-9: Addition Arrays Balancing Equations Coins Estimating Sums Expanded Form Fact Families Greater Than Less Than Long Division Missing Addends Multiplication Word Problems Number Bonds Word Problems Skip Counting Subtraction Telling Time ♦ Ages 9-11: Balancing Equations Capacity Comparing Decimals Decimals Elapsed Time Expanded Form Exponents Fact Families Factors & Multiples Fractions Fractions on a Number Line Greater Than Less Than Greatest Common Factors Least Common Multiple Long Division Mean, Median, Mode, & Range Metric Measurement Mixed Numbers Multiplication Number Patterns Order of Operations Percents Place Value Prime & Composite Numbers Prime Factorization Probability Properties of Mult. Rounding Word Problems ♦ Ages 11-14: Customary Measurements Fractions: Add & Sub, Decimals, & Percents Fractions: Equivalent & Reducing Fractions Greater Than Less Than Improper Fractions & Mixed Numbers Integers Operations with Fractions Rational Numbers Ratios Simple Interest ♦ Geometry: 3D Shapes Angle Pair Relationships Area of a Circle & Composite Figures Circumference of a Circle Missing Angles Perimeter Polygons Pythagorean Theorem Quadrilaterals Surface Area of Rectangular Prisms Volume & Surface Area of Cylinders Volume of Cones, Rectangular Prisms, & Triangular Prisms
Nonfiction Text Features Task Cards
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Nonfiction Text Features Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the different types of non fiction text features. This activity has students identifying different types of nonfiction text features (with pictures) based from its definition. A recording sheet with an answer key is provided. Included Terms: Title page, Title, Subtitle, Glossary, Heading, Index, Table of contents, Guide words Timeline, Table, Photograph/ Illustration, Diagram, Graph, Electronic Menu Bullet points, Caption, Sidebar/Textbox, Labels, Keywords, Hyperlink
Ancient Rome Accordion Booklet
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Ancient Rome Accordion Booklet

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Ancient Rome Accordion Booklet: This booklet is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research or show what they have learned by writing different facts on the provided blank lines about each Term Associated with Ancient Rome. A completed booklet with answers is included. This Booklet contains the following: 1. Assembly Instructions for the booklet 2. Completed facts for each of the following terms: Julius Caesar, Pax Romana (Augustus, Trajan, Marcus Aurelius), Pantheon, Twelve Tables, Roman Republic, Roman Empire, Roman Senate 3. Blank versions with lines for students to write their own facts. 4. A smaller version of #1, 2, & 3 to fit smaller pieces of construction paper ***** Do a search for my other interactive notebooks in the folllowing topics: ***** U.S. History: ♦ 13 Colonies ♦ American Heroes ♦ American Revolution ♦ American Symbols ♦ Bill of Rights ♦ Black History Month ♦ Boston Tea Party ♦ Branches of Government ♦ Christopher Columbus ♦ Civil Rights ♦ Civil War ♦ Cold War ♦ Columbian Exchange ♦ Declaration of Independence ♦ French and Indian War ♦ Gilded Age ♦ Great Depression ♦ Immigration ♦ Inventors ♦ Jamestown ♦ Lewis and Clark ♦ Lost Colony of Roanoke ♦ Louisiana Purchase ♦ Loyalists or Patriots ♦ Martin Luther King ♦ Native Americans ♦ Pilgrims ♦ Progressive Era ♦ Reconstruction ♦ Spanish American War ♦ Texas Revolution ♦ Underground Railroad ♦ War of 1812 ♦ Westward Expansion ♦ World War I ♦ World War II World History: Get all 11 (35% OFF) in the Bundle! ♦ Absolute Monarchs ♦ Crusades ♦ European Explorers ♦ Famous Explorers ♦ French Revolution ♦ Holocaust ♦ Middle Ages ♦ Renaissance ♦ Titanic ♦ World War I ♦ World War II Ancient History: Get all 10 (35% OFF) in the Bundle! ♦ China ♦ Egypt ♦ Greece ♦ India ♦ Rome ♦ Incas ♦ Aztecs ♦ Maya ♦ Mesopotamia ♦ Vikings
Character Traits Cootie Catchers
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Character Traits Cootie Catchers

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Character Traits: These character traits cootie catchers are a fun way to practice inferring character traits. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. This activity has students reading 16 short passages (over 2 cootie catchers) to each other and then asked to make an inference about the trait of the character in the passage. ***** Enjoy this Lesson? Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers: ***** ♦ Reading Strategies: Authors Purpose Cause and Effect Character Traits Compare and Contrast with Pictures Compare and Contrast Creative and Critical Thinking Drawing Conclusions Fact or Opinion Figurative Language Fluency Generalizations Genre Identification Genre Types Idioms Inference Literary Devices Main Idea Metaphors Nonfiction Text Features Paraphrasing Parts of a Book Personification Point of View Predictions Reading Comprehension Reading Response Questions Restating the Question Sequencing Setting Similes Story Elements Summarizing Text Structures Text Structures: Informational Text Structures Theme Writing Prompts ♦ Vocabulary: Analogies (Grades 3-5) Analogies (Grades 6-8) Analogies (Grade 9) Antonyms Compound Words Context Clues Greek and Latin Roots Homophones Homonyms Multiple Meaning Words Prefixes Root Words Shades of Meaning Spelling Suffixes Synonyms Tone and Mood Transition Words ♦ Grammar: Adjective Identification Adjectives: Comparative and Superlative Adverbs Appositives Apostrophes Capitalization Clauses Commas Conjunctions Contractions Mentor Sentences Nouns: Common, Proper, and Plural Nouns: Collective Nouns: Common and Proper Nouns: Irregular Plural Nouns: Plural Nouns Nouns: Possessive Nouns Parts of Speech Prepositions Prepositional Phrases Pronouns: Identification Pronouns: Possessive Pronoun Antecedent Agreement Quotation Marks Sentence Types Sentences: Fragments and Run-Ons Sentences: Simple, Compound, and Complex Subject and Predicate: Complete and Compound Verb Identification Verb Tenses Verbs: Helping Verbs: Irregular Verbs: Subject Verb Agreement
Absolute Monarchs Lapbook
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Absolute Monarchs Lapbook

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Absolute Monarchs Lapbook: This lapbook is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research or show what they have learned by writing facts about each monarch. A completed lapbook with answers is included. Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page) This Absolute Monarchs lapbook contains the following: 1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook 2. Completed facts for each monarch: Henry VIII, Louis XIV, Peter the Great, Frederick the Great, Queen Elizabeth I, Mary I, Oliver Cromwell, Philip II 3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each monarch 4. Check out the preview for more details ***** Do a search for my other interactive notebooks in the folllowing topics: ***** U.S. History: ♦ 13 Colonies ♦ American Heroes ♦ American Revolution ♦ American Symbols ♦ Bill of Rights ♦ Black History Month ♦ Boston Tea Party ♦ Branches of Government ♦ Christopher Columbus ♦ Civil Rights ♦ Civil War ♦ Cold War ♦ Columbian Exchange ♦ Declaration of Independence ♦ French and Indian War ♦ Gilded Age ♦ Great Depression ♦ Immigration ♦ Inventors ♦ Jamestown ♦ Lewis and Clark ♦ Lost Colony of Roanoke ♦ Louisiana Purchase ♦ Loyalists or Patriots ♦ Martin Luther King ♦ Native Americans ♦ Pilgrims ♦ Progressive Era ♦ Reconstruction ♦ Spanish American War ♦ Texas Revolution ♦ Underground Railroad ♦ War of 1812 ♦ Westward Expansion ♦ World War I ♦ World War II World History: Get all 11 (35% OFF) in the Bundle! ♦ Absolute Monarchs ♦ Crusades ♦ European Explorers ♦ Famous Explorers ♦ French Revolution ♦ Holocaust ♦ Middle Ages ♦ Renaissance ♦ Titanic ♦ World War I ♦ World War II Ancient History: Get all 10 (35% OFF) in the Bundle! ♦ China ♦ Egypt ♦ Greece ♦ India ♦ Rome ♦ Incas ♦ Aztecs ♦ Maya ♦ Mesopotamia ♦ Vikings
Lost Colony of Roanoke Cootie Catchers
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Lost Colony of Roanoke Cootie Catchers

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Lost Colony of Roanoke Cootie Catchers: These cootie catchers/ fortune tellers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the Lost Colony of Roanoke. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. These cootie catchers contain the following vocabulary terms: Sir Walter Raleigh, Virginia Dare, CRO and CROATOAN, North Carolina, Roanoke Colony, Queen Elizabeth I, Anglo Spanish War, John White These 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 usable pages which has students identifying vocabulary terms (with pictures) based from the definition. ***** Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers in the folllowing topics: ***** United States History: ♦ 13 Colonies ♦ American Heroes ♦ American Revolution ♦ American Symbols ♦ Benjamin Franklin ♦ Bill of Rights ♦ Black History Month ♦ Boston Tea Party ♦ Branches of Government ♦ Christopher Columbus ♦ Civil Rights ♦ Civil War ♦ Cold War ♦ Columbian Exchange ♦ Constitution ♦ Declaration of Independence ♦ Dust Bowl ♦ Economics ♦ First Thanksgiving ♦ French and Indian War ♦ Gilded Age ♦ Great Depression ♦ Immigration ♦ Industrial Revolution ♦ Inventors ♦ Jamestown ♦ Lewis and Clark ♦ Lost Colony of Roanoke ♦ Louisiana Purchase ♦ Loyalists or Patriots ♦ Martin Luther King ♦ Native Americans ♦ Oregon Trail ♦ Pilgrims ♦ Progressive Era ♦ Reconstruction ♦ Spanish American War ♦ Texas Revolution ♦ Underground Railroad ♦ War of 1812 ♦ Westward Expansion ♦ World War I ♦ World War II World History: ♦ Absolute Monarchs ♦ European Explorers ♦ Famous Explorers ♦ French Revolution ♦ Holocaust ♦ Middle Ages ♦ Renaissance ♦ Crusades ♦ Titanic ♦ World War I ♦ World War II Ancient History: ♦ China ♦ Egypt ♦ Greece ♦ India ♦ Rome ♦ Incas ♦ Aztecs ♦ Maya's ♦ Mesopotamia ♦ Vikings
Metric Measurement Cootie Catchers
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Metric Measurement Cootie Catchers

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Metric Measurement: These cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while they practice their skills with metric measurement using length. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. There are 2 cootie catchers in this product, each one having 8 problems for a total of 16 problems. Problems Include: 1. Students select the choice that has the same length of the given measure 2. Students compare two measures of length with different units 3. Students choose the most appropriate unit of length *** Enjoy this Lesson? Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers: *** ♦ Grades 1-3: Addition Arrays Balancing Equations Coins Estimating Sums Expanded Form Fact Families Greater Than Less Than Long Division Missing Addends Multiplication Word Problems Number Bonds Word Problems Skip Counting Subtraction Telling Time ♦ Grades 3-5: Balancing Equations Capacity Comparing Decimals Decimals Elapsed Time Expanded Form Exponents Fact Families Factors & Multiples Fractions Fractions on a Number Line Greater Than Less Than Greatest Common Factors Least Common Multiple Long Division Mean, Median, Mode, & Range Metric Measurement Mixed Numbers Multiplication Number Patterns Order of Operations Percents Place Value Prime & Composite Numbers Prime Factorization Probability Properties of Mult. Rounding Word Problems ♦ Grades 6-8: Customary Measurements Fractions: Add & Sub, Decimals, & Percents Fractions: Equivalent & Reducing Fractions Greater Than Less Than Improper Fractions & Mixed Numbers Integers Operations with Fractions Rational Numbers Ratios Simple Interest ♦ Geometry: 3D Shapes Angle Pair Relationships Area of a Circle & Composite Figures Circumference of a Circle Missing Angles Perimeter Polygons Pythagorean Theorem Quadrilaterals Surface Area of Rectangular Prisms Volume & Surface Area of Cylinders Volume of Cones, Rectangular Prisms, & Triangular Prisms ♦ Algebra: Absolute Value Combining Like Terms Distributive Property Equations Evaluating Expressions Inequalities Linear Equations Polynomials Proportions Quadratic Equations Scientific Notation Simplifying Expressions Slope System of Equations Two Step & Multi Step Equations Writing Expressions
Layers of the Atmosphere Accordion Booklet
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Layers of the Atmosphere: This layers of the atmosphere accordion booklet 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 booklet also doubles as a coloring book, as students may color in objects that are found within each layer of the atmosphere. A completed layers of the atmosphere booklet with answers is included. Layers of the Atmosphere Booklet contents: 1. Assembly Instructions for the layers of the atmosphere booklet 2. Completed facts for each layer of the atmosphere: Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere 3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each layer of the atmosphere 4. A smaller version of #1, 2, & 3 to fit smaller pieces of construction paper 5. Black and white versions of #1, 2, 3, and 4 ***** Do a search for my other Accordion Booklets in the folllowing topics: ***** Space Science: ♦ The Solar System: The Planets ♦ Eclipses ♦ Comets, Meteors, Meteoroids, Meteorites and Asteroids ♦ Life Cycle of Stars ♦ Constellations of the Zodiac 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