In this product, students are given the task of identifying some monsters from a nearby planet that have recently been classified by a group of scientists. Students will identify 16 different monsters based on their physical characteristics using the provided dichotomous key. A teacher answer key is also provided. © Science Teaching Junkie. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. This product should NOT be posted on any website. ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com

This product is a color-by-number activity that allows students to answer questions and complete statements related to plant and animal cells. And YES- even secondary students love to color! This could be used as a quick assessment, a homework assignment, extra credit, or for early finishers. Buy the Bundle and Save! By purchasing the bundle, you will save 15% on your total purchase! If you like this activity, © Science Teaching Junkie. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com

This product is a color-by-number activity that allows students to match human body systems to their functions. And YES- even secondary students love to color! Body Systems included: circulatory respiratory reproductive skeletal muscular endocrine excretory nervous integumentary immune digestive This could be used as a quick assessment, a homework assignment, extra credit, or for early finishers. © Science Teaching Junkie. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com

In this 40 page product, you will receive 112 mini posters in two different sizes (each poster comes in a 2" square and a 3.5" square). They are great for organizing your classroom and/or science storage room. The consistent, colorful design and clear text make finding supplies a breeze. Ideas for other uses: ★could be used to display the materials students will need for a particular lesson (works great with low-level readers and English Language Learners) ★word wall terms for science tools and lab equipment ★post all of the lab tools that your scientists will need to know so that they are always visible ★tape to the front of plastic tubs or milk crates to get a quick visual on the contents inside Poster Terms included: ◑Binder clips ◑Brads ◑Colored pencils ◑Composition notebooks ◑Calculators ◑Clipboards ◑Crayons ◑Dry erase markers ◑Glue ◑Headphones ◑Legos and Pop Cubes ◑Lined paper ◑Highlighters ◑Flair pens ◑Masking tape ◑Markers ◑Paper clips ◑Push pins ◑Scissors ◑Scotch tape ◑Pencils ◑Notebooks ◑Sharpeners and Erasers ◑Rulers ◑Discs ◑Sports balls ◑Bandaids ◑Movies ◑Washi tape ◑iPads ◑Goggles ◑Bulletin boards and banners ◑Dominoes ◑Dice ◑Envelopes ◑Puzzles ◑Glitter ◑Playing cards ◑Toy cars ◑Manila envelopes ◑Bubbloes ◑Balloons ◑Funnels ◑Forceps ◑Buttons ◑Tools ◑Bunsen burners ◑Spring scales ◑Styrofoam cups ◑Hair dryers ◑Springs ◑Chemicals ◑Straws ◑Yarn ◑Rocks ◑Prisms ◑Toothpicks ◑Droppers ◑Anemometers ◑Flashlights ◑Light bulbs ◑Wood blocks ◑Aluminum foil ◑Corks ◑Thermometers ◑Test tube racks ◑Test tubes ◑Tongs ◑Triple beam balances ◑Metersticks ◑Batteries ◑Tweezers ◑Craft sticks ◑Cups ◑Popsicle sticks ◑Rubber bands ◑String ◑Pie pans ◑Modeling clay ◑Pipe cleaner ◑Cardstock ◑Construction paper ◑Pens ◑Shower ◑Gloves ◑Flasks ◑Beakers ◑Graduated cylinders ◑Microscopes ◑Magnets ◑Magnifying glasses ◑Microscope slides ◑Petri dishes ◑Scales ◑Pipettes ◑Aprons ◑Mouse ◑Hot glue ◑Glue sticks ◑Charging cords ◑Hole punch ◑Scalpels ◑Grid paper ◑Sticky notes ◑Stopwatches ◑Ring stands ◑Index cards ◑Hot plates ◑Fire blanket ◑Hot mitts ◑Test tube clamps ◑Eye wash

All young scientists need to practice making careful observations and evidence-based inferences. With this product, you will get a complete year of Picture of the Week activities for students to strengthen these skills. Students are shown an image and spend time making careful observations. After this, they make inferences based on these observations. This would be a great warm-up exercise or a great addition to your weekly classroom routine. You will begin to see your students become more careful observers and you will hear them correcting their classmates when they are including biases or previous experiences in their observations. Students will begin supporting all of their thoughts with evidence (the mark of a great scientist!) Detailed teacher instructions on best ways to implement this into your weekly routine are included as well as some teaching tips. You will also receive all of the student print-outs for the 38 weeks and slides for projecting the Picture of the Week for 38 weeks in both PDF and PowerPoint formats. This product will not only make your students better scientists, but better writers, readers, and speakers. The language arts teachers will love you!

This FREEBIE pack gives you a taste of what you can expect from my Daily Science Starters Products. I chose 3 Science Starters from each of the 4 products and bundled them into this freebie for you! They are aligned with the middle school TEKS, so students are sure to be exposed to all content required in the middle grades and you can rest assured that they will be prepared for the state standardized assessment. Each Science Starter student printable comes four to a page, saving you paper and ink. Each Starter also includes a teacher version that can be used to project the questions and/or answers for all students to see. WANT TO GET ALL 4 OF MY DAILY SCIENCE STARTER PRODUCTS IN A BUNDLE AND SAVE 20%? © Science Teaching Junkie. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com

GREAT FOR BACK TO SCHOOL! This activity is great for the first day of school in science classrooms. It gives the teacher a chance to get to know the students, the students a chance to get to know each other, and some decor for your classroom! But because it's EDITABLE, you can really use it anytime of year! Students are given a science lab coat with some basic questions/info inside (you provide the topics or questions or use the examples I provided). Students decorate the outside of their lab coat based on some provided directions. Then they cut and fold to create the lab coat seen in the "Preview" above. Simply hang some string in your classroom (or hallway) and have students attach their completed Science Lab Coat using a tiny clothespin. Included in this product: Printouts for the lab coat (2 lab coat options) Teacher directions Ideas for extension A PowerPoint with student directions (text boxes are editable so that you can customize it for your needs) Students will need: Colored pencils scissors © Science Teaching Junkie, Inc. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. This product should NOT be posted on any website. ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com

This PDF includes 36 full pages of various flippables, graphic organizers and activities designed for an Interactive Science Notebook to be used during a unit on Ecosystems and Interdependence. (7 pages are teacher answer keys). Most foldables and flippables are left blank on the inside. This will allow you to fully customize each one for whatever curriculum or grade you teach with the information you want your students to know. Some ideas would be to use definitions, pictures, and examples. These also make a great tool to use for science differentiation as well! Pages include information on: •Interdependence in Ecosystems Vocabulary flippable •Organization levels •Factors that Affect Populations (food, water, light, living space) •Animals with the same habitat, but different niches •Relationships between populations (competition, predation, symbiosis) •Consumers graphic organizer (herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, decomposers) •Sample from my Easy as Pie Series - Producers & Consumers Pie •Biotic vs. Abiotic Factors card sort •Venn Diagrams (population/community/ecosystem, herbivore/omnivore/carnivore, food chain/food web, heterotroph/autotroph) •Simple food chain •Tracing the flow of energy and matter (trace your breakfast back to the Sun) •Energy pyramid •Food Web Story- Little Red Riding Hood •Desert Food Web Scenario •Earth's terrestrial biomes •Earth's aquatic biomes •Coastal sand dunes ecological succession (w/ lichens question) •a generic admit and exit tickets are included WANT TO GET ALL 6 OF MY INTERACTIVE SCIENCE NOTEBOOK PRODUCTS IN A BUNDLE AND SAVE 10%? ©2016 Science Teaching Junkie, Inc. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. This product should NOT be posted on any website. Please email me with questions at ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com.

This PDF includes 26 full pages of various flippables, graphic organizers and activities for an Interactive Science Notebook to be used during a unit on Life Science (9 pages are teacher answer keys). Most foldables and flippables are left blank on the inside. This will allow you to fully customize each one for whatever curriculum or grade you teach with the information you want your students to know. Some ideas would be to use definitions, pictures, and examples. These also make a great tool to use for science differentiation as well! Pages include information on: •Generic Admit and Exit Ticket •Structure and Function •Cells (Prokaryotic vs. Eukaryotic and Unicellular vs. Multicellular) •Cell theory (3 main ideas and important scientists - Hooke and Van Leeuwenhoek) •Compare and Contrast Plant and Animal Cells •Levels of Organization •Animal Cell to label (one version for middle school and one for upper grades) •Plant Cell to label (one version for middle school and one for upper grades) •Cell vocabulary (12 terms) •Cell Processes (diffusion, osmosis, facilitated diffusion, endo- and exocytosis, active transport) •Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis •Organic Molecules (nucleic acid, proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids) •Cell division (cut and paste mitosis sorting foldable activity) Looking for another life science topic? If you don’t see something here that you would like added, please send me a message and I will do my best to get it added and update this product. Updates are always FREE for buyers.

GREAT FOR WARM-UPS, EXIT TICKETS, OR QUICK FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS! This product includes 37 different quick Science Starters to be used at the beginning or end of each class period. Each Science Starter student printable comes four to a page, saving you paper and ink. Each Starter also includes a teacher version that can be used to project the questions and/or answers for all students to see. The last page of both the student printable and the teacher version includes an extra page for you to add your own Science Starter (editable PDF form). To edit the text you type into a box, select the text, then press Ctrl +e. You should see a pop-up box appear that will allow you to change the font, font size, alignment, etc... Daily Science Starter TEKS Included: 6.12 Organisms and environments. The student knows all organisms are classified into Domains and Kingdoms. Organisms within these taxonomic groups share similar characteristics which allow them to interact with the living and nonliving parts of their ecosystem. The student is expected to: (A) understand that all organisms are composed of one or more cells; (B) recognize that the presence of a nucleus determines whether a cell is prokaryotic or eukaryotic; (C) recognize that the broadest taxonomic classification of living organisms is divided into currently recognized Domains; (D) identify the basic characteristics of organisms, including prokaryotic or eukaryotic, unicellular or multicellular, autotrophic or heterotrophic, and mode of reproduction, that further classify them in the currently recognized Kingdoms; (E) describe biotic and abiotic parts of an ecosystem in which organisms interact; and (F) diagram the levels of organization within an ecosystem, including organism, population, community, and ecosystem. 7.10 Organisms and environments. The student knows that there is a relationship between organisms and the environment. The student is expected to: (A) observe and describe how different environments, including microhabitats in schoolyards and biomes, support different varieties of organisms; (B) describe how biodiversity contributes to the sustainability of an ecosystem; and (C) observe, record, and describe the role of ecological succession such as in a microhabitat of a garden with weeds. 7.11 Organisms and environments. The student knows that populations and species demonstrate variation and inherit many of their unique traits through gradual processes over many generations. The student is expected to: (A) examine organisms or their structures such as insects or leaves and use dichotomous keys for identification; (B) explain variation within a population or species by comparing external features, behaviors, or physiology of organisms that enhance their survival such as migration, hibernation, or storage of food in a bulb; and etc.......

This product is a color-by-number activity that allows students to answer questions and complete statements related to the scientific method. And YES- even secondary students love to color! Questions/Statements related to: testable hypothesis, making observations, independent variables, dependent variables, controlled variables (constants), identifying the parts of the scientific method (ask a question, form a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, analyze results, draw conclusions, communicate results), the type of graph that would be most appropriate (line, bar, pie). This could be used as a quick assessment, a homework assignment, additional practice, extra credit, or for early finishers. © Science Teaching Junkie, Inc. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. This product should NOT be posted on any website. ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com

This PDF includes 32 task cards to help students demonstrate mastery on organisms and environments. Student answer sheets and teacher answer key are provided. Ideas on ways to use them in the science classroom are also included. For students to be successful with utilizing these cards, they should have prior knowledge of the following concepts and/or vocabulary: - food chains, food webs and energy pyramids - consumer (heterotroph) - producer (autotroph) - impact of introducing an organism to an existing ecosystem or removal of an organism - amount of energy available at each level of an energy pyramid - primary consumer, secondary consumer, carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, decomposers, parasite, host, predator, prey - photosynthesis - biotic and abiotic factors - symbiotic relationships (parasitism, mutualism, commensalism) - competition - limiting factors - how human activities, such as artificial reefs, have modified ocean systems - comparing a food web to a cycle - effects of short-term and long-term environmental changes © Science Teaching Junkie, Inc. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. This product should NOT be posted on any website. ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com

This product is a color-by-number activity that allows students to complete statements related to energy flow in ecosystems. And YES- even secondary students love to color! Some terms/concepts included: population community ecosystem photosynthesis producer consumer herbivore carnivore omnivore decomposer food chain food web energy pyramid This could be used as a quick assessment, a homework assignment, extra credit, or for early finishers. Buy the Bundle and Save! By purchasing the bundle, you will save 15% on your total purchase! If you like this activity, © Science Teaching Junkie. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com

This product is a color-by-number activity that allows students to read descriptions and determine if the organisms described reproduce sexually or asexually. And YES- even secondary students love to color! Organism descriptions include: yeast, salmon, sea horse, salmonella, algae, sunflower, frog, amoeba This could be used as a quick assessment, a homework assignment, additional practice, extra credit, or for early finishers. © Science Teaching Junkie, Inc. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. This product should NOT be posted on any website. ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com

This product is a color-by-number activity that allows students to solve some basic monohybrid crosses (related to dominant and recessive human traits) and answer general questions related to genetics and heredity. And YES- even secondary students love to color! This could be used as a quick assessment, a homework assignment, extra credit, or for early finishers. © Science Teaching Junkie. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. This product should NOT be posted on any website. ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com

This product is a color-by-number activity that allows students to read various masses indicated on triple beam balances. And YES- even secondary students love to color! There are 8 different balances displayed. Students are provided with a list of answer choices (many answers are similar to force the student to be precise in their readings.) This could be used as a quick assessment, a homework assignment, additional practice, extra credit, or for early finishers. Buy the Bundle and Save! By purchasing the bundle, you will save 15% on your total purchase! © Science Teaching Junkie, Inc. Terms of Use - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide or campus-wide quote. This product should NOT be posted on any website. ScienceTeachingJunkie@yahoo.com