PowerPoint show with a variety of images representing elements, compounds, and mixtures. Students are instructed to show one finger for an element, two for a compound, and three for a mixture as the slide show is presented. Fun formative assessment.

Great for formative assessments! Cloze paragraph and scramble activity to introduce, review, or reinforce the path that light takes as it enters the eye, creates an image, and sends that image to the brain. Cloze paragraph includes word box. Scramble activity involves cutting out statements and placing them in the correct order. This can be done individually, and pasted into an interactive notebook or laminated for the class and used over and over.

Set of three activities for reviewing and reinforcing matter. Activity 1 is the Matter Cloze paragraph worksheet. Students are given a short reading selection and a word box. The goal is to fill in the blanks correctly. Activity 2 is the States of Matter Phase Change formative assessment. This is a hands-on activity to match the names of the phase changes with the correct change of state as well as whether energy is being added or removed. Activity 3 is an "I have...Who has...?" Matter vocabulary game. Answer sheets are included.

Imagine your students are working for the Wonderful Work Simple Machine advertising division - this project asks them to develop a one page advertisement with accompanying descriptive paragraph. Students will be creating a one page advertisement for a simple machine and accompany the ad with a short paragraph describing the machine in more detail. The packet includes: a sample advertisement for an inclined plane that can be printed and posted in the class as an example, a labelled version that can be printed on the back of the student directions as a guide, student directions include the grading requirements, teacher notes and a sample rubric.

Manipulative activity in which students identify and label basic phase changes and whether energy is being added or removed. Students can cut and paste the answers and keep the completed activity in their notebooks, or teachers can laminate for multiple uses, and students can copy the completed diagram into their notebooks. Great formative assessment!