In this Earth Science activity, students will gain a better understanding of what gases the atmosphere is made out of. Students will need to work some math problems out, converting percents and decimal places to determine ppm, parts per million. Students will gain an understanding that greenhouse gases make up such a small amount of the atmosphere, but are extremely important in keeping the temperature balance in check.

 In this assignment, students will access a database with documented tornadoes since 1950. Students will use a Google spreadsheet as a class to gather data from the website. Data they will look into for each year are: Total tornadoes, Longest path, widest path, total F4s, total F4 fatalities, total F5s, total F5 fatalities, the month with the most tornadoes, and deadliest tornado sizes. When all data is collected there is a totals tab that contains three graphs that students can analyze. Students will also investigate and view states that have the most tornado events.

Note: You will need some fossil examples in order to complete this lab.

At the beginning of science courses, usually, the scientific method is taught. My high school students have to demonstrate their knowledge of the scientific processes and especially show understanding in data collection, variables, and conclusions. This document contains the rubric I use to grade their assignment as well as the student instructions that I give. This is in a Google doc so that you can edit the instructions or manipulate the rubric. You can see more and get earth science lessons and activities at http://EarthScience.xyz

This science lab can be used in any of the science disciplines because it is going to help students learn how to read a meter tape. Students will learn what the Magnus Effect is and how to demonstrate the Magnus Effect by "flying" a hollowed-out "Bic" pen across the classroom. Students will also learn how to create a spreadsheet and then add a formula that will automatically calculate the average of their pen flight distances. I use this lab at the beginning of the year to get students excited about science as well.

This is an activity-based reading log.

My idea behind this type of reading log is threefold.

1. Keep track of the books that students are reading and the time they are reading each day.

2. Practice a skill, based on reading, writing, and science standards as well as a review of previously taught standards to add more practice.

In this digital worksheet, students will practice and better gain an understanding of how to use context clues. Students will read a sentence and then define the bolded word. As an add-on, I also have students circles all of the verbs in the sentence. Because it is a Google Doc the teacher can substitute their own student names into the worksheet. This makes it more fun and engaging. The student names are all italicized and the words that require context clues are all bolded.

This multiplication and division assignment comes with 3 worksheets that help reinforce fact families. The worksheets come with answer keys. On the back of each fact family assignment are four word problems that reinforce previously taught word problem skills. There is one single step word problem per operation. Each worksheet also comes with a corny joke that your students can have fun with.

For more worksheets and lesson ideas, visit my classroom site, http://3rdGrade.xyz.

This was created for those couple of days leading up to Halloween, you know, when kids have gone "spooky" themselves. In this pack, teachers will get 60 bingo cards and two call sheets. The bingo cards are in two different stacks. One stack is for the teacher to call out the products and the students have to find the equations. The other stack has the teacher calling out the equations, while the students have to find the products. Each card is unique and there are 68 equations and products ranging from the 1s to the 12s.

In this Halloween version of bingo, teachers can call either the quotient or the equation. There are 30 cards where the teacher calls the quotient and students find a valid equation and 30 cards where the teacher calls the equation and students find an equal quotient.

The cards come with Halloween clip art that allows students to doodle or color in as well.

This activity is great for the days leading up to and on Halloween when students become very spooky themselves.