This Weather Word Wall gives Kindergarten classrooms six big picture cards — sun, cloud, rain, snow, wind and rainbow — ready to print, cut and post so young writers always have the weather words within reach.
These Thanksgiving flash cards give preschool through 2nd grade children 18 self-checking picture and word cards for building holiday vocabulary. A card list answer key is included.
These birthday flash cards help preschool to 4th grade students learn 24 party words like cake, candles and presents. Fold-over picture cards, a practice page and an answer key are included.
Matter word wall flash cards with 16 picture cards for solid, liquid, gas, melt, evaporate and more, for 2nd to 5th grade science. Answer key included for easy checking.
These farm flash cards teach 18 farm animals, plants and things with a picture on the front and the word inside. Made for preschool to 1st grade, with a sorting practice page and answer key included.
These emotions flash cards help Kindergarten to 3rd Grade students name 18 feelings by reading children's faces. Fold-over cards show the face and the word. Answer key included.
Using these Fruit Flash Cards, students improve their fruit vocabulary by describing the colorful flash cards.
Using these Land Animal Flash Cards, students improve their Insect vocabulary by having a complete set of animal names they can use in their writing and discussions.
Using these Insect Flash Cards, students improve their Insect vocabulary by having a complete set of insect names they can use in their writing and discussions.
These earth day flash cards help preschool to 2nd grade children name and read 16 picture words about caring for our planet. A practice page and answer key are included.
Post these force and motion word wall flash cards for 2nd to 5th grade: 16 science words with kid-friendly meanings, plus a vocabulary practice page, answer key included.
Learn fifteen landforms with these landforms flash cards for kindergarten to 4th grade: painted picture fronts, words and meanings inside, a practice page and an answer key included.
These rock word wall flash cards give 2nd to 4th grade students 16 rock words with pictures and meanings, from boulder to lava. Answer key included.
These Easter flash cards help Preschool to 2nd Grade learners read and say 24 spring and holiday words, with an answer key included for quick checking.
These body parts flash cards help Preschool to 1st grade children name fifteen parts of the body on a boy and a girl, with a practice page and answer key included.
Using these Dessert Flash Cards, students improve their dessert vocabulary by describing the colorful flash cards.
These mammals cartoon flash cards help K-2nd grade children name 12 mammals and learn a fact about each one. Fold-over picture cards plus a practice page, with an answer key included.
These valentine's day flash cards give preschool to 2nd grade children 18 fold-over picture and word cards for holiday vocabulary and word walls. Answer key included.
Name twelve weather and earth events with these natural disasters flash cards for preschool to 4th grade. Fold-over picture cards, a practice page and an answer key are included.
Wonder, test, discover, repeat
Elementary science is about asking questions and finding answers. Kids explore life science, like plant parts, animals, body systems and cells. They study Earth science: weather, seasons and the layers of the Earth. In physical science they investigate matter, from solids, liquids and gases to physical changes, and forces like pushes, pulls and gravity. Along the way they learn the scientific method: question → hypothesis → test → conclusion. The click is when a child says "Let's test it!" instead of just guessing.
Science sticks when kids do it, see it and talk about it.
Do one experiment as a class, like "Which ball bounces highest?" and fill in each step of the scientific method together on the board. Then kids plan their own mini experiment using the scientific method worksheet.
Why it works: showing first, practicing together, then letting kids try alone is the "gradual release" model teachers have relied on for decades (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
Try it withScientific Method WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Have kids color and label animal and plant cells, then compare them side by side. Ask "What does the plant cell have that the animal cell doesn't?" Drawing and labeling turns tricky vocabulary into a picture they remember.
Why it works: pairing a picture with each word gives kids two ways to remember it, a well-tested principle of how people learn (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withAnimal and Plant Cells WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →After a matter unit, use the properties of matter review page as a quick check. Kids explain each term in their own words. Retrieval, not rereading, is what locks science words in.
Why it works: researchers who compared ten study methods found practice testing is one of the two that work best (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withProperties of Matter Review WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Science is the subject kids already think is play.
WorksheetsKids act out pushes and pulls around the room, then sort pictures on the worksheet.
Open Push or Pull Force Worksheet →
WorksheetsWatch an ice cube melt and chocolate harden, then record the physical changes.
Open Physical Changes Matter Worksheet →
WorksheetsTake apart a real flower and match each part to the diagram.
Open Flower Parts of a Plant Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Weather Word Wall, Thanksgiving Flash Cards and Birthday Flash Cards.
Life science (plants, animals, the human body), Earth science (weather, seasons, rocks and the Earth's layers) and physical science (matter, forces and energy). Kids also learn the scientific method.
Cook, garden, watch the weather and ask "What do you think will happen?" Simple kitchen experiments like melting ice or mixing baking soda and vinegar are great starters.
It is a step-by-step way to answer a question: ask a question, make a guess called a hypothesis, test it, observe what happens, and draw a conclusion.
Let kids get hands-on. Experiments, nature walks, drawing what they observe and songs about science ideas all make it memorable.
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