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Must-Have Life Science Books for Your Elementary Classroom

These are my favorite trade books to help you teach life science concepts like adaptations, traits, ecosystems, food chains, and life cycles in your elementary

Animal Adaptations-- Small groups make a collaborative anchor chart to practice identifying structures and functions.

Science Vocabulary Ideas: Collaborative anchor chart for structural adaptations and functions

I was thinking about how many of our anchor charts are teacher-made. Sure, we get student input, but what if we had a way to

Collaborative Anchor Charts for Science Vocabulary: inherited traits and learned behaviors example

Science Vocabulary Ideas: Collaborative anchor charts for inherited traits and learned behaviors

I was thinking about how many of our anchor charts are teacher-made. Sure, we get student input, but what if we had a way to

Step on it! A life-sized food web

This is a fun idea to add to your unit on ecosystems. Make a life-sized version of an ocean food web for students to work their way

Over and Under the Snow picture book science lesson on animal adaptations in winter

Picture Book Science: Over and Under the Snow

Topic: animals in winter, animal adaptations Literacy Connections: figurative language, descriptive writing Focus: First of all, the illustrations in this book are beautiful. I love how

Picture Book Science Lesson: Bees and Ecosystems

Hi! I’m working on a new blog series: Picture Book Science Lessons. Each post contains a favorite picture book for teaching science concepts and activities to

7 Ideas to Teach Ecosystems and Food Webs

Food webs is one of my favorite topics–so you’ll see LOTS of great ideas to teach students about the flow of energy throughout an ecosystem.

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