5th Grade

6 Back to School Resources for 2023 from The Science Penguin (with freebies!)

If you are looking for some fun back to school science ideas for your upper elementary class, you’ve come to the right place! Check out

Science About Me: Back to School

It’s almost time for back to school! Get to know your students and help students start thinking about science in their own lives. This free

What to do when a student is absent for a lab

You set up an elaborate lab for students to investigate solubility. Unfortunately you have one student home sick and another in the nurse’s office. With

$Classify to Practice: Reflect or Refract?$

Science Vocabulary Ideas: Classify to Practice with Reflection and Refraction

This vocabulary idea is called Classifying to Practice. This idea can be used with any student expectation that requires classification and that’s A LOT of Student

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

Science Vocabulary Ideas: Collaborative anchor charts for electrical conductors and insulators

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

5th Grade Mixtures and Solutions at the Beach

If you’re anything like me, you love a good beach day. Being near the water and feeling the sand between my toes is one of

3 Ways to Turn NoteTAKING into NoteBOOKING in Science

3 Ways to Turn Note-Taking into Notebooking with Interactive Science Notebooks

The first year I used Interactive Science Notebooks, almost all of the content on the pages was determined by me. Instead of notebooking, my 5th

How Science Mini-Charts Can Help YOU!

This versatile new line of science resources for 4th and 5th grade teachers was created to help solve common issues. What can I do if a

5 Tips for Using Science Warm-Ups

Instead of chitter-chatter and wasted time, get students on task right away. We have so little instructional time and so much to do! You may

5 Ideas for Teaching Science Practices

Many upper elementary science teachers start the year teaching their students about science process skills and scientific practices like: working safely in the lab using

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