Clouds

Types of Clouds worksheets - set of 7 various worksheets on the topic, really nice! PDF

Types of Cloud Article and Worksheet from SuperTeacherWorksheets.com PDF

Enchanted Learing's Types of Clouds Page - html, article with illustrations. Under article is a labeling worksheet (simple and average versions available).

Marcia's Science Teaching Ideas - flashcards and printables (observation chart, quizzes, etc) and a Cloud in the bottle "lab". "Please consider moving beyond how to identify clouds. Try also teaching your students to connect each cloud type with a specific type of weather. This is learning for life, which truly engages your students!"
(I was totally thinking this as I was putting together this unit, I am trying to move beyond that teaching things just because that is what done in schools and for the sake of knowledge alone)

Cloud Types
several different types of activities here; photographs (not illustrations) of different cloud types so student can see what they look like in real life;

• Drag and drop cloud match
• Cloud concentration

Cloud Types Illustrations
a few that I found while googling that I thought we might pick from for our notebooking work, in sha Allah.

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In shaa Allah, I'll post my packet for our cloud notebooking sometime this week.

The Art of Teaching Science with Foldables

The Art of Teaching Science with Foldables - quick presentation you can view at DocStop (without downloading) on the benefits of using foldables.

Science Foldables and Organizers

Center for Math and Science Education's Science Foldables/Organizers -loads of PDF files here from instructions to templates for specific science topics. Lots of neat stuff  from basic blackline organizers to colorful more foldable type ones.

Glencoe Science Active Folder Inserts

Basically the same thing as the foldables, here are some PDF files from Glencoe: Glencoe Science Active Folder Inserts

If you need to breath some life into ANY of your studies or capture what the kids have learned for review or portfolios, seriously consider the foldable/notebooking/lapbooking. My 11th grader has been doing science more or less on her own these past few months and after our move that didn't go through, we came across here science notebook that she had started eons ago and she started back up with it a few days ago and she is so excited about science now, she's said it's fun again. In shaa Allah I'll share some photos of her pages, I just love looking at them (and so does she).  She doesn't use foldables in hers yet (but she might after I show her the Science Foldables book I just posted about) but she just makes up her own tables and graphics and copies and pastes graphics from her digital textbook and she does a great job on her own, maa shaa Allah.

Teaching Science with Foldables

Teaching Science with Foldables - I just posted the link to a similar book for math and then blam, I came across this one at MuslimHomeschool.net. If you are into (or want to get into) science notebooking, just like with the math, you will LOVE this one.  Instructions, photographs and then for very specific science topics (cells, earth science, oceans, etc) it gives sample activities and illustrations of good foldables (shape books and charts) that would work well for that topic. Takes a lot of gues

swork out of coming up with suitable mini books/foldables (I'm not so super creative when it comes to that ).

We're working on clouds and precipitation this week and I hope to share my files for the printables I made for our science notebooks as well as some pics (no, that's not a pic of ours). Four of the kids and I sat down last night after maghrib and worked on their science notebooks and they really enjoyed it, even my son who is hard to get him to sit down and do schoolwork.

The pages are all jpgs in this file, so you may want to convert them to PDFs. If you are not able to, leave me a comment, in shaa Allah I am going to convert these and compile in one PDF when Iget home ;)

If you are not sure what all this is, stop by this Google Image Search for Science Foldables I did and get a peek at some of the different things you can do; its basically like what you do for lapbooks but I structure mine so that just one chapter or main concept is on one notebooking page.  I love lapbooks but they are a bit too congested for me, so we adapt it to notebooks.

The Water Cycle

Kidzone Water Cycle
Super simple explanation of the water cycle and 5 coloring worksheets which explain a water cycle principle and then one water cycle drawing.

Geology.com's Water Activities and Lesson Plans

Bogglesworldesl Water Cycle Worksheets
Water cycle diagrams, word seach, crossword puzzle.......

Enchanted Learning's Label the Water Cycle Diagram

Water Cycle. Flow chart and drawing activity. Upper elementary, middle.

Water Cycle. "Flow chart and drawing activity. Upper elementary, middle." from Education Oasis.


Water Cycle B * W

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Water cycle wheel from Illinois EPA
Can't wait to try this out, insha Allah looks cute.:


Google Search Results for B& W Water Cycle Diagrams

Pete's PowerPoint Station Water Cycle Links
Links to PowerPoints, of course, but also links to lesson plans and activities.

Reproducible Science Narration/Notebooking Pages

Here are some nice, simple notebooking pages from Noeo Homeschool Science that I found on a Squidoo lens.

There are nine different formats and they include experiment forms.