Oil Spill Activity

This is my second year doing this activity and I have absolutely fallen in love with it. I used a pre-reading activity to give the kids a good background knowledge of the basics of oil spills. There were multiple resources available on TeachersPayTeachers as well as national articles on the Exxon Valdez and more recent Santa Barbara Oil Spill. A  venn diagram activity on the worksheet for your students to do a pre-reading activity comparing two different texts. This fits so nicely with any language arts standards of comparing across texts. Here is the link to the temporary freebie. I hope you enjoy this activity with your kids!!   

~ Tara

Science Journals

Take two!  I was trying to save my science journal as a jpeg and lost my post.  So here we go again.  I will figure this blog world out soon enough to really impress someone.  I'm not sure who yet. 


I loath reinventing the wheel, so when I came across many ideas I have previously made, I really felt convicted to get my ideas out there.  In hopes that someone will find a shortcut. 

I have two adorable girls and surfing the internet for the right idea or making it from scratch is not always a luxury I have nowadays. 

Ps. I should probably post in my information, I'm not a super grammar person, so don't judge me! Lol

Also, I'm sooooo new at all of this and can't figure out how to put them in order and the file is too large for google docs...:(  Maybe I won't be so good at this after all.