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Science Vocabulary

Five activities on one unit's word list. Every one works on this screen or on paper — both count. Nothing a student does leaves their computer unless they tap Send.

The word list

Five ways into the same fifteen words

A vocabulary list is not learned by being read. It is learned by being matched, taken apart, used in a sentence, put on a picture, and grouped with the words it belongs beside. That is what these five do — the same fifteen words, five different jobs.

Activity 1

Match the Meaning

The word, and four meanings. Only one of them is this word — the other three belong to somebody on the same list.

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Activity 2

Build the Word

photo + synthesis. chloro + phyll. Take the long ones apart and the pieces turn out to mean something on their own.

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Activity 3

Say It in a Sentence

A science sentence with one word missing. This is the one that separates chemical from chemistry.

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Activity 4

Picture It

One picture of a plant, eight places on it. Vocabulary that lands on a model instead of a definition line.

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Activity 5

Which One Doesn't Belong

Four words, one outside the group. Then name what the other three share — that is the half that turns a list into a map.

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The fifteen words

Straight from the unit's own student page, word for word. Every one of them is taught inside an activity — this is only so you can see them all in one place, and so the list prints.

essentialadj.If something is essential, it is absolutely necessary.
photosynthesisn.Photosynthesis is the process by which a green plant uses the sun's energy to make food for the plant.
resourcesn.Resources are things that are available and ready to be used to meet needs.
synthesisn.Synthesis is the result of putting things together.
uniquelyadv.Uniquely means unlike other things or the only one of its kind.
chlorophylln.Chlorophyll is the green substance found in almost all plants.
chloroplastsn.Chloroplasts are the parts of a plant's cells in which photosynthesis takes place.
glucosen.Glucose is a simple sugar.
integraladj.If a thing is integral, that thing is necessary for something to be whole or for something to do its job.
chemistryn.Chemistry is the science that deals with how things are made up and how they change when they interact with other things.
chemicaladj.The word chemical describes something related to the makeup of substances; it has to do with chemistry.
moleculen.A molecule is a very small amount of matter, formed by combining two or more atoms.
carbon dioxiden.Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a colorless, odorless gas that occurs naturally.
microbesn.Microbes are very tiny living organisms.
oppositen.The opposite is something that is completely different from another thing, as up is to down.
Any teacher, any unit

Run these on your own word list

Paste your list below and the activities that can honestly run it will pick it up on this computer. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is shared — it is stored in this browser, next to the student work, and the same Erase everything button removes it.

word | part of speech | what it means | a sentence with the word as ___ | group

The last two are optional. What you give decides which activities can run: the meaning is enough for Match the Meaning; a sentence adds Say It in a Sentence; a group adds Which One Doesn't Belong. Build the Word and Picture It stay on this unit's words, because they need each word's own pieces and its own picture — and they will say so on screen rather than run half of themselves.

    For the teacher

    Eight items, three sets, on every activity.

    Independent, supported, hints, confidence.

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    Send a link, get a row back.

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    A bare link stays private.

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    Your own list is a per-computer thing.