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Understanding heatwaves is more important than ever as students explore weather systems, climate science, environmental change, and the impacts of extreme temperatures on ecosystems and human populations. This comprehensive pair of resources provides an engaging and differentiated approach to teaching the science of heatwaves in middle and high school classrooms. The dual reading passage set includes one passage of approximately 15 paragraphs with six accompanying questions consisting of three comprehension questions, a fill in the gaps activity, a true or false task, and a critical thinking question, alongside a second passage of approximately 10 paragraphs with five questions including two comprehension questions, a fill in the gaps activity, a true or false task, and a critical thinking prompt.

These passages help students build scientific literacy while developing reading comprehension and analytical skills. The accompanying research project template extends learning through a structured investigation that includes a one paragraph summary, a mathematics connection, an engineering or technological connection, a five term glossary, three challenging inquiry questions, and a creative item space. To support differentiation, six additional inquiry questions are provided in two sets, offering both easier and more advanced options that can be adapted to suit different age groups and ability levels. A detailed 20 point rubric supports self, peer, and teacher assessment, while comprehensive implementation guidance helps educators confidently integrate the resources into Earth science, environmental science, climate science, geography, and STEM units.

The included 10 page HTML companion resource provides extensive background information and primer material, while also offering JSON export and import functionality for student responses, making it ideal for digital classrooms, independent learning, and project based instruction. Together, these resources help students develop scientific knowledge, critical thinking, research skills, and real world understanding while providing teachers with a flexible, high quality, and time saving solution for teaching one of the most significant environmental topics of the modern era.

This Heatwaves research project template (webquest) provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resource that can help your students learn all about Heatwaves. For digital, you can provide a Google doc copy for ease of submission or a Microsoft word version as well. In this Heatwaves research project template (webquest) with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking. It gives a rich and supportive framework that can be tweaked as needed for students to support differentiation.

This Heatwaves research project template includes:

Space for a one paragraph summary (that links to the 2 page science articles also available on this topic).
Students should produce a mathematical connection, an engineering / technology connection, 2 interesting facts / stats.
5 glossary terms they should fill in with their own words (which also links to the science article also available)
3 thought provoking questions (ie: critical thinking questions) they must answer.
Finally, each template has 3 alternative thought provoking questions for younger students and 3 other alternative harder questions to extend high flying or older students. Giving you a total of 9 possible thought provoking questions that could be used with students to enhance their research and critical thinking.
Further, I have added a 1 page - 20 point rubric to be used for either self-assessment or teacher assessment as you deem fit. I hope it helps support the learning even further!
A new and improved 10 page HTML format addition to give plentiful initial materials.

The template is some of my best work and I am proud to share it with you.

This 2 article set of Heatwaves reading passages with questions provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resource that can help your students learn all about Heatwaves. For digital, you can provide a Google doc copy for ease of submission or a Microsoft word version as well. In this Heatwaves articles with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking.

The accessible version is geared towards approximately 5th / 6th / 7th grade science students, while the more advanced version is geared towards approximately 8th / 9th / 10th grade science students. This range for both could be extended with prep work or additional materials.

A SCIENCE RESEARCH PROJECT TEMPLATE + DUAL READING PASSAGES CAN BE USED SO MANY WAYS:

Useful for substitute (sub) teaching
To extend students
To increase scientific literacy and research skills in your class
Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast and you need a long running task
To inspire students on a particular topic
As a scaffold to support students who need support on research skills and can use a framework
To enhance critical thinking when doing research and making a relevant and interesting output
Give a selection of these research project templates for students to choose from
To enhance students ability to express ideas and synthesis knowledge
To increase scientific literacy in your class
A weekly reading / research task

WHAT'S INCLUDED:

Heatwaves Science Research Project Template

7 page Google doc teacher version with supporting appendix items
3 page Google doc student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes)
7 page Word doc teacher version with supporting appendix items
3 page Word doc student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes)
7 page PDF teacher version with supporting appendix items
3 page PDF student version with space to fill in answers
1 page 20 point rubric for self or teacher assessment in all three - Google doc, Word doc and PDF form
10 page HTML format addition with plenty of materials to initially support students. (UPDATE)

Heatwaves Dual Reading Passage Set

2 - 3 page Word doc image - textboxes teacher version with answers
2 - 2 page Word doc image - textboxes student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes)
2 - 3 page PDF teacher version with answers
2 - 2 page PDF student version without answers (but space left to do so)
2 - 3 page Google doc image - textboxes teacher version with answers
2 - 2 page Google doc image - textboxes student version with room to fill answers (text boxes)
New 2 x 2 page HTML format that works on any browser allows answers to put in and saved via JSON format and uploaded via JSON format too for ease of use!

Please note: That the Doc versions are images with editable text boxes overlayed on top and this is the most effective way to keep the article sleek and well-designed and also that students cannot change things significantly.