FREE SCIENCE LESSON - “FREE 2025 5th Grade Science STAAR Review Planning Guide | Science Test Prep”

by The Science Penguin
5th Grade

Let's get ready for 5th grade Science STAAR! Updated for 2025, this test prep guide includes Science Penguin resource recommendations to make planning an effective review a breeze.

ABOUT THIS PLANNING GUIDE

Who is this for?

5th grade Texas teachers using the TEKS and Science Penguin resources

What is it?

This is your guide to the 2025 5th Grade Science STAAR. This resource includes:

• Recommended resources
• Sample 10-day review schedule

If you followed the Science Penguin Full-Year Planning Guide, you have already:

• taught all tested content
• reviewed tested content from previous grade levels
• practiced all types of STAAR questions with Boom Cards, Google Forms, and Test Prep Task Cards
• improved students’ writing, reasoning, and science skills
• utilized various materials to meet individual needs
• reviewed content all year with Spiral Review

In the STAAR Planning Guide, we will:

• follow TEA’s 2024-2025 Assessed Curriculum
• use fresh resources that were not key components of the Full-Year Planning Guide

RESOURCES FEATURED IN THE PLANNING GUIDE

5th Grade Science STAAR Review Bundle EVERYTHING YOU NEED

This bundle includes all the resources from the guide and more.

10 Days to STAAR

These essential warm-ups in Google Forms contain 10 days of review with 10 STAAR-like questions each day. Tested content for 2025 from the 3rd-5th grade science TEKS is included.

SCR Detectives Lessons

This is a slideshow lesson that spans 3 days. It has a detective theme and includes 6 new SCR items that students will investigate, analyze, respond to, and score.

Science STAAR SCR Practice

Need more Short Constructed Response questions like they will see on 5th Grade Science STAAR? Here are 30 prompts, ready to go! Rubrics included.

Science STAAR Activity Board

This set of 9 station activities is perfect for self-paced review.

Test Prep Printables

Review STAAR-tested science content with these no-prep printables!

Test Prep Scenarios (Printable and Digital)

This pack includes 25 Test Prep Scenario pages, each focusing on a different science content standard.

STAAR Review (Printable and Digital)

The 5th grade science review includes worksheets for SEs that students should have mastered by the end of 5th grade.

Science Sorting Relays

Have some fun with science sorts-- use them as relays or for other review games.

Visual Stimuli as Answer Choices Test Prep Task Cards

Sometimes, students get stumped when charts, tables, images, lists, graphs, and diagrams ARE the answer choices. Not anymore! Use these Visual Stimuli as Answer Choices Task Cards to ensure students don't freeze up when they see elaborate answer choices.

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Daily April STEM Activities Bundle for Middle and High School - $4.95

by All-American Teacher Tools

4th - 10th grades

Bulletin Board Ideas, Centers, Games

These two STEM activities can be used together. The STEM StumperZ can be used as a discussion starter, journal entry, Do-Now, or any other application. The Bingo game goes with it. You can print the PDF and have paper bingo games or use the EASEL version and have moveable globes as markers. Either way, your middle and high school students will have fun learning about daily STEM events in April.

Types of Angles Worksheets Acute Obtuse Right - $3.50

by Believe to Achieve by Anne Rozell
2nd - 4th grades
Centers, Homeschool, Printables, Worksheets

Help your students master angles with these worksheets! In order to review types of angles, students need a way to practice and apply their knowledge. It can be hard for students to really understand what acute, obtuse, and right angles are without some sort of practice. These worksheets will help your students review and apply their knowledge of types of angles. The worksheets are easy to use- just print them out and you're ready to go! These types of angles worksheets are the perfect addition to your math centers. 

Beginning Blends Activities & Worksheets for 3-Letter Blends - $3.97

by Primarily Learning
K - 2nd grades

Activities, Homeschool, Worksheets

Learning 3-Letter Blends can be challenging for young learners. Use these 12 activities & worksheets to help students at varying ability levels study 3-Letter Beginning Consonant Blends. Sound units are marked to align with systematic phonics programs and the Science of Reading. Get yours today!

Better Bingo: Reading Long Vowel Words - $2.99

by Reading Spotlight

1st - 4th grades

Activities, phonics

Effective, engaging, and easy to use, Better Bingo: Reading Long Vowel Words is so much better than another boring phonics worksheet. A simple, repetitive, and enjoyable format helps to develop proficiency automatically, through repeated practice of letter cluster patterns, without dependence on learning phonics rules. It is especially helpful for students who are not successful with phonics.

  

Compound Word Puzzles: Word to Picture Literacy Center - $4.00

by Mickey's Place

K - 2nd grades

Activities, Assessment, Centers

Compound Word Puzzles: Word to Picture Literacy Center is a comprehensive way for students to engage in and increase their learning of compound words. This resource contains 60 compound words in which students will match the individual word cards of each word with the picture card to form the compound word. Ideas for use:  learning center, individual activity, partner game, small group, family activity

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FREE MATH LESSON - “Describing Probability - Grade 7 (7.SP.C.5)”

by Mathy Techy
6th - 8th Grade

Perfect minilesson to introduce the language of probability and demonstrate how each term relates to the likelihood of an event happening. Using a number line from 0 to 1, students learn how to describe the probability based on its chances of occurring.

This is a great introduction to further study in Probability.

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My Grade 7 Probability Lessons are excellent to teach and review the most important and fundamental probability skills.

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Odds and Evens Experiment

Probability Challenge Problems

Probability Unit Test (Editable Download)

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FREE MISC. LESSON - “Easter Vocabulary - Freebie”

by Teachtree
Pre-Kindergarten - 2nd Grade

This activity was designed to focus on Easter Bible vocabulary and would be a great resource for home, school, or church. Use as posters, memory verse study, visual aids, or coloring pages. All pages are black and white.

Contents:

• 4 Vocabulary Sheets – 4 words per sheet (use on word wall, matching game, write the wall, etc)
• 8 Sheets – each sheet has a Bible verse, two vocabulary words, and matching pictures

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FREE MISC. LESSON - “Daisy Chain FREEBIE! Celebrate Spring with this fun outdoor activity...”

by Green Grubs
2nd - 4th Grade

Issue your lawn mower with a 'Cease and Desist' order; grow a good crop of Daisies and have fun with this FREEBIE!


This resource includes a photographic task card explaining how to make daisy chains; tips and suggestions for making the most of your daisy chain making day; and a variety of writing sheets and photo frames to record your daisy chain making fun!




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