Sasha from theautismhelper.com shows 11 science file folder activities for classrooms. Each folder has a picture title, visual tab, and labeled baggie to keep pieces organized. Tasks range from matching science equipment and planets to sorting animals by habitat and sequencing plant life cycles.
Hi, this is Sasha from theautismhelper.com, and this is a product preview of my science file folder activities. So I love file folder activities because they take up a very little amount of space, they're easy to set up, and our kids know how to use them. They know what's expected of them. There's something engaging and constructive that they can do. There's pieces to move. So I think this is a great way to teach all types of skills, including thematic learning like science and social studies. So I wanted to have this set of file folders be a range of easier file folders to more difficult. So I wanted to include a bunch of matching file folders so some of your lower-level learners can just work on basic science vocabulary within different concepts, be included with their gen ed peers, but still be doing a task that's at their level like matching. So I'm gonna show you some of these. There's 11 tasks in total. So first is matching science equipment. Every file folder is structured in the same way with a with a picture for the title, a visual for the tab, and a visual for the baggie. So you'll have everything labeled and you won't be— it'll be much harder to lose anything, which I really, really love. So first up is Matching Science Equipment. Here are the pieces and the board. Next is Matching Simple Machines, pictures and the board. Matching Graphs, Matching Planets, Matching Body Parts, and matching organs. These would be so great all thrown together in one binder if you had a student that was doing inclusion or needed some adapted science activities. This would work perfectly. These would also be great to teach the vocabulary within these different concepts, so these could be really used for a lot of ways. Next up, there are a bunch of different sorting ones, which I love as well. So this is matching animals to the habitat. So here are the animal pieces, and they match 2 animals to each habitat. I really, really love how this one turned out. I'm really excited to use this. Next is sorting living and non-living items. So looking at them, um, a little bit harder discrimination of putting all the living pieces together and all the non-living pieces together. Next is sorting solids and liquids. Here's the pieces for that. Sorting cold versus hot. Sort. And then sequencing the plant life cycle. So here's all the pictures, and then they're going to be sequence— sequencing it in order. So these last few are really higher-level skills, which I think is great to kind of extend the science concepts into something a little more complex. So again, there's 11 file folders included all, each with directions of setup and visuals for each, from theautismhelper.com.
