Adaptations and Natural Selection Circuit (20 Questions)
-Charles Darwin and Natural Selection
-Instinct vs. Learned Behaviors
-Camouflage and Mimicry with examples
-Structural, Behavioral, and Physiological Adaptations
Key Vocabulary (ex. hibernation, adaptation, migration, predator, and prey)
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Atmosphere Circuit (20 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (atmosphere, meteoroids, air pressure, Coriolis Effect, Greenhouse Effect, satellites, and more)
-Layers of the atmosphere
-Gases in the atmosphere
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Biomes Circuit (22 Questions)
-Key vocabulary
-Earth's Biomes (tundra, taiga, rainforest, desert, grassland, deciduous forest, marine, and freshwater)
-Identifying organisms in specific biomes
-Characteristics of biomes
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Biotic and Abiotic Factors Circuit (20 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (biotic factor, abiotic factor, ecosystem, population, habitat, niche, community, and more)
-Examples of biotic and abiotic factors
-Abiotic factors that biotic factors rely on
-True/False practice
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Body Systems Circuit (25 Questions)
-Functions of 10 major body systems (Digestive, Skeletal, Muscular, Endocrine, Nervous, Reproductive, Lymphatic, Excretory, Circulatory, and Respiratory)
-2 Structures (with pictures) of each major body system
-Body systems working together
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Cell Function Circuit (22 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (nucleus, cell membrane, cell wall, mitochondria, vacuole, ribosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, and more)
-Eukaryotic vs. prokaryotic cells
-True/False practice
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Cells Circuit (25 Questions)
-Cell Functions (Nucleus, Mitochondria, Ribosomes, Lysosomes, Cytoplasm, Golgi Bodies, Endoplasmic Reticulum, Cell Wall, Cell Membrane, Chloroplast, and Vacuole)
-Plant vs. Animal Cells
-Prokaryotic vs. Eukaryotic Cells
-Unicellular vs. Multicellular Organisms
-Levels of Organization (Cell, Tissue, Organ, Organ System, and Organism)
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Chemistry Circuit (30 Questions)
-Chemical Symbol
-Element, Compound, Molecule, Mixture
-Subscript and Coefficient
-Law of Conservation of Mass
-Products and Reactants
-Balanced and Unbalanced Equations
-Evidence of Chemical Reactions
-Physcial Property/Change
-Chemical Property/Change
-Parts of an Atom
-Periodic Table
Classification Circuit (25 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (ex. classification, taxonomy, dichotomous key, etc.)
-3 Domains of Life (Archaea, Bacteria, Eukarya)
-Kingdoms of Life (Animalia, Plantae, Protists, Fungi, Archaebacteria, Eubacteria)
-Levels of Classification (Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species)
-Identifying organisms of specific kingdoms
-Characteristics of organisms
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Convection on Earth Circuit (22 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (convection, convection currents, heat transfer, and more)
-Flow of warm vs. cool water (equator/poles)
-Surface vs. deep ocean currents
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Density Circuit (20 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (density, displacement, ruler, volume, triple beam balance, and more)
-Determining whether objects will float or sink in water
-Density formula
-Calculating density
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Earth Circuit (20 Questions)
-Lunar Cycle and Moon Phases (identifying and predicting)
-Waxing and Waning
-Tides, Spring Tide, and Neap Tide
-Rotation and Revolution
-Day and Night
-Seasons
-Solar and Lunar Eclipses
-Pictures included to help your Visual or ESL learners!
Earth's Tectonic Plates Circuit (20 Questions)
-Tectonic plates vocabulary (plate boundaries, subduction, convergent, divergent, transform)
-Major and minor plates
-Events and movements that occur at convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Ecosystems Circuit (25 Questions)
-Producers, Consumers, Scavengers, and Decomposers
-Herbivores, Carnivores, and Omnivores
-Photosynthesis
-Food Chains, Food Webs, and Energy Pyramids
-Biotic and Abiotic Factors
-Ecosystem, Population, Community, and Habitat
-Primary and Secondary Succession
Electromagnetic Force Circuit (22 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (electromagnetic force, electromagnet, magnetism, magnetic field, circuit, and more)
-Permanent vs. temporary magnets
-Attract vs. repel
True/False practice
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Electromagnetic Spectrum Circuit (21 Questions)
-Electromagnetic Spectrum vocabulary
-EMS Waves (radio, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, x-ray, and gamma)
-Uses of EMS waves
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Endothermic and Exothermic Reactions Circuit (18 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (chemical reaction, endothermic, exothermic, reactants, products, and more)
-Endothermic and exothermic examples
-Physical vs. chemical changes
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Energy Circuit (20 Questions)
-7 Forms of Energy (Mechanical, Radiant, Chemical, Electrical, Nuclear, Thermal, and Sound)
-Potential and Kinetic Energy
-Energy Definition
-Energy Transformation Definition
-Energy Transformation Examples
-Conduction, Convection, and Radiation
-Pictures included to help your Visual or ESL learners!
Energy Resources Circuit (20 Questions)
-Energy Resources vocabulary (ex. energy resources, fossil fuels, energy transformation, etc.)
-Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources (solar, hydro, wind, geothermal, biomass, coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear)
-Characteristics of resources
-Positives and Negatives of resources
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Environmental Changes Circuit (22 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (short-term changes, long-term changes, climate change, adaptation, species, and more)
-Examples of short and long-term changes
-True/False practice
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Evidence of Chemical Reactions Circuit (20 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (chemical reaction, chemical change, physical change, chemical formula, atoms, reactants, products, and more)
-Forms of evidence of chemical reactions – formation of gas, change in odor, production of light, unexpected color change, unexpected temperature change, formation of a precipitate
-True/False practice
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
External and Internal Stimuli Circuit (22 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (stimulus, response, tropism, phototropism, geotropism, thigmotropism, hydrotropism, and more)
-Positive and negative tropism
-True/False practice
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Force and Motion Circuit (21 Questions)
-Calculating Speed, Force, and Work
-Balanced, Unbalanced, and Net Forces
-Velocity and Acceleration
-Newton's Laws of Motion
-Inertia, Gravity and Friction
-Speed vs. Time Graph
-Distance vs. Time Graph
-Pictures included to help your Visual or ESL learners!
Formula Chart Circuit (20 Questions)
-Speed, Force, Density, and Work Formulas
-Calculating Speed, Force, Density, and Work
-Manipulating Speed formula practice
-Manipulating Force formula practice
-Manipulating Density formula practice
-Manipulating Work formula practice
-Pictures included to help your Visual or ESL learners!
Genetics Circuit (25 Questions)
-Dominant and Recessive
-Gregor Mendel
-Heterozygous and Homozygous
-DNA, Trait, Gene, Chromosome, Allele
-Inherited and Acquired Traits
-Punnett Squares
-Genotype and Phenotype
-Sexual and Asexual Reproduction
-Pictures and graphics included to benefit your ESL/ELL learners
Geologic Time Scale Circuit (22 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (geologic time scale, radioactive decay, fossil, index fossil, paleontologist and more)
-Eras – Precambrian, Paleozoic, Cenozoic, Mesozoic, etc.
-Sections of the time scale (eon, era, period, epoch)
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Moon Phases Circuit (24 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (waxing, waning, revolution, and more)
-Phases of the moon with images and descriptions
-Length of the full cycle
-Predicting moon phases practice
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Microscopes Circuit (20 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (electron microscope, compound light microscope, cells, and more)
-Important scientists (Leeuwenhoek and Hooke)
-Parts of a microscope
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Non-Contact Forces Circuit (20 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (force, non-contact force, contact force, gravity, magnetism, electrostatic, weak, strong, and more)
-Centrifugal vs. Centripetal force
-True/False practice
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Organic Compounds Circuit (20 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (organic compounds, inorganic compounds, element, compound, amino acids, and more)
-4 types of organic compounds – nucleic acids, proteins, carbohydrates, lipids
-4 classes of inorganic compounds – bases, acids, salts, and water
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Photosynthesis Circuit (18 Questions)
-Photosynthesis vocabulary (photosynthesis, cellular respiration, autotroph, heterotroph, producer, chloroplast, chlorophyll, and more)
-Reactants and products of photosynthesis
-The Sun and energy transformations
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Physical and Chemical Changes Circuit (20 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (physical change, chemical change, endothermic, exothermic, precipitate, properties, and more)
-Examples of physical and chemical changes
-Examples of physical and chemical properties
-States of matter
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Planets Circuit (25 Questions)
-Planets vocabulary (ex. planet, meteor, meteoroid, meteorite, comet, asteroid, Galilean moons, etc.)
-Inner and Outer Planets
-Characteristics of Planets
-Meteors, Meteoroids, and Meteorites
-Parts of a Comet
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Plate Tectonics Circuit (25 Questions)
-Plate Boundaries (Convergent, Divergent, and Transform)
-Earthquakes and Volcanoes
-Layers of the Earth
-Alfred Wegener
-Continental Drift
-Pangaea
-Convection Currents
-Subduction and Ocean Trench
-Constructive and Destructive Forces
-Ring of Fire
-Topographic Maps
Properties of Minerals Circuit (20 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (minerals, streak, hardness, luster, fracture, cleavage, and more)
-Mohs Scale of Hardness to identify minerals
-True/False practice
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Rocks and Rock Cycle Circuit (22 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (ex. rock, rock cycle, igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary, and more!)
-Types of rocks (igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic)
-Formation of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks
-Identifying rocks from descriptions
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Science Lab Safety Circuit (20 Questions)
-Handling sharp objects
-The uses of goggles
-Fire Extinguisher
-Fire Blanket
-Eye Wash Station
-Safety Lab Shower
-Proper disposal of solid and liquid wastes
-Wafting
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Scientific Process Skills Circuit (25 Questions)
-Problem, Hypothesis, Investigation, Conclusion
-Observation vs. Inference
-Variables (Control, Dependent, ad Independent)
-Length, Mass, Weight, Volume
-Identifying Science Equipment
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Space Circuit (25 Questions)
-Rotation and Revolution
-Star, Solar System, Galaxy, Universe
-Spiral, Elliptical, and Irregular Galaxies
-Light Year
-Telescope
-Astronomer
-Supernova and Black Hole
-Inner and Outer Planets
-Orbit and Axis
-Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) Diagram
-Pictures included to help your Visual or ESL learners!
Space Exploration Circuit (24 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (astronomer, Hubble space telescope, international space station, space shuttle, NASA, and more)
-Important missions to space
-First living organisms in space
-Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Symbiosis Circuit (25 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (symbiosis, mutualism, commensalism, parasitism, competition, parasite, host, predator, prey, etc.)
-Identify real-world examples of symbiotic relationships
-Differentiate between various examples of mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism
-Analyze parasite/host and predator/prey relationships
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Thermal Energy Circuit (25 Questions)
-Thermal Energy vocabulary (ex. thermal energy, heat, specific heat, thermal equilibrium, and more!)
-Types of heat transfer (conduction, convection, and radiation)
-Conductors and Insulators
-States of Matter
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Topographic Maps Circuit (20 Questions)
-Topographic map vocabulary (topographic map, contour line, index contour line, contour interval, hachure marks, and more)
-Steep vs. gradual slope
-Flow of a river or stream
-Understanding the basics of topographic maps
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Water and Water Cycle Circuit (20 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (ex. water cycle, condensation, evaporation, precipitation, transpiration, river, lake, aquifer, watershed, and more!)
-Parts of the water cycle
-Water conservation
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Waves Circuit (25 Questions)
-Waves vocabulary
-Types of waves (transverse, longitudinal, and surface)
-Parts of waves (crest, trough, compression, rarefaction)
-Properties of waves (amplitude, wavelength, frequency, and speed)
-Interactions of waves (reflection, refraction, diffraction, and interference)
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Weather Circuit (25 Questions)
-Weather Instruments
-Fronts
-Hurricane and Tornado
-High and Low Pressure
-Condensation, Evaporation, and Precipitation
-Key Vocabulary
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition Circuit (25 Questions)
-Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition vocabulary
-Types of weathering (Mechanical and Chemical)
-Types of erosion (Landslide, slump, and creep)
-Landforms formed from deposition (Deltas and alluvial fans)
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Body Systems Circuit Bundle Also Included:
Circulatory System Circuit (22 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (circulatory system, arteries, veins, blood, red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, platelets, and more)
-Parts of blood
-Chambers of the heart
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Digestive System Circuit (20 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (digestive system, liver, gall bladder, pancreas, stomach, small/large intestines, esophagus, epiglottis, and more)
-Digestion, ingestion, egestion
-Mechanical vs. Chemical digestion
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Endocrine System Circuit (20 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (endocrine system, endocrine glands, positive feedback, negative feedback, and more)
-Glands of the endocrine system – pancreas, thymus, thyroid, hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenal, parathyroid
-True/False practice
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Excretory System Circuit (22 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (excretory system, kidney, urethra, ureter, liver, bladder, lungs, and more)
-True/False practice
-Function of skin in excretory system
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Integumentary System Circuit (22 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (integumentary system, epidermis, dermis, skin, hair, nails, and more)
-Layers of epidermis
-Layers of skin (i.e. epidermis, dermis, and subcutaneous)
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Lymphatic System Circuit (20 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (lymphatic system, lymph nodes, lymph, thymus, spleen, tonsils, and more)
-Structures of the lymphatic system
-Function of the spleen, tonsils, and lymph nodes
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Muscular System Circuit (18 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (muscular system, smooth, skeletal, cardiac, voluntary, involuntary, and more)
-Examples of muscles – smooth, skeletal, and cardiac
-Striated vs. Non-striated muscles
-Isotonic vs. Isometric
-Function of muscular system
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Nervous System Circuit (22 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (nervous system, neurons, axon, dendrites, central nervous system, peripheral nervous system, and more)
-Parts of the brain
-Types of neurons
-Parts of a neuron
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Reproductive System Circuit (18 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (reproductive system, testes, ovaries, vagina, cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes, and more)
-Structures of the male reproductive system
-Structures of the female reproductive system
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Respiratory System Circuit (24 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (respiratory system, pharynx, larynx, trachea, lungs, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli, and more)
-Lung illness (Bronchitis, Asthma, Lung Cancer)
-Regions of the pharynx
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Skeletal System Circuit (22 Questions)
-Key vocabulary (skeletal system, tendons, ligaments, long bones, short bones, flat bones, irregular bones)
-Types of joints (movable joints – hinge, ball and socket, pivot, and gliding; immovable joints)
-Examples of types of bones
-Function of bones and skeleton
-Pictures and clip art for your Visual/ESL/ELL learners!
Circuit Instructions
1. Print out all of the slides (cardstock or regular paper will be fine). You may choose to laminate them for durability.
2. Randomly place the signs around the room (mix them up, do not place them all in the order they print out). You may tape them to the wall or place them on the tables/desks.
3. Students may begin at any location. They will read the question on the sign and find the answer on another sign around the room.
4. There are 3 options for student recording sheets (details on following pages).
5. When students find the answer, they will write the answer to the question.
6. Students will then read the next question that is located at the bottom of the sign and then proceed to find the answer around the room.
7. This process continues until the students have completed all of the questions and answers.
8. If completed correctly, the students should START and FINISH the activity at the same sign (make a complete “circuit”).
