Science Minute Daily Warm-Ups, Bellringers for 6-8 with Steve Spangler Video

Start teaching bell-to-bell with 36 weeks of daily warm-ups based on Steve Spangler’s popular Science Minute video series! Bring NGSS Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs) into your classroom with these creative starters. 

This set of Science Minute warm-ups is leveled for students in grades 6 to 8. (Looking for grades 3-5? Click here!) 

The journey begins on Day One as students watch and react to a demo performed by science communicator Steve Spangler. For the rest of the week’s warm-ups, students engage with the video’s phenomenon to practice different science and engineering practices.

Your students will practice asking questions, analyzing data, making models, and communicating information throughout the week!

Day 1
Practice 1: Asking Questions

Day 2
Practice 4: Analyze and Interpret Data, or
Practice 5: Use Math and Computational Thinking

Day 3:
Practice 2: Develop Models, or
Practice 3: Plan an investigation

Day 4:
Practice 6: Construct Explanations

Day 5:
Practice 7: Engage in Argument from Evidence, or
Practice 8: Obtain, Evaluate, and Communicate Information

Science Minute warm-ups cover a range of topics from chemistry to physical science. The 36 video titles include:

• Balancing Nail Challenge
• Balloon Bottle
• Bernoulli’s Windbag
• Bouncing Bubble
• Cornstarch Monster
• Cabbage Juice Indicator/Color-Changing Liquid
• Cereal Science/Ping Pong Popcorn Trick
• Cloud in a Bottle
• Color-Changing Goldenrod Paper
• Color Mixing Rainbow Test Tubes
• Cornstarch Monsters
• Diving Soy Sauce
• Dry Ice Crystal Bubble
• Eating Nails for Breakfast
• Egg Challenges
• Erupting Dry Ice Smoke Bubbles
• Floating Art
• Floating and Sinking Soda Cans
• Leak-proof Bag
• Magical Appearing Trees
• Make Your Own Quicksand
• Mousetraps and Flying Ping Pong Balls
• Musical Bottles
• Naked Egg
• Oil Spill Science
• Practical Joke/Do Not Open Bottle
• Skewer Balloons
• Soap Soufflé
• Soda Can Shake-Up
• Spinning Penny
• Squeeze Bottle Rocket
• Static Electricity Magic/The Flying Bag
• Tribute to Mr. Wizard
• Vanishing Water
• Water Screen Mystery/Floating Water
• Will It Float?
• Wine Bottle Cork Challenge

The files are available in editable PPTX and PDF formats. 

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