Science Labs in a Snap BUNDLE | 3rd Grade Science Experiments, Models, & STEM

Not your average science experiments! Science Labs in a Snap Bundle is designed to help teachers easily incorporate hands-on activities for AN ENTIRE YEAR OF SCIENCE with young scientists. While the 63 lab activities were designed for 3rd grade, the labs can certainly be used in different grade levels!

Simple. Meaningful. Ready to use!

There are 63 labs for 21 topics. That's 3 labs per topic: engagement lab, exploration lab, and an elaboration lab.

MATTER

Properties of Matter

1. Engagement Lab: Floating Fruit

Which fruits float in water? Which fruits sink?

2. Exploration Lab: Massive Fruit

Let’s measure the masses of different fruits.

3. Elaboration Lab: Oranges to Oranges

Let’s compare the physical properties of an orange with a peel to a peeled orange.

States of Matter

1. Engagement Lab: Matter Balloons

How can we describe solids, liquids, and gases?

2. Exploration Lab: The Shape of Water

Let’s explore the different shapes water can take.

3. Elaboration Lab: Classifying Matter

We can use information about matter’s shape to determine its physical state.

Changes to Matter

1. Engagement Lab: I'm Melting!

What will melt in the sun?

2. Exploration Lab: Hot & Cold

What happens when water is heated and then cooled?

3. Elaboration Lab: Easy Peasy Ice Cream

Let’s make ice cream!

Mixtures

1. Engagement Lab: Snack Mix and Lemonade

Are snack mix and lemonade mixtures?

2. Exploration Lab: Mixing It Up!

Let’s make some mixtures!

3. Elaboration Lab: Separating Mixtures

Let’s Separate mixtures using tools!

Tower Materials

1. Engagement Lab: Tower Design

How can various materials be used to build a tall, sturdy tower?

2. Exploration Lab: Properties of Materials

What are some properties of various materials?

3. Elaboration Lab: Tower Transformations

How can materials be combined based on their physical properties to create or modify objects?

ENERGY

FORMS OF ENERGY

1. Engagement Lab: In-straw-ments

How can we make high and low pitch sounds using straws?

2. Exploration Lab: Light Moves

How do objects interact with light?

3. Elaboration Lab: Hot, Hot, Hot!

How do particles move in water at different temperatures?

MOTION

1. Engagement Lab: Rope Pull

What forces can we observe when pulling a rope?

2. Exploration Lab: Playground Forces

How do forces change objects’ positions on the playground?

3. Elaboration Lab: Balloon Rocket

How does a balloon rocket’s position and motion change when the air inside is released?

GRAVITY

1. Engagement Lab: Ball & Feather

How are a ball and a feather affected by gravity?

2. Exploration Lab: Hanging On

Let’s compare the effect of gravity on different objects.

3. Elaboration Lab: Down the Hill

How does a ramp’s height affect the distance a toy car travels?

MAGNETS

1. Engagement Lab: Magnetic or Nonmagnetic?

Which items attract to a magnet?

2. Exploration Lab: Strength of Magnets

At which distance will the two magnets begin to attract?

3. Elaboration Lab: Magnets & Liquids

How do liquids affect magnetic attraction?

EARTH

SOIL

1. Engagement Lab: Soil Samples

Let’s explore different types of soil.

2. Exploration Lab: Dirt Pudding

Let’s make a model of a soil profile.

3. Elaboration Lab: Soil Formation

How does soil form?

Natural Resources

1. Engagement Lab: Scavenger Hunt

Let’s find natural resources and manufactured goods.

2. Exploration Lab: Useful Traits

What are useful traits of some natural resources?

3. Elaboration Lab: Resource Value

What makes a natural resource valuable?

Rapid Changes to Earth's Surface

1. Engagement Lab: Landslide Demonstration

What happens during a landslide?

2. Exploration Lab: Volcanoes

How can hot lava change Earth’s surface?

3. Elaboration Lab: Earthquake STEM Challenge

Build a structure that will withstand a gelatin earthquake.

Weather

1. Engagement Lab: Make a Windsock

How can we determine the direction and strength of the wind?

2. Exploration Lab: Our Weather

Let’s observe, measure, and record our weather conditions.

3. Elaboration Lab: Weather Report

How can we describe the weather conditions?

SPACE

Planets

Labs

1. Engagement Lab: String of Planets

How are the planets positioned from the Sun?

2. Exploration Lab: Delicious Distance

How big and far are the planets compared to one another?

3. Elaboration Lab: Toilet Paper Planets

Create a scale model of the distance of the planets from the sun.

Sun

1. Engagement Lab: Solar Viewing

How can we safely look at the Sun?

2. Exploration Lab: Sun vs. Earth

Create a scale model of the size and distance of the Sun and Earth.

3. Elaboration Lab: Sun Model

How many Earths can fit across the Sun?

Sun-Earth-Moon System

1. Engagement Lab: All the Way Around (Revolution)

How do the Earth and Moon move?

2. Exploration Lab: Round and Round (Rotation)

How do the Sun, Earth, and Moon move?

3. Elaboration Lab: Mini Model

Let's build a model of the Sun, Earth, Moon system.

Moon Phases

1. Engagement Lab: Lunar Lineup

What is the order of the phases of the Moon?

2. Exploration Lab: Moon Pops

Why does the Moon seem to change?

3. Elaboration Lab: The Light of the Moon

How much reflected light is visible to Earth during the lunar cycle?

LIFE

Food Chains

1. Engagement Lab: Breakfast Energy

Where does the energy in your food come from?

2. Exploration Lab: Class Food Chain

How can we show the flow of energy in a food chain?

3. Elaboration Lab: Food Chain Model

Let’s make a food chain model!

Environments and Organisms

1. Engagement Lab: Ecosystem Observations

Let’s observe an ecosystem!

2. Exploration Lab: Sun & Shade

How do sunny areas and shady areas differ?

3. Elaboration Lab: Environments and Life

How do the physical characteristics of an environment support life within the environment?

Structures and Functions

1. Engagement Lab: Our Bodies

How do the structures on our bodies help us survive?

2. Exploration Lab: Flower Structures

Let’s explore the parts of a flower.

3. Elaboration Lab: Bird Beaks

How is a bird’s beak related to what it eats?

Life Cycles

1. Engagement Lab: Plant a Seed

How does a seed develop into a plant?

2. Exploration Lab: Insect Life Cycle

How does an insect grow and change?

3. Elaboration Lab: Comparing Life Cycles

Let’s compare insect life cycles.

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Product Information

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2. Please purchase the correct number of user licenses. 1 teacher = 1 user license

3. This file is included in the 3rd Grade Science Bundle {Texas Edition}.

4. When using the 5E Model, my Digital Inquiry Jr. Lessons are perfect for Explain!

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