Science Units Bundle for Early Elementary

This bundle has so many fascinating science experiments, activities, and inquiries that you will be set up for the entire year! Included are four complete units. For purchasing the bundle you will receive a BONUS STEM challenge! In this bundle you will receive:

Inquiry Process Unit

This unit is designed to provide you with everything you need to introduce the concepts of the inquiry process to young learners. The six experiments included provide a wide variety. Some take only ten minutes, some an hour, and some a full month. The experiments cover a range of science topics, including the five senses, weather and the seasons, force and motion, properties of matter, and basic engineering. This unit will help you create young scientists that cheer every time you say the word "science!"

Living/Nonliving Things/What Living Things Need Unit

This is a five/six week unit full of experiments and activities to teach about living and nonliving things AND what living things need to survive. You can download a FREE sample of what is inside by going to this FREE product in my store: How Much Water Do Seeds Need? You will receive a pacing guide, materials, procedures, and data recording forms for FIVE experiments, two activities, and an interactive book.

Force and Motion Unit

This is a five/six week unit full of experiments and activities to teach about the basic concepts of force and motion - particularly push, pull, friction, and gravity.

In this unit you will receive an introduction to teaching force and motion, material lists, procedures, and data recording forms for NINE experiments, as well as photos to guide your work all the way.

Ocean Creatures Integrated Unit

This is a six/eight week unit full of experiments, activities, writing pages, and graphic organizers to teach all about ocean creatures. All images used in this product are REAL photos of ocean creatures. This makes each and every page more engaging to students as they come in contact with REAL images of what they are studying.

In this unit you will receive an introduction to teaching about ocean creatures, experiment ideas, material lists, procedures, and response forms for three experiments, four activities, two math activities, an emergent reader project, a huge variety of graphic organizers, and photos to guide your work all the way.

BONUS STEM Challenge for purchasing the Bundle - Strength Testing

This is a great partner experiment that encourages creative thinking and problem solving. Students use a variety of materials to build two hanging baskets, and then test their structures using a hanging scale. They must plan and execute a design with a partner, predict how much weight, in grams, each basket will hold before breaking, and test their designs. They also learn to use standard measuring tools to measure mass and discuss properties of materials. This is a huge classroom hit, and young engineers often ask for opportunities to redesign and try again!

Each section in these units is so comprehensive that you could even hand them to a substitute teacher and they would have everything they need (although I selfishly always wanted to do this work with my kids myself - they are so fun!)

*Please note that one experiment appears in two units. This is the only duplication across units. "Mr. Egg Goes For A Ride" in part of both the Inquiry Process and Force and Motion units.