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3rd grade basic principles centers for Microsoft Word
Potential & Kinetic Energy Science Experiment
This science experiment has students demonstrate their knowledge of potential and kinetic energy by changing the release point height of a toy car.
The lab walks the students through the scientific process and has students record their data and in lab observations.
Potential Energy
Kinetic Energy
Energy Transfer
Scientific Process
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3rd - 6th
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Seven Blind Mice Inference and Evidence Worksheet
Read the story "Seven Blind Mice" and have students complete the corresponding worksheet. I always use this story and sheet when teaching inferences and the kids love it!
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3rd - 6th
My Hypothesis
This worksheet is used as an assessment to ensure comprehension of generating a hypothesis.
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K - 3rd
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STEM Fairy Tale Activity Packet for Elementary Students
This STEM Fairy Tale Activity packet includes 10 challenges, and is intended for students in grades 2-5. Working in cooperative learning groups, students use their own creativity and simple supplies to create towers, catapults, zip lines, parachutes and more that all correspond to a different fairy tale. The fairy tales include Rapunzel, Three Little Pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Gingerbread Man and others. This STEM Fairy Tale Activity is packet was created by RandeesDandees. The activities
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2nd - 5th
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Light and Shadow Assessment
Light and Shadow 1 page quick, comprehensive grade assessing main idea, details, and vocabulary using fill-in-the-blank, true/false, short-answer, and constructed response. 10 questions allow you to get an easy grade, but allows learners to show depth of knowledge. Includes Answer Key!
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1st - 4th
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Rock Cycle Card Sort / Game
In this file are descriptions of each of the three types of rocks: Sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous. There are four cards with rocks for each type and a description of how that rock was formed so that the student can decide which type of rock it is. Great for introducing rocks and rock cycle.
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3rd - 6th
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Characteristics and Needs of Living Things Assessment w/key
Characteristics and Needs of Living Things 1 page quick, comprehensive grade assessing main idea, details, and vocabulary using fill-in-the-blank, true/false, short-answer, and constructed response. 10 questions allow you to get an easy grade, but allows learners to show depth of knowledge. Includes Answer Key!
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K - 4th
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Recycle Lab- Conserve Natural Resources
Students are guided through the Scientific Process with included steps to create paper and a wooden figure out of recycled materials. All you need for these two labs are:
toilet paper
water bottles
strainers
bowls
wax paper
sawdust
liquid glue
I've done this lab with Kindergarteners, but with simplified, oral questions.
The questions on the lab sheets were designed for 3rd-5th grade.
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K - 5th
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Food Chain Assessment
1 page quick, comprehensive grade assessing main idea, details, and vocabulary using fill-in-the-blank, true/false, short-answer, and constructed response. 10 questions allow you to get an easy grade, but allows learners to show depth of knowledge. Includes Answer Key!
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K - 4th
States of Matter Phase Changes
Students will show their understanding of what the molecules look like for each state of matter. They will show if thermal energy needs to be added or taken away for the following phase changes: evaporation, freezing, melting, and condensation. This is a cut and paste activity, and an answer key is provided. This is an editable document so for the lower levels you could change thermal energy to heat.
I did not come up with the idea for this assignment, I found it on pinterest; I couldn't find a
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3rd - 5th
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Sound Assessment
1 page quick, comprehensive grade assessing main idea, details, and vocabulary using fill-in-the-blank, true/false, short-answer, and constructed response. 10 questions allow you to get an easy grade, but allows learners to show depth of knowledge. Includes Answer Key!
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K - 4th
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Science Tools Picture Sort/Memory Game
Matching activity of scientific tools that lays the foundation for science inquiry
*PICTURE MATCH: Cut out cards of pictures and descriptions. Mix them up. Have your students match the pictures to the correct descriptions and discuss how these tools are used in science.
*MEMORY GAME: Place all cards face down and take turns trying to find and remember the matches.
*MATCH-UP ACTIVITY: Each student is given one card. Students must walk around the room and find the person whose picture/description
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2nd - 5th
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Student Weather Booklet
This weather booklet is a great introduction and study guide for a weather unit. It includes the weather predicting instruments rain gauge, hygrometer, barometer, wind vane, anemometer, and thermometer. It also includes diagrams of cloud types and the water cycle.
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2nd - 5th
Weather Assessment
Weather 1 page quick, comprehensive grade assessing main idea, details, and vocabulary using fill-in-the-blank, true/false, short-answer, and constructed response. 10 questions allow you to get an easy grade, but allows learners to show depth of knowledge. Includes Answer Key!
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1st - 3rd
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Diet Coke and Mentos lab sheet
Do you need a quick and fun lab? Do you need to get students started on thinking like a scientist? This lab has students record observations on different types of beverages and their reaction to different types of Mentos candies. Students use stopwatches to time the duration of the spray from the carbonated sodas and talk briefly about surface tension. Students graph their results.
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3rd - 8th
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M & M's Science Inquiry Activity with Graphing
Do you want an activity to get younger students and children excited about science and math? Would your students love to do an activity with M& M's? Then this is the activity for you! This activity set comes complete with Teachers Notes, Student Lab Activity Sheet with Graphing Page, and Easy to Follow Directions with Data Based Questions.
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1st - 4th
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Nature of Science Vocabulary Chants
Chants are an exciting and effective teaching strategy. This Nature of Science pack contains five chants about topics such as the scientific method and safety. Why chants?
Chants are embedded with science vocabulary and concepts, crucial to lesson content.
They use music and rhythm, devices that help students retain the information longer.
Chants are a tried and true strategy for ELL learners (as well as all learners).
Most of all, they pique interest in the lesson and pre-teach key lesson point
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Grades:
1st - 6th
Newtons 3 Laws Reference Sheet
Students may use this reference sheet as a handy guide of Newton's Laws while applying their knowledge for engineering projects and classroom activities involving force, acceleration, gravity, and inertia. ***Aligns with Next Generation Science Standards***
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
The Five Senses Lesson Plan & Stations Packet
This product includes a DETAILED lesson plan including all standards (Next Generation Science Standards, related ELA standards, ACEI standards), rationale/research basis, literacy learning component, objectives, assessments, and an in-depth lesson sequence. Also provided is the packet to go along with the lesson plan. All resources are completely editable. Perfect to set up as stations for older children or as a whole-class activity for younger children. Hands-on, interactive, and engaging lesso
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K - 4th
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Peeps Taste Test!
Have your students try a variety of marshmallow Peep candies while strengthening their prediction skills!
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K - 5th
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Natural Resources - Group Critical Thinking Extension Projects
This document includes directions for three group projects students can do to leverage what they are learning in a natural resources science unit (e.g. types of natural resources, conservation, and renewable power) in new, challenging ways. The projects require students think critically and learn how to not only learn for themselves, but become such an expert on a topic that they can teach others. There is also a post-project reflection assignment/rubric to help the students think about themselv
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3rd - 6th
Penny Magnification- Science Skills
Students use a hand lens to magnify details on a penny. They will learn how illustrating findings can be important.This can be done in a whole group setting, small groups with a teacher, or as a science station.
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1st - 12th
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Editable Science Apple Observation Worksheet
This is a science activity that allows for students to fully observe apples and make predictions about how many seeds are inside. They draw the apples outside, mark what color, predict how many seeds, observe and record the inside of the apple, tape actual seeds to the paper, and write three words to describe their apple. This document is editable to customize for your classroom.
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PreK - 4th
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Animal Trait Investigation
This lab activity asks students to think about the traits/characteristics of animals. It is an introduction to the classification system that scientists use for all living things. In this case, they are focusing on the Animal Kingdom. They start by describing their own favorite animal, which leads to a class discussion. The class then reflects on what characteristics they used. Then they proceed to fill out a characteristics chart. At the end, they independently analyze their chart, looking for
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2nd - 5th
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