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7th grade science centers
5 STEM Activities Desert Island STEM Challenge Bridge Catapult Raft Hut STEAM
If your students enjoy doing STEM or STEAM activities, they will LOVE this set of 5 fully-planned out challenges! All five themed STEM challenges center around the story of a shipwrecked traveler stranded on a deserted island. After watching an introductory “movie trailer” and hearing the story of the shipwreck, students will read five of the traveler's diary entries. Each entry will challenge them to design and build something to help him survive and get back to civilization!These STEM challeng
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4th - 7th
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Solar System Create, Facts, and Fill Ins on a String Interactive Science Fun!
Solar System: On A String Interactive {Create, Facts, and Fill Ins}The entire solar system is included in this pack.Once assembled your students will love that it will actually look like the solar system in the order in which the planets appear. There are dashed guidelines for cutting and on the back of each planet is a fill ins page. Requires 8.5 by 11 paper total of 14 pages – one set of full color art and one set of black line art for your students to color.The back of each planet asks – how
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K - 8th
Periodic Table of Elements Reading Activity
Teach your students about the periodic table of elements through these seven science texts. Students will understand simple substances, Dimitri Mendeleev, chemical symbols, the periodic table of elements, families of the periodic table, metals, metalloids, and nonmetals. Also included is a student-friendly version of the periodic table in color and black and white. Students will learn about elements and how the table is organized. This activity is perfect when introducing or reviewing the materi
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Periodic Table of Elements Unit
Scientific Method Activity Worksheets: Skittles Graphing Science Experiment
These skittles labs are a fun way to have students learn about the scientific method.Lab contents:1. Skittle Colors Lab:A. Question: Which color skittle is most common in a package of skittles?B. Developing a hypothesisC. ProcedureD. Data TablesE. GraphingF. Post-Lab Questions2. Skittles Mass and Amount LabA. Question: How accurate are Skittles packages to one another in terms of mass and total number of Skittles?B. Developing a hypothesisC. ProcedureD. Data and AnalysisE
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4th - 9th
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STEM Space Lander Math & Engineering Activity (Printed & Digital)
Space Lander STEM ChallengeThis STEM activity is one of our favorite engineering design challenges! The combination of marshmallows (or ping pong balls) and aliens makes this a winning STEM challenge! In the Space Lander Challenge, student teams build a lander using the engineering design process to keep two marshmallow "aliens" or "astronauts" inside a cup as it is dropped from various heights. Using straws, index cards, and mini marshmallows or cotton balls, students apply concepts of shock ab
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5th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Middle School
Solar System and Planets Reading Passages | The Solar System Worksheets
This Solar System and Planets Close Reading Packet has everything you need for a complete reading and science unit in your classroom. Differentiated reading passages, writing activities, no prep worksheets, and coloring pages are at the heart of this one-stop resource for learning about each planet!Please click the PREVIEW above for an idea of everything included in this loaded resource!If you have never used Close Reading or even if you are already a pro, this 110+ page packet truly is for you!
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Solar System and Planets Activities Bundle | Solar System Project
Natural Selection Simulation Activity | Survival of the Fittest Game
Students will have a blast competing to see if they have what it takes to survive and win this competition. In this Natural Selection simulation, students will use a spinner to see what traits their organism will have and see if they will be the last one standing. There are 6 challenges (one for each biome) presented in a powerpoint. Students will start sitting, and if they have favorable traits for the environment, they will stand. If they have unfavorable traits, they will sit. The students wh
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5th - 8th
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Halloween STEM Activities | Fall STEM Activities for October | Halloween Science
Halloween STEM Activities will keep your kids engaged in brain-busting work disguised as fun!This bundle includes the following 6 Halloween STEM activities:⭐ Bone Bridge® STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Creature Catcher STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Ghosts in the Graveyard STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Treat Toss STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Wings Wanted STEM Challenge Activity⭐ Halloween STEM Improv Activity (336 possible combinations!)The basic idea: In the 5 Halloween STEM Challenge Activities, students
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2nd - 8th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Science First Week Activity Gab Lab Stations First Days Getting to Know You
Use these Science Gab Lab stations to elicit conversation about science content and help your students to get to know each other during the first days or weeks of school! These stations are meant for grades 7-10 and for early in the school year, semester, or term when your students are first learning each others’ names and getting to know one another! They will appreciate the chance to talk about themselves and complete small coloring tasks along with engaging with interesting science content! T
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7th - 9th
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Biomes and Ecosystems Reading Comprehension Passages--UPDATED!
UPDATED (January 2020)Use this information-rich reading passages to integrate science curriculum into your reading standards! This packet includes:--6 Reading comprehension passages (1 per terrestrial biome)--6 Graphic organizers (1 per passage) --6 Short response activity sheets (1 per passage)Use these for whole group, small group or individual instruction. The passages, graphic organizers and questions can serve as a teaching tool, stations, homework or a review!
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4th - 7th
Halloween STEM Activity - Bone Bridge® - Halloween STEM Challenge
The Bone Bridge® Halloween STEM activity is collaborative, brain-busting work disguised as fun! This STEM challenge goes beyond Halloween. Connect it to your science lessons on skeletal system, bridges/transportation, and/or forces (specific ideas provided in the resource). The basic idea: Students work in partners or groups against a list of criteria and constraints to build a bridge for length, strength, or capacity using simple materials. This is the first resource from Bone Bridge® STEM Ch
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2nd - 8th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Also included in: Halloween STEM Activities - 6 STEM Challenges - Print & Paperless
Evidence of Evolution Stations
Get your students fully engaged as they travel on a journey to examine fossil evidence, discover how relative dating and radiometric dating work, compare homologous and vestigial structures, embryological evidence, analyze DNA evidence, research antibiotic resistance with a webquest, and even complete a geological time scale. The Evidence of Evolution Stations has students rotating to 8 different stations to analyze these different forms of evidence. Activity is designed for any middle school or
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-LS4-3
, MS-LS4-1
, MS-LS4-2
, MS-LS4-4
Scientific Method Task Cards | Science Investigations Experiments Variables
If your students are like mine, they need extra help with science process skills like supporting claims, identifying variables, asking testable questions, and writing investigation procedures.This task cards set has 20 task cards that each have 5 questions about an investigation scenario (100 total questions).Skills Included:identify independent variablesidentify dependent variablesidentify constantsformulate hypothesescommunicate valid conclusionsunderstand repeated trials can increase the reli
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4th - 7th
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Scientific Method | Scientific Method Posters | Bulletin Board
This bulletin board kit and reliable recording sheet will make experimenting a breeze. This low maintenance take on the scientific method enhances each science unit of the year. Use the predictable recording sheet with each experiment to take the confusion out of the scientific process.Included in this resource:6 scientific method posters:Ask a QuestionMake a HypothesisConduct an ExperimentCollect DataDraw a ConclusionShare Results6 color palettes100% Editable postersRecording sheetBulletin boa
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K - 8th
Weather and Climate Escape Room Activity | Science Review Game
Students will have a blast with this Weather and Climate Breakout Escape Room as they use their knowledge of weather vs climate, severe weather, instruments and symbols to make an EzPz Escape from this science breakout. Students are required to answer station cards and use a decoder to get the code for digital locks that will break them out of the digital room. There are 5 stations with 4 questions per station. Stations include:1. Weather2. Climate3. Severe Weather4. Weather Instruments5. We
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Earth and Space Escape Room Activity Bundle | Science Review Game
Animal and Plant Cells + Organelles Read and Apply + Quiz {NGSS MS-LS1-2}
Check out the digital version of this product here:Animal and Plant Cell Read and Apply DIGITAL versionAligns with NGSS MS-LS1-2: Modeling structure AND function of cells and their parts. NOW Includes a 10 question quiz that students can take on a device via Google Classroom, TpT Easel, or it can be printed out to take paper/pencil!This activity includes reading comprehension as well as an interactive activity! As a middle school teacher, I see more and more students that have a terribly difficu
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Grades:
4th - 7th
NGSS:
MS-LS1-2
, MS-LS1-1
, MS-LS1-6
Also included in: C. Haynes Custom Bundle
STEM Oil Spill Challenge - Earth Day STEM Activity
Oil Spill STEM Activity - Great for Earth Day! Learn about the effects of an oil spill on the environment through a hands-on engineering challenge! The goal of this challenge is to clean up all of the oil from the feathers and from the water in the time provided. Students will work in teams to devise a plan to get the oil spill cleaned up in a specified time of work. Distance learning update: Activity has been updated to accommodate distance learning including instructions on creating a material
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Grades:
2nd - 9th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 5-ESS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ESS3-3
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Also included in: Year-Round STEM Engineering Challenges Bundle (Middle School STEM)
Weathering, Erosion & Deposition Sort with real pictures: review, assess DIGITAL
Even Middle School students struggle with the differences between the three processes of weathering, erosion, and deposition. This interactive and hands-on sort activity will allow your students practice, review or asses this often tricky concept in a kinesthetic way. Details: Students evaluate examples of real world situations and determine if each is an example of weathering, erosion or deposition. They then cut, paste, and glue these examples under the correct heading. Real pictures with ex
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4th - 7th
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LEGO Challenge Task Cards {Great for STEM or fun building!}
I am really excited to show you some cute, older-kid friendly LEGO Challenge Task Cards! These are bright, colorful, and can appeal to older students without looking too primary. Don’t’ have LEGOs? That’s okay! These can be used for any building materials you may have—unifix cubes, plastic Flake Discs (Amazon), Bunchems (Amazon or Target), Wiki Stix, pipe cleaners, play-dough, etc. Get those kids engineering and manipulating. They work great as an independent station for special education, a STE
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PreK - 8th
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Scientific Method Activity Worksheets: Gummy Bears Science Experiment Candy Math
Scientific Method: This scientific method gummy bears lab is a fun way to have students learn about the scientific method.This lab contains the following:1. Question: What will happen to gummy bears if they are placed into different solutions: Water, Vinegar, Water and Baking soda, Water and Salt?2. Make Observations3. Developing a hypothesis4. Procedure5. Data Tables6. Graphing7. Post-Lab QuestionsImportant: This lesson is in my Scientific Method Activities Bundle(35% OFF!)Also Check ou
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4th - 10th
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Periodic Table of Elements Escape Room Activity | Science Review Game
Students will have a blast with this Periodic Table of Elements Digital Breakout Escape Room as they use their knowledge of the periodic table of elements to make an EzPz Escape from this science breakout. Students are required to answer station cards and use a decoder to get the code that will break them out of the digital room. There are 5 stations with 4 questions per station. Stations include:1. Understanding the Periodic Table2. Types of Elements3. Characteristics of Elements4. Mystery
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Physical Science Escape Room Activity Bundle | Science Review Game
Winter STEM or Christmas STEM Activity - Snowman Stretch STEM Challenge
This Winter STEM activity is a favorite every year and the perfect way to keep your kids engaged in brain-busting work disguised as fun right up until winter vacation!Snowman Stretch Christmas or Winter STEM Challenge Activity Overview: Working against a criteria/constraints list individually or in partners/groups, students will design and build the tallest free-standing snowman possible. (Option 2: Students design and build a snowman of greatest volume or surface area possible.)Note: This is t
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2nd - 8th
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Opposable Thumb Adaptation & Natural Selection activity, application, experiment
Challenge your students to do common tasks WITHOUT THEIR THUMBS! Details: In this activity and experiment- students will see the benefit of the adaptation of the opposable thumb. The students are asked to perform various tasks as quickly as possible with simple materials. Students can compete against a partner or you can run this as a whole class activity. Application questions are included to guide students understanding of Adaptations and Natural Selection. There are 2 versions of the activit
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4th - 8th
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Ecosystems Escape Room Activity | Science Review Game
Students will have a blast with this Ecosystems Digital Breakout Escape Room as they use their knowledge of factors in an ecosystem, food chains and food webs to make an EzPz Escape from this science breakout room. Students are required to answer station cards and use a decoder to get the codes for digital locks to break out of the digital room. There are 5 stations with 4 questions per station. Stations include:1. Factors in an Ecosystem2. Energy Roles3. Food Chain/ Webs4. Energy Pyramid5.
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Ecosystem Escape Room Activity Bundle | Science Review Game
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