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Elementary Earth Day forensics laboratories
Microscope CSI Forensics Lab
Whodunnit? This immersive mascot mystery requires a few microscopes and a scientific eye as students view various residues while they act like detectives and try to determine who the culprit is! This lab is easy to implement using household items such as garlic powder, salt, baby powder, sugar, sand and flour. WHAT'S INCLUDED in this 1-2 DAY LESSON:• 14 NON-EDITABLE PDF handouts with student and teacher directions• Accompanying PowerPoint• Answer keySTUDENTS WILL:• Examine various residues unde
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Grades:
5th - 11th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
CSI - Crime Scene Forensics Escape Room
Students use forensic evidence, teamwork, and critical thinking to solve this CSI Crime scene escape room. In the activities, students analyze 4 different pieces of forensic evidence (fingerprints, shoe prints, unknown powder, and pen samples) and keep track of evidence and suspects. They use their power of observations to “crack the case” and prove their innocence by figuring out who really committed the crime. Great for a science class, forensics class, or just for fun!!**CLICK HERE for a t
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5th - 7th
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Science Inquiry Lesson Plan | Observation and Inference Activity
Teach good observation and inference skills in this fun, easy to prep, inquiry science activity. Students use observation and inferences to solve the mystery of the broken pencils. Perfect for forensic and inquiry units, and the beginning of the school year.This is an exciting mini-inquiry lab that uses a common everyday classroom supply, pencils! In this inquiry lab activity students read a short newspaper article about a pencil thief who is sneaking into classrooms and breaking pencils. The
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-3
Also included in: Science Inquiry and Process Skills Lab Activity Bundle
Build an Interactive STUDENT FOOD WEB! FOREST Food chain Activity Energy Flow
Engage students with an exciting interactive food chain and food web activity. Using yarn, students create interconnected chains, enhancing their comprehension of producers and consumers. Suitable for multiple grade levels, this hands-on experience creates a deeper understanding of ecosystem interactions.Each student is assigned either a plant or an animal and they sit in a big circle and use yarn to interconnect food chains with the entire class. This set of pages can be used for several ac
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-LS2-3
, 5-LS2-1
CSI Forensics 2 Escape Room
In this hands on escape room activity, students solve a forensic mystery using science, teamwork, and critical thinking. In the crime scene activities, students analyze 4 different pieces of evidence and keep track of evidence and suspects. They use their power of observations to “crack the case” and determine which suspect is guilty.This activity can be done all at once in the format of an escape room to try to “beat the clock” – about 45 minutes to complete or it can be broken up into differ
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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Land, Air, and Water- A Preschool and Kindergarten Science Pack
This mini unit includes everything you need to teach your students about the world they live in. It is a *perfect* unit to teach around Earth Day!
The packet includes twelve 5-E lesson plans:
* Introduction: The Globe
* The earth is made up of three things: land, air, water
* Exploring Air
* What is Land?
* Making Geodes and Geode Nests
* Sorting Rocks
* Exploring Water
* Salt Water/Fresh Water Experiment
* Water Clarity Experiment
* Simple Landforms- What is a Landform?
* Simple Landforms- I
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Grades:
PreK - K
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Evidence and Investigation Forensics Unit
It's time to think like CSI! Turn your students into a bunch of top-notch crime scene investigators with this ENTIRE UNIT on forensics! Featuring eight different investigative topics and chalk full of labs and activities, this packet is all you need to start teaching. Keep on reading below to see what’s included! (Note: This is a comprehensive unit for Evidence and Investigation, and lines up with the Alberta Program of Studies.) ===============================WHAT YOU GET======================
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Grades:
4th - 7th
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Also included in: Evidence and Investigation Forensics Bundle
Fall Halloween Science Observation and Inference Lab Activity Middle School
An exciting Halloween themed mini-inquiry science lab! Teach and reinforce observation and inference skills in this fun easy to prep activity. Your students will love solving the mystery of the candy corn catastrophe! Perfect for forensic units, inquiry units, and the fall season.ACTIVITY DESCRIPTIONThis is an exciting mini-inquiry lab that uses candy corn! In this inquiry lab activity students read a short newspaper article about a candy corn criminal who is sneaking around town destroying
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-3
Crime Scene Investigation Mystery- Teaching the Scientific Method with Inquiry
Included in this lesson is a 9 day unit plan, instructions for all the experiments and activities, and packet for a crime scene investigation. You will receive a PDF download which includes the teacher notes/lessons plans as well as the student packets. This is a highly authentic and engaging unit- it's designed so that you are able to teach the scientific method using real world and inquiry based application. It's easy to follow, and amazingly fun. Sally Scarecrow has suffered a deadly hiccup a
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5th - 7th
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Build an Interactive STUDENT & Yarn FOOD WEB! Food Chain Activity OCEAN Marine
Here is an Ocean Marine student interactive food chain and food web activity to interpret interactions between producers and consumers. Using 18 images of plants and animals, the students use yarn to interconnect food chains with the entire class in this exciting activity! This set of pages can be used for several activities that include concepts about food chains, food webs, consumers vs. producers, the different levels of consumers, herbivores vs. carnivores vs. omnivores and autotrophs vs. h
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-LS2-3
, 5-LS2-1
Forensic Science Crime Scene Investigation Curriculum Middle School Lesson Plans
Looking for fun end of year activities, middle school teacher? Students LOVE the intrigue of Forensic Science CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION! This 4-pack of Forensic Science Lesson Plans is the perfect addition to your curriculum, created for upper elementary and middle school students. They will love these not-scary mock crime scene activities! These CSI activities are easy to set up with common materials you can easily find at your local grocery store. Tested and approved by my students - these are
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Grades:
5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-LS1-7
, 5-PS1-3
, 5-PS1-4
, 5-PS1-2
, MS-PS1-2
Chromatography Lab-Jolly Rancher Raider
This lesson is part of my Beginning of the Year Experiments Bundle 2 that contains three experiments at a reduced price.
In this lab, student's are asked to figure out who stole the teachers' Jolly Ranchers by using scientific process skills. This fun and easy to do lab uses chromatography to separate water based black markers to determine who is the culprit. I've used this lab with my students for years. After the lab is finished, I use the students testing samples, lab sheets, and an e
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Grades:
5th - 9th
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Also included in: Beginning of the Year Experiments Bundle 2
Lab Activity Forensics Unit 3: Investigating a Crime Scene (Virtual Friendly)
In this lab, students will investigate a mock crime scene and evaluate a mock scenario. All resources you need are provided includingStudent lab sheetCrime scene processing formCrime scene sketch formCrime scene staging resourcesEvidence tagsUse this lab alone, with my Unit 3 Lesson Plan, or get the Complete Unit 3 Resource File that includes:Unit/Daily Lesson PlanUnit 3: PPTLab: Investigating a Crime SceneCrime Scene Setup Resources (images, scenario, sketch form, evidence processing form...)U
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Forensics Unit 3: The Crime Scene Bundle (6 Products!)
Parts of a Seed
Use this page to teach students the parts of a seed. Soak fresh seeds (We used lima beans) in water until they absorb water, the seed coat starts to come off, and they start to split open. Should take several hours. Students will each get their own seed and will be able to identify each part on their seed. They will tape each part of their seed to the bottom of their paper.
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Grades:
K - 3rd
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Digital Science Inquiry Lesson Plan | Observation and Inference Holiday Activity
An exciting Christmas themed mini-inquiry science lab! Teach and reinforce good observation and inference skills in this fun easy to prep activity. Your students will love solving the mystery of the candy cane crime! Perfect for forensic units, inquiry units, and the holiday season.***This version is DIGITAL ONLY.***Click here for print and digital bundle.ACTIVITY DESCRIPTIONThis is an exciting mini-inquiry lab that uses candy canes! In this inquiry lab activity students read a short n
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-3
Also included in: Christmas Science Inquiry Activity for Middle School
Build an Interactive STUDENT FOOD WEB! Food Chain Activity RAINFOREST JUNGLE
Here is an Rainforest Jungle student interactive food chain and food web activity to interpret interactions and energy flow between producers and consumers. Using 18 images of plants and animals, the students use yarn to interconnect food chains with the entire class in this exciting activity! This set of pages can be used for several activities that include concepts about food chains, food webs, consumers vs. producers, the different levels of consumers, herbivores vs. carnivores vs. omniv
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
MS-LS2-3
, 5-LS2-1
The Cookie Jar Mystery: Classroom Forensics and Mock Trial Complete Set
Welcome to The Cookie Jar Mystery- An exciting adventure in the world of forensic science!(Please Note: This version of the Cookie Jar Mystery is geared for older students in grades 5-7 due to the pace and complexity of the activities. This set also has the mock trial built into the last module and slightly different lab activities and format versus the Cookie Jar Mystery for Grades 4-5.)The Cookie Jar Mystery is a fun, forensic science mini-course consisting of six separate modules designed to
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5th - 7th
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Checks Lab: Discovering the Nature and Tentativeness of Science Activity
My students LOVE this lab because they get to be like detectives as they pull out clues and use critical thinking skills to solve the puzzle.The basic premise: students are divided into small groups. Each group has an envelope with 20 different checks and documents. They will draw out five documents at a time and try to hypothesize what is happening. For example, one check is to the "Regional Hospital." They could hypothesize that someone was in an accident, got sick, had a baby, etc. Each time
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Earth Science Large Bundle of 33 Activities, Labs and Worksheets
Lava Lamp | Oil And Water Science Experiment | Matter And Its Interactions
Use effervescent tablets to create lots of oohs and ahhs while discovering the properties of oil and water. This hands-on lab can be conducted in 30 minutes. It uses simple supplies and includes teacher background information, tips, science activity, and a reading passage. It makes an excellent introductory lesson about oil spills for environmental science and Earth Day.Included in the Hands-on ActivityBackground Information and Vocabulary on the Properties of Miscible and Immiscible Liquids.Han
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Grades:
4th - 7th
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NGSS:
5-PS1-3
, 5-PS1-4
, MS-PS1-2
Forensic Science Case Study. The Case of the Disaster at the Dog Show
This is a middle school forensic science unit. This unit includes scenario (with crime scene photos) and activities on DNA sequencing, fingerprints, pedigrees, and chemical unknowns.Students are given the background on the crime including biographies of possible suspects. Students will work through the evidence at the crime scene to determine who committed the crime. There are four sets of crime scene activity worksheets. Each set includes background information, student and instructor handou
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Grades:
5th - 9th
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Nature Scavenger Hunt: Outdoor I Spy Worksheet, Outside Activity 5 Senses Earth
Invite kids outside to observe the world and play "I Spy."This creative printable invites kids to look around. Can they spy something blue that isn't the sky? Is there something scratchy or seasonal? They can write or draw their answers or interview one another. However they play, you'll get them thinking with this printable! One page has no prompts, so they can write their own.This printable is based on page 29 of Kid's Camping Journal, a journal filled with outdoor observation and play._____
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K - 6th
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Comparing Plant and Animal Cells Crime Scene Investigation Lab with Stations
This purchase is a lab activity using microscopes. In the form of a crime scene investigation, students visit different stations and examine plant and animal cells under the microscope. They create detailed drawings of their observations and decide who they believe committed the crime. They also compare plant and animal cells using Venn diagrams. A PowerPoint introduces the crime and the task. Station Instructions are made for each station.
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4th - 7th
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Discover Fingerprints: A Science Center for Primary Grades
Discover Fingerprints in a fun, hands-on science center that is appropriate for students in the primary grades.
Students are asked to use hand lenses to examine their fingerprints and those of a partners.
Students will then lift their own fingerprints and compare and contrast them with partners. They will also find out the "pattern" type of their fingerprint.
Included is: full teacher directions and discussion masters, student activity sheets, a center sign, center directions, and a fingerpri
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Grades:
PreK - 3rd
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Forensic Science Crime Scene Investigation Activities - Middle School Curriculum
Students LOVE the intrigue of CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION! This 8-pack of Forensic Science Lesson Plans is the perfect addition to your curriculum, created for upper elementary and middle school students. They will love these not-scary mock crime scene activities! These CSI activities are easy to set up with common materials you can easily find at your local grocery store. Tested and approved by my students - these are FUN forensic science activities that your students will love! You will definite
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Grades:
5th - 8th
CCSS:
NGSS:
MS-LS1-7
, HS-LS3-1
, MS-LS1-1
, MS-PS1-3
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