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Free problem solving laboratories
Hands On Science STEM Investigations: Help Harry!
Interested in finding a fun way to work some cooperative learning AND science and engineering into your day? This 30 minute lesson is a great way to do just that--and it's free! Everything you need to get started is included in this one page freebie--with the added bonus of a link to a blog post with full color photos and details about how to do it.When students work through the process of planning, building, testing, and revising--they really are acting like engineers. It's a fun way to get
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4th - 6th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
STEM Marshmallow Engineering Challenge
STEM: MARSHMALLOW STRUCTURE ENGINEERING --- This digital file (.PDF) activity is focused introducing how earth changes can affect structural engineering efficacy and is perfect for individual or small group activity. After completing a unit on ‘Earth Changes: Slowly and Quickly,’ I presented a challenge to my 2nd grade students. This activity is a 4-page .PDF file, including (title page, instruction page, activity sheet, credit pages). The buyer will need to print to use. This activity integrat
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K - 3rd
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Internet Dating Thief
This is a forensic science lab focusing on the concept of using deductive reasoning to solve a crime. Students will use critical thinking skills sort related evidence from unrelated evidence and determine who did it. Students can be grouped in teams or individually. Teacher answer sheets are included. No additional supplies needed.
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6th - 9th
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Liars Beware! Your Body Doesn't Lie. A lab on lying and polygraphs.
This is a forensic science lab on polygraph analysis. An overview of polygraphs and the body language of lying is included as well as a crime scenario. Students are asked to interpret the results of a polygraph analysis to determine if the suspect is guilty of the crime. Questions for review are included.
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6th - 9th
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Fingerprinting lab
This is a lab on fingerprinting analysis. Students will learn the different types of fingerprints and will reinforce this concept with a short online "whodunit" challenge comparing fingerprinting types. Students will then fingerprint themselves and analyze their unique fingerprinting types. Lastly, students will obtain a suspect fingerprint and compare it to the rest of the class to solve the case of the "whoopee cushion prank."
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5th - 8th
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Pi Day - Calculate Pi
This Pi Day activity involves some prep. You'll need to bring some different sized cans as well as string to school. The students measure the circumference and the diameter to calculate pi. It always makes me laugh when I hear one group say, "Our can was bigger than yours, but we got the same answer...." Oh, the joys of teenagers learning!!
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Not Grade Specific
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*FREE* Middle School Lab Report Template
Need a template to help your students focus their thoughts during a lab activity. Use this printable template for their notes and thoughts. This is perfect for upper elementary and middle school students. This template can be easily used in an interactive notebook as well.This product is a FREE digital download. Feel free to share with others, but don't forget to give me and my TpT store a shoutout. Thank you for your business.
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Classify Matter
This is an easy activity to put together for students to enjoy + learn about the different classifications of mixtures: solution, suspension, colloid. To prepare for this activity, you will need some (or all) of the following: Yoohoo cholocate milk (in a bottle), Italian salad dressing, nail polish, milk, Kool-aid, sweet tea, salt water, marshmallow, coffee....the possibilities are truly endless! I do try to use substances that have clear indicators of being either a solution, suspension, or col
Grades:
7th - 11th
Kindergarten or Primary Grade STEM Challenge Recording/Journal Sheet
This STEM Challenge notebook paper can be used with any STEM challenge. It will help even your youngest stemists go through the Engineering by Design Process using visual aides and color coding for each step! Template includes a space where you can type in the problem or have learners cut and paste!
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
Problem Solving Dimensional Analysis Lab • Measurements, Candy, & Chemistry
A fun and hands on problem solving dimensional analysis classroom activity. Students will need to make real measurements and use this data to setup and solve real problems. All solutions require multiple steps and students will be exposed to conversion factors involved personalized data. Students will make measurements related to speed (meters & seconds), length/distance (centimeters and millimeters), and mass (measured in grams) and they relate and convert these respective measurements into
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9th - 12th
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Basic physics circuit lab with conductors, insulators, switches, and monsters
This is a basic physics lab on circuits. Students will build their own circuits (additional supplies needed are listed at the bottom) with easy to follow pictures and directions. The intent is to provide educators with a simple materials list and how-to instructions to put together simple circuits in the classroom inexpensively. The lab could be used alone or with the additional word document questions for basic physics circuit lab with conductors, insulators, switches, and monsters. The word
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5th - 8th
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Bubble Gum Lab (mass)
Students will have fun learning about mass, matter, and the scientific process/method.
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K - 10th
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"Comment faire du slime": French slime making experiment
Learn how to make slime en français with this step by step guide.
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Not Grade Specific
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Middle School Science Lab Self and Team Evaluation Form
This form will help your middle school science students to perform self-evaluations and evaluate their lab team members after performing an assigned lab. You can incorporate this form into your lab grading system to further encourage students to effectively evaluate both themselves and their team members for ways to improve and grow. Please vote and share your feedback and experience using this product with your students. Follow me and be the first to see new digital products posted throughou
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3rd - 11th
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Lab Sheet for Cup Challenge
This short lab sheet I use to go with the Cup Challenge from Science Gal that was posted on her blog. I like my students to fill in a lab sheet when they do an activity or experiment. Keeps them accountable. Is set up for 4 - 5 students per group.
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4th - 8th
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Photosynthesis Design your Own Experiment (STEM) NGSS MS-LS1-6
Students must design their own lab to prove that plants go through photosynthesis in the light. Students are given plants, light sources, flasks, BTB, straws, etc. and they must design a test to prove plants produce oxygen in the light. Students must create their own data table and also design a control. This lab can be used by splitting the class and using the cellular respiration lab to show the cycle of energy into and out of plants and how it flows.
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6th - 8th
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Official Soda Pop of Space
What if Pepsi, Coca-Cola, and Dr. Pepper got in a war trying to become the Official Soda Pop of Space?This hands on experiment teaches students to take a real life problem, create a hypothesis, plan their own experiment, and discover the results. Practical application of the scientific process has never been so sweet--or sticky!Includes: Lesson Plan, Student Prompt, Experiment Planning Worksheet, Data Collection Sheet, and Sample Experiment Page.I did this experiment with my 5th-8th grade clas
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5th - 8th
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March Madness Lab Worksheet
We start clients in March 3 days a week and I need something to keep students on task while I am helping students with clients. This gives very clear direction on the order they should be completing activities but they can choose which catagory to work on so they still have choice. We will set down together before we start to see what our goals for the month are!
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11th - 12th, Adult Education
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Capacity Scavenger Hunt with QR Codes
Students use standard measuring devices to investigate capacities and the relationship between various capacities. Students are lead through the investigation using QR codes. This is a self-paced activity that can be done individually or in groups as large as 4. This falls under evaluate on Bloom's Taxonomy Wheel.
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4th - 5th
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Guided Science Investigation (Solutions)
This is a stand alone lesson on solubility that also explores the idea of a scientific investigation, and how one question/investigation almost always leads to another.The steps are easy to follow and the results are easy to manage and interpret. Students will have a terrific experience learning about solubility by actually DOING science. All materials can readily be sourced at the local dollar store.
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6th - 9th
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Interactives Digital Lab Report
Interactives Digital Journals for Connected Kids means no more tedious hours in the print room. If your classes have daily access to computers, make the journals available through your school's learning platform. Students complete their assignments digitally, while you spot check individual pages or instruct them to upload the entire journal back to you.
This Lab Report journal provides sentence tags, tables, and editable text boxes for beautiful professional looking lab reports. Students m
Grades:
6th - 8th
The Origami Cup | Designing a Better Paper Cup
This activity is build for students that work with Apple products (iPads & MacBooks). The students will need to have Numbers downloaded in order to open and edit the notebook. The notebook walks the students through the process of creating and testing an origami cup. Once they explore the simple cup design, they are then asked to improve the usability of the cup.The attached file is a PDF version because TPT does not appear to support Numbers documents. There is also a PDF with a link to dow
Grades:
4th - 8th
Questions for basic physics circuit lab with conductors, insulators, switches
This is a set of questions for review to be used with the basic physics circuit lab with conductors, insulators, switches, and monsters.
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5th - 8th
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STEM Engineering Checklist
Engineering Checklist, STEM, Labs, Self-Monitor Process and Steps
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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