Middle school End of Year geometry laboratories

Earth Sciences, Environment, Geometry

CCSS:

8.G.C.9

, HSG-GMD.A.1

, HSG-GMD.A.3

Also included in: 8th Grade Math Discovery Lessons and Activities Bundle

Winter Weather STEM Challenge Lab Design a Paper Snowflake PRINT and DIGITAL

Created by

LaFountaine of Knowledge

This STEM challenge explains how snowflakes form as a type of weather (precipitation). It walks students through the steps to create beautiful snowflake shapes out of paper. This resource includes: teacher suggestions, discussion questions, and extension activitiesbackground information on what snowflakes are and how they formstep by step instructions to create paper snowflakes with photos a student response worksheeta scoring rubrica force copy link to a digital Google Slides versionGet my grow

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Geometry, Physics, PreCalculus

NGSS:

3-5-ETS1-3

, 3-5-ETS1-1

, 3-5-ETS1-2

Also included in: STEM Challenges Bundle of Hands-On Science Lab Activities PRINT and DIGITAL

Make Multiple Vectors Fun! Pirate Treasure Hunt - Physics, Trigonometry

Created by

Dunigan Science

This is one of my student’s favorite activities. Who doesn’t want to go outside and map out some vectors? It works well in physics or trigonometry for understanding how to add and subtract multiple vectors. 10 different maps are provided for student groups to make their way from a single point of origin to a designated, X-marks-the-spot, using compass headings of N, S, E, and W and specified distances. The groups all have a different path but end up at the same place. At the end, students dr

Subjects:

Grades:

8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

Types:

Distance Formula Lesson (Discovery Lab)

Created by

Idea Galaxy

This is a discovery activity that will guide your students to deriving the distance formula using the Pythagorean Theorem. This is a partner activity that is an introduction before you give notes. This resource includes: -Background Building Activity -A Discovery Activity -Reflection

Subjects:

Algebra, Geometry, Math

Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

Back to School, End of Year, General Science

CCSS:

8.G.B.8

Also included in: Pythagorean Theorem Activities

Fun Science Experiment (Home-Made Lava Lamp)

Created by

Midwest Science

This is a 1 day project where students will make a home-made lava lamp from a plastic water bottle, vegetable oil, food coloring, & an Alka-Seltzer tablet. The lab worksheet provides all directions AND includes pre & post lab questions. It also includes a follow up that briefly explains the science behind how a lava lamp works and includes 4 questions for the students to answer when finished reading.Answer Key IncludedPDF Format & Edible Copy IncludedPlease leave a comment and rati

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 9th

Types:

Projects, Laboratory

Also included in: MS & HS Science Labs, Activities, STEM Challenges, & Web Quests (Growing Bundle)

Surface Area of Prisms and Pyramids using Nets | Hands on Activity

Created by

Eugenia's Learning Tools

This product will help your kinesthetic learners make connections as they experience calculating total surface area and lateral surface area with this hands on activity. Students work in partners to determine the names of the shapes when the nets are constructed, measure the nets themselves (to the nearest half centimeter), and then calculate both the total and the lateral surface area. I have personally used this in class, even one year during a formal observation! I loved how it required my

Subjects:

Geometry, Math, Measurement

Grades:

6th - 7th

Types:

CCSS:

7.G.B.6

Also included in: Volume and Surface Area of Prisms and Pyramids | BUNDLED

Forensic Science Crime Scene Investigation Curriculum Middle School Lesson Plans

Created by

End of Year, Forensics, Science

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

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Activities, Laboratory, Simulations

NGSS:

MS-LS1-7

, 5-PS1-3

, 5-PS1-4

, 5-PS1-2

, MS-PS1-2

Backyard Project - Perimeter, Area, and Volume - Real World Applications

Created by

Common Sense 4 the Common Core

This project is the culmination of the perimeter, area, volume unit. It can be used as a task for the Common Core, or real world application of the measurement unit. Students estimate the cost to build a backyard, with a swimming pool, deck, shed, playset area, garden, and brick walkway. Using the calculations and costs associated with purchasing materials needed to construct the different parts, students will generate the total cost of the project, without labor. With the dimensions provide

Subjects:

Algebra, Geometry

Grades:

8th - 10th

Types:

Triangle Inequality Theorem Discovery Activity 7.G.A.2

Created by

Idea Galaxy

In this teacher led discovery lab students will discover the conditions for triangles given side lengths and angle types. This is a hands-on introduction activity for 7th graders learning about the properties of triangles and the triangle inequality theorem. It includes an activity for a math interactive notebook as well. This resource includes: -Background Building Activity -A Discovery Activity -Reflection

Subjects:

Geometry, Math

Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

Back to School, End of Year, Engineering

CCSS:

7.G.B.4

Also included in: Triangle Inequality Theorem Activity Bundle 7.G.A.2

Fun Team Building Activity (Note Card Tower Challenge)

Created by

Midwest Science

This resource is a fun team building activity where students work together to build the tallest tower that can hold an unopened water bottle using only 20 notecards. The handout guides students through the following process:Make a predictionReflect on the building process before creating an official designRecord procedures they used to build their towerCollect and graph the height data from every group in the classMake a conclusion about what is the best way to use the notecardsPDF & Editab

Subjects:

Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

Activities, Laboratory, Games

Also included in: Physical Science Labs (Growing Bundle)

Drawing 3D Solids From Different Perspectives Snap Cube Lab

Created by

Jessica Eaton

-Each student needs a set of snap cubes (they will only use at most 9 at a time), an individual whiteboard or other hard moveable surface, handout, and pencil. -Have students label whiteboard with FRONT, BACK, LEFT, and RIGHT as shown on the next page. -Walk students through how to build the first 3D figure. Then have them place the figure in the center of the whiteboard with the word FRONT closest to them. Have students then hold the whiteboard with the figure on top at eye level and draw wha

Subjects:

Geometry, Math, Other (Math)

Grades:

5th - 10th

Types:

Owl Pellet Dissection Activity Fun End of Year Science Lab for Middle School

Created by

Biology, End of Year, Science

Owl pellet dissections are a great end-of-the-year activity! This owl pellet activity is packed full of print-and-go activities to make dissecting owl pellets a hoot! This great collection of 10 engaging and unique activities will enhance your study of barn owls and owl pellets. These ready-to-print, no-prep activities will make your dissection of owl pellets as fun and easy as possible!Who are these activities best suited for?Public, Private & Christian schoolsHomeschoolers and Homeschool C

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Geometry, Math, Math Test Prep

NGSS:

MS-LS2-3

, MS-LS2-1

Also included in: Owl Pellet Dissection Activities, No Prep Escape Room & More - Middle School

Effects of Transformations Inquiry / Discovery Lesson

Created by

Idea Galaxy

Use inquiry learning to get students to discover and describe the effects of transformations. The Effects of Transformations Discovery Lab is an engaging activity to activate prior knowledge about transformations and for students to use a discovery approach as a perfect introduction to this concept. Students will look at examples of the following transformations and write rules for the resulting figures: translations, dilations, reflections, and rotations. Supports 8th Grade CCSS 8.G.A.3 ****

Subjects:

Geometry, Math

Grades:

8th

Types:

Laboratory

CCSS:

8.G.A.3

Also included in: Effects of Transformations Activities

Surface Area (Prisms and Pyramids) and Volume Lab

Created by

Deborah Kirkendall

Surface Area and Volume Lab--No Materials Required! What's Included: Surface Area and Volume Notes Formulas for Surface Area of Prisms (Rectangular, Triangular, Pentagonal, Hexagonal, Octagonal), Surface Area of Pyramids (Square, Rectangular, Triangular, Pentagonal, Hexagonal, and Octagonal) and Volume of Rectangular Prisms. Nets of 3D Shapes (Illustrated) Practice problems for each prism and pyramid Answer Keys for each practice problem Surface Area in the Real World mini-project and sample 49

Subjects:

Grades:

6th - 7th

Types:

Laboratory, Centers

CCSS:

6.G.A.2

, 6.G.A.4

, 7.G.B.4

Pythagorean Spiral Geometry Project

Created by

J G

In a project combining high school geometry with creative design and art, students will discover connections between: Pythagorean Theorem, Special Right Triangles, Right Triangle Trigonometry, patterns, and design. This highly engaging project includes both a Pythagorean spiral creation and also requires students to show supporting math calculations to find hypotenuse lengths and central angle measures (SOH CAH TOA). This is always a favorite project of my students year after year!!A student s

Subjects:

Geometry, Math, Trigonometry

Grades:

8th - 12th

Types:

Geometry, Other (Math), Word Problems

Geometry:Concurrent Points GeoGebra Activity - Circumcenter & Incenter -w/ Key

Created by

CreativeMathLessons

Tired of teaching the same boring lessons on Circumcenter and Incenter? After years of using the standard book resources, I decided to create this activity that demonstrates some real-life applications of these concurrent points. This product includes 9 tasks (with complete answer key and screen shots of graphics). Each task will ask students to find a real life circumcenter or incenter. (While this product did not include any centroid or orthocenter problems, I left those options on the top

Subjects:

Grades:

7th - 12th, Higher Education

Types:

Laboratory, Simulations

Flower Dissection | Hands on Lab | Back to School | End of Year

Created by

Home Sweet Third

This resource includes all you need to teach the parts of a flower. It also includes a hands on and engaging flower dissection lab. Students get to dissect a real flower! This is excellent for a Plant Growth & Development unit, Life Sciences, the spring, and even something to keep students engaged at the both the beginning of the year and the end of the year! This resource includes:Three day lesson plan ideasFlower dissection lab directionsGuiding questions (during the lab) and discussion

Subjects:

End of Year, Science, Spring

Grades:

2nd - 8th

Types:

Activities, Laboratory, Interactive Notebooks

Flip Book Transformation Project

Created by

StefBub

Students create a flip book using Power Point to discover and/or apply properties of geometric transformations. The student handout provides detailed instructions on how to create the flip book which includes using the “duplicate slide” feature in Power Point. Students are required* to create a minimum of 10 slides with 4 different movements. Students are given the opportunity to choose what type of movements they use within given parameters. This choice provides the opportunity for great di

Subjects:

Algebra, Geometry, Graphing

Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

Geometry, Halloween, Math

Also included in: Transformations Bundle

High School Halloween Lesson!!!---Pumpkin Pi Math Lab

Created by

Flippin' Education

BEST HALLOWEEN MATH LESSON!I can hardly put this lesson into words! It is that good! I created this lesson years ago, and it evolves year after year. This lesson takes an investigative approach to math! Students work in groups to take measurements of pumpkins and hypothesize about the volume. The STEM investigation has students reason through the value of Pi and what the ratio represents. The lesson concludes with a discussion and conclusion page allowing students to make sense of volume and the

Subjects:

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Basic Operations, Geometry, Math

CCSS:

7.G.B.4

, 7.G.B.6

, 8.G.C.9

, HSG-GMD.A.1

, HSG-GMD.A.3

...

50 Math Labs - Fractions Operations Number Sense Graphing Data Math Skills

Created by

MediaStream Press

PREVIEW AVAILABLE!LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? CHECK OUT OTHER STEM RESOURCES IN MY SHOP!FROM THE CREATOR OF 50 STEM LABS & 50 MORE STEM LABS comes this collection of 50 Math Activities for kids. Recommended for grades K to 6 and up! Each one has a snappy title, a brief set of instructions, recommended materials list, and space for notes. These are very adjustable for your classroom, home, or homeschool needs. Do projects for concepts like: Operations, Math Skills, Geometry, Shapes, Fractions, Percen

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 8th

Types:

Math Through Discovery LLC

Geometry - Graphing Special Lines-Parallel and Perpendicular-Two Investigations

Created by

This activity contains two investigations. First Investigation:• On the graph provided, students graph each of the pairs of points and draw a line through the pair of points.• The students study the two lines and conjecture that the two lines are parallel.• Then the students find the slope of the two given lines to notice that when the lines were parallel the slope of the two lines are equal.• Students repeat these three steps with four more points. • After students know that two parallel lines

Subjects:

Algebra, Geometry, Math

Grades:

8th - 10th

Types:

Activities, Laboratory, Lesson

Fun End of Year Activities Middle School Science Hands-on After State Testing

Created by

End of Year, Forensics, Science

Check out these 7 FUN, low-prep END OF THE YEAR science activities! Are you an exhausted teacher looking for an exciting and hassle-free way to wrap up the school year? I have you covered! I put together this variety pack of 7 memorable science activities designed to engage and educate upper elementary and middle school students. With minimal teacher preparation required, these activities are perfect for busy educators who want to create lasting memories with their students before summer break!W

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Activities, Laboratory, Simulations

NGSS:

MS-LS1-5

, 5-PS1-3

, 5-PS1-4

, MS-LS1-3

, 5-ESS3-1

...

Forensic Science Fingerprints Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Low Prep Activity

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