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Candy Corn Experiment {A Halloween Science Lab Investigation}
This science experiment is quick, easy and perfect for the Halloween season!
With this simple lab booklet students will:
→ Follow simple procedures conducting an experiment.
→ Make a hypothesis.
→ Document results and observe changes.
The premise is simple: What will happen to candy corn when they are soaked in each solution: water; salt water; baking soda and water and vinegar?
This product includes a two sided student booklet where students will:
• to make a hypothesis
• document results b
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K - 2nd
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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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Grades:
4th - 6th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Phases of the Moon Cookie Activity
Phases of the Moon - Students use Oreo cookies (or a similar cookie) to represent the various phases of the moon. A really fun and interactive activity that can be done with a wide range of ages and abilities to help students understand the moon's phases.
Included:
- Student Activity Sheet
- Student Data Sheet
- Student Question / Analysis Sheet for Moon Phases
- Answer Key for cookie activity
Click the links below to check out more Astronomy and Space themed activities!
ASTRONOMY BUNDLE
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5th - 9th
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Halloween Science FREEBIE: Dissolving Candy Corn
Are you looking for an easy to set-up, engaging Halloween Lab Activity for your Science class? Check out a preview of my Fall & Halloween Science Lab and Activities Bundle by downloading this FREE Dissolving Candy Corn Science Experiment. You may also like these SEASONAL SCIENCE resources:⭐ Halloween Science Lab Activity Bundle⭐ Christmas STEM Challenge Activity⭐ Christmas Science Activities and Lab Bundle⭐ Christmas Science Activity: The Case of the Missing Santa Claus⭐ Winter STEM Activity
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2nd - 6th
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Properties of Matter Scientific Observations Candy Lab
Are you looking for a fun and highly engaging observations lab? Are you looking for a low prep activity to teach properties of matter? This properties of matter lab is the answer! Your students will learn to use their five senses and science tools to make qualitative and quantitative scientific observations. They will use science process skills to make qualitative observations with science tools. Then they will use their five senses to make qualitative observations. By making scientific observat
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
5-PS1-3
States of Matter---A Root Beer Float experiment
Use a root beer float to see the properties of matter!
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K - 6th
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Christmas Science Activity: Candy Cane Crystals FREEBIE
Want to incorporate some Christmas spirit into your Science classroom? In this FREE CANDY CANE CRYSTALS CHRISTMAS LAB, I provide you with everything you need to bring Christmas spirit into your science class while practicing Science skills. This activity can be used as a demonstration for lower grades (1st-2nd) or given to the students as a lab experiment in upper grades (3rd-6th). This FREEBIE is part of a larger Christmas Science Lab Bundle (check out the preview)!I hope your students enjoy t
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1st - 6th
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LAB SAFETY POSTERS - Secondary Science (humor)
Grab your students attention with these FREE snarky LAB SAFETY POSTERS meant for secondary science classrooms. What's the point of being a secondary science teacher if you can't give students a taste of their own medicine, right?This poster download includes two Lab Safety sets: a pc set and a snarky set. The choice is totally yours...enjoy.The following symbols and safety guidelines are included: Plant SafetyAnimal SafetyElectrical SafetyHeat SafetyChemical SafetyGlassware SafetyEye SafetySha
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6th - 12th
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Puzzling! A Hands-On Look at the Scientific Method
The idea that science is always changing is sometimes difficult for students to grasp. This interactive, hands-on puzzle activity helps introduce the idea of the ever-changing nature of science in a fun way without all the scientific "jargon" that is sometimes attached to discussions of the scientific method.
With this puzzle, students will be given 4 puzzle pieces and instructed to create a symmetrical shape with those pieces. Just when they think they've succeeded, a wrench (in the form of a
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Grades:
7th - 11th
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Sink or Float Experiment with cut and paste application
Students do an experiment to determine if common objects sink or float, then apply their knowledge by cutting out pictures of the objects and placing them on a picture of a tank of water.
More Cut and Paste Science! A great way to review, re-teach and assess!
Transparent, Translucent, Opaque Light Experiment, Definitions w/ Cut & Paste
Landforms Cut and Paste Definitions, flash cards- 20 words, 4 lesson options
Food Chain, Food Web, Energy Pyramid Cut and Paste
Potential and Kinetic Energy
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PreK - 1st
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Experimenting with the Scientific Method
Give your students an opportunity to put the Scientific Method to work for them!
This download is a wonderful tool for teaching the Scientific Method! While following the process in this document, the students will view the Scientific Method in action by performing an engaging experiment with gummy bears. This product is formatted in a way that it can be used individually or added into a Interactive Science Journal.
By downloading this FREE product, you will receive the following: suggestion
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3rd - 5th
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Rock Cycle with Starburst Lab
This resource is designed to be used as a lab for your students to better understand the rock cycle in a fun, engaging way using candy! Perfect for an Earth Science class during a geology unit!Students will model the process of the rock cycle through a series of activities involving starburst. This lab report will guide the students through each step of the process and ask them questions along the way. Students will need to be able to draw a visualization of the rock cycle as well as explain the
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS2-2
, MS-ESS2-1
Also included in: The Rock Cycle Mini Bundle
Save Fred! Engineering and Design Challenge
Fred is a gummy worm that is not such a great swimmer and has fallen off his boat! Can you help save him? The challenge is to work with your teams using only the tools provided (paperclips) to flip Fred's cup back over, get Fred's life preserver on, and get him back in his boat! An introductory engineering and design challenge activity that I have used with great success in second through 8th grade classes. The engineering process is emphasized, focusing on the ideas of iterations and constr
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1st - 8th
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Scientific Method Drops on a Penny Experiment
Quick and easy experiment to introduce or review the steps of the scientific method. In this two part lab activity, students investigate how many drops of water will fit on the surface of a penny. They then choose one variable to change and repeat the experiment and see how their changing variable affects their results. Covers the following steps of the scientific method: Asking a question, creating a hypothesis, performing an experiment and collecting data, analyzing data and drawing conclus
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Science Practices Bundle for Middle School: Nature of Science
Compare Rock Properties & Characteristics & graphic organizer for types of rocks
In this activity students compare the properties, mass and length of 2 rocks. There are 2 different versions of the worksheet included to reach different leveled students.
Properties include; Mass, Length, Shiny or dull, smooth or rough, can scratch or not, can it float and other differences.
Included is also a graphic organizer for defining the 3 different types of rocks. definitions and examples included.
NEWLY ADDED...Metrics ruler for measuring!
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Grades:
1st - 5th
Forces & Motion - Interactive Notes & Student-Led Inquiry Lab {Grades 4-6}
This FREE pack incorporates scientific process standards with a lesson on force and motion! Four pages of interactive notes on vocabulary, pushes & pulls, and Newton’s Laws of Motion will help your students understand the concepts of force and motion. Next, the Teacher Guides included in this pack will help you guide your students to choose and design an experiment that tests force on an object.
Included in the pack:
• Pushes & pulls flapbook
• Force & Motion vocabulary flapbook
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4th - 6th
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Graduated Cylinders - Measuring the Volume of a Liquid {FREEBIE}
Having a hard time finding assessments for measuring the volume of a liquid? I always pair this assessment with real, hands-on practice in the classroom. I’ve also used it to introduce this topic with the assessment first so the students know how to read the graduated cylinders before you give them one with water in it. There are 6 questions on this one page assessment and an answer document that goes with it. You can use them as exit tickets, homework, class practice, final assessments or in a
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3rd - 9th
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STEM Engineering Challenge Projects ~ FREE Student Role Sheets!
A FREE set of five student role sheets designed for use during the STEM Engineering Challenges that I have created!
I post these STEM Challenge role sheets in the classroom. I copy each role sheet in a different color! I either assign roles or leave it up to a random draw using the small cards. I copy the cards on cardstock and then laminate them. I reuse them throughout the year. I make one set of cards for each of my six table groups, but I take out certain jobs some of the time.
Ch
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3rd - 6th
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Plants experiment What do plants need?
Use this data sheet for your next plants experiment with your students.
Everything in Spanish.
Use this worksheet to fill in when your students learn what plants need. English and Spanish (¿Que necesitan las plantas?)
Your students will discover what plants need.
Don't forget visiting my store to get these foldables (available in English and Spanish).
Related products:
>Parts of a plant
>Lifecycle of a plant
>What part of the plant do we eat
>Parts of a flower
>What do plants nee
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1st - 6th
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Also included in: All about plants mini-bundle
Genetics: Observing Human Traits Lab {Free}
This is a 2-page quick lab activity for recording observable dominant and recessive traits. Students will first determine and record their phenotypes for 16 different traits. Then they will record and determine the frequency of dominant and recessive traits of their classmates for 9 of the traits. Designed for standard level biology. Differentiated introduction included.
We usually go through the personal traits inventory as a class before the students walk around the room and interview th
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6th - 10th
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Scale Model of Solar System Lab Activity NGSS Middle School MS-ESS1-2 MS-ESS1-3
TRY ME FOR FREE!!!! This NGSS aligned two-day lab activity is a FUN, EYE-OPENING, and mathematically accurate way to model planet size and orbits in our solar system and incorporate the Performance Expectations for MS-ESS1: MS-ESS1-2. Develop and use a model to describe the role of gravity in the motions within galaxies and the solar system and MS-ESS1-3. Analyze and interpret data to determine scale properties of objects in the solar system as well as the Crosscutting concept of Scale, Proporti
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Grades:
4th - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS1-2
, MS-ESS1-3
Also included in: NGSS Middle School Science Activities and Lessons Growing MEGA Bundle
Science Lab Safety FREEBIE First Day of School Activity {BREATHING FIRE MYSTERY}
Back to school science doesn't have to be boring, and science lab safety procedures have never been so hot! This lab demonstration is not for the faint of heart.***Disclaimer: Please get administrative approval prior to doing this demo if you have safety concerns. This is meant to be a demonstration only, and students should not attempt this on their own. I am not responsible for any damages you or your students may cause.***Make sure your students never forget lab rules and literally BREATHE FI
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6th - 10th
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Force and Motion - Kinetic and Potential Energy Mini Labs or Stations
Studying force & motion? These six FREE mini-labs for potential and kinetic energy may be just thing you need. Each activity described is short, can be done as either a quick, teacher led demonstration or by students, and can be done in 10 minutes or less. With the directions for each short activity, I have also included science station direction cards, observation & data recording charts, and lab report form for those that wish to use this as a full lesson or a center style station ac
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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Microscope Introduction, e-Lab - Distance Learning
Do your students struggle with the proper use of microscopes? Our introductory lab on microscope usage and slide preparation will have your student viewing specimen like an old pro. WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS LESSON:Data CollectionData AnalysisResults and ConclusionsSTUDENTS WILL:Learn the parts of a compound light microscope, how to use the different objective lenses and what not to do with a microscopePractice what they learn when they view a newspaper “e” under low, medium, and high powerDraw wh
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Grades:
4th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
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