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3rd grade physics projects
Fidget Spinner STEM Challenge Activities and Science Experiment
The ORIGINAL Fidget Spinner Stem Challenge & Science Lab! Discover the science of fidget spinners with this engaging and low-prep STEM activity. Practice scientific method with an exploration of variables, data collection, graphing, mean/average, and more...all while having fun!This self-paced, fidget spinner activity is print-and-go. Each activity sheet guides students through the project. STEM Challenge Overview:Students will use the included visual directions, graphic organizers, chart
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3rd - 6th
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Electricity Lapbook & Passages | Electricity Activity | Circuits
This electricity lapbook kit includes 11 PAGES OF INFORMATIONAL PASSAGES about the pioneers of electricity, simple circuits, series & parallel circuits, conductors & insulators, lightbulbs, and troubleshooting, PLUS black line masters and photo illustrations for making an electricity lapbook with your students. Also included, are full color mini-posters of types of circuits, parts of a light bulb, and circuit troubleshooting tips that match the images in the passages. Use these resources
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Science BUNDLE: Interactive Kits | Lapbooks & Passages
Slow Can Race STEM Forces in Motion Activity/ Experiment: Creating Friction
This interactive STEM activity is always a highlight of my forces and motion unit! This activity is perfect to reinforce the concepts of forces and friction. Students need to cover or wrap a regular can in different materials to se how they affect the speed a can can travel down a ramp. Students experiment to see how friction affects motion. Set the stage by building up the idea that this is a race- THEN explain that the SLOWEST can is the winner! Students often wrap all kinds of materials
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3rd - 8th
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Winter & Christmas STEM / STEAM Activity - Paper Snowman Engineering Challenge!
WINTER & CHRISTMAS STEM / STEAM ACTIVITY - Paper Snowman Engineering Challenge!This Fun Winter STEAM Activity Includes:2 interactive student worksheets with pictures1 conclusion question worksheetBackground informationKey vocabularyList of materialsScience & Engineering Concepts Covered:3D shapesStructural stabilityMeasurementTeamworkMeeting engineering requirementsTime managementStudents will have so much fun designing and building their own paper snowmen!Click VIEW PREVIEW above to see
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3rd - 12th
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Origami Frog - Jumping Frog STEAM activity & game
A great activity for Spring, Halloween. Leap Year or Frog Study Units.PENS, Scissors and Glue stick required for decorating. These are origtami worksheet instructions only NO templates!Origami is a great lesson plan filler activity – it supports, concentration, reading skills and basic maths skills. Making this a great STEAM based activity. This little jumping frog can also be used as part of physics lessons when discussing forces and trajectories. I have selected the “easiest” of all origami fr
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3rd - 6th
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Melting Crayon Science Experiment
The Crayon Melting Science experiment is a colorful and exciting way to let your students practice making a hypothesis when you are learning about the types of matter. Add heat from the sun to change the crayons from a solid to liquid. Record the air temperature and the results on the provided recording sheet during the crayon melting process. Make predictions, record, and complete the writing worksheet page that accompanies the activity.Check out the preview to see what is included. You wil
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1st - 3rd
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NGSS:
3-ESS2-1
, 2-PS1-4
, 3-ESS2-2
Mr. Hino's Robotics Curriculum
Welcome to the world of teaching Robotics!! It was the best thing that happened to my teaching career! I have been teaching middle school and elementary school Robotics for six years. This curriculum is a collection of everything I have tried, failed, modified, and improved on for those six years. This curriculum will provides:Projects, fun competitions, board challenges, expansion projects, and other ideas for your Robotics class. Google doc links to contracts and other helpful learning docume
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K - 12th, Staff
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NGSS Engineering Design: Rube Goldberg Machines (Motion & Stability)
This is by far my most favorite STEM unit to teach! This also works great for distant learning and I have been over the moon with the results (examples included in the product). And if you don't know what a Rube Goldberg Machine is, no need to worry, I created a scripted, detailed unit for teachers.Combine NGSS engineering design, motion/stability and forces and interactions standards into one unit by teaching Rube Goldberg Machines! In this unit students will create their own Rube Goldberg Mach
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K - 8th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-PS2-2
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Scientist of the week/Scientifique de la semaine project
Looking to add a little weekly science to your class? This package includes everything you need to run a Scientist Of the Week or Scientifique de la Semaine program with fun experiments in your class. Suitable for use in English or French Immersion classes!NOTE: The French version is NOT FULLY IN FRENCH. It is meant for French Immersion students with parents/guardians who don’t speak French. French lab reports are in French but the family letter, experiment sheets and evaluation are in ENGLISH.
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2nd - 3rd
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Going Places: Book Companion and STEM Project
Going Places by Peter and Paul Reynolds is a wonderful story about Rafael and Maya who learn to think outside of the box during the Going Places Contest! The book along with these activities will encourage your students to find inspiration in the world around them as they dig into the text and complete a STEM activity!
The following companion includes multiple ELA activities like retelling (story maps and BME), comparing, cause and effect, character evaluation, authors purpose/message and vocab
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K - 5th
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Home Alone Physics Simple Machines & Force and Motion
This was created for students to use at the end of a simple machine and force and motion unit. However you can use it as an introduction or just use pieces of the project. You can have students watch the whole movie or just the night of the attack.
The force and motion questions are created to go with the movie Home Alone
Viewing Guide:
While students are watching the
Movie have them track different
Simple machines on their tracker
Follow up questions, have students
Use their understanding
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3rd - 8th
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Mr. Ferris and His Wheel: Book Companion and STEM Challenge
Ten months before the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair architects and engineers were clamoring for the chance to design a star attraction to rival the French Eiffel Tower. A daring engineer named George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. overcomes obstacles including money, mockery, and quicksand to create a wheel that has delighted fairgoers for over 100 years!
The following companion includes multiple ELA activities for retelling, comparing, cause and effect, character evaluation, authors purpose/message, a
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K - 5th
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Earth Science Hands-On Science Lab Experiments and STEM Challenges Bundle
This bundle includes 10 hands-on science labs and activities all related to the Earth: rocks, fossils, minerals, crystals, tectonic plates, earthquakes, volcanoes, paleontology, etc. This bundle includes: Experiment: Modeling the Rock Cycle with StarburstExperiment: Modeling Tectonic Plates with Graham CrackersSTEM Challenge: Construct an Earthquake Proof StructureSTEM Challenge: Design a Volcano with blocks Experiment: Make a Cast FossilExperiment: Make a Mold Fossil Experiment: Make an Eggshel
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3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS1-4
, MS-ESS2-3
, 5-PS1-3
, 4-ESS1-1
, 3-LS4-1
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Rube Goldberg: A Simple Machines STEM Challenge
Rube Goldberg was an inventor, cartoonist, sculptor, author, and engineer who believed that people preferred the hard way to do things. He gained notoriety by illustrating cartoons featuring complicated inventions that accomplished a simple task.
Our unique Rube Goldberg Foldable and Research tasks will take your students into the mind and science behind the cartoon machines, then challenge them to design a real life machine to complete a simple task.
This project includes:
1. Instructions on
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2nd - 6th
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50 STEAM Labs - science technology engineering art math thematic projects
PREVIEW AVAILABLE!LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? CHECK OUT OTHER STEM RESOURCES IN MY SHOP!My 50 STEM Labs Series is all about increasing the level of fun while teaching engineering. In this new book, I created a set of STEAM thematic units. Each unit is a single page with a set of suggested interrelated activities for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math. Unlike other series and authors who slap together an arts and crafts activity and call it STEM/STEAM, this one actually has suggestions for ho
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3rd - 12th
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Space STEM Challenge Launch a Paper Straw Rocket Lab PRINT and DIGITAL
For this STEM Challenge, students must build a paper space rocket and launch it at least three feet into the air using a drinking straw. This activity explains the difference between a rocket and a shuttle and describes how rockets work in simple terms. It's the perfect experiment to include in an outer space or moon themed unit in your science classroom. This resource includes: teacher directions, discussion questions, and extension activitiesbackground information about what rockets are and ho
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3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Simple Machines Envelope Book & Passages: Levers, Pulleys, Wedges, Planes, etc.
This simple machines envelope book kit includes 14 PAGES OF INFORMATIONAL PASSAGES about simple machines, including levers, pulleys, wedges, planes, wheels, and screws, plus black line masters and step by step photo directions for making a simple machines envelope book with your students. Also included, are 6 full color simple machines posters that match the images in the passages. Use the simple machines envelope book and passages to complement your own simple machines unit.The envelope book ha
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Science BUNDLE: Interactive Kits | Lapbooks & Passages
The Solar System and Planets Activities | Order of the Planets Flip Book Project
Looking for engaging resources on the planets of the solar system? Try this Order of the Planets Flip Book Project! This solar system and planets activities resource consists of templates that can be used to create a flipbook on the order of the planets. It also contains a link to a digital interactive notebook resource that has text boxes, which students can type into and add additional text boxes if required. This resource is perfect for note-taking and summarizing your students' key learnings
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2nd - 5th
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Winter & Christmas STEM / STEAM Activity - Snowball Engineering Challenge!
WINTER & CHRISTMAS STEM / STEAM ACTIVITY - Snowball Launcher Engineering Challenge!This Fun Winter STEAM Activity Includes:2 interactive student worksheets with pictures1 conclusion question worksheetBackground informationKey vocabularyList of materialsHelpful diagramsDetailed step-by-step instructionsScience & Engineering Concepts Covered:Newton's 2nd law of motionMassForceAccelerationMeasurementFollowing directionsStudents will have so much fun building & testing their own snowball
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3rd - 12th
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Halloween STEM / STEAM Activity - Skeleton Bridge Engineering Challenge!
HALLOWEEN STEM / STEAM ACTIVITY - Skeleton Bridge Engineering Challenge!This Fun Halloween STEAM Activity Includes:2 interactive student worksheets with pictures1 conclusion question worksheetKey vocabularyList of materialsScience & Engineering Concepts Covered:ForcesLoadCompressionTensionDesignTeamworkTime managementStudents will have so much fun designing, building, and testing their very own bridges! Click VIEW PREVIEW above to see a sample.
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in: Halloween Science Bundle - Includes 5 Engaging STEM / STEAM Activities!
Engineering: Straw Rockets
Straw Rockets are quick, simple and lots of fun for the students. This STEM activity takes about one hour to assemble and one hour for outside launching fun. This engineering activity can be used from grade 3 through 12. This lesson could also be used in March for Women's History Month as an activity to go along with the Sally Ride story. The headings include: Teacher Notes, Introduction, Materials, Procedure, Patterns, Pictures and Conclusion Questions.
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3rd - 12th
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Roller Coaster STEM Model Building Contest Project for Engineering and Physics
This project includes 6 sections including research, exploration, design, build, showcase, and reflection. It takes students step by step through designing a functioning marble roller coaster with a theme and building it. It comes with multiple rubrics to grade each section and a set of reflection questions at the end. This project can be lengthened or shortened by requiring more detailed projects. When my students did this project, it took about 10 days to make detailed, functioning rollercoast
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3rd - 12th
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Super Science Experiments
Looking to spruce up your science curriculum, or have an AWESOME science fair project well you have come to the right place!
This collection of truly Super Science Experiments is just for you! It contains chemistry experiments, experiments on matter, physics, and much more!
Includes:
- 70+ science experiments and demo guides
- detailed descriptions
- pictures of experiments
- material lists
These are only the experiments I thought would be the absolute coolest ones and that students wou
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PreK - 8th
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Simple Machines - Activities, Projects, and Assessments (Differentiated)
{177 pages}
This resource can be used for any teacher teaching or reviewing simple machines - but was created with the Understanding Structures and Mechanisms: Movement (Ontario Grade 2 Science) curriculum in mind.
Big Ideas:
- Movement is a change in position of an object.
- Simple machines help objects to move.
- Mechanisms are made up of one or more simple machines.
- Simple machines and mechanisms make life easier and/or more enjoyable to humans
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This package inc
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1st - 3rd
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