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Free 3rd grade physics projects
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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Marshmallow Challenge Handout
This FREEBIE includes a color and black and white handout to provide to teams of students engaging in the Marshmallow Challenge activity. This activity is great to use as an icebreaker or to engage students in critical thinking, cooperative learning, and innovative thinking. It can also be used to reinforce basic principles of physics or as a fun math activity involving measurement.
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Stop Motion Animation Activity
Combine storytelling with STEM! Students choose from three STEM scenarios to create a stop motion animation video. Instructions are provided on how to use a free Chromebook extension to setup a stop motion activity. The same activities can be completed with iPads or Kindles with a stop motion app. Materials required are Chromebooks, trifold boards for a backdrop, and action figures or other movie props. Stikbots are the perfect action figure to use!Click here for an editable STEM journal to use
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle: STEM Family Night Planning Guide, Activity Instructions
Basics of Makey Makey: STEM Activity
If you haven't already discovered Makey Makey, stop everything and watch this video! These little circuit boards bring together coding, invention, creativity, and electronics. Just plug into any computer, and with no software download required, watch as your students turn conductive items (PlayDoh, oranges, pencil lead) into a controller that replaces a keyboard or mouse! We love using these with from elementary all the way to high school! Click here for an editable STEM journal to use with dist
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle: STEM Family Night Planning Guide, Activity Instructions
Renewable Energy STEM Challenge Design a Sailing Ship Lab Using Wind Power
For this STEM Challenge, students must design and test a sailing ship in a tub of water to deliver a marshmallow passenger safely to the other side using a handheld fan as wind. This is the perfect science lab experiment to complete around Thanksgiving as you learn about the voyage of the Mayflower and the Plymouth colony. It also works well as part of a unit on wind power and renewable energy. This resource includes: teacher directions, discussion questions, and extension activities3 slides of
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3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
, 4-ESS3-1
Paper Circuits STEM Activity
Paper circuits are a fun way to teach circuits and conductivity. Students use the easy-to-follow diagrams to create their own card that will light up! Instructions are in both English and Spanish. Materials needed: paper, copper tape, LED lights, coin batteries, and clear tape. Students can also use markers or crayons to decorate the card. Included are instructions for using paper circuits as a classroom project or part of a STEM Family Night.Looking for more STEM lessons? Our team of engineers
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle: STEM Family Night Planning Guide, Activity Instructions
Build a Catapult Game STEM Challenge with just PAPER, TAPE & SCISSORS
Explore forces & motion, simple machines, trajectories, projectile motion, potential and kinetic energy, energy transfer, inertia, gravitational forces, and more with this versatile catapult STEM challenge. AMAZING RESULTS WITH JUST PAPER, TAPE & SCISSORS! You can follow all instructions on-screen or print them. This step by step project is a sampler of my more in-depth, open-ended project packets. All projects teach hands-on skills that empower students to explore and create. Start by m
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K - 12th
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MS-ETS1-2
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-PS2-4
, MS-ETS1-4
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The Great Egg Drop Challenge
Students will create a device designed to protect a raw egg from breaking when dropped onto a hard surface. Teacher's guide included. This project can be done by group or individually. Students will apply knowledge of: gravity, forces, pushes, pulls, drag, inertia, acceleration, and mass
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3rd - 6th
Electricity & Magnetism Task Cards
Project-based Instruction task cards useful for science centers or rotating groups. Best if printed on card stock and then laminated for longer use.
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3rd - 6th
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States of Matter Project Rubric
States of Matter Project
Learning Goals:
• Students will understand that matter can be found in three forms or phases (solid, liquid, and gas).
• Using physical models, students will be able to explain the molecular behavior of ice, water, and water vapor.
Directions:
1. Create a diagram, craft, poster, or any visual of your choice representing an understanding on how particles (molecules) are arranged in Solids, Liquids and Gasses.
2. Choose materials like cheerios, fruit loops, cotton ball
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3rd - 6th
Sound Project Choice Board
This project choice board is an awesome way to have students review sound, how you hear sounds, sound waves, parts of a sound wave. This project choice board has 9 activities, such as create a test, creative writer, free thinker, make a model, writing a song, making study resources, be the teacher, draw a picture, and creating an experiment. Choice boards are a great way to differentiate instruction in your classroom!Includes:- choice board- directionsThis project choice board covers Georgia Per
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Sound Unit Bundle
Forces and Motion Egg Car STEM project FREE
This project is a perfect end of unit assessment or activity for the study of forces and motion. Students will create a car that will travel down a ramp holding a raw egg. The purpose of the project is to create a car that can protect the egg, while using Newton's Laws.
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3rd - 5th
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Egg Drop Challenge
Groups of “Engineers” will work together to construct a contraption that will protect an uncooked egg when dropped from a given distance. This resource includes all handouts needed to implement this engaging STEM lesson, as well as Engineering Design Process handouts.
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3rd - 12th
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Magnificent Marshmallow Marvels I: Adventures in Civil Engineering
Attached worksheet is only for Kindergarten classrooms.
Using simple, everyday materials, marshmallows and toothpicks, your students can build marshmallow structures. They practice math skills by adding together materials used to get the total number. This product offers background information to set the stage for this science and math project - talk about plate tectonics, earthquakes and why they occur, etc. Through this project, the students will learn about earthquakes and seismic testing of
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K - 6th
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Black History Month STEM Project
This project will focus on the contributions and achievements of Black Americans within the field of Chemistry/Physical Science and how their work shaped of understand of the physical sciences moving forward. For this project, the student will select one of the following scientists and construct a “poster” on them. The poster can be a single slide in PowerPoint or Google Slides.
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1st - 12th
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Balloon-Powered Car Lesson Plan
Students will design, build, and test balloon-powered cars using the engineering design process. They will demonstrate understanding of force and motion concepts as they apply them to real-world engineering challenges.
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 5-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Build a better lunchbox for Gracie Gravity - A Science Lesson for K-5 students
This lesson is created on PADLET , an online collaboration tool that allows students to post answers in a flexible format and engage with the lesson with a flow thats easy to follow . In this lesson students solve a real world problem by helping Gracie build a better lunchbox to keep her popsicles frozen for longer . We will start by introducing the students to the problem through a story involving the bold inventors team . Students will then deep dive into the engineering design process to ASK
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K - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Building Pop Rockets - Simple Engineering
MATERIALS: tape, cardstock, scissors, Alka-Seltzer tablets, water, film tubes (I bought in bulk from Amazon)In English and Spanish: ASK: Students will establish the problem. The fuel launching the rocket needs to be strong enough to push the weight of the rocket. How can we learn from rockets to build our own? Then we watched some videos about rockets. National Geographic has a great one on YouTube. IMAGINE: Student will use what they have discovered and make quick sketches and notes. PLAN: Shar
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3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 5-PS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-PS2-2
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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STEM Toy Design: Wheels!
How can you make toys that move? With wheels of course! This STEM activity book provides directions for children to make 4 wheeled toy vehicles. Step-by-step instructions, illustrations and photos support the building process. Questions and prompts support problem-solving and creative thinking. The more your students create, play and design toys with wheels, the more physical science and engineering discoveries they will make!Each car model uses the inquiry method to guide students to investigat
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-PS2-2
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Toy Design Bundle
Light PPT
Science Fair Projects and Experiments
Primary School - Grades K-3
Elementary School - Grades 4-6
Properties of light
This ppt is for an introduction on to how to understand light and pinhole camera experiment.
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PreK - 6th
Marble Run
Engineering Design Challenge to create a shoe box marble run. This includes a general 5 E Lesson incorporating the Engineering Design Process.
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3rd - 8th
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Physics/Science Valentine's Day Card or Themed Card for Any Occasion
Have students create a Valentine's Day Card with various physics/science concepts. Fun projects for students for any occasion. They may include up to 10 or more concepts or how many concepts you wish to include.
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K - 12th, Higher Education
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The Principles of Flight
Upoon completion of course students will understand basic forces affecting flight and the controls of an aircraft that affect them. They will create and fly paper airplanes, rubber band powered planes and launch their own water rockets..
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1st - 5th
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!!!FREE!!! STEM & STEAM Project Journal Pages Set
Need some simple 1-page designs for STEM & STEAM project journaling? Check out these 4 free designs... FOR FREE!They're generic enough to work for most projects, and they're not cluttered down with tons of cutesy stuff. At one page each, they also don't take a whole forest to print.LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? CHECK OUT OTHER STEM RESOURCES IN MY SHOP:
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1st - 8th
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