Problem solving basic principles simulations

Basic Principles, General Science

Also included in: Mystery Activities Bundle | Escape Room | Graphic Organizers | Early Finishers

Virtual Density Lab

Created by

Laney Lee

Students use PhET Sim to explore density in an inquiry based lab. Check out the Sim here:: http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/density/latest/density_en.html?fbclid=IwAR09bUeRxx_DckEweccfg2_1DozdustsrS4RJYOtwDkaHwiyJ6RDzLTofPIThis lab first walks students through finding volume through water displacement. Then students explore densities of different materials with the same mass but different volume, same volume but different mass, and then same density but different masses and volumes. Finally

Subjects:

Grades:

6th - 9th

Types:

NGSS:

MS-ESS2-1

, MS-PS1-2

, MS-ESS2-5

Also included in: Weather Activity Bundle

Back to School Escape Room | Team Building Activities | First Week of School

Created by

Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Problem Solving

Are you ready to kick off the new school year with a thrilling and collaborative experience for your students? Our Back-to-School Escape Room Team Building Activities will make the first week of school unforgettable as students work together to solve puzzles, decode challenges, and build lasting connections.This is the PRINTABLE VERSION, the DIGITAL VERSION is available here. Why Choose Our Back-to-School Escape Room Team Building Activities?Engaging and Interactive: The escape room format adds

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 4th

Types:

Basic Principles, Biology, General Science

Also included in: Escape Room Challenge Bundle | Breakout Games | Teamwork Challenges

Survival Games: An Fun, Adaptations-Based Challenge for the Evolution Unit

Created by

Bio and Phys Bouquet

Explore the theory of evolution with your students as they create a creature that can survive a changing environment!Students will select from thirty two different adaptations, all with different survival perks, in order to design an organism that can (hopefully) survive drastic environment changes. In a Dungeons-and-Dragons-esque style, each adaptation provides points in certain categories of survival. My students become quickly enthralled with the challenge of picking just the right combinatio

Subjects:

Grades:

6th - 9th

Types:

Activities, Games, Simulations

Also included in: Biology Activities & Worksheets Bundle

Football Escape Room Mystery Challenge | Breakout Game | Teamwork Activity

Created by

Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Problem Solving

Bring the fun and excitement of a breakout room to your classroom! This cross curricular mystery challenge will have your students engaged, investigating and challenged from start to finish without the need of complicated locks or boxes. Students will work their way through 4 clues, each time they complete the clue challenge, they eliminate a suspect. You can use this as an introduction to teaching mysteries or a review day game! This football themed mystery works great in the fall during footba

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 4th

Types:

Classroom Community, Classroom Management, Problem Solving

Also included in: Escape Room Challenge Bundle | Breakout Games | Teamwork Challenges

Peace Path: A Visual Conflict Resolution Strategy

Created by

Always a SPECIAL Day

I have used a Peace Path for the past 8 years of teaching Special Education, and absolutely love it. It is an awesome way to help students work out any issues that arise. I also use it personally with my students if an issue needs to be addressed. It really helps students learn how to work out a problem in a safe way. Just print the pages on card stock, laminate each one, and tape it together. It's very easy to use- two people step on each sides of the path on the footprints and walk through the

Subjects:

Grades:

PreK - 9th

Types:

Activities, Simulations

CCSS:

SL.3.1b

STEM Lab Activity Balloon Rockets - Newton's Third Law of Motion

Created by

Mister Phamtastic

Students will experiment with balloon rockets to observe and study Newton's Third Law of Motion and the principles of rocket propulsion. Students will collect, analyze, and graph data from the launches in this STEM lab activity.

Subjects:

Basic Principles, Science

Grades:

K - 12th

Types:

Activities, Simulations, Lesson

Digging For Fossils - A Cookie Excavation Experiment

Created by

Teaching with Morale

Students will love acting as an archaeologist as they dig for fossils during this experiment! Using simple materials such as toothpicks and cookies, students will learn what it's like to excavate fossils. Students will formulate a hypothesis, collect data, and develop conclusions using this experiment aligned with both Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards. Teaching tips included! A great resource and hands-on lesson for any fossil unit.

Subjects:

Earth Sciences, Problem Solving

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Science

Design a Zoo: A Digital Project Based Learning Experience

Created by

PBL Learning Lab

Thanks for choosing this project based learning experience for your students! They are sure to have fun, be creative, and learn some valuable skills. In Design a Zoo, students take on the role of a design consultant asked to create a new zoo. Students will need to: –Name the Zoo –Create a welcoming sign –Select the animals –Design animal habitats –Create information sheets –Create a budget –And present their work to a "Board of Directors" This experience is designed to be completed without sub

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 8th

Types:

Projects, Simulations

Test My Genes Lab: Students Use Their Traits to Practice Punnett Squares - NGSS

Created by

Next Gen Sci Guy

In Brief: The lab proceeds as follows1. Students complete a short matching section using important genetics terms2. Students read about five different human traits (Interlacing of fingers, PTC tasting, Presence of Palmaris Longus Muscle, Hair Texture, and Color Vision)3. Students attempt to determine their genotpyes, based upon their phenotypes, and the information in the lab.4. Students perform Punnett Squares using their genotypes, in order to make predictions about future generationsA. NEXT

Subjects:

Basic Principles, Biology, Science

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Not Your Average Classroom

Characteristics of Living Things Interactive PowerPoint AND Case Studies

Created by

Fun, animated review of the material as well as TWO case studies exploring the characteristics of life. Students journey to Europa, where they must analyze samples for the presence of life. In the second case study, students discover the tobacco mosaic virus. This extremely fun PowerPoint was created to get kids thinking! No more simple lectures centered around listing the shared characteristics of life - your students will be putting themselves in the shoes of xenobiologists and research bota

Subjects:

Biology, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Simulations

4th Grade Science: Animal Structures (NGSS Aligned)

Created by

Dr Jans Math and Science Lab

This unit was designed specifically to address NGSS 4-LS1-1: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support, survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. This unit is appropriate for grades 3-5. Upper Elementary students learn about the structures animals have to help them with nutrition, self-defense, reproduction, and communication. Activities include:Activity 1: Animal Structures Sort: This introductory activity gets students fo

Subjects:

Basic Principles, Biology, Environment

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Research, Activities, Simulations

NGSS:

4-LS1-1

Also included in: 4th Grade Science Plant and Animal Structures Bundle (NGSS Aligned)

Escape Room Challenge Bundle | Breakout Games | Teamwork Challenges

Created by

Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Problem Solving

Bring the fun and excitement of a breakout room to your classroom! These cross curricular mystery challenges will have your students engaged, investigating and challenged from start to finish without the need of complicated locks or boxes. This bundle includes over 10 different escape room challenges.Students will work their way through clues, each time they complete the clue challenge, they eliminate a suspect or collect tools to move on to the next challenge. You can use this as an introductio

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 4th

Types:

For All Subject Areas, Gifted and Talented, Problem Solving

Class Escape Problem Solving Game

Created by

Erin Smith ELA

Modeled after the popular "Escape" games in many cities around the country, this classroom version prompts students to work together as a class to solve puzzles, connect the clues, and crack the code! This is a great activity for the first week of school to encourage teamwork and help students get to know each other and the classroom. Your students will be totally engaged in this hands-on challenge! You will need the following tools: - tape - color printer - scissors or paper cutter - white c

Subjects:

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Games, Simulations

CELLS & Compound Light Microscopes Virtual Lab/Simulation (Digital/Printable)

Created by

Science 4 Real

Looking for a virtual lab alternative for your introductory lab on the use of a compound light microscope and types of cells? Or do you need an alternative makeup lab for students who were absent? This virtual lab is interactive as students manipulate a virtual microscope and view specimens via the virtual eyepiece. Comprehension questions are included. Note: It is recommended that students have an understanding of prokaryote and eukaryote cells prior to completing this lab. Due to the web-based

Subjects:

Basic Principles, Biology, General Science

Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

Laboratory, Simulations

Also included in: Cell Structure and Function BUNDLE

Holidays Around the World Escape Room | Math Fact Practice | Zodiac Calendar

Created by

Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Problem Solving

Bring the fun and excitement of a breakout room to your classroom! These holiday challenge activities will have your students engaged, investigating and challenged from start to finish without the need of complicated locks or boxes. Students will complete 5 challenges in order to earn each passport stamp while learning about holidays celebrated around the world at the same time!This would be an excellent culminating activity to a Holidays Around the World unit or a stand alone activity to fill t

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 4th

Types:

Basic Principles, Biology, Science

Also included in: Escape Room Challenge Bundle | Breakout Games | Teamwork Challenges

Monster Genetics Lab | Heredity Simulation | Mendelian and Non-Mendelian Traits

Created by

Scientifically Inspired

Introducing the EDITABLE Monster Baby Heredity Simulation Lab, the perfect way to learn the complexities and intricacies of heredity in a fun and interactive way! This genetics inheritance lab is designed to help middle and high school students understand the mechanisms of Mendelian and non-Mendelian traits that can be inherited and passed down generations. A terrific alternative to the common baby lab version, this simulation encourages students to be creative and work collaboratively.With this

Subjects:

Grades:

8th - 11th

Types:

Basic Principles, Biology, General Science

Transcription and Translation Model Activity

Created by

Beverly Biology

NEW and IMPROVED! I updated the previous version of this activity to make it more user friendly. This updated version should take about 1-1.5 hours to complete. I really like this activity and am quite proud to share it with the TpT community. This is a paper model activity where students will be guided through the steps of transcription and translation and then also learn about mutations. Students first begin by cutting and gluing paper strips of DNA. Then, they will transcribe the DNA into mR

Subjects:

Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

Back to School, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving

Stranded: Island survival icebreaker/team-building

Created by

Gov Games and Lessons

Thieving monkeys. Angry ghosts. And there's SOMETHING in the jungle. Can YOU survive the island until help arrives?Many students have played the classic critical thinking game in which they prioritize a list of items to survive on a remote tropical island. But there's two major drawbacks of this original version. First, most of these games reward a clear preference for certain items ("What do you mean you didn't take the compass?"). Second, the game basically ends as soon as the students m

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 12th, Higher Education

Types:

Games, Simulations

DNA Fingerprinting-Gel Electrophoresis "paper lab"!

Created by

Use Your Brain Biology Curriculum

Absolutely no prep! Just print and go! This activity will teach students why and how gel electrophoresis is used. Students will also analyze a gel or "DNA fingerprint" and help to solve a crime! This is a great product for a Biotech unit if you do not have the equipment to run an actual gel or use as a fun pre-lab! Used by thousands of students!

Subjects:

Basic Principles, Biology, Science

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Simulations, Lesson

Escape Room Secret Agent Challenge | Main Idea | Multiplication and Division

Created by

Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Problem Solving

Bring the fun and excitement of a breakout room to your classroom! This Secret Agent themed breakout will have your students engaged, investigating and challenged from start to finish without the need of complicated locks or boxes. Students will complete 5 missions in order to earn each of the spy tools and show that they are ready to become official Secret Agents! This Breakout Game is also included in Last Week of School Activities product. This resource includes:•Teacher Directions- Step by

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 4th

Types:

CCSS:

, RI.3.2

Also included in: Escape Room Challenge Bundle | Breakout Games | Teamwork Challenges

End of the Year Escape Room - Summer Vacation Escape Activity feat. GoogleSlides

Created by

MrWorksheet

Need a fun and engaging activity to get your students excited about the end of the school year? Then this is the product for you! Escape Rooms have been all the rage this year and this End of the Year Escape Room will not disappoint. Through unique and creative puzzles, clues and activities, students will digitally interact with the various items in the room to figure out the 7 Letter code (in ALL CAPS) to escape the classroom. Once they have compiled the 7 letter code (in ALL CAPS), students wi

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, End of Year, Problem Solving

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Activities, Simulations

PhET Forces and Motion Webquest

Created by

The Dreaming Tree - Education Division

Access a free PhET simulation and allow students to work independently in discovering the effects of forces on objects.

Subjects:

Basic Principles, Physical Science, Physics

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Boot Camp Escape Room Challenge | Main Idea | Multiplication | Breakout Game

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