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Free 3rd grade basic principles resources for Microsoft Word
Free Food Chain Card Game
This free download includes 21 cards of varying images and the remaining cards have food chain vocabulary. These cards can be used at any age. I use them with kindergarten but vocabulary cards make the activity applicable to the higher grades.
There are 4 pages of cards with 8 cards per page, ready to laminate and use with students.
I include the vocabulary terms:
Plant Eating (herbivore)
Meat Eating (carnivore)
Plant and Meat Eating (omnivore)
Producer
Decomposer
Consumer
Primary Consumer
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K - 8th
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Cars Down a Ramp Friction Lab
This is an experiment for students dealing with friction, force, and motion. It will take students through each step of the scientific method. The students will be using a binder and matchbox car to discover how friction effects how far a car will go. They will make a car go down a binder, measure, and record how far it went. Then, they will put the car down the ramp again using sandpaper, wax paper, and bubble wrap. These results will be recorded. The students will finish by making a conclusion
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3rd - 7th
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Elephant Toothpaste Science Experiment K-5
K-5 Students create a chemical reaction in small groups or individually. Great experiment for teacher demonstration.
A precise mixture of Hydrogen Peroxide, dish soap, yeast, and food coloring creates a fountain of thick foam that pours our of a bottle or tube.
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PreK - 6th
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Science Notebook Foldable 3 States of Matter
This foldable creates three flaps. Each flap represents a different form of matter. There is a description of a property of each form to be glued under the flaps. Examples could also be written under the flaps. This could be glued into a science notebook or just on a separate sheet of paper.
Grades:
1st - 4th
States of Matter Foldable/Cut & Paste Activity
This is a foldable/cut & paste activity that can be used as an introduction to learning about states of matter or as a study tool for your students.
Warm Up: BrainPop, Jr. - States of Matter or Changing States of Matter
Materials:
- Construction Paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Pencil/Marker
Instructions: (as teacher models)
1) Fold your construction paper hot dog style (long ways).
2) Make two evenly spaced cuts towards the crease along ONE side of your paper. You should now have three flaps;
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1st - 4th
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Elementary LAB How can Electricity cause Magnetism
Students will build a simple electromagnet and examine devices that utilize electromagnets to make things move.
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3rd - 6th
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Newton's Laws of Motion Slowest Marble Race
The Great Marble Race! This activity is meant to be used as a group project. Students will be racing marbles to see whose marble can race the SLOWEST. Using Newton's Laws of Motion, students will be using a thick poster board or cardboard and other recycled materials to create their race board. They should first understand common force and motion terms such as acceleration, friction, laws of motion, gravity, etc.
This is an assignment handout with guidelines for what is expected of students an
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3rd - 8th
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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.
Have a wonderful day!
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3rd - 6th
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Force and Motion
This lesson plan focuses on Newton's laws of gravity. In it are fun, hands on activities that demonstrate and reinforce Newton's laws. Procedures are placed in a detailed, bulleted format, for easy application. This lesson can be modified to fit grades both above and below. There are also suggested accommodations for all learner styles.
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2nd - 4th
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States of Matter Worksheet
This worksheet works well for second grade science. Students are given a list of substances/objects and have to sort them into boxes labelled with the three states of matter- liquid, solid, and gas. Examples of substances/objects include toothpaste, pencils, air, etc. The worksheet also includes a question about how objects/substances can change between states. Works as a pre-assessment at the start of a Unit on matter, or as homework!
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1st - 3rd
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Student Weather Booklet
This weather booklet is a great introduction and study guide for a weather unit. It includes the weather predicting instruments rain gauge, hygrometer, barometer, wind vane, anemometer, and thermometer. It also includes diagrams of cloud types and the water cycle.
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2nd - 5th
The Scientific Method Terms Worksheet - Science Experiment Terminology
This is a fill-in-the-blank worksheet (with a Word Bank) to use when learning about the Scientific Method and/or before doing an experiment. It includes the terms hypothesis, demonstration, experiment, research, conclusion, and Scientific Method.
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1st - 4th
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Insulators and Conductors Booklet
This booklet allows students to visualize an electric circuit and how conductors and insulators work.
this booklet can be edited, the thumbnails shows the booklet distorted but it will straighten out once downloaded.
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3rd - 6th
Make a Sedimentary Rock
This experiment is to follow a mini-lesson on different types of Sedimentary Rocks. In this wet lab, students use sand or other collected materials and Play Dough to demonstrate how a conglomerate sedimentary rock is formed.
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PreK - 5th
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Force & Motion Quiz (easy)
This is a lower level force and motion quiz to check a student's understanding of push vs. pull.
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Phases of the moon quiz or test
Need a final assessment for your phases of the moon unit? This can be used as a quiz or a test to show mastery. This quiz contains questions that will look similar to standardized testing as well as questions to cover the in depth instruction that could take place. You are welcome to adapt it if needed.
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3rd - 6th
Animal Trait Investigation
This lab activity asks students to think about the traits/characteristics of animals. It is an introduction to the classification system that scientists use for all living things. In this case, they are focusing on the Animal Kingdom. They start by describing their own favorite animal, which leads to a class discussion. The class then reflects on what characteristics they used. Then they proceed to fill out a characteristics chart. At the end, they independently analyze their chart, looking for
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2nd - 5th
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Sun, moon and stars
Help your students to recognize what we think the sun moon and stars look like isn't always reality. Use their own drawings to compare to real pictures of the celestial bodies. Help guide them to a broader view of the universe.
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K - 3rd
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Types of Energy Science Vocabulary Posters
Science vocabulary posters for types of energy. Each includes definition and picture.
Pearson Science 3rd grade chapter 9.
Words include: electrical energy, energy, kinetic energy, mechanical energy, potential energy, crest, midpoint, trough, wave, wavelength, absorb, reflect, shadow, refract, light energy, heat, thermal energy, sound energy, pitch, volume, electrical energy, closed circuit, open circuit.
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3rd
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Penny Cleaning Experiment
Use this simple experiment to introduce your students to Scientific Methods! Students will create their own problem statement and hypothesis and then test this hypothesis! Which method works the best and why? Editable doc format so you can customize depending upon what substances you wish to test and so teachers may step up or down for different grade levels!
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1st - 8th
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Science Fair Parent Letter
Explain when you Science Fair is going to be held and give the students a timeline. Editable and Free. This product works well with the Science Fair Parent Meeting PowerPoint. This Science Fair is not judged. All of the work is done at home. Science Fair Certificates of Participation can be Used.
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2nd - 5th
Elementary Common Core Science Projects
These are upper elementary common core science projects that can be adapted for lower elementary. This file includes projects for; Interactions of Living Things, Light, Classification of Living Things, States of Matter, pH Levels in Soil, Forces, and Traveling Through the Solar System.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
The Science of Energy: Make Your Own Pinball Machines!
Ready to take a trip to the arcade? In this activity, we are going back in time to the first creation of pinball machines. There needed to be a prototype, right? Using gravitational energy (the potential energy that is associated with the gravitational field), we’re going to make our prototype pinball machines.
The laws of physics apply to how a pinball machine works. Principles of force, mass, acceleration, gravity, friction and all the combined teachings of Newton appear in pinball machines.
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3rd - 8th
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Bartholomew and the Oobleck Recipe
This is the recipe I learned for making Oobleck. This is a fun, hands-on activity for children to do after reading the Dr. Seuss book.
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1st - 3rd
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