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8th grade science resources for Microsoft Word $5-10
Beaker Pong: Experimental Design and Graphing Lab, NGSS aligned
Great 1st week or 1st month STEM activity! All parts are EDITABLE and includes a graphing grid! This is a great way to introduce the "science process" (better phrase for scientific method) at the start of a semester or anytime you want fun to occur in your classroom.*****Focus on the NGSS PRACTICES Dimension*****The National Research Council's (NRC) Framework describes a vision of what it means to be proficient in science; it rests on a view of science as both a body of knowledge and an evidenc
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7th - 12th
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Designing a Roller Coaster using the Law of Conservation of Energy
In this great hands on activity students will need to follow the Law of Conservation of Energy to create blueprints to their own roller coaster. The students will need to calculate the over all mass, height, PE and KE of their roller coaster at various spots long it's path while keeping in mind their linear blueprints must be to scale, in color and very accurate. This document has everything you need to help your students master these skills. All you need to do is help your students bring the
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8th - 12th
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Cell Energy Bundle of Photosynthesis and Respiration Activities and Assessments
Our students need to be able to understand the cycle of energy that occurs between the processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Using the resources in this bundle will allow your students to explore, investigate, and learn about the two processes. Do you need a bundle with activities and assessments to engage your students into learning about the cycle of energy? This is for you! Key Terms: Cell, photosynthesis, chloroplast, plant, cellular respiration, mitochondria, animal, ca
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6th - 10th
Wave Energy Lab (slinky) w/key
Two day lab dealing with transverse and longitudinal waves using a slinky. Students observe Amplitude, Wavelength, Crest, and Trough and draw where these are in the wave. Constructive & Destructive interference. Five page lab with great questions Comes with answer key.
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7th - 9th
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Interpreting Science Graphs Activity
The thumbnails aren't showing up right. Everything will look nice when you download it :) This is a collection of 27 graphs with analyzing questions that correspond with each. In my science classroom, I had each student work on one, and then we rotated, so kids were able to see each graph. I laminated each sheet and had kids write their answers on notebook paper. These questions analyze:
Hypothesis and if they are supported by the data or not
Independent/Dependent variables
Bias
Interpreting gra
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5th - 8th
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Plant Animal Cell Foldables
This is a template with directions to create two foldables: plant cell foldable and an animal cell foldable
Teachers can lecture on plant and animal cells and then have students create these two foldables to practice quizzing themselves on the structure name and function of the different parts in the plant and animal cells. These foldables are great visual tools to use in a science interactive notebook or just for your EL learners students to practice with. Did I mention that you can also cha
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6th - 12th
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Chemistry Bingo - Calculating Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons
Your students will love practicing calculations of subatomic particles with this pre-made bingo game. The teacher draws a card with the name of an element and calls its name. Student then use a periodic table to find its atomic number, mass number, protons, neutrons, and electrons. When students find a corresponding number, they place a token.
File includes 30 different bingo boards with numbers already filled in, a sheet of element names that can be cut out for calling bingo, and a call she
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8th - 11th
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White Rat Dissection
The white rat dissection is the most anticipated activity in the science classroom. With its anatomy so closely resembling that of a human body, this lab allows students to identify key structures in the mammalian and vertebrate body. This editable document includes procedures along with guiding information for functions of specific organs. The checkpoints allow for students to verbally identify structures, as well as their functions.
This is an editable document includes: procedures, guidi
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5th - 12th
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Plant Cell Organelle Cut and Paste
Students will create their own plant cell. This activity is AWESOME to include in a science interactive notebook. MOST OF THIS IS EDITABLE, except the pictures, in case you want to add or delete an organelle, or modify a cell's function (change the wording to make it simpler or more complex, or add more detail) depending on your grade level.USE IT FOR AN INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK – Have your students color, cut out, and glue the plant cell into the interactive notebook or on a blank piece of paper
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5th - 12th
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GENETICS: Artificial Selection: Selective Breeding - Dog Breeder Activity
For Middle School Students: In this Genetics lesson students will become dog breeders. Students will choose between 26 dogs with specific traits that will produce offspring which can complete a chosen task. Highly engaging for students since they take on the role of a dog breeder.
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6th - 9th
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Virtual Fruit Fly Lab made for Google Slides â„¢
The goal of this lab is to introduce students to Drosophila melanogaster in a fun approachable, virtual way! The lab helps students understand why scientists use Drosophila and how scientists actually use crosses to investigate new mutation alleles they discover in their labs. The crosses are relatively simple (no dihybrids, only one trait crosses). Students should work with the files in EDIT mode, not PRESENT mode. Parts 2-4 have some fun GIFs with moving flies! This virtual lab contains four
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Science with Mrs. Lau's Biology Teacher Resources Bundle: All of Them!
Grant: Winning Proposal for LEGO Mindstorm Robotics Kits
This is a winning grant proposal to purchase LEGO Mindstorm Invention System robotics kits to use for science, physics, technology and engineering activities. A state electrical cooperation awarded $1500.00 for this grant in 2002. This proposal is customizable and can be adjusted to compensate for the variations in prices and costs of the equipment so please adjust this grant as you see necessary to meet your project needs. The customizable parts of this proposal are highlighted in yellow. The R
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4th - 12th
Determining and Predicting El Nino and La Nina Years
By Sue WadsworthStudents will use past sea temperature data from NOAA to determine past El Nino and La Nina years as well as predict future events. Students will graph data, answer questions, and work on extension activities designed to help them see patterns and propose solutions to problems.
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7th - 12th
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Fractured Fairytale Crime Scenes
In this assignment students will create a presentation of a mock crime scene based on a fairytale. Each crime will include characters from common fairytales. Students will include evidence to create a crime scene scenario. The assignment is organized into two main projects. The first part of the assignment involves creating a presentation of the crime. The second part of the assignment is a narrative story that explains the actual crime scene.
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5th - 9th
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SMARTboard Grant Proposal
This is a completed grant in which you can edit, copy, or paste information in order for you to get a SMARTboard in your classroom! The grant highlights the many positive aspects of this great technology, and explains why it should be implemented in your classroom!
(Please note, the attached budget may NOT be accurate to current costs, and you should update that section to fit your needs)
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
STEAM Kid Engineering -- The Playable Golf Course Design Unit for GATE
In this unit, students will build a contraption to hit a small, wooden golf ball through a scaled version of a golf course which they and their classmates have designed. They’ll make a trundle wheel for measuring and marking the course, write down their scores on a scorecard, design putters, and learn background in physics through their work in the engineering and design process.
The Playable Golf Course is not just fun. It’s a challenging engineering, design, and construction unit including
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4th - 8th
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Also included in:Â STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
Crash! Using Percent Composition to Solve a Criminal Investigation
Your students will love this activity! Stoichiometry, chemical formulas, empirical formulas, and percent composition will soon be your students favorite topics after they complete this lesson.
The purpose of this lab is to help students understand how percent composition data can be used to solve criminal investigations. This particular case involves a murder on a plane shortly before the plane ends up crashing. Students must correctly identify the murderer, the murder victim, and the crim
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7th - 12th
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Animal Cell Organelle Cut and Paste
Students will create their own animal cell. This activity is AWESOME to include in a science interactive notebook. MOST OF THIS IS EDITABLE, except the pictures, in case you want to add or delete an organelle, or modify a cell's function (change the wording to make it simpler or more complex, or add more detail) depending on your grade level.
USE IT FOR AN INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK – Have your students color, cut out, and glue the animal cell into the interactive notebook or on a blank piece of p
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5th - 12th
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Brain Games from National Geographic: Worksheets (Easy Sub Plans!)
This document contains 3 separate worksheets (2 pages each) and matching answer keys to follow along with the three episodes in Season 1 of National Geographic's "Brain Games." Each episode is approximately 44 minutes long (DVDs available online or full episodes found on youtube or other video websites).
Episode 1 focuses on Optical Illusions & the 5 Senses.
Episode 2 takes a look at Attention.
Episode 3 focuses on Memory & Memorization Techniques.
Each worksheet has three parts:
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Guided Reading:DNA, RNA, Transcription/Translation, Protein Synthesis, Mutations
This series of reading passages and follow-up questions is meant to be used before or concurrent with teaching gene expression and transcription and translation, in a middle school or high school level biology course. This activity serves as an introductory activity to the process of decoding DNA to protein, through transcription and translation. Vocabulary words including genes, proteins, the central dogma of biology, gene expression, transcription and translation, the structure of RNA, mRNA, t
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6th - 12th
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MS-LS3-1
, HS-LS1-1
Squid Dissection Lab Activity to Study Invertebrate Anatomy for Loligo Vulgaris
A 19-page dissection guide that covers the internal and external anatomy of the squid. This student-led lab activity is a great introduction to invertebrate anatomy for biology students. This comprehensive guide includes a pre-lab reading, student-led external dissection, student-led internal dissection, two blank anatomical diagrams to label, discussion questions, and an answer key that allows for greater comprehension of the anatomy and physiology of the common or European squid (Loligo vulg
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8th - 12th
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HS-LS1-2
Amplify Science- Thermal Energy All Articles Reading Comprehension Sets Bundle
Product Description- This product contains 225 reading comprehension questions for all five (5) of the articles in the Thermal Energy unit: "Absolute Zero""How Air Conditioners Make Cities Hotter""Molecule Collisions and Newton's Cradle""Thermal Energy is NOT Temperature""Dumpling Dilemma: Oil or Water?"For each article, there are three sets of questions: Set 1) 10 or 20 multiple choice questions, Set 2) 5 or 10 multiple choice and 5 or 10 short answer, and Set 3) 10 or 20 short answer. In total
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6th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Amplify Science- Thermal Energy Unit Supplemental Resources Bundle
Amplify Science- Microbiome All Articles Reading Comprehension Sets Bundle
Product Description- This product contains 330 reading comprehension questions for eleven (11) of the articles in the Microbiome unit: "Cells: The Basic Unit of Life""The Human Microbiome""Meet a Scientist Who Studies the Human Microbiome""Bacteria: Salmonella""Bacteria: C. difficile""Bacteria: B. fragilis""Bacteria: L. reuteri""Bacteria: B. animalis""Bacteria: C. jejuni:"Bacteria: E. coli"Viruses: On the Edge of Life"For each article, there are three sets of questions: Set 1) 10 or 20 multiple
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6th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Amplify Science- Microbiome Unit Supplemental Resources Bundle
NGSS Aligned Human Body System Homeostasis Webquest
An NGSS aligned webquest complete with videos, text, diagrams, images, and animations that students watch and use to respond to standard-based, free-response questions. Also includes a link to my Quizlet study set that students can use to review main vocabulary and body system functions. Covered standards and learning objectives are listed on the webquest as well as an introduction. This webquest is designed for use as a review of the body systems with emphasis on homeostasis, or maintenance
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