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Physics resources for Easel $5-10
Newton's Laws of Motion Poster Project/Doodle Note Set
Use this Newton's 3 Laws Doodle poster project with your students to engage them in meaningful application of science concepts! Review the laws of motion with this printable that gives examples to help students refine their understanding of Newton's 3 Laws of Motion. Four student pages can be copied side by side on 11 x 17 paper to make a newspaper-style poster. (Great for hallway displays!) This reviews each of the laws of motion using fun doodle-style tasks. Print and go Easel Ready! Studen
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-PS2-2
, MS-PS2-1
Also included in: Physical Science Bundle: Lessons, Games, Doodle Notes and MORE!
Kinetic vs. Potential Energy Virtual Lab
Using PhET simulations, students explore the relationship of kinetic and potential energy in a closed system. Students become aware of the Law of Conservation of Energy and also experiment with friction. The original version of this lab uses the following web page:https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/energy-skate-park-basicsHowever, PhET has created a new and improved version of this sim available here: https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/energy-skate-park/latest/energy-skate-park_all.htmlT
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS3-4
, MS-PS3-2
, MS-PS3-3
, MS-PS3-5
, MS-PS3-1
Also included in: Energy & Work Unit
Kinetic & Potential Energy Practice Worksheets
Review Kinetic and Potential Energy with this easy to use and check worksheet covering identifying points and solving equations. This resource includes 5 pages of student practice. 3 pages where students identify points (highest amount of kinetic energy, potential energy is decreasing, etc.)2 pages where students will solve using the kinetic and potential energy equationsWho is this resource for?This resource can be used by classroom teachers, tutors, and parents of students in grades 6-9. It pr
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 9th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS3-2
, MS-PS3-1
Also included in: Energy & Work Unit
Light Energy Unit: Science Stations/Centers or Labs, Activities & Experiments
This deluxe light energy unit includes five labs that can be set up as stations or centers, a full-blown experiment, extension activities, review, and assessment. Your kids will love the hands-on investigation – and you will too! This is the science unit you’ve been waiting for.Working in stations or centers saves time and uses less materials.Directions for each project are simple and easy to follow. Kids can work independently! Kids become engaged in fun activities that build understanding of l
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
4-PS3-2
Walking Dead Lab (An Exploration of Speed, Velocity & Acceleration)
Now you can add an interactive layer to this PDF and assign it to your students through Google Classroom!Use this exciting lab to help students discover speed, velocity and acceleration and how various motions are represented graphically. This product includes almost everything you will need for this lab with the exception of measuring tape, timing device, and metal washers (or other similar weights). Before the lab, students are assigned a task (job cards are included) and 4 different "walker
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for Marc W.
Sound Energy Unit - Hands-on Science Activities - Stations/Centers/Labs & STEM
This engaging sound energy unit includes five labs that can be set up as stations or centers, a STEM activity, review, and assessment. Your kids will love the hands-on investigation – and you will too! Open the preview to take a closer look at the science unit, which uses the 5E Model.Engage: A pretest gets kids thinking about sound energy.Explore: Using inquiry, students explore key science concepts. For each guiding question, they explore two or three simple (but powerful) activities and draw
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
4-PS3-2
End of Year Science Activities - Summer School Curriculum & STEM Project
Keep them engaged with these end-of-year science activities in comic form! This is more than your basic science reading passage and project. This print-and-go potential and kinetic energy lesson plan will captivate your entire class in hands-on learning as they explore the energy transfer that occurs between kinetic energy and potential energy. Everything is presented in a science cartoon format!Cool School Comics combines the allure of comics with unique visual learning strategies to revolution
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 6th
NGSS:
MS-PS3-4
, MS-PS3-2
Thermal Energy Activities and Heat Transfer Lab - Science Unit for 3rd, 4th, 5th
This complete unit includes eight sets of hands-on thermal energy activities, a heat transfer lab, video links, flash cards, review sheet, and assessment to help third, fourth, or fifth grade students understand key science concepts.Open the preview to take a closer look at the unit. You’ll see that the activities offer safe (and fun!) ways to explore heat in the classroom.First, using inquiry, students explore key thermal energy concepts. For each guiding question, they explore two or three sim
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
4-PS3-2
PhET Simulation Online Lab: Electric Circuits, Resistors in Series & Parallel
Using this electric circuits PhET guided inquiry lab your students will gain an in depth understanding of the difference between resistors in series circuits and resistors in parallel circuits. I have done these activities with my students many times and they always find them fun and engaging. The best part is that your students won't even know they are learning as they complete the included inquiry-based laboratory assignment sheet. The PhET Circuit Construction Kit: DC simulation can be found
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Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Electric Circuits Bundle No. 1: Resistors in Series and Parallel
PhET Projectile Motion activity guide
The PhET:Projectile Motion Activity Guide is used along with the free *Next Generation PhET Simulation on Projectile Motion. Students learn how the motion of a projectile is affected by changes in the initial height, initial speed, cannon angle, and other variables with or without the affects of wind resistance. This activity guide follows closely with the newest (HTML5) version of the PhET Projectile Motion simulation. Your students will hit the ground running without the need for a lengthy in
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS2-2
Also included in: PhET Activity Guide Physics Bundle
Its a Gas Lab Activity: Kinetic Molecular Theory and Gas Laws
This lab activity is designed to encourage students to apply the Kinetic Molecular Theory and the gas laws to eight examples that they observe.
Students will work in groups to analyze and evaluate behaviors of gases in eight stations. Students will then sketch what they see, write an explanation of what’s happening, (in terms of the Kinetic Molecular Theory), and justify which gas law best fits the example.
Included in this activity packet are:
Station cards
Student notes on the Kinetic Molecul
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Grades:
8th - 12th
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PhET Forces and Motion Basics Activity Guide
The PhET: Forces and Motion Basics Activity Guide is used along with the free *Next Generation PhET Simulation “Forces and Motion Basics”. Students will discover how balanced and unbalanced forces affect an object’s motion and then explore the relationship between force, mass, acceleration, speed, and friction on the motion of objects. The activity guide takes students through the 4 parts of the simulation: Net Force, Motion, Friction and Acceleration. Students are encouraged to make predictions
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 10th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-PS2-2
, MS-PS2-2
, HS-PS2-1
Also included in: PhET Activity Guide Physics Bundle
Forces and Motion Science Unit (1st, 2nd, 3rd Grades)
********Save 33% when you buy this product as part of our Science Unit 3-pack*******
In this first through third grade science unit, I’ve included numerous resources to help teachers bring forces and motion “to life” for their students. Not only do the worksheets, quizzes and games help students learn the concepts, some very silly monster characters make the learning fun.
I’ve also included 2 very highly rated STEM activity challenges in this pack. These activities are directly related to for
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Science Unit Bundle! Weather, Forces & Motion and States of Matter
Magnets Magnetism and Magnetic Fields Activity CER Worksheet and Stations
Spark some critical thinking! Review and reinforce magnetic forces and magnetic fields as students practice data analysis and make claims from evidence!⭐ Find this at a huge discount in our Physical Science CER Bundle! ⭐In this activity, students will:READ a brief passage.ANALYZE a simple data table, graph, or picture.Make a CLAIM based on EVIDENCE for a question related to magnetism.There are 10 total claims to make from looking at a graph or a data table!Three Ways to Assign!As Stations: Great
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 10th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS2-3
, MS-PS2-5
PhET Simulation Online Lab: Geometric Optics, Lenses and Mirrors
In this guided inquiry two part PhET lab your students will investigate how an image is formed by four different optical instruments: a convex lens, a concave lens, a convex mirror and a concave mirror. In Part 1 students will investigate (1) how the characteristics of the image change as the object is brought closer to each of the lenses and mirrors, (2) the similarities and differences in image formation for each of the lenses and mirrors and (3) the meaning of the points F and 2F for the conv
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Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Optics Complete Unit Bundle
Physics & Car Collisions: 5 Day Investigation (MS-PS2-1 & MS-PS3-1)
Looking for an extension activity for your physics and motion unit? Do you need a hands-on way for students to extend their learning? If so, this Car Crashes Project is the perfect resource for you! Bring physics to life with this engaging 5 day project covering Newton's Laws and kinetic and potential energy!Who is this resource for?This resource can be used by classroom teachers, tutors, and parents of students in grades 6-9. It provides a variety of practice covering the mentioned topics.This
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 9th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS3-1
, MS-PS2-1
Also included in: Force & Motion Unit
Ocean currents, Waves & Tides Unit with Worksheets | Movement of Ocean water
This resource covers all the key information about Ocean Currents, Waves, Tides and everything you’ll need to teach your students about this topic with interactive worksheets.This Unit is Informative, Interesting and Visually stimulating with great graphics and related images which help students to understand the concept behind each description.This will definitely help your students and homeschoolers to understand this unit very easily.I tried my best to make each and every WORKSHEETS more enga
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Grades:
5th - 7th
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Speed and Energy Activities - Forms and Transfer - Fourth & Fifth Grade
Through hands-on activities, fourth or fifth grade students construct explanations relating the speed of an object to its energy. Six labs may be completed in stations or as stand-alone experiments. Directions, review, and assessment are also included. Open the preview to take a closer look at these seriously fun science activities.First, students read the definition of speed and learn about two categories of energy: potential and kinetic. Then they explore types of potential (chemical, mechanic
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
4-PS3-1
, 4-PS3-2
Also included in: NGSS Fourth Grade Energy Bundle - Physical Science Activities
PhET Simulation Online Lab: Force of Friction
The goal of this PhET online lab activity is for your students to gain a deeper understanding of static and kinetic friction forces, Newton’s laws of motion and how to determine the coefficients of static and kinetic friction. This activity includes collecting data about frictional forces, graphing the data and analysis of the graph to determine the coefficients of friction. This web based lab is available as a PDF file that can be completed by distance learners. This online lab activity uses th
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Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Newton’s Laws of Motion Bundle: Three PhET Online Labs
Physical Science Reading Comprehension Passages Motion & Energy Digital Resource
This useful physical science passages pack allows you to assign, check and review reading comprehension with ease. Digital resources with full answer keys and self-grading forms.Numerous science pictures to help explain difficult topics. Give this reading comprehension product a try today!Titles include:Kinetic and Potential Energy, Force and Motion, Simple Machines, Simple Machines 2, Thermal Energy, Sound and Light Energy.Science Reading Comprehension Outline:This product contains passages esp
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Grades:
5th - 7th
Thermal Energy Heat Activity CER and Data Analysis Stations and Worksheet
Spark some critical thinking! Review and reinforce heat transfer as students practice data analysis and make claims from evidence!⭐ Find this at a huge discount in our Physical Science CER Bundle! ⭐In this activity, students will:READ a brief passage about a science scenario.ANALYZE a simple data table, graph, or picture.Make a CLAIM based on EVIDENCE for a question related to heat.Three Ways to Assign!As Stations: Great for getting kids moving around the room! Each of the 11 station cards has a
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 10th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-PS3-4
, HS-PS3-2
, MS-PS1-4
, MS-PS3-3
Properties of Waves Worksheet and Stations Data Analysis and CER Activity
Spark some critical thinking! Review and reinforce wave properties as students practice data analysis and making claims from evidence!⭐ Find this at a huge discount in our Physical Science CER Bundle! ⭐In this activity, students will:READ a brief passage.ANALYZE a simple data table, graph, or picture.Make a CLAIM based on EVIDENCE for a question related to waves.There are 11 total claims to make from looking at a graph or a data table!Three Ways to Assign!As Stations: Great for getting kids movi
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Grades:
7th - 10th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS4-1
, MS-PS4-2
, HS-PS4-1
Forces & Friction in Transportation Systems - Thrust, Drag, Lift, Gravity
What affects motion of different forms of transportation? Students draw arrows to show four forces (e.g., thrust, drag, lift, gravity) acting on a specific form. They identify sources of friction and consider design changes that improve motion. Open the preview to get a closer look at these seriously fun science activities.What’s Included:Forces Reference Guide – Four frames display forces acting on transportation systems on land, in water, in air, and in space. A short paragraph explains each.F
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4th - 5th
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Newton's Laws Activity Data Analysis and CER Worksheet and Stations
Spark some critical thinking! Review and reinforce Newton's 3 Laws of Motion as students practice data analysis and making claims from evidence!⭐ Get this activity in our NEWTON'S LAWS UNIT at 40% OFF! ⭐In this activity, students will:READ a brief passage about a science scenario.ANALYZE a simple data table, graph, or picture.Make a CLAIM based on EVIDENCE for a question related to Newton's Laws.Three Ways to Assign!As Stations: Great for getting kids moving around the room! Each of the 13 stati
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 10th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS2-2
, HS-PS2-1
, MS-PS2-1
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