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Middle school geometry laboratories for special education
Volume of Spheres, Cones, Cylinders, Pyramids Hands-On Discovery Activity
These engaging volume labs allow students to experiment and discover volume formulas of 3D solids. Help your students understand and remember where the formulas come from (and have fun while doing so)!The labs let students discover and make sense of formulas for the following 3D solids:Lab 1: PrismsLab 2: CylindersLab 3: PyramidsLab 4: ConesLab 5: SpheresIn each lab, students create 3D figures, hypothesize, and experiment. They see how the 3D solids relate to each other as they figure out their
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Grades:
8th - 10th
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Also included in:Â 8th Grade Math Discovery Lessons and Activities Bundle
Winter Weather STEM Challenge Lab Design a Paper Snowflake PRINT and DIGITAL
This STEM challenge explains how snowflakes form as a type of weather (precipitation). It walks students through the steps to create beautiful snowflake shapes out of paper. This resource includes: teacher suggestions, discussion questions, and extension activitiesbackground information on what snowflakes are and how they formstep by step instructions to create paper snowflakes with photos a student response worksheeta scoring rubrica force copy link to a digital Google Slides versionGet my grow
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Grades:
4th - 7th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in:Â STEM Challenges Bundle of Hands-On Science Lab Activities PRINT and DIGITAL
Make Multiple Vectors Fun! Pirate Treasure Hunt - Physics, Trigonometry
This is one of my student’s favorite activities. Who doesn’t want to go outside and map out some vectors? It works well in physics or trigonometry for understanding how to add and subtract multiple vectors. 10 different maps are provided for student groups to make their way from a single point of origin to a designated, X-marks-the-spot, using compass headings of N, S, E, and W and specified distances. The groups all have a different path but end up at the same place. At the end, students dr
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Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Potential and Kinetic Energy Phet Skate Park Simulation Digital UDL Lesson
Lesson on potential and kinetic energy using google slides and the phet energy skate park simulation. Interactive lesson with NGSS science standards made accessible for all students with UDL principals. Includes multiple slides of questions on the relationship of kinetic and potential energy and the affect of mass and height on kinetic and potential energy. Product also includes an extension activity.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-PS3-2
, MS-PS3-5
, MS-PS3-1
Surface Area of Prisms and Pyramids using Nets | Hands on Activity
This product will help your kinesthetic learners make connections as they experience calculating total surface area and lateral surface area with this hands on activity. Students work in partners to determine the names of the shapes when the nets are constructed, measure the nets themselves (to the nearest half centimeter), and then calculate both the total and the lateral surface area. I have personally used this in class, even one year during a formal observation! I loved how it required my
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Grades:
6th - 7th
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CCSS:
Also included in:Â Volume and Surface Area of Prisms and Pyramids | BUNDLED
Distance Formula Lesson (Discovery Lab)
This is a discovery activity that will guide your students to deriving the distance formula using the Pythagorean Theorem. This is a partner activity that is an introduction before you give notes.
This resource includes:
-Background Building Activity
-A Discovery Activity
-Reflection
Grades:
7th - 10th
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CCSS:
Also included in:Â Pythagorean Theorem Activities
Plate Tectonics LAB: Yummy! Eat Your Boundaries (Graham Crackers and Fluff)
EAT YOUR PLATES AND YOUR ASTHENOSPHERE! Graham cracker based plate tectonic boundaries lab. A dynamic tutorial on plate boundaries and model manipulation that kids LOVE! You can eat it too!
Loaded with COLOR and IMAGES!
This is a can’t miss lab! You can use the images provided OR use actual lab materials to mimic the lab procedure provided!
This lab includes the following:
-Terminology-asthenosphere, lithosphere, plate boundaries, convergent, divergent, transform, oceanic crust, contin
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Grades:
4th - 9th, Adult Education
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Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion: ELLIPSE LAB - Loaded with FUN!
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"REACH INC."-EMPOWERING ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES
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Come explore a beautiful marriage of both math and science. Experience Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion like you never have before. In this dynamic ellipse lab, content and inquiry go hand in hand. This special creation is applicable to many ability and grade levels. This is lab is LOADED starting with Kepler’s 3 Laws. First, the law of ellipses. Second, the law of equal areas. Third, th
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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Triangle Inequality Theorem Discovery Activity 7.G.A.2
In this teacher led discovery lab students will discover the conditions for triangles given side lengths and angle types. This is a hands-on introduction activity for 7th graders learning about the properties of triangles and the triangle inequality theorem. It includes an activity for a math interactive notebook as well.
This resource includes:
-Background Building Activity
-A Discovery Activity
-Reflection
Grades:
7th - 10th
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CCSS:
Also included in:Â Triangle Inequality Theorem Activity Bundle 7.G.A.2
Backyard Project - Perimeter, Area, and Volume - Real World Applications
This project is the culmination of the perimeter, area, volume unit. It can be used as a task for the Common Core, or real world application of the measurement unit. Students estimate the cost to build a backyard, with a swimming pool, deck, shed, playset area, garden, and brick walkway. Using the calculations and costs associated with purchasing materials needed to construct the different parts, students will generate the total cost of the project, without labor. With the dimensions provide
Grades:
8th - 10th
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Plate Tectonics, Pangaea, and Continental Drift LAB (Lots of FUN!!!)
Meet the ULTIMATE Super Continent! PANGAEA! Come experience an in depth tutorial and analysis of Pangaea, its before, and its after. A variety of fun and engaging pedagogical strategies (some you have probably never seen before) including:
-Puzzle construction: colorful with differentiated symbols to denote: cynognathus fossils, mesosaurus fossils, glossopteris fossils, lystrosaurus fossils, young rock formations, and old rock formations. Using a color/symbol coded key students assemble a
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Grades:
5th - 9th, Adult Education
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Moon Phases and OREO COOKIE LAB. A TRUE HIT! (Yummy for ALL Ages!)
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"REACH INC."-EMPOWERING ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES
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Understanding moon phases can be difficult for a student or adult of any age. According to the NSF (National Science Foundation), the conceptual process of the moon phases is "misunderstood by adults just as much as children." Well, it's time to fix that! And you can use OREO cookies to help you.
This is a comprehensive activity and mini-lab in which students investigate the dynamic yet pr
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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LAB - Sugar Cube Weathering
This is a lab activity about physical weathering (abrasion) and chemical weathering (affect of temperature and surface area). Students will model abrasion by shaking sugar cubes in plastic bottles. Then, they will model the affect of temperature on weathering and the affect of surface area on weathering using sugar cubes.
This is a fun lab for students and is very cost-effective. I have students bring in empty gatorade bottles (they are hard plastic and will last for years). Sugar cubes can be
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Grades:
8th - 12th
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Drawing 3D Solids From Different Perspectives Snap Cube Lab
-Each student needs a set of snap cubes (they will only use at most 9 at a time), an individual whiteboard or other hard moveable surface, handout, and pencil.
-Have students label whiteboard with FRONT, BACK, LEFT, and RIGHT as shown on the next page.
-Walk students through how to build the first 3D figure. Then have them place the figure in the center of the whiteboard with the word FRONT closest to them. Have students then hold the whiteboard with the figure on top at eye level and draw wha
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Grades:
5th - 10th
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Scientific Method Sequence Display Cards
Scientific Method Display Cards are a great resource to reinforce the steps to the scientific method as well a supporting science fair project work. This product includes two levels of differentiation, one with picture supported text and the second level using sight word sentences. It is recommended that the two levels are attached to the front and back of sentence strips to create an instructional activity that can be used to address diverse literacy skills within the same activity.Scientific
Grades:
K - 12th
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Scientific Method: SAVING SAM THE GUMMY WORM! Kids say, "So much FUN!"
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-Southern Science Specialists - Chapel Hill, North Carolina-
SAVING SAM (GUMMY WORM) is a VERY POPULAR lab introducing the scientific method commonly found anywhere between 4th and 8th grade. Check out the preview! This lab is also used in pedagogy classes for science education in undergraduate and graduate school. This is a modified lab geared towards lower ability levels and/or students that do not ha
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Effects of Transformations Inquiry / Discovery Lesson
Use inquiry learning to get students to discover and describe the effects of transformations. The Effects of Transformations Discovery Lab is an engaging activity to activate prior knowledge about transformations and for students to use a discovery approach as a perfect introduction to this concept. Students will look at examples of the following transformations and write rules for the resulting figures: translations, dilations, reflections, and rotations.
Supports 8th Grade CCSS 8.G.A.3
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8th
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Also included in:Â Effects of Transformations Activities
Mixtures and Solutions using trail mix and kool aid- great for ESE
Students will create their own trail mix and kool-aid to demonstrate the difference between mixtures and special types of mixtures called solutions. I teach in a special-ed classroom and utilizing their measuring skills, and involving their taste buds make it easier for them to make a connection to the content.
You will need (per student, makes 1 cup. They could split with a partner or take home.)
ÂĽ cup goldfish
ÂĽ cup pretzels
ÂĽ cup dried cranberries
ÂĽ cup cereal
individual kool-aid packets
M
Grades:
6th - 8th
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12 Science Experiments to use in Special Education
These 12 different experiments allow students with autism and special learning needs to conduct real experiments with as much independence as possible while still following the scientific method. They are structured to allow students to make the necessary connections to the content while working through the 6 steps of the Scientific Method.âś©âś©âś© PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE ARE THE SAME EXPERIMENTS INCLUDED IN THE SCIENCE UNITS LISTED BELOW. YOU DO NOT NEED TO HAVE THE UNITS TO BE ABLE TO DO THE EXPER
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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Measurement: VOLUME LAB (Water Displacement Method / Irregular Objects)
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-Southern Science Specialists - Chapel Hill, North Carolina-
Volume - WATER DISPLACEMENT METHOD LAB (Irregular Objects)
Great scientific method and physical science lab!
Volume measurement of irregular objects. A dynamic 3-part lab/activity that DOES NOT require lab materials. Using the water displacement method students will calculate the volume of the following objects: ring, aluminum cylinder, glas
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3rd - 8th
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Life Skills Scrambled Eggs | Cooking Competition Cooking Lab | FCS
Grab your aprons and chef’s hats for this fun and eggciting scrambled egg cooking lab to teach life skills. Students will turn eggs into a delicious masterpiece in this eggcellent cooking activity. In this lesson, students will come up with their own scrambled egg recipe and have it be presented to judges! They will practice creativity, time management skills, and use teamwork to put their best eggs forward. Students will be placed into groups of three or four for this scrambled egg competition
Grades:
8th - 11th
Types:
Also included in:Â Life Skills Cooking Competition Bundle Part 2
Plate Tectonics: Make Your Own VOLCANO LAB! (Extended Version; EASY TO DO; FUN)
This is the extended version complete with actual procedural photographs.
MAKE YOU OWN VOLCANO! IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!
This version provides pictures in case one does not actually have the materials below. If materials are available to you, see below for must haves and optional materials.
Material MUST HAVES: Flask, stopper or cork, baking soda, and vinegar.
Optional materials to enhance the experience: paper towels, tape, ruler, beaker, goggles, and scissors.
This kid and adult frie
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
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Rock Cycle CRAYON LAB (A MUST HAVE! Unique and So Much Fun!)
PROCEEDS BENEFIT "REACH INC."-EMPOWERING ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES
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-Southern Science Specialists - Chapel Hill, North Carolina-
CRAYON LAB! So much fun!!!
Kids LOVE THIS LAB! Instead of using crayons to color, use crayons to demonstrate the rock cycle! 2 separate activities for differentiated levels.
Pairs great with the DICE GAME found at the link below:
ROCK CYCLE DICE GAME
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Grades:
3rd - 10th
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NYS Cool It! Guided Lab Presentation & Pre-lab Boom Card Deck
In this resource you will find a copy of a Boom card deck to familiarize students with the data tables they will have to interpret and create in the Cool It! Lab Investigation. This set can be done as a pre-lab activity. Also included in this resource are two guided lab presentations of the student directions packet, student answer packet 1 and student answer packet 2, that break down the investigation step by step. It also provides visuals for students and simplifies the questions. Fill in the
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS3-4
, MS-PS3-3
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