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6th grade science centers
STEM Bins® / STEAM Bins® Elementary STEM Activities: Morning Work,Fast Finishers
The original STEM Bins® and STEAM Bins®STEM Bins® and STEAM Bins for K-5th Grade are the ideal hands-on, play-based solution for:Early Finishers / Fast FinishersMorning Work / Soft StartsCentersWriting ExtensionsFine Motor PracticeMakerspaceIncentivesCalm Down Corner***TOP 5 ALL TIME BEST-SELLING RESOURCE ON TPT!***INCLUDES A FULL STEAM VERSION, SPANISH VERSION, AND FRENCH VERSION!!!★SUPPLY LIST FOR STEM BINSWant to see my STEM Bins® up close and personal?! Watch my STEM Bins 101 video series o
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PreK - 6th
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Ecosystems & Food Webs Science Stations | 4th Grade 5th Grade Activity TEKS NGSS
Get ready to facilitate learning with informative, easy prep centers! Ecosystems and Food Webs Science Stations includes 9 stations all about food webs and ecosystem interactions.Includes guided student sheets, an answer key, quicker prep, and improved activities for your class! 9 StationsRead It: Read about food webs and abiotic and biotic components of a koala’s ecosystem. Answer questions.Create It: Use a table with information to construct a food web.Watch It: Watch two short videos and answ
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4th - 6th
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5-PS3-1
Scientific Method Activity - Easy Paper Airplane Science Experiment Lab
This easy scientific method activity will get your kids excited about following the steps of the scientific method! This interdisciplinary unit incorporates paper airplane science experiments, math, STEM, & writing to provide a fun hands on science experience. Click on the PREVIEW button to see more of what is included! ⭐ What is Included:information and outline for instructionsupply/materials listsample schedule for the activitiesvocabulary list and definitionsword wall cardsstudent vocab
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4th - 6th
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Adaptations Science Stations | Animals & Plants Structures | 4th Grade TEKS NGSS
Ready for quick prep adaptations science centers for plant and animal structures and functions? These centers focus on identifying and comparing structures and functions.Includes guided student sheets, an answer key, quicker prep, and improved activities for your class!9 StationsRead It: Read about the structures of giraffes, Madagascar geckos, agave, and earthworms. Answer questions.Create It: Use information provided to design a camel that would be adapted to a tundra environment.Watch It: Wat
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4th - 6th
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4-LS1-1
5 STEM Activities Desert Island STEM Challenge Bridge Catapult Raft Hut STEAM
If your students enjoy doing STEM or STEAM activities, they will LOVE this set of 5 fully-planned out challenges! All five themed STEM challenges center around the story of a shipwrecked traveler stranded on a deserted island. After watching an introductory “movie trailer” and hearing the story of the shipwreck, students will read five of the traveler's diary entries. Each entry will challenge them to design and build something to help him survive and get back to civilization!These STEM challeng
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4th - 7th
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3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Forms of Energy Science Stations | Light Sound Electrical Thermal Transformation
Forms of Energy Science Stations includes 9 station activities focused on mechanical, electrical, light, thermal, and sound energy.Includes guided student sheets, an answer key, quicker prep, and improved activities for your class!9 StationsRead It: Read about thermal, mechanical, sound, electrical, and light energy. Answer questions.Create It: Place the circuit cards in the correct locations on the diagram mat.Watch It: Watch a video and answer questions.Match It: Match the objects to the type
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4th - 6th
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Solar System Create, Facts, and Fill Ins on a String Interactive Science Fun!
Solar System: On A String Interactive {Create, Facts, and Fill Ins}The entire solar system is included in this pack.Once assembled your students will love that it will actually look like the solar system in the order in which the planets appear. There are dashed guidelines for cutting and on the back of each planet is a fill ins page. Requires 8.5 by 11 paper total of 14 pages – one set of full color art and one set of black line art for your students to color.The back of each planet asks – how
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K - 8th
Scientific Method Activity Worksheets: Skittles Graphing Science Experiment
These skittles labs are a fun way to have students learn about the scientific method.Lab contents:1. Skittle Colors Lab:A. Question: Which color skittle is most common in a package of skittles?B. Developing a hypothesisC. ProcedureD. Data TablesE. GraphingF. Post-Lab Questions2. Skittles Mass and Amount LabA. Question: How accurate are Skittles packages to one another in terms of mass and total number of Skittles?B. Developing a hypothesisC. ProcedureD. Data and AnalysisE
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4th - 9th
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Weather and Climate & Water Cycle Science Stations | 4th Grade 5th Grade Earth
Get ready to facilitate learning with informative, easy prep centers! Weather and Water Science Stations includes 9 station activities that focus on processes in the water cycle and the difference between weather and climate.Includes guided student sheets, an answer key, quicker prep, and improved activities for your class!StationsRead It: Read about weather and climate. Answer questions.Create It: Gather information about the weather conditions and give a weather report to a friend. Option: Hav
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4th - 6th
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Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition Science Stations | 4th Grade 5th Grade Earth
Do your students understand how slow changes like weathering, erosion, and deposition change Earth's surface? Erosion Science Stations includes 9 stations to help your students to explore weathering, erosion, and deposition in a variety of ways!Includes guided student sheets, an answer key, quicker prep, and improved activities for your class!9 StationsRead It: Read about Earth’s changing landforms due to wind, water, and ice.Create It: Use information provided to build diagrams that show canyon
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4th - 6th
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5-ESS2-1
, 4-ESS2-1
Organisms in Ecosystem: Producer, Consumer, Decomposer Text, Review, Sort
This interactive and hands-on sort activity will allow your upper elementary students to show their knowledge of organisms in an ecosystems food chain in a kinesthetic way! It allows you to challenge your students to think critically when completing this cut and paste to show you what they know. Students can read about producers, consumers and decomposers then apply their knowledge in the sorting activity. This resource is great for teaching, practice or assessment of knowledge. Included in this
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3rd - 6th
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STEM Space Lander Math & Engineering Activity (Printed & Digital)
Space Lander STEM ChallengeThis STEM activity is one of our favorite engineering design challenges! The combination of marshmallows (or ping pong balls) and aliens makes this a winning STEM challenge! In the Space Lander Challenge, student teams build a lander using the engineering design process to keep two marshmallow "aliens" or "astronauts" inside a cup as it is dropped from various heights. Using straws, index cards, and mini marshmallows or cotton balls, students apply concepts of shock ab
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5th - 10th
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MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Middle School
Space Science Stations | Sun, Earth, Moon Phases, Solar System | 4th 5th grade
Get ready to facilitate learning with informative, easy prep centers! Space Science Stations includes 9 station activities that focus on the Sun, Earth, our moon, moon phases, our solar system, and day and night.Includes guided student sheets, an answer key, quicker prep, and improved activities for your class!9 StationsRead It: Read about the characteristics of the Sun, Earth, and Moon and record information about their sizes, compositions, and gravity.Create It: Use materials to build a model
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4th - 6th
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Rocks and Minerals, Types of Rocks, The Rock Cycle Worksheets & Reading Passages
Are you looking for rocks and minerals worksheets that cover igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks with no additional prep? This rock cycle introduction practice set of activities and non-fiction reading comprehension passages are easy to use and your students will love the variety. Learn the types of rocks and minerals through observations, writing prompts, non-fiction rocks and minerals reading comprehension passages (print & Google Forms options), and more. Including the rock cycle.
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Rocks and Minerals Unit
Changing States of Matter SORT (Cut & Paste) Review or Assessment- NOW DIGITAL!
This interactive and hands-on card sort activity will allow your students to see how the atoms in matter change as they change states due to the amount of heat given to that matter. This is a great way to teach, practice and asses this tricky concept in a kinesthetic way! Use this for your upper elementary or middle school science class.Start by asking students the question: How can the states of matter can be changed from one form to another? [ex. " What happens to solid ice when heat is added?
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4th - 6th
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Earth's Spheres (biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, geosphere) Activity
Teach your students about Earth's four spheres using this science text and activity. Students will read to learn about the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere and then complete the graphic organizer activities to demonstrate their learning. Students will also read and answer scenarios about how the spheres interact with one another, and the impact humans have on Earth's spheres. Like this Earth's spheres activity? Check out the Earth science bundle and save 20% by clicking here. St
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4th - 6th
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5-ESS2-1
Also included in: Earth Science Curriculum
Solar System and Planets Reading Passages | The Solar System Worksheets
This Solar System and Planets Close Reading Packet has everything you need for a complete reading and science unit in your classroom. Differentiated reading passages, writing activities, no prep worksheets, and coloring pages are at the heart of this one-stop resource for learning about each planet!Please click the PREVIEW above for an idea of everything included in this loaded resource!If you have never used Close Reading or even if you are already a pro, this 110+ page packet truly is for you!
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Solar System and Planets Activities Bundle | Solar System Project
Natural Selection Simulation Activity | Survival of the Fittest Game
Students will have a blast competing to see if they have what it takes to survive and win this competition. In this Natural Selection simulation, students will use a spinner to see what traits their organism will have and see if they will be the last one standing. There are 6 challenges (one for each biome) presented in a powerpoint. Students will start sitting, and if they have favorable traits for the environment, they will stand. If they have unfavorable traits, they will sit. The students wh
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5th - 8th
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Halloween STEM Activities | Fall STEM Activities for October | Halloween Science
Halloween STEM Activities will keep your kids engaged in brain-busting work disguised as fun!This bundle includes the following 6 Halloween STEM activities:⭐ Bone Bridge® STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Creature Catcher STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Ghosts in the Graveyard STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Treat Toss STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Wings Wanted STEM Challenge Activity⭐ Halloween STEM Improv Activity (336 possible combinations!)The basic idea: In the 5 Halloween STEM Challenge Activities, students
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2nd - 8th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Physical Change and Chemical Change Science Stations | 5th Grade Science
Keep instruction smart and simple with science stations! Changes to Matter Science Stations includes 9 station activities that focus on physical changes and chemical changes.Includes guided student sheets, an answer key, quicker prep, and improved activities for your class!9 StationsRead It: Read about examples of physical and chemical changes.Create It: Conduct a mini lab in which you combine baking soda and vinegar to blow up a balloon.Watch It: Watch a short video and answer questions.Match I
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4th - 6th
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Space STEM Challenges and Activities
Engineering~Math~Art~Science
These 8 STEM/STEAM Space activities and challenges are a perfect way to integrate more STEM strategies into a space unit. These activities can be used throughout a unit as each topic is covered (moon phases, planets, orbits, asteroids, constellations, etc.) or at the end of the unit as culminating activities.
Each activity includes a student direction page with all materials listed, a sign to label the centers, reflection/follow-up pages for students to complete, a
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
5th Grade Science Escape Room Activity Bundle | Science Review Game
Students will have a blast with this 5th Grade Science Digital Breakout Escape Room Bundle! This bundle contains escape rooms for Matter, Earth's Processes, Planet Earth, Organisms and Environments, and Force and Energy. Students will use their knowledge of 5th grade science to make an EzPz Escape from these science breakout rooms! Students are required to answer station cards and use a decoder to get the codes for digital locks that will break them out of the digital room. Each Escape Room cont
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4th - 6th
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Biomes and Ecosystems Reading Comprehension Passages--UPDATED!
UPDATED (January 2020)Use this information-rich reading passages to integrate science curriculum into your reading standards! This packet includes:--6 Reading comprehension passages (1 per terrestrial biome)--6 Graphic organizers (1 per passage) --6 Short response activity sheets (1 per passage)Use these for whole group, small group or individual instruction. The passages, graphic organizers and questions can serve as a teaching tool, stations, homework or a review!
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4th - 7th
Halloween STEM Activity - Bone Bridge® - Halloween STEM Challenge
The Bone Bridge® Halloween STEM activity is collaborative, brain-busting work disguised as fun! This STEM challenge goes beyond Halloween. Connect it to your science lessons on skeletal system, bridges/transportation, and/or forces (specific ideas provided in the resource). The basic idea: Students work in partners or groups against a list of criteria and constraints to build a bridge for length, strength, or capacity using simple materials. This is the first resource from Bone Bridge® STEM Ch
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2nd - 8th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Also included in: Halloween STEM Activities - 6 STEM Challenges - Print & Paperless
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