4th grade holidays/seasonal laboratories for Microsoft PowerPoint

Activities, Laboratory, Printables

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

NGSS:

MS-LS2-3

, 5-LS2-1

Also included in: HUMAN IMPACT AND EARTH DAY UNIT BUNDLE With Pacing Guide MS-ESS3-3, MS-LS2

Build an Interactive STUDENT & Yarn FOOD WEB! Food Chain Activity OCEAN Marine

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Here is an Ocean Marine student interactive food chain and food web activity to interpret interactions between producers and consumers. Using 18 images of plants and animals, the students use yarn to interconnect food chains with the entire class in this exciting activity! This set of pages can be used for several activities that include concepts about food chains, food webs, consumers vs. producers, the different levels of consumers, herbivores vs. carnivores vs. omnivores and autotrophs vs. h

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

NGSS:

MS-LS2-3

, 5-LS2-1

Also included in: ECOLOGY OF OCEAN Unit Bundle of Food Webs, Biodiversity, STEM, Energy Flow

STEM Survivor 2-Day Design Challenge PowerPoint Lesson

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The STEM Survivor 2-Day Design Challenge will get your students thinking and team-building before or after a long break, back to school time, or for those days before the end of the school year. Plus, this activity incorporates critical thinking, collaboration, drawing, and measurement in addition to scientific engineering skills! This product presents a scenario to the students where a couple has been stranded on an island and must design a retrieval device out of materials washed up on the

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Grades:

4th - 9th

Types:

Thanksgiving STEM Challenge: The Great Turkey Race - PPT - Grades 3-5

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The Thanksgiving STEM Challenge: The Great Turkey Race will get your students thinking and team-building in those days leading up to Thanksgiving Break! Plus, this activity incorporates critical thinking, collaboration, drawing, and measurement in addition to scientific engineering skills. This product presents a scenario to the students where the turkeys on Farmer Dave's farm must win a race to prevent them from being the main entree at a Thanksgiving feast. The turkeys decide they need a

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Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

STEM Challenge: Egg Drop - PPT - Grades 3-5

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The Egg-ceptional Packaging Egg Drop STEM Challenge is sure to provide lasting memories for your students as a fun Easter, spring break, back to school, end of school, or anytime it is warm outside activity! Plus, this activity incorporates critical thinking, collaboration, drawing, measurement, and scientific engineering skills! This product presents a scenario to the students where the boss of the Egg-ceptional Packaging Company is needing scientists to design an egg package that would prot

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Grades:

3rd - 5th

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Build an Interactive STUDENT FOOD WEB! Food Chain Activity RAINFOREST JUNGLE

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Here is an Rainforest Jungle student interactive food chain and food web activity to interpret interactions and energy flow between producers and consumers. Using 18 images of plants and animals, the students use yarn to interconnect food chains with the entire class in this exciting activity! This set of pages can be used for several activities that include concepts about food chains, food webs, consumers vs. producers, the different levels of consumers, herbivores vs. carnivores vs. omniv

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

NGSS:

MS-LS2-3

, 5-LS2-1

Also included in: ECOLOGY RAINFOREST BUNDLE Interactive Food Webs, Biodiversity, STEM, Abiotic

Christmas STEM Challenge: Jingle All The Way - PPT - Grades 3-5

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This Christmas STEM Challenge: Jingle All The Way will get your students thinking and team-building in those days leading up to Winter Break! Plus, this activity incorporates critical thinking, collaboration, drawing, and measurement in addition to scientific engineering skills. This product presents a scenario to the students where Santa needs a new sleigh. Students are asked to design a sleigh that is lightweight and sturdy out of common household items that can tolerate the weight of the

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Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Build an Interactive STUDENT FOOD WEB with Yarn! DESERT Food Chain Activity

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Here is a Desert student interactive food chain and food web activity to interpret interactions and energy flow between producers and consumers. Using 18 images of plants and animals, the students use yarn to interconnect food chains with the entire class in this exciting activity! This set of pages can be used for several activities that include concepts about food chains, food webs, consumers vs. producers, the different levels of consumers, herbivores vs. carnivores vs. omnivores and aut

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

NGSS:

MS-LS2-3

, 5-LS2-1

Also included in: ECOLOGY OF DESERT Food Chains and Web BUNDLE, Biodiversity, CER, STEM

Build an Interactive STUDENT FOOD WEB! Food Chain Activity AFRICAN SAVANNA

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Here is an African savanna safari student interactive food chain and food web activity to interpret interactions and energy flow between producers and consumers. Using 18 images of plants and animals, the students use yarn to interconnect food chains with the entire class in this exciting activity! This set of pages can be used for several activities that include concepts about food chains, food webs, consumers vs. producers, the different levels of consumers, herbivores vs. carnivores vs.

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

NGSS:

MS-LS2-3

, 5-LS2-1

Also included in: Ecology of AFRICAN SAVANNA BUNDLE of Food Web and Chains, STEM, Biodiversity

Scientific Method - Good Procedure Writing: PB & No J Demonstration Activity PPT

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Back to School, Holidays/Seasonal, Science

Just Updated on 8/17/16! Looking for ways to improve procedure writing when teaching the scientific method principles in your classroom? Use this PB & No J demonstration activity to visually explain the expectations for good procedure writing in scientific inquiry projects. This product prompts students to write procedures for how to make a peanut butter sandwich as a type of pre-assessment. Then students are led through two demonstrations - one with poor procedures and the other with go

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Grades:

3rd - 8th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff

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St. Patrick's Day STEM Challenge: Paper Bridge - PPT - Grades 3-5

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This St. Patrick's Day Paper Bridge STEM Challenge will create positive energy in your classroom while incorporating critical thinking, collaboration, drawing, and measurement in addition to scientific engineering skills. This product presents a scenario to the students where the leprechaun needs to take his pot of gold to the bank but in order to get there he must cross over an old bridge. The students are asked to create a new paper bridge prototype that would support the weight of the coin

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Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

USING DENSITY TO FIND THE IDENTITY OF SANTA’S GIFTS Christmas Activity

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Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Measurement, Science

No prep Christmas density activity where Santa has given 8 stockings to his jewelry making elves. Each stocking has an exact volume of metal in it but Santa has asked the elves NOT to open the stockings until Christmas Eve! The elves use density to figure out what metals are in the stockings without opening them! Included in this resource:Teacher NotesThe Elves Backstory and Student DirectionsSolving for Density WorksheetDensity of 9 metals Reference ChartMatching the Metals to the Elf Based on

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

NGSS:

5-PS1-1

, MS-PS1-1

Finding the DENSITY OF MAGIC POTIONS Halloween Practice Activity Worksheets

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Halloween, Measurement, Science

Review the definition of density, and after going over the triangle, have the students calculate the density of each of the Halloween Mystery Magic Potions! Each potion has its mass in grams and it’s volume in milliliters and the students must use the equation of density equals mass divided by volume. After they have completed the densities of each of the mystery potions, students use them to determine which unknown potion matches them. The students then practice the density triangle(equation)

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

June Shanahan Dog-On-It Designs

NGSS:

5-PS1-1

, MS-PS1-1

Christmas Winter STEM Lab Activities Science Boom Cards Properties of Matter

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Are you looking for a tasty way to incorporate science, technology, reading, engineering, the arts, and math activities into a Christmas holiday tradition? All these activities center around a cranberry sauce science lab. For the rest of the year, your kids’ mouths will water every time you mention mixtures, solutions, solvent, solute, and more. The lab can be cooperative learning or a teacher demonstration. Either way, it will be a tasty way to lock in lots of challenging concepts. Choose the a

Subjects:

Engineering, Physical Science, Thanksgiving

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Laboratory, Centers

CCSS:

RI.4.10

Also included in: Thanksgiving STEM Activities | Letter From the Teacher | Boom Cards | Bundle

Sustainable Fashion - Why Upcycling?

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Lily Switka

This is the second module of the Sustainable Fashion package, focused on upcycling. In this lesson, students will learn about the fast fashion industry's impact on the environment. They will discover how upcycling can be an alternative solution.Students will conduct a science experiment that analyzes the decomposition and wearability of several fabrics, to simulate how garments behave over time in a landfill.

Subjects:

Arts & Music, Earth Day, Graphic Arts

Grades:

4th - 12th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Laboratory, Lesson

NGSS:

HS-ESS3-3

, MS-ESS3-5

, MS-ESS3-3

STEM Reading Activities & Posters Famous Scientists Career Day Women's History

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June Shanahan Dog-On-It Designs

Searching for an out-of-this-world way to inspire your blossoming STEM experts for Women's History Month? Razzle-dazzle boys and girls alike with a variety of posters featuring STEM Women. Kids can dive into the detailed women’s accomplishments with included reading passages. Each reading passage comes with comprehension questions. Robots, GPS, and cures for malaria are just a few topics your students will explore through the trailblazing topics featured in this resource. Who knows? Perhaps you

Subjects:

Computer Science - Technology, Engineering, Women's History Month

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Laboratory, Bulletin Board Ideas, Posters

Spring STEM Challenge: The Best Nest - PPT - Grades 3-5

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Need to blow off some STEAM after spring testing season? Take a look at this Spring STEM Challenge that will infuse enthusiasm and positive energy back into your classroom. Students also work on critical thinking, collaboration, drawing, and measurement in addition to scientific engineering skills while having a blast in class! This product presents a scenario to the students where Bertie the Bird needs the students to design a bird nest prototype that will withstand the strong winds of spri

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Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Finding Volume Of REGULAR AND IRREGULAR OBJECTS Review Worksheets

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Back to School, Math, Measurement

Back to school measurement review activity finding the volume of regular and irregular objects using length x width x height and water displacement. Here are two worksheets for practice or assessment. Included in this resource:Volume of Boxes using Length x Width x HeightAnswersWord Problems for Solving for Volume Using Water DisplacementAnswersAre you looking for other science resources? NGSS aligned activities? Science classroom decor or clip art? Please check out the rest of my store at SCIE

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Laboratory, Interactive Notebooks, Centers

Also included in: Finding the VOLUME OF REGULAR AND IRREGULAR OBJECTS Review Worksheet BUNDLE of 5

Pumpkin Candy Science: The Littlest Pumpkin Candy Investigation PPT - Grades 3-5

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General Science, Valentine's Day

This scientific inquiry activity is perfect for before or after fall break, Halloween or Harvest Day activities, or after reading The Littlest Pumpkin by R.A. Herman. The Littlest Pumpkin Candy Investigation provides a scenario where two friends discover three tiny pumpkins while playing in the leaves. The friends decide to investigate these pumpkins using different temperatures of water. This lab encourages students to decide on a scientific question to investigate, vote on a hypothesis or

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Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Valentine's Day STEM Challenge: Cupid's Catapult - Grades 3-5 - PowerPoint

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Engineering, Physical Science, Valentine's Day

Looking for a great Valentine's Day activity that incorporates collaboration, critical thinking, drawing, measurement, and scientific engineering skills this February? Try Cupid's Catapult STEM Challenge. This product presents a scenario to the students where Cupid needs the students to build a catapult to launch piercing hearts a far distance. The students are given a materials list of common household items that they may use in the process of developing their prototype. Students complete t

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Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Valentine's Day - Conversation Heart Science Lab - Grades 3-5 - PowerPoint

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General Science, Science, Valentine's Day

This activity allows students to practice their scientific inquiry skills while still having fun for Valentine's Day! The Out of this World Conversation Heart Science Lab provides a scenario where an astronaut has dropped some conversation hearts on the moon and a friendly, yet curious, alien wants to investigate these candy hearts. The astronaut invites the alien back to the space station to further experiment. This lab encourages students to decide on a scientific question to investigate, v

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Back to School, Basic Principles, Science

The Great Cup Challenge - STEAM

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Illuminate with Iris

This product is COMPLETELY editable for your class and what items you have to work with! There are so many different ways to complete this exercise in your classroom, so build it however you want. Here are the general directions for this lab - there are editable pages to put your own material lists, and if you don't want to use the cup configurations that I chose there are editable pages where you can add your own pictures or diagrams!"You are going to work with your partner or team to develop a

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Laboratory

STEM Challenge Seasonal Bundle, Volume 1 - Grades 3-5 - PowerPoint Edition

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Looking for a fun holiday activity that is also educational? Take a look at this STEM Challenge Seasonal Bundle which includes STEM Challenges for Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. These four challenges incorporate critical thinking, collaboration, drawing, and measurement in addition to scientific engineering skills. Buy the bundle and SAVE! The bundle includes the following products: • Click on the individual product descriptions below for more details. → Va

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Earth Sciences, Science, Spring

Flower Dissection PowerPoint | Parts of a Flower - Garden Club Curriculum

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NOT A CLASS

A wonderful way to learn about the parts of a flower, it goes great with my Flower Dissection Activity. Put this resource with your garden curriculum and start a school garden club. This resource is designed for elementary students who are studying the reproductive parts of a flower and exploring the structures in plants, understanding their roles in food production, support, water, nutrient transport, and reproduction. The product consists of 11 slides featuring pictures, labels, and explanatio

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Grades:

PreK - 12th

Types: