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5th grade test preparation science laboratories on sale
Summer STEM Activity Build a Catapult & Design Process & STEM Challenge
Would you like your students to build a catapult? Students will learn about mangonels and trebuchets. Using the design process, students will build a catapult, test it, evaluate it according to the criteria and constraints, compare it with other design solutions, and improve their own design solutions. Students will learn about the mangonel, which uses tension to power the launch and the trebuchet, which uses a counterweight and gravity to launch the projectile. Students will love this engaging
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3rd - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Light Energy Worksheets and Activities
Show your students how fun science can be with these activities and worksheets about light energy. This file has student readings with comprehension questions, worksheets, important vocabulary, lab stations, and research assignments on light energy. Please see the PREVIEW above for a closer look at what is included!Click here to follow me and be notified of new products and sales!Topics:How do we see?BioluminescenceWhat is light?How do we see color?Reflection and refractionTransparent, translu
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Light Energy BUNDLE | Light Energy Unit and Task Cards
Summer STEM Challenge Engineering Design Process Build a Rubber Band Car
Do your students love STEM Activities? Your students will love making a rubber band car to demonstrate potential and kinetic energy! This is a great STEM Activity using the engineering design process. Students will design and test their prototype and redesign in this STEM activity. Rubber band cars are fun and engaging and illustrate various force and motion concepts. ✅This STEM Engineering Unit Includes:Phenomena⚡Engineering Design ProcessLesson PlansScaffolding for Students Who Need ItDirectio
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5th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-PS3-5
, MS-ETS1-3
Physics Science Experiment STEM projects MEGA pack of 50 learning labs
PREVIEW AVAILABLE!LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? CHECK OUT OTHER STEM RESOURCES IN MY SHOP!I've redesigned and cleaned up all of my 50 stem labs in this new version. What's new? They're cleaner looking and a bit prettier. Along with new cover graphics, they also have new category tags that allow you to cross-reference them with other labs, so you can work with similar materials or themes. These indexes and alphabetical listings are a huge bonus! This is the kind of thing you'll want to print, hole-punch, an
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Summer STEM Activities and Engineering Design Thinking for Stem Camp Challenge
Great for summer science. Students will love these STEM Challenges! Teachers will love the factthat the materials for STEM Engineering challenges are inexpensive and easy to find. These NGSS STEM activities will have students using engineering design thinking and conducting fair tests for these engineering challenges. Great for Summer STEM Activities! ✅Challenges Included: Sound SandwichStacking Cups ChallengeZipline ChallengePing Pong Ball LauncherFlashlightBalloon RescueFloat the BoatBuild a
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Summer STEM Activity Challenge Make a Flashlight & Engineering Design Process
STEM challenge: build a flashlight. Students will love engineering their own flashlights out of a craft stick! Students will use their knowledge of circuit electricity and insulative and conductive materials to engineer a small flashlight. Students will identify the criteria and constraints and use design thinking to build a flashlight. ✅This STEM Activity includes:Step by Step Directions with photosReading passage on circuit electricityFollow-up pagesCER FormGreat Reviews!Jennifer ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐
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4th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
Summer STEM Engineering Design Process Car Bundle Build a Car Design Thinking
This bundle includes my balloon car activity and my rubber band car activity. Students will love these STEM Challenges. Students will use the engineering design process to produce, test, and improve their cars. These units demonstrate various motion concepts, such as potential and kinetic energy. Students will use science and engineering practices to design and build a rubber band car and a balloon car. ✅This STEM Bundle Includes:Engineering Design Process STEM Challenge | Balloon CarSTEM Engine
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5th - 8th
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Anatomy & Physiology Lab Activity: Analysis of Joint Movement (Virtual Friendly)
Make teaching easier with the Human Anatomy & Physiology Unit 5 Lab Activity: Analysis of Joint Movement w/Answer Key! In this unique lab activity, students will review planes and axes of motion used to describe the orientation of body segments and apply what they have learned to accurately describe joint actions. Using common biomechanics nomenclature students will be introduced to methods used to describe everyday movements at a major joints. This activity provides complete background
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Lab Activity Forensics Unit 3: Investigating a Crime Scene (Virtual Friendly)
In this lab, students will investigate a mock crime scene and evaluate a mock scenario. All resources you need are provided includingStudent lab sheetCrime scene processing formCrime scene sketch formCrime scene staging resourcesEvidence tagsUse this lab alone, with my Unit 3 Lesson Plan, or get the Complete Unit 3 Resource File that includes:Unit/Daily Lesson PlanUnit 3: PPTLab: Investigating a Crime SceneCrime Scene Setup Resources (images, scenario, sketch form, evidence processing form...)U
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Forensics Unit 3: The Crime Scene Bundle (6 Products!)
Summer STEM Challenge Gravity and an Inclined Plane & Engineering
Are you looking for a fun activity on gravity? Students will love learning about gravity in these lessons. This unit includes a STEM Engineering challenge on using gravity to lift something with a counterweight system. Students will learn that the gravitational force exerted by Earth causes objects to be directed downward.Standards Addressed:NGSS 5-PS2-1. Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.Utah SEEd Standard 3.3.3Construct an explanation
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3rd - 7th
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NGSS:
5-PS2-1
, MS-ETS1-1
Bouncy Ball Lab - Investigating Potential & Kinetic Energy
Cover potential and kinetic energy or use to teach experimental design as your students review the steps of the scientific method. Perfect for students in all grades and all learning abilities. After students collect data, they make a bar graph of their average data. Includes a lab quiz that I students can take after the lab is complete to show their understanding. ========================================================Turn Feedback into TPT Credit (AKA FREE MONEY to BUY MORE at TPT!)Go to your
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5th - 12th
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Designing and Building a Plant Tropism Contraption STEM Project--Life Science
*FULLY UPDATED MAY 2018*Looking for a life science STEM project involving plants? You found it! With this project, students will choose a form of plant tropism and design a contraption that houses a live lima bean or string bean sprout with the purpose of demonstrating that form of tropism. Students must already have knowledge of the forms of tropism prior to completing this STEM challenge. Their design should present a growth challenge to the plant through the seed’s placement within the co
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4th - 12th
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Summer STEM Engineering a Slingshot Rocket - Engineering Design Process
Do your students love STEM activities? This STEM engineering activity will also have your students measuring angles and distances. Students will identify variables in the experimental design and will identify potential and kinetic energy during the lab. This resource includes a review on measuring angles using a protractor. Students will compare the angle of the launch to the distance the rocket travels.Includes:Stem Engineering ActivityLab PagesSlide Show on Using a ProtractorLesson on Measurin
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Grades:
5th - 7th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
50 Weeks of STEM Labs - 250 STEM Project Ideas in 1 book for 50 weeks
PREVIEW AVAILABLE!LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? CHECK OUT OTHER STEM RESOURCES IN MY SHOP!50 Weeks of STEM Labs has 250 projects separated into 50 different themes, 1 per week. Unlike the other books in the series (50 STEM Labs, 50 More STEM Labs, and 50 New STEM Labs), this one does not have grading rubrics. It is 5 ideas for each week on a single page. With 250 projects, there is some similarity between some weeks and there are some obviously similar projects, but there is a year's worth of stuff to do h
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Anatomy of the Heart All-in-One Sheep Dissection Lab Activity & Review Worksheet
Make teaching Anatomy & Physiology easy with this fully editable Anatomy of the Heart All-in-One Sheep Dissection Lab Activity and Review Worksheet. Get the most out of your sheep heart dissection. Complete student background information is included with labeled images for identifying internal and external sheep heart anatomical structures. No prior knowledge of heart anatomy is required. Students learn both internal and external anatomy of the heart, the flow of blood through the heart, a
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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STEM Lab Science Experiment - toothpick bridges lab
Challenge your students to build as long of a bridge as possible from glue and toothpicks. This takes a lot of patience, some research, and some wax paper or plastic wrap for work space. Teams of 2-4 compete in this project.
This page is a printable rubric and lesson plan to use, explaining the quiz and test grades associated with the project. Adjust as needed for your class!
Two copies per page, to save you paper, and they fit great in journals or glued into notebooks!
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Elements, Compounds and Mixtures All - in - One Lab Activity & Worksheet
Make teaching easier with this all-in-one Chemistry/Physical Science lab and Worksheet: Elements, Compounds and Mixtures. Use this worksheet as an introduction, review, reinforcement, or as an alternative assessment. Students will read about the differences and similarities between elements, compounds and mixtures and differentiate between homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures. Students will classify different forms of matter on paper. Finally, students will explore a variety of examples of
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Chemistry Activity and Worksheet Set
Properties of Water Virtual Lab
Students will better their understanding of experimental design by collecting and analyzing data related to: Surface tensionAdhesion CohesionCapillary actionSpecific HeatThere is a pull tab with background information for students to rely on if they need a refresher or haven't learned this material. This is an excellent experiment to have students complete from home, either due to distance learning or if a student is absent. A list of common household items is included for students to gather wha
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3rd - 12th
Tectonic Plates mini-lab
In this activity, students will observe divergent, convergent, and transform boundaries using oreo cookies. This resource includes:Tectonic plates oreo mini-lab worksheetTectonic plates oreo mini-lab worksheet keyYou can purchase my Tectonic Plates stations here:Tectonic Plates Stations
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Earth Science Mini-Labs
Forensics Lab Activity: Investigating a Crime Scene
In this lab, students will investigate a mock crime scene and evaluate a mock scenario. All resources you need are provided includingStudent lab sheetCrime scene processing formCrime scene sketch formCrime scene staging resourcesEvidence tagsUse this lab alone, with my Unit 3 Lesson Plan, or get the Complete Unit 3 Resource File that includes:Unit/Daily Lesson PlanUnit 3: PPTLab: Investigating a Crime SceneCrime Scene Setup Resources (images, scenario, sketch form, evidence processing form...)U
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Lab Activity: Overview of Muscle Tissue (Skeletal, Smooth, Cardiac)
Make teaching easier with the Human Anatomy & Physiology Unit 6 Lab Activity: Lab Activity: Overview of Muscle Tissue (Skeletal, Smooth, and Cardiac)! This is a simple microscope lab that allows students to practice identifying the three types of muscle tissues based on key characteristics of each. The lab includes complete background information so not additonal text or resources is required. Key concepts and vocabulary are reinforced with 25 multiple choiice, matching, and fill in the b
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Human Anatomy & Physiology Unit 6 Bundle: The Muscular System
50 Science Labs - Elementary - Earth Life Physical Science Learning Activities
PREVIEW AVAILABLE!LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? CHECK OUT OTHER STEM RESOURCES IN MY SHOP!FROM THE CREATOR OF 50 STEM LABS & 50 MORE STEM LABS comes this collection of 50 Science Activities for kids. Recommended for grades K to 6. Each one has a snappy title, a brief set of instructions, materials list, and space for observations and notes. These are very adjustable for your classroom, home, or homeschool needs. They support learning in earth science, life science, and physical science with fun, hands
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K - 5th
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Human Anatomy & Physiology Unit 6 Bundle: The Muscular System
This bundle includes:Human Anatomy & Physiology Unit Plan 6: The Muscular SystemUnit 6 Powerpoint: The Skeletal SystemReview Worksheet: Muscle Cell Physiology (Free Resources)Lab Activity: Overview of Muscle Tissue (Skeletal, Smooth, and Cardiac)Muscle Cell Physiology: A Review Quiz WorksheetCase Study: Clinical Case Study: Musculoskeletal Physiology (Free!)Lab Activty: Exercise Selection for Major Muscle GroupsUnit 6 Review Quiz: The Skeletal System (Free bonus file!)Unit 6 Test: The Skelet
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Mini lab: Introduction to Chemical Bonding: Comparing Bond Strength of Compounds
Use this easy but meaninful activity to introudce ionic and covalent bonds to students. Students use simple compounds (sugar and salt) to observe first hand how the type of bond impacts properties of substances. Because it is so effective, I use this activity every year. It really helps my students understand physical and chemical peoperties so much better than lecture alone. Teacher answer key is provided! Make teaching easier! Get the entire Chemistry Unit 7 Growing Bundle: Formation and
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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