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NGSS Back to School Science Bundle of STEM Activities and Labs Middle School
Jumpstart your school year with this bundle of NGSS-aligned Back to School resources (and 3 freebies) which are sure to engage and challenge your students' thinking and impress parents and colleagues during the first few weeks of school! These middle school activities have been updated to include digital interactive notebooks if you're teaching remotely! Get your students NGSS ready from the first weeks of school and introduce them to the shift in science education! Check out the descriptions an
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5th - 10th
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Earthquake Jello Lab Activity STEM
This lab or activity is a hands-on and collaborative learning lesson that incorporates the following:
STEM
Earthquakes
Geology
Engineering
Design
Real-World Connections
Problem Solving
Inferencing and Predicting
Materials: this handout, mini-marshmellows, toothpicks, jello
Overview: Students will work together to tackle a real-world problem: engineers are constantly working to design and build buildings that can survive the impact of serious earthquakes. I show students some videos and picture
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5th - 10th
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Beaker Pong: Experimental Design and Graphing Lab, NGSS aligned
Great 1st week or 1st month STEM activity! All parts are EDITABLE and includes a graphing grid! This is a great way to introduce the "science process" (better phrase for scientific method) at the start of a semester or anytime you want fun to occur in your classroom.*****Focus on the NGSS PRACTICES Dimension*****The National Research Council's (NRC) Framework describes a vision of what it means to be proficient in science; it rests on a view of science as both a body of knowledge and an evidenc
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7th - 12th
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Measuring and Metric System Unit | Length Mass Weight Volume | Middle School
Looking for fun and engaging ways to teach the Metric System and Measuring Skills? This bundle will help your students to understand metric units and to practice and reinforce the techniques for measuring length, mass, weight, volume and liquid volume. This Measuring and Metric System bundle contains five products to help you teach the skills of precise and accurate measuring and using the Metric System. Save 20% on these activities!The Cornell Doodle Notes are completely No Prep- and scaffolded
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6th - 8th
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Properties of Water Inquiry Lab: Find the Antidote to a Wasp Sting - NGSS
Aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards, this lab requires students to discover the antidote to a venomous hornet sting. Students must work cooperatively under a time constraint in order to discover which of two liquids are the antidote. They design, and carry out, four mini-experiments using household materials, and their knowledge of the properties of water, in order to ascertain the antidote. They must justify their claim for which liquid is the antidote using evidence from thei
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9th - 12th
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Frog Dissection Coloring Practice
Before virtual or frog specimen dissection, students should complete this practice to prepare for dissection and familiarize themselves with the placement of the frogs organs. It can also be used to learn and practice the organs and organ systems.
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6th - 9th
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Designing a Roller Coaster using the Law of Conservation of Energy
In this great hands on activity students will need to follow the Law of Conservation of Energy to create blueprints to their own roller coaster. The students will need to calculate the over all mass, height, PE and KE of their roller coaster at various spots long it's path while keeping in mind their linear blueprints must be to scale, in color and very accurate. This document has everything you need to help your students master these skills. All you need to do is help your students bring the
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8th - 12th
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Microscope Lab Templates
Are you teaching students how to use the microscope? Use these fully editable lab templates for these common labs:1. Two page lab template for prepared slides2. Two page lab template for comparing plant and animal cell prepared slides3. One page lab template for setting up a wet mount slide4. One page lab template for observing cheek cells5. One page lab template for observing pond water protozoa 6. One page lab template for observing onion skin- osmosis lab You might also be interested in:Micro
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8th - 10th
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Also included in: Cells Bundle
Evolution Bundle
Bundle and save with this evolution unit! Check out the previews of the lessons, labs, and activities included in your purchase!Be sure to follow my TpT store by clicking on the green "follow me" next to my seller picture to receive notifications of new products and upcoming sales. Don't forget to leave feedback to earn TpT credits that can be used for future purchases! ♻️ Check out my blog ♻️ Follow me on facebook♻️ Follow me on instagram♻️ Follow me on pinterest
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8th - 11th
Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration lab
Students use timers, matchbox cars, meter sticks, and a stack of books to build ramps to measure the speed, velocity, and acceleration of cars. Students will have fun working in groups calculating the motion of their matchbox cars. Answers will vary depending on student results.Check out my other super helpful science resources:Science Inquiry and Safety- Lab Safety- Scientific Tools- Observations, Inferences, and Predictions Google Form- Calculating Density Worksheet- Independent and Dependent
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8th - 11th
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Paper Airplane Lab: Gravity and Air Resistance
This activity helps demonstrate some of the unbalanced forces, namely gravity and air resistance, that affect us every day. Students should predict why paper airplanes do not stay in the air forever. After testing their paper airplane, they should create a force diagram and answer some questions regarding these unbalanced forces.
Materials needed: paper, meter stick
Main topics: unbalanced forces, gravity, air resistance (friction).
Quick, easy, and effective in demonstrating gravity and
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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ORGANIC CHEMISTRY LAB: SAPONIFICATION REACTION (MAKING SOAP)
This is the best organic chemistry lab and the students remember and talk about it at the dinner table with families. The set up is easy and the materials are readily available. This lab works well to finish off the organic unit on hydrolysis of esters and saponification reactions. Try it out and you will be happy with the results. We have prepared the soap for the last ten years and the students surely enjoy it. The document includes: an exemplar lab report, the rubric and the answer key to the
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Microscope Lab Intro - Letter 'e' and Colored Threads w/ Key
This is the lab that I use to introduce the light microscope. The first part of the lab focuses on the proper procedures of using a microscope. Each student has to fill out the procedures section before they can start working on the field of view drawings. Once they are done then each pair of students gets a letter 'e' slide and a colored threads slide. This activity supports Grade Seven California State Science Standard 7A - Select and use appropriate tools and technology (including calculators
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4th - 10th
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Wave Energy Lab (slinky) w/key
Two day lab dealing with transverse and longitudinal waves using a slinky. Students observe Amplitude, Wavelength, Crest, and Trough and draw where these are in the wave. Constructive & Destructive interference. Five page lab with great questions Comes with answer key.
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7th - 9th
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Electricity 5E Lab using Kill-A-Watt Meters for APES, Physics
This 5E uses Kill-A-Watt meters and various appliances. Lab data takes 45-60 minutes. Questions and graphing take another 60 minutes. More math and analysis is provided for further extension.Students find this lab VERY engaging as they discover what uses a lot of electricity. Pictures of this lab and hints can be found here: https://teachingapscience.com/electricity-lab-using-kill-watt-meters/This is a great lab for physics, AP physics, AP Environmental Science, Environmental Science, and phy
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Unit 6: Energy Bundle for AP Environmental Science
Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change Data Analysis Virtual Lab
Updated links as of March 2022. This lab for in-person or distance learning uses a variety of data from NOAA and other websites to help your students understand greenhouse gases, where they are found and whether they are increasing or decreasing. Then, students analyze data about the effects of climate change with real-time data about temperature, precipitation and other data. Then, students delve into longer term data including ice-core data.This lab walks students through each graph and data s
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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NGSS:
HS-ESS3-3
, HS-ESS3-1
, HS-ESS3-5
Also included in: AP Environmental Science Unit 9 Bundle
Engineering Design Process Template
STEM programs focus a lot of it's learning on the Engineering Design Process. This Engineering Design Process Sheet will allow students to become Engineers in the classroom. They will be able to Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, and Improve a Prototype for any Unit that they are learning about.(Made in a Microsoft Word document so that teachers can edit questions, etc.) If you would prefer an Engineering Design Process:Engineering Design Process- Digital Notebook- Click Here! Word Search- Click here!C
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4th - 8th
Also included in: Engineering Design Process- Bundle
"Inertia Games" Lab Activity - Newton's 1st Law of Motion
Students are introduced to the concept of Newton's 1st Law of Motion and inertia by completing six (6) different challenges/games in this lab activity. Example of one of the game challenges:a. Get a plastic cup, index cards, and a quarter. b. Place the index card on top of the cup so it is centered over the opening. Put the quarter on top of the index card. c. Using your finger pull the index card out from under the quarter. You are trying to get the quarter to drop into the cup. d. Compl
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5th - 10th
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White Rat Dissection
The white rat dissection is the most anticipated activity in the science classroom. With its anatomy so closely resembling that of a human body, this lab allows students to identify key structures in the mammalian and vertebrate body. This editable document includes procedures along with guiding information for functions of specific organs. The checkpoints allow for students to verbally identify structures, as well as their functions.
This is an editable document includes: procedures, guidi
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5th - 12th
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Pig heart dissection guide
This is a comprehensive dissection guide of the pig heart, designed for a high school or early college Biology or Anatomy & Physiology class. Pig hearts are larger than the typically used sheep hearts, and better resemble the human heart structure.
The guide includes step-by-step instructions and labeled diagrams that will lead students through the external anatomy of the heart, followed by dissection of the internal structures.
In addition to description of structures, the relevant physio
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Test My Genes Lab: Students Use Their Traits to Practice Punnett Squares - NGSS
In Brief: The lab proceeds as follows1. Students complete a short matching section using important genetics terms2. Students read about five different human traits (Interlacing of fingers, PTC tasting, Presence of Palmaris Longus Muscle, Hair Texture, and Color Vision)3. Students attempt to determine their genotpyes, based upon their phenotypes, and the information in the lab.4. Students perform Punnett Squares using their genotypes, in order to make predictions about future generationsA. NEXT
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7th - 12th
Lab: Paper Plate Periodic Table and m&m Atoms - Energy Levels and Electrons
Students study the structure of the atom with m&m's atoms on a paper plate periodic table! This lab investigation on edible "electrons" and elements explores the Essential Question: How are Elements Arranged in the Periodic Table? And, How Are Electrons Configured in an Atom?"Share with your students edible electrons; EX: m&m's, skittles, smarties, cereal, or mini-marshmallows. Ss will model atoms of elements using a paper plate and different sorts of sweets. At the end of the lab, when
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7th - 11th
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NGSS:
HS-PS1-1
, HS-PS1-2
, MS-PS1-1
Also included in: StayGiant Candy Mix Bundle: Lab Investigations
Penny Boat Lab: Density, Buoyancy and Archimedes
This is a one period activity/lab to teach students about the concept of density and Archimedes Principle, why things float. Students each get a piece of aluminum foil and design and make a boat. They then must calculate how many pennies it will carry before sinking, and then test it. This is an excellent one day STEM project that combines science, math, design and construction. Students will use the formula Density=Mass divided by Volume.
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7th - 10th
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Tides Lab Using Water Balloons - Hands On Experience That Kids LOVE!
This lab is a really fun way to use discovery and investigation to teach students how gravity and inertia cause tides, along with the moon. The cost is low (a package of water balloons and yarn) and it is a great activity to get kids moving and outside. They work in small groups and go through a series of steps and procedures and record data. This was one of the most fun labs of the year for students and was instrumental is having kids understand why we have high tides on the side of the Earth c
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6th - 12th
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