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8th grade engineering laboratories for Google Apps
Intro to Science / Nature of Science | Printable, Digital & Editable Components
SAVE 50% by purchasing ALL my Nature of Science Teaching Materials!About this ProductThis bundle is essential for EVERY science classroom. The activities in these products get your students thinking and behaving like REAL scientists. They can be used to introduce science at the beginning of the year or to reinforce skills throughout the year. They are especially helpful for teachers looking to improve students' science literacy, problem-solving skills and metacognition.Important Notes:• Download
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Grades:
4th - 9th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Engineering Design Mini Unit Bundle | Printable, Digital & Editable Components
SAVE 40% by purchasing ALL my Engineering Design Teaching Materials!Important Notes:• Download a FREE Cheat Sheet for a summary of practices studied in this bundle• Download a FREE Unit Bundle to learn more about all my products.• Save $$ with the Nature of Science Complete Unit Bundle• Save $$$$ with the Integrated Science Complete Curriculum• Consider the Nature of Science Unit Activities as an economical alternative to this resource• Consider Daily Lessons as an economical alternative to this
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
...
MS-ESS3-3 Air Pollution Lab Stations Activity | Printable, Digital & Editable
About SNAPs Lab Stations ActivitiesSNAPs Lab Stations Activities require students to use science, math, literacy, problem-solving and engineering skills. They are designed to enhance students' understanding of scientific concepts and help students apply scientific ideas to the real world. Each station activity promotes skills so to develop students into proficient and competent scientific thinkers.SNAPs lab activities have five components:• Science Skills Station to develop science skill profici
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Grades:
5th - 9th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ESS3-3
Also included in: Earth Science Lab Stations Bundle | Printable, Digital & Editable
What is science? Mini Unit Bundle | Printable, Digital & Editable Components
SAVE 40% by purchasing ALL my Understanding the Nature of Science Teaching Materials!Important Notes:• Download a FREE Cheat Sheet for a summary of practices studied in this bundle• Download a FREE Unit Bundle to learn more about all my products.• Save $$ with the Nature of Science Complete Unit Bundle• Save $$$$ with the Integrated Science Complete Curriculum• Consider the Nature of Science Unit Activities as an economical alternative to this resource• Consider Daily Lessons as an economical al
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Grades:
4th - 9th
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Potential vs Kinetic Energy: Build a Catapult STEM Lab and Notes EDITABLE
Teach your students the difference between PE and KE through this fun STEM challenge of building a catapult! Use this for introduction to the concept or for reinforcement! Having a visual and a kinesthetic tool to build a foundation for a scientific concept ensures success in the classroom! Students got an absolute kick out of building and catapulting all while discovering the difference between potential and kinetic energy! This purchase includes:Google Slideshow of visuals and step by step in
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 12th
NGSS:
MS-PS3-2
, MS-PS3-1
Scientific Method Lab Stations Activity | Printable, Digital & Editable
About this ProductSNAPs Lab Stations Activities require students to use science, math, literacy, problem-solving and engineering skills. They are designed to enhance students' understanding of scientific concepts and help students apply scientific ideas to the real world. Each station activity promotes skills so to develop students into proficient and competent scientific thinkers. SNAPs lab activities have five components:• Science Skills Station to develop science skill proficiency• Narrative
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
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Fun Team Building Activity (Note Card Tower Challenge)
This resource is a fun team building activity where students work together to build the tallest tower that can hold an unopened water bottle using only 20 notecards. The handout guides students through the following process:Make a predictionReflect on the building process before creating an official designRecord procedures they used to build their towerCollect and graph the height data from every group in the classMake a conclusion about what is the best way to use the notecardsPDF & Editab
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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Also included in: Physical Science Labs (Growing Bundle)
Magnets and Electricity Lab Bundle | Printable, Digital & Editable
SAVE 30% by purchasing ALL my Magnets and Electricity Lab Stations Activities!About SNAPs Lab Stations ActivitiesSNAPs Lab Stations Activities require students to use science, math, literacy, problem-solving and engineering skills. They are designed to enhance students' understanding of scientific concepts and help students apply scientific ideas to the real world. Each station activity promotes skills so to develop students into proficient and competent scientific thinkers.SNAPs lab activities
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
Types:
NGSS:
3-PS2-3
, MS-PS2-3
, MS-PS2-5
, 3-PS2-4
MS-PS4-1 Waves and Energy Lab Stations Activity | Printable, Digital & Editable
About SNAPs Lab Stations ActivitiesSNAPs Lab Stations Activities require students to use science, math, literacy, problem-solving and engineering skills. They are designed to enhance students' understanding of scientific concepts and help students apply scientific ideas to the real world. Each station activity promotes skills so to develop students into proficient and competent scientific thinkers.SNAPs lab activities have five components:• Science Skills Station to develop science skill profici
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Grades:
5th - 9th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS4-1
Also included in: Physical Science Lab Stations Bundle | Printable, Digital & Editable
4-ESS3-2 & MS-ESS2-2 Earthquakes Lab Activity | Printable, Digital & Editable
About SNAPs Lab Stations ActivitiesSNAPs Lab Stations Activities require students to use science, math, literacy, problem-solving and engineering skills. They are designed to enhance students' understanding of scientific concepts and help students apply scientific ideas to the real world. Each station activity promotes skills so to develop students into proficient and competent scientific thinkers.SNAPs lab activities have five components:• Science Skills Station to develop science skill profici
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ESS2-2
, 4-ESS3-2
Also included in: Earth Science Lab Stations Bundle | Printable, Digital & Editable
STEM Project - Building for Natural Disasters! - Earth Science & Severe Weather
Building for Natural Disasters! A student favorite STEM project lesson combining concepts and standards learned when studying earth science and severe weather. Students will explore natural disasters and their forces of destruction on building structures. After investigating 3 types of natural disasters, students form groups to plan, design, build and finally test their building models. Includes editable student pages for the STEM Project which provide instruction, structure and resources! Thes
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
Series Circuit Lab
Build a simple series circuit! Materials Needed: Foil (scissors and tape to modify foil)Brass FastenersStripped Holiday lights 9-volt BatteryThis product includes a student lab worksheet with the directions for constructing the circuit and short answer assessment questions.In this lab, students work on drawing a circuit diagram. This lab can be used as an assessment or review of students' knowledge of circuit drawing, circuit symbols, potential and kinetic energy, energy conversion, and energy t
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS2-3
Buoyancy Lab Stations Activity | Printable, Digital & Editable
About SNAPs Lab Stations ActivitiesSNAPs Lab Stations Activities require students to use science, math, literacy, problem-solving and engineering skills. They are designed to enhance students' understanding of scientific concepts and help students apply scientific ideas to the real world. Each station activity promotes skills so to develop students into proficient and competent scientific thinkers.SNAPs lab activities have five components:• Science Skills Station to develop science skill profici
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Forces and Motion Unit | Printable, Digital & Editable Components
Dial Caliper Practice- Blue Block Activity for Engineering, Science, Technology
Do your students learn to use dial calipers? Do you have access to a 3D printer? Then this activity is for you! You can view the video preview here!This self-scoring Google Form presents students with a dimensioned orthographic drawing of "The Blue Block", except that the dimensions are mysteriously missing... Students must use a set of dial calipers to collect the 12 missing measurements from the 3D printer blocks and enter them into the form. This will require them to use the full range of the
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Lab Safety & Lab Practices Mini Unit | Printable, Digital & Editable Components
SAVE 40% by purchasing ALL my Lab Practices, Math Skills, Measurement and Graphing Teaching Materials!Important Notes:• Download a FREE Cheat Sheet for a summary of practices studied in this bundle• Download a FREE Unit Bundle to learn more about all my products.• Save $$ with the Nature of Science Complete Unit Bundle• Save $$$$ with the Integrated Science Complete Curriculum• Consider the Nature of Science Unit Activities as an economical alternative to this resource• Consider Daily Lessons as
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
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Simple Machine Virtual Lab #5- Inclined Plane
A few years ago, I put together some great hands-on simple machine labs that allowed students to construct simple machines and test their performance using some Vernier digital force sensors. I ran into a problem when students were absent and needed to make up the labs, so I created these virtual labs, in which I perform all the tests on video and ask the students to interpret the results and make observations as they work their way through the Google Forms.When the world drove us to completely
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Simple Machine Virtual Labs for Distance Learning
Marble Roller Coaster Lab - Kinetic & Potential Energy Engineering Design
STEM challenge: Build a Marble Roller Coaster and analyze the effects of mass and height on gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy! Great team-building lab to teach the engineering design process and apply knowledge of energy. Google slides editable.Problem: You need to use your knowledge of potential and kinetic energy design a roller coaster with 1 hill and 1 loop-de-loop.Materials: 2 different-sized marbles, 3 foam insulation pieces, ruler, meter stick, masking tape, triple beam ba
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-PS3-4
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-PS3-2
, MS-ETS1-1
...
Also included in: Kinetic and Potential Energy BUNDLE for Middle School - Labs & Projects
Earthquake Proof Toothpick Clay Tower Lab - Engineering Design Challenge
Engaging, low-prep engineering challenge where students use clay and toothpicks to build a stable tower. Great hands-on activity that can be connected to seismic waves, architecture, and teamwork. Google slides editable!Goal: Build the tallest free-standing tower that will survive an “earthquake.”Supplies: 20 toothpicks, 1 chunk of clayYou will build your tower on top of a sheet of paper.The paper below will be shaken for 10 seconds.Break the clay up into smaller chunks.Triangles are stronger s
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4th - 10th
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Paper airplanes and the nature of science - Scientific method inquiry lab
This assignment is an all encompassing introduction to the scientific method and the nature of scientific thought. The assignment is four pages and designed to take 2 class periods but can be split up in multiple ways. This is a digital resource (google doc) - boxes are provided for students to type their answers directly into the document. Just post to your LMS and go! Great for virtual learning.Students begin with a blurb about the nature of science and record notes on the difference between a
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Grades:
6th - 12th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-3
The Ultimate Paper Airplane STEAM Project + Escape Room: 10 Day Challenge
Every year since I started teaching, I've done a paper airplane contest. When I first started around 12 years ago, it was a quick contest that lasted just an afternoon. Gradually, as my experience as an educator grew, this project began to grow into what it is today... A 10 day cross-curricular mega project! I always say that student engagement is the key to learning, and I can guarantee that your students will be engaged during these activities! They will be measuring, graphing, reading, analyz
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, HS-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
...
Climate Change STEM project Thermal Solar Panel MS PS3-3 MS ESS3-3 MS ETS1-2,3,4
This highly engaging engineering and design project (GOOGLE and PDF versions) allows students to design and construct a simple thermal solar panel, which they will then perform tests on to maximize thermal energy transfer.The students first learn (or review) about the difference between temperature, thermal energy, and heat.Next they are introduced to a thermal solar panel, how it works, and why it is one of the solutions to climate change. Students then work in small groups to design and constr
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 9th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-PS3-3
, MS-ESS3-3
, MS-ETS1-3
Also included in: Engage in STEM bundle NGSS aligned
Engineering Design Lab Stations Activity | Printable, Digital & Editable
About this ProductSNAPs Lab Stations Activities require students to use science, math, literacy, problem-solving and engineering skills. They are designed to enhance students' understanding of scientific concepts and help students apply scientific ideas to the real world. Each station activity promotes skills so to develop students into proficient and competent scientific thinkers. SNAPs lab activities have five components:• Science Skills Station to develop science skill proficiency• Narrative
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Grades:
4th - 9th
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Engineering Design Process Test (Version A)
This test is designed to follow a unit on the Engineering Design Process. It is written mainly for high schoolers, but would work nicely for middle school students also. The exact steps and terms in a design process vary from one process to the next, but I tried to write these questions in a way that would work for just about any version of the process you like to teach. You might want to tinker with the wording to suit your exact process or vocabulary preferences.This Google Form includes 15 mu
Grades:
8th - 11th
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Protect Your "Eggstronaut" Egg Drop Project
These google slides will walk your class through designing a lander to protect an astronaut during space travel. It gives background information and provides students with critical thinking questions about space exploration and the engineering of spacecrafts. Combine this with the project worksheet found in another listing.
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
Also included in: Protect your "Eggstronaut" Project
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