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8th grade engineering laboratory pdfs
Water Bottle Flipping STEM: Science Experiment with Data Collection Activity
Looking for a fun science experiment to engage your students? This water bottle flipping STEM activity guides students through an experiment to find out how much water is the best for flipping a water bottle. My students LOVE this experiment every year!!Students design and perform an experiment, collect and analyze data. Differentiated worksheets based on grade level and math background. They then graph their data and learn about the physics behind the water bottle flip. This is a great way
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4th - 8th
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Wave on a String PhET Lab
This virtual PhET Wave on a String Lab provides students opportunity to experiment with the various components of waves and the relationships between their anatomy, motion, and energy. It's SO important to see waves in motion to understand them! This virtual lab is a great way to help students to visualize the motion of transverse waves and to give them the opportunity to manipulate waves in order to see the relationships between wavelength, frequency, and wave speed. The lab provides both a gui
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7th - 9th
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MS-PS4-1
STEM Space Moon Crater Design Challenge (Engineering Design Process)
Can your team of astronauts work together to land a rover in the center of a crater on the Moon? This engaging STEM challenge is a fun way to incorporate the engineering design process into your classroom or afterschool program! Students use the engineering design process and explore the forces of motion to place a ball in a cup at the center of a 6 foot diameter circle without entering the circle. This challenge represents placing a NASA rover into the middle of the Apollo lunar crater for expl
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4th - 9th, Adult Education
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Middle School
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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MS-ETS1-2
, MS-PS3-5
, MS-ETS1-3
Water Cycle Model - STEM Activity & Assessment
Bring the water cycle to life right in your classroom! In this engaging STEM activity, students apply their knowledge to design and build a working model of the processes that happen during the water cycle. Students follow the engineering design cycle to plan, build, test, and improve their models. After completing the activity, students complete a quick assessment. Designed for middle school students but can be used with upper elementary with teacher support. This is definitely a student fav
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5th - 8th
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MS-ESS2-4
, 5-ESS2-1
, 5-PS1-1
Also included in: Weather and Atmosphere Bundle for Middle School
STEM Activity Challenge Spaghetti Tower (Middle School)
STEM Project for Middle School—6th, 7th, and 8th grades.In this activity, students will work in groups to build the tallest structure possible from mini marshmallows and uncooked spaghetti noodles. Not only will the students learn the importance of working together as a team, but they will discover what shapes they need to make their tower strong.***If you are interested in a differentiated version of this resource for grades K-8, please click here.This STEM Activity Challenge includes teacher i
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: STEM Activity Challenges 16 Pack #2 (Middle School)
Windmill Building STEM Activity
Get your students engaged with this hands on STEM Activity! Your students will be creative thinkers as they build windmills to harness the wind and investigate alternative energy sources. These activity is PERFECT for use in your classroom or a STEM open house!❤️ You will LOVE using this Windmill STEM activity because it is so SIMPLE! The bases are reusable from class to class and the students focus on building the blades. Students follow the engineering design process to design, build, and
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4th - 8th
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STEM Electromagnetism Challenge: Build an Electromagnet
Looking for a great hands-on lab for electromagnetism? Build an electromagnet! This STEM lab is a hit every year in my 8th grade physical science course. Materials are cheap and easy to find. Students are engaged, it's doable, and there is a WOW factor!Students not only build an electromagnet, but test to see the affect the number of turns has on the strength of their electromagnet. Data is collected, graphed, and analyzed.The following is provided:►Teacher guide, with pictures and directions►Tw
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Physical Science Curriculum
STEAM Challenge Week Bundle
This week of STEM is always a huge hit with my students! I created this week of activities as a challenge I made for myself back in 2015. I wanted to end the year on a fun note with my students by doing something different. I challenged myself to do a week of fun STEM activities with my students. I came up with: Army Man LaunchersNewspaper TowersPopsicle BridgesUnsinkable ShipBaby Lifejackets This packet includes a handout for each challenge as well as a teacher informational page and images of
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5th - 12th
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Slow Can Race STEM Forces in Motion Activity/ Experiment: Creating Friction
This interactive STEM activity is always a highlight of my forces and motion unit! This activity is perfect to reinforce the concepts of forces and friction. Students need to cover or wrap a regular can in different materials to se how they affect the speed a can can travel down a ramp. Students experiment to see how friction affects motion. Set the stage by building up the idea that this is a race- THEN explain that the SLOWEST can is the winner! Students often wrap all kinds of materials
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3rd - 8th
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Heat Transfer Activities - Convection Radiation and Conduction - Thermal Energy
Heat Transfer Unit: Students will learn about conductors, insulators, convection currents, conduction, and radiation in this heat transfer complete unit. Students will love making a solar oven among other hands-on experiments and heat transfer labs. This resource is a complete unit for teaching the concepts of heat transfer. It includes 4 labs and 2 additional engineering activities, a two-page informational text article explaining heat transfer, response pages, interactive notebook flaps, and
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6th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-PS3-4
, MS-PS1-4
, MS-PS3-3
Also included in: NGSS Middle Chemical Reactions and Density Bundle
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
Simple Machines Playground Lab
The Simple Machines Playground Lab is a fantastic way to have students dive deeper into their exploration of simple machines through a super fun, hands on building lab. This lab has students create a playground structure that includes the six common types of simple machines: lever, screw, were, inclined plane, wheel and axle, and rope and pulley. I highly suggest students work in groups of 2-4 students. It is appropriate for physical science or engineering and can be adapted for multiple grad
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6th - 9th
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Balloon Car - Newton's Laws of Motion at Work - Physics Project
This lab is super inexpensive and so much fun! Students construct a “car” that runs on the power of a single balloon expelling air. Most of the materials are scavenged – water bottles, bottle caps, straws, etc. The activity takes 120 minutes including testing, data collection, and completing the lab questions for the easier version ad 150 minutes for the advanced version. This is real science with real calculations.
My files include a simple version for lower grades (calculating average vel
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Straw Rocket STEM Challenge (Forces & Motion, Variables)
Rockets are always a student favorite! This STEM challenge pack includes a paper rocket activity, straw rocket engineering design challenge, handouts on Newton's Laws and forces, and extension problems on variable testing and graphing. Topics covered in this STEM challenge include: Forces & MotionNewton's Third LawEngineering Design ProcessAnglesVariables & Testing (1) Paper Rocket Activity: Students make a paper rocket with the template provided and then launch with a smaller straw. (2)
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: Rocketry STEM Challenges Bundle: Forces & Variables
Use Insulators to Design a Thermos or Ice Chest to Minimize Energy Transfer
Students will use Design Thinking and STEM Engineering skills to design and test a prototype of a device to minimize thermal energy transfer. Students will make a thermos to keep something warm and a mini-ice chest to keep an ice cube from melting. Students will use what they know about insulators and conductors and heat transfer to design devices that they will test using controls. ❄️☀️Design a Thermos/Design an Ice Chest ❄️❄️☀️♨️ includes:Two labs (engineering challenges)Follow-up pagesAn asse
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6th - 8th
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MS-PS3-3
PhET Simulation Online Lab: Electric Circuits, Resistors in Series & Parallel
Using this electric circuits PhET guided inquiry lab your students will gain an in depth understanding of the difference between resistors in series circuits and resistors in parallel circuits. I have done these activities with my students many times and they always find them fun and engaging. The best part is that your students won't even know they are learning as they complete the included inquiry-based laboratory assignment sheet. The PhET Circuit Construction Kit: DC simulation can be found
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Electric Circuits Bundle No. 1: Resistors in Series and Parallel
STEM Balloon Rocket Design Challenge (Engineering Design Process)
We have added an engineering twist to the classic balloon rocket demo! This engaging STEM challenge is a fun way to incorporate the engineering design process into your classroom or afterschool program! This hands-on activity is an engaging design challenge that allows students to work in teams, apply the engineering design process, and connect science topics to real-world applications. The teacher will provide the structure to the project, but students will take an active role in designing and
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Rocketry STEM Challenges Bundle: Forces & Variables
Newspaper Shoes - STEM Engineering Challenge
What teacher doesn't love to use simple materials, like newspapers, in the classroom?As a STEM coordinator, I am always looking for creative ways for teachers to integrate STEM engineering and design challenges into their classroom activities. I decided to work on creating STEM Engineering Challenge Packs using cheap and easy to find materials.Are you ready to make some Newspaper Shoes? Can your team build a pair of newspaper shoes for one of your team members that they can put on and take off
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Personalized STEM Pack #21 - 10 Challenges
Crater Catapults and Moon Science STEM
Launch into a deep study of space rocks, the lunar surface, and craters that is sure to leave a lasting impact! In this comprehensive lesson, students use what they learn about meteors and craters to build a catapult that launches “research equipment” into craters. Worksheets are included to guide students through the engineering design process. Then, students create their own satellite with craters like our own Moon. Explanations of the types of craters, crater parts, most famous Earth craters,
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K - 8th
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Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Elementary Grades
STEM Activity Challenge Hoop Glider Competition (Middle School)
STEM Project for Middle School—6th, 7th, and 8th grades.This activity challenges students to build a glider that will glide as far as possible. Working in groups, students will cut and tape various hoops to their straw. They will experiment with hoops of different sizes, positioning, and throwing styles.***If you are interested in a differentiated version of this resource for grades K-8, please click here.This STEM Activity Challenge includes teacher instructions, student instructions (worksheet
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: STEM Activity Challenges 16 Pack #1 (Middle School)
A Whole Lot of Shaking Going On! STEM Engineering Earthquake Lab (Marshmallows)
Dear Educator,
It’s time to bring some fun to your classroom during your unit on earthquakes! Your students will love this STEM project where they have to build an earthquake resistant building. There are many ways you can use this project – group lab, individual projects, or a culminating unit activity.
This product contains the student lab manual and teacher materials to conduct this experiment in your classroom. Students must design a structure, test their design, note their observations of
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3rd - 8th
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Science Fair Projects
Help students prepare successful science fair projects with this handy resource!
All of the projects:
• meet the Next Generation Science Standards*
• follow the guidelines of the scientific method
• connect to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education concepts
• include ideas for life science, physical science, and earth and space sciences
• are interesting and easy to make
• include easy-to-follow directions and helpful background information
• require inexpensive materia
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4th - 8th
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STEM Engineering Challenge Pack ~ Surviving Zombies! ~ Set of 5 Challenges
What teacher doesn't love to use themes in the classroom?
As a STEM coordinator, I am always looking for creative ways for teachers to integrate STEM engineering and design challenges into their classroom activities. I decided to work on creating STEM Engineering Challenge Packs for some themes.
This STEM Challenge Pack is focused on Zombies and how to survive! There are five challenges included in this pack:
Survival Platform Challenge
Mobile Greenhouse Challenge
Solar Oven Challenge
Water
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4th - 8th
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