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Free middle school problem solving informational text laboratories
Hands On Science STEM Investigations: Help Harry!
Interested in finding a fun way to work some cooperative learning AND science and engineering into your day? This 30 minute lesson is a great way to do just that--and it's free! Everything you need to get started is included in this one page freebie--with the added bonus of a link to a blog post with full color photos and details about how to do it.When students work through the process of planning, building, testing, and revising--they really are acting like engineers. It's a fun way to get
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4th - 6th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
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Internet Dating Thief
This is a forensic science lab focusing on the concept of using deductive reasoning to solve a crime. Students will use critical thinking skills sort related evidence from unrelated evidence and determine who did it. Students can be grouped in teams or individually. Teacher answer sheets are included. No additional supplies needed.
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6th - 9th
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Liars Beware! Your Body Doesn't Lie. A lab on lying and polygraphs.
This is a forensic science lab on polygraph analysis. An overview of polygraphs and the body language of lying is included as well as a crime scenario. Students are asked to interpret the results of a polygraph analysis to determine if the suspect is guilty of the crime. Questions for review are included.
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6th - 9th
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How do Airplanes Fly? What makes paper airplanes fly?
These two readings have been complied using information from several online resources which are found at the bottom of the second page.
Use these two readings to accompany the research section of the Paper Airplane Lab on my TPT store.
**Reading comprehension worksheet to accompany the readings is available in my TPT store!**
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4th - 7th
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Scientific Method Worksheet: Maggie's Plant Experiment
Students will:Analyze a data tableDraw conclusions from scientific dataIdentify steps of the scientific method from a written scenarioExtensions:Recreate Maggie's Plant Experiment in your classroom and collect your own dataHave students brainstorm other plant-related variables to test and conduct a new type of plant experiment in your classroom
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5th - 8th
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Fingerprinting lab
This is a lab on fingerprinting analysis. Students will learn the different types of fingerprints and will reinforce this concept with a short online "whodunit" challenge comparing fingerprinting types. Students will then fingerprint themselves and analyze their unique fingerprinting types. Lastly, students will obtain a suspect fingerprint and compare it to the rest of the class to solve the case of the "whoopee cushion prank."
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5th - 8th
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*FREE* Middle School Lab Report Template
Need a template to help your students focus their thoughts during a lab activity. Use this printable template for their notes and thoughts. This is perfect for upper elementary and middle school students. This template can be easily used in an interactive notebook as well.This product is a FREE digital download. Feel free to share with others, but don't forget to give me and my TpT store a shoutout. Thank you for your business.
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4th - 8th
Classify Matter
This is an easy activity to put together for students to enjoy + learn about the different classifications of mixtures: solution, suspension, colloid. To prepare for this activity, you will need some (or all) of the following: Yoohoo cholocate milk (in a bottle), Italian salad dressing, nail polish, milk, Kool-aid, sweet tea, salt water, marshmallow, coffee....the possibilities are truly endless! I do try to use substances that have clear indicators of being either a solution, suspension, or col
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7th - 11th
Root Words For Science & Engineering
Posters with root word, definition, examples and beautiful pictures.
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4th - 6th
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Basic physics circuit lab with conductors, insulators, switches, and monsters
This is a basic physics lab on circuits. Students will build their own circuits (additional supplies needed are listed at the bottom) with easy to follow pictures and directions. The intent is to provide educators with a simple materials list and how-to instructions to put together simple circuits in the classroom inexpensively. The lab could be used alone or with the additional word document questions for basic physics circuit lab with conductors, insulators, switches, and monsters. The word
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5th - 8th
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Lab Report- Short Student Analysis- Includes Rubric and Student Score Cards
Help your students to really evaluate their lab work while promoting learning using the Science and Engineering Practices in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) as well as the Writing Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects (WHST) AND LIMITING THE AMOUNT OF TIME IT TAKES YOU TO GRADE IT!
This is designed for 9-12th grade, but could easily be adapted to 6-8th grade levels.
I am all about improving student literacy and writing, but often feel as
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6th - 12th
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Bubble Gum Lab (mass)
Students will have fun learning about mass, matter, and the scientific process/method.
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K - 10th
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Middle School Science Lab Self and Team Evaluation Form
This form will help your middle school science students to perform self-evaluations and evaluate their lab team members after performing an assigned lab. You can incorporate this form into your lab grading system to further encourage students to effectively evaluate both themselves and their team members for ways to improve and grow. Please vote and share your feedback and experience using this product with your students. Follow me and be the first to see new digital products posted throughou
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3rd - 11th
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Lab Sheet for Cup Challenge
This short lab sheet I use to go with the Cup Challenge from Science Gal that was posted on her blog. I like my students to fill in a lab sheet when they do an activity or experiment. Keeps them accountable. Is set up for 4 - 5 students per group.
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4th - 8th
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Photosynthesis Design your Own Experiment (STEM) NGSS MS-LS1-6
Students must design their own lab to prove that plants go through photosynthesis in the light. Students are given plants, light sources, flasks, BTB, straws, etc. and they must design a test to prove plants produce oxygen in the light. Students must create their own data table and also design a control. This lab can be used by splitting the class and using the cellular respiration lab to show the cycle of energy into and out of plants and how it flows.
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6th - 8th
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Official Soda Pop of Space
What if Pepsi, Coca-Cola, and Dr. Pepper got in a war trying to become the Official Soda Pop of Space?This hands on experiment teaches students to take a real life problem, create a hypothesis, plan their own experiment, and discover the results. Practical application of the scientific process has never been so sweet--or sticky!Includes: Lesson Plan, Student Prompt, Experiment Planning Worksheet, Data Collection Sheet, and Sample Experiment Page.I did this experiment with my 5th-8th grade clas
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5th - 8th
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Guided Science Investigation (Solutions)
This is a stand alone lesson on solubility that also explores the idea of a scientific investigation, and how one question/investigation almost always leads to another.The steps are easy to follow and the results are easy to manage and interpret. Students will have a terrific experience learning about solubility by actually DOING science. All materials can readily be sourced at the local dollar store.
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6th - 9th
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Interactives Digital Lab Report
Interactives Digital Journals for Connected Kids means no more tedious hours in the print room. If your classes have daily access to computers, make the journals available through your school's learning platform. Students complete their assignments digitally, while you spot check individual pages or instruct them to upload the entire journal back to you.
This Lab Report journal provides sentence tags, tables, and editable text boxes for beautiful professional looking lab reports. Students m
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6th - 8th
Questions for basic physics circuit lab with conductors, insulators, switches
This is a set of questions for review to be used with the basic physics circuit lab with conductors, insulators, switches, and monsters.
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5th - 8th
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The Origami Cup | Designing a Better Paper Cup
This activity is build for students that work with Apple products (iPads & MacBooks). The students will need to have Numbers downloaded in order to open and edit the notebook. The notebook walks the students through the process of creating and testing an origami cup. Once they explore the simple cup design, they are then asked to improve the usability of the cup.The attached file is a PDF version because TPT does not appear to support Numbers documents. There is also a PDF with a link to dow
Grades:
4th - 8th
Journal Question Prompts (JQP)
Journal Question Prompts are designed as a self-reflection tool for students after completing an activity, conducting an experiment/project, or after a lesson has been taught. The goal is for students to write more extensively.
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
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