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4th grade physical science centers under $5
STEM I Can Build®️ Cards, Books, and Anchor Charts
I Can Build books and anchor charts are a fun way to get students thinking of all the things they can build and engineer! It is an easy and manageable way to add STEM to your classroom with real photographs!Blocks and manipulatives give students the opportunity to be creative, problem-solve, develop math concepts, develop eye-hand coordination, develop fine motor (if the blocks are small), and develop inquiry skills (STEM & STEAM). Add a literacy component and have students draw and write ab
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PreK - 5th
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Also included in: STEM I Can Build®️ Cards, Books, and Anchor Charts BUNDLE
Forms of Energy Mini Book: definitions, examples, review, cut & paste
This stand-alone resource blends science and literacy for your Upper Elementary Science Classroom! Worksheets are ready to PRINT AND GO!The Forms of Energy Mini Book is an interactive way to teach the definitions of the different types of energy. Examples that are relevant to your students of each form of energy are included as well as a review lesson. This is a mini book for students to create and keep as a resource. It is designed to be copied, cut in 1/2 and stapled. You can choose the pages
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4th - 6th
Changing States of Matter SORT (Cut & Paste) Review or Assessment- NOW DIGITAL!
This interactive and hands-on card sort activity will allow your students to see how the atoms in matter change as they change states due to the amount of heat given to that matter. This is a great way to teach, practice and asses this tricky concept in a kinesthetic way! Use this for your upper elementary or middle school science class.Start by asking students the question: How can the states of matter can be changed from one form to another? [ex. " What happens to solid ice when heat is added?
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4th - 6th
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Force and Motion Science Centers | 3rd Grade 4th Grade Reading Passage Activity
Force and Motion Science Weekly Five™ Stations help introduce students to friction, magnetism, gravity, and applied force.Updated for 2022. Stations are improved, an answer key was added, and everything you need is included in one easy PDF. Look out for more updated units!5 Quick and Simple Centers1. Read: Why Do Objects Move?2. Explore: Investigate how ramp height affects distance a toy car travels3. Organize: Classify forces as causing motion or slowing motion4. Extend: Explore gravity with a
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3rd - 4th
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March Madness Basketball STEM Activity Engineering, Sports, Elementary
Integrate STEM in your classroom with a Basketball STEM Challenge!Get your students pumped up for basketball and STEM! Design and build an amazing Basketball Shooter and Goal! Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas for creating a basketball shooter and goal. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't.The Engineering Design Process:Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, th
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: March STEM Activities and Challenges Bundle Basketball, St Patricks Day
Mass, Volume, & States of Matter Science Centers | 4th Grade Activities & Sort
Matter Science Weekly Five™ Stations help introduce students to the physical states and other properties of matter.Updated for 2022. Stations are improved, an answer key was added, and everything you need is included in one easy PDF. Look out for more updated units!5 Quick and Simple Centers1. Read: What is Matter?2. Explore: Use a balance to measure the mass of various objects3. Organize: Classify properties of mass and volume4. Extend: Explore similarities and differences between solids, liqui
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3rd - 4th
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Scientific Method Activity Worksheets: Gummy Bears Science Experiment Candy Math
Scientific Method: This scientific method gummy bears lab is a fun way to have students learn about the scientific method.This lab contains the following:1. Question: What will happen to gummy bears if they are placed into different solutions: Water, Vinegar, Water and Baking soda, Water and Salt?2. Make Observations3. Developing a hypothesis4. Procedure5. Data Tables6. Graphing7. Post-Lab QuestionsImportant: This lesson is in my Scientific Method Activities Bundle(35% OFF!)Also Check ou
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4th - 10th
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Simple Machines Sort Cut & Paste Examples, Definitions & Application- DIGITAL!
This interactive and hands-on sort activity will allow your students to determine definitions and examples for the 6 different simple machines for your Upper Elementary Science Classroom. In this resource students first cut out pieces from a worksheet that have machines, definitions and examples on them. They then sort these pieces onto corresponding groups and glue them into place. It is a great way to teach, practice and asses this tricky concept in a kinesthetic way!This hands- on activity i
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3rd - 6th
Build a Bubble Wand End of the Year STEM Challenge
Integrate STEM in your Classroom at the End of the School Year!Make learning fun with this End of the Year STEM Activity! For the Bubble Wand STEM Challenge, students are asked by a toy company to design a bubble wand that makes the biggest bubbles.The STEM Process:Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't.Amazing resource for STEM club, STEM Teachers, STEM Friday, parents who love ha
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1st - 5th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Elementary STEM Activities and Challenges MEGA BUNDLE
Mixtures and Solutions Sort Worksheet Activity and Craftivity
Engage your students while teaching them about the physical science concepts of mixtures and solutions! This craftivity is a great way to get in that much-needed practice and assess what they know!Check out the preview for details!Objective:For students to learn and retain the matter concepts of mixtures and solutions using an engaging activity.This Resource Covers:What mixtures and solutions areHow mixtures and solutions can be separatedExamples of mixtures and solutionsWith this Resource You'l
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3rd - 5th
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10 Sound & Wave Experiment Student-led Interactive Stations w/ Simple Materials
This resource is an excellent way to introduce or practice the concepts of how sound travels to grades 4- 8. There are 10 stations set up for students to move through in any order. The stations focus on how vibrations make waves and that sound waves are made of energy transferring from molecule to molecule. Also covered are types of mediums through which sound travels through best. You can set this up and do the stations together as a class (you'll need more materials this way) or as a student-l
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4th - 8th
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Electricity & Electrical Circuits Centers | 4th Grade Reading Passage Labs Sort
Electricity Science Weekly Five™ Stations help introduce students to electrical energy, conductors and insulators, and circuits.Updated for 2022. Stations are improved, an answer key was added, and everything you need is included in one easy PDF. Look out for more updated units!5 Quick and Simple Centers1. Read: What is Electricity?2. Explore: Investigate how current flows through a circuit3. Organize: Classify materials as conductors or insulators of electrical energy4. Extend: Build and test a
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3rd - 4th
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Magnets Magnetism Science Centers | 3rd 4th Grade Reading Passage Sort Activity
Magnets Science Weekly Five™ Stations help introduce students to magnets and the property of magnetism.Updated for 2022. Stations are improved, an answer key was added, and everything you need is included in one easy PDF. Look out for more updated units!5 Quick and Simple Centers1. Read: Magnetic Attraction2. Explore: Investigate the strength of different magnets3. Organize: Classify materials as magnetic or nonmagnetic4. Extend: Explore magnetism with various metals5. Vocab: Attract, compass, p
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3rd - 4th
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Conductors and Insulators Sort for Electrical Energy (Notebook Activities)
Electrical conductors and insulators sort for science notebooks or science stations plus two other activities!
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This product is great for 4th or 5th grade science notebooks or science stations while studying electrical energy, conductors and insulators. Three activities are included—
*CONDUCTOR & INSULATOR SORT--Students are given a set of 20 object cards made of different materials. They sort these based on whether they are conductors or insulators of electrical energy. A s
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4th - 5th
Modeling the Rock Cycle with Starburst Science Lab Experiment PRINT and DIGITAL
In this hands-on science lab experiment, students use Starburst candies to model how rocks can change between sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks in the rock cycle. Students will use scissors, hot water, and an iron to simulate weathering and erosion into sediment, melting and cooling, heat and pressure. This resource includes: Teacher directions, discussion questions, and extension activities 5 pages of background information about the rock cycle 11 pages of directions that walk student
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3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS1-4
, MS-ESS2-3
, MS-ESS2-1
, 4-ESS2-2
, 4-ESS2-1
Electric Circuits Worksheets Bundle
This bundle includes:Editable electric energy notes presentations in PowerPoint and Google Slides formats Editable electric energy notes handout in Word and Google Docs formats5 electric circuit worksheets with answer keys (see descriptions below)Electric circuits quiz with answer keyStudent response sheet for an electric conductors and insulators labI use all of this with my 5th graders, though it could be used for other grade levels as well depending upon your curriculum.The activity sheets in
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3rd - 6th
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Scientific Method Independent/Dependent Experimental Variables & Questions Game
This one is AWESOME! Explore the fundamentals of experimental design: independent variable, dependent variable, control variables and, articulate the question that will guide the scientific investigation. Students will arrange variable cards on a shuffleboard and based on their arrangement, formulate a question to investigate the relationship between their independent and dependent variables. Thirteen experimental scenarios to choose from. No additional materials are required to complete this a
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3rd - 9th
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MS-LS1-5
, MS-ETS1-2
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-PS2-3
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Transparent, Translucent, Opaque Light Text Reading, Experiment, Sort Activity
This interactive and hands-on experiment and sorting activity will allow your students to actually the difference between materials that are transparent, translucent and opaque. This is a great way to teach, practice and asses this tricky concept in a kinesthetic way! Use this for your upper elementary or middle school science class.This product includes:Text reading with comprehension questions introducing light, reflection, transparent, translucent and opaque vocabulary.A simple experiment to
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3rd - 7th
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Dog Sled STEM Activity
Build a Dog Sled Winter STEM Challenge! Students love completing this winter STEM challenge! Students learn about the history of dog sled racing by reading about the great serum race to Nome, Alaska in 1925. After learning about the history of dog sled racing students design, build, and test a dog sled using only the materials provided. The dog sled will be tested based on two variables (speed and being able to carry the most cargo). This is a fun and engaging activity for students to work on du
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1st - 5th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Winter STEM Activities and Winter STEM Challenges Bundle
Physical and Chemical Changes Activity to Review Matter Changes
Are you looking for a lesson that brings real-life science scenarios to your students as they study chemical and physical changes? This activity will have students pretend they are detectives trying to solve crimes in a town to decide how matter is changing. Then, using the reference sheet available, students will make a claim and provide evidence as they identify physical and chemical changes. Like this chemical and physical changes activity? Check out the unit and save over 20% by clicking her
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Physical and Chemical Changes Unit
Forms of Energy Activity - Uses of Energy Escape Room - M.E.L.T.S. Review Game
Get instant engagement with this Forms of Energy activity. This Escape Room science review game focuses on ways we use different types of energy in our everyday lives. Includes questions about mechanical, electrical, light, thermal, and sound energy. Students are excited about escape rooms; this one is fun AND full of rigorous review content. Add this open and closed circuits activity to your next lesson plan!❤ Save 30% by purchasing the Science Escape Rooms BUNDLE! ❤Your students will work thro
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4th - 5th
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Heat Energy/ Transfer Sort CONDUCTION, CONVECTION, AND RADIATION
You TEACH. They SHOW & SORT.
Show & Sort activities are meant to be engaging and challenging for your students. Designed to ignite discussion and debate, Show & Sorts will get your students talking about the material you taught them. Show and Sorts provide real life examples that are related to young leaners. Allow YOUR students to apply their knowledge and SHOW AND SORT!
This purchase contains 3 headers for heat energy/transfer (conduction, convection, and radiation). There are 40 h
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: CONDUCTION, CONVECTION, AND RADIATION Heat Energy Heat Transfer Bundle
Science Measurement Observation Stations | Mass, Volume, + Length Matter Labs
Science Measurement Observation Stations allow students to practice determining mass (using a triple beam balance or pan balance), determining the volume of liquids using a graduated cylinder, and measuring the length of objects using a centimeter ruler.Observation StationsObservations Stations allow students hands-on experiences through 6 centers, all focusing on a specific concept.Student teams use tools to measure mass, volume, and length in these Observation Stations.Table of ContentsStation
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4th - 6th
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Mixtures and Solutions Science Centers | 3rd 4th Grade Reading Lab Activity
Mixtures Science Weekly Five™ Stations help introduce students to mixtures and solutions.Updated for 2022. Stations are improved, an answer key was added, and everything you need is included in one easy PDF. 5 Quick and Simple Centers1. Read: What Makes a Mixture?2. Explore: Investigate how to use properties of ingredients to separate mixtures3. Organize: Classify mixtures as solutions4. Extend: Explore solubility5. Vocab: Dissolve, invisible, mixture, solutionPlusKWL: Students fill in what they
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3rd - 4th
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