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5th grade laboratories for Easel Activities $5-10
Walking Dead Lab (An Exploration of Speed, Velocity & Acceleration)
Now you can add an interactive layer to this PDF and assign it to your students through Google Classroom!Use this exciting lab to help students discover speed, velocity and acceleration and how various motions are represented graphically. This product includes almost everything you will need for this lab with the exception of measuring tape, timing device, and metal washers (or other similar weights). Before the lab, students are assigned a task (job cards are included) and 4 different "walker
Grades:
5th - 9th
Types:
Also included in:Â Custom Bundle for Marc W.
Fossil Record & Evidence in Rock Layers Unit: Activities, Worksheets, Test
Students explore rock formations and fossil evidence to explain changes over time. Science activities, text with images, worksheets, and a test let kids explore fossil types, simulate records in the layers, and analyze organisms found in sedimentary rocks. Open the preview to take a closer look at this seriously fun science unit. Ten days of learning experiences immerse kids in fossil records and evidence found in rock layers:First, establish necessary background information, review slow changes
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
4-ESS1-1
, 3-LS4-1
Thermal Energy Activities and Heat Transfer Lab - Science Unit for 3rd, 4th, 5th
This complete unit includes eight sets of hands-on thermal energy activities, a heat transfer lab, video links, flash cards, review sheet, and assessment to help third, fourth, or fifth grade students understand key science concepts.Open the preview to take a closer look at the unit. You’ll see that the activities offer safe (and fun!) ways to explore heat in the classroom.First, using inquiry, students explore key thermal energy concepts. For each guiding question, they explore two or three sim
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
4-PS3-2
Also included in:Â Forms of Energy Activities & Experiments - Light, Sound, Heat, Electricity
Scientific Method Lab Activities
Scientific Method Lab Activities - Look no further! These three scientific method labs are SPOT ON for middle school! Easy for you... fun for them! Here are three scientific method lab activities to start your year off with a bang! Scientific Method Lab Activity #1 - Drops on a Penny Materials: pennies, droppers, cups of water, paper towels Time: 40 minutes Best grade level: 6th Possible grades: 5th - 8thScientific Method Lab Activity #2 - Spring a Leak? Materials: Plast
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
Also included in:Â Life Science Bundle
States of Matter Lab Experiments: Making Butter
Are you looking for a fun way to experiment with changes in states of matter in the lab? These low prep States of Matter Lab Experiments are your solution! This NGSS aligned science resource includes two lab activities, Separating Substances and Phase Changes. Students will make observations and answer questions using critical thinking skills all while working collaboratively as they learn about properties of matter, phase changes in matter, and separating substances. Each activity takes about 4
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
5-PS1-3
Metric System Introduction - Notes - Worksheets - Lab Activities
The METRIC SYSTEM - Are you ready to introduce the metric system?! (All the students sigh...) Introduce the metric system in a way that makes sense - start with what students already know! This packet includes 4 worksheets that introduce the metric system - base units, the prefixes, and WHY it's easier than the English system.After you've introduced the metric system, practice it! Metric activities include: practice metric length measurements, metric volume, and metric mass. Directions also incl
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Types:
Also included in:Â Life Science Bundle
Natural Disasters and Solutions to their Impact: NGS 4-ESS3-2
This product provides supplemental resources that address concepts related to generating and comparing multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth process on humans.The product contains activities and projects that require students to research, investigate, chart, and build/write products that address natural disasters, the impact they have on humans, and what scientists and engineers are doing to lessen their impact on human's communities.TpT Digital Activities Pages Now Available
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
4-ESS3-2
Also included in:Â 4th Grade Next Generation Science Earth Science Bundle
Teaching the Engineering Design Process – Natural Disasters STEM 4th & 5th Grade
Teach the engineering design process with natural disasters! Fourth or fifth grade students learn to define a problem, identify criteria and constraints, brainstorm, build a prototype, design and carry out a fair test. STEM activities focus on ways to reduce impacts of floods, volcanoes, erosion, tsunamis, and earthquakes on Earth. Open the preview to take a closer look. These activities can be presented on five consecutive days or spread out over weeks or months. If your students are already fa
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
, 4-ESS3-2
Valentine's Day Science and STEM | Heart and Exercise Activities | Grade 4 5
Discover the role of your cardiovascular system with an engaging Science and STEM exercise study for February or any time of the year. Includes an easy-prep experiment, heart strength lesson, and stethoscope design challenge. A comprehensive teacher guide and student reading passage are included to make it a complete project-based learning activity.*Newly updated on January 29th, 2024!!!! Now includes 3 activities.*Included in the Hands-On Investigation:NGSS Alignment 4th and 5th Grade4th and 5
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 7th
Types:
NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 4-LS1-2
Also included in:Â Holiday Science And STEM Year Long Bundle | 4th and 5th Grade Experiments
Science Fair Project Guide | Experiment Journal and Worksheets For Grade 4 And 5
A step by step science fair guide with workbook pages, tips, blank science journal, and poster board layout. It helps fourth and fifth graders create age-appropriate experiments with less parental guidance. Teachers can use as a classroom unit on the scientific method, science processes, and to help complete a whole-class project. We will help make the science fair a fun and rewarding experience.Don't be nervous when your child says they want to participate in the science fair.Nervous about pl
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 6th, Staff
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
Winter Science and STEM | Freezing And Melting Points Ice Experiment | Grade 4 5
Discover water's freezing point and the salt's effect on ice with a complete project-based unit. Uses inexpensive and easy-to-find supplies. This engaging unit includes an experiment, reading passages, further exploration, and STEM Challenge. Great for the winter and Christmas season. Included in the Hands-On Investigation and Teacher Guide:5th Grade Structure and Properties of Matter NGSS Alignment3-5 NGSS Science and Engineering Practices AlignmentBackground Information and Tips3 Hands-on A
Grades:
4th - 6th
Types:
NGSS:
5-PS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 5-PS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
 ...
Tools for Weather Forecasting Classroom Transformation
Want your students to become weather experts? Learn how to master all the weather tools used to predict different weather factors? In this resource, students will learn by creating their own tools and testing them in their current environment. There are 4 lab activities, each with a different weather tool to be created: a barometer, themometer, anemometer, and wind or weather vane. As second option, all have been adapted for digital distribution and remote learning.HOW CAN I IMPLEMENT THIS AS A
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 6th
Types:
NGSS:
3-ESS2-1
, 5-ESS2-1
, MS-ESS2-5
Also included in:Â Math and Science Lab Classroom Transformations
Layers of the Earth Activities: Earth's Interior Projects, Worksheets & Test
Ramp up understanding of Earth's layers with a lab, booklet, model, worksheets, and assessment. Activities focus on the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core. Students learn the thickness, temperature, and composition of each layer, and get a brief introduction to the lithosphere and asthenosphere.Open the preview to get a better look at the seriously fun science projects.What's Included:Lab – Students use apples as models. On the first page, they draw and label cross-section diagrams of our
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Grades:
4th - 5th
Types:
Also included in:Â Hands-on Earth Science Activities - Fourth and Fifth Grade Geology Bundle
Scientific Method Lab: Gummy Bears
Looking for a great step-by-step introduction to writing and conducting a science lab?
The Gummy Bears Lab is the perfect introduction for students learning about scientific method and writing lab reports! It guides the students through each step of the process to ensure students are engaged and successful!
In the Gummy Bears Lab, students will chose a questions and create an experiment to determine how the gummy bears change overnight. This lab is great for emphasizing controls and sample siz
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Grades:
5th - 9th
Types:
Electrical Circuits Unit with Hands-on Current Electricity Energy Activities
Teach current electricity with hands-on activities! In addition to building simple, series, and parallel circuits, third, fourth, or fifth grade students explore electrical insulators, conductors, and resistors. This energy unit includes lesson plans, lab sheets, review, assessment, extensions, and video links.Open the preview to take a closer look at the seriously fun science activities.First, using inquiry, students explore key electricity concepts. These can be conducted as labs, stations, or
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
4-PS3-2
Food Science And STEM | Making Butter Experiment | Gr 4 5 Thanksgiving Activity
Do you know how butter is made? It is easy to make, and the science is fascinating. Expand students’ knowledge of butter churning. This complete 4th/5th-grade unit contains a teacher guide to improve success. Students investigate the role of fat and cream. A further exploration activity and a STEM Challenge to separate the butter from the buttermilk are included. Great activity for Thanksgiving.Can I use this virtually? The files are PDF but come with a pre-created Easel by TpT overlay. We add
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 6th
Types:
NGSS:
5-PS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 5-PS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in:Â Holiday Science And STEM Year Long Bundle | 4th and 5th Grade Experiments
Speed and Energy Activities - Forms and Transfer - Fourth & Fifth Grade
Through hands-on activities, fourth or fifth grade students construct explanations relating the speed of an object to its energy. Six labs may be completed in stations or as stand-alone experiments. Directions, review, and assessment are also included. Open the preview to take a closer look at these seriously fun science activities.First, students read the definition of speed and learn about two categories of energy: potential and kinetic. Then they explore types of potential (chemical, mechanic
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
4-PS3-1
, 4-PS3-2
Also included in:Â NGSS Fourth Grade Energy Bundle - Physical Science Activities
Slow Changes to Earth’s Surface Labs & Weathering Erosion Deposition Worksheets
Engage your kids with six hands-on labs that simulate slow changes to Earth’s surface! Follow up with worksheets or sorting to discriminate between weathering, erosion, and deposition. Review and assessment are also included. Open the preview to take a closer look at the unit. It's full of seriously fun science activities!In the first lab, fourth or fifth grade students simulate mechanical weathering.They place a piece of chalk in a jar with rocks and water. Then they shake it in increments of
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
5-ESS2-1
, 4-ESS2-1
Also included in:Â Hands-on Earth Science Activities - Fourth and Fifth Grade Geology Bundle
The Dognapping: A CSI Chromatography Lab
This is an exciting lab activity in which students take on the roles of CSIs working with evidence in the crime lab.
A real crime has been committed! Punkin the pooch has been dognapped! The only evidence is the ransom note, which IS included in this packet. Students will have to use chromatography to match the ink in suspects’ pens to the ink in the ransom note. They will use their data to isolate one suspect and write a report of their tests and results (conclusion).
Students will also have to
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Grades:
4th - 10th
Types:
Food and Chemical Reactions: Next Generation Science MS-LS1-7
This product addresses concepts related to From Molecules to Organisms - Structures and Processes: Develop a model to describe how food is rearranged through chemical reactions forming new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as this matter moves through an organism. The product provides resources/activities that are supplemental to your current curriculum.Included in this product are posters, assessments, a foldable for students' interactive notebooks, a demonstration, and two
Grades:
5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-LS1-7
Also included in:Â Life Science Bundle: Next Generation Science MS-LS1: 1-8
Parts of a Flower Dissection Science Lab
Discover the fascinating world of plant biology with this engaging Parts of a Flower Dissection Science Lab resource! This comprehensive activity is designed to provide students with a hands-on experience in understanding the intricate details of flower anatomy through a guided dissection process. Perfect for biology classes, this science lab enhances learning through interactive worksheets, detailed instructions, and captivating graphic organizers. This resource also aligns with the Girl Scouts
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-LS1-2
, MS-LS4-3
, MS-LS1-3
, MS-LS1-4
, MS-LS4-2
 ...
Also included in:Â Parts of a Flower Unit - Worksheets, Activities, Labs, and More!
Science Fair Project Guide | Experiment Journal and Worksheets | Grade 2 3
A step by step science fair guide with workbook pages, tips, blank science journal, rubric, and poster board layout. Students will create original experiments that are age-appropriate and create a positive experience. Supports the parents as they assist. Teacher pages help make it a classroom unit on the scientific method and for whole-class projects. We will help make the science fair a fun and rewarding experience. Ways to use the workbookGreat for Science Fairs: A guide to help parents b
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Grades:
2nd - 5th, Staff
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-3
Apple Lab - Fun Science Experiment for Teaching Fair Test in 3rd, 4th, 5th Grade
This fun apple lab engages kids in a science experiment. Each day for five days, they measure the mass of three apples: whole, halved, and sliced. It's a great activity for teaching the fair test in third, fourth, or fifth grade. Open the preview to take a closer look.First, you explain the importance of a fair test in experimental design. With a simple story about growing tomato plants, kids realize that scientists must compare, control, measure, and replicate. They also learn science vocabula
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
Also included in:Â Activities to Teach Scientific Method - Gummy Bear & Apple Labs
STRAWBERRY DNA EXPERIMENT | No Prep DNA Lab | Home Science Lesson Plan
Strawberry DNA Experiment low prep science experiment -> Use common household ingredientsThis experiment tasks students with being geneticists who extract DNA from strawberries. This low prep DNA lab activity uses only easy-to-find ingredients. You will receive a presentation that introduces DNA, a lab handout, and an assignment worksheet. This is a dynamic and adaptable activity that can be done at home or in the classroom. Your download will include presentation slides that are perfect for
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 10th
Types:
NGSS:
HS-LS3-1
, MS-LS3-1
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