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End of Year mental math laboratories under $5
Fun Science Experiment (Home-Made Lava Lamp)
This is a 1 day project where students will make a home-made lava lamp from a plastic water bottle, vegetable oil, food coloring, & an Alka-Seltzer tablet. The lab worksheet provides all directions AND includes pre & post lab questions. It also includes a follow up that briefly explains the science behind how a lava lamp works and includes 4 questions for the students to answer when finished reading.Answer Key IncludedPDF Format & Edible Copy IncludedPlease leave a comment and rati
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4th - 9th
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Owl Pellet Dissection Activity Fun End of Year Science Lab for Middle School
Owl pellet dissections are a great end-of-the-year activity! This owl pellet activity is packed full of print-and-go activities to make dissecting owl pellets a hoot! This great collection of 10 engaging and unique activities will enhance your study of barn owls and owl pellets. These ready-to-print, no-prep activities will make your dissection of owl pellets as fun and easy as possible!Who are these activities best suited for?Public, Private & Christian schoolsHomeschoolers and Homeschool C
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5th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-LS2-3
, MS-LS2-1
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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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Physical Science Labs (Growing Bundle)
Does it float? Science Lesson Plan- physical science (water)
This lesson plan will help introduce students to the idea of buoyancy and density through a read aloud and a fun hands on experiment.
Description: This lesson is on density and its impact on an objects buoyancy. Specifically, that density (not simply size) impacts whether an object will float or not. The students will work as class and in groups to determine which objects will float and which will not recording their answers and creating a graph along the way. All resulting in the students deve
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PreK - 1st
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Forensic Science Fingerprints Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Low Prep Activity
Look for fun end of year activities, middle school teacher? This forensic science fingerprinting activity is a CSI-type lab investigation for middle school students, students will identify FINGERPRINTS to solve a "crime." Unlike other forensics activities, this lab will not give your students nightmares!This activity is perfect for traditional classrooms, enrichment programs/camps, homeschool co-ops, and homeschool students. This is a great alternative to graphic or scary CSI activities. This la
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5th - 8th
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MS-LS1-5
, MS-LS1-3
Barn Owl Pellet Activities - Reading, Puzzles, Food Web Cut & Paste, Slide Show
Owl pellet dissections are a great end-of-the-year activity! This barn owl resource kit was designed to prepare your students for owl pellet dissections. This resource is packed full of print-and-go activities to enhance your study of barn owls and owl pellets. These ready-to-print, no-prep activities will make your dissection of owl pellets as fun and easy as possible!The reading passage and slide show cover the following topics related to Barn Owls:Physical FeaturesNicheHabitatNatural HistoryD
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5th - 8th
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MS-LS2-3
, MS-LS2-1
Food Science Lab: The History of Frozen Pizza
This is a fabulous lab that walks student through how frozen pizza is made, allows them to be creative and invent a new flavor and eventually they will make their own pizza. I use this in my middle school curriculum and they love it! It can be purchased individually or it also is a part of the bundle which can be found here!Objectives: 1. Visualize how frozen pizza is made. 2. Explain the history of frozen pizza. 3. Explain how some pizza ingredients are created. 4. Create their own pizza with r
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Middle School Bundle
Chemistry End of the year outside measuring lab High School review
Are you looking for a way to motivate your high school chemistry students, here it is!! During the last days of the year take them outside to work in groups to review measuring and estimating skills. Just print and goThis lesson contains1. Students will estimate 2. Perform the actual measurements3. Compare English and MetricMaterialsMeter stick Thermometer Graduated cylinder Large beaker
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Metric and Measuring labs
Forensic Science Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Urinalysis Simulation Activity
Looking for fun end of year activities, middle school teacher? This is a FUN Forensic Science Crime Scene Investigation (CSI)! In this investigation, students will perform a mock urinalysis on four suspects. In doing so, they will learn about common health problems that can be detected through urinalysis. These health problems commonly arise from dietary choices. Students will make observations of the color and clarity of the urine, test each suspect’s urine for proteins and sugar, and determine
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5th - 9th
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MS-LS1-7
Owl Pellet Dissection Activity Bone Box Bone Sorting for Owl Pellet Bones
Owl pellet dissections are a great end-of-the-year activity! Make bone sorting and identification a snap using an egg carton. Students will be thrilled to have a place to sort and store their rodent bones as they dissect their owl pellets. This is a simple one-pager that can be cut and glued onto an old egg carton. Combine this with my other Owl Pellet Dissection Resources for a fantastic, LOW-PREP study of owl pellets! Your students will love this classic activity!Related Resources:⭐Owl Pellet
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5th - 8th
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MS-LS2-3
, MS-LS2-1
Convection Heat Energy Fun Science Lab Middle & High School Science
Blast off! Be sure to get several empty tea bags ready, because this is one experiment your crew will want to do repeatedly. What’s going on? When the teabag is set on fire, the air is trapped, gets hot, and creates a thermal current. Then, poof! It escapes, taking the bag along for the ridMaterialsUnused Teabag one with a string and stapleMatchesPiece of aluminum foil or a glass plateSharpieScissorsGoogles Students will learn how convection currents can convert a normal tea bag into a flying ro
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7th - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-PS1-4
, MS-PS1-2
, MS-PS1-6
Science Baking Lab Particle Motion work sheet
This lab emphasizes science standards while also having fun! This is a lab perfect for students who are doing online learning or are homeschooled because they will likely have something they can bake at home.FREE Exit Ticket (make a copy)
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4th - 7th
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MS-PS1-4
, MS-PS1-5
, MS-PS1-6
No Food Please! Sign
This sign is unique for classrooms or spaces where they are allowed to have drinks, but no food. Includes one PDF page that is 8.5"x11". Feel free to print a few to place in different location in your space/room.
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Not Grade Specific
Making Homemade Ice Cream in a Bag
This is a really FUN activity. The students make ice cream in a bag.
I have used it as an activity for physical science and phase changes. I have also just used it as a fun end-of-the-year activity.
I also included some activities that I have my students do while they are waiting to make their ice cream or waiting for other kids to finish their ice cream. I have the kids create their own ice cream flavor. This is easily turned in to a writing assignment.
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3rd - 5th
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End of The Year Physics Tik Tok Mini Project
Have your students create a Tik Tok short over a topic that they have learned over the year. This mini project includes guidelines for completing the assignment, and a rubric for grading out of 100 points. This is 100% editable and ready to go!Follow me Here to see all of my new content.For more: lessons, labs, notes, videos, and ideas, check out my YouTube Channel "Science Explained"
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8th - 12th
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Consistency in Baking: A Data Story
This is a guide on how to use the consistency in baking results & group sheets. This is a statistics assessment:5 number summarymeanrange & IQRStandard deviationbox and whisper plotsYou don;t need to use this as an assessment but it's a great way to teach the importance of data and how it's useful in a commercial setting. This practical will also help students understand mean and standard deviation. i find that students know how to calculate mean, median and mode but no matter how many t
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6th - 10th
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The Science of Glow Sticks
This activity is a great way to add a science lesson to a NEON or GLOW day with your students! The only materials you will need are glow sticks (I used three per table group), three clear cups, and cold/warm/hot water. Have the students work through the steps in the scientific method by predicting what they think will happen when they place one glow stick in each cup. For fun, I recommend doing this with the lights off and windows partially blacked out so it’s really fun for the students to watc
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K - 3rd
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Estimating the Volume of Water Math Lab
Dive into the world of volume estimation with this engaging and interactive activity designed for elementary students to explore the concept of estimating and measuring the volume of water. This resource is perfect for teachers looking to add a splash of excitement to their math lessons!In this activity, you'll set up your classroom with several different-sized graduated cylinders displayed on a table. Surrounding them are 10 containers of various shapes and sizes – cups, sponges, measuring cups
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2nd - 5th
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Silver Mirror Flask Lab / Silver Mirror Ornament Lab
Silver mirror lab (tollens reagent) for a high school chemistry class. End of year gift and Christmas lab versions included. This procedure uses a three step chemical reaction and sugar reduction to plate metallic silver on the inside of an object creating a mirror. Preview the full product as a copyright pdf. The actual download is a pdf version without the watermark. Teacher guide page included that provides instructions for how to make the solutions for the two different versions of the lab.
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9th - 12th
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How do you milk a cow? Learn to milk activity!
Use this activity guide as an add on to any activity or lesson plan! This easy activity, reading, and exit slip allows students to grasp the concept of how a cow is milked!IncludesReading and Video IntroductionTeacher Activity Guide Ext SlipObjectivesStudents will develop an understanding of hand milking versus parlor milking.How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases:**Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. S
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: Agriculture Science I Bundle - First Semester
NYC Food Web Activity
Students interpret a food web that contains some of NYC's marshland organisms:- Identifying producers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores;- Assessing how an increase or decrease in one would impact another;- Generating their own food web.
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Ecology Lab/Project Bundle - Sub-Lessons
Math Discovery Lab: Square Roots, Multiples of 10, Rational vs Irrational
This is one of a series of self-guided discovery labs for a meaningful understanding of core mathematical concepts. Students use the familiar format of the scientific method to answer a mathematical question/problem. In this lab, students investigate the relationships among square roots, perfect squares, and positive and negative powers of ten (10). This math lab also explores when the square root of numbers such as 0.016, 0.16, 1.6, 16, 160, 1600 are rational or irrational. Full answ
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4th - 10th
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Conversion Between Units of Measurement - History of STEM practicals
Practical 35 in the History in STEM practical series.This experiment looks at how the mathematical systems of measurement developed over the centuries in various cultures, culminating with the chance for the students to build their own system in the same manner as they developed in the past, as well as converting ancient units of measurement to modern ones. Great for students looking to get a bit of history in to their math lesson and great for practicing converting between units, an important c
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: History of STEM Practicals Bundle - Science, Mathematics and History
Insect Study Photo Journal, Insects Scavenger Hunt or Fun End of Year Activity
Looking for fun, end of the year activities, middle school teacher? This insect collection alternative is the perfect no-kill solution to traditional insect collections. This picture scavenger hunt makes an awesome alternative to traditional insect collections without killing insects. Your middle school student/s will love this bug collection project! Instead of killing and pinning insects, students create an insect photo collection. This can be used as a project or as a scavenger hunt! Include
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Grades:
5th - 12th
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