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Free 2nd grade science projects
Space: Model of Earth & Moon's orbit
One of the biggest misconceptions that students have is that they believe that the Sun travels around the Earth. My students were no exception...That is why I created this model that allows students to manipulate the Earth and the moon in order to gain a better understanding. With this activity, your students will be able to orbit the Earth around the Sun as well as move the moon around the Earth. After this craftivity your students will no longer have the same misconception.If you like this act
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1st - 5th
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Super Science Experiments
Looking to spruce up your science curriculum, or have an AWESOME science fair project well you have come to the right place!
This collection of truly Super Science Experiments is just for you! It contains chemistry experiments, experiments on matter, physics, and much more!
Includes:
- 70+ science experiments and demo guides
- detailed descriptions
- pictures of experiments
- material lists
These are only the experiments I thought would be the absolute coolest ones and that students wou
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PreK - 8th
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Marshmallow Challenge Handout
This FREEBIE includes a color and black and white handout to provide to teams of students engaging in the Marshmallow Challenge activity. This activity is great to use as an icebreaker or to engage students in critical thinking, cooperative learning, and innovative thinking. It can also be used to reinforce basic principles of physics or as a fun math activity involving measurement.
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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FREE STEM Activity Rosie Revere Engineer Flying Machine Challenge
FREE STEM Challenge! Integrate STEM, Writing, and Literacy in your classroom!Engage students with a real world STEM activity where they learn about how engineering works. Students design, build, and test their own flying machine to glide Rosie down a zip line.The Engineering Design Process:In this STEM activity, students follow the six step Engineering Design Process: Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Experiment, Improve. Connect to a Read Aloud: Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea BeatyThis STEM Project
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2nd - 4th
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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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Animal Habitats Sorting Mats for Early Readers - Animal Habitats FREEBIE
This Animal Habitats Sorting Mats is prefect for a fun science activity for early readers! This Animal Habitats Sorting Mats are great for early readers in lower elementary grades! This is perfect for Pre-k, Kindergarten, and 1st Grade. This freebie is perfect for learning about animal habitats with your early readers! Enjoy this unique science FREEBIE!This printable interactive activity includes:15 unique animal habitats mats6 pages of unique animal sorting cardsan answer key for teachers**Plea
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PreK - 2nd
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Parts of a Pumpkin Craft
This simple craft is the perfect way to review parts of a pumpkin! Kids will create their own pumpkin craft and label the parts.You might also like:October Math CraftsLife Cycle of a Pumpkin Mini BookCounting PumpkinsWrite About Me: Halloween
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PreK - 2nd
Magnet Sort
Magnet Sort
Make a horseshoe magnet with your class when you are learning about magnets. Have the students complete a sort on magnetic/attracts and not magnetic/repels. Then glue the sorting sheet to the magnet. Great for reviewing what the students have learned in your magnet unit.
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PreK - 2nd
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Solar Eclipse Hats Freebie 2024
On April 8th, 2024 a Total Solar Eclipse will sweep it's way across the United States!!! What an exciting time in History!! Help make this exciting day a little more fun and memorable with these cute little Solar Eclipse hats!!There are 2 different versions available. One color version to print, cut and wear. And, one black and white version to color, cut and wear.Happy Eclipse Day!!!Katie Mensekateblueedu.com
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PreK - 3rd
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The Dot By Peter Reynolds Activities - Dot Day STEM and STEAM
Explore this growth mindset read-aloud with STEAM activities for International Dot Day! Warm-up the brain with dot and pixel art, and then dive into one (or all four) STEM challenges. These activities pair with the read aloud The Dot. Try these challenges and see where they take you!✅ What You'll Get ✅2 warm-up activities to get the creativity flowing4 STEM ActivitiesArt desk STEM activityEasel STEM activityPicture frame STEM activityPainting tool STEM activityRecording OptionsGraphic organizer
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: STEM Bundle of Activities and Challenges Read Aloud Books and Novels
Gingerbread Man Trap: Engineering Challenge Project ~ Great STEM Activity!
Engineering Challenge:
Can you create a trap that can catch and hold one gingerbread man cookie?
Materials: (per student)
Variety of found materials (outdoor or craft)
Scissors, tape and glue
Cardboard and paper scraps
Popsicle sticks, straws, etc.
This packet contains all the information you need to make this a great engineering activity in your classroom! Lab sheets, student and teacher instructions, and challenge signs are all included! Using simple and cheap materials, you can engage y
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2nd - 7th
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Main Idea and Detail Spiders
This is a hands on activity for students to demonstrate their understanding of main idea and details. RI.1.2
In this activity students read non-fiction texts about spiders and are then asked to sort the main idea from the 3 supporting details.
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K - 2nd
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The Water Cycle Activities Interactive Wheel Craft FREE
Test drive my Water Cycle Activities with this freebie or click HERE to get my BUNDLE of water cycle resources!This FREE Water Cycle Wheel is the perfect activity to help your students review what they have learned.This FREE Water Cycle packet comes with* a colored cover* a colored wheel template with text and images* a black and white cover* a black and white wheel template with text and imagesTemplates are in color, and black and white, giving you flexibility in printing. Finished wheels can b
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1st - 4th
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Free Earth Day Craft
This free Earth Day craft is perfect for a bulletin board or hallway display.It's simple and easy to make. Students will follow the step by step directions with photographs of each step to complete the craftivity. To finish the craftivity they will write about how they can help the earth on the stationery and glue it in the center.It includes….• Step by step directions with photographs of each step• Reproducible template (including the stationery)If you have any questions please contact me throu
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K - 2nd
Shelter Building STEM Challenge
This FREE STEM challenge is designed similarly to the other STEM Challenges in my store. I am offering this one as a free sample so that you can experience the joy of STEM with your students. The “problem” presented in this shelter building challenge was a real life situation that happened to my family and me this summer on a back country hike. We got caught out in a rain storm on a hiking trail and were forced to quickly solve the problem of building a shelter to keep ourselves and our gear
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1st - 5th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
STEM Engineering Starter Kit for Teachers {elementary level}
Is your elementary school starting the Engineering Design Process? Does thinking about STEM make you want to pull your hair out? Do you feel confused about what STEM looks like in an elementary classroom setting? If so, this free STEM starter kit is for you! The packet includes everything I wish I had known about STEM when my school started implementing STEM in 2011. I hope it is helpful to you! I am in the process of going through all of the STEM activities I created over the past couple of yea
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K - 4th
FREE STEM Activity Catalog and May Recommended Resources
FREE Read Aloud STEM CatalogDownload this free catalog of our two largest bundles of STEM read-alouds and challenges organized by month with clickable links to all of the books and resources. We hope it is a helpful resource for you as you implement Read Aloud STEM with your students!FREE Rosie Revere STEM ChallengeIntegrate STEM, Writing, and Literacy in your classroom!Engage students with a real-world STEM activity where they learn about how engineering works. Students design, build, and test
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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: 5th Grade STEM Activities and NGSS Science Lessons Curriculum BUNDLE
Animal Craft-ivity {Animal Classification FREEBIE}
This FREEBIE Craft-ivity is to be used during your unit on Animal Classification (mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, and amphibians)
With this download, you will receive templates for each of the animals listed above and pictures of each craft-ivity that you can carry out with your students.
This project has students using aluminum foil, feathers, paint, clear sandwich baggies, felt, construction paper, and other craft supplies to make learning about these 5 animal groups fun. Feel free to stop b
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2nd - 4th
Free Bats Research Book Craft, Diorama
This FREE BATS RESEARCH BOOK CRAFT and DIORAMA ACTIVITY incorporates bat research with students creating a bat diorama project. The diorama project could be completed at home or in the classroom. Click HERE to see this activity in action! *This free activity was originally shared on my blog in 2016.* What's Included?Bat Research folding book templates Editable Home Connection Letter for Diorama ProjectDirections on how to create the folding bookWhat do I need to use this free resource?-students
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1st - 2nd
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Rooster Craft | Farm Animal Activities | Farm Craft | Rooster Activity
This Rooster Craft is a fun activity for a farm themed classroom, farm animal unit, or as a reward activity! Students will love cutting and pasting their very own rooster craft while making one show stopping bulletin board. The patterns are kid friendly and easy to prep for teachers too! Now includes a three page coloring option for distance learning, centers, or morning work!Click HERE to SAVE by buying this resource as part of my Farm Animals Craft Bundle! What's included in this pdf: • A p
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PreK - 2nd
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Fidget Spinner Design Challenge: No Prep STEM with Lesson Plans
This is fun! I mean really, really fun! It's an easy STEM activity using linking cubes which requires absolutely no prep. Kids count, problem solve and go through the engineering process as they create different types of fidget spinners. I've included videos where you can hear the kids collaborating and forming their own learning.You'll hear the kids talk about balance, symmetry, gravity, force, surface tension, weight, lighter and heavier amongst other things as they create and problem solv
FREE STEM Activity | STEM Building Challenge | Camping Theme | Design a Tent
This is a FREE activity from our Camping STEM Activities! See the description of the full resource below:These Camping STEM Activities are a fun way to get students thinking creatively and working cooperatively. They would be great to use with a camping classroom transformation or an engaging camping-themed week of learning. These 6 STEM team building challenges will have your students challenged and thinking outside of the box.In this product you will find the following activities:Design a Tent
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2nd - 4th
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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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FREE Camping & My Five Senses Craftivity
Have students experience the world of camping using all of their five senses! This camp theme freebie includes:1. Camp sign template2. 5 senses mini book pages3. Creative writing sheets {camp theme printable paper}Detailed directions and pictures for making this craftivity are also included! This makes a great end of the year classroom activity.Keep the camping fun going with:Camp Out in Class Thematic Unit for K-2Enjoy!~Curriculum CastleConnect with us!Follow our store herePinterestFacebookInst
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K - 2nd
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OREO COOKIE PHASES OF THE MOON FOOD LAB
A popular lab, with a competitive twist! Educators, your students will have tons of fun learning/reviewing the phases of the moon with this engaging activity. Instead of simply cutting the cream out of each cookie, students will be tasked with a challenge (against their peers) for each of the 8 phases of the moon. I've also included a student version of the slides so that they can insert a photo of each phase they create. Why? Well, we all know that those cookies will not last very long at the e
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
MS-ESS1-1
Explore the Circulatory System
The heart holds many mysteries. Connect the dots to uncover one of them: how much blood flows through its chambers.
In the lungs, what waste product does deoxygenated blood exchange for more oxygen?
What happens to the oxygen in blood when it leaves the heart?
Aligned with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS):
K-LS1-1. Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
1-LS1-1. Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimi
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K - 9th
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