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Free 6th grade science simulations
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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Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition Stations {FREE}
These stations will keep your students MOVING! Designed to fit in one class period, your students will build on what they have been taught in the classroom concerning weathering, erosion, and deposition. This is a great way to reinforce material in your Earth Science classroom, or a great way to review for state standards assessments. You can opt to use these activities as stations and simply use them as labs or activities to enhance what you already have planned in the classroom. This bundle in
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4th - 9th
Bird Beak Investigation - Animal Adaptations
Students will explore various kinds of bird beaks to determine which beak works best for different kinds of food/prey. Students will consider how physical and/or behavioral adaptations help animals survive. Teacher's guide included.
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2nd - 6th
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Reason for the Seasons Lab
This lab is suitable for students from grades 5-8 and addresses the following learning goals:
I can survey a group of people to collect data
I can tally data and organize by main idea
I can create a bar graph or pie chart with the data I collect
I can model how the Earth experiences seasons
I can model what would happen if the Earth did not have a tilt
I can describe how seasons in the Northern Hemisphere differ from seasons in the Southern Hemisphere through the year
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This document,
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5th - 8th
Eclipse - Solar and Lunar – A Digital, Device-Based Scavenger Hunt Activity
Eclipse - Solar and Lunar - A Digital, Device-Based resource that will get your kids out of their seats, engaged, utilizing technology, and collaborating to solve real problems and test their knowledge.This activity is the coolest thing I've created and your kids are going to love it, mine do. Think of a scavenger hunt, then add devices (Smartphones, Chromebooks, Laptops, or Tablets), engaged students, and learning through assessment and you have this resource.I've created a video that walks you
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6th - 9th, Staff
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Also included in: Space Scavenger Hunt Bundle - Digital Science Activities
Free Preview Design a Zoo: A Digital Project Based Learning Experience
Thanks for choosing this project based learning experience for your students! They are sure to have fun, be creative, and learn some valuable skills.
This is a free preview of the full product.
In Design a Zoo, students take on the role of a design consultant asked to create a new zoo. Students will need to:
–Name the Zoo
–Create a welcoming sign
–Select the animals
–Design animal habitats
–Create information sheets
–Create a budget
–And present their work to a "Board of Directors"
This exp
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3rd - 8th
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Alaskan Earthquake Epicenter Location Activity (November 30, 2018)
In this activity students will analyze seismograms from three seismic stations in Alaska. They will use the difference in arrivals times of the primary and secondary waves with a travel time curve to determine the distance from the epicenter to the seismic stations. Using the epicenter distance and a drawing compass student can triangulate the location of the November 30th, 2018 Alaskan earthquake.For information about how to read a seismogram, I suggest having students read this website: http:/
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5th - 10th
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Waves Virtual Escape Room + Google Form: NO PREP
You've Been Abducted by Aliens!A Mechanical Waves Escape Room + Google Form Activity and QuizClick here to try it out for yourself! Please test this at your school before purchasing...just to make sure your school doesn't block the interactive.How it works:The teacher provides every student the Google Form link and assigns each student either version A, B, C, or D. (Each version is the same except for the code word provided at the end).Students select their assigned version in the Google Form. T
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6th - 10th
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Acid/Base Webquest to accompany pHet website
This is a basic worksheet that introduces the concept of pH scale to accompany the pHet pH scale website. https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/ph-scale This worksheet walks students through the basics of the pH scale and the beginnings of neutralization reactions. Also includes a short reading that allows students to take independent notes about Acids and Bases.
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Physical Science Testing Review Bundle
TEKS 6.8A Roller Coaster Greatest Potential & Kinetic Energy Simulation
Questions scaffolded to analyze a roller coaster simulation- finding the points of greatest and least potential and kinetic energy using an online roller coaster simulation, a chart, and questions. This addresses 8th grade Physical Science TEKS 6.8a Compare and contrast potential and kinetic energy.
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6th - 8th
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The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits
Andy Thelwell created an amazing electrical circuits virtual lab complete with interactive sections and quizzes. I have created a student guide for exploring electrical circuits with his webpage. With this guide, you can be sure that your students get the most out of the time they spend investigating electric circuits when you are in the computer lab or at a tech station.
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3rd - 8th
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Carbon Cycle Interactive: SELF-GRADING + NO PREP
This Carbon Cycle Interactive takes students on a trip through time starting with Cool Guy Carbon as part of a glucose molecule inside a fern 200 million years ago. Cool Guy Carbon participates in digestion, cellular respiration, photosynthesis, and combustion as part of glucose, carbon dioxide, and an oil molecule.Click here to try a test version of the entire activity for yourself.Please test this at your school before purchasing... just to make sure your school doesn't block the interactive.
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6th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-LS1-7
, MS-LS2-3
, MS-LS1-6
Don't Eat the Cookie! Inquiry Archaeology Lab
This lesson is a great hands on introduction to archaeology, and can be integrated into a variety of different Social Studies and Science units. Teach your students to think like an archaeologist by participating in sketching dig sites, and artifacts, excavating artifacts, evaluating the effects of excavation on a dig site, and the effectiveness of tools used in the excavation. What’s included in this resource: Teacher lesson planRelated vocabulary and definitionsInteractive lab worksheetLab as
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3rd - 6th
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Inheritance Patterns in the Kolo Genetics Activity - FREE RESOURCE
In this genetics activity, students will discover the variety of offspring that can come from one set of heterozygous Kolo parents. Kolos are cute little creatures that are rumored to live behind Rainbow Falls on the Big Island of Hawaii. In fact, Kolo means “to creep or crawl” in Hawaiian. All Kolos are very happy, but they have a few characteristics that vary from one Kolo to the next. Students will simulate inheritance principles as they determine the traits of their own unique Kolo, and then
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6th - 10th
NGSS:
HS-LS3-3
Free Phases of the Moon Activity Worksheet (with Solutions)
Hello! Here is a Phases of the Moon Activity, where students act out the phases of the moon at home. Its intended to go along with the video explaining the phases on YouTube here.There are some extension questions at the end. Its a great activity for students to do at home during online learning.Thanks for checking out my page! Please leave a review if you download and like the resource :)
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6th - 10th
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Virtual Frog Dissection / Virtual Lab
Click Here for the virtual lab. The google doc attached is just a doc with the link.This is a fully virtual, interactive frog dissection activity. It is an interactive Canva presentation. The activity covers lab safety materials, exploration of internal organs, external sensory organs, sexing, reproductive systems, and some multiple choice questions testing scientific knowledge as it relates to frogs :)PLEASE, please leave a review if you're happy with the product. I worked very hard on this and
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6th - 12th
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ATOMS: Interactive, Digital, Google Forms, NO PREP
Perfect for Distance Learning or In ClassThis valuable product is FREE so you can test out a new awesome way to include technology in your teaching! The dynamic Genially interactives are combined with the gradable Google Forms to make lessons and assessments that are engaging and effective.The Lesson:This ATOMS Google Forms Lesson includes links to two Virtual Science Teachers interactives that walk students through the concepts of matter, atoms, elements, protons, neutrons, electrons, charge,
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6th - 11th
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NGSS:
MS-PS1-1
Digital Lab: Potential and Kinetic Energy in a Roller Coaster Ride
Students explore, collect data, analyze, and apply the concepts of kinetic and potential energy using the interactive simulation at https://contrib.pbslearningmedia.org/WGBH/conv16/conv16-int-rollercoaster/index.htmlCan be independent work or teacher led. Great for an introduction to potential and kinetic energy!
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5th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-PS3-2
, MS-PS3-1
Explore the Respiratory System
Breathe in and breathe out. What happens to your chest?
Our lungs are like balloons. As we inhale oxygen, they inflate. As we exhale carbon
dioxide, they deflate. Construct a paper lung and inflate it.
Spot the tiny dots. What do alveoli do as we take in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide?
Directions:
1) Cut out square; place printed side up. Fold in half horizontally to crease. Flip over and fold on each diagonal.
2) Collapse into a triangle by pulling the edges of the horizontal fold in
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K - 9th
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Microscope Simulation (Virtual Lab/Virtual Microscope)
I know everyone is getting accustomed to online learning. In order to make that transition a little easier I decided to make a simulation I created free. In order to make online learning easier, feel free to download for classroom use. I do not claim ownership of the microscope image. I did use that image to create a virtual lab where students can use an interactive simulation to identify the various parts of a microscope. I spent a great deal of time generating the simulation. Students can clic
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6th - 12th
Pulleys: Simple Machines, Hands-On Engineering & Science Lessons for Kids
This sample pulley lesson is a relevant and captivating activity designed to engage children with engineering experiences and teach them to actively think and question the world around them. During this lesson, participants will compare pulley size. Additionally, participants learn to identify pulleys as a simple machine, use higher level thinking to make comparisons, ask and answer questions, make predictions, and test hypotheses. Participants will be required to work together, encourage teamwo
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1st - 8th
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Forces and Motion Webquest
Interactive webquest for your students to explore Newton's Laws of Motion. Students will use a mixture of reading comprehension, interactive simulations, 3D animations, and inquiry to learn about forces and motion. This was designed as a culminating, 8th grade webquest.
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6th - 8th
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Crayon Activity: Rock Cycle Simulation Investigation
It's a difficult concept for students to imagine that over millions of years one kind of rock will change into another kind of rock. This investigation allows students to see the changes taking place, and learn important qualities of each type of rock and how they are formed. Students will demonstrate the process that changes one rock type to another by using different colored crayons to simulate how rocks change within the three different rock classifications.
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6th - 9th
Nitrogen Cycle: From Poop to Plants
Students role-play as NITROGEN and cycle through ecosystem. Students simulate being nitrogen and get an in person experience as to where and how nitrogen makes its way in and out of living things.A high interest, fun, hands on lab experience for students ranging from 6th-12th grade. Use as either an introduction or a review of the concept. The experience has built in ENL and special education modifications to allow all learners access to the curriculum (developed with a co-teacher). The experien
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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