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Middle school physical science activboard activities for GATE
5 STEM Activities Desert Island STEM Challenge Bridge Catapult Raft Hut STEAM
If your students enjoy doing STEM or STEAM activities, they will LOVE this set of 5 fully-planned out challenges! All five themed STEM challenges center around the story of a shipwrecked traveler stranded on a deserted island. After watching an introductory “movie trailer” and hearing the story of the shipwreck, students will read five of the traveler's diary entries. Each entry will challenge them to design and build something to help him survive and get back to civilization!These STEM challeng
Grades:
4th - 7th
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
STEM Activities Pioneer Challenge Science Bundle Set of 5 STEM Projects
This is a set of 5 STEM challenges centered around the story of a pioneer family. After hearing about their travels west during the Land Rush of 1889, students will read about different parts of the journey. Each one will challenge them to design something to help the family build their new life.Includes 5 different STEM projects:Thirsty Travelers: Design A Water FilterHome Sweet Home: Construct A CabinWhose Territory?: Build A TowerBath Time: Solar Water HeaterDigging A Well: Design A Rock Move
Grades:
4th - 7th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-PS3-4
, 4-PS3-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
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Forces and Motion Unit | Newton's Cradle Science And STEM | Grade 6 7 8
Discover the Law of Conservation Energy and the Law of Conservation of Momentum with a fun marble collision science investigation. Simple supplies and EASY PREP. Expands to introduce The Laws of Motion. Explore further with an added exploration. Engage students in a STEM Challenge to create a Newton's Cradle. Includes extensive background information to guide the teacher and students to success. This is a printable PDF. Please read more about Easel below.Students will expand their knowledge
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-PS2-2
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-PS3-5
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Fun Winter STEM Activities Projects Science Parachute Tower Snowball Shooter
This set of winter STEM challenges are centered around the story of a group of stranded arctic explorers who need your students' help to survive!Begin by showing students the "movie trailer" (preview video) to build interest. After hearing the story of the failed expedition, students will read 5 diary entries. Each one presents a problem to solve and will challenge them to design something to help the group make it back to base camp.Includes 5 separate winter STEM challenges:Arctic Architect: Co
Grades:
4th - 7th
Space STEM STEAM Activities 5 Challenges Straw Balloon Rocket Parachute Bridge
This is a set of 5 space-themed STEM challenges centered around the story of a group of scientists who must travel to Jupiter to save mankind. After watching the introductory “movie trailer” and hearing the opening storyline, students will read 5 of the team's travel log entries. Each one will challenge them to design something to help them survive and save the humans back on Earth.STEM Challenges in this set:• 3-2-1 Blastoff: Design a Rocket• Touchdown: Build an Orbiter Landing Device• Don’t Lo
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Force & Motion STEM Activity BUNDLE 15 Projects + STEM Rubric Space Rome
Force and Motion STEM project Egg Drop Challenge Engineering Design Process
Looking for a fun way for students to use their knowledge of force, Newton's laws, and practice their engineering skills? This egg drop STEM engineering design process challenge will get your students designing, testing, investigating, thinking like a disciplinarian, and acting as engineers as they improve their egg structures to mimic the Mars rover landing. ✎Print and digital versions This engineering design STEM project includes:✅ Teacher guide for doing the activity✅ Student handouts for t
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Table-top Mini Golf: STEAM Engineering and Design for Elementary GATE
In From Putt-putt to Pebble Beach--Table-top Mini Golf, students will design and construct a playable table-top sized miniature golf course using the engineering design process. With these lessons, the teacher defines the problem, helps students gather background research, and specifies the requirements. The students do the rest: creating alternative solutions, choosing the best solution, doing development work, building a prototype, and testing and redesigning. The result is a classroom filled
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
Ancient Rome STEM Team Building Activities Set of 5 STEM Projects
This is a set of 5 different activities centered around the story of a slave living in ancient Rome. After hearing the opening storyline, students will read 5 of the slave's diary entries. Each one will challenge them to design something that will help him earn his freedom and become a Roman citizen.STEM Challenges in this pack:Road Trip: Design a TrunkFood for Thought: Create a Fishing NetCatch a Breeze: Windmill ChallengeNow We're Cooking: Construct a Solar OvenWater, Water Everywhere: Build a
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Force & Motion STEM Activity BUNDLE 15 Projects + STEM Rubric Space Rome
STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
115+ hours of class time, 374 pages. This collection is big and includes big savings--42% off individual purchases of some. Pretty much everything in the Portable Gifted and Talented store is rated 4.0, but take a couple minutes to peruse the comments for these individual units. I think you’ll like what you see.Designed for two purposes:A curriculum for Middle School STEAM classes with an engineering focus. Or . . .Upper Elementary GATE – Very Challenging!These units are big, fairly comprehe
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Energy Forms and Transformations Unit Bundle - Editable and Google Slides™
Perfect for an energy unit in your middle school physical science classroom! This mini bundle contains a PowerPoint, Cornell Notes Style Guided Notes, Assessment, self grading task cards, choice board, digital with print activities and warm ups that can all be used with Google slides or Google forms! Everything relates to different forms of energy and energy transformations.Content covered: ⭐What is energy?⭐Types of Potential Energy⭐Types of Kinetic Energy⭐Energy Transformations ⭐Law of Conserv
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS3-5
, MS-PS3-1
Da Vinci Parachute Prototypes -- Hands-on STEM
In this lesson, students solve geometry problems and learn background physics concepts as they build a working model of Leonardo Da Vinci’s parachute. Logic, critical thinking, a bit of Renaissance history, writing and supporting conclusions with details from a source—it’s all here too!
Make this extended lesson a cross-curricular, standards-based mini-unit, or just make it a cool building activity. Pick and choose the level of commitment right for you and your students. With the suggested e
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 8th
Egg Drop STEM PBL Engineering Science Lab - 3rd - 6th Grade
"You all know the story of Humpty Dumpty and his epic fall. What you don’t know is that even though the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back together, the FBI was able to. That is how Humpty Dumpty became a secret agent..."
Engage your students with this STEM/PBL engineering science lab to help design a device that will assist Agent Dumpty in surviving a jump from a second story window on his next case. Working in collaborative groups students will assess the problem, design a plan, crea
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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A Whole Lot of Shaking Going On! STEM Engineering Earthquake Lab (Marshmallows)
Dear Educator,
It’s time to bring some fun to your classroom during your unit on earthquakes! Your students will love this STEM project where they have to build an earthquake resistant building. There are many ways you can use this project – group lab, individual projects, or a culminating unit activity.
This product contains the student lab manual and teacher materials to conduct this experiment in your classroom. Students must design a structure, test their design, note their observations of
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Types:
30 Minute Science Lab Activities | Hands-On Experiment Bundle | Reading Passages
Immerse your students in hands-on lab activities designed to be conducted in 30 minutes. Save time and money with simple supplies and low prep set-up. Included reading passages tie it all together after the lab. Bundle and Save and get all new additions at no extra cost. This is the perfect start for Back-To-School Science and for the whole year.Each Lab IncludesBackground Information and VocabularyHands-on Experiment PageReading Passage with QuestionsAnswer KeyStudents will engage in a hands-on
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Amplify Populations & Resources Digital Choice Board
Looking for an online activity? Want a great review of the Populations & Resources unit for students? This resource is perfect for e-Learning. I used these with my students in the spring and they loved it!This is a Google Slides resource that can easily be uploaded to Google Classroom or Canvas so the students can work at their own pace. This is also EDITABLE! Don't like one of the activities? Switch it out with one of your own!Digital Choice Board created for students on the topics of Popul
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Amplify 7th Grade Digital Choice Boards Bundle
Flubber Movie Guide and Flubber Activity
Make flubber alongside the 1997 film. This is a great easy addition to review basic chemistry or physical science terms. It can serve as a subsitute plan or is perfect for a to create and watch the movie as a general assignment.
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Grades:
8th - 11th
Chemical and Physical Change Jeopardy PowerPoint Review Game
This Power Point Jeopardy Game was created as a review for a 5th grade unit on chemical and physical. The categories include: physical change, chemical change, states of matter, potpourri 1, and potpourri 2.
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Amplify Force & Motion Digital Choice Board
Looking for an online activity? Want a great review of the Force & Motion unit for students? This resource is perfect for e-Learning. I used these with my students last year and they loved it!This is a Google Slides resource that can easily be uploaded to Google Classroom or Canvas so the students can work at their own pace. This is also EDITABLE! Don't like one of the activities? Switch it out with one of your own!Digital Choice Board created for students on the topics of Force & Motion
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Amplify 8th Grade Digital Choice Boards Bundle
STEM Activities The Great Stone Age STEM Challenge 5 Themed Projects
This is a set of 5 different STEM challenges centered around the story of a clan of prehistoric humans living during the stone age. After hearing the opening storyline, students will read 5 diary entries, each written from the perspective of a different clan member. Each one will challenge them to design something that will help the clan survive on their journey to find a new cave.STEM challenges included in this pack:The Medicine Woman: Design a Digging ToolThe Gatherer: Weave a BasketThe Hunte
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Force & Motion STEM Activity BUNDLE 15 Projects + STEM Rubric Space Rome
Arctic Dogsled Racing Design Challenge - STEAM for Upper Elementary
Here’s an applied engineering challenge in which—just like in the real world of engineering—a poor design means limited success or even failure.
In the Iditarod Sled Challenge, students apply their background knowledge of physical science and use logic and imagination to construct a miniature sled that will deliver “serum” to Nome, Alaska, just like Balto once did.
Use this challenge in conjunction with your study of the arctic or the Iditarod--or as a stand-alone engineering challenge for the
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Types:
Also included in: Gifted and Talented SURVIVAL KIT Bundle -- 235 pages, big discount!
Inertia And Gravity Experiment | The Laws Of Motion | Grade 4 5 Print or Digital
Investigate inertia and gravity in this hands-on experiment for 4th and 5th grade. Aligned with *Next Generation Science Standards. Teachers will love its' ease of use, simple materials, and meeting the science and engineering practices. Students will love uncovering the magic of the laws of motion. The science journal will help students learn to use their evidence to write conclusions.Digital and Distance Learning Approved. This is a great way to get students to use the scientific method at ho
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 6th
Types:
NGSS:
5-PS2-1
, 4-PS3-2
States of Matter & How they Change PowerPoint
States of Matter, Phases of Matter, solids, liquids, gases, arrangement of particles, freezing, melting, evaporation, boiling, condensation, sublimation, fixed volume, fixed shape, expanding, and compression.
This is a 81 slide presentation on the Three States of Matter and How they Change. It is a fun, spy-themed presentation that will entertain your students while they learn. I've had a "prequel" product posted on Atoms and Molecules with the same theme and the feedback has been excellent.
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 11th
Amplify Light Waves Digital Choice Board
Looking for an online activity? Want a great review of the Light Waves unit for students? This resource is perfect for e-Learning. I used these with my students in the spring and they loved it!This is a Google Slides resource that can easily be uploaded to Google Classroom or Canvas so the students can work at their own pace. This is also EDITABLE! Don't like one of the activities? Switch it out with one of your own!Digital Choice Board created for students on the topics of Light Waves including
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-PS4-1
, MS-PS4-2
, MS-PS4-3
Also included in: Amplify 8th Grade Digital Choice Boards Bundle
Opaque, Translucent, Transparent Drag & Drop on GOOGLE SLIDES - Digital
This resource is a one-slide digital Google Slides activity in which students can drag and drop each item into the corresponding box (opaque, translucent, or transparent). DO NOT USE IN PRESENTATION MODE. Your students may open the document as if to edit to freely move the pictures around (don't worry, the directions and boxes will stay in the right place!). This activity is great for practice or a quick assessment . I used a similar activity on a smart board with my first graders, and they LOVE
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Grades:
1st - 8th
NGSS:
1-PS4-3
, MS-PS4-2
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