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Middle school physics activboard activities for GATE
Fidget Spinner STEM Challenge Activities and Science Experiment
The ORIGINAL Fidget Spinner Stem Challenge & Science Lab! Discover the science of fidget spinners with this engaging and low-prep STEM activity. Practice scientific method with an exploration of variables, data collection, graphing, mean/average, and more...all while having fun!This self-paced, fidget spinner activity is print-and-go. Each activity sheet guides students through the project. STEM Challenge Overview:Students will use the included visual directions, graphic organizers, chart
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3rd - 6th
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Calculating Acceleration Logic Puzzle + Graphing
Boost Your Student's Understanding of Acceleration with This Logic Puzzle and Graphing Activity!Interactive and Fun Way to Learn Acceleration Concepts: Engage your students in physics with this intriguing logic puzzle themed around cars merging onto the highway. This resource is a fun activity and a practical tool for applying and understanding acceleration calculations.What’s Included in the Puzzle:Ready-to-Use Easel Activity: Pre-created answer boxes mean no preparation is needed. Just assign
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8th - 10th
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Paper Airplane STEM Activity Project Template Challenge Low Prep Sub Plans
This is the PAPER AIRPLANE STEM ACTIVITY you are looking for! The paper airplane STEM challenge is a fun, hands-on, and EASY to implement force and motion exploration that uses paper. This is the challenge for you. ✅This activity can be used with ANY grade (students will need to be able to fold and crease paper). It's an excellent fine motor skills activity and always produces surprising results. If you are learning about force and motion or measurement, this challenge is perfect for you!✅ What
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2nd - 8th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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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
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6th - 8th
Low Prep STEM Activities and Challenges 10 Engineering Design Process Projects
Low prep STEM activities that are highly engaging and follow the engineering design process! I've made it my mission to produce easy-to-implement and accessible challenges that have meaningful connections to STEM concepts as well as tie in with real world STEM careers.This bundle contains ⭐ 10 STEM challenges ⭐ you can do with readily available materials (low-cost and easy to prep). These are wonderful for team-building and can be used with a wide grade range. These can be used in the classroom,
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2nd - 8th
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
...
Gifted and Talented Unit - Time Travel Research and Design Project
★ ★ Gifted and Talented - Time Travel Research and Design Project★ ★The purpose of this unit is for students to investigate the philosophies of time and time travel. The students will apply this information to designing their own time travel vehicle and method.About This Unit:★Check it out!: This unit is included in the Gifted and Talented Upper Elementary Units Bundle at a discounted price!This middle-grades unit provides support for student to research philosophies of time and time travel an
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6th - 8th
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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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3rd - 6th
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Roller Coaster Force and Motion PBL | Project Based Learning Science Enrichment
Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach about different force and motion or Newton's Laws of Motion? This project allows students to learn about friction, interia, gravity, speed, momentum, and much more by designing their own roller coaster!What is project based learning?Project Based Learning (PBL) is a hands-on way for students to learn as they design, build, and/or research a solution to reach the project's goal or a solution.The project is broken into parts so students can easily stay o
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-PS2-4
, 3-PS2-2
, MS-PS2-3
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Also included in: Science PBL | Project and Problem Based Learning Bundle
STEM Activities - 10 Low Prep STEM Challenges Careers Engineering Design Process
STEM activities and challenges your students will ❤️ love ❤️! This resource has 10 easy to implement STEM challenges that follow the engineering design process, and you can do with very little prep (not quite no prep but that's pretty much impossible with STEM)! Not only can these be used with a wide grade range, these were created to get students working in small teams, collaborating, and explore various STEM careers. I like to call these "10 STEM Challenges You Can Do TODAY!"✅ STEM Career Conn
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2nd - 12th
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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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
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Amplify 8th Grade Digital Choice Boards Bundle
Fortnite STEM Parachute Challenge and Activity
This STEM activity is a great group activity for your students and fans of Fortnite. The challenge in this activity is to design a more efficient parachute to jump out of the Battle Bus. The students need to work together to complete the challenge and experiment. This Fortnite activity is perfect for a back to school activity or all year around. You do not need to know what Fortnite is (your students will) to do this challenge, but this will earn you your kids respect and you will be that "cool
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3rd - 8th
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Sphero Basics: Movement Card Set
This card set describes the basic movement commands to program the sphero. This card set is designed for use with the SpheroEDU app.Great as a reference when doing any coding challenges with the sphero! Includes cards for the students and full pages for projection.
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2nd - 12th
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Also included in: Sphero Card Set Bundle 1
Halloween STEM Activities with Candy Corn Catapult and Tower
What's better than a low-prep candy corn STEM challenge? How about 2 of them! In these activities, students will need to use teamwork and perseverance. They will create a tower using just candy corn and one other material. They will also iteratively redesign a simple catapult to maximize the trajectory distance of the candy corn!✅ What You'll Get ✅Teacher instructions and lesson planEditable recording pagesDifferentiated recording page options that guide students through the engineering design p
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1st - 6th
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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
...
Also included in: Candy Corn Science and Fall STEM Activities
Newton’s First Law of Motion Activities
Newton's Laws of Motion are perfect for giving students' a hands-on learning experience! I like to break up the three Laws into multiple lessons and do small activities after teaching about each one. Included in this purchase in a student PDF worksheet that walks them through five short activities all focused on Newton's First Law. Students will do activities related to inertia and what happens to objects at rest when a force is applied. The students stay engaged and the activities are perfect f
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6th - 10th
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STEM Challenge - Desktop Putt-putt Golf Elementary GATE and Middle School
Two fun, hands-on lessons here which teach physical science concepts such as momentum, friction, elastic and inelastic collisions, and Newton’s Laws of Motion! National core standards including physical science and expository writing? 21st Century Learning Skills? Critical Thinking? They’re all here too!
These two lessons will take two or more hours of instruction time and are appropriate for 4th grade GATE classes through regular 8th grade science.
These lessons are the quick and easy versi
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: KID CREATED GAMES Standards-based STEM and Math Games Bundle
Lunar Landers: An NGSS-Aligned Engineering Challenge
Help students explore gravitational forces through this hands-on engineering challenge. Students can complete this project individually, in pairs, or in teams. We have done this project with materials in class and also as an at-home project. Both work great!The mission is to create a lunar lander that will protect the cargo onboard (an egg) and keep it crack-free. Students will put their lander through numerous trials (recording sheets included) as well as spend time reflecting and addressin
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3rd - 6th
Heat Energy Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions - PDF
This reading comprehension passage is about Heat Energy. Through this passage students will learn about questions like: How does the Heat Energy forms? What are the uses of Heat Energy? What is Heat or Thermal Energy? What are the three ways of transferring heat energy? What is conduction, convection and radiation?In our classroom, we have found that reading comprehension passages are great at engaging students. They also fit very well as introductory activities and homework. Early finishers als
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4th - 8th
Also included in: Energy Bundle Reading Comprehension - Printable Worksheets
Series and Parallel Circuits Simulation - Bundled
Series and parallel circuits the easy way, and bundled to boot!
We want our students to build circuits to understand Ohm's law, potential difference, current, and resistance, but most of the lab time is spent fighting with the equipment. Loose wires, worn out batteries, dead light bulbs and miss-wired ammeters mean that students don't really get the point of what they are doing. Phet simulations allow students to build series, parallel, and complex circuits and focus on the concepts and the m
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7th - 12th
Physical Science Logic Puzzles 2nd Law of Motion, Momentum, Power & Work
Spark Curiosity and Critical Thinking with This Comprehensive Physics Puzzle Collection!Engage and Challenge Your Science Students: This bundle combines four of my top physics logic puzzles: Newton's 2nd Law of Motion, Momentum, Work, and Power, offering a unique and stimulating way to deepen students' understanding of fundamental physics concepts. Plus, the 2nd Law of Motion puzzle includes an additional 2-page worksheet featuring word problems and exercises on manipulating the F=ma formula and
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Grades:
7th - 9th
S.T.E.M. LAB PHYSICS . . . BUILD BOTTLE ROCKETS 16-PAGES ***** 5-STAR
*****5-STAR Premium Lesson SALE $19.99 Limited Time Offer . . . UP . . . UP . . . and AWAY!!! . . . S.T.E.M. PHYSICS TEACHERS! 16-pages of ACTION PACKED design challenges for your PHYSICS, PHYSICAL, TECHNOLOGY, and GENERAL SCIENCE students. Includes the steps of the METHOD OF TECHNOLOGY. Implement this HOTTEST NEW science lesson/activity into you for 5+ DAYS of ACTION ...FUN ... EXCITEMENT ... and LEARNING. INCLUDES many TEMPLATE designs and best materials (eg. styrofoam foam core board) to c
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Grades:
5th - 12th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, HS-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
...
3D Smart Phone Holographic Viewer - Physics of Light and Reflection
This lab is super inexpensive and so much fun! Students construct a four sided plastic prism from transparency film to view hologram videos found on Youtube. This quick and easy activity is related to light and reflection and is a great follow up to the physics of mirrors. It’s also a great filler for one of those odd days where one glass is longer than the others or if you need to wow your supervisor.You can make four viewers per sheet of transparency. I simply gave a call out for them at m
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4th - 12th
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Marble Run Lab Sheet
This data sheet walks students through the design process of making a slow marble run.I included areas where they need to measure and average times.
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3rd - 6th
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CSCOPE 6th Grade Science Review Game, Unit 6, Types of Energy
This is an awesome rendition of the popular game Jeopardy! It takes the CSCOPE 6th Grade Unit 6 test and reviews for that test in a fun, animated, and interactive way. It has three categories with 5 questions each, a hidden Daily Double question, and a Final Jeopardy question. All of these questions can be edited to meet with your needs! I don't reserve any rights over the content of the questions-- all information was taken off of the CSCOPE test.
There are animations, working timers, even
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Grades:
5th - 7th
Printable Science Themed Puns Valentine's Day Cards
Are you a science-lover who loves puns? These science-themed printable Valentine's Day set is for you! This file contains 20 unique science inspired Valentine's designs for the teacher who likes minimalist design, or would like to use these as DIY-coloring cards for students. What's Inside: 20 different Valentine's Day cards featuring tardigrades, element blocks, and anatomical body parts, already pre-formatted to fit four-to-a-page to conserve paper. Organized into Biology, Chemistry, Geology,
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Grades:
4th - 12th
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