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Science projects for staff
Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Back to School Icebreaker STEM Bundle! Need back to school icebreakers or games that get students moving, communicating, working in teams, and building relationships? Here are 50+ of our favorite basic activities that are low-cost and low-prep for any classroom or subject!Working as a team, they will learn lessons in communication, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity that are central to the engineering process. Use as a warm-up, icebreaker, team building activity, or basic STEM and en
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Science Fair Bundle | Printable, Digital & Editable
SAVE 20% by purchasing the Science Fair Bundle! This product includes EVERYTHING you and your students need for the Science Fair!This bundle includes:• A Student's Guide to Research ProjectsA student preparation guide to primary and secondary research projects, which includes guidelines, timelines, worksheets and helpful tips• A Teacher's Guide to a Science FairA teacher preparation guide, which includes worksheets, timelines and best practices to conduct a Science Fair• Science Fair AssistantA
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3rd - 10th, Staff
Scienstructable 3D Dissection Models Bundle - Vertebrate & Invertebrate Animals
Want to explore without the mess? Our student-friendly, budget-friendly eco-friendly 3-D Scienstructable dissection models can be used as a dissection-free exploration, a pre-dissection tool, or as a summative assessment for comparative anatomy. Explore one of our 15 invertebrate or vertebrate animal specimen today!FIFTEEN VERTEBRATE & INVERTEBRATE ANIMAL SPECIMEN INCLUDED in this BUNDLE: CLAM • SPONGE • CRAYFISH • STARFISH • EARTHWORM • SQUID • GRASSHOPPER SHARK • FROG • FETAL PIG • SNAKE •
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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MS-LS1-2
, MS-LS4-3
, MS-LS4-1
, MS-LS1-3
, MS-LS4-2
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Mr. Hino's Robotics Curriculum
Welcome to the world of teaching Robotics!! It was the best thing that happened to my teaching career! I have been teaching middle school and elementary school Robotics for six years. This curriculum is a collection of everything I have tried, failed, modified, and improved on for those six years. This curriculum will provides:Projects, fun competitions, board challenges, expansion projects, and other ideas for your Robotics class. Google doc links to contracts and other helpful learning docume
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K - 12th, Staff
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Sphero Mini Golf: Design, Build, and Code Your Own Course!
**Updated 05/03/23 with larger card size variation as well as full-sized slides for projection.This card set guides students through the process of creating a mini golf hole, with specific criteria and constraints to follow. Students will then use the Sphero Edu app to program their robot ball to navigate the course they've created. Along the way, they'll learn valuable coding and problem-solving skills.To complete this challenge, students will need butcher paper, construction paper or markers,
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3rd - 12th, Staff
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Also included in: Sphero Bundle 2
Intro to STEM Bundle: Icebreaker & Teamwork Activities
Want to introduce STEM to your classroom? Here are 45 of our favorite basic (Stage 1) STEM challenges that are low-cost and low-prep for any classroom! Activities are perfect as back to school icebreakers or games that introduce STEM while getting students moving, communicating, and working in teams! BACKGROUNDBefore tasking students to complete rigorous engineering design challenges, educators should start with Stage 1 STEM activities. Click here to learn more about the Stages of STEM. Through
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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At-Home STEM Activity Calendar: 6 Weeks of Daily Activities (Plus Spanish!)
Use this editable STEM activity calendar for 6 weeks of daily activities for at-home distance learning! Now includes a Spanish version of the activity chart! A PreK-12 daily enrichment STEM activity calendar with science, engineering, and math challenges! Activities are straightforward and accessible to students of all levels with little or no supplies needed. Get them up, outside, and exploring the world! Students will build a bird feeder, code an app, make a bee hotel, cook with fractions, and
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PreK - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, HS-ETS1-2
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Also included in: Year-Round STEM Activity Calendar Bundle
Instagram Template
This is a blank Instagram template great for students summarizing the main idea and having key points about any topic using hashtags!
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Have your students teach the class!! (Class teaching assignment)
Here is a rubric and instructions for an activity I do in my classes each year. This can work in ANY CLASS for ANY SUBJECT matter!!!
I always find myself teaching a section that is review for my students or is really easy for them and we speed right through it. So I decided to create this rubric as a project to make my students be the teachers!
They can have 2-3 days to learn the content, come up with a lesson plan and make a handout for the class. I ask them to use a half sheet and I make
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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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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Psychology Perception Scavenger Hunt
This is an assignment used to help students review monocular depth cues and Gestalt principles during the Sensation and Perception unit in Psychology or AP Psychology. It would work best being given after covering these topics in class.Students are asked to roam the halls and rooms of the high school to take pictures of various monocular depth cues (relative size, interposition, linear perspective, relative height, relative clarity, light and shadow) and Gestalt grouping principles (proximity,
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Brain-based Classroom - The Stroop Test
This activity kit contains a TON of information regarding the learning process as it relates to the human brain. I’ve studied the learning brain for over 20 years and I’m so excited to share this information with you! I can tell you, without a doubt, that it will positively impact your classroom and your teaching for forever more!
If you're interested in learning about brain-based classrooms, this is a great way to start! It demonstrates the power and complexity of the human mind in fun and in
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1st - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
Medicinal Mushrooms - Detoxification, Healing Diseases & Boosting Immunity
Medicinal Mushrooms - Detoxification, Healing Diseases & Boosting Immunity Employing mushrooms to achieve optimal wellness is the next frontier within modern medicine. Mushrooms have been traditionally used for the maintenance of physical well-being and the treatment of numerous diseases since ancient times throughout Asia. Today, mushrooms are among the most commonly used of all integrative, complementary, and alternative therapies, especially in the field of oncology. In Asian countries, m
DNA Replication & Messenger RNA: A Collaborative Model Building Activity
Build a Collaborative DNA Model: Engaging Activity for Active Learning!Bring the fascinating world of DNA to life with this hands-on model building activity!This engaging lesson plan provides:Interactive experience: Students actively construct their own 6-base pair DNA segments, applying theoretical knowledge to a practical task.Collaborative learning: Students work together to assemble their individual segments into a large-scale classroom DNA model, fostering communication and teamwork.Multipl
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Invasive Species Lesson - Google Slides and Distance Learning Ready
Invasive Species. This package includes the lesson (student and teacher versions), an inquiry project with marking rubric, multiple mini case studies, a student lesson handout, and a 4-question Exit Ticket. This resource is fun and applicable with FOUR videos embedded in the presentation.➡️ Click here to have a look at the FULL LESSON VIDEOGoogle Classroom and Exit TicketThis resource is perfect for in-class or distance learning and integrates seamlessly with Google Classroom. Included is a link
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6th - 9th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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MS-LS1-7
, MS-LS2-2
, MS-LS2-3
, MS-LS2-5
, MS-LS2-4
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Zombie Menu Brain Project
This is a ZIP file that contains an editable Microsoft Word document (as well as a PDF version) of an assignment used to help students review brain parts during the Biological Bases of Behavior unit in Psychology or AP Psychology. It would work best being given after covering the brain structures and their functions in class.Students are asked to create a menu at a zombie restaurant by creating twenty dishes that incorporate titles and descriptions that refer to various brain structures and the
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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The 1918 Spanish Influenza Epidemic: Article, Worksheets, and Project Prompts
This article describes the source of the 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic, how it was transferred, what it meant to the soldiers in World War I, and how scientists handled the search for a vaccine. There are pictures representing specific aspects of the epidemic that help students visualize what it was like during the year long fight against the disease.
If you are teaching infectious diseases and are looking for ways to incorporate the Common Core standards in Science or Health class, this will
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Cancer Causes, Prevention & Cures - Microbia, Blood and Organ Invasion
Cancer Causes, Prevention & Cures - Microbia, Blood and Organ InvasionDecades of cancer "treatments" have failed miserably and caused patients to die prematurely unnecessarily. Future research must reframe our understanding of cancer and see it not only as a disease, but also an ecosystem. We have been told from childhood that we are what we eat. However, it seems few have listened and taken the necessary lifestyle and dietary precautions to prevent disease and premature death. This cutting
Science Fair Project Guide | Experiment Journal And Worksheets | Grade K 1
This step by step guide introduces kindergarteners, first graders, and parents to the science fair. Included are workbook pages, background information, tips, blank science journal, and poster board layout. It supports parents and teachers as they work as a team with the child to create an original age-appropriate experiment. Teachers can use it for creating whole-class projects. We will help make the science fair a fun and rewarding experience.Ways to use the workbookGreat for science fairs
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K - 1st, Staff
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K-2-ETS1-3
Science: Light and Sound Bundle: Escape Room, Lesson Plans, STEM Challenge
We have put together our popular Light and Sound products into one bundle to make planning, teaching, resourcing and learning much easier within this Science topic. They are all you need to effectively teach these two Science topics.This bundle includes five products to support your teaching:Light - 8 detailed Lesson PlansSound - 5 detailed Lesson Plans"Tripping the Light Fantastic" STEM Challenge - 13 hands on activities to investigate light"Crash! Boom! Bang!" STEM Challenge - 9 hands on activ
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2nd - 6th, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
4-PS4-2
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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MS-ESS1-1
Raised Urban Garden Plans - How to Build a Garden for your School or Home
In my free time I love to garden. I had struggled for years fighting weeds, ants and critters. I designed a raised garden bed that is easy to build and makes gardening easy and fun!
No bending over, pulling weeds, or worrying about critters getting to your veggies. These plans are perfect for a home or apartment but also are perfect for a school! My son used them for his eagle scout project and built a garden for the local high school special needs department. They loved it!
Plans come in a
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Nuclear Energy STEM Project: The Pros and Cons! ENTIRE Project, Key and Rubric!
Get students engaged with this inquiry based and student led Nuclear Energy STEM Project! Students will learn about the pros and cons of Nuclear Energy, all while engaging with interactive links, videos, and educational resources. This project is broken up into easy to follow parts, which allows you to pace the lesson based on your students' specific needs. This resource can be used in addition to any nuclear energy lesson as an extension activity, or as a stand alone unit on nuclear energy. Stu
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
HS-ESS3-2
, HS-ESS3-1
, HS-ESS3-4
Medicinal Mushrooms for Detoxification, Healing Diseases & Boosting Immunity
Medicinal Mushrooms - Detoxification, Healing Diseases & Boosting Immunity Many drugs derived from fungi – including the antibiotics penicillin, cephalosporins, and cholesterol-lowering lovastatin – are already in use. Advances in genome sequencing and techniques for mining genetic information have resulted in a huge range of fungi compounds being able to be isolated, purified, produced and used in specific doses to treat human disease. Employing mushrooms to achieve optimal wellness is the
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Importance of learning science
Learning science is particularly important for students as it equips them with the essential knowledge and skills to make sense of the world around them. Science education is not just about memorizing facts. It fosters critical thinking, inquiry, and problem-solving abilities. These skills are not only useful in school but also in everyday life beyond the classroom.
Benefits of learning science
Learning science offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. In fact, it helps students:
- Question the world around them and seek evidence-based explanations
- Cultivate their ability to observe, experiment, and analyze data
- Nurture a sense of curiosity, awe, and wonder about the natural world
- Understand natural phenomena and the laws that govern the universe
With a solid foundation in science, teachers can help empower students to think critically, solve problems, make informed decisions, and engage with the world around them in meaningful ways.
Teaching with science resources
One of the best parts about science class is all of the possibilities for hands-on, collaborative learning! Think: labs, experiments, inquiry-based activities, and design challenges. These activities encourage students to explore scientific concepts by observing, asking questions, and conducting investigations. Additionally, with small group centers, students can engage in group experiments, discussions, and projects that require them to collaborate, share ideas, and solve problems together.
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If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable or digital science resources, TPT has an extensive array of instructional materials for every learning need, topic, or grade level. Whether you're learning about plant parts or butterfly life cycles, or exploring advanced topics like the anatomy of a cell or Newton’s laws of motion, we've got you covered.
On TPT, science resources come in various forms: from labs and worksheets to craftivities and doodle notes. They can be used to enhance learning, assess a student’s mastery of science concepts, or to reteach a tricky topic. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, teaching and learning science will be so much easier. Plus, you can expand students’ knowledge even further by exploring TPT math resources, which are frequently paired with science lessons.
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How can I make my science lessons fun and engaging?
Students learn best when they're engaged! Sprinkle a little fun into your science lessons and make them feel like real scientists by investigating everyday objects, exploring the world outside the classroom, and doing hands-on and collaborative experiments and design challenges.
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