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Teach students about capillary action and its role in the water cycle through notes, a hands-on experiment, and a slideshow presentation.
Includes: Capillary Action notes.docx (fill-in-the-blank notes sheet)
Reinforce elementary/upper-elementary science concepts in work and machines (simple machines, levers, inclined planes, pulleys, wheel and axle, wedge, screw, force, friction, gravity, inertia) (grades 4-6) through reproducible worksheets, hands-on activities, and teacher background material.
Includes: fill-in-the-blank and short-answer worksheet pages (one topic per page, Name/Date header) · diagrams/illustrations to label or complete · hands-on activities/experiments with material lists
A multi-file distance-learning/homeschool chemistry pack teaching mixtures, solutions, dissolving, suspensions, and saturated solutions via an animated PowerPoint, worksheets, and a photocopiable lesson.
Includes: animated PowerPoint (Teach Simple.ppsx, 65 pages/slides) with built-in quiz and answers · 7 worksheets (Worksheet 1-3, Crossword Homework 1, Homework 2 Word Search, Homework 3)
A published earth-science unit book teaching the causes, characteristics, and effects of hurricanes and tornadoes through informational readings, diagrams, hands-on experiments, and vocabulary/research activities.
Includes: Introduction: Changing Weather reading + Air Pressure hands-on activity · How to Make a Barometer hands-on activity · From Thunderstorm to Hurricane reading
An introductory photosynthesis lesson for elementary science, teaching how plants make food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide, paired with a hands-on seed-germination experiment comparing plant growth in light vs. dark.
Includes: Photosynthesis informational reading passage · Comprehension questions with answer key · Home/school seed-germination experiment instructions (materials, steps, safety precautions)
A published 10-chapter teacher resource book introducing young students to weather types and meteorology through scientific explanations, hands-on experiments, and cross-curricular activities.
Includes: Chapter 1: What Is Weather? (weather watch symbols/badge, weather watch center, weather reporting) · Chapter 2: The Four Seasons · Chapter 3: Watching and Measuring the Weather (folklore/myths/predictors, weather instruments, weather mapping)
Teaches how light reflects off plane mirrors (transparent/translucent/opaque materials, luminous/non-luminous objects, angle of incidence equals angle of reflection, periscopes) as a self-directed distance-learning physics pack.
Includes: Animated PowerPoint (Reflection Teach Simple.ppsx, 62 pages) · Digital quick test (Food Quick Test.docx) · Photocopiable lesson (35 pages)
A comprehensive hands-on science unit (Teaching & Learning Company/Lorenz, 2008, by Patricia O'Brien) teaching plate tectonics, earthquake causes and measurement, and tsunamis through readings, diagrams, and hands-on activities/experiments.
Includes: 'Continents on the Move' + 'Pangaea: A Map Puzzle' · 'Plate Boundaries and Earthquakes' + 'How Is an Egg Like Our Earth?' hands-on activity · 'Types of Faults' + 'PB&J Solves Underground Mystery'
A 24-page photocopiable hands-on science activity book (Ready-Ed Publications, RED4034) covering the 'Earth and Beyond' topic for 10-12 year olds, with 8 lessons each pairing teacher notes with a student activity sheet.
Includes: Teachers' Notes and Presentation Ideas (pages 4-5) · Lesson 1: Soils (teacher notes + student activity, pages 8-9) · Lesson 2: Soil Erosion (pages 10-11)
A physical science unit teaching matter, atoms, molecules, states of matter, and physical vs. chemical changes through overhead teacher notes, worksheets, puzzles, and hands-on activities.
Includes: Unit overview and list of student assignments/activities · Overhead/student notes for each lesson · Wordsearch ("Matter Matters")
A grades 5-7 scientific-method mini-unit that teaches variable types and experimental design through building and testing paper helicopters.
Includes: teacher how-to-use instructions · types of variables worksheet · designing experiments worksheet (basketball, studying, soap box derby scenarios)
Provide a comprehensive hands-on unit teaching the science of volcanoes - their types, eruption mechanics, and hazards - for grades 4-8, going beyond a basic baking-soda-and-vinegar model.
Includes: 'Kinds of Volcanoes' content page (Strato, Shield, Cone volcano types) · 'Make a Paper Volcano' cut-and-glue 3-D model template
Complete overhead-note-based worksheets and activities (electricity word search, an atom quiz, a lightning worksheet, a toilet-tube flashlight experiment, an insulator/conductor test-circuit experiment, a Thomas Edison reading activity, review questions and a crossword), then take part in a role-play debate as concerned…
Includes: Part I: overhead-note lessons (Introductory Lesson, The Amazing Atom, Static Electricity, Current Electricity/Circuits, Insulators and Conductors…
A 9-day cross-curricular (science-based) crime-scene-investigation unit in which students act as detectives to solve a staged classroom 'crime' using forensic-style experiments.
Includes: Teacher Tasks Overview and 9-day unit plan outline · crime-scene setup instructions and materials list (cola can, ice cube tray, baking soda, scarecrow victim, ransom note, plastic cup for prints)
Teach scientific-method thinking through 10 hands-on science experiments using common household materials.
Includes: list of 10 named science experiments/investigations · per-activity materials list
Provide hands-on science experiments and activities across physical, earth, and life science topics for grades 3-4, supplementing the (U.S.) National Science Education Standards.
Provide a collection of hands-on science experiments/demonstrations (chemical reactions, physical science, sensory play) for elementary students to try with adult-supplied household materials.
A fill-in-the-blank lesson worksheet that teaches independent, dependent, and controlled variables in experimental design using a humorous flawed-experiment example (watering tomato plants with Coca-Cola vs. water) and guided practice scenarios.
Includes: cover/description page · fill-in-the-blank notes page based on a flawed tomato-plant experiment example · three guided practice scenario tables (shooting basketballs, studying for a test, building a soap box derby car)
A large collection (101 numbered activities) of hands-on science activities exploring everyday phenomena (breathing, weather, gravity, the human body, recycling) for early-to-upper-elementary students.
One-page graphic organizer worksheet for students to record the steps of the scientific method for an investigation.
Includes: 1-page fillable scientific method template (observation, question, hypothesis, research/experiment, result, conclusion)
A set of 23 hands-on science labs that teach the scientific method (observation, hypothesis, communication, decision-making) through varied classroom activities and mini-experiments.
Includes: philosophy/teacher intro section · answer key section
A generic, reusable graphic-organizer template guiding students through the steps of writing up any science experiment (question, hypothesis, materials, procedure, data, conclusion).
Teach physical science concepts (matter, properties of matter, elasticity, motion, and Newton's First Law) through hands-on experiments, framed around Newton's laws.
Includes: author bio and series list (Edward Shevick's other Science Action Labs titles) · lab sections with data tables and background information
Provide 28 independent hands-on STEM/science experiment activities with supply lists and instructions for classroom, camp, or independent/group use.
Includes: 28 titled STEM activities, each with a supply list and instructions · comprehensive material list summary at end of packet