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5th grade basic operations laboratories
Which bubble gum has more sugar? Density Experiment Scientific Method
The purpose of this experiment is to determine which bubble gum brand has the most sugar/flavorings. You will find the density of each gum before chewing and again after chewing to determine and compare which bubble gum lost the most density (lost most of its sugar/flavorings).
Students practice metrics measurement finding mass, volume and density AND get to chew gum!
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Measuring and Calculating DENSITY Introduction Lesson and Experiment
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4th - 8th
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50 Math Labs - Fractions Operations Number Sense Graphing Data Math Skills
PREVIEW AVAILABLE!LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? CHECK OUT OTHER STEM RESOURCES IN MY SHOP!FROM THE CREATOR OF 50 STEM LABS & 50 MORE STEM LABS comes this collection of 50 Math Activities for kids. Recommended for grades K to 6 and up! Each one has a snappy title, a brief set of instructions, recommended materials list, and space for notes. These are very adjustable for your classroom, home, or homeschool needs. Do projects for concepts like: Operations, Math Skills, Geometry, Shapes, Fractions, Percen
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K - 8th
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Halloween Science: Candy Corn Experiment!
Have your student explore which temperature of water will dissolve the candy corns first! They will be following the steps of the scientific method by predicting, observing, recording,drawing and concluding. This is a great activity to put in a center or even do as a demo or a whole class! Super EASY!
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2nd - 6th
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DTI: Journey to Utopia "Space Exploration" Student Handbook- Full Version
Begin your journey to the planet of Utopia in the first installment of this STEM-based curriculum. Build your space shuttle to propel through the galaxy into unchartered territory. Explorers must conceptualize their journey to Utopia and execute interplanetary travel to build a base camp on this new planet. The clock is ticking to obtain the necessary resources the earth so desperately needs.
Over 20 hours of instruction, engaging labs, content links and activities.
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PreK - 6th
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Measuring Weight in the Measurement Lab
The Measurement Lab is designed to clean up misconceptions in the area of weight. The lessons in Measurement Lab are created for students 1st-5th grade. Students have a difficult time remembering how to accurately measure when they don’t understand the basic concepts of measurement. Often times teachers will skip the most important conceptual lessons because they are focused on teaching the CCSS. Without checking to see if the students understand the most basic concepts, the students who str
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1st - 5th
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GROWING Density Bundle
ALL of these products can be bought separately in my store, however the bundle gives you everything at a cheaper cost and ALL future updates! Check out the DENSITY tab on my store site!1. Density Foldable Notes In this product you will find foldable notes that teach students what density, mass and volume are. They teach the students the definition, the formulas, units, and a sample problem in each to help them when learning the concepts. You get the power point, and the foldable notes that can s
Grades:
4th - 12th
Powers & Exponents Discovery Lab & Notes
Included in this are very detailed instructions on introducing the concept of exponents to students. They will complete a discovery lab guided by you and transition to completing a quick note sheet.works for both interactive notebooks and regular binderscontains detailed instructions on conducting the lab successfully with your students including prompts and suggestions for you to use to help them through the lab.contains a half sheet for the lab portion and half sheet for the notes portion - le
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5th - 8th
Candy Hearts Valentine's Day Math Lab - Grades 3 - 5
This is a super-sweet math lab to do with your students for Valentine's Day! All you need is candy hearts to complete this lab. Because I know there are a lot of different brands of candy hearts out there, I made this as generic as possible to best fit whatever you can find on sale.
The lab includes 2 parts: In the first part, students analyze their own candy hearts, estimating, finding an actual count, filling out a data table, and finding the probability. Students then have to eat some o
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3rd - 5th
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Graphing Lab with Candy!
This activity is a perfect way to check for understanding as you teach graphing to your students! Students compose a frequency table, bar graph, stem and leaf plot, line plot, and find the measures of central tendency while using candy. They also analyze the data once they have calculated it. Can be used as a review activity, formative assessment or just for a fun day in math class!
If you like this activity, check out my Edible Fraction Lab!
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5th - 6th
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5th Grade Go Math Chapter 6 Document Camera Lessons
DISCLAIMER: Please, read the description thoroughly. Some lessons may not follow Go Math curriculum 100% of the time. Also, some math problems may have been skipped due to their unnecessary difficulty, or repetitiveness. Finally, the names of characters in math problems may have been changed to make the problem more appealing to students. In addition, the lessons are completely editable. Feel free to change any or all parts of it. For example, I use bitmojis throughout and I used mine. Therefor
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5th
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How far could you jump on other planets?
This is a short and fun lab for kids to determine how far they would be able to jump on other planets due to gravity. It includes a hypothesis as well as conclusion questions for kids to complete. If you wanted to stretch it out a bit, you could have kids do 3 trials and find their average before calculating their new jump distance. You could also find class average or have kids graph their data. Hope you enjoy!
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5th - 7th
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EUREKA You Found It The Care and Feeding of Cooperative Group Discovery Labs
EUREKA You Found It! The behind-the-sciences, how to do it, care and feeding of student-centered discovery labs. Learn how to set up, maintain and manage cooperative group hands-on labs in the elementary classroom from a teacher that used the system for 10 years in both self-contained and block classrooms.
Grades:
3rd - 5th
There is No Such Thing as Subtraction
Intended Audience: All grades can use this activity in one form or another! It is a way to scaffold mathematical thinking using manipulatives. It can be used as an introduction to subtraction in the lower grades or an intervention for struggling learners in the later grades. The attached document can be used as a reading exercise for advanced student or its content can be used to help the teacher of the lower grades understand the concept better.Concepts Presented: The document presents th
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1st - 6th
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STEM Money Tower Challenge
This is a STEM activity that combines Engineering with Math. In teams, students have to build a tower or money bills. The tower must not exceed a certain dollar amount, but it needs to be the tallest. They then use coins for weight, which again cannot exceed a certain dollar amount. There is a points outline attached which explains how teams receives their score. This is a fun and engaging activity that 4th or 5th graders are sure to love.
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4th - 5th
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Adding / Subtracting Decimals - Max 3 Decimal Places
70 questions with solutions adding and subtracting both positive and negative decimal numbers, each with between 0 and 3 decimal places.
If anything with this sheet is not exactly as you would like, just let me know, and I'll do what I can to meet your need. Enjoy!
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3rd - 10th
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Field Trip to a Grocery Store and Bank
If you study family finances and healthy foods with your class, have you ever considered taking a field trip to a local grocery store and bank? Both need to be prearranged with the bank and grocery store.The bank is usually happy to plan an hour or two with your students. My bank breaks the kids up into groups and different department personnel discuss that aspect of the bank’s service. Very interesting! For the grocery store visit, you usually only need to tell the manager that you will be c
Grades:
4th - 6th
Franken Worms Stem Activity
This stem activity is great for the fall months! It's also great for a rainy day or even during the winter months. There aren't a lot of materials with this activity so it's pretty easy to implement in the classroom and materials, if bought in bulk, can be used multiple times. You can adapt and modify it depending on what age group you are working with. This activity is intended more towards older students but with a lot of supervision could be done with younger ones.
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3rd - 6th
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Finding Mean in a Concrete Manner Using Graduated Cylinders
Finding MEAN in a concrete manner! This was a real "aha" moment for my students in actually understanding the concept of mean. Students are asked to fill graduated cylinders (or beakers) with water to the following amounts (in mL): 70, 30, 90, 20, 50. Then they fill in the corresponding amount with colored pencil on the worksheet. Students are asked to distribute the water in the cylinders so that each of the containers has the same amount of liquid and record the amount in each cylinder.
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5th - 8th
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Run Run Ratio!
This is an exciting lab that gets students up and moving around for math. Math is often times very dull because it is generally taught out of the book. Run Run Ratio is a very fun way to help students learn and practice measurement, rounding decimals, recording ratios, finding unit rate, comparing unit rates, and getting excited about math. Students will measure out a course with several different distances to run. 6 different runners will run while everyone else clocks their time and records th
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5th - 12th
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Measuring in centimeters Assessment for 2nd-8th grade
This product contains two activity and recording sheets to measure students' knowledge of measuring in centimeters using a ruler and calculating additional amounts needed. Also included is a rubric to score their performance and instructions This is a great tool for wrapping up a math or science unit, where you want to check their skill level in measuring.
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2nd - 8th
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Math Activities Multiplying Decimals Activity Multiplying Decimals Worksheet
Change up your usual math routine with this fun interdisciplinary/cross-curricular activity that has students practicing multiplying decimals as they calculate the weight of objects on different planets. All you need is a scale!
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5th - 8th
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CCSS:
Bingo de potencias y raíces.
Actividad para cerrar la sesión de clase con una pequeña actividad lúdica
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5th - 6th
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Volume using Displacement Investigation
Using graduated cylinders and the principle of displacement to measure the volume of irregular objects.
Grades:
5th - 6th
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Surface Tension/Cohesion Lab
The Penny Drop Lab
Your students will be WOWED by this fun and easy experiment.
-Calculate mean/average
-Test a hypothesis
-Construct a bar graph
-Analyze data
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2nd - 8th
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