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2nd grade physics projects
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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Melting Crayon Science Experiment
The Crayon Melting Science experiment is a colorful and exciting way to let your students practice making a hypothesis when you are learning about the types of matter. Add heat from the sun to change the crayons from a solid to liquid. Record the air temperature and the results on the provided recording sheet during the crayon melting process. Make predictions, record, and complete the writing worksheet page that accompanies the activity.Check out the preview to see what is included. You wil
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1st - 3rd
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NGSS:
3-ESS2-1
, 2-PS1-4
, 3-ESS2-2
NGSS Engineering Design: Rube Goldberg Machines (Motion & Stability)
This is by far my most favorite STEM unit to teach! This also works great for distant learning and I have been over the moon with the results (examples included in the product). And if you don't know what a Rube Goldberg Machine is, no need to worry, I created a scripted, detailed unit for teachers.Combine NGSS engineering design, motion/stability and forces and interactions standards into one unit by teaching Rube Goldberg Machines! In this unit students will create their own Rube Goldberg Mach
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K - 8th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-PS2-2
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Scientist of the week/Scientifique de la semaine project
Looking to add a little weekly science to your class? This package includes everything you need to run a Scientist Of the Week or Scientifique de la Semaine program with fun experiments in your class. Suitable for use in English or French Immersion classes!NOTE: The French version is NOT FULLY IN FRENCH. It is meant for French Immersion students with parents/guardians who don’t speak French. French lab reports are in French but the family letter, experiment sheets and evaluation are in ENGLISH.
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2nd - 3rd
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Going Places: Book Companion and STEM Project
Going Places by Peter and Paul Reynolds is a wonderful story about Rafael and Maya who learn to think outside of the box during the Going Places Contest! The book along with these activities will encourage your students to find inspiration in the world around them as they dig into the text and complete a STEM activity!
The following companion includes multiple ELA activities like retelling (story maps and BME), comparing, cause and effect, character evaluation, authors purpose/message and vocab
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K - 5th
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Simple Machines Envelope Book & Passages: Levers, Pulleys, Wedges, Planes, etc.
This simple machines envelope book kit includes 14 PAGES OF INFORMATIONAL PASSAGES about simple machines, including levers, pulleys, wedges, planes, wheels, and screws, plus black line masters and step by step photo directions for making a simple machines envelope book with your students. Also included, are 6 full color simple machines posters that match the images in the passages. Use the simple machines envelope book and passages to complement your own simple machines unit.The envelope book ha
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Science BUNDLE: Interactive Kits | Lapbooks & Passages
Rube Goldberg: A Simple Machines STEM Challenge
Rube Goldberg was an inventor, cartoonist, sculptor, author, and engineer who believed that people preferred the hard way to do things. He gained notoriety by illustrating cartoons featuring complicated inventions that accomplished a simple task.
Our unique Rube Goldberg Foldable and Research tasks will take your students into the mind and science behind the cartoon machines, then challenge them to design a real life machine to complete a simple task.
This project includes:
1. Instructions on
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2nd - 6th
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Mr. Ferris and His Wheel: Book Companion and STEM Challenge
Ten months before the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair architects and engineers were clamoring for the chance to design a star attraction to rival the French Eiffel Tower. A daring engineer named George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. overcomes obstacles including money, mockery, and quicksand to create a wheel that has delighted fairgoers for over 100 years!
The following companion includes multiple ELA activities for retelling, comparing, cause and effect, character evaluation, authors purpose/message, a
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K - 5th
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The Solar System and Planets Activities | Order of the Planets Flip Book Project
Looking for engaging resources on the planets of the solar system? Try this Order of the Planets Flip Book Project! This solar system and planets activities resource consists of templates that can be used to create a flipbook on the order of the planets. It also contains a link to a digital interactive notebook resource that has text boxes, which students can type into and add additional text boxes if required. This resource is perfect for note-taking and summarizing your students' key learnings
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2nd - 5th
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Super Science Experiments
Looking to spruce up your science curriculum, or have an AWESOME science fair project well you have come to the right place!
This collection of truly Super Science Experiments is just for you! It contains chemistry experiments, experiments on matter, physics, and much more!
Includes:
- 70+ science experiments and demo guides
- detailed descriptions
- pictures of experiments
- material lists
These are only the experiments I thought would be the absolute coolest ones and that students wou
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PreK - 8th
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Simple Machines - Activities, Projects, and Assessments (Differentiated)
{177 pages}
This resource can be used for any teacher teaching or reviewing simple machines - but was created with the Understanding Structures and Mechanisms: Movement (Ontario Grade 2 Science) curriculum in mind.
Big Ideas:
- Movement is a change in position of an object.
- Simple machines help objects to move.
- Mechanisms are made up of one or more simple machines.
- Simple machines and mechanisms make life easier and/or more enjoyable to humans
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This package inc
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1st - 3rd
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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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Solar S'mores Science Experiment
The Solar Smores Science experiment is a tasty and exciting way to let your students practice making a hypothesis when you are learning about the types of matter. Add heat from the sun to change the chocolate from a solid to liquid. Record the air temperature and the results on the provided recording sheet during the smores "cooking" process. Make predictions, record, and complete the writing worksheet page that accompanies the Sun Smores activity. The project is designed to simply wrap a sm
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1st - 3rd
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NGSS:
3-ESS2-1
, 2-PS1-4
, 3-ESS2-2
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
Simple Machines Building Project with Rubric - Pulleys, Levers, etc!
** Please scroll to the end to see examples of what students can make as their final product!**A final project for the Movement and Simple Machines unit.Geared towards the Ontario Grade 2 unit but is also suitable for the Grade 4 unit on Pulleys and Gears, perhaps as an assignment as opposed to a final project. In this project, students have been shrunk! They are being asked to design and build simple machines that can help them out with everyday tasks that have now become too difficult. A fun p
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2nd - 4th
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Egg Drop STEM Challenge
**Newly Revised! Download for additional pages and NGSS alignment**Get your engineers thinking, planning, designing, and building with this STEM challenge. Students will work to create a device that keeps an egg safe when dropped from different heights. Eggs can be dropped off tables, countertops, or even the roof!This project is to be primarily completed at home, so that students may use materials from around their house.Depth and Complexity icons are embedded in student work pages.
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2nd - 5th
Minute to STEM it: Paper Helicopters
This exciting STEM challenge will engage your students in the engineering process while encouraging them to think outside of the box!
CHALLENGE:
Modify a paper helicopter to extend flight time.
This STEM challenge includes:
-Challenge Poster
-Challenge Rules
-Class Graph
-Teacher Directions
-Guiding and Discussion Questions
-Picture Instructions
-Printable Templates
-Two Recording Sheet Options (recommended for K-2)
-STEM Journal (recommended for 3-5 and beyond)
Check out all of my STEM/STEA
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K - 5th
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STEM: Three Little Pigs
Get your kids' engaged with STEM! Read the story to them and allow them to find the problem. That's the challenge! Pass out materials (there is a suggested list for each grades K-4th), show/read challenge and the expectations, start a time (I use www.online-stopwatch.com), and let them explore, test, and improve on their OWN ideas. If your students need a little more help, or they finish early, allow them to use the designed QR codes and the research page to make simple deductions on how to buil
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K - 4th
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Also included in: STEM Bundle {Fairy Tales}
Easter Science Activities | Bouncy Egg Experiment | Chemical Reactions
Looking for Easter Science Activities? Try this Bouncy Egg Experiment resource! The Bouncy Egg PowerPoint presentation can be used to conduct an experiment on making a bouncy egg that children will surely enjoy. Students learn about calcium carbonate, acetic acid and chemical reactions the fun way by using this PowerPoint resource that is presented in the way of the Scientific Method. This Easter Science resource also works well with the accompanying flipbook.This 20-slide PowerPoint presentatio
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1st - 4th
Designing and Building a Haunted House Simple Machine Scare Contraption STEM
**FULLY UPDATED OCTOBER 2020**Halloween STEM Project!This STEM project incorporates Halloween with engineering! Students will create a scaled model of a contraption that can be used in a haunted house to make a “ghost” pop up and scare a passerby. Students can only use items off of the approved materials list to create their scare contraption, and designs must include at least one simple machine.Students should have prior knowledge of simple machines before completing this challenge.Product pur
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2nd - 9th
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SCIENCE - Electricity, Electrical Circuits, Escape Room Bundle, Challenges, Key
This bundle brings together our two popular Science based Electricity Escape Rooms into one affordable product. Students will use their scientific knowledge to solve scientific problems relating to electrical circuits as well as develop their learning further through the use of simple and parallel circuits, component symbols, identifying why circuits work and will not work and much more.The two Escape Rooms include:ALL POWERED UP - 9 challenges to solve, student booklet, key and resourcesUsing a
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2nd - 5th
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250 STEM Labs - 5 books in 1 - stem challenges physics projects experiments
PREVIEW AVAILABLE!LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? CHECK OUT OTHER STEM RESOURCES IN MY SHOP!Want to never have to buy another collection of STEM ideas? This set has all you'll ever need. It's all 5 of my STEM Labs books with 50 projects in each! Get this money-saving bundle for your whole school! Recommended for grades K to 6 and up! These projects really focus on the engineering and design process. They don't have pictures of what you're supposed to build or recipes to follow to do a complete activity. The
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K - 12th
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Balance & Motion Toy Invention Summative Assessment
This bundle is based off of the FOSS Balance and Motion unit for grade 2. This is a summative assessment project for your students where they create a toy that shows balance or motion. My students loved doing this project to show their knowledge and I hope your students enjoy it as well!
This file includes:
-Teacher directions
-Parent letter
-Student check list & task description
-Teacher rubric
-Student self-assessment rubric
-Invention planning sheet
-Balance and motion focus wall voc
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Amusement Park Design Roller Coaster Unit
Are you looking for a project based activity your class? I have designed an Amusement Park Design packet for students to complete over the course of 10 days. I allocated 40 minutes each day for students to create their own design for an Amusement Park. I used this during a Roller Coaster Unit.
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2nd - 5th
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