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2nd grade laboratories for Gifted and Talented
Color Squares ~ Coding Unplugged Challenge ~ STEM
This coding unplugged activity is one of many that I am creating to use in my STEM classroom! We do these coding challenges about once a week. They are great for teaching sequencing and logical reasoning to students. There are no right or wrong answers, and many different solutions will work! You could also rotate these challenges through a science center. I store everything in a dollar store gift bag or plastic tub for each individual coding unplugged challenge.
This color square challeng
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2nd - 7th
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Make a Pac Man Ghost ~ Coding Unplugged Challenge ~ STEM
This coding unplugged activity is one of many that I am creating to use in my STEM classroom! We do these coding challenges about once a week. They are great for teaching sequencing and logical reasoning to students. There are no right or wrong answers, and many different solutions will work! You could also rotate these challenges through a Maker Space or science center. I store everything in a dollar store gift bag or plastic tub for each individual coding unplugged challenge.This challeng
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2nd - 7th
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Circles of Life {a science unit on the life cycles of plants and insects}
Circles of life is packed full of plant and insect anchor charts, activities, and labs.
In this packet:
Plant life cycle anchor charts
Seed germination anchor charts
Seed germination teacher background
3 seed germination investigations
Germination KWL chart
Metamorphosis anchor chart
Complete and incomplete metamorphosis anchor charts
Ladybug life cycle anchor chart
Lady bug anatomy anchor chart
Ladybug foldable
Ladybug background and fun facts
Ladybug book (fill in the stage)
Praying mantis
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1st - 4th
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Quick and Easy Science Experiments: Make Ice Cream in a Bag! STEM! End of Year!
Quick and easy science experiment to use with your students! Student will use ice, salt, plastic bags, vanilla extract, sugar, and half and half to learn more about chemical reactions and the process of experiment writing. This is very engaging for kids of most ages! It's up to you how in-depth you go with the science behind the experiment - a detailed explanation of how this experiment works is included!Everything you need to launch experiment writing in your classroom with simple and engaging
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1st - 4th
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Saltwater vs. Freshwater Lab exploration activity
In this lab activity, students will be exploring and discovering the difference between saltwater and freshwater. They act as "detectives" to try to determine which container contains the saltwater and which container contains the freshwater. The activity goes through the scientific process with students, while having them record data based on their discoveries. The activity was used for an after school program with Primary students (1st-3rd grades), therefore it can be used for 1st through t
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1st - 3rd
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Make a Critter ~ Coding Unplugged Challenge ~ STEM
This coding unplugged activity is one of many that I am creating to use in my STEM classroom! We do these coding challenges about once a week. They are great for teaching sequencing and logical reasoning to students. There are no right or wrong answers, and many different solutions will work! You could also rotate these challenges through a Maker Space or science center. I store everything in a dollar store gift bag or plastic tub for each individual coding unplugged challenge.This color sq
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2nd - 7th
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Coding Dice ~ Coding Unplugged Challenge ~ STEM
This coding unplugged activity is one of many that I am creating to use in my STEM classroom! We do these coding challenges about once a week. They are great for teaching sequencing and logical reasoning to students. There are no right or wrong answers, and many different solutions will work! You could also rotate these challenges through a Maker Space or science center. I store everything in a dollar store gift bag or plastic tub for each individual coding unplugged challenge.This Coding D
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2nd - 7th
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Rocks and Minerals — 16 Lab BUNDLE for Grades 2 and 3
16 labs for kids to be geologists as they investigate rocks, minerals, and crystals. ✜ grow crystals and study their angles. ✜ make models of sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rock types. ✜ travel through the rock cycle, and record your journey using a string of beads. ✜ mix sand, clay, and pebbles with water and salts to make a sedimentary rock.✜ study different samples of sand and clay to see the variety in grain size, shape, and luster. ✜ model rock metamorphosis to see why most fossils d
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2nd - 3rd
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NGSS:
2-ESS1-1
, 2-PS1-1
Pixel Person ~ Coding Unplugged Challenge ~ STEM
This coding unplugged activity is one of many that I am creating to use in my STEM classroom! We do these coding challenges about once a week. They are great for teaching sequencing and logical reasoning to students. There are no right or wrong answers, and many different solutions will work! You could also rotate these challenges through a Maker Space or science center. I store everything in a dollar store gift bag or plastic tub for each individual coding unplugged challenge.This Pixel Pe
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2nd - 7th
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Quick and Easy Science Experiment: Surface Tension and Buoyancy - MAGIC PEPPER
Quick and easy science experiment to use with your students! Student will use soap, water, and pepper to learn more about buoyancy, surface tension, cause and effect, and the process of experiment writing. This is very engaging for kids of most ages! It's up to you how in-depth you go with the science behind the experiment - a detailed explanation of how this experiment works is included!And who doesn't love an experiment with household items? So easy and inexpensive to set up for your children
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1st - 4th
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Scientific Method Posters
These colorful posters remind student of the experiment process! They are great for scientific method interactive notebooks. Experiment template helps students design & conduct their own project and are perfect to use with the science fair! This Pack Includes:Scientific Method Posters: Full & 4 to a Page Versions (color & b/w) Student DirectionsStudent Notes Page Student Data CollectionScience Project Rubric (Accuracy/Description, Creative Thinking, Presentation/Explanation)Judgin
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1st - 5th
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Apple Investigation with 4 scientific activities
This apple investigation is entitled, "Investigating Apples through a Scientific Lens". The four activity pages are used to record thinking, but are not the sole lesson; you will need to do mini-lessons with the whole group either before or after each experience (which I explain on the teacher instructional page).
I plan to use this to teach children about “what scientists do” (practices like observing, measuring, hypothesizing, experimenting, and reflecting). Students will hit CCSS for writin
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K - 2nd
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STEAM Investigation - Light & Shadow Lesson Plan
Light and shadows are easy to take for granted, but when you look closely you will notice amazing qualities. Shadows change shape and grow. Lights become dimmer and brighter. They affect our mood. In this multi-day lesson plan, students will engage in a scientific investigation: exploring the qualities of light and shadow, making observations, and taking measurements. They will also examine the ways that artists use light and shadow to compose artwork and affect emotion, and they will create the
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
1-PS4-2
, 1-PS4-3
, 4-PS3-2
Acid Rain Investigation
Easy-peasy acid rain investigation using pennies, vinegar, salt, and water. Great fun activity to engage students in the topics of erosion and pollution.
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2nd - 5th
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Rock Cycle — Walk Thru Simulation plus Three Types of Rock Models mini bundle
In the first lab, kids make models of three types of rock: sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous. As they build each of the rocks, they’ll develop a clearer sense of what’s going on in the rock cycle and the processes involved in forming each of the three types of rocks. They’ll see the fragility and granular nature of sedimentary rocks and easily differentiate them from the harder and more uniform igneous version of the rock. In the second activity kids travel through the rock cycle, recording
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Grades:
2nd - 3rd
NGSS:
2-ESS1-1
Rocks and Crystals — Grow Mineral Salt Crystals and Study their Shapes
Grow a variety of crystals and study their angles. This lays the groundwork for understanding the formation of rocks which are made of minerals. The salts in this activity each have different crystal habits and are easily distinguishable one from the other. This is a perfect introduction for grade 2 and 3 Rocks and Minerals study.What's Included:✅ Task Card instructions✅ Student Sheet for capturing observations✅ Answer Key to Student Sheet✅ Student Reading with Questions✅ Answer key to Student R
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2nd - 3rd
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Candy Corn Cauldron STEM Challenge
Candy Corn Cauldron STEM ActivityThis activity has students building a device to hang a cauldron that will then be filled with candy corn. Materials Needed: strawspipe cleanerspopsicle stickspapermasking tapepaper or plastic cup(optional) small plastic cauldronIncluded:Student Challenge instructions, materials list, and scoringReflection questionsPrintable scoring rubric
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2nd - 5th
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Rocks and Minerals — Compare Rocks with their Streak Color Mineral Analysis Lab
In this activity, kids will act like geologists as they streak test different minerals. Some minerals have streaks that are like their color, but many do not. Pyrite, or fool’s gold, gives a dark olive green streak, and fluorite which is dark purple leaves a white streak. Most times, the streak test is helpful in identifying the mineral. You'll need various mineral samples plus easy-to-find materials.What's Included:✅ Task Card instructions✅ Student Sheet for capturing observations✅ Answer Key t
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2nd - 3rd
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NGSS:
2-PS1-1
Rocks and Minerals — Analyze Rocks using Streak Test and Acid Test — mini bundle
Four different labs to let kids act like geologists. In the first they'll streak test different minerals. Most times, the streak test is helpful in identifying the mineral. In the second lab, kids will compare various rocks in terms of their grain sizes. In the third lab, kids will test rocks for magnetic properties, and lastly they’ll see how chalk (a rock) reacts to acid by fizzing. You'll need various mineral and rock samples plus easy-to-find materials.What's Included:✅ Task Card instruction
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Grades:
2nd - 3rd
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NGSS:
2-ESS1-1
, 2-PS1-1
Rocks and Crystals — Grow Mineral Salts and Analyze their Angles Mini Bundle
Two activities to investigate minerals and their crystals. In the first grow a variety of crystals and study their angles. This lays the groundwork for understanding the formation of rocks which are made of minerals. The salts in this activity each have different crystal habits and are easily distinguishable one from the other. In the second activity, kids use pattern blocks to see how each block can make some angles but not others. Crystals are the shape they are because of their angles, and th
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2nd - 3rd
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Rocks and Minerals — Study Rock Features: mini bundle
Four different labs where kids can be geologists. In the first they'll study rocks by looking for layering and stripes. They can then correlate these features to the way rocks are formed. In the second lab they'll study a variety of rocks and connect them to the the minerals in their makeup. In the third, they'll see which, if any, rocks float. And in the final lab they'll test sulfur for its smell and halite for its taste. An included reading can be used for read aloud or close reading with tho
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2nd - 3rd
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NGSS:
2-PS1-1
Rocks and Minerals — Model the Process of how Sedimentary Rocks Form
Make your own sedimentary rock in this lab. Mix sand, clay, and pebbles along with water and common salts to create a sedimentary rock. This is a nice activity to add to studies of crystal structure or the rock cycle. The fragility and granular nature of sedimentary rocks are clearly seen. Simple directions allow kids to do this on their own or with limited supervision. What's Included:✅ Task Card instructions✅ Student Sheet for capturing observations✅ Answer Key to Student Sheet✅ Student Readin
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Grades:
2nd - 3rd
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NGSS:
2-ESS1-1
Stem for Kids Lab Notebook (Elementary)
An interactive notebook to encourage skills like critical thinking, collecting data, and interpreting results. The formatting of this laboratory notebook helps guide students to record observations using the scientific method – similar to how they’ll conduct an experiment in a high school (or professional) setting.
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1st - 6th
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STEM Engineering Challenges Ten Pack
STEM challenges on change of matter, energy, solutions and mixtures, structural stability and design, liquid density, force and friction, magnetism and electricity. All challenges are aligned with the NGSS - Next Generation Science Standards Concepts covered:Change of matterEnergySolutions and mixturesBuilding stability and designLiquid density Force of frictionMagnetismElectricity ***********************************************************************************************************• Be sur
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2nd - 5th
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