Earth Day laboratories for Gifted and Talented

Biology, Chemistry, Gifted and Talented

** UPDATED TO INCLUDE A DIGITAL VERSION ****This can be easily used as a lab for students to do at home using their own cereal, candy, fruit, beads, etc. they can find. It doesn't have to be edible. Students can take pictures of their finished molecules to show you for extra credit or upload to social media and tag the class instagram (if you have one). In this lab, students will be expected to interpret the molecular and structural formulas of water, carbon dioxide, glucose and oxygen and const

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Grades:

6th - 12th

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Teaching Science With Lynda R Williams

Natural Hazards & Human Impact on the Environment Science & Renewable Energy

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This bundle is for the Earth and Human Activity Strand for Middle School Science. Students should understand the impacts of humans on natural resources, the impacts of natural hazards on humans, and the impacts of human activity on Earth processes. ✅ Save 20% by purchasing as a bundle! This bundle covers the standards in the Earth and Human Activity Strand as part of the Earth Science Middle School standards.☀️This Human Impact Bundle Includes:Distribution of Resources NGSS MS-ESS3-1.Natural H

Subjects:

Earth Day, Earth Sciences, Science

Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

Activities, Laboratory, Lesson

NGSS:

MS-ESS3-2

, MS-ESS3-1

, MS-LS2-5

, MS-ESS3-5

, MS-ESS3-4

...

Land, Air, and Water- A Preschool and Kindergarten Science Pack

Created by

Kristen Smith

This mini unit includes everything you need to teach your students about the world they live in. It is a *perfect* unit to teach around Earth Day! The packet includes twelve 5-E lesson plans: * Introduction: The Globe * The earth is made up of three things: land, air, water * Exploring Air * What is Land? * Making Geodes and Geode Nests * Sorting Rocks * Exploring Water * Salt Water/Fresh Water Experiment * Water Clarity Experiment * Simple Landforms- What is a Landform? * Simple Landforms- I

Subjects:

Earth Day, Science

Grades:

PreK - K

Types:

Earth Day, Earth Sciences, Environment

Climate Change Stations Lab - Student-Led Climate Change Stations

Created by

Science Is Real

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Student-led lab stations are a great way to get your kids moving and interacting with content in a variety of fun and engaging ways! Students will learn, interact, and engage with new content about climate change, global warming, and the greenhouse effect! These ten stations focus on greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide emissions, greenhouse effect, and the causes and effects of climate change. All stations are neatly presented, have easy to understand directions, and require minimal prep fr

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Grades:

8th - 12th

Types:

Earth Day, Earth Sciences, Environment

NGSS:

HS-ESS2-4

, MS-ESS3-5

, HS-ESS3-1

, HS-ESS3-5

, HS-ESS3-6

...

Also included in: Earth Science Stations Labs Growing Discount Bundle

Global Warming Climate Change Unit Text Activity Quiz Test Lesson Plan Bundle

Created by

Flying Colors Science

SAVE OVER 45%! This climate change unit is engaging, data-driven, and provides a large variety of activities and assessments. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO TEACH A COMPREHENSIVE CLIMATE CHANGE UNIT IS INCLUDED. All of the work has been done for you - from start to finish! Reflect the rigor of NGSS with the included texts, engaging activities, and assessments. This unit has a little bit of everything, even a sub plan. The resources included provide numerous opportunities for data analysis and cri

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Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Laboratory

NGSS:

MS-ESS3-5

, MS-ESS3-4

, HS-ESS3-5

, HS-ESS3-4

Map Skills & Compass Directions ~ Coding Unplugged Challenge ~ STEM

Created by

Engineering, Gifted and Talented

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 map skills challenge

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Grades:

3rd - 7th

Types:

Earth Day, Environment, General Science

Build an Interactive STUDENT & Yarn FOOD WEB! Food Chain Activity OCEAN Marine

Created by

Science by Sinai

Here is an Ocean Marine student interactive food chain and food web activity to interpret interactions between producers and consumers. Using 18 images of plants and animals, the students use yarn to interconnect food chains with the entire class in this exciting activity! This set of pages can be used for several activities that include concepts about food chains, food webs, consumers vs. producers, the different levels of consumers, herbivores vs. carnivores vs. omnivores and autotrophs vs. h

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Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

A Middle School Survival Guide

NGSS:

MS-LS2-3

, 5-LS2-1

Also included in: ECOLOGY OF OCEAN Unit Bundle of Food Webs, Biodiversity, STEM, Energy Flow

Halloween Science: Acids, Bases, pH of Halloween Candy

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★ Halloween Science: Acids, Bases, pH of Halloween Candy★ The purpose of this lab is to determine if popular Halloween candies are acidic or basic (alkaline). The students will follow the scientific method to test using pH paper and baking soda as indicators. About This Activity: This lab is intended to be used to determine whether Halloween candy are acids or bases and to identify them on the pH scale. After reading the purpose and research for the lab, the students will create a hypothe

Subjects:

Chemistry, Gifted and Talented, Halloween

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

Color Squares ~ Coding Unplugged Challenge ~ STEM

Created by

Engineering, Gifted and Talented, Science

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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Grades:

2nd - 7th

Types:

Earth Day, Earth Sciences, Environment

Human Impact on Environment Activities: Land Use, Urbanization, & Sustainability

Created by

Suburban Science

This is an engaging bundle of environmental science activities on land use and urbanization. Students will learn about urban planning, heat islands, the history of urbanization, impacts of cities & climate change. Human impacts on the environment are interwoven throughout these lessons to provide students with a good basis for any environmental science or APES course. This activity set is the perfect addition to a sustainability unit in a high school Environmental Science course. Teacher pag

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Grades:

10th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Laboratory, Lesson

NGSS:

HS-ETS1-3

, HS-ESS3-3

, HS-ESS3-1

, HS-ESS3-4

, HS-ETS1-1

Also included in: Environmental Science Lab and Activity Bundle for High School

Tic Tac Toe ~ Coding Unplugged Challenge ~ STEM

Created by

Engineering, Gifted and Talented

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 tic tac toe challenge

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Grades:

3rd - 7th

Types:

Happy Happy Happy in 2nd Grade

Parts of a Seed

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Use this page to teach students the parts of a seed. Soak fresh seeds (We used lima beans) in water until they absorb water, the seed coat starts to come off, and they start to split open. Should take several hours. Students will each get their own seed and will be able to identify each part on their seed. They will tape each part of their seed to the bottom of their paper.

Subjects:

Earth Day, Science, Spring

Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Journals with Katie Clemons

Nature Scavenger Hunt: Outdoor I Spy Worksheet, Outside Activity 5 Senses Earth

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Invite kids outside to observe the world and play "I Spy."This creative printable invites kids to look around. Can they spy something blue that isn't the sky? Is there something scratchy or seasonal? They can write or draw their answers or interview one another. However they play, you'll get them thinking with this printable! One page has no prompts, so they can write their own.This printable is based on page 29 of Kid's Camping Journal, a journal filled with outdoor observation and play._____

Subjects:

Earth Day, Earth Sciences, General Science

Grades:

K - 6th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Laboratory

Also included in: Nature Journal Outdoor Activities: 5 senses, earth science, nature bingo game

Stars STEM: Types of Stars

Created by

The Best Days with Julie Santello

This STEM project explores how STARS can appear different in the night sky based on how far they are from the Earth! You provide materials for students to design and try their own stars in a 1/2 hour time limit. This STEM's goal is to explore properties of stars, their brilliance, and how this is affected by their distance from the Earth. All the materials you need for documenting student progress are found inside! Look What's Inside the Types of Stars STEM! For the Teacher• Notes for the Tea

Subjects:

Astronomy, Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Laboratory, GATE, Centers

Hogwarts Periodic Table Lab with Answer Key

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Chemistry, Gifted and Talented, Physical Science

Bring the popular Harry Potter series into your science class as you present students with a scenario regarding the wizarding periodic table. Students can work independently or in groups to figure out where these "leaked" elements fit in relation to the muggle periodic table. Great for all levels of students: inclusion to gifted. I've done this assignment with middle schoolers, but have also been done it with high school students as well. Have all groups work on this periodic table or assign eac

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Grades:

8th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Laboratory, Interactive Notebooks

Good Buddies Symbiosis Lab and Card Game

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Biology, Environment, Gifted and Talented

In this lab activity, students will work in pairs and groups toDefine symbiosis, commensalism, mutualism, and parasitismIdentify organisms that live in each type of symbiotic relationshipDescribe how symbiotic interactions can be cooperative or competitiveStudents conduct research to determine the type of symbiotic relationship their chosen organism pairing has and complete a data table as a class using google docs. Then they play a card game that allows them to practice matching their known sym

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Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Laboratory

Bouncy Ball Lab - Investigating Potential & Kinetic Energy

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Gifted and Talented, Physical Science, Science

Cover potential and kinetic energy or use to teach experimental design as your students review the steps of the scientific method. Perfect for students in all grades and all learning abilities. After students collect data, they make a bar graph of their average data. Includes a lab quiz that I students can take after the lab is complete to show their understanding. ========================================================Turn Feedback into TPT Credit (AKA FREE MONEY to BUY MORE at TPT!)Go to your

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Grades:

5th - 12th

Types:

Laboratory, Centers

Lava Lamp | Oil And Water Science Experiment | Earth Day Oil Spills Activity

Created by

Kimberly Scott Science

Use effervescent tablets to create lots of oohs and ahhs while discovering the properties of oil and water. This hands-on lab can be conducted in 30 minutes. It uses simple supplies and includes teacher background information, tips, science activity, and a reading passage. It makes a wonderful introductory lesson about oil spills for environmental science and Earth Day.Included in the Hands-on ActivityBackground Information and Vocabulary on the Properties of Miscible and Immiscible Liquids.Hand

Subjects:

Chemistry, Earth Day, Earth Sciences

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Biology, Earth Day, Environment

NGSS:

5-PS1-3

, 5-PS1-4

, MS-PS1-2

Also included in: 30 Minute Science Labs | Bundle of Hands-On Experiments with Reading Passages

Pond Water MICROORGANISMS BIOINDICATORS of Water Pollution 46 Reference

Created by

Science by Sinai

Students observe and identify pond water microorganisms with microscopes to determine if it is polluted or not. Here are 46 reference cards of protists and invertebrates with pollutant tolerance levels indicated. Some common protists and pond organisms can be used as bioindicators. Are you studying MS-ESS3-3 or HS-ESS3-4 and discussing the impact that humans have on our waterways? For years I have taken my middle school classes to a nearby pond to collect organisms to look at under the microsc

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Grades:

7th - 9th

Types:

Activities, Laboratory, Printables

NGSS:

MS-ESS3-3

, HS-ESS3-4

Also included in: HUMAN IMPACT AND EARTH DAY UNIT BUNDLE With Pacing Guide MS-ESS3-3, MS-LS2

Build an Interactive STUDENT FOOD WEB! Food Chain Activity RAINFOREST JUNGLE

Created by

Science by Sinai

Here is an Rainforest Jungle student interactive food chain and food web activity to interpret interactions and energy flow between producers and consumers. Using 18 images of plants and animals, the students use yarn to interconnect food chains with the entire class in this exciting activity! This set of pages can be used for several activities that include concepts about food chains, food webs, consumers vs. producers, the different levels of consumers, herbivores vs. carnivores vs. omniv

Subjects:

Earth Day, Environment, General Science

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

NGSS:

MS-LS2-3

, 5-LS2-1

Also included in: ECOLOGY RAINFOREST BUNDLE Interactive Food Webs, Biodiversity, STEM, Abiotic

Make a Pac Man Ghost ~ Coding Unplugged Challenge ~ STEM

Created by

Engineering, Gifted and Talented, Science

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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Grades:

2nd - 7th

Types:

The Social Studies Whisperer

Hands-On Plant and Animal Cell Activity BUNDLE

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Want fun, engaging ways to help your students learn the parts of an animal and plant cell? Try these activities where students use found objects and food to represent cell organelles! Students must also use critical thinking skills to explain why the item best represents the cell structure and scientific process skills. Guess what???? Editable versions are now included!!This bundle combines my Edible Cell Lab Activity and my Build a Cell Model and some extras!EXTRAS ✅ 2 versions of a Parent Dona

Subjects:

EFL - ESL - ELD, Gifted and Talented, Science

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types: