ACTIVITIES
Students design an experiment to determine whether the chemical reaction that takes place as the iron in steel wool…
Students create a poster that classifies compounds based on the types of bonds they contain. Tests students'…
Students create a trivia game about polymers, alloys, ceramics, glass, and radioactive elements. Assesses students'…
Students work in pairs to make a motion graph of the movement of a wind-up toy. Assesses their understanding of motion…
Students determine the mass of a banana using only a string and a spring scale. Assesses their understanding of Newton's…
Students create four simple machines to make the work of moving an object easier. Assesses their understanding of simple…
Students build a machine that converts the kinetic energy of falling water to the gravitational potential energy of a…
Students rank air, water, and foam insulation according to each material's insulation ability. Assesses students'…
Students hypothesize what will happen when objects come into contact with a column of air shooting upward at high speed.…
Students create an electric circuit that they must position using a compass. Tests students' understanding of Earth's…
Students create a true/false game about electronics. Assesses their understanding of concepts related to electronic…
Students determine the speed of waves in two different mediums: water and vegetable oil. Tests their understanding of…
Students create a working model of a spotlight system that will produce the primary and secondary colors of light in…
Students create a newspaper page that describes how electricity is generated and delivered to homes for use in devices…
WORKSHEETS
Students learn that observations can be accurate, objective, qualitative, and/or qualitative, and that they are usually…
Students learn about inferences: they can be reasonable or unreasonable, true or false, and based on accurate or…
Students learn about the role that prediction plays in science, and the fact that scientific predictions are usually…
Develop word-usage skills with an activity that focuses on verbs.
Develop word-usage skills with an activity that focuses on creating the past form by adding -ed.
Develop library-skills with an activity that focuses on the parts of a book.
Develop library-skills with an activity that focuses on the table of contents.
Develop library-skills with an activity that focuses on fairy tales.
