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Laura Riggins

States of Matter Game.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 1 views

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2.1.1 Grade 2 States of Matter Game

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    • Laura Riggins
      Laura Riggins on 15 Feb 12
       
      Sticky Note: This would be a great beginning activity to describe the 3 states of matter. Also could be manipulated to be turned into a math activity where students = different fraction lengths (12 kids =1 whole...what would 6 kids equal, etc.)
  • Laura Riggins on 15 Feb 12
     
    2.1.1. Observe, describe and measure ways in which the properties of a sample of water (including volume) change or stay the same as the water is heated and cooled and then transformed into different states. Sticky Note: This would be a great beginning activity to describe the 3 states of matter. Also could be manipulated to be turned into a math activity where students = different fraction lengths (12 kids =1 whole...what would 6 kids equal, etc.)
Amanda McCarthy

Design a Floating Cork Boat | Education.com - 1 views

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The Design Process Grade 3

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    • Amanda McCarthy
      Amanda McCarthy on 12 Feb 12
       
      This activity can be used in older grade levels. In the older levels students could work with other materials besides corks and toothpicks. ELLs can be paired with native English speakers to help design their boat. The ELL could put the boat together while the native English speaker writes down the steps to making the boat.
  • Amanda McCarthy on 12 Feb 12
     
    This activity allows students to create a floatable boat out of corks and toothpicks. They use the scientific method to design their boats.
Krista Hirr

Autumn Leaves and Fall Colors - Why do autumn leaves change color? - 1 views

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Grade 3 Earth Science leaves 3.2.5 3.2.6

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      Krista Hirr on 12 Feb 12
       
      Have students write what they found about one leaf and take or draw a picture of the leaf before the color change occurs. Then put all the artifacts in a scrap book for the class library.
  • Krista Hirr on 12 Feb 12
     
    Observing leaves as they change color. The filters are used to transfer the colors of the leaves. Tape off part of the leaf and watch as light makes it change color like they do in the fall.
Susan Shonle

Make Your Own Ant Farm | Education.com - 1 views

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Grade K-3 1.3.2 1.3.4 Life Science ant farm

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      Susan Shonle on 12 Feb 12
       
      Extensions: Connect Life Science with LA - Write predictions and observations in an Ant Observation Journal. Adaptations: ESL & Special Ed Students can draw pictures in their journal to show their knowledge.  A movie on the topic could be provided to extend knowledge after journals are complete to assess accuracy of predictions.  Gifted students can predict what the ants will need for their habitat/survival.
  • Susan Shonle on 12 Feb 12
     
    Make Your Own Ant Farm: - Life Science After completion of ant farm, spend days or weeks observing these amazing insects. Supplies: Small glass bowl or jar, glass fishbowl, sand, loose soil, sugar, water, 20 ants (from the same colony), rubber band, cheesecloth, black construction paper, bread crumbs, masking tape, and spiral notebook.
  • Susan Shonle on 16 Feb 12
     
    K-3 could do this project, but require more research, writing, or drawings of the project about habitat, colony structure, body-parts and function, etc.
Amanda McCarthy

Test Your Tongue: Are Strawberries Sweet or Sour? | Education.com - 1 views

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The Nature of Science Grade 3 Taste

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      Amanda McCarthy on 12 Feb 12
       
      This activity can be used for older grade levels by having students first try the experiment and then having them find answers as to why different substances cause different tastes. This activity could also be connected to math by graphing the results of what student liked what taste the best or the worst.
  • Amanda McCarthy on 12 Feb 12
     
    This activity is a fun experiment involving the sense of taste. Students can practice their observation skills by noting the differences in tastes.
Ashley Stewart

Design and Engineering - Lab Pages - Procedure - 2 views

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Grade 5 5.4.2 Science Engineering Technology Design Grade 4 Grade 6

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      Ashley Stewart on 11 Feb 12
       
      5.4.2 "Investigate the purpose of prototypes and models when designing a solution to a problem and how limitations in cost and design features might affect their construction." This activity can be modified for gifted students by having them make predictions or recommendations about the types of materials that could be added to the boats to improve their design and function. The activity could be modified for younger grades by having them design only two boats and decide which one is better. This would be ideal, because younger students may take more time to build and design their boats.
    • Susie Beesley
      Susie Beesley on 21 Feb 12
       
      This has some interesting variations to our pennies in the boat activity. I like the math connection with the bidding slip and making sure they save their boats for later comparisons.
  • Ashley Stewart on 11 Feb 12
     
    Students design and build four boats from squares of aluminum foil. Each team decides which one of their four boats holds the highest number of dice. Each team should record their findings and observations, as well as ways to improve their designs.
Krista Hirr

Kids Science Experiments - Gravity - Spinning Ball - 1 views

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Grade 4 gravity spinning 4.4.1

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      Krista Hirr on 13 Feb 12
       
      Have students work in pairs or small groups to experiment what happens to the ball if you spin it faster or slower, make bigger circles, or what else they can spin in the jar. Have them make predictions, then record their findings.
  • Krista Hirr on 13 Feb 12
     
    An introductory experiment to gravity and centrifugal force.
William Templeton

Ready, Aim, Marshmallows! - 1 views

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Grade 5 Design Process

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      William Templeton on 09 Feb 12
       
      If I were to do this activity I would instead give the students a set of materials that they can use and have groups compete to use the same materials to design the best marshmallow launcher.  Before beginning, talk to students about strategies for solving this type of problem, such as sketching a plan of the design.
    • William Templeton
      William Templeton on 09 Feb 12
       
      One final thought, advanced student might enjoy learning about the formulas of projectile motion.
  • William Templeton on 09 Feb 12
     
    This activity is a great starting point for a design contest in the classroom.
William Templeton

Turn Salt Water into Drinking Water - 1 views

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Grade 1 Physical Science 1.1.3

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      William Templeton on 09 Feb 12
       
      This experiment can lead nicely into a social studies unit about the importance of water to human communities.  It could also be used as a starting point for a discussion of how scarcity affects price.
  • William Templeton on 09 Feb 12
     
    Students learn how to separate salt from water in order to create drinking water from salt water.
Mary Jo Mack

The Marshmallow Machine - 1 views

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6.4.2 Grade 6 design technology

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      Mary Jo Mack on 17 Feb 12
       
      6.4.2. "Construct a simple device that uses potential or kinetic energy to perform work"
    • Mary Jo Mack
      Mary Jo Mack on 18 Feb 12
       
      This is a great activity that takes this standard to a whole new level- using the body to make a model of a machine.  Once the students have completed the activity, I would challenge them to think of what we use in our every day life that is made out of machines like the "marshmallow-smashing machine." Sixth grade students will love coming up with silly noises and motions- awesome learning tool/visual for kinesthetic students!
  • Mary Jo Mack on 17 Feb 12
     
    Children are formed into groups to 'invent' a pretend machine that smashes marshmallows. Each child plays the role of a cog or part of the machine to move the marshmallow along. Children then read the story Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, a machine that digs its way to a happy ending, and recognize how technological devices affect our lives.
Jean Guernsey

Where Do Butterflies Come From? - 1 views

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grade 2 2.3.1 Life Science

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      Jean Guernsey on 15 Feb 12
       
      I just loved this craft activity. It would be the perfect activity to do after you talked about the life cycle of a butterfly. This gives the kids who need more hands on activity the ability to explain what happens to a butterfly. After they make it have the students talk about the cycle in their own words.
Liz Dilts

Make a Wind Vane - Fun Science Fair Projects for Kids - 1 views

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Grade 2 Earth Science 2.2.1 2.2.2

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      Liz Dilts on 15 Feb 12
       
      2.2.1 Construct and use tools to observe and measure weather phenomena like precipitation, changes in temperature, wind speed and direction.2.2.2 Experience and describe wind as the motion of the air. Differentiation: Allow gifted students to record the direction of wind for a week or even a few weeks.  With this information discuss with the class the effects of wind direction and how it correlates to weather.
  • Liz Dilts on 15 Feb 12
     
    Using a container lid, scissors, a marker, a straw, and a pin students will create their own weather vanes that they can use to go outside and observe the act and direction of wind.
Lori Jones

http://sciencespot.net/Media/scimthdexps.pdf - 0 views

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Third grade Grade 3 Sponge Bob Design Process Science

shared by Lori Jones on 19 Feb 12 - No Cached
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      Lori Jones on 19 Feb 12
       
      This could truly apply to any 2-6 grade class.  I think it should be hands on instead of just the worksheet, and modified the activity in the bookmark.  ELL'swill like the project because it is more hands on.
  • Lori Jones on 19 Feb 12
     
    Bikini Bottom Experiments I really enjoyed reading these questions, and the activity ideas quickly came to me!   We could discuss how to design effective experiments, conduct experiments similar to the "Flower Power" experiment.  Have students compare the two experiments by determining the results, and keeping logs of the two.  (one experiment done correctly, and one done with the design flaw of SpongeBob's experiment.)   Kids will LOVE this!
Brandon Appleton

Sun and Planets Science Projects - 1 views

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Grade 5 5.1.2 Earth Science

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      Brandon Appleton on 17 Feb 12
       
      Not sure how this gets differentiated, be sure to assign roles to students in groups to maximize their success. 
  • Brandon Appleton on 17 Feb 12
     
    Place students into groups when doing this activity. This can be a great way to teach students about the sun and planets. 
  • Susie Beesley on 20 Feb 12
     
    I think you may have meant 5.2.1 for your standard. It seems to match more closely than 5.1.2.
Liz Dilts

ZOOM . activities . sci . Salt Pendulum | PBS Kids - 2 views

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grade 2 Physical Science 2.1.3 2.1.4 2.1.5 2.1.6

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      Liz Dilts on 16 Feb 12
       
      2.1.3. Predict and experiment with methods (e.g. sieving, evaporation) to separate solids and liquids based on their physical properties.2.1.4 Observe, sketch, demonstrate and compare how objects can move in different ways (e.g., straight, zig-zag, back-and-forth, rolling, fast and slow).2.1.5 Describe the position or motion of an object relative to a point of reference (e.g., background, another object).2.1.6 Observe, demonstrate, sketch and compare how applied force (i.e., push or pull) changes the motion of objects. Differentiation: Instead of writing out a hypothesis, have special education students draw the designs or what they predict will happen to the salt when they swing their pendulum.
  • Liz Dilts on 16 Feb 12
     
    Using paper, string, and salt, students will create a cone out of the paper that will act as their pendulum.  They will swing the pendulum so it just touches the pile of salt and watch the designs it makes.  Students can change the pendulum's direction to see if that changes the design.
Lori Jones

Make a Living and Non Living Scrapbook | Education.com - 1 views

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Kindergarten Nature of Science Living and Non Living Scrapbook

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      Lori Jones on 19 Feb 12
       
      Great for ESL.  Can easily be adapted for higher ability students as well.  Can also be adapted if no camera or computer is available 
  • Lori Jones on 19 Feb 12
     
    Students will use a camera to investigate and collect data on living and non-living things.  They will compare living things to non-living things, and keep a record of their findings.  (scrapbook). Extension:  Easy to extend for higher ability students by having them write their observations along with the pictures.  (i.e. compare why they categorize something as "living or non-living." ESL:  Easy activity for students with a language barrier as it is a picture driven lesson.  Students will learn through their own observations and the pictures they keep. Adaptation:  Could easily be adapted to be an internet research project or magazine research project (students cut out pictures to keep.)
Lori Jones

Kindergarten Lesson on Polar Bear Blubber & Other Cool Facts on Polar Bears - 0 views

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Grade K grade K kindergarten science

shared by Lori Jones on 26 Jan 12 - No Cached
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      Lori Jones on 26 Jan 12
       
      This goes with the Blubber worksheet from the other website about Polar Bear Blubber.
  • Activity: Blubber GloveThis teacher assisted activity will help the children to understand how the layer of blubber keeps the polar bear warm. I got this idea from the (Editors of Publications International, Ltd). These are the items you will need: Crisco, 1 cup 2 large zip-lock bags Bucket for ice and water Fill the bowl with ice and water. With one bag filled with the shortening, the child places his hand in the other zip-lock bag, used as a glove. He then slides it into the bag of "blubber". Seal the edges on each side as close to the child's hand as possible. Help the child to swish the shortening evenly around his hand, then dip it into the bucket of ice water. As the child tests the ice water with the other hand, ask to compare how it felt with and without the "blubber glove". Make a chart to record the student's observations, with and without the "blubber". Explain that the polar bear has up to 4 inches of blubber that insulates his body to keep him warm.
  • Lori Jones on 26 Jan 12
     
    How to do the Blubber activity that kids will hypothesize about
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