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Students will be able to benefit from making the helicopters by observing  the design process. Observing the motion of the object, and learning what contributes to its flight/spinning motion is the main basis of the activity. 2 standards are included in this lesson and noted on the sticky note.

Using a chocolate bar or chocolate chips students will experiment with melting the chocolate in a microwave or over a stove.  Students will make predictions and will make observations about the solid turning into a liquid.  After they have made these observations they will put the chocolate back into the freezer and make predictions and observations about what happens next.

Help students to understand what goes on in a tornado by creating one of your own!  This is a common severe weather phenomena that happens in Indiana and should be combined with safety procedures on the topic.

In this activity, students will make predictions about how heat moves in a hot drink.  Students will make predictions about how cool a drink will get over time and what some factors are in changing the heat.  Then hot and cold water and milk, students will test these predictions.

VERY cool Earth Science/Space crossover project.  Students can send in a rock from their area, and NASA will use a special tool (like the one on the Mars Exploration Rovers) to tell you what it's made of.  Students could compare rocks on Earth to the rocks found on Mars.   Class can view and print various rock pictures from this website and create their own rock book, differentiating by ability.  (could be categorized by color, composition, geographic location, etc.)  It can be expanded as needed.  Kindergarten example would be to create a journal entitled "My Rock Collection."  They would find pictures of rocks that are blue, red, yellow, green, purple, etc and categorize them.  

Easy experiment to do in class that requires some good record keeping and simple observation of what the worms will do. Easy pets to have in the room. 

Really simple activity that is easy to do and great practice in counting and measuring as well as science. Can be a lot of great discussion about what the balloons will do. 

Simple demonstration on how gears work and can create great conversation on how they work and what they have meant to society. 

Easy project to conduct with your fifth graders that works with multiple standards. Students begin to gain knowledge of mass and weight and how gravity acts on the objects. 

state standard: 2.1.6 This game is another way to make connections with something that they have done and probably enjoy doing. An extension of this activity would be fro the kids to graph their times on a big class graph you could use different sizes of string to see what affect that might have on the swing times.

This is a great activity to talk bout simple machines and what they are. Everybody in the primary grades we enjoys the see-saw, so having an activity using a see-saw for a differentis attention getting. We can focus on key terms of this simple mahine and also use the see-saw as a weighing machine.

state standard: 2.1.7 Doesn't the title of the activity say it all, dancing raisens. Just telling the 2nd graders about what you are planning on doing is going to grab their attention. It is also exciting for them to do activities with things that they know.

In this activity, students will shake heavy cream in a jar to watch a liquid turn into a solid-butter!  This is a very simple, yet exciting project that can then be eaten later!

I remember doing this as a child in school. We spread it on saltine crackers because the teacher said that it needed a little salt to make it taste better.

ok, this particular one is to be done on the computer. However, you could easily make this a project the whole class can do by giving them graph paper, rulers, and certain measurements they have to keep thier apartment in. LOVE this idea!

I would modify this idea to include nickels and quarters also.  The students add one penny for each day.  When ten pennies accumulate, a dime is substituted.  Perhaps they add a nickel for each rainy day until five nickels accumulate (and a quarter is substituted.)  We would skip count by fives and tens (depending on what we have on our piggy) until we can total our amount.  Each day we will accumulate more of each.

This activity will give children plenty of practice in figuring out the lowest common multiple of two numbers. This will be practice where they need to think fast and eventaully get to the point where they can memorize what thei LCM of certain numbers are. Can be used in 5th grade and high level 4th.

Wonderful for any grade level. It all epends what kind of math you decide to use with this activity. You can use addition, subtration for the lower grades with lower numbers, and multiplication and division with higher numbers for higher grade levels.

Perfect for showing graphically what fractions are. Can be used for other grade levels. Different objects can be used with this activity. Instead of just coloring paper squares, you could used a piece of pizza worksheet or a cake worksheet. 

Great for children learning/practicing place value. This can be used for other grade levels.Have your child tell you what number is in each place and the value of that number For example, if the number is 75, there is a 7 in the tens place and the value of that number is 7 tens or 70. Keep reading numbers aloud, but each time increase the number of digits. 

A deck of playing cards will determine your ant's pace in this measurement game! Draw a card to see what number you will use. Measure that amount of centimeters on your game board. Try to reach all of the locations on your board before the other "ants," and you'll win! This game creates a fun way to practice measuring, and your little "ant" will enjoy trying to reach the finish line before you!