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Common Core 1.MD.A.2 laboratories
Straw Rocket STEM Challenge (Forces & Motion)
** For 4th-10th grade Straw Rockets activity, see our product here**Rockets are always a student favorite! This STEM challenge pack includes a paper straw rocket activity, straw rocket engineering design challenge using a Pitsco launcher, student handouts, and extension problems on variable testing and test result comparison. Click here for an editable STEM journal to use with distance learning, including digital and printable versions.Topics covered in rocketry STEM challenge: Forces & moti
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Elementary Grades
How Big Is It?: Measuring Large Objects with a Tape Measure
This simple chart challenges the young student to choose 5 objects in the classroom (a table, a chair, a friend, etc.) and measure the height and width of the objects. Leave the activity open ended and allow the students to choose their items to measure, or create your own list of choices. Two versions of the chart provide different levels of support for reading and using the data chart.
Just add a tape measure!
Great as a Math Center or as an introductory Science Lab.
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PreK - 2nd
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Measuring Volume and Capacity in the Measurement Lab
This unit provides a wonderful opportunity to teach children grades 1-5 the necessary concepts and vocabulary in order to be successful with measuring capacity and volume. These lessons are hands-on, rich in vocabulary and have various levels of focus questions. Each lessons includes learning targets/learning outcomes, student directions, recording sheets and focus questions.
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1st - 5th
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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
Scientific Investigation of Color and Crayons: Experimenting with Crayons
A thematic unit with a focus on color and crayons!
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1st - 4th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-3
, 2-PS1-1
, 2-PS1-2
Science Measurements worksheets on Distance (grade 2, 3, 4, 5)
Centimeters, Millimeters, and Meters Oh My! Making measurements is an essential skill in science. This Simple Science Session is intentionally designed to help you teach your students how to read numbers on a ruler. The challenge section gets your students to think more deeply about this skill. The investigation section offers the students a chance to apply and can transfer into an investigation
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2nd - 5th
Going Bananas With Measuring
Let's go bananas with measuring length and mass using standard and non-standard units. Bananas are easy to purchase and make excellent objects to measure and compare. Reading selections provide background information about bananas. Follow up question pages are differentiated for two levels of learners. Experiments range from easy counting to using calculators to find averages and percent. Compare mass of banana with other objects on balance scales, use non-standard units to determine length
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-3
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