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6th grade physics laboratories
Walking Dead Lab (An Exploration of Speed, Velocity & Acceleration)
Now you can add an interactive layer to this PDF and assign it to your students through Google Classroom!Use this exciting lab to help students discover speed, velocity and acceleration and how various motions are represented graphically. This product includes almost everything you will need for this lab with the exception of measuring tape, timing device, and metal washers (or other similar weights). Before the lab, students are assigned a task (job cards are included) and 4 different "walker
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for Marc W.
Potential and Kinetic Energy Student-Led Station Lab
This modular, student-led activity about potential and kinetic energy will keep your middle school class engaged and learning throughout this energy lesson. These comprehensive materials will save you a TON of prep time while giving students a chance to direct their own learning. In this station lab, students will learn to compare potential and kinetic energy. This Potential and Kinetic Energy. Station Lab activity is also included in my Potential and Kinetic Energy 5E Lesson Plan, which include
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6th - 8th
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The NASCAR Project: Forces & Motion
Description:Are you teaching your students about forces and motion? If so, the NASCAR Project is my FAVORITE way to teach my students about those concepts! Students complete a series of NASCAR-themed races/investigations to learn about Newton's laws of motion, inertia, acceleration, collisions, and practice their science and engineering skills! All the resources in this bundle are designed for in-person and at-home learning plus everything is editable. What's Included:Intro to the NASCAR Project
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5th - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-PS2-2
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-PS2-1
Newton's Laws Station Lab Bundle - Station Labs
This modular, student-led activity about Newton’s Laws will keep your middle school class engaged and learning throughout this force and motion lesson. These comprehensive materials will save you a TON of prep time while giving students a chance to direct their own learning. In this station lab, students will learn toplan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object. These Newton’s Law Station
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6th - 8th
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Properties of Waves Student-Led Station Lab
This modular, student-led activity about the properties of waves will keep your middle school class engaged and learning throughout energy lesson. These comprehensive materials will save you a TON of prep time while giving students a chance to direct their own learning. In this station lab, students will learn to develop and use a model to describe that waves are reflected, absorbed or transmitted through various materials This Properties of Waves Station Lab activity is also included in my Prop
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6th - 8th
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Plastic Soda Straw Bridge Build Challenge - Physics Project - STEM
This is a best-selling physics product for lots of reasons:
1) It is real physics with data and analysis
2) Inexpensive – about $.35 per group to complete
3) Easy to manage and store between classes
4) Student designed and cooperative learning
5) The tested final product can still be displayed (it isn’t destroyed!)
6) Includes student and group self-assessment
7) The testing equipment costs less than $10 and can be used for years.
8) Use of an online game to start student understanding
9) It’s
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6th - 12th
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Forces and Motion Unit | Printable, Digital & Editable Components
Save 40% by purchasing ALL my Forces and Motion teaching materials!Important Notes:• Download a FREE Unit Bundle to learn more about all my products.• Save $$$ with the Physical Science Complete Curriculum• Save $$$$ with the Integrated Science Complete Curriculum• Consider the Forces and Motion Unit Activities as an economical alternative to this resource• Consider Daily Lessons as an economical alternative to this unit bundle (see below)• This product includes FREE downloads of ALL future Forc
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4th - 9th
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NGSS:
3-PS2-1
, MS-PS2-4
, 3-PS2-2
, MS-PS2-2
, 5-PS2-1
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Kinetic and Potential Energy Hands On Lab Activity MS-PS3-5 and 4-PS3-4
No more boring worksheets! Instead try this fun hands-on lab activity where students work with a group to launch rubber bands with a ruler to investigate the relationship between potential and kinetic energy. Includes teaching suggestions, a student lab sheet with discussion questions, and an answer key. This is one of my favorite labs!Whether learning new concepts like how kinetic energy and potential energy are related or reviewing skills they have already learned such as how to find averages
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4th - 8th
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NGSS:
4-PS3-4
, MS-PS3-5
MS-PS2-1 Collisions, Momentum & Newton's Third Law Lab | Printable & Digital
About SNAPs Lab Stations ActivitiesSNAPs Lab Stations Activities require students to use science, math, literacy, problem-solving and engineering skills. They are designed to enhance students' understanding of scientific concepts and help students apply scientific ideas to the real world. Each station activity promotes skills so to develop students into proficient and competent scientific thinkers.SNAPs lab activities have five components:• Science Skills Station to develop science skill profici
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5th - 9th
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MS-PS2-1
Also included in: Forces and Motion Unit | Printable, Digital & Editable Components
Windmill Building STEM Activity
Get your students engaged with this hands on STEM Activity! Your students will be creative thinkers as they build windmills to harness the wind and investigate alternative energy sources. These activity is PERFECT for use in your classroom or a STEM open house!❤️ You will LOVE using this Windmill STEM activity because it is so SIMPLE! The bases are reusable from class to class and the students focus on building the blades. Students follow the engineering design process to design, build, and
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4th - 8th
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Physics Science Experiment STEM projects MEGA pack of 50 learning labs
PREVIEW AVAILABLE!LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? CHECK OUT OTHER STEM RESOURCES IN MY SHOP!I've redesigned and cleaned up all of my 50 stem labs in this new version. What's new? They're cleaner looking and a bit prettier. Along with new cover graphics, they also have new category tags that allow you to cross-reference them with other labs, so you can work with similar materials or themes. These indexes and alphabetical listings are a huge bonus! This is the kind of thing you'll want to print, hole-punch, an
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Newton's Laws of Motion Stations {Interactive and Fun!}
These stations will keep your students MOVING! Designed to fit in one class period, your students will build on what they have been taught in the classroom concerning Newton's Laws of Motion. This is a great way to reinforce material in your Science classroom. You can opt to use these activities as stations and simply use them as labs or activities to enhance what you already have planned in the classroom.*Now includes an answer key!This set of stations include:--Classifying activity cards of ev
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5th - 8th
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Earthquake Jello Lab Activity STEM
This lab or activity is a hands-on and collaborative learning lesson that incorporates the following:
STEM
Earthquakes
Geology
Engineering
Design
Real-World Connections
Problem Solving
Inferencing and Predicting
Materials: this handout, mini-marshmellows, toothpicks, jello
Overview: Students will work together to tackle a real-world problem: engineers are constantly working to design and build buildings that can survive the impact of serious earthquakes. I show students some videos and picture
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5th - 10th
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Icebreaker Physics Activity - Interact, Discuss and Learn | Inquiry Based | BTS
This is a great icebreaker for the first days of your physics classroom. Students will get a taste of physics as they watch videos and discuss the physics behind different phenomena. Everything is editable and ready to use!Ever watched a video on TV, Youtube, Facebook, or Instagram that left you in awe, wondering, "How did that work?" This activity is filled with clips just like that, which will leave students wanting to learn more and more about physics. Students Will:1) Watch a series of stimu
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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HS-PS2-2
, HS-PS3-1
, HS-PS2-1
Also included in: First Week of Physics | Back To School Bundle with Icebreakers
Electromagnetic Waves Stations Light Waves Properties Digital Print NGSS MS-PS4
These stations will captivate kids and make LIGHT come alive! You will get “ooohs” and “ahhhs” as the students wonder in amazement at the power of light! And! This resource is phenomena driven!!! A very important part of NGSS is doing activities that are phenomena driven, also known as discrepant events. When students do activities with very little prior knowledge the students WANT to know the answers and it fosters the metacognitive process. I tell them it’s ok they don’t know the answers and t
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6th - 12th
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MS-PS4-1
, MS-PS4-2
Photosynthesis Student-Led Station Lab
This modular, student-led activity about photosynthesis will keep your middle school class engaged and learning throughout this energy lesson. These comprehensive materials will save you a TON of prep time while giving students a chance to direct their own learning. In this station lab, students will learn to recognize that radiant energy from the sun is transformed into chemical energy This Photosynthesis Station Lab activity is also included in my Photosynthesis 5E Lesson Plan, which includes
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6th - 8th
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Velocity and Acceleration Lab Activity for Middle and High School Students
Give your students practice and reinforcement over Speed, Velocity and Acceleration with this engaging lab activity. This easy set-up activity is sure to interest and engage your Physical Science students while giving them practice over calculations, graphing motion and using correct units. My students love to see Physics in action and this lab will not disappoint! Included in this activity: ★3 page student lab sheet ★Teacher instructions and material set-up ★Pictures for easy set-up You might
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6th - 12th
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Potential & Kinetic ENERGY Jumping Origami FROGS LAB
This Hands-On, Self-Directed, Action LAB--actually TWO(2) different LABS- allow students to explore the relationship between Potential and Kinetic Energy using a folded ORIGAMI FROG! This is one of my students' favorite labs, and helps them to understand how Potential Energy changes into Kinetic Energy. Students make their own Origami FROG out of an index card (copy-able plans and video link included) and then, CHALLENGE each FROG across a FROG LONG JUMP for distance! I have also included a
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6th - 8th
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Magnets and Electricity Unit Bundle | Printable, Digital & Editable Components
Save 40% by purchasing ALL my Magnets and Electricity teaching materials!Important Notes:• Download a FREE Unit Bundle to learn more about all my products.• Save $$$ with the Physical Science Complete Curriculum• Save $$$$ with the Integrated Science Complete Curriculum• Consider the Magnets and Electricity Unit Activities as an economical alternative to this resource• Consider Daily Lessons as an economical alternative to this unit bundle (see below)• This product includes FREE downloads of ALL
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3rd - 9th
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NGSS:
3-PS2-3
, MS-PS2-3
, MS-PS2-5
, 3-PS2-4
Electric and Magnetic Forces Student-Led Station Lab
This modular, student-led activity about electric and magnetic forces will keep your middle school class engaged and learning throughout this energy lesson. These comprehensive materials will save you a TON of prep time while giving students a chance to direct their own learning. In this station lab, students will learn to identify and compare the characteristics of electric and magnetic forces. This Electromagnetic Spectrum Station Lab activity is also included in my Electromagnetic Spectrum 5E
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5th - 9th
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Slow Can Race STEM Forces in Motion Activity/ Experiment: Creating Friction
This interactive STEM activity is always a highlight of my forces and motion unit! This activity is perfect to reinforce the concepts of forces and friction. Students need to cover or wrap a regular can in different materials to se how they affect the speed a can can travel down a ramp. Students experiment to see how friction affects motion. Set the stage by building up the idea that this is a race- THEN explain that the SLOWEST can is the winner! Students often wrap all kinds of materials
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3rd - 8th
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Visible Light Student-Led Station Lab
This modular, student-led activity about visible light will keep your middle school class engaged and learning throughout this energy lesson. These comprehensive materials will save you a TON of prep time while giving students a chance to direct their own learning. In this station lab, students will learn to explore how different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum are used to gain information. This Visible Light Energy Station Lab activity is also included in my Visible Light Energy 5E
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6th - 8th
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Types of Forces Lab Stations Activity | Printable, Digital & Editable
About SNAPs Lab Stations ActivitiesSNAPs Lab Stations Activities require students to use science, math, literacy, problem-solving and engineering skills. They are designed to enhance students' understanding of scientific concepts and help students apply scientific ideas to the real world. Each station activity promotes skills so to develop students into proficient and competent scientific thinkers.SNAPs lab activities have five components:• Science Skills Station to develop science skill profici
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3rd - 9th
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Also included in: Forces and Motion Unit | Printable, Digital & Editable Components
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STEM Project-Design a Slow Marble Ramp [Force and Friction Activity] Updated!
This interactive STEM project is an introduction or review of forces and friction that will get you students thinking and engaged! Students design, build, test and analyze a system of ramps for a marble to travel down slowly! Simple materials will work for this like cardboard paper towel tubes and various fabrics. You will be amazed at what students come up with! Included in this project are:Informational Reading on the friction with review questions.STEM design sheet to draw and explain their
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4th - 9th
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