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3rd grade physical science resources under $5
STEM I Can Build®️ Cards, Books, and Anchor Charts
I Can Build books and anchor charts are a fun way to get students thinking of all the things they can build and engineer! It is an easy and manageable way to add STEM to your classroom with real photographs!Blocks and manipulatives give students the opportunity to be creative, problem-solve, develop math concepts, develop eye-hand coordination, develop fine motor (if the blocks are small), and develop inquiry skills (STEM & STEAM). Add a literacy component and have students draw and write ab
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PreK - 5th
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Also included in: STEM I Can Build®️ Cards, Books, and Anchor Charts BUNDLE
Magic School Bus Rocks and Rolls - Erosion Worksheets
These worksheets were created to accompany the Magic School Bus episode on erosion (Magic School Bus Rocks and Rolls). These worksheets are a great supplement to any NGSS or science unit on rocks, erosion, or even habitats!Worksheets in this product are:• Fill-in-the-blank video guide with word bank• Comprehension check: Write a definition and Describe 3 ways• Extension activity: Draw the effects of erosionAnswer keys are included.This product is included in my Magic School Bus Video Worksheets
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Magic School Bus Video Worksheets *GROWING BUNDLE*
Magic School Bus Plays Ball - Force and Motion Worksheets
These worksheets were created to accompany the Magic School Bus episode on forces and motion (Magic School Bus Plays Ball). These worksheets are a great supplement to any NGSS or science unit on forces, motion, and friction.Worksheets include:• Fill-in-the-blank video guide with word bank• Comprehension check: Vocabulary match-up and Short Answer• Extension activity: Your favorite sport without frictionAnswer keys are included.This product is included in my Magic School Bus Video Worksheets COMP
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Magic School Bus Video Worksheets *PHYSICS BUNDLE*
Summer STEM Challenge Solar Oven Smores - Solar Energy Activity
In this summer STEM challenge students learn about solar energy as they design and build a solar oven to cook their own smores! This thermal energy project is cross-curricular with activities that incorporate science, reading, writing, math and creativity!Click the green PREVIEW button to see what is included in this fun activity!In this activity students will work through the engineering design process, utilize teamwork, communication, creative thinking and problem solving skills.Students will
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
MS-PS3-3
Marshmallow Catapult STEM KIT
This marshmallow catapult STEM activity is perfect for these last days before winter break, or as a gift to your students! Students will build a catapult that launches a marshmallow into a cup of hot chocolate, or their mouth! This STEM kit costs about $1 per student to make!Included: Teacher Google Slides to use for a whole class lesson whether you are in person, virtual, or hybrid!Digital student recording sheet to post on Google Classroom (optional)Paper student recording sheet to use for in
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2nd - 8th
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Force and Motion Science Centers | 3rd Grade 4th Grade Reading Passage Activity
Force and Motion Science Weekly Five™ Stations help introduce students to friction, magnetism, gravity, and applied force.Updated for 2022. Stations are improved, an answer key was added, and everything you need is included in one easy PDF. Look out for more updated units!5 Quick and Simple Centers1. Read: Why Do Objects Move?2. Explore: Investigate how ramp height affects distance a toy car travels3. Organize: Classify forces as causing motion or slowing motion4. Extend: Explore gravity with a
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3rd - 4th
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Light & Sound Energy Science Centers | 3rd 4th Grade Reading Passage Activities
Light and Sound Energy Science Weekly Five™ Stations help introduce students to the properties of 2 forms of energy, light and sound.Updated for 2022. Stations are improved, an answer key was added, and everything you need is included in one easy PDF. Look out for more updated units!5 Quick and Simple Centers1. Read: What Are Light and Sound?2. Explore: Use a bowl, coin, and water to explore refraction3. Organize: Interpret a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting sound and light4. Extend: Use a
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3rd - 4th
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Mass, Volume, & States of Matter Science Centers | 4th Grade Activities & Sort
Matter Science Weekly Five™ Stations help introduce students to the physical states and other properties of matter.Updated for 2022. Stations are improved, an answer key was added, and everything you need is included in one easy PDF. Look out for more updated units!5 Quick and Simple Centers1. Read: What is Matter?2. Explore: Use a balance to measure the mass of various objects3. Organize: Classify properties of mass and volume4. Extend: Explore similarities and differences between solids, liqui
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3rd - 4th
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Simple Machines Sort Cut & Paste Examples, Definitions & Application- DIGITAL!
This interactive and hands-on sort activity will allow your students to determine definitions and examples for the 6 different simple machines for your Upper Elementary Science Classroom. In this resource students first cut out pieces from a worksheet that have machines, definitions and examples on them. They then sort these pieces onto corresponding groups and glue them into place. It is a great way to teach, practice and asses this tricky concept in a kinesthetic way!This hands- on activity i
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3rd - 6th
Magic School Bus Getting Energized - Energy Worksheets
These worksheets were created to accompany the Magic School Bus episode on sources of energy (Magic School Bus Getting Energized). These worksheets are a great supplement to any NGSS or science unit on energy, engineering, or forces!Worksheets in this product are:• Fill-in-the-blank video guide with word bank• Comprehension check: Graphic organizer and Draw to explain• Extension activity: Draw your own festival rideAnswer keys are included.This product is included in my Magic School Bus Video Wo
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Magic School Bus Video Worksheets *PHYSICS BUNDLE*
Build a Bubble Wand End of the Year STEM Challenge
Integrate STEM in your Classroom at the End of the School Year!Make learning fun with this End of the Year STEM Activity! For the Bubble Wand STEM Challenge, students are asked by a toy company to design a bubble wand that makes the biggest bubbles.The STEM Process:Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't.Amazing resource for STEM club, STEM Teachers, STEM Friday, parents who love ha
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Elementary STEM Activities and Challenges MEGA BUNDLE
March Madness Basketball STEM Activity Engineering, Sports, Elementary
Integrate STEM in your classroom with a Basketball STEM Challenge!Get your students pumped up for basketball and STEM! Design and build an amazing Basketball Shooter and Goal! Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas for creating a basketball shooter and goal. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't.The Engineering Design Process:Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, th
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Grades:
1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: March STEM Activities and Challenges Bundle Basketball, St Patricks Day
Plant Life Cycle Worksheets Observation Journal Crafty and Anchor Chart Posters
This is a 116 page set that is perfect for teaching the LIFE CYCLE OF A PLANT! It includes anchor chart posters, vocabulary cards, foldables, worksheets, sequencing activities, interactive notebook sheets, an observation journal, a craft, and more! This is the only file you will need to teach your entire plant & seeds unit! ⭐Save $$$$$$ by purchasing this as part of my Life Cycles Bundle or my 2nd Grade Science Bundle.⭐This packet includes:➤(1-2) Title Page/Printing instructions➤(3) Literatu
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Life Cycles Bundle Chicken | Butterfly | Plant
Electricity & Electrical Circuits Centers | 4th Grade Reading Passage Labs Sort
Electricity Science Weekly Five™ Stations help introduce students to electrical energy, conductors and insulators, and circuits.Updated for 2022. Stations are improved, an answer key was added, and everything you need is included in one easy PDF. Look out for more updated units!5 Quick and Simple Centers1. Read: What is Electricity?2. Explore: Investigate how current flows through a circuit3. Organize: Classify materials as conductors or insulators of electrical energy4. Extend: Build and test a
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3rd - 4th
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End of the Year STEM Activity: Egg Drop Challenge
Do you need a super engaging, ready-to-go lesson for your science class?
The Great EGG-scape STEM Activity is perfect for busy teachers that desire to place the learning in the students' hands! This activity is perfect because there are no special materials to buy (other than eggs). You can use regular classroom materials to engage your students in this student directed activity that they are sure to love.
Challenge:
Henry and Bonita Eggstair have just opened a Skydiving Expedition business a
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3rd - 8th
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Magnets Magnetism Science Centers | 3rd 4th Grade Reading Passage Sort Activity
Magnets Science Weekly Five™ Stations help introduce students to magnets and the property of magnetism.Updated for 2022. Stations are improved, an answer key was added, and everything you need is included in one easy PDF. Look out for more updated units!5 Quick and Simple Centers1. Read: Magnetic Attraction2. Explore: Investigate the strength of different magnets3. Organize: Classify materials as magnetic or nonmagnetic4. Extend: Explore magnetism with various metals5. Vocab: Attract, compass, p
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3rd - 4th
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Push or Pull Sort Worksheet Activity Force and Motion Printable and Digital
Are you talking about force and motion in your classroom? This is a great 12 item sort for your lesson that includes PUSH or PULL? Students will sort the actions into the push or pull columns. Then, at the bottom, the students will record what they can push and what they can pull. I have also updated this resource to include a digital Google Slides™ version AND the printable PDF!✅Save $$$$$$$$$ and purchase this as part of my No Prep SORTS Growing BUNDLE and my Push or Pull Activities BUNDLE!✅In
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K - 3rd
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Mixtures and Solutions Sort Worksheet Activity and Craftivity
Engage your students while teaching them about the physical science concepts of mixtures and solutions! This craftivity is a great way to get in that much-needed practice and assess what they know!Check out the preview for details!Objective:For students to learn and retain the matter concepts of mixtures and solutions using an engaging activity.This Resource Covers:What mixtures and solutions areHow mixtures and solutions can be separatedExamples of mixtures and solutionsWith this Resource You'l
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3rd - 5th
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Electric Circuits Worksheets Bundle
This bundle includes:Editable electric energy notes presentations in PowerPoint and Google Slides formats Editable electric energy notes handout in Word and Google Docs formats5 electric circuit worksheets with answer keys (see descriptions below)Electric circuits quiz with answer keyStudent response sheet for an electric conductors and insulators labI use all of this with my 5th graders, though it could be used for other grade levels as well depending upon your curriculum.The activity sheets in
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3rd - 6th
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Science Word Wall: Editable
Are you looking for vocabulary words to use in your classroom? This EDITABLE word wall pack is perfect! This includes 55+ physical science words, editable vocabulary cards to add your own words and definitions, directions on how to make your own, and "Science Word Wall" letters to hang above your words!
This is a *GROWING BUNDLE!* Words will continuously be added to this pack! Grab it while you can!
Physical Science Words Included:
Controlled Variable
Hypothesis
Independent Variable
Dependent
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Grades:
1st - 12th
Force & Motion Interactive Notebook - Laws of Motion, Gravity/Friction, & MORE!
Using interactive notebooks with your elementary students doesn't need to be complicated! In fact, this Force and Motion Interactive Notebook is already done for you - just print (or assign the digital version!) and go!You'll appreciate the easy-to-cut pieces and simple assembly that doesn't take up too much time for your students, so that they can focus on what they are learning.Totally new to interactive notebooks? The teacher guide gives you the best tips and strategies for making interacti
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3rd - 5th
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Transparent, Translucent, Opaque Light Text Reading, Experiment, Sort Activity
This interactive and hands-on experiment and sorting activity will allow your students to actually the difference between materials that are transparent, translucent and opaque. This is a great way to teach, practice and asses this tricky concept in a kinesthetic way! Use this for your upper elementary or middle school science class.This product includes:Text reading with comprehension questions introducing light, reflection, transparent, translucent and opaque vocabulary.A simple experiment to
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3rd - 7th
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Modeling the Rock Cycle with Starburst Science Lab Experiment PRINT and DIGITAL
In this hands-on science lab experiment, students use Starburst candies to model how rocks can change between sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks in the rock cycle. Students will use scissors, hot water, and an iron to simulate weathering and erosion into sediment, melting and cooling, heat and pressure. This resource includes: Teacher directions, discussion questions, and extension activities 5 pages of background information about the rock cycle 11 pages of directions that walk student
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3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS1-4
, MS-ESS2-3
, MS-ESS2-1
, 4-ESS2-2
, 4-ESS2-1
Scientific Method Independent/Dependent Experimental Variables & Questions Game
This one is AWESOME! Explore the fundamentals of experimental design: independent variable, dependent variable, control variables and, articulate the question that will guide the scientific investigation. Students will arrange variable cards on a shuffleboard and based on their arrangement, formulate a question to investigate the relationship between their independent and dependent variables. Thirteen experimental scenarios to choose from. No additional materials are required to complete this a
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3rd - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-LS1-5
, MS-ETS1-2
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-PS2-3
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