Adrienne Kravchak

This is a practice activity reviewing the ways that light reacts with objects - light can be transmitted, reflected, refracted, or absorbed. Students are given images of four objects and asked to match the light reaction with each. PowerPoint with images is included for teacher to project during activity.

This lab rotates students through stations that allow for exploration of measurement using scientific tools, including graduated cylinder, balance scale, stopwatch, rulers, and more. Stations will need to be set up by teacher using materials listed.

Lab and notes covering physical and chemical changes. Lab takes students through five stations using everyday materials. Teacher will need to set up lab. Instructions for stations included. Notes cover physical changes, including mixtures and solutions, and chemical changes.

This document contains two labs to use when teaching about layers of the earth. They are both basic labs that will cover only crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core. One uses an egg and the other uses multiple foods for comparison.

Students are asked to build a 3-D model of an atom and develop a presentation that includes other important information about the element (contribution, compounds, etc.). Planning guide and rubric are included.

Similar to Go Fish, students try to make pairs using the five kingdoms. ("Do you have a fungus?") Cards have information about each kingdom and a picture of an organism.

This is a self-guiding PowerPoint that shows basic images of plant and animal cells. Students are asked to guess the type of cell as they go through and form their own generalization about the difference between plant and animal cells.

This is a quick investigation for students to create a rule for finding the area of a right triangle. Allowing them to discover this rule on their own by finding patterns will help them take ownership of their learning and remember what they found. This sheet shows them squares and rectangles and the areas of each. Students should understand how area of a rectangle is found before using this investigation. The rectangles are presented next to right triangles with the same length and width.

Triangles can be classified by sides or angles. Students are given examples and non-examples of right, obtuse, acute, scalene, isosceles, and equilateral triangles. They are asked to create their own meaning of each type of triangle by making generalizations based on the examples/non-examples.

This is a lab that guides student in scientific tool exploration. Stations will need to be prepared with materials described in lab. Student pages can be copied and measurement definitions placed at stations.

Worksheet practicing plate boundaries - convergent, divergent, transform. Students are asked to describe and apply thinking.

Students must follow the design brief process to build an original instrument that meets certain qualifications involving pitch and volume. Task introduction, design process, and rubric are included.

Students can practice solving problems using this order of operations game. Directions, game boards, game cards, and answer cards are all included. Teacher may choose to write the answer on the back of the cards before playing. This really helped my students that needed extra practice with Order of Ops.

Each section offers students examples and non-examples of a target shape. Students can discuss the characteristics of the target shape from the examples and decide the name of that shape. Finally, an exit ticket is provided to help the teacher determine if students understand this concept. Shapes included are circles, spheres, squares, cubes, rectangles, and rectangular prisms.

Simple assignment requiring students to draw certain shapes over lines to create lines of symmetry. Students must select from certain shapes provided, requiring them to recognize shapes that will and will not have a line of symmetry.

Cards to play zip around (I Have, Who Has) that require students to make customary capacity conversions between gallons, quarts, pints, and cups.

In this lab, students observe several materials to determine if they are transparent, translucent, or opaque.

This STEM task asks students to recreate an ancient Egyptian shaduf. It follows the engineering design cycle, asking students to imagine, plan, create, evaluate, and improve.

Students are asked to build a 3-D model of an atom and develop a presentation that includes other important information about the element (contribution, compounds, etc.). Planning guide and rubric are included.

This is a quick assessment to gauge understanding of angles and plane figures.