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Take Home Lab - Transverse Waves & Wave Properties of LightThis is a fun and engaging way to help students understand how to conduct a lab while learning about transverse waves and how rainbows can be created from light. Great for distance learning. This take home lab was built for students to do entirely at home with little to no help from a teacher or adult. However, the lab could be used as an independent inquiry lab in class. The supplies needed for this lab are ones that most if not all st

This is a fun and engaging way to help student understand how to read and interpret a lab before they start doing it. This is a worksheet intended to help students read and understand a lab handout before they start doing it. It can be completed in class or done as homework. Some topics that this worksheet covers include hypothesis, materials needed, lab safety, new words, and procedures. What is included?~ Printable worksheet ~ Teacher instructions and suggestions

This is a fun and engaging way to help student visualize how humans hear and see. This is a worksheet to be give to students after they have been introduced to the anatomy of the ear and eye. The students will be asked to color and label the diagrams as well as explain how the different parts are used by the body to allow humans to perceive sound and light. What is included?~ Printable worksheet with diagrams ~ Teacher instructions and suggestions What types of files are included?~ PDF

Take Home Lab - Physical Changes - Dissolving & FreezingThis is a fun and engaging way to help students understand how to conduct a lab while learning about physical changes that occur when dissolving a solute into a solvent and how the freezing temperature of water is lowered when a solute is added. Great for distance learning. This take home lab was built for students to do entirely at home with little to no help from a teacher or adult. However, the lab could be used as an independent inquiry

First Flower - Video GuideThis is a fun and engaging way to help students learn how scientists are using fossils and present day plants to discover what the first flower could have looked like. Great for supplemental material, a sub day, or distance learning. This video guide was created for the documentary First Flower produced by NOVA. In this documentary, a team of scientists talk about a fossil found in China that is believed to be one of the oldest known fossils of a flowering plant. They

This is a good way to engage your students in the fight against bullying. This is a survey to give to students to find out if they have been bullied or if they have been the bully. There is also a question that allows students to give suggestions to the school to help reduce and eliminate bullying. What is included?~ 2 page printable survey made of 10 multiple choice and 2 short answer questions ~ Teacher instructions and suggestions