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This product is a review of contact and non-contact forces. It could also be used for an assessment. Students identify the type of forceif the force shown is contact or non-contactwhere they see this force in their daily lives.

This powerpoint will guide your students to explore the 3 states of matter. Go through the slides with your students. When you get to the final slide students are instructed to rule up their workbooks into three sections with a label for each third - solid, liquid and gas. Prior to the lesson you will have set up the tables with a variety of materials for students to investigate. You will require the following samples - small jar of gravel, small jar of water, small jar of oil, an empty label

The students use their senses to discover the properties of water. Students touch, smell, listen, taste, and look at water through a variety of hands on activities. Give each student a plastic cup of water. Seeing Ask the students to describe what the water looks like. What color is it? What happens when you place it against a piece of coloured construction paper? What happens if you add light to the side of the water container? Have a small torch and shine this through the water. Hearing

Students will learn that everyday tasks that seem easy to us are difficult for a mechanical robot to perform. Students will investigate this by using a robotic toy hand. As a class we will discuss the limitations and challenges that robots face in grasping tools and manipulating them. To conduct this lesson you will need to purchase up to 12 or 14 robotic toy hands. This can be purchased at Toys R Us for about $7(Australian dollars) each. There are plenty of youtube clips that you can show t

This is Part 2 of the remote control vehicle investigation. You will need to purchase the accompanying powerpoint that takes you through the investigation step by step. On the worksheet the students can plan their investigation, write a prediction, identify how they can ensure that they conduct a fair test and record their findings and data on a table.

The students made paper dart planes using the details from my website. Cut and paste this link to access the site. https://thescienceworkshop.weebly.com/flight.html After constructing their planes the students made teams of three to conduct their own challenge. Use the powerpoint to guide students about setting up their own fair test investigation, drawing a table in their Science journal and evaluating the investigation.

This worksheet accompanies the powerpoint 'Investigating with a robotic arm'. Students will work in teams of two to move ten objects into a tray using their robotic arm. Students make a prediction, record how many objects for ten trials and draw a picture of the investigation.

This resource is the first part or introduction to an activity investigating friction using remote control cars. For this lesson I purchased three different remote control vehicles from K Mart - a four wheel drive, a sports car and a jeep/buggy. Use the powerpoint to guide the students through the learning activities which include writing a prediction, conducting a fair test and recording their findings. The powerpoint also includes a procedure explaining how to set up the investigation on yo

This is the first part of a series of lessons investigating pressure. The images in the powerpoint will generate class discussion. The concluding image sets a challenge for the students about what will happen when a cup with a hole in it is dropped from a height.

The students make their own Scribblebots in teams of three. The following websites provide details on how to make a Scribblebot. http://www.life.org.uk/blog/make-at-home-scribble-bots/ http://www.mdsci.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Scribble-Bots.pdf http://www.life.org.uk/blog/make-at-home-scribble-bots/ Once the students have completed their Scribblebot's conduct a brainstorm with the students and record their ideas on how they could test out their Scribblebot's performance. Give each team ve

This is the student planning sheet to accompany the 'Team Investigation' outlined in part two of the Pressure series. Students follow the PROE strategy - students Predict, give a Reason for their prediction, Observe and record their findings in a table and construct a diagram and Explain what happened using evidence from their investigation.

This is a lesson plan, powerpoint and an accompanying worksheet about water pressure. The first investigation is with the teacher demonstrating how water stops flowing out of a plastic cup that has holes in it when it is dropped from a height. In the second investigation the students conduct their own trial by allowing water to be released from a hole in the bottle one at a time and measuring how far the water comes out at. There is also a challenge activity for the students to discuss on youtub