Danielle Marson

A complete bridge building stem lesson, including a budget-based build to minimize waste of materials. Incorporates pre-planning, budgeting math, teamwork, engineering practices, problem-solving skills, and learning about bridge designs. Includes: Bridge Building PowerPoint, which goes through the 6 main types of bridges, and the project details Basic Bridge Types worksheet, for students to take brief notes on the 6 basic bridge types to build their background knowledgeBridge Designing worksh

Step-by-step handout for how to make scientifically-correct paper snowflakes. True snowflakes always have 6 sides, which is not usually how paper snowflakes are created. The procedure (written in procedure form) walks students through creating a 6-sided perfect snowflake, using a compass, protractor, scissors, rulers, and their pencils. This handout includes a short background on snowflakes, the goal for the lesson, materials needed, procedure to follow (including 2 figures for reference),

This investigation uses to cars, ramps, and books to investigate the effect of potential energy on kinetic energy. This worksheet goes through the scientific method, including data collection, calculating velocity, and graphing.

This is a 13-question worksheet to go along with the video "The Great Melt", as part of the "Nature's Greatest Events" series. It is a word document that has 2 worksheets on one page, to save paper. The questions are in order and are throughout the whole video, to keep the students engaged the whole time.

This worksheet is useful to practice identifying the different types of energy using everyday examples. There are 20 examples. The types of energies are listed at the top of the worksheet as an answer bank. Editable Word document. **Answer key is on page 3**

This is one of my favorite end-of-the-year activities: a research project where students have the freedom to choose their topic (science related) and how it's presented to the class (powerpoint, poster, video, etc.) I have also used this as a beginning of the year project to see what students are interested in and to get some fun posters/student work up on the wall. When using as a beginning of the year project, I usually give them more narrow choices for the topic. This includes very basic ins

This is a multiple-choice test to assess student's learning of metric/measurement basics. Topics tested include identifying units, identifying what unit goes to what measurement, definitions of metric measurements, and differences between units of measure. Answer key is provided. Editable Word document.

This project is designed for middle school students to research what global warming is and brainstorm some solutions. They create a poster geared towards people their age to inform and also give them ideas for ways they can help. Students also write a letter to their local senators, to encourage them to put some solutions into action to help the environment. Rubric is included.

This includes background info, pre-lab questions, post-lab questions, materials, and procedure for a battery/circuit lab using everyday objects. It reviews or introduces circuits, chemical and electrical energy, converting energy types, and batteries. Editable Word document. Materials needed for this lab (per group): · Distilled white vinegar (about 1/2 cup) · 7 pieces of copper wire · 7 galvanized nails · 1 Ice tray · 1 LED light

This is a 20-questions video worksheet that goes along with Episode 1: A World of Wonder from the breathtaking series Our Great National Parks. The questions go in order of the video and include an answer key.

A complete fill-in-the-blank study guide to review for the AIMS Arizona Science Test (8th grade level). It will help your students review the main standards tested.