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The Lab Safety activity allows students to cut and paste titles, pictures, and descriptions to the inside of a lab coat. It is an excellent way to begin the year, introducing basic lab safety to elementary students. It is also helpful in establishing expectations for cutting, pasting, and note-booking.

The bundle includes an introductory article about force, energy, gravity, and friction. It also includes two labs (gravity and friction) as well as vocabulary cards and notes. Labs and vocabulary notes can be glued into an interactive notebook. Note: See my Energy Unit Activities listing if you need activities for types of energy. It also includes a copy of Coldilocks and the Three Polar Bears which also reinforces this unit.

Students will learn the basics of matter through the following lab activities: What Am I? Students will identifying characteristics of matter. Matter ClassificationStudents will use their observations to group objects based on their characteristics. Mass Matters:Students will measure the mass of objects and compare them. Don't Be So Dense:Students will observe the ability of objects to sink or float. Each interactive lab enables students to communicate as pairs, as table groups, and as a whole g

Types of Energy Activities:Students will be provided with various activities to help them understand the different types of energy (potential, kinetic, thermal, electric, light, mechanical, solar). Activities can be used as at stations as a review, or they can be used whole-group to introduce or reinforce concepts. Note: See my Energy Unit Activities listing if you need activities and labs for force and motion. It also includes a copy of Coldilocks and the Three Polar Bears which also reinforc

Students will observe the transformation of ice from a solid to a liquid and then to a gas. Students will measure the mass of ice at each stage, illustrate their observations, and describe what happens during each stage. At the end of the lab, students will draw a diagram that represents each state of matter. They will also write an open-ended response (OER) that applies what they have learned about the states of matter to chocolate. I have provided students with Hershey's kisses to demonstrate