Kimberly Repking

This STEM project is a highly engaging project that students look forward to year from year at my school. The project spans one week, and students will build their own wind turbine and test multiple variables. The wind turbine uses wind energy from a box fan to lift a cup of pennies. In my science classes, we also make it a competition to see who can construct a wind turbine that can lift the greatest amount of pennies. Students will research, design, and construct their entire wind turbine! C

Kinetic Potential Energy This STEM project is an engineering project that incorporates both math and science (kinetic and potential energy) concepts. It will span over a four day period. My students completed this project after a mini-unit on potential energy and kinetic energy. Students also changed one variable on their catapult at a time and took data on that change to see which change was the best for their catapult. For example, the angle that the catapult was pulled back was a variable. St

This project correlates with my unit on forces and motion in my physical science middle school class. Over a span of three days, students design a car that will protect a raw egg from breaking when it hits the ground after being on a ramp. The students will then test and modify their design. Included are directions, student reflection questions, and a rubric to assess the student's egg car. This project was highly engaging and educative in my class. Students must use their critical thinking skil

Cells, Cells, Cells! These completely student-run seven cell stations require approximately three class periods to complete. Aligned with the NGSS, these cell stations focus on these main ideas: levels of organization, structure and function of organelles, differences between plant and animal cells, and mitosis. Students will receive a packet to complete as they travel from station to station in groups. All materials needed for the stations are included in the document. Two of the stations req

MITOSIS, MITOSIS, and more MITOSIS: Get the students up and moving with a game about mitosis! NO PREP WORK! This activity could serve as a great introduction to the life cycle of a cell, and it gets students acting out each phase from interphase, mitosis (prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase), and cytokinesis. Students will not realize that they are learning! You need a class size of at least twelve students to play this game.

This supply and demand game is an engaging way to teach supply and demand. Print the game peices to the supply and demand game and add a dice! It takes 3-4 players 20-30 minutes to play the game. Depending on the number of the dice rolled, students will obtain resources that can be traded with opponents to buy a house, a road, a commercial business, or a farm. Obviously, the resources that have a greater supply will have a lower demand, and vice versa. My students had a lot of fun playing this g

Frog Dissection: Student-friendly interactive notes, a visual ppt, and a quiz are included in this frog dissection product. Not able to find exactly what I needed for frog dissections myself, I created this product as a complete guide for my mini-unit on frog dissections. All you need are frogs and tools! This unit will lead students through each system of the frog's body individually, and students will extract and learn about the organs' purpose specific to that system. The following systems s

PUNNETT SQUARE FUN Students will choose a “mom” card and a “dad” card from this project and use Punnett squares to determine the genotype and phenotype of their child. (There are 25 mom cards for students to choose from, and 25 dad cards for students to choose from.) Each mom and dad card has 12 genotypes on the card. Students will draw what the mom looks like (mom’s phenotype), and they will draw what the dad looks like (dad’s phenotype). After each parent has a picture profile, students will c

Metric Measurement: Length Metric Measurement Length This length activity complements any metric measurement unit in a fun way. Students solve a puzzle by figuring length problems. Students will measure the a line in cm, mm, and in decameters. Students will also answer questions about using the appropriate unit in finding the distance of two objects. Each problem that they solve tells students where to place a puzzle piece in order to complete a puzzle. This activity allows students to self-c

Metric Measurement: This bingo game is a great review for any metric measurement unit! There are over 30 different bingo cards. I also included call cards so students can play this game in a small group setting or at a station. This bingo game includes vocabulary words from the following topics: length mass volume density temperature Looking for other fun measurement activities? Check out my metric measurement nursery rhymes here!

Metric Measurement: Volume Metric Measurement Volume This volume activity complements any metric measurement unit in a fun way. Students solve a puzzle by figuring volume problems. Students will measure the volume of regular solids, irregular solids, and liquids. Each problem that they solve tells students where to place a puzzle piece in order to complete a puzzle. This activity allows students to self-check their work. If an answer is incorrect, the puzzle will not turn out and students wil

4th Grade PARCC IAR Practice Tests can be used to help your students gain familiarity with the types of questions that may be presented to your students on the state tests. Each sheet has 12 questions, similiar to a typical state test, that can be used in class or for homework. The questions on each sheet are blended from different standards to gain a spiral review. There are 15 different question sets, which is total of 180 problems. All questions stem from Common Core 4th grade math standards.

Metric Measurement Assessment: This metric measurement assessment is accompanied with three interventions and an enrichment activity. Students will first complete an assessment that tests students' understanding of length, mass, volume, and temperature. Students will then correct the problems they missed and use data to determine which intervention they will complete with the provided corrections guide. Students will then complete either a length intervention, mass intervention, volume in

Metric Measurement: As students read nursery rhymes, they circle the correct metric measurement term. The following nursery rhymes centered around metric measurement are included: Jack and Jill, Humpty Dumpty, Itsy Bitsy Spider. In each nursery rhyme, students must choose 9-10 correct terms in the story. Examples: (From Jack and Jill) I don't want to go back down the hill to measure the (length, mass) that we just walked. (From Humpty Dumpty) One nice fall day, Humpty Dumpty scaled the tow

This packet of comprehension questions acccompanies each chapter in the book, "What is Climate Change?" by Gail Herman. There are a few questions for each chapter, and there are a few chapters on each page. These questions are on Google Slides so that they are editable. The questions are very specific to the text in that chapter. Below are the questions from chapter three to sample the work. Chapter 3Explain one way that scientists have figured out what climate was like thousands of years ago.

This conversions activity complements any metric measurement unit in a fun way. Students solve a puzzle by figuring conversion word problems. Each problem that they solve tells students where to place a puzzle piece in order to complete a puzzle. This activity allows students to self-check their work in a unique manner. If an answer is incorrect, the puzzle will not turn out and students will have to go back and rework that problem missed.

Nature of Science: This file contains four of my most engaging and most impactful nature of science hands-on lessons. Two of the nature of science activities are labs in which students are testing models in an experiment. In the labs, the students test varying heights of a Dixie cup "boat" and see if height will affect how much mass it can carry. In the second lab, students are testing different types of cheap cup "boats" to see if material affect how much mass a boat will carry. The third acti

This Diamond Willow guide will walk the class through the novel while learning and practicing two reading skills: Figurative Language and Point of View. While reading, students reflect on pages that are clearly marked to practice figurative language concepts such as: Imagery Metaphor Simile Hyperbole Repetition Idiom Personfiction Students will also practice the point of view skill by reflecting on who is narrating and how they think or feel. Students will also use text evidence to support thei

Fractions, Decimals, Percents, Number lines all wrapped up in one. I developed this resource to help my students link all of the different ways to write a number. Students will start off with just tenths: showing tenths as a fraction, decimal, picture, word, and percent. Then, students will add tenths visually by coloring in a base ten rods and combining the pictures. After students have mastered tenths, halves and fourths are introduced in the same concept: showing them as a fraction, decimal,

This product includes 3 Google Slides presentations for three different sets of vocabulary lists within unit (Week 1 and 2) (Week 3 and 4) (Week 5). On each slide, a vocabulary word is posted in the middle, and students need to type the definition, use the vocabulary word in a sentence, copy and paste a picture, and type antonyms and synonyms. All of the text and boxes are locked so that students cannot move objects around.