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Use this lab to build a connecting terrarium and aquarium with your students using pop bottles. This reinforces measurement, metrics, ecology, abiotic and biotic factors, water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles, and more! Students will love to watch their biospheres throughout the year as they learn what is required to sustain life.

Use these 5 activities to bring STEAM to your school or classroom while spreading Olympic cheer.

Students work through the scientific method to practice observations, research statements, hypotheses, variables, and conclusions.They analyze the fascinating scene unfolding in front of them to learn about bonds and equilibrium. You can even relate this to their own lives and why we use soap to wash our clothes/dishes!

What happens when milk is combined with coke? This cool reaction takes just 24 hours to see!

How many drops of water will the head of a penny hold? This lab is great for any time of the year to introduce or practice the scientific method. Make observations, a hypothesis, and analyze the surprising results!

This is a research project that allows students to guide their own learning about ten types/forms of energy. It includes a rubric for their presentation and note template for students to complete throughout all presentations! This project is a student favorite and lasts about a week.

Here is a power point that I have perfected over the years. It includes information on abiotic vs. biotic factors, characteristics of living things, classification systems, autotrophs vs. heterotrophs, and the 6 kingdoms! You will love this information-packet power point.

Notes about waves, their characteristics, wave interaction, properties of waves, and the two types of mechanical waves.

Attached are two documents. The first is a spreadsheet of 6 different cities followed by columns for the date, sunrise time, sunset time, high temperature, low temperature and 2-3 websites where information can be found. (This wouldn't load as a preview.) The second is the sheet you see below with questions encouraging students to analyze their data for patterns to learn more about how the globe is affected by Earth's revolution around the Sun.

Use this resource to bring engineering to life as students sketch, plan, budget for, and build the perfect leprechaun trap! Be sure to ask students what they want to buy from your store, how much it costs, and which coins they will need to purchase those items. This project was a lot of fun for my class.

This power point is great for Smart boards etc. Its slides are linked to the first one so that students can take turns matching vocabulary terms to their definitions. Just like in the game "Memory", students must remember what they have seen so they can make each correct match.

Test that assesses students' knowledge of the characteristics and types of protists. This includes the organelles of a protist and their functions.

These worksheets can be used for whole-class, small group, or individual instruction. I begin them in class and have students finish them for homework. The sheets cover observations, both quantitative and qualitative, and inferences.

Assessment of wave interaction, mechanical waves, and wave characteristics. Answers for matching: DHCFLAKJ Answers for pictures: reflection, refraction, transverse wave

This interactive jeopardy review game covers the following topics: solar radiation, thermal energy, winds, air masses, fronts, and vocabulary.

Set these up around the room and students can rotate through them to review lab safety.

This is an interactive Jeopardy game meant to review the hydrological cycle and water filtration systems.

Use this resource to sketch the phases of the moon throughout the month. Then review with questions about shading, where the terms waxing, waning, gibbous, etc. come from.

Questionnaire to go with Bill Nye's "Water Cycle" video

Here is a great lab to determine whether eggs are hard-boiled or raw. It follows the scientific method and allows students to practice these steps.