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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.

30-question science pre-test for 7th grade aligned with the New Ohio Science Standards/Common Core

Students learn the meaning of maritime, continental, tropical, and polar air masses and are able to practice identifying where they come from.

This 30 question pre-test is aligned with the New Ohio Learning Standards for Science.

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

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.

Assessment of the geologic time scale, fossils, relative and absolute age, etc.

Mark and Recapture is one of the 4 methods used to count populations. This lab allows students to run through two scenarios of mark and recapture with turtles to see how the method works and what we can learn from the data gathered. Paper turtles are provided!

Assessment for Earth's rotation, revolution, orbit, seasons, solstices, equinoxes and more.

Use any or all of these labs to help students practice the scientific method. Some come with helpful hints or what to write as research, variables, constants, etc. I have also used portions of this as a hands-on summative assignment instead of a test.

Students experiment to determine which substance heats up and cools down quicker; sand/soil or water. This is a great way to introduce atmospheric and oceanic currents as well as land and sea breezes.

presentation or pdf explaining lake effect snow

This project is a great way to wrap up energy and energy transfer! Students work together to synthesize what they have learned about energy and use that knowledge to compare energy use before 1600 to energy use today.

Students will review how humans have determined the age of earth through fossils, geologic events, relative dating, radioactive dating, and the exploration of outer space by creating a children's book.

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

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 activity will help you introduce, inspire, and review lab safety rules. Students can make their own memes for your lab safety rules where you list the rule or a clue like we did.

Clues with answers provided that will review the first semester of 8th grade science including Earth's Interior, Earthquakes, Weathering and Erosion, and Land Features. I use this for review bingo-students can make their boards as I read the red answers, then I will read the clues in random order.

What determines weather a breeze is a land or sea breeze? Students illustrate what time of day it is as well as where the wind is coming from/going to during a land and a sea breeze.