Making Science Fun

This is a card sort that is also a cut and paste activity. I spent 10 minutes on direct instruction and cornell notes, show a video then pass out this activity. Students cut out the 16 images and place them in the correct column under atom, element, molecule or compound. Use of interactive notebook: I have my students complete notes on the right (input) side and complete the cut and paste card sort on the left (output) side. This activity worksheet fits in composition books.

Students will cut out 30 squares to match the following - Discovery Made - Scientist who made the discovery - Year the discovery was made - Image of the discovery Once students have cut out the pieces and grouped them accordingly, teacher will check the answers. Students will then create a cell timeline using the pieces on Legal sized paper

Easy lab for 3rd-9th graders! Teacher guidance heavy for elementary, light for middle, facilitation for 9th grade. Students will discover the effect of potential energy on kinetic energy by dropping a bouncy ball from different heights and measuring the rebound height. Materials: Yard stick taped to walls and bouncy ball (1 ball per every 4 students) Lab Report is FULL with scientific method: Problem (done), Hypothesis (If, then statement), Variables (blank), Materials (done), Procedure (done),

This outlines what each paragraph in this 5 paragraph essay assignment should include. Elastic Potential Energy, Gravitational P.E, Law of Conservation of En- and careers that involve energy. Also includes extra credit opportunities to include the equations for EPE and GPE. Students can write essay in notebook using notes/resources/computer lab. Or, students can submit essay via google classroom or canvas. Page 1 is the essay instructions Page 2-3 is a paper saver to print instructions on 1/2 sh

Teachers: Teacher will print power point on card stock, I recommend 4-6 slides per page to make them into cards. Each set should have a number or color mark on them. Example, one set of cards should all have a blue star on them and another set of cards should have a pink star written on each card. This will prevent card decks from being mixed up between groups. Students will receive a stack of cards. Teacher should ask students to count the numbers of cards in the set, it should be 16. Students

Each PowerPoint slide has four sides, each side has either a vocabulary word or a definition. Print the PowerPoint Presentation 6 slides per page and cut them into rectangular pieces. Place the pieces into a plastic bag. If you want to save the game pieces, you can laminate the pieces or glue onto index cards. Give each group of students a plastic bag with the 12 paper pieces. Tell them to try and match 1 side of a piece with 1 side of a different piece. Continue to do so, until all 12 pieces