Mr E's Class

Engage your students in meaningful, standards-aligned science learning with this complete Kinetic Energy Transfer mini-unit designed specifically for 6th grade NGSS classrooms. This resource helps students understand that when kinetic energy changes, energy is transferred — and supports them in building scientific arguments using real evidence. Perfect for: Middle school physical science NGSS-aligned classrooms Sub plans Observation lessons Hands-on learning days

Engage your students in hands-on engineering and energy exploration with this exciting Rube Goldberg Design Challenge! Students analyze energy transformations and then design, build, test, and refine their own multi-step chain reaction machine. This project blends physical science and engineering design while reinforcing kinetic energy, potential energy, energy transfer, and motion patterns — all aligned to NGSS middle school standards.

Engage your students in authentic scientific investigation with this NGSS-aligned Day and Night Storyline Unit focused on Earth’s rotation, tilt, and patterns of daylight around the world. Students begin with a compelling phenomenon — Polar Night in Alaska — and investigate one driving question they cannot answer until they gather evidence: Is the Sun moving around Earth, or is Earth rotating? Through hands-on investigations, modeling activities, shadow measurements, and global daylight data