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Do you want to do a mineral identification lab with your students but are struggling with cleaning/distancing/Covid issues? This VIRTUAL mineral identification lab will walk students through 8 different minerals and has them use a dichotomous key to identify them.

Climate is what you EXPECT, Weather is what you GET! Using M & Ms, students will gather data about weather and hypothesize about the climate of the area. This includes a VIRTUAL OPTION for students who are remote learners or students without access to M & M candies!

This digital resource adds a colorful and engaging twist genetics and Punnett Squares! Students will analyze residents of Bikini Bottom and their potential mates to determine the genotypes and phenotypes that potential kids might have! (Includes classic crosses, incomplete dominance crosses, and dihybrid crosses)

This independent practice allows students the opportunity to work through many examples and determine the differences between physical and chemical properties and physical and chemical changes. They work up in difficulty and practice writing evidence for their decisions.

Students will get comfortable with latitude and longitude coordinates by playing the classic game: BATTLESHIP! This digital resource will allow students to play against each other virtually or in person, while still having fun and learning about coordinate systems!

An introduction to how air masses form and how regions get their climates around the world. This is an interactive lesson involving color coding, matching, and critical thinking questions about climate zones.

This is a virtual interactive activity designed to show students first-hand the differences between renewable and nonrenewable resources. In this activity, students will be able to interact with each other in a friendly competition for resources, students will gather and analyze data, students will graph, and students will answer conclusion questions. This whole activity is designed using Google Slides and does not require any other resources or require students to share any physical materials!

An introduction to the periodic table: students will look at stick figure "mugshots" and put them in an order that makes sense (according to the number of arms and fingers). These pictures will ultimately align with the number of electrons and valence shells of the elements! This interactive puzzle teaches problem solving skills and lets students visualize parts of an atom in a way they are more familiar with.

A series of mini lessons with evidence, interactive maps and practice scenarios including Continental Drift, Convergent Boundaries, Divergent Boundaries, and Transform Boundaries. This is NOT a single day, quick thing--it's a comprehensive and interactive series of lessons.

This multi-use material provides background information about the geologic time scale and aging rock layers and fossils. Interactive slides allow students to create a pie chart of geologic time, place organisms in their correct eras, and analyze fossil and rock layers--while not being a boring worksheet!

You are a forensic scientist trying to analyze evidence (stomach contents) to determine who killed Sam Quiggle. You will look at macromolecules in the stomach contents to make a professional opinion about the murderer. NOTE: There is also a VIRTUAL version of this lab in my store!

This stations activity walks students through the differences between elements, compounds, and mixtures. They have several different ways of experiencing and interacting with various substances and will analyze each substance to determine if they are elements, compounds, mixtures, homogenous mixtures, heterogenous mixtures, and how they could separate different substances. This is a highly interactive hyperdoc style activity and there is also an in-person version available.

You are the new ghoul in school and your classmates are looking to you for help planning a party! Look at macromolecules (starch and glucose) in various food products! You will learn the testing techniques for testing for starch and glucose and explore the roles they play in the body.

Imagine you are a piece of earth material. This board game will take you through the rock cycle to see all things you could possibly turn in to! While playing the game, students will also be analyzing data and looking at the steps of the rock cycle.

This mini lab will get students measuring and calculating without even realizing it, all to make poor little Snarfles the puppy feel better! You can use any stuffed animal or figurine for your Snarfles and the speaker notes give ideas on what to use for the "medications".

This activity has students look at graphs of distance, speed, and acceleration and analyze them to determine what is happening in each of the different stages. It also includes some interactive practice with determining gravity!

The snack that smiles back--if it survives! This lab will pit goldfish and pretzel fish against each other in an exciting evolutionary race to see what fish species is fittest! You hungry sharks--I mean students--will love seeing natural selection in action!

A mini-lesson with interactive maps and reference tables about the layers of the Earth. This mini-lesson will take students through the layers of the earth, their composition, and properties about them, as well as how we know about the layers without ever having been there.

Students will create a scale model of the solar system using nothing but Google Slides! they will do easy conversions, research facts about each planet, and insert pictures. There is also an extension added which has students add other celestial objects like the asteroid belt, dwarf planets, the International Space Station, and even Voyager II! Once complete, students can "fly" through space in "Present" mode to really get the effect of how BIG our solar system is!

A digital resource that allows students to practice color-coding and reading topographic maps. After students have color-coded the maps in the easy-to-use slides, they will analyze each map and answer questions about the features in the maps!