Nerd Herd

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

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!

This introduction to balanced and unbalanced forces will give students plenty of real-life scenarios to look at while analyzing the forces in the situations. This activity includes different drag-ables and interactive slides!

A digital resource to explore experiments in Bikini Bottom using the scientific engineering processes.

This series of interactive mini-lessons will work through the difference between rotation and revolution with examples and evidence of each. It will also begin to analyze why there are seasons on planet Earth!

This review (or introduction) of Simple Machines will keep kids engaged and curious! Students will read (or watch--some of the clues are video clips!) the clues and select what kind of simple machine matches. The answers are color-coded to match a secret picture. Students will get to choose a theme that appeals to them to color in, increasing engagement. This can be done full on a device with no need to print and no frustrating programs to figure out how to color in--it's all contained in Google

Students will engage with HR Diagrams, analyzing star temperature and luminosity, as well as size and color. Students will also be able to plot stars, including our own sun, on the HR Diagram when given specific information about them!

Students will get practice finding specific coordinates on a map, using longitude and latitude, and identifying the equator and prime meridian. This is a great follow-up activity to Latitude/Longitude Battleship!

Students will explore the periodic table and the information contained in it. They will learn how to read the table, as well as calculate the number of protons, neutrons, and electrons based on information in the table.

This digital worksheet allows students to manipulate examples of potential and kinetic energy and apply the concepts to real-life scenarios.