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Prank your students with this sensationalized assignment about a "dangerous substance." Students read about the substance, complete a worksheet about its properties and then convince family members to support a ban on the substance. What is the substance? H2O! Assignment comes with a school letterhead notice to send home with students, urging them that the science department needs them to learn about a chemical substance. Great way to start off the year, or a unit. Parents love it!

Learning Objectives:Learn about a property of matter and make a poster to demonstrate your understanding.Learn the basics of all 26 properties of matter.Demonstrate your understanding of those 26 properties on a poster and quiz.Student Poster Sample: https://drive.google.com/open?id=15T5k9_vKJQJo8Lbz406LJ2iBePDuBDW7 Poster Topics: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DNkc2_W-36IbbvLp2ECWy3EZpwmgurgN55xgIGOhkgU Teacher Grading Rubric: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DvXLJf5lippKHhLubUQMHo57ERWKaHq

Students create a paper helicopter and then conduct a simple controlled experiment in which they investigate the effect of wing folding on descent spin direction. Students work with terms like independent variable, dependent variable, repeated trials, control, constants. Students then apply this knowledge to a new scenario. Great introductory lab to teach the basics of a controlled experiment.

A middle school-friendly comprehensive reading on gravity, mass, and weight. Features: -Breakdown of Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation -What ifs (basketball on the Moon) -Your weight on other worlds -How to alter your weight -Slam dunk contest -An exploration of relevant extension links -A Summary 321 Review Activity

Students work unit vocabulary by creating a single word, symbol, and weird personal connection for each term. Assignment can be modified depending on grade level and vocab needs. Terms include: heat, temperature, thermal energy, kinetic energy, thermal equilibrium, conductor, insulator, etc.

This NGSS/STEM supplement is designed to follow Lesson 3, but may also stand alone. Feature3: -Research and writing prompt on how a thermometer works. -321 Review to show understanding about thermal expansion and its applications Check out other lessons in Unit 2: Matter, Energy & Change

Students grapple with vocabulary in a personalized way. Higher DoK level thinking helps the student to summarize, synthesize, and symbolically represented a given vocabulary term. This template can be easily modified to suit your grade level and content area. Easy to use! Just add the words you want the student to learn.

Follow up to the popular Dihydrogen Monoxide Assignment (Intro To Chemistry). Students read this author's NSTA Science Scope article to understand the purpose of the Intro to Chemistry assignment. Students then answer a "321 Review" to demonstrate their learning.

Simple 4-question multiple choice assessment in which the student is given a scenario and asked to identify the independent variable, dependent variable, control group, and constants. Can be easily used as a formative assessment, or class activity.

Students investigate change in mass of bubble gum over ten minutes of chewing time. Graph shows a sharp exponential drop in mass at first, followed by a leveling out of mass loss. The lab helps students relate the sensory experience of flavor change to the shape of a graph. Cause and effect (independent and dependent variables) are analyzed in this controlled experiment, and then graphically represented and communicated. Extensions include hypothesizing the data that would emerge from samples of

Students work unit vocabulary by creating a single word, symbol, and weird personal connection for each term. Terms include: solid, liquid, gas, sublimation, freezing, melting, vaporization, etc. Terms can be replaced with terms relevant to your curriculum/interests. Activity can be modified depending on grade level.

Students generate personalized higher-order meaning of the following terms: work, energy, kinetic energy, potential energy, energy conversion, joule, mechanical energy, law of conservation of energy, friction, force, weight. Chart template makes it easy to substitute relevant terminology in your course. Students generate their own personalized definition of each term, create one word to summarize their understanding of its meaning, and then synthesize that meaning into a coherent and colorful sy

In this NGSS/STEM lesson, students explore feelings vs. fact when it comes to the temperatures of household objects. Students use thermal thermometer strips to measure the temperatures of objects that feel like they're different temperatures and then present their findings to the class for a Socratic seminar review. Students learn that their hands are liars, and that conductors feel colder than insulators, but not because they're different temperatures.

NGSS/STEM Activity: Students view a slideshow that features 15 common scientific tools (beaker, Erlenmeyer flask, hot plate, etc.). Students complete a handout emphasizing name, spelling, function of the tool. Students then take a 2-part assessment on the name, spelling and function of each piece of lab equipment.

Test includes images of 15 common pieces of lab equipment (spring scale, pipette, lab scoop, electronic balance, etc.) The student names the equipment under the picture. Part two is forced choice questions about the purpose of each piece of equipment (word bank). No key is included, but it's easy to make one.

Students work unit vocabulary by creating a single word, symbol, and weird personal connection for each of the vocabulary terms. Terms can be altered depending on grade level and preference. Terms include: atom, proton, neutron, electron, atomic number, isotope, etc.

This rubric accompanies How To Make an Outline of Informational text. Rubric assess: -How Much Info -Structure and Setup -Formatting Tools Can be used with any content or grade involving the close reading of informational text. Sub-links in each rubric box lead to student samples of each level. Copy these links and then re-link them to your own personalized document.

In this STEM/NGSS follow up supplement to Lesson 8, students apply knowledge about thermal conductivity. Features: 1. Multimedia analysis of common misconceptions 2. Develop a thermal conductivity ranking of the materials that make up the floors of the rooms in your house (floor plan) Questions can easily be modified to suit ability level.

STEM/NGSS LESSON: Student takes a survey to identify misconceptions. Email me at robertchesbro@gmail.com to arrange for a copy of the survey so you can see your student results. Student draws particle images for each of the three parts of the Kinetic Theory of Matter. Accompanies Lesson 1 in Unit 2, but can also stand alone. NGSS Standards: MS-PS1-1 MS-PS1-4

Use this personalized and creative activity to allow students to demonstrate any learning objective or topic. All these need is a blank graphic organizer, informational text, and a creative spark. Give the student the topic or set of topics, and let them show that they understand it by creating a concept graphic. Serves as an excellent review study tool, and the process helps cement the link between emotion and memory. Engages students in meta-cognition, and can be neatly taped into an interact