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Are your kids tired of just counting significant figures in a random number on a worksheet? Want to show your kids how measurements work in the real world? Do they need to practice reading thermometers and triple beam balances? This worksheet does all that and more! This activity ties in Significant Figures with making measurements with scientific instruments. Students will practice reading triple beam balances, pressure gauges, thermometers, rulers, and graduated cylinder. Students will demons

Chemistry has often been called “algebra in a foreign language”. One of the most confusing areas for students is ionic compound names and formulas. The goal of this activity is to give the students a visual representation of the ions as they bond, and allow them to see WHY they bond the way they do in a tactile and interactive manner. This is part of a series of lessons on Ionic Bonding and Naming from No More Boring Science. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs

No More Boring Science presents 12 magical demonstrations for students of all grades. Inside you will find how to make silver christmas trees, huge snowflakes, festive fire, snow globes, beautiful holiday ornaments, and much more! All thanks to science! Now including a Free Christmas Poster! These activities have been created with the goal of making it easy for you to obtain supplies. You won't need to call up some expensive chemical supply company, most of this stuff can be found in the groce

New from No More Boring Science - How to use star charts! The focus of this lab is to help students gain confidence using star charts to find constellations. There are two activities in this lab: using a polar star chart map to find constellations on a blank section of the sky, and then translating constellations from a polar projection map to a mercator projection map. The first activity is more advanced than the second, but all maps and charts are included. Keys are included as well! If you l

Presented here for your enjoyment is the What-Not-To-Do-Lab, a demonstration of just how bad it can get in a science classroom when safety procedures are not followed. Students are given a cartoon where 36 separate lab accidents are happening simultaneously. They are asked to identify exactly what went wrong, and possible future consequences. An chance for students to demonstrate their knowledge of safety procedures without endangering themselves or others! If you like the chart, be sure to rat

This is one of the best ways I have ever known to teach stoichiometry. Let’s be honest, it is not easy to explain this subject. What’s worse is, it is even harder for the students to understand how to set up the problems. This foldable is one of the easiest, most effective ways I know to have the students set up their stoichiometry problems the first time, every time. I have included every possible format for writing out stoichiometry, whether you are a “fraction-canceling” teacher, or a “train

Need a reference chart for your chemistry, physics, or IPC course? Looking for something that visually demonstrates the differences between US customary units and metric units? Want something that has a ton of cool facts that your students can spend hours studying to find them all? Need it to be in friendly, engaging colors? LOOK NO FURTHER! One side is jam packed with dozens of different conversion factors. Length, velocity, area, mass, acceleration, force, pressure, work, power, temperature,

A wildlife biologist may need to determine the carrying capacity of a forest ecosystem for selected species. A general description of the forest will not provide sufficient information to determine the amount of habitat available. The biologist must make a quantitative analysis of plants in the forest. This type of study can provide information regarding the biodiversity of the forest — the types of plants present, their population densities, and their importance. Data showing the types and siz

Electron configuration is a classic example of a challenging chemical concept. Students have no real previous exposure or foundation in the idea, and the terms are new and confusing. Even the pattern in which it works doesn’t seem to make sense to students. “First you go to 1s, then you go to 2s, and then 2p?! What?! Where did P come from?” This game should be done at the beginning of the lesson, before you ever mention anything about electron configuration. By framing it in a game format, and

Confused about the difference between accuracy and precision? Not sure how to demonstrate how different these two concepts are? This activity will not only help your kids understand these important scientific ideas, but also show them how to measure them quantitiatively! This is a set of notes that goes over accuracy and precision and their importance to proper measurements. These notes explain what accuracy and precision are first, using the example of a bullseye, and then have the students qu

No More Boring Science is proud to present a Christmas and Winter themed poster! Be astounded at how the connection between chemical elements and traditional holiday items is shown. Your students will love it! If you like the activity, be sure to rate it! This is part of a series of demonstrations for Science in the Everyday Classroom by No More Boring Science This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

This is a very detailed Laboratory Equipment Reference Chart. It includes just about every type of lab equipment that is used in a chemistry course. 39 seperate lab apparatus are highlighted and described. Each peice of equipment has a picture, a description, and a list of uses for the equipment. Perfect to give students on the first day of class, or for use in training lab techinques! If you like the chart, be sure to rate it! This is part of a series of lessons on Lab Skills by No More Borin

A lot of my students struggle with the concept of stratigraphy. Understanding how rocks layer is an integral part of being able to date rocks and fossils accurately. This lab activity is designed perfectly to address that. Students create a volcano out of four different colors of playdough. The playdough serves as their lava. Using repeated eruptions, students build up layer upon layer of lava until a stratovolcano appears. It is a hands-on activity your kids will love, and includes questions a

From No More Boring Science, we give you a set of 10 lessons intended to enhance your students' learning of the constellations. Activities like card games, crosswords, and word searches are included. There is no need for fancy telescopes or expensive software. It is all hands on, student directed, student driven learning. Students first learn about the circumpolar constellations. Then they learn about 30 of the largest, most important constellations in the night sky. Finally, they learn specific

Want to teach your students about GPS, but don't know where to start? This lesson bundle is for you! Included in this package is a complete set of notes that explain in great detail the technical properties of GPS, and a series of activites that allow students from grades 4-12 explore GPS in fun and exciting ways that gets them out of the classroom and outside in nature. Students will learn about latitude and longitude, using waypoints, plotting courses, and using GPS in taking data samples. T

Students get to explore how photography works without darkrooms! In cyanotyping, the UV rays from sunlight will develop the specially prepared paper, turning a deep blue. Students will experience the amazement at making their own photographs. You can use the provided negatives, or make your own with transparency paper and a laser printer. This lab is appropriate for students in middle school and high school. This is part of a series of lessons on Light in Science from Mr. Ripps. This work is

Organic chemistry is one of the most exciting and confusing areas of chemistry for students. Everything about organic is new and different compared to regular chemistry, and it can often throw students in to panic mode. This set of lessons, notes, and activities is meant to address that. Covering everything from alkanes to amides, students are given clear concise notes, ample practice material, and several labs to sharpen their skills. Teacher notes and instructions are included for free! This

Within you will find 10 activities of such ghoulish cunning, of such frightful delight, that your students will practicaly SCREAM with excitement. They will see colored fire, hear the roar of homemade jet engines, stare in wonder at haunted lights, and feel ghostly slime with their own bare hands! These activities have been created with the goal of making it easy for you to obtain supplies. You won't need to call up some expensive chemical supply company, most of this stuff can be found in the

No More Boring Science would like to bring you a free mole conversion reference chart! Trying to explain when to use avogadro's number, or molar mass? Students not understanding how to convert from grams to liters? This chart can help! Using a simple to understand format, students can use this tool at glance to determine when you divide or multiple, and what number you multiple or divide by. Even conversions that do not stop at the mole, like liters to particles, can be understood with ease whe

The Earth's temperature is driven by angle of insolation. This is a fairly simply concept: the sun's light does not strike the surface at a right angle in most locations. Rather, it strikes it at an oblique angle, and it is this angle that causes different areas to experience different temperatures. This is a required topic for the New York Regents exam, and also in many earth science curricula. It is also a useful topic for astronomy classes, helping to explain climate mechanisms when modeling