Sarah's STEM stuff

Looking for an engaging activity to build CER writing skills? This quick and simple hands on activity for students investigates sound waves and supports writing strong scientific arguments with Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning.The students make noisemakers out of different lengths of straws and investigate how the length of the straw affects the pitch. They make observations during the activity and then write a scientific argument with Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning - CER based on their obser

Students learn about the states of matter by completing an online webquest and notes. The webquest uses interactive websites, simulations, and videos that teach the students about the properties of the 3 states of matter: solid, liquids, and gases, the particles within each state, and the processes that change one state to another. Students see how the particles within each state are arranged and how adding and removing energy affects their movement and state of matter. What's included: - St

This unit includes all you need to introduce and practice measuring using the metric system to measure length, mass, and volume. This unit includes a variety of teaching/learning methods including: direct instruction, hands on activities, independent practice, and assessments. This is part of my Metric System Bundle. This product includes: ♥ Pretest to assess your students starting point ♥ Interactive notebook foldable for introducing Length, Mass, and Volume ♥ Anchor charts with procedu

This is a guided graphic notes document and corresponding google slides presentation to introduce students to the nature of science and the scientific method. The first part of the notes focus on the processes scientists take to answer a question including making observations, creating a hypothesis, experimenting, collecting data, drawing conclusions and how models and field work are used. In the second part of the notes, the students learn about experimental design including writing testabl

Looking for a fun way introduce tornadoes? In this activity, students learn all about tornadoes using this tornado webquest. As the students investigate the webquest, they follow links to complete research and fill out a graphic notes worksheet along with a case study of a tornado in history. Students even get to try their hand at creating their own tornado and seeing how much damage they cause. This engaging webquest focuses on where tornadoes form, why tornadoes happen, tornado safety,

Looking for a fun way introduce earthquakes? In this activity, students learn all about the earthquakes using this earthquake webquest. As the students investigate the webquest, they follow links to research and fill out a graphic notes worksheet along with a case study of an earthquake in history. Students even get to try their hand at locating the epicenter of an earthquake with an interactive simulation. This engaging webquest focuses on where and why earthquakes happen, types of faults

This product gives you a variety of options to create a lab report focused on experimental design. Want your students to graph their data? Choose the graph option. Want them to write a CER conclusion? Print that one. Perfect resource for organizing a science fair project! What’s included: Templates for a lab report including sections for: *Question *Identifying Variables *Hypothesis *Procedure *Data *Graph *Conclusion *Claim, Evidence, Reasoning *Sources of Experimental Errors

Looking for a fun way introduce volcanoes? In this activity, students learn all about the volcanoes using this volcano webquest. As the students investigate the webquest, they follow links to research and fill out a graphic notes worksheet along with a case study of a volcano in history. Students even get to try their hand at creating their own volcano by selecting different variables and see how they change the type of eruption.. This engaging webquest focuses on where and why volcanoes f