Science Supernova

This lab uses ordinary objects to construct levers. Students measure success and accuracy. This lab also allows students to try to hit the teacher with the marshmallows using the levers. The students love it!

The four mini labs involve simple machines providing hands-on understanding of how machines make work easier. This lab uses simple ordinary items to showcase pulleys, inclined planes, levers, and wheel and axles.

This web quest enables students to discover information about viruses, bacteria and archaea through use of technology.

This webquest covers the properties and history of magnets. This is a good informational search. Would be great as an introduction or review. I have included the key.

This document contains the rules, regulations, rubrics, and contest for the Rube Goldberg competition that is run in my high school classroom.

This lab enables students to understand how certain rocks end up in the layers of Earth that they are in. The lab includes a foldable for student reference.

This lab would be great to do during the study of the skin or during the study of the electromagnetic spectrum. UV Beads - that change color in the sun - could be substituted for the materials listed in this lab.

This power point covers concepts involved in the study of work, power and simple machines. The student note taking guide accompanies this 23 slide presentation. Both documents are editable. I use this as a teaching presentation, but it could also be used as review.

This is a Web Quest regarding the history of catapults. It prompts students to go to 3 different websites to explore. Answer key is included.

This 48 slide power point covers concepts associated with the central nervous system in humans. A student note taking guide accompanies the power point - both are editable. This is a teaching power point that covers all facets of the topic.

This power point gives an overview of geological time from PreCambrian to the present. Animals, plants, landforms, and climate are addressed. A note taking guide for students is included. Both items are editable.

This 55 slide power point with accompanying student note taking guide covers that contents of our solar system and the concepts attached. These items are covered: inner planets, outer planets, comets, asteroids, meteoroids, meteorites, meteors, impact craters, the Kuiper belt, Oort cloud and more. Both documents are editable.

This web quest covers the basic principles of electricity: atomic charge, static, circuits, and electric charge. Could be used as an introduction or a review.

This web quest allows students to find and interpret information about earthquakes.

This project requires students to get information about their families and document it on a family tree. The project is editable. Directions can be printed two to a page.

This power point covers weather patterns, types of storms, how weather predictions are made, and more. The power point is 31 slides. I use this as an introduction to the study of weather. It could be used as a review as well. The documents are editable.

This activity has students identify states in the US and how much average precipitation the states receive. Then the students color code the states according to the map key, and answer a few questions post activity.

This power point is a teaching power point that I use to introduce the study of Earth Space Science. It covers the spheres and cycles on Earth and the concepts, and terminology associated with those topics. Student note taking guide is also included. Both are editable.

This is a STEM project that compels students to contemplate what would be needed for shelter and survival for several days in case of severe weather such as a tornado.

This power point covers all of the topography of the ocean floor. In addition it provides review of plate tectonics and fault movement. Both the PPT and the note taking guide are editable.