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Perfect for classrooms or homeschooling, this comprehensive resource offers a hands-on approach to understanding relative distances between objects in our solar system. Students use mathematics and computational thinking and art as they apply scale factor concepts to determine how to accurately represent the relative distances between planets in our solar system. This resource contains detailed instructions for students and teachers, a scoring rubric for providing transparent expectations an

I love design challenges in my science classes, my students love them, and you will too! Design challenges are an excellent way to bundle the three dimensions of the Next Generation Science Standards in a meaningful, hands on way! What makes this product stand out is the layers of scaffolding it affords students and teachers to ensure success for all! This Engineering Design Challenge Bundle Contains: Popsicle Stick Bridge Challenge Project Overview: Highlighting competition structure as well

Fred is a gummy worm that is not such a great swimmer and has fallen off his boat! Can you help save him? The challenge is to work with your teams using only the tools provided (paperclips) to flip Fred's cup back over, get Fred's life preserver on, and get him back in his boat! An introductory engineering and design challenge activity that I have used with great success in second through 8th grade classes. The engineering process is emphasized, focusing on the ideas of iterations and constr

The Science and Engineering Practices of the Next Generation Science Standards emphasize what scientists and students DO when engaging in science. This is a great, hands on bundle to introduce your students to the SEP's experientially. This Bundle Includes: Card Sort Exercise for students to match SEP's to their descriptions (Both in order and shuffled).Details for 8 hands on learning stations that prompt students to experience each SEP.Student Handout for station rotation exercises, including

Help your students practice applying concepts of experimental design, focusing on: Manipulated VariablesResponding VariablesControl GroupsConstantsGreat as a warm up or extension exercise when teaching students about the nature of scientific inquiry. This practice opportunity prompts students to consider 7 hypothetical experimental questions and identify different aspects of effective experimental design in each scenario. The .pdf document contains an embedded link to access a matching exerc

Part I of my graphing practice resources. Click here to view part II and here for the entire bundle! Students can always use more practice with graphing! This resource offers students an opportunity to practice their graphing skills- creating 2 bar graphs and 2 line graphs using provided data. Also included is a scoring rubric based on the graphing acronym SULTAN. This simple, easy mnemonic device helps students remember the key elements of a proper graph: S=Scale- reminding students

Are you looking for a fun way to engage your students in the 3d design process? My students love 3d design challenges using Tinkercad. This design challenge is ready to roll with your students and will set them up for success, streamlining the process that you can use to have students share and print their designs. This .pdf download comes with the following: 1. Project introduction with visuals. 2. Different design options for inspiration and video or step by step instructions for each. 3. Dire

Students practice calculating kinetic and potential energy in a clear, organized way. I emphasize the four step method for solving basic physics problems at this introductory level: 1. Identifying Known Information 2. Selecting the Appropriate Formula 3. Substituting Known Values into the Equation 4. Reporting the Correct Answer, with Units. Includes background information, formulas, units, summary of four step method, sample problem, and opportunity for short writing exercise to demonstrate un

The Phet Skatepark simulation is an excellent way to help your students explore and apply concepts of potential energy, kinetic energy, thermal energy, total energy, conservation of energy and the concepts of conservation of energy in energy transformations. The simulation is quite popular, and encourages exploration and simulation. This guide provides a streamlined overview of the simulation, a quick look at key features of the simulation and gets students exploring efficiently. Color coded

Are you looking for a fun way to engage your students in the 3d design process? My students love 3d design challenges using Tinkercad. This design challenge is ready to roll with your students and will set them up for success, streamlining the process that you can use to have students share and print their designs. This .pdf download comes with the following: 1. Project introduction with visuals. 2. Four different design options for inspiration and video or step by step instructions for each.

☘️ St. Patrick’s Day 3D Printing Challenge: Shamrock CAD Design Project! Bring STEM to your classroom this March with this Shamrock 3D Printing & CAD Design Challenge! This project-based learning (PBL) activity tasks students with designing a custom St. Patrick's Day shamrock using Tinkercad. This isn't just a "fun" craft—it is a technical engineering challenge that requires students to work within specific criteria & constraints, create an orthographic multiview, and write a professional

I teach my design students to create multiview representation of objects they are studying or designing. We were repeatedly cutting out isometric paper for the orthographic views and then layering it onto graph paper for the top, front and side views. New design students often confuse where to place the top, front and side views. This printable drafting paper has greatly improved the quality of their designs! I created this as a printable 8.5 x 11 inch Google drawing object. The .pdf downl

To teach my students to create excellent graphs in their labs and experiments, I use the acronym SULTAN. It is a simple 6 point checklist rubric to ensure that graphs in science are created clearly and accurately. SULTAN stands for: ScaleUnitsLabelsTitleAccuracyNeatnessI find this to be a clear, concise way to help students capture the key elements of an effective graph. It also makes for a handy rubric and way to provide quick targeted feedback on student graphing skills once they know SULTA

Want to help your students get started with computer aided drafting, or CAD? Looking for a Chrome friendly 3D drafting solution? Tinkercad is an Autodesk program I have found to be an excellent entry point into CAD drafting for a variety of users of any age group. The best thing about this program for beginners is the self paced tutorials embedded in the "learn" tab of the program. This guide engages students in each of the tutorials intended to develop student CAD drafting skills. Also inc

Whether you are teaching about electricity, energy, natural resources, human impacts, or building solar powered devices, your students will be engaged in this hands on lab investigation. In 1-2 periods your students will think critically about the factors that influence the performance of a solar panel, including distance from light source, angle, wavelength of light and shading. In addition to focusing on Disciplinary Core Ideas related to energy standards, this lab addresses multiple NGSS S

Learn about population genetics and evolution in this fun and engaging lab simulation! Your students get to play a card game that generates data to show how changes in the environment can result in changes in the gene frequencies in a population of rock pocket mice in the american southwest. There are many different versions of this game available online. I created this version because I liked the nature of the game and what students learn about how populations change over time, but I needed

Part II of my graphing practice resources. Click here to view part I and here for the entire bundle! Summary: Students can always use more practice with graphing! This resource offers students an opportunity to practice their graphing skills- creating 2 bar graphs and 2 line graphs using provided data. Also included is a scoring rubric based on the graphing acronym SULTAN. This simple, easy mnemonic device helps students remember the key elements of a proper graph: S=Scale- reminding

Help your students structure their approach to writing about Newton's laws and how they apply to various situations. I find that many of my students benefit from a quick study of how to structure short answer responses in science when asked to construct an explanation. I teach students the following process: 1. State the law or scientific principle. 2. Use a transition word or phrase. 3. State how the law or principle applies, using specific content language. This product includes: Guided pra

An engaging way for students to learn about how scientists generate data and make meaning of that data using statistical tools. Featured Concepts: Data Organization in Tables Data Analysis Using Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median and Mode. NGSS Science and Engineering Practice: Using mathematics and computational thinking Materials needed in addition to the handouts: Dice (one per student dyad) Includes bonus second page featuring analysis of experimental design, with opportunities f

Engage your students in considering the diversity of life by studying their own traits as well as the distribution of traits in your class. This is a great hands on way to teach: GenotypePhenotypeAllelesDominant & Recessive TraitsIt also addresses the NGSS Crosscutting Concept of Patterns and the Science and Engineering Practice of Analyzing and Interpreting Data. Developed using resources from the California Academy of Sciences, this is a great lab to launch into a genetics unit. The do