STEAM Toolbox

Have your students create a poster detailing types of chemical reactions. May be used as a formative or summative assessment for your unit on chemical reactions. Student hand-out, rubric, and student feedback sheets included.

Engage: Students will be asked anticipatory questions. Explore: In groups, students will sort mystery element cards by their characteristics. Explain: Teacher will present notes and ask students to reflect on their groupings of mystery elements. Elaborate: Teacher and students will further investigate how atomic structure is used in the periodic table. Students will refine their groupings of the mystery elements. Evaluate: Students will answer the anticipatory questions again and reflect on ch

Students will create a google slides presentation on ionic and covalent compounds including describing and explaining nomenclature and properties plus comparing and contrasting ionic and covalent compounds. Great for in person presentations or as a remote learning project! Detailed project description and rubric included.

This is a 5 E lesson on periodic table trends including atomic size and predicting oxide compounds. Lesson includes slides, guided student notes, WebQuest, and key to WebQuest. Engage: Students will do a pre-assessment.  Explore: Students will explore atomic size and formation of oxides in a WebQuest. Explain: Teacher will present notes and ask students to apply what they noticed about trends and the periodic table. Elaborate: Teacher and students will further practice using the periodic table t

Have your students study the biography of an African American Scientist that contributions to science and technology and create a pamphlet to share with your class! The National Institute of Science and Technology has recognized African American scientists whose work progressed NIST's mission. Students can learn about the scientists and choose one to feature in a pamphlet showcasing their life and work.

Have your students choose from a variety of problems and activities to demonstrate their understanding of different types of energy thermal, chemical, electromagnetic, and electrical energies, differentiating between kinetic and potential energies, and specific heat capacity. Great for distance learning!

Looking to make vocabulary more fun and kinesthetic for students! Try our kinetic and potential energy and motion tarsia puzzle!! This tarsia puzzle can be used to introduce or review vocabulary on kinetic and potential energy and motion.

Have students complete a Venn diagram on speed and velocity! These Venn diagrams can be used as a formative assessment. Students can demonstrate their understanding speed and velocity, finding what they have in common and how they are different. Included is a copy with a word bank and one without to differentiate for different levels.

This infographic project can be used as an assessment for different science units. Students can demonstrate their understanding creatively. This project gives students choice to help engage them. Students choose a science concept for the infographic and which template to use, create their infographic, and then participate in a gallery walk to showcase their work! Includes: project description, infographic templates, rubric, and gallery walk hand-out

This is a 5 E lesson on Energy Flow and Specific Heat Capacity. Engage: Students will do a pre-assessment. Explore: Students will explore insulators and specific heat capacity. Explain: Teacher will present notes and ask students to apply what they noticed about the heat flow. Elaborate: Teacher and students will further practice using specific heat capacity. Evaluate: Students will answer the questions from the pre-assessment again and reflect on changes they made to their answers. A key for

This is a 5 E lesson on Chemical Reactions and the Law of Conservation of Mass.  Engage: Students will do a pre-assessment.  Explore: Students will explore the mass of a reaction before and after the reaction with glow sticks. Simple and safe exploration! Explain: Teacher will present notes and ask students to apply what they noticed about the chemical reaction. Elaborate: Teacher and students will further practice balancing chemical equations. Evaluate: Students will answer the questions from t

Have students practice limiting reactants by using interactive google slide diagrams! Students will create product molecules from atoms of reactants and evaluate which reactants are limiting and which are in excess. Great for remote learning!

Provide students with the one pager description and rubric. This activity allows students to demonstrate their understanding of atomic structure and make their learning visible!Included are a description of the assignment, guided template, blank template, rubric, and example.

Have your students explore the scientific method and experimental design with an at home consumer science experiment! Students will design their own experiment testing consumer products with a driving question, and after teacher approval, perform the experiment at home. To complete project, students will use a claims-evidence-reasoning form to answer their driving question. Could be used in traditional in-person classroom, with hybrid learning, or with remote learning! Student hand-outs included

Students will explore an ecosystem and create a slideshow about their chosen ecosystem. Students will describe the location, and type of biome, producers, consumers, abiotic elements, and analyze human impact. Questions to guide students in researching these topics are provided along with a citation organizer, rubric, and suggested calendar.

Have your students set long term and short term goals using a google slides journal. Included our journal pages on setting goals for this quarter and short term goals for the week. Links to make your own copy of ready to go quarterly and weekly slides journals are included along with editable google slides that you can adapt to suit your class.

Interactive, digital slides to practice stoichiometry problems! The slides allow students to manipulate the different factors to set up the equations in guided practice of mass to mass stoichiometry problems. Great for distance or blended learning!

The rubber band launcher angle activity has students explore projectile motion and launch angles as well as making scientific arguments in the Analysis and Conclusions section using the Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) format. Students will build a rubber band launcher and then determine the launch angle that will launch a projectile the farthest horizontally. Students will make a claim, support it with evidence, and justify it with reasoning using the a guided CER format. A checklist and sentence

Great for a sub plan or to celebrate National Poetry Month! This is a STEAM activity on poetry and science. Introduction: Students will consider science and poetry before reading science  related poetry. Explore: Students will either read the poem or listen to the podcast of the poem at the link then answer questions about the poem. Extension: Students will choose a poem on the site, analyze it, and answer questions.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of different kinematics concepts by creating mind maps of each displacement, velocity, or acceleration. Great for group work, or individual exit slips! Have students work in groups or individually! Complete the activity with a gallery walk-graphic organizer included! Have students complete on paper or in google classroom!