Zebra Science

This Energy Unit Bundle focuses on types of energy, calculating potential and kinetic energy, conservation of energy, work, power, and energy calculations. All products include multiple versions for differentiation. I have also included teacher notes and a pacing guide to help you seamlessly implement these resources into your classroom.  Unit Bundle Includes:  Types of Energy: Poster Assignment, Gallery Walk, & Notes Calculating Potential & Kinetic Energy - Notes & Digital Self-Checking Practic

This activity allows students to explore the various types of energy - renewable, nonrenewable, chemical, electrical, kinetic, mechanical, nuclear, radiant, sound, thermal, gravitational, and potential. You can use this activity in a variety of ways:  Students can create energy posters individually or in groupsStudents can take down notes as a Gallery Walk of student or provided postersStudents can present their postersUse the provided slides to teach the types of energies or as a way to reinfor

This Basics of Science Unit Bundle focuses on lab safety and equipment, metric system, experiment and basic science vocabulary, and the scientific method.  Unit Bundle Includes:  Lab Safety & Equipment Walk-Around ActivityMetric System Notes & Triangle Puzzle Measuring Length, Mass, and Volume Notes, Practice, and LabAccuracy vs Precision, Observation vs Inference Notes & PracticeRainbow LabExperiment Lingo Notes and Card SortAirplane LabScientific Method NotesheetHypothesis, Theory, and Law Gui

This Motion Unit Bundle focuses on distance, displacement, speed, velocity, position-time graphs, and acceleration. All products include multiple versions for differentiation. I have also included teacher notes and a pacing guide to help you seamlessly implement these resources into your classroom. Unit Bundle Includes:  Distance and Displacement Notes and WorksheetSpeed Teacher-Led Inquiry Lesson and ActivityVelocity Notes and WorksheetPosition-Time Graphs: Notes, Station Activity, and Practic

This note and practice problem set will introduce the difference between distance and displacement. Taking notes using a document camera or using the editable Google Slideshow, students can follow along as you teach about reference points, direction, distance, and displacement as well as calculate distance and identify the direction of the displacement. Following the notes, students can prove their knowledge with practice problems. I have included 4 different versions of this resource for differ

Using this note and self-checking practice problem set, students will learn all about calculating potential and kinetic energy. Taking notes using a document camera or using the editable Google Slideshow, students can follow along as you teach about how to perform energy calculations. Following the notes, students can prove their knowledge with the self-checking digital assignment.  As students use this google sheet assignment, the boxes will turn green when they enter in the correct answer! Thi

This Forces Unit Bundle focuses on types of forces, force diagrams, balanced and unbalanced forces, Newton’s Laws, mass vs weight, and momentum. All products include multiple versions for differentiation. I have also included teacher notes and a pacing guide to help you seamlessly implement these resources into your classroom.  Unit Bundle Includes:  Forces Gallery WalkForce Diagrams Notes and WorksheetNewton’s Laws Lesson, Activity, & Practice SetMass vs Weight Notes & Station Rotation Practice

This lesson, activity, and practice is great for introducing Newton’s Laws! As a class, you can take notes using a document camera or using the editable Google Slideshow and discuss the topics - Newton’s 1st Law, Inertia, Newton’s 2nd Law, Newton’s 3rd Law, and Action-Reaction Forces.  Using the Domino Tower Activity students can experience Newton’s 1st law, followed by a lesson and practice problems on inertia. For Newton’s 2nd law, students will practice calculating applied force then graphing

This activity is an introduction to measuring in lab with teacher notes, student worksheet, and an answer key. For each of the types of measurements (length, mass, and volume), I have included basic notes, practice problems, and a lab section for students to gain hands on experience. This activity does require additional set up for the lab portions. Details for how to set these up are included in the teacher notes. *Answers to measuring length practice depends on printer* Interested in more li

This guided inquiry lesson teaches students about the differences between hypotheses, theories, and laws. Students will work together to complete the card sort, learn about the definitions of each, revise their work, and take down notes about each term. I have created two versions of the notesheet for differentiation. An EL version of the card sort is also included.  Details for how I work through this guided inquiry lesson are included in the teacher notes. Interested in more like this? Check o

This note and lab activity set will introduce two topics: work and power. Taking notes using a document camera or using the editable Google Slideshow, students can follow along as you teach about how to perform work and power calculations. Following the notes, students can apply their knowledge with the How Powerful Are You lab activity. Students will calculate how much work and power they use when climbing a flight of stairs.  I have included 4 different versions of this resource for differenti

This set of 32 task cards is designed to review and reinforce the following topics:  DistanceDisplacementSpeedVelocityPosition-Time GraphsAccelerationIncluded is a teacher guide containing set up instructions, a pdf of all 32 task cards, a student sheet, and an answer key. I have also included problem set-ups for differentiation purposes. These cards are made to be printed in color, but can also be printed in black and white. After printing, I suggest laminating the cards, cutting them apart, an

This lab is designed for students to practice lab safety, make accurate measurements, and avoid cross contamination with a student worksheet and an answer key (with teacher notes for set up). Using pipets, test tubes, graduated cylinders, and colored water, students will follow 9 procedural steps to create a rainbow of liquids.  Interested in more like this? Check out my Basics of Science Unit Bundle for the complete unit!

Using this note and maze activity set, students will learn about momentum. Taking notes using a document camera or using the editable Google Slideshow, students can follow along as you teach how mass and velocity affect momentum, law of conservation of momentum, as well as how to perform momentum calculations. Following the notes, students can prove their knowledge with the maze activity designed for students to practice the knowledge they just gained! I have included 4 different versions of thi

Using this note, station activity, and practice problem set, students will learn about interpreting position-time graphs. Taking notes using a document camera or using the editable Google Slideshow, students can follow along as you teach how to collect information and calculate the velocity of position-time graphs. A station activity is embedded within the notes to allow students to practice what they have learned - interpreting position-time graphs and calculating velocity based on the slope of

Using this PhET Simulation Activity and follow-up notes set, students will learn all about Conservation of Energy. Students can first explore the Energy Skate Park PhET Simulation, focusing on potential and kinetic energies as well as the relationship between them. As a way to review what the students explored, I have also created a wrap up notesheet. Taking notes using a document camera or using the editable Google Slideshow, students can follow along as you wrap up the day with notes on Conser

This 4 page, fully editable test is designed for upper middle school and lower high school students to assess their understanding of the following topics:  Types of EnergyCalculating Potential and Kinetic EnergyConservation of EnergyWork and PowerEnergy CalculationsThis test includes 20 total questions: 4 lab practical, 10 short answers, and 6 multiple choice. Teacher notes are included for setting up the lab practical questions and should take about 5 minutes to set up. Multiple versions of the

This note sheet with practice problems will introduce two topics: accuracy vs precision and observation vs inference. Taking notes using a document camera, students can follow along as you teach about the differences between accurate and precise data as well making observations versus inferences. Following the notes, students can prove their knowledge by color coding examples of observations and inferences as well as create their own observations and inferences based on an image provided.  Inter

This set of 50 task cards is designed to review and reinforce the following topics:  Lab Safety Using and Identifying Lab EquipmentMetric SystemAccuracy vs PrecisionObservation vs InferenceIndependent and Dependent VariablesQualitative vs Quantitative DataScientific MethodHypothesis, Theory, and LawIncluded is a teacher guide containing set up instructions for all 10 of the using lab equipment task cards, a pdf of all 50 task cards, a student sheet, and an answer key. These cards are made to be

This walkaround activity allows students to explore the various types of forces - applied, static friction, gravity, air resistance, sliding friction, magnetic, elastic, rolling friction, and electric.  Students will engage in a lab exploration, allowing a hands-on introduction to forces! As a class, you can start the lesson with a quick few slides of notes using the editable Google Slideshow then let the students explore the topic of forces.  I have included 4 different versions of this resourc