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Middle school chemistry resources for GATE
Christmas Science Activity | Borax Crystal Growth Experiment | GR 6 7 8
Discover the properties of mixtures and solutions by growing borax crystals. You'll get a comprehensive teacher guide, a hands-on investigation gear for middle school, and a borax ornament STEAM challenge. This unit uses inexpensive materials and gives results in 24 hours, a wonderful way to reinforce the scientific method and journal writing. This hands-on Investigation and Teacher Guide IncludesTeacher Guide and Background Information and TipsAlignment to Standards6 Page Student Investigatio
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS1-4
, MS-PS1-2
, MS-ETS1-3
Also included in: Borax Crystal STEAM Experiment | Multi Grade Bundle | Christmas Activity
Slime Science And STEM | Grade 4 5 | Properties Of Matter | Non Newtonian Fluids
Discover the science of slime and the properties of matter with 3 hands-on activities. Students will investigate the role of borax on viscosity. Explore further with other glues, and create your own slime in a STEM Challenge. Includes reading passages, teacher guide, Easel Assessment, and anchor charts. Perfect for Halloween. NGSS aligned for 5th Grade Structure and Properties of Matter.Newly Added: We added a slime quiz in TpT Easel Assessments. It is 10 multiple-choice questions and is perfe
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Types:
NGSS:
5-PS1-3
, 5-PS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 5-PS1-1
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Atomic Structure Logic Puzzle a Great Activity for Critical Thinking Skills
Boost Your Students Atomic Structure Skills with This Engaging Brain Teaser!Interactive and Fun Way to Master Chemistry Concepts: This brain teaser is expertly crafted to reinforce key chemistry skills such as identifying energy levels, valence electrons, and calculating the number of protons, neutrons, and electrons based on atomic mass and atomic number. It's an excellent resource for a bell ringer, review session, enrichment activity, or even as extra credit.What's Included:Ready-to-Use Easel
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Grades:
8th - 10th
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Easy Chemistry - atoms, elements, and molecules
This is a beginners unit that introduces elementary students to chemistry basics. It covers atoms, elements, molecules, the periodic table, and Mendeleev. This unit uses backwards learning in that the students do the fun activities and then use critical thinking skills to relate their learning back to chemistry fundamentals. I used this unit with my fourth and fifth grade Gifted and Talented students and they loved it. Their learning was much deeper due to the activities which include block
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Grades:
5th - 7th
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Magic Milk Molecules Science and STEM | | Saint Patricks Day Rainbow Unit Gr 4 5
Using simple kitchen supplies, create a memorable experience exploring surface tension and molecular movement. A complete teacher guide, student investigation, and a chemistry STEM challenge are included. The swirling rainbow of colors makes it an engaging Saint Patrick's Day experiment.Included in the Hands-On Investigation and Teacher Guide:Correlation to the *Next Generation Science Standards 5th Grade Structure and Properties of MatterScience and Engineering Practices Third-Fifth GradeBackgr
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Types:
NGSS:
5-PS1-3
, 5-PS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-PS1-2
...
Grant Proposal
Grant Proposal: Grant Proposal on Crime Stoppers Investigations-
Would you love to write a grant for your elementary classroom but just can’t seem to get started? This winning proposal may be just what you need to jumpstart your ability to plan, write, and carry-out an innovative teaching grant. Crime Stoppers Investigations offers a world of possibilities for classroom learning. This proposal was written for gifted and talented students in grades four through six but could be adapted as a
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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STEM Lab NGSS Science Curriculum Activities 5th & 6th Grade: Matter Interactions
This resource contains two 5th and 6th grade level STEM activities and challenges that can be completed in the classroom or at home. Explicit directions as well as wide-ranging flexibility make these STEM activities perfect for traditional Science classrooms or for distance learning.The first STEM activity allows learners to engage in an experiment that compares the water solubility of three common household substances. The basic experimental process student work page gives students explicitly
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 6th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 5-PS1-3
, 5-PS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
...
Phase Change with Friends (States of Matter Explained with Water, STEM, NGSS)
A perfect STEM book for kids in the classroom or at home! This covers reading, science, and poetry in one lesson that will keep students entertained while learning whether they are physically at school or doing distance learning. This rhyming story explains thermodynamics in a way students can relate to with illustrations of ice, snow, water, steam, and a thermometer. The rhyme makes it fun to read for both students and teachers.These poems and bright colors will appeal to a preschooler and the
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Grades:
PreK - 6th, Staff
NGSS:
2-PS1-4
, 2-PS1-1
PhET Leveled (Scaffolded) Assignment Build a Molecule PDF
In the PhET leveled assignments 3 different levels for each PhET will be provided. The intent is to make differentiation of the PhET simulations more accessible.In the “Build a Molecule” PhET, we will explore:Describe the difference between an atom and a molecule.Build simple molecules from atoms.Distinguish between the coefficient and subscript in a chemical formula.Construct molecules from the chemical formula.Associate common molecule names with multiple representations.Experiment with combin
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Grades:
6th - 10th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS1-1
PhET Leveled (Scaffolded) Assignment Build an Atom PDF
In the PhET leveled assignments 3 different levels for each PhET will be provided. The intent is to make differentiation of the PhET simulations more accessible.In the “Build an Atom” PhET, we will exploreUse the number of protons, neutrons, and electrons to draw a model of the atom, identify the element, and determine the mass and charge.Predict how addition or subtraction of a proton, neutron, or electron will change the element, the charge, and the mass.Use the element name, mass, and charge
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Grades:
5th - 9th
Types:
NGSS:
5-PS1-1
, MS-PS1-1
CHEMISTRY Puzzles and Worksheets Pack 3
Fun puzzles that teach and familiarize students with terminology, in attractive formats.
Included: Solids, Gasses, and Liquids, Graham's and Boyle's Law, Carbon and Hydrocarbon, Alkali and pH.
Students love these puzzles. Answer keys provided for most pages.
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Grades:
8th - 12th
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Nuclear War card game
This game is about radioactive decay, not military war with nuclear weapons! The most peace-loving people among us still need to know how alpha, beta and gamma particles behave and what "decay" actually means. This team card/board game steps students through the process so they'll remember it.It's a team game with a moderator directing when the first team should stop trading or moving cards, and the second team should begin. You can play it with team members using only cards they've drawn, or yo
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Grades:
7th - 12th
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Fun With Acids and Bases Lab!
Fun with Acids and Bases! Aligned with NGSS standards! Students investigate a variety of substances to identify whether they fall in the category of an acid or a base. Higher level vocabulary and inquiry based learning are a focus. Students work collaboratively to determine solutions and complete the task at hand.
This activity includes the student lab packet, additional resources for extensions, lesson plan outline with materials and procedures (such as how to make your own indicator solution
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Readers' Theater: Chemical Reactions and Chemical Changes
The setting of this Readers’ theater is a fireworks' celebration along a rocky shoreline. Within this setting, your students will be introduced to the properties of chemical reactions and the signs of chemical changes. Students will learn to recognize the characteristics of these two concepts as the story in the script unfolds. The signs/indicators of a chemical change will be taught with concrete examples that will help students relate. The informative text is loaded with new information and vo
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Grades:
6th - 8th
CCSS:
Chemistry & Matter | Sci Unit Plan
PURPOSE: This 4-week unit plan will give you a great framework for exploring chemistry from your very own classroom - it serves as a great introduction to a variety of chemistry ideas. This unit deals with the periodic table, properties of elements, their interactions with each other, phases of matter, chemical and physical changes, and solutions.Inside this .zip file you will find a Read Me.pdf that will guide you through the 4 weeks of the unit. See the “What’s included” section below for the
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS1-4
, MS-PS1-2
, MS-PS1-1
Also included in: Astronomy & Chemistry Unit Plans | Science Bundle
Changes of States Poster Activity and Vocabulary worksheets with ELD sentences
This is an 2 week long activity packet for the study of the changes of states. Includes ELD activities and sentence frames.
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Grades:
5th - 10th
CCSS:
NGSS:
MS-PS1-4
, MS-PS1-6
DNA Extraction - Fruit DNA Inquiry Lab
Students will learn about genetic modification of fruit through selective breeding/polyploidy and then hypothesis which fruit will have the most visible DNA after extraction. I provide my college prep students with bananas, strawberries and grapes and have them choose between the three after showing pictures of what the heritage fruit looks like whereas I let my honors biology do their own research and bring in the fruit of their choice.
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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Chromatography
This Chromatography lesson produces a tangible memento of the lesson. It also very visually illustrates the use of chemical dissolution methods as used in CSI investigations. The creative writing assignment attached is so challenging and integrated with the project that students may not even realize they are working!
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Grades:
7th - 8th
Everyday Curiosity: Toothpaste
Have you ever wondered about all of those ingredients in toothpaste? This issue of Everyday Curiosity digs deep into the chemistry of cleaning. It includes a brief discussion of what is in toothpaste and three design challenges that give kids opportunities to experiment with different aspects of chemical engineering.
Issues of Everyday Curiosity are perfect to use when you want to take on engineering challenges, provide additional enrichment, and bridge the gap between home and school.
Everyda
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Grades:
5th - 9th
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Vertebrate and Invertebrate Hands-On Venn Diagram Activity
This activity offers a hands-on variation of a traditional Venn diagram. It can be used in different ways, although I used it as a preassessment, discussion tool (rather than standard notes) and review.
This file contains:
- the instructions for creating your set of Vertebrate and Invertebrate Venn diagram cards as well as facilitating Hands-On Venn Diagrams in each of the three ways mentioned above.
- 21 characteristics cards for vertebrate and invertebrate (all fit on one piece of paper to
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Grades:
6th - 10th
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Fritz Haber & Radiolab: Critical thinking in science
These materials are designed to be used with a segment of Radiolab's Bad Show, available here. Radiolab is an audio-only podcast.In specific, they are for use with the portion that begins at about the 28:30 minute mark on Fritz Haber, the Nobel-Prize-Winning German Chemist.These materials are designed to help your talented and gifted as well as general education science students understand and reflect upon the impact of Haber, leading them to decide for themselves whether in the end he should be
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Grades:
7th - 9th
Physical and Chemical Properties Categorization Cards (Card Sort)
This activity offers a hands-on variation of the traditional T-chart. It can be used in different ways, although I used it as a preassessment, discussion tool (rather than standard notes), independent practice and review.
This file contains:
- the instructions for creating your set of physical and chemical properties categorization (sorting) cards as well as facilitating Categorization Cards in each of the ways mentioned above.
- 30 cards for physical and chemical properties (all fit on one pi
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Types:
Slap Gas
There are 118 elements on the periodic table, and each exists as a solid, liquid, or gas in its elemental state. (Well, some are difficult to tell because they decompose after a few milliseconds). Do you know which 11 exist as gases? If you do, you will win this game when you Slap Gas! Played just like Slap Jack, but uses a deck of 118 originally illustrated element cards. Each card contains the element symbol, atomic number, original illustration, and fun fact about the element's use in nature
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Grades:
6th - 11th
Acid - Base Hands-On Venn Diagram Activity
This activity offers a hands-on variation of a traditional Venn diagram. It can be used in different ways, although I used it as a preassessment, discussion tool (rather than standard notes) and review.
This file contains:
- the instructions for creating your set of Acid and Base Venn diagram cards as well as facilitating Hands-On Venn Diagrams in each of the three ways mentioned above.
- 24 properties cards for acids, bases and neutral substances (all fit on one piece of paper to conserve
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 9th
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