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Slime and Polymers
Students participate in an experiment to demonstrate how mixing certain chemicals together can change the consistency of both chemicals. Glue, water, and borax are used to create a slime-like substance which is examined to determine how...
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Substances And Chemical Reactions
Students watch and predict chemical reactions when different substances are mixed together. They differentiate between solid, liquid, and gas.
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Investigating Acidity
Learners classify liquids as an acid, base or neutral. They use purple cabbage juice as an indicator to test several liquids in order to group them as acids, bases or neutrals.
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Cool Activities: Make Slime
Students analyze chemistry by conducting an in-class experiment. For this slime lesson, students discuss what slime is and what form of matter it qualifies as. Students utilize borax, glue, water, cups, food coloring and plastic bags to...
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Parents and Babies
Students examine different scents. In this science lesson, students are divided into being parents or babies and are each given a scent. The "parents" have to identify or infer the scent of their "baby" showing that every mammal has a...
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Kool Colors
Students practice creating art with household items. In this tie dye lesson, students utilize packets of Kool-Aid, warm water and vinegar to create die. Students twist rubber bands on white t-shirts and dip the segments to create a...
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Water and Ice
Students explore the states of water. In this water states lesson, students observe ice over time and the changes that take place. Students read a related text and draw their observations in a journal entry. Students discuss the...
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What is Temperature?
Students study the effects of temperature and air expansion. In this temperature lesson, students discuss temperature and participate in a role play of low energy and high energy molecules. Students then discuss their activity and...
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Water and Ice
Students study the water cycle and states of matter. In this water cycle lesson, students observe ice for a period of time and record their observations. Students create a Venn Diagram comparing water in solid form and liquid form....
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Water and Ice
Learners explore what happens to water as it goes from solid to liquid and back. In this state of matter lesson, students observe, measure, and describe water as it changes state.
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Mud Painting
Students invent mud mixtures to paint with. In this mud painting lesson, students experiment with different mixtures to develop the perfect mud paint. Students paint a picture.
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Slime
In this chemistry worksheet, students make slime by following the directions given. Students read the 6 steps to complete the slime process and follow them.
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Chemical Reactions With Vinegar
Second graders observe chemical reactions. In this scientific inquiry lesson plan, 2nd graders determine whether vinegar creates a chemical reaction by observing two different experiments. A list of 7 supplies is included. In addition,...
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Block Books
In these visual skills worksheets, students study the cookies cutters and cookies and determine if the shapes match. Students then use a red crayon to color the items that could be hot and a blue crayon to color the items that are cold.
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Do Some Research: 4
In this chemical element research worksheet, students read the sentence and research in the library or on the Internet to find the answer and then write it on the blue line. Students then write a short report about this topic: a chemical...
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What is Chemical Change?
In this chemical change worksheet, students will write down a chemical change and then write down 3 supporting details for that example in this graphic organizer.
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What Can Animals Do?
In this science related worksheet, students discuss and brainstorm what animals can and cannot do and then answer twelve true and false questions regarding the subject.
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Chemistry: Plastic Milk
Students observe a basic chemical reaction as vinegar is mixed with skim milk and microwaved. First, they listen to the teacher read, "Little Miss Muffet," and discover the meaning of curds and whey. While the experiment have an...
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States of Matter
First graders break into groups of five students and are given 15 different objects and 3 posters. They group the objects into 3 different families with all the objects in each category placed on one of the posters. They choose whatever...
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Chemical Disasters
Students discuss the importance of safety in the science lab and also in industry. They also will understand some of the implications of chemistry in the world using links provided.
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What's the Matter with My Jell-o?
Young scholars work in teams of four as they conduct four controlled Jell-O experiments over a two-day period. The Family Page extends this learning to the community by providing families with challenges to explore at home.
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Favorite and Alarming Sounds
Students target which sounds can warn us of danger. Several objects are hidden behind a box or board. They have to listen to the sounds each object makes and guess what it is. They then make a graph of the number of students that prefer...
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Cool Coral Reefs
Students identify, color and label the continents of the world and the equator. They identify and produce water temperature between 74 and 78 degrees. They identify and discuss the term polyps and construct a colony of polyps.