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Utah STEM Foundation

Utah Stem Action Center: Push or Pull?

For Teachers K - 1st
This super simple activity for kindergarten-age young scholars requires no materials and can be done inside or outside, or both and explores forces and motion.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: What Makes Things Move?

For Teachers K - 1st
In this activity, young scholars will learn about push and pull forces that make things move. They will also practice using position words to describe location. To learn about forces, they will move objects, observe the movement of...
Handout
Science4Fun

Science4 Fun: Force

For Students K - 1st
What is force? Illustrated discussion of how force is calculated and three familiar types.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: A Change of Direction

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will make predictions and conduct an experiment using marbles to figure out what types of things can cause a moving object to change direction. Included is a video of the lesson in action, pictures, discussion questions, and a...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Falling Objects

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will determine if objects fall at the same speed by testing a variety of objects as they let them fall from above. They will learn that gravity is the force that is pulling on the object. Included in this lesson is a video about...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Marble Stop

For Teachers K - 1st
In this two-part instructional activity, young scholars will discover that no matter what the shape of the track, the marble will rise to the same vertical height. They will begin to understand the concepts of gravity, motion, and force.
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Other

Bscs: Bscs Science Teaching Video Library

For Teachers K - 1st
Elementary teachers have an urgent need for high-quality science classroom videos. To respond as rapidly as possible, BSCS Science Learning has made some of our best K-12 videos available for free streaming. In this collection, you'll...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Indian Ocean: Pirates: What Makes Things Move?

For Students K - 1st
Join Pirates Slim Jim and Easy Finn on their boat. There, learn more about how to move objects.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Balloon & Straw Experiment

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Investigate air pressure, motion and the forces of air currents using a bendy straw, a balloon and a rubber band.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Sesame Street: Science

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A collection of interactives, videos, and documents on a variety science concepts.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Curious George Stem: Ramp N Roll Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Explore how different objects move down ramps in this Curious George instructional activity. Students will make predictions about how objects will roll down different heights of ramps.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Ups and Downs

For Students K - 1st
Explore sports science and build a ramp that will roll a ball right to the target.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Bottle Cap Hockey

For Students K - 1st
Explore sports science and see how many points can you score with your bottle caps in Ruff's take on table hockey.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Build It Up, Knock It Down

For Students K - 1st
Explore structural science and compete in a building contest where each team builds a structure without using tape and then tries to knock the other one down using only paper.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Tower Time

For Students K - 1st
Explore structural science and try to stack a tall, stable tower in this building activity.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Architecture Scavenger Hunt

For Students K - 1st
Explore structural science and look for shapes around your school or in the buildings in your neighborhood.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Teacher's Guide: Structures

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn about structures alongside Ruff Ruffman.
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PBS

Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Introduce Ramps

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An introductory activity where learners discover the way things roll and slide down ramps and hills.
Activity
PBS

Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Indoor Ramps

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Have students make ramps out of flat pieces of cardboard and other materials.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Hamster Run

For Students K - 1st
Use the engineering design process to build, test, and redesign structures to help the hamsters reach their food.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Explore and Play: Ramps Around Us

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Set up several ramps around the room and allow the students to explore and investigate how they work.
Activity
PBS

Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Explore and Play: Sliding Peep

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students make their own ramps and test them out by sending various objects down them.
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PBS

Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Read and Discuss: Ten on the Sled

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Discussion and integrations ideas for the read aloud book, Ten on the Sled by Kim Norman.
Activity
PBS

Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Explore and Play: Snowy Hills

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students make two snowy hills, one steep and one gentle, to discover their effects on rolling objects.

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