Students will use their shoe as a measuring item to learn about length. Students will compare classroom items by holding their shoe against the item and deciding if it is longer or shorter than their shoe. Students will record their...

Play a matching game with different representations of equivalent items.

Third graders discover the differences between quadrilaterals and parallelograms with everyday items found in the classroom.

Make your own sidewalk chalk, and learn about chemical reactions. During the procedure, feel the heat as energy is released in an exothermic reaction.

Investigate what causes sound, and discover how to create different pitches. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of vibration.

Science experiment that demonstrates how energy is transferred. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of how the tension in the catapult causes an object to travel far.

Students will make and fly boomerangs and discover that their spinning action is what makes them return to the thrower. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of "gyroscopic precession".