Worksheet
Curated OER

Electromagnet

For Students 5th - 8th
In this scientific investigation worksheet, students follow the provided procedures to examine how electricity and magnetism are related and then respond to 4 short answer questions.
Organizer
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Seeing Is Believing: Atoms

For Students 4th - 8th
In this scientific investigation worksheet, learners follow the provided procedures to examine 4 mystery objects and then respond to 2 short answer questions.
Worksheet
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Air Atoms

For Students 5th - 8th
In this scientific investigation worksheet, students follow the provided procedures to examine what happens to atoms in the air when metal atoms bump them. Students then respond to 2 short answer questions.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Atoms or Molecules?

For Students 5th - 8th
In this scientific investigation worksheet, students follow the provided procedures to examine the chemical reactions of hydrogen and oxygen atoms and then respond to 1 short answer question.
Worksheet
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Cells

For Students 5th - 8th
In this scientific investigation worksheet, students follow the provided procedures to examine the number of cells in animals and then respond to 3 short answer questions.
Worksheet
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Artificial Gravity

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this scientific investigation learning exercise, students follow the provided procedures to observe gravity as they build a paper space station and then respond to 4 short answer questions.
Worksheet
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Shrinking Air

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this science investigation worksheet, students follow the listed procedures to find out how temperature affects air pressure as they heat and cool balloons.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Measuring Relative Humidity: A Psychrometer

For Students 5th - 8th
In this scientific investigation worksheet, students follow the provided procedures to examine the temperature reading of wet and dry thermometers and then respond to 5 questions.
Worksheet
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pH: Acids and Bases

For Students 7th - 10th
In this scientific investigation worksheet, students follow the provided procedures to examine the pH levels of acid and bases and then respond to 1 short answer question.
Worksheet
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The Strength of Shapes

For Students 6th - 9th
In this scientific investigation worksheet, students follow the provided procedures to examine the strength of shapes and then respond to 4 short answer questions.
Lesson Plan
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Valentine Science Blood Types

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Pupils explore blood types. In this science investigation lesson, students participate in a classroom simulation that replicates a blood transfusion so that pupils may note how the 4 blood types interact.
Lesson Plan
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Making a Crater

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students examine the characteristics of craters. In this crater lesson, students discover how meteors form craters on planets and moons as they make their own craters and respond to observational questions regarding the...
Lesson Plan
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Ocean Currents

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students determine how water and wind affect ocean currents. In this science investigation instructional activity, students follow the provided steps to enable them to consider how explorers may have used ocean currents to their advantage.
Lesson Plan
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Studying Soils on South Penquite Farm

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students investigate soil depth.  In this studying soils lesson, students visit South Penquite Farm and collect samples.  Students record their data and graph results. 
Activity
Discovery Education

Cool It!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Adjust the melting time of ice without varying the temperature! Learners experiment with different materials to decide how the materials affect the rate an ice cube melts. They then connect their findings to the conductivity of each...
Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Metamorphic Rocks

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Rocks can bend? Pupils investigate how heat and pressure produce metamorphic rocks by modeling them using clay, and then categorize samples based on observable characteristics. The lesson plan ends with a metamorphic rock...
Lesson Plan
Polar Trec

Is There Salt in a Glacier?

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
What can conductivity tell us about a glacier? Groups analyze glacial melt to determine salt content through an analysis of the pH and conductivity measurements of two samples. Groups then determine the source of the salts. 
Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Thermochemistry: Heat and Chemical Changes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What makes particles attract? Here, learners engage in multiple activities that fully describe colligative properties and allow the ability to critically assess the importance of these properties in daily life. Young chemists...
Activity
Teaching Tolerance

Journalism for Justice

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Roll the presses! Or at least have your class members participate in the time-honored tradition of the student press by creating their own newspapers or journalist pieces on a social problem. After conducting research and collaborating...
Lesson Plan
California Academy of Science

Composting: A Scientific Investigation: California Academy of Sciences

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Garbage, recycle, compost: Does it really matter where we put our trash once we are done? By making detailed observations over seven weeks, kids will see which materials break down naturally to become a healthy part of the soil, and...
Lesson Plan
Cornell University

Investigating and Modeling Hardness

For Students 6th - 8th
Model hardness testing with a self-designed hardness test. Young scholars rate the hardness of different types of aspirin using the Vicker's Hardness scale. They then relate hardness to the solubility of each aspirin tablet.
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Beyond Benign

Packed Up Properties

For Students 6th - 8th
Determine physical properties of potential packaging materials. Continuing from previous lessons in the series, the resource asks groups to identify physical properties of the substances. They test for conductivity, solubility, water...
Lesson Plan
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Conducting a Scientific Investigation

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate a possible health problem in the local school district through inquiry into attendance records, activities, maps, graphs, and data tables. The simulation continues as solutions for the problem are sought.
Lesson Plan
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Investigating the Relationship of Mass to Volume

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the relationship of mass to volume. In this physical science lesson, 3rd graders participate in an investigation with a several materials and measure the mass and volume using scientific tools. Students discuss and...