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Measuring Calories

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars investigate what a calorie is and how and why we measure them. They conduct an experiment to compare the calories of a peanut and a mini-marshmallow, and explain and discuss how calories are directly related to the amount...
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How Size Shapes Animals

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students investigate how size affects large and small animals differently. In this animal lesson plan, students determine how size affects different animals by constructing their own animal out of marshmallows. Once students create...
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Measuring Calories

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students burn peanuts and marshmallows to determine the calories each contains. In this calorimetry lesson, students set up an apparatus with a ring stand and water in an aluminum can. They record the temperature of the water before and...
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Linear Motion

For Teachers 4th
In this fantastic physics and math lesson, student pairs create a ramp that will transport a rolling marble in order to learn about linear motion. Students use cardboard, straws, toothpicks, marshmallows, and paper clips in order to make...
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Snowman Soup

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students make gifts. In this art lesson, students place hot chocolate mix, chocolate kisses, mini-marshmallows and a candy cane in a cup and write a poem or a little note for the person who is given the cup.
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Friendship Salad

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
What goes into a friendship salad? Kids find out as they create a fruit salad made of all the important parts of a successful classroom (helpers, listeners, hard workers, sharing, and encouraging words). Don't let that rotten banana in,...
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Shapes Galore!

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore two-dimensional shapes. Individually, children follow directions to draw shapes. Learners use shaving cream, geoboards, yarn, marshmallows, and toothpicks to create shapes. As a class, 1st graders brainstorm...
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Making Models of Atoms and Isotopes

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this models of atoms and isotopes worksheet, students use marshmallow of different colors to represent the protons, neutrons and electrons in an atom. Students make models of the 3 isotopes of hydrogen. They draw a diagram of each and...
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Hanukkah

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Celebrate the traditions of Hanukkah with a festive party. After reading a short background passage about Hanukkah, learners design a Hanukkah party and dance to Hanukkah songs, taste latkes, create menorahs with marshmallows and...
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Strong as the Weakest Link

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students apply knowledge of stresses and forces by building model structures. For this force lesson, students consider skyscrapers and bridges in the world around them and the stresses that these structures endure. They use their...
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Build a Lunar Lander

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students build a space vehicle. In this space lesson, students create a shock-absorbing space vehicle that can be dropped from 1 foot in the air. Their vehicle must include an open cup with two marshmallows (astronauts) that can not fly...
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Science at 100,000 Feet

For Students 9th - 12th
Take your class up, up, and away with an engaging weather balloon simulation! Individuals get hands-on experience in creating and launching their own airborne labs to study how temperature and pressure affect substances at 100,000...
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Genetics, Genetics, and More Genetics: Exploring Independent Assortment and Non-Mendelian Genetics

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Two individuals share 99.9 percent of their genetic codes, yet diversity is observed everywhere. Young scientists learn about diversity through hands-on activities and an experiment. They apply the concepts of independent assortment and...
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Chocolate Bar Bugs & Marshmallow Spiders

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create an insect model with food materials. After a brief discussion of insects, student use food materials provided by the instructor to create their own insect model. Models are shared with the class before they are eaten by...
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Lucky Charms Pictograph

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create pictographs using a breakfast cereal. This fun, hands-on lesson plan allows students to use Lucky Charms cereal to create a pictograph. When the lesson plan is through, 3rd graders get to eat their Lucky Charms...
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Sizing Up Shapes

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore geometric shapes. For this math lesson, 1st graders sort shapes into groups and discuss the characteristics of the shapes. Students build geometric shapes using toothpicks and marshmallows.
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The Structure of Materials

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students brainstorm what matter is and how they define it. They construct a water molecule with marshmallows and toothpicks. In addition, they watch videos to explore the use the idea of nanoscience to investigate the properties of...
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What Holds a Substance Together?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe how substances are held together by bonds. For this physics lesson, students demonstrate how a substance is held together by ripping newspapers and stretching marshmallows. Students complete a data sheet.
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Measurement & Cooking - Rice Krispie Treats

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners practice their measuring and cooking skills with a box of Rice Krispies. In this culinary instructional activity, students utilize a box of Rice Krispies, butter, marshmallows and utensils to cook a batch of Rice Krispie Treats....
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Carbon Creating Activity

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this carbon worksheet, students follow directions and use marshmallows and toothpicks to made carbon dioxide and glucose molecules. Students do this to see how carbon changes as a result of photosynthesis.
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Fling It

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the best design using technology. In this science lesson, students construct a freestanding object with specific materials to be able to shoot a ping pong ball and a marshmallow. They have to adjust and...
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Lucky Charms Sort

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students make a bar graph.  In this sorting and counting lesson, students use the Lucky Charms cereal to sort the marshmallows into separte cups, count how many marshmallows are in each cup and make a bar graph to compare the numbers.
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Observation Skills

For Teachers 1st
First graders observe a spider and write sentences about what they see the spider doing. For this writing lesson plan, 1st graders draw what they see, then make an edible spider out of marshmallows and twizzlers. A fun, delicious lesson...
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Strong as the Weakest Link

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students discover the types of stress that materials undergo. They examine how bridges and skyscrapers are built to withhold the tension. They create their own structure out of marshmallows and spaghetti.

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