Here is a website that has a sliding animation to demonstrate the size of cells and compares them to many other objects, including viruses, parts of cells, and bacteria. This would be a great visual for your students when introducing the cell.
In this Earth Science or Physical Science lab, students will gain an understanding of the three types of thermal energy transfer: conduction, radiation, and convection. Students will use hot, cold, and room temperature water to demonstrate convection by using food coloring. Students will then see how long chocolate chips take to melt when you add heat to just one side of some tin foil. Finally, they will use heat lamps, thermometers, and dark and light-colored papers to demonstrate radiation and the absorption of radiated heat.
In this lab students design and experiment that will oxidize a penny. The purpose of this lab besides demonstrating chemical weathering is to assess how well students are understanding the scientific method as well as their ability to think outside the box by taking content knowledge and applying it in a lab situation. I stand back from this lab to see how well students perform. Students will observe their pennies each day until their pennies are dry or for 3 or more days, depending on how they set up their design.
Teachers can use this clock image generator to custom design a clock and then save the image to use in your presentation about clocks or time. There are many variables that a teacher can manipulate to generate multiple clocks. Once finished with each clock click the share button.
In this assignment students will find images of the most common formations found in caves: helictites, stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, cave popcorn, soda straws, draperies, cave bacon, columns, and boxwork They will be assigned a specific cave from a list of 18 and answer 8 out of many questions about the cave. Students get to choose the open-ended questions from a list or create their own questions. This assignment is designed to generate interest in visiting the many caves throughout the world. Many of the caves in the list are found right here in the United States.
Find out how glacier melt can raise ocean sea levels. This science video also explains thermal expansion.
This worksheet will help reinforce the concept of many common suffixes.
Generate equivalent expressions using two additive properties. This video focuses on using the associative and commutative properties of addition to combine like terms, simplify expressions, and create equivalent expressions. Change the sign to multiplication and you can use this for the properties of multiplication as well.
Watch the properties of addition and multiplication in action.
Third-grade reading game for students who need to practice and reinforce the Author's Purpose as well as reinforce their multiplication skills. Students will collect all the jewels in 15 minutes. If a bee stings the student, the student will need to answer a multiplication math fact. If a student collects a Jewell, he/she will need to answer the author's purpose for writing the passage. Persuade, Inform, Entertain, PI
Bill Nye said that the Joy of Discovery is awesome. It is the joy of discovery that makes every human being a scientist. We explore, test, hypothesize ,and form conclusions. Watch this video with your students to see if they agree with what was said. The images and videos attached to this video are beautiful.
