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Writing Testable Scientific Questions can be tricky! Make the process simple for your students with the easy acronym "S.P.A.M.E"! This product includes a simple test you can use to see if you have written a good quality scientific question. EZ Fill-In Guided Notes and a Visual Card Sort are included in this product.

Challenge your students and introduce or reinforce important Science Process Skills with this STEM Writing Good Scientific Questions Activity and Card Sort. This cooperative learning activity fits well with Science CER (Claim, Evidence and Reasoning) as well as traditional studies related to the scientific method.

Improve student engagement and get your middle school students ready for a great year of science by teaching them how to create testable scientific questions. This makes an EZ Sub Plan.

Includes:

★ Clear and easy to follow student sheet and answer key.

★ Instructor directions with links.

★ "What is Next" cooperative learning task.

★ BONUS Card Sort Activity

How To Use This Resource

★ This writing testable scientific Questions activity can be used with multiple age groups and requires 1 class period to complete.

★ Use this activity as an introduction to important science process skills.

Topics Addressed:

★ Scientific Process Skills

★ Testable Scientific Questions

Nitty Gritty:

With this editable and printable worksheet (pdf and Google), students learn how to write testable scientific questions for inquiry learning, SCIENCE FAIR and more! Testable scientific questions are the basis for a good quality controlled experiment. This activity allows for practice of important science process skills and higher order thinking.

This guided note taking activity uses a fillable worksheet and answer key. It can be used for distance learning or in person. It can be easily assigned digitally or on paper. 

This assignment is aligned with Next Generation Science Standards Science and Engineering Process Skills.

What other teachers have said about Super Star Science products:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Stephanie C.H. Loved it!! What an engaging engineering challenge to use in online school and with younger grades! This activity is so well explained and set up. The visuals are very clear and the instructions make it easy to use this challenge without much work ahead of time.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Laurel D. What a great resource. I was able to modify it to fit my curriculum easily. I will be using this weekly, as our school goal is to improve reading across the curriculum. I look forward to more resources from this author. Thanks!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Ann H. This resource is flexible and covers all the pertinent goals in the rubric. It is easily modified and can be tailored to specific projects and assignments.

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Check out a few of my other science and engineering resources.

*Marshmallow Catapults

*Science Careers & Fields Research Project- "Science 'Ology"

*The Rainbow Lab- Detailed Lab Procedures Practice

*Fun Video Claim, Evidence & Reasoning Analysis Activity Middle School

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*EZ Engineering Bundle

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Do you want a quick and easy way to introduce science lab safety and to help keep your students accountable for their behavior while conbducting experiments?

Prepare your students for Safe Science Experiments & Hands-On Labs with this STEM Lab Safety Rules and Student Contract Activity. This guided note taking activity fits well with MYP, NGSS and International Science and Engineering Practices, CER (Claim, Evidence and Reasoning) as well as traditional studies related to the scientific method. This makes an EZ Sub Plan.

What's Included?

★ Clear and easy to follow editable student worksheet and answer key.

★ Printable Student and Parent/Guardian Contract.

★ Quick Prep Info and Instructor Directions.

How To Use This Resource

★ This activity can be used with multiple age groups and requires 1 partial class period to complete.

★ Use this activity as an introduction to safe lab techniques and proper lab procedures.

Topics Covered

★ Lab Safety Rules

★ Lab Safety Expectation Communication

Nitty Gritty:

With this editable and printable worksheet (pdf and Google), students learn important science laboratory safety rules. A safe science laboratory is the basis for good hands-on science experiments. In this activity, students learn about and agree to follow the class science lab rules.

This activity uses a fillable guided note taking worksheet and printed lab safety contract. It can be easily assigned digitally or on paper. 

This assignment is aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards- Science Process Skills.

What other teachers have said about Super Star Science products:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Stephanie C.H. Loved it!! What an engaging engineering challenge to use in online school and with younger grades! This activity is so well explained and set up. The visuals are very clear and the instructions make it easy to use this challenge without much work ahead of time.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Laurel D. What a great resource. I was able to modify it to fit my curriculum easily. I will be using this weekly, as our school goal is to improve reading across the curriculum. I look forward to more resources from this author. Thanks!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Ann H. This resource is flexible and covers all the pertinent goals in the rubric. It is easily modified and can be tailored to specific projects and assignments.

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Check out a few of my other science and engineering resources.

*Marshmallow Catapults

*Science Careers & Fields Research Project- "Science 'Ology"

*The Rainbow Lab- Detailed Lab Procedures Practice

*Fun Video Claim, Evidence & Reasoning Analysis Activity Middle School

Purchase a Bundle and SAVE!

*EZ Engineering Bundle

Please visit my at my TeachShare Store: Super Star Science: https://www.TeachShare.com/Store/Super-Star-Science

❣️If you and your kids enjoyed this activity, please leave me a review to get TeachShare credits to buy more great products!❣️

Be sure to FOLLOW me on:

✓ TeachShare to receive notifications of sales, new products and more!

✓Facebook for new products, fun photos and science teaching ideas!

Terms of Use: ©Super Star Science. 

All rights reserved by Kim Karper. This single user product is to be used by the original purchaser only. Please do not share this product with other teachers. If you would like to have multiple users for this document, please note that TeachShare offers multiple license options.What other teachers have said about Super Star Science products:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Stephanie C.H. Loved it!! What an engaging engineering challenge to use in online school and with younger grades! This activity is so well explained and set up. The visuals are very clear and the instructions make it easy to use this challenge without much work ahead of time.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Laurel D. What a great resource. I was able to modify it to fit my curriculum easily. I will be using this weekly, as our school goal is to improve reading across the curriculum. I look forward to more resources from this author. Thanks!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Ann H. This resource is flexible and covers all the pertinent goals in the rubric. It is easily modified and can be tailored to specific projects and assignments.

Are you searching for a highly engaging, versatile, any-time AWESOME set of activities related to the Nature of Science & Engineering? This GREAT science bundle includes some of my favorite Science and Engineering Process activities! Each Student Tested (and approved!)- ready-to-go product focuses on a different aspect of science or engineering.

In this bundle, you will find a time tested creativity & science research project, a high quality & visual procedures lab, an EZ and rewarding engineering challenge and much more! These activities focus on problem solving and cooperative learning. Many aspects are naturally differentiated for your students, as students research, create, build and learn at their own rate and level.

Improve student engagement and get your middle school students involved in science and engineering by conducting these student centered activities. Several of these activities are great for sub plans as well.

What's Included in this 11 Activities Bundle?

★ One of my most popular and creative science research projects- "Science- Ology"

★ The Rainbow Procedures Lab- a very clear and visual lab related to human error and following directions.

★ Hoop Glider Engineering Challenge. So much fun!

★ Student activities related to Science Process Skills & Lab Safety.

★ Clear and easy to follow, editable products in pdf and Google formats.

★ Optional class competition.

★ Quick Prep Info and Instructor Directions.

★ FREE "Science Current Events" bonus activity.

How To Use This Resource?

★ This bundle is filled with fun and interactive activities that enhance any scientific method or nature of science and engineering unit. The activities can be used with multiple age groups and EACH requires 1+ class periods to complete.

★ You can use these activities in one unit or spread out over a year.

★ Use these as scaffolded inquiry investigations or as introductions to the various parts of the science & engineering process.

Nitty Gritty:

With these editable and printable products, students engage in the processes of both science and engineering.

These activities are aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards for Science & Engineering.

What other teachers have said about Super Star Science products:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Stephanie C.H. Loved it!! What an engaging engineering challenge to use in online school and with younger grades! This activity is so well explained and set up. The visuals are very clear and the instructions make it easy to use this challenge without much work ahead of time.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Laurel D. What a great resource. I was able to modify it to fit my curriculum easily. I will be using this weekly, as our school goal is to improve reading across the curriculum. I look forward to more resources from this author. Thanks!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Ann H. This is one of the most original and creative project-based lessons I have seen. Students are highly engaged in the subject matter and produce some truly amazing presentations.

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Check out a few of my other science and engineering resources.

*Marshmallow Catapults

*Water Cycle in a Baggie Project

*Static Electricity Stations Lab

*Magnetism One-Pager Project

Please visit my at my TeachShare Store: Super Star Science: https://www.TeachShare.com/Store/Super-Star-Science

❣️If you and your kids enjoyed this activity, please leave me a review to get TeachShare credits to buy more great products!❣️

Be sure to FOLLOW me on:

✓ TeachShare to receive notifications of sales, new products and more!

✓Facebook for new products, fun photos and science teaching ideas!

Terms of Use: ©Super Star Science. 

All rights reserved by Kim Karper. This single user product is to be used by the original purchaser only. Please do not share this product with other teachers. If you would like to have multiple users for this document, please note that TeachShare offers multiple license options.