7th Grade Laboratory

Test your density skills with this fun gummy bear lab!

Giant Keyboard (Mac/Apple). Are you teaching a technology or keyboarding class? Do you have a computer lab you need to decorate? This giant printable keyboard would be great to print out, cut the keys apart, laminate and place on your wall. This wall sized keyboard is modeled after a Mac / Apple keyboard. Keys come in two sizes: 6"x5.8" & 4"x4" *Updated 9/1/15* Keyboard now includes the number pad, arrows and other keys. Large size prints 1 key per page. The size measures approximately 60"x20" (using spacing show in image) once you have cut out the letters / assembled the keyboard, but really depends on how much space you want to put between the keys. This is based off a Mac / Apple Keyboard. I have included both a color and black/white version so if you wanted to save that color ink, and print the black and white on colored paper, you can easily do that. Pages are separated out by the colors they should be printed on and I have included an image to show you which pages should be printed in a color group. Need the PC version? Get it here Keywords: Computer, key, keyboarding, keyboard, tech, educational, technology, typing, type, colorful, fun, bright, bulletin board, display, computing,

Students in this lab will utilize a variety of scientific method skills. They will collect data, create their own data collection tables, perform calculations, and use inferring skills.

Students will have four separate questions that develop their scientific thinking skills.

This lab has easily accessible materials and can be altered to a variety of "atomic mass" units, such as candy or trail mix. This is great to do at home, distance learning, or in the classroom.

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If this sparked your interest, check out the other labs available!

Bubbles Science Lab - Practicing the Scientific Method!

Separating Mixtures using Paper Chromatography Science Lab

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Engage your students with this hands-on Speed, Distance, and Time Lab! Perfect for math or science classes, this activity includes:

• Interactive Exploration: Students measure their own speed and graph the results.
• Bonus Extension: Includes an optional activity for climbing stairs to extend learning.
• Editable Format: Fully customizable Google Doc to fit your classroom needs.

This versatile lab makes learning speed, distance, and time engaging and practical for students while reinforcing graphing skills!

Looking for a ready to go made lesson for ocean density and salinity? This activity include:

• slides presentation to present to students.
• lab/demonstration directions for students and teachers
• handout for student lab worksheet

Great for homeschool or school setting! Videos are included!

Tennessee State Standards

• 6.PS3.4 - Conduct an investigation to demonstrate the way that heat (thermal energy) moves among objects through radiation, conduction, or convection.
• 6.ESS2.1 - Gather evidence to justify that oceanic convection currents are caused by the sun’s transfer of heat energy and differences in salt concentration leading to global water movement.
• 6.ESS2.3 - Construct an explanation for how atmospheric flow, geographic features, and ocean currents affect the climate of a region through heat transfer.

NGSS - Middle School

• MS-ESS2-6 - Develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates.

ELECTRICITY FUN!!! Are you looking for an engaging, hands-on experiment to reinforce scientific process skills and Physics of Electricity concepts? This AWESOME experiment includes all you need to hook your students on science- simply add batteries!

I do this lab when I teach electricity and magnetism. The kids feel like real scientists as they complete a simple series circuit and then test common materials to determine if they are conductors or insulators of electricity! Your students will build lab skills, problem solve, cooperate in groups and enjoy the hard work.

What's Included?

★ Clear and Easy to Follow Editable Lab Worksheet

★ Focused Practice on Cooperative Learning & Science Process Skills

★ Quick Prep Info and Instructor Directions

How To Use This Resource?

★ This hands-on activity can be used with multiple age groups and requires 1-2 class periods to complete.

★ This electricity lab requires easy-to-access materials (batteries, wires, whiteboard and various objects to test).

★ Use this as a scaffolded inquiry investigation or as an introduction to electricity- conductors and insulators.

Topics Covered in this FULL Inquiry Lab?

★ Science of Electricity

★ Basic Circuitry

★ Conductors and Insulators

★ Following Detailed Procedures

★ Conducting Safe Experiments

★ Gathering Relavant Data

Nitty Gritty:

With this editable and printable product, students engage in the hands-on process of science and learn how to complete the scientific inquiry process. This activity is great for preparing for the SCIENCE FAIR! The Conductor and Insulator Test Building Lab allows for practice of important science process skills and higher order thinking.

This assignment is aligned with the Next Generation, Middle Years Program and other International Science Standards for Physics & Science Process Skills.

What other teachers have said about Super Star Science products:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Stephanie C.H. Loved it!! What an engaging 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.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Elizabeth D. I loved that was a simple, safe lab that forced students to really pay attention to the procedure. My students were excited by it and were engaged. I would highly recommend this lab!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- 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

*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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3 "mini" labs -or shortened activities- to reinforce or introduce concepts to students. These are simple activities that do not take the whole class period. Each activity is meant to help support the following concepts.

• Organism specialization
• Stored energy in plants/producers
• Specialized reproduction of fungi

Packet comes with the following:

Organism races: Teacher Guide & Student Handout (MS-LS1-2)

Plant Stored Energy: Teacher Guide & Student Handout (MS-LS1-7)

Fungi and Spores: Teacher Guide & Student Handout (MS-LS1-4)

Materials needed per group set up:

Organism Races: 20 paper clips, 2 pieces of paper, 1 pencil

Plant Stored Energy: Potato pieces, celery pieces, pear pieces, 3 clear plastic cups, iodine solution, eye dropper

Fungi and Spores: Fresh mushrooms (store bought) sharp knife, clear plastic cup, white paper, hand lens

MS-LS1-7: Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways parts of cells contribute to the function.

MS-LS1-7: Develop a model to describe how food is rearranged through chemical reactions forming new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as this matter moves through an organism.

MS-LS1-4 : Use argument based on empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support an explanation for how characteristic animal behaviors and specialized plant structures affect the probability of successful reproduction of animals and plants respectively.

Help your students dive deep into the concepts of relative and absolute density with this hands-on relative and absolute density lab and accompanying student booklet. Designed for pairs or small groups, this engaging relative and absolute density activity allows students to measure, calculate, predict, and analyze data as they explore the relationship between mass, volume, and density through real-world examples.

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What’s Included in This Resource:

• Lab Instructions: Step-by-step guidance for conducting the relative and absolute density lab experiment.
• Student Booklet: Printable pages to guide students through the entire lab experiment, including predictions, data recording, diagramming results, and drawing conclusions.
• Supply List: Detailed list of materials needed for the relative and absolute density activity:
  • Triple-Beam Balance, Double-Pan Balance, or Scale
  • Graduated Cylinder
  • Beaker (at least 250 ml)
  • Water, Vegetable Oil, Corn Syrup
  • Plastic Bottle Cap, Screw, Small Piece of Sponge, Grape
  • Crayons or Colored Pencils
  • Student Pages/Booklet (from this resource)

What Students Will Do:

• Measure the mass and volume of various objects using provided lab tools.
• Calculate the absolute density of the objects based on their mass and volume measurements.
• Make predictions about how objects will behave in different liquid densities (e.g., sinking or floating).
• Complete a hands-on relative and absolute density lab experiment to test their predictions.
• Record and diagram lab data in their student booklets, and draw conclusions based on their results.

How to Use This Resource:

• Interactive Lab: Use this resource as a full-class lab experiment, where students work in pairs or small groups to investigate the concept of density.
• Hands-On Practice: Integrate this relative and absolute density activity into your lesson plans as a practical way for students to apply their knowledge of matter and density.
• Interactive Notebooks: Use the included student pages to create a booklet perfect for interactive notebooks, making it easy for students to organize their data and notes.
• Matter Review: This resource also works well as a lab experiment for reviewing density concepts before an assessment.

Why You’ll Love This Resource:

• Hands-On Learning: This relative and absolute density activity provides students with a meaningful, hands-on experience to explore abstract concepts like mass, volume, and density.
• Engaging and Interactive: The relative and absolute density lab encourages students to make predictions, test hypotheses, and analyze results—critical skills for developing scientific thinking.
• Student-Centered: The student booklet allows for organized note-taking, data recording, and reflections, ensuring students stay engaged throughout the lab experiment.
• No Prep for Teachers: This relative and absolute density lab comes ready to go with clear instructions and student pages, making it easy to implement in your classroom without extra preparation.

Equip your students with the tools they need to understand relative and absolute density in an engaging, interactive way. Add this relative and absolute density lab and student booklet to your science toolkit today!

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➡️ You may also like our other Matter Resources

• Physical and Chemical Changes PowerPoint and Differentiated Notes - Matter
• Physical & Chemical Changes Task Cards - Matter Activity - States of Matter
• Physical and Chemical Changes Sort - Matter Card Sort Activity

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Looking to engage your students in an exciting hands-on science experiment? Dive into the fascinating world of earth science with our Stream Table Lab resource.

Watch as your students become geologists in action, simulating natural phenomena right in the classroom!

What you'll get:

• Detailed instructions for setting up and conducting the experiment
• Materials list for easy preparation
• Discussion questions to deepen understanding

Empower your students to think like scientists as they observe, analyze, and draw conclusions from their observations. Spark curiosity and inspire learning with this engaging Stream Table Lab!

Even beginner French students need to work on listening comprehension. This is a beginner level French listening comprehension exercise, less than 2 minutes in length. It includes the transcript and five listening comprehension questions + answers are included. Enjoy watching your students feel great about their success! ☞Just click here to follow my store! Merci! ❤️☜ You may also enjoy the following listening comprehension activities: Minuit à Paris: Listening Comprehension Activity + Questions/a>
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Are you looking for an introductory activity to Coding that can easily be upgraded to extensive coding or robotic programming? This will activity will take you step by step to creating a "city" in EXCEL (we actually recreated the city that we built in our classroom, but you can just create it in EXCEL) and then shows you how to CODE out of the city. With the help of snip tools and pens, you have numerous coding challenges for Warm-Ups or Coding Extensions. Since we actually built the city, students applied what they coded to actual programs on the robots. It was a great experience!!

Are you looking for a hands-on, inquiry-based lab for your middle school students that covers watersheds and human impact on water supply? Then check this out! In this lab, students will crumple a piece of paper, use markers to draw various landmarks and landforms on the paper, and then spray water over the paper to simulate rain flowing through a watershed. Students will be able to observe how water travels from areas of higher elevation to lower elevation due to gravity. Additionally, students will learn how humans impact the environment by leaving pollution on Earth's surface, which gets transported into the water supply. This lab also includes detailed step by step instructions and post-lab questions.

An answer key is included.

Materials needed: markers, plain paper, spray bottles, and water.

Your students will:

• Apply knowledge
• Practice concepts 
• Use observation skills
• Demonstrate understanding
• Analyze data
• Apply key terms and definitions
• Engage in visual and hands-on learning
• Explore real world problems

Giant PC Keyboard. Are you teaching a technology or keyboarding class? Do you have a computer lab you need to decorate? This giant printable keyboard would be great to print out, cut the keys apart, laminate and place on your wall.

Keys come in two sizes:

6"x5.8" & 4"x4"

*Updated 9/1/15*

Keyboard now includes the number pad, arrows and other keys.

Large size prints 1 key per page.

The size measures approximately 60"x20" (using spacing show in image) once you have cut out the letters / assembled the keyboard, but really depends on how much space you want to put between the keys.

This is based off a PC Keyboard. I have included both a color and black/white version so if you wanted to save that color ink, and print the black and white on colored paper, you can easily do that. Pages are separated out by the colors they should be printed on and I have included an image to show you which pages should be printed in a color group.

Need the Mac version? Get it here

Want a set of small single page keyboards? I have them here

Keywords: Computer, key, keyboarding, keyboard, tech, educational, technology, typing, type, colorful, fun, bright, bulletin board, display, computing,

This Bundle includes the Following resources!

1. Bubbles Science Lab - Practicing the Scientific Method!

A helpful introduction to lab work at any level! Students will practice the scientific method by altering the dependent variable in a bubble mixture.

2. Separating Mixtures using Paper Chromatography Science Lab

An easy access lab to introduce students to chromatography and get practice using the scientific method.

3. Modelling Isotopes Science Lab - Exploring Atomic Mass and the Periodic Table

Students in this lab will utilize a variety of scientific method skills. They will collect data, create their own data collection tables, perform calculations, and use inferring skills.

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If you enjoyed this bundle, I would LOVE a review and you will earn TeachShare credit for your feedback.

Unlock the mysteries of ocean currents with a unique and engaging classroom lesson that brings science to life! This lesson uses adorable rubber ducks to illustrate how ocean currents function and impact the planet. Great for visual and kinesthetic learners.

Looking for a inquiry based investigation ready to go lesson for teaching ocean currents? This activity includes...

• Google slides to go through with students.
• Student handout link
• Tips in the Speaker notes on the Slides
• Exit ticket to assess learning
• Rubber ducks!

Tennessee State Standards

• 6.ESS2.1 - Gather evidence to justify that oceanic convection currents are caused by the sun’s transfer of heat energy and differences in salt concentration leading to global water movement. 

NGSS - Middle School

• MS-ESS2-6 - Develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates.

Very fun and interactive activity for students learning about ocean currents and density.

ELECTRICITY FUN!!! Are you looking for an engaging, hands-on circuit building experiment to reinforce scientific process skills and Physics of Electricity concepts? This AWESOME activity includes all you need to hook your students on science- simply add batteries and holiday lights!

I do this lab when I teach electricity and magnetism. The kids feel like real scientists as they test circuit predictions and then build simple multi-component series and parallel circuits. Your students will build lab skills, problem solve, cooperate in groups and enjoy the hard work.

What's Included?

★ Clear and Easy to Follow Editable Lab Worksheet

★ Focused Practice on Science Process Skills

★ Quick Prep Info and Instructor Directions

How To Use This Resource?

★ This hands-on activity can be used with multiple age groups and requires 1-2 class periods to complete.

★ This electricity lab requires easy-to-access materials (batteries, wires, holiday lights, whiteboard and tape).

★ Use this as a scaffolded inquiry investigation or as an introduction to electricity and circuits.

Topics Covered in this FULL Inquiry Lab?

★ Science of Electricity

★ Basic Circuitry

★ Following Detailed Procedures

★ Conducting Safe Experiments

★ Gathering Relavant Data

Nitty Gritty:

With this editable and printable product, students engage in the hands-on process of science and learn how to complete the scientific inquiry process. This activity is great for preparing for the SCIENCE FAIR! The Physics of Electricity and Circuit Building Lab allows for practice of important science process skills and higher order thinking.

This assignment is aligned with the Next Generation, Middle Years Program and other International Science Standards for Physics & Science Process Skills.

What other teachers have said about Super Star Science products:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Stephanie C.H. Loved it!! What an engaging 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.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Elizabeth D. I loved that was a simple, safe lab that forced students to really pay attention to the procedure. My students were excited by it and were engaged. I would highly recommend this lab!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- 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.

★_______________________________________★

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:

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One "mini" lab that will help students observe and make connections that particles in matter move faster at high temperatures than at low temperatures

These short activities reinforce or introduce concepts to students. I call these activities “mini labs” because they are simple activities that do not take the whole class period. They are also activities that are safe for use in the classroom and do not have to be done in a lab or with any specialty equipment or materials. I often use these demonstrations to lead into new content, that way as we cover material I can refer back to the things that my students have experienced first hand.

Distance learning or need a digital copy to assign?

• No problem! This activity now includes a Google Slides options! Ready to go, no prep needed from you!

Three Forms of Use Included

1. Printable PDF
2. Google Slides

Materials needed:

-Two cups

-Hot water

-Cold water

-Eyedropper

-Food Coloring

-Colored Pencils

THis VIDEO Project helps students to answer, "Where will I ever use this?" The project encourages students to look at how they use Math in their daily lives - at home, at school, on the ball field, where ever they go. They gather pictures of math related items and create a short video explaining how they use math with each item. My students have alway found this so enlightening... fun, too!

Are you looking for a hands-on, inquiry-based lab for your middle school students that demonstrates natural selection? This lab will do just that as it guides students to act as birds in a forest as they prey on skittles to see how the adaptation of camouflage helps a species survive. They will then collect data to see how the organisms with the fittest traits survive. The lab can be completed in one day and the graph and reflection questions will most likely take a second day to complete.

The simulation activity includes warm up questions, step by step instructions, a data table, line graph, and reflection questions. Students also use math skills to calculate population percentages and display them on a line graph.

Materials needed: skittles & green paper or green napkins (optional: polka dot napkins)

An answer key is included.

Your students will:

• Engage in visual and hands-on learning
• Apply knowledge
• Practice concepts 
• Collect data
• Analyze data
• Draw conclusions
• Use math skills
• Explore real world application of science knowledge

Giant CHROMEBOOK Keyboard. Are you teaching a technology or keyboarding class? Do you have a computer lab you need to decorate? This giant printable Chromebook keyboard would be great to print out, cut the keys apart, laminate and place on your wall. Spaced out like the preview image it is 5.5 feet long! Keys are each 4" and fit great on takeout boxes to make them pop off the walls. This is based off a CHROMEBOOK Keyboard. I have included both a color and black/white version so if you wanted to save that color ink, and print the black and white on colored paper, you can easily do that. Pages are separated out by the colors they should be printed on and I have included an image to show you which pages should be printed in a color group. Also included is printing tips which tell you which pages should be printed on what color paper to make it match without printing in color. Need the Mac version? Get it here Want a set of small single page keyboards? I have them here Keywords: Computer, key, keyboarding, keyboard, tech, educational, technology, typing, type, colorful, fun, bright, bulletin board, display, computing,