9th Grade Science Activities

Are you looking for a dynamic and engaging way to teach your students about the cranial nerves? Introducing "Wired for Action: Understanding the Role of Cranial Nerves," an interactive project designed to enhance students’ understanding of the twelve cranial nerves through real-life scenarios.
In this fun and engaging project, students will work collaboratively in small groups to analyze a series of scenarios that illustrate the functions of each cranial nerve. They will identify which nerve is involved, discuss its role in the human body, and connect anatomical knowledge with practical applications. This hands-on practice not only reinforces critical thinking and problem-solving skills but also fosters teamwork and communication among students.
What’s Included in the Resource: Understanding Cranial Nerves

• Overview of all 12 cranial nerves: Comprehensive details for students to explore.
• Instructions for drawing nerves memory aid: A creative way to help students remember cranial nerve functions.
• Real Life Case Studies: Engaging scenarios that bring the material to life.
• Answer key for Case Studies: Facilitates your teaching process and provides quick grading solutions.
• Structured lesson plan for teaching: This resource is no-prep, print and go, and includes everything you need to deliver an effective lesson.

This project is ideal for health science classes, including Anatomy and Physiology, Biology, Health Science, or Neuroscience. It is perfect for high school grades 9-12 and aligns with the principles of health science and health science theory.
By the end of the project, students will not only deepen their understanding of cranial nerves but also appreciate their significance in clinical settings, preparing them for future studies in nursing, CNA, or related fields. With step-by-step instructions for teachers and student instructions included, this resource is time-saving and ready to use.
Give your students the opportunity to explore the fascinating world of cranial nerves while developing essential skills for their academic journey. Join us in this educational adventure, and watch your students thrive! Trust us, your students will love this engaging activity!

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Celebrate Earth Day with an engaging Whale Conservation Code Breaker resource! Featuring 5 questions about whale conservation, students will decode the answers using the provided key.

Teachers can utilize this resource as a supplemental tool for lessons on ocean animals, endangered species, climate change, Earth Day, and more. Additionally, it serves as a calming and engaging activity for students, suitable for use as a game or morning / afternoon work.

Designed for students across various grades, no specific teaching is required as long as students are familiar with science terms such as biodiversity and conservation. This activity is sure to spark curiosity and inspire learners to delve deeper into the world of whales.

Check out Whale Facts Code Breaker to complement this resource!

Includes:

• 5 questions and answers of Whale Conservation
• Answer Key

Use for (suggestions):

• Earth Day
• Endangered Animals
• Ocean Animals
• Mammals
• Early finishers , morning work
• Brain break
• End of year activities

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• Save valuable time and money
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• Evergreen product (can be used again and again, for upcoming years)
• Suitable for various grade levels- no specific teaching needed

What is cryptogram (code breaker) ?

A cryptogram is like a puzzle where you change letters to secret codes. You have to figure out the code to read the hidden message. It's a fun challenge for learners.

How do these worksheets benefit your learners?

• Learners must analyze the symbols to decode the hidden answers. This promotes cognitive development and critical thinking.
• Cryptograms are essentially puzzles that need to be solved. Kids learn to approach problems systematically, breaking down complex codes into manageable parts. This problem-solving skill is transferable to various areas of their academic and personal lives.
• Attention to detail
• Patience and perseverance
• Enjoyable learning experience

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This Biology assignment is printable & digital via. Google Slides. There are 16 student slides, 33 total slides. Activities include drag & drop and fill in the blanks. This activity also covers topics such as Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Genus, Family, and Species. This is perfect for in-class work, homework, or even review.

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Transform your classroom into a periodic table headquarters with this exciting project!

Students will embark on a thrilling investigation of the periodic table by transforming themselves into element detectives! Using a "wanted poster" template, they will showcase their element in a captivating and informative way.

What's Included?
Wanted Poster Template including:

• • Element symbol and atomic number
  • "Description" area for details like physical state (solid, liquid, gas)
  • "First Appearance" section to highlight history of the element
  • "Beware" section for details of what the element reacts with

Wanted Poster Example: A completed sample poster showcasing an element serves as a helpful guide for students.

Bonus Tip: Challenge students to create a short skit or news report impersonating their chosen element, highlighting its properties and importance in the scientific world.

Gift Giving Chemistry | Periodic Table Elements

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The James Webb Space Telescope has launched into space. Learn more about this exciting time in space exploration!

• This is a complex topic. We have done our best to break it down into manageable bits for you.
• Included in this resource are a nonfiction text (so you don't have to write your own), possible discussion questions, suggestions for activities, and a link to two videos and other sites that are recommended for students when studying space exploration.
• 4 posters
• Check out our preview to see if this is right for you.

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Make your Christmas Holiday Party Crafts fun with this engaging, hands-on Christmas Snowflake Kids craft making activity! This includes 2 low-prep Christmas Snowflake kids crafts templates perfect for having fun for the Christmas holiday. Quick and easy setup plus clear student directions make this activity perfect for centers or substitute days, too!

Lead your students in fun craft making with 2 snowflakes by cutting out the pieces, coloring, gluing the parts together and decorating. Students will love putting together their snowflake activities together by using their problem solving skills through these fun activities, and won't even realize how much they're having fun! Use it after reading a story about snowflakes, catch snowflakes on black paper or sing a song about snowflakes. Print in black and white.

Here's what you'll get:

• 2 snowflake designs

• easy to follow directions

Your students will be crafting Christmas holiday snowflake crafts with a variety of common classroom materials. They'll be engaged and having a great time together!

These activities use materials readily available in most classrooms and homes and includes printable templates to create each activity.

Prep is quick and easy... Just print the elf pages, cut everything out, color, decorate, gather the materials listed, and you're ready for a fun and engaging class! Print in black and white for coloring and in color for easy assembly. You can make these into puppets, dance around the room with them while listening to Christmas music, or use to decorate your room with.

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A helpful introduction to lab work at any level! Students will practice the scientific method by altering the dependent variable in a bubble mixture. They have three questions that discuss observations and help them form a general conclusion.

These materials are easily accessible and can be found within the home. A great lab for distance learning or in class learning!

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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 lesson about levels of organization of life from cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, to organisms? This interactive lesson will have your students testing their sight using color blind tests. It includes...

• Google Slides that start with a phenomenon: color blindness, then goes onto notes after students have observed and questioned how the eye works.
• Tips and links in the speaker notes.
• Two handouts (phenomenon sheet and fill in the blank notes sheet: links found in speaker notes)
• Links to color blind tests
• Interactive activities to make the lesson engaging

Tennessee State Standards

• 7.LS1.4 - Diagram the hierarchical organization of multicellular organisms from cells to organism
• 7.LS1.1 - Develop and construct models that identify and explain the structure and function of major cell organelles as they contribute to the life activities of the cell and organism.

NGSS - Middle School

• MS-LS1-2 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-LS1-3 - Use argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells.

Cause and effect, character traits, and critical thinking are the focus of this Conspiracy Theory Role Play Game. Students develop and define their beliefs and opinions, sort fact and fiction, use character trait role play cards, debate and argue their points of view, think about community responsibilities, question ethics and morals, and use cooperative learning to save planet Earth with this fun, educational, fact-based scenario about conspiracy theories. Includes: Directions Fact-Based Newspaper Article Conspiracy Theory Scenario Cause & Effect Worksheet Conspiracy Theories Worksheet Role Play Cards (optional directions are included) Character Traits Handouts (Positive & Negative) Character Reflection Sheet Optional Writing and Illustrating Activity Fact versus Fiction Excellent for AP, dual credit, GT, homeschool groups, flipped classes, ELA, History/Social Studies, Journalism, Science, STEM, STEAM! Use for building and assessing cause and effect, character traits, critical thinking, facts, logic, time management, writing, working with research based information and citations of research materials. Meets CCSS and state ELA guidelines. Makes learning engaging and interactive. Use with Circular Reporting on TeachShare for a complete lesson plan on how we believe and how media plays a role in what we believe.

These photosynthesis comic strip templates are a great idea for teachers and students learning about photosynthesis.

It includes 7 comic strip templates, a direction page, and a rubric for grading. It can be used in the classroom for hands-on projects, during science units on plants, or for assessments.

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A FUN, Hands-On Holiday Engineering Design Activity is at your fingertips! SPEED into STEM with this engaging, problem solving, cooperative learning, STEM Challenge- "Help Emerson Elf (or bear or.....)! The Holiday Stuffy Zipline Challenge." This product includes an easy to follow slideshow and student brainstorming and planning document.

Get your middle school students laughing and involved engineering by conducting this student centered STEM challenge. It is perfect for those few days before Winter Break when some of your students will be traveling.

What's Included?

★ Clear and easy to follow editable Engineering Challenge slide show.

★ Class competition.

★ Student Exemplars.

★ FREE! Student Engineering Planning worksheet.

★ Quick Prep Info, Grading Rubric 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 engineering challenge requires easy-to-access edible materials (HOLIDAY ELF, Stuffed Animal or other, craft sticks, paper, rubber bands, tape, string, paper, or anything else you have laying around!).

★ Use this as a scaffolded inquiry investigation or as an introduction to the engineering process.

Topics Covered:

★ Problem Solving in Cooperative Groups

★ Engineering Process

Nitty Gritty:

With this editable and printable product, students engage in the process of engineering and learn how to create quality engineering solutions. Buildable and testable engineering design solutions are the basis for any good engineering project or engineering fair. This activity allows for practice of important engineering process skills and higher order thinking.

This assignment is aligned with the Middle Years Program, Next Generation
and other International Science Standards for Engineering.

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Engage your students with this lab experience designed to investigate mass, weight and calculating W=mg. This resource is a great way to practice the skills of measuring mass and weight, noting the difference in the measurements, calculating W=mg and connecting the relationship between mass and weight. 

This resource covers

• Making Predictions About Outcomes
• Using Measuring Tools - Triple Beam Balance/Scale and Spring Scale
• Measuring Mass
• Measuring Weight
• Calculating W=mg
• Comparing Calculated vs. Measured Values

Not every student needs the same support! This resource comes with 2 different student recording sheets. One to help learners that need more support and another for more independent students.

Includes:

• Teacher Guide
• 2 Versions of the Student Procedures and Answer Sheet
• Answer Keys
• BONUS Extension Activity: Acceleration Due to Gravity On Other Planets Research

Materials Needed:

• Triple Beam Balance or Digital Scale
• Spring Scale
• Several small objects of different masses
• Calculator

Fun Biology Jigsaw Puzzle Template Puzzles is an engaging and creative activity pack designed for young learners. This unique resource combines the fun of jigsaw puzzles with the creativity of coloring pages. Children will delight in solving the jigsaw puzzles to reveal adorable images of fall Leaves Lettering setting. After completing the puzzles, they can express their artistic skills by coloring the pictures in vibrant hues.

WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE

• 30 Pages

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• Large 8.5'' x 11'' designs that can easily be printed on regular sized paper

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• Great for kids, boys and girls

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• Concise 4-Paragraph Format: Breaks down topics into manageable sections for maximum understanding. Written at a 7th grade ESOL student level but suitable for a wide range of learners.
• Four Comprehension Questions: Encourages critical thinking and tests knowledge effectively.
• Answer Key Included: Simplifies grading and ensures accurate evaluation.
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These periodic table worksheets will make learning about the periodic table and the elements listed on it a lot of fun for students! With the help of these worksheets on the periodic table of elements, students in the following grades will have fun learning about the many elements and their symbols: third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth. To begin learning and playing, just print the periodic table activity worksheet pdf. The answers are provided!!

There are lots of activities in this pack:

• A color periodic table poster.
• All about the origins of the periodic table reading page and activity page.
• Complete the periodic table by writing the symbols on it.
• Identify the gases, solids and liquids and color them in the appropriate colors.
• Cut and paste the parts of the periodic table.
• Complete the missing parts of each of the elements.
• Match the elements and their symbols – the first 20 elements on the table.
• Small research cards, one for each element – answers not supplied for these.

Whether you are a teacher, parent, or homeschooler you will love these no prep periodic table worksheets for helping students work on science skills, learning about different elements that are in our world. Students in grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 would benefit greatly from this package. Use them for additional practice, in science centers, at home or at school, or as a component of a study on the Periodic Table. Kids may learn more about the elements on the periodic table and other topics with this kit.

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Engage your students with an exciting and educational project that combines history, mathematics, and science! "Tombstones of Great Scientists

and Mathematicians" is a unique classroom activity that encourages students to research and creatively present the lives and achievements of historical mathematicians and scientists.

Product Overview:

In this project, students will select a historical mathematician or scientist and create a detailed tombstone to honor their contributions and legacy. The project involves in-depth research, critical thinking, and artistic creativity, making it a perfect cross-curricular activity.

What's Included:

• Detailed Project Instructions: guidelines to help students understand the project objectives and requirements.
• Research Worksheet: A structured template to assist students in gathering and organizing information about their chosen individual.
• Design Planning Sheet: A tool for students to sketch and plan their tombstone design.
• Assessment Rubric: A clear rubric for evaluating the quality and completeness of students' work.
• Common Core and NGSS Alignment: List of relevant standards to ensure educational rigor and relevance.

Key Features:

• Cross-Curricular Integration: Combines history, math, and science for a comprehensive learning experience.
• Research and Presentation Skills: Encourages students to develop strong research and presentation abilities.
• Creative Expression: Allows students to express their creativity through the design and decoration of their tombstones.
• Engaging and Fun: A unique and interactive project that keeps students motivated and interested.

Learning Objectives:

• Conduct detailed research on a historical mathematician or scientist.
• Summarize and present key biographical information and contributions.
• Design a visually appealing and informative tombstone.
• Develop and enhance research, writing, and presentation skills.
• Understand the historical context and significance of major contributions in math and science.

Suitable For:

• Middle School (Grades 6-8)
• High School (Grades 9-12)

This word sleuth will provide your students/children with a fun journey in the world of Science with key vocabulary words. It can be done in class, centers, or as a fun homework assignment.

Word sleuth is in PPTX format along with the answer key.

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DNA and RNA Structure Clipart set is a fantastic way to enhance any classroom experience, whether it be a PowerPoint lesson, station activity, review game or classroom decor!

This Set Includes:

• DNA base pairs in 2 colors plus B&W
• 2 Simple DNA
• RNA with bases in 2 colors plus B&W
• DNA bases Structure + Uracil base for RNA
• Magnifying Lens Clipart

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