Middle School Physical Science Resources

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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Engage your students with these notes and task cards about mass, weight and calculating W=mg. Each card has a different scenario or task to help strengthen understanding of the measurements of mass, weight, their similarities/differences and how to calculate weight, mass or gravity using W=mg.

This activity is designed to help practice:

• Calculating W=mg
• Identifying that mass will not change due to location
• Making predictions about the change in weight due to gravity
• Compare mass and weight
• Recognize scenarios when mass or weight it being measured.

These notes and cards are ready-to-use and easy to implement in your classroom with little to no prep.

Included

• 2 Pages of Notes
• 15 Task Cards
• Printable Recording Sheet
• Google Slides Presentation to Facilitate Note Taking
• Teacher Keys

Enhance student comprehension of Newton's Laws of Motion with this large, specialized graphic organizer. Designed to support and communicate learning effectively, this graphic organizer offers an innovative layout that provides plenty of room for both writing and drawing. It's the perfect tool for a range of educational activities and objectives related to mastering Newton's Laws.

This unique oversized graphic organizer features:

• Ample room for writing and drawing
• Example graphics about Newton's Laws of Motion

Once completed, these graphic organizers make a striking display, adding a unique touch to your classroom or hallways. The versatile design is perfect for a range of learning activities.

This oversized graphic organizer is perfect for:

• Note taking
• End of Unit Review
• Projects
• Research

Includes:

• 2 letter size pages that combine to make one larger image
• Size when complete: Approx. 11x14

This oversized graphic organizer is an excellent resource for reinforcing Newton's Laws of Motion and engaging students in their learning process.

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

Boost student understanding of mixtures with these engaging coloring doodle pages! These interactive notes are perfect for making the study of mixtures both fun and educational. Each page is designed to encourage students to doodle and color while learning key concepts.

Covers essential vocabulary related to mixtures, such as mixture, homogeneous, heterogeneous, colloid, suspension, and solution.

Features:

• Interactive Doodle Graphics - Includes creative doodle graphics to visually reinforce and explain concepts and examples of mixtures.
• Student Engagement Areas - Provides space for students to jot down notes and responses, enhancing their interaction with the material.

Perfect Uses for These Doodle Filled Notes:

• Note-Taking
• End of Unit Review
• Research Projects
• Early Finishers

Includes 3 Versions:

• Full Color Example: A fully colored version for visual reference and inspiration.
• Black and White Complete Notes: A black and white set for students to color and personalize themselves
• Black and White with Blank Spaces: A version featuring blank spaces for additional doodles and student notes.

These doodle pages are a fantastic way to visually explore and reinforce the concept of mixtures.

Chemical and physical changes are all around us! This resource is a fun way to explore chemical and physical changes in the context of honey production. Connect chemistry and biology with this extension assignment. Perfect for end of unit or early finishers.

Students are tasked with:

• Investigating honey production through the lens of chemical and physical changes
• Filling out a response sheet that gets them identifying changes in the process and why these changes are important for bees, other animals and humans.

Note: To be successful in completing this assignment student should have prior knowledge of chemical/physical changes, signs of chemical/physical changes and beginner knowledge of reactants, products and how chemical reactions are written.

To help guide students exploration of the topic included is a Google Slides presentation that:

• Explains honey production from nectar to jar
• Gives examples of the chemical and physical changes
• Helps connect chemical and physical changes to characteristics of honey
• Has videos to help enforce concepts

This assignment is ready-to-use and easy to implement in your classroom with little to no prep. 

Includes:

• PDF printable version
• Google Slides version to assign digitally
• Google Slides about the production of honey

Engage your students with these notes and task cards about Newton's 2nd law and calculating F=ma. Each card has a different scenario or task to help strengthen understanding of the Newton's second law, how force, acceleration and mass are directly and inversely related and how to calculate force, mass or acceleration using F=ma.

This activity is designed to help practice:

• Calculating F=ma
• Analyzing relationships between mass, force, and acceleration
• Interpreting the 2nd law and applying it to real-world examples
• Applying 2nd law principles to solve problems
• Understanding proportional relationships.

These notes and cards are ready-to-use and easy to implement in your classroom with little to no prep.

Included

• 2 Pages of Notes
• 16 Task Cards
• Printable Recording Sheet
• Google Slides Presentation to Facilitate Note Taking
• Teacher Keys

Boost student understanding of forces with these engaging coloring doodle pages! These interactive notes are perfect for making the study of forces both fun and educational. Each page is designed to encourage students to doodle and color while learning key concepts.

Covers essential vocabulary related to forces, such as balanced forces, unbalanced forces, net force, friction, contact forces and non contact forces.

Features:

• Interactive Doodle Graphics - Includes creative doodle graphics to visually reinforce and explain concepts and examples of forces.
• Student Engagement Areas - Provides space for students to jot don notes and responses, enhancing their interaction with the material.

Perfect Uses for These Doodle Filled Notes:

• Note-Taking
• End of Unit Review
• Research Projects
• Early Finishers

Includes 3 Versions:

• Full Color Example: A fully colored version for visual reference and inspiration.
• Black and White Complete Notes: A black and white set for students to color and personalize themselves
• Black and White with Blank Spaces: A version featuring blank spaces for additional doodles and student notes.

These doodle pages are a fantastic way to visually explore and reinforce the concept of forces.

Engage your students with these task cards about Newton's laws. Each card has a different scenario where students are asked to identify which of Newton's laws is being demonstrated. These cards are ready-to-use and easy to implement in your classroom with little to no prep. Print, cut and go! Students will be interacting with Newton's laws in no time!

This activity is designed to help:

• Students practice identifying Newton's laws in a variety of scenarios
• Expose learners to a wide range of real life examples

Not all students need the same support! This resource comes with 2 versions of the recording sheet. One version is set up for a simple 1st, 2nd or 3rd response. The other asks learners to explain why that law was chosen.

Included

• 16 Task Cards
• Printable Recording Sheets - 2 versions
• Teacher Key

Help students investigate the chemical and physical properties of matter with this 100% digital, distance learning friendly interactive science notebook. No prep is needed from you, these Google Slides are ready to assign to students and engage.

This resource addresses the following Essential Question:

• What properties describe matter?

Students will explore the topic by interacting with slides that contain text, drag & drop items, sorting activities, short response questions and reveal boxes.

Vocabulary covered: matter, substance, physical property and chemical property

Interactive Notebook Contains:

• 21 Full Color Pages with text and examples
• 11 Interactive Pages
• Teacher Key/Guide

Please note: This resource is not editable to respect the terms of the clipart, elements and fonts used. Please check out the preview and preview video to ensure that this product will work for you and your students!

Learn about the layers and atmosphere of the Sun while researching the topic and creating this oversized resource. With resources you provide or with information that they research on their own, students will label and tell about our closest star, its structure, atmosphere and features.

Allows for the use of the following vocabulary:

core, radiation zone, convection zone, atmosphere, corona, photosphere, chromosphere, sun spot, prominence, solar flare.

Includes:

• 2 coloring pages that combine to make one larger image
• Size when complete: 11x14

Learn about our solar system while researching planets and creating this oversized resource. With resources you provide or with information that they research on their own, students will label and tell about an assigned or chosen planet and its features!

Includes TWO Versions Each With:

• 2 coloring pages that combine to make one larger image
• Size when complete: 11x14

These science vocabulary tiles are a fun way for students to manipulate content and show off their learning! Set of tiles comes with a mixture of vocabulary and other words for students to build their own waves "poetry."

What is Included?

• 30 prompts to get students started
• 156 vocabulary and filler words
• Blank template to write in new/needed words

Included vocabulary words support NGSS: MS-PS-4-1 and MS-PS-4-2

This graphic organizer activity about classifying metals, non-metals and metalloids is low prep and flexible for student needs. Use as a traditional graphic organizer or allow students to use the cut and sort option.

Vocabulary covered: metal, non-metal, metalloid, periodic table of elements, physical property, luster, brittle, malleability, insulator, conductor and semi conductor.

This Resource Contains:

• Resource materials in color, black and white as well as digital for ease of use.
• Blank Graphic Organizer
• Cut and Sort Option
• Teacher Key/Guide

Help students investigate chemical change with this 100% digital, distance learning friendly interactive science notebook. No prep is needed from you, these Google Slides are ready to assign to students and engage.

This resource addresses the following Essential Questions:

• How can changes in matter be described?
• How do you identify a chemical reaction?

Students will explore the topic by interacting with slides that contain text, drag & drop items, sorting activities, and short response questions

Vocabulary covered: physical change, chemical change, reactant, product, chemical bond precipitate, exothermic reaction, endothermic reaction

Interactive Notebook Contains:

• 26 Full Color Pages with text and examples
• 3 Interactive Sort Pages
• 4 Response and Reflection Pages
• Embedded demos of concepts
• Teacher Key/Guide

Please note: This resource is not editable to respect the terms of the clipart, elements and fonts used. Please check out the preview and preview video to ensure that this product will work for you and your students!

100% digital, distance learning friendly Interactive Science Notebook. No prep needed from you, ready to assign to students and engage

This resource addresses the following Essential Questions:

• What changes the direction of a wave?
• What are the two types of wave interference?
• How do standing waves form?

Vocabulary covered: reflection, refraction, diffraction, constructive interference, destructive interference, standing wave, node, antinode, resonance.

Interactive Notebook Contains:

• 26 Full Color Pages with text and examples
• 3 Interactive Sort Pages
• 9 Response and Reflection Pages
• Links to demos of concepts
• Teacher Key/Guide

Please check out the preview video to ensure that this product would work for you and your students!

Printable PDF and a digital version are included in this distance learning ready activity. Two versions are included where students solve 15 S= D/T problems. One gives students access to full solutions to self check their work via Tinyurl. The other is a traditional worksheet with no solutions.

Important Information

This version requires students to make no conversions for their final units of measurement. Both versions contain the same problem sets, the difference is the ability to self check.

Distance learning?

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

Two Forms of Use Included

1. Printable PDF
2. Google Slides

One "mini" lab that will help students observe and make connections that energy cannot be created or destroyed.

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.

Materials Needed

• 1-1.5 m length of string
• Pencil with an eraser
• Meter stick
• Level
• Pendulum Bob (I have substituted a fishing weight or mass with a hook when I did not have these available in my lab)
• Nail or hook above whiteboard (A 3M hook is great for this, no tools needed to install and does not hurt the walls!
• Whiteboard/Chalkboard (I have also used large sheets of paper on the wall for multiple stations)

For Middle School this supports or extends NGSS: MS PS3-5

For High School this supports MS PS2-2

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

Printable PDF & Digital Versions are included in this distance learning ready activity which consists of 15 speed, distance and time problems to solve.

Important Information

Not all boxes are used in the maze to avoid students from just figuring out the correct route. Students will have to correctly solve 11 problems to find their way through the maze.

Distance learning?

• No problem! This activity now includes Google Slides & Easel by TeachShare digital options!

Three Forms of Use Included

1. Printable PDF
2. Google Slides
3. Easel by TeachShare

One "mini" lab that will help students observe and make connections that all objects have energy, even when they are not moving.

Materials Needed

Plastic Bowl

Sand

Assorted rocks and pebbles

Ruler

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

Can be used to support NGSS: MS-PS3