Physical Science Centers

This first unit in the "Science Kids" series helps students learn how to be scientists. Every activity in this packet is aligned with one of the five stages of scientific inquiry. This packet supports the Next Generation Science Standards.

The “Science Kids” series is intended to help teachers implement developmentally appropriate, hands-on science activities for children in Preschool, Kindergarten and the early grades. The activities in these packets are based on the scientific method and encourage inquiry-based learning.

The packet includes:

• Color posters of the five stages of scientific inquiry (Click here for free sample)

• Explanation of the stages of scientific inquiry for teachers

• A two-week long, step-by step scientific investigation about balls and wagons

• Printable scientific recording sheets for tracking hypotheses and data

• Discussion guide

• Ideas for sharing student learning

Click to see my entire Science Curriculum

Do you need a science word wall? This resource includes 77 vocabulary words that are essential for the NGSS. Each word contains a graphic to help your students. Words are color coded for each unit.

orange - organisms to molecules NGSS

red - motion and stability NGSS

green - earth systems NGSS

yellow - energy

turquoise - earth and human activities

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Science comes to life in the lab! Engage your students in exploring electricity and circuits with this set of interactive science labs. This product contains 6 lab investigations for electricity and 1 final project. Each lesson introduces a concept and outlines a lab to provide the students with experiential learning to support the understanding of the concept. Each lesson contains a concept poster, background knowledge for the teacher, materials list, lab procedures, ½ page lab report pages for Science INBs, and full-size lab report pages. The lab reports include 4 sections: question; hypothesis; experiment-observe-collect data; and conclusion

These labs use wire, batteries, light bulbs, and switches. While you can purchase all the lab equipment materials individually, the easiest way solution is have some circuit kits for your classroom. There is basic circuit kit on Amazon for #13.21 as of this writing (09/2017)

Lesson 1: Electricity is a form of energy that flows in circuits.

Lab 1: Light a bulb

Lesson 2: Some materials conduct electricity while other materials insulate it.

Lab 2: Human conductor test

Lesson 3: Switches can open and close electrical circuits.

Lab 3: Turn it off and turn it on

Lesson 4: Electrical energy is shared in a series circuit.

Lab 4: A series of bulbs

Lesson 5: In a parallel circuit, the electrical energy flowing to each component is maintained.

Lab 5: Turn off 1/3 of the lights.

Lesson 6: Electrical energy energy can be transformed into other forms of energy.

Lab 6: Make an electromagnet

Final Project: Make a light up quiz board

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This bundle includes all of my plant themed science activities all in one place.

Science Experiments:

Experiment 1: What happens when a seed gets wet?

Experiment 2: How do seeds grow?

Each experiment includes a detailed instruction sheet with materials lists and step by step directions for the experiment. There is a recording page for students to make predictions and record the results of the project. Also provided are journal pages for students to write why they think the results happened the way they did. Journal pages are differentiated where appropriate.

Plants We Eat Sort:

We can eat all kinds of plants. This parts of a plant sort includes real photographic images to sort. This sort includes flowers, seeds, leaves, stems, roots, and fruits. There are four pictures for each plant part.

Plants Interactive Notebook Pages:

1. Parts of a Flower - This page covers flower, stem, leaf and root. Use the flower provided or have students draw their own to go under the flaps.

2. We Eat Plants - This page covers all parts of plants and the foods we can eat from each part. Students draw or find pictures in magazines/grocery fliers to put under each flap.

3. What do plants need? - This page shows plants need air, water, food and light to grow. Use magazines to cut out pictures or draw pictures to represent each under the flaps.

These pages can fit in a composition book or spiral notebook.

Plants and Seeds Activities

Match pictures of plants and their seeds. Complete cut and paste activities to sort plants and seeds as well as to match the parent plant with its seed.

Science, Chemistry maze activity bundle covering anions and cations, hydrocarbons, alcohols, carboxylic acids, counting atoms, periodic table...

Students follow given instructions to navigate through the mazes

answer keys included

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Are you looking for a different approach to using the Scientific Method/ Engineering Design Process? “Can They Do That?” is a "TV-show type" series that presents things made in the movies/television and challenges the students to prove or disprove "Can They Do That?" This first episode looks at a hot air balloon contraption built out of hair dryers and trash bags on the A-Team.

Students start the lesson by watching a clip from a TV show (included in PowerPoint). They are presented with a “problem” by the TV Show Host and then they work through the EDP.

This lesson includes the Video Introduction embedded in a PowerPoint with a Student Handout that guides students research, prototype and solution.

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Students will learn about the concepts of magnets and magnetism through these fun and engaging investigations.

The “Science Kids” series is intended to help teachers implement developmentally appropriate, hands-on science activities for children in Preschool, Kindergarten and the early grades. The activities in these packets are based on the scientific method and encourage inquiry-based learning. All activities can be differentiated to meet the needs of your students.

This packet includes instructions for all of these investigations:

“Magnetic or Not Magnetic?”

“The Magic Paper Clip”

“Magnet Cars”

“A String of Paper Clips”

“Magnet Train”

“Magnet Detectives”

The packet also includes:

• An explanation of the Scientific Method

• Printable recording sheets for investigations

• Guide for helping students develop independent investigations

• Tips and helpful suggestions

Do you need vocabulary development in the area of science? This resource includes 67 vocabulary words that are essential for the NGSS. Each word contains a graphic to help students. They are perfect for a science word wall. Words are color-coded for each unit.

red - motion and stability NGSS

green - life science NGSS

blue - earth science NGSS

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Science comes to life in the lab! Engage your students in exploring heat energy, thermal energy, convection, and conduction with this set of interactive science labs. This product contains 5 lessons for thermal energy and heat. Each lesson introduces a concept and outlines a lab to provide the students with experiential learning to support the understanding of the concept. Each lesson contains a concept poster, background knowledge for the teacher, materials list, lab procedures, ½ page lab report pages for Science INBs, and full-size lab report pages. The lab reports include 4 sections: question; hypothesis; experiment-observe-collect data; and conclusion

Lesson 1: Heat is a form of energy called thermal energy.

Lab 1: Using heat to inflate a balloon

Lesson 2: Thermal energy moves by conduction when one solid touches another.

Lab 2: Conducting heat between cups

Lesson 3: Thermal energy moves by convection through liquids and gasses.

Lab 3: Color coded convection cups

Lesson 4: Radiation is the thermal energy given off by heat producing objects.

Lab 4: Sun vs. Shade

Lesson 5: Other forms of energy such as light, chemical and kinetic can be changed into thermal energy.

Lab 5: Energy changing stations

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Do fun and engaging science experiments with this science bundle. Each experiment includes a detailed instruction page with materials needed to complete the experiment. Each experiment comes with its own making predictions page, recording page and journaling page.

The following experiments are available in this packet:

Apple Experiments

1. Sink or Float
2. What happens to an apple under different conditions?

Comparing Mass

Making Butter

Pumpkins

1. Pumpkin Observation
2. Sink and Float
3. Pumpkin Volcano Comparison

Seeds and Plants Experiments

1. What happens when seeds get wet?
2. How do seeds grow?

Transportation Experiments

1. Does it Roll?
2. Sink the Boat!

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Students will investigate the states of matter of water as it changes from frozen to liquid states. The “Science Kids” series is intended to help teachers implement developmentally appropriate, hands-on science activities for children in Preschool, Kindergarten and the early grades. The activities in these packets are based on the scientific method and encourage inquiry-based learning. All activities can be differentiated to meet the needs of your students.

Investigations in this unit include:

✔ "Ice Treasures"

✔ "Light or Dark?"

✔ "Adding Salt and Color"

✔ "Ice Cube Race"

✔ "Which is Heavier?"

✔ "Oil and Ice"

✔ "Painting with Ice"

The final investigation in this unit is a student-designed investigation that will test how certain ingredients affect the time it takes an ice cube to melt.

The packet also includes a fun recipe for Ice Cream in a Bag! (And the scientific explanation for how this recipe works.)

Do you need to have vocabulary development in the area of science? This resource includes 65 vocabulary words that are essential for the NGSS. Each word contains a graphic to help your students. The cards are perfect for a science word wall. Words are color coded for each unit.

red - motion and stability NGSS

green - life science NGSS

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Students will learn about reflection and mirrors through engaging and fun investigations.

The “Science Kids” series is intended to help teachers implement developmentally appropriate, hands-on science activities for children in Preschool, Kindergarten and the early grades. The activities in these packets are based on the scientific method and encourage inquiry-based learning. All activities can be differentiated to meet the needs of your students.

Activities include:

*Sorting reflective and non-reflective materials

*Double Mirrors

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*Symmetry

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*Final Project- Create a Mirror Sculpture

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Do you need to develop your class's science vocabulary? This resource includes 70 vocabulary words that are essential for the NGSS. Each word contains a graphic to help students. These cards are perfect for a science word wall. Words are color-coded for each unit.

red - motion and stability NGSS

green - life science NGSS

blue - earth science NGSS

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Students will learn about buoyancy and water displacement through these engaging investigations. The “Science Kids” series is intended to help teachers implement developmentally appropriate, hands-on science activities for children in Preschool, Kindergarten and the early grades. The activities in these packets are based on the scientific method and encourage inquiry-based learning. All activities can be differentiated to meet the needs of your students.

Included in this packet are:

★Explanation of the Scientific Method for teachers

★Five sinking and floating investigations, with directions and recording sheets

★Guide for helping students plan their own individual investigations

★Guides for forming hypotheses and reflecting on students' learning

★Guide for sharing student learning

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Do you need vocabulary development in science? This resource includes 60 vocabulary words that are essential for the NGSS. Perfect for a word wall! Each word contains a graphic to help students.

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Do you need vocabulary development in science? This resource includes 58 science vocabulary words that are essential for the NGSS. Each word contains a graphic to help your students. Words are color coded for each unit.

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green - life science NGSS

blue - earth science NGSS

yellow - engineering design NGSS

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Do you need a science word wall in Spanish? This resource includes 70 vocabulary words that are essential for the NGSS. Each word contains a graphic to help your students. Words are color coded for each unit.

orange - organisms to molecules NGSS

red - motion and stability NGSS

green - earth systems NGSS

yellow - energy

turquoise - earth and human activities

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• Do you need vocabulary development in the area of science?
• This resource includes life science, physical science, and earth science vocabulary words that are essential for the NGSS.
• Crossword puzzles and vocabulary lists are included at two levels.
• Standards and suggestions for differentiation are included.

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