Introduce or review the Scientific Method in a fun way with this simple activity. Your students will create various planes in order to test a single variable effect on flying distance. Great for inquiry, collaboration and developing research skills. Fully editable Word document which can be altered to fit your students needs. It can be as complicated or simple as you like and works great for students with learning difficulties. Click here to get your FREE copy. … [Read more...] about Paper Airplane Scientific Method Lab Activity
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Space – Make It More Engaging For Your Students
It's maybe not the most relevant for everyone but I'd wager its the most interesting for many students and the topic they look forward to most when I introduce the year ahead. Why, well Space is amazing! It's huge and full of mysteries like Black Holes and potentially, aliens. In fact what I tell my students when we start our unit is this. My goal for this unit is to get you all to believe that aliens must exist. I write it on a huge piece of paper and stick it right beside my smart board in … [Read more...] about Space – Make It More Engaging For Your Students
Science Magic – Creating a pH Rainbow For Any Age
So I showed this demonstration to my four year old and he loved it. I then showed it to my grade 10 science class, they loved it (although I couldn't trick them to think it was actually magic) and then I showed my colleagues who were equally sceptical about its true magical properties but we're non-the-less, still impressed. So the science is pretty basic (excuse the pun). You use the pigment flavin that you extract from red cabbage (see below for a full how to) and see how it reacts with … [Read more...] about Science Magic – Creating a pH Rainbow For Any Age
Why Classroom Laboratory Activities Foster Learning
So you are debating when or how or how many labs you should implement into your classroom. There's a very easy answer to that, as many as humanly possible and which will still allow you to provide your students with content they require in order to meet the subjects expectations. Why you ask should you devote your precious classroom time (time which is in short supply for everyone already) to activities that deliver mediocre data at best. You say to yourself that you could deliver 10x the … [Read more...] about Why Classroom Laboratory Activities Foster Learning
Ecosystems Lab Experiment: Ecobottles Lab
This ecosystems lab allows your students to create and carry out a a hands-on, engaging experiment on how humans affect our environment. It utilizes the steps in the scientific method to scaffold learning and allow your students to come to a conclusion based on findings that are tangible. Click here to check it out The lab includes: - a full task overview with pictures - a complete description of lab report components - instructions that allow you to scaffold your student’s … [Read more...] about Ecosystems Lab Experiment: Ecobottles Lab