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Hands on Science Activity
Teach students how to make a pinwheel as a measuring tool to identify the type of wind.
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Homeschool Science and Electricity
If you're looking for an easy science activity to do with your homeschooler--one that just might surprise your both--check out the project described below.
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Activities for Science Notebooks
Use science notebooks to deepen student thinking and understanding of science concepts. These generic activities can be used with most science topics.
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Butterfly Lessons for Elementary Science Class
This butterfly unit includes both information gathering and observational science activities to use when raising live caterpillars in the elementary classroom.
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Fun Science Activities for Preschoolers
Preschool children learn via their senses. Doing hands-on science activities with kids is the perfect way to spark a love for discovery and education.
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Hands-On Science for Homeschoolers
Not only are science activities enjoyable for young children, they can be used to teach a host of other academic and practical life lessons.
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Leaf Life Cycle Elementary Science Lesson Plans
Teach the leaf life cycle and how to compare and contrast the four seasons with life science elementary lesson plans based on the children's picture book Fall Is Not Easy
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Science on the Loose by Helaine Becker
Looking to make science fun for kids? This latest activity book is a great choice for teachers and homeschooling parents.
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Volcano Experiment for Kids
It's intuitive for children to wonder how things work and why things are in nature. Encouraging this type of curiosity can create future earth scientists.
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Winter Snow Science Activity
Students use the scientific method in a color spectrum experiment using Benjamin Franklin's well documented heat experiment as a model.
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Preschool Magnet Exploration Activity
This hands-on science activity for preschoolers recycles jar lids and muffin tins into magnet science tools.
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Preschool Car Play with Ramps
This children's science activity uses household items to create a learning activity. Preschoolers build car ramps for play full of physical science concepts.
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Inexpensive Homeschool Science
Many of the materials you need for your homeschooler's science lessons can be found around your home. This article includes directions for making a working pinwheel.
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Preschool Christmas Science Center Ideas
A Christmas-themed science table provides fun, hands-on explorations in a preschool classroom.
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Author Conrad Storad Excites Kids About Science
Most authors wouldn't expect their most popular science books for kids to come out of writing fun facts for stuffed animals. But that's what happened to Conrad J. Storad.
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Make a Natural History Museum
Kids will learn how to research and sort the specimens that they found during their scavenger hunt, and then create their own museum.
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National Blood Donor Month Lesson Plans
January is the month for blood donation and time for science lessons at the blood bank. Find lesson plans about blood transfusions during national blood donor month.
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Preschool Activities about Ice
Hands-on ice explorations engage preschoolers to learn science through play.
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Preschool Winter Animal Science Unit
Preschoolers can learn about birds, animal tracks, and hibernation through hands-on activities at a science center about winter.
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Review using a Baseball Game
Invite a game of baseball into the classroom to help students learn new information in a fun environment.
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Science Lessons for Summer School
Math and science are anything but boring with this sweet lesson plan. Homemade ice cream may be just the learning hook summer school students need on a hot summer day.
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Summer Learning Ideas for Parents
Ideas for parents to use over the summer to keep kids occupied and learning.
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The Dirt on Dirt
A great science activity book to keep kids entertained in the warmer months!
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Christmas Candy Cane Lesson Plan Ideas
A Christmastime thematic unit focused on candy canes with ideas for math, science, fine motor skills and art.
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Dinosaur Lesson Plan for Math and Science
Introduce the widely popular topic of dinosaurs with these ideas that teach math and science.
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How Do Apples Grow? Elementary Lesson Plan
Teach children how apples grow by breaking the process down into a sequence of steps through a lesson that integrates science, literature, and art content.
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Testing for Acids and Bases
A knowledge of acids and bases is important in chemistry, in baking, and food preservation. The following activity gives directions for making a simple indicator.
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Why Do Autumn Leaves Change Color? Lesson Plan
Give children hands-on experience collecting, preserving, identifying, and examining leaves to deepen their understanding of how and why leaves change color in the fall.
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Why Do Maple Leaves Turn Red? Lesson Plan
Children perform a controlled experiment to test why maple leaves turn red in autumn. The leaves from the experiment are then used to craft lovely maple-leaf decorations!
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School Related Crafts and Activities
Amaze your friends, delight your parents, and impress your teachers by making crafts that you learn from at the same time. With a the new school year starting for most kids this week's article will focus on crafts with an educational purpose showing that learning, like crafting, can be fun and enjoyable.
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The Jumbo Book of Space
The Jumbo Book of Space is a great book for the home school and in-school curriculum, as well as for kids who love science.
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Use an Irish Folk Tale to Teach Cause and Effect
For a St. Patrick's Day elementary reading lesson plan, use Tomie dePaola's retelling of the Irish folk tale Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato to teach cause and effect.
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Even more sites to delight
A mixed bag of sites for you to explore.
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Make Your Own Seed Starter Pots
Turn empty tissue rolls into economical little boxes that are just the right size for starting plants. Add soil and seeds from your local garden center and get growing.
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Nautical Chart Educational Program
NOAA Ocean Service Education has released a multimedia educational program for elementary aged students that teaches children about nautical charts and marine navigation.
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Using Differentiated Teaching Strategies
How much time do you spend on differentiated teaching? By adapting instruction to cater to different levels, you will teach more effectively to a variety of students.
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Wind Chimes and Whirligigs
Great crafts for summertime fun, day camp, and school.
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Writing Paragraphs, Art & Science
How to combine writing and hands-on art into any primary science lesson. You'll find framed paragraphs, ocean art, teaching questions, and other science resources.
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Columbus Day Theme Unit Primary Lesson Plans
Use Columbus Day and the life and accomplishments of Christopher Columbus as a focus for integrated activities in science, social studies, and art relating to exploration
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Dance with Raisins, Capture Spiderwebs and So Much More
Make an egg float, capture a spider web, see raisins dance or discover the iron in your breakfast cereal! More quick and easy science experiments!
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Fun Math Activities for Preschoolers
Making creative games using the concepts of counting, measuring, and shapes can be easy. Moreover, it will show kids that math is fun and help to keep fears at bay.
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Jupiter, Venus, Comets &Velikovsky
A classroom activity using Velikovsky's ideas as an example of bad science. Critically evaluating claims will help develop student critical thinking skills.
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Kids' Mad Science Birthday Party
Mad Science birthday parties are happening all over the U.S. They have become a very popular way for kids to have hands-on fun with all their party guests.
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Moon Landing Real or Hoax
A television show claims the lunar landing was a hoax. This classroom activity helps students to apply critical thinking skills to the arguments presented in the show.
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Select a Planet to Colonize
By selecting a planet to colonize and designing human survival needs, students will learn or review properties of the planets and moons in the solar system.
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Swings as Pendulums
Use children on swings as pendulums to investigate the properties of pendulums. This discovery based activity is adaptable to any grade level.
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Teach Elementary Geometric Shapes and Solids
Use The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin in a math and science lesson about recognizing and comparing three-dimensional solids and exploring forces and motion.
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Teaching Map Reading Skills
A variety of toy store and home-made games can be used to help your homeschooled child learn about coordinates.
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Thanksgiving Preschool Unit Study Plans
See a complete preschool unit study based on the Thanksgiving holiday for math, science, art, music, language skills, food, outdoor activities and more.
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20 Questions to Ask Students in Science Projects
Questioning is a critical focus in science, because without questions there would be no answers. Teaching children to question is an inquiry-based thinking skill.
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