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10 Simple Experiments for Density and Buoyancy and Air Pressure

Help kids develop an understanding of air pressure, buoyancy, and density using a series of hands-on labs.

Mitosis and Meiosis

Study mitosis and meiosis using student movement. Cut ropes into lengths and use them to model chromosomes and track their duplication.

Teaching Static Electricity Using VIPs

When teaching static electricity, it’s tempting to tell kids the basics... • like charges repel • unlike charges attract And to do this...

Dollar Store Optics

I love science experiments, and I love sharing these with my children and my students. When I returned to the classroom after raising my...

Brilliant Activities to Celebrate the Great Solar Eclipse

I recently had a post on the We are Teachers website. You can check it out here: https://www.weareteachers.com/solar-eclipse-activities/

Making a Moon Model

If you’ve been noticing the Moon (based on last week’s blog post), let’s try to build a model based on your observations. I’ll get you...

Measuring the Moon

You can learn a lot about the Moon's movement by watching it--and you don't have to come out at night! Since the Moon spends half of its...

Graphing Data without Using Numbers.

Do your students struggle with graphing? Here we'll look at a Distance vs. Time graph and we won't use any numbers or rulers or graph...

Develop Scientific Thinking Using Fine Art

We can help kids develop scientific thinking in a myriad of ways. Here we use a painting and ask questions to hone thinking skills.

Modeling Jupiter's Moons

Sometimes you can’t get your hands on the authentic object in order to study it… When we study astronomy it’s rare that we can find...

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