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What is Temperature?
In this temperature worksheet, students compare and contrast the 2 scales used to measure temperature: Fahrenheit scale and Celsius scale. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.
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What is a Mineral? Worksheet
In this mineral worksheet, students answer four questions about minerals and explain the acronym SNIFE which is used to remember the definition of a mineral.
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What is an animal?
In this animal activity, students determine five characteristics that all animals have in common. Using these characteristics, students fill in a table demonstrating what living things have those characteristics.
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What is a Food Web?
In this food web worksheet, students will brainstorm organisms and classify them as either a consumer, producer, or decomposer. Students will write the organisms under the correct category in this graphic organizer worksheet.
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What Is Your Favorite Insect?
In this insect survey learning exercise, students utilize tally marks as they survey their classmates, teachers, parents and friends on what their favorite insect is.
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What is a black hole anyway?
In this black holes instructional activity, students answer multiple choice questions about black holes in space. Students complete 4 multiple choice questions.
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What Is A Fossil?
For this fossils worksheet, students read 13 clues pertaining to fossils. Students fit their answers in a crossword puzzle. There is no word bank.
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What is Climate?
In this weather worksheet, students identify and explain the factors that can affect the climate in each area of the illustrated map. Then they describe the various effects of these factors, such as air pressure systems and the land...
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What is Climate?
In this climate worksheet, students will compare and contrast the characteristics of a polar climate with a temperate climate and write their answers in a graphic organizer.
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What is Thermal Energy
In this thermal energy worksheet, students will complete a Venn Diagram comparing thermal energy characteristics with temperature characteristics.
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What is a Compound?
In this compound worksheet, students will write down 1 example of a compound and will then write in 3 specific details to support their example.
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What is a Woodland Habitat?
In this habitat worksheet, students will complete a Venn diagram by comparing and contrasting an owl and a woodpecker found in a woodland habitat.
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What is Your Favorite Savanna Animal?
In this savanna animals graphic organizer worksheet, students use the form to gather information about African elephants, black mamba, mongoose, emu, zebra, lion, anteater, antelope, and giraffe.
Living Rainforest
Finding the Rainforests
From Brazil to Indonesia, young scientists investigate the geography and climate of the world's tropical rain forests with this collection of worksheets.
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Mixing Colors
In this science activity, students drop food coloring into a glass of water. Students mix different colors to create new colors.
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Our Sun
For this space science worksheet, students use the clues at the bottom of the sheet to solve the crossword puzzle on our sun. They identify the cooler and visible surface areas of the sun, as well as what sunspots are on the sun.
Mr. E. Science
The Periodic Table
This science presentation focuses on the elements in the periodic table. It begins with the parts of an atom, explaining atomic mass and atomic number, valence electrons, and isotopes. Then it moves on to discuss various ways of...
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How Do Antiretroviral Drugs Work?
In this biology worksheet, students watch a series of videos and complete 10 short answer questions right after. They explain how ART drugs interrupt the life cycle of HIV.
Biology Corner
Pipe Cleaner Babies
Ever been told you have your father's eyes? How did it happen? Young biologists get a hands-on experience in meiotic gene expression with a fun pairs-based activity. Participants use pipe cleaner chromosomes with trait beads to make...
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The Chesapeake Bay in Captain John Smith's Time
When Captain John Smith visited the Chesapeake Bay in the summer of 1608, what types of animals and habitats did he encounter? Your young historians will analyze primary source documents to answer this question, as well as compare...
iCivics
Step Five: All about Public Policy
Public policy is important to understand because it affects everyone. The resource tells middle schoolers how the government uses policy to accomplish goals in the administration. It includes a reading, true or false worksheet, a...
Institute of Physics
Activities for STEM Clubs
Need some support or ideas of how to entertain middle schoolers or what clubs to bring into your school? Let this excellent 40-page resource guide with links and step-by-step directions on STEM activities guide your decision.
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Is It Magnetic? Recording Sheet
In this science activity, students test objects to see if they are magnetic. They record the results in a table by naming the object, telling what it is made of, predicting if it will be magnetic, and recording if it is magnetic.
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What Is In The Water?
Learners investigate the biotic and abiotic factors that are found in an aquatic ecosystem. The emphasis is upon the investigation of present an projections of future water quality. Then students visit a local body of water to gather...