ACTIVITIES
Students are asked to identify the location of cities on a map and determine the distances between them. Assesses their…
Students create a model that shows a variety of landform features created by river erosion and deposition. Assesses…
Students create a model for raindrop formation using the materials given. Assesses their understanding of evaporation,…
Students create a model demonstrating how flooding affects the amount of material eroded by a river. Assesses their…
Students create a model for currents caused by differences in salinity, using the materials provided. Assesses their…
Students develop a working model of plate divergence at the mid-ocean ridge and plate convergence at a trench. Assesses…
Students design an experiment to test how to slow the evaporation of water in an open swimming pool in a dry climate.…
Students compare the weather in their city or part of the country with the weather in three other locations, for a…
Students construct a model to illustrate how the position of Earth, the sun, and the moon affect the tides. Assesses…
Students conceptualize the enormous differences in size among four categories of stars. Assesses their understanding of…
Students create a poster that uses words and pictures to present basic information about matter. Assesses their…
Students create a graph of volume versus temperature for a gas. Assesses their understanding of gas behavior and line…
Students create a "family album" for three families of the periodic table. Assesses their understanding of the periodic…
Students create models of six molecules, each containing six carbon atoms. Tests students' understanding of…
Students design an experiment to determine whether the chemical reaction that takes place as the iron in steel wool…
Students create a poster that classifies compounds based on the types of bonds they contain. Tests students'…
Students create a trivia game about polymers, alloys, ceramics, glass, and radioactive elements. Assesses students'…
Students work in pairs to make a motion graph of the movement of a wind-up toy. Assesses their understanding of motion…
Students determine the mass of a banana using only a string and a spring scale. Assesses their understanding of Newton's…
Students create four simple machines to make the work of moving an object easier. Assesses their understanding of simple…
Students build a machine that converts the kinetic energy of falling water to the gravitational potential energy of a…
Students rank air, water, and foam insulation according to each material's insulation ability. Assesses students'…
Students hypothesize what will happen when objects come into contact with a column of air shooting upward at high speed.…
Students create an electric circuit that they must position using a compass. Tests students' understanding of Earth's…
