Experiment #1
What will happen when I put raisins in a cup of sprite?
After you do the experiment, you will find out that the raisins DANCE! My students L.O.V.E this experiment and think that it is hilarious that the raisins dance up and down in the Sprite!
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Experiment #2
What does our heart do for us?
We talked about the heart and it's purpose! Then, we observed our own pulse using a marshmallow and toothpick. What a great time to learn about the heart (Valentine's Day)!
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Experiment #3
Which object lets the most light through from our flashlight?
Using a flashlight, we determined which objects (dollar, black paper, net, plastic wrap, and tin foil) let through the most light.
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clipart and/or fonts by DJ Inkers. www.djinkers.com
clipart and/or fonts by DJ Inkers. www.djinkers.com
Is your school heading to the land of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) or STEAM (Same, but add art)? Last year, our school committed to becoming a STEM+A (plus Art) school. So far- I'm loving it!!! It has really got me thinking outside of the box for sure. I'm excited to share with you some ideas that I have with STEM in the future. For now, I've got some posters that I made for our 1st grade STEM+A Intro Day!
For our STEM+A Intro Day, we rotated all of the first graders (split into 5 groups) through our classrooms. Each teacher took on one of the letters and taught the students about the meaning of that letter and how we use it in every day life. We want our students to know that STEM is everywhere! Then, we did an activity based on the letter we had. I had Math and we played Pokemon Go Addition (totally made the game up...haha).
These posters are great for my students to refer back to.
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34 comments:
Thanks for sharing! I love every one of these ideas!
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Great Experiments. I have a balloon experiment on my site!
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Cheryl
oooo...these are really neat (and easy to prepare for!). I just love the record sheets you created too! Thank you!!!
Ladybug
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Thanks! It's nice to have an arsenal of science experiments.
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I teach science club and I actually never heard of these 2 experiments. I now have my next 2 weeks of lessons. Thanks :)
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Awesome! Thanks for sharing these great (and easy) experiments!
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Love love love these - thank you! My kids will be so happy when they see those crazy raisins!
Thanks so much for sharing Rachelle! They all look fabulous - easy to implement and materials that aren't difficult to find! I just got a book in the mail today More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan. It's a books of lessons that use children's books to guide science inquiry. I really like what I see so far! Thanks again!
Keep these coming..love these SO MUCH!! :) The students will love them, too!
Love Love Love these! Thanks so much for sharing. I have group of boys that will love these.
So cute! Thank you! They look like fun and easy experiments to try.
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I love these! We're doing a unit on light right now and celebrating our hearts on 2/14, so I'll be putting the last two to use soon!
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I've done the raisin experiment before and my class loved it! I think I'm gonna try the pulse experiment on Valentine's Day! Thanks a lot!
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These are great! Thanks for sharing.
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These are so wonderful! Thank you for sharing!
Great experiments! Love the printables. :)
~Sarah
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These are GREAT ideas!!!! I love the heart one!!!!
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Very Cool! Thanks for sharing.
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LOVE these simple experiments! I am going to totally try these out next week during out regular indoor recess. The kids get tired of the same old things. They'll LOVE this!
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AWESOME! Thank you so much for sharing!
Can't wait to do the raisin experiment!
Alexandra
http://thefirstgradesweetlife.blogspot.com/
I am excited to try the raisin experiment with my ELD class. I have to be very creative to keep them ALL engaged since they are a group of diverse learners regardless of language issues. This will be great to go along with using descriptive language in speaking and writing.
Thanks for sharing! As the school year winds down, I am finding it more difficult than EVER to keep my students engaged! These are fun lesson that will keep my students interested :o)
These are great Science exps. Thanks for sharing!
Love the pulse/heartbeat demo! Gotta try that one. Dancing Raisins is a staple at our Kinderscience groups--but we've had much better results using "Craisins", which are slightly less dense and really ZIP up and down. Thanks!!
I'm interested in doing the heartbeat experiment with my kids. It looks very interesting. I tried to open the file but it won't let me. Is there something special I should be doing?? Did anyone else have this issue??
Thanks,
Michelle
Great ideas. Thanks for sharing!
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Great post! What I love about this science experiment is that it is safe and successful, kids will learn a lot about science.
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