Sixth grade science

Balloon rockets, naked eggs, and apple wrecking balls ... so many hands-on ways to learn!

A collection of blog-friendly middle school science ideas, thoughts, and style.

Description When it comes to the scientific method ((and science)) it's so important to make it exciting. You can use these notes to compliment all of the fun experiments and labs that you do to have students document their discoveries. Notes are included for students to take notes if they are observing an experiment someone else is doing, if they are doing the experiment, and also notes for reflecting on the scientific method. Print a poster size for you to display in your classroom! These…

I was reading a book on helium. I couldn't put it down!

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Science About Me! First week activity for 4th and 5th grade science and a FREE and useful first idea for your planning this summer. Get this and you have one thing done!

Weathering is the wearing away or breaking down of rocks, soils and minerals as well as wood and artificial materials by agents present in the atmosphere like temperature, moisture, frost and biological organism. Two important classification of weathering processes exist physical and chemical weathering each sometimes

After reflecting, I knew that I needed to change my morning work routine. My students did the same paper pencil based assignment each week. It was boring. Many of them seemed to be going through the motions just to be done. After finishing they could work on an early finisher activity. Some activiti

A great science introduction that introduces your students to science and its processes and helps you gain important insight into your students.