Intended Audience: Students in grades 3-8 or K-2

Create a rotating investigation station where students practice the scientific method using everyday materials. Set up 5-6 simple experiments (e.g., sink or float, magnetic sorting, simple chemical reactions) where students can form hypotheses, conduct experiments, and record observations in their science journals. Great for grades 3-8, can be simplified for K-2.

Useful for: Educating and introducing students to scientific investigation

Intended Audience: All students

Take students on regular nature walks with digital cameras or notebooks to document seasonal changes, collect specimens, and practice observation skills. Students create nature journals combining drawings, photographs, and written observations. Suitable for all grade levels with varying complexity of documentation.

Useful for: Exposing students to seeing science in the real world/ using their observations

Intended Audience: All students

Create boxes containing mystery objects related to different science concepts (rocks, simple machines, electrical components, etc.). Students use their senses and scientific tools to make observations and inferences about the objects. They document their findings and present their conclusions to the class. Adaptable for all grade levels.

Useful for: Educating and giving students experience the various elements of science and surprises

Intended Audience: All students

Develop a dynamic vocabulary wall where students add scientific terms with illustrations, definitions, and real-world examples throughout the year. Include QR codes linking to videos or additional resources. Students can contribute their examples and participate in periodic vocabulary games.

Useful for: Teaching explicit vocabulary instruction

Intended Audience: All students

Organize regular 'Mini-Scientists Conferences' where students present simple experiments or research findings to their peers. Include a Q&A session and peer feedback. Can be adapted for all grade levels.

Useful for: Developing presentation skills and scientific communication.

Intended Audience: Students in grades 4-8

Students work in groups to design their own experiments to answer scientific questions. They must follow the scientific method, control variables, and present their findings. Topics can range from plant growth to simple physics experiments. Suitable for grades 4-8.

Useful for: Allowing students to use their creativity and apply it to science elements

Intended Audience: All students (type/ content would vary throughout certain grades)

Students maintain digital portfolios using tools like Google Slides or Seesaw. These portfolios can include photos, videos, and written reflections. They are great for assessment and parent communication and are adaptable for all grades.

Useful for: Documenting experiments, observations, and learning throughout the year.

Intended Audience: All students in grades 3-8

Create a physical or digital board where students post and discuss current science news articles. Students take turns presenting articles and leading discussions.

Useful for: helping connect science to real-world events and develop critical thinking. Best for grades 3-8.

Intended Audience: All students

Pair older students with younger ones for science activities. Older students can help explain concepts, assist with experiments, and develop leadership skills. Younger students benefit from peer learning and engagement.

Useful for: Building school community and peer interaction

Intended Audience: Students in grades 8-12

Set up a rotating display featuring different science careers. Include hands-on activities related to each career, virtual field trips, and opportunities to connect with real scientists via video calls.

Useful for: Helping students see real-world applications of science learning

Intended Audience: All students

Students participate in ongoing environmental monitoring projects (weather, plant growth, waste reduction, etc.) and maintain data logs. Can be adapted for all grade levels.

Useful for: Analyzing trends, creating graphs, and proposing solutions to environmental challenges.

Intended Audience: All students

Create rotating investigation centers focusing on different science domains (life science, physical science, earth science). Include hands-on materials, inquiry-based questions, and documentation sheets. Students rotate through centers during science time. Suitable for all grades.

Useful for: Educating students on various science areas

Intended Audience: All students

Learn about the Solar System in this fun quiz!

Useful for: Gathering information about your student's comprehension of the Solar System.

Intended Audience: All students

Take a fascinating journey to the Super Science Station. From gifted preschool learners to kids in junior high, all ages will enjoy this learning adventure. Clear explanations and humor make this video perfect for the classroom and home. Created along with teachers to meet state testing standards.

Useful for: Educating students on the Solar System, weather and the water cycle, types of rocks, properties of minerals, volcanoes and plate tectonics, and renewable energy

Intended Audience: All students

What are earthquakes? Get a new perspective on these powerful phenomena with this collection of videos and infographics co-presented by the California Academy of Sciences and KQED. You'll learn why earthquakes happen, how they've shaped the Bay Area, and what you can do to prepare for the next one.

Useful for: Educating students on what earthquakes are, why they happen, and how to prepare for them

Intended Audience: All students

Human Body for Kids engages young, inquisitive learners, while the depth of material gets older students ready for tests. Join Kevin and his friends to explore. Clear explanations and humor make this video perfect for the classroom and home. Created along with teachers to meet state testing standards.

Useful for: educating students on the skeletal, nervous, muscular, circulatory, urinary, respiratory, and digestive systems along with the five senses

Intended Audience: 3-5 grade students

Since all bees need to gather pollen to survive, they all have some body parts in common. Using these parts, bees sense different flowers to get the pollen they need. A bee has many structures that help it survive. One of these is hair, the bee gathers pollen from its hair to make bee bread. The diagrams take a look at a bee’s external structures to see what we can figure out about bee hair and its relationship to other bee parts.

Useful for: Helping students see how the bee’s external and internal parts work together as a system to help a bee survive

Intended Audience: All students

Despite technological advances that have produced machines with lifelike qualities, most people can easily distinguish between what is living and nonliving. Or can they? This collection of images includes some "fuzzy" examples that will make students question what it means to be alive.

Useful for: Helping students differentiate between living and nonliving things

Intended Audience: 8-12 grade students

This Kahoot examines the structure and function of eukaryotic plant and animal cells with prokaryotic cells.

Useful for: Gathering information about your student's comprehension of the structure and function of certain cells.

Intended Audience: K-8 grade students

Video explaining life science as a whole and what it entails. Includes two "quizzes" at the end of the video to serve as a formative assessment.

Useful for: Educating and introducing students to the topic of life science.

Intended Audience: 5-10 grade students

In this kinesthetic model, students will learn that plants need carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight to carry out photosynthesis. Using ping pong balls and egg cartons, they will simulate the production of sugar molecules to store energy (photosynthesis), and then break apart these molecules to acquire energy (cellular respiration). This active simulation makes it easier to remember both processes!

Useful for: Helping students comprehend and remember the process of photosynthesis and cellular respiration

Intended Audience: Preschool students

A hands-on, fun way for kids to explore gravity. Complete the activity outside or set up in an easy-to-clean spot in your classroom. This allows your students to have the space to create and experiment. In addition to science and art, the splat painting gives children the chance to practice their gross motor skills. It also involves some math and a lot of problem-solving inherent to the gravity painting.

Useful for: Mixing science and art for young student's comprehension of gravity

Intended Audience: All students

Take a fascinating journey to the Super Science Station. From gifted preschool learners to kids in junior high, all ages will enjoy this learning adventure. Clear explanations and humor make this video perfect for the classroom and home. Created along with teachers to meet state test standards.

Useful for: Educating students about lab safety, the scientific method, atoms, molecules, electricity, magnetism, motion, energy, states of matter, and more

Intended Audience: Pre-K students

Transportation theme activities, lessons, and printables for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten.

Useful for: Teaching younger students about the idea of physics and how it works/ connects to the idea of transportation

Intended Audience: 6-12 grade students

1. As the ice cube melts, the water molecules are freed from their trapped state and can now roam about the glass beaker as a liquid. During this melting process, the temperature stays constant at 0 degrees Celsius.

2. Once the ice is completely melted, the liquid water molecule can now move faster and faster as heat is applied. This is seen as a rise in temperature.

3. Once the liquid reaches 100 degrees Celsius, it no longer rises in temperature. Instead, the water molecules are moving so fast that they leave the container as steam.

Useful for: Helping students observe the motion and temperature of water molecules in this simulation as heat is applied to a beaker containing an ice cube