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*50 fun science activities and investigations for kids!*Supports learning in Earth, Life, and Physical Science!*Materials lists, Instructions, and Observation Records!

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All of the labs in this volume have been developed to help young learners explore key science concepts through investigations. These are not just fun activities with no real point to them other than to look cool. This book was designed with Kindergarten to 3rd graders in mind, although you might find the activities useful outside of that age range, especially 4th to 6th grade. Please note: adult supervision is strongly suggested for some of the activities. Each activity reinforces the idea of learning science hands-on and through direct observations when possible. Having things you can see, touch, hear, and even smell or taste makes learning science concepts fun and memorable. Each lab is labeled with tags at the bottom so you can find similar labs. They are also categorized by their general field in Earth, Life, or Physical Science.

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All materials and designs contained within this volume are protected by copyright laws and are the property of Andrew Frinkle (C) 2015, with the exception of the graphics, which are from public domain sites, primarily openclipart.org. The materials within may only be reproduced for your classroom or at home for educational use. These materials may not be resold for any reason. They may not be hosted on public databases or websites either.

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1. Adapt an Animal (Adaptations, Anatomy, Animals, Habitats)2. Adapt a Plant (Adaptations, Anatomy, Plants, Habitats) 3. All in the Family (Family, Heredity, Inherited Traits)4. Always Changing (Animals, Growing, Life Cycles, Plants)5. Backyard Food Chains (Animals, Food Chains, Habitats, Plants)6. Calling All Engineers (Engineering, Physics, STEM)7. Clay Mountains (Erosion, Landforms, Plate Tectonics, Weathering)8. Cold as Ice (Erosion, Glaciers, Landforms)9. Color Climbers (Colors, Growing, Plants, Water)10. Deep Divers (Buoyancy, Gases, Liquids, Pressure)11. Dirty Water Disaster (Dirt, Filtration, Water, Water Cycle)12. Eggsplosions (Crashes, Engineering, Energy)13. Fighting Friction (Distance, Friction, Kinetic Energy, Movement)14. Food Groupies (Food Groups, Health, Nutrition, Plants)15. Germination Station (Growth, Plants, Seeds, Weather)16. Getting Cloudy in Here (Air Pressure, Clouds, Condensation,

Precipitation, Weather)17. Give Me Some Space (Density, Liquids, Mixtures, Solubility, Viscosity)18. Growing Like Weeds (Growth, Life Cycles, Plants)19. Kinetic Boom (Kinetic Energy, Potential Energy)20. Leaf Keepers (Classifying, Plants)21. Let’s Make Dirt (Decomposition, Recycling, Soil)22. Like a Drum (Biology, Health, Heart rate, Organs)23. Machines in Action (Effort, Energy, Fulcrum, Lever, Ramp, Machines

Work)24. Magma Mayhem (Acid, Base, Chemical Reaction, pH, Neutral)25. Magnetic Personality (Magnetism, Metals)

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26. Milk Chocolate Meltdown (Heat, Liquids, Melting Points, Solids, Thermal Energy)

27. Mission: Conservation (Conservation, Recycling, Reduce, Reuse)28. Moon Calendar (Astronomy, Moon, Moon Phases, Night Sky, Telescope) 29. Moving at the Speed of Evaporation (Evaporation, Heat, Sun, Water

Cycle)30. Music to My Ears (5 Senses, Human Body)31. Now You Feel It, Now You Don’t (5 Senses, Human Body)32. Older Than Dirt (Fossils, Minerals, Rocks, Rock Cycle)33. Outer Space Race (Earth, Moon, Planets, Solar System, Space, Sun) 34. Rock Makers (Igneous, Metamorphic, Rock Cycle, Sedimentary)35. Rock Stockers (Hardness, Minerals, Rocks, Streak)36. Rubber Band-Jo (Energy, Sound, Tone, Vibration)37. Scale Model Animals (Anatomy, Animals, Habitats)38. Scent-Sational (5 Senses, Human Body)39. Star Maps (Astronomy, Constellations, Night Sky, Stars)40. Super Conductors (Circuits, Conductors, Electricity, Insulators)41. Sweet Crystals (Crystals, Minerals, Rocks)42. That’s Shocking! (Current, Electricity, Friction, Static Electricity)43. These States Matter (Gas, Liquid, Solid, States of Matter)44. Swim Test (Buoyancy, Flotation, Sinking)45. Tongue Twisters (5 Senses, Human Body)46. Washed and Blown Away (Erosion, Soil, Weathering)47. Weather Forecasters (Clouds, Precipitation, Temperature, Weather, Wind)48. Where Did It Go? (Solubility, Solutions, Solvents)49. You Are What You Eat (Food, Health, Nutrition, Vitamins & Minerals)50. Zoo Keepers (Animals, Classifying, Habitats)

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1. Calling All Engineers2. Deep Divers3. Eggsplosions 4. Fighting Friction5. Give Me Some

Space6. Kinetic Boom7. Machines in Action8. Magma Mayhem9. Magnetic Personality10. Milk Chocolate

Meltdown11.Rubber Band-Jo12. Super Conductors13. Swim Test14. That’s Shocking15. These States Matter16. Where Did It Go?

1. Adapt an Animal2. Adapt a Plant3. All in the Family 4. Always Changing 5. Backyard Food

Chains 6. Color Climbers 7. Food Groupies 8. Germination Station 9. Growing Like Weeds 10. Leaf Keepers11. Let’s Make Dirt* 12. Like a Drum 13. Music to My Ears14. Now You Feel It,

Now You Don’t15. Scale Model

Animals16. Scent-Sational17. Tongue Twisters18. You Are What You

Eat 19. Zoo Keepers

*Also in Earth Science

1. Clay Mountains2. Cold as Ice3. Dirty Water Disaster4. Getting Cloudy in

Here 5. Let’s Make Dirt*6. Mission:

Conservation7. Moon Calendar 8. Moving at the Speed

of Evaporation9. Older Than Dirt 10. Outer Space Race 11. Rock Makers12. Rock Stockers 13. Star Maps 14. Sweet Crystals 15. Washed and Blown

Away 16. Weather

Forecasters

*Also in Life Science

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Each of the 50 Science Labs has the following:• Fun Title

• Brief Description of the activity.

• Instructions for the activity.

• Materials Lists for the activity.

• Observation Record Space for drawing, graphing, and illustrating what you see during the activity.

• Category Tags at the bottom to help you find similar activities

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You will explore the parts of animals on how animals survive in different habitats.

ADAPT AN ANIMAL

LIFE SCIENCE: Adaptations, Anatomy, Animals, Habitats

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• Pictures, Videos, or Books about different animals. Animals should include: bugs, birds, crustaceans, inver tebra tes , rep t i les , fish , mammals, and amphibians.

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A. Determine how its coloring, skin covering, eyes, teeth, appendages, and other body structures help it survive.

B. Really focus on how it is different from similar animals and how these differences give it an advantage, especially when finding food, hunting, or defending itself.

C. Compare to other animals.

2. Repeat with other animals, either in the same family (Ex. Lions and Tigers), or of completely different types (Ex. Turtles and Eagles)

Sketch the part(s) of the animal that really give it a survival/hunting advantage. Write about what you learned.

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You will explore how some plants and animals change as they grow.

ALWAYS CHANGING

LIFE SCIENCE: Animals, Growing, Life Cycles, Plants

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• Pictures of animals in different life stages: butterflies, dragonflies, plants, frogs, etc...

• Paper, Scissors, Markers/Crayons (optional)

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1. Illustrate or sort pictures of various plants and animals in different life stages. Suggestions are:

A. Egg > Caterpillar > Butterfly

B. Egg > Tadpole > Tadpole w/ Legs > Frog

C. Seed > Seedling > Plant > Fruiting/Flowering Plant

D. Egg > Aquatic Larva > Adult Dragonfly

2. Describe the differences in each stage.

3. Make posters/diagrams.

How are animals different in each stage of life? What life stages do people go through?

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You will explore how plants and animals are important to each other.

BACKYARD FOOD CHAINS

LIFE SCIENCE: Animals, Food Chains, Habitats, Plants

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• Area to walk outside and observe, a nature v ideo, and/or nature pictures.

• Stakes & twine (optional)

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1. Take a walk outside, watch a video, or look at a nature picture, and record all the different kinds of plant and animal life you can find.

2. If you decide to walk outside, notepads to sketch and record observations are a must. You can also block off with stakes and twin a specific area you want children to observe.

3. Make diagrams or lists of what eats what. Don’t forget that plants need sunlight, water, and air!

4. Try to identify which animals eat plants, which ones eat meat, and which ones eat both.

Write about the kinds of animals/plants you see. Which ones are similar? What does each thing eat?

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You will explore engineering and design of structures.

CALLING ALL ENGINEERS

PHYSICAL SCIENCE: Engineering, Physics, STEM

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• Classroom materials, like: glue, tape, toothpicks, popsicle sticks, paper, card stock, construction paper, etc...

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1. Design a structure to complete a task using common and readily-available building materials. Suggested tasks are:

A. Longest bridge

B. Tallest Tower

C. Track for cars or marbles

2. Construct the structure. Make adjustments as necessary when it fails or falls.

3. Write about what you learned.

Sketch some design ideas. What did you learn from the project?

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You will explore the planets and solar system.

CLAY MOUNTAINS

EARTH SCIENCE: Erosion, Landforms, Plate Tectonics, Weathering

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• Play-Dough, Modeling Clay, Salt/Flour Dough, etc...

• Paints or Food Color (optional)

• Pictures, Videos, or Examples of Landscapes and Landforms

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1. Model and design one or more landforms, like: mountains, canyons, glaciers, hills, rivers, moraines, mushroom rocks, islands, isthmuses, volcanoes, peninsulas, capes, etc... It can be fun to make a fictional map with several of these in 1 scene or relief map.

2. Write about what forces (magma, tectonic movement, water, wind, or ice) help create these landforms.

3. Research famous examples of each.

What did you learn about landforms and how they are made? What’s your favorite? Why?

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Observation Pages are for when just jotting down notes on a page isn’t good enough, or for when you want a little more structure in your responses. They are great for:

• Graphing

• Sketching Results & Observations

• Making Charts

• Sorting into Categories

• Recording Data over Time

• Writing Notes

• and MUCH MORE!

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A quick look at the author of this book, as well as the popular 50 STEM Labs Series.

ANDREW FRINKLE

WRITER: Education, Games, Workbooks, Science Fiction, Fantasy, & More!

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Andrew Frinkle is an award-nominated teacher and writer with experience in America and overseas. He has taught PreK all the way up to adult classes, and has focused on ESOL and EFL techniques. With a young child at home now, he’s been developing more and more teaching strategies and books aimed at helping young learners.

His many educational works include:

• 50 STEM Labs & 50 More STEM Labs• Common Core Assessment Templates• Common Core Vocabulary Cards• Middle School Common Core Workbooks• Graph Paper Math• How to Draw with Basic Shapes• Science Now!• Sentence Builders & Word Builders• Weekly Sentence Strips• Story Starters• Movers and Shakers & the Expansion Sets• Basic Skills Workbooks Series• Monster Zoo Math• Dealing With Archetypical Children• How to Draw Comic Books• Board Game in a Book Series

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WHAT IS 50 SCIENCE LABS?

My hit science education books: 50 STEM Labs and 50 MoreSTEM Labs were a great way for kids from grades 3 and up tohave fun getting their hands dirty learning key concepts in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.

This book is intended for younger kids, grades K-3 especially.Basic concepts of Life Science, Earth Science, and PhysicalScience are covered with these 50 basic science activities.

Each learning activity covers important science topics like:Rocks, Plants, Life Cycles, Weather, Magnets, Planets, Crystals, Buoyancy, Sound, Light, Food Chains, Animals,and many more!

designed and arranged by: Andrew Frinkle

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